Some of you guys asked me what the big deal with the red string is. Like I stated before, it has the effect like a cupid's arrow. In my culture and some country in Asia had this belief about red string that bind the love bond between two people. I didn't make this string part up. I have to do a lot of research and asking parents about them.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. The wonderful Rumiko Takahashi owns it.

The Wrong Soul Mate

Chapter 3: Disguised as a Mortal

Her once pink beautiful kimono had change into faded blue overalls with a light blue backpack strung across her shoulders, replacing the weight of her favored wrap. Kagome closed her eyes tightly as she fell swiftly from the sky. She wasn't afraid before, but she couldn't help feeling that way now.

The next thing she knew, she was hanging for dear life on a high-up branch of a too-tall tree. Her legs and arms wrapped around the branch, instinctively, for fear of falling. If anything, she did remember what mortals did when they are put in this kind of situation. She screamed.

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Inuyasha walked out from the shadow of the building, feeling refreshed and cool. After a nice nap and a cup of cold water with ice inside the lounge, he felt more relaxed than ever. In addition to that, it was time to go back home. Life didn't get any better than getting a nice cold shower to wash away the sweat and grit from a day's work. Inuyasha thought as he walked toward the parking lot. Suddenly he heard a scream from the food court. He stopped and looked back. The Park was closed. No one was supposed to be there.

"Help!" A female voice rang across the empty amusement park.

Inuyasha rushed towards the source of the sound, and saw nothing in the secluded court. He came to an abrupt stop and glanced around. "I must be hearing things," he told himself.

He spun around and started to walk back to the parking lot.

"Wait!"

Inuyasha turned around slowly, looking back into the empty food court, and saw nothing. "The heat must be getting to me."

"Hey you!" The female voice shouted.

"Where are you?" His eyes scanned the court again.

"Up here!"

Inuyasha look up and saw a young woman clutching a branch for dear life. "What are you doing up there?" He shouted at her. "The amusement park is closed!"

"I can't get down. Can you help me?" Kagome asked, knowing the small branch wouldn't be able to hold her much longer.

"And why should I?" He turned around, to give the effect that he didn't care, but didn't walk away.

"Because you're a man!" She shouted. That got his attention. "A man is supposed to save the damsel in distress."

He hesitated before turning around again, and muttered one word: "Jump."

"What?" She blinked a couple of times.

He rolled his eyes as he stretches his arms in a great show of boredom. "I said jump, Wench."

"How do I know you will catch me?" Kagome looked down at the man, ignoring the 'wench' part. The ground seemed so very far away.

"You don't. But don't worry, I will catch you." A pause. "Look I'm getting impatient here."

"You will promise, right?" She gazed into his eyes. "If you lie, I will curse you!" 'And I will make sure those curses are painful.' She thought.

"Yes. Now jump!" he was a little confused by the 'curse' part, but said nothing of it.

"Okay, okay." She took a deep breath before reluctantly letting go her branch. Her eyes closed tightly as she felt the rush of wind moved swiftly around her. It ended quickly, though, for she felt two masculine arms holding her from harms way, more commonly known as the ground.

She opened one eye than the other, testing her sight. "See? I told you I would catch you." He let her go rather roughly.

"Oww!" She rubbed her bottom and stared menacingly at him. He only glanced at her before walking away without even saying a word.

"Hey!" She got up and run after him. He ignored her as he kept on walking, briskly making his way towards his car.
Kagome was furious. She was never ignored before. She stood in front of him, blocking his way to the parking lot.

He stopped. "Look I've saved you already, so go away." He tried to move around her, but she side-stepped and blocked him again.

She glared at him. "That was rude of you!"

"Rude of me?! You didn't even say 'thank you' to me, and you call me rude!"

She blinked a couple of times at him, testing his words in her mind. He finally moved around her. "And I didn't even ask you how you got into that tree in the first place!"

He was right. Well, not actually right. She ran after him toward the parking lot. He twisted a key into the lock and the car door clicked in a relieving manner.

"Wait!"

'Not again.' He opened the door quickly, hoping he could get away from her as quickly as possible. Just as he was about to close the door, her hand intervened, and he was unable to close it without smashing her fingers.

"What the hell?" He shouted. "Do you want your hand to be chopping off or something?"

"Sorry." She bit her bottom lip before saying, "Thank you." She smiled at him.

Inuyasha only stared at her, bewildered by her action. No one was that nice after they were called wench. That is, no one that he knew.

"Hey why do you have a small statue of a jaguar on your car?" He snapped back to reality.

"Hey don't touch that!" He got up and rush toward her. "It's expensive! I don't want your smudgy finger prints all over it!" He took out a cloth and wiped away the fingerprints from his tiny silver jaguar. "Didn't your mother teach you not to touch other people's property?"

He turned around to face her, but she wasn't there. "What the-?"

"This is a comfy seat!" Her voice echoed from inside his car.

He went and grabbed her out of his car. "Get out!"

"Hey!" She tried to protest, but his grip was too strong for her.

"First that other wench, then this one. I swear God is punishing me for cursing that sun." He mumbled as he got into his silver car. Before he closed his door, he looked at her. "You're welcome. Now good bye!" He closed
the door on her and drove off.

The sky started to darken as he turned a corner. He thought he wouldn't see her again, but boy, was he wrong. When she suddenly appeared standing in front of him, he nearly had a heart attack.

He automatically stepped onto his brake, and as the car came to a sudden halt, Inuyasha breathed rapidly. She doesn't appear to be standing anymore.

"Please let her be okay. Please, please." Inuyasha got out and walked slowly to the front of his car. "If anything happen to you, I'll be dead."

The young woman he saw earlier was lying unconsciously on the cold pavement.

He got down on both knees and checked her pulse. 'She's breathing alright.' He sigh a relief, knowing she was still alive, he looked around, making sure there weren't any witness out there, but the street appear to be empty
and quiet.

"I can't leave you here," Inuyasha told the girl, knowing full well she couldn't hear him. "You should be lucky that it wasn't some other guy."

He managed to open the passenger's door, and he gently lay her down on his leather seat. He drew in his breath before letting her go. 'Lavender.' Her hair smelled like lavender with a different unique scent that he couldn't quite think of.

He closed the door and walked back to the driver's side. He gazed at the nameless girl once again before speeding off down the road, and closer to home.


Twenty minutes later...

Inuyasha slammed the car door and mentally flinched. 'My poor car,' he thought sadly to himself. He hoisted the girl in his arms, adjusting her so it would be easier to carry her not-at-all heavy bulk. Kicking open his door, her took in his surroundings. Supposedly coming home to an empty house, he laid the girl on his leather couch, and started talking to her again,

"You stay here while I go get you an Advil, okay?" He walked to the stairwell behind him, and climbed the stairs to the second floor.

When the echoes of his footsteps decrease, Kagome cracked open one eye and then the other slowly, as if she wasn't quite ready to see where he had taken her.

'Coast is all clear.' She sat up straight and looked around, examining her surroundings. To her left was a small dining room and to her right was the main door, but behind her were the stairs that the man must have stomped up.

She stood up and walked toward the dining room, then to the kitchen. 'Wow, it's spotless. Lady Kaede would be proud.' She then walked toward another hallway that led her back to the living room.

"It's a nice place." She said to herself before ascending the stairs.

Meanwhile in his room, Inuyasha grabbed a handful of different pain relievers, mostly Advil and Tylenol, and he also grabbed bandages from his bathroom shelves. He walked out of his room and went back downstairs.

When he got there, she wasn't in the couch. "I told her to stay here!" He growled, throwing the bottles and bandages onto the couch before walking toward the kitchen, only to see nothing but dishes and pans.

'That leaves...' He looked up at the ceiling, mentally groaning. 'Upstairs.' He rushed toward the stairs and into the first room.

It was Miroku's. Only pictures of super models hung on the walls, and a book shelf graced with various books and tapes stood by the four poster bed in the center of the room, but no wench.

Seeing how she wasn't in Miroku's room, he decided to dash into Sango's room. But she wasn't there either. She wasn't even in his room, or the bathroom, or the various closets. It seemed she wasn't anywhere. He didn't know why she would be in a closet, but had decided to look anyways. So that left one place he hadn't checked yet-the roof.

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Kagome stared at the parrots through the cage. "Do you like it here?" She asked.

The beautiful blue-feather parrot replied back, 'Yesss, Master is kind, if not misunderstood. Sometimessss he is frustrated, and speaks with a rotten mouth. But no harm, he means well.'

"You're right about the bad mouth part." She mumbled, remembering the times he had been rude.

'You will certainly enjoy it here, Goddess. But beware of Miroku.'

She frowned. "Why?"

'The houshi is a lecher, no pleassssant way of saying it. He enjoys a woman's body, and has no respect for the wishes of those women. The one, Sango, has it the worssst,' The lispy parrot informed her.

She thought of this for a moment. She had never been groped. But from the way it was described, it wasn't an enjoyable thing. Not at all desirable to the respectable woman.

"Wench!" Inuyasha's voice announced his presence behind her.

She turned around to meet with the furious hanyou.

"I can't believe I was fool to believe you were unconscious!" He glared at her. "I was a fool!" He spat the word with disgust, partially stunning Kagome.

Before she could respond back, he grabbed her arms and dragged her back inside. "You're coming with me!"

"Oww, that hurts! Let go!" She tried to wiggle her arm free, but Inuyasha's hold on her poor limb was too tight.

Inuyasha dragged her carefully down the stairs, making sure she wouldn't stumble, and fall on him along the way. He wanted her to leave before Sango or Miroku could even see him with her in the same room. He knew if he didn't, he would never hear the end of it from Miroku.

Too late, the door was open when they reached the living room.

"Sango, those super models can help and make the amusement park more popular!" Miroku called, closing the door behind him.

"Miroku, the only why you want us to hire them is so you can have your own personal grope sticks, and believe me, those girls are no more than STICKS!!" Sango angrily replied back.

"Sango, Sango, if you were that jealous, I will only grope yo-" He stopped when he saw Inuyasha. Strange, he thought, why is he holding that girl?

Sango was also speechless as she stared at them.

"Um, guys, I can explain." Inuyasha replied.

"Inuyasha, I didn't know you were that busy!" He patted him on the shoulder. "You sly dog sneaking a young girl in here! You should have called. We would have given you a minute or two, or at least knocked before coming in."

'Ah, so that must be Miroku.' Kagome stared at him, remembering what Tori, the parrot, warned her about. 'And that woman must be Sango. Poor thing can hardly hide her love for the man.'

[AN: tori mean 'bird' in Japanese. I'm lousy at naming things.]

"I'm not like that!" he explained, stepping away from Kagome. "I just found her in the food court!"

"Oh, so that's where you do your business." Miroku shook his head. "I didn't need to know that, but you can give me the details later... if you want that is."

"Miroku!" Sango yelled at him. "Stop this nonsense." She turned to look at Inuyasha. "Explain."

Inuyasha open his mouth to speak, but Kagome cut in.

"Sango!" Kagome ran toward her and hugged her. It was pretty much one-sided since Sango was too shocked to do anything about it, except stare at Inuyasha, confused.

"What the hell?" Inuyasha asked, bewildered by the girl's action.

"Remember me?" Kagome finally released her. "It's me, Rin. Your long-distance cousin from Osaka!"

 
"Rin?" Sango stared at her. "But last I checked, Rin, you were only this tall." Sango lowered her hand for emphasis, just to show that 'Rin' was only about half her height.

"But Sango that was a long time ago. I grew up! It has been a while, you know. You don't keep in touch very well."

"Hold on." Inuyasha cut in. "You can't just barge in and say you're Rin! You don't even have proof that you are her!"

"Um..." Kagome tried to think a way out of it when suddenly Takeo appears behind Inuyasha with an envelope. He smiled at her before he put it on the end table next to the couch, and then disappeared. "Yeah I do! I've sent you a letter, to remind you I was coming."

"Really? Then why didn't we see it!?" Inuyasha barked back.

"Um, Inuyasha, here's the envelope from Rin." Miroku showed him the envelope that he found lying on the table.

Inuyasha tore it and read the letter with Sango and Miroku reading over his shoulder.

"It must have arrived late to inform you guys of my arrival." Kagome responded.

"So what?" He looked up at her after he was done reading it. "You could have seen it while I was upstairs, and later you just said you were Rin!"

Kagome was somewhat baffled as to what to do next, so she leaped over to Sango's side and tugged on her arm, "Cousin, do you not remember me at all?"

A small child that evidently, only Kagome could see appeared to her left. It was Saku. She looks behind her.

 
'Check your backpack. In it is a gift from Sango to Rin, from when she was six. Its name is Toby.' She said before disappearing into thin air.

'Lucky those mortals can't see those two, or we'd have no choice but to brainwash them.'

"What? You can't find anything to back you up?" Inuyasha smirked at her.

She narrowed her eyes at him. "In a matter of fact, yes I do." She dropped her backpack on the couch, and unzipped it. She smiled when she took out a huge brown teddy bear and show it to them. "Remember this, Sango? You gave me Toby on my sixth birthday!"

They wonder how the huge teddy bear managed to fit into her small backpack without looking squashed out and flat.

Sango's eyes widen with joy at the sight of it. "Of course I remember, Rin! I gave it to you on your sixth birthday!" She jumped and hugged her tightly. "We named him Toby together!" She finally let her go and gazed at her carefully.

"Wait, hold on. How do we know she is actually Rin?" Inuyasha asked. "There are many bears out there that are similar to this one!"

"I didn't know you have a beautiful cousin, Sango." Miroku responded as he inched closer to her.

"Miroku, if you dare touch her, I swear I will slap you to China!" Miroku move back to his spot. "And for your information Inuyasha, this is the exact teddy bear that I've given to Rin a long time ago! And plus, we both named it Toby together. It's not a coincidence for another person to buy the exact same bear and named it the exact name that we given it together."

Inuyasha was speechless. He doesn't know any good remark at the moment beside, "Keh."

Sango smiled at Kagome. "You must be hungry now after that long journey from Osaka to Tokyo." She dragged her by the arm to the kitchen. "I make you something to eat, Rin."

Miroku tilted his head as he watches the girls, ahem, their bottoms, go into the kitchen. "She sure has a nice butt." He comments before following them.

"Miroku, I swear, you want to get slapped by Sango, again." Inuyasha replied as he walked into the kitchen.

A few minutes later...

Sango put the dishes of meal on the dining table after she gave each person a bowl of cooked rice.

Kagome gawk at the many dishes in front of her. Their aroma had made her begin to drool. In her life as a goddess, she never did once eat a mortal's food. When the gods and the goddess in heaven were hungry, they only think of food. After that, they are full.

Well, Kaede did told her to act like a mortal, so eating real food won't be any trouble. Beside, if she didn't eat, they will get suspicious.

Inuyasha stared at her, still unconvinced that she is Rin, Sango's cousin, but shook it off when the aroma filled his nostrils.

"Wow, we didn't have this much food since..." Miroku stop to think. "Dear God, I must be getting old not to even remember the day when we have this much food before!" He turned to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, can you see any white hair on me?!"

"If I did see one, I won't tell you." He replied as he took a piece of chicken into his bowl with a chopstick.

Kagome chuckled. "Don't worry, Miroku you still look as young as always."

"Thank you, Rin. Now if you want me to repay you,"

"Ahem." Sango cleared her throat before speaking. "Rin, you should try this. It's tempura, your favorite!" She dropped a shrimp tempura at her bowl.

"Thank you." Kagome look at it. 'It does look delicious.'

"Sango, I won't do anything that might offend our dear Rin." Miroku look shock. "I was about to give her this piece of beef." He dropped a cooked beef into her plate.

Both Sango and Inuyasha rolled their eyes.

"So Rin, how old are you now?" Sango asked.

"Well..." Kagome deliberated for awhile. 'Let's see, I'm more than a hundred, about five hundred and nineteen, so that's makes me around the age eighteen in human's standard.' She thought to herself, before finally answering, "Eighteen."

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "That's why, you seem immature." He comments before taking a bit of a piece of chicken.

"Inuyasha!" Sango shouted.

"That's okay Sango; I guess some people are just like that." Kagome look at him, and then back at Sango with a smile. "People who don't know how to shut up."

Inuyasha chocked as he took a sip of water. "W-what?!"

"You haven't touched your food yet, Rin!" Sango immediately changed the subject. "You don't like it?"

"No, it's not that," Kagome stared at her bowl that was filled with cooked rice, a shrimp tempura, and a piece of beef that Miroku gave to her.

She counted to five before she pick up the shrimp tempura with her chopstick and held it firmly near her mouth. 'Here's goes nothing.' Her first bite of food.

Kagome's eyes widen when she chew it. "It's delicious!" She took another bite of the other food on her plate.

"I'm glad that you like it, Rin." Sango smiled before taking a bite of her food.

"If I didn't know that food were this delicious, I would have eaten it a long ago." She took another tempura from the plate. "What's this called again?"

Sango was surprised. "It's called tempura. How could you not know if that was your favorite food?"

"I forgot that's all." Kagome took a bite of rice. "And this?"

 
"Cooked rice." Miroku answered. 'Maybe the people in Osaka don't eat cooked rice. Nah that can't be it.'

"Wow! You know I've never eaten food like this before. I mean I never even tried eating a mortal's food." Kagome replied as she took another bite.

Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha stared at her like she had two heads growing beside her neck.

"What?" They replied together in unison.

It hit her. She was to pretend like a human, not a goddess on vacation. "Um..." She lowers her head as she tries to think of a convincing answer. "I mean I was in the train for a long time, and I kind of forget what it is like to eat real, delicious food like yours Sango."

"Oh, I see." They went back to eating.

Kagome sigh a relief. 'That was close.'

She went back eating, well, actually, gorging the food, as they stared at her as she finished the first bowl, her second, her third, the list goes on and on until the tenth bowl, she was full.

"That was delicious Sango!" She rubbed her tummy, and then burped. "Oops, sorry."

"That's okay." Sango and Miroku took the empty plates from the table. "If you like my food so much, then it will be my excuse to make you more."

"Really?!" Kagome's eyes brighten with joy.

She nodded as she went to the kitchen with Miroku, leaving Inuyasha and her alone.

"You know for a girl, you sure can eat a lot." He replied.

"I take that as a compliment." Inuyasha only shook his head as he got up and went to the bathroom, just down the hall from the dining room.

She stood up and walked toward the living room. It's time for exploring again. The last time, she didn't even get to explore around because of a certain someone.

She climbed up the stairs and check all of the rooms (except the one at the far end), including the closets. She finally reached the last room in the hallway and pushed the door in. It was a lot bigger than the other two bedrooms she saw earlier. A King size bed was in the middle of the room with navy sheets, a big heap of covers and pillows were piled on top of it, and another door at the far end of the room lead to another bigger bathroom.

She was astonished by how luxurious the room actually was. Along the wall toward the right side of the bed, hung a fairly old sword. 'Somebody must really enjoy collecting swords. 'She yawned and slowly stumbled toward the bed. 'I hope no one minds if I sleep a bit.' She lay on the silk covers; amazed how soft it is, and worked the tangled blankets around her body. And soon enough, she was asleep.

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Inuyasha walked out from the bathroom and went to the dining room, only to see that Rin wasn't there anymore. "She must be helping Sango do the dishes." Not even bothering to go see if she was actually in the kitchen, he went upstairs. "I need a shower."

He walked towards his room, taking his time, until he noticed that his door was open. 'Didn't I close it?' He shook his head as he walked in, but stopped halfway across the room as he finally noticed the out-of-place lump on his bed, and decided to investigate.

He finally realized it was her. "Get off my bed!"

Kagome automatically jerked upward, hitting Inuyasha's head along the way. "Oww." She rubbed her forehead.

"Wench!"

She looked at him, and noticed he was also rubbing his forehead. "What was that for?" She angrily shouted at him.

"Why are you doing in my bed in the first place?" He barked back.

Sango happened to be passing by the door and heard all the yelling. Quickly realizing what was going on she rushed towards her cousin. "Rin!" then she noticed Rin was holding her head. "What did you do to her, Inuyasha??"

"What did I do? I didn't do anything! She was the one who was in my bedroom without my permission in the first place!"

"I didn't know it was your bedroom! There was no sign that said: 'Inuyasha's Sleeping Palace, do not enter' on the door!" Kagome glared back.

"Why you little--"

"Inuyasha." Sango stood in front of him with a warning voice, then turn around to face Kagome. "Rin let's go to my bedroom instead. It's a lot safer in there."

Kagome got up and then followed her out of his room. "Tori was right, he does have anger management problems." She mumbled before she left.

"I heard that!" Inuyasha shouted behind her. She didn't answer back. Maybe she didn't hear him, or maybe she did, but chose to ignore it. 'Wait, how does she know Tori's name?'

"Inuyasha, how could you just refuse, a young, beautiful maiden? Especially while she is on your bed, alone and vulnerable," Miroku put a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder.

"Miroku." His voice sounds dangerous.

"Oh I think Sango called me a minute ago." Inuyasha didn't hear Sango call him… "I think I better go see what she wants," Miroku excused himself from the room.

"Two wenches in one day, it must be a curse." Inuyasha rubbed his temples.

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"I'm sorry, Sango."

"That's okay. You didn't know it was Inuyasha's room." Sango replied as she got ready for bed. "It's not much, but at least my bed can fit two people on it."

It didn't feel soft and silky like Inuyasha's but at least it was comfortable.

Kagome smiled at her. "Thank you."

She only smiled in return as she walked out. "I'm going to brush my teeth okay?" Not waiting for an answer, she left.

Kagome chuckled when she heard a slap from the hallway.

"Those two are meant to be together." Earlier she saw the red string around their ankles. "But it will be awhile for Sango to admit her true feelings for him." She sighed as she lay down on the bed. "I hope everything will be alright tomorrow," she whispered before sleep had claimed her.

AN: You don't know how many times, I have to type Rin instead of Kagome in this chapter. Well, I have to get used to writing like that for awhile. This chapter is quite longer than the rest, but I think the next chapter might be shorter, though. I don't know yet, but at least I finished writing this chapter.

Special thanks to: lovinsesshomaruisnteasy, my beta