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No one's POV>

(a.n.feels kinda weird typing in this style)

"Well, I think you'll pass now!" Sango sighed after their power hour of studying that ended up lasting 3 hours.

"Yeah, if this headache goes away. Thanks for spending the weekend here studying with me." Kagome said.

"It was nothing, besides, I got a cool story about your 'boy friend' in the process." Sango smiled.

"Huh? Boyfriend?" Kagome asked.

"Inuyasha! Yeesh it's so clear you like him. Even if he can't like you back I still think its sweet." Sango explained.

"He could so like me back! We've gone over this a hundred times! Demons have feelings!" Kagome shouted. She was sick of Sango's attitude about this.

"I'll believe it when I see it. Hey, isn't tomorrow going to be exactly two years since he was here?" Sango asked.

"Yeah. It is." Kagome replied sadly.

"Hey! Wouldn't it be really cool if he came back tomorrow? He could even bust through the door or something like in the really romantic movies!" Sango joked.

"Yeah, that would be cool. He could even stand outside my window and serenade me or something!" Kagome said; giggling at the thought of Inuyasha playing the guitar and singing some love song he made up.

"Even if he wasn't a half-demon I don't think he would do that!" Sango laughed, imagining the same thing.

"He wouldn't be caught dead doing anything like that!" Kagome said in between the fits of laughter as she and Sango rolled on the ground.

"I wonder how he's doing." Kagome thought aloud.

"Yeesh, I better stop bringing him up. I've told you! He can look after himself!" Sango insisted for the fiftieth time.

"I know, I just can't help wondering." Kagome said, trying to justify her feelings.

Inu's POV>

"Riku! Riku you bird brain! It's time to wake up!" I practically shouted at the hawk perched on my shoulder. I decided we had better walk during the night too, but Riku was so tired he fell asleep.

'Huh? Wha?' I felt Riku say.

"We're almost in Tokyo." I explained to him. In retrospect once again, I probably could have been nicer. I really need to work on that.

'What's Tokyo again?' Riku asked.

Sigh "it's the city Kagome lives in………and a city is a place where lots of humans and demons live in houses." I explained some more.

'Whatever you say, as long as there's food. I'm starving.'

"Oh, there'll be food. Kagome's mom cooks great food, better than anything back at the lab."

And we left it at that. I still don't know why I walked. I could've gotten there in half the time, but as the road widened out into a highway and the trees got scarce and the houses more frequent I kept thinking that maybe Kagome hadn't gotten out. Maybe she had gotten lost in the vent and never came out or she had made it out only to get lost in the country. Or if she had made it back home safely, would she blame me for everything?

Kagome's POV>

I had hoped deep down that Inuyasha would come today. It was exactly 2 years to the day that he shoved me into that vent. But if he could have gotten away, wouldn't he have done that sooner? Maybe that scientist guy who was talking to Naraku's dad did something to him. Or he ended up selling him to Naraku's dad anyway.

I thought about all of this while I stared out the window. While I stared out the window, it started to rain. First a drop here and one there, but soon it was pouring. The weather really seemed to fit my mood. Inuyasha wasn't coming. He wasn't ever coming, no matter how many times I said he was. But I still feel like he's alive some where. It's really faint, could just be my stubbornness. He was still hurt kinda bad when I last saw him. Maybe a walk would clear my thoughts.

I told my mom I was going to walk to Sango's house to drop off her stuff she had accidentally left here. She smiled and nodded while I grabbed my raincoat. It was really starting to come down hard. When I got outside, the rain pounding my jacket like bullets of water, I starting thinking of that night when she went with Sango and Miroku to the bowling alley; How even when i tried to ditch Inuyasha, he still showed up. And even after i had been so mean he took 5 bullets for me and still dragged me somewhere safe while he was probably in pain.

Then I wished the rain would come down harder, maybe even hail, so the world could feel just as bad as I did. I felt horrible. I wanted to hit something and hurt it bad; maybe then I could transfer some if this pain to something else. But the moment passed and I was still Kagome standing in the rain.

Then I realized where I was. I had somehow walked all the way across town to the very alley Inuyasha had dragged me, and where I could honestly say was the first time I ever liked him a bit. It was amazing that in only a few hours I went from hating his guts to almost—

"Inuyasha? Is that you?" I gasped. It couldn't be! That kid did look like him and he had a similar spell on, but it couldn't be! This guy was scrawny, and he was carrying a giant hawk around on his shoulder. But then he turned around and I saw those same golden eyes tinged with shock and surprise.

"Kagome?" he said, almost like he was testing it out to see how it sounded.

"Your alive?" I know it was a stupid question. Of course he was alive! If he wasn't he wouldn't be standing there talking to me.

"Well, yeah. Your okay?"

"I fine, like you said, I got off easy." I replied referring back to that night in this alley.

"Well, this is Riku. He's a friend, not a bird." Inuyasha said awkwardly.

Then the bird on his shoulder transformed into a little kid about 11 or 12 with huge bird wings on his back. He had to some kind of bird demon.

"Hello, I'm Riku, and you must be that girl Kagome." the kid, uh, Riku, said with a bow.

"Yeah, I'm Kagome." I replied. You couldn't really say anything else after something like that.

"Look, um, there's no point in us standing out here in the rain. Let's get all introduced and everything somewhere dry." Inuyasha said, taking charge of the situation.

"How about my place! Mom should be making lunch right about now." I offered.

"Food! Awesome! Now I see why you like her so much Inuyasha!" Riku almost shouted. Something told me he was starving as he returned to Inuyasha's shoulder in hawk form.

Then I led the way, Inuyasha behind me. If it wasn't for the rain Inuyasha would know I was crying. I was so happy he was okay, and tonight, I would return all the favors I owed him.

Well, I am sorry it's kinda short, more will come! Please review! Cookies to everyone! And LUV awards to everyone too just because you all waited so long!