*red velvet curtains are drawn back* ohh I love velvet.

Standard disclaimer applies.

AN: ok here it is, I doubled up on the effort and put forth 2 chappies tonite. Hope ya'll like 'em.


CHAPTER 4

Kagome was sitting on her sleeping bag, absently stroking the kitsune on her lap. She stared into the fire, not really paying attention to what is being said around her... something about wolves, the jewel, and fighting Inuyasha. 'I wonder what I look like now,' came in amongst all the questions popping in her head.

"Kagome? Hey, are you all right?" A light touch on her shoulder brought her out of her thoughts. Looking at the hand then up to its owner, seeing Sango, Kagome relaxed.

"I... I'm fine. It's just hard to believe this." She looked back to the fire. "I still don't remem..." She froze, the hair standing up on the back of her neck. Her eyes widened but still showed fear.

"Kagome?! What's wrong!?" came a chorus of worry.

"There...... there's something..... no someone...... watching me." She put the kitsune down, stood and turned with a snarl in the direction the feeling was coming from, the forest. Seeing two jewel shards, she lifted her nose only slightly to sniff the air, making sure it was who she thought it would be. Taking a step closer to the forest's edge, she sighed "Kouga, you can come out now."

The wolf youkai stepped out from his hiding place behind a bush and walked over. Stopping at a distance, he stared at her, noticing something was different. 'Something has changed, drastically. But, damn, she's beautiful.'

"How'd she do that?" The others stood and watched at what Kagome would do, not knowing what else could happen. Inuyasha was the only one that stepped between the two.

"What do you want, wimpy wolf?" The snarl brought them out of the staring contest, bringing their attention to the hanyou. "She's not going with you Kouga. Haven't you got that through your head yet?"

"Don't you think that you should let her decide Inuyasha? I mean it is her life, not yours."

Kagome walked back to her seat next to the fire and sat down calmly. "Looks like they're going to be at this for a while" She glanced over to Sango and Miroku, both giving her a smile. Shippo giggled at the thought of watching Inu Yasha get beat up in front of Kagome.

'Looks like she's back to normal. Well at least as normal as she can get right now, anyway.' Sango shifted her gaze from the arguing demons to her friend. Feeling a strange familiar sensation, though, she reached for her bone weapon. "HENTAI!!"

WACK!!!

That brought everyone's attention to the monk that sported a few new bumps and bruises, compliments of Sango.

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AN: poor Miroku, he's just got problems, ne? and poor Kouga, can he really be so… dense?

ok I know it was short. Hopefully I'll update soon, but because it's kinda late tonite… well, I'm just going to stop.