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When they got to the meadow she told him to wait under a huge tree.(A/N..now lets see, what tree could it be??ooo! i rymed!)

"Stay here" she said while wagging a finger at him. "I'll be right back. Okay?" 'Feh. Yeah right, and a snowball has a chance in hell' he thought as she walked off into the woods, which surprised him, he thought she would head back into the village and leave him there. He jumped up into the lowest branch of the tree (which was like 20 feet off the ground) and waited.

True to her word she came back about five minutes later with a bunch of herbs in her arms. He saw her come out of the forest and over to the tree, he snickered at the fact she couldn't find him, but stopped when he saw look up at him with a peeved look.

"What are you doing up there?!" she asked

"......." her left eye started to twitch and he snickered. 'Oh yes, this is gonna be fun' he thought when he saw her eye twitch.

"Come on, I need you to sit WHAM...down" she finished softly as he fell out of the tree and did a face plant into the ground. She ran over to him to see if he was hurt anymore than he already was. After about a minute he got up and rubbed his already sore head.

"Are you okay?" she asked while she sat infront of him and cocked her head. He gave her a deadpan look.

"......"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you." she said as she looked at him.

"Feh." he said as he crossed his arms and stuck his nose in the air. He heard a gasp and felt a pair of hands on his forehead.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

"You're bleeding!" as she showed him her fingers with his blood on the finger tips.

"Keh! You're point would be?"

"You need to bandaged!"

"NO!"

"Its rolling down your face! I think you do!"

"MAKE ME!" he saw an evil smirk on her face and instantly regretted it. He gulped, what was she gonna do.

"If you don't let me help you than I'll say the word." She saw he had a rosary around his neck and figured out what caused him to fall out the tree earlier.

"What do you mean? What word?"

"The one that made you do a face plant earlier." she said she tugged lightly on his necklace. He gulped, and not really wanting to be eating dirt at the moment he agreed.

"sigh Fine"

"Ok. Si..." she caught herself before she said the word. "um... right here." she pointed to right infront of her. He sat infront of her and watched as she gathered her herbs in her lap and brushed his bangs out of his face. She grimaced when she saw the size of the cut, and how much blood was leaking out. Only then did she realize she didn't have any bandages with her, so she improvised and used the end of her haori, not really caring that his blood was staining the white fabric. 'Why is she doing this? Why is she being so nice to me' he thought as she cleaned him.

"This might sting." she said as she took some of the herbs from her lap and crumbled them up and then put some on his wound. He closed his eyes and hissed in pain, and sunk his claws into the fists that they were currently in. He felt something blow on his wound and cracked an eye open to see that she was blowing on his cut to stop the stinging, he blushed and then remembered that his mom used to do that when he got hurt. She saw blood seeping out of his fists and sighed and pointed to his hands. Reluctantly he held them out to her.

"So, what's your name?" she asked as she wiped away the blood.

"Huh?"

"I said, what's your name?"

"Feh. Why should I tell you."

"You're stubborn do you know that?"

"........" she smirked, and tried to rip part of her haori sleeve off. Seeing this Inuyasha took the cloth and rip it for her, with his tiny claws.

"Thanks."

"Feh. You were taking to long." he saw her look at his hands and she sighed.

"What?"

"You got your cuts bleeding again when you ripped my sleeve."

"Oh." he said while she fisted her other haori sleeve in her hand and wiped the blood away softly.

" this might sting."

"I figured." he mumbled as she applied the herbs, he hissed when they made contact on his skin. Once again he saw her blow on his cut. After that she managed to tear the torn fabric into slices and wrapped his hands up.

"There all done." she said with a smile. He looked at her funny and cocked an eyebrow.

"What?"

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why are you helping me?"

"Because you needed it." he gave her a deadpan look.

"Also, friends help each other out."

"But you don't know me, and we're not friends. How can we be, we just met."

"It doesn't mean we can't be though." she said softly while looking on the ground.

"Why would you want to be my friend anyway?"

"What do you mean, I would love to be your friend." she said blushing slightly but her voice was without embarrassment.

"Cause I'm a half demon."

"Point being?" he knew that she wasn't gonna give up, 'damn, she's stubborn'.

"you mean you would be my friend even though I'm a half breed."

"Hai, and you're not a half breed, so don't call your self one."

"What you said made no sense. I am half human and half demon there for I am a half breed."

"Well I don't think of you as one, but fine have it you're way." she huffed and crossed her arms and pouted.

"Inuyasha"

"huh?" she said snapping out of her reverie.

"You asked my name, and its Inuyasha."

"Ooh. My name's Kagome. Nice to meet' ya." she smiled. Then she noticed two little white doggy ears twitch on his head and giggled. Inuyasha noticing this gave her a curious look. Then he saw her walk behind him and suddenly felt a hand on his ear.

"Hey! What do you think ...." but he broke off mid sentence when he felt her rub his ear. Then he felt a hand on his other ear doing the same thing. Kagome heard a soft growling sound and noticed that it was coming from Inuyasha. She stopped not knowing if she was hurting him or not. He noticed that she stopped and nudged his head into her hands to tell her to continue. Taking the hint she started to rub his ears again. After a few minutes she stopped because her arms were getting tired and sat down next to him.

"Why did you stop?"

"My arms started to hurt." she said putting her arms infront her, then he noticed that blood was half way down each arm.

"You have blood all over your arms and shirt ya know."

"That's ok, it happened when I was cleaning your wounds. It'll come out."

"Won't your folks be mad?" truly it was an innocent question on his part but he instantly he regretted saying it when he saw the look on her face. Her eyes did not hold that innocent sparkle that they did a few minutes ago, but a cold and distant look replaced that. He winced, he knew that look all to well.

"Sor..."but was cut off when Kagome put her finger tips on his lips to silence him.

"Its ok, really. You didn't know." she took her finger tips off his mouth and looked at the ground. She felt something warm around her, she looked up to see Inuyasha hugging her. ( this feels like a damn soap opera doesn't it.)

"I know how you feel." he mumbled into her hair. He felt her hug back and bury her face into the crook of his neck.

"What do you mean?" she asked into his neck. He gulped and sighed.

"My parents are dead too." she shifted so that she faced him, tears brimmed her eyes.

"I'm sorry." she whispered.

"You're twisting your own words around you know that right." she glared at him, but it wasn't exactly working since her expression was soft.

"Come on we should head back. Its getting dark."

"No its not, its still daylight."

"I know but,...umm...it'll be dark soon though!" she snapped.

"You aren't scared are ya?"

"No!"

"Then why do you want to head back so soon?"

"Because,.....umm..... it's almost dinner time!" Inu's ears perked up at that, and she rolled her eyes. She grabbed his hand and led him down the path back to the village.

"Where are we going?"

"To my house."

"And that would be?"

"Um...Right here." she said as they stopped in front of a hut.

"You'll like Keade, she's really nice." he looked at her and noticed that her eyes had a happy sparkle to them. When they walked in they were greeted by a kind looking old woman. 'I met her earlier' .

"Ahh, Kagome I see you met Inuyasha. He will be living with us from now on." Kagome was about to speak when Keade beat her to it.

"How about you show him where he will be staying."

"Hai." she said with a nod of the head.

"Come on Inu!" she chirped as she grabbed his hand, he gave a don't-just-stand-there!-help-me look at Keade, she just chuckled. 'She's back to her old self, and he seems to be more lively. It looks like they needed one another.'

Kagome led Inuyasha to nice size room that had a comfy bed, (I know that they didn't sleep on raised0 beds in the feudal era, but this is my fic!) pillows, a few toys and a sword hanging above the bed. ' Tetsuiga' he thought.

"My room is right next to yours." she said pointing down the hall to a sliding shoji door . "I'll be there if you need me, kay?" she said cocking her head to the side and walked out of the room. He walked around the room unsure of what to do. He saw a small trunk and opened it, inside where a few extra kimonos (the usual garb he wears) and few other miscellaneous items. He pulled out a new kimono and changed. He walked down the hall and into the main room, where he saw Keade and Kagome. Keade was making some type of noodle dish and Kagome was busy bouncing a small ball up and down.

"Oh, hello Inuyasha. Are you hungry?" he bobbed his head up and down.

"Very well then, dinner will be done a few minutes. How about you go play with Kagome."

"What is that?" he asked peering into the pot.

"Ramen."

"Huh?"

"I said its ramen." he looked at Kagome. She saw him peer over the pot sniffing the boiling substance.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" she said worriedly.

"Why? Its not like I'm gonna fall in or anythin...OW!" he yelped as hot water splashed his face.

"That's WHY!" he glared at her while he held a hand on the offended cheek, she sighed and shook her head. She grabbed his free hand and led him to a corner and motioned for him to sit down next to her. Taking a cloth and dipping it in water she told to take his hand off his face.

"Here." she said as she put the cloth on his face. She had 'the look' on her face.

"Don't you even dare." he growled. He saw her smirk evilly.

"I told ya so." Keade thought about breaking them up, but she had to admit, it was really funny to watch. But as they say, all good things must come to an end.

"Children, do you think you can stop your bickering long enough to eat." she said in a calm manner. At the mention of food they instantly shut up and sat down to eat. At the first bite of the ramen he was instantly hooked. Kagome and Keade just laughed and poor Inu was just clueless. He gave a dumbfounded look.

"What's so funny?" he said with the chopsticks in his mouth.

"You, should have seen the look on your face when you first took a bite." Kagome said between fits of giggles. "It was priceless." he glared at her which was kinda hard when you have food hanging out of your mouth. Oh, yes this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.