Not the greatest chapter (no flames please) mostly just silly filler for Kagome. I have the next chapter started (and can I say FUN) So although this is probably boring....It will get better. (Can someone say the rage of Sango!!)

Disclaimer: Still have no real rights to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha: What? No witty comment to add today?

Kagome: Yeah, that is very unlike you.

Sorry to disappoint you, just want to get to work on it.

Kagome: It had better at least be a good one.

It is about you; of course, you will enjoy it.

Inuyasha: Kagome?! What about me?

Umm…Yeah…about that.

Kagome: Hahahaha….You aren't in this chapter.

Inuyasha: Shut up bitch. No one gives a crap about you.

Kagome: Inuyasha? You jerk! Osuwari!

Hmmm…maybe he can wait there patiently until next chapter.

Chapter 7

Why am I still wearing my clothes from last night? Kagome thought as she woke up. Her mother had called upstairs to wake her for school. The book lay canopied on her chest, from her short break from reading last night. I fell asleep by accident. I must have exhausted myself crying. Miroku's words had begun to sink into her head, slowly. Although she still had difficult time believing that everything he wrote as truth.

"Kagome, it is time to get ready to go to school." Her mother yelled from outside her bedroom. Kagome groaned, she didn't want to go today. She had missed so much school though; she couldn't afford to miss now that she was home. As much as she wanted to spend the afternoon sulking the day in bed pining over what she had recently lost, she couldn't. She needed to catch up on her schoolwork. She had no real future if she couldn't get her grades in order.

She climbed out of bed, looking at Miroku's book longingly. "Savior it, Kagome. You can only read it for the first time, once." She said to herself, placing it on her desk. Her life had been altered against her will, yet again. It was past time she put it back together, no matter how painful.

She jumped into the shower, determined to make it through the day. As a reward, she could read as much as she wanted tonight. The luxury of shampoo and modern plumbing were not lost on her today. No matter how much she enjoyed the hot springs baths she shared with Sango, nothing compared to a nice hot shower to help wake her up.

When she finished her shower, she dressed and hurried downstairs for breakfast. Her mother greeted her with a casual, "How are you feeling today?"

"A little shook up and confused, I guess." She answered softly.

"What did the books say, sis?" Souta asked, his curious expression written all over his face.

"Souta, that is none of your business!" Her mother admonished him. Kagome smiled weakly. Her mother had to have known what was written about in those books. She would have had to read them to know to give them to her. There would be no other explanation for why she had treated Inuyasha with respect every time she had met him. "Have you read any of the books yet, dear?"

Kagome nodded, "I skimmed the first one, looking for something specific. I didn't find it. People may find the first book more interesting than the second, but I don't. I lived it. I will read it after the other one."

"So you are reading the second one?" her mother asked with a small smile on her face.

Kagome blushed, "Yes, it is not what I expected at all."

"Where are you in it?"

Kagome's face had turned as bright as a tomato. She suddenly realized her mother knew everything about her relationship with Inuyasha. Wait, I am deluding myself again. What relationship? We never had a relationship. Whatever it had been, Miroku had made it an open book for all eyes to see. "He is refusing to leave the well. Miroku and Sango just tried to get him to leave it by using my backpack, and it backfired."

"Who's refusing to leave the well?" Souta asked; wanting to know what was in the books.

"That reminds me; you need some new books don't you?" her mother ignored her brother's question. If Kagome wanted him to know, she would tell him.

"Yes, Math and Biology." Kagome answered. "I left everything else here on my last trip home." Finished with her breakfast, she took her plates to the sink. "I want to stay here and finish it. I fell asleep early last night. I think I exhausted myself out last night."

"It is your choice." Her mother said. "I understand why you do."

"I am so behind in school, mom. If I don't go today it will only get worse." She sighed, picking up her backpack, the one she kept at home for school. "I can put it down until I get home tonight." She kissed her mother on the cheek before walking out the front door. She paused in front of the Sacred Tree, I miss you too, Inuyasha. She always had a warm feeling that this tree emitted when she was near it, even as a child. She must have known it would mean something special to her someday. She turned and rushed off to school.

The day dragged on, until history. She had completely forgotten she had planned to skip class today. She thought that maybe she could make it through it. Miroku wrote that he picked me in the end. I will never know for sure, but it makes it easier to hear about him and Kikyo. Her teacher planned to lecture about the shikon jewel shards. She took a deep breath as the teacher began, if she made it through today, it would be a miracle.

Her teacher flashed her a sympathetic smile before beginning, "About 500 years ago there lived a miko. She had been given the responsibility to protect the shikon no tama. As I said yesterday, the jewel held a lot of power. Many sought to steal the jewel, including a powerful hanyou named, Inuyasha. He planned to steal the jewel from the miko, Kikyo, in order to become a full demon. Unlike the other youkai's who attacked her, she never killed Inuyasha."

Kagome zoned out, knowing this story inside and out and not wanting to hear it yet again. She doodled on her paper, picking up bits and pieces of the old story. They fell in love, check. They planned to use the jewel, check. Naraku tricks them, check. Inuyasha is pinned to a tree; Kikyo dies and cremates the jewel with her, check, check. Kagome unconsciously fingered the jewel, knowing the part of the story that came next. She wondered how he planned to handle it.

"Kikyo thought that cremating the jewel with her would destroy it forever. Amazingly, fate had other plans. Fifty years after Kikyo destroyed the jewel, a girl suddenly appeared in the Forest of Inuyasha. Where she came from, no one knew. Wherever she had appeared from, she had a reason for appearing. Chased by a centipede demon, the girl fought for her life. The villagers called her Kikyo; she looked remarkable like the young miko whom had died. The demon sought none other than the shikon jewel. The strangest part of all, her presence woke the hanyou Inuyasha. Still pinned to the tree he harassed her, thinking her to be his old love Kikyo. He soon realized she was not. The centipede demon tore the jewel from her side, much to her surprise. She had never known it was there. In order to kill the demon, she released the hanyou from his seal. The girl was in fact the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyo. After Inuyasha slay the demon, he turned on her, to get the jewel. The village priestess, Kaede placed a necklace around his neck for the girl's protection. With one word, she would be able to subdue the hanyou."

At least he had all of his facts right, she thought to herself. She touched the puckered scar that the jewel had escaped from. She heard him talk about the girl insisting her name was Kagome, not Kikyo. He proceeded to tell about Kagome's ingenious plan to retrieve the jewel from the crow demon with her arrow, shattering the jewel. Her teacher caught her eye, and smiled before continuing. "In order to retrieve each piece of the jewel, the pair had to work together. Kagome had the power to sense the jewels, Inuyasha the power to retrieve them from who had found them. Thus began their journey. I will continue tomorrow. Higurashi, I would like to see you again after class."

She did not want to stop and speak with the young teacher. It had been her last class of the day and all she wanted to do was rush home. "Yes, sensei?"

"I hope today was not too difficult. I only wanted to know if what I said was all accurate."

"Yes, almost exactly like I remember. I stupidly shattered the jewel." She mumbled; feeling really humiliated.

"You never would have gotten it back if you hadn't done that." He answered. Kagome couldn't help thinking; I bet Inuyasha would think differently. "I actually wanted to know the truth about the subduing spell. Is it true you used the word "sit" to subdue him?"

Kagome couldn't help laughing, "Yes, Kaede had a subduing spell placed on him that responded to the first command I gave him. I took one look at his cute little puppy ears and out popped, "Sit boy". He hated it, but it worked." She took a good look at her teacher and spit out, "You have his eyes, you know." No one had eyes quite like Miroku. They were almost as distinctive as Inuyasha's.

"The monk's?" he said quietly. She nodded. "I wish I knew what they looked like. They sounded like wonderful friends."

She nodded, trying not to cry. "I have never shown anyone these." She reached into her backpack and pulled out three photos she carried with her often. "Outside my family of course."

Her teacher took them, looking amazed, "You took a camera with you? To feudal Japan?" She nodded. "Why is the demon slayer slapping the monk?"

Kagome laughed, "I guess he left that part out of his books. Miroku happened to be the most perverted Houshi ever to live. He had a compulsion to grab women inappropriately, especially poor Sango. The monk had a weakness for women."

"They ended up together though."

"Yes, he actually asked her to be with him after the quest. He asked almost every woman he met to bear his children, even me. He did not ask Sango until late into our quest, though. He asked her to bear him twenty, she said yes."

He turned to the next picture, pointing, "This is Inuyasha with Tetsusaiga?"

"Yes, the hanyou's pride and joy."

"He really did have dog ears, didn't he?" he teased, "I understand why the word, "sit", came to mind first." The final picture had them all sitting together nicely, for once. He noticed the sad look on her face when he handed them back to her. "They miss you too, I am sure."

"Thanks." She said quietly, walking out of the classroom. She wanted to get home and finish the book.

Kagome: You can get up now.

Inuyasha: I should have killed you when I had the chance, bitch. Just take the fucking necklace off!

Kagome: Umm….I have saved your life with that thing. No way.

Inuyasha: It's coming off Kagome!

Kagome: You are so cute when you are in a murderous rage!

Inuyasha: W what? Cute? Stop calling me cute! Dammit bitch.

Kagome: Osuwari! Don't forget to review everyone. The author lives off her pride! Oh Inuyasha...even your hole is cute!!!