OMG! I just figured out that my underscores weren't showing up! What else can I use that will show up on the Internet? .............. Ok, I'll use these. Here you are.

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Kagome gulped, and glanced around for a way out of the situation. She could feel the demonic power aura around him pulsing. That's when she saw it, and the first word that came to her mind emanated from her open mouth.

"Osuwari!"

The poor boy slammed into the ground with frightening power.

"What the hell was that?!" He screamed, pulling his face out of the dirt. Kagome backed away from the scene slowly.

"I..."

"Kagome?" Eri asked questioningly. She hadn't seen how the boy got there, but somehow he had ended up facedown in the dirt.

Her friend wasn't the kind of person to beat up on another.

"I think I need to go home now. I'm really sorry, Inu-yasha." She said quietly.

"So you do know my name! Why?!" He growled, getting up. And why the hell do I crash into the ground at the command 'sit'?

"I'll see you guys later." Kagome said, picking up her lunch box. He wasn't the one she loved. Not anymore.

"Get back here, wench!" He cried, stomping after her. He wouldn't let her get away so easily.

She ignored him and kept walking. This is trouble. Finally, she reached the large double doors that lead into the school. He followed after her.

I can hear his footsteps follow my own, and I fight the emotions that rush through my heart. This is Inu-yasha... yet... He was so different. So much kinder.

"Kagome?"

Her head snapped up.

"Oh, hey Hojou." The footsteps behind her abruptly stopped.

"Are you feeling better?" Hojou asked, concerned, thus starting a conversation. Inu-yasha shrank into an empty doorway.

'Damn, she has a boyfriend!' Inu-yasha cursed in his head.

"Yeah, I wasn't feeling well the other day..."

"I saw that strange boy running down the hall with you. I wished it had been me." Hojou said quietly.

"Hojou..."

"I never really told you, but I've liked you seriously for some time. Ever since you got sick for those weeks on end." He said to his shoes. Kagome blushed.

"I... I don't know what to say!"

"Do you want to come somewhere with me on Saturday?" He asked quickly, scared of her answer. Inu-yasha felt a sinking feeling in his gut.

"Umm... You know... I really haven't been feeling well recently... I think I need to get some rest."

"That's fine. Please tell me if you can do something later." Hojou looked heart-broken.

"I'm really sorry, Hojou. I'll catch you later!" She gave him a reassuring smile, and walked back in the direction she came.

"See you later!" He smiled back, and continued on to the library. Kagome let out the breath she had been consciously holding. Inu-yasha waited until Hojou was well out of earshot, and grabbed the girl's wrist from behind. This one was not escaping him.

A clawed hand stifled her short scream, and she was dragged back into the shadows of an empty classroom.

"You will tell me what you are hiding." He growled in her ear. She whimpered in response, and he let her go.

"I'm not-"

"I know you're hiding something from..." He broke off, his golden eyes widening.

"Tell me this, Inu-yasha. When you become a full demon with the help of the shikon's power... Will you still be who you are?" A dark-haired monk asked, his face pacified. Inu-yasha started.

"What do you mean?"

"Inu-yasha..." The man gave a tired sigh, and shifted in his bound right arm. "...Have you seen anyone perform heroic acts with a shard of the jewel?"

Inu-yasha pursed his lips. "No..."

"Then might that not mean, that in exchange for gaining the power of the jewel..." The monk paused, glancing into Inu-yasha's wide eyes. "...The bearer loses his soul..."

The boy shook his head thoroughly. Where the hell did that come from? He looked around. Before he had been in a campfire... there was something missing. Now he was in a dark room, but the thing that he always had a nagging in the back of his mind for was there.

"Ka... Kagome?"

"What is it?" She asked, mildly concerned.

"You were a part of my past... right?"

She hid her eyes behind her bangs. "Yes."

"What's the Shikon?" He asked. She snorted.

"I thought I'd never hear you say something like that."

"So you do know me."

"Quite well, Inu-yasha." She looked up at him through dark eyes. "It is what has caused me so much torment. If you would please allow me to leave... I think these things need to be revived themselves."

She turned from the room, and slammed the door shut.

'I forgot to ask her who the monk was.' Inu-yasha thought. This girl had obviously hated him in his past... 'But why can't I remember?'

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Longer than usual by nearly a whole page! YAY! I hope you guys are getting the gist of this. Some reviewers say this isn't original, but I'm getting to it. It's not gonna be one of those fruity 'kiss-and-make-up' fics.

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