Inuyasha opened his eyes and found himself alone. It was still dark out, but in half an hour the sun would rise. He looked around and found a note on Kagome's desk.

"Come downstairs," he read. "What heck?" The writing wasn't kagome's; her mom's maybe. Ignoring the fact that something was up her followed the instructions.

"Ah! Finally!" Sota jumped off the couch and into the kitchen.

"You never sleep this late! Is your old age finally catching up with you?" Kagome finished fixing a sandwich, wrapped it up, and put it in a whicker basket that was stuffed. "Hey Sota, I think mom forgot the blanket, could you go get it?"

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Inuyasha shouted, she walked over and planted a kiss on his cheek.

"Forgive me?" she attempted her best puppy dog pout.

"Good! We were just about to be forced to come get you up!" Kagome's mother walked in to the room. "I've got the car packed, now we just need to figure out how to get that in there." She pointed at the basket and started to chew her bottom lip.

"You're lucky you did get up, she doesn't wake you up subtly. Normally she either uses a blow horn or a glass of ice water that she pours it at your feet." Sota walked in carrying a grey tablecloth that probably weighed as much as half of his weight.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "Fun. Um, what's going on?"

"Well, since you haven't figured it out yet I guess I could tell you, but I could also choose to not tell you." Kagome looked thoughtful.

"We're going on a picnic!" Sota said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Inuyasha still looked confused.

"Sota! There will be lots of food," Kagome said. Inuyasha seemed to be content with the partial explanation.

Kagome grabbed his arm and started pulling him back up to her room. "I don't care what you say; you're putting this on!" She shoved a pair of blue jeans, and a plain white cotton T-shirt into his arms.

"Huh?"

"We're going out in public. We'll be in public for a few hours, you will attract more attention than normal and I just want to have a normal picnic with my family. You will put that on no matter what you say." Her death glare sealed the deal; change or get 'sat' into oblivion. She left the room allowing him to change in private.

When he walked out there was a significant difference in his appearance. The shirt was too long, but fit perfectly other than that. The pants dragged bit and were somewhat baggy. Kagome was standing outside her door; a brush was in her hand. Without a word she pushed him back into her room and sat him in front of her bed on the floor and she sat on the edge of the bed. Inuyasha felt the brush going through his hair and flinched every time she went through a knot, which was about every few seconds. She pulled his hair into a low pony tail, careful to leave a space for his dog ears to pop out when the sun came up. Then came time for the dreaded baseball cap. All in all, he looked like he fit in perfectly with her time. Well, except for the black hair that would soon become silver. "Come on, we've got to go find Gramps."

He saw himself in the mirror at the end of her bed. "What did you do to me?"

She giggled and tugged at his arm; they headed back downstairs.

"Hey Kagome when are you- oh wow, how did you do that?" Sota caught sight of Inuyasha and gasped. Inuyasha just grunted and crossed his arms.

"Easy, I threatened him."

The phone rang, her mother picked it up. She was on there about a minute; the natural what-in-the-world-are-they-talking-about uh-huhs were all she said. After hanging up she called Kagome into the kitchen. "Your Grandfather is at the store, and he can't get a taxi back home, could you two go get help him with the groceries? Oh and on your way back could you stop and pick up the cake?"

"Cake?"

"Today is your grandfather's birthday! Did you really forget? It's in my name; here's the money to pay for it."

"Are your morning always this hectic?" Inuyasha muttered as they walked outside.

"Only this summer and the past summer. I always had to cancel things with my friends to go to the feudal era with you guys. And when I did get to go places with my friends I was always this rushed because you were so reluctant to let me come back."

The sun rose and Inuyasha returned to his normal hanyou state.

"Is your hair too tight over your ears?" She took off the cap and checked to make sure they weren't being crushed by his hair.

"Nope, but this outfit feels really strange, the shirt is sort of itchy." He scratched the back of his neck, "Right back here mainly."

"I think that's the tag that's bothering you, not the shirt. Here, I'll pull it out." She managed to yank it out, but not before she choked Inuyasha. "Okay let's go." She got on his back and he took off.

"There he is!" Kagome pointed over Inuyasha's shoulder at an old man standing with a few bags. He nodded and turned towards an alley he spotted nearby.

"Hello Kagome!" her grandfather greeted her when she walked up to him, Inuyasha was out of sight behind Kagome.

"Hi there Gramps." She greeted him with a hug and then moved to pick up one of the sacks.

Gramps saw Inuyasha and raised his eyebrows. "Who is this handsome young man, Kagome? Did you get a boyfriend without me knowing?" Kagome fought to hold back the laughter, and Inuyasha stared at him in complete confusion.

"Do you need glasses or something, old man?" Inuyasha retorted as Kagome handed him a sack.

She punched him in the arm. "Be nice Inuyasha or I'll say it as soon as we get home."

Gramps glanced back and forth between the two. "This is Inuyasha?" Gramps almost fell over in shock. "I take back what I said about you being handsome!"

"And you always say I'm immature!" Kagome scowled at him and picked up some sacks leaving one for gramps. "C'mon we still have to stop by the bakery."

After retrieving the cake, and a few free cupcakes, the trio rushed home.

"Mom! We're back! Is everything else packed?" Kagome called after setting the cake down.

Her mother walked in and quickly rushed them back out. "Yes, yes now get into the car; we should get there before the park is packed."

The trip to the park was a long one, but not necessarily boring. Kagome's mother was driving, Gramps in shotgun, Kagome and Inuyasha in the middle row and Sota in the back with Bouyo growling in a cage beside him. The poor cat thought they were going to the vet.

"So, Inuyasha have you ever been on picnics before?" Sota said as he practically launched himself over the seats.

"Yeah, once." He hoped Sota wouldn't continue.

"When? With who?" He almost deafened Inuyasha.

"My patience only goes so far, kid. Don't push your luck." He grumbled.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shot him her infamous death glare. "Be nice! Don't force me to do something to you!"

"And what would you do to me? You can't 'sit' me; if you did your mother would crash!"

"After the hanyou incident I know many ways of how to shut you up!" she gave him an evil grin.

"Oh yeah, like what?" he started to back away; she had the evil look in her eye.

Her reply was to lean over to him and kiss him on the cheek. "Like that!"

Sota's eyes grew, "Mo-" he started to shout but was abruptly silenced when Kagome slapped her hand over his mouth.

"Say anything in the car and you won't live to see five minutes!" Kagome seethed through his muffled cries. After she moved her hand away from her mouth he sat back and sat quietly, it was creepy for the fact that he was one of those children who never shut their yaps.

When they did reach the park Kagome's mother leaned her head on the wheel and let out a loud sigh, "We're too late." The park was packed. "Good thing I brought bathing suits for everyone!" she was back to her normal ecstatic self. "We'll just go to the lake!"

After another long drive they came to the almost deserted lake.

"Inuyasha, if we go far enough from others you won't have to wear the hat!" Their mother grinned.

"Halleluiah!" He threw his hands up, only to have them slam against the roof.

"Not even a demon in sight and you still harm yourself!" Kagome started giggling.

"You're one to talk," he grumpily replied.

Sota hopped out of the car almost tripping as he did so. "MOM! KAGOME KISSED INUYASHA!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.

"That's nice darling." She just smiled at him.

Gramps, on the other hand, didn't take it so lightly. "You did WHAT?"

Her mom chuckled as he started to blow up in Inuyasha's face, but of course he didn't even think about yelling at Kagome.

"Gramps, it was just a peck on the cheek! Leave him alone!"

"Mom, why aren't you upset?" Sota asked quietly.

"Because, Sota, I think they make a cute couple." She smiled as she threw down the blanket.

At her words, both Inuyasha and Kagome turned and looked at her, their faces vaguely tinted pink. "Really?" Kagome asked. "What?" Inuyasha stood there dumbstruck.

"Is there a problem?" she replied as if she hadn't said anything.

"Don't answer a question with a question!" Kagome glared at her.

"But I didn't answer it with a question. You can't answer with a question, because an answer is an answer and a question is a question. I simply asked you if something was wrong after you said something. You never even asked me anything." She replied smartly.

"Kagome, did you get all that? Cos I sure didn't" Inuyasha gaped at her.

"Why wouldn't i? It's so simple to understand." Kagome turned around and muttered, "There never was any point in arguing with her."

Sorry for the shortness! but i just felt bad for not posting sooner when i already had most of this written! Picnic comes next chapter.

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