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A/N: Hey hey hey, (did you eat?), sorry, that was from RENT, a really really kick ass play...anyway, enjoy the story!! .

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The night was over. The bar closed at 12, and the group of five teens stumbled out at 11:58. Miroku and Sango walked a little bit ahead of the other three, hand in hand, with Sango's head resting on Miroku's shoulder. Inuyasha, Kagome, and Sessho-maru trailed behind, not wanting to get too close to the lovebirds.

Inuyasha was still in a daze thinking about the perfect night, and Kagome's smile was so wide it hurt. Sessho-maru on the other hand, was fuming. Shortly after they exited the bar, he got one look of Kagome's smile and stormed off, but no one noticed.

Halfway home, in the more subdued part of the neighborhood, Kagome stopped to tie her shoe. Inuyasha waited patiently by her side. Sango and Miroku had disappeared into the woods somewhere and couldn't be found, not that anyone would want to walk in on them or anything...

After a moment Kagome looked up and gasped. Scaring the wits out of Inuyasha. "What? Are you ok?" he asked, looking around concerned.

She laughed at him and nodded, tugging at his sleeve for him to join her on the ground. "Look up, the stars are beautiful," she smiled at him.

He smiled in amazement at her. She found beauty in the simplest things. He gazed at the stars and slowly moved in next to her. She shivered absently at the cool night air, giving him an excuse to put his arm around her and pull her close. She gladly cuddled to his chest and wrapped herself in his arm for "warmth."

They stayed like that for awhile before Kagome broke the silence, "We should probably go, it's getting late..."

Inuyasha nodded, reluctant to let her go.

As they parted, their eyes met. For an instance Kagome thought she saw a hint of gold in them, but then it was gone. Slowly Inuyasha raised his hand to her neck and stroked her cheek with his thumb. He began to move his head towards her, not knowing what he was doing, he just let his brain shut off and the butterflies in his stomach take over. When it came to Kagome, Inuyasha was Jell-O. As their lips were about to meet, car headlights interrupted their darkness, and scared them out of the road.

Inuyasha looked sadly at Kagome, but she just took his hand and started to walk home, too startled to try anything else.

At her doorstep, he quickly placed a soft kiss on her cheek and headed to leave.

"Good night, Kagome."

"Good morning Inuyasha," she said, laughing.

He checked his watch. It was 2:11. "Yeah, I guess you're right." And with that, he headed home.

Kagome bit her lip and went inside.

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Inuyasha strolled inside and, smiling, headed up to his room. He fell onto his bed and thought about the night. Out of the shadows he saw a figure move.

In the strip of moonlight that ran from his curtains to the floor, a bouncy ball rolled into the light and stopped. The hair on Inuyasha's neck rose, he wasn't alone. Silently he got up and reached under his bed for his baseball bat. It wasn't there. Now panic started rising and his thoughts became blurred. He didn't know what he was doing, he couldn't think clearly. All he knew was that he was in a room with a potential robber or even killer, and he was unarmed.

Then he thought about his brother.

Inuyasha tried to calm his breathing and stuck his tongue out to wet his lips. In as calm of a voice as he could manage, he said, "Who's there?"

All he heard was a crack, then everything went black.

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Inuyasha awoke with a very cold forehead, and a sore neck. He opened his eyes and had to squint to adjust them in the light. He tried to sit up, but it hurt too much. So he moaned and layed back down. He felt a hand on his arm and looked up to see Sessho-maru staring down at him.

"Good, you're awake, now would you mind telling me what happened?" he said, holding up a mirror to Inuyasha's face. His jaw dropped. He had a huge gash along his left cheek and a black right eye. A red spot just slightly above his left eye was swelling, that's where the ice pack rested. He realized that his body ached all over and his room was a mess.

"You know as much as I do," he said, "All I remember was coming into my room and someone was in the shadows. I asked 'Who's there?' and then there was a cracking noise and the next thing I know, here I am."

His brother's brow furrowed in thought. He got up and walked around the room looking for any clues as to who had done this.

After awhile he came back to Inuyasha with a cup. "Drink this, it's your daily supplement of Dr. Pepper."

Inuyasha gulped down the drink. After a moment he struggled to his knees, with the aid of his brother, and flopped into his bed. Then Sessho-maru left the room, going downstairs to make breakfast, and closed the door to Inu's room as he left.

Inuyasha ran through the events of the night in his head. Went to the club, walked Kagome home, walked home, went to my room, got knocked out. He couldn't make any sense of it...

Later, when he had taken a nap, he got up and started cleaning his room. Nothing was missing, so this wasn't a burglary, it was intentional, and meant to hurt him. A shiver ran up his spine. 'How did they get in?' he wondered, checking his window. It was locked, and the glass wasn't broken. Slowly he backed away. This whole thing was giving him a headache. He decided to take a shower to help calm his nerves and clear his mind.

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Downstairs, Sessho-maru whistled happily to himself as he stirred the soup on the stove. His mood was interrupted as a horrible scream came from upstairs. He dropped to spoon and dashed up the stairs and ran right into a soaking Inuyasha.

Inuyasha was panting and had a horrified look on his face, he was hyperventilating so much he could barely keep his towel clutched around his stomach.

Sessho-maru didn't understand what was wrong at first, "What the hell's wrong with you? You scared the crap out of me!?!"

"What's wrong? What's wrong!?!" Inuyasha said, his eyes blazing, "Are you blind!?! Look at me!!"

Sessho-maru looked his brother up and down and realization dawned on his face. Inuyasha had turned back to half demon.

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"What happened? Didn't that potion thing Kaide gave you work?" Sessho-maru asked, staring at Inuyasha's dog ears and golden eyes.

"You tell me!! Obviously not if I look like this!!" Inuyasha, after calming down a bit, was dressed in normal clothes and sitting at the kitchen counter with his brother.

((( If you're confused, Kaide found a potion that keeps Inuyasha all human, for one day only. So he takes this potion every day with Dr. Pepper to make it taste better.)))

"Well, I guess I'll go ask her, but it will take a couple of days. I have to find her. She usually mails the potion to me, so I don't know where she lives."

"Well, do you have enough potion to last the rest of the week?" Inuyasha asked, trying not to sound hysterical.

"No! Do not take any of that. If there's something wrong with it, I don't want things to get worse... Just, stay here and I'll go find her, and do not take any more of that potion!"

"But-"Inuyasha tried to protest, his demonic temper already rising.

Sessho-maru had already disappeared out the door and hopped into his truck. Inuyasha watched him pull away. When he had disappeared over the hill he kicked the ground and stormed inside. He flopped down aon the couch, staring vacantly at the screen. 'Why is all this happening to me?' he asked, grabbing the remote and flipping through the channels.

After awhile, his temper stilled and worry set in. 'No one besides Sessho-maru and Kaide, and mom and dad or course, know about...me... What would they think if they knew what a ...a freak I am? I can't let them see me, especially not Kagome. She'd never accept me. She'd be afraid of me, like all the others. Or mock me, cuz I'm not full demon...'

Just then there was a knock at the door. He shut the T.V. off and got down on the floor, crawling towards the stairs. He could hear Kagome and Sango on the other side, calling his name. Finally he made it to the stairs and dashed up them, panting at the top. Soon after, the knocking stopped and Inuyasha sighed in relief. 'Too close,' he told himself, 'I'll have to act like I'm gone until Sessho-maru gets back.'

He decided to write a note to Kagome saying they had left to visit some relatives and would be back in a few days, so she didn't think he up and left. He taped it to the door, then shut it and locked it.

Sadly, he headed upstairs to read.

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"I'm sick of this shit!!" Inuyasha screamed, throwing his book on the floor. "This is so boring! How will I last 3 days of quiet? I'll go insane!!" He rolled over and checked the clock. Only and hour and fourteen minutes had gone by.

"I need to get out, I need to do something." Looking outside he saw it was cloudy and decided to grab a hoodie. As he climbed out his window, he pulled his hood up, hiding his white hair and ears. He also put some dark sunglasses on, so as not to expose his golden eyes and wounds, which were slowly disappearing.

He headed into the woods by his house, to explore the surroundings.

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I know, LAME, but I have the next chapter almost done, so stop yelling at me!!