Inuyasha came through the well, for the first time in nineteen years. Surprisingly enough, he didn't even notice it really. It had become a very unconscious action. It was such a routine thing, like walking through a door.

He jumped out into the wellhouse and then started searching the main shrine for her. He was not successful in finding her. He did, however, manage to stumble upon her mother.

"Inuyasha!" She exclaimed as she happily tweaked his ears. "I'm so happy to see you! Can I call you son, now?"

"What?... no. Things aren't looking that positive. Where is Kagome anyway?" He asked her.

"She's at her apartment."

"Her where?"

"Her apartment. It's the place where she lives."

"She moved out? Man, that makes things less convienient." He looked downtrodden. Now he would not only have to deal with Kagome, but he would also have to worry about tracking her down. He sighed.

"Buck up, Son!" Kagome's mom said while playfully patting his arm. "I'll take you right to her, and I'll help you make up with her!"

"You're really going to help me?" His expression brightened.

She smiled and hugged him. "You two are going to have to most beautiful children! I can't wait!"

"Oh I see! You're using me to get grandchildren! You don't actually care about my situation." He crossed his arms.

"Of course I care about you, son. But I do want grandchildren! There's no denying that. Now hop in my car!" She walked out of the shrine to her car, he followed her.

"Normally, I'd object to you using me like this, but I could use your help with this." He said as he tried to pull the car door open without the use of the handle.

"Oh, dear! Use the handle, honey! Like this." Kagome's mom ran over and opened the passenger door.

Once she had him settled into the car, she got in and began to drive. "You can explain this contraption to me later. First tell me where this apartment is."

"Oh it's about ten blocks from here, but that's not where were going right now."

"WHAT?! You mean you tricked me? Where are you REALLY taking me?" He got nervous. Just as a thief guards his possessions especially heavily, he was especially nervous about trickery today because he had pulled such a nasty trick.

"I'm not tricking you. I just don't want you to show up empty handed. First I am going to buy you some flowers and chocolates to give to her, then we can go see her."

"Oh... okay." He calmed down.

"You know, you really are paranoid, son. What did you fight about anyway?"

"I don't want to talk about it..." He said as she parked the car in the parking lot of a local MegaMart.

"Oh come on..." she said as she got out. She helped him to get out of her car without damaging it. "You can tell me, I promise I won't make a big deal about it."

"You promise?" He asked.

"Yes."

"You really really promise?"

"Yes."

"You really promise that it's a real promise and not a trick promise?"

"Good grief, you are paranoid! YES! YES ALREADY!"

"Okay..." He said as they walked through the parking lot. "I convinced Kagome to sleep with me.. NOT SLEEP WITH ME! THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN! I mean, I was in a tree, and she was in a tree and she slept on top of me! OH THAT DIDN'T SOUND GOOD! What I mean is..."

"Yeah, okay, I get it! You didn't have sex!" She let out an exaggerated sigh. "What did happen?"

"Well, I grabbed her and I didn't let her go. I didn't want to let her go home..."

"Uh-huh... then what?" She asked as they went through the doors. She picked a shopping cart. First thing she saw was a case of boquets. Kagome's mom started to look through them.

"Then she tried to bargain with me so I said that I would let her go if she took off my rosary. Then she took it off and I let go of her just to grab her up again. I kept my promise... sorta."

"That was a nasty trick..." She said nonchalantly "Red roses or white roses?"

"What's the difference?" He asked her.

"Red roses are very romantic, White roses are very sweet and are more often a friendship gesture than a sexual one."

"Well, seeing as I'm in love with her... you should get the red ones." He told her.

Mrs. Higurashi set both boquets down and hugged him again. "Oh you are so wonderful, son. I never imagined that you'd be so willing!" She picked up the white roses and put them in the shopping cart.

"Then why are you getting the white ones?!" He asked incredulously.

"Well, we don't want to overwhelm her. If you come on too strongly, she'll push you away just as strongly."

"Really? That's bizarre, but I think I've seen that happen before. Tell me all you know!"

"In time, grasshopper, in time..." Mrs. Higurashi told him very slyly.

"So tell me about the flowers and the chocolates... why do we need them exactly?"

"Because they are nice things. They are nice little things that girls like. You want to show her that you are going to try your best to make her happy. The fact that you love a girl isn't enough. Haven't heard heard the song "girls just wanna have fun"?"

"You know I haven't, but continue anyway."

"The fact that you love a person isn't the only thing that matters. Kagome isn't going to marry you and stay with you just because you love her. She's got to believe that that is the happiest thing that she can do with her life."

"But then why is the love thing so important?"

"Because the love thing causes you to want to make the other person happy. If the person trusts that you love them, they also trust that you are going to want to make them happy. You say that you love Kagome, so you do want to make her happy, don't you?"

"Well, yes, but I just assumed that being with me would make her happy. I didn't know that it was complicated at all."

"Yes, you see. Being with you will make her happy if she returns your love. There are a bunch of happy feelings that come with love like: appreciation, respect, possesiveness. All kinds of things."

"I want to tell Kagome that I love her, but I did tell her and she doesn't believe me." He confessed to her.

"Well, is it because you've been unfaithful?"

"NO!... um... not in a really long time, and that's not the problem anyway. She doesn't believe that love is a real thing." Sweat covered his face when he heard her question.

"That's not a huge problem." Mrs. Higurashi told him.

"How? How that not a HUGE problem?!"

"All you have to do is tell her about all of the little things you like about her. The other things that you feel about her that you feel compose the word love. She won't disbelieve all the little truths that you tell her."

"Oh, I see. You're even better at this than Miroku."

"Miroku, huh? How many kids does he have, probably not as many as me!" Mrs. Higurashi insisted, trying to demonstrate why her advice was better.

"Miroku's got twelve." he said as Mrs. Higurashi put a box of chocolates in the shopping cart.

"Tweleve kids?! Wow, take all of the advice that you can from him!" They entered the "Ten Items or Less" lane.

"You know, I was deliberately not taking his advice in coming here. He very told me very sternly not to come today. He said that I should give Kagome a day to stop hating me before I went to apologize to her."

As their two items were bagged, Mrs. Higurashi held her chin in her thumb and forefinger. "That is good advice." She sounded thoughtful.

"Does that mean that we aren't going now?" Inuyasha seemed a little concerned that she would not take him to Kagome after all.

"No of course not!" She perked up. She handed some cash to the checker and they left the store together.