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Now, here is chapter 3, enjoy:
Chapter three: A new look
Kagome's scream was muffled by the hand over her mouth.
"Inuyasha!" She tried to scream.
"It's me, baka." a familiar voice barked. The hand was taken away.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome scolded. "You scared me!" a finger came to her lips this time.
"Be quiet." he barked again, however more quiet himself. "The smell of wolves is rife through the air."
She watched as he sniffed the air, his eyes becoming shifty.
"What's wrong?" she asked, forming a nervous look herself.
"Wolves aren't common in these parts, there's not much meat for them to prey on." He narrowed his eyes. "Can you guess why they're here?"
"Kouga." Kagome said firmly.
"Right. I need to get you out of here, pronto!" He helped her gather up their supples and opened up one of Kagome's bottles of water and made the ground around their campsite muddy, to try and cover their scent.
"Inuyasha, listen!" Kagome squeaked. His ears perked up, they could hear howls in the distance.
"C'mon, Kagome. Let's go." He bent down, motioning her to climb on his back. Once she did so, they bounded off into the trees.
"Where can we go, Inuyasha?" she asked, closing her eyes. The trees were passing by so fast that it was making her sick.
"Hang on, Kagome. I'll find some place to take you." A thought struck his head. He turned left and ran faster.
They came to a clearing and Kagome opened her eyes.
"The well!" a smile formed across her face. 'Home, we can hide out at home!'
Inuyasha leaped up and held onto her tighter as they traveled through to Kagome's era. When they arrived, he helped he out of the well, he noticed she was shaking. He didn't let go of her.
"Kagome, What's wrong." He said, examining her face. "You're shaking."
"I know it doesn't seem that horrible, but.." she looked away. He pulled her face back towards his gaze.
"But.." he waited for an answer.
"I'm just so frightened...I don't want to go with Kouga. He wants me to be his mate, and I can't do that.. I just...can't." She began to sob into his haori. He did the only thing he could think of, he took her into his arms and lightly stroked the back of her head.
"Don't cry, Kagome. You know I hate it when you cry." He mused. She didn't stop.
"I'm sorry..I'm such..a burden." She said between sobs.
"Don't be." he cooed. "It's understandable why you're scared, Hell, I'd be scared too if I were you. But you don't have to be, Kagome. I'd never let anyone hurt you, especially Kouga."
She smiled against his haori. "Thank you for taking such good care of me.."
"No problem, now, let's get you in the house before you catch a cold or something." he replied, shivering himself. He took her hand and led her shivering self out of the Well house and outside.
The sky was beautiful and clear, the stars weren't as bright as they were in the Feudal era, because of all the lights. But it was home, and Kagome had nothing to complain about, she was home and with Inuyasha...the two best things she loved about her life.
Kagome opened the door, all the lights were off so Inuyasha went in first. Being half dog demon he could see in the dark. He flicked on the lights and Kagome found a note on the fridge. Which she read aloud.
"Kagome, You're aunt Uriko had her baby. Gone to see how she's doing. Be home in a week from Thursday. Love, Mama, Souta and Grandpa." Kagome smiled.
"A week from Thursday?" Inuyasha repeated.
"Today is Thursday.. hmm, Oh well. At least we wont be bothered here." She opened the fridge, taking out a bottle of Pepsi, pouring her and Inuyasha a glass each.
'We'll be alone here.. for a week?' Inuyasha blushed. 'If we choose to stay that long..'
Inuyasha looked around the living room at all the family pictures. He smiled.
"She's lucky.." he said to himself, aloud.
"Who's lucky?" Kagome asked him, startling him out of reverie. He turned around. "Here." she said, handing him the glass.
"Thanks.." he mumbled, taking a sip.
"I can't believe I had a mushroom cut when I was five." She laughed, Inuyasha was baffled.
"Who can you cut yourself on a mushroom..let alone remember doing it when it happened so long ago?" He asked, tilting his head to the side.
She laughed at his question, as well as the fact that he looked like a cute little puppy when he tilted his head like that. "No, no, Inuyasha. A mushroom cut means that your hair is short and is kinda shaped like a mushroom. It's hard to explain, most people in your era have long hair, including yourself. So it's understandable that you didn't know what it was."
She reached out towards the blushing hanyou, taking a clump of his hair into her hands.
"You're hair is so dirty.." she looked up from her hands. "No offense. But it's full of mud..and is that blood?" She asked, dropping the hair to lay softly on his chest again. He looked to the strands of hair that she had taken and nodded.
"Probably. I've been in a lot of battles lately, Kagome. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more than blood on my hair." She crinkled up her nose.
"Well, We're going to have to do something about that." She smiled, taking his hand. "Follow me."
She led him back into the kitchen and up the stairs.
"Where are you taking me, Kagome?" He asked, almost tripping over a sleeping Buyo. He growled slightly.
"Hey, what's the growling for?" she shot back at him, but noticed Buyo herself, which answered her question.
They came to a room a few doors down from Kagome's room. She opened the door and turned on the lights. She let go of Inuyasha's hand to walk over to a cabinet, which she opened. She reached up high for a green bottle.
"What's that?" He asked, helping her in getting the bottle down.
"It's shampoo." she replied, although when Inuyasha passed her the bottle she frowned.
"Feh, what's wrong now?" he scowled.
"It's..empty." she replied dryly. "I guess mama took the spare bottle with her when she left."
"Oh, Well, I still don't understand what the problem is?" He inspected the soft smelling room. It smelled just like Kagome's hair.
"Oh, I have a great idea!" she squealed, taking a hold of his Haori. Almost making him fall over.
"I remember Mama telling me this the last time we were here." she ran out into her room. He followed her with crossed arms.
"Why are you so excited all of a sudden?" He entered her room, overcome with Kagome's scent. He loved being in her room, he always felt so relaxed..so safe.
"Because.."she rummaged through some papers on her desk, pulling a strange ad out and handing it to the bewildered hanyou.
"A...Bathhouse?" he read off the paper. "What's a bathhouse?"
"Once I find my Bikini and something for you to wear as well, We'll go to the bathhouse. Mama told me a new one opened when we were home a month ago." She smiled. "It's a great place to go and relax."
"Ok" he shrugged, "if you say so."
Kagome searched through different closets in her house for something Inuyasha could wear. She finally found a pair of old shorts on the bottom shelf of Grandpa's closet.
"Here you go." she said, passing it to Inuyasha. "Go in my room and put it on, it's what your gonna wear when we get to the bathhouse."
Inuyasha did what he was told. He stood in her room, with nothing but shorts on. He felt awkward.
"Inuyasha, are you...decent?" her voice was muffled because she was on the other side of the door.
"Keh. I don't feel decent." he complained.
"Well.. do you have the shorts on?" she asked, plainly.
"...yeah." he hesitated.
"Then I'm coming in." She opened the door and smiled when she saw him, yet he blushed when he saw him.
"You're the one who's not decent!" He blurted, blushing while he whirled around.
"It's ok, Inuyasha. I'm dressed. It's call a Bikini." she laughed.
"...But I thought that was called a bra?" he said, pointing at her chest. She blushed, falling down -anime style- , once she got back up. She coughed, uncomfortably.
"Yes, you're right...but..ah? Just ignore it, ok?" she said, coughing again. He nodded and rolled his eyes, he couldn't complain about seeing Kagome with much clothing on, she was beautiful.
"Hey." she said, looking over his shoulder. "What's that on my pillow?"
She walked over and found a box and a card. The card had 'Inuyasha' written on the front of it. She handed him the card, which he ripped open and began reading:
"I thought that one of these days you and Kagome might like to hang out in this era like normal teenagers, so I bought you some clothes for you to wear. I thought they would make you feel more formal in this era, if you know what I mean. I hope they fit, Inuyasha dear. Love, Mrs. Higurashi." He looked up from the card and over at Kagome, who's jaw had dropped.
"Inuyasha.. these clothes, They're really nice." she said, pulling out a red T-shirt and deep blue jeans. At the bottom of the box was a black, leather jacket. Inuyasha gaped at them. He hated human clothes, but he agreed with Kagome, they were very nice.
"Well, I'll leave you to put them on." She went over to her closet and grabbed three pieces of clothing and left the room, closing the door behind her.
He put on his jeans, T-shirt and Leather jacket and admired himself in the mirror. His hair seemed to match the style as well. He smiled, he felt so accepted. Kagome knocked on the door.
"I'm dressed." he answered, knowing she was going to ask if he was.
She entered and his jaw dropped slightly, she was a knock-out. She had a short, black leather skirt on with a red T-shirt and a dark jean jacket. She walked over to him and laughed.
"I thought I'd wear this, because we kinda match now, eh?" She smiled, receiving only a stare back from Inuyasha. She snapped her fingers and he jumped.
"What? Oh, sorry." He laughed, "Thinking of something else." he looked at her feet all the way up to her eyes.
"Ready to go now?" she asked him. "It's about a 15 minutes walk..you don't mind, do you?"
"Of course now. I'd like to see this era at night. The lights are amazing." his gaze went all spacey.
"It's kinda hard to believe that one day your era will become...this." Kagome said, looking out her window
"Yeah. It's only gonna take like.. what? 500 years?" he laughed.
"Well, Let's go." she said as they walked together down the stairs and out the back door.