Last time: The group saved Michelle, but not before she got a kiss from Kouga! Though Michelle is grossed out about it (that immature baka!), I hope you didn't think it was weird... Well, too weird.

Chapter 7: I'm NOT wearing THAT!

"Well, now what?" Michelle asked everyone as they sat around a fire, soaking in it's inviting warmth. Kirara and Shippo were fast asleep, Charlie was being used as a pillow by Kay, who was reading, Sango sat by the fire next to Miroku, who was next to InuYasha, who was next to Kagome, who was next to Michelle.

Kagome moved to see the cover of Kay's book, which was called A Tainted Night. "How's your book, Kay?" Kagome asked politely.

"Go away," Kay said rudely, turning a page in her book.

"Sorry about Kay," Michelle said. "She doesn't like to be interrupted when she's reading."

"She could be a little nicer about it," InuYasha growled.

"Actually, she was being very nice there. Usually she bites your arm off, like a hungry animal," Michelle said, scooting a ways away.

"Will you all just shut up so I can read?" Kay asked. "Or at least shut up about me."

"That's polite?" InuYasha asked. He got an angry death glare from Kay in response.

An awkward silence fell over the camp, interrupted only by the turning of pages from Kay's book, or the movement of a bookmark on the page. Michelle looked at the cover and saw only weird little symbols that looked confusing.

Michelle cleared her throat and said, "Kay?"

Kay slammed her book shut and glared at Michelle. "What?" Kay said, venom dripping from her voice.

The others gave a little squeak, but Michelle stayed calm. "Where did you learn to read Japanese?"

"Sesshomaru taught me. Why?"

"In four days?"

"Yeah... I do learn quickly... And I'm not very good at reading Japanese yet, either, so I still have a bit to learn," Kay said, losing the venom quickly.

"So, you got new kimonos from Sesshomaru... You learned how to read from him... And you got some books," Michelle said, counting off the things on her fingers.

"What is your point!" Kay asked impatiently.

"It just seems a little suspicious..."

"It looks like something is going on between you two," Miroku said, a smirk creeping on his face.

Kay sighed and opened her book. Looking at the page in her book, she said, "There is nothing going on between us. Now, why don't you go talk to Michelle about her love life?"

Kay sounded very convincing, but Michelle wasn't convinced, if that makes any sense.

- - -

In the morning they set off again, heading for Kaede's Village. Kay was left alone, seeing as she was reading on Charlie's back, not paying attention to her surroundings at all.

They made it to Kaede's Village by noon, and they went inside her hut to see what they should do next.

"Well, I think that I should go home to get some supplies. We're running low on medical supplies and food. Is that OK with everyone?" Kagome asked, looking through her bag to see what she needed.

Kay nodded behind her book and so did everyone else, except for InuYasha.

"You aren't going home! We need you here!" he yelled, putting up his usual fight.

"InuYasha, we have no leads on any jewel shards or Naraku. Let Kagome go home for a little while," Sango said, looking over to Kagome.

"Anyway, I have a test that I need to take in a couple days," Kagome said, getting up.

"You aren't going home," InuYasha said.

"Yes, I am. And you can't stop me," Kagome said, glaring at InuYasha. Her look would have scared anyone, even InuYasha. He hid behind Miroku and shivered involuntarily.

"I'll come with you," Kay said, putting her book down, back in her bag.

"It speaks!" Michelle yelled, putting up her arms and grinning like a madman.

"Are you coming, Ms. Jerk-off?"

"Oh, ouch! And ew! But, I'll come anyway," Michelle said, getting up. Charlie stayed laying down and told Kay mentally that he was going to stay, seeing as he was tired enough.

- - -

Kagome stood next to the well and then pulled out her bottle of jewel shards. She opened it up and dropped two of the very few shards she had into her hand. She gave one to each of the girls, and they looked at it, amazed.

"I've never held one of these," Kay said, looking at the shard carefully. She could feel the power of the jewel pulsing through her body. It was awesome!

"I want to see if you two can go through the well. Maybe you can only go through if you have jewel shards. Like I can't get back here unless I have some shards," Kagome said, looking down the well. She put the cork back on the bottle and put a foot on the well, holding her backpack tightly.

Kay also had her backpack with her, planning to get a few things to bring home and such. "I'll see if I can go through first," Kay said, putting her legs inside the well. She jumped down and the other two girls looked down the well. She was gone.

Excited, Michelle jumped down the well too, disappearing like Kay. Then Kagome jumped down. She felt the sensation of falling wash over her, like water, and she looked around to see that she was stuck between dimensions, traveling through time.

When Kagome touched ground she saw Michelle scrambling up the ladder that she put there, so she could get back up easier. She reached the top and saw Michelle and Kay beaming at her, looking more excited than before, and ready to roll.

"Well, let's go to my house. I'm sure my mom will be thrilled to meet you," Kagome said, walking out of the well house.

They walked across the yard and over to the main house, Michelle and Kay's excitement mounting all the while. Kagome opened the door to the house and Kagome led them inside. Michelle and Kay looked around and were amazed by Kagome's home. They hadn't seen very good glimpses of it by watching the TV show, but they had seen her room.

"Mom! Are you here? Sota?" Kagome yelled, looking around for her family. Her mother walked into the room from the kitchen, drying her hands on a towel. She smiled as she saw her daughter and the two girls standing in the front hall.

"Hello, sweetie! Who are these two?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"I'm Kay," Kay said, smirking. "And this moron is Michelle."

Michelle hit Kay on top of the head and then Kay turned to glare at her 'best friend'. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"

"FOR CALLING ME A MORON!"

"WELL, IT'S THE TRUTH!"

"YEAH, RIGHT!"

"YOU KNOW IT IS!"

Kagome stepped in front of them and put her arms out in between them. "Sorry, mom. They're always like this," Kagome said, smirking.

"Hey, Kagome, where's your brother?" Kay asked, looking at Kagome carefully.

"How did you know I have a brother? I never spoke about him," Kagome said, looking at Kay carefully.

Kay sweatdropped and she closed her eyes, moving her hand up to her face. "Well... uh... It's... well... the... You... um... You said his name!" Kay said, hoping her excuse was good enough.

"Oh... Whatever..." Kagome said, sweatdropping also.

Sota walked down the stairs, still in his pajamas and rubbing his eyes of sleep. "What is going on down here?" Sota asked as he yawned. His eyes widened when he saw Kagome and her friends. "Who are you guys?"

"Sota, this is Kay and Michelle," Kagome's mom said, pointing to each of the girls in turn.

"Oh," Sota said, looking at the girls. He scurried up the stairs and they could hear a door slam, probably to his room.

"OK... Is your son all right, Mrs. Higurashi?" Kay asked, turning to Kagome's mother.

"He's fine. He's probably just nervous seeing two pretty girls in the house," she said, smiling brightly and looking like she didn't say anything wrong.

Kay blushed and Michelle piped up and said, "You're calling us pretty? Yeah, right!"

Michelle folded her arms and rolled her eyes.

"Come on, I have to start studying. Today is Sunday, so I have to get studying," Kagome said, starting towards the stairs.

Kay followed and then asked, "How long are we going to stay?"

Kagome shrugged and then said, "Well, probably about three to four days. That way we can get all the things that we need."

"And then I can take a shower," Kay said, looking into the bathroom as they passed it.

"Yeah, that would be nice," Michelle added, looking not at the bathroom, but at Kagome's room.

- - -

Kay and Michelle sat on the bed, helping Kagome study for her test.

"So, you have a history test, right? You should do well, since in Eri's notes it says that you are having a test on the Warring States Era," Kay said, reading Eri's notes.

"You can read those scribbles?" Michelle asked.

"Well, it's a lot harder than those nice books. Her writing is all loopy and such," Kay said, squinting a little bit to read some more.

"We're doing a test on the Feudal Era?" Kagome asked, brightening up.

"Yeah. There's a bunch of notes on stories and such. Can I use your history book instead? This is so hard to read," Kay said, squinting a little bit to try and make out some more writing.

"Be my guest," Kagome answered, grabbing her history book and handing it to Kay.

Kay opened it up and then laughed. "'Demons were believed to run rampant to the people living during the 1500's. Studies taken in 1990 have confirmed that this is not true, but more recent studies taken in 1996 have found strange skeletons that are not of known species. The strangest one was a very large creature that had dog DNA and unknown DNA.' Well, that is really historical. It seems more like something that should be in science, rather than history. Anyway, in the last paragraph, what was believed to be true?" Kay finished the paragraph and looked over to Eri's notes next to her. "Oh, it says in here that you'll be asked if you believe in the demons, and why. And, I was wondering if the skeleton could possibly be Sesshomaru or InuYasha's father..."

"How could they get to InuYasha's father? His burial grounds were inside InuYasha's eye," Michelle said, looking at the page with a blank expression. She still couldn't read it, no matter how many times she looked at the characters.

"I don't know..."

Ignoring the fact that Kay and Michelle knew something else that wasn't told to them, Kagome cleared her throat and said, "Can you keep reading? I want to learn more about what happened."

"You still didn't answer my question. What did the people of the 1500s believe?"

Kagome sighed and said, "They thought demons were real."

"Good. Now the next paragraph. 'People of the 1500s were always warring with each other. A famous battle took place near modern day Tokyo, and was called The Battle of...' Whoa!"

"What?" Kagome asked, looking at Kay carefully.

"It was called 'The Battle of InuYasha'." Kay looked up from the book and then asked, "Do you have any more tests that you need to study for?"

"Um... Yeah. Literature," Kagome said.

"With our luck, we'll be studying 'The Legends of InuYasha'," Kay said, smirking. She got up and grabbed the large literature textbook and opened it up to the page that they were studying.

"This story is simply called Japanese Legends. What an original title," Kay said sarcastically. She looked down at the page and cleared her throat.

"The first legend is called 'The Sacred Shikon Jewel'. Well, we're done studying. I think you've got these down, no sweat!" Kay said, looking at the story.

"I better read the things I need to anyway," Kagome said, taking the notes and books over to her desk. "Oh, I was going to ask you, do you two want to come to school with me? Just for a couple days. I already asked my mom, and she said yes."

"When did you ask her?" Michelle asked.

"After dinner."

"Sure, I'll go to school with you," Kay said, smiling brightly.

"You are never going to get me to wear that skimpy skirt," Michelle said, folding her arms.

- - -

The next morning all of them sat eating breakfast in school uniforms, to Michelle's displeasure.

"I can't believe you got me to wear this skimpy skirt," Michelle huffed as she downed her milk.

"C'mon Michelle, it's not too bad," Kay said, looking at Michelle with puppy dog eyes.

"No, it's not too bad. It's HORRIBLE!" she yelled as she took a bite of her food. "And how am I supposed to read or write anything? I can't understand those stupid letter-things!"

"They're called 'characters'," Kay said, glaring across the table at Michelle.

"That makes them sound like they're from a story," Michelle growled at her, looking at her food with distaste.

"We should get going," Kagome said, getting up from her spot and grabbing her backpack. She headed towards the door and waited for the other two to follow.

Next time: Kay and Michelle go to school with Kagome, making it through the day... barely. Kay gets bombarded with questions about having a different hair color and eye color, though Michelle looks almost the same as everyone else, except with darker skin.

Michelle: Yay. School.

Kay: Woop - de -frickin' -doo.

Michelle: Dammit... I hate the next chapter, First Day of School. I'm wearing a f#$ing skirt!

Kay: Just be glad that it isn't raining when we go to school.