A/N: Thanks people! So many reviews in only one day! Hehe.

For those who love action Inuyasha fanfics, read The Legacy of theInu no Taishou, by Sesshoumaru8106. He's a GREAT author, and put humor in the story when it's very tense.

Nanigenai yasashisa ga koko ni atte Bokura mezameru : An innocent kindness is right here. And so we awaken...

-Verse from Change the World by V-6

Kagome stirred from her sleep with a loud bang. She sat up and looked around: walls were all intact, window was closed, Inuyasha was on the ground... Huh? Kagome thought, jumping out of bed. Inuyasha was on the ground, foot twitching, and even knocked out, he was growling. Kagome gulped and ran to her door and opened it. She had to tell her family it was only Inuyasha. Whens she poked her head out, her grandfather was already on the stairs with a broom. "Kagome, what's wrong?" Gramps demanded.

Kagome laughed nervously, "Hehe, sorry, Gramps. Inuyasha came last night... I must've said 'sit' in my sleep." Kagome apologized. Then an other loud crash came from Kagome's room. "Oops. I'm sorry, Inuyasha!" Kagome said, running into her room.

"Che, yeah, right!" Gramps heard Inuyasha shout. Gramps sighed and started downstairs.

Kagome slammed the door and glared down at Inuyasha. He was so rude and arrogant! Why couldn't he be a little more like Miroku, on the matter of being kind. She knelt down my the red-faced half-demon and sighed. "Inuyasha..." Kagome started.

"Hmph!" Inuyasha sat up and folded his arms, and turned his head so he didn't look at Kagome. How could he love someone so reckless? So mean; to say the 's' word without even thought! He scoffed and his ears twitched. Kagome started speaking to him again.

"Inuyasha, gomen, okay?" Kagome said.

"'Gomen'!" Inuyasha repeated, "That's all you have to say?" Inuyasha growled, and looked Kagome in the eye. She didn't know how much it hurt him when Kagome always sat him.

"Well, I am." Kagome said softly. She hugged Inuyasha, which made him gasp. "I don't mean to say si-- The 's' word. But you make me mad, and I don't think ahead on what you will think or feel. Gomen." Kagome stood up, "I'm going to get ready. I have something to tell the gang and you." Kagome smiled and ran out to get ready. Leaving a surprised Inuyasha sitting there, confused.

Did Kagome just hug me? Inuyasha asked himself. It was hard to believe for Inuyasha. Kagome only did that when something bad happened to Inuyasha. But nothing bad happened to him, right? Did Kagome know something Inuyasha didn't? Inuyasha stood up and gave up on thinking about it. He had other things to worry about. Like Naraku and Hakudoshi, Naraku's infant.

Hakudoshi recently tried to get to Kagome by using her darkness within her heart. Miroku explained it to Inuyasha after Kagome was better, but Miroku or any of the gang members would tell Inuyasha what Kagome hated. He didn't understand why, either. It was Kagome, his friend. Why couldn't she just tell him? Would it make Inuyasha mad? Or depressed? Inuyasha sighed and looked out of Kagome's window. He saw the Bone-Eater's Well shed, Goshinboku, Buuyo walking around, and Souta with Hitomi.

Inuyasha kept on staring at Hitomi and Souta. The were hugging, and giggling like little kids. Inuyasha scoffed. His mind wouldn't allow what his heart was saying: he was jealous of those two twelve year-olds. They could easily show their affection for each other. He turned around and headed out of Kagome's room and downstairs. He heard Gramps watching the morning news, Mrs.Higurashi outside on the front porch, sweeping, and Kagome throwing her things into her yellow bag.

Inuyasha smelt the uncooked ramen, and lots of it. Kagome was kind on that part. Almost all around nice. Inuyasha paused halfway down the stairs. It finally hit him, Kagome was kind, equally kind to his mother. If he had known this sooner, he wouldn't be too mean towards her. But he was too dense and arrogant and prideful to even notice! He scolded himself, until Mrs.Higurashi came in and saw him hitting his head with his right fist.

"Um... Inuyasha?" Kagome's mother said, a bit concerned that the half-demon was basically fighting himself.

"Huh?" Inuyasha asked, stopping himself any further, "Forget about what I was just doing... Eheh." Inuyasha scratched his head innocently, MENTALLY solding himself now. Stupid, stupid, STUPID! Inuaysha yelled at himself in his head.

"...Okay..." Mrs.Higurashi said, still wondering why Inuyasha was hitting himself. She disregarded it and began cleaning the kitchen. Kagome dragged the yellow bag to the back sliding door. She took a deep breath and remembered something. She needed an other bag this time, winter clothes take up space, a lot of space. Kagome ran upstairs to get her spare winter clothes.

In Kagome's room, Kagome dug through her closet. It was a mess! All her clothes were on the floor of the small closet, and her shoes were on top of the pile of clothes, and her spare books were a bit torn. "Mama!" Kagome yelled from her closet.

"Yeah?" Mrs.Higurashi responded.

"Was someone in my room?" Kagome asked.

"Only Souta when you forget your school books!" Kagome's mother said.

"She's clumsy." Inuyasha muttered, in the kitchen waiting.

"Yeah, she is." a small girl's voice said, "Souta is always being Kagome's books to her school when she's back."

Mrs.Higurashi smiled and ruffled Hitomi's hair. Hitomi was a bit taller than last time Inuyasha saw her, and looked a little developed (meaning starting to look like a young woman rather than a little girl). Kagome came downstairs with a small bag over her shoulders. She saw a smile only she could see from Inuyasha. Kagome found herself smiling as she stared at Inuyasha. So did Kagome's family and Hitomi. "Kiss already!" Souta joked.

Kagome blushed, "Shut, it, Souta!" Kagome snapped. "Inuyasha, can you--"

"Already ahead of you. C'mon. Sooner we're back," Inuyasha lifted Kagome's overlarged yellow bag, "the sooner we defeat Naraku."

"We never get a break..." Kagome whined as she hugged her mother and grandfather good-bye. "Mama, I'll be back soon, okay? Bye!" Kagome was being dragged to the well by Inuyasha. Inuyasha let Kagome go first, and then he went down the dried up well. They once again defied Newton's three laws of physics and managed to return safely to the Sengoku Jidai. Inuyasha tossed the yellow bag out of the well, and heard a sound between a yelp and a squeak, and then Miroku and Sango laughing. Inuyasha helped Kagome out of the well, and found Shippou squished by Kagome's bag.

"Help me!" Shippou wheezed. Miroku and Sango removed the bag from Shippou's small back. Shippou enhaled air, exhaled, and repeated this for a few minutes, then he started having a fit, "Inuyasha, you meanie! You knew I was up here! You smelt me!" Shippou accused.

"Sure I smelt your scent, but I didn't know you were right there!" Inuyasha snapped.

"Yeah, right!" Shippou stuck his tongue out. Kagome sighed and stopped the arguing right then. She said her hellos to everyone, and they headed to Kaede's village, or as Inuyasha called it, the Old Hag's place. Kagome hated it when he said it, but from his point of view, Kagome understood why he said such awful things to her. She did give him a bit of a rough time. Of course, he did attack the village until he fell in love with Kikyou. It was a confusing thing for Kagome, so she stopped thinking about the reason why Inuyasha and Kaede cause each other grief.

At Kaede's, Kagome was stirring the cooking ramen as the gang babbled about dumb little things. Like Shippou's height, for one. He had gotten a bit taller, like four inches. So Kagome was happy for him, he was growing up. Even though he acted like a child... And then a more serious matter came up, Miroku's Kazaana. Like how long Miroku thought he had until it devoured him, or will the curse actually lift when Naraku was defeated. Kagome listened in on everyone's opinion. Inuyasha only scoffed, but Sango and Miroku were thinking on the same level, "Since Naraku put the curse on you..." Sango started.

"If he were to die, the curse will be gone." Miroku finished. Shippou smiled and nodded. Inuyasha scoffed again, but Kagome giggled as she passed out everyone a bowl of ramen.

"So, ye will be staying awhile?" Kaede suggested.

"I was hoping to." Kagome said quietly. The gang looked over to Kagome, and then back to Inuyasha.

"Why?" Inuyasha asked gruffly, slurping down some of his ramen.

"Well, it's Christmas season." Kagome said.

"What?" Sango asked. Kagome smiled and explained Christmas to the gang. Gifts, a feast, festivites, and a time to be close to your loved ones. Shippou listened very closely when Kagome said 'toys'. And Miroku and Sango listened attentively when she said it was a time to be close to your loved one or ones. Inuyasha didn't look like he was listening, but he was absorbing every bit of this. Kagome finished it off with, "And I think, even though Christianity hasn't come to Japan yet, we should spend it together, and give each other gifts."

"Okay." Everyone said, except Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome looked anxious over to Inuyasha.

"Fine." Inuyasha said. Kagome squealed and jumped up happily. She ran out to start searching for some of the gifts for her friends.