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Night befell the group after three long days of traveling from that village, so far they hadn't seen hair nor hide of clues that would lead them to Naraku which was testing InuYasha's already stressed nerves.

And I guess the bad luck was spreading.....

The group sat around the blazing, warm fire, eating the skewered fish that InuYasha, Genko, and Shippo caught, and it was a small, yet hearty meal. Kagome was searching through her pack as Sango added the dirty 'pay-per' plates from the Japanese high school girl's time to the fire while Shippo and Genko were fighting over the unfortunate fish that were forced to share.

"Bad.....very bad...." Kagome cursed at her bag.

"What's the matter Miss Kagome?" Miroku addressed her from his meditation at her un-expected outcry.

"Heh....heh.....turns out we're out of fish......heh" Kagome told the monk, a sweat drop forming on the side of her face.

"W HAT?!" InuYasha yelled.

"it seems like, with the arrival of Genko, that there wasn't enough food to go around so unfortunately, to keep the healthy amount of servings, we ran out of food quicker than we planned" Kagome told the Hanyou(half-demon).

InuYasha narrowed his eyes and sighed with the air of annoyance. "Fine I'll go hunting in the morning".

"Why don't we just go back to Kaede's?" Kagome inquired timidly.

"I told you I'll hunt"

"But you can't guarantee that you will be able to get us enough food for seven?"

InuYasha glared at her from across the fire.

"I 'm not doubting your ability to hunt InuYasha but it's a lot of food to gather, and I haven't got your senses but I haven't heard a cry of an animal since we left that village" Kagome tried to reason with him.

"Keh! Fine, but when Naraku gets away don't come bawling to me!" he got up and leapt into a near-by tree scoffing and growling.

"He really doesn't want to go back to the village does he?" Sango inquired to no one in particular.

"Guess so" Kagome replied as she turned and added more kindling to the fire as Genko came to snuggle in her lap. Shippo glared at him and retreated to Kagome's sleeping bag.

Kagome glanced down at the little dog-eared boy and gave him a kind, lopsided smile. He grabbed her uniform top and stuck his free thumb in his mouth. She stoked his silver locks once and received him snuggling further into her lap. She smiled and felt this motherly instinct in her that wanted her to keep him happy....though she was confused.....she saw him just like Shippo which was almost like a son to her.....but this boy....was technically her REAL son. She glanced up at InuYasha who was looking at the distant stars. She felt an urge to go and join him....but she didn't want to pester him, she carefully opened her sleeping bag, trying not to disturb Shippo, and slid herself and Genko, into the bag.

They arrived in the village mid-day and found Kaede's hut empty. Genko immediately took in the weird smells and leaned over a pot that seemed to be filled with morning stew.

"We're leaving in two days" InuYasha told them in a commanding tone.

Kagome sighed and felt disappointed some how.....she was sort of hoping to head home for her homework, and catch up with her present-day friends. She suddenly felt a tugging near the rim of her skirt and found Genko was trying to get her attention.

"Mama, where is Kaede-Obaa-san?" (Respective address to an elderly woman, kinda like grandma)

"She's probably scouting the area for demons" she told him before taking her handy matches out of her pocket and went to light the half-burnt wood in the hearth to make the hut a little more welcoming.

"But Daddy does that" Genko said, cocking his head to one side automatically reminding Kagome of an interested puppy.

"Huh?"

"Every morning Daddy gets up and scours the area for demons and kills them, you would never let me go"

Kagome blinked at the boy and remembered what Sango said about him having 'memories' of what his parents would have done on a regular basis. Kagome smiled and gave a weak laugh.

"Kaede does it now" she said kindly.

"Oh"

Kagome saw Sango taking out a thin hide, dragging it down the boomerang and Miroku retreating to the back of the hut looking for more firewood, Shippo was taking the long wooden spoon and with great pride stirring the stew. Kagome looked around for InuYasha and found him missing.

"Sango, watch them for me?"

"Sure Kagome-chan"

Kagome exited the hut and walked past some silent huts that had women, young and old, doing their daily chores.

'Men must have gown with Kaede'

After walking around the village twice, seeing nor hair or hide of her favorite half-demon, she headed back to the hut. She was about to pull back the reed door flap before noticing the shrine steps.

'Maybe he went up there.....'

She started walking up the long steps and found that they were almost exactly as long as her steps that led up her own family's shrine.

She looked around and let her eyes grazed over some of the priestesses of the past grave's and Kikyo's. It was so silent, and calm, but and eerie calm that came with a spiritual shrine. She looked to the tree tops of the trees and finally found InuYasha sitting in the tree closest to Kikyo's grave. She felt a weird unsettling feeling over-sweep her; it wasn't usual for InuYasha to recline here.....

"InuYasha?"

He snapped his head towards her, his gaze hard, but it softened suddenly.

He felt her heart pound at his gaze and was now very concerned... he only looked at her like that twice.....when he pushed her down the well and when she resurfaced from the well after retrieving the jewel fragment from the well and she went and hugged him, and after there.....intimate moment in Kaguya's castle.

(A/n: the 'intimate moment' was the kiss and aftermath in the 2nd IY movie, if you wish for a picture or a summary, go to (chibiexplosion . com / InuYasha) under "image gallery" and under "second movie"((take out the spaces)

"InuYasha?" she asked again uncertain. She felt herself subconsciously walk towards him.

He watched her, never adverting his gaze from her eyes as she climbed the tree and settled herself next to him, tucking a bit of her hair behind an ear.

"What's wrong InuYasha?" she asked her voice soft.

"Nothing"

"You've never came here before..."

"What's it to you?!"

Kagome bit her bottom lip and looked InuYasha back with worry in her eyes, what was wrong with him? She wanted to ask that question but she knew he would just put stronger barriers around his feelings, though she didn't just want to leave him alone and give in.

"You really didn't want to come back, did you?" Kagome finally asked after the uncomfortable pause.

"It's alright" he grunted, turning from her.

Kagome had a feeling that she was gonna loose this battle.

"Why is it that everything happens to us?" InuYasha asked in a soft, off- handed voice.

Kagome looked at him with surprised eyes "What do you mean?"

"Like having that hell-damned incarnation of Naraku's put Genko in our care"

"Is he really a burden to you?" Kagome asked, her eyes narrowing and one of her eyebrows arching.

"Keh! We ran out of food didn't we?"

"Still you expected to abandon him in the woods?"

"Didn't stop others from doing that to me!"

A thick blanket of silence covered the area, not even a bird chirped.

Author: yea I know short ::sigh:: but I had to walk home in the hot sun and im not really in the mood for writing a fluffy moment right now lolz ((don't worry be patient!!!)). But to say im sorry, ill give you clips of the next chapter!

::episode preview music plays::

Kagome looked into InuYasha's eyes, they seemed to be aflame with the passion of abandonment. She scooted closer and took her hand with his.

My, my he does look like InuYasha doesn't he?

Genko landed with a 'thump' as he hit the floor of what seemed to be the well....but for some odd reason, there wasn't any sunlight pouring down on him. He looked up to see an ancient wooden ceiling.

'Stupid brat, running off and everyone thinking I had something to do with it!!!"

Tee hee hee! There are some hints to hold you over for a week

till next Friday!!!