I have done you a disservice my loyal fans! I am gravely sorry for leaving you hanging like that…here, hopefully this will make it up to you!

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Previously

"Don't freak out on me now!" she coaxed. "My name is Kagome Higurashi, and you are in the shed behind my house. As for what is going on, I could ask you the same thing! The most I can tell you is that I found the smoking rubble of what I am assuming is your ship behind my house in the woods."

"My ship?" he sounded a little less confused now, but just as worried.

"Yes, now could you hold still so I can make sure that you are okay?" she asked. He stood carefully still while she stared in wonder at his unharmed skin. "How…wha…huh?" she sputtered. "Oh that; my haori protected me. It is made from fur of the fire rat, so it is non-flammable. "oh, that's useful." She said interestedly. "Yeah it is. It came in quite useful against my father's old rival. He was a dragon, you know." He said, puffing out his chest proudly.

Kagome's eyes widened in shock, "let me get this straight…A DRAGON!" she raised her eyebrows skeptically, and shook her head a little. "This is all getting a little too strange for me."

"It's true, and anyways he was no match for me, Inuyasha, of the dog youkai clan!"

Chapter 3

Kagome just stared in a mixture of awe and confusion at the boy. "Well, I knew you were strange when I saw your ears, but are youreally a youkai? I didn't even think they existed!"

"As a matter of fact, they do!" said the disgruntled dog demon, "You really didn't expect the human race, a bunch of locust-like wimps, to dominate this world for all time, did you?"

What does he mean by "all-time?" she wondered, but he was continuing on, so she let it go for now. "I bet you thought your race was at the very top of the food chain didn't you?" he was saying smugly.

"No, I was frankly more worried about the outfit I was going to wear tomorrow!" She snapped peevishly. "I had no silly deluded ideas of invincibility! Are all demons as arrogant as you?" she queried.

"Actually, I am not a full blood; I am only a hanyou…." Inuyasha's ears drooped slightly, a gesture that did not go unnoticed by the girl. "My mother was a human." He allowed a brief look of sadness to cloud his features.

After that small glimmer of insight, however, she was shut out as he turned away to contemplate his options on getting back to his planet, or country, or wherever it was he came from. While he was intent on ignoring her, she studied his bent profile. He was cute, she thought, sitting in a position that a dog might while scratching at a flea. It was too much, when she suddenly had a mental image of Inuyasha, playfully gnawing at a bone. She giggled out loud, but turned a beat red when the boy turned a baleful glare her way.

"I am trying to concentrate here! Would you help me out by not being so loud and obnoxious?" he emphasized the "obnoxious" part, and Kagome's mouth shut with an angry click. "Fine then, I won't help you. You can find somewhere else to sleep tonight!" she snapped.

"WAIT!" he pleaded, and was starting to jump after her, "No, you're a dog, you can SIT BOY!" she yelled jabbing her finger into his chest. At that moment, there was a faint metallic hum in the air. Several purple beads materialized out of thin air, to fling themselves around the startled hanyou's neck.

Nearly a millisecond later, a loud crash reverberated around the peaceful neighborhood, and there was a smoking human-shaped hole where Inuyasha had been standing a second earlier.

Kagome cautiously leaned toward the crater, but jumped back in surprise when the dog-boy jumped out and started an angry tirade.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME WENCH!" yelled an enraged Inuyasha. "I…..I…I don't know!" stuttered Kagome. She stared at her still glowing fingers in horror. Inuyasha's eyes lit from irritated amber, to molten gold in a sudden rage. "YOU'RE JUST LIKE HER!" he screamed, "YOU ACT ALL NICE, BUT IN THE END, YOU JUST WANT TO CHANGE ME, AND CHAIN ME TO YOUR SIDE, LIKE YOUR OWN LITTLE GUARD DOG, IS THAT RIGHT?" He was so angry, that he bared his long claws at her, and Kagome couldn't help but cower away in fear.

Inuyasha saw this movement, and felt a sudden rush of shame. She didn't deserve this treatment. But try as he might, he could not bring himself to apologize; so instead, he cast a muttered insult in her direction and leapt up to sit in the higher boughs of the huge tree that sat squarely in the middle of her yard.

Kagome's fear faded as quickly as Inuyasha's anger, but her eyes stung with the heat of his words.

Why does this hurt me so much? I don't even know him, why should I care what he thinks?

She sat on the floor in the dark room that was lit only by the fast sinking twilight, and held in her tears.

All she tried to do was help me, and I bit the hand that fed me, YET again…I tend to have a way for doing that, don't I? Inuyasha gave a humorless laugh, and decided that he would thank her in the morning, and leave as soon as he could get his ship fixed. He wouldn't involve her, even if she seemed to have powers that would come in handy in finding the missing sacred jewel….

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