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CHAPTER 2

The sun was setting and it was beginning to get dark. Shadows were being cast over everything in the area and everyone was going in for the night.

Everyone that is, except Inuyasha.

He was waiting by the well since Kagome had left and was now beyond annoyed. She'd told him she was going to come back in three days and that was four days ago! Kagome made it clear to him that she needed time alone to study for her tests and didn't want him coming over and interrupting her. So, just this once, he wasn't going to go and drag her back. But he was counting down the hours until she'd be back and she didn't come back!

He growled and stood up. His amber eyes were soon cast down into the gaping mouth of the pathway to Kagome's world, his mind deciding whether or not he should go and at least see if she was okay. Maybe she'd gotten sick again. Inuyasha's doggy ears drooped slightly at the thought. Last time she was sick he'd been by her side most of the time. He even made her medicine that helped it go away.

"Just go and see her, Inuyasha!" a childish voice said from behind him.

He screamed and just about fell into the well. "SHIPPOU YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Inuyasha shouted, grabbing the little fox child by his fuzzy tail.

Shippou wasn't even fazed. "You know it's what you want to do so just do it! Honestly, I don't know why Kagome puts up with you anyway. I'm surprised she comes back at all." He sneered, jumping out of the half demons grasp.

Inuyasha stood in silence. Shippou's words hit him like a rock. He growled and turned from the kid and jumped regretfully down the well.

Shippou looked into the well and then turned around and shouted, "IT WORKED YOU GUYS! HE WENT TO KAGOME!"

There was a rustling in the leaves and then out from the bushes came Sango and Miroku.

"About time too." Miroku said, shaking his head free of a few extra leaves.

"Yes. He always just mopes and sulks about Kagome's not around. It's really pathetic, actually." Sango sighed and stood beside the well. Miroku joined her and Shippou hopped onto her shoulder.

"How long do you think those two are going to be gone this time, Sango?" Shippou asked.

"I don't know. They most likely will be staying the night at her home I guess. It wouldn't really make sense if she came back and had to go to sleep right when she got here would it?"

The boys nodded and looked into the well, wondering what Kagome was going to do when Inuyasha showed up at her house at this time of the night.

----At Kagome's house----

Inuyasha stood at the bottom of the well, thinking whether or not he made the right choice.

'She did say she wanted time to do this 'study time' thing really badly... Maybe I should go back...' all thoughts of that stopped as his ears picked up a lot of commotion from Kagome's house. Curious as to what was going on, he decided to investigate.

Inside her house, Kagome's Mom and Grandpa were rushing about the house, packing things into a suitcase here and telling Kagome to be careful on her trip every time they whizzed by her. Kagome stood in the midst of it all with a bewildered look on her face.

Souta walked in and was nearly run over by his Grandpa. "What the heck is going on, Sis?" he asked as he jumped out of the way.

Kagome shook her head and said, "I won a trip to an island resort for a week. Nothing big, really." Souta nodded. Then his eyes opened wide and her turned in amazement to his big sister.

Kagome rolled her eyes and thought, 'Here it comes... 3...2...1...'

"TAKE ME WITH YOU KAGOME!!! PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?!?!?!"

Souta's begging continued and so did the rushing about of the adults. Kagome put her hands over her head and ran to her room for shelter... after prying her whining little brother off her leg. She slammed the door hard behind her and slid down to the ground with her back against the door. Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin when she noticed the doggy-eared boy seated on her bed.

"What trip? You never told me you were going anywhere." Inuyasha said suddenly as she stood up and closed the window he had opened to enter. "Were you planning on running away from me—all of us back there or something?" he asked.

Kagome looked over at the half demon to retort the comment, but she noticed he had a hint of sadness on his face. "Why would I run from you guys? I wouldn't do that if my life depended on it." She said and took a seat next to him.

Inuyasha felt his face warm up and turned away, "N-not like it matters to me if you went anywhere. You always leave at random times anyway." He managed to say.

"Oh!" Kagome started as she stood up off the bed. "If it doesn't matter to you then why'd you come back here anyway?"

"You told me you were going to be back yesterday!" Inuyasha replied, standing up and getting in her face. "But yesterday passed and now it's today! You weren't there when you said you would be!"

Kagome's eyes widened and she looked to the ground. "You're right... I'm sorry..."

Now Inuyasha felt a little guilty. "Well, whatever. As long as I'm here would you mind telling me what this trip to an island whatchamacallit thing is?"

"Well, there was this contest thing at school that everyone entered..."

She explained the whole thing to the curious Inuyasha who seemed to ask more and more questions as she went. After about twenty minutes or so, Inuyasha seemed to have a slight idea of what she was saying.

"So who are you bringing with you?"

Kagome looked at him in a little confusion.

"Well... you said you could only bring one friend right? Who?"

Kagome laced her fingers together and looked to the ground again. "I was hoping you would want to go..."

There was an odd silence for what seemed like an eternity in the room. Inuyasha was taken aback by her response. He never really thought that she would ask him to go. He wasn't even sure if he thought about going either. Thoughts like these flooded his mind as Kagome waited anxiously for his answer.

"You know... if you don't want to go you don't have to." She said irritated. "I knew that you wouldn't want to."

"Hey wait a minute!" Inuyasha shouted suddenly. "I didn't even say anything and you go off like a wild fire or something!"

"Well you didn't answer or anything and you looked like you were confused or something..."

"That doesn't mean I don't want to go!" Inuyasha blurted out loudly.

Kagome was now confused. "Do you want to go...Inuyasha?" she asked hopefully.

Inuyasha looked at her with a sort of shy look and said, "If you want me too...I guess I..."

"OH MY GOD! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!" Kagome cried jumping up with all of the excitement that she meant to show if she had wanted to win the contest. She grabbed Inuyasha's hands and pulled up off the bed and said, "You really want to go with me? Oh God you have no idea how happy I am!"

Inuyasha was shocked by the sudden mood swing Kagome did, from anger to excitement. "I think...I think I have a small idea..."

"Okay...okay...woo...okay..."Kagome calmed herself down and looked happily at the bewildered half-demon. "We have to go shopping. You remember what shopping is, don't you? Of course you do! Well we can't go now...we'll go tomorrow! You're going to have to spend the night here then. Tomorrow we'll have to get you some new clothes and I'll have to teach you about the wonders of this era that you've never seen! This is going to be so fun!"

Inuyasha sat in a silent terror as Kagome continued listing off things that they had to do in order for them to prepare for this trip. To him it sounded like a lot of hard work.

Kagome finally stopped and asked, "Are you okay? You look kind of sick."

"Oh no...I'm fine...are we really going to do ALL of that stuff tomorrow?" Inuyasha asked with a stagger.

"Oh yeah! That stuff and probably a lot more...don't worry about it though Inuyasha. We've dealt with harder things than preparing for a simple trip." She said, placing her hands on his. "Now...you need to promise me a few things."

Inuyasha looked at her, ears twitching in curiosity.

"One, you can't attack anything with the Tetsusaiga."

"What? How will I protect you if I can't use my sword?"

"Inuyasha, you don't need to protect me as much as you do in your era. Just trust me on these sort of things, please?" she asked, giving him a look of innocence.

"Fine."

"Two, don't touch or sniff anything unfamiliar to you. Ask me first. Three, and this is probably the most important one, do not panic if anything starts moving, making noise or doing something that it doesn't look like it would do." She said all of this with a serious tone.

Inuyasha didn't understand why she made him promise to such ridiculous things, but he merely nodded. 'I guess I'll figure it out myself...'

Then Kagome grabbed his hand again and pulled him out of her room saying, "We have to tell my mom that you're going with me...then I need to show you the car..."

----End of chapter 2

Thank you to all of you who reviewed the first chapter...I appreciate it...

Review and I will put up chapter 3 which is going to be basically the two of them shopping. Shopping...for clothes...eating new foods...getting lost and ending up in stores you'd rather not be in...