Wheeee! Just for everyone's information...I am now a year older...supposedly a year wiser as well.. I hope you guys are enjoying the story!! I haven't been getting very many reviews for each chapter but who reviews every chapter of a story anyway? I'll be nice and post another chapter for guys! Just because you are friggin' awesome and I'm on a sugar high! ..oh...by the way... I got a very interesting (funny) review.. Someone had said that the thing on Sessy's shoulder is not a boa...but his tail. Since I love stirring things up a bit, I'm going to ask all reviews to voice their opinion on this matter. As for me...the thing is a boa.

Disclaimer!! I do not own these characters!! ...just the insanity.

Warnings! OOC Sesshoumaru!! ...yes...he is still acting weird. Yes...he will always act like this...

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Chapter 5

The sun slowly rose, casting its bright rays down onto Kagome's sleeping form. Tiredly, she opened one eye but closed it with a wince at the bright sun. Grumbling a bit, she pulled her covers over her head, though it was no use she was already awake for the day.

Sesshoumaru watches as she refuses to greet the sunshine and chuckles. He had cooking over the fire a young rabbit he had caught earlier. "Good morning, sunshine. How did you sleep?"

A small yawn was heard beneath the still covers. "Very good! So good I don't really want to get up.." The pout that was on her face seemed to carry on through her voice. She moved a bit under the covers, getting more comfy.

He poked her sleeping bag cautiously as he leaned over her. "I made breakfast for you. It is ready to eat. Are you feeling alright?" He hesitantly pulled on a corner of her sleeping bag and uncovered her head.

Her hair made a small halo around her head and shoulders as she lay on her back. Her hair was a bit tangley from the nights rest but she didn't mind. She smiled at Sesshoumaru. "I'm fine." Her tired eyes were still wincing from the sun, not quite ready for it just yet. She sat up in her sleeping bag and crossed her legs indian style. "Did you sleep at all last night?"

He shakes his head. "No. I did not want anything unnecessary to happen." He held up the cooked rabbit and smiled. "Are you hungry? I just so happened to get bored last night and went hunting."

Kagome grinned and nodded her head. Weirdly enough, she had gotten used to the food in this time and had actually started to like it when she was forced to be here weeks on end. "Yup! But.. Tonight you'll get some rest.. Right?" The look she had in her eyes pretty much said she wasn't asking him to rest that night, but that she would make sure he did. Even if he didn't need as much rest as her, he still needed it.

He saw the look in her eyes and chuckled softly as he shook his head amused. "As you wish." He hands her the whole rabbit then sits back against the tree again. "I do hope it is up to you standards of healthy eating."

She smiled and nodded her head. "Yup, it's fine.. But aren't you going to have some?" She offered some of the rabbit to him, not wanting to eat alone.

He smiled a mysterious smile and shook his head. "I have...already ate my fill... go on and eat."

She blinked and looked very curiously at him but didn't ask... For the time being anyway and started to eat some of her breakfast. Once she was done, she didn't eat all of it - her stomach was much to small to consume such a big meal - she cleaned off her hands and reached for her backpack and pulled out her purple brush and ran it through her hair, ridding herself of tangles. While she was grooming her hair, she couldn't help but ask.. "So.. What did you eat today?"

"....instant noodles..." He smiled softly as he waited for her reaction.

She blinked; looking at him, not sure that she had heard him right. "What..?" She blinked more.

"I ate instant noodles." He smiled some more obviously very proud of himself. "They were very good too. Your time has so many luxuries. Maybe I will live long enough to see them for myself."

She chuckled a bit at his answer, a huge smile on her face. "Well.. If you really want to see my time.. Maybe I could take you there. As long as you hold onto me when we go down the well.. I think it should work.. " She let her sentence trail off and thought about it for a few moments, trying to decide if that would really work.

He raises his eyebrow. "Do you mean that? I could travel to your time? I could see your house and your village?"

She nodded her head. "I think it will work...but there's always a chance it might not.. It lets Inuyasha through but nobody else has ever tried it besides him.. So I'm not sure.. I think if you stick by me through it'll have to let you through since I can go through it... but would you like to see if you can go to my time? It would be a lot of fun." She smiled at the thought of showing him all of the things that she had in her room and in her house.

Sesshoumaru blinked rapidly at the thought. "Me...going to your time? It sounds....exciting." A smile creeps onto his face and slowly grows to fill his entire face. His eyes sparkle as he stares into the sky dreamily. "...wow...the future...and I am going to see it!"

She grinned at Sesshoumaru and stood up from her place on the ground and dusted herself off. "Let's go then. We just have to travel to my well and then we can go." She was smiling brightly now, she looked very excited at the thought of showing him all of the new objects and places that she had in her time.

He blinked as she rose. "...right now? As you wish!" He puts out the fire and covers it with dirt. He puts on his outer kimono, slipped on his shoes, and gracefully threw his boa over his shoulder. "Once you pack everything up...I will carry your pack as promised."

Kagome smiled her thanks to him and started to pack up her sleeping bag, brush and food back to where they belonged. After she was done she slipped on a fresh pair of socks and put her shoe's back on that had been laying by the tree where she had placed it before going swimming yesterday. Once she was sure she had everything she turned back to Sesshoumaru and slung her backpack over her shoulder. She knew he wanted to carry her bag but she didn't feel right making him carry it, so she wrapped her fingers about the straps and started to walk in the right direction to get to her well.

He smiled as she slung the pack onto her own shoulder. He followed her closely and grabbed a hold of her pack. He slung it over his shoulder with Kagome still hanging on. "Heh...I know you are perfectly capable of carrying it but it would make me very happy if I could do it for you." He continued walking in the general direction that Kagome was. "I hope you let go soon. I have no idea where I am going."

Kagome tried to playfully glare at him... Really she did, but all that she could seem to do was smile and laugh at the situation. Shaking her head, amused, she let go of her backpack, letting him carry it, and walked beside him. "Alright, alright.. I'll let you carry it." She grinned a bit. "Thanks." Kagome walked just a bit ahead of him, showing the way to the familiar well. She guessed it wouldn't take to long to get there.

He smiled softly as she walked in front of him. "Thank you. Now we are sure to get there quicker now that you are leading the way. It is a known fact that men cannot get from one place to another without taking some kind of 'shortcut' and they refuse to ask for directions too." He chuckles softly.

Kagome laughed and nodded her head. "Well, not much has changed about that in my time.. My dad will wander around for hours before he will admit that he's lost." She giggled a bit more at the thought of her dad. She hadn't been home in so long.. She missed her family. She smiled at the thought of seeing them again.

He widens his eyes as his eyebrows raised and threatened to get lost in his hair. "Your house is that big? Your own father gets lost in his own house?"

Kagome bursts out laughing at that and quickly shook her head. "Noo.. My house isn't that big at all. Its just when we go on vacations that he gets lost because we are at places that we don't know our way around." She grinned at Sesshoumaru.. Sometimes she tended to leave out important details when she talked.

He brought his hand up to his forehead and nodded. He felt like hiding in a deep hole and never coming out. "I understand now." He whistled a tune as they continued to walk.

Kagome raised her arms above her head, stretching and letting out one small yawn, letting the tiredness from that morning leave her completely now. As she brought her arms down she smiled as she heard Sesshoumaru whistle and walked quietly along, listening to his own tune. They arrived at a familiar clearing a few more minutes later and Kagome turned her gaze towards Sesshoumaru. "We're almost there now." She started walking down a path that she knew so well, knowing that at the end of it her well would be there.

He stopped whistling as she spoke and made a mental note of where they were. "How are we getting to your time again? I am very embarrassed to say that I am still confused on how it works..." He smiled sheepishly and shrugged his shoulders.

She smiled reassuringly. "There's a well down here, all we have to do is jump through it and we'll be in my time.. I.. don't know how it actually works though.. " She shrugged her shoulders a bit embarrassed. She used the well all the time but she could never figure out how it worked, unless it was responding to her jewel shards. Her thoughts were interrupted though when she saw the well ahead of her. Smiling, she jogged towards it.

He blinked as she jogged towards the well. He sighed and quickly matched her pace easily catching up to her. He reached the well and peered down it curiously. "It looks like a well..." He sniffed the air. "..It smells like a well... actually, I have never smelled a well before so I am just assuming that is what is supposed to smell like..." He cleared his throat. "We just jump in?" He turned and looked at her questioningly.

She nodded her head. She was a bit nervous.. She really hoped this would work. "Yes, but you should hold onto me just in case it won't let you through. It probably won't let you go through if you're on your own but if you hang on to me it should work.. I think.. Or it just won't let either one of us in.." Kagome really wasn't to sure how it worked.. She was pretty much just guessing and hopes it will work. Hesitantly, Kagome sat down on the edge of the well, letting her legs hang down into the deep well.

He smiled nervously. "Oh? Is that supposed to make me feel better?" He sat next to her and wrapped his arm tightly around her tiny waist. He peered down into the well again still not really believing it is going work. "Shall we count down?"

She nodded her head, looking incredibly nervous about the whole thing; she was not looking forward to being smacked onto the hard ground of the well if this didn't work. She bit on her lower lip for a few seconds before she started the count down. "3....2...." Kagome took one more breathe of fresh air before she said the final number "1!" With the count down over, Kagome placed her right foot against the side of the inside of the well and easily pushed herself off of the ledge of the well and into it.

He clung to her tightly as he pushed himself off. He wondered why the ground was coming towards them so quickly. He hoped they would go threw...He wasn't looking forward to being smashed beneath Kagome's backpack.

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