Luckily for Kagome, it happened to be the very start of her summer vacation. She would have gone anyways, but still, it couldn't have been worked out better for her. Well, the two left that night after some hurried packing and drove until they reached the Hiragashi shrine. They had reached the shrine and though Kagome wanted to see her ojii-chan right away, her mother insisted that she get some rest and that she could speak to him in the morning.

Kagome sighed, knowing her mother had won and sat down on the bed. Mrs. Hiragashi had put Kagome in her old room, and a cot for Inu Yasha in there as well. The next morning, she was the first to wake. Running to her grandfather's room, Kagome found him awake. After talking a bit, she felt better. They'd gotten in their last words to each other. That night, Jii-chan died.

The next day, all the Hiragashi relatives came. And by all the relatives, I mean all of their (living) relatives. Most stayed at various hotels, but Aunt Umeko and Uncle Shiro stayed with Kagome and her family.

"Kagome, how have you been this past year or so?" Umeko asked her niece when they were alone.

"Busy," Kagome replied.

:Well, what do you do in your free time?" Asked Umeko, Kagome's ever nosy aunt.

"I read a lot," was her niece's reply.

"Hmm, you're a pretty girl, I bet you get asked out on dates all the time," her aunt stated.

"Not really," Kagome answered truthfully.

"Waiting for that one special guy?" Her aunt cracked a smiled.

"You could say that," Kagome responded.

"I saw Maitreya the other day," Umeko told her niece.

"Really?" Kagome asked, wondering if she'd see her friend.

"It seems he is quite infatuated with you," her aunt told her niece, picking lint off of her sweater.

"You don't say," Kagome prompted.

"It's true, and of, I don't know, maybe you could go on a date with him while your in town," her aunt said, trying to coerce her niece into going on a date with the Akio's son.

"I couldn't," Kagome insisted.

"Oh, I get it, you've got a crush on him don't you?" Umeko said, giggling slightly.

"Auntie Umeko, I can't go on a date with Maitreya, and even if I could, I wouldn't," Kagome stated.

"And why the hell not? He comes from a respectable family, he's got money, and he's good looking. Half the girls in the country would gladly take him form you," Umeko informed her niece.

"Then let one of those girls have him," Kagome said irritably.

"He's the total opposite of that vagabond boy," Umeko told her niece. 'Actually, there more alike than you think,' Kagome thought with a smile.

"Auntie, I guess you've gotta know, though I though mama told you, but I'm married to , how shall I say this, the vagabond boy," Kagome told her aunt. Her aunt stared at her, then out of anger, slapped her niece in a way that only hurts if a female does it. Or, as it's commonly called, Kagome was bitch slapped by her aunt, which really hurts quite a bit.

Kagome stormed off to her room and sat on her bed, a headache forming.

"Hey, are you okay?" Inu Yasha asked her. She must have fallen asleep because she didn't answer. He was still envious of how she could sleep with her eyes open. Even after the many years he'd known her, he still couldn't figure out how she could do that, though when he looked at her eyes, he was a bit creeped out. With a shrug, he let her take her nap.

She hadn't been sleeping well the past few nights and he felt he should let her sleep when she could. Looking around the room, he began to pack all their stuff away, seeing as they were heading back to Kyoto the next day. While he was doing that, he thought of how his life had changed so much the past four years.

Kagome stayed in bed all day, and ever so often, Mrs. Hiragashi or Inu Yasha would come up to see if she was awake, but she didn't. By the next morning, she was still asleep, and when he looked at her, Inu Yasha felt he was looking at a corpse.

Kagome found herself by the well. But, she was in the Feudal Era, not her family's well house. Although, she noted that the well house was built and maintained by someone, maybe a villager who remembered her.

"How'd I end up here?" She asked herself. Taking a look around the well house, she found a bow and arrows. "Wait a minute, this is MY bow. How'd it end up here?" She wondered aloud. Not knowing where else to go, she headed towards the village, her feet automatically knowing the way, bow in hand with her arrows slung over her shoulder. When she reached the village, almost everyone stared at her, surprised to see the strange woman. A few looked like they were going to ask her something, and a few children wandered over to her, walking with the girl.

"Excuse me, but where is the village priestess?" Kagome asked a young woman about her age.

"We do not have a priestess anymore, not since-" the girl began.

"Kaede," Kagome finished.

"Yes, how did you know that?" Asked the girl. Kagome just smiled.

"My name's Kagome, what's yours?" Asked Kagome.

"Yumemaru," replied the girl. Kagome knew she'd heard that name before, but simply shrugged it off as someone she'd met in her time. "We do have a priest, and I'm sure he'll let you stay with him if you need a place to rest for the night," Kagome was told.

"Thanks, Yumemaru-sama," Kagome replied.

"Please, call me Yume," the girl insisted.

"Alright, but then you have to call me Kagome," Kagome answered. Yume invited Kagome over to her home for some tea and when Kagome and Yume took food to the sick people Yume tended, Kagome helped, remembering what Kaede had taught her about different plants. Just as the two were passing through the village to go to an elderly man's home, Kagome gave a yelp and turned around, Yume doing the same.

"It can't be!" Yelled the man.

"No way!" Kagome yelled. Yume slapped him, and Kagome had to giggle a little.

"Miroku-sama, meet Kagome, my friend," Yume introduced them. "Kagome this is the village priest, Miroku-sama." But by that time the two were hugging, and her jaw dropped.

"Wow, I thought I'd never see you again," Miroku told the newcomer. Kagome gave another yelp and soon her friend was slapped, again.

"It was worth the pain," Miroku sighed.

"I'll bet it was," Kagome said darkly. Then a thought came to her. "Hey, Miroku, guess what, I'm married to Inu Yasha." She laughed as the monk's face drained of most of it's color.

"He's not here is he?" Asked her friend.

"No, at least, I don't think he is," she replied.

"Ahh, I see you found your bow and arrows," Miroku said out of the bloom.

"Yeah, hey, do you know who built the well house?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, me," the monk replied. Kagome stared at him.

"Wow, and it still exists in my time," Kagome told him. A thought came to her. "Hey, Miroku, how long has it been since the last time I was here?"

"Oh, about twenty years," the monk replied.

A/N: Well, short, I know, but I like this better than the original version. After this, I'll start having to come up with things when I write the chapters. I've got a part of the next chapter written out, but not much. I am also going back to my old update schedule, Tuesday's and Thursday's.

Well, I'm back form Nagataka, which I still don't get why people like it so much. Just so you know, I might have teh Nagataka reviewers come after me, because I told them that I wasn't going to write the sequel until this story is over, so they may come after me. Sorry I didn't update while I was working on Nagataka, but it was hard getting out the 13 chapters in little over a week. I could do chapter 6 of CLRGL because most of it was written out, and I could do my revision of ANSST and My Bloody Valentine because I did them after I was done with Nagataka. It happens to be that ANSST was put up the night it was finished and MBV wasn't.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha or it's people/places/ and/or things. I own Umeko and Yumemaru, you use them and I'll sue you. ::Sees angry Nagataka reviewers:: Will you guys please protect me? ::Hides behind her reviewers::