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Inuyasha paced impatiently outside of the tent as he waited for Kagome to awake the others and bring them outside. The matter was a rather important one, and it had already been ten minutes since he asked Kagome to wake the others up and bring them out. As he walked around in the grass, which now had an inner circle and a lower level of height thanks to how many times he had stepped on each blade, he pondered to himself just how long it took to become conscious and walk a few feet.

He knew it wasn't Kagome's fault, his never failing ears told him that she had tried to wake everyone up and inform them on the matter at hand; but rather every one else's fault for simply not getting up. "Oi!" he mumbled. "That's it!" continued to exclaim the irritable hanyou as he stopped his perpetual pacing and made his way towards the tent. And as he approached the tiny little port-a-house the chatter of a few certain humans became more clear to him.

He stopped just before reaching the door and listened closely for a recent uncertain phrase that caught his attention. He wasn't sure, but he could have sworn he just heard Kagome whisper to Sango: "Guess what? Inuyasha just asked me out!" He again, wasn't sure of this so he decided to use stealth, and do a little eavesdropping.

Sango looked at Kagome and pondered on how she would respond to this. She was of course, happy for her, but wasn't sure whether or not Inuyasha would end up to be just one big disappointment. Because as far as she knew, thanks to a few months of experience, Inuyasha was pretty good at just ticking Kagome right off. But she somehow managed to put all doubt aside and place some faith in Kagome, and found a way to give the hanyou a bit too. So she put a smile on and gave her congrats.

"That's great Kagome, I'm so happy for you!" she said halfly so and halfly not. Which turned out to be a waste of thought, because regardless of what Sango would say, Kagome would be near completely unaware and totally disregard any negative thought at this point, due to overflowing joy. The young miko now was open on suggestions on what they would do for their first date, so she decided to see what her friend had in mind. After all, Sango has a great deal more experience with youkai than she.

"So, where should we go when he takes me?" she began, not realizing that she had already done something wrong. Sango quickly objected to this, in an attempt to spare Kagome some trauma.

"I'm glad you asked me, or you would been really disappointed at the end of that date. She began, as she pretended to wipe some sweat off of her forehead. This obviously, as Sango knew it would, caused question to arise within her young miko friend. "Why is that? I haven't even thought up any ideas yet." She said in respondence, growing more confused by the second.

Sango again mentally gave herself a sigh of relief, now having an opportunity to save her friend the heartbreak of a failed initial date. "Kagome, there isn't much I'm going to say on this matter, but.let him decide where you go, okay? You probably would've figured this out on your own anyway, however nonetheless I told you. The rest you WILL figure out; trust me."

Kagome wasn't sure why, but for some reason decided to take Sango's advice. She wasn't exactly sure of what 'the rest' was, not that it made much of a difference to her; she was still just grateful that Inuyasha decided to take out period, regardless of where it took place.

Meanwhile, a rather irritable hanyou became somehow MORE irritable and had long since decided to stop listening to Kagome's rather short conversation with Sango. Thirteen Minutes had been plenty long enough for a person to: Gain consciousness, stand, and walk a few feet. He felt he had waited far too long, and he let them all know it.

"Hey! Will you guys get out here already! Geeze! I sent Kagome in there 10 minutes ago to wake you guys and you still aren't up?" he screamed at the tent, quite obviously not happy about how lazy they had all become. "I ain't mad at Kagome, it's you idiots for taking so long!" he commented, being sure to clarify that it wasn't Kagome's fault.

With that, he turned around, sat cross-legged and folded his arms, awaiting the appearance of his comrades. And sure enough, within thirty seconds they were all out there; each with a different reason. Kagome, because right about now she would do just about anything that Inuyasha requested of her; Miroku, because he had a bone to pick with Inuyasha for getting so mad and yelling at him; Sango, because something was obviously pretty important to cause Inuyasha to wake them all up (He usually doesn't do that); and Shippo, because he feared for his life.

Miroku was the first to speak, and did so without hesitation. "Inuyasha, what reasoning do you have as to raise your voice at me? I have done nothing of offense!" exclaimed the monk, who was rather enjoying his perverted dream.

However, also spoken without hesitation was Inuyasha's response to the monk. "I'll tell ya why you lazy bum! Because I asked Kagome to wake you up 15 minutes ago and you were right the hell asleep all that while she tried to get you conscious!" replied an irritated Inuyasha, not at all intimidated by the monk's 'you woke me up I'm pissed' act.

And on that note, the hanyou decided to continue. "And anyway, how long do you expect to live in our world if you can't wake up even with someone's assistance!" He commented, making a rather good point. In fact such a good point, that Miroku decided not to respond and kept silent. Inuyasha decided to make sure that he had won the argument, so he waited a few seconds to see if or if not the monk would say anything back.

And during this silence, Kagome made a little confession. "Well, I'm sorry Inuyasha.it's actually MY fault.I, I was too busy talking to Sango about something, (before Inuyasha had come to the tent to listen) and I forgot to try to get them up. I'm sorry." After hearing this the hanyou just simply closed his eyes and tilted his head to the lower left. He was silent for a few seconds, and no one was certain of what his reaction would be. But most of them were leaning towards 'oh boy, here we go again...'

But nonetheless he remained silent and after a few more seconds he finally spoke. "Well then, never mind. I'm sure you had a good reason for whatever it was you were talking about."

He said, leaving the group in a gaping awe at his surprising and sudden calm. "And Miroku, I must apologize. But it wouldn't do you any harm to become a lighter sleeper!" he added, being sure to express at least a little annoyance.

Miroku was as well, quick to a calm, now satisfied with the apology. "Hmph. I accept your apology." He said smugly. However he felt the urge to continue on speaking, for there was a question on his mind that could use a nice solid answer. "But, even IF I took even 25 minutes to get up, why did your anger rise to a level of THAT intensity? I do not recall even recently irritating you."

It was a decently puzzling question, one that no one in the group even had an idea of as to the answer. Sure Inuyasha is an irritable guy, but not so much to the point where he'll get all out pissed at every little bump in the road. And so, within the second or two time period after Miroku asked the question, Myoga took the liberty of hopping up to the monk's shoulder from Kirara's back, and spoke his more than likely factual opinion on the matter.

"Ah, yes" he began "Allow me to explain. Normally even master Inuyasha would not anger to that point for a mere over sleeping incident, but recently as I have told him there has been a chemical imbalance within his veins causing him to be FAR more irritable and having a much more troublesome anger problem. In extreme situations making him more violent, and vise versa in every day mishaps more irritable."

That seemed to just about do it for the gang, and now the only question on their mind was why he had brought them out here in the first place. "Well, now that that's that, why have you woken and brought us all out here so early in the morning?" Asked a rather puzzled youkai slayer.

Inuyasha's left ear twitched in respondence to a prompt to reset course to accomplish what he had recently attempted to do, and he spoke up. "Well, now that were finally getting to that," he began.

Inuyasha told the group about his youkai blood problem and other related areas.

After a nifty yet lengthy explanation of recent events, Inuyasha stood and faced every one. "Now look, I want you guys to just bear with me on this for a while, and in the mean time we'll spend the next few weeks in search of some UN-purified Shikon shards to kill off the chemical imbalance within me so I can be restored to normal."
"And then again, this isn't your guys' problem so all except Kagome don't have to come if you don't want to." He continued, not realizing the mistake he just made. And not that Kagome didn't want to go, she very much wanted to; but she didn't like the idea that she HAD to go.

"Now wait just a minute, why do I HAVE to go?" demanded an annoyed miko. And for some reason this question just shot to Inuyasha's brain and the answer out his mouth. "Because there is NO WAY I'm letting you aimlessly wander around this era without my protection; what if something happened to you, then what!" He responded quite hastily. In fact a little too hastily as he immediately regretted his tone of voice.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to yell." He said 'catching himself.' Kagome also felt the urge to let of a little steam by shouting, but Inuyasha's concern for her just melted her anger and she became meek. "Oh, no it's alright, I was just wondering. Sorry, I guess it was a pretty stupid question." She said quite sincerely. And then suddenly had an idea.

"But, wait, what if I went with-" she began, but was cut off by an instant objection from the responding hanyou. "Uh uh, not gonna happen. There isn't a chance in all the hells I'd leave you alone around Miroku for several weeks! I do NOT trust him in areas like that."

Kagome thought on that and eventually became even more pleased for the amount of concern and thought that Inuyasha had put into for the sake of her safety. She smiled and looked at the ground but said nothing more.

Miroku also had some thought on this statement, and felt a little embarrassed. But the truth was, no matter how many scenarios came to his mind, Inuyasha's concern was for good reason. And also saying nothing more, he put his hand behind his head, closed his eyes and smiled; in an attempt to 'loosen up the tension' in everyone's minds about facts they all knew were true.

The awkward silence continued to stick around for short while longer, and after the giant sweat-drops on the backs of everyone's heads disappeared, Inuyasha came along to explaining the rest of which he intended.

"Anyway, my plan is to go the den of the youkai wolves and see if Kouga knows anything on any recent jewel shard appearances. And if not, we search aimlessly and hope Kagome senses some."

Miroku and the others ok'd the idea, but there was one concern the monk had that was important enough to discuss. "That sounds fine, but in the mean time, how do we suppress you're transformations?" Everyone knew that this question was vital and they all decided to wait and listen intently to see if there was anything any of them could do to help, but sadly, there was but not.

"That's the problem guys. There isn't."

Whadda ya think? Let me know! And you anyway, I as well noticed that my writing was a bit different these past two times around. Terribly sorry, I'll do my best to fix it. And now that I've got the internet again, I can promise at least a chapter every two weeks at the max. BTW, in case any of you are rather impatient with this kind of stuff (and I don't blame you) a friend of mine named phantomgamer01 is writing a fic about how Kouga gets his mate later on after Kagome's hand has been taken. It was originally going to be the long after sequel to this fic, but things got changed around so, not anymore. But I highly recommend reading it, it's called "What about me?" Even if you don't like Kouga all that much (like me) it IS a good fic. Surprisingly well written and intriguing. Check it out sometim! Anyway, chao, until next week!