Lookie! A new Chapter....hope you enjoy, I've actually gone a lot further on my computer, I hust want to make you guys wait for the next chapters, but I'm really proud of myself this time guys! This story is unfolding nicely so plz stik with me out of all the fanfics I've posted as of yet, this was the first one I started!!

Chapter Five:

"How did you recognize me!" Naraku and Inuyasha had stopped by the riverbank. They were fortunate that no one was there. Naraku stared dumbly at Inuyasha. "Hey bastard, I said HOW DID YOU RECOGNIZE ME!" Inuyasha was red with anger. He was pissed at what Naraku was trying to do to Kagome. It was not helping his temper that much when Naraku stubbornly refused to answer his question. Naraku smirked. His dark eyes twinkled in the afternoon sun. HE was enjoying this a lot. Out of anger Inuyasha lunged at the older man. Naraku was very quick. To his surprise Naraku caught him and threw him on the ground. Inuyasha mumbled curses from his dirt filled mouth.

"So...you wonder how I recognized you? In your hanyou form you look just like your pathetic father!" Naraku laughed. "What a wimp, what a pathetic wimp!" Naraku laughed. A red light flickered in Inuyasha eyes. NO one ever made fun of HIS father. HE extended his claws and pounced on Naraku. With one swipe to Naraku' s guts Inuyasha thought he had done it, he had thought that he had finished that evil bastard off, but all he really did was rip his shirt at the back; revealing a spider shaped scar...

Kagome fell back first on her bed. Her room was dark and the house was quiet. Her mom must have moved back to her room. 'When will she ever stop drinking? When will she get rid of Naraku?' She shivered at the thought of Naraku's intentions. 'I can only imagine what a sick bastard like him wanted with me. But I guess that doesn't matter, He saved me!' She became light-hearted when she thought about Dogman. 'He saved me! He was so...so, well I don't know...wonderful! He got Naraku off of me and he chased after him. What a hero, what a guy.' Her eyes glazed as she thought of Dogman. One of the few people, or creatures that she ever thought she could trust. Maybe one day she could actually meet him. Then she wondered if he was a nice person. 'Oh there are just so many questions.' She then drifted off to sleep when...

Miroku walked home with a smile. Sango was so much fun for him. He knew she was older and that she had been through a lot more in life, but he didn't care. He couldn't get his mind off her. 'Something about her...' He was at a street corner when he felt a negative aura coming towards him. He turned in the direction of the force when two blurs quickly flew past him. HE stood dead still and looked around. No one else seemed to notice anything.

'What was that force? Why did it seem familiar?' He decided to follow the quickly retreating figures to see if they were something he should be concerned about. As they got farther away he could see that they were two people quickly running past him. His curiosity got the better of him as he began following the two figures. They were moving very fast so by the time Miroku has finally caught up to them they were having some kind of discussion. One was accusing the other. Miroku could sense that the accused was the one emanating the dark aura because of his spiritual powers. Miroku slowly moved in on them in order to hear what they were saying, but he had reason to believe that they were both dangerous and he didn't want to get injured. The 'dark' man seemed very familiar to Miroku: his face, his hair, and his aura even. He couldn't hear everything but what he made out was: 'HOW DID YOU RECOGNIZE ME!'... '...In your hanyou form you look just like your father...' Miroku saw the anger in the hanyou's eyes. He then saw the hanyou jump at the other person, slashing the back of his shirt: just barely missing the attack of Dogman.

Inuyasha landed roughly on the ground, the ground that should have been Naraku. 'HE couldn't have gotten away could he?' HE looked all around himself. Nothing. He looked down where he had fallen and saw clothes. 'How could his clothes remain here without him?' He picked up the shirt and a something small fell out of the bottom. Inuyasha bent down and picked up a small wooden figure. 'What the?' It almost looked like a doll but Inuyasha knew that it was something more, something much more...

Miroku stared at the hanyou's hands. 'A demon puppet...that could only mean ...Wait! Why would, what does HE have to do with this?' Miroku had seen this kind of puppet before. He was only a young boy and didn't know what was going on, but if he had, his life could have turned out much differently. He noticed the hanyou turn his way. 'Oh no, he sees me!' His eyes widened in horror much like the hanyou's. Dogman dropped the puppet, stood up, and quickly jumped in the direction of the city.

"Shit, shit, shit! Miroku saw me, but did he recognize me?" Inuyasha said out loud as he made his way home. Fortunately he was far enough away that Miroku couldn't hear him. Miroku just stood there. 'Did I know him? He looked so familiar. And was it just me, or did he look worried that I was so close to him?' He thought about the situation for a while, but then he decided it best to just leave it alone. He walked up to where the two men had been fighting. There was the puppet lying carelessly on the ground. He picked it up and put it in his pocket. "No one really needs to see this..." 'So,,, who was that guy with the silver hair? Oh wait, now I remember, he was that Dogman guy, but let's not think of that now...Inuyasha! Man, I really wanted to talk to him.' HE felt bad about what was going on, but at the same time he couldn't figure out why Inuyasha was so upset in the first place. He sighed and began walking home.

Kagome had been sleeping for about an hour when she heard the theme song from the Lord of the Rings. She thought it was her dream until it continued to get louder and louder. She opened her eyes and grabbed for her cell phone. "Hello?"

"Hi Kagome it is Sango, are you okay? You sound bad."

"Oh well I just took a nap."

"Oh okay well good, I was a little worried about you for a second." Kagome was a little confused by those words, but she decided to just let it go.

"So Sango what's up?"

"Oh well I was just wondering, since you have your ball coming up and I have some free time if you wanted to go to the mall tomorrow afternoon to pick up a dress or at least look for one."

"Oh that sounds great Sango! It will be so cool to have someone to go shopping with."

"Well good, so just called for that. DO you want to talk about anything else?"

"Um, well nothing much right now."

"Oh alright, so bye, see you tomorrow!"

"Bye." She hung up the phone and went back to sleep.

He had finally gotten home. HE was tired and wanted to go to sleep. It had been a long, crappy day. His brother was nowhere to be found and he really didn't care. He noticed the morning paper still on the kitchen table. HE hadn't read it yet, and he knew he would regret it if he didn't. He unrolled it and stared in shock at the front page. In bold letters the words 'DOGMAN: A HERO IS BORN' were written on the front page. Right smack dab in the middle there was a picture of his pathetic brother. "Oh Jeez, God I hope no one recognized him!" And that is when Inuyasha walked in the front door. He saw his brother and walked to the table.

"Hey Sesshy, what you lookin' a-at!" His eyes were as wide as saucers as he looked at himself on the front page of the paper. "Um...I made the front page!" He shrugged his shoulders and smiled weakly at his emotionless brother standing right in the front of him.

"Inuyasha, you had better be thankful that the photographer didn't get a close-up of you. If you must help people don't get so close to the cameras! I will not accept it if paparazzi come to my house lookin for you because you were to stupid to hide your face!" Sesshoumaru sighed and Inuyasha went up to his room.

Kagome woke up to the loud beeping of her alarm clock. She was very relaxed for once she really needed that LONG nap. She didn't have any pictures for Sango, but she would have to find something. She grabbed a few select pictures that were already developed. She looked at them for a moment. They were pictures of pigeons. They were on a telephone wire, six of them in a row. Kagome thought it was a cute picture so she decided to bring it to Sango this morning. She threw on a green tee shirt with a pair of black jeans. She slid on her tennis shoes and walked out of her house. She walked out of her door and stared at the house next to hers. Inuyasha' s house. 'Is he mad at me? I am almost positive that he was ignoring me yesterday, but why?' She stared at the house for a while longer, but then she began her walk to school. It was a humid morning and she felt hot. 'Thank God I put my hair up today!' She turned at the bus stop. The place she normally left Inuyasha at. 'Why does it feel so strange every time he isn't there?' She asked herself. It had been a few days since she had last walked with Inuyasha. She missed him. AS she was walking towards the office she felt a tap on her shoulder. She jumped about one foot in the air and quickly spun around to see who it was.

"Oh Miroku, it's you." She sighed in relief. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh I was, was um..." He was looking all around for a good excuse. His face was a little flushed. Kagome raised an eyebrow.

"Miroku?"

"Y-yes?"

"Do you like Sango or something?" Miroku turned a deeper red.

"You do! How cute!" She jumped up and clapped her hands. Miroku laughed nervously.

"Yea I guess..." She wrapped her arms around his as they walked down the street.

"Wow, you know you should tell her."

"Oh well I don't know..."

"Sure you should. Sango would never hurt you, so what harm could be done?" Miroku was silent. "Okay I see. Well do you want to go to the mall with us today? She's going to take me shopping for a dress, for the dance you know." She smiled at him. HE relaxed a bit after the change of subject.

"Sure, I guess." She squeezed his arm as they walked to the office.

Inuyasha woke up a little groggy. He hadn't slept well, there was too much on his mind. "Should I tell Sesshoumaru about Naraku? How did that guy know dad?' He yawned and got ready for school. He put on a brown tee shirt and a pair of carpenter's jeans. When he walked down the stairs he noticed that his brother had already left for work. He grabbed a bagel and walked out.

Once again Kagome wasn't around, but this time he decided to just walk straight to the bus stop. No use waiting for her now. He was still mad at her and Miroku. "Friends...yea right." He snorted and began walking. He reached the bus stop as the bus came. He hopped on and noticed Miroku wasn't there. 'Guess he's walking with his little girlfriend now.' He 'humphed' and sat in his usual seat. He was staring out the window, not really noticing anything the bus passed. His heart stopped when he saw Kagome holding Miroku' s arm. 'What the? How could they?!' Why couldn't his best friends just tell him instead of just allowing him to find out about whatever it was they were doing?

Sango was digging through her desk when Miroku and Kagome walked in her cubicle. "Hey guys!" She pulled open another drawer. The whole thing fell out and papers were scattered everywhere. "Oh well that's just great." She reached down to pick up some papers when she lightly hit Miroku' s hand. "Oh sorry!"

"It's okay." She would never admit it, but she felt a strange sensation run up her arm as their hands met. Miroku felt the same thing. Kagome was picking up papers when she saw a familiar face in a picture.

"Sango, what is this?" She held the picture out to Sango. Sango held it up to her face and a pained look crossed her face.

"Oh this, it's just some creep named Onigumo who has done horrible things for money. He has hired assassins and blackmailed many people just so he could remain the owner of some business. He escaped a few years back and the only thing we could be sure of is the fact that he has this large scar on his back. Strange..." Kagome's eyes widened.

"Oh." She paused for a moment. Miroku stiffened. 'So that's who it is...Why was he fighting Dogman?' She handed Sango the picture. "Well I have to go now." She ran out of the cubicle. Sango rose and eyebrow and turned to Miroku. He shrugged his shoulders.

"I should go follow her." HE said good-bye and went in the same direction that Kagome had gone in.

Sango looked at the picture again and then she shoved it back into a drawer. "...That bastard!"

Inuyasha had just gotten to school and stood in the courtyard.

He was alone. All the other students that were outside were in groups with their friends. He really missed Miroku right now. The two of them would always hang out together when they got off the bus. The rest of their friends always arrived a lot later. He went into a trance for about five minutes. He was just staring at the front of the school. HE heard someone speaking to him and he turned around. Kikyo was glaring at him. He assumed she had just said something. "What?"

"Well hello to you too!" She put her hands on her hips.

"Sorry Kikyo, I'm not a morning person." HE gave her a peck on the cheek.

"I don't like how you have been acting lately Inuyasha. You have been spending a lot of time with that Kagome girl. Don't lie about it, my friends see you with her all the time. Is there something going on between the two of you?" There was worry evident in her eyes. She was angry, but she also seemed sad to Inuyasha. Tears began forming in her eyes. "Inuyasha!" She half yelled. HE yanked her into a hug and put his face in her hair.

"NO Kikyo, nothing is going on between the two of us I promise. I am sorry if it looked that way." Inuyasha felt her pull away from him. She stared at him and smiled. He smiled back.

"Good." He put his arm around her waist and began walking to the school. "So...you want to go to the Winter Ball with me?"

Miroku had finally caught up to Kagome who had been walking quickly down the street. "Hey what's wrong?" HE grabbed her by the shoulder.

"Nothing!" She yelled in his face. She tried to push away from him, but he wouldn't allow that.

"Kagome, you can tell me, what's wrong?" She looked down. "

Nothing, really." Miroku looked hesitant but decided it was best to leave it at that. They walked down the streets in silence that is until Kagome decided to break it. "I guess my problem is that the Onigumo guy in the picture looks just like Naraku, my step dad." Miroku stared at the girl.

"Well, how long have you known him as Naraku? It's possible that he is Onigumo and he changed his name."

"Yea, but what does he want with my mom and me?" Miroku pursed his lips as they continued walking.

"Does he have that weird scar?"

"I don't know. I have never seen his bare back." Miroku nodded and thought about the situation.

"It's weird you know. We are able to change our facial appearances quickly, but something like a scar is so hard to get rid of." HE paused. "I think I saw that Onigumo guy the other day." Kagome stopped walking and looked up at Miroku.

"What do you mean by that?"

Inuyasha sat down in his desk and looked at the empty desk to his right. 'Hey wait a minute, that's Miroku' s desk. Where is he? With Kagome I bet. I might have expected this kind of thing to come from Miroku, but I never thought that Kagome would be into a guy like him.' The teacher cleared his throat in order to get the classes attention.

"Okay class, today we will be discussing..." Inuyasha fell asleep. He never did like school. HE remained motionless until he heard the loud ring of the bell. He jumped out of his desk only to be dragged to the side by the teacher.

"Wha?" Inuyasha asked, still a little groggy from his nap.

"Inuyasha, I have noticed you seem to be pretty close to mister Houshin, do you happen to know why he missed class today?" Inuyasha growled.

"How the hell should I know where that lecher is!" He yelled and stormed down the hall to his next class. He decided to eat his lunch out in the courtyard today. There wasn't anyone to talk to so he might as well be in perfect silence. He happened to look in the direction of the library when he saw Miroku and Kagome come out together. HE couldn't help but eye them suspiciously. Kagome turned in his direction and waved. He nodded his head and the two walked in his direction. 'How can I deal with this? I need them, they are my friends, but their practically betraying me.' The two had reached him and they sat in front of him.

"Hey Inu what's up?" Kagome asked innocently.

"Nothing. Miroku, where have you been all day? You've missed the whole first half." Miroku switched his gaze to the ground.

"I was, was doing a research project with Kagome in the library."

"The teachers let you miss all your morning classes to do research?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow suspiciously. Miroku gulped and lied right to Inuyasha' s face.

"Yes." Inuyasha didn't believe a word of it, but he decided to keep quiet. He turned to Kagome.

"So what were you two researching?" She looked up to face him.

"The Dayship Picayune." Which was partially true. Kagome had told Miroku about Naraku being chased off by Dogman, while Miroku told Kagome that he saw Dogman fighting what he thought to be Onigumo. They connected two and two and researched on the Internet to see if they could find anything to prove their theory. So their excuse was true enough that Inuyasha couldn't detect a lie. They stared into each other's eyes for a little longer until Miroku decided to clear his throat. Inuyasha and Kagome turned to face him.

"Yes?" Inuyasha asked.

"Well...um...change of subject...did I miss a lot today?" 'Probably just want me to turn away from your little girlfriend.' Inuyasha thought to himself. He would never say it aloud though; he didn't want to offend Kagome, no matter what she did to him.

"No, not really."

"SO are you going to the Winter Ball with Kikyo?" Kagome asked.

"Yea."

"Well that's good." Miroku gave Kagome a suspicious glance. She didn't like that answer and he knew it, but he didn't know how he could possibly change that. There was an awkward silence until the bell rang. They all stood up and went their separate ways.

It was the end of school. The final bell had rung and Kagome made her way out the hall door. She saw Sango' s maroon PT Cruiser. "Oh." She remembered that they were going shopping today. She smiled and walked to the vehicle. The window rolled down.

"Bring your money?" Sango asked.

"Yea." Kagome opened the door and set her bag down. Then she remembered. She pointed her hand in the air. "Oh Sango, is it okay if Miroku comes with us?"

"Sure tell him to come on."

"Well now, two lovely young ladies talking about me? I think I shall faint." Said Miroku in falsetto. He put his hand to his head dramatically and began to bend his knees.

"Hop in kid." Said Sango as she unlocked the back door. He jumped in.

"SO...where we going?"

"To the mall. I'm buying my dress for the ball. You should buy whatever you are wearing too." Said Kagome with much enthusiasm.

"Well I don't quite have enough for a tux at the moment." He replied quickly. The all let out a light giggle. For some reason it was tense. It had been tense all day for some unknown reason. Nothing seemed funny, but they were all determined to make the best of the shopping spree.

Oh the suspense is just killing you, right? Na? Well don't worry, this fic shall stay pretty interesting...and if you happen to like you should feel lucky, out of all my stories, this is the only one with some action in it as of yet. PLz review! I sure need them!!!!!!!!!!

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