A/N: Sorry I took so long, but I couldn't get this chapter *right*, so what you are left with is this. Suki1 (trust me the last thing you want me to do is pair anyone up with anyone! I have a nasty tendency to kill off anyone in a "loving" relationship. I have sadistic humor) wandering dragon (you have no idea of the ego boost you've given me. I'm flattered, no one has ever called my writing good before…I'm not used to the niceties. My Beta reader is laughing at me, she says it's the only review I'll get in English) Skitzoflame (I think I'll have to go and work that in . I don't know what to tell you now, but wait and see. I actually forgot all about the "significant" kiss.) Kage Otome (pairings are a secret, okay I give, I don't know where my muses want this to go. Thanks for e-mailing me, I think that's sweet.) KenshinOtaku (there are some good ones out there, but you really have to look for them . sad I know. I think I have a few good ones on my fav. list if you want to check them out.) Eevee I hope you made it home alright! I've missed you! Thanks to everyone else that reviewed too!! I love each and every review I get!

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin

Chapter 6

*** LAST TIME ***

"Name … Youko." His voice strained.

Kagome smiled, "Then good night Youko. Pleasant dreams."

He let go of her wrists and fell asleep smiling. "I intend to do just that," except it came out more like a muffled slur.

Kagome stood back and watched as his white roots once again became red. Now she too could pass out and submit to the dream space. She inwardly groaned when she heard the same beeping sound that she had heard earlier today. She looked at the clock on the wall. It was Saturday by a whole four hours. She groaned, picked up the communicator, and opened it.

***NOW***

A girl with blue hair appeared. She seemed distraught that Yusuke never answered the communicator, but between her yawns she explained what had happened since she had talked to them last. The girl on the other end of the device seemed distracted and distressed. Kagome asked her what the emergency was.

The girl told her that there was a barrier breach and that a pair of demons escaped. The demons had eluded all the other teams that have been sent out. Kagome told her if she picked her up, she would defeat them, but trying to wake up these boys would be next to impossible. Winning the lottery with no ticket would be easier.

The girl was hesitant to agree, but she was left with no other choice. She told Kagome that she would be there right away. She shrugged and closed the communicator. She looked up and jumped, the girl was standing right in front of her.

That was one way to wake yourself up: get the living daylights scared out of you. Nope getting scared didn't work, she was yawning again. She wanted to get this done and over with. The girl introduced her herself as Boton, and she opened a portal, and told her that this would take her to the demons.

Kagome shrugged her shoulders and stepped in. Oh, it did bring her right to the demons. To be precise, it brought her face to face with the buggers. Oh, and insects they were, they looked like cockroach demons. She cringed.

Kagome hated bugs, and this was just her recent luck. The demon grabbed her by her throat with on of its hands. She started to freak out. She had to remind herself to stay calm. She unleashed her powers and purified the demon that was holding her.

She stumbled to the ground. She wanted nothing more than to lie down on the cold hard ground, no even better, she wanted to shut her heavy eyes and let the abyss swallow her up. That never happened.

Instead the last of the demon attacked her head on. Kagome got a shot of adrenaline, and decided that she would kill it first. She wanted that bug to stay as far away from her as humanly possible. She created a whip from her powers and disintegrated the demon before it could launch its attack.

There the world was safe once again, and the girl had yet to show up to take her back. Granted it had only been a few minutes at most, but that was not the point, she was tired and her body started to ache. She was feeling the strain she placed on her body today.

She just sat down when a portal opened and the girl stepped out with a baseball bat. Kagome quirked her eyebrow in question to Boton, who stood there stunned.

"Where are the demons?" She asked looking around.

"I think you are standing on what's left of one of them." Kagome saw the girl was about to freak out so she added quickly, "I'm tired Boton. Can you take me back? I've had a rough day." Kagome whined and staggered. Boton had to help steady her.

"How so?" She looked puzzled.

"I sparred against Kuwabara, Yusuke, Yukiro, and then I vanquished the demon that almost killed Kurama. Then I patched up Yusuke's ribs, and I brought Kurama back from the brink of death, and helped to recede his demon side, and now I just saved the world for two hideous cockroaches. And you ask me what I did, oh that reminds me, if you ever want me to go after a demon again, you will make sure that it is not a bug, okay?" She slumped against Boton even more.

Boton laughed and opened the portal. "Sure thing."

They walked through and Kagome's mind stopped working when she saw the bed. She fell onto the soft futon and immediately fell asleep.

Kagome awoke slightly to someone poking her. She muttered that anyone who valued their life would not wake her. It seemed that the poking stopped, that was until a bucket of cold water was thrown on her. That was not a way to wake someone up. Someone was going to die, and very slowly. She saw Yusuke grinning like the Cheshire cat. Her eyes turned to slits, and she held up her hands. Fine pointed slivers darted towards him.

Nothing penetrated his skin, just his clothing. He was secured to the wall by her power. Everyone was now laughing at his expense. Kagome warned the group that if anyone dared to wake her up again without cause she would do the same to them. That's when Yusuke perked up and yelled at her that Kurama took a turn for the worse. That was a wake up call.

She rushed over to his side. His face was all clammy and pale. She checked for signs that she didn't get all the poison out, but none of the signs where there.

She checked all of the wounds, and they were all healed nicely. She couldn't figure it out. There was only one thing left to do, and that was to heal him from the inside out. That was a dangerous process, and one that did not guarantee results. She let Yusuke's restraints become useless and he fell to the floor. She called to Kuwabara and Yusuke. She told them that they would have to place their hands on her shoulders. She explained that she would be using their energy and hers to repair whatever was wrong.

She started to collect their energy, and she warned them that if they ran, then Kurama would more than likely die. That kept them still. She was about to start the process when a thought hit her. She knew what was wrong with him. It was so simple that she started to laugh. Everyone was shocked by her lack of respect.

Kagome got up and explained to everyone that an emergency was someone being killed or dying. They still didn't know what was wrong. She told them that the demon inside Kurama was going through a metamorphosis, and that calling her when a demon was becoming more powerful was not a good enough excuse to wake her up.

The two stared at her and back to Kurama. Yusuke was the first to laugh. Kuwabara, not wanting to look bad, started to laugh as well. Kagome simply ignored both of them, and despite being wet, she crawled onto Yusuke's bed and closed her eyes. After all it was his fault that her bed was all wet.

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After that stunt she got a few more hours of sleep. When she awoke, no one was around, so she took a few seconds to pack up her things. She found everyone conversing in a training hall, somehow while she slept her senses ignored Hiei's approach. Boton was floating on an oar, telling everyone about a mission that needed their immediate attention.

Kagome half stumbled into the hall. Yusuke tried to tell her that she was sleep walking, and that she was hallucinating. His plan was well thought out until Kagome bid Boton a good morning. Kagome's oh so obvious powers of deduction concluded that Boton never told them that there were two demons on the loose last night. Besides, it wasn't like she knew most of Yusuke's story anyway. Time loops tend to have people forget little details.

Kagome told everyone the gist of everything that happened after she healed them, and told them that Yukiro and herself would be returning to their own mission. Yukiro was ready, and Kagome officially finished her training. She heard a door open and she turned her head to see Kurama enter. He looked good as new, except she felt his new power that he had acquired during the time he recovered.

Kagome saw Boton standing there shocked. Kurama should have been in bed for at least a month, even if Boton helped heal him, and yet here he was looking better than ever. He greeted everyone with a polite smile and a cheerful good afternoon. He would have thanked Kagome, but Genkai interrupted them telling Kagome that her mother was on the phone for her.

She excused herself and rushed to answer the phone. It seemed that Inuyasha convinced Souta to remove the wards, and now he was furious that she was nowhere to be found. She shook her head; she screamed into the phone and demanded that her mother put Inuyasha on the phone.

The dog demon held up the phone sniffing for a demon's presence. The only word that he heard over the phone was the command: Sit! Kagome knew that now her mother would have to go out and buy a new phone, but she predicted that it would get her desired results.

She joined the group who had moved outside while she was on the phone. The group looked at her, and she told them that she had overstayed her welcome, and now she had to be leaving before someone got hurt. She grabbed her bag and waited for Yukiro to transform; it would be faster that way. She was about to leave when a giant head appeared in the sky above them.

Everyone stopped to see what he wanted. He warned them that from out of nowhere a dog demon appeared and by the looks of it was destroying a shrine. Kagome laughed and reassured the giant childlike head that the demon belonged to her, and she would take care of him.

The child nodded its head and told her that he would like it if she took one of the detectives as protection. Everyone started laughing at the thought of Kagome as helpless; but the truth of the matter was she was helpless when it came down to it. She did need protection against her heart.

She asked about the other mission and the child told her that they didn't need the whole group, but if worse case scenario he would send Boton to pick him up.

She agreed to take one. An idea came to her mind, and she picked Hiei, which surprised them all. The giant head nodded and disappeared. Boton offered to open a portal for her. Hey no one says no to a free ride, not to mention it was a faster way.

Hiei entered her mind telepathically and asked her why she picked him. She smiled and said that if they didn't need him, then he could spend some time alone with his sister. He didn't know why the girl was acting so nice and considerate towards him, but he wasn't complaining. He smiled towards her, and the rest of his team looked either very confused or scared. He saw Kagome laugh and told Boton to open the portal.

The girl opened the doorway and the three stepped into it. They were greeted on the other side by a livid Inuyasha. Yukiro perched herself onto her shoulder, and was hidden by her hair. Kagome masked her power to what it once was, and Hiei was Hiei. Inuyasha demanded to know who the demon was, and Kagome decided to play coy. She touched Hiei's shoulder and softly told him 'thank you' knowing full well that Inuyasha would get the wrong impression.

She told Hiei that she would be fine now, and that he could leave. She bent down and kissed him on the forehead. Both demons were shocked, but Hiei recovered faster, and mentally told her that she better know what she was doing.

She smiled and watched the small fire demon take his leave. Okay so she was a tease, but hey affairs of the heart weren't meant to be played fair, and she was only paying Inuyasha back.

Once she knew the fire apparition was gone did she turned her wrath on Inuyasha. She demanded to know why he was terrorizing her family. He replied in a childish voice that no one would tell him where she went, and so he had to resort to violence.

That was not the answer that she wanted to hear, so she 'sat' him. She waited patiently for his string of profanity to subside before she calmly told him to wait on the other side of the well and she would pack her things to leave.

The half demon was not too impressed, but decided that he had better listen. Something was different about her and he didn't really want to find out what that was. He went to the well house and instead of jumping in he waited for her in her era.

A/N: see not as good as usual, but I needed to update. I think I've plotted most of the story, so just sit back and relax as I start to type it up. Please make my day by giving me a review ^__^