Authors Note:

Well, by the next chapter, the story will have to start getting kind of fluffy, you have been warned! I'll try to put some Inuyasha-Hoshiko moments, but just so you guys now, I don't really spend days working on one chapter. I tend to write these very fast so if you find mistakes then…sorry, my bad!

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Hoshiko woke up on the roof of Kaede's hut. She didn't realize this until she stretched and nearly fell off. Her balance was better than a normal human though and so she was able to land lightly on her feet as she jumped off. Her thoughts suddenly wandered off to Kikyou. She would have been so pleased if the priestess would have been able to tell her something about her mother yet as always Hoshiko was saddened by the awful truth: no one could help her in her endless search for her mother. Not even Inuyasha.

She stretched again and breathed deeply. She displayed her white fangs with every yawn. The smell of fresh fruit and flowers filled her nostrils. "What's for breakfast?" she asked when she entered the hut. "Hoshiko! Where were you? We were all so worried!" screamed Sango at the tiny hanyou. "Oh, I was taking a mere nap on the roof. You don't need to worry about me." A large smile crossed her face. "Now can I have breakfast?"

"Hm" Miroku handed her a small bowl of soup. " but you should never run of like that again! Especially in a rainstorm!" He glanced down at his shoes that were a permanent brown color. He groaned gently yet Hoshiko could hear him clearly.

"I'm sorry, really I am! I don't know what came over me." she bowed her head down slightly, "I'm sure a good wash will take that stain off your shoes, Miroku." she smiled and took a sip from her bowl.

"Well, as long as you are okay." Sango replied. Kirara jumped onto Hoshiko's shoulder and purred, which made her giggle.

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"Kagome is fine, she is drinking tea right now." Mrs. Higurashi told the hanyou in the morning. "That's good." he said. He had spent most of the night by her side, until Mrs. H suggested that he should take some rest and sleep in the couch. He didn't want to leave Kagome but he knew it was best, so reluctantly he went downstairs.

Mrs. Higurashi giggled a bit when she saw Inuyasha with a milk mustache. "Mm, this is good! What is it?" He beamed as he looked up at her. "It's called 'cereal', dear. I'm glad you like it"

After he devoured the rest of his cereal, he decided that he should visit Kagome before she fell back to sleep. "Inuyasha, make sure she eats all of her breakfast!" yelled Mrs. H as he descended up the stairs.

Kagome heard him and stood up in bed. She stared at her reflection on her mirror. Her cheeks were a pale pink, her eyes looked flushed and her hair was a complete mess. She almost yelled at the sight of it. She tried to calm down her hair before Inuyasha opened the door. "Oh, hello Inuyasha!" she smiled at him, trying to look as adorable as possible.

"How are you feeling?" He asked her, "Fine now, thank you." He smiled at her kindly before sitting next to her on the bed, "I'm glad." He lifted his hand to touch her cheek. His hand was so warm that it made her close her eyes and sigh.

"How did you get so many scars, Kagome? Your face is filled with them." She opened her eyes and looked into the mirror again. She hadn't noticed it before but it was true. Two scars were on her left cheek while three more were on her right one.

Her mouth opened slightly and a small gasp escaped. "I fell." she said simply. He glared at her, "How many times did you fall?" He knew she wasn't saying the truth but he wanted to see how far she would go to make him believe such a lie.

"I fell off a cliff, then I started to crawl towards the well but ..." her eyes were starting to fill with tears, she tried her best to hold them back but as she remembered that night, she saw Inuyasha lying on the floor completely motionless. "… I lost too much blood to keep going. I must have passed out."

'I must admit, her story is quite convincing.' thought Inuyasha, he kept glaring at her until a tear finally fell from her eyes. "What is it?" he asked.

"Nothing, I'm also glad you are okay." He gave her a puzzled look, "Feh, of course I'm okay. You must have had a bad dream." 'She went through a lot' he concluded.

"I'll leave you now, so you can rest some more." he turned his back and started to walk away. 'No! Don't leave me!' she mentally kicked herself for letting him walk out. 'What if that was just a dream?' she stared at the bruises in her arms, 'That seemed to real to be just a nightmare.' Kagome fell asleep minutes after he closed the door.

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"Inuyasha hasn't come back, huh?" Hoshiko looked around the village for any signs of the silver-haired hanyou, "No, he hasn't" replied Shippo.

Shippo and Hoshiko sat on the porch of the hut, with bored expressions. Shippo kicked a rock in attempt to get rid of his boredom yet it failed terribly. Sango had forbidden Hoshiko to wander away from the village and the kitsune had promised her that he'd keep her company while they were out. "Sango and Miroku should get back anytime now." he said. "Hm" was her only reply.

"Isn't there something we can do?" she asked him, hoping his answer would be positive. "I guess we could play "Catch" like Kagome calls it." he smiled up at her and walked into the hut to retrieve his small ball made out of straw and grass. "The rules are simple. I throw it and you catch. Then you must throw it back." he yelled from within the cabin.

Just then, Miroku came stumbling through the bushes with a frustrated Sango behind him, "You are a hentai!" she yelled at the poor monk. "I don't really want to know what happened" replied Hoshiko. Shippo came out and tossed the ball at Hoshiko, "Come on! Let's play!" he smiled innocently.

She stared at the sphere shaped thing in her hands and beamed. They played for a while until it started to get dark, now Hoshiko was starting to get worried about Inuyasha. He hadn't come back for an entire day. She knew she promised Sango she would obey her orders and stay inside the village but her instinct told her something horrible had happened.

Without looking back Hoshiko started to run in the direction that Inuyasha had taken the night before. She sniffed the air in case she could catch a faint smell of her father. Instead, only the sour smell of sap from the trees came to her.

When she reached the old well in the forest, her legs automatically stopped. All the awful memories came back. She suddenly heard Naraku's laugh in her head. She shuddered a little before re-thinking all that she knew about Kagome. 'Inuyasha must have traveled through the well' was her final deduction. 'Okay Hoshiko, you can do this. Don't let fear control you.' She closed her eyes tightly and jumped into the well.

'All I do for my father' she didn't dare open her eyes until she felt ground underneath her feet. 'He better thank me for caring so much.' She leaped out of the well to find herself in a strange looking house. A cat walked up to her leg and nuzzled her softly. "What the.. What is this?" she looked around.

The new environment made her feel uncomfortable. 'Don't let fear control you, don't let fear control you' she kept telling herself as she walked up the stairs.

"Oh!" Mrs. Higurashi screamed in the unfortunate hanyou's face, which made her scream in turn and fall down the stairs.