Well well, what do you know? I'm FINALLY continuing this fic, and I am so sorry it took this long to update. My internet got shut down for the past two months, and I have had absolutely no inspiration to write whatsoever seeing as how I had no way to post. But I later obtained a floppy disk from a friend and now have a way to update! YAY! But don't get TOO excited though, because I get roughly one chance to use a cpu with internet every two weeks and considering the fact that I might not always have a chapter done when I come face to face with deadline is another story. But no worries, I probably will. And NEhoo, on with the fic!

Inuyasha awoke from his tree sat straight up to ponder on a few things. The most obvious being, "Why did I transform without reason like that last night and, why is Kagome so mad at me all of a sudden?" The other more or less significant questions that came to his mind were also a bit troublesome, (Even though quite a bit of them could easily be answered with some obvious answers) so he decided to speak to the one person, err, INSECT who had quite a few correct answers for a general amount of youkai problems; none other than, Myoga.

He hopped down out of the tree and listened to the sound that his kimono and hair made in the wind and salvaged the moment, but quickly returned to his quest to find a rather tiny informative. He tilted his head slightly lower and to the left and began to sniff the morning air. Thankfully, his nose would not be one to fail and he detected Myoga's scent and exact location within seconds. And after obtaining this knowledge, set out on the 15 to 20 foot walk towards the tent in Kirara's direction.

Upon nearing the campsite he spotted the neko and spoke to her in an old youkai language which was apparently a command to shake and, what do you know- Myoga flew off the cat and into Inuyasha's direction whom opened his right palm and caught the flea. Inuyasha looked at his closed hand a reopened it, as he began to make his usual unpleasant good morning.

"Hey, rise and shine! I need a few things answered!" he squabbled, giving poor Myoga little time to react to the amount of g-force he had quite recently received from Kirara's blasted shaking. None the less, he looked up and gazed at Inuyasha while his eyes focused and he made an attempt to respond to his lord's demands. "Ah, Lord Inuyasha. How can this Myoga be of assistance to you?" The hanyou got a certain satisfaction from these words and began to make a little distance between their conversation and the campsite.

After getting ample room to talk without the fear of eavesdropping, Inuyasha began to respond. "Well, first off and most importantly, why did I transform without reason last night?" Myoga folded his arms and nodded. "As I suspected would be your first question." ahem "Let me explain. In your most previous encounter with lord Sesshomaru, you somehow managed to wield to Kagome's pleas and reverse your transformation, correct?" he asked rhetorically, which was responded to by a "Yeah." "In doing this, you in a way, 'Halved' your transformation." Inuyasha interrupted. "Halved it?" "Yes, I will explain this as well." Myoga continued. "You see master, normally you need to kill atleast SOMETHING in your transformed state, otherwise there will be a chemical imbalance in your system and you will be in a way, incomplete. During your last transformation, you killed nothing. In fact even worse WILLINGLY YIELDED to pleas begging you to kill nothing. And when you reverted to your normal state, the chemical imbalance started to build up and eventually shot out of you." He finished, feeling a sense of pride upon a rather nifty completion of his explanation.

Inuyasha looked at Myoga with a kind of 'OOOOOhhhhh...That explains a lot' type of look on his face and after thanking Myoga for his first piece of knowledge, continued his question session with a few more items that picked at his brain. "Well, anyway, moving on; you got any idea why Kagome is so darn mad at me?"

Myoga just looked at Inuyasha and sighed a great sigh, but nonetheless prepared to answer the question with his own opinion from a third person point of view about their relationship. "My lord, have you not any concern for Kagome's well being? None whatsoever?" The hanyou almost pinched Myoga for asking such a stupid question, but for some reason, decided to respond slightly less as violently as he usually prefers.

"Of COURSE I do you stupid moron! How could you ask me such a ridiculous question!" "Now, now, don't be angry, I was merely building up to a comparison!" Responded a quick tounged flea, in a desperate attempt not to feel the wrath of Inuyasha's thumb and index finger. "What I was getting to is, how would you feel if Kagome was about to die for a more or less believable reason and it broke your heart, only to find that she was not at all serious, but concerned that you couldn't assist her in a matter and wanted to get out of your hair for a while? And even then, you found out later that you really COULD have been of assistance to her problem!"

Inuyasha thought on this for a moment, and quickly concluded. "Well, I, I'd be mad, I guess." he paused for a moment, but a moment it was, as he continued his thought verbally, giving Myoga no chance to speak. "But, I dunno, I just.I didn't know what to think! I mean, I didn't know that she cares about me all that much!" However THIS time, Myoga spoke. "Come now, M'lord, surely you do not speak the truth." Commented the little youkai, obviously having an answer within his question.

"I was just confused, I didn't want her hurt.Maybe I should go apologize to her." Myoga nodded in contempt and gave one final piece of advice. "Yes, that you should. Just do us ALL a favor and don't make us watch poor Kagome suffer anymore!" That would have been a perfect way to end his advice, but he just HAD to add that little phrase at the end of his sentence, which brought a few more questions to a certain hanyou's mind. "Hey what the heck does that mean! 'Make us watch Kagome suffer more!'"

The tiny flea responded quickly, as to make a fast exit of the scene. "M'lord, Kagome cares more for you than you think." And with that, he hopped down from Inuyasha's hand and darted off into the forest. Inuyasha felt incredibly stupid, mean, and inconsiderate all at the same time. 'Is that true?' he wondered. 'Awe, man! I've really been a jackass to her. I'm gonna go apologize right now!'

He began walking towards the tent and on the way, scolded himself possibly more crucially than anyone of any time ever has and began to feel more angry with himself than he ever had.
Kagome tossed and turned in her sleep, unaware that she was, and really began to become frightened.

"Inuyasha.Inuyasha." She repeated over and over again as images of a deceased hanyou came to her dream, now a nightmare. The memories she had from the previous night haunted her like nothing before. The one that really bothered her was the last thing she remembered was what she watched Inuyasha do before Myoga came to stop him. Mentally, she screamed out in terror and started to cry in her dream and the real world. "Inuyasha.INUYASHA!" her screams came to a climax but strangely no one heard her while they slept.

Well, no one that is, except Inuyasha who was conveniently on his way to her anyway. After hearing the second set of cries for his name, he wasted no time dashing over to the tent and hurried in to her side. He stared at her as she slept, not exactly in the soundest way she ever had before, and really came to realize just how much he cared for her. He felt a sudden calm come over him, just by being in her presence. 'How could I have thought.' he felt so angry with himself he almost struck his own face. But other matters called to his attention.

Judging by the density in her scent, he could tell that she really must be having one heck of a bad dream, and that scent was so important to him he almost grew angry at the dream. But instead acted logically and grabbed Kagome's hand and squeezed it rather firmly. And after not too long of thinking of how to wake her and what he would say, Kagome subconsciously called out his name again, giving him the perfect chance to respond.

"Inyasha!" she yelled once more, and the hanyou seized the moment. He let his right hand hold her left, and he put his left hand through her hair, and stroked it a bit. It was so soft that he just wanted to do that all day; and after taking a second or two of more staring at her frightened face, responded: "Yes, Kagome?" Even though it was not at all loud, in fact not even a normal conversing level, he knew that she would hear him. He didn't know why, but he did.

The sound of his voice caught Kagome by surprise, and she quickly awoke and stared directly at his face, in complete happiness. It alarmed her that he was there all of a sudden, but she didn't mind. Instinct came over her and "Oh, Inuyasha! I'm sorry for this, but I'll explain later." she said as she threw herself into his arms and embraced him like she never had. Both of them knew that it was all right, and both appreciated the returned hug.

"Kagome, I'm sorry I was such an idiot before. I was just-" "No, don't worry about it. It was my fault too." She interrupted rather quickly still quite happy to see that her nightmare wasn't a reality. "I was just a little upset, and I let things get out of hand." She continued, as sorry as she could be. However sincere this was, Inuyasha was not finished with his thought. "No, Kagome. It was MY fault. I was an ass and I didn't think about how you felt and wasn't sure of what you thought. Pleases forgive me."

The young miko looked up from her knew rather comfy spot on his chest and thought she was going to cry. "Really, you mean that?" she asked in hope that this wasn't a joke. "Yes, I do. And if it's no trouble, I'd like to make it up to you sometime." He responded trying to think of a way to do so. And while he thought, Kagome still struggled to believe her fortune and amount of happiness she got from hearing those words from the one she truly cared about. She knew for some time that he at least CARED for her, but she wasn't sure for how long and how much.

She then realized how rude she was being by losing her words and forgetting to respond. And before she could apologize Inuyasha began to speak. "Please say something, I'm gonna feel like an idiot if you say no." Kagome's heart jumped, and now SHE felt like an idiot. "Oh, I'm sorry, I was just not expecting that, I'm really glad you feel this way." The hanyou she was speaking to now realized HIS fortune in the matter and began to gladden as well. "Oh, thanks. But anyway, how can I make it up to ya?"

He asked in a rather upbeat tone, giving Kagome a new level of comfort to the conversation. She struggled to think of something, but just couldn't think of anything appropriate. "I'm sorry, I really have no idea how.but maybe we could make it up to each other somehow!" This gave Inuyasha new light to the conversation, and he accepted the idea. "Alright, that sounds good. But I still don't see why YOU feel the need to apologize." Commented Inuyasha, in all honesty wondering just that.

"Well anyway, I've got no idea how to do this, so, why don't you think of some things that humans traditionally do to tell each other that they're sorry." Kagome thought on this and smacked herself mentally anyway in realization of what this could mean. Something she had wanted to do for so long, but the chance never came and fate had not yet allowed it; up until just now. She spoke rashly, fearing that there would be no other chance for this to occur, and with a deep breath let her words flow. "I've got just the thing." She began, desperately trying to muster up the courage to finish the thought. "How about you take me out on a date sometime?" Inuyasha was so pleased with the thought of Kagome accepting his apology that he instinctively said, "You got it!" Giving Kagome ample reason to: Have her heart skip a beat, blush as red as she ever had, shed a tear and thank Inuyasha with the fullest extent of her heart.

"Wow! You really mean it?" and was responded with "Uh-huh. But just wait a few days until we get this whole full youkai stuff figured out, okay?" Kagome was so excited she felt she could run for ever, but maturely held it in and thanked the silver haired hanyou. "Thank you, so much. This really means a lot to me." "No prob, and thank YOU. But anyway, get dressed and get every one else up to come outside to let me explain every thing to you guys." Which was, for Kagome, incredibly easy to comply with. "Kay, I'll be right out, see you in a minute."

And with that Inuyasha got up and after about facing, began to head out of the tent. And just before he reached the door, Kagome stopped him. "Inuyasha," "Yeah?" "Thanks."

Well, what do you think? Not bad for 2 months of not writing, and again I apologize for the late update, and anyone who reviewed that I didn't get to I'm sorry, there was no way I could respond. NEway, chao, tell me what you think: is this happening too fast, does my writing seem different, or any other comments/suggestions you may have are more than welcome!