A/N: I hope this chapter reels in the real fish--i mean readers. :)


A NEW INUYASHA
chapter three.
3 days and more...of torture.


Another morning.

Another day.

This life just couldn't get any more dull than it already was.

Outstretching her arms as far as she could reach, she lifted her heavy lids and could of sworn the sun was pratically in her reach. A sloppy, yet, goofy smile spread over half of her face. Pursing her lips together to contain the sudden laughter to erupt, she found it in her, that she couldn't. She lost. A sudden roar of laughter took over her. Her whole body shook with pleasurable strange pain as she clutched her stomach flopping over her belly and slamming her fists to the ground to get that dream image she had out of her mind.

"Kagome...?" A small nest of brown hair tangled on top of Sango's head as she sat up from her sleep.

"Is there a demon near!" His voice held alarmed panic, even if half-asleep. Snatching the staff at his side, he posed a defense position.

Kagome's laughter if possible, erupted louder to Miroku's comment.

Shippo slowly arose, rubbing one of his eye lid, pleading it to open.

"Y-you guys," laughing, "You guys! I just had the craziest dream!" She forced some of her laughter back, figuring a person couldn't converse normally while laughing. "InuYasha..." The line of her pursed lips wriggled estatically, trying her best to contain her laughter. Just the sound of his name gave her the giggles. She wiped a tear. "Whooo...! ok."

"Ok..." a weirded out look slapping across their faces as they stared oddly at the girl.

"InuYasha...in my dream--InuYasha just suddenly turned all Mr. Softee on us!" The jar broke. She can contain no longer. Throwing her head up in the air, her feet flinging wildly with strange laughter, she fell back on the soft grass.

A few moments of just awkward silence (except for kagome's insedious laugther) between the three, suddenly came the laughter, llike a disease to their system. A nervous forced laughter was restraining them from keeping the weird look on. They broke into wide grins and just laughed and pointed at each other like maniacs. A dream! That's right! A dream. How can InuYasha ever turn like that. That was the exact opposited of himself!

More laughs exchanged. InuYasha...never!

A new sound of laughter entered the circle, which they did not know had formed, came in.

"What was so funny that made you guys laugh so much?" Only a small laughter of amusement in his voice.

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo suddenly ceased their meeting of laughter to stare at InuYasha with widened eyes. Kagome remained in session in her own luny bin in the corner. Crawling out of her corner, she grabbed hold of a nearby sleeve, a red one: InuYasha's.

"H-hey," a small laugh escaped and she puffed out, exhausted from the straight 10 minuted non-stop laughing self-parade. "InuYasha! I had the most outrageous dream about you! You wouldn't believe it!"

"Oh?" His golden eyes held the reflection of her joy. He loved seeing her as happy as this, which in return made him happy. "What was it about?"

She pointed a finger at him, caught up with her own conversing still. "You were suddenly, Mr. nice," she made a dramatic effect raising her hands in the air, then chuckling afters, "you cooked for us like you were some cook god that just fell from the sky replacing the real InuYasha. Then you were all sweet and stuff..." She quieted.

"hm.." he looked blank at first, then turned to look at Kagome. "I guess that is pretty crazy." flashing a fanged-tooth grin at her.

"yeah." she said absent mindedly. Her eyes snapping open to realization, she realized she was pratically sprawled, heck she was, sprawled over InuYasha: to his hips and down.

Blushing crimson, she made a 50 yard dash, screaming at the top of her lungs.


Pinch.

"Ow."

Pinch.

"Ow."

Pinch.

"Ooooow! Watch where you're pinching, Sango!" glared the presently frustrated school girl.

"Pinching won't do any good. You're gonna run out of spaces to pinch." She stated a matter-a-factly back.

"I still can't believe it." She sighed, plopping down next to Sango.

"Believe it." Sango quickly answered, nodding her head to the side. Kagome followed to the direction she was nudging her to.

"Shouldn't we go ahead on our journey, Inuyasha!" She heard Miroku yell in a nearby hut.

"You can't rush these things! It'll take 20 minutes tops to fry these babies!" she heard Inuyasha's friendly voice answer back from the hut, sounding muffled to her.

Even from this distance, she can see the dazed look shippo was giving off, and the giant sweat-drop visible on the tip of Miroku's head.


Three days have past for these surviving travellers.
Surviving was not easy along the way.
Experience the frustration and brain-racking pain these young ones face through.

D a y 1:
"No! InuYasha, what are you doing to my weapons!"

The sounds of swords, bones, and other objects clamped and rubbed against another before the sound of blazing fire seized the clanking of the weapons. Shortly after, poor birds in their morning flight had fled away squaking due to a certain shrill cry of mixed pain, and lots of anger.

"I'm getting rid of them." Hestated casually, ignoring the fact that the demon slayer now suddenly had ready for demon slaying (hm, wonder why).He tossed them from behind as if you would throw a basketball in a hoop. Sango blocked them best she could. But, weapons were weapons, even if you were a strong and skilled demon slayer.

Sucking inthe best of she could of her anger, letting out some of her self-control she had left, she casually walked up to the hanyou and grabbed the shimmering, half melted sword from his hands.She soon found herself gawking at the thing. The sword was practically oozing melting from the tip halfway down the handle she was holding up. Her arm shook, and let it drop. InuYasha easily caught with grace milimeters from touching the floor.

InuYasha blinked, looking up at her dazed form. "Sango, its dangerous for a woman to handle these weapons. You might get hurt." and with aswift move, her flew up, with a flick of his wrist, threw the half melten thing into the oblivion, where it melted wholly.

Sango, was now melting down to the ground.
With her tears of fustration, she let loose a yell no beast or youkai alive could counter,

"BAAAAAAAKKKKKAAAAA! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

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D a y 2:
prick. And out the little thorn was from the monsters foot.

"Ar...i..gatoouuu..." the faded deep voice of the monster youkai dissapeared into the sky with a friendly wave of goodbye.

"Your welcome!" InuYasha waved back, his smile beholding satisfactory victory. The rest of the comrade stared the best they could without having so much as overloading their eye twitches at their "hero of the day" holding the posture of Hercules would when defending a village and rescuing damsels in distress. Which InuYasha, their old friend now gone, would have hated in the past. A deep regret sunk into them.

They watched with sad, deep regretful expressions as crowds, some leaping for joy after them, or much rather their hero who had done all the work and didn't even draw out his trusty tessugia in the most dangerous of siuations.

"Ladies..." Miroku started but was trampled on shamelessly on the ground. Springing up, he found himself seething after a crowd of beautiful village girls who was now surrounding InuYasha. InuYasha scratched the back of his head, backing away from them.

"Oh! Inuyasha-sama, what you did just now was beautiful!"

"Yes! Beautiful! Please, would you bear my child!"

Miroku's jaw had long dropped to the ground.

Grabbing Kagome from out of nowhere, Inuyasha sweat-dropped nervously away from the village girls. "Sorry, I'm promised to another." Fastening his grip around her waist, no higher, no lower. Kagome blushed a crimson, wishing she would just die in embarrassment.

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D a y 3:
"Satsuki-chan..." A heavy blush overtook his small boy-ish features as he fiddled with the hand-made floral necklace he had made. Gulping in his last once of pride, he bravely, and without looking, presented the little gift in front of the first girl who had made a powerful reaction to his heart.

Just like on the first day he had rescued her from the other village boys and the time she had given him her share of stolen pomegranates, his heart raced.

"Go on. Take it. I made it..." A deeper shade of crimson, if possible was staining his whole face. "Just for you." A knife was slowly forming, just itching to stab at his poor, little heart. He waited as silence only returned the confession of the poor kit.

"Satsuki...?" Slipping a glance here and there, he found he was sitting on the tree branch totally alone! Flinging his hands about in panic of where she might be, he lost his balance and fell off to the branch of the tree. "AAAHHH--huh?" Feeling his pawed foot grabbed by a hand, he could only blink his surprise.

A soft giggle greeted him. The same one which had brought his heart to a racing spree. Setting his emerald orbs on the the upside-down looking girl in front of him, he smiled in relief. "Satsuki! I thought you were-"

"It's ok, Shippo-chan. InuYasha-kun just brought me down for some treats he made just for me."

Tears sprang forth, well, downward from the heart-broken boy. "Just for you...?" He choked out, squezzing at the floral necklace to let it fall on the ground. He shut his eyes to que with the dramatic sounding sadness in the background. Or...it had sounded to him. His life was over.

His head was starting to get dizzy. The blood was starting to go to his head.

"OI! YOU CAN LET ME DOWN NOW!" Screaming out in frustrated anger.

"Sorry." The voice said.

Falling straight flat on his face, added to another headache he had. Like his heartahce wasn't enough. Ruffling through his hair in frustration, he looked up at the ouff who had dropped him so carelessly.

"Inuyasha!"

"Yo!" His big-grinned face greeted down at the little kit. He, then, looked at him apologectically. "You looked so busy up there in the tree working on your. . .necklace." at the word, Satsuki looked on the ground at the floral necklace, in no better condition than a dendelion in a wind storm. "So I didn't want to bother you. But, I left some treats for you, that I'll know you'll like...!" He squatted down with hands on knees to Shippo's eye level.

Before shippo could reply, He felt Satsuki kneel down beside him. He watched as she picked up the batterred necklace up with her two hands. "You made this?"

He nodded, feeling hope well up in him. His ears picking up the sound of loud footsteps...and buzzing(?), he turned his attention to Kagome who suddenly, came running into the scene with ...bees lining behind her? No, chasing! "Somebody help me!" She cried in desperation.

With a slash of his claws, the buzzing ceased along with the faint flutterring of their batterred wings.

"Gomen. But nobody hurts my Kagome." He whispered to the twittering bees lying half dead on the ground.

He slashed around to Kagome. "Kagome, Are you ok?" he grabbed her hands in his. She found herself lost in his intense gaze until it wore off. "It's all your fault! It was this..." She looked down at the delicately, fashionably detailed of the varied flowers innocently lying against her chest, hanging around her neck. He had put much care into making this for her today. She put a delicated hand to feather over it.

"You don't like it?" InuYasha gave a pouty look, cascading his down-casted eyes to the ground, watching the bees dying slowly.

"No! no, no! It's nothing like that! I was just..." She sighed. "I love it." She smiled gently. She peered under him, catching a smile from him. "Happy?" She perked.

He nodded like a chid, and grabbed her hand in his. Kagome, still not used to the affectionate manner, held a faint blush.

"Satsuki...?" Shippo who had watched the entire scene with slight boredom, now noticed the girl was gone beside him and standing beside Inuyasha that was still holding hands with Kagome.

"InuYasha-kun! Did you make that?" she pointed at the decorated floral patterned necklace that hung about Kagome's neck. Kagome looked down, and smiled answering for him, "Yes, he did." She looked to InuYasha with a warm smile.

Inuyasha made eye level contact with the girl, "Want one? I'll make one just for you..."

Shippo felt a pang of betrayal hit him as he spotted the pink covering the girl's features as Inuyasha spoke to her.

"Just...for me?" She looked to the ground, kicking a few peebles with her bare dirtied feet shyly.

NOOOOO! Shippo mentally screamed in his mind. His girl was gone. Just like that. Whisped away by his own, his own adoptive-like father figure. It was a strange twisted new feeling for him. Another love triangle was about to emerge in this story? Too strange. He went to panic mode and searched crazed eyes from blade of grass to other blades of grass.

"They're turning blue!" He clutched his head, looking mad.

Caught up with the blue grass he didn't notice the group that was now leaving him behind. If he was in his right mind he would have heard them, turn back from time to time and whispered worries.

"You sure shippo is gonna be okay, Inuyasha." Kagome looked worriedly at InuYasha, who had her small arm looped through his. The little girl walking with them, answered for him, "Shippo's a strong demon!" She made punching strikes at the air. And looked up at the school girl. "I'm sure he's just fine! He did rescue me once before, after all." She smiled at the thought of her hero that day. She'll never forget. Her first...friend.

As if hearing her thought, Shippo grabbed at his auburn locks. "Why's the sky green noooww!"

Kagome turned wide eyes back at the kit. It'll probably be better to leave him alone for the moment. She reassured herself turning her head to the road ahead. Noticing something flicker about in Inuyasha's cupped hands, she peeked a look.

Bristling but still able to walk through she asked, her voice shaking, "W-why..?"

InuYasha gave Kagome a quick look then back in his hands. "I felt bad. So I wanted to nurse the bees back to health." He gave kagome a crooked smile as if it was an obvious thing to do. "I don't want to be punished by mother nature by killing her creatures, now do I?"

Biting her bottom lip, and shutting her eyes tightly, she used one free hand to form a fist and beat at her heart.

This was driving her crazy!


Kagome sat on the lip of the well, smiling at her comrades before her.

"Sayonara, everyone! Sorry for this being short notice, but I hafta take another test. So, I'll be back in 3 days before you can say-

"GO! an--" sango piped.
"and take him wi--" Miroku came in from behind.
"With you, Kagome!" shippo finished lastly popping up from Miroku's shoulder.

Kirara added with a 'mew.'

There was a long silence as they stared oddly at Kirara as if she had just barked instead of mewed.

"Kirara? I-is that you!" Sango had no other words to describe how she felt right now. Sango was staring at her with utter disbelief. This feline couldn't be her cute, small cat companion that had followed her since childhood days. There was no similarity!

"The bow's a nice touch to it, don't you think, Sango, my dear?" Miroku chided in, rubbing his chin looking rather amused than confused.

"Hey Sango." Sango looked up to shippo who squatted down behind Kirara and lifted up her tail. Wait...
"I thought that Kirara had two tails," Shippo brought up two fingers, "not one." he point his little index finger at the single tail that was swishing idly.

"He couldn't. . ." Kagome had almost lost her balance off the well if not for an arm that wrapped around her torso had grabbed her. She looked up to see InuYasha, sweet golden eyes, smile and all. Could he? She mused to herself, looking disbelieving from InuYasha to Kirara.

"You should be more careful, Kagome." He stated like a father would a 3 year old as he set her feet softly on the soft ground a good distance so she wouldn't fall again. "You might just get a splinter." He grinned a wide, close-mouthed, orangy smile, with chinked eyes as he pressed his finger against her nose softly.

She patted her own nose after still thinking that this must be some phrank pulling going on. But the past few days seemed as no joke. He had even offered to bathe her the other day! Something you'd expect from Miroku, which he tried to do on Sango, but failed. InuYasha hadn't the same intention as the lecher, that was for sure. But still, something was fishy. And Kagome knew it. She blushed to herself as she reminsced.

"Just what the hell have you done to my Kirara, scum bag!" Sango's voice woke Kagome from her daze and brought her to reality to see another battle of demon slayer vs. . . . half-demon. Kagome leaped into action just before Sango was enough time to take out her Hirakoutsu.

"Now, now, Sango. Don't be so hasty. I mean, I don't think InuYasha would have done that on purpose..." Kagome nervously turned her head back to look at InuYasha with a desperate look.

"She needs to look like her own kind." he stated matter-a-factly. Even with his slightly puffed-out chest and broad shoulders, it only did some to ignite the fire in the slayer's eyes. He was dead meat.

Kagome instantly held the slayer back. She looked to Miroku. "A little help here, please...!" Her eyes cryed in desperate desparity.

Miroku sat cross-legged a good shade of a tree over him from a few feet away from the scene (a strange and perfectly safe distance).

He grinned with force to back up for it. "I think you've got it all under control here." He waved his hand, the other hidden behind his back. "You wouldn't need my help." Behind his back,he silently mused a prayer, vigourously pressing down on his beaded necklace. He had enough experience of Sango's wrath to have the common sense of staying a good distance when needed most. And this called for those times. God rest that poor girl's soul.

"Kirara's a cat, and should look like one." InuYasha suddenly held out a book, pointing at the picture for all to peer at. It was a picture book of a cat. "See?"

"You went through my stuff!" She yelled more likely in a statement of accusation than a question of shock.

"Oh, this is from Shippo. I just burrowed it from him, Kagome." He let a fang cover his bottom lip in a childish fashion, still holding the book up. 'Yeah. But I let him burrow it first.' Kagome gave a dead pan look to the hanyou.

"You--" Sango held her sword out, completely ignoring Kagome's pulls and pushes now. "InuYasha, you--"The sharp tip of the blade was grazing his throat now, that Kagome could have sworn the red she was seeing wasn't his haori but his blood. She shut her eyes.

"FINE! I'll take him to my time!" Kagome yelled out, stopping almost time itself that moment. She felt herself go flush with embarrassment at the sheer awkwardness. She looked up at Sango. Her fury was gone and so was her anger. Diminished into thin air?

"Splendid!" Miroku chirped.

"It's about ti--" Miroku came in and clapped a firm grasp around the little one's mouth before he let the last word spill over. Kagome looked suspiscously at the two.

"You better bring him there to teach him a lesson over there, Kagome." Sango huffed.

Kagome raised a brow. She found it funny in an almost odd way that she had suddenly claimed her posture and emotions from 3 minutes ago. "What's going on..." She drawled out slowly, arching her famous brow.

Miroku suddenly looked nervous, and Shippo suddenly stopped fidgeting.

"What do you mean, 'what's going on?'" Sango said out, none too polite. She kept on her mad facade. "That hanyou," she pointed the tip of her blade at said hanyou, "just butchered Kirara." the said cat mewed on cue. "That's what!"

She made a perplexed look, a finger itching at her scalp.

"Well, ok, then, but what about the shards?" She made a slanted smile.

"Forget it! Just take him with you." This time, bringing out a confused InuYasha to make the picture clearer.

"WHA-BUT! I—this—it would be disastrous if he comes along!" She stumbled over words for a good excuse. What had she gotten herself into? She shouldn't have blurted that out before. She blushed faintly.

"Don't forget, Kagome-chan, but this is a new InuYasha. I am absolutely sure he won't make a mess of things this time, right InuYasha?" Sango sent him one of her chilly glares as he nodded nervously in reply. InuYasha made a child-like grin for Kagome as if promising that he would behave.

Kagome could have sworn she saw a halo hovering over his head, with a white kimono replacing his red and white wings suddenly spread from his back. She shook her head of the image before she could get anymore weirded out.

"Mom, Souta, and gramps are outta town though. How can I leave him unattended at home?" That was in fact, the truth.

"You have that skool thing that you always go to, right, Kagome? Take InuYasha with you."

"Take him with me? Maybe you haven't been hit on the head too often these days that you've gone crazy Shippo, but, InuYasha will never be able to survive there." She made a slash in the air with her arm, shaking her head, bringing out that it was a positive, 'no-no.' As if the invisible sign on her head wasn't enough.

"What's the harm of taking him, Kagome-sama, InuYasha is perfectly well-behaved. He will do nothing of the sort to distress you."

"BUT-! The Jewel Shards! And what if Naraku or some hideous demons start attacking you guys. I don't want to let that happen. InuYasha needs to stay here to-

"lecture us to death?" They all spoke monotonously in unison. Their eyes trailing slowly toward the hanyou standing straight in front of them, readying for his preaching.

"Violence is bad. Violence does not solve anything. It does not lead to anything good only for the worse. Nothing can be achieved by this malicious behavior of violence. There needs to be a stop…." He continued on with crap.

"See?"

Kagome sighed out a small breath of air, her worn out brain drenched out of all excuses known to mankind that would possibly work. They did have a point. InuYasha was more vulnerable than a lone baby in the middle of an alley, full of slashing crazed murders of the dark streets of Tokyo.

She needed to think up of some more excuses to explain to her friends at school about the 'new kid' she was about to bring along with her.


"I can't believe this. It's a good thing its Friday." Her gloomy aura didn't feel anything but more distress.

"I can't be any more excited!" InuYasha beside her stood tall, and perked up for his 'first' day of school in his new attire of…

"What. Are. You wearing?" She drawled out in chopped sentences looking at how poorly he dressed. This would be the lesson where she learned never to let a hanyou dress by himself in fitted clothes. No wonder he had a liking to his baggy kimono, it was probably a snap to just slip those babies on.

"Here. Let me fix it for you."

InuYasha was too busy in his own joy land to notice Kagome tiptoeing up to him, reaching for his collar. Taken by susprise by the action, he hadn't known he was currently holding his breath afraid to blow on the perfectioned black locks that was groomed perfectly. Her lips were only grazing the side of his face, where normally his human ears would be on those nights. But, why did he feel like those ears were there? Either way, he would blush the same amount as he was now. Feeling the pop of his collar snap, and gentle pats slide down his chest, he could feel his eyes roll up to the havens.

"There." She smoothed down the wrinkled of his top uniform and admired at how spick 'n spine he is. He had quickly regained his composure when Kagome had set her eyes back on him. "Perfect-o." She smiled up at him. When she noticed at how red he was, she too in turn blushed now knowing the reason of their closeness.

"Higurashi!"

Kagome turned and immediately let her warm hands drift away from InuYasha earning a small whine from him, mentally, of course.

"Hojo-kun!" She watched as he halted his bicycle to a stop and smiled gently at her and said a quick, 'morning' to her. Kagome just nodded and smiled appreciately back with both hands behind her back, gracefully, in potite manner.

InuYasha growled at the boy who started chatting away with Kagome with Kagome just nodding her hand, smiling back. His jealousy got carried away as a low growl involuntarily escaped from his mouth.

Hojo stopped to look at the source of sound. He was surprised to see a deep, dark glower from the young man. InuYasha suddenly plastered on a smile just in time when Kagome had turned around. Hojo widened his eyes a fraction. A meter too much on his glass of the raw egg health drink.

"Looks good on him."

InuYasha quirked a brow. Hojo brought a hand out. InuYasha stared at it blankly. "Excuse my manners. You can call me Hojo. And you must be Kagome's cousin, InuYasha. She's been telling me about you." He smiled warmly as InuYasha's turned out nothing but cold. Kagome sensed it, and looked at Inuyasha oddly. Was he back? She couldn't tell really as she watched InuYasha shook Hojo's hand in return.

"Wow, long nails." Hojo looked down at the claws enclosing around his hand.

Hojo abrubtly took in a short breath as dangerous golden eyes glowed under his veiled bangs. "B-but, of course, long nails are absolutely ok, no! good! Wait! Better than good, it's GREAT!" He laughed nervously after. His laughter died down. "Y-you can let go now… please."

"No prob, pal." He let go, a sweet smile oozing on his features.

Hojo's arm suddenly hung slack to his side. His fingers twitched slightly burning a red glow. "Your cousin sure has a strong grip, Kagome." He turned to Kagome. Kagome sweat-dropped. "Oh?" She laughed out nervously. What is going on? Is Inuyasha back to...normal?

"You've got something wrong, pal." InuYasha snaked his arm around Kagome and pulled her tight against him as Hojo wore on a look of confusion. Kagome sweat dropped as her eyebrow twitched as she suppressed a smile all the while trying to get away from his strong grip.

"I'm not her cousin. I'm her lover."


A/N: InuYasha back to normal? How can it be? Already? Find out next chapter!

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