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Chapter 2

Excusing herself from the table, Kagome said, "Thanks for dinner, Mom. Do you mind if I just go exploring now?"

Mrs. Higurashi sighed, "Go ahead, dear, just remember to be back before 9 o'clock."

"Thanks!" she said as she hurriedly washed her dishes and walked out the door.

"It should be around here somewhere…" muttered a long, silver haired guy dressed in a red kimono, "Aha! I finally found it. This place should lead me to that legendary forest that my mother told me about in stories!"

Just ahead of him stood a wooden doorframe with a dark blanket hung over it as a makeshift door. The only peculiar thing about this was that it was standing in the middle of nowhere and wasn't attached to anything else.

"She said that all you needed to do to make this work was to go through it from the south side, otherwise nothing would happen," he thought to himself as he walked over to the correct side of the door and pushed aside the blanket.

"Do these trees ever thin out?" thought Kagome rather annoyed as she continued walking toward the clearing that she had seen earlier. A few of the creatures of the forest stared at her as she strode past them without making a sound. Finally, after about ten minutes of walking, she saw a blinding column of white light form in the sky about twenty yards in front of her. Breaking into a sprint, she arrived at the clearing just in time to see a young man step out of a glowing doorway in the middle of the clearing.

Kagome stopped abruptly to get a better look at him, promptly gasping when she noticed that he had white dog-ears poking out from his long hair. She started to venture towards him slowly when he suddenly turned around as if he had sensed her presence. As they locked their gazes, she, almost immediately, fainted when she realized that his eye color was not one she thought that she would ever see the eyes in question being a molten gold in color.

Recoiling slightly as bright, white light infiltrated his senses, the young man confidently kept walking toward his goal of finding the legendary forest. Just as quickly as the light appeared, it disappeared again leaving a lush, green clearing in view as he stepped away from the doorway.

"I can't believe it… I'm actually here!" thought the man excitedly, inspecting the forest that lay around him.

Before he could get completely lost in his daydream, his ear twitched suddenly, detecting the sound of a person breathing. He spun around to see who else was there, catching sight of Kagome just before she passed out. He ran to her, picking her up just before she hit the ground.

Sniffing, he decided that she wasn't from his world (she didn't smell like anything from it anyway) and that she was human. Setting her down against a tree at the edge of the clearing, he started to walk away when he heard her start to get up.

Kagome mentally groaned as soon as she realized that she had actually fainted. She then noticed that the young man from before had carried her to where she was presently; deciding to ask him a few questions, she started to get up and walk towards him before he walked away.

"Um… Just who are you? And what are you, exactly? Er… I mean I was just curious because I've never seen someone like you before," Kagome brilliantly asked as she mentally berated herself for sounding so immature.

"Keh! Like you would want to know, you just want to make me feel like a reject like all the rest of the humans from my world," he said angrily before turning back around and walking off.

"Wait! What are you talking about? Why would I want you to feel like a reject? I don't even know who you are! Come back here!"

Slowly, he stopped, thinking, "How can she not know what I am?"

"Good, you stopped. Now would you mind explaining what you were talking about back there?" she asked, or rather, demanded.

"My name is Inuyasha. I'm a hanyou," he silently counted to see how long it would be before she would start either insulting him or screaming for help.

"Hi! I'm Kagome. Can I ask you a question?"

"Feh."

"I guess that means yes," she thought before she started talking again, "What is a hanyou?"

With that comment, he face faulted. He got up slowly, staring at her before he started explaining, "Hanyou means that I'm part human and part demon."

"O-kay…" Kagome said while staring at something above his head.

"Well, aren't you going to do something? Like, you know, start yelling for help or something!" Inuyasha said as his tempter started rising because she didn't answer.

"…" she started walking towards him with her hands reaching out as if to touch something.

He started backing up, thinking that she was crazy.

"Would you mind holding still for just a moment?" Kagome asked out of the blue.

"Huh?"

Kagome took that pause as a yes and reached up to gently rub his ears, to see if they were really as soft as they looked.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" yelled Inuyasha as he speedily jumped away from her as if he had been burned.

"I just wanted to see if they were soft, that's all. They're so cute!" squealed Kagome as she reached out again to touch them.

Inuyasha went ridged thinking, "CUTE! She thinks they're CUTE! How many people in their right minds would say that!"

During this time, she went up behind him and started petting his soft ears again.

She then noticed that the sun was starting to set and exclaimed while running in the direction of the cabin, "I'm sorry, but I have to go back home now. I promised my mom that I would be back by now! I hope that I will see you again sometime soon!"

As soon as the original shock wore off, Inuyasha became aware of exactly what she said before she ran off, "She had said that she wanted to see him again!"

This chapter definitely went differently than

I had originally planned for it to go, but I am happy with it.