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A couple weeks had gone by since Kagome found out about InuYasha's little secret; and things stayed pretty much the same. Miroku still didn't know how to keep his hands to himself and Sango continued punishing him for it. Kagome stared joining InuYasha occasionally on his nightly escapades. And, slowly but surely, the boy she once hated was starting to become more then just a friend in her eyes... Even if they tended to argue every other second.

Things were starting to feel a little more normal.

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"Hey, Miroku, pass the mustard." InuYasha said through mouthfuls of hotdog.

"Don't you think you've had enough?" Miroku sighed, "I mean this is your eleventh hotdog."

InuYasha glared meaningly at the monk who stood between him and his mustard.

Miroku backed off, "Oh, heh, Mustard, here ya go." He scooted a little farther away from the hungry hanyou.

"Honestly InuYasha your such a pig!" Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Hey! I'm a growing boy!" He defended his hotdog with one arm and started shoveling cafeteria fries in his mouth with the other.

"Yeah right! An elephant couldn't consume as much food as you!"

"At least I'm not some calory counting tofu crunching wench!"

"Stop calling me that you jerk!"

Sango sighed and rested her head on her hand, this was the regular lunch routine, InuYasha pigs out, Kagome scolds him, they fight, all that was missing was...rub rub Oh nope nothing was missing. Sango brandished her open hand at the poor monk SLAP! Miroku fell over swirly eyed.

InuYasha leaned over and helped him up, "Miroku! When are you gonna learn to stop doing that!"

He just grinned stupidly and rubbed his sore cheek, "She soo digs me."

InuYasha groaned and dropped Miroku back on the ground.

Sango and Kagome exchanged 'what idiots' looks.

InuYasha turned back to Kagome, "Now, as I was saying...I ...uh?" He scratched his head, "What were we arguing about again?"

Kagome scowled and ignored him.

"Uhh sorry?" InuYasha hated to see Kagome mad at him, even if he always caused it. He walked in front of her and sat on the floor doggie style, lifting his arms against his chest and balancing on his haunches in a perfect puppy beg. To finish it off, he let his tongue loll out of his mouth comically. "Pwwweeze fworgive me Kagome."

Kagome giggled, ever since he showed her his dog-demon side, that particular attempt to break her anger always worked.

Sango's eyebrows shot up. "Hey Miroku," she whispered, "Isn't InuYasha kinda acting...I don't know...out of character lately?"

Miroku furrowed his eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Well, usually he would be too stubborn to apologize, let alone humiliate himself to get Kagome to forgive him. I mean isn't that weird?"

Miroku nodded, "I believe InuYasha is feeling the side effects of his human emotions being primarily dominant for so long." He chuckled, "Tonight might get interesting..."

Sango gave him a confused look, "Huh?"

Miroku winked, "Tonight is the new moon..."

InuYasha sat up and grinned at Kagome, who was clutching her waist in laughter. He loved being able to make her laugh, her laughter could lift even the heaviest burden from his mind, if only for a moment. All at once, he felt a strange shot of emotion shoot through him. He couldn't take his eyes off her face. He stared, transfixed, at the way her beautiful raven hair brushed against her soft cheek and the way her deep, dark almond eyes glistened with laughter. InuYasha stepped back, he was overpowered by longing, he wanted her, he wanted to hold her and never let go, he wanted to caress her soft skin and embrace her like he never had before.

"Hey, InuYasha snap out of it!" Miroku punched him on top of his head, enjoying the feeling of revenge for a moment.

InuYasha shook his head hard and slapped himself. He felt fear suddenly slither up his spine. He had uncontrollable urges before, (almost every chapter :D) but, none this strong. It was overpowering, if Miroku hadn't woken him up, he might have actually gone and done what he was thinking about! 'What's happening to me?'

Miroku braced for the onslaught of an angry hanyou, but, it didn't come this time. InuYasha just stared, listless at the ground.

"Hey? You ok?" Kagome reached out to him, but he took a step back. He refused to look at her. Kagome was confused, 'Did I do something to hurt his feelings?'

InuYasha shook off the strange feeling and brought his head up again. The arrogant smirk had returned, successfully masking his inner conflict. "Oh, I was just thinking of what Kagome would look like if I did...this!" He dumped his fries down her back, causing a surprised squeak to escape the, now really pissed off miko.

She grinned evilly, "Ya know, you tend to wear red a lot." She pointed casually at his red shirt, "Why not on YOUR FACE!" She threw her cup of ketsup at him splashing his face with the red goo. Someone in the cafeteria apparently noticed this and, as the intelligent freshmen they probably were, the declaration was announced, "FOOD FIGHT!"

The war had begun, globs of ketsup, mustard, french fries, hotdogs, and whatever else they had been serving flew through the air. Miroku ducked safely under a table when he suddenly squirmed as half melted slushie was poured down his back. He turned a full 180 to see Sango holding an empty slushie cup behind her back. She gave him her best, 'Innocent as the day I was born' look, complete with the slight, 'How could you ever accuse me of doing something like that to you!' pout. It wasn't enough.

Miroku stood, and slowly began to walk towards her. Sango backed away stealthily, "Miroku, don't...I'm so serious...remember what I said about the butter knife!" He ignored her and suddenly lunged, embracing her and allowing all the globs of food to transfer from himself, to her clean shirt. He backed off and gave her the most comical smirk she had ever seen. "Wow, Sango? How DID you get so messy?"

That was it! Sango grabbed the nearest butter knife. Miroku winced, "uh oh.." He raced for the nearest men's room, with one angry Sango chasing him.

Meanwhile Kagome shielded herself with an old fashioned garbage can lid while chucking, half eaten pudding bowls at the nearest victims. She never saw the glob of relish flying towards her head until it was too late. Suddenly a large figure stepped in front of her and allowed the relish to decorate the back of his shirt instead. Kagome giggled at the still very ketsuppy InuYasha, "Your always taking the hits for me huh?"

He feh'd, "Whatever..." He leaned over and took a swipe of brown goo from her face, "Hmmm, chocolate pudding huh?"

"Oh, you like pudding..."

"Well..." InuYasha was interrupted by a sudden upside down pudding bowl being dumped in his once white hair. "Way to thank me bitch..." he murmured.

"Ok, ok," Kagome gasped between laughter, "Truce?" She held out her hand.

"Truce!" InuYasha smiled and shook her hand, unfortunately before this, he made sure to cover said hand in ice cream glop.

Kagome shrieked and pulled her hand away.

InuYasha grinned wider, "Now, we're even."

Together the two managed to take down quite a few poor souls and, by the time the battle was over, almost every one had some form of pudding on them to show from the ruthless team.

Kagome made her way down the hallway to escape the incoming rush of dirty high schoolers. She saw InuYasha following her and smiled, "Hey we kicked butt, huh?"

"Yeah, we make a pretty good team." He took a taste of some foreign sludge on her sleeve. "Mmm, blueberry smoothie!"

Kagome pushed him away and tried to hold back her laughter, "You are soo gross!"

InuYasha smirked and opened his mouth to say something when he heard a voice that stoped him cold.

"Kagome!"

InuYasha turned and felt a heavy growl begin in his throat. 'It can't be!' There standing in front of him, was none other than...

"Hey Koga!" Kagome waved.

The newcomer beamed and walked over. "Kagome!" He took the surprised miko's hands. "I missed you so much!"

Kagome blushed and pulled her hands away, "Uhh, I missed you too Koga."

InuYasha snarled and stepped in front of her. "What are you doing here!"

"Who are you?" Koga frowned.

Kagome pushed InuYasha away, "Oh, sorry Koga. This is my friend InuYasha! InuYasha, this is Koga. He's transferring to our school. He's a really good friend of mine!"

"Yea," Koga stepped over and put his arm around Kagome's shoulders. InuYasha felt raw fury churning inside him.

"Kagome," Koga turned and put both hands on her shoulder's, completely ignoring InuYasha, "You know how I feel about you. When can this masquerade end? I want to be with you." He embraced her.

InuYasha shook with rage, Why! Why Koga? Why now? 'Damn you Genshiki!' He felt like throttling the damn wolf. Ok so he was human now, but, much less else had changed.

Kagome gently pushed him away. "I really like you Koga. But...can we talk about this later?"

Koga looked hesitant. "Ok..." He quickly kissed her hand and walked off. "Goodbye my love."

Kagome forced a smile and waved goodbye.

InuYasha just stood there, his eyelid twitching with suppressed fury. "What was that!" he practically yelled.

Kagome turned, surprised.

"What were you doing! Prancing around that stupid jerk like he was something else. You make me want to puke!"

Kagome's face turned scarlet, "What's wrong with you! You don't even know him!"

"What! Is he like your boyfriend or something wench!"

"No he's not! He's just a friend! and stop calling me that!"

"Your acting like a wench so I'll call you one, wench!"

Kagome felt like screaming, on impulse she remembered what to so at a time like this, "SIT!"

As soon as the surprise hit InuYasha's face, he found himself saying hello to his friend Mr. Floor board. He cursed under his breath. 'I guess the beads are still there. That damn witch couldn't have warned me!'

Kagome rubbed her head, "Woah, what just happened?"

InuYasha stood up when the spell wore off, "I just slipped. Why did you tell me to sit?"

Kagome shook her head, "I don't know...it just kinda came out. Umm, can we just forget all this, I don't like Koga, ok. But, if I didn't give him what he wanted, he wouldn't leave."

InuYasha frowned for a second, then sighed, "Sorry." he mumbled.

Kagome brightened, "Cmon, let's go find Sango and Miroku."

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Miroku looked hastily around his shoulder, he had been running for a while to escape Sango and her vicious butter knife. When he was sure she was no longer following him he promptly slid to the floor and panted heavily. 'Jeeze, they really should teach you things like, How to Escape an Enraged Demon Slayer, back at the monastery. I mean cmon all I did was mess up her clothes,' he grunted, 'Note to self: do NOT come between a girl and her wardrobe.' The young monk sighed heavily, it felt like he was always in trouble with Sango, either being chased or slapped or mauled. 'I can't be with her two minutes without making her mad at me.'

Miroku suddenly stiffened as the sound of echoing footsteps moved through the hallway. He prepared to run, but when, instead of Sango, a particularly good looking girl came strutting down the hallway. Miroku felt his trademark perverted smile begin to play at his lips. He strolled over to the young woman and gave his best, 'Manly Man coming through' walk and "accidentally" ran into her.

"Oh gosh I'm sorry." He said innocently.

The girl giggled at the handsome boy now attempting to hide obvious food fight stains from his shirt.

"My dear lady..." He recited while bending down to one knee. "Will you bear my..."

Suddenly he heard a familiar voice echo through the hallway. "Miroku? Hey Miroku? I just wanted to say I'm sorry...I didn't mean to get so mad. I mean it's just a shirt."

Miroku stopped. She was sorry! She wasn't mad at him?

Sango rounded the corner and froze as she noticed a certain monk holding another girls hand, kneeling, naturally about to ask her to bear his child. The slayer's meek expression suddenly turned to a steam coming out of her ear's, murderous glare.

Miroku gulped, She marched over to him and dragged him off by his pony tail. Leaving the other girl to stand there pondering the strange couple.

As soon as she turned the next corner, Sango slammed Miroku into a wall. "I should have known I would find you hitting on some girl." She huffed.

He looked at her apologetically and took her hand. She growled and tried to pull away but he held on, gently he rubbed her palm against his cheek, savoring her delicately soft skin. "My beautiful Sango, as I have said before, do not be jealous of me." He looked up into her eyes solemnly, "My heart belongs to you, and you alone."

Sango snorted, she heard this so many times...however...She glanced back at him, he looked so sincere. Why did it always make her heart race when he did it. Even if it usually ended in a slap.

InuYasha and Kagome suddenly turned the corner and noticed the two standing there. Sango blushed and immediately slapped the monk.

Kagome giggled, "I see we caught you two at a bad time."

Miroku rubbed his cheek and shrugged, "Not really,"

Sango blew her bangs out of her eyes, "Just routine. What were you guys up to?"

"Doing some major damage in the cafeteria," InuYasha grinned proudly and high fived Kagome. They decided not to mention Koga.

"Well," Sango looked down at her clothes, "Any one for a shower?"

Everyone raised their hand.

"Ok," Kagome stood next to Sango, "Me and Sango will hit the girls showers before the stampede of people get there."

Miroku looked disappointed, but InuYasha nodded and dragged the monk off. "See you guys after dinner!"

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Sango and Kagome got back to their dorms late and, as soon as they closed the door, both girls flopped down to their beds in exhaustion. Classes had been canceled after the food fight and instead everyone had to help clean up the cafeteria.

"Ugh, I would have rather been sleeping through physics then scraping dries mustard off the walls." Kagome groaned.

"Yea," Sango sat up, "What a day, and we STILL have to study for our algebra exam."

Kagome groaned again, "Oh, yea..." Shr suddenly looked thoughtful, "Think I can get that done before the sun goes down."

Sango's eyebrows shot up, "Your going to go with InuYasha ...tonight..."

Kagome nodded and blushed, "Yea, I kinda wanted to."

Sango sighed, 'She's in for an interesting surprise.'

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"Miroku, how did you get out of cafeteria duty!" InuYasha stormed into the dorm and began to take out his frustration on the poor monk.

Miroku shrugged, "I told the cafeteria people I needed a bathroom break, and I kinda "forgot" to come back."

InuYasha grunted in annoyance, he had to admit, the monk was good. "Well, I'm gonna go study for my algebra exam." He pulled off his wet shirt and reached for his backpack. It had taken him hours of studying and A LOT of help from Kagome, but, he had finally started to understand some of his subjects. For the most part, though, he just kept very quiet and pretended to be listening during class.

Miroku yawned, "Well, what are you planning on doing, you know, tonight..."

InuYasha looked hopefully out the window, "Well, I was thinking of hanging out outside with Kagome when the moon comes out."

Miroku raised his eye brow, "Um, Yash, I know this is usually your 'Special Kagome Time' and all but..."

InuYasha scowled, "Who said this was about Kagome."

Miroku rolled his eyes and pointed to InuYasha's notebook, where, Kagome's name was written at least twenty times, "Cmon, you like her, admit it...why else do you risk going outside to be alone with her."

InuYasha growled and slammed his notebook shut, "She's just a friend Miroku! I don't think of her that way."

Miroku shrugged, "Well, anyways, as I was saying. You really might not want to go anywhere tonight."

InuYasha furrowed his eyebrow, "Why not!"

"You forgot huh?" Miroku wasn't surprised, "Tonight is the full moon."

InuYasha's blood froze. Tonight WAS the full moon, he had totally forgotten. 'THAT'S why I've been feeling so weird...I'm gonna be human tonight." He looked out the window and cursed, the sun was going down.

Miroku noticed the slight fear in InuYasha's face, the hanyou had learned to fear this day since he was young. 'But, maybe that's not why he's scared tonight.'

The color drained from InuYasha's face. Things happened when he was human. 'If my emotions are overpowering now...what's gonna happen when I can't hide them...'

"InuYasha, just tell her about your human form. She already knows you're a half-demon, it won't be a surprise."

InuYasha faced Miroku, "You don't understand. I don't act the way I normally do when I'm human. Things...change...It's almost like when I'm a demon. I lose control of my emotions...just in a different way."

Miroku felt taken back by the suddenly serious Inu, "Then why can't you just let her know how you feel! How hard is that?"

"I CAN'T!" He snarled, "I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING FOR HER!" InuYasha turned away and concentrated on his math book.

Miroku closed his eyes and meditated, He could almost feel the argument raging inside his friend. "You minus well..." he said quietly.

InuYasha looked out the window intently, "Feh.."

All Miroku heard was the soft thump of the door closing.

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The sun finally went down and Kagome stirred anxiously from her position in front of her text book.

Sango laughed, "Ok, ok go already, shoo!"

Kagome smiled in gratitude and almost ran out the door. She walked through the dark hallways, not making a sound, if she was caught being out this late it would mean suspension. She heard someone ahead of her. Kagome silenced her excitement and silently approached the stranger, keeping herself in the shadows just in case.

The boy was standing in the corner of the hallway, his face was dark under the shadow of his bangs. Kagome took another glance, for a second she thought it was InuYasha. But, how could it be. This guy had black hair, and not to mention no dog ears. He lifted his head. Kagome gasped, he looked exactly like InuYasha! His nose, his mouth, his whole face mirrored the hanyou. 'What the hell?' The only difference was this guy had soft violet eyes, completely opposite of InuYasha's intense golden ones.

Kagome slowly stepped out of the shadows, the strange boy turned and looked at her.

"Hey..." she tested, "Have you seen a guy around here? Kinda looks like you, white hair, yellow eyes, goes by the name InuYasha."

He stared up at the ceiling almost like he was contemplating his answer. Finally he looked back at her, a comical smirk lined his face. "Kagome..." He stepped closer to her, "Your looking at him."

Kagome frowned, confused, "Inu...Yasha?"

"Stupid wench," he joked, "Don't even recognize me as a human."

She tilted her head, "But, I thought you... I thought you were human during the day time."

InuYasha leaned back against the wall, "Weeelll, actually, I only look human during the day time. I'm still a hanyou. I just don't have my demonic features till the moon comes out...Now," He ran his hand through his dark hair, "I'm all human."

Kagome shook her head and smiled, "Will you stop going through these bizarre transformations."

He returned the smile, "This is the last one I promise."

"Good," she turned and started walking towards the outside door. "Well, I'm gonna go hang out outside. See ya."

InuYasha smirked and followed her. The cold night air felt so good on his tired muscles, he breathed in deeply. Even with out his demon nose, the smells of the night still invigorated his senses. Kagome turned and grabbed his hand. "Come on, there's something cool I want you to see."

InuYasha felt the waves of emotion crash over him at her soft touch, his heart started to race, 'Don't even think about it!' He scolded himself.

She led him over to a small clearing. He looked around, they were surrounded by light brown grass that came up to his waist. "Uh, I don't see what's so..."

Kagome put her finger to her lips and shushed him, "Look," she threw a small rock into the grass.

InuYasha's eyes widened, clouds of lightning bugs erupted from all around them. Their light illuminated the whole area in an almost unearthly glow.

Kagome sighed in awe, "It so amazing."

InuYasha nodded, transfixed at the scene in front of him. It was amazing. The light shimmered and shone around them in living ripples.

Kagome giggled at the awed look on his face, "What? You've never seen bugs before."

"Well, not like this." InuYasha shook off his look of amazement, and turned back toward her.

She laughed again, "Wow, we find some hint of sensitivity in the hard shelled InuYasha." She said sarcastically.

InuYasha grinned evilly, "Oh yeah, I'll give you something to laugh about."

Before she could say anything, he jumped on her and started tickling her. Kagome rolled around in fits of laughter trying to escape. They both tumbled through the grass as the light bugs flashed around them. Kagome managed to hold her own in the tickle match but, InuYasha finally pinned her to the ground and grinned, "You surrender?"

She tried to stop laughing and gasped for breath, "I surrender." Suddenly she realized how close they were. InuYasha was kneeling over her, holding her down with both his arms and legs, their faces almost touching. Kagome turned five shades of red.

InuYasha suddenly looked away and closed his eyes, it was happening. He felt emotion explode in his veins. He was sitting there, with the most beautiful girl in the world. Her touch sent sparks and shivers radiating through his body. There was nothing he could do to stop himself. He looked back and reveled in her beauty, her silky raven hair blowing against her soft glowing skin.

Kagome stared, wonderingly up at her suddenly silent companion. Her thoughts raced as his strong body leaned against her frail form. His handsome face creased as if he was giving one last thought to what he was about to do. Before Kagome knew what was happening, he brought his hand under her head and brought her face up to his. Gently InuYasha brushed his lips against hers, sending shivers racing across her spine. "InuYasha," She whispered, hcaressed her face, softly moving across her rosy lips.

Suddenly InuYasha felt a jolt as he realized what he was doing. He jumped up and pulled away from her. 'What have I done!' He had crossed a line, he had gone to a place he promised he wouldn't go. He felt so lost, so confused, he knew that he had just done something terrible, but, even so he felt so glad he did. Raging thoughts clouded the hanyou's mind as he prayed for it all to go away. "I'm sorry!" he exhaled and closed his eyes tight, "I... I can't...I gotta go..." InuYasha turned and raced back to the school. 'What have I done!' he repeated. 'What am I going to do?'

A/N I know I know I'm very mean. Sorry. KEEP REVIEWING I really need more reviews! It pushes me to keep writing if you haven't reviewed yet DO IT! PLEASE! I accept praise, comments, compliments, correction, ideas any thing! Please review it really helps!