"Kagome…Kagome, wake up honey, or you're going to be late for school." Kagome jumped up and saw her mom standing above her with a broken alarm clock in her hand. "Kagome, what happened to your alarm clock?" Ms. Higorashie questioned with concern. Kagome looked at the alarm clock and then at KoKo lying on the floor, "I don't know, but I have a pretty good idea of who it was." Ms. Higorashie looked at KoKo and started laughing, "That's ok, I can buy you another one." Kagome looked up at her mom and asked, "What time is it?" Ms. Higorashie looked at her wrist- watch and said, "School starts in thirty minutes." Kagome dashed to her closet, took out her school uniform, and rushed to put it on. "Oh no, I'm not going to make it to school," Kagome said as she rushed out her bed- room door to go down stairs. "Kagome…Kagome! Slow down; I have an idea," KoKo said as Kagome opened up the front- door.- "KoKo, I don't think this is such a good idea," Kagome yelled as KoKo darted through the streets with Kagome on her back. "Don't worry; we're almost there," KoKo said as she leaped over buildings. "LOOK OUT!" Kagome screamed; KoKo was about to run into a building, but she jumped over it with no hesitation. "You don't have to worry, Kagome; I get my skills from Inuyasha," KoKo tried calming her down. "That's what I'm worried about," Kagome said. - "Here we are," KoKo said as she sat Kagome down. "See, you're not late," KoKo proudly said. "Thanks so much, KoKo!" Kagome yelled as she ran into her school. KoKo got ready to run off back to Kagome's, but Goku ran up to her before she could leave. "Hey, KoKo! You better hurry up, or you're going to be late. Where's your backpack?" KoKo quickly thought of something to say before the boy got suspicious, "Um…I'm heading back to my home. I just came here to…to…" KoKo looked around to see if anything could give her any ideas when she saw everyone carrying lunchboxes, "I just came to give my friend, Kagome, her lunch." The dark haired boy stared at KoKo then said, "So, you're not going to school today?" KoKo started to sweat and finally answered, "No, I'm sick," KoKo fake coughed and said, "You should probably get to class before you are late." - "Ok, but I hope you fell better," Goku said as he walked off. "Whew, that was a close one," KoKo said as she headed back to Kagome's house. - 'Finally, I'm here.' KoKo walked into the front- door to see Sota sitting on a kitchen chair in the kitchen. "Sota, why aren't you at school?" KoKo questioned. Sota moaned and KoKo noticed that he looked pale. "You feeling ok?" KoKo asked as she felt his head and then hers. "Oh no, you have a high fever," KoKo said in a mother, worried tone. "I know just how to get rid of it and it'll make you feel better. If your mom asks where I went, tell her that I went back to my time to check up on some stuff," KoKo said as she headed out the door. - Sango, Miroku, and Shippo – "When do you think KoKo will get back; I thought she was just going to check up on Kagome," Shippo said to Inuyasha. "I don't know! Do I look like a fortuneteller to you!" Inuyasha said with rage. "What's his problem?" Shippo questioned Sango and Miroku in a quiet voice where he thinks that Inuyasha can't hear him. "I heard you!" Inuyasha threatened. Shippo got frightened when Inuyasha said that; Shippo climbed up on Sango's should of her demon slayer uniform that she was wearing. "Hey!" Inuyasha turned to see what he thought was Kagome at first on her bike but then he realized that it was KoKo. "Hey, what you doin' with Kagome's bike?" Inuyasha said as he picked up the picnic blanket that Kagome had accidentally left. "Just came back to get some herbs of Sota; he has a high fever, and he looks pale," KoKo answered as she picked some plants that were used as ingredients. "Hey, Inuyasha? Seen any hogs or any small animals lately?" KoKo questioned as she finished picking the plants. "No, but I think I smelt a hog right before you came," Inuyasha answered as he stood up from bending down. "Thanks!" KoKo shouted as she rode off on Kagome's bike. 'Here we go…a perfect spot,' KoKo thought to herself as she spotted some hogs with tusks. 'Good thing I brought Kagome's bow and arrows…now to get the best liver from the strongest hog,' KoKo thought on to herself as she set the weapon in place. KoKo straightened the weapon, aimed for the heart, and released the arrow. "Perfect!" KoKo excitedly shouted as she ran to the hog. Before KoKo started to take the liver out, she made sure it was dead by kicking it. When she was fully convinced that it was dead and harmless, she ripped out the liver in the cleanest possible was and burned the body with some matches she had brought from Kagome's. - "Now to mix up all the ingredients," KoKo said to Sota while mixing up the ingredients in a large pot on the kitchen stove. KoKo slowly poured the medicine into a coffee cup and handed it to Sota. "Uh," Sota moaned as he smelt the medicine, "It smells horrible." KoKo smiled and said, "Don't judge everything by how it smells; besides, if you want to feel better, drink it." Sota slowly drank the hot medicine, trying to think of it as hot cocoa, and handed the empty cup back to KoKo. Sota sat straight up and thanked, "Wow, I already feel better! Thanks, KoKo!" KoKo smiled and said, "I told you it would work." KoKo smiled at Sota as if she were his mother and said, "But for now, you should get some rest." Sota walked upstairs to his room, and KoKo noticed Ms. Higorashie standing around the corner. "Oh, you scared me," KoKo said as Ms. Higorashie walked into the kitchen. "You're going to make a great mother, KoKo," Ms. Higorashie smiled. KoKo smiled back and said, "Yeah, that's a medicine that mother always made me when I was sick and when she was…" KoKo shook off what she was going to say. "Sounds like you had a great mother by how you talk about her all the time," Ms. Higorashie said as she walked over and sat next to KoKo at the kitchen. "Yeah…she was; she was always there for me in a time of need and when she needed me the most I ran to save my own life…" Ms. Higorashie picked up KoKo's chin, so she could look at her, and Ms. Higorashie said, "Your mother wanted you to be safe just like I want Kagome to be safe. You know, every day I worry about her when she's in your time, 500 years into the past."- "Hi, mom!" Kagome greeted as she walked into the kitchen and threw down her backpack. "What are ya'll talking about?" Kagome questioned as she pulled out a chair, but before Kagome could sit down, Ms. Higorashie said, "Kagome, you know that your backpack goes in your room. Go put it up." Kagome looked at her Ms. Higorashie and wined, "But mom…" - "But nothing, you don't want to grow up like a slob, do you?" Ms. Higorashie cut off. Kagome stomped up to her room, with her backpack, while mumbling so quietly that not even KoKo could understand her. "See, I don't tell her to do stuff because she doesn't like it, I do it because I love her, and I don't want her to grow up like a slob," Ms. Higorashie said as she headed to her room. "Now I expect that you and Kagome are going back today, so I will make some food for ya'll to eat when ya'll get there," Ms. Higorashie said as she walked back with a pair of socks. "Here," Ms. Higorashie said as she handed the socks to KoKo, "I don't want you to catch a cold like Sota so put these on your feet." KoKo smiled at Ms. Higorashie, sat on the table, and started putting them on. "And no sitting on the table," Ms. Higorashie added. KoKo's smile grew as she shifted to the chair and finished putting on her other sock.