Chapter 3

It was now sunrise, everyone was asleep. Everyone except Kagome who waiting for Inuyasha to come to the campsite. She was worried because she didn't feel Kikyou's presents anywhere near by so that wasn't a reason. He would have usually been back by now but he wasn't.

She got up, not waking up the kit and others and grabbed her backpack and went in search for Inuyasha. 'Where could he be?' she thought as she trailed along into the forest. She was searching high and was also searching low. She even retraced where she was last night, even past the dead snake demon body that she killed last night.

She searched for 2 or 3 hours for him, but there was no luck. Suddenly she thought she felt a demon with a jewel fragment inside of its body. She ran towards the place she felt the shard.

The demon was another snake demon that was looking for food and found someone in red clothing and light silver hair washed up from the weird stream. It slowly crept over its prey, preparing its self to devour it.

Kagome came into the opening and saw the snake demon. And someone in red clothing. 'Inuyasha!' She quickly. She hurried up and put an arrow to her bow and killed the snake. Even with the jewel, snake demons were always weak. Sometimes they were so weak that even Shippo could kill them.

The demon was destroyed so she went to retrieve the jewel shards and went to Inuyasha. It seemed like every step the she took to come close to him, he seemed smaller, and that's because he was. Inuyasha was now a very little 5 year old boy in his teenage clothing.

"Inu... yasha?" She said curiously

Inuyasha moved very little when he heard the sound of his name but responded shortly. "Ka-Kagome?" and went back to his deep sleep.

'Inuyasha is now a little boy? But how did this happen? He looks so cute. I should take him to the campsite where the others are, wait a minute. He needs clothes that fit him first because it looks like his haori is a dress. I'll just get Kirara to take me to a village near hear with out waking the others up.' She folded Inuyasha's pants and grabbed his sword and placed them in her backpack and carried him in his haori to the site while he slept. He was grasping onto Kagome's chest as if he was having a nightmare, she cradled him a little so he would feel better. 'Good thing I had to take care of Souta around this age.' She thought happily.

She arrived near the hut and called out for Kirara, it took 2 tries to wake Kirara up but it worked. Kagome asked Kirara if she would take them to a near by village. Kirara meowed quietly and transformed to her huge form and they left. After about 4 minutes of flight they made it to a very nice village. Kirara transformed into her small form and jumped on Kagome's shoulder. Kagome went to a hut and asked a women if she had any clothing for the boy Kagome held in her arms.

"Yes child I do, I have a son around that age and I'm sure I could give your son some clothing." The women said happily.
"Ma'am, he isn't my son, but he's someone that I am close to." Kagome responded nervously.
"Oh? Forgive me then, here are some clothing that you may change the boy in, you may change him in here while I'll be outside." The woman was very nice and Kagome thanked her.

"Please don't be mad at me Inuyasha." She said as she removed his haori which showed his flesh. She didn't blush much because he was now like a little kid. She was finishing putting his pants on and tried to tie it not too tight. He had pretty much the same clothing as he did when he was bigger, except the red haori was a bit too big, Kagome remembered that she placed the Tetseiga inside her backpack, when she looked at it; it was small, small enough for Inuyasha. So she tied it up around his waist also. He almost woke up but didn't. Kagome was thinking that he was a heavy sleeper when he was young as she was folding and placing his bigger clothes in her back pack.

"Thank you ma'am for letting us borrow your sons' clothes." Kagome bowed cheerfully but trying to not wake Inuyasha.
"It was nothing, now go on, I'm sure that you have friends waiting for you." The woman smiled.
"Bye!" Kagome shouted to them as Kirara let the ground to go to their campsite. Inuyasha's ears twitched from Kagome's shouting.

"Can you be any louder?" Inuyasha asked here half asleep in her arms.
"Oh, did I wake you up? I'm sorry you can go to sleep and I'll ask you something when you wake up again, okay?" She said in her regular tone.

Inuyasha just now notice that he was next to Kagome's chest and started to freak out a little. "Uh... Ka-Kagome?" He said nervously
"Yeah? Something wrong Inuyasha?" She asked him curiously.
"Why am I so close to you right now?" He started to blush dramatically, but Kagome only blushed a little when she understood what he asked her.

"Well see, when I found you, you were unconscious and was almost killed but I saved you, and when I went close to you checking to see if you were alright I noticed that you were now a little 5 year old now. Your clothes were too big on you so Kirara and I took you to a very close by village and I asked a woman if we could borrow some clothing for you. When she gave us some, I had to put the clothing on you. Then I said thanks to her and you woke up, so, sorry about that." She said it slowly for him, but she had a feeling it would be a bad idea.

"I'M WHAT?!?!" "AND YOU DID WHAT TO ME?!?!" he shouted in a cute angry voice. Kagome sighed and asked Kirara to just set down so they could talk.

"Inuyasha, you are some how a five year old, do you remember what happened?" She asked him as she sat down with him on her lap.
"All I remember is seeing the time when um... well... after something happened in the water, it showed me my reflection of when I was 5 years old and the bridge broke and I fell in, I remember hearing your voice but I went back to sleep. And now I'm wide awake finding out that I'm 5 years old now! And why did you put clothes on me?! Trying to get revenge when I see you take a bath!?" He pouted

"No Inuyasha, I wasn't getting revenge, why?" She said as she massaged his ears. "I had to put clothing on you because your other clothes were too big, but if it makes you feel better, I'm sorry I saw your body, okay?" She kept massaging his ears.
"It's okay if it was just you." He said tiredly as he started to lay back and his head into Kagome's chest with out any care because she was massaging his ears gently. "Inuyasha, do you want to stay here and sleep and go find the others when you wake up?" She sweetly asked him as she still massaged his ears.
"The others?" he questioned
"Yeah you know, Shippo, Sango, and Miroku?"
"Huh?" he was confused.
"You don't remember them?"
"No mommy, just you." He said as he turned around and curled into Kagome.
"Huh, did you just call me mommy?" She accidentally stopped massaging his ears and he woke up and jumped out of her lap being embarrassed.
"Err... Sorry, mother use to always use to do that to me to make me sleep and you reminded me of her when you did that." He said without facing her.

"It's okay, since you're now more like a 5 year old, you probably miss her more now as you young emotions are reappearing. I think that your adult hood except me because I found you." She easily said and he nodded to her.
"It's okay Inuyasha; you can sleep on my lap if you want to. At least you won't be dirty." She smiled at him warmly.
"But will you be angry at me about it if I do?" Inuyasha said with sad face as he looked over his shoulder to Kagome.
"Inuyasha, I won't be mad at you. Anyways, I'm going to take a small nap because I now know that you're safe from any harm." She said as she lied down against a tree trunk to rest. She felt a small tug on her shirt; it felt so much like Shippo but only with a slight bigger hand that was Inuyasha's. "Yes Inuyasha?" She asked nicely.

Inuyasha looked down at the ground and started to blush a little because it was a little embarrassing. "Can I sleep in your lap still?" He sounded like he was shy to ask her a simple question and she noticed that.
"Yes." She said with a humble smile. Inuyasha smiled a little and removed the sad face as he climbed onto Kagome's body lightly. She wrapped her left arm to secure his head and moved the bangs from his eyes and wrapped her other arm protecting the rest of his body. Inuyasha felt safe, she was treating him like was a mother, like how Kagome treated Shippo. Inuyasha placed his head on the left side of her chest and listened to her heart beat calmly and he curled into a ball in her lap still keeping his head near her heart. There was only one thing he wanted to say. "Thank you."

Kagome was surprised at how he acted like a little boy. She wondered if she would have to get use to it. She kept thinking and was getting more tired. Kirara was now a small form and slept next to Kagome. Kagome saw Inuyasha sleeping already; she then looked next to her and saw Kirara sleeping. So she went to sleep herself.