AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey peoples…what's up? I just got inspired to update chapter 3! I hope you enjoy this one 'cause this is where the fun begins! grins

Another Path, Another Time

Chapter 3:

Kagome just walked in the door from school. She sighed after a long hard day of her teachers and the crap load of school work she has to do. She thought of Inuyasha, I'll just have to kick him out of the house when I do my work. I don't need him jumping around or something when I'm doing my homework.

Kagome walked up the stairs and went into her room and caught Inuyasha holding Buyo by his legs upside down.

"Inuyasha! Don't do that to Buyo." Kagome yelled at him.

"Stop complaining. Anyways, I'm just playing with him. See he likes me." Just then Buyo pulled himself up and clawed Inuyasha's hand. Inuyasha dropped him. "Ow! Stupid cat. I'll get you back for that!" Inuyasha went to lunge at Buyo.

"Inuyasha! Sit boy!"

Inuyasha was in mid flight when he hit the floor by the foot of Kagome's bed. "Why'd you do that!" Inuyasha looked up at her angrily.

"You were about to attack my cat." Kagome turned her head away from him. "Now go outside for a moment. I need to change."

"Yea yea." Inuyasha got up and jumped outside and sat in a tree.

Kagome shut the widow and the curtains, then she began to take of her school uniform.

"Hey Kagome?" Jii-chan came into the room. "I heard a big thump from downstairs and-"

Kagome turned around. She was already half naked with her panties on and covering her top with her arms.

"Gramps!" Kagome slammed the door on his head and he fell on the floor outside Kagome's room. Kagome sighed really hard in frustration. "Ever since Inuyasha showed up I've been getting problems. It's been two weeks and I've been through hell."

Kagome finally put on a skirt and a sweater. She sat down on her bed and fell back.

"Two weeks…" Kagome remembered the past two weeks of several demon attacks. One attacked and almost destroyed the well. Also, during the time they were fixing the well after the other attack. "Hiding Inuyasha is a pain. But I cant let anyone see him let alone know who he is. The legendary half-breed that was pinned to the Sacred Tree by a Priestess named Kikyo."

"What'd you call me?"

Kagome sat up in surprise. She saw Inuyasha on the window sill. He jumped inside and looked at her angrily.

"Oh, I'm sorry Inuyasha. I was just thinking aloud." Kagome felt bad for saying that.

"Yea, whatever. I don't need you to help me remember my past. If I'm such a big pain in the ass why don't you give me the jewel, take off the beads and let me disappear?"

Kagome looked down. She was disappointed in herself that she said those things about Inuyasha. "Inuyasha?" Kagome looked up at him.

"Yea, what?" Inuyasha was still pissed.

"I'll take you out."

Inuyasha looked at her funny. "Out? Like what out? Like date out?" Inuyasha was getting a little embarrassed.

"Of course not. Like a time out for friends. We're friends right?"

"U-um…I…guess." Inuyasha was weirded out by her sudden kindness.

"Then as friends, we hang out with each other. Just like I do Eri, Yuka, and Arimi." Kagome smiled. "We are friends."

Inuyasha nodded. "Can I make a suggestion?"

"Yea sure." Kagome nodded.

"I wanted to try this 'DDR' I heard you and the other three girls talk about. That and some other things like…Mik Donolds."

Kagome laughed at him.

"What? Stop laughing. What's so funny?" Inuyasha was getting defensive.

"It's Mc Donald's. You said it all funny."

"Whatever, you knew what I meant." Inuyasha was now embarrassed.

"Yea sure. I'll take you there. And to the arcade so you can try out DDR. There are some other things you can play too."

"Alright. I just want to get to see all these new things in this time period. There was nothing like this in my time." Inuyasha thought. "Even though I wasn't even aloud to play with a ball amongst the other children. I was shunned by humans, demons, my own father and brother, the only people who stood by me were my mother and Kikyo. But, even she betrayed me."

"I wont betray you." Kagome looked at him.

Inuyasha just grunted and turned away. Kagome looked at him and smiled. "Well I got tomorrow off so we can go out and have fun."

"Humph, fine." Inuyasha sat down and crossed his arms and legs.

The phone began to ring. Kagome reached over and nabbed it. "Hello?" She spoke into the reciever.

"Hey Kagome." Eri was on the other line. "I heard you stood Hojo up last week. What's up with that?"

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha who just stared at her. "I was busy."

"Busy doing what?"

"I was doing….I was…being sick?" Kagome lied to Eri not wanting her to know why she stood up Hojo.

"You were sick?" Eri thought it was a little weird because she sounded fine.

"Yup. Plus, I don't think Hojo would mind. He's an understanding guy."

"True. Are you going to make it up to him? Like go on another date?"

"Um…I'm not sure. If I can." Kagome looked at Inuyasha again.

"What do you mean 'if you can'? Of course you can."

"Only if I'm not busy."

"What can you be busy doing that's more important than going on a date with a really hot guy?"

"Um…uh…l-lots of things. I got work and stuff to do." Kagome started to run out of lies. Geez, she won't give up. Kagome was thinking. "Listen. If I can go out on another date with him I'll make a date. Until then I got things I need to attend to. Trust me."

"Alright. I just don't want you to pass up a good opportunity for a boyfriend." Inuyasha's ears pricked up and looked at Kagome. He seemed to get more pissed off and looked away.

"Well I got to go. I got matters…to attend to." Kagome looked at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha jumped up. "Why the hell do you keep looking at me."

Eri heard Inuyasha. "Is there someone there with you?"

"No! Just the TV." Kagome got up and tried to leave her room from Inuyasha.

"What do you mean the TV?" Inuyasha got in front of her. "It isn't some TV, it's me pissed off! Why do you keep looking at me?"

"Shut up!" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha.

"Kagome? Is that…a…guy? Is there a guy with you at your house?" Eri continued listening to Inuyasha's ranting.

"No! There's no one here with me. I got to go. Bye." Kagome didn't hang up the phone right off the bat and Eri still heard her talking to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha!" Right then the phone clicked off. Eri looked at the phone for a second, turned it off and started dialing Yuka's number.

A man walked up to a tree off somewhere else in the middle of nowhere. He was dressed in white pants and a black shirt. He had long white hair that was braided. He walked up to a woman who was pinned to a tree by a sword. The sword had a faint glow to it.

The girl had long black hair that went to her shoulder blades. She was in a kimono that was slightly torn and rugged as if it was very old. She was also very dirty.

"Finally. A vaccine for your disease." He said in a soft voice. He pulled out the sword slowly and carefully. When he got it out she fell to the floor. The guy stood over her, holding her head up. He awaited for her to wake up.

She laid there quiet for several minutes until he shook her to wake her up. "Wake up." He quietly said to her.

The girl's eyes slowly cracked open and she immediately flung up coughing up blood. "Here. Hold still for a moment. This will hurt but trust me." He pulled out a needle and pulled off the cap. He rolled up her sleeve and cleaned of the joint area of her arm. He pricked the needle into her arm and injected the vaccine.

"Ow…" The girl flinched in pain. She looked up at the guy and her vision started to clear.

"You will be really tired for awhile. You need to rest."

She stared at him for a moment and then her face lit up with joy. "Lord Sesshomaru!"

Man, this is going to be a kick in the butt. Kagome thought. But, I have to get him some clothes or I can't take him anywhere. I'm already getting enough weird looks just having him walk around in his normal outfit.

Kagome and Inuyasha entered a clothing store to buy Inuyasha a few pairs of clothes. Inuyasha was wearing a hat already to hide his ears and sandals so he wasn't bear foot.

"Alright Inuyasha. We need to find you at least a few pairs of clothes."

"Why? Isn't what I'm wearing fine?"

"No. It attracts too much attention." Kagome looked around and saw a few people looking at him and her funny.

"Who cares?" Inuyasha crossed his arms.

"I do. Now lets go." Kagome and Inuyasha walked around the Men's Department for a bit looking for something he would feel comfortable and look good in. "Here you go." Kagome held up some cargos.

"Huh?"

"How about these?" Kagome held them up to him.

"How am I supposed to know?"

Kagome sighed and slumped down. "Well how about you pick something? Ok? Your clothes. Find something you like."

"Fine." Inuyasha took a look around the pant section. He found a pair of Khaki cargos, dark blue jeans and black camo pants. "I like these. I guess."

"Good. Now I got these so we don't have to worry about shirts." Kagome held up three white shirts in a bag. "Let's get going."

They went to a checkout line and waited for their turn. When their turn came Kagome threw the clothes onto the counter and waited as the cashier scanned the items. "Now when were done here you need to step into a bathroom to change."

"But I don't need a bath."

"Uh…never mind." Kagome looked at the cashier. "How much is that going to be?"

"37.56." The lady looked at Kagome. Kagome looked sad as she looked into her wallet. Kagome pulled out forty dollars and handed it to the cashier.

There goes most of my money. Kagome thought. Inuyasha should be a little more grateful for me buying him new clothes. He's like my son or something.

On their way out Kagome stopped near a restroom next to the exit. "Go in there and put on a shirt and one of your pants." Kagome pointed. She pulled out one of his pants and held it to herself. "You put it on this way. Ok?"

"Yea." Inuyasha grabbed the bag of clothes and went into the Men's restroom. He looked around in confusion. "What the hell? Ah, whatever." Inuyasha pulled out his Khakis and put them on like Kagome showed him. Then he opened up the white shirts and put one of them on. He came out when he was dressed and stood in front of Kagome.

"Wow. You look great like that." Kagome admitted to him actually looking good.

"Yea whatever."

Kagome looked. "Well you got the shirt on backwards but you got the pants right. Good fit too. Put your arms in and turn the shirt around."

"What's the difference?"

Kagome grabbed the tag. "This always goes in the back. It's a better fit that way."

Inuyasha grunted and turned the shirt around.

"So, do you like the sandals I gave you? I figured you wouldn't like shoes."

"Yea. I like them."

"Good. Now onto the arcade." They both left the store and headed down the busy sidewalk toward the arcade.

Kagome and Inuyasha came up to an arcade. "Listen Inuyasha. You can't embarrass me or yourself. Don't do anything bad. Like attacking anything or anyone or showing the fact that you're a demon."

"I won't. Ok? Can we go now?" Inuyasha grew impatient.

"Ok, sure." Kagome and Inuyasha entered the arcade.

"So, where's this 'DDR' I heard about?" Inuyasha was looking around.

The arcade was really big and had all sorts of games all over the place. Inuyasha was amazed at what he saw. If he didn't know where he was he would have thought it was a demon who created this and attacked it all. He saw so many teenagers and kids running around. He's never seen so many people run around so freely. Especially since he was always watching his back from humans and demons.

"There it is." Kagome pointed to several machines with a dance pad in front of the screen.

Inuyasha walked up and looked at it while watching a girl dance on it. He watched as she did and looked at the screen. "What is she doing?"

"Ok. See the screen with all of the arrows? You have to imitate them by stepping on the corresponding arrow on the dance pad once they get to the line of arrows at the top." Kagome pointed everything out as she explained.

Inuyasha looked confused as hell. "Here. Kagome got on an empty one and explained a little more better and simpler. "When an arrow goes up the screen and gets here, you step on the same arrow here. For example, if a left arrow goes up the screen, right when it gets to here you step on the left arrow."

"Ah, I think I get it." Inuyasha looked back at the girl who was dancing that he was before. She just finished and saw that Inuyasha was watching.

"Hey. You were watching me?" She looked at him in a very interested way.

"Yea. I'm learning how to do that." He looked at her. He could smell that she 'wanted' him and was now irritated. She walked behind him and put her arms around him.

"Your really cute, you know that?" She whispered in his 'ear'. (or at least where his ear would be)

"Hey! I don't like random girls touching me." He smacked her hands off his shoulders.

"Oh I see. You already have a girlfriend? Where is she?" The girl looked around.

"No. I don't. I don't like dirty whores coming on to me. I can smell it on you."

By now a lot of people gathered around because they sensed a fight coming on. They all started laughing when Inuyasha dissed her. The girl got pissed off and stomped out of the arcade.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. "Can you set this up for me?"

"Sure." Kagome got on and gave him a pretty easy song and put it on beginners level. "Now do what I told you and go for it."

Inuyasha did what he told her and gave it his best shot. In the end his rhythm bar was red and he did horribly. "Did I do good?"

"No." Kagome shook her head. She then noticed Eri, Yuka, and Arimi in the distance. "Oh crap!" Kagome mumbled to herself. "Here Inuyasha." Kagome handed him a few more 100 yen coins. "Put one in at a time when it asks you to." Kagome ran off to meet her friends before they saw her with Inuyasha.

"Hey!" Kagome jumped in front of them.

"Hey! What are you doing here?" Eri asked.

"Oh. You know…just chilling out. You?"

"We're just hanging out." Yuka answered. "We called you but no one answered."

"Oh I was busy doing stuff."

"Hey Kagome." Inuyasha walked up to them. "How do I put them in?"

The girls looked at him and then looked at her. It was quiet for a moment and then they all jumped onto Kagome's case.

"Who's that?" Eri got in Kagome's face. "You ditched Hojo for another guy? Is he your boyfriend?"

"No." Kagome pushed Eri off. "He's my new friend I made and I've been showing him around Tokyo."

'What's his name?"

"Hey!" Inuyasha yelled getting the attention of all four of them. "Your talking about me and I'm right here."

Kagome stood next to Inuyasha. "This is Inuyasha."

The girls waved at him and Inuyasha grunted, crossing his arms. "Now Inuyasha? I'm going to talk to them for a bit. Just keep playing on DDR ok?"

Inuyasha looked at her and then nodded. "Fine." Inuyasha walked away and looked back at her. They were all huddled together talking and giggling. Inuyasha turned away and ran outside without Kagome realizing.

The girls found a table to sit at outside of the arcade. "So Kagome?" Yuka smiled.

"It's not like that. I met him and we kind of just became friends."

"But you stood up Hojo?" Eri looked at her. "Sounds like a secret love to me." All three of the girls nodded.

"He's really cute too." Arimi thought.

"But Hojo's really cute too." Eri added.

"True."

"I think Inuyasha's hotter." Yuka looked at all of them. "He looks way stronger too."

Kagome sat there with a annoyed look on her face. "I don't like Inuyasha. He's a selfish jerk. And he's full of himself. Hojo is way more nicer. He's caring. Not Inuyasha though."

They all went quiet for a second. "Well what are you going to tell Hojo?" Eri looked up at Kagome.

Kagome was thinking of what to say when she saw a guy walk by with a girl. He too had long white hair though it was braided. She sensed a weird feeling…the same feeling she gets when she senses Inuyasha. As if she could sense the demon blood. Yet, this one was much stronger and more…….bad.

"Inu…Yasha…" Kagome mumbled. She then got a weird feeling and looked into the arcade and didn't see Inuyasha at the DDR machine. "Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome jumped up.

"Kagome, where are you going?" Eri stood up and chased after her. Then Yuka and Arimi chased after her too.

Kagome ran into the arcade where the DDR machines are and saw no Inuyasha. She ran around the arcade to see if he switched to a new game but couldn't find him. She stopped to think and then it hit her. He's probably pissed that I ditched him for the girls. Kagome thought. He's probably roaming the city or at home by now. Kagome slumped her head.

"Hey Kagome. Is everything alright?" Eri ran up next to her with Yuka and Arimi behind.

"No." Kagome was still slumped and sounded really sad. "I'm an idiot. I ditched Inuyasha to talk to you when it was our friends day out. Inuyasha is a really picky guy when it comes to the way people treat him because he's been treated bad himself. I feel so bad. He's going to hate me." Kagome sat down at the table again.

"Well go find him and give him a big kiss and say your sorry." Arimi kneeled in front of Kagome.

"I can't do that!" Kagome blushed.

"Yes you can. Just go for it. It always work with guys." They all got her up on her feet and pushed her to walk forward. "Now go do it."

Kagome gave a very unconfident smile and started walking home. I've never kissed before. How am I supposed to kiss him if I can't do it right. Kagome thought as she headed on home.

"Rin."

"Yes Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin looked up at him.

"You head off by yourself. I have some things to handle. Do you have my out fit like I asked?"

"Yes I do. Here." Rin handed him his original outfit.

"Now go. I will catch up with you later. Go find Jaken."

"Ok." Rin walked off and Sesshomaru walked in the opposite direction.

"Kagome thinks she is so great. Ditched me on our day to hang out." Inuyasha ran along the top of buildings. By now it was night fall and he was still pissed at Kagome. He ran along the rook of one building and jumped to the next. "I'll go back later. When I have a reason to go back. I shouldn't even go back at all."

Inuyasha heard a roll of thunder and a few seconds later saw a flash in the clouds followed by another roll of thunder. The air was really humid and he knew it was going to rain. He felt a light drizzle. He notice someone walking by themselves below him. He just ignored it until he saw who it was.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha jumped down to greet her. He landed right in front of her. "What are you still doing out. Don't you know it's about to rain, idiot?"

Kagome looked up at him and she looked really sad. "Inuyasha…" Kagome mumbled to herself but he understood her.

"Kagome?"

Kagome slowly walked to him until she couldn't take another step. Her chest was practically against his. She looked at him with sad eyes and leaned up to kiss him. He looked back at her and started to lean down to kiss her too. Their eyes slowly fell shut. The split second when their lips barely touched they were interrupted…

"Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha quickly turned around to see his brother, Sesshomaru, standing on a light post. "Sesshomaru?"

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just so you know. Sesshomaru and Rin's story will be explained in the next chapter. So you wont be confused on how they are in this time period. Hope you liked. Later!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of it's characters.