'Finally, I'm away from InuYasha and the Warring States... I can relax now...' Kagome plopped onto her bed. 'Yea, right... As long as InuYasha can still come here, I might as well have a good time while I'm here... He's so impatient... He's probably on his way right now to come and take me back... Boy, do I feel worn out... I'm gonna go take a nice, warm bath...' Kagome got off the bed and went to the bathroom. She undressed and got into the tub. The water was warm and soothing for her stressed out body. "Ahh... This is more like it..." Kagome comfied herself and slid deeper into the water. "I could stay here forever..." When she was clean she got out of the tub and wrapped her hair with a towel and dried off. As she was getting dressed, she heard the front door slide open. "Oh! Mom must be home!" She ran down the stairs to greet her mother. "Mom! Hey mom! I came back home toda-..." Kagome saw a tall figure in red. "Darn... (sigh)... I knew it was too good to be true..." Kagome grabbed the note taped to the door.

Dear Kagome,

Just incase you're home, I took a moment to write you this note. I went shopping down at the Ginza with Souta today. I don't know how long it will be before we get back, so help yourself with anything. Tell InuYasha I said konnichiwa!
Sayonara,
Mom ♡

"What's this?" InuYasha snuck a peek at the note by looking over Kagome's shoulder.
"Hey! Don't do that! Reading over people's shoulders is rude!"
"Note from your mother?" InuYasha kept on in an annoying, smart voice. "Asking you to give me a konnichiwa for 'er?"
"InuYasha, OSUWARI!!" The prayer beads around InuYasha's neck glowed and forced him to the ground where he laid spread out.
"GAAHOOF! Geez, I was just teasing!"
"Teasing isn't nice either. After all this time I've been with you I'd think you'd be more civilized and polite, but you're still just a stupid dog!" InuYasha just made a dirty face and grabbed Kagome's arm. "Hey! What are you doing!"
"We're going back." Astonished, Kagome jerked her arm out of InuYasha's grip.
"What? You said that I could come back to study!"
"I changed my mind."
"You can't do that! I'm staying home and that's that! I'm not gonna just let a demon whose not even from my time boss me around. I need to make good grades.
"I don't care about your grades! I want you to stay with us in the Feudal times!"
"No, and you can't make me!"
"I can if I use force if I have to!"
"Look, I can use a whole lot more on you if you lay a finger on me. If you would stop being such a stuck-up jerk I wouldn't have to use 'you know what' on you!"
"Fine, but I'm staying here. Once you get home from taking that test, I'm taking you back with me."
"It's okay with me, but it'll be four days."
"Four days? Forget this, I'm going back!" InuYasha staggered out the front entrance and jumped into the well back to the Feudal Ages.
"Gosh... Does he have to keep coming back like something bad's gonna happen to me (sigh)?"Kagome went back up to her room to get on with her studying. "I need to come back and relax a lot more..."

"I knew she would resist. Her studies are important, but the fate of Japan depends on us to stop Naraku. It would probably be in her best interest if she didn't go to her time to take all those tests." Miroku said as he looked into the well. InuYasha's back was turned toward the well in disgust of the new civilization Kagome lived in.
"I hear ya..."
"So what are we going to do now, InuYasha?" Miroku and InuYasha left the well.
"We're going to the next village..."
"For what reason? Isn't this village and the next fighting over land control?"
"Yeah, but Kaede said there's a hanyou child living there."
"Do you think that maybe he was tre-"
"Maybe... We shouldn't talk about it now... Memories of my childhood are too unbearable to speak of..."
"Sorry. It must have been harsh as a child to be-"
"Miroku! We'll be traveling for a while so think of something to talk about except for the past."
"Or we could just be quiet..."
"That's even better."

"I hope that Miroku and InuYasha aren't mad at me when I come back, Kirara. I never told them where I was going." Sango bent over to pull a plant out of the ground "I just need to get some more herbs. We've nearly run out." Sango picked out some more herbs, and then she heard a low growling sound. "What is it Kirara? Is someone there?" There was rustling in the bushes. Flames burst around Kirara and grew into a huge cat demon. Sango raised her Hiraikotsu. "Show yourself!" A short figure came closer toward Sango and Kirara. It had thin black ears and long, light brown hair. "Y-You're but a youkai child!"
"Woman, I am no youkai..."
"Then what are you?"
"I'm a badger hanyou!" The child bounded into the trees and disappeared.
"A badger hanyou..." Sango stood there puzzled for a moment then remembered something important. "InuYasha's a hanyou! Come on Kirara!" Sango grabbed Kirara's thick mane and hopped onto her back as they both jumped in the air. "We have to go find the others!" Just in case some of you don't know, families in Japan run the bath water in a big tub, then every one uses the same water that day.