Chapter Three: The Meal to remember.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome. He surprised himself as a feeling of intrigue rise inside him. "Why did you stop caring what other people think?"

Kagome spun on her heels and clench her fists until her small knuckles turned white. "Because the screw-ups like you are the ones that are doing the thinking. Judge Mental Bastard."

Kagome stocked of not paying one speck of attention to the fuming Inuyasha and marched back to the camp fire where Sango and Sesshomaru sat debating on something or another. "Hey guys what's up."

Kagome was grateful for the warmth of the fire. The sun was going down and the temperature dropped drastically. She felt her checks flush as the heat seemed to wrap around her like a large blanket.

"Nothing, just Fluffy here thinks the people who rides horses and enters into competitions like show jumping and cross country is a rich snob." Sango laid flat on her stomach on one of the soft fleece blankets that seemed to be spread all around the fire. The latest edition to Horse Life magazine lay opened in front of her.

Kagome scrutinized Sesshomaru, even when he was sitting he appeared to be tall and leanly built as Inuyasha is. His thin lips where pursed into a thin line giving him a menacing look. Though Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had the same amber orbs they were different. Inuyasha had widened young looking eyes filled with soulful pride and strength while his brothers were slated almost almond shaped eyes.

Sesshomaru did not have dog ears as Inuyasha did. Instead he looked like he had elf ears, pale and fairly pointed. But the dark blue moon on his forehead and pink eye shadow drew deep into her intrigue. She smiled evilly and poked Sango in the ribs to get her attention. "Hey, Sesshomaru, Why do you wear eye shadow? I though that was just a girl thing."

Sango's hand flew to her mouth as she half-heartedly tried to stifle the laughter that sprang up from her throat.

Sesshomaru looked up from his book in his lap and turned his menacing gaze towards Kagome. "What! I do not wear eye shadow. I was born with these markings."

Kagome crossed her arms over her chest in a determined manner. She wasn't going to be thrown that easily. "Prove it."

"What?" Sesshomaru snapped his dark bond book shut. And rolled his eyes in frustration.

"You hear the girl, prove it. Prove that you are not some pansy cross dressing freak that finds it a thrill to wear pink eye shadow." With a smile wide on her face Sango sat up and placed a few more sticks into the fire. She was starting to feel the chill from the night air.

"How boring." Sesshomaru took one of his clawed fingers and ran it gingerly over the lid of his eye and held it out for Kagome and Sango to see.

They lean forward and examined it closely. True to his word there wasn't a speck of pink on his finger. Sango stood refusing to lose to the white haired fluffy-tailed freak. She walked around the crackling fire and sat down in front of Fluffers. Her face was an inch from his. "You didn't rub hard enough."

Sesshomaru looked and Sango somewhat shocked. He had never let a girl or anyone of that matter this close to him. Her sent corrupted his senses. She smelled of clean soap and mint.

She took her finger and ran gently it over his eyelid. "There." Sango looked at her finger tip. To her surprise there was no pink powder on her finger. "You were telling the truth." Sango looked up at Sesshomaru, their eyes connected. With there adjoined stares about a million feeling past through them. 1...2…3…Then it was broken and they were both left with a feeling of emptiness.

Sango let out a loud fake yawn in Sesshomaru's face and stretched her arms. "Well, Its time for me to hit the old dusty trail." With that she stood up and hurried off to the sleeping tent.

Sesshomaru stood frozen to the spot with his eyes wide. 'I never had anyone that close to me and yawn in my face.'

Kagome smiled playfully. She knew that her friend had just made a scene just to get away from Sesshomaru, not because she was wrong in the whole eye shadow debate, but because she was she was going to feel something for the ruthless demon that sat across from the slowly dying fire. "That was weird."

"Frightening, was the word I was thinking of." Sesshomaru smirked and nodded politely to Kagome. "Good night, tell Sango I said the same."

"You're not coming to the tent?" Kagome stood up and enstinguised the remains of the fire.

"No, I think I am going to go for a walk first." Sesshomaru muttered and walked off disappearing into the shadowed mist of dead night.

Kagome shook her head smiling at the thought of the odd demon brothers. She picked up the magazines Sango had left and a lantern and headed back to the sleeping tent.

Sesshomaru trudged through the crisp dark colored leaves as he walked. He was following the sent of his brother who had ventured off after getting screamed at by the ebony hair girl that was called Kagome.

He had no idea what his brother had said because he said it too lightly and gingerly for his high hearing to pick up over Sango trying to prove that she wasn't some rich snob as Sesshomaru had so labeled her type. Of course he didn't think Sango was a snobby girl with a rich daddy but that didn't matter at the moment.

What ever Inuyasha had said it struck a sensitive nerve setting her off like a ticking time-bomb. Though Inuyasha refused to show it to anyone, least of all him, that he was intrigued by the girl.

Sesshomaru pulled himself out of the depths of his thought in time to catch the redirection of Inuyasha's sent. It was now above him mixed with the smell of bark.

"Sulking in a tree again? I have never seen you get so flustered when a girl tells you off." Sesshomaru leaned his back against the rough, hard, truck of the tree in which Inuyasha sat a few feet above.

"Shut the hell up Sesshomaru." Inuyasha tapped his claw-like nails aggressively against his knee that was covered by dark denim jeans.

"Why did I strike a nerve?" Sesshomaru felt an amused smirk come across his features. "I think she likes you."

"What do you know you fag?" Inuyasha scuffed at the fact that Sesshomaru knowing anything about the way anyone felt. He didn't have any feeling; he was a cold empty shell. And in some way Inuyasha envied him because of that.

"Let's go back." Sesshomaru kicked of the trunk and dusted the stray flecks of bark of his t-shirt and jeans.

"Why are you cold, poor thing?" Inuyasha asked sarcastically. He jumped down from his perch and landed in the crouching position.

"We don't get cold, you idiot." Sesshomaru stuffed his fist gingerly in his pockets following the sent of burning oil most likely from a lantern and clean soap.

"Sarcasm is not in your vocabulary." Inuyasha muttered and walked along his half-brother. "You need a dictionary."

"Oh it is in my vocabulary. I just choose not to use it."

They came out of the wood and walked over to the orange-lit tent. They stopped a few paces away as two girl voices invaded their hearing.

"Come on, Sango-Chan, tell the truth, what was with the goo-goo eyes you were giving each other back at the fire." plopped down on her dark red sleeping bag and watched her friend pace back and forth like she did most nights when she couldn't sleep.

"Nothing, Kagome can you just drop it. Anyway I don't trusted him enough to feel anything whether it be fury of liking." Sango picked up her square brush and pulled the ponytail out of her hair letting it fall lazily around her shoulders and down her back. "Yeah well what about you and Mr. Cocky, his name is Inuyasha right."

Kagome blushed and she quickly turned her head in hopes to hide it from Sango. As quick as it was it didn't escape Sango's attention. "Nothing, I hate him just like I hate the rest of the male species."

"Right, well, I don't believe you." Sango sat down Indian-style on her lush-green sleeping bag. "You know you are having some sort of feelings for him…." Near the end of her statement Sango cutoff as the two boys walked in the tent.

This of course did not stop Kagome. She smiled and said mildly. "Does humor, envy, and fury fit into that category?" Kagome turned her pillow sideways and turned her back on them so she faced the cream tent wall.

"Good night, Kagome-Chan." She smiled and lay back on her own pillow. "Good night guys." She turned the switch of the lantern and was wrapped in a blanket of cool darkness.

"Good night." All three said in unison.

The night went through peacefully and for the first time in three months Inuyasha slept. As first light peeped through the crack in the tent opening Inuyasha sat up and wiped the last sands of sleep from his eyes. When his eyes adjusted to the dimness' of the light he glanced around the large tent.

Sango laid curled up among pillows both hers and Kagome's. Sesshomaru was laying flat on his back dosing. Inuyasha knew this because his breath wasn't as slow and deep as that of Sango's.

Inuyasha was about to lay back down and go back to sleep when he realized something was missing. He realized that Kagome was missing. He yawned lazily and stood up walking out into the morning gray world.

He walked over to a nearby tree and leap carelessly on to one of the branches. He perched himself easily side ways with his leg cocked up so he could rest his arm on it. He sighed lazily and watched as the sun grew in power and the sky turn grey… then navy blue… to purple…to pink. He watched as the last stars disappeared from the sky and fluffy white clouds gathered here and there.

Kagome walked quietly out of the woods. She had woke up fairly early and changed into a pair of jeans with lots of holes around the knees and a dark long-sleeved shirt without much struggle. She had watched the night sky began to fade and the moon disappeared and sun showed its face.

She took a bottle of water out from the cooler and decided to take a walk in the woods. After about a fifteen minute walk Kagome had finished the water and began to head back. She wanted to get back to camp before the rest began to worry about her. She sighed and rolled her eyes 'I mean before Sango worries'

She walked over to the boulder that she had sat on the night before and propped herself against it. It wouldn't be long before everyone would be awake and ready to eat. For some reason that reminded her of the leader, Little Big Bear. She hadn't seen him since he had passed out after the group had tormented him about his name. 'He probably did get eaten by a bear.'

Kagome laughed light-heartedly and turned on her side. She skimmed over the horizon until something silver caught her eye. As she walked closer she saw it was Inuyasha who was staring at the horizon. She would had thought that he had no idea that she was there except for his dog ears that pecked up from sleep tousled hair were transfixed on her.

"Are you hungry Inuyasha?"

"Yes." Inuyasha responded with out looking away from the sky.

"Well let's go make something." Kagome walked off and began to start a fire. After a few tries the wood and crumbled paper turned to ash as the fire sprung to life. She placed the pan on the fire trying to be careful not to burn herself. She cracked four eggs and let them spill onto the pan taking some of the shell with them. 'Oh well, no one will notice.'

She picked up a pair of chopsticks out of the case that sat along side the other supplies and flipped the eggs. She carefully slid the large golden white omelet onto and plate and began to slice it with a knife.

"Good Morning." Sango came out of the tent dressed in a pair of jeans and a light green turtleneck. She stretched lazily and headed towards Kagome a followed by Sesshomaru who wore a black turtleneck and a pair of baggy jeans.

"Owww." Kagome dropped the knife and stuck her cut finger in her mouth.

"Stupid." Inuyasha turned her around and pulled a cloth out of his pocket and gingerly ripped a long piece off with his teeth. He careful wrapped it around her finger and tied it in a knot at the ends.

"owwww."

"Baby." Inuyasha picked up a plate of eggs and sat down in the dirt sticking the whole plateful in his mouth. Kagome handed plated to Sesshomaru and Sango along with a pair of chopsticks and smiled before taking a plate herself.

"AAAAAAhhhhhhhh…" Inuyasha sprang up and spit the food into the fire. "What the hell is that? It's disgusting."

"What!" Kagome picked up the skillet she used to cook the eggs on and took a swing at Inuyasha's head connecting across the left check. "How dare you …you …you pig."

Sango clapped loudly. "Nice swing."

Sesshomaru sniffed the food and pulled back in disgust. "What did she do?"

Sango took their plates and threw the food towards some vultures that gratefully began to eat; only to stop and fall over dead. "Words of warning do not eat Kagome's cooking."

"Yeah." Sesshomaru turned back to the scene in front of him. No Kagome had the pan in both hands swing like mad at Inuyasha screaming, "Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit boy, sit boy, sit, sit, sit, sit."

Inuyasha was now face down in the dirt flashing the rock on sign.

A/N

Well that's the end of chapter three. I hope you like it. I had a lot of fun writing it. It is now four in the morning and I have pulled an all Nighter.

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