Disclaimer: Isn't it obvious that I do not own Inuyasha? But if I did...hehehehe!

A/N: I have nothing to say until the end. Hmph!

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Chapter Three

The next morning Inuyasha and Kagome were the last to wake up and due to their lack of sleep they didn't wake up until almost half the day was spent. Kagome sat up with her eyes tightly shut and yawned. She stretched like a cat and reached for the sky as a sigh rolled off her lips. Suddenly a delicious, overpowering aroma smacked her in the face with such a great force that it forced her eyelids to fly apart and reveal flashing amber eyes that shone like a dark golden color. Her eyes traveled across the room and rested on the origin of the wonderful smell. Sango was crouched in front of the fireplace in the center of the hut. She was stirring a pot that was resting on top of the fire.

"Mm! Sango, that smells delicious!" Kagome complimented as she inhaled the scent once again. It smelled like thirty pots of ramen noodles were cooking and a handful of small yummy vegetables had been added to the soup. Kagome gave up trying to keep the drool from slowly dribbling down her chin. Sango looked up from the pot and glimpsed at her friend and smiled.

"Good morning Inuya - erm, Kagome!" Sango caught and corrected herself before she just called her best friend 'Inuyasha'. She stared at her friend as she became more awake and finally mopped up all the drool that was starting to crust on her lower lip and chin.

'It's so strange,' Sango thought to herself as she turned back to her pot. 'I just can't adjust to looking at Inuyasha and calling him Kagome. I sure hope that this isn't a permanent condition.'

Kagome looked over to her right and looked down upon her sleeping form and gasped. After a moment the events of the previous day came flooding back to her: Inuyasha was in her body and she was in the body of Inuyasha, a half demon. She gazed down at Inuyasha as he appeared to be struggling on the borderline of sleep and consciousness. She giggled and tore her gaze away from her body on the sleeping mat beside her.

'I wonder how long we're going to have to stay like this?' Kagome echoed in her mind. The question roused up different responses and possibilities. What if she did stay this way forever? How would she break this to her family? Would she have to live as a half demon for the rest of her life? How would she take a bath now that she was in Inuyasha's body!

She quickly pushed that idea out of her head and concentrated on her clawed hands. Kagome intently examined the carefully crafted claws on each of her fingers. Each claw looked deadly and was extremely razor sharp, each claw sharper than the next. These were the claws that aided in the slaying of countless demons. Without thinking reasonably she took her investigations just a bit further. Testing the sharpness of the claw on her pointer finger, she applied a small amount of pressure on the pad of her thumb and quickly withdrew it as she felt a small prick surge through her thumb. She stared in awe as a small droplet of blood emerged from the puncture on her thumb before she carefully popped her thumb into her mouth and began to suck on it.

Before long the wound was completely healed. She decided to stop studying the claws on her fingers with a final note.

"Inuyasha needs to clean under his nails more often. They're so dirty!"

Kagome stood up and made her way over to Sango and Kirara. The two-tailed cat demon stared up at her with big red eyes and mewed cutely. Kagome stooped down and stroked the cat before settling down next to Sango. Sango handed Kagome a bowl of ramen and Kagome took it gratefully.

"Hungry, eh Kagome?" Sango giggled.

Kagome looked up from her bowl in confusion.

"I mean, you have been asleep for half the day now and you missed breakfast. I guess you and Inuyasha didn't get much sleep, huh?" Sango asked as she poured herself a bowl of ramen.

Kagome looked down at her bowl and stared at its contents as she replied, "I guess we both really are tired. I mean, from everything that's happened. I know that I for one am both physically and spiritually drained."

Sango nodded and suddenly the mat in the doorway was pushed open and Miroku with Shippo on his shoulders slipped into the room. Miroku greeted them and Shippo jumped off the monk's shoulder and hopped over to Kagome.

"You're still Kagome, right?" the kitsune asked cautiously.

"Yes, Shippo," Kagome sighed. "I'm still in Inuyasha's body."

Shippo squealed and hopped onto her shoulder.

Miroku sat down next to Sango, attempted to grope her, and got his hands slapped away before they could successfully reach their destination. Sango glared and muttered a string of painful threats to him as she handed him a bowl.

"Ah, lunch! How splendid." Miroku set the bowl onto the ground and took Sango's hands in his. "Dear Sango, you would make such a wonderful wife! Please bear my child."

"I'll bear you the trouble of finishing your lunch," Sango said flatly as she picked up Miroku's bowl of steaming hot ramen and dumped it on his head. Miroku jumped up and began to dance around in agony, hopping from one foot to the other.

"Yowch! Yowch! Hot!"

"Heh, you deserved it, you corrupt monk."

Inuyasha sat down and poured himself a bowl of ramen. Everyone stared at him for a few seconds and he became irritated.

"What?" he snapped angrily. Everyone spun their heads around and said 'nothing, nothing at all'.

Soon everyone was seated down around the fireplace for lunch. Inuyasha was actually in a better mood and Shippo was being quiet for once. The only commotion that occurred during this peaceful little moment was the loud SMACK that echoed throughout the hut and village. After Miroku was good and unconscious everything was peaceful again. About half an hour later Kagome realized that Kaede wasn't anywhere to be found.

"Kaede left earlier this morning to a neighboring village. She said that it may take a day or two to get back, so she asked if we could stay and take care of the village during her absence." Sango answered.

"Feh."

"Inuyasha? Are you feeling alright?"

Inuyasha glared at Sango and rolled over so that his back was the only thing facing the group.

"Why would you think that?" Inuyasha snapped. Sango decided not to answer because she suddenly remembered that he most likely wouldn't want to travel after this occurrence. But nothing stops Inuyasha...so, why would this stop him?

'Stupid question', Sango realized and decided to drop the matter, but a certain little kit didn't.

"'Cuz you're always itching at the opportunity to hunt down Naraku and the shards," Shippo pointed out the obvious.

Inuyasha growled as best he could in Kagome's body and stood up in a huff. He then stormed out the door and wandered off to who-knows-where, leaving Kagome, Shippo, Sango, and the unconscious perverted monk in the hut. Shippo stared at Kagome and Sango.

"What? Why doesn't Inuyasha wanna hunt after Naraku?" Shippo asked innocently and added, "Not that I'm complaining about taking a day off."

"Inuyasha probably feels vulnerable in Lady Kagome's body," the semi-conscious Miroku replied as he gingerly fingered the burn wounds on the side of his face.

"I bet Inuyasha actually feels twice as vulnerable because he's in Kagome's body. He's probably feeling really embarrassed right now too." Sango added.

"Yeah, you're probably right," Shippo smirked.

Kagome stared at Miroku, Sango, and Shippo in confusion.

"What are you guys talking about?" Kagome asked in bewilderment.

They just grinned from ear to ear and replied, "Nothing." Kagome didn't believe them for a minute but figured she wouldn't get anything out of them, so she dropped it and walked out the door as well.

"You're all nuts," Kagome muttered in good humor as she left the hut.

After they were sure that Kagome was out of a half-demon's hearing range, they conversed amongst themselves.

"Do you think that they'll ever admit that they love each other?" Sango asked Miroku.

"Of course they will!" Miroku assured as he reached for a bowl of cold ramen. "It's just when they do it that I'm not sure about."

"What if they never admit that they love each other?" Shippo asked them.

"Oh, don't worry, Shippo. We'll make sure that they'll tell each other," Miroku grinned at Sango, who smirked back.

Shippo sighed with relief.

'Good. Now if we could just get a certain lecherous monk and short tempered demon slayer to do the same thing...'

A/N: Yay! My computer is all better! Well, not completely better, but it's useable. I'm sorry about the author's note, if I got you guys all excited and such. Well, I can't say much, but I think that I am gonna try to get Kagome and Inuyasha together. I apologize in advance if it sucks because I've never done a romance before. I love reading all that fluffy stuff, but I just can't seem to write it. Don't worry, I'll try my best! Toodles!

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