Part 9

K, I wrote for only 30 minutes and then posted the resulting 4 pages and I got 3 reviews in 1 hour. You guys are kinda creepy in how much you like this, but it makes me feel really cool.

In reply to your question, at the end where Kagome says "I would return all the favors I owed him" she's talking about all the stuff Inu's done for her. The chappie is called Kagome's guilt. Ya know she's talking about how she was kinda mean to Inu but he almost kills himself just for her, so she feels bad and wants to make it up to him.

I hope that answers that question.

Also, my parents aren't getting me a laptop; the school rents out laptops. Yeah, it's sweet, but the computers are crap. One of my friend's older brother got one that was frayed on one of the wires the first day he got it, and he took it to the office to tell them they gave him a busted one and he had to pay for it! And what happens a lot is some jerk will knock the laptop out of someone's hands and it will break and that poor kid has to pay for it.

I hope that is clear enough.

That's all I got before I stop typing again except to give a cookie to Black Rain Girl, Yasha's sis, and WhoDidn'tKillBambi for reviewing so fast. Congrat's my little speedies!

Oh, I'm gonna overlap some stuff so ya know how Inu felt when he first saw Kagome again.

Inu's POV

I was shocked. I can't explain it clearer than that. Reasons are:

1) Kagome had really changed; she almost didn't look like Kagome anymore!

And

2) She looked like she wanted to kill something.

I couldn't remember the way back to her house so I told Riku we'd just wander around for a bit, but then it started raining so we headed back to my alley. Riku said it looked like a dump. HA! A dump! Like it really looks like one of those. Well, okay I see his point.

Anyway, we were just about to go inside and then Kagome showed up. I didn't even hear her walk up. Then Riku introduced himself and Kagome did the same. I suggested we stopped standing in the rain and Kagome invited us over for lunch. It took at least 20 minutes to get there, but while we were walking to Kagome's place I kept thinking I shouldn't be going there.

The thing is, I know there are a bunch of people after me. And even though it's been years since any of them had any idea where I was, when Kikyou totally stabbed me in the back, there are now more legal documents of me. And they say Mrs. Higarashi was fostering me, which is probably why I only got to spend a few days there.

It turns out, the first group of people that tried to get me that shot me a gazillion times was this guy named Dr. Onigumo who wants me dead for some reason. The second group that only got me with a dart was Dr. Janzu. Even though Janzu got me first, the others are still probably waiting for me to go back. I'm sure my brother is that determined. And Kikyou might try to finish the job. And there is this guy who wants me to pay for the car I was accidentally thrown into, but he's not a problem.

And of course if any demon slayers or monks or priestesses (other than Kagome) or demons find out I'm half demon I gotta get the hell outta here or kill them. Running, I'm always running! You'd think I'd get tired of it after awhile and say, "screw this!" and just kill myself to save them all the trouble. I haven't yet, but it would just make my brother's day!

"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, "are you coming inside or what?"

Huh? What the-?

"He's just thinking. Don't try to hard, you might blow a fuse dog brain!" Riku laughed. Apparently I'd been spacing out while Kagome and Riku went inside.

Well, I went inside anyway even though I knew I shouldn't. Kagome found a note on the counter saying her mom and brother were going to be gone for a few hours and that lunch was in the fridge. I was kinda glad they were gone. Now that I was finally back, I kinda wanted to leave as soon as possible. Weird huh?

After eating in silence while Riku and Kagome talked about stuff and Riku told her about the lab and she told us about what she'd been doing, Kagome started to just stare at me. I almost wanted to yell out, "WHAT!" but I stopped myself.

"You need something?" I asked in, still a pretty mean tone, a nicer tone than my planned response I mentioned earlier.

"I can't believe how much you've changed." Kagome said seriously.

"What are you talking about?" I asked in the still 'not so mean but mean none-the-less' voice.

"Nothing, just forget about it." she mumbled.

"Look, I'm wet and tired and I used to be really hungry, so I'm sorry if I'm a bit grumpy. What was it you where talking about?" I asked her, really trying my best to be nice.

"What she probably is sayin' is that you look like hell and she feels guilty about it." Riku said after yawning.

"How did you know?" Kagome asked him.

"He can get inside your mind if you're distracted and not thinkin' too hard." I told her. She deserved to know.

"That is so neat! I wish I could do that." She smiled. It was a fake cheesy smile so I knew she just wanted to change the subject.

"It's really handy, especially when Inuyasha doesn't want to talk about something." Riku said.

"WHAT?" I asked, completely taken by surprise. Riku had told me he never used that dumb trick on me.

"Well, I can understand that. How long have you known each other?" Kagome asked, totally ignoring me.

"I'm right here ya know!" I thought they should know.

"About two years. Basically ever since he came to the lab." Riku ignored me too.

"Oh! So I don't exist anymore. I got it." I said. I spend two years trying to break out of that lab and when I get out no one cares that I'm alive. Figures.

"We're just messing with you." Riku said smiling. "I thought she should see the old Inuyasha."

"What, the Inuyasha that wants to murder everyone?" I asked, half joking.

"No, the one that gets so mad he blurts out what ever is on his mind." Riku replied.

"What ever." I grunted. Kagome was laughing her head off.

"Well," Kagome said once she finally got a hold of herself, "I'm glad your back. I have to admit, I had my doubts you were even alive."

"It's nice to know you have so much faith in me Kagome." I said sarcastically.

"Actually, he had the same doubts as you. It was so annoying." Riku confessed for me. That was getting annoying.

"It doesn't matter. At least your back and here to stay." Kagome giggled.

"Who said I was stayin?" great, here's another example of how humans can take an awkward situation and make it worse. (Read ch.3)

"Your back, why not?" Kagome asked.

"I just can't." the less she knows the better.

"You're not going back to the lab, are you?" Riku asked.

"No!" I looked over at Kagome and that look she had on her face back at the alley, the one where it looked like she wanted to kill something, came back as tears started welling up in her eyes. I was gonna get it.

"I've been waiting for 2 years to see you again and your just gonna leave!" Kagome shouted. Good she's not cryin' yet.

Now I had to handle this carefully or I'd have a crying girl on my hands.

"I can't stay here." I said slowly.

"Sure you can! We cleared out the storage room a few months ago and made a guest bedroom. You could stay there." Kagome was pleading.

"That sure sounds like you can, Inuyasha." Riku said looking up at me.

"Look, you can't understand. None of you ever did. I just can't stay here. I never should have come here anyway." I said getting up with the intent to walk out the door, until a certain bird demon tackled me.

"GET OFF OF ME!" what do you expect, you'd yell that too.

"I'm sick of you making yourself miserable. Now stay here with this nice chick. That's why you wanted out isn't it?" Riku said.

"I WILL SQUASH YOU LIKE A BUG!" let's just say I was really not happy.

"Hey! Be careful! You might break something." Kagome said.

"We'll be careful, I just need to intervene in his life a bit." Riku said.

That little punk! Why does everyone need to intervene in my life? Why can't they leave me alone? Don't they see that's all I want? I want to be alone. That's how it's always been, and that's how it's gonna be! But if I want to be alone, why did I want to bust out of the lab and bring Riku with me to go find Kagome?

"DID YOU HEAR ME? GET OFF!" I shouted as I struggled to get off the floor and not fling Riku across the room.

As he let go in surprise and hit the floor, Kagome looked at me with these big sad eyes.

"You can go if you want. Just do what you need to do." She relented.

Riku and me stared at her for a moment. Then I looked down at Riku, who was still on the floor.

"Go back to the dumb lab. Just say I talked you into it or something. You shouldn't get into to much trouble." I said to Riku, and then I left.

I know it seems to Kagome like I hate her. And I know it seems to Riku like I'm some kind of self-hating freak. But if I didn't leave and Riku didn't get out of there before someone after me showed up, they would both be in trouble. I had to leave so they wouldn't get hurt. I did follow Riku far enough to make sure he made it back to the lab safely and I check up on Kagome after a while to make sure she was okay, but then I ran all over town and into other cities so I could throw of anyone who could have been following. Then I kept a low profile back at my alley.

I have to admit, sometimes I wish it were just as easy as Riku thought it would was. I wish all I had to do was to force myself to be in a good place, and good things would happen, but the bottom line was I was never going to be happy as long as I was me. And I also wish they could just see that.

To clear things up, Inu has three emotional problems:

1) what bad stuff happened to him in the past

2) wishing things could go back to the way they were a long time ago

3) and yet at the same time, wishing that now all that crap had happened, that people would stop messing with him to try and make his life better.

He's pretty messed up huh? I'll write more soon!