And this is the last chappie that I have editted so far...but I'm pretty sure the rest are all good!!

Chapter three:

Inuyasha was still chasing after Kikyo. 'Damn, I didn't know Kikyo could run that fast.' He turned round a corner, and there she was crying on a bench. Inuyasha hated seeing Kikyo like this. He loved her with all his heart and seeing her like this hurt him immensely. "Kikyo" He pulled her into a tight embrace.

"Inuyasha" she cried into his chest while Inuyasha thought of something to say.

"Kikyo...Kikyo, why did you call Kagome that? What did she ever do to you?" There was a silence. Kikyo was still crying into Inuyasha' s chest. "Kikyo?"

"Inu...Inuyasha...I didn't mean to upset you."

"I know that, but why did you want to upset her?"

"I...I, well." She paused. "I thought that maybe, maybe she would try to do something with you." Inuyasha wore a face of confusion.

"Kikyo, why would Kagome want to do that to you?"

"Because...because she never did like me. I think she has always been jealous of us. I think that inside, she always wanted to destroy our relationship." She sniffed. "I think she is mad at me because we keep getting closer, and she wants what we have." Inuyasha was silent. 'Could Kagome be jealous? Us...Kikyo and I...we have got a good thing going for us, maybe this is why she has always hated Kikyo...'

Miroku was walking to the newspaper office. He thought Kagome would most likely go there. 'She wouldn't go home because that's where her mother is, so she must have gone off to the office because then she could have a little privacy.' He walked into the building and the secretary looked up at him.

"May I help you?"

"Yes...Did Kagome Higurashi come through here?"

"Not since this morning when she brought you." She turned back to her work. He thought for a moment. 'I don't really know her all that well. Who does?' Then he got an idea.

"Miss, is Sango working right now?"

"Yes."

"Well. May I speak with her." The secretary gave the teenager a quizzical look, but that didn't seem to faze him at all.

"Look kid, I don't know who you are, but you aren't
even supposed to be in this building. If you weren't so chummy with Ms, Higurashi, you would have never even seen the trashcans." Miroku gulped at the harsh words being thrown at him. He was about to turn and walk away when he saw Sango exit one of the elevators. He ran towards her even though the secretary protested.

"Lady Sango!" She turned toward him.

"Oh hello Miroku. What brings you here?" Then she thought for a moment. "Don't you have school right about now?"

"Long story." He gave Sango a worried look. She suddenly had a worried expression on her face. "Is Kagome alright?"

He raised his hand in the air. "She's okay, but she ran off and I thought she night be over here."

Sango took a moment to think. "Why don't we
discuss this over lunch, it's been a long day and I haven't eaten yet."

The last bell of the day rung and Inuyasha began walking in the direction of the bus stop. "Inuyashie!" He felt a grip on his left arm. He turned and saw the face of Kikyo. She looked very happy and that comforted him. "So, Inuyasha? Where are we going tonight?"

He raised an eyebrow. 'What does she mean by that?' Then it clicked. "Um, well maybe we could go somewhere like Chok's."

"Oh, well that sounds nice. So when are you going to pick me up?"

"Um...how about some time around six?" She smiled when the bus arrived and they rode home.

As soon as Inuyasha got home he decided to right Kagome E-mail. It seemed like one of the few safe ways to keep in touch with her over the years.

He typed: Hey Kag. What's up?? Sorry bout earlier, but well Kik is my gf and all. Sry 4 wat she called u, she promised not 2 do it again. So...4give me? ---Inu.

He hoped that she would read it. He decided he wanted to be in his hanyou form before the date, just to get used to it when he could. He felt strength run all through his bones. He liked being a hanyou much more then a human as far as his strength went.

Suddenly he began hearing things he couldn't before. He could hear children playing even though they were about five blocks away. He liked the abilities his hanyou form gave him. That's when he heard...

Not a complete cliffie, this chappy ain't near ova yet!

Right now it was about three o'clock. Sango and Miroku had finished eating their lunches and were now discussing the problem over a cup of coffee.
"So what you are saying, Miroku is that she left school and you followed her."

He pursed his lips. "Well actually, I went where other students claimed to see her go. I never actually saw her leave. I thought she might have been with you and that's why I was at the office."

Sango nodded her head and took a sip of her coffee.

"So now you want to find her and you think I am the only other person that might have the slightest idea of where she might be?" He nodded. 'Poor Kagome, I feel so sorry for her. Inuyasha is the only friend besides myself that she is able to talk to. What is she supposed to do now that she doesn't feel comfortable around one of us? Well, it's good to know that Miroku is now her for her. Unfortunately I don't think she has had the time to fully trust him yet.'

She looked into her mug. The dark liquid rippled as her breath touched it. She sighed. "Miroku, because you seem to care so much about Kagome I will tell you this much." She paused for a moment. "Kagome tells me a lot about Inuyasha. They seem to be very close friends. I've never met him, but he is very lucky to have a friend like Kagome. From what she tells me, Inuyasha is her only real friend and lately he hasn't been doing a very good job. Now she never actually told me about the job part, but obviously they are close and she doesn't seem to have anyone else. But apparently she trusts you. You are the first person she has ever told about her job to. She likes to keep things private, she never even told Inuyasha about it. I just want to let you know that once you gain Kagome's trust, you better watch out for her. She's lonely and doesn't have the best home life. Because she is so private she will never tell Inuyasha anything, I know it. I can tell she's scared to tell him about the mistakes she thinks he's making. This Kikyo girl has given her lots of trouble in the past." She gave Miroku some time to think.

"So that means that it isn't a new thing? I mean dealing with Kikyo." Sango nodded. "...And I guess that means she never told Inuyasha." She nodded again. "So maybe I should tell Inuyasha about this..."

"NO!" He raised his eyebrow at the sudden outburst. "Look Miroku, Kagome...she is having trouble communicating with Inuyasha. She doesn't want to ruin what Inuyasha and Kikyo have going. From what I hear, they seem very close."

"Well, really Inu is the only one who is really into it."

Sango raised an eyebrow. "How is that?"

"Well...I can't be sure but...well lately it seems like she's plotting something."

"DO you mean like she's lying to him about something?"

"More like taking advantage of him. She knows he adores her and she's using him. I think she's going to hurt him, but I don't think he'll listen. If I tell him something like that he'll confront Kikyo about it and she will tell him that I'm jealous... she'll say I think she's stealing my best friend or something and I'm out to destroy their relationship. I guess the worst part is, is that he'll believe every word of it."

"Well that could be to your advantage."

"What do you mean MY advantage?" He asked confused.

"Well, Inuyasha seems really naïve, you see from what I know of him he wouldn't believe Kagome.

He'd think she was jealous right? And he wouldn't believe you either for the same reason, right? Well maybe if he sees that both you and Kagome don't like Kikyo he'll realize something is wrong with her."

"But she'll just say we are both jealous!"

"Well, you should at least give it a shot."

"It won't work, he's hanging on her every word."

Sango thought for a moment. "Miroku, have you ever thought that Inuyasha might have a crush on Kagome?"

"What? He is in mad love ('mad love' lol, doesn't that sound so goofy? I think that comment belongs in a different decade than this story though...) with Kikyo!"

"Miroku...that doesn't necessarily mean anything."

He raised an eyebrow. She continued. "She seems rather fond of him. I don't know how much she likes him, I'd have to see them together but I can't do that. I don't think Kagome will be ready to introduce us any time soon, but you, you are around both of them a lot, or at least you could be."

Miroku now had a smirk on his face. "Now I know what you mean. Now that I think about it, Inuyasha just might have a little crush on her. He was really mad for a second when he thought that I might like her." He laughed. "But I don't really know how Kagome feels. I have only seen them together twice and it seems that she thinks of him as more of a big brother. Maybe Inuyasha is just over protective of her?"

"Well we'll just have to see." Sango smiled. They walked out of the café and walked down the street. It was almost five o'clock. They had been chatting for longer then they imagined. They were going to the park to look for Kagome when...

Kagome was sitting on a bench. She was on the levee so she had a beautiful view of the lake. Before she had left the school grounds she had grabbed her camera and she was just going to take a picture when she heard children shouting.
It wasn't like what kids do when they play tag, it was like they were scared or in pain. She stood up and ran towards the noise. She finally stopped on Cypress Lane. It was in just a few blocks north of her house, which put it right in between her house and the park. What she saw horrified her.

There was a child on the ground with blood dripping from his mouth. She assumed he was the child screaming. She saw some other people slowly gather around the block. She ran to the child and put him in her arms. His red hair was shining in the afternoon sun. "Are you okay? What happened to you?"

He was crying softly but managed to say, " I am okay. My tummy hurts a little, but that's it. I was playing with my new baseball. My daddy just got it for me a few days ago. All of the Cubs players had signed it. Some guy in all black took it from me. I want my ball!" He burst out crying.

'Who would do this to such a sweet child?' Kagome thought then she also began to cry. Someone called the paramedics and the crowd began to lessen.

Miroku and Sango had just arrived. They were out of breath because they had run past quite a few blocks. They saw Kagome and ran up to her. "Kagome what happened?" Sango ran up to her and knelt by her side. Miroku walked up in front of her.

"We've looked all over for you." She smiled at her friends and told them the story as she waited for the paramedics to take the small boy in her arms.

They had been waiting for about ten minutes when an ambulance and two police cars stopped near them. Just as they put the small boy into the ambulance there was a loud thud. Everyone turned around to see a man in all black lying on the street and a retreating figure with silver hair.
Kagome quickly grabbed her camera and took a few pictures before the figure was out of sight. They all turned back to the man.

"That's him! That's him! That's the man that took my ball!" cried the young boy. He jumped off the stretcher and dug in the unconscious man's pockets. "Here it is!" He held the baseball and smiled madly.

Sango came up to the boy. "So little man, do you want to be in the paper tomorrow morning?" He nodded his head vigorously. "So what's your name?"

"Shippo! I think I found my new hero, DOGMAN"
Then he made muscleman poses and everyone around him laughed.

The three of them: Kagome, Miroku, and Sango all said their goodbyes and went thier separate ways.

Kagome walked in her house to find her mother in the same position she was in last night. She shook her head and sighed. She went to the basement to produce her pictures. That's when she her footsteps on the stairs behind her...

Inuyasha quickly ran off after dropping the robber by the police. 'Was that Kagome?' (Okay, so he hasn't quite memorized her scent yet, he's new at the whole being a hanyou thing) He walked into the house and stood face to face with an emotionless Sesshoumaru. "What do you want?"

"Inuyasha, I take it you haven't seen the paper yet this morning." Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sesshoumaru held up the page with Inuyasha' s picture on it.

"Well no one recognized me, I mean no one told me anything today, and it shows enough to prove that I am a hanyou." Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow and walked to his room. Inuyasha just grunted and went up to his room to take a nap. Crime fighting can be tough work.

Sango opened the door to her apartment and took in a deep breath. "Ah...peace, finally. She dropped onto her couch and turned on the TV. Nothing was on so she turned it off and walked to her desk on the other side of the living room. "I guess I could just start writing tomorrow's article."

She started writing a few of the details: quoting Shippo, describing the situation, and mentioning how, once again the silver haired stranger ran off just like before. "So now all I really have left to do is come up with a name for this guy. I think he isn't going to be leaving us anytime soon." She thought about him for a while. Then she raised her hands in front of her face as if she were framing the space in front of her. "Dogman: A hero for us all...or Dogman: A protector of this new day and age" She kept spilling out different titles of the same sort.

Miroku walked to his house. He kept thinking of his friends' situation. "But how will I ever convince Inuyasha that Kikyo' s bad news if he thinks she's an angel!" He raised his hands in forfeit and slapped them on the sides of his legs. He opened the front door and saw his father sleeping on the living room rug. He gave him a look of disgust.

Once he was in his room he jumped on his bed and stared at his walls. They were covered with pictures of women in (let's just say, interesting) poses. He stood up and tore them all off the walls. Why you ask? Well because... (Hmmm...y is it that Miroku did this...maybe he would rather see... idk...someone else?)

Kagome turned as soon as she heard the steps on the doorway. When she recognized whom it was, a frown formed on her face. "What do you want Naraku?"

The figure stopped. "Why Kagome I'm hurt. What's so wrong about a father coming to see his daughter?" A strange light flashed in his eyes as he walked closer to Kagome.

"One: You are not my father! Two: I am not your daughter, and Three: I know you're up to something so tell me now!" She demanded.

He smirked. He took a step forward and Kagome took a step back. They continued this until
Kagome felt the wall behind her.

She was trapped! Cold sweat began forming on her brow as Naraku continues walking towards her.

"Get away from me!"

He pushed her shoulders against the wall. She was breathing heavily as his face inched closer and closer to hers. His breath sent a cold chill down her spine. She winced as his lips brushed against her own. She wanted to vomit right then and there.

He noticed how uncomfortable she was and his smirk became wider. He was inching closer and closer to her face once more, and then he spun them around so that he was now against the wall and she could get loose. She forced herself out of his grasp and was going to run when she heard the sound of glass breaking.

She stopped dead in her tracks and looked up the stairs. Her mother stood there with a broken wine bottle. From all the way down the stairs Kagome could see the fire in her mother's eyes.

"You slut! First you kiss on some boy from school and now you are forcing my husband to kiss you!"
Kagome could feel the tears forming in her eyes. "But Momma he was" she was interrupted.

"Don't 'but momma' me young lady. You know you are just upset because I caught you in the act! How dare you disrespect me or your father like that!"

She ran down the stairs and slapped Kagome across the face. The tears ran down Kagome' s cheeks as she headed up the stairs and locked herself in her room. She ran in her dark closet and cried herself to sleep.

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And there it is... Chapter three... you like it? Isn't it so...happy? Naraku really creeps me out! Wouldn't it suck to have a stepdad like him?? Ewww............
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