Chapter 2: Surprise, surprise!

Kagome's senses slowly began to awaken as the scent of pine, sun and man (also known as InuYasha) made its way through the hazy fog referred to as sleep swirling around her head.

InuYasha?... Oh god can't I have one pleasant dream without him in it?

As the breeze blew through her hair and the sun shone in her face, Kagome began to realize something... She wasn't dreaming.

"Inu...Yasha?"

"Bout time you woke up wench. It's almost eleven am. Were you planning on sleeping away the whole morning?"

Kagome slowly opened her eyes and took in her situation. She was on InuYasha's back and they were making their way through the forest at an incredible rate thanks to InuYasha's demon speed. This was normally a typical scene in Kagome's life, but something didn't seem right. What was it?

"InuYasha?"

"Nani?"

"Could you stop for a moment?"

InuYasha slowed his pace and came to a stop on the forest floor.

"Thank you." Kagome slid off his back, took her backpack from him, and took a step back.

Oh yes, that's right...

"OSWARII!!!!!"

-SLAM-

"Why am I here?! What did you do?! Why aren't I home in bed?! What is going on?!" Kagome rattled off nearly at the top of her lungs in a tone that bruised InuYasha's ears as much as the "Sit" had his back.

"Damn woman! What the hell are you yelling for?" InuYasha kept his prone position. He had learned that in arguments like these with Kagome; if you don't have a quick exit, just stay low to the ground.

"What am I yelling for?! What am I YELLING FOR?!" Kagome finished her sentence in a near shrill tone. "Why don't YOU explain to ME why I'm in the middle of a FOREST in the FEUDAL ERA when I should be HOME in BED!"

"You're here because this is where you belong wench." InuYasha sat up but didn't face Kagome. "You're SUPPOSED to be here fixing the mess YOU made when you shattered the jewel. NOT in your crazy world chasing boys and taking tests. Be mad at me for all I fucking care, but you're stuck here. We're about six hundred miles away from Kaede's village. That's about a four-day trip on foot at a human pace. Even if you did run."

"So...so you kidnapped me in the middle of the night and dragged me here, and now you're refusing me passage home?"

Kagome was so was too angered, saddened, hurt and confused to respond.

How... how could he? He... he promised.

Kagome lifted her bag onto her back and started down the path in the direction they had been heading. She didn't really know where they were going, but she did know that she couldn't look at InuYasha in the face at that moment.

As Kagome walked past him, InuYasha's mind finally registered something....

What the hell is she wearing?!

.......................

There was this one time, about three months ago, that InuYasha had been left alone with the TV late at night. Innocently, he had hit a button on the remote and changed the channel to something called "Bad Girls Unleashed" or something like that. Thankfully, he didn't have to be subjected to the hentai picture box for long. Kagome had walked in the room almost right after InuYasha had bumped the remote. She had promptly changed the channel back to cartoons or something else as innocent and turned off the TV. InuYasha had forgotten about the incident until now.

Right now, the embarrassed hanyou was engaged in a losing battle with his mind, trying not to imagine Kagome in the indecent acts he had seen the girls on the screen engaged in. Did all girls from the future dress in such improper ways?

I mean, sure. I grabbed her out of bed unexpectedly, without warning, but she shouldn't be wearing such a thing, even to bed! What if Miroku knew that she wore stuff like that?! He'd never let her alone.

Since Kagome had not expected to be leaving until another day from when InuYasha had so suddenly abducted her, she had not fully packed. She had some basics. Her bathing supplies, some food and cooking supplies, first aid kit. She had not yet had time to pack clothes, a sleeping bag, or even a blanket. Thankfully, included in her bathing supplies was a pair of thong sandals. So she had put those on and was now walking steadily down a forest path in the middle of nowhere dressed in black underwear and bra, a sheer, almost see-through black slip, and a pair of black thong sandals.

Well, at least I match...

Kagome let out a growl in frustration.

"InuYasha." She said calmly.

Kagome had not spoken to InuYasha since she had first walked away from him that morning. It was Dusk now and her sudden utterance of his name startled him.

"H...hai?"

"It's getting late. There's no way I can sleep outside tonight. Would you please find us some shelter, soon?"

Kagome stressed the words "outside" and "please" in a way the made the half demon cringe. He had taken down demons four times his size and battled gods, yet he was afraid of a highschool girl.

"Hai."

Make that terrified.

............................

Oh boy, did InuYasha ever find shelter! The shelter he found was an abandoned estate! About two acres in size, the estate boasted a large, two story main house, an amazing garden with waterfalls, lakes and rivers, at least a dozen servant homes and even it's own hot springs turned bathing pools. Kagome couldn't believe her eyes, it was beautiful!

"InuYasha."

"Hai."

"Are you sure this place is abandoned? I mean, look at this place!"

"There's not a soul in a mile radius. Do you sense any ominous spirits or curses?"

"No..."

"Then is should be perfectly safe. Come on, you wanted shelter, I found you shelter. We won't be able to find anything else before sunset."

Kagome conceded, but as they crossed the threshold, she felt the skin on the back of her neck raise at the presence of magic.

"InuYasha," Kagome said as a shiver ran down her spine, "There's a spell on this place."

"I thought you said you didn't sense anything woman."

"I didn't before. Not until we crossed onto the estate."

"Well damn. What are we up against now?"

"I don't know. Stay where you are."

Kagome turned around and walked the five steps back to the threshold of the property. Closing her eyes, she concentrated her miko powers on whatever it was that she felt.

A barrier spell? What kind of barrier?

As Kagome took a step forward, as if to leave the property, she was propelled backwards as if she had slammed into a brick wall at a full out run. InuYasha rushed forward and caught her.

"What the hell was that wench?!"

"It's a barrier spell. I have a feeling we can't leave this place InuYasha."