I have been looking back over reading the story, and I am thinking, dang it sure has been awhile. I wrote that thing? It is already thanksgiving, sorry it took so long to update. I have had a major writer's block, and school is pounding down really hard this year. I went to another anime convention this weekend it was great! Anyhow enough of my babbling we all know you are not here to read this part anyway. Enjoy!

Silverangel2071 – That information you want so very much will be revealed very soon, maybe even sooner than you think .

Miko-Baca- Yeah I really like Fruits Basket and Gravitation, they are both really good animes, momiji is so kawaii

Thanks to all of the other reviewers that reviewed during my time of non-updating. Some of you tried guessing who was leaving Inuyasha with the notes and called him, and who Kagome also saw. Well we will just have to see who that is…

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Chapter 8: Reliving the Nightmare

"Mom do you know where dad is," asked Kagome.

Kagome's mom continued doing the dishes, "You're father said that he went to go see the sacred tree, but that was about an hour ago. Normally I don't like to disturb his time when he is there, but, perhaps you should bring him back?"

"Ok mom I will go get him, I'll be back in a few." Kagome went to the hallway closet and pulled out a jacket, put it on, opened the front door and left. 'An hour at the tree, that is just ridiculous, normally it is only about 10 minutes. Well since grandma died recently he would take a little bit longer.' Kagome then heard some voices up ahead. 'That voice….'

"You saw something that no human should have everseen," said a person in a cloak. "Once you saw what happened on that night, your life was shortened ten fold, say good night."

Kagome saw her father running towards her but the mysterious cloaked figure was too quick, and caught up to him. "FATHER!"

"Kagome run, live on with your mother. Tell her that I am sorry," Mr. Higurashi told his daughter before he was stabbed in the heart.

"FATHER! FATHER," Kagome screamed over and over again. Then all of a sudden she felt someone shaking her. "Let go of me, stop it!"

"Ah come on! Snap out of it wench!"

Kagome opened her eyes to see concerned amber orbs. "It was all just a dream?"

Inuyasha stood up, "Gah you were giving me a headache wench. You were screaming bloody murder and it is only 7 A.M. I want to sleep!"

"Well I am surprised, for once that you are not hitting on me. Given the chance you shook me awake instead of doing something else." Kagome looked around her room just to make sure that this was not another dream. Hey, she was once told you can have dreams inside other dreams, one cuts off and some new other one picks up.

"Not that it is any of your concern, but, ever since you were so scared that you were going to die, I decided to go back to my normal self. It gave me a revelation; this was the girl I was flirting with, what a waste of time! What scared you so much anyway?" Inuyasha sat down on the floor and leaned against the wall.

"I am not scared of anything, I am not afraid," Kagome turned away from Inuyasha in her bed.

"Oh really? Would this have to do with your father's death, if you tell me he died from illness than I will tell you that you are full of bullshit."

Kagome abruptly turned over in her bed to face the hanyou. "How did you-"

"FATHER! FATHER!" Inuyasha imitated Kagome's screams.

"Shut up!" She took her pillow and chunked it at Inuyasha, which he easily caught. "Well we do have school today, if you would be so kind as to leave my room while I change."

"You got nothing I desire to see," Inuyasha walked out of the room and into his own.

'Has he really reverted back to himself as in the time when I first bumped into him? Well whatever works I guess.' Kagome got changed into some clothes. (Yeah I am too lazy to put in what she is wearing. I am not into describing that kind of thing anyway.) She then proceeded to the kitchen, to get her usual, poptart, backpack, and out the door.

Inuyasha walked out of his room and flopped onto the couch, picked up the remote and flicked the channels. "Just some stupid cartoons on in the morning, hey wench fix me up some ramen!"

"I am not your maid! Do it yourself! I don't know about you, but I am going to school." Kagome put a blueberry poptart in the toaster and drank some orange juice.

Inuyasha sat up on the couch and turned around towards Kagome, "What size are you?"

"Huh? What are you talking about," Kagome asked with her eyebrow arched.

"What size waist are you? I can customize your maid outfit for you, after all since I am living here; you do what I tell you to do. Your clothing is not suitable for your position."

"Gah, you are like a Hitler bus conductor," Kagome sighed.

"Ah, I like it, crawl to me you insignificant worm," Inuyasha made a hand motion signaling Kagome to come to him.1

Instead of complying Kagome threw a ramen pack at him, "Do as the instructions on the back tell you, or can you not read? Do I have to read to you too?"

"Yes mommy, and tuck me in at night please. No, shut up, and make me my ramen already!" Inuyasha chunked it back at Kagome.

BING!

Kagome set down the ramen on the counter and grabbed her poptart that just popped out of the toaster. "Well aren't you coming to school too?"

"Unlike you stupid girl, I can get there in ten minutes flat, while you on the other hand have to walk to school with in 25 minutes. I'll nap for another 15 minutes. Oh and by the way you never did answer my question," Inuyasha pointed out.

"I don't intend to either!" Kagome slammed the door shut on her way out, demonstrating her point. She walked the same familiar path to school as usual. 'Why did I have that nightmare again? Why must I relive it? Could it be…that I really did see him yesterday?' Kagome shook her head, 'No, no I didn't! Wait why am I thinking this anyway? SCHOOL! Crap I wasn't thinking straight.' She looked down at her watch to see she had seven minutes left. "Dammit! I am going to be late again!?" Kagome then felt being lifted up. "Put me down you creep!" On reflex she hit the mysterious person with her book bag.

"I try to get you to school on time for once and you hit me," an infuriated hanyou yelled.

"Inuyasha, I didn't think that it was you, I thought it could be a stalker or umm I dunno the-"

"Quit babbling, if you got something to say, say it."2

"I-I'm sorry," Kagome mumbled.

"Can you manage a thank you master in there too? I should have just left you there, and made you late," Inuyasha sighed. "You aren't exactly baggage weight either. How much do you weigh woman?"

"I can't believe you even asked me that!?! First it is my waist size and now my weight!?!?! What are you going to ask me next hmm," Kagome said irritated.

"Looking forward to play rehearsals Kagome," Inuyasha asked while smirking down at her.

"I thought you said you went back to your mean self, you know like back to wench every time you addressed me, or what not," she replied dully.

Inuyasha landed in front of the school with two minutes to spare, grabbed Kagome's hand and ran down the halls. "What are you stupid!? Of course I am back to being me! I am just asking if you have any experience with kissing guys! You don't think I want to have to teach you everything you know." He let go of Kagome's hand and opened the door to history as the bell rang.

"Inuyasha, you will be excused for not being in your seat when the bell rang, I understand thatyou are a very busy man. You however Mrs. Higurashi are not, I am sure you are familiar with the detention room," Mrs. Hikari speculated. "She wasn't with you right Inuyasha?"

"No, she wasn't," Inuyasha replied walking to his seat.

"Mrs. Higurashi see me after class for your detention slip, now go to your seat," Mrs. Hikari pointed to Kagome's seat.

Kagome took her seat next to Inuyasha. "You covered up for me before, why not now," she whispered irritated.

"I only covered for you then because it was also a sign of flirting. I'd do anything to get a woman's attention. If you call me master Inuyasha, then maybe I will consider."

"You can kiss my ass, no way in hell will I stoop myself to that level to call you that."

Inuyasha's eyes started getting heavy. 'I shouldn't have stayed up all night. I can barely even function. Oh well, not like the teacher will care if I take a nap.' Inuyasha tilted his head a little, before he knew it, he had a nice pillow.

"What are you- huh?" Kagome looked down on her shoulder to see a sleeping hanyou. 'He looks cuter with his mouth shut. If he thinks I am going to put up with this all period then he has got another thing coming!' Kagome turned to her side and Inuyasha fell over to Kagome's side.

"What gives!?"

"You should have slept more, I am not your pillow, use a fan girl or something, perhaps not me?"

"How about I get you out of your detention," Inuyasha asked Kagome.

"And what do I got to do in return," Kagome asked curious.

"Belong to me as a pillow for the rest of the day," he replied casually.

"That's all," Kagome asked, as if expecting another condition to be put in.

"That's all," Inuyasha informed her, shaking Kagome's hand, then flopped his head back down on Kagome's shoulder.

DING DONG DING DONG!

"Mrs. Higurashi come down here and get your detention slip now," Mrs. Hikari boomed. She pulled out a pink slip from the drawer and looked around the desk for a pen.

Kagome shook Inuyasha, "Wake up stupid, we got to go to next class." No matter how much Kagome shook him he wouldn't wake up. "Hurry up and wake up, before she writes me the detention slip!" She stared at him dully, 'idiot.' Kagome reached down into her book bag and pulled out her ice cold water and dumped it on his head.

Inuyasha was dreaming of ramen; when all of a sudden instead of boiling water, ice cold water filled the ramen cup! Then the freezing water came for him. "COLD!" Inuyasha shot up out of the seat waking from his dream. He looked around to see he was in a classroom, oh yeah that stupid public school was where he was. Then he noticed a whistling Kagome, "What the hell was that for!?"

"I tried to shake you awake but you wouldn't budge, it is your own damn fault! We made a deal right? Hop to it," Kagome exclaimed gathering her things and walking to the door.

"Mrs. Higurashi, if you do not get your detention slip I will exp-"

"Don't bother wasting a detention slip on Kagome, Mrs. Hikari, she isn't worth your time," Inuyasha told her.

"B-but Mr. Inuyasha sire, she wasn't here, the rules clearly state that after three tardies you must give the student a deten-"

"Will this help change your mind," Inuyasha pulled out 200 gil out of his pocket.

Mrs. Hikari silently took the money and ripped up the detention slip. "This goes without saying, do not speak of this to anyone."

"This goes without saying, you do as I say, or I could fire you and replace you like that," Inuyasha snapped his fingers and walked out of the room with Kagome in pursuit.

"Couldn't you have pulled it off being a bit nicer. Haven't you heard of respecting your elders," Kagome exclaimed.

"As long as I do my part it doesn't matter how I do it, just that it gets done. People obey me, I get whatever I want, when I want," Inuyasha stated opening the math classroom door.

"Stupid dog," Kagome muttered walking to her seat.

"What did you call me!?" Inuyasha whirled around and faced Kagome.

"Can you not hear! I called you a stupid dog," Kagome yelled in his face.

Inuyasha's eyes widened, he didn't exactly expect her to say it to his face. First time anyone has actually talked back to him. He grabbed Kagome's chin and brought it towards his face until they were only mere centimeters apart. "Do not call me that again." He then licked her nose and began walking back to his seat. "What, don't look so shocked, after all I am a stupiddog ," he said stressing the word dog, then winked at Kagome.

Kagome in the mean while took her seat and kept rubbing her nose. "Eww, why did you have to do that? You could have just said what you needed to say and walk back." She then felt a head on her shoulder yet again, "Get off," she hissed.

"A deal is a deal remember, the whole day," Inuyasha smiled.

Kagome grumbled, 'after school we have rehearsals for that play too! Hopefully I won't have to recite that certain part yet…getting licked is bad enough.'

"Hey Kagome, why are you letting Inuyasha sleep on you like that," Sango questioned her arching a brow. "Oh you like him, is that it?"

"No, shut up Sango," Kagome replied pissed off. "You think I enjoy this, yeah right! I should have just took the detention, that way I could have also skipped the rehearsals after school."

"So let me get this straight, you made a deal with Inuyasha," Miroku inquired. After receiving a nod he began laughing and fell out of his chair. "You should always know that Inuyasha has a way of wording things, so there may be more to the deal you made than you originally thought. So what have we learned today?"

"Take a detention over any deal that Inuyasha would offer," Kagome sighed.

-After school at rehearsals in the auditorium-

"Class, Fairy Tale Court characters have all been assigned now, because now you will get to meet the wolf. Please welcome Koga Wolf, haha he is a wolf and his last name is wolf, the irony," Mr. Sekasa wiped a tear away due to laughter. He looked around in the auditorium to see no one laughing but him and coughed.

On stage appeared to be a man with ebony hair, which was kept up in a ponytail and illuminating blue orbs. "Please to meet you I am the one and only Koga Wolf." A fan club gathered around him quickly, as expected. He looked around the auditorium and spotted a familiar raven hair girl. "Well, well, well if it isn't for my woman."

"Ko-Ko-Koga," Kagome stammered out.

1- that scene was from the gravitation manga. 2- that was also off of fruits basket, when tohru thought kyou was a stalker and hit him XD.

As you may have noticed my grammer and spelling errors arepretty bad, so would anyone like to volunteer to be my beta reader? Now it is your favorite part of the story, question time! Question # 1: What does Kagome's dream mean? Question # 2: Who was the cloaked figure in her dream? Question # 3: Whom did Kagome see before falling into her sleep? Question # 4: Who left a note and called Inuyasha? Question # 5: Why was Kagome stammering when she saw Koga? That is all the questions for now, and much more to come. Bwahahhahah! ::coughs:: ahem, anyhow I don't really know how much longer the story will be, but I can give you a range, about 10 or more chapters. Don't worry the next time I update won't leave you as nearly as a long of wait which you had to do since last time. Please review, it certainly has been awhile. See you next time in Crossing Paths chapter 9. COMING SOON! ----------Always had wanted to say that.