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Dream of Me
Chapter Fourteen

"All right, Kagome. Let me see the wound, please. If it is better, I will leave you alone, and you and your friends can go and start searching for jewel shards once again." Kaede promised.

"We won't be going anywhere, old woman." Snapped Inuyasha, who was still leaned up against the wall of the house. Everyone in the room looked at him with pure shock and surprise in their eyes. "I need to train Kagome on how to use her youkai powers before we go anywhere…and I don't think it would be a good idea to go anywhere until we knew Kagome's vulnerable night…" Inuyasha told everyone.

Kagome's mother looked up. "Well, if you guys aren't going to leave, why not come stay in the future?" she suggested. "You would at least be safe enough to teach Kagome what she needed to know. There are no demons in our time, after all…"

Inuyasha seemed to be thinking about this for a moment. "It sounds like a good idea to me." He finally decided.

"Can we go this time?" Shippo pleaded, pulling on Inuyasha's pants leg.

Inuyasha looked down at the little kit, and smiled. He hadn't ever really gotten to see Kagome's time, and something that Shippo said struck his memory. "You need to go see Kagome. She's hurt bad. You have to help her like you always do…" The little kit's voice was almost pleading. "Please, Inuyasha. Please. I don't want to lose my mommy like I lost my dad…"

"Sure, kid. Why not?" Inuyasha shrugged, once more getting looks of disbelief from everyone in the room. "Why don't we all go?" He suggested. "That'll confuse that Naraku bastard, won't it?"

"I shall stay behind and wait for ye to return, Inuyasha." Kaede nodded.

Inuyasha smiled. "All right! Is everyone ready to go?" He looked around. Kagome's grandfather was already at the doorway. Kagome was contemplating whether or not she would be able to lift her notoriously heavy yellow bag, Shippo looked to be in a state of nirvana, and Sango and Miroku were busily throwing things around the hut.

Kagome's mother stared after her grandfather. "You'll have to wait, you know." She called. "We can't get back to our own time by ourselves. We have to have either Kagome or Inuyasha with us."

Her grandfather grumbled something that was hard even for the demons in the room to hear. A couple more minutes passed, and Miroku and Sango were finally ready. The group headed towards the forest.

"Do not loiter, Inuyasha!" the old woman warned as they left. "Go straight there and down! Getting yourselves caught in the forest at night is not a good idea, as ye well know!"

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When the group finally reached the other side of the well, Kagome's grandfather was still being despondent. Kagome frowned, and placed a hand on his shoulder. "What is it, Gramps?" she whispered.

"What is it?" he turned around. "It is the fact that first, you are in love with a hanyou…a demon! And now, you are one!" he screamed, and Kagome's ears flattened.

She took several steps back. "I can't believe you…" she gasped, eventually colliding with the front of Inuyasha. She looked at him and her other friends. All of them, even her own mother and brother, looked completely shocked at what her grandfather had just said to her. Their mouths hung open, and everyone stared.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha frowned, rubbing her back in an attempt to comfort her.

"So…" Kagome began. "So, it's all right for me to fall in love with someone, as long as it's Hojo…and it's okay if I died, because at least I wouldn't live as a half breed hanyou, right?" her eyes stung with newly formed tears. "How could you? I thought you were all right with everything! You endorsed my trips to the Feudal Era…you welcomed Inuyasha into our home…but you are nothing but a hypocrite in the end! Everything's all right as long as it isn't me, right?"

"Gramps…" Kagome's mother whispered. "If you had such a problem with this, why didn't you say something back there?"

Kagome shook her head. "I don't care whether or not he said a word." She snapped at her mother. "It saved my life." Kagome turned and stomped towards her house. Inuyasha grabbed Miroku, Sango, and Shippo and hesitantly followed her inside.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha sighed. "It'll be all right. I promise. Nothing is going to happen to you. We can go home to the Feudal Era if you want? No explanations necessary…"

"Home…" Kagome whispered. "I'm not sure what that is anymore."

"Kagome…" This time it was Sango who spoke. "We all love you, and we want you to be happy. You know that. You don't have to cry…"

Kagome wrapped Sango in a hug. "I know." She smiled. Suddenly, it was as if a light bulb went off inside her head. "Come on, guys! We're going to the mall!"

Inuyasha paled. "No! Anything but that!" he whined, and Miroku's eyebrow rose in curiosity.

"Yes," he smiled, "I think going to this 'mall' thing sounds like a perfectly good idea to me!"

Kagome and her friends walked down the stairs and out the door, only pausing once so that Kagome could yell to inform her mother of their destination. At Inuyasha's request, she climbed on his back. He was sure that too much walking would irritate her wound.

Outside, it was starting to get dark, but the lights and sounds of the city were not calming at all. Things were brighter and more exciting once the sun went down. Kagome pointed things out as they walked along the streets, Inuyasha looking bored, and Sango, Miroku, and Shippo (who hid himself quite well in the bag on Kagome's back) looking as if they were going to burst from amazement and excitement.

Finally, after about twenty minutes, Kagome and her friends reached the mall.

"I can walk now, Inuyasha." Kagome told him. "There is no sense in your carrying me around inside the mall. We won't stay long. You can carry me home, okay?" she smiled at the look on his face. He let her down anyway, and she grabbed Sango's hand and rushed her forward.

After about an hour, Miroku and Inuyasha got tired of all of the stores, and finally resorted to taking Shippo and heading back to the shrine. Kagome and Sango continued their shopping excursion after they had left.

Kagome pointed. "Oh, Sango! That is Victoria's Secret! They have the cutest…oh, nevermind…" she again grabbed Sango's hand and dragged her into the store.

Twenty minutes later, the two girls came out of Victoria's secret carrying two bags a piece. Kagome sighed with shopping exhaustion, and looked around for a minute. She saw a directory on the wall, and turned to Sango.

"I'm going to go over there and find a food court so we can get something to eat. Then we can head home." She promised.

"You want me to come with you?" Sango asked.

Kagome shook her head. "That's silly. I'll be fine. It's just over there. You'll be able to see me." She smiled. She loved how her friends were so protective of her.

Kagome had been staring at the gallery for some time now, trying to figure out the twists and turns she and Sango needed to make in order to get to the nearest food court. Her ears itched under the bandana atop her head, and she could tell why Inuyasha hated putting things over his ears so much. Inuyasha. He never was far from her thoughts. She smiled. Having charted their course of action, she and Sango could finally get some food, and then she could return to her hanyou love. She turned to leave the directory and ended up being pushed into the side of it.

She gasped in panic as she realized that Hojo had her pinned by her arms. He kissed her and pulled back quickly. Kagome looked horrified.

"Why, Kagome?" Hojo whispered. "Your grandfather told me everything. Why am I not good enough for you? Who is this other guy?"

"Hojo, it doesn't matter, because it's none of your business. Now let me go! You're hurting me! I'm here with a friend, and she…"

"Kagome?" Kagome saw her friend darting towards her, and in mere seconds, Hojo had released his grip on her. He now had a large lump on the head and a close, personal relationship with the floor. "Are you all right?" asked Sango.

Kagome sighed. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just didn't' know he was there is all. I'm not used to my nose yet…" she admitted. She looked back. Hojo was still on the floor. Sango had hit him hard. She frowned suddenly. "How about we don't tell Inuyasha about that, okay? I don't want him to go off killing people and everything. You know how he can get…"

Sango nodded in understanding. "I won't say a word." She promised.

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Kagome and Sango walked up to her room, carrying their bags from the various stores that they raided with them. Miroku, Shippo, and Inuyasha were already upstairs waiting for their return. They told them nothing of their trip, but rather went directly to the bathroom to change for the night. When Kagome and Sango finally emerged from her bathroom in their night clothes, the boys smiled.

Kagome opened her mouth to say something to Inuyasha, but closed it tightly when she noticed his frown. "What's wrong, Inuyasha?" she asked him.

"Who did that to you?" He demanded, pointing to her arms. Kagome looked down. She did not realize her arms had bruised from her encounter with Hojo.

"It was nothing. It has already been taken care of…" Kagome cast her eyes towards the ground. "Sango took care of him."

Inuyasha blinked. "Him?"

"Hojo."

"Inuyasha…don't worry about it. I handled the guy for you, and I doubt he'll ever bother Kagome again. Now, let's all get some sleep. I believe Kagome has some training to do in the morning, doesn't she?" asked Sango, interrupting the two hanyous before their small argument could escalate into anything bigger.

Inuyasha frowned, but he nodded. Pulling back the covers on Kagome's bed, he motioned for Kagome and Sango to climb in, and then took his own seat on the floor.

"Night, Kagome…" he whispered, allowing his head to rest on the edge of her bed.

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A/N: There's another chapter for you! Hope you liked it! Please review and let me know what you think! I will try to have another chapter up soon!