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Chapter 4


The hanyou opened his eyes and blinked a few times. He'd guessed that it would have been long enough for Kagome's mother to have fallen asleep by now.

Carefully, he lifted the window, cringing at the slight scraping. Calm down, he told himself. You'll never get the window open without anyone noticing if you're so nervous.

After several minutes, he managed to get window up high enough so he could climb in. He made sure that the desk under the window was clear--he didn't want to knock anything over. Slowly, he climbed in and landed on the floor.

He looked at Kagome's face. It was scrunched up and tear-stained, he noted, as he leaned over her bed.

Sighing, he turned around and sat cross-legged at the side of her bed, but his back bumped into her mattress, shaking the sleeping girl.

Kagome groaned a little and shifted. She blinked for a few seconds. It was quiet, but sensed the presence of someone else in her room, she lifted her head from her pillow and turned to see the very cause of her many tears and piles of tissue paper balls sitting with his back facing her.

"What are you doing here?" she demanded in a low voice.

Inuyasha, spun around crouched two feet away from her.

"Well?"

"Be quiet. You'll wake everyone up."

"I don't care!" Kagome yelled.


Mrs Higurashi awoke to the sound of her daughter's voice. Putting on her slippers, she exited her bedroom and walked down the hall stopping at Kagome's door.

"You're going to wake everyone up!" came a yell even louder than Kagome's.

"No! You're going to wake everyone up!"

"Anyhow, it won't be my fault because I wasn't the first one to yell!"

Mrs Higurashi opened the door without knocking. "Kagome! Inuyasha! Keep it down! I still need to go to work tomorrow!"

The yelling stopped and both looked at the mother with shocked faces.

Mrs Higurashi looked sternly at both of them. She wanted to make sure they hadn't been up to no good. But seeing as they were on either side of the room, that they were still fully clothed, and were flashing each other angry looks, romance had been out of the question. "No more loud noises, okay? And Kagome? Get changed into your pajamas. That uniform must be filthy by now."


The door opened, and a sullen Inuyasha sitting cross-legged on the floor flashed Kagome a pouting scowl. Kagome had just returned from the bathroom, her teeth squeaky clean, her face fresh, and her pajamas on.

She closed the door and climbed into bed, throwing her covers over her shoulder and plopped herself on her pillow.

"Aren't you going to say anything?" snapped Inuyasha.

"What have I got to say?" Kagome demanded in turn, sitting up again.

"Why do you have to be so angry?"

Kagome did not know what to say. Everything made her angry. His very presense, although somewhat comforting, was making her angry.

"I told you, I don't want to see you again."

"Well, that's too bad, considering that I am right here and you're right in front of me. If you didn't want to see me you wouldn't be looking at me right now," the hanyou retorted.

Kagome sighed. "You still owe me an apology," she said, crossing her arms.

"What apology?" Inuyasha's brain snarled right back at him. Here you go, messing everything up again. This is your chance to get her back.

He bowed his head and thought for a moment. Apologizing would mean defeat. But he had to. Kagome wanted an apology. And he was sorry. Sorry for all the times he was a jerk. He frantically searched for words in his mind.

But instead of apologizing, he threw the girl on his back and bounded out of the open window. Within seconds, they were hurled into the old well and found themselves back in the feudal era.