I do not own Inu-yasha.

My explanation for this story is simple. I got bored and tons of reviewers (ok, maybe one or two of them) said they wanted me to write more stories, so here we are. This story has no plot line yet so let's just go with it, alright?

Kagome woke up. Another day of shard hunting and trying to stay out of Inu-yasha's bad mood. Lately he had been moodier than usual, even though the new moon had been the other day. She didn't worry much about it, just did as he said and went on. She had been staying away from home lately though. She always told herself that Inu-yasha wanted it.

That thought stuck in her mind. Inu-yasha wanted it. Since when had she listened to him? She wasn't his slave. She glanced up at the tree behind her and saw Inu-yasha glaring off in the distance. Why was he so angry? She opened her mouth to say something, but couldn't think of anything. So her mouth shut. Better to shut up than to look like a fool.

Inu-yasha jumped down from the tree and landed beside her, his hand went around her mouth. "Quiet" he said.

She looked at him questionably, but he offered no answers. He didn't even look at her.

His ears twitched in an attempt to hear better. He took his hand off her mouth. "Stay quiet" he hissed.

She didn't move, just stared at him in an attempt to understand what the hell was going on. She didn't voice her opinion though.

He finally stood up. "It's nothing" he said before she could say a word.

"Then why were you so tense" Kagome asked quietly.

He looked at her. A small smirk broke his face. The first somewhat smile she had seen from him in a while.

"Is something the matter" she asked.

"It's just that you have bedhead" he said.

Kagome smiled at him and started to smooth her hair down. "I'm glad then."

"Oy? How so" he asked, an eyebrow raised.

"That's the first time in a while that you haven't glared or been tense. What's been the matter"

He sat down next to her and shrugged. "I've just been feeling...strange things lately. And weird noises as well." He shook his head. "I don't know what it is."

She put her hand on his arm. "I'm sure we'll be okay with you around, Inu-yasha." She smiled in a consoling way.

"What do you mean"

"You're worried. About our group, I mean. Looking out for us, you know? It's nice to know you care."

"Feh" he said. This was getting too mushy for him.

"Oh, don't 'feh' me. You were worried about us, admit it"

"I'm not going to admit anything."

Kagome sighed. Fine, she wasn't going to deal with Inu-yasha and what she liked to call 'his moods'. He was almost like a teenaged kid during puberty. First he's mad, and then he's kind, and then he's defensive. She smiled at her little thoughts. "It's okay" she said. "I guess I don't care that much anymore."

He looked at her. "That it, eh" He shrugged and leaned against the tree. The others had better wake up soon, or he'd wake them up. They never seemed to like that. He wondered why. He went back to his earlier thoughts and found himself glaring off at the sky again.

Miroku woke up and noticed the state Inu-yasha was in. He hurriedly woke up Sango and Shippo before Inu-yasha could begin his ranting about their sleep habits.

When he shook Sango awake, she glared at him, a sleepy look in his eye. He pointed to Inu-yasha and she nodded quickly, her way of forgiveness.

Shippo woke up with a yawn when Mirkou poked him and rubbed an eye, not too mad, especially after a look at Inu-yasha. Yesterday Inu-yasha had woken him up. Let's say he hadn't liked being kicked into a tree. Inu-yasha hadn't meant to kick him that hard, he knew, but it wasn't that pleasant to find your upper body stuck into a hold in the tree, especially when the hole hadn't been there before you had.

Sango had been kicked in the leg, a place where a recent injury wasn't completely painless, and Miroku had found himself with a bruise in the side.

Kagome, of course, had just been poked...and had gotten a cut from Inu-yasha's nail jutting into her arm.

When Inu-yasha came back from glaring-at-the-sky-land, or thought-land if you prefer that, he noticed the others up and starting breakfast. He noticed that Kagome was poking him, trying to get his attention. "Oy" he asked her.

"Don't you want something to eat" she asked, annoyed. She had been poking him for the past five minutes.

"You make it" he asked.

She shook her head. Where was he getting with this?

"Sure then."

Her face grew red with embarrassment and anger. Sure, she wasn't the greatest cook around, but she wasn't that bad. She thought of yesterday's breakfast that she had made. Okay, so pancakes weren't suppose to be as brown and as hard as cardboard, but it actually tasted like pancakes that time. "Can't you be nice today" she asked. Then she noticed he wasn't there. She looked to the others and noticed him eating some pancakes that Sango had made. Had she really thought that long?

"Kagome, are you going to come and eat" Sango called out.

Kagome nodded and joined the others. Thinking was a bad thing to do in the feudal era. She would leave it for school.

The whole time during breakfast, she stared down at her plate, not noticing that Inu-yasha was watching her the whole time. But Miroku and Sango did all right. It was Sango and Miroku for christ sake, how could they not notice? And little Shippo noticed Sango and Miroku noticing Inu-yasha watching Kagome. Poor little Shippo couldn't understand why this little 'staring contest' was going on, but he stared at Miroku and Sango anyways, happy to be any part of the group.

Suddenly, Inu-yasha's ear twitched again. A glare came over his face as he stood up and looked around.

"Inu-yasha" Kagome whispered, finally aware of him. She had been thinking quite deeply again, although she had promised herself not to.

He held up a finger to tell her to be quiet, or in his head, to shut up. But 'be quiet' is much more polite, so I use it here. Finally, his ears stopped twitching and he sat down.

"Those noises again" Kagome asked him.

He nodded gravely. Something inside him thought those noises so familiar, but he just couldn't put a finger on what it was. Something... He picked up his plate of pancakes again and ate, glaring at his plate, not noticing it. Now it was 'glaring-at-the-plate-land' instead of 'glaring-at-the-sky-land'.

'Damn it,' he cursed in his head. Some instinct inside of him was telling him to run away, to get away from these noises, but that would mean leaving the others, and no matter how strong Sango and Miroku were, he didn't want them to fight alone, because of course, Shippo and Kagome weren't much help to anyone during a fight. Kagome maybe, when she was mad, but never Shippo. He took a short glance at the kitsune and found himself being stared at as well. He looked at the others and noticed their eyes on him, too. "What the hell are you looking at" he growled.

They quickly looked back at their plates, not wanting to suffer the wrath of Inu-yasha in this mood. It would be suicide to even turn their heads toward his direction. This they knew, and this they followed. Who wanted to end up like Shippo had the last morning? Kagome, Sango, and Miroku didn't know what it was like inside of a tree and they sure as hell didn't want to know. Shippo didn't want the pleasure of meeting another tree up and personal.

Kagome finished and went to her gigantic yellow book bag. She could tell Inu-yasha was being drove crazy by this. Was he maybe even...scared? She thought about it. No. Inu-yasha was never scared...was he? She wanted to look back at him, but could feel his eyes boring into her back. She forgot the reason why she had went to her book bag, she was so intent on doing everything perfect.

"Oy, Kagome, what are ya doing"

She cringed. She didn't know, and she didn't want to be yelled at, or look like a fool for that matter. "I...I...um, nothing, Inu-yasha. Nothing."

"Then why'd ya go over there"

She sweat dropped. Didn't he have anything else to do than ask her questions? She felt a jab in her shoulder blade and almost jumped out of her skin from the starleness of it.

"Why'd ya come over here" Inu-yasha asked.

A faint blush came over her and she could feel sweat running down her back. Summoning up all her courage, she slowly turned around and faced him. One of his eyebrows were raised and deep in his eyes, there was a really weird emotion. She couldn't tell what it was, so she stopped trying.

"Why'd ya come over here" Inu-yasha said for the third time. Surprisingly enough, there was no annoyance in his face.

"I really don't remember" she said.

"Then why are you still over here"

"Why are you so intend on knowing this stupid stuff"

"Why are you getting so defensive"

"Because you're asking stupid questions that don't matter"

Sango and Miroku looked at each other. There was definitely a fight brewing. Sango picked up Shippo and got ready to run if the fireworks started.

"Maybe I want to know what's going on for once" Inu-yasha said.

"MAYBE IT'S NOT IMPORTANT" Kagome screamed.

Inu-yasha slapped a hand over her mouth. "Shhh...you hear that" His eyes moved around, his ears twitching again.

Kagome pulled his hand off her mouth, since it was covering her nose as well and she couldn't breathe. "What? Hear what"

The others in the group stared at him, why did he keep telling them to be quiet when he was being the loudest of them all?

"I...can't figure out what it is..." Inu-yasha trailed off, his eyes looking around, searching for something, anything. "You sure? Sure you can't hear anything? Listen."

Kagome closed her eyes and listened as hard as possible. Finally she heard something. She couldn't quite tell what it was... It was noise and that was the only way she could describe it. Her eyebrows furrowed in thought. "What could it be" she said.

"You hear it now" he asked.

Kagome nodded while the rest tried to hear this 'thing'. "What is it" Kagome asked.

Inu-yasha shook his head slowly. "I don't know." That's when blood spurted across Kagome...and Inu-yasha fell.

Kagome screamed.