Velvet: Thank You For Any Reviews That Were Submitted, You Guys Rawk! Now- Here's Chapter Two.

Chapter Two: Ripped Up

"What the f-" began Kagome. She was cut off by a hand clapped over her mouth. The man from earlier tonight! She recognized the outline of his body.

"Two things" he said "One, it's not polite to swear. Two, Hi!" he took his hand away from her mouth. Kagome looked him up and down

"Who are you?" she asked for the second time that night. He rolled his eyes.

"I am InuYasha" he said

"No you're not" retorted Kagome

"Let me finish- I am Koga, Inuyasha, Sango, and Shippo- everyone you have ever met in your life Kagome" he said

"So… effectively… You're name is KISS?" she questioned. He frowned confused.

"Iv'e heard strange things- but you've topped the list tonight" he said sarcastically

"KISS- Koga-Inuyasha, Sango, and Shippo it spells KISS" she explained. He showed a look of understanding.

"I… see… Well that was an accident. But I suppose you could call me that, anyway I'm here to talk to you about InuYasha"

"Really? Do you know him! Have you seen him? Where is he?" Kagome fired questions at him until he was forced to put his hand over her mouth again.

"Actually, im not here to talk to you about InuYasha. I'm suppose to tell you that everything's alright and that he's with you in spirit" he said fiddling with his coat pocket "but that sounded stupid so I figure ill tell you exactly when he's coming back" he said taking a seat at Kagome's desk and looking at the items on it. Paper, pencils and a photo of InuYasha attacking the camera with his claws.

"Seriously?" said Kagome getting up and grabbing him. He turned around on the swivel chair and faced her.

"Seriously" he said smiling. Kagome's eyes shone with tears- not of sadness but of happiness. She was finally going to see him!

"So when's he coming back to me?" said Kagome almost jumping for joy. He's going to say- five minutes or tomorrow, I just know it!

"He's" said Kiss as Kagome leaned forward "Coming" she crossed her fingers "Back" she bit her lip "Never" Kiss finished. Kagome froze. The whole world fell silent- the cars rushing past outside came to a standstill. The wind didn't even sigh. All that could be heard was the echo of Kiss's words. Never…

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NEVER!" she exploded. He shrugged

"That's what I heard" Kiss said inspecting his fingernails calmly.

"From who?" demanded Kagome

"InuYasha, of course" he said matter-of-factly. She slapped him across the face. He gasped in horror.

"Hey! Just because I'm not real doesn't mean you can hit me!" he said rubbing his now red cheek.

"InuYasha would never say that- he's going to become human and return to me so we can be together forever!" she shouted and ran to her bed. She sat down and clenched her eyes shut. You're not real… I'm dreaming… Go away… go away… She opened her eyes slowly and the room zoomed in to focus slowly. Kiss's face appeared mere centimeters from her own.

"Hello" he said simply. She screamed and buried her face in her pillow.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" she yelled at kiss taking her face out of her pillow "who are you to tell me who loves me and who doesn't?"

"Now you see, I didn't say that-"

"Shut the hell up and get out of my room!" she screeched. He did so. Kagome flopped backwards on to her bed. She undressed to just her underwear and threw on a singlet shirt. She brought the covers on her bed up to her chin and fell asleep almost instantly.

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Beep Beep Beep!

Kagome put out her hand and switched off her alarm. Wait a minute… She sat bolt upright and looked at her bedside table. When the HELL did I buy a stupid alarm clock? Then just as he spoke it hit her.

"Gooooooood morning!" said Kiss brightly from the doorway. He was carrying a tray of food "I brought you breakfast"

"I thought I said to stay out of my room?" she said groggily but angrily at the same time. He smiled

"I am out of your room" he held the tray on one hand and made twirling movements with his free hand "Doesn't matter- I can still get your breakfast to you" he finished twirling and began drawing and invisible line in the air, which the breakfast tray carrying rice with egg yolk on top (yum!) followed. Kagome blinked as the food landed in front of her.

"Uh... thanks?" she said slowly getting over her anger; But not completely.

"You're welcome!" he said brightly "If you want more there's plenty, and I also made some orange juice" Kagome stared at her food. It was totally perfect. She took the chopsticks sitting next to her meal and began to eat. The food was fantastic. She ate every last morsel and then went to have a shower. While she had been eating her breakfast, she thought about what Kiss had said last night- InuYasha was… never coming home to her. The thought was ludicrous; of course he was coming back. He had promised he would hadn't he? I hope so she thought as hot water poured down on her it rips me up inside just thinking about it…

"Towel?" said Kiss as his hand appeared in front of Kagome's face holding indeed, a towel. She narrowed her eyes. This guy has got to go…

"Get out" said Kagome turning off the shower and seizing the towel. She got out of the shower and dried herself. Kiss was talking to her outside the door.

"He's never coming back…" he said in an annoying sing-song voice.

"Yes he is" said Kagome bursting out of the bathroom and going to her own room

"He's never coming back!" kiss said again while she was getting dressed.

"Yes he is!" retorted Kagome angrily as she came out of her room dressed in long black pants with a black lace miniskirt over the top and a black shirt which read: 'Is There Life After Death? Piss Me Off And Find Out' Kiss followed her around all day telling her InuYasha wasn't coming back, and getting the same answer.

"YES HE IS!" Kagome shouted at Kiss for the seventh time as she exited the house he followed her around all day, repeating the same comment…

At the shopping center…

"He's not going to come for you"

"Yes he is"

At WacDonalds…

"Never coming home, Face it"

"Yes he is"

At the dry cleaners…

"He's not going to come!"

"Yes he is, he'll come for me- come hell or high water he'll come"

When they finally came home after a long and busy day of "yes he is" and "no he isn't" Kagome exploded.

"I heard him say it Kagome he said, AND I QUOTE 'I can't go back to Kagome after this- ever'" Kiss said while running to keep up with the escaping Kagome. That was when she turned around and tried to seize his neck- instead she fell right through him in to a wall. Kiss laughed.

"I forgot to tell you- I'm not corporeal. You only felt me the other night because I let you. But since you slapped me I decided being feel-through was safer" he said thoughtfully. Kagome growled angrily and stomped up the stairs, good thing no-one was home to hear her.

Her mother and grandfather had died a few months back- but before leaving had paid off the house and Kagome's school fees. They had also left aconsiderable amount of money for her to live on. Souta had been taken away to a foster home on the other side of the planet with an uncle Kagome had never even heard of. Kagome had tried to get custody of her brother and lost the case- on account of her age and maturity level. It still killed her to think about it- so she tried not to.

Kagome stormed in to her room and slammed the door. Kiss glided right through it laughing at himself.

"Why do you insist on following me around?" groaned Kagome while she had her face in her pillow- so it sounded more like: "Mmm mm mmm immmmm mm mmmphmmmmmmm mm mmmmmmph?"

"Did you see that?" said Kiss shaking with laughter and not listening "I went right through the door!" Kagome screamed with anger. Kiss shrugged "If you wanted me to leave, you just had to do something about it- god; I thought you were an almighty demon fighting priestess? You're so stupid!" Kagome growled and took her face out of her pillow. She dashed over to her wardrobe and rustled around in it. A minute later she pulled out her bow and a collection of arrows. She grinned evilly.

"Bye bye silly-talky guy!" she said in an insanely girly voice as she knocked the arrow in to place and fired. It went straight through his chest. His face paled

"Oh darn- You know, the most hilarious thing about all this is, you're-" he was cut off before he could say the last sentence then disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kagome flopped down on to her bed and sighed joyfully.

"Gone! He's gone! I'm all alone again!" she grinned "Without InuYasha…" her face fell at this comment. She shut her eyes tightly. It's been so long… maybe he really is… gone… Kagome sat up again slowly and went to her still open wardrobe to throw in her bow and arrows.

As she did so- she saw something ruby-red and smooth looking flutter behind all her clothes. She grabbed it curiously. It was a long, red, silk dress. She took it off its coat hanger and held it up against herself- it looked like it might fit. She carefully put it on and looked at herself in the mirror. Wow… she whispered in her head. The dress had no sleeves, but it reached just past her knees and was trimmed with black lace along the top and bottom edges. Needless to say- Kagome looked beautiful. She thought so too as she turned to look at the back. It had no material but a series of criss-crossing black silk strings that were tied in a bow at the bottom. She took off the dress and put it away in her wardrobe again. Standing in her underwear staring at her reflection in the mirror- she decided to go out. InuYasha doesn't want me; otherwise he would have come back ages ago.