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When Kikyou finally stopped at her house Inuyasha breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that they would be walking for hours. He jumped down from the tree and joined Kikyou on the ground.
"About time where the hell do you live the other side of the world?" he said.
She glanced at him, he stood there with his arms folded. She could see he was very short-tempered, probably more than the average person. They were complete opposites she wasn't at all short- tempered as he was.
"I don't live far, you are just lazy from all the sleeping you were doing." she said.
"What did you say?" he asked clenching his fist.
They stood inches apart glaring at each other. She felt that he was being extremely difficult for no reason. But as difficult as he was she found that she didn't want to leave him alone. After all it was her fault he woke up in the first place.
She couldn't just leave him alone to get used to a new world. Life as he knew it all those years ago had changed. And even if he didn't want to admit he needed her. So instead of arguing with him she opened the door and let him walk in.
He stood there looking around with a bewildered expression. He knew now that he was definantly in a very strange place. And worst of all he was alone, well he had always been alone. But now he was alone in another time. He glanced at Kikyou well she was here with him, but he didn't want to rely on her.
"So this is how houses look now." he said.
"Yes pretty much, go on have a seat." she said pointing to the couch.
He eyed it curiously and then sat down on it. He had to admit it was very comfortable, possibly the only thing he would like about the future. Kikyou could see that he was loosening up a little, well except he still had his arms folded.
"What do you call this thing?" he asked.
"Its a couch." she answered.
He turned his attention to a table with many pictures on it. He picked one up and stared at it, then he looked at Kikyou.
"Hey how can you be here, and in this little box?" he asked.
She took a seat next to him. She had almost forgotten that he didn't know a thing about the future. It would take awhile explaining to him in details about it.
"Well you see this is a picture, people take them when they want to save memories." she said.
He blinked curiously and started turning the frame over and over. He was expecting some type of demon to come out but nothing. Inuyasha then shrugged his shoulders and threw the frame on the ground.
"So what is it like magic?" he asked.
"No there is no magic."
"Yea I thought so, you don't seem to be a sorceress." he said.
She bent down and picked up the picture frame and saw that some of the pieces shattered. Before she could tell Inuyasha not to touch it he did and started to bleed.
"Kikyou, that thing attacked me." he said.
"Relax, here come with me I'll take care of it for you."
She reached for his arm which he reluctantly let her take. And then she led him upstairs to her room where she kept her first aid kit. He stared at a bottle that she had in her hand, and wondered what she was going to do.
"This is going to burn, so don't jump."
He didn't say anything at first, but then when he felt the burning he jumped. Never in his life had he been burnt so badly, and it was only liquid.
"Ah! What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Its alcohol it will stop the bleeding."
She walked closer to him with the bottle, and he backed up. She could see he was terrified of the bottle of alcohol.
"Inuyasha I'm just trying to help."
"Now way, I rather bleed to death then let you come near me with that." he said.
"Okay fine well at least let me put a bandage on it."
He nodded and then watched as she covered his finger with a blue bandage. He sighed to himself finally glad that it was over. And began to wonder what other strange things the people of the future had.
Soon the phone next to her bed rang, causing him to turn around alarmed. Kikyou watched as he reached for his sword. He was about to brake her phone.
"Wait, don't worry its just the phone." she said.
"Phone." he repeated.
She picked up the phone and answered it. The person on the other line was Sango who was making sure that Kikyou was okay. She was fine she knew that Inuyasha wasn't going to hurt her. If anything it would take her awhile before she could help him get used to the future.
"Sango can you bring Miroku and meet us at the mall tomorrow." she said.
"Us, you mean the half demon." she asked.
"His name is Inuyasha, and I need you guys to help me get clothes for him. We can't just let him walk around like that."
"Hey whats wrong with my clothes?" he asked.
Kikyou didn't respond to him right away. She was still awaiting Sango's answer, she would need both of her friends help tomorrow. Besides with more people trying to help him get adjusted to the future, things could go by faster.
"Sure Kikyou, call me if you need anything."
"Okay, so I'll see you then."
Inuyasha watched as she set the phone back on the table. This was by far the strangest thing he saw Kikyou do. He wondered who she was talking too, and how did that thing work.
"Here in the future we use the phone as communication." she told him.
"Right, anyway whats wrong with my clothes?" he asked again.
"Nothing, its just things have changed people don't wear those clothes anymore."
Soon he was following Kikyou back downstairs, and listened to her as she told him all about the mall. To him all he heard was a lot of people, food, and something called shopping. Whatever this mall thing was he knew that he wouldn't like it.
"Will there be any demons there?" he asked flexing his claws.
"Besides you, no."
"What so I'm the only one left."
She nodded and he didn't know how to feel. His whole life was spent fighting demons and now he learned there weren't any. He sort of felt relief fighting full demons all the time really took a toll on him. Sometimes he just wanted to be normal, and other times he just wanted demons to except him. But right now he wasn't too sure what he wanted.
"Think of it this way, you wont have to spend your time fighting them." she said.
He raised an eyebrow to her, it was like she was somehow reading his thoughts. Either that or she just knew how he felt. But how could she they were different, she was a human and he was a half demon. He wasn't acceptable to neither humans or demons.
"Feh! Who cares." he responded.
Kikyou saw by the look in his eyes that he did care. But his initial action was acting like nothing mattered. But she could see that it was all an act.
"You care, although you rather not admit it. You've been alone your whole life, looked down on for something you can't control. So naturally you put on this big act shielding those around you from who you really are." she said to him.
He paused and his body got slightly tense. She could see that her words hit home for him, maybe a little to hard. He turned away from her, she hoped that he hadn't offended him to much. Maybe being so brutally honest wasn't the best thing to do.
"You don't know anything, so just leave it alone." he said.
"Yes I suppose that I don't know much about you, only the things you told me. And so far you have only told me your name, and gave me nothing but bitter attitude. So if I offended you by my observation then I apologize."
She then got up and walked back up the stairs. Inuyasha sat there her words replaying in his mind, normally he wouldn't care. But it was how she spoke to him that made him start to feel regret, something he had never felt before.
Instead of sitting around he went to the only place he felt comfortable. There was a tree in the front yard which he jumped into. This was something he always did, he spent nearly all his time sitting in trees. He would always go there when he needed to think. Many hours had passed and the sun had went down.
Kikyou looked put of her bedroom window and saw him siting there. She could see that he had a thing for being in a tree. Maybe it was the only place for him to go to feel at peace, and if that was the case she didn't blame him.
"Inuyasha will you be out there the whole night?" she asked.
"Yea, so." he replied.
"Its going to rain, you don't have to stay out there."
He heard nothing but kindness coming from her voice. That was something he never had before, well besides his mother. He wasn't used to kindness from anyone, what made her so different.
"I'll be fine." he said.
"Alright goodnight." she said to him.
She closed her window and was about to go to sleep. Fifteen minutes later like she said it had started to rain. Inuyasha didn't mind rain but it was raining extremely hard. He knew he wouldn't be able to stay out here long.
He hated to admit that Kikyou was right, but he knew she was. He jumped over to her window and opened it. He stepped inside his clothes were drenched, and although she wasn't one for I told you so he did look funny.
She wouldn't be surprised if his ears would start shivering. Everywhere else on him was wet from the rain.
"You need to get out of those wet clothes. While your taking a shower I'll wash your clothes and put them in the dryer." she said to him.
He blinked again and his ears twitched nervously.
"Shower, dryer." he said.
She smiled at him, she found that every time he was confused his ears would twitch. She thought it was cute but wouldn't tell him that. She could just imagine his reaction to her even suggesting how cute his ears were.
"Just follow me." she said.
He watched as she went down the hall, and knowing that he didn't have a choice he went after her. She stopped at a door.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"This is the bathroom, come in."
He stood there and watched as she turned on the shower. And he saw water, this was another strange thing he thought.
"This is the shower, and there isn't much more I can help you with."
"Aren't you going to stay, what if something goes wrong?" he asked.
A small blush appeared on her face, she was sure that something was going to go wrong. But she couldn't just very well stay in the bathroom with him.
"No sorry, I'll turn around and you leave me your wet clothes. So I can dry them." she said.
When he saw that she had urned around he began to take off his clothes. He had to admit this felt weird to him. He had never been this close to a female before, he dropped his clothes on the floor. He wasn't sure what to do next, but then his mind told him to jump into the shower.
Once Kikyou was sure that he was in the shower, she picked up all his clothes. Since this was his only outfit they definantly needed to get him some clothes. Just before she left the bathroom Inuyasha called out to her.
"Kikyou?"
"Yes."
"What happens when I get out of the shower."
"You will have to just grab that towel, until your clothes dry. Come downstairs when your done so I can show you how to use the washing machine."
She didn't wait for him to respond instead she went downstairs. She had already violated so many rules by standing in that bathroom with him. But what choice did she have she had to explain things to him.
A half an hour had passes and she heard nothing. She was starting to worry usually if things were to quiet something was happening. But soon Inuyasha came down the stairs and luckily he had to towel around him. She would have probably gone into shock or something.
"I see you didn't have any problems with the shower." she said to him.
"No, it was fine beats a hot spring any day."
"Yes I suppose so, now I will show you how to use the washing machine."
He watched as she put his clothes into the washing machine, and then poured some liquid inside. He had a lot of questions but wasn't sure how to ask them.
"What did you just put in there?" he asked.
"Laundry detergent."
Then she closed the lid and he left the kitchen and went into the living room. It would take at least another half an hour by the time the clothes would finish drying. She couldn't just have him sit in a towel for an hour she had to find something.
Then she remembered there was still her fathers old clothes. She went upstairs to her parents old room saw one of his shirts and a pair of really baggy pants. She was sure Inuyasha would have no problem wearing these until his clothes were dry.
"What are they?" he asked.
"They used to be my fathers, you need to put something on for now."
He reluctantly took the clothes and went back into the bathroom to change. While she went back to see how the clothes were coming along. Soon Inuyasha came back and she saw that her fathers clothes fitted him just like his other ones.
"See now was that so bad?" she asked.
"Yeah its fine I guess."
He watched as she yawned he didn't know why she was so tired. Before he knew it she took out his clothes and put them into the second machine. He began to remember she called it the dryer or something like that.
"Kikyou whats this thing?" he asked pointing to the refrigerator.
"Oh thats the refrigerator." she said.
She opened it for him and he saw that it was packed. He was sure that it had to be food or something close to it.
"I see your hiding all the food here." he said with a smirk.
"You never said you were hungry, take whatever you want." she said.
He reached in and took out something that was recognizable. It was an apple he wasn't sure about those other things. He took a seat at the table and watched as she took out his clothes freshly clean and dry.
"You can go back to wearing your old clothes now if you want." she said.
"No thats alright, I sort of like these."
She was glad to see that they were getting along better. He seemed to be loosening up a little more and that was certainly a plus. Now all she needed was to find him a place to sleep.
"You can sleep in my parents old room, its down the hall from mine." she said.
"Feh! Whatever."
"Goodnight then, we have a lot to do tomorrow."
He watched as she went up the stairs to her room, while he laid out on the couch. Sure the couch was comfortable but he also wanted to see how that bed would feel. After an hour he found it hard to sleep so he wandered upstairs.
Instead of going to Kikyou's parents room he found himself in hers. He couldn't explain why he was there. It sort of felt like the right thing to do, he walked closer and saw that she was asleep. And also that her bed was big enough for the both of them. Besides if they could stand in the same bathroom why couldn't they sleep in the same bed.
He laid down but made sure that there was enough distance between them. He had never been in the same bed with a woman before. Actually Kikyou was the first woman he had ever gotten this close too, and they were now basically living together.
"Good night Kikyou." he said.
Aww wasn't that cute. Anyway stay here for the next chapter.