Catse: Well, here's the update. It may have taken me a long time, and I'm sorry... : ( But anyways, here it is: ) Well, can't talk long. I have to go. Ja Ne!


Disclaimer: Don't own Inu or any mentioning of anything that is not of my own design: )
Review Responses:

Mystical Demon: Believe me, I wanted to give him the Yu Yu Hakusho job. It would be the coolest. But I decided that I should save that for a second if I ever do one. Or maybe a different version of this same fic. Anyways, thanks for giving me your opinion, and sorry it took me so long to get you a response!

Evil Kitty of Doom: Me- I can't believe it! You have another personality too! (grins sweetly)

Cat-I want out! Me want french fries! Me want Soda! Me want...me want...I don't know but me want something! (grins evily) Me wantkillInu.

Me-(sweat drops) You can't do that. Remember what happened lasttime you tried that?

Cat- Not really. But I do remember waking up with a huge lump on my head! (rubs head)

Me- Inu threatened to clean your room and you went so mad you ran into the wall.

Cat- Oh yeah...now I remember. Wait a minute, who are you?

Me- Excuse her. When she gets new information, she forgets something else...Oh well...

Cat- Yays! (starts flapping arms wildly) Me want french fry! Me want Soda! Me want...(runs into wall)

Me- Owe! Hey Cat!

Cat- ...(unconscious)

Me- I still don't understand how she can run into the wall and fall unconscious and yet I can't. Oh well, thanks for your review! And don't worry. Inu won't be cleaning for too long!

Cat- I have no shame! Hahahahahah! (falls asleep again)

Me- (sweat drop)

KatyaChekov: Thank you for the review! Don't worry, the bracelet will come into play sometime in the story. For now, Inu's just trying to get to it. Wow...That's cool. The reason I got Inu to clean so well is I was getting the idea from how well my mom cleans. She always goes into detail when it comes to messes. : )

Okay, that's all for the reviews! Now for the story!


By the end of the day, the entire school was talking about the new super janitor. Most of the girls were commenting on his hypnotic blue eyes and his gorgeous shimmer of blonde hair. Many talked of how his stride was so confident and strong and broad, and how they wanted to run their hands through his braid, and many wondered, of course, what he would look like in a Tuxedo. The boys merely commented on how it seemed a janitor was taking their girls away.

Kagome heard about the man everyone called Smith, with interest, and began to wonder why she had yet to see him. Then again, she wasn't there often, and that day he had probably been cleaning in places she hadn't been near.

Finally, around the end of the day, it was time to head to the gym. This was one of the classes she liked of them all. It was something that she was growing better in all the time, and didn't require her to read, or learn much of anything but how to kick harder or endure her exercises.

Running away from the demons in Fuedal Japan had done a wonder on her arms and legs, and she was beginning to wonder if she should take an archery class here, if not this year, then the next, in order to master her archery. Being with Inuyasha and the others had woken her up to a whole new world of sports. Her friends had already disappeared on her earlier that day, Gym was the only class they didn't have with her, and so she was alone in this. She didn't mind it at all. Usually when her friends were around, they were trying to hook her up with some guy they had come up with, most of the time it being Hojo because he was apparently so sweet and sympathetic. Kagome smiled wryly. Usually she would have been tickled pink that someone as cute and kind as Hojo would have an interest in her, but since she had gone down the well and met Inuyasha, suddenly, nice guys were just too, how to put it, boring in her dictionary. She wanted someone that would rescue her from the world when she needed it, and would bring her back to reality with arguments and that sort. Someone, she thought with a laugh, like Inuyasha.

As she came up to the gym, she began to wonder what it was that Inuyasha was doing each day. For the past two days she had gone home to find Inuyasha either there, or not, and when she asked her mother about it, she would merely brush the topic aside and ask silly questions like, what kind of food Kagome wanted on her birthday and if she was excited.

Kagome sighed once more that day, as she entered the gym. She was really going to have to figure out what Inuyasha was up to these days.

She stopped, same as everyone else had that entered the gym that day, and stared. The once grimy and blurry floor was now sparkling like it was polished glass, and the benches looked brighter, almost standing out against the walls. The mats looked brand new, and there wasn't a single spot of gum or candy wrapper anywhere to be seen.

Their coach, a tall muscular man of his early forties, was walking out of the boy's locker room, his burly arm draped over a smaller man with a long braid of gold that hung loosely from beneath a janitor's hat.

Kagome stared at the young man, and suddenly began to understand why every girl in the school had a sudden interest in him.

He kind of reminded her of a bad boy for some reason.

His dark green janitor's outfit was baggy around his slim figure, with the top open to reveal a white t-shirt that was slightly wet with sweat, and his blue eyes seemed captivating under thick angry black eye brows.

On first glance, Kagome thought about an American version of Inuyasha walking out of the locker room, but as to the fact that Inuyasha didn't have human ears, or the other features that seemed to make him dreamy with the girls, she brushed it aside. Besides, what would Inuyasha be doing as a Janitor at her school.

"You've done a fine job her young man!" The coach went on to toss words of favor towards the blonde, until they had gotten to the Janitor's cart and he had let him go. "I gather I'll see you here day after tomorrow too, right?"

The blonde nodded slightly, and took hold of his cart, walking away towards the exit. Of course, to get to the exit, he would have to pass Kagome, and when he got close, their eyes met for a brief moment.

'His eyes…they're so…warm…' was her only thought, as his cheeks stained pink and he brushed past her. She only just got the name on the tag to remember him by as he left the gym.

'So that's Smith? Hmm…' she thought to herself, disappearing into the locker rooms with a smile.

Inuyasha berated himself as he left the Gym, heading towards his hallway with his cart. He could have at least said Hi! to her! He could have at least said something! But no, he just passed Kagome up like some sort of idiot, not even nodding good day to her or anything!

Jaki met him as he came into the school, and smiled, holding up a paper in his hands.

"Congrats kid. You get to keep the job here. Coach Kamiya called the principal and told him that he was completely thrilled with your handiwork at the Gym! He wants you there every other day now, to keep things clean. Isn't that wonderful!

'I should have talked to her. Or done something. Anything. I feel like such an idiot.'

"Yo! Smith! You listenin' to me! I just told you you got the job and you're just walking on by! Hey!" Jaki smacked Inuyasha on the back of the head to get his attention, in which Inuyasha responded by snatching his hand before it even left his head and glaring.

"I was listening. So I got the job?"

Jaki, still surprised by Inuyasha's speed, nodded dumbly as Inu released his hand.

'Incredible.' He thought wrily as he watched Inuyasha disappear with his cart down the hallway he had been assigned. 'His reflexes are like a cat's. Supremely incredible.'

Inuyasha finished cleaning that day, and after showering rather quickly in the boys locker room, and changing into his hoari about a block away from the school, he returned home, his long glistening trail of silver hair behind him, a baseball cap on his head, his fake ears and contacts hid in his shirt, and a scowl on his face to try and make himself look normal.

Of course, Kagome wondered what had happened to him, and his excuse was that he had chased a dog away from the shrine and had got lost for a while, wondering around the city.

Kagome took it as the truth, knowing that Inuyasha, for some reason, even though he was a dog himself, had gotten into this fetish of protecting the shrine from innocent K9's. So, that evening, after dinner and homework, she went to bed thinking about an oddly handsome blonde haired janitor from school.

She hadn't told anyone in her household about it, because she knew her mother would try to hook her up with him, same as her friends, Souta would giggle about it, Grandpa would give her a lecture on finding the perfect husband, and Inuyasha, like the last time he thought he smelled another guy on her, would get jealous, get into an argument with her, and jump down the well in a temper.

She smiled as she fell into a deep sleep. 'Yeah…I need a guy like that. A hunky blonde that won't keep me in his sights all the time. I could certainly use one of those.'

And she was asleep.

Inu sat on the branch outside her room, smiling. Now, if he kept working hard, he'd be able to get her that bracelet, and finally, maybe then, he could tell her his feelings. Maybe then, when she was glad with her gift, he could gain the courage to explain. Inuyasha yawned and leaned back, closing his eyes for what he thought would be a brief moment, but ended up lasting all night.


Catse: Okay, tell me what you think about this! Thanks for reading! Ja Ne for now!