me: Hello!This will be the second to last chapter before I leave on vacation, and Im warning you now that before I leave, I shall leave you with the biggest cliffhanger the like of man nor woman has never seen!okay...well, not that big, but i think Its gunna be ig enough to make plenty of my readers mad at meh...lol. anyway...I dont want to give away tommorrows chapy, so on with the disclaimer!

InuYasha: keep your eye on the fribe...eye on the prize...come on InuYasha...your getting rewarded...thinks about the frisbee. okay...she doesnt own InuYasha!

me: man...OO I gotta offer a prize more often!he barely hesitated!wheee!XD

Chapter 18

It had been a week since Kagome had left the feudal era, and InuYasha still hadn't come and picked her up. During that time she had sat around her house and done nothing, occasionally going out with her friends. Since it was summer and school was out, there was nothing for her to do. Every morning she would wake up late and look out her window, thinking she'll see InuYasha coming out of the well house to take her back to the feudal era, but he never did; up until one afternoon, Kagome couldn't take it. She was so bored, she marched out to the well house and looked in. She decided there would be no harm in trying. She walked up to the side of the well, and was about to jump, when suddenly there was a bright light and InuYasha jumped out of the well. He stared at Kagome for a second and said, "How'd you know I was coming?"

"Huh? Oh, I didn't." she replied, backing away from the well, and sitting down on the stairs.

"So you're telling me you waited her next to the well for me to come back and pick you up?" He really hoped she wouldn't say yes, because that would just make him feel guilty.

"No. I just felt like coming out here for a sec to see if you were stuck in the well or something. It took you long enough to get here!" she yelled, now remembering her anger at him for taking so long.

"Ya; and I wouldn't have even come now if those idiots didn't shove me into the well! Now be grateful for once and come on!" he said angrily, mad she wasn't glad to see him.

Kagome grabbed the already packed bag she had put in the house earlier that week and slung it over her shoulder. She reluctantly took InuYasha's outstretched hand, knowing she had to in order to get through the well. When they got there, Kagome found Sango, Miroku, and Shippo all sitting waiting for her arrival. "Kagome's back!" Shippo shrieked, and ran and hugged her. After everyone had welcomed her back, they all headed back to the village. They took that day to catch up with everyone and talk, all except InuYasha who had ran off to his tree as soon as he got back to the feudal era. Sango and Kagome had also taken a dip in the hot springs, talking about the usual. When it was night time, everyone fell asleep, Shippo cuddled up with Kagome in her sleeping bag, glad to have her back.

When everyone was asleep, InuYasha jumped down from his tree, where he had stayed Kagome's entire visit, even during dinnertime; and he walked down to where everyone was huddled up in Kaede's hut. He peered inside and saw Kagome, rolled out of her sleeping bag, and Shippo, curled up in the kicked away sleeping bag. Now she lay on the floor, stretched out in her blue flannel pajamas. "What an idiot. Can't even stay still in her sleep." He said quietly to himself, before taking one last glance at her and leaving the hut doorway. He sat down on the ground under a tree nearby.

Inside the hut, Kagome let out a big breath. "That was close…if he had seen me climbing out my sleeping bag to see him, he would have yelled at me." She whispered to herself, picking herself up off the floor and out of the hut quietly. She did the same thing she had done the last time she snuck out to see him. She finally reached him without his noticing, and once again, she grabbed his ears and started rubbing them, making InuYasha jump. "Your ears just love to dance!" she giggled, remembering how she had said the similar thing last time. She sat down next to him and stayed silent for a while.

"Great. Kagome's here…we're alone again…damn! This is exactly what I was trying to avoid all day!" InuYasha thought to himself helplessly, knowing he couldn't just get up and walk away.

"Why have you been avoiding me, InuYasha?" Kagome asked, straight forward, and to the point of why she came out to talk to him. InuYasha sat still, not answering.

Kagome, taking this as a reply, said, "InuYasha, if you are keeping distant because you think I'm going to grant your wish, please believe me when I say I won't. If you told me to grant your wish, I would, if you tell me not to, I won't." She paused to take hold of InuYasha's hand, earning her a surprised look from him, "I don't mind dying to tell you how I feel, and I don't mind living not to tell." With finishing saying this, she got up and went back to the hut.

InuYasha looked after her in shock, "How does she know she'll die if she tells me? How could she find out?" InuYasha sat, pondering this the rest of the night.

well, thats the chapy!hooray for Kagome faith!whee!XDlol.anyway, I dont have much to say, except...no throwing pointy things at me tommorrow!I just finished typing that chapy up, and its very evil...yup yup.and worst of all, Im gunna leave you on that evil cliffhanger for a week!OOarent i evil?well, as I said, no throwing pointy things, b/c then I would die and the story would be stuck on that cliffy for much longer than a week.lol.well, see ya next evil chapy: )