"Dammit, Miroku, you're paying for all these extra minutes!" hissed Inuyasha into the headset, eyes narrowed for the best perception in the darkness of the closet he was currently hiding in. "Will you do it already? I'm stiff as hell in here!"

"Relax," chuckled Miroku from the other side of the campus. "You don't want to be there with teachers, do you?" He glanced at the choppy images on Inuyasha's computer. "Just two more left anyhow…"

The girls leaned anxiously over his shoulders, peering at the surveillance videos of the building that Miroku had hacked into. His response to being asked how he knew such things was that his parents were eccentrics, and he grew up with one of the first computers built.

They waited a few minutes, muttered curses from an uncomfortable young man stuck in a closest droning through Miroku's ears.

"Okay, you're clear in…now!" he grinned, and typed in a quick code. Quick as a flash, everything went dark, save the laptop screen illuminating three watchful faces. "Go!"

Inuyasha burst from the closet, emerging in darkness only slightly brighter than what he was previously in, thanks to the starlight. His amber eyes had always been good at seeing in the dark, though.

He raced down a corridor and two flights of stairs, finally landing on the ground floor. He skidded at a turn, and finally came to Seta's door. He opened it without turning the knob, thanks to the piece of take he left covering the teeth part after class.

He went to the glass case on the far side of the room. Right before he lifted it up, his deft eyes picked out a laser sensor alarm that would have gone out if Miroku hadn't shut off all of Tokyo U's power.

"30 seconds, Inuyasha," cautioned Miroku in his ear. "Shut up," the thief retorted, lifting the case with one hand, the other holding the Dog's Tooth. With a quick move, he replaced the Tetsaiga with the fake, and gently dropped the case back down on its base.

For a moment, he simply stood, there, entranced by the feeling the sword gave him. He could almost feel it pulsing in his hands.

Then Miroku snapped him back to reality.

"20 seconds! Stop standing still and get out of there! They're going to check out each of the buildings to make sure nothing like this happened! So move it!"

Inuyasha blinked, and ran for the door without a word.

"10!"

He quickly grabbed the tape off the lock and headed for the main entrance as "5!" echoed in his head.

He heard the main door slam behind him as the walkway lights turned on. Just before the shapes before could focus on anything, since there eyes couldn't adjust to the light change as quickly as Inuyasha's, he raced into the shadows of the garden/tree area nearby.

He stood there, hidden amongst the foliage, clutching his prize. He slowly unsheathed it, savoring the moment. He looked at the faded and chipped metal sword, and he knew it was to be his. He could almost see claws on the fingers gripping the handle, and fur around the hilt, and a huge white fang jutting about.

"You okay, Inuyasha?" asked Miroku. Inuyasha ignored him, caring only about the sword.

"Inu-" He was cut off as Kagome grabbed the headset from him.

"Inuyasha, are you okay!?" cried a frantic Kagome.

Reality rushed back in at the sound of the girl. "Wha…Kagome? Something wrong?" he inquired, worried at the tone of her voice.

She stood there in the room, her heart racing. "You didn't answer him…I was worried…"

Inuyasha was about to comfort her, secretly glad she cared about him. But, he remembered Miroku and Sango were there, and forced a "Keh" instead.

"What's a matter?" he smirked. "Getting all worried about me, wench?"

There was a pause on the line, long enough to make Inuyasha worried that he had seriously offended her. "Uh…Kago-"

"SIT!" crashed through his ear.

He kissed the ground, still clutching his sword as he left his imprint on the ground.

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They all sat around the boys' room, gazing at the sword Inuyasha held.

After a couple of moments, Miroku made the first comment.

"It looks like a piece of shit," he said, matter-of-factly.

Inuyasha smacked him in the head with the metal sheath, growling slightly. "Don't insult my sword, monk," he warned.

Kagome was looking thoughtfully at the sword. "You said it could transform, right? Into a powerful form?"

"Yeah…" said Inuyasha. "But I'm sure there's no way I can fully transform it…I probably just have the barest trace of demon blood left."

Kagome turned in the chair and faced Inuyasha's laptop...which was plugged in, now that power had been restored.

"I'll research it for you," she said, and headed towards Google.

Inuyasha looked at her back, as she looked up information for him. She's so good to me…and caring. Damn, I think I'm falling in love with this woman…

He gasped slightly.

Kagome turned around, curious. Her eyes widened.

There, in Inuyasha's hand, glowed a half transformed Tetsaiga. (For those who can remember way back when, when Sesshromaru had the Tetsaiga because he had a human arm with a jewel shard in it, and Kagome shot it with her sacred arrow, it detransformed partway and looked like this; a thin, skinny version of the Tetsaiga)

"Is that its true form?" whispered Sango.

Inuyasha's face was strange, as if he had information flowing through his head that he didn't know where it was coming. But, of course, he knew what was "talking to him."

"No," he murmured. "Close, but no…I'm not going to be able to make it stronger than this, but it is mine, and it is still very powerful…"

After a minute, he resheathed it with a glow of yellow fire. He looked at Kagome. "Thank you," he said.

The girl blinked. "What did I do?" she asked.

He just smiled.

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Sorry this is late, short, and probably boring and badly written. I've been kicked off the computer for a while, plus I had other projects whirling around my mind, and I've been trying to work hard on my SDK fic, too. I can't believe people are actually reading and reviewing this! Thank you all, for sticking with me. I'll try to update more often.