A.N- thank you to all that reviewed for me! I love you all! I'm going to try and update

my stories quickly, but sometimes I get writers block and crap like that, so if I'm late with

them, please don't form and angry mob and track me down. Also, all my chapters should

be pretty long. I personally hate waiting a month for a review and then its only 500

words. Drives me nuts. Well, anyway, I am going to shut up now! Enjoy ch.2!

Disclaimer-if I didn't own them last time, do you think I own them now? No. sorry. You

can't sue me. HA!

Ch.2

Kagome didn't know how much more she could take. Inuyasha was driving her nuts. In

just one span of 24 hours, he had completely wiped out all the ramen in the house, tired to

wage battle with the cat three times and thanks to her little brother and his hidden stash of

chocolate that Inuyasha sniffed out, was on a sugar high all night long. Kagome didn't

know how much more she could take. Ah, and who could forget the television escapade?

Kagome had been taking a break from her chores around the shrine to eat some lunch

when she sat down to watch some T.V. being midday, there was of course nothing on

except for really bad game shows, and some soap operas. Kagome was curious as to what

the soaps were all about so she settled on that.

A ½ hour later, she was bawling like a baby as she found out that Nick, the newly found

father of Roxanne's baby, was shot and put into the hospital under extreme care.

Inuyasha then decided to come charging into the room demanding to know 'Why the hell

are you crying' as he ever so gently put it. Kagome just shot him a feral look and sat him.

While he was immobile on the floor, Kagome explained the situation between sobs and

sniffles. When Inuyasha was able to pick himself up, he perched himself on the top of the

sofa and stared at the moving pictures on the screen. Without looking away from the

television, he asked, "Hey Kagome, how'd those people get in that box? And I don't get

it, why are more little boxes inside this box that are hooked up to that bed? And why

don't the have pictures like this one? All they have is blinking green lights...eh?

Kagome?" Kagome had stuffed a pillow over her head in an effort to stop the hanyou's

rambling from entering her ears. With another lethal look, she turned to him. "Inuyasha,

you keep on going, and I swear I'll do it." "Keh." Inuyasha looked away and was silent

for a while. Not long after however, He was at it again. "Kagome, this is boring. Is there

any other people that aren't cryin' all the time?" With an annoyed sigh, Kagome pushed

herself up off the couch. Giving Inuyasha the remote, she walked out of the room.

A few minutes later, while she was doing dishes, she heard a yelp, followed by a growl

from the living room. She dropped the bowl she had been washing and ran towards the

noise. Inuyasha was standing over a broken remote, with tetsueiga in his hand and a snarl

on his face. "Inuyasha!" Kagome ran over to him and grabbed his arm. "What

happened?"

With another growl at the remote, he explained that the remote had 'stung' him when he

had bitten it. Kagome just stared at him a minute and then laughed. When she had herself

under control again, she looked back to Inuyasha. "No! You don't eat it! You change the

channels, err, get different people on the screen," with a look towards the remote she

sighed. "Well, at least it used too." Inuyasha just put his sword away and walked out,

grumbling about stupid future things.

Brought back to the present, Kagome shook her head and started to stir more vigorously

at the bowl of cream she was making for the cream puffs she had to make for home ec.

Normally she would have used the electric mixer, but Inuyasha complained that it hurt

his ears and for fear of the mixer, she settled for a normal mixing spoon. This was the last

assignment she had to make up, and she was working at it with dogged determination.

She has already had to ban Inuyasha and her brother from the kitchen, because Inuyasha

kept poking his nose into everything, asking what's this and what's that do, and Souta

had to copy whatever his idol did. Though she had, too admit, she didn't mind having the

hanyou with her, the way his ears swiveled and twitched when he was curious always

made her laugh. But, she knew her little brother would never go anywhere without

Inuyasha if it could be avoided, so she sent them both away.

A few minutes later the previously mentioned dog eared boy walked into the room and

sat down at the kitchen table. Kagome glanced back from spooning cream into the pastry

shells and asked where his shadow was. "Keh. He said something about playing hide and

go seek. I told him ok and I haven't seen him since." Kagome rubbed her forehead.

"Inuyasha how long ago was that?" He shrugged. "Uh, Inuyasha, you see, you're

supposed to..." "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME AND FIND ME!" A very angry Souta

marched into the room and pointed at Inuyasha, who winced and flattened his ears

against his head. "It's called hide and seek for a reason Inuyasha! I hide, and you come

find me! But I'm not playing anymore!" He then stuck his tongue out at Inuyasha, and

ran out the door. Inuyasha looked dumfounded, while Kagome giggled. Her brother had

inherited her temper, so it seemed. Inuyasha scowled at her until his gaze wandered to the

tray of perfect cream puffs. His ears perked up and he slowly started towards the counter.

Kagome saw the look on his face and launched herself in front of her assignment holding

her arms out in front of her, she sent him a warning look. "Inuyasha, I swear, to

everything I hold dear, if you touch these, I will s-i-t you until you won't want to get up,

you hear me?" Inuyasha scowled again and went outside.

A few hours later, Kagome was in her room, pondering doing some extra credit math

when she remembered the dance was tomorrow. With an exasperated sigh, she flopped

down on her back. What had she been thinking!? Take Inuyasha? God knows what kind

of trouble he could find there, if he couldn't even stay out of trouble here! Another

thought hit her with a bolt of panic. His ears. It wasn't the new moon and he couldn't

easily hide them and still have his hearing. Plus, she imagined holding your ears to your

head for four hours isn't exactly comfortable. She could always use a hat, but that wasn't

really appropriate for a formal dance. She remembered that her friend Eri had once gotten

the wrong hair dye, and had worn a bandanna over her hair for 32 washes and counting.

She supposed that she could do that, and just tell everyone that he had gotten a really bad

hair cut. Yep, it was going to have to work. Then there was his clothing situation. Her

mother was picking up a rental suit today, but Kagome wasn't so sure how he was going

to take to the idea. It didn't matter though, because he was wearing it no matter what.

Kagome pulled herself off her bed and went to the closet. Opening the doors, she took out

her dress and hung it on the closet door. When she had seen it in the store, she knew it

was the one. It wasn't puffy, or frilly, or anything. It was a simple straight, taffeta

midnight black gown with a slight flare to the skirt that accented her hips. It also had a

low scooping back that laced up in a complicated criss-cross pattern that she still couldn't

do by herself. The top was beaded slightly heavily with tiny silver rhinestones, which

decreased in quantity as they cascaded down the dress. It had reminder her of the clear

nights in the feudal era, when her and Inuyasha would sit and gaze at the stars, and talk

the night away. Those were the nights she cherished. The nights where it seemed

Inuyasha cared for her as something more than a girl who could see shards. The nights

where he wouldn't argue with her. The rare nights she sometimes even heard him laugh.

But, there was always the morning to those nights. The sun rising each morning after

those perfect nights, scattering that starlight and magic was just like Inuyasha himself,

chasing after Kikyou, and scattering her heart.

She swiped angrily at a tear rolling down her cheek. She had already accepted that she

couldn't have him right? She knew that was true, but sometimes reality couldn't crush

dreams. God, how she hated Kikyou. She hated that she was chosen to share her soul, that

she had hurt Inuyasha, and most of all, for being so horrible, and still have Inuyasha

loving her. She couldn't even get him to be nice to her at times. She did have Kikyou to

be thankful for, though. Without her, she never would have met Inuyasha, or Shippo,

Miroku or Sango. The friends who knew her even better than her friends here. Because

of Kikyou, she had a second home, and a grandmother figure of sorts, which she had

always wanted. But most of all, she had Inuyasha. Even if only friends, he still meant the

world to her. Even if he only kept her around for so he could finish his task and leave

forever with Kikyou. Even if she loved him and he'd never love her back.

The door smashed open, (something she was getting used to happening as soon as she

was deep in thought) and she jumped. Inuyasha stood leaning against the door frame,

smirking at her. She rolled her eyes heavenward, praying he hadn't done anything

devastating. "Yes, Inuyasha?" "You know Kagome, that kid can be pretty cool

sometimes." Kagome started to get suspicious. "You mean he's not mad anymore?"

He snorted. "Keh! That kid's a lot easier to make amends with than you. A few laps around the yard on my back and I'm his freakin' hero again." Kagome giggled. "So,

what' with the smug look? You look like you just ate my cat or something..." At his

silence she stalked towards him. "Inuyasha if you did, I..." When she was standing

directly in front of him, he pulled a purple spiral notebook from behind his back. Kagome

gasped. "My diary!" Diving at him to get it, he snatched it away and jumped on the bed.

"OSUWARI!" he went face first down into the pillow, muffling his curses, but the

notebook was trapped under him. With a growl, Kagome leaned out the door and shouted

to her brother. "Souta! You had better stay in hiding all day, because when I find you, not

even Inuyasha will be able to save you!"

When Kagome turned around, he was sitting on the end of the bed, starting to open the

diary. She lunged at him, but once again, he eluded her. "Heh, it's not so fun when you're

on that side of the battle, eh Kagome?...hey..." Kagome had buried her face in her hands

and was sniffling. He crept closer, guilt washing over him. He had made her cry again.

Dammit, if he could count all the times he had made her cry...wait. He had just realized

that there was no salty scent to the air like always when she cried when Kagome lurched

forward and grabbed the notebook form his hands. As she glared at him, he stared at her

dumbfounded. She had tricked him. Damn wench.

She turned and walked to her desk. "I don't know how you and Souta found this, but you

had better not have read ANY of it..." she looked at him for conformation. Inuyasha

quickly shook his head no, Kagome had that edge to her voice that always made him

nervous. "because if I ever find out that you have read what's in this notebook, you'll

wish you had a way to seal that well, because there would be no place or time that you

could hide from me. Got it?" Inuyasha nodded vigorously. "Good."

She locked the notebook in a drawer and put the key in her pocket to hide later. Her gaze

caught on the dress hanging from the door. "Oh, and by the way Inuyasha, the dance I

told you about is tomorrow, you're wearing a suit, and you're going to be on your BEST

behavior. Right?" Inuyasha still heard that edge in her voice and nodded again, not

knowing or caring what a suit was. "Promise, Inuyasha? No arguments right?" He

nodded again, desperately wanting her back to her normal happy mood. She sent him a

tight smile. "Great. Now, I'm going to find Souta..." she started out the door.

"Hey, Kagome?"

She stopped.

"That thing you did with the crying? It was cheating."

"Osuwari."

A.N- Well, there's chapter 2. I think it turned out kinda nice, even if it is a little boring. I

apologize for not updating sooner, but there was cruise night and cake class and work and

a lot of other things that kept me from my computer. The evil fiends. Anyway, the next

chapter should be the dance, but if not, it will be the next for sure. To the person who

asked me about the sit spell...I'm not sure if it takes awhile to wear off, but that's the

way it seems to me when I'm watching my DVD's, so that's the way it goes! I should have

Ch.3 up within the week, so update, eat, and be merry, all! See y'all later!

MusicAngel