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Chapter 8: Off to find the Silver Hanyou.

A/N: Inuyasha is going a little insane in this one. Poor guy.

"Okay, I'll wait." said Koga as he heard Kagome's request for time. 'I can't beleive I lied like that, but, it was the only way I was going to win Kagome from that mutt.'

"Alright, then. Everyone, tomorrow we look for Inuyasha, so we can finish the jewel and get our lives back to normal!" yelled Kagome with confidence.

The whole gang looked at her insurprise with her little speech, but all agreed it was time to find Inuyasha. Kagome and Koga walked along the grass towards the den arm in arm and the rest followed suit. Of course Miroku wanted to create the exact scene with Sango, and tried to put his arm in hers, but that didn't work out well.

It was becoming noon and almost time for lunch, and seeing as Koga and his crew hadn't had enough time to catch anything, there was no food to be eaten. But when Kagome rummaged through her yellow bag she found instant soup and noodles, but it seemed the ramen was gone. Kagome wondered who in the world could have taken it, no one here even knew if they liked ramen, so who? Kagome thought on this for a bit when thoughts of Inuyasha came pouring into her head. She kept remembering how territorial Inuyasha was about anyone taking his ramen. That's when it occured to her, Inuyasha must have taken the ramen. She felt guilt forming in her beating heart as she thought of him being all alone in the forest, of course he could take care of himself but Inuyasha seemed to like having people around. And now that it seemed Kagome had left Inuyasha for Koga the hanyou would most likely turn his back to her when they found him, if they found him. Kagome started filling up with greif and guilt, and lost her appetite, so instead of eating she quietly snuck out towards the river.

'I wonder what he's doing right now.' she thought. She pulled her cotton socks, and leather shoes off. (I don't know if her shoes are leather, I just couldn't think of any material) Then she slipped her peach toes into the water, feeling it's calm movements and perfect temperature. Kagome leaned back on the crass blades and looked at the sky. 'Inuyasha, we're coming to find you.'

Inuyasha

Inuyasha had spent the entire day with Kikyou, trying to convince her that he didn't love Kagomeanymore, that he was through.Or is it maybe thathe was trying to convince himself? Well, as the day grew darker Inuyasha realized that he had nowhere to camp out for the night. Sure, he could go back to Kaede's village but that just wasn't a place he wanted to be right now. He could stay with Kikyou but he didn't know if she would try to kill him during the night as he slept. Inuyasha was also getting hungry, he hadn't eaten the entire day and he was feeling empty. Inuyasha walked through the forest looking for firewood when he smelled something familiar, it smelled like...ramen. 'Kagome!' he thought. He dashed dowards the scent desperatley pleading that it was her, that maybe he could see her one last time before she went back to Koga. Koga. That damn wolf, no telling what he's already done with her. Inuyasha shook his head to get rid of those thoughts. 'Miroku must be wearing off on me. Damn! What if she's with Koga?' he thought. But, as he thought this he realized he didn't pick up the stench of wolf, just the aroma of ramen, which was becoming stronger. Inuyasha raced through the forest once more with thoughts of Kagome in his head. But when he came to the spot of the scent, there was no one there, nothing but a tall oak tree. How could it smell like ramen so strong in this one spot? Inuyasha sniffed the air around him but the scent was strongest right beside the ancient oak tree. The hanyou began to walk back to camp confused when he mindlessly tripped over something. He landed with a thud in the mossy dirt and rolled over to see what he had tripped on. He sat up and picked up the instant bowl of ramen noodles he had thrown out not too long ago.

'Kagome was never here.' he saddly thought to himself. "She was never here!" he cried.

Inuyasha raised the ramen high above his head ready to smash it to the ground, but stopped himself dead center. He didn't want to destroy his only connection with her, the only thing of hers that would stay by his side forever, no matter what. 'Heh. A bowl of ramen won't go falling in love with one of my enemies. A bowl of ramen won't mind that I'm with Kikyou. Hmph! It won't get mad at me or tell me to sit. Yes, this bowl of ramen will do just fine.' Inuyasha once more clutched the ramen to his chest and sped back to where Kikyou was waiting for him. He decided he would stay with the dead miko, but he would have to keep one eye open. And, since he couldn't sleep at all it wasn't very hard to do.So duringthewee hours of the night Inuyasha just looked to the stars, missing and thinkingofsomeone,as he wasclutching the ramen to his heart. So that night Inuyasha went hungry, he didn't eat the ramen in it's bowl, he wanted to keep every last ounce of it to himself, forever.

When morning arrived Inuyasha was still awake, he decided to go down to a nearby stream to wash up a bit and of course, he was accompanied by the ramen.

Kagome

"Morning!" Kagome yelled as she watched her friends stir in thier sleep. "C'mon you guys, if we want to find Inuyasha we need to start bright and early!" Kagome walked over to Shippo and carefully nudged his shoulder until he opened his eyes. She did the same to Sango and Miroku, but Miroku was already up to his tricks even this early in the morning. Koga was already awake, he was actually the one who had woken Kagome up, and he had already packed somethings up for the day.

'If we're to find that mutt we should do it quick so we can get this straightened out.' Koga thought. He watched as Kagome and her friends picked up their sleeping bags and other essentials of which belonged to them. He couldn't help but smile at how rough they looked from being wakened so early. He almost let out a laugh but toned it down to a slight, manly chuckle.

Kagome heard this chuckle of his and was curious."What's so funny Koga?" she asked.

"You're friends aren't used to waking up this early are they?" he stated.

"No, they look a little out of it don't they?"

"Yep."

"Well, as the day goes on they will become their normal selves again." Kagome looked at Koga and saw his eyes shift to hers. "Koga."

"Thankyou. For helping me I mean, I think I see now why I said I would stay with you."

A/N: Bwuahahahaha! Sorry. Well I hope you guys liked this one, sorry I haven't updated in like - forever! School sucks! Anyway I would really like my readers to tell me who Kagome should chose, Inuyasha or Koga? (but it really doesn't matter what you think cause I'm sticking with Koga. hee!) R&R!