Here's the next chapter. Imma try to write better but I think I suck at it, LoL. Well, no more delay's here ya go.

Chapter 4, Kouga

Inuyasha stood, paralyzed, looking at the girl standing in front of him. 'There's something different about her, I can sense it, she's more... confident and self assured, but why?'

"And what advice would that be?" he snarled at Kagome. He never really liked those ditsy girls that she hung out with and called her friends anyways. They were far too stupid to be her friends, that he had decided the day he met them.

Flashback

"Who are you?!" a peculiar girl snarled at Inuyasha with such disgust he had to use all of his strength to keep from swinging.

"None of your business you damn little girl, now watch your fucking tone with me before I take that 't...telifoone' pole and shove it down your throat!" He attempted to appear as calm as he could but the fact that he couldn't remember how to pronounce the word spread red throughout his cheeks quite rapidly.

"What is he, Kagome, a retard? He can't even say telephone. I must say, you've slipped into an unknown low, especially when Hojou is practically begging you to marry him!"

"WHAT?!" Inuyasha screamed. "YOUR TELLING ME THAT EVERY TIME YOU COME BACK TO THIS DAMN PLACE YOUR NOT TAKING TESTS BUT GETTING PROPOSED TO SOME HOBO?!"

"Inuyasha, please, stop making such a scene or you'll be reintroduced with the dirt, I don't like Hojou like that. He just won't buzz off," Kagome replied calmly but with a tinge of pink in her cheeks.

"Speaking of buzzing off," Inuyasha glared at the three girls standing in front of him.

"Fine, we're going you jerk! You don't have to glare twice at us, we aren't stupid, you know s-t-u-p-i-d," snicked Eri.

"BITCH!" yelled Inuyasha but it was to late, the three pests were long gone, apparently there was some sort of sale in some place called a mall.

'Hmph, just the thought of those dweebs telling Kagome anything had to be a bad sign.' But he was snapped out of his thoughts as Kagome's voice reached him, reminding him what his whole train of thought began with in the first place.

"Nunya," giggled Kagome. By this time she was quite enjoying herself and her new found power over the hanyou. She had finally decided that her friends were right. This had to work. If it didn't she couldn't imagine what she'd do, she loved him so much and just the thought of losing him would tear her apart. But she had to do this, she had to make him chose, it's either Kagome or Kikyo, no "but's" about it.

She was soon snapped out of her thoughts as she felt the wind shift and two shards approaching her at record speed. 'Perfect timing Kouga, my darling'

A low growl came from Inuyasha's direction as the wolf youkai stepped out from the tornado he had formed.

"Hey mutt face, keeping an eye on my woman?" the wolf prince sneered with extra emphasis on my.

"She's not your woman you damn wolf, why don't you just give it up and run back to your cave with your tail between your legs before you get hurt!" Inuyasha decided to mock him by putting extra emphasis on hurt as he rested his hand on the hilt of Tetsuaiga. (A/N, As I've said in my profile thing, I'm not Japanese in any way so I know all of these words are spelled wrong but you get the gist.)

"Sit, Inuyasha," Kagome said as calmly as she could, trying not to let her emotions get the best of her for once. "Kouga can we please go talk over here and no one had better follow us," she glared at Inuyasha with the last comment, and decided to use the insult she had thought of in the security of her home, "or that someone will be telling me what the other side of the world looks like through and Inuyasha sized hole."

With that she took Kouga by the arm and led him into the woods until she came upon a clearing before a lake. It was beautiful, with the sunlight shimmering off the lake and the flowers surrounding her she felt an odd sense of peace and felt almost guilty for breaking the serenity by talking. She set Kouga down on a log and began her speech.

"Kouga, I just want to make sure everything is cleared up between us," she shifted uncomfortably at his unfaltering gaze.

"I smell mutt boy," Kouga said as calmly as he could, but Kagome could see the pure satisfaction in his eyes, he loved seeing Inuyasha slammed into the dirt.

Kagome sighed at what she knew she had to do, "SIT!" Once the command was said she rushed to the form lying in the bushes to her far left. "What are you doing Inuyasha? Didn't I specifically tell you to not follow?! If I believe right you are the one who went off about privacy and following people so why don't you take your own advice and let me have a private conversation with Kouga? If you want companionship so bad, go find Kikyo."

The coldness of her voice froze even Kouga who stood dumfounded a few yards away. Not even he could believe her to say something that was sure to put a gaping hole in his rival's heart. Even he felt sympathy for Inuyasha at that moment.

"H.... How can you say that?" stuttered Inuyasha.

"It's the truth," Kagome responded glumly. She was beginning to hate herself for what she had just said when she heard the hurt in his voice and the pain was flowing from him in immense waves. "I know I am but a pale comparison to her so...so just go," the last word was spoken so softly that if either of the demons had been human there was no way in hell they would have heard.

Inuyasha stood without a sound and lept off as fast as he could, never letting his gaze meet with Kagome.

'I hate doing this to him, but it needs to be said. He needs to know that a time has come when he must decide.'

Sorry it's so short again but I've got such writer's block its crazy! This was the best I could come up with this time and like I've been saying for the past 3 chapters I will truly try to make the next one longer. Thanks for the reviews and keep 'em coming. Muah