A/N: Well, Hello! It's been a while! Like maybe a month? Well, sorry bout the delay. I'm getting really bad at updating. But, I'm going to try and finish this chap tonight so that I won't delay this longer, or forget about it in the morning.

Disclaimer: Do I have to do this every chapter? You all should know by now that I don't own anything of Inuyasha, I'm just a fan. If you don't…well, you're slower than I am!(and that's really slow!)

Chapter 4

Steven Meets Kagome's "Cousin"

Inuyasha sat on the couch and just starred ahead of him. There was this big black box in front of him with buttons on it, he had no clue what it was, but it looked cool. Souta walked into the room and sat beside him.

"Hi!" Souta said.

"Hi," Inuyasha said.

Souta looked in the direction that Inuyasha was and looked back at him. "Why are you starring at a blank TV?"

"What's a TV?"

'Oh duh!' Souta thought, 'Inuyasha isn't from this time. He has no clue what a TV does! Oh, this'll be fun!' "Well, a TV is a box that has images in it that you watch."

"…huh?"

"Let me show you!" Souta grabbed the remote and turned on the TV.

The black box that Inuyasha was starring at was suddenly filled up with images of people on boats, skiing, and dancing.

"What the hell?!" Inuyasha jumped back a little in his seat.

"You like? This is what a TV is," Souta changed the channel to a soap opera. "You just press one of these buttons," Souta pointed to the buttons as he spoke, "and the TV switches images to something else." Souta handed the channel gun to Inuyasha and he immediately began to press all the buttons which resulted in the TV being turned all the way up on a rap music video.

"WOAH! THIS IS REALLY LOUD!" Inuyasha yelled over the TV.

"TURN IT DOWN!" Souta yelled.

"WHAT?!"

"TURN IT DOWN!"

"HOW DO I DO THAT?!"

At that moment the channel gun was snatched from Inuyasha's hand and the TV turned off. Inuyasha and Souta turned around to face Kagome.

"Souta, what the hell are you two doing?" Kagome asked in an annoyed tone.

"I was just showing Inuyasha the TV," Souta said innocently.

"And you decided to turn the volume up all the way because?" Kagome asked.

"That was an accident!" Souta said putting his hands up as if Kagome were about to hit him.

"Yeah, yeah," Kagome tossed the channel gun to Souta and walked out of the room.

"Hey Inuyasha," Souta said quietly leaning towards him so Kagome wouldn't hear. "Is it just me, or has Kagome been acting really…weird?"

"Weird?"

"Yeah, she's always angry it seems, or depressed. She's usually not like that."

Inuyasha looked towards the ground, "That's because of me."

"Huh? What'd you do?"

"Well, it happened a long time ago, and…"

"Hey, are you talking about that time when Kagome came back for good?"

"…yeah."

"What all happened then?"

"Well, it's a long story."

"Well, whatever the story is, all I know is that she came back and I never saw her leave." Souta got up off of the couch and pulled Inuyasha up with him. "So maybe you should go apologize for whatever you did!" He pushed Inuyasha into the kitchen.

Inuyasha stumbled into the kitchen where Kagome was reading a magazine in a chair by the broken table. It was a funny sight, but Inuyasha didn't laugh. 'Well, I guess this would be a good time to talk,' he thought.

"Um, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome looked up from her magazine and starred him in the eyes.

"Um…well, you don't seem to be extremely happy today…or yesterday," Inuyasha said.

"Oh no Inuyasha, I'm happy," Kagome said sarcastically, "I'm just fine!"

"I know your upset…because of me…and I want to explain. I don't want you to be mad at me forever."

Kagome put the magazine on her lap, "I'm listening."

"Well, you see after you left-"

"Kagome!" Inuyasha was interrupted by Kagome's mother.

"Coming!" Kagome yelled, she got up and walked out in front of the house where her mom was.

'Damn! That's the second time I couldn't tell her!' Inuyasha thought.

Inuyasha heard Kagome yell something.

"Steven! You're here!"

He ran to the door and looked outside. He saw Kagome wrap her arms around the neck of some guy he guessed was Steven. He had short messy brown hair and blue eyes. He was taller than Kagome, might have been taller than Inuyasha, and his body was built pretty good. 'But not as good as mine!' Inuyasha thought. Then Inuyasha's blood boiled as he watched Kagome kiss Steven. He would have ran out and knocked out Steven if Souta didn't grab his arm at that moment.

"Inuyasha, we need to get you into something more suitable!" Souta said pulling Inuyasha away from the door.

"Hold on! That guy kissed Kagome!"

"Yeah, they're engaged, they're allowed to do that! Now come on! We can't have you wearing your feudal era clothes when Steven sees you!" Souta finally managed to get Inuyasha to follow him up to his room. "Ok, now put this on." Souta tossed some clothes to Inuyasha.

"I'm not putting this on!" Inuyasha protested.

"You have to! Steven doesn't know you're from a different time period, now quite whining and change! I'm not gunna do anything to your clothes."

"Damn right your not!"

"Right, so just change."

"Fine."

Souta walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. He waited for a minute or two, then Inuyasha finally walked out of the room wearing a Nike t-shirt, and cargo shorts.

"Where's the hat I gave you?" Souta asked.

"I'm not cramming my ears into that," Inuyasha said.

"Once again, Steven doesn't know that you're different time period, or that you're a demon, so just put the hat on, you can take it off when he's not around."

"Feh."

In the end Inuyasha put the hat on. They walked downstairs and sitting in the kitchen around the broken table was Kagome, her mom, and Steven. Inuyasha had a strong urge to pounce on Steven and rip him to shreds, but he held back.

"Steven, that's Souta, my younger brother," Kagome said pointing to him.

"Hi Steven," Souta walked over and shook hands with him, then took up an empty chair.

"And who're you?" Steven asked Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha," he said in an annoyed voice.

"He's my cousin!" Kagome said quickly.

"Cousin?" Inuyasha asked surprised.

"Yes, my cousin," Kagome said.

"Nice to meet you Inuyasha," Steven said waving.

"Feh." Inuyasha sneered a little.

"Inuyasha," Kagome said, "Why don't you come over here and SIT with us?"

BAM

"Oh, clumsy Inuyasha," Kagome said, "he must've tripped on something."

Inuyasha pulled himself up off the ground and walked over to where everyone else was sitting.

"Are you ok?" Steven asked.

"Yeah fine!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and lounged back as best he could in his chair.

"Well Souta! Could you help bring Steven's luggage to his room?" Kagome's mom asked.

"Sure thing mom!" Souta got up and walked with Steven to grab his luggage.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled, "Quit acting like that!"

"Like what?" Inuyasha asked.

"Annoyed and grumpy and rude! You need to be nicer to Steven."

"Well, why did you say I'm your cousin?"

"Because, I don't want Steven to know that…our relationship…I don't want him to know about us."

"Why? You think he'll get jealous?"

"I just don't want him to know that some guy from my past that I used to go running around with all day is staying over, ok."

"Fine."

"Ok, I'm going to go help Steven and Souta with the luggage," Kagome got up and started to walk out of the room.

"But Kagome," Inuyasha's tone was more serious now.

She turned around and faced him, he was starring straight at her. "Sometime we need to talk, so I can tell you what happened."

"…ok," Kagome walked out of the room leaving Inuyasha.

"What happened?" Inuyasha was startled, he didn't realize that Kagome's mom had been sitting there the whole time.

"Uh, nothing," Inuyasha said.

"Oh, I get it!" she smiled and walked out of the room chuckling.

"What?" Inuyasha asked, but she was already gone, now he sat in the kitchen by himself.

A/N: Ok that's the chappie! Tell me if you like it, and you can yell at me if you want for taking so long. But just review!

Dark Inu Fan: Yea, well I've got more Inu/Souta interactions, hope they were fun! Thanks for reviewing me!

TheLightintheDarkness: I've never seen that movie before, but I want to see it! I've never really thought about it, but I guess this is kind of like that. I wasn't thinking about that movie at all when I thought of this story tho.

Kiara-chan: Yea, I tried to watch a soap one time, but I just couldn't it was too…weird and boring. Nothing happened, and it was confusing. Something about some guys evil twin. Well whatever! Thanks for reviewing!

Y12blue12: I luv torturing people! It is fun! Well, this chapter Steven and Inu finally met.

Paruety Redal: Ha ha! I luv that idea! But that would be a whole lot of sitting to write. Oh, and I have an explanation for why Inuyasha took so long to come & why he remembered, but that won't be revealed until the end because it may change Kagome's feelings.

Drake220: Of course I like ur story it rocks! Ok, so, I need to try to give my characters more personality? Did I do ok in this chapter, what do I need to do? I'm open to suggestions. Oh yeah, and Kagome's mother, definitely crazy!

Flufflovr007: Thanks! I'll keep it up!

WorthlessShadow: Well Steven's here! Right now he may not seem to have much of a personality, but that's because he didn't have too big of a part in this chapter. He'll have more in the next chapter he's in…I'll try to make him have more.

Sakura53: Thank you! I'll try my best to update sooner.

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AnimeLova34: Sorry I didn't update sooner! I'm getting really bad at updating. But I'm going to try to update sooner this time!

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Ok, so as a final note, I know that Steven didn't have too big of a role or personality in this chapter, but he'll have more in the next chapter he's in. And get ready for some major Steven/Inu interactions! The story will heat up since Inu and Steven are staying in the same house! I'll really try to update sooner next time! So remember to review, that may speed up the process!