Ohayo!! So tired. . I haven't gone to bed yet and it's nearly 6:30 in the morning. Blah. Anyway! This will be a slightly confusing chapter. But it was a lot of fun to write. Too bad it took over an hour to put this together. But cheer everyone! A small plot twist arrives finally. So, tell me what you think. No flames please. Though I do want to hear all of your constructive criticism. On with the story! Enjoy!

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School was better than normal for Kagome, even Hojo seemed to have gotten the hint she wasn't going to date him. The teachers couldn't harass her for wearing the string of beads around her neck, simply because she was all ready being punished for her 'crime.'

Without the daily reprimand from her principal she made it home in time to share a snack with Souta and completed a good portion of her homework. Her head lifted when a knock came to the door; setting down her pen she stood and went to answer it.

"Hi there." Kagome came face to face with the lecher. He offered a bright smile leaning upon the railing of the porch. "Thought I'd come over and check out where you live before Inuyasha shows up."

"How'd you know he was picking me up?" She asked as she sat upon the railing next to him.

"I didn't but I figured I'd ask if he was and if not nag him to, can't let a beautiful woman walk alone can I?" Kagome rolled her eyes and smirked. "Besides knowing Inuyasha he would, and you answered my question as it is."

"Ah, so you think you're slick?"

"No, I think I'm gods gift to women!" He laughed mechanically and Kagome stared wide-eyed at him not sure if he was being serious or not. Before she could comment, Inuyasha pulled up in his car, even though he saw the duo he slammed his fists upon the horn. Shaking her head Miroku stopped laughing they both got into the char, this time Kagome in the back and Miroku in the front playing with the dial of the CD Player. The ride was spent listening to distorted rap music.

Out of breath from walking up the steps that reached the top of the shrine, they entered the building to find Sango running back and forth from one room to another, before noticing them and waving her clipboard frantically. "Can't chat! Must. Not. Panic." Setting down a bucket with gloves inside, she closed her eyes and inhaled, nice and slow, and exhaled the same way. Her eyes suddenly snapped open, "ack! No time for air! Miroku, kitchen duty! Inuyasha, Kagome, weed the graveyard. Questions?"

"As much as we all love weed," Inuyasha said while rolling his eyes, "don't you mean DE-weed?"

"Inuyasha..."

"Ow! What the f-" Inuyasha muttered under his breath while rubbing a growing lump upon the top of his head, from Sango's clipboard. Kagome's hand over her mouth, silencing a laugh, while Miroku let one loose.

"Go!" Sango bellowed pointing in two separate directions before darting into another room. Leaving Miroku in the kitchen, which by the way was usually where all the girls were. (Sango must have switch Kagome and Miroku on mistake, ne? ¬¬') Kagome and Inuyasha made their way towards the cemetery, Inuyasha in the lead, and both stopped dead in their tracks. Deweed? Maybe Sango should have said De-forest the jungle. Moss, leaves, dead weeds, live weeds, even weeds that seemed like it was about to attack grew everywhere over the small acre of land with about twenty head pieces over the grave sites. Only thing cheery about it seemed to be the several weeping willow trees' that had small blossoms of white upon their vines.

"Yeah, this should be fun." Inuyasha wondered towards the end of the graveyard, the bucket still in tow and put on a set of gloves, kneeling before the stone that read of some old woman that had died, Kagome followed in suit getting on her knee's before the next headstone.

"Stupid weeds, why'd there have to be so many?" Inuyasha muttered as he ripped the poor weed from its roots out of the ground before tossing it into their bucket. This continued on, grave by grave. Kagome smirked watching Inuyasha curse out the tombstone's weeds that pricked his ungloved fingers, while Kagome's went unharmed.

"You should have worn the gloves."

"Feh, Wench." Kagome snorted and lifted her gaze towards the name of the grave in front of her."

"Kikyo? Isn't that the name of the girl who was killed in that car we were reading about yesterday?"

"You were reading it you mean."

"Whatever, same girl?" Inuyasha craned his neck to look at the name and then nodded. "Yeah, stupid girl drove her car off a bridge. With the kind of money she had, why the hell would she do something that stupid?"

"She wouldn't just drive it off a bridge, no one is that... weird."

"Well she was, stupid bitch, she had all the money in the world, the hell was wrong with her? I mean her parent's are wasting thousands a year to keep this place going. Well, take away the free manual labor." He threw another weed into their over filling bucket. "If my kid drove off a bridge, the last thing I'd continue paying for was the thing they liked the most, ya know?"

"How do you know that they are funding this place?" Kagome wiped her forehead with the back of her gloved hand.

"Boy you're nosey, I just know okay? Besides, they're the only one's who have enough to keep this damn place funded. Whole inside was just remodeled. Face it, Kikyo was a psycho. Her parent's don't want to admit that, so they keep a good standing by funding 'Widdle Kikyo's training grounds.' And they fund that damned fair we all have to be in." Kagome threw her last weed from Kikyo's tombstone into the bucket and watched Inuyasha stand and take the bucket towards the building. She shook her head and looked over the head stone.

"Was it really that bad for you?" She sighed and started wiping the dirt from the engraved lettering, when a searing burning sensation rang though her body. 'I hate you both! I'll be so humiliated! I hate you! 60... 70...' Her voice rang through Kagome's mind, the words imprinting on her mind. Crash! "I'll be humiliated!" Crash! Splash. 'I hate you both!' "I hate you both!" Kagome's body trembled, her hand falling off the tombstone. As her eyes opened, her hand covering her mouth. Anger instantly subsiding, her breath coming out hard and ragged against her palm. Kikyo's words echoed in her ears, the feeling of need of revenge gone. Replaced b fear.

She said those words out loud; she cautiously looked over her shoulder. No one had heard her. Lowering her head she rubbed her palms over her face taking in a long slow breath.

"Oy! Wench, they hell are you doing?" He looked down at her perspiring, slightly shaken form and grabbed her by her upper arm. Forcing her to her feet and dragged her to a shady spot under a willow. "Here." He said handing her one of the two water bottles he was holding. "Stop being stupid and drink. Heat can kill you ya know?"

Kagome lifted her head and blinked, pausing in unscrewing the cap. "Eh... not like I care if a stupid wench like you dies or anything. Just don't feel like getting dragged into jail by the cops for killing you or something. Feh!" He turned his head away and took a swig of the water.

"Thanks." She closed her eyes and started downing the bottle of water, trying to steady her heart. Why was she so angry? And who was it that was angry? Kagome or Kikyo? She or her?

"Whatever," he said looking down at his watch, "gods driving to school tonight is going to suck."

"How do you have school at night?" She asked as she leaned next to Inuyasha against the tree.

"College, they do give night courses. Think they'll let us out early?" He twisted the dials upon his watch and huffed lightly.

"Don't know, what classes do you take? I'm still in High school."

"Woohoo for you high school girl. And you are nosey, damn nosey. If you must know I'm taking history and cooking." He shot her a glare before she started to smile. "It's free food! So don't open your mouth!"

"Wasn't going to say a word." She looked away biting her lower lip trying not to picture Inuyasha in an apron. "How can you afford College? Between here and school and sleeping how do you manage?"

"My brother Sesshomaru... eh half-brother that is, teaches in the English department. I get in free." He rolled his eyes and snorted slightly.

"Sesshomaru?" She tilted her head, that name ringing slightly in her head forcing her chest to tighten slightly.

"Yeah... you've probably heard of him. Won some big award or plaque, writing some mambo jumbo about a feudal era or something stupid like that."

"Nope. Never heard of him before." She shrugged her shoulders in honesty, Inuyasha seeming to relax under that.

"Miroku! Come the hell back here right now! I swear I'll get you for groping those girls!" Sango's scream could be heard inside the shrine as Miroku ran past one of the first floor windows.

"Hairnets for all! Down with hairnets!"

"Miroku! Come back here right now or... or else!" Sango shrieked over Miroku's chant, which got dimmer as they ran farther away.

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"What the?"

"Don't ask me. Sango should know by now not to put him with so many girls alone." He huffed and shook his head. "He's going to get it when she get's him. He's fast but she was the star of the freaking track team. Long distance running." Kagome bowed her head and shook it when a loud 'SLAP' rang through the shrine. "See? Told ya."

"Is he always like that?" She looked up at the tree and stood upon her toes, reaching for one of the lower blossom's from the tree. Then tried to hop.

"Yes, and for the love of..." He reached up and plucked the cream colored flower from the branch and held it down to her. Flushing softly Kagome took it from him. The hidden flirt within her letting her fingertips brush lightly over his own a moment longer than they should have.

"Thank you." She held the flower to her nose inhaling the soft scent, not aware of the faint blush on Inuyasha's face.

"Whatever. You're welcome."

"C'mon guys! Time to come in stop making out and come out, come out where ever you are!" Miroku's voice rang in a lighthearted singsong effort from the shrine door way.

"Feh, Shut up you lecher!" Inuyasha turned from Kagome and the two walked towards Miroku who adored a lovely shade of red on his cheek, in the shape of a handprint.

"Just a bit of fun."

"Miroku..." He audibly swallowed and turned towards Sango, who seemed to have calmed down but still wore a nasty smile of triumph. "Be good." She gestured the three to follow her towards the makeshift cafeteria, half way through their meal of sandwiches and small boxes of juice she spoke up once more. "Kagome are you coming tomorrow night?"

"What's tomorrow night?" She asked between bites.

"Inuyasha!" He snorted and pointed at Miroku who was making googly eyes at Sango when her head was turned. "Miroku want another?" He shook his head no and looked down. "Anyway, tomorrow is Friday, horror night at my place. We rent movies, whatever just a get together with the three of us. But we need another girl! So you're coming right?"

"Um..."

"Great! It's settled, just bring something to sleep in since you'll be staying the night. Cool with everyone?" She continued without waiting for their response. "Great!"

Kagome walked through the door of her home after Inuyasha had dropped her and Miroku off. Dinner had been the same as always, the talk of the food being alive. A slap to Miroku for his wondering hands. And Inuyasha saying 'feh' at least five times. Waving to her foster mother and Souta she made her way upstairs into her room yawned softly and flopped upon her bed. And within moments as asleep.

"Sesshomaru?" Kagome didn't recognize her voice as she wondered through an unfamiliar park, wearing the softest cream-colored satin. She couldn't control her body. "Sesshomaru where are you?

"Here." He placed his hands upon her shoulders from behind and pulled her back to his chest. Dipping his head into nuzzle the crook of his neck, which she softly giggled. "Sorry, I couldn't help but admire your beauty. Then I remembered, you were mine so I didn't have to do it from so far away."

"Charmer." Kagome felt herself smirk as she turned around in his arms, her arms encircling his neck as she found herself staring into the older and taller version of Inuyasha. "Did you bring it?"

"You should wait until your birthday to get gifts." He spoke softly resting his head upon hers, she huffed softly and jerked her head back and shot him a glare. "Okay okay, I brought it."

Her smile returned, and she pouted prettily. He sighed and kissed the top of her hair and drew from inside his suit coat pocket a long black velvet box. He pried open the lid and Kagome's eyes widened in surprise. Those beads, purple beads. She squealed and held out her hand. 'No, my mother gave me these!' "Oh Sesshomaru, they're beautiful!"

"For the price they better be." He chuckled softly and pulled the strand of dark purple beads from the box and wrapped them around her slightly, more slender wrist. Kagome giggled happily and threw her arms around his neck, pressing her lips lightly to his. Sesshomaru's arms moved around her waist, kissing her back softly. 'What am I doing! Don't kiss me I don't know you!' She felt herself soften against his form and sigh into the kiss.

Pulling back he gazed down at her and smiled. He adverted his gaze and spoke. "Well it's not early after all." Kagome tried to back away though the body wouldn't listen, it was like it wasn't even her. Sesshomaru lifted his watch to show her his watch that read: 12:01 AM. "Happy Birthday Kikyo."