The first thing she felt was something pressing against her back, making her feel... good, for some odd reason, then a tough patch of skin on her smooth stomach and an arm, a strong, yet gentle one, around her waist. She sighed, snuggling back into the warmth of the something, grinning as if she had just found a hut with a blazing fire during a snowstorm. she felt the rustle of the sheets as she snuggled back... against her bare skin... in some very personal places... which meant she was...

"EEEP!" Her eyes shot open and she leapt up from the bed out of the grasp of the something, then turned to see the thing had silver hair, cute little puppy ears, and that gentle peaceful look of sleep of our favorite little fella with puppy ears (AN: NOT SESSHOMARU! SORRY FANGIRLS!). This look was suddenly ripped apart by a cavernous yawn, as the love of her life opened his gorgeous amber eyes, she smiled, and mentally reprimanded herself, "It's only Inuyasha, Kagome, calm down! Jeez!" She set her fond gaze upon the young man, only half awake in her, no, thier bed and thought back, back to all the looks, wry grins and rare smiles he had given her ever since she met him on that fateful day, when the jewel came so unexpectedly into her life.

The jewel. Those two words unlocked a wealth of memories, sights, sounds, faces, and Inuyasha. Inuyasha. The man who she started out hating, but even in the beginning, she saw something in him, something pure, good, unable to be tainted by the vices of humankind. She grew to love him for that little spark of good in him, that little spark of humanity that she carefully helped nurture, and help grow through trust, devotion, and... and love. She loved him, and she knew that totally know. There was no denying it. 'I love Inuyasha'.

"Inuyasha," she whispered under her breath. It was a truly beautiful name, Inuyasha, at least to her it was, anyway. Inuyasha looked up, question written in his eyes and all over his face, as if he were about to ask in his very annoyed tone, 'what wench?'

That expression vanished after about one tenth of a second before he looked as if he were a puppy goggling at a rather juicy steak, his eyes wide, a look of awe changing his facial expression faster than a set of traffic lights. "You aught to wake me up like this more often Kagome!" She looked down and, to her utter horror, realized that in her haste to "escape" from him, she had completely forgotten to cover up.

Now that she thought about it, she gave him a lookover as well, and a small smirk covered her initial look of mute horror. "Same here..." she replied, her voice honeyed with a seductive tone as she turned around and shook her rear at him, as if taunting him with it. She turned to face him and found him drooling. It was simply too cute for her to handle. This made her laugh out right, her gentle, high laugh ringing like a bell, clear and chiming, through the small bedroom. She took a small whiff of the air and smiled. 'Pancakes! YES!' she thought with glee, not knowing that she had made a critical mistake in her analysis, but letting the four mystery scents downstairs slide for now.

"Inuyasha come on! were having something awesome for breakfast!" She called from the far side of the room, picking up the towels from their shower last night, thrown aside in the midst of the previous evenings "activities".

Inuyasha's head perked up, he didnt even bother to sniff at all. "RAMEN?!" he gave an ecstatic cry of glee, as he started to drool once more. She shook her head, smiling 'he is such a child!' she thought bemused.

"No silly, its pancakes! theyre great, I know you'll like them!" she said sweetly, her words given a little extra honey. At the word "no", Inuyasha's face fell, as it always did when he was denied his favorite food in the world. He gave a simple "oh", then whipped back the sheets as it was Kagome's turn to gawk at her godly hanyou. That's right, hers. Not Kikyo's, hers. Forever. She smiled at that, then though, 'yeah, forever. Just me and you boy!' She watched as he threw on his under kimono, then his trademark fire rat haroi and hamaka.

She herself slipped into a pair of skin tight jeans, to Inuyasha's protest, and to Kagomes horror as he said "that ass is mine to look at and no one elses! you are so not wearing that!" so she shied away from the jeans and went for the more conservative route, as in red sweatpants and a baggy red t-shirt with a little blue kitten on the front, with the words "too cute for you" written under it. She gave herself a look over, and thought "with Inuyasha, red is of course the obvious choice, but red with me? I just dont know, but we shall see!"

She gave him a mock huffy look and snapped, "Are you satisfied now, ass-owner?"

He simpy smirked. "Damn right about the title, and yes, I am satisfied!" She sighed in defeat. 'He's hopeless, but I love him anyway!' she thought, then opened the door and took his hand.

"Shall I escort you to breakfast... ass-owner?" she said coyly, and in the pause, she had taken his hand and put it smack on her rear end, letting him get a good feel of her quite desirable hindquarters. She brushed her actions aside with a simple thought going on the lines of, "hey, we're mated, so i can be as perverted as i want!' She grinned, and thought "I'm getting as bad as Miroku, maybe even worse Kami forbid!" She removed the hand from her rear, and began to lead him down stairs. They were both grinning to the point of having sore cheeks as they walked down the stairs into the living room, right in front of the four people Kagome did not want to see right now. Her first thought, echoed mentally by Inuyasha, "oh shit!" Three girls and a guy were sitting in the living room, all in school uniforms, the young man looking especially dazzling in the black shirt and slacks.

There was a gasp from the three girls as their eyes widened, then they started screaming their heads off about how cute they looked and stuff like that, then one of the girls went for one of her puppy ears, thats when Inuyasha stepped in. "Please back away from Kagome, she's not in the best of..."

A hand was quickly placed over his mouth, then Kagome whispered gently in his ear, "Dont worry, Inuyasha, I'm not hiding in a web of lies anymore, I want to tell them." Inuyasha gave a small nod, then backed away promptly once he was released, as the questions came in an unbelievable barrage of the girls high, shrill voices that nearly blew her eardrums out.

Kagome quickly raised a hand, and the din silenced almost immediately. "Look, Im going to tell you everything, so take your seat back on the couch and it will be explained to you in full. Your getting the real story of what happened during the last two years, so try not to interrupt, and Hojo, if you get confused, just tell me and I'll try and clarif...."

She gave a sniff, "breakfast is getting cold, I'll tell you after we eat!" She leapt into the kitchen in one small leap, which made Hojo's jaw hit the floor.

"How on earth did you do that!" He said in awe, his eyes wide, bearing an uncanny resemblence to that Harry Potter movie character Ron Weasley when he's spooked. She turned, her mane of hair sweeping to the side, and she gave him a small grin, which was answered by a small growl from Inuyasha. "Ill tell you over breakfast..." she said happily, checking a note from mother that said she was "out." She sniffed it, just to pick up her mothers scent if she would need it in future, she didnt know, but it was good to be prepared for the worst.

"Naraku can't be the only evil out there..." she thought, her thought taking an undesirable turn towards her mothers whereabouts. "What if some demon has her..." She was suddenly radiating fear, which was just as quickly replaced with a smile, and thought "If she could stand "The Great Inuyasha" down, then nobody could take on my mom and live to tell the tale!" She laughed at the very thought of seeing her mother chasing Naraku in his baboon pelt, running for dear life around the kitchen, belting him over the head with a rolling pin.

Her ears twitched, she could hear whispering in the dining room.

"Are you sure thats Kagome?" she could hear Eri whisper.

"I dont know, because if it is, little Kagome has a LOT of explaining to do!" Yuka whispered back. She could hear Ayumi barely supress a giggle.

"And did you see that absolutely gorgeous hunk she was taking down from her room?" Ayumi whispered back. Kagomes ears twitched a bit more, trying to find out if Hojou was adding to the conversation beyond her hearing.

"I don't see what's so special about him really... i mean hes got puppy ears, silver hair, probably a fairly nice body, but what does he have that i dont have?" Hojou whispered. This caused Kagome to almost scream with laughter, stunmbling towards the living room, where Inuyasha was still standing, the "Sentinel of the Living Room" so to speak.

"Inu... Inu... Inuyasha..." A huge peal of laughter, much gasping for breath and more laughing followed. "You... you have to here this, Hojou's trying to.... hmhmhmhm... compare himself with you!"

This caused Inuyasha lip to kick up in a small snarl, she forgot how much he actually loathed this guy. Then the look faded, as he looked her in the eye and raised a hand to carress her cheek. "I love you, Kagome." He said, softly and simply, rubbing his thumb tenderly over her cheek.

Kagomes face smoothed out, here eyes closing in bliss at the contact, a gentle purr coming from her as she nuzzled up to his hand, sighing, "I love you too, Inuyasha." She opened her eyes, and smiled up at him "more than you'll ever know."

At this, he gave a suprisingly philosophical look at her, "care if you give me a sample later today?" He gave her one of his sexy little grins which he knew she simply loved, she had told him so after thier "fun" last night. he remembered the moment quite clearly.

It was dark to the human eye, but almost as bright as day to the typical half dog demon, the sun setting outside the window, the Sun waving its final goodbye to the people of Tokyo, as the coupling hanyous were in the throes of passion on the small bed tucked against the wall in Kagome Higurashi's bedroom. There was a female crying out "Inuyasha!" and an answering howl from the male as he went rigid, and slumped forward on top of his mate. After a minute, he slumped to his side, and pulled her close, murmuring her name softly.

Then the female spoke up, "Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha opened bleary amber eyes to look into his mates stormy grey orbs, "yes koi?"

Kagome smiled, snuggling up closer, "you know what I really like?"

Inuyasha simply nuzzled her neck, "what do you like Kagome?"

She just smiled back at him, "I simply love it when you give me those little grins of yours, they've been driving me crazy ever since i met you!"

Inuyasha raised his eyebrows at her, "really? I was wondering why you always smelled so fucking delicious around me whenever id smile at you."

Kagome laughed and said something about him being a pompous ass as she slipped away from conciousness.

Inuyasha's thoughts snapped back to the present, seeing Kagome's shining face, grinning up at him.

Just at that simple expression, Kagome felt her heart melt, then solidify with rock hard desire making her heart race, just like every other time he gave her that smile.

He smiled inwardly, he could smell her change in scent, that enticing edge, no, bite, thats the word he was looking for, whenever she was aroused. He growled low "Kagome, I'd stop smelling like that if I were you, I dont think your friends want to hear anything... uh... you know" he blushed a bit as he ended his "threat" somewhat lamely.

Kagome gave him a wry grin, "What if I want them to hear? Not that I do, but what if I did?"

That shut him right up. "Kagome... your friends, they're still here and we have to give an explaination..." he hinted in a sing song voice.

She gave him an expression of mock surprise "Oh really? I did not know that i was about to explain WHY i wasnt in school barely at all for the last TWO YEARS!" she said in a simple voice, bouncing on her toes and fiddling with her fingers.

She was nervous, he could tell, so he did what any good mate would do, try and ease her fears with a kiss to the cheek, then to the tips of the ears. "If they are real friends, then they will understand and accept you, just as you, Sango, Miroku, Kilala, Kaede, Myouga and Shippo accepted me for who I am."

She smiled up at him then nodded. "Ok, ready? Lets go do this!" She took his hand and squeezed it tightly, leading him into the kitchen, picking up the barely warm pancakes, and striding bravely into the dining room, letting her ears show proudly. she could almost hear a play on the song "I Am Woman" going in her head. "I am strong! I am invincible! I am hanyou!" Yes. She was a hanyou, and she was proud of it. She was proud of her decision to mate with Inuyasha. What she was doing was right, she knew that full well.

She walked into the dining room, feeling her friends eyes boring into her. Ayume stood up. "Kagome, could you tell us when all this started?" Kagome was caught off guard, she was expecting her friends to be joking around with this, but now they were almost completely serious. "Great," she thought, "Now I'm having a press conference!"

"Well," she began, "it started incidentally on my 15th birthday, when i was looking for Buyo, so I went to check the wellhouse because he was too much of a wimp to check there himself. This is where it starts to get a little weird, so bear with me. A huge centipede then burst from behind me and took me into the well. I had no idea what was going on, she kept going on about a Jewel and then she hit me in the thigh and the Jewel of Four Souls poped out of the back of my thigh, care to see the scar for proof?" She gave Hojou a pointed look, due to the fact that he looked at her as if she was a raving loon. "Or if that isn't enough for you, we could show you the well, maybe even take you over to where Inuyasha lives."

This caused Eri, Yuka, Ayumi, and Hojou's eyes to bug out. "You mean he's not from this world!?" they shouted, causing both hanyous to cover thier ears.

"Not so fucking loud! Kami on high! You want to make us fucking deaf?!" Kagome yelled, then clapped a hand to her mouth, then narrowed her eyes dangerously. "Inuyasha?"

the fellow hanyou turned to her. "Hai, Koibito?" this comment caused Kagome to blush furiously and for the four friends to blanch.

"Kagome," Hojou inquired, "did Inuyasha just address you as his mate?" All four shared a devious smile and a snigger.

"For one, you are rubbing off on me way to much," She said playfully, then she got serious, "and second, please escort them to the well, were gonna show them what we've been doing and where I've been over these last two years."

At this, Inuyasha smirked, "looks like im gonna have to get the pervert beating stick out." He gave a deep throated chuckle. "This is gonna be great, id love to see thier reactions to a few demon swarms..." he thought with a wry grin.

After a few minutes all six of them were around the well. Kagome spoke up. "Okay, Inuyasha you go ahead with Hojou, and ill take Eri, then we will come back for Yuka and Ayumi."

Inuyasha nodded. "Whatever you say Kagome, they're your friends." He turned to Hojou, a pained look on his face, "get on my back, kid, I ain't got all day!" Hojou looked over at Kagome, who simply nodded to him, then he climbed onto the hanyou's back and he had no hesitation in leaping up, then dropping into the well. Hojou's cry of surprise echoed in the confines of the well for a second, then vanished as a pink glow shot up from the bottom of the well, illuminating the wood ceiling, then dying to nothing.

Kagome turned to Eri, "Ok girlfriend, its you and me next, so climb on!"

Eri simply looked at her skeptically, "there's no way you could support me, you always collapsed when we were doing chicken fights at pool parties!"

Kagome simply grinned back at her, "Eri, if you only knew, now get on!"

Eri grudgingly got onto her back, caught by surprise as she hefted her on her shoulders with ease. "God Kag! did you work out!" she said in shock.

Kagome only chuckled. "Something like that Eri, something like that." then she leapt up and down the well.

Ayumi looked over at Yuka, "You sure we really wanna know, because Im kinda scared."

Yuka gave a small laugh, "oh come on! Of course I'm sure about it! I really wanna know!"

About twenty seconds later. Ayumi fell flat on her butt as Inuyasha came bursting out of the well, Kagome in his arms, landing gently, and setting her down. Both of them were a little wet. "It's raining on the other side, so come on! Hop on! The quicker we get over, the faster we can run to Kaede's and get warm!"

This just got blank stares from her friends. "All...alright." they stammered as the two young women climbed onto the hanyou's backs. Inuyasha and Yuka hopped in first, closely followed by Kagome and Ayumi.

Ayumi watched in wonder as she saw what Kagome and Inuyasha saw every time they crossed over the well. She watched the colors of the "wormhole" ebb and flow as they floated through it to the other side. The Inu-gumi was up for a rude awakening, and Kagome thought she had found something that would probably break the inevitable tedium of camp. Yes, her friends from 500 years in the future.