DISCLAIMER: I do not, repeat, do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi. The story line is not solely mine either. It belongs to the writers of My Sassy Girl.

A rose by any other name wouldn't smell as sweet.

Inuyasha was bordering on the line between week four and five. It had been four weeks and six days since he had last talked to Kagome. He had been counting the hours too, but that wasn't as accurate considering he didn't really know what time it was that he had left her alone to sob in the rain. Thinking about it he groaned and slammed his fist against his desk at work. The manager came over and started yelling at him about proper conduct at work and he nodded politely before turning back to the papers.

"Application for a loan… denied." He said as he stamped the word "no" in big fat red letters across the bottom of the page. He sighed and grumbled about the monotony of his job when suddenly a familiar jingle reached his ears. A jingle he sorely missed and was more than glad to hear it again. He jumped at the disturbance and grabbed for his bag. The ringing persisting though he was having trouble getting to it. "Please, don't hang up!" It stopped ringing just as he reached his phone. He swore and chucked it at his desk.

It started up again. Reaching for it he flipped it open and huffed a hushed hello into the mouthpiece. Silence met him and he swore again about to hang up when he heard a faint giggle.

"You want to die? Don't hang up!" she called to him and he laughed. He smiled so wide that his cheeks hurt.

"Kagome! It's been so long, how are you?"

"When do you think a girl is at her prettiest?" She said completely ignoring his question. He was a little shocked – not sure of what to say when he finally spit it out.

"Pardon?" An annoyed sigh could be heard. His ears dropped. He hadn't talked to her in over a month and already he was irritating her. She repeated the question and he stared blankly at the wall in front of him.

"Well?" she hissed impatiently. "Why do you have to take so long to answer me? God, piss me off! You want to"

"When she's playing the piano." He answered before she could threaten him.

"What's your favourite song?"

"Pachelbel's Canon." Inuyasha could practically hear her smiling through the ear piece.

"Tomorrow is our one hundred day anniversary; bring me one single red rose, while I'm in class." Inuyasha sputtered a little.

"While you're in class, isn't that a little much?"

"You want to die? Do it!" she said while laughing and he agreed. "O yeah, and bring your high school uniform with you." He even had tomorrow off, by chance. Not from school mind you, but what would one day be when it meant seeing her.

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And so the next day Inuyasha went out and purchased a long stemmed red rose and grabbed a silver delivery case from his mother's shop. He placed the rose inside and got a surgical mask to cover his face, and then put a hat on. If he was going to an all girl school to be embarrassed he'd be damned if anyone saw what he looked like. And so feeling he was ready to face anything his Kagome threw at him he set out for her school. Reaching it just before 11 o'clock, she had class in the auditorium right now. A while ago Kagome had made him memorize her school schedule, for emergency purposes. He wasn't really sure what exactly she considered an emergency but it was better to play along with her than to piss her off.

Marching right up to the gate he stared straight at the security guard. What in the world they needed security guards for Inuyasha had no idea but he suspected it was to keep out riffraff who just wanted a free ride… either that or to prevent the girls from escaping early. Probably the latter choice. He swallowed a lump that had formed in his throat and looked the man in the eye, knowing this was a good way to make a person believe you even when you are lying.

"Delivery," he smiled and the guard rubbed his hands together.

"Awesome, you have my lunch?" Inuyasha paled slightly and shook his head holding up the tin box.

"No something else." He smiled and the guard agreed to let him through. He was about ten feet from the gate when the man yelled to him something about signing in and Inuyasha just took off running toward the school. He cleared the steps in one leap and burst through the doors only slowing down to a walk when he was right before her classroom. He took a deep breath and steeled himself as he pushed the door open.

Every single girl in the room, and there was quite a few of them turned to look at him. He turned a few shades of red before he heard Pachelbel's Canon start to play on the piano. He looked down toward the stage and his jaw dropped. There was Kagome sitting at the piano dressed completely in white looking like some sort of an angel. He was so stunned that he set down the box with the rose, pulled off his hat and pulled down the mask. Carefully and deliberately sliding open the delivery box he pulled the rose out. He started down the steps toward the stage in a daze.

When he finally got there, and climbed up on the stage the song had ended and Kagome was standing, he walked right up to her and gave her the rose. She smiled brightly and softly and his heart swelled. He pulled her into a hug and she hugged him back as a ripple of applause and cheers poured throughout the room.

"You bring your uniform?" He nodded his head and she grinned, "Great let's go." They walked out of the room together holding hands; Inuyasha stooped down to grab his delivery box, which also held his uniform. They stopped at a bathroom on the way out and changed into their uniforms and headed straight for the bar.

Shoving their ID's in the bouncers face and danced and partied the night away. It was fun, it was normal and it was just what Inuyasha had been missing.

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Inuyasha knocked his head back against the god's tree and smiled lightly. That club owner was so impressed with their idea that he had designated every Thursday to wearing your high school uniform and just giving it your all. He sighed and looked at his watch.

"Well it's still daylight… but for how much longer." He looked over at neatly piled rocks. "I guess I should start digging then." Slowly standing up he walked over to the rocks and looked down at the top one. "Or maybe, I could just wait another half hour. I'll still have time to get out of here before it's too dark if I do that, and she's going to show up! I know it."