Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, but he is being held captive in my kitchen filled with Ramen...

The Hanyou and the College Girl

By: darkangelprincess24

Chapter Nine: A Purple Arm? It's Nothing.

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Kagome opened her eyes. Where am I? She thought at first. Then she remembered. She had been carried by InuYasha to her house, where she soon fell asleep.

Kagome looked to her clock on the night table next to her bed. It read: 12:36p.m. What! I slept for thirteen hours! A piece of paper underneath her purple clock caught her eye. It was folded in a perfect triangle. On the front, in cursive, it said:

Kagome

It looks like Inuyasha's handwriting, She thought nervously. What if it's from him?

Kagome carefully unfolded the note, trying not to rip any part of it. When she flattened it on her knee, she held the note up to her eye level. In very small, neat, cursive writing, InuYasha had written (Just so you know, in this story, Kagome taught InuYasha how to write. Keep reading...):

Don't come back for a while. Please.

Kagome sat on her bed for a long time, trying to think of what she did wrong. If he didn't love her, all he had to do was say so. But if he didn't, then he could've just said he didn't! When did my life become a soap opera? She thought. Then, she smiled a little.

The day I fell down the well.

By now, Kagome was past confusion. Oh, yes, now she was on to anger. She couldn't take it out on anyone without hurting them, so...so she took the nearest book, and chucked it against the wall. If anyone were to look at her from outside, they might have thought she had gone mad, or maybe eaten too much sugar.

Now she felt a little better.

Kagome changed into jeans and a green t-shirt, then put her sneakers on. Remembering her backpack, Kagome grabbed her cell phone before running out the door and to the ancient well she fell down for the first time, four years ago.

With InuYasha

InuYasha jumped from tree to tree for a while, not paying attention to the rain that was pouring down on him. Every time a raindrop fell on one of his ears, they twitched. When he got to the well, he stopped. Kagome's scent?

Dammit! I told her not to come back for a while!

Maybe he was just imagining it. He called out anyways.

"Kagome?"

"InuYasha!" Kagome dropped her backpack and cell phone, but held onto the note. She smiled and ran towards InuYasha, who was soaked. She was only there a minute, and was already as wet as InuYasha.

Kagome put her hands on Inuyasha's cheeks softly and pulled him down to her level.

"Kagome, what are yo-"

He was interrupted when Kagome covered his mouth with her own. InuYasha tried- he really did- not to give in to her kiss, but the more he tried to resist, the more he failed. Eventually, he gave up and pressed his mouth against hers, pulling her closer.

At Kagome's House

An hour and a half later

Sometimes, InuYasha makes me wonder. Kagome thought, looking out her window. It was raining there, too. I mean, he's reading my Cosmogirl!

InuYasha whistled a low whistle, looking at a picture of this foreign actress, Lindsey Lohan. It was amazing on how little clothing these women- and men- wore in Kagome's time. Kagome never dresses like this. He thought miserably.

"What?"

He looked up. "Uh, oh, nothing."

"Don't make me say it." Kagome growled.

"It's nothing, Kagome, really!" InuYasha said. Then, he said quieter, "She is really cute..."

"What!" Kagome screamed. She had heard him. "Sit, boy! SIT!"

Oh, yeah, she had the power.

"Kagome," InuYasha growled at the floor.

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"Kagome, watch it! One day, I'm not going to be here to protect you." InuYasha scoffed when Kagome walked into her door while she was day dreaming.

"Uh-huh, sure." Kagome said sarcastically. "You're immortal. You're always going to be around."

"Feh." InuYasha responded.

Kagome looked around her room for anything else that she might need in the Feudal era. She picked up a couple of magazines for InuYasha and made her way downstairs. They were going to be in there for about five and a half days, since it was only Monday.

Kagome picked up her backpack, only to have InuYasha snatch it out of her grasp and put it on his shoulders. She pouted and was about to say something, but he interrupted.

"What kind of mate would I be if I made you carry this?" InuYasha asked.

Did he just say "mate"? Kagome thought. She brushed it aside and continued the conversation.

"Well, you always used to make me carry it." Kagome said, jumping into the well with InuYasha.

A familiar blue light surrounded them as InuYasha spoke quickly, using Kagome's favorite saying. "That was then, this is now." He shifted the backpack and jumped out of the well, looking down at Kagome. "So unless you want to carry fifty pounds on your back, I suggest you let me do it."

Kagome sighed and started to climb up the side of the well. She felt a sharp prick at her thumb and sat back down on the bottom of the well, examining it. "Ow!" She whispered.

InuYasha dropped the backpack by the side of the well and jumped down next to her. The blue light absorbed them as they transported back into Kagome's time. They hardly noticed it, though. "What happened? Are you okay, Kagome?"

Kagome tried pulling the thorn out, but didn't succeed. She tried to smile up at Inuyasha's worried face. "It's nothing. I just pricked myself, see? Not anything to worry about."

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InuYasha jumped out of the well and reached down a hand for Kagome. "Ow!" She whispered and InuYasha heard her sit down.

He quickly jumped next to her. "What happened? Are you okay?"

Kagome made a weak attempt to pull the thorn out of her right thumb. "It's nothing. I just pricked myself, see? Not anything to worry about."

"Let me see it," InuYasha sighed, taking her wrist carefully. He pulled out the thorn and Kagome winced.

InuYasha then saw that it wasn't just "nothing". Even with the thorn out of Kagome's thumb, she was still in a lot of pain. This was no normal sting, either. When he looked closer, he found a faint purple-blue color spreading all over Kagome's right hand and up her arm.

"First aid...kit..." Kagome said right before she passed out.

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"Kanna, show me the hanyou and miko."

The girl did as she was told. Naraku smiled. "Kikyo." He called.

The dead priestess walked into the large room. "Yes, love?"

He looked her up and down. "I see that you have found your old clothes."

"Yes." She said, walking towards Naraku. "I would like to thank you for fishing me out of that nasty monk's tunnel."

Naraku nodded and motioned to the mirror. It showed InuYasha and Kagome in the bottom of a well, Kagome passed out with InuYasha gathering her up. InuYasha then jumped on the ground, and jumped out of the well fully, with Kagome. "Those thorns worked well."

"I know. I told you they would." Kikyo said smugly. "Now InuYasha will suffer. Then that pathetic girl that has my soul."

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Author's note: Sorry for the cliffy, but someone has to do it!

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