An Unlikely Pair

*disclaimer: Inuyasha and co. belong to the great Rumiko Takahashi-sama

Chapter 2 ~ The Others

"Another day in the Sengoku Jidai and another day to put up with dog boy." Sighing at the bottom of the well as she heard the tell-tale scolding and complaining from the hanyou above. "Why did it take you so long to get here? You're late!" "Inuyasha... sit." The sound of his face meeting the ground very quickly and very hard made her smile as she began to drag herself out of the well with her overstuffed yellow backpack. As she got off of the lip of the well, she stepped on his back, muffled cursing could be heard and said, "I told you, I had to take a test today! At least I'm here now. You ungrateful baka."

"Kagome!" A blurry ball of rusty orange and brown connected with the young girl's arm. "I missed you too Shippou." Smiling she hugged him back as their other traveling companions entered the clearing. Kagome giggled as she just noticed that that taijiya was dragging the lecherous houshi with her as Kirara, the taijiya's battle cat, trotted behind them mewing in merriment. "I see Miroku's wandering hands have been at work today." Kagome giggled more as Sango, the taijiya, dropped Miroku on top of Inuyasha who was just beginning to get back up from his subduing spell. It made him fall back down cursing underneath the monk's dead weight. The girls, Shippou, and Kirara left the clearing laughing as they made their way to the village.

"It is good to see ye child. How do ye fair?" The elderly miko asked. Kagome smiled at the elderly woman and answered, "I'm doing fine Kaeda- baba. Is there anything I can do to help you? What exactly are you doing?" "I'm making more medicine. But ye can help me by preparing lunch." "Hai." Kagome walked off with Sango while Shippou and Kirara went off to play in a nearby meadow. She sighed when she heard Inuyasha yelling not far away. Apparently he was unhappy that he was left behind with the lecherous monk. She smiled gleefully when he stopped ranting when he smelled the ramen she began to make. Inuyasha has a scary obsession with ramen.

It didn't take Inuyasha long to drag everyone off onto another shard hunt after lunch. There was less complaining, but worry was etched into all of their minds. Less and less shard rumors came to them, and less and less youkai with shards came after them demanding the shards they did have. The final battle was coming, and it made everyone nervous and apprehensive. It also frustrated Inuyasha, which caused him to fight more with Kagome, which delayed the final battle even more because she would go home angry at the hard headed hanyou.

A/N: sorry so short, but I will be writing the next chapter tonight and hopefully loading it as well...