Kagome sighed heavily as she placed her soar feet in the cool lake, forgetting that it was once considered frezzing when she bathed in it. She could have bathed if she wanted to, but she wouldn't know if it would do any good for her wounds, which she was finally feeling. Kaede had said that it would probably make it worse. Had there been a spring, it would have done her some good, but there wasn't one for miles, so all she could do was soak her soar feet.

Another day had passed reliving the past, and things were already changing. What was worse was that not only had the past changed, but so did the people, or demons in the crows case. She worried about the crows behavior more at the moment.

'Before, what really happened, the crow tried to attack us as a last resort because he had no other choice. He was only a head. There wouldn't be a point in running away . . . unless . .' Kagome couldn't finish her thought as it was interrupted by Kaede's voice.

"Kagome?" she called from the fire behind her, "is there something troubling you child?"

"Hm? Oh, uh, nothing is all, just . . . kinda wondering what my mom's gonna say when she sees my clothes when - - - - when I get home." It was true. She hadn't really noticed the blood stains on her sailor shirt after that night with the centipede. Now it was completely torn (it took a while to explain it to Kaede why Kagome was wearing Inu-yasha's haori. The excuse became that Inu-yasha didn't want her walking around naked in front of the bandits. He said that she would be dragging hing him down rescuing her from them.). Kagome now wore a priestess garb, her hair tied up with a hair band. This was all Kaede had.

Kagome sighed and looked up to the tree on the cliff above her, where she knew the half-demon was hiding in. But she didn't expect him to be watching her.

Inu-yasha was watching her with an unknown emotion on his face. Kagome couldn't tell, but she guessed that it had something to do with her looks. She was Kikyo's reincarnate after all. And he did love her.

That struck her hard.

Kagome was almost lost in thought until Inu-yasha indicated his head to something. He looked like he was waiting for something to happen.

That's when she realized it.

"EEEK! SIT!" and down Inu-yasha went, and pretty hard, too. Kagome had almost forgotten that before, Inu-yasha took a peek at her when she was bathing in the lake.

"What'da do that for?" he cried out angrily as he lifted his head from the ground.

"You scared me!"

"Feh!" He sat up and turned away. "Its not like I was looking at ya! I was . . ."

Kaede chose to answer for him. "Looking for a way to steal the Shikon Jewel Shard, is that it?"

"Feh."

Kaede sighed. "Inu-yasha, unless you do not cooperate with Kagome who can see the shards . . ."

"I know, hag!" he retorted, turning to face her, "Didn't I already tell you that I would join with the girl for now?"

Suddenly Kagome came up to him. "Hey." She called out angrily, "how come you hate me so much?"

A silence passed for a mere moment, with Inu-yasha staring at Kagome with a blank face, then turning away as she left to tend to her torn wet school uniform. She became more saddened at the fact that he sees her as Kikyo. She shouldn't be surprised, though. It wasn't his fault that she does. But that still didn't change anything.

The three looked up to see a village woman with her two children, one infant on her back and the other toddling in front of her, coming from the side of the mountain. "Lady Kaede?" she asked. A small conversation passed and Kaede declared that she had to leave for the village.

"Try not to fight." She called out before she left. The two watched her leave until she was gone; they sighed in unison. Inu-yasha spoke first.

"Hey."

"Don't even, I don't want to change my clothes. What else can I change to, anyway?" Kagome knew that was a bit too harsh, but she didn't really care right now. She was too hurt.

"Did you really think I was going to say that after what happened before?" his voice held humor, which shocked Kagome and made her turn around to see him in front of her.

She was in is embrace in moments. Before Kagome could say anything else, Inu-yasha spoke.

"I didn't see you as Kikyo before, Kagome."

She sucked in a breath. 'So he knew.' She clutched him.

"I won't lie to you though," he continued, "You do look like her in this."

Disappointed and hurt, she tried pulling away, but he held on to her tighter, startling Kagome. She suddenly felt the tie on her hair loosen, then was pulled away from him to see his cocky smile and her hair band in one hand.

"But you look a lot less like her with your hair down."

Kagome was shocked, not to mention embarrassed. She could feel her face burning already.

"Hm? Kagome what's wrong?" Inu-yasha asked. "You're all red. Are you getting sick?"

"Huh? Oh! No, uh, nothing. Just . . . I was just surprised of the nice things you said."

"I was just telling you the truth. You don't have to get all mushy on me." He turned away with a slight blush on his cheeks. She smiled at that.

"Thank you, anyway."

"Feh."

Her smile widened, then Inu-yasha changed the subject. "So . . . What's supposed to happen next?"

She went into thought. "Well, I'm suppose to head for the well where I'm suppose to meet Yura of the Hair. She's suppose to steal the jewel shard that I have. You?"

"I'm suppose to head back to the village where I'll fight Yura's puppets, get away with Kaede and then go after you."

"So . . . I guess I'll get going?"

" . . . Yeah." He sounded disappointed.

"Well . . . see ya." Before she turned around, she was once again pulled into Inu-yasha's embrace and held her close. She again held on to him.

"Be careful." Was all he said.

She nodded, and held him a little longer till she was forced to let go, and so was he.

Kagome had reached the well at last, dropping her clothes to the side of the well and looked in. She saw the bones left of the demon centipede, and sighed. The centipede didn't bother her, only served to remind her of the night of the demons demise and what transpired. She clutched her side.

'Inu-yasha . . .' Kagome looked up suddenly when she heard an odd chirp. She watched a bird fall from the sky, and realized than the bird was in pieces. She jumped back on instinct and suddenly felt her side be cut up, her cheek cut. When she looked up , she was surrounded in a web of hair.

"La? So you can see it then?"

Kagome looked to the source of the voice. There Yura was, walking on a line of hair, her fingers connecting to many other hairs. She looked down to Kagome, an amused smile lit on her face.

"You can see my hair net?" she continued, "Though simply seeing is not enough."

"Wh-Who are you?" Kagome demanded.

"Yura of the Hair, but I don't feel hurt that you don't remember me."

Kagome suddenly realized what she was saying. "What . . . what did you say?"

Yura laughed lightly. "You heard me . . . Kagome."

You heard right, people! here's the huge twist! and be happy i went through all this trouble to update! now hope that i update next week with the help of lots of reviews!