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28 of July

I think today really, really sucked! I was on the beach, seagulls flying around, crying their cute and annoying little cries. I felt really good to not have to worry about anything. Sango and I had sent Inuyasha, Miroku and Shippo on a little fake quest to find us some purple leaved plants for medicine, so we could sunbake in our underwear without being disturbed by the boys, especially by Miroku, that pervert.

Anyway, it took them precisely five hours to figure out that it was a fake plant. By that time they were hungry, cranky, tired and pissed off.

Five hours in the sun without sunscreen is a very stupid thing to do since it was like 50 gazillion degrees outside and the sun was on FULL BLAST!

I'm dead serious, when the boys came back they had pissed off looked on their face but that all changed when they seen us standing there trying to cool down.

Inuyasha looked scared for a moment, saying, "Kagome, what happened to your face," He lifted up his finger and pointed to my face.

I narrowed my eyes, "I'm sunburnt you jerk! You don't have to point it out!"

Sango lightly touched her skin and winced, "My skin feels like it's on fire,"

"We need Aloe Vera cream, Shippo can you please get it out from my bag?" Shippo bounded over to my bag to find the cream.

I have Aloe Vera cream in my bag but no sunscreen, what's wrong with me? I'm not usually this careless.

I just hope that I tan instead of peeling.

Miroku came out of the blue and said, "Sango, I'll rub that on for you," while having a sly smile on his perverted face. Lecher!

I looked at Sango and saw something in her eyes. Was it anger? Or hope? Some emotion like that but she screamed, "BACK OFF YOU LECHER!" And then she pegged a huge rock at him. It hit him hard too.

Sango and I walked into the forest to find a cold lake where we could wash off the sand and cool our skin before we put on the cream.

After a long day in the sun, the cool water felt really good against my skin and with the delightfully cool cream which was coming next my skin was going to feel really good apart from being burnt of course.

I opened my eyes to find Sango looking up at the heavens.

"I hope Inuyasha and Miroku don't see us," I said trying to start a conversation.

Sango looked over at me, her thin eyebrows raised, "Do you want him to see?"

"Who?" Even though I had a good idea who she was talking about.

"Inuyasha,"

I groaned and leaned back, "No. I don't want him to see me naked,"

"Are you sure?"

"Sango…" I warned

"Alright, alright," She laughed, "I've never known someone to be so protective about their feelings before,"

"I could say the same to you,"

She looked sharply at me and I started to stutter, "Well, I mean, it's, um, no secret that, well don't offended by this, but um, I think that you have a crush on Miroku," I said the last part quickly

Sango stood up, "I do not!"

"I'm just saying that you look like you do," I stood up as well

"Well don't!"

Then we heard something move about in the bushes. We both screamed. Inuyasha and Miroku came running. Inuyasha had Tetsusaiga out ready to use.

"What's wrong!" Inuyasha yelled coming into the clearing, where our cloths were lying.

Miroku and Inuyasha stopped for a moment and looked us up and down. Sango and I realised that we were naked!

We both screamed again and pegged rocks at Miroku and Inuyasha while grabbing our towel and trying to pull it around us. This is really hard, considering we were doing two things at once.

After being hit with 10 million rocks, they finally got the message that we wanted them to leave and they ran away like the perverts that they are.

I breathed hard. I couldn't believe it: Inuyasha (and Miroku) had seen me naked. Well he (they) had seen me naked a few times before but that's when it really hit me: Inuyasha (and Miroku) had seen me naked!

After rubbing the cream into our skin and getting dressed, Sango and I apologized to each other and agreed that we wouldn't speak to Miroku or Inuyasha until they apologized to us.

After a few hours of walking in silence (Miroku and Inuyasha tried to talk to us but we refused to talk to them) I thought that it was really our fault that they saw us naked in the first place as we screamed and they came running to protect us.

I pulled Sango aside and told her that and she agreed with me about it. Sango said that we should go apologize to Inuyasha and Miroku.

So I went to see Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha," I said quietly, "Can I talk to you?"

"So you're talking to me now?" he said scornfully

I felt hurt, "I wanted to say that I'm sorry and that it was our fault that you guys seen us naked," I said quietly, emotions tugging my heart, "You two had only heard us scream and thought that we were only in danger and came to help us,"

Inuyasha stuck his nose up, "I know,"

I looked at him for a while before he stuck out his hand (or paw, whatever you want to call it), and said, "Friends?"

I took his hand, "Friends,"

I smiled at him and he smiled back, even if it was a small tiny smile, I still got a smile from the un-smiling machine.

Suddenly he lifted up his head and sniffed the air, "Demons," he whispered

Damn, I thought, just when we were starting to connect.

He pushed me behind him.

"Skin," I said, "Mind my skin,"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes at me and pulled out the Tetsusaiga, "Move now! There are a lot of them,"

"Inuyasha, I can sense a jewel shard coming," I said to him, he pushed me gently towards the others. I ran to where Sango, Miroku and Shippo were standing.

"What's wrong?" Miroku asked me

"Inuyasha said that it was demons and I can sense a jewel shard coming as well," I answered

There were loud screeches coming from everywhere. The screeches were really high pitched. Suddenly small, dark figures came up all around us.

"They've surrounded us!" Miroku yelled. Way to state the obvious Miroku! But I wasn't going say that at the time.

The demons were knee high, pure black with red, glowing eyes. They had two, long antennas coming out of their fugly heads.

One of them stepped forward, "Give us the jewel shards,"

I stepped back from the little things, which were slowly coming towards us.

Inuyasha just spat, "Go find your own,"

"We have, now we want your's," They all took a huge (for them) step forward towards us.

Inuyasha raised his Tetsusaiga and swung it at the demons, killing a few. That's when they all dived at us.

Inuyasha swung his sword at them, Miroku used his stick and Sango used her boomerang (A/N anyone know what those two things are called?) and Kilala helped by swiping at them with his paws.

Shippo stayed on my shoulders and I got out my bow and arrows. I didn't know which one to get so I just let go of the arrow and hoped that it got one of those ugly little demons.

Inuyasha was doing great. He was jumping around swinging his sword trying to kill as many as he could. He came over near me to help but saw that I was doing a fabulous job of killing, so he helped out Sango, Miroku, and Kilala but stayed close to me just in case.

Shippo was helping me out by saying which ones were coming closer to me. Out of the blue one of the demons managed to get by Shippo and Inuyasha's gaze and took a swung at my lower stomach. And he got me too. I have two long scratches across my belly.

I was about to shoot it when Inuyasha came over and sliced it with Tetsusaiga. I smiled at him as my blood ran down my stomach. I didn't worry about it until the battle was over.

"Thanks Inuyasha," I said before taking another shot at the demons.

This kind of fighting went on for another ten minutes, before the demons decided to retreat from the battle.

I gave a strangled cheer as they ran but not before Inuyasha stepped in front of the leader of the group.

"You said something about finding your own jewel shards?" Inuyasha said, "Hand them over,"

The demon narrowed its eyes, "Never," and it took a swipe at Inuyasha. Inuyasha gave one slice of the Tetsusaiga before the demon fell to the ground.

Inuyasha bent down and picked up a tiny jewel shard and threw it at me. "Only one, I thought that they would have more," He turned to me and said, "Here hold onto this," Before he walked over to a clearing then sat down.

I sat down where I was and held onto my stomach. It burned more than my sunburn. Sango was instantly at my side and she helped me up then took me over to my bag where all the bandages were.

"Sit down," she commanded me before she got out a huge bandage. She stopped for a moment and turned to Miroku and Inuyasha who had their backs turned. Sango then proceeded to lift up my school shirt and cleaned out my wound. She then wrapped it up all within five minutes. I thanked her and got up. The pain dulled as I stood there for a moment.

Miroku had gone over to Kilala with Sango and Shippo to check if he was alright. I slowly made my way over to Inuyasha to talk to him.

"Thanks for helping me," I said to Inuyasha

He turned to me and said, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, did you get hurt?"

"No, you're the only one who got hurt," Inuyasha said lying down and staring at the stars that had come out during the fight.

"I would lie down but it hurts too much," I said smiling

He snorted, "It would for you,"

I was about to say something when I remembered that Inuyasha had once had a huge hole in him plus various other cuts and bruises where as I only had two scratches across my stomach.

I almost winced at the pain Inuyasha had to be going through when they happened. I thought that mine where tough.

I smiled and slowly leaned back against the grass, "I suppose your right,"

It was a beautiful moment until:

"Kagome, you still look like a lobster," Inuyasha stated

I stood up, "You're going to sit for a week for that remark!" I walked away and helped Sango with dinner even though she said to leave it to her tonight, but I wanted to do something instead of just sitting around doing nothing.

So now, everyone is sleeping soundly, even though I have a feeling Inuyasha is awake, waiting for me to go to sleep. He doesn't know about my diary so I know his wondering what I'm doing up this late.

He is sometimes so sweet. Maybe I'll cut back his 'Sit' time from a week to five days? Yeh I'll do that for him.

So I can now say that I have a battle scar. Hoorah!

Anyway, I'm feeling really tired at the moment and my sunburnt skin needs to repair.

Love Kagome

(Note to self: Buy sunscreen and Aloe Vera Cream/Spray when I get back to my time)