Hi everyone. This is my first fic so don't be tooo harsh on the reviews. ;) But please be honest and please review. I want my story to be the best it can so let me know if I make any major mistakes. I wasn't going to post this at all but I decided, what the heck, there's no harm, because no one knows who I am so I can't be made fun of till the end of the century... I was just getting sick of Kagome always being a little wimp who let anything and everything Inuyasha do tear her up inside. (me, I'd flirt a tiny bit with Kouga, just enough to be noticed until he couldn't wait any longer to pronounce his love ;) but that's just me)Any who, on with the story.
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Chapter 1 "Wandering hands"

...and slowly his lips came within inches, centimeters, millimeters of hers...

"KA.GO.ME.!!!!!!" shouted the short tempered hanyou, Inuyasha. "Damn wench! You've been sleeping all damn day and refuse to wake up!! Your so lazy!!!"

"I'm up.... I'm up," sighed Kagome with a yawn that seemed to disprove her pleas.

'Why do I even bother with him.... he's so damn stubborn,' thought Kagome as the frown reached her once vibrant face. 'One second he seems to be the kindest, most gentle creature in the world.... then two seconds later he's screaming his head off at me like I'm some kind of servant to him, no higher then the dirt below my bottom,' she sat there engulfed in her thoughts as tears began to swell in her eyes. 'Even if for some reason I did begin to believe he felt for me the same way that I feel for him.... that damned clay corpse comes and reminds me of everything I could never be to him.' The final thought pushed her over the edge as tears began to slowly fall from her tortured eyes.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha asked concerned, smelling her tears. "What's wrong? Why do you cry?"

She could see the worry in his eyes and it only made her cry more. "Nothing.... nothing...sniff sniff don't worry about me Inyuasha, I'm fine," she said with a choke, intent on not lifting her eyes from her fumbling hands in her lap.

"Kagome? I was only intent on waking you, I didn't mean to make you...cry?" Inuyasha hated seeing her cry and the thought of him causing it almost sent the brave hanyou into tears himself. "Please tell me... what's wrong? You know I'm always here to help you."

"Ya.... until you sink down to hell with your mud pile," she murmured, forgetting Inuyasha had ears that could hear everything.

"What's that?!" he almost screamed. She infuriated him! He couldn't believe he was all worried when the whole reason she was crying was because of stupid ol' Kikyo, although her jealousy was quite flattering to him.

"Nothing," she replied as she stood, ready to continue the journey but not the conversation. Unfortunately she made the mistake of leaning over right in front of her "friend" Miroku to pick up her bag.

"Good morning Lady Kagome," grinned the lecherous monk.

SLAP

"You bastard!" screamed Inuyasha. He was touched by Kagome's jealousy over Kikyo and wasn't about to let that damn monk mess up the moment. "Your such a damn pervert Miroku! I should rip that hand of yours right off, and your head along with it!!! Your such a pest!!"

"PUH lease Inuyasha, I believe with my entire heart that Lady Kagome finds you to be far more of a pest than I will ever be!" retorted an angry monk.

"NEVER!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "Right Kagome?" He pleaded to her with his eyes to agree with him but she simply continued to stare at the ground.

Sigh

"I dunno Inuyasha, let's just go get some breakfast," was all Kagome could seem to say. She wasn't mad at him but the thought of him and Kikyo had her quite depressed and she didn't currently feel like being on anyone's side.

The hurt swelled in Inuyasha's heart at her cruel words. "I'm not hungry," he managed to muster with his bangs covering his pained eyes. With that he leaped off into the woods leaving Miroku and Kagome back in the clearing, completely stunned.

'Wow, I must have REALLY hurt him' Kagome thought to herself. She felt guilty for being so mean, but deep inside she felt a little twinge of pride for standing up to Inuyasha and a little happiness for seeing him get so upset over what she thought about him. 'I'll go get him right.... after breakfast' she thought with the slightest sign of a grin on her face. "Let's go Miroku, I'm starved."

Inuyasha watched her retreating from afar. 'She isn't even coming after me' he thought with a sigh. 'But still.... how could she see ME as more of a pest then that lecherous monk!' A twinge of anger and jealousy began to show on his tensed features but just as soon as it had came it disappeared as it was taken over by the slumped shoulders and downward glance that accompanies pure sorrow. 'I guess she truly does despise me...'

Back at camp.......

"Sango, are you enjoying your ramen?" inquired Kagome.

"Yes, very much so Kagome, thank you so much for cooking it," replied Sango with a courteous nod.

"Anything for my friends," grinned Kagome.

"Ummm, Kagome," began Miroku, "I was just wondering cough cough I mean...... when are you going to go get Inuyasha? I was only kidding about the whole pester thing and he seemed quite distraught, I think you should go find him and talked to him," Miroku finished with a sigh.

"I know, I know, I wasn't trying to be on anyone's side, I was only deep in thought. But, since he has gotten so upset, I am..... hehehehe..... well, to be blunt, I'm letting him get a taste of his own medicine."

Everyone looked shocked at her for such a thing. They had never known their sweet little Kagome to be so devious.

Wink

"Oooo, your so sexy when you act evil, Kagome," grinned Miroku.

SLAP

SLAP

' I guess I deserved those' Miroku thought, while receiving glares from the girls sitting across from him that were anything but kind.

'What a jerk'

Well, that's the first chapter? How do you like? I think I'll have the second one out in a couple days or so, I have it written I just have to type it up. Well, please review and let me know how I'm doin..... hopefully the next chapters will be longer and better. This was just sort of the prelude so that you all know what's going on so... Tootaloo for today! ;)