TO DEMONSWTY: AWW YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FAITH IN ME WHAT SO EVER TO EVEN TRY TO MAKE THIS INTO A SESSH./KAG FIC? WAIT TIL YOU READ THIS CHAP -_0 OH! BY THE WAY, THIS CHAPTER WAS ALREADY PLANNED WAY BEFORE YOU MENTIONED THE INU/KAG THING. ENJOY! JA!

Disclaimer: it's not Fourth of July, but I'll do it anyways. 006 (cyborg 009, I don't really like it, but I just watch it out of pure boredom.) ignite the fireworks. On the sky is written, I do not own Inuyasha.

*~*Chapter 10: A Real Smile*~*

Kagome lies in her bed looking out the window. 'Sango. I miss you and everyone else. I wish you were here with me. It's been weeks since I last saw you in Feudal Japan. What am I saying? I see her reincarnation everyday, but still, it just doesn't seem to be the same. I should know already that there is a fine line between reincarnation and the first person with the soul. Inuyasha never understood that." Kagome sits up in bed with a sad expression on her face, buts shakes her last thought out of her head. "Feudal Japan is just a made- up story, it's not real. It's just seems real, but isn't real. Setsuko, why did you have to make me drink so much of that strong icky tea? Now, I can't sleep!"

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Flashback.

"Kagome, I've noticed that you've been falling asleep in our classes, so I made this special tea in third period for you. Ms. Akashi let me make it because she noticed the sleepy you in class too. I want you to drink all of it; this should make you to stay up. I also want you to drink it when you work on your homework."

Another Flashback

"Kagome! I told you to drink the tea when you work on your homework!" Setsuko grabs the cold tea and tries to make Kagome drink it. "I'm fine Setsuko! Really! I Am! And no offense, but that tea you made tastes a tad too strong and has a really nasty taste in the end." Setsuko finally manages to make Kagome drink the tea in fast gulps. Some of the tea rolls down Kagome's neck because she can't keep up with the pouring of the tea. "That icky taste is there because that's the part to wake you up baka. I do something for you and it goes unappreciated. *sigh" Kagome is stuck in a sitting position on her bed with an empty thermos partially in her mouth. "Umm Setsuko..Setsuko! I'm done. Now can you please take this thermos out of my mouth?!" Kagome says in slight gibberish to Setsuko. "Oh sorry Kag- chan! Besides, tomorrow I know you will thank me later for what I did. Ja!"

End of Flashbacks

"Yeah right! I did drink the tea, and look what happens! I can't even sleep, but still. Setsuko is a good friend, I should be blaming myself for falling asleep during my classes." Kagome looks out her window. 'The moon looks beautiful tonight. It's only ten thirty, I can go out to the courtyard still.' Kagome gets up from her bed and puts on jeans with an olive sweater. Before she walks out the door, she puts on her socks and shoes. "It's a good thing I packed all my clothes."

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Kagome walks out into the courtyard to her cherry tree. "Now that I think about it, this spot has a great view of the moon." She sits down with her legs in front of her and leans back into the tree. 'This all reminds me so much of Feudal Japan. Sango and Kirara would be sitting on the left of me beside another tree. Miroku normally would sit in front of me inching towards her.' Kagome giggles at this, but saddens with her next thoughts. 'Shippo would be playing with Kirara or sitting on my lap eating a lollipop and Inuyasha.he would be sitting behind me in the branches of the tree I would be leaning against. I can't help but think of the Warring States Era, I need to forget it. For my own sake, I need to move on, but I can't. I just can't. My mind tells me to, but some part of me just won't allow it.'

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She hadn't noticed him yet, and he had been watching her since she first walked out through the glass double doors. He watched how she went from giddy to sad. 'What is it that makes her seem to be holding onto something that causes her to be saddened with each thought?' think Seishichirou. He becomes amused with Kagome's next action.

"Baka! Baka! Baka!" Kagome shouts aloud while hitting her head with both of her fists. 'Feudal Japan is just a dream!! Keep that engraved in your head!!!' Kagome stops hitting herself when she notices movement from behind her and a hand that gently holds onto one of her fists. 'Seishichirou?'

"Why are you hitting yourself?" Kagome blushes when she notices the hand holding onto her right fist and pulls it back away from his hold. She puts her hand behind her head, rubs her head, making a nervous laugh. "Oh umm. you. you see I. I just realized that I forgot to write a sentence in one of my reports..a-and it's a sentence that I wanted to write in my report you see." Seishichirou puts his hand up. "Forget that I asked." Kagome looks a little mad. 'What's this guy's problem? He asked me why I was hitting myself. Wait a moment, I was lying to him anyways and I think I repeated things. *Sigh Well, at least he isn't trying to kill me." She looks at his hand. 'No claws. So I'm safe from being cut up into ribbons.' Sieshichirou notices Kagome's eyes looking at him. "What are you staring at? My hands?"

"Oh.ha ha! So you saw me looking at your hands...Well yes...erm..umm you see, I like- I like to draw and I find your hands very fascinating!" Kagome mentally kicks herself in the head and stomps on her brain. 'You find his hands fascinating?!' Sieshichirou's face is stoic and he just simply turns his head to look at the moon. For a long while, the two don't talk, but sit beside the tree gazing at the moon and stars. "Whatever it is that is causing you pain should be forgotten." Kagome jumps up at the sudden breaking of silence. "What makes you think that there is something causing me pain?" Seishichirou looks at Kagome with a "you think I'm stupid?" look, but Kagome didn't notice because the violet eyes looked all too familiar to Kagome; they looked like Inuyasha's. "I watched you walk into the courtyard and saw how your facial expression changed from joy to a look of pain. It's best if you forget that memory and move on with your life."

"It's not as easy as it sounds." Kagome looks away from those all too familiar eyes and stares at the stars, scanning for any constellation she might know. Seishichirou, however, still looks at her. "Yes, it is easy to forget. Just think of something else whenever the memory arises again. Look." Seishichirou points to the sky. "There is Sagittarius." He moves his finger from point to point showing Kagome what the constellation of Sagittarius looks like. "And that's-" Kagome speaks up. "Corona Australis." She uses her fingers to outline the constellation's figure. Sieshichirou looks surprised. "So you know your constellations huh?" Seishichirou looks at Kagome's pained face. 'I spent most of my nights in Feudal Japan learning new constellations and pointing them out to Shippo.'

"Stop thinking about it." Both Seishichirou and Kagome are surprised to hear him say this. "Forget what?" Seishichirou puts a hand on her shoulder, she looks in his eyes and sees concern in them. "You know what I mean." He says softly. Seishichirou quickly removes his hand land looks at the ground. "Sorry," he mumbles. 'I wish his hand were still there. Wait! What am I thinking?! I must be so lonely that I even would open up to Sesshomaru's reincarnation- I mean my made- up story of Feudal Japan's character and Seishichirou kust so happens to fit the description of my character. Yeah. that's it.' Kagome realizes something. "Did something happen to you in the past? Like did someone break your heart?" Seishichirou's body did not move, but his eyes betrayed him; showing Kagome his surprise that she even asked such a question. He simply turned back to the sky, leaving both back to the silence of the lonely night. 'I guess so. What could have happened to him?'

Kagome notices Seishichirou's pained expression. "Don't think about it." He looks at her, astonished that she had used the very same words he said to her. "Look over there, that's Hercules." Seishichirou looks up at the stars. 'She reminds me of her.'

The rest of the night, the two pointed to different constellations. They got up when they realized it was time to go. Before Kagome walked through her doors, she heard Seishichirou tell her good night. "Good night Seishichirou." Kagome gives him a warm smile and walks through the double doors, but Seishichirou stays in the same spot Kagome had smiled at him. 'Did she just smile at me like as if we were friends?' Seshichirou walks away and through the boys glass double doors, walking through the off- white walls of the school trying to recall when was the last time he had received a smile. Not just any smile like Miyoko's goofy ones, or Ichiro's death smiles, but a real smile, one filled with warmth and care.

A.N. Alright!!! Stupid yes.and sorry that I didn't have this up like 3 weeks ago! I would have, but I got really sick and my mom wouldn't let me out of bed.-_- Plus! I have a lot of homework too.Sorry! I try to get them done as soon as possible, but people do get tired at one point and are too tired to even think; let their imagination run! I'm steadily working on the chapters still and will try to keep updating my stories a lot faster.

I'm sorry if you really think my story is pointless and stupid.but really, as an author, it is hard to keep the story line flowing, because when you first write a story, it is hard enough just trying to get all your ideas from beginning to end down in one day and what's even worse is trying to write a modern day story. I just decided to write a modern day one, because I felt it was going to be a great challenge (which it is) and felt that, as a reader, we need more Inuyasha modern stories. I know there are plenty, but some of them are either pointless or don't even make any sense (sorry and no offense to all authors).

Anyways, I revised this chapter and am currently trying to edit the other "bad" chapters for other new readers so reading my "old" chapters would be easier for them. Once again. I'M REALLY SORRY! YOU REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW SORRY I AM FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER!!!