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Chapter Five

Kagome smiled brightly when she woke up in her bed. The mattress seemed so comfortable compared to the cold hard ground she had been sleeping on for the past few days. The only time she recalled being completely comfortable was when she was up in the tree, and Inuyasha had his arms around her.

Inuyasha she thought. She wondered if he was waking up in a peaceful state of mind like she was. But most of all, she wondered if he was thinking about her, like she was thinking about him.

The sunlight had already filled Kagome's room, she had no idea what time it was. But she didn't really care. When she was in Inuyasha's time, she didn't get to sleep in much. So Kagome was very displeased to hear a knock on her door.

"What." She yelled out, but she didn't lift her head from the pillow it was on.

"Kagome," Kagome's little brother opened the door and poked his head in her room, "Mom just got done cooking breakfast. Do you want some?"

Kagome would have said no, but when the smell of eggs and bacon hit her nose, she sat up. "Sure, let me get dressed."

"Alright.". He left her room and Kagome reluctantly tossed aside her warm blankets.

Kagome she thought to herself If you don't get up now, grandpa will eat all the good food. She had to keep telling herself that to keep her motivated about getting out of bed. She looked inside her closet and tried to pick something out to wear. It wasn't a school day so she wasn't going to wear her uniform.

Eventually she decided on a pretty abstract pink floral skirt that had two slits on the sides, it was only a little bit longer then her green school skirt. And she put on a white spaghetti strap tank top that had lace trim on the bottom and on the v-neck. She gave herself one last glance in the mirror and headed downstairs.

"Good morning." Kagome's mom said.

"Morning mom."

"You're usually gone on the weekends, why the sudden change." Her brother asked.

"Am I not allowed in my own house without an appointment?" She asked sarcastically.

"Let's just enjoy our meal." Her mother cut in.

They all ate in silence for a few minutes, then Kagome's family started asking her questions about what she had been doing in the past. She was trying to be careful with her answers, she didn't want anyone to know about all the real danger she had been in before.

"So all that for a little jewel." He brother said, a little stunned that so many people could want one thing.

"Yeah."

"Do you have it with you?" Her grandfather asked.

"I have the shards in a small jar, up in my room."

"Interesting." He mumbled to himself.

"What's interesting?" Kagome's mom asked.

"In my youth, I studied about a jewel like the one Kagome's talking about. It had all kinds of powers."

"Really? Do you know what happened to it?" Kagome asked. She was a little interested in finding out if she and Inuyasha would get all the shards.

"Nobody knows, it just vanished."

Kagome thought about it for the rest of breakfast. How could the jewel just vanish. Dose that mean that some will somehow take it from her and use it. Though she could change it. For some reason, she felt that because of that well, she had the power to change history.

"Kagome!" her brother's shouting took her out of her thoughts.

"What?"

"Are you done yet?"

Kagome looked around the table and saw that the entire thing was cleared except for her plate. "Oh, yeah." She stood up and took her plate to the sink for washing.

"Kagome?" Her brother followed her into the kitchen.

"What?"

"What do you want for your birthday?"

Kagome had completely forgotten that her birthday was coming up. "I don't know."

"Come on Kagome. I've saved up my money, so that I could get you a good gift."

"I don't know. I haven't really thought about my birthday."

"Fine." Kagome's brother walked with Kagome into the living room to watch TV with her for a little while. He didn't get to spend much time with his older sister and he wanted to make the most of this day.

"Kagome, do you want to go for a walk or something."

Kagome looked down at him, "Sure, it's a nice day, why waste it indoors."

Inuyasha's Time

Shippo sat under the tree that Inuyasha was sleeping in and waited patently for him to wake up. He was really happy that Inuyasha decided to teach him to fight better and he couldn't wait to start.

"Shippo, what are you waiting for?" Sango asked when she saw him sitting by the tree.

"I'm waiting for Inuyasha to wake up." Shippo said.

Sango looked up to where Inuyasha was sitting and saw that his eyes were slightly opened. "Inuyasha you ass, Shippo is waiting for you."

Inuyasha smiled a little, but didn't open his eyes all the way. I'll get up when I good and ready. He thought. Eventually Sango gave up and walked away.

"Inuyasha. Are you awake?" Shippo asked when Sango was gone. When Shippo didn't get an answer he climbed up the tree and stared at Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha, are you up?" Shippo asked again. When Inuyasha didn't answer again Shippo reached over and pulled up one of his eye lids.

Inuyasha's amber colored eye stared directly at Shippo, "Little brat." He mumbled.

"Come on Inuyasha, I want to learn how to fight."

"Could you wait ten more minutes?"

"No."

Inuyasha smiled, he would have said the same thing when he was a little boy. "Fine. I'll get up"

Shippo jumped out of the tree happily and got ready to start his training. "Inuyasha, what will I need?"

"Some kind of weapon." Inuyasha said to him as he got down from the tree.

Shippo looked around, he didn't have anything like that. "Don't worry," Inuyasha said "you can borrow my Tetsusaiga."

"Really!" Shippo couldn't believe what he had heard.

"Yeah, now come on, we don't have all day." Inuyasha said as he walked off with Shippo following him, trying to keep the same pace.

Sango watched them walk away. "Believe it or not, I think Inuyasha is happy about getting to teach Shippo how to fight." She said to Miroku.

"I don't know. I heard he was only doing it as a favor to Kagome."

Sango looked at Miroku. "Did you see him smile earlier, he's not doing this only as a favor to Kagome. Maybe he looks at Shippo like a little brother."

"This is Inuyasha we're talking about, right?"

Sango playfully punched Miroku in the arm. "Jerk." She said with a small laugh.

Miroku looked over at Sango, she looked really cute when she was angry, it was something that he had never noticed before. He reached over and grabbed her hand.

"Miroku, what are you doing?"

But Miroku didn't answer he just looked at her hand. It had a lot of scars on it from working hard and being in battles, yet it still looked beautiful to him. He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it lightly then stood up. "Do you want to watch Shippo's first lesson with me."

Sango was speechless, wondering why Miroku had kissed her hand. "Umm — sure." She managed to say.

"Good." Miroku helped her up and they walked together in the direction that Inuyasha had left in.

With Inuyasha and Shippo

Inuyasha kept on walking until he found an area out in the open, with room to move around a lot. He glanced around to make sure that nobody was near then turned to Shippo. "Are you ready runt?" he asked.

"Yeah." Shippo yelled and reached for Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga.

"Hold on Shippo, not yet."

"What." Shippo was a little disappointed. He was looking forward to holding the Tetsusaiga.

"First you need to know how to fight with you hands, not some weapon."

Shippo sat on the ground and looked up at Inuyasha, "Ok, what do I do."

"You need to learn how to punch someone. Come here." Inuyasha walked to a tree that was not that far from them. He pulled his arm back, then punched it really hard. Bits of wood went flying everywhere and when the dust settled Shippo saw that Inuyasha's fist had gone right through.

"Wow." Was all he could say.

"Now you try." Inuyasha said, pulling his hand out of the tree. Shippo pulled his arm back, just like Inuyasha did and hit the tree as hard as he could.

Inuyasha had to cover his ears when Shippo let out a scream of pain. He didn't make a single dent, but his hand hurt really bad.

"Shake it off." Inuyasha said. Shippo didn't want to seem weak' in front of Inuyasha so he pretended that he wasn't hurt at all.

"Once you can, at least, crack the bark then you'll be allowed to use Tetsusaiga." Both Inuyasha and Shippo walked to the center of the field. "Now, I want you to try and touch me, on the shoulder."

"Why?"

"If you can touch me on the shoulder, you'll be faster."

Shippo stared at Inuyasha I can do this he thought I can. He started to run toward Inuyasha. He jumped in the air and reached for his shoulder, but found nothing. Inuyasha had already moved out of the way.

"You have to be faster then that runt."

Shippo tried again, he ran as fast as his legs would go then tried to jump at Inuyasha, but once again, he had moved out of the way long before Shippo got to him.

"Don't worry, Shippo, you'll get him." Sango yelled out.

Both Shippo and Inuyasha looked up. They hadn't noticed Miroku and Sango standing there. "Tell them to go away." Shippo whispered to Inuyasha.

"Why?"

Still in a whisper "Please, I don't want them to laugh at me when I mess up."

"They won't"

"Just tell them."

"Hey!" Inuyasha yelled out to Sango and Miroku "This isn't some kind of show, get the hell out of here!"

Sango and Miroku were a little surprised, but decided not to argue. They walked away from the area where Shippo and Inuyasha were fighting and sat near the river. "That was pretty rude." Sango said when she sat down next to Miroku.

"Shippo probably didn't want us there." Miroku said

"No. It was Inuyasha who told us to leave."

"Didn't you see them. Shippo was whispering something to Inuyasha before he yelled to us."

"Why wouldn't he want us there?" Sango asked herself.

"Got me." Miroku closed his eyes and felt the sun beat down on his face.

"Umm — Miroku?" Sango stammered.

"What?"

She looked down at her hand. "Why did you do that to my hand?"

Miroku opened his eyes and looked at Sango, "Because, you're pretty and I wanted too." He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. Sango blushed and pushed him away.

"Miroku. Don't treat me like the flavor of the week." She said.

"Your not." He said and kissed her other cheek.

"Miroku stop!" Sango yelled and stood up "I'm not like those girls in town the like it when guys randomly kiss them!" And she stormed away from him.

Inuyasha and Shippo had been practicing different things for a long time. Not just trying to touch Inuyasha's shoulder, but also things like kicking stones, jumping in the air to touch a certain branch. But the one thing that Shippo thought was useless, what pushing Inuyasha's hands.

"What is that good for?" Shippo asked while he was taking a rest.

"Builds up the strength in your arms." Inuyasha replied. He wasn't tired at all but Shippo was taking deep breaths, trying to get his energy back.

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry I made Kagome leave."

"What? You didn't make her leave."

"Yes I did. I asked her a question and she got embarrassed and left."

"Yeah, that was pretty funny." Inuyasha laughed.

"I know you don't like it when she goes away, so I'm sorry."

Inuyasha looked down at Shippo, he didn't know how to respond to that. "It's ok." He said, not knowing if that was even the right answer.

"You should go see Kagome."

"She's only been gone three days."

"So, you should go see her and tell her that you don't like it when she goes away."

Inuyasha stood up. He didn't like it when Miroku and Sango would tell him what he should do when it comes to Kagome, and hearing it from a little kid didn't make him feel any better.

"Are we gonna start training again."

"Nah, that was enough for one day." He said and started to walk back to the camp, where he and Shippo came across a very angry Sango.

"What's wrong Sango." Shippo asked. Sango was bent over a carrot cutting it up for some soup. She seemed to be hitting the carrot with the knife a little harder then necessary.

She stood up. "Wrong. You want to know what's wrong." When Sango talked she would wave the knife around in the air, making them both wish that Shippo had never asked. "Men. That's what's wrong."

Shippo and Inuyasha looked at each other, not really know what to say, considering they were both men.

"They walk around thinking that a girl will just naturally fawn over him." She looked at Inuyasha with complete disgust. "If I find out you do that to Kagome, Inuyasha, I swear I'll cut off those dog ears of yours."

"Umm — come on Shippo." Inuyasha said, trying to find a reason to get away from Sango. "Your training isn't done yet." Then they both ran off.

"Where are we going?" Shippo asked.

"For one, we're getting the fuck away from Sango. And two, we're going to get Kagome."

"I'm going down the well." Shippo said with a bit of anticipation in his voice.

"No. I am. You wait here." Inuyasha said when they arrived at the well.

"Why are you getting her anyway?"

"I have a feeling, only a woman will calm Sango down."

Inuyasha jumped down the well leaving Shippo standing all alone. Hurry up he thought as he watched Inuyasha disappear.

Kagome's Time

Kagome walked with her brother through the park, she hadn't been there in a long time and was enjoying every minute.

"Thanks for the cotton candy, Kagome."

"Anytime."

Kagome watched some birds fly across the sky for a little while till she heard some voices that sounded really familiar. She turned around and saw some of her friends from school running up to her.

"Kagome, long time no see." They said.

"Hi guys."

"Kagome we have really good news."

"What?"

"Hojo is throwing a costume party next week, you should go."

"What day."

"Next Saturday."

Kagome thought about it for a few minutes. She would be able to come back to her time before then, "Alright."

"Great, we'll tell Hojo that you're coming." They said and ran off.

"What will you dress as?" her brother asked when they were all alone.

"I don't know, but I'm sure I'll think of something by then."

They both walked a little bit longer, but then decided to go home. They got there around the same time the sun started to go down.

"I had a really good time Kagome."

"I did too."

Kagome walked into the living room and kicked off her shoes. "We're home!" Kagome yelled out to whoever was home at the time.

"It's about time you got here." Inuyasha said.

Kagome screamed a little bit when she saw Inuyasha sitting on the couch. He was the last person she expected to see. "I haven't been gone that long Inuyasha."

"I know. But we need you back at camp."

"Is someone hurt?"

"Not yet."

"What dose that mean?" Kagome asked.

"It's Sango. She's mad at men. Told me she was going to cut my ears off."

"Why is she angry?"

"I don't know."

"Fine, I'll talk to her. Just let me pack."

Inuyasha waited for Kagome in the living room. He felt a little uncomfortable being all alone with Kagome's brother, who kept staring at him.

"What do you want?" he asked finally having enough.

"Inuyasha, do you like my sister?"

Inuyasha didn't know what to say, he wasn't about to talk to a little kid about his feelings, so he just ignored him until Kagome showed up.

"Ok, let's go."

Inuyasha's Time

Sango continued to chop the food. Somehow it helped her control her anger. "Stupid Miroku." She mumbled to herself. She was so concentrated on cutting that she didn't even notice Kagome walking up until she tapped her on the shoulder.

"Kagome. When did you get here?"

"Inuyasha got me. He said you were in a dangers mood."

"Typical male. Afraid of a simple girl just cause she's angry."

"Sango, you told him you were going to cut his ears off."

"Only if he tried the same trick on you that Miroku tried on me."

Kagome sat down next to Sango and took the knife out of her hand. "Sango. Is there something you want to talk about?"

"It's that stupid Miroku."

"Did he do something to you?"

"Yeah. The womanizing man kissed me."

Kagome smiled, "Sango. That's not so bad. I though he tried to -"

"You're missing the point!" Sango yelled. "He thought that he could just kiss me anytime he wanted without any warning."

Kagome looked away from Kagome and up at the sky. She even caught a glimpse of Inuyasha sitting in a near by tree trying to hear what they were talking about, but Kagome gave him a look that said let us girls talk'.

After he left Kagome looked at Sango and said, "If I didn't know better. I would say you liked him."

"What! I don't!" She screamed.

"Sango there is no need to yell."

"There's lots of reason to yell," Sango said even louder "you're a bitch Kagome." And with that Sango walked off.

A few minutes later Inuyasha and Shippo showed up. "We saw Sango walking away." Shippo said

"Yeah, she still looked angry. I thought you would be able to calm her down."

"She will be." Kagome came to her own defense. "She just needs some time to cool off." Kagome finished cooking the soup that Sango had started. "Where's Miroku?" She asked as she filled up three bowls.

"I don't know." Inuyasha said, "I haven't seen him all day."

Inuyasha and Shippo ate their soup really quickly, but Kagome took her time. She wanted to enjoy her meal. "How was your fist lesson?" she asked Shippo.

"Really good. Inuyasha told me I'll be strong in no time."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha. He wasn't paying much attention to Shippo and herself, he just kept eating his soup. Then Kagome started to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Inuyasha asked.

"Nothing." Kagome replied. She didn't tell Inuyasha, but she made a mental note to dress like him for the costume party. She knew where she could find a wig and dog ears she just needed to get her hands on cloths like Inuyasha's.

"Inuyasha, where do you buy your cloths?"

Inuyasha was a little confused. "Umm — a lady I know makes them for me."

"How much does it cost?"

"Not much. A few coins and one hour of manual labor."

"Do you think you could show me where the shop is."

"Sure." Inuyasha said, still a little confused. "We'll go tomorrow."

"Great."

"Any reason."

"You're a fashion setter." Kagome said sarcastically.

With Sango

Stupid Kagome Sango thought Thinks she knows me "You don't know anything." Sango said out loud.

"Who doesn't know anything?"

Sango looked up and saw Miroku standing not very far from her. Normally Sango would have ripped his head off, but what Kagome said was still fresh in her head.

"Nobody." Sango said. All her anger was gone.

"Sorry I made you man earlier. I just couldn't help it." He said with a slight smile.

"Miroku. Kagome told me something that just — just sounded so — true."

"What'd she say?"

"She told me that I like you."

"As a friend?"

"More like . Infatuation."

"Really." Miroku walked a little closer to her. "No girl ever said that before."

"Miroku, I'm serious."

"So am I." He said, but before Sango could respond he lifted her chin and kissed her. Sango thought, only breafly, about pushing him away, but changed her mind. She just closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment.

End of Chapter Five

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