I feel all of my tensed muscles relax against the supportive, yet supple mattress. This is the time I always look forward to, the sleep. Away from the pain of the real world. Not to mention, this is the only time I am allowed to visit Inu-yasha. In my mind, he is alive. At some points during the day, I even can sense him. Before he left me to my misery, I felt him as well. The chilling feeling, like any demon. But his was slightly different. While it made me feel cold, it would always wrap itself around me. He would always try to comfort me through the cold.

Kagome let her eyes flutter closed. Tomorrow morning, she would go to school as usual. She would wear her uniform, which would reveal all of her bruises to the world.

'I'll just say that I had a seizure.' Kagome thought with a smirk. Rheumatism. Those fools had thought she had Rheumatism. They would believe anything she told them.

Finally, sleep over took her and she welcomed the dreams with open arms. Every night, she had dreams about Naraku and how it had been before. When she so selfishly tried to take Inu-yasha from his true love. But he said he loved you before he left.

"Kagome! Boil water!"

"No! We all ready ate my lunch box that I packed for us! Don't tell me you're still hungry!"

"Woman, I told you I eat more than you wimpy humans! BOIL WATER!"

"Osuwari!"

"Bitch! I just wanted some fucking ramen!"

"Osuwari! And stay down. Your manners are atrocious."

Sango giggled. Kagome and Inu-yasha had a lot of these 'conversations'. Most of them ended with a pissed off Hanyou in the dirt.

"Manners?! Since when do demons have manners?!" He spat, lifting his head from the mud.

"Hey, you aren't all demon." Kagome snorted. This struck a nerve.

"You know that hurts my feelings, Kagome." He said, not bothering to get up from the ground. Hearing this, Kagome rounded on him.

"Feelings!! You are talking about feelings? Since when should I care about your feelings?! You haven't cared about my feelings this entire time!"

"Kagome, that's not true." He muttered, slowly getting up from the dirt. Miroku and Sango both looked at Kagome in interest. How well would she take this one?

"You infuriate me, Inu-yasha." She said coldly, crossing her arms. "If you care, why do you always run to her when I need you most?" Inu-yasha's mouth hung open.

"She has a point." Miroku said with a nod. Sango agreed silently.

"Stay out of this, Houshi!" Inu-yasha growled. Sure he was right, they were both right. He, however, would never admit it.

Sango shook her head sadly, and turned back to her heraikotsu. Kagome huffed loudly.

"I'm going to go take a bath. Houshi, if I see you ANYWHERE near the hotspring, I will personally see that your pathetic face is broken." Kagome said sadly. Miroku gulped.

Her dreams usually ended here, but the next night they would continue on. She was slowly re-living her experiences in the Sengoku Jidai.

The next morning, Kagome woke earlier than her usual six AM, and dressed into her uniform slowly. More painful memories swept over her, like that one time he had gotten her to drop her guard. For the first time in ages, she blushed. How dare he take advantage of her feelings! Then he must have known...

Her arms shook violently, and she sat down quickly in her chair.

"Stupid Kagome. You don't need to think about that now. He's gone, and he's always gonna be gone." She ran her fingers through her matted hair, and gazed at her reflection. The kids at school would laugh. What ever, it's not like it matters any way. Kagome sighed miserably, and began stuffing things into her bag. She would start out early for school. Maybe she would stop off at the super market before hand to get some pocky. Shippo always ate pocky.

She sniffed dramatically. Time to go. Kagome hauled her bag over her shoulder, and left the house silently. She heard Souta stir in his room before she shut the door silently.

Then she felt it. The bone chilling aura of-

"Higurashi!"

Kagome spun around. "Hojou?! What-?"

"I was just coming to pick you up, your mom said you were coming to school today. (I've called every day, and she said you were sick.)"

Kagome sweat-dropped, and gave him a 'You are so pathetic' look. Naturally, it just flew over his shoulder.

"Lets walk now, Kagome!"

(A/N: There's no doubt that he was waiting for her all night. Stupid Hojou. Too bad we love him so much, or I would have thrown him away sooner.)

The end (of chapter 3, that is)

I'm SO SORRY! I would have had this out earlier, but I literally had to beat an old lady (my mom) with a stick to get back on the computer! School has started, and I'll have these to you eventually.