You all should be grateful for me being here cuz my house smells awful! It is literally burning my eyes to the point where I am tearing. Every five mins I have to go outside and breath. I am devoted! I love you guys!

Kagome looked around in confusion. "Which way were we going, again? I forgot," she said sheepishly.

It was the third morning and they had just woken up and began their journey again.

"I don't know, it all looks the same to me," Inuyasha yawned and stretched his arms. "Hmft," she snorted and turned away from his gaze. She sniffed at the water in every direction. "That way," Kagome said after a large amount of smelling. "We were heading that way," she repeated, feeling sure of herself. Inuyasha swam up not to her and sniffed. "You sure?" he asked. Kagome's eyes widened in questionable shock.

She sniffed around again hastily. "Yes?" she said meekly. Inuyasha burst into a fit of laughter. "Hey that wasn't funny! I was right the first time!" she growled. "So?" he grinned. "Why you!" she snapped and hit the side of his arm playfully. "Ouch," he said in fake pain and put his other arm on it. "You hurt me," he whispered sadly. Kagome would have believed him, but his eyes danced with laughter, she knew he was faking. "Cut it out," she hissed.

Inuyasha seemed more open to her when they were alone, no surprise there. In fact ever since she had been a mermaid he seemed a little more. . . . . .clingy. Like a lost child to its mother, almost anyway. It made sense though, at first she disappeared and from the rest of the time on she was putting herself in grave danger. She couldn't expect any less. Still, it always seemed to surprise her, how different he acted sometimes. Like pulling jokes, she thought to herself.

Kagome sniffed again, being sure they were on the right trail. She gave a flick of her tail, sending her lengths a head, leaving only bubbles. "Come on, times not on our side," she ordered, looking back over her shoulder at Inuyasha. "What do you mean? No one's followin' us, what's the hurry?" he asked, swimming up next to her. For a moment he looked slightly hurt, but it vanished before Kagome could ask.

Honestly, she just felt uncomfortable. It's an odd thing to say, but she always felt that way. Even before she knew about Aussie and Tye. She didn't like being deep out into the ocean. It didn't feel right. It made her want to fidget; to pace in small pointless circles. Sure, everyone loves the ocean, even she did. But not in this way. She didn't love it enough to want to spend her whole life in it. Even though she knew that she wouldn't have to spend her life in it at that moment, she still felt, almost, insecure.

She had an uncomfortable, odd, hard to describe feeling inside her. Like there was something missing, or when you forget something. It was a heavy burden on her shoulders that she desperately wanted to get rid of. An emptiness inside her. She was going to say all that to Inuyasha, but it all came out as, "You're right. There's no hurry."

She mumbled something under her breath and then swam a head again, trying to clear her thoughts.

Maybe it was just him, but he felt slightly rejected. Like a bucket of cold water had just been dumped over his head. So he was in a cold ocean, but the analogy kept it's intense meaning.

"You're right. There's no hurry."

What was that supposed to mean? The entire time they had been traveling Kagome had seemed a little on the edge, she jumped at every little thing. She seemed kinda nervous. He was just trying to be nice, he never expected her reaction to be so cold.

His whole life he had been the reject of everything. Not wanted by humans and pathetic in the eyes of demons. Dirt, scum, impure. Disgusting. A monster? Sometimes. But Kagome was different, she wasn't like them. She was fascinated by his ears and claws. She treated him like everyone else. Kagome treated everyone equally, not just him. She was kind to all strangers and someone in need. But why was she acting so distant now?

That's the word. Distant. She kept away from him, always busying herself with some other thing or what not. Maybe he was thinking to deeply about this, but it bothered him. Kagome was the only person he could open up to, and now that he did she just ignored it.

But she probably has her reasons, he thought. But somewhere in the back of his mind said that she was just trying to get away from him. She didn't even want you coming out with her in the first place. Inuyasha cursed himself silently. How could he be so stupid, blind? He was just imagining it. No one could ever like -or even love- a hanyou.

Not even Kagome.

Kagome looked back at Inuyasha. He had a scowl on his face and seemed to be deep in thought. What's he thinking about? Kagome turned around and looked back at him more closely. She had been acting sorta mean lately. Suddenly guilt swept past her. She smiled, she could still change now.

"Come on slow poke!" she called out playfully and sped ahead, assuming he would follow. When she didn't hear him swimming with her she stopped and looked back. Inuyasha was swimming, but at a normal pace. She listened, thinking he would make some joking remark about how childish races were, but instead she heard a quiet, "feh."

"Inuyasha?" she whispered in question to herself. His ears twitched, but other than that he showed no sign of hearing her.

Kagome stopped and waited for him to catch up. He swam past her without a word, leaving her frozen in shock. "What are you waiting for wench?" he asked coldly.

"Nothing I guess," she said barley above a whisper, dark clouds covering them subconsciously.

So they have a few problems of their own, eh? Well if you guys aren't bust you could go up to my profile and scroll down to my stories cuz I have a new one! Yay I'm so proud of it! But it doesn't get good until the second chapter, cuz chapters one and two were supposed to be one big chappie, but I forgot. Pleeeeaz read it! It's called, "Memory".

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