Chapter 2: The Spying and the shock

Kagome and Inuyasha were thinking in their heads just over and over and over again that they hate each other. When the class ended, Ms. Izumi dismissed everyone and they all ran out the door including Kagome and Inuyasha. They looked at each other for a brief moment then turned around in disgust.

"Bye, Kagome!" yelled Sango as she stepped into her mom's car.

"Let's hang out on Saturday! You up to it, Kagome?" she yelled again.

"Okay!" hollered Kagome as she waved at the car as it drove away.

Inuyasha was watching the whole time they were talking, and then he closed his eyes and turned away again sadly.

Kagome glared at him, but he still had a sad look on his face.

"Why do you hate me so much?" he asked facing Kagome.

Kagome glared even more.

"WHY DO I HATE YOU?!!!!! I'LL TELL YOU WHY!!!!!!!!!!!! Because you're a jerk, you're irritating, you're a jerk, you're arrogant, you're a jerk, you're ignorant, you're a jerk and YOU'RE A JERK!!!!!!!

Inuyasha stepped back slowly, but sadly.

"Am I really?" he said weakly

"IF YOU WEREN'T THEN I WOULDN'T BE YELLING, NOW WOULD I?!!!"

Inuyasha just faced the ground.

"Oh."

Inuyasha started down the street sadly and walked home on his own. Kagome started to think about the things she said.

"Wow, I was really mean. But he deserves it!"

But hen she saw him trudging down the street. He looked really depressed even though you couldn't see his face.

"I'm going to follow him. And see how big of a jerk he really is."

Inuyasha walked unhurried on the down-town streets of Tokyo and Kagome was still following him. He stopped at a lower-class apartment and opened the creaky door and ran at demonic speed to the top floor on the stairs, while Kagome took the elevator. When she opened the door, she saw Inuyasha already taking a key from his huge sleeves and unlocked the door and then he noticed Kagome.

"Hey! What're YOU doing here, girl? Didn't you say that you hated me?"

Kagome shrugged.

"Well, I was kinda thinking about the things I said earlier and I came to...apologize." Kagome was shocked. She didn't know why she said this because that wasn't the real reason why she was here. But a part of her told her to do so. Inuyasha was astonished.

"Wh-Why'd you follow me? And why did you say that?"

"Because you're not really a jerk and I guess I overreacted."

There was a very long awkward silence. Inuyasha took a step towards Kagome.

"Do you want to come inside?"

Kagome was shocked. Inuyasha seemed like a totally different person now.

"O-Okay!" she said all choppy and stuff. She held her breath as she stepped into Inuyasha's apartment room. It was a typical small room. There was a tiny TV, a small fridge and bathroom. There was a huge window that led to two very large trees outside. They were apart very severely. Dirty fire rat kimonos and feudal fairy tale comic books were everywhere, there were torn Green Day posters and the "Tetsusaiga" sword on the wall on what looked like "Inuyasha's" side of the room. The other side was almost exactly the opposite. It was sparkly clean and not a speck of ANYTHING was on the floor. There were no posters, comic books or clothes. In fact, there was almost nothing at all. Just a smaller sword that was entitled "Tensaiga" on the wall and a small closet that was slightly open so Kagome could see the silk clothes inside.

"That's my older brother's side of the room. Pretty boring, huh?"

Kagome looked around again.

"Hey! There aren't any beds here! Where do you guys sleep?"

Inuyasha simply pointed to the window where the trees were.

"We're youkai, remember? We don't sleep in beds." said Inuyasha. One of the trees was shorter than the other.

Crash!!!!!!!!!!!! The wall was demolished as dust surrounded Inuyasha and Kagome and blew freely in their faces. Kagome screamed and Inuyasha covered his ears as someone slowly emerged from the wind.

"Sesshomaru!!!" Inuyasha growled.

"So that must be his older brother." thought Kagome.

"I JUST REPLACED THE FREAKIN' WALL LAST WEEK!!!!" Inuyasha screamed in his face.

Sesshomaru just pushed him down.

"I missed the point where that's my problem, half-breed."

Kagome jumped forth.

"What's with all this half-breed stuff and what does it mean, anyway?" said Kagome out loud. Inuyasha's eyes widened.

"Kagome, you have to go now!" Inuyasha was pushing her out the door.

"Hey! What's the big idea??!!!!! Why do I have to leave now?"

"Because this is none of your business, that's why!!!"

She was thrown out the door and Inuyasha slammed it and locked it.

Kagome was flustered as she ran out of the hallway in disgust. But being as nosy as she is, she wanted to see what was going on, so she went out the window to one of those things that window washers use to wash buildings and she anchored it up to Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's window.

Inuyasha was still on the ground listening to Sesshomaru's talking.

"Inuyasha, how do you think you're going to live if you run away from here? How will you get your food, how will you defend yourself and how will you survive? There are a lot of youkai out there. And even humans could kill you, despite how weak you are."

Inuyasha merely growled while Sesshomaru kept talking.

"Don't lie to yourself. You really hope to catch the mighty Shikon jewel and become a true youkai? Not a chance, kid."

He kicked Inuyasha. Kagome was about to shout out, but if she did, she was sure both of them would kill her. They were demons.

It was almost if Inuyasha was paralyzed. He didn't move, only listened to Sesshomaru's words.

"You bring nothing but disgrace to the dog demon clan. Inviting a human in our home? You realize I'm going to have to destroy you now."

Inuyasha was about to shoot out a curse, but Sesshomaru kept talking.

"And that human mother of yours, cursed our father to meet his end in "protecting" her. And she has cursed you with human emotions it seems. Do you even remember her?"

Inuyasha tried to get to his feet, but he just paused and stared at the ground. He was remembering.

He was remembering the time when his mother was still alive and everybody was playing ball. He wanted to join in, but everybody wouldn't let him. A guy threw the ball over the bridge and Inuyasha chased after it. But when he looked up, his mother was standing near the riverbank. Inuyasha immediately dropped the ball and ran into his mother's arms.

How he wished he could do that again. But he couldn't.

Tears burred his eyes and they slowly began to run down his cheek. He sat on the floor crying as Sesshomaru simply left.

"I'll return when you decide to grow up." Then he took off.

Kagome couldn't believewhat she was seeing or heard.

She could never picture Inuyasha crying. She was pretty freaked. She got off the washer platform and ran home.