Dislcaimer: Don't own it, never will!

A/N: Kikyou is out of character. Swry.

Chapter 9: Where's my Ramen?-And a bit of Friction.

After the hanyou had washed up for the morning he decided to return to the dead miko. When he got back he observed that Kikyou had already made a fire and that she had gathered mushrooms and an assortment of wild berries. 'Does Kikyou eat even though she is dead?' He watched the flames sway from side to side as the wind played with it, considering it a companion for the day.

"Inuyasha, I have noticed that you are some what saddened. Is it because of my reincarnation or some other reason?" He looked at her with questioning eyes, begging her not to pry into his business. "I have also noticed that you are very attached to the package you carry. I know from previous encounters that it contains some sort of food, yet you do not eat it. Why?"

"Does it really matter? I like carrying it around with me...and that's all there is to it." Inuyasha folded his arms, but he did not feel the normal bulge that was supposed to be his bowl of ramen. He threw his arms up in the air and looked under each arm pit, searching for his beloved ramen. 'Where is it? I just had it with me at the stream.' Light bulb! 'The stream!'

Inuyasha sped back towards the stream where he had last seen his ramen. He found the place where he had washed his face of sleep and where he had polished the tetseiga a bit. The stream flowed in a calm rythmic pattern as the half-breed searched frantically for his noodle companion, but it wasn't there. 'Why would anyone want to take it?' (he should ask himself that) 'Did it fall into the stream?' He bent down on all fours and squinted his eyes to see in the moving water but he found no ramen.

"Inuyasha"

The hanyou whirled around to see a miko emerging from behind a wooden tree. Her dark hair was set about her shoulders and her bangs framed her face to perfection.

"Kagome?" The words seemed hardly real to him. What was she doing here? Did she remember him, did she decide to stay with him instead of that wolf? No, her left hand was still hidden behind the tree trunk and when it revealed itself it also revealed another. A wolf. 'They're holding hands? So she really does love him and not me.' His insides were filled with rage and his claws were digging into the palms of his hands and his teeth were biting his lip so hard that it was forced to bleed.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome went to him as the blood flowed from his hands and lips.

"Get away! I don't want you here!" He turned his back on the only thing he had ever loved, the only person he was actually semi-sort-of-kind to. He looked to the forest wall in front of him and saw Kikyou standing on its edge, the wind blowing her hair; she was holding her bow and arrows.

Kagome saw the other priestess and her eyes were transformed into slits of anger. 'Kikyou' Kagome shuttered to think of her name. 'She took away all the love Inuyasha ever had for me, she took it!' Kagome's mind was racing and she was trying her best to hold back her screams of hatred for that woman. 'Why do I feel such hate inside me? I have never felt this much of a desire to kill her and be rid of her. Why now?' She heard the bare hanyou's footsteps in the grass begin to fade as Inuyasha walked over to Kikyou; her bow and arrow now extended; aiming for Kagome.

Koga came to Kagome's side in a heartbeat at the sight of the clay miko's bow aimed for his love's body.

"Get behind me Kagome." he said. Kagome nodded and did as she was told, Koga would protect her, and Inuyasha...will have to come to his senses.

"Koga. Cease your chase on Inuyasha, go back with my reincarnation and forget about him." ordered Kikyou.

Inuyasha looked to Kikyou and saw the determination in her eyes, or was that a bit of love? 'I must be imagining things.' He turned and saw that damn wolf acting as a shield for Kagome and it made Inuyasha even angrier. 'Don't protect her Koga, she'll just run off and forget about you. I never want to see those two again.' Inuyasha was thinking irrationally, of course he wanted to see the again, but his anger and hatred for Koga didn't allow all that to come through. He turned back to the forest and started again towards the camp. But before he could even get within the trees he heard her.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome pushed past Koga. "Inuyasha stop! Wait I said! Wait!"

Inuyasha turned around but kept his eyes hidden beneath the shadow of his bangs, and listened.

"Come back with us Inuyasha," 'Us? Who's us? You and Koga? I'm not going back with the like's of you.' Inuyasha lifted his head when he heard footsteps of the monk the demon slayer and the two demons. 'Oh, that us.' He stared at the gang. 'I suppose they're upset with me now. It doesn't matter they're always mad at me.'

"Stay clear of him Kagome. He does not want to go with you." The stretch of her bow string sounded in Inuyasha's fragile ears and he turned his head only to watch as Kikyou released her first arrow. He followed the purified weapon as it headed straight for Kagome.

Koga couldn't move fast enough, his legs weren't as fast as they once were because of the jewel shards that he had given to Kagome. He couldn't protect her in time.

'Kagome!' Inuyasha cried in his mind her name over and over again. He must save her, but she forgot him, she's in love with Koga, but she came back for him. Inuyasha fought his inner conciounse over the issue until it was almost too late. 'I love her. I love her. I love her!'

Clank!

The arrow stopped. It had hit a sword which was transformed from the purification, a certain sword made from a certain demon fang, held by a certain hanyou.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. He had protected her, but why?

The silver half-breed sheathed his sword and looked at Kikyou, his face was sour and his features showed anger. He took a couple of steps toward his ex-lover and cracked his claws in front of her.

"Never do that again." he scorned.

Kikyou was taken aback by his order, how could he have changed so quickly? Inuyasha was never this fickle before. Was it her reincarnation? Was she the one who caused him to change? Yes, Kagome, the real fake. Kikyou knotched her arrow again and aimed towards Kagome once more. Kikyou glanced at Inuyasha as he gave her a threatning glance. She released it, but this time she used all of her power to divert the arrow a different direction.

"I will make you suffer Kagome!"

It headed straight for Koga, closing in on him faster and faster. Kagome saw Koga's hesitation to run, she knew he would never escape in time because his shards were gone. She propelled herself toward the man she loved and brought him to his knees. She quickly put up a barrier around them, using all of her untrained power. The arrow was slowed, the tip of its head just stuck to the outside wall of the barrier.

Kagome lifted her head and saw how close the arrow had come to them. She let out a sigh of relief but it was only too soon. The arrow was beginning to penetrate her tiny barrier and it would surely make its way to her and Koga if somebody didn't do something. She looked to the silver hanyou who's back was still facing her.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" She yelled his name but he just stood there, then she remembered, the whole reason she even found him was because of the ramen. Koga could smell it a mile away and when they had found the ramen it had been left by the stream. Kagome quickly pulled her yellow pack of her shoulders and opened it, revealing a bowl of tasty ramen tucked tightly between other objects.

With some difficulty Kagome created a small hole in the lining of her barrier and she threw the ramen bowl towards the hanyou.

He saw it land at his feet, the only thing that would never leave him, his only friend when he never needed one. His ramen. Inuyasha pulled out his Tetsauiga and sliced the threatening arrow in two, just when Kagome's barrier had gone down. The two finely shaped peices of wood lay on the ground parrallel to the stone arrowhead which was nestled in the grass. Kikyou was no where to be found and for once Inuyasha didn't really care.

A/N: Hello everybody! I'm so sorry that it took me like forever to update! But I think this was a good chapter! One more after this and it'll be over folks! R&R!