Chapter Four

Note: INUYASHA! WHERE ARE YOU? I MISS YOU! STUPID HURRICANE WILMA! I WILL DISTROY IT! Well to keep you busy I'll write a chapter for each day you're gone. You better have tons in your next e-mail InuYasha Alchemist or else I'm gunna be pissed.

I hide my face from him. I don't want him to see me blushing. He has seemed to get the hint so he stares at the sky. "Well," he says.

"Well, what?" I reply.

"I know you're not from around here." My eyes widen. I ran out of breath. I guess the jig is up.

"How did you know that?"

"Do get me wrong, but you don't look pure Asian." Thanks dad…

"Why do you think that?"

"Well," he starts and turns to look at my face. I can feel my face burn hot red. He grabs my chin and made my head go in different direction. (All the things I'm describing do not apply for anime, but for actual real life. "You nose is too pointy, you eyes are too big along with that you have a double eyelid. Your teeth are extremely small. You are kind of tall for a woman. (I'm only 5'4, but it's true. I am the tallest woman in my family.) Your feet are too big and your," he made a fake cough to represent my chest and butt region. "Are abnormally over sized."

I sigh. All these things my dad gave to me in genetics. "Is their anything else to show that I'm not a pure Asian?"

"Two things gave you away. One, the way you sit isn't proper. If you're in a higher class like Kami-Sama you would actually sit properly. And the one that everyone missed is that your hair is too short." I slap my head. I forgot. At this time it was traditional to die with all the hair you have grown in your life. I guess Miroku gets away with it because he's a monk and he's supposed to be bald. I gave another heavy sigh. None of my plans every really work. "So, do you want to start being truthful and tell me where you are really from?"

I give in. "I'm actually from Kagome's time."

"No surprise there."

"What do you mean by that?"

"You don't act like any people around here. You act more like Kagome, but trying to fit in with the crowd." Aw great. "So why don't you return to your time when it's exam time like Kagome?"

"Because I don't know how to go back, and I unlike Kagome don't really care about going back there. I've missed too much to get into a good college. So I won't get a good paying job. I like it here. I've learned enough to be outstanding here."

"But don't you miss your family."

"Of coarse I do. The last time I saw them my brother was getting married." I laugh at the thought of this. "I would never have guessed that my brother would get married before I did. So any family I don't know about you?"

"Nope, only one living is Sesshoumaru and he'll try to kill me before I ask if we had any more family.

"We'll I guess I'm lucky. I have Miroku."

"What? You're related to that pervert. I don't see any resemblances at all."

"Oh really." I push him over and get on top of Inuyasha. I lean forward when I see him blushing. I get too frighten and jump off blushing myself. "I'm sorry," I plead. "It was not my place to do that."

"You can't be related to Miroku," he says, with a little laugh. "If that was Miroku he would have raped who ever were on bottom." My tone of red darkens. "Heh, you're too much of a coward."

"I am not a coward!" I lean forward and kiss him on the cheek. I turn my face away not looking at him. My face is redder than tomatoes.

"I didn't think you would do that." I turn back to see that he was lying on the grass again. "But that is far from being Miroku." I huff. He acts like I had just done nothing. Maybe he actually wants to get raped.

"Oh."

"So are those jewel shards really been passed down from generations?"

"Yup, since around the medieval times."

"Ah," he says. "The only family heirloom I have is my sword." There is a long awkward silence.

"Well," I start. "I guess since you know where I'm from I can put these on again." I reach into one of my pockets and pull out my glasses. I put them on and he stares at me. "It's so good to be able to see again." I turn to look at his face and he still is goggling at me. "What?"

"It's nothing." Now it is his turn to blush. "You just look a lot cuter when you have your glasses on."

"Uh…thank you?" I'm not sure if he was making fun of me or if this was a compliment. I'll take any compliment he'd give me.

"So how have you been seeing with out your glasses?"

"Not well. Didn't you always find it odd when I would crash into things?" From the look from his face he hadn't. I sigh. "Well I guess I can fight and help out a whole lot better now since I can see." I go into my shirt and pull out a lumpy wrapped object. Inuyasha sticks his head around my body to see what I had. I unwrap it and I take a bite of chicken. "I swiped this from dinner. I can believe how incredibly hungry I still am." He watches me eat open mouthed. "What? I got something on my face." I wipe my mouth. He is still staring so I ask. "What, you hungry? Wanna bite?" I offer him my chicken, but he turns it down.

"Now I can see the resemblance."

"How?" I ask, as I took another bite of chicken.

"You stole that."

"No I didn't." I say with food in my mouth. I swallow it quickly to say. "It's not stealing if the people here are giving the food away for free. If they don't an ominous dark demon cloud would befall on them." I smile. Inuyasha didn't look too pleased. "Aw come on. I get hungry at night. I am not usually hungry at dinner so I steal scraps so I can eat it later when I am. Is there anything wrong in that?"

"Well I guess not."

"Well then have a bit. Come on I know you're hungry." I kept mocking the food in front of his face.

"No thanks. I'm not much of a chicken eater."

"What do you like then?" I finish the rest of my chicken in one huge bite. I suck on my fingers to get the remainder of the sauce off.

"Well…" he begins. I egg him on. "I really would like some ramen. Kagome doesn't make it for me anymore, I have no idea why, and I don't know how to use her weird contraption thingy."

"Well since the secret is out I guess I could make it for ya. But they only problem is Kagome isn't here. No ramen."

"Nope." He sticks his hand inside his kimono. "I swiped this from Kagome's bag with some dried potatoes and soda."

"And you're calling me a thief?"

"Just shut up and make it." I heat up the ramen and when it is done we both start eating it. We are having our own little party outside our room. I would have been happy to stay there all night, but Sango calls us in for bed.

"Mimi, Inuyasha it's time to go inside. It's nearly midnight."

"Okay!" I yell back. I crumple up the empty potato chip bag and throw it away. I get to my feet and shake off the rest of the crumbs. Inuyasha and I walk back to our rooms and get ready for bed. To me a screen doesn't feel like a real wall, but it is alright with me. I get under my blanket and lay there awhile. "Um Inuyasha," I'm not quite sure if I should ask this.

"What?"

"Tomorrow can we have some time like tonight to spend with each other?"

"Sure, why not." I can die a happy woman at this point…