Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.HE OWNS'S ME! Phew. Glad that's off my chest. (A/N tancya for the encouraging reviews! Preciate it! This chapter is just going to be nice and calm, so don't worry, I'm just trying to get Inuyasha familiar with his new habitat.^v^)
Chapter 5
Kagome woke up with a start. Her mother could be home any minute. She knew she would have to tell her about him eventually, but not now. Not when she did not know about Inuyasha herself. She sat up on the side of the bed and stretched. The up-side-down clock read 6:12. She sighed and dragged her feet to the bathroom. She hardly had any sleep. She kept checking the lock on the door, checking on him, doing anything that made her feel safe. After all, she did not exactly know who or what she was dealing with. It was Friday, so she pushed school aside and went downstairs. School can wait.

She walked in the living room and gazed over him. His silky hair covered his face and his arm hung out from under the sheet. He looked like he should not be disturbed, but she had to. She gently shook him.

"Inuyasha. Wake up. Inuyasha."

She heard him mumble something, and then he rolled on his side and opened his eyes. Those big amber eyes of his. Kagome never saw eyes like them. You could read it like a book.

"Kagome? Hey? You listening?"

"Huh?"

Kagome realized she was staring hard at his eyes. She looked away. She walked over to the kitchen and Inuyasha got up and followed.

"You like eggs?"

"What are eggs?"

Kagome sighed. "Something you're gonna like."

He finished breakfast just in time. He could hear the crackling of gravel. It reminded him of his father's staggered footsteps, only this one sounded faster and continuous. He did not like that reminder.

"My mother's home! Quick! You gotta hide!" She grabbed his wrist and searched the house for a fast hiding spot.

"Why?" Asked Inuyasha

"I'll explain later."

They reached to a door down the hall. She opened it and began to push Inuyasha in.

"Where is this?"

"The basement."

Right away Inuyasha's both arms held on to the side of the basement. Kagome tried to push but he would not budge. Kagome looked up at his horrified look.

"What's wrong?"

Wasn't it obvious enough? Inuyasha thought wrong of this Kagome. She must have wanted a hanyou all to herself. Maybe she just fed him so her knew slave wouldn't die so soon. He escaped Sesshomaru; he's not going to end up the same place again.

He pushed her off of him. She saw the desperate look in his eyes.

"I am NOT going back in there!"

"What are you talking about-"

"DON'T LIE TO ME!"

There was a knock at the door. Kagome glanced at the door, then at Inuyasha. She was afraid of him and that deep sharp tone in his voice, but she saw he was afraid too. She looked at the basement door. She grabbed his wrist and he yanked it back, shoved her out of the way and ran up the stairs. She followed him all the way to her room, then locked him inside with the key she kept under the houseplant. The knocking of the door turned into pounding. Kagome ruffled up her hair and rubbed her eyes a few times so her presentation of her fake illness would be convincing.

"I'm coming already" she called.

One hour, two tablespoons of disgusting medicine and an eccentric ritual dance of healing from grandpa later, everyone was out the house except for Kagome and Inuyasha. Kagome made her way up the stairs to the locked bedroom door. She unlocked the door and opened it just enough for an eye. Inuyasha sat on her bed with his back facing her, his ears twitching once and a while.

"Inuyasha? You okay?"

Inuyasha did not move. After a minute or so, Kagome invited herself in. She sat on the bed next to him, and he moved away from her. Kagome tried to read his eyes and failed at it because he wouldn't look at her.

"Was it that basement, Inuyasha?"

He finally looked up at her with sad eyes and nodded.

"Sorry. That was just a hiding place for you until my people left."

"You still tried to put me in there."

Kagome was about to ask him some thing and he answered it before getting to hear the question. He told her what he thought she should know. Eventhough it was a few sentences, it still was unbelievable. She looked at him with her hands over her mouth.

"You never saw the outside?" She gasped. That would explain his pale skin and his fascination with everyday things.

"I did see some of it.The last thing of the outside I saw was a hole in the ground, then I woke up here." He said so casual like it was normal to never see the outside.

"That's horrible!"

"That's the rules."

Those were his rules. The hanyou's laws and rights. His world must have been horrible. But what if. What if it was the hanyou's fault that they were treated like that? Goosebumps rose on Kagome's skin. She felt sorry for him, but there must be another side to the story. The side he won't tell her. The long awkward silence was broken when Kagome tried to lighten up the mood. She grabbed him by his wrist and guided him out of her room.

"If you're going to be here, and if you're gonna meet my people, you better know your way around the house."

He silently followed. She showed him everything she could think of. Anything she thought he wouldn't have in his world.

"Any questions? Inuyasha?"

She turned and saw him staring at the roof, clicking the light on and off.

Click.click.click-clickclickclick.CLICKCLIIIIIIIICKCLICKCLICK-

"Okay! Good! Now you know what a light is." Said kagome as she took his hand off. He looked at it one more time, then clicked it off.

They went into the living room and Kagome went to the shades that were covering the porch door. Kagome opened the shades. Morning light flooded the room and Inuyasha's eyes. He let out a yelp and shielded his eyes. That reminded Kagome he has never been outside.

"Oh, sorry. Don't worry your eyes will adjust. It's about time you saw a little sunlight."

He slowly took his arms away from his eyes, blinked, and squinted until his eye focused. His pupils shrieked and it made his amber eyes illuminate. Kagome had that same shiver go down her spine. It was something about those eyes.

"What?" he snapped.

Kagome caught herself gazing into his eye AGAIN. She shook her head.

"Wha? Uh come on. You don't want to stay inside the house for the rest of your life, do you? It can't be healthy, you know." She said with a smile, trying to cover up her embarrassment. It seemed he didn't care because his attention was now at the outside. He was seeing light! OUTSIDE! That was enough for him. Just to stare out at everything he could lay his eyes on. His trance broke once Kagome opened the door.

"Let's go."

Inuyasha let her go out first, then he slowly stepped out. Kagome let him look at his surroundings for a while. She still thought it was unbelievable for someone to be in a house for his whole life. They began to wander through backyards, between peoples' houses, generally anywhere that was within 20 yards of her house. He was definitely not ready for the public.

"How old are you?" Kagome suddenly asked.

He did not answer. Instead he frowned that same deep-thought frown.

"I.don't know."

"What do you mean, 'I don't know.'"

"I don't know all right! Gotta problem with that?" He snapped.

Kagome was a little taken back by his response.

"No, I don't have a problem with it. You could have been a little nicer you know."

"Well it ain't none of your business anyway."

Kagome made a face behind his back and crossed her arms.

"I guess they don't have manners back in your world either."

"What the heck are manners?"

"What are-something you obviously don't have."

"Feh. Well I guess I'm better off without nammers."

"Manners."

".Feh, Whatever."

"Hmph," Kagome mumbled to herself. He was getting meaner by the sentence. Maybe she was getting to his true side. Or maybe he was trying to hide his true side. He was very nervous with the basement, and he got very edgy every time Kagome asked something about himself. To Kagome, either which way, he was still unnecessarily rude to her. Nevertheless, she had to put up with it until she could get some information to help him out.

It was 3:48 by the time they were back in the house. Kagome explained everything that Inuyasha had lay his eyes on. He made sure of it. Her cheeks ached from talking so much. He mostly said only two questions: "what's that" and "what's it for." She made him some lunch and he ate it slower this time. While he ate she crashed on the couch. 'He had better listen to every word I said,' she thought. As soon as her muscles began to relax someone knocked at the door. She groaned and sat up. Before Kagome remembered Inuyasha he was already at the door. He was about to turn the doorknob when Kagome called out,

"No Inuyasha!"

He turned and looked at her.

"What?" he asked annoyingly.

She pushed him away from the door.

"No one can see you, remember?"

"Why not?"

"Because you are not human. Until I figure something out you can't-"

"Whoa." Said a voice from behind.

Kagome froze, then slowly turned to see.Sango. Kagome did a sigh of relief and pulled her in.

"Sango! Where were you last night! How could you have abandoned me like that? Why did you go to school and leave me here! HUH SANGO?!?"

Kagome got frustrated when she realized holding her by the collar would not get Sango's attention. Instead, her attention was on the tall hanyou eating an apple. She scanned his body.

"He looks a lot better now. Must have been a really bad rash."

"Sango! You did not answer my question! Do you even KNOW what my question wa-"

Sango's nervous smile and her index finger pointing to her right cut her off. Kagome followed the finger that led to a boy about the same height as Inuyasha. He had a cute hair cut with a small ponytail and his midnight blue eyes (A/N I know I don't do these notes here, but I know I made his eyes blue. IT'S MY FREAKEN STORY) were fixed on the hanyou, his mouth slightly open.

"I thought Miroku could help with the wounds and explain to us what he is since his mother is a priest an' all."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Saaaangooo." She groaned. She turned to Miroku. "Hello, Miroku."

"Hullo," he replied, his eyes never leaving Inuyasha. "You were right about how it was worth it to take that long drive, Sango."

"Told ya." Sango sang. Sango looked at Inuyasha. Miroku stared at Inuyasha. Kagome gazed at Inuyasha. Kagome's BROTHER stared at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha looked at all of them, including the small kid at the door.

"WHAT ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT?!?"

All of them jumped at the sudden outburst.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! MOOOOOOOOMEEEEE!" Screamed Kagome's brother. Sango and Miroku knew this could get messy, so they both ran up stairs out of sight and looked over the railing. Kagome gasped and twirled around. 'Oh no! Not know!' She screamed inside. She ran out to meet them outside and calm things down before they saw him when a huge rat crossed her feet, Kilala close behind it.

"AAAACK!" She screamed as she jumped two feet high in the air. Inuyasha's reflex came in and he caught her in mid air. Kilala chased the jackal rat into the house and circled around their feet.

"AAAAAAHHH! GEEET OUT!" She squealed. She hung from Inuyasha's neck and kicked up her feet. Inuyasha scooped up her legs until Kilala chased the rat out. Kagome's brother and grampa got the wrong idea when they saw Kagome being held by this so-called "monster" that her brother described.

"OOOOh this is good." Sango whispered, regretting there was no popcorn to munch on.

Her Grandpa immediately pulled out a sacred prayer script and began to sing chants as he charged towards Inuyasha. Inuyasha simply dropped Kagome on the floor like luggage and watched the short old mad man hit him in his chest with what looked like a harmless rolled up newspaper to everyone else but the grandpa and Inuyasha. Grandpa kept hitting until he became extremely tired (didn't take that long) then ran out the house.

"Wow! LOOK AT HIS EARS!" Exclaimed Kagome's brother.

"Where is mom?" Kagome asked.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAA!!!!"

Kagome's mother came from behind and slammed a pan into Inuyasha's head. Mom looked in horror as the pan vibrated and crumbled into pieces. Kagome saw her grandpa charging back inside with a robe and a bottle of olive oil. She stepped in front of Inuyasha who was now holding the back of his head.

"Stop! He didn't do anything to you."

"Step aside Kagome! It's not allowed in this house."

"THAT IS NO WAY TREAT SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE OF HOW HE LOOKS! AND IT'S HE! NOT IT!"

Kagome saw that she got Everyone's attention. She motioned Sango and Miroku down the stairs. Sango greeted everyone good night with her red cheeks; Miroku greeted everyone good night with an imprint of Sango's hand on his cheek. Kagome led every one into the living room, got them comfortable for the long story she was about to tell them. She and Inuyasha told them everything they knew about the well. Kagome mother seemed to understand while Grandpa stared at inuyasha with suspicion. Kagome's brother, on the other hand, stared at his ears, simply fascinated.

"So can you help me grandpa?"

" I don't think you have anyone else, do you Kagome."

Kagome thought it was rude, but true. Who else would help her anyway? Only Grandpa.

The rough long night was finally over, and Kagome peaked into the room to see if he was already better. He was sitting at the edge of the bed in his regular indian-like sitting position. Kagome creeped in. She went over to the bed and looked at the moon with the one who never seen moonlight.

A/N I know it is a little .how should I say this.a little *coughs ooc coughs* but I will make it up to you in the next chapter. Believe me on this one! I just needed to get Inuyasha comfortable a little before the worst begins to happwn to him D. That is when things spice up when fluffy gets in the mix. 0.0 oooooh. I am a little ashamed for forgetting Kagome's brother's name. What was it again? Brother: What! You don't even know my name?? Tiano: Yeah will what is youe name wise guy? *clicks delete on Kagome's brat memory* Brother: It's uh.It's uh. I-don't-know.WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? I'M TELLING INUYASHA! Tiano: No! wait kid!