Disclaimer:...Yeah, I don't own Inuyasha for the last time... and I don't own Band-aids...or Pokemon which is mentioned verrrry briefly in this chapter...but I still have to put this here, even though it's a waste of space...These disclaimers are a pain in the a-...excuse me.

Kyaaaaaa! hearts surround author Thanks for all of those who reviewed. It makes me soooo happy. I am trying to shoot for 50 reviews, if possible and I am trying to get these on the web as fast as I can sighs. I have only gotten 15 frikin reviews, but I enjoyed every one of them. I have been kind of blue lately because I finally met this awesome guy...but it turns out that he thinks of me only as a friend...Why does this always happen to me?! I really found someone that I am totally interested in and now he thinks of me as a really good friend!? I feel like a book factory...but to please ya'll I'll get it up ASAP. They gotta go through my supervisor (No-da aka. Little chichiri) to make it on the web...so blame my supervisor, not me! (I am so sorry, supervisor) Dodges tomatoes and turnips Hey...what's up with the turnips...?

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Ch. 4

A Little Misunderstanding

The sun was rising slowly as if it was sick and tired of rising and setting every day. Light hit Kagome's face and she frowned, eyes still closed and turned over to the right in Inuyasha's arms.

"Mmmmm...?" She mumbled as she slowly opened her eyes and looking around. "Where...?" she said sleepily as she stretched her arms. And she just had to look down.

"AIEEEEEEEE!" She shrieked as she flapped her arms in an effort to balance. She landed on her side and hit something hard and white. She looked up to see Inuyasha, sound asleep with his haori spread on top of both of them. Kagome thought the worst.

THWAP

"What in the seven hells-" Inuyasha roared, a red handprint marked on his cheek. He groggily looked around to find Kagome two feet away from him, shaking in rage.

"How dare you!" She said coldly, her hand red and shaking.

"Bitch! What was that for?! You were the one who came to me!" Inuyasha growled, suddenly awake.

SLAP

"What in the hell was that for?!" Inuyasha asked, absolutely pissed off and was stunned at what he saw. Kagome shaking uncontrollably with tears in her eyes, her raven hair disarray and her eyes showing betrayal and disgust.

"I would NEVER! How could you?! I trusted you and then you-..." She choked as tears flowed freely down her cheeks (yet again...--).

Inuyasha was thoroughly confused now. 'What in the hell's goin' on?!' he thought frustrated.

"I-I have to g-get down and g-g-go h-home..." She stuttered as she tried to get down. 'How did I get up here in the first place...? Why am I up here? I can't believe Inuyasha would do that to me! How dare he!' She tried to step on the branch right below theirs, but lost her footing.

"EEEEEEEEK!" She shrieked as she tried to grab on to the branch for support. And missed. She started to plummet to the ground like a lead weight...until something caught her.

She looked up to see Inuyasha holding her, bridal style. He landed on a branch in the middle of the tree and it was still a good twenty foot drop to the ground. He looked at her with that famous you-think-you-can-do-anything-but-you-can't look and she finally snapped.

"Let me go, you idiot! I don't need your help!" She yelled angrily in his fuzzy little doggy ears and squirmed to get out of his arms. He winced in pain and yelled back with force, "Oh yeah? You would have crushed all of the bones in your pathetic human body. Then would you need my help? I saved you and this is how you tha-"

"Oh shut up! I don't need you at all!" Kagome intercepted heatedly and that was the last straw for the furious hanyou. He dropped her.

"EEEEEEEEEEK!" She screamed as she fell. She saw the ground get closer...and closer...and closer and she squeezed shut her eyes thinking, 'Damn that stupid hanyou!' before she hit.

Well, she didn't hit the ground, that is.

THUD

"...Am I dead...?" Two people said at once. Kagome opened her eyes to find herself on top of Miroku's back. Miroku was groaning in pain, his face buried into the ground.

"Miroku! Are you alright!" She said worriedly as she quickly got off. She helped Miroku up to his feet and noticed that he needed some Band-Aids...a lot of them...

"You're hurt!"(Well, duh...) She said with worry as she dashed to her pack. She quickly pulled out a bright white plastic first aid kit with a scarlet cross on it. She opened the latch and pulled out antiseptic, cotton balls, Band-Aids, and some gauze. She returned and started to dab antiseptic on his cuts on his arm. Inuyasha was growling in his throat warningly.

Kagome noticed and smiled slyly inwardly as she purred (What an idiot...--), "Thank you Miroku for catching me..." Miroku stared at her curiously.

He suddenly grabbed her hand and squeezed it, "You're very welcome, Lady Kagome." Then Sango, Kagome and Inuyasha all hit him...hard. The lecherous monk now found himself covered with bumps and bruises on his head.

"You can put Band-aids on yourself." Kagome muttered with disgust as she slung her pack over her shoulder with much effort.

Sango looked at her inquisitively and asked, "Kagome, where are you going?"

"Home."

"But...you just got here..."

Kagome turned around, set her pack on the ground, digging through it furiously. The birds were now twittering and a flock of crows were suddenly set into the robin's egg sky.

Finally, she yanked out some instant cup noodle, soba, yakisoba, ramen, udon, onigiri (rice balls), cans of instant green tea and a kettle (it was her mom's idea.). She set them on the ground and threw the first aid kit into Sango's arms; Sango caught it and opened it curiously.

"There are the supplies and now I have to go home." Kagome said loudly as she stormed off into the woods.

"Hey, wench! Come back here and find those shards NOW!" Inuyasha yelled at the top of his lungs.

Kagome whirled around, tears in her eyes as she screamed, "SIT!"

SLAM

Inuyasha now found himself buried face-first, two inches into the soft cold ground. He growled as he tried to get up, but no avail. Sango just stood there, first aid kit in hand and absolutely aghast, while Miroku was sitting on the ground, one end of the gauze in his mouth the other end in his hand, wrapping the delicate white cloth around his knee carefully. He was making a complete mess; the gauze was tangling with his robes and prayer bead causing him to lose his temper rather quickly. Finally Inuyasha got up from the ground and was leaning against the tree in a horrible mood, frowning angrily. This was getting out of hand...

"So, Inuyasha. What happened up there, eh?" Sango asked pissed off that the hanyou had scared away her friend...again.

He didn't answer and just bounded up into the branches again, cursing all the way.

"YAWWWWWN! W-what's going...on...?" Shippo asked, waking up from his peaceful slumber. His bright blue eyes scanned everyone's faces: Sango's look that said Unbelievable-what-will-they-do-next?, Miroku's swollen head that was about the size of a small watermelon, the bumps looked like ripe red berries scattered on his head and arms. Inuyasha sitting in the tree, his face in its usual angry setting, cursing about how Kagome was all of these bad-words-that-the-author-does-not-want-to-put-in-here-because-rating-must-change-and-supervisor-and-me-would-get-lots-o-flames.

Shippo shrugged when no one cared to explain and headed to a nearby spring to wash up. He sniffed the air before he left. 'Kagome is here! Yay! But...where did she go...?'

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Kagome lay in bed, feeling sick to her stomach. She asked her mom to let her stay at home from school and her mom worriedly asked what was wrong.

FLASHBACK

"Kagome, what's wrong?! You haven't been acting like yourself..." Mrs. Hirugashi cried, wringing her hands nervously.

"I'm fine, Mom! I just want to say at home today, okay?! All of this work is bad for me. I want a day of rest!" Kagome snapped back.

Mrs. Hirugashi was close to tears, but swallowed them with much effort as she replied shakily, "Oh...alright...but you still have to m-make up all of that h-homework..."

Kagome noticed her mother's attitude and felt guilty instantly. "Mom...I am just so tired of all of this. Searching for the jewel, juggling schoolwork and still doing all of my other chores-"

"Kagome, I will ask Souta to do your chores for this week. Until you get back to your feet. Surely, though, Inuyasha and the others can survive one week without your help...?" She interrupted, worry still hinting in her voice.

Kagome pondered over this and shook her head, "No Mom. They couldn't. Especially Inuyasha."

Mrs. Hirugashi sighed. What else could she do? She responded, "Alright, but you are not getting out of bed for at least two days! I don't want you getting sick...like your father..."

Kagome groaned inwardly with annoyance. Her mother always brought up Dad's death when she wanted to get a point across. Everyone said that he died because of exhaustion, that he was working so hard for his family, working two jobs at once, getting two hours of sleep a night, worrying about them night and day, that eventually his body couldn't take it anymore. After his death, her mother, brother and herself went to go live at Grandpa's shrine. They lived off of her Grandpa's sales from his shop in the shrine and Kagome knew that sometimes money was tight, but Grandpa was always so happy, that everyone didn't think about their financial crisis. Kagome had to change everything: Her school, her home...her life. She remembered when her father was alive how he used to pick her up and spin her around in circles, laughing and calling her his "sweet little princess". Those seemed to be the happiest times in their lives. Of course, she was happy living at the shrine, but she always did miss him.

"F-ine!" Kagome whined wearily, "But I am going back in three days!"

Kagome's mother smiled, "Of course. I will be sure to tell Grandpa that he should research on more diseases and illnesses."

Kagome shook her head as her mother laughed softly, making her way out of Kagome's room.

END OF FLASHBACK

She shut her eyes, trying to get rid of her headache and her thoughts about him. How could he just pop up like that in her head? Why was she always thinking about him?

'There's gotta be something wrong with me. Why am I thinking of someone like this if that person cares for someone else?' She thought anxiously.

He had changed the way that she saw life. Before she met him, life had been sort of a chore. You had to do it because you didn't want to cause your family problems. Now she saw life totally differently; she took time out of the day to enjoy even the littlest of things...and it was all because of him. How could a grumpy, controlling, hot-headed guy like him make her feel so strong?

Suddenly, she could hear the downstairs telephone ring. The faint cheerful murmuring of Souta could be heard and he yelled, "SIS! Telephone!"

Kagome groaned as she shouted back, "Tell them I'm busy!" But Souta kept annoying her.

"It's a boy named Homo...? Hobo...? ...Oh! HOJO!"

Kagome instantly sat up and dashed down the hall. Souta was still wearing his bright blue Pokemon Pikachu pajamas with little pikachus dancing across like little yellow rats, scratching his head like a little baboon answering with his peppy little voice, "Sorry, Kagome can't com-AHHHH!"

Kagome pushed him away from the phone, snatched it out of his tiny monkey hands and said exasperatingly into the mouth piece, "Moshi, Moshi, Kagome Hirugashi at your service!"

"K-Kagome? Is that you?" she could hear Hojo say suspiciously.

"Yeah. Sorry about my little brother. He is such a pain sometimes!" Kagome said apologetically, hinting on 'pain' that Souta should leave, but the little ape pretended not to notice.

"It's alright...hey! Since you are at home right now, would you like to go see a movie with me?"

"Oh, Hojo I don't think that is such a good idea..."

"Why not?"

"You see, the person I am seeing-"

"Oh, I'm not asking you out on a date! Of course not!" He intercepted.

"...I see..."

"Oh, no. I don't mean it in a bad way. I just don't want to make this 'person' mad. So would you like to go with me, as a friend?"

"Well..."

"But, I mean, if you have something else to do..."

Kagome straightened up, "No! No...I don't..."

"Great! I'll pick you up at say...8? How would that be?"

"Sure...whatever." Kagome said, not even paying attention.

"Alright! It's a date!...I mean, a 'get together'. See you then!" Hojo said happily.

"Okay, bye." Kagome said and hung up before Hojo said farewell.

Souta bounded up on their dusty black couch saying annoyingly, "Oooooo! Kagome has a date! She's gonna go 'smoochy smoochy'!"

"You're soooo dead!" Kagome whispered creepily as she pounced on the couch, batting at Souta. Unfortunately, she missed and hit her hand on the low coffee table.

"Oww Oww OWW!" She said painfully as she shook her hand. Souta laughed like a manic as he dashed up to his room and slammed the door shut. Kagome shook her head as she smiled to herself. 'Souta the Evil Scientist...Hey I like the sound of that. Actually what would be more descriptive is 'Souta the Evil, Conniving Barbarian'. Oh yeah that's it.'

She looked at her Grandfather's antique clock on the wall. 6:00 exact. She had two hours to brighten up, be peppy and learn to act like an American dumb blonde.

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No offence to blonde Americans out there...yeah...Anyways, sorry for the short chapter, but this seemed like a good place to end the chapter. Oh yeah. About vocabulary: Moshihello, sobaJapanese noodles eaten hot or cold (their very good), yakisobanoodles (good too), udonthick Japanese noodles in broth (especially tasty), ramen...ya'll should know what that is. My cousins live in Japan and I am a quarter Japanese so it's all cool. Japanese food is really good, but I am not fond of sashimi, which is basically raw fish and ONLY raw fish. I hope more people review because right now I am feeling down in the dumps...sighs... so please review. I'll turn around sometime today...I'm a verrrry moody person .

Ja ne!