Disclaimer: okay... it's the same as everyone elses... i don't feel like typing one every chapter so this one counts for them all . enjoy! oh... sorry it's taking me so long... i've been oober busy! .

Kagome woke with a start. Someone was standing at the foot of her bed, watching her. Kagome smiled. "Sota," She recalled the boy's face, "What are you doing here, little brother? You woke me."

"You're going to be late for school." Sota explained. "Mom sent me up here to wak you up."

School? What is this... school? this world she lives in is strange...

Kagome sighed, "Yes, little brother. I will come downstairs. Tell your... our mother that I will be downstairs soon." Sota stared at Kagome strangely. "What is wrongk, Sota?"

"Uh, are you okay?"

"Why do you ask?" Kagome asked, keeping her temper down.

"Well.." Sota listed, "You're talking strange, you're smiling, acting like a real sister, getting up late for school, and... oh, yeah... BEING NICE TO ME!!!" Sota walked to the door and turned around, "That concussion must of done more damage to your attitude than to you head."

Sota left the room, leaving Kagome wide-eyed and staring at a now empty doorway. When she finally got her senses back and realized she was staring at nothing, she got up and got dressed in the strange clothes she had worn the day before and made her way downstairs.

"Mom?" Sota said. His mother looked up at him. "Is Kagome going to be okay? She's acting kind of... strange."

"How so?" His mother asked.

Sota opened his mouth to answer, but grandpa ran in the kitchen at that moment carrying demon warders. "If you ask me," he cut in, "I'd say she's under the influence of a very powerful demon!" Sota and his mother looked at grandpa strangely. He continued, "Let's lock her in her room with these," he indicated the demon warders, "until the nasty beast decides to come out and fight like a man!"

Sota's mother smiled and sarcastically said, "As much fun as that sounds, Kaogme still needs to go to school."

Grandpa slouched off back into the livingroom. "No wonder Kagome's acting strange," Sota added as he stared after grandpa. He turned back to his mother. "I don't get it. One day, she says she's... that Kikyou person, and the next, she's Kagome... I just don't get it..."

Inuyasha stared out into the woods. He missed Kagome. He didn't realize it before, but he needed her to survive. Sango walked out of Kaede's hut and yawned. Inuyasha looked up at her. Sango got a worried look on her face and said, "Inuyasha. You look terrible. It looks like you didn't get a wind of sleep last night."

Inuyasha looked away and murmured, "I didn't."

Sango, sensing what was wrong, added, "You miss Kagome. I know. We all do. Especially you and Shippo."

"I don't miss her, wench!" Inuyasha screamed. Sango flinched. Inuyasha could see the pain in her face from what he just said. Inuyasha turned his back to Sango, "I worried-" Sango looked up. "I'm worried something will happen to her."

Inuyasha turned back to face Sango. Sango was surprised by what she saw. Tears. Tears in Inuyasha's eyes. "Inuyasha... You're-"

Inuyasha reached a hand up to wipe away the tears. "Sango, you won't tell anyone?" It was more of a demand than a question.

Sango nodded. "Why odn't you go keep and eye on Kagome? I'll make up an excuse for the others."

"Thanks." Inuyasha said, then, made his way to the well... back to Kagome.

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