...This one isn't my best either. I'll letcha know when I picked up on the detailed, pretty, discriptive, and all around GOOD writing.

Chapter 2

"Bye, guys!" Kagome shouted over her shoulder, to her companions. She raised a hand to wave goodbye as she lifted her huge, yellow backpack onto her shoulders.

"Bye, Kagome! Come back soon!" Miroku called back. All of them waved. Except for Inuyasha. He bounded towards Kagome.

"No way! You just got back! At this rate we'll never get all the Shikon Jewel shards!" Inuyasha yelled, easily catching up with Kagome.

He grabbed the small handle of the top of the backpack and lifted Kagome off the ground.

"Mmmmmm…." Kagome moaned and looked straight ahead

"LEMME GO!" She screamed, struggling to free herself from Inuyasha's firm grip.

"No way! Are you crazy! You didn't even come back for more than a day! We didn't get any shards this time!" He shouted back, holding tight and refusing to let go.

"Inuyasha…I HAVE TO GO HOME! I HAVE A HUGE TEST COMING UP! I HAVE TO STUDY FOR SCHOOL OR I'LL FAIL! ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE JEWEL SHARDS, JEWEL SHARDS, JEWEL SHARDS! WHAT ABOUT MY SCHOOL? WHAT ABOUT MY EDUCATION!" Kagome screamed, kicking her legs wildly.

"NUH-UH! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS "SCHOOL" YOU KEEP HAVING TO GO TO! YOU'RE GONNA STAY HERE!" Inuyasha screamed, still holding Kagome in the air.

"SIT! SIT, SIT, SIT!" Kagome yelled, her entire face red as a beet.

Inuyasha danced on his feet, trying not to fall flat on his already dirt smudged face. Unfortunately for him, the four sit commands were far too strong to allow him to stand. He dropped Kagome to the ground. She landed perfectly on her feet and just kept walking without looking back as Inuyasha's face was plowed four inches into the ground.

"Wow…that's number…" Shippo stopped to count on his fingers. "Number 5!" He exclaimed.

"He'll never learn…" Miroku said, shaking his head while staring at Kagome who walked off into the distance.

"MOM! I'M HOME!" Kagome called as she pulled herself over the rim of the well in her family's shrine. She rushed up the steps and threw open the door. She raced through the yard and slipped inside the sliding door to her house. She stopped at the entrance room and slipped out of her shoes and quickly pulled on a pair of house slippers.

"Mom? Souta! Grandpa!" She called, confused.

She cautiously walked through the seemingly empty house. Nothing but the sound of her house slippers scraping against the tiled kitchen floor.

"Kagome!" Mrs. Higurashi cried, rushing into the kitchen and rubbing a big yellow towel on her short, wet, dark brown hair.

"Oh! Hello mama!" Kagome cried, startled by her mom's sudden entrance.

"Sorry! I just got out of the shower." Mrs. Higurashi said, lowering the towel and stepping up to Kagome.

"Did you have a good time with Inuyasha and the others?" She asked cheerfully.

"Sorta…" Kagome muttered, rolling her eyes. "You know how Inuyasha is…"

Kagome's mom nodded, a faint smile on her face as Buyo trotted into the room.

"Buyo! I haven't seen you in forever! Come here, boy!" Kagome said, lifting the calico into her arms.

"Whoa! You've been getting fatter!" She cried, trying to hold the animal in her arms without dropping him because of the massive weight.

"So…where's Souta and Grandpa?" Kagome asked, dropping the fat cat back onto the ground. He let out a soft meow and slunk off to eat more from his food bowl.

"Your Grandfather took Souta out fishing." Kagome's mom said, walking over to Kagome and wrapping her into a hug.

"Mama…" Kagome said, hugging her mom back. She could tell that her mother gets worried every time she goes back in time to see Inuyasha.

"I'll be here to stay for awhile…I…I'm here…" She assured her mom, patting her back awkwardly.

"Yes…yes…alright, are you hungry?" Her mom asked, pulling away and walking over to the cupboard to pull find something to eat.

"Yeah! Starving! And so sick of ramen!" Kagome cried, setting her backpack down on the dinner table and pulling out a chair. She sat herself down and looked back at her mom, her thoughts mainly on her test that was coming up.

"Okay…How about some Onigiri?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. She pulled out a rice pack and a package of dried nori seaweed. Obviously, she knew the answer.

"Sounds great, mom!" Kagome replied enthusiastically.

"Why don't you go take your stuff to your room while I make you your dinner." Kagome's mom said in her low, flowing voice.

"Kay!" Kagome replied, jumping up and grabbed the yellow sack. She ran into her room and dropped her bag onto her light brown wooden desk.

"Home again, home again…" She said cheerfully and flopped down onto her pink bed and pushed her face into her big, light pink pillow with lacing at the edges.

"Wow! I've been away half of a day and I've already forgotten how my pillow feels!" Kagome exclaimed, sitting up and slipping out of her house shoes as Buyo wandered into the room, meowing for Kagome's attention.

"Hey, Buyo!" She said and pat the cat as it jumped up onto the bed.

Kagome quietly looked around. Her walls, painted a deep sea blue, seemed to glow as the light from the metal, blue flower, antic lamp on her beside table spread across the room. Now that the miko had the time to think about it, the gleaming walls were even hinted with a twinge of purple and pink. She had never noticed that before.

"Hm." She muttered, wondering what else she could find different about her room since the last time she had been there.

Not much at all. The huge, rippled, purple curtains were pulled aside and the sliding window beside her bed was open, letting in chilling gusts of wind. A rolling chair, complete with a cushioned back and lacy pink seat, was shoved under the polished wooden desk that sat just across the room from the silken, pink bed. An orange pocketed wall hanging was hung to the wall, holding inside useful items like pencils, markers, paper, erasers, and scissors. Stacks and stacks of books and homework sat on the table with a small desk lamp that loomed over the unfinished work. Beside the desk was a small, baby blue, make-up counter with a mirror over it. A hairbrush was laid out on the top, alone with Kagome's Strawberry and Sakura Blossom perfume that she wore all the time. A blue bean bag was stuffed under the desk, proving a comfy place to sit. A square bulletin board was tacked above the headpiece of her bed. Only a calendar set to December was pinned to the cork board. The only other piece of art that hung on the wall was the picture that was hung before her desk that she would change from time to time, leaving her room pretty sterile and clean. Her dressing was fixed into her wall on the wall that the long-side of her bed was pressed to. It really was a nifty place to keep her cloths.

Kagome stood from her bed, feeling a tiny shiver creep up her spine. Quickly, she bounced over to shut the sliding window. She wrapped her slender arms around herself and sighed gently.

"Wow! I'm actually getting cold in the summer time! I guess it's leaning more towards fall now." She said to herself and walked over to her bed once more to climb upon it and tug open the doors to her in-wall closet. She searched for something to change into, tired of the scratchy and dirty material of her school uniform. She quickly pulled out a yellow tank top and a purple skirt, much like her green school one.

"SIS! YOU HOME!" Kagome heard Souta's voice ring out through the halls.

A few seconds later, Souta burst into Kagome's room, an excited look on his face.

"Thanks for knocking…" Kagome said scornfully as she tossed the tank top and skirt onto the bed.

"You're home already! Wow! I expected you to be gone longer!" He said, running up to Kagome.

"Yeah…There wasn't much to do there so I just swam for awhile and came back. Besides, I have to study for my test that's coming up." Kagome said, ruffling Souta's hair with one hand.

"Now, out! I have to change for dinner!" She ordered, pointing to the door.

Souta grumbled something and ran out the door and to his room, leaving his sister chuckling at his obedience as she scooped up her clothes with a smile.

A few minute's later, Kagome stepped into the kitchen, dressed in the clothes that she had picked out.

"Looks like I'll be making more Onigiri than I thought!" Kagome's mom exclaimed as she pulled more rice, seaweed, and katsuobushi out of the cupboard and set it on the counter to set to work for more food.

"Kagomeee!" Grandpa yelled, hobbling over to his grand-daughter.

"Hojou came by yesterday and asked for me to give you this!" He said, pulling a small box wrapped in shining silver paper.

"Oh…wow. Thanks, Grandpa…" Kagome's said, knowing she would hardly appreciate the gift that Hojou gave her. Still, he was a nice boy.

"Don't thank me! Thank that nice boy, Hojou!"

'He's got the wrong idea about me. I don't really like him in that way! He really tries to hard. But I really don't want to hurt his feelings! He's such a sweet boy.' She thought, unwrapping the present and threw out a fake gasp of surprise. It was some kind of foot massager. Kagome set it on the table and quickly sat down.

"You know, you should really give that boy a call sometime! He left his phone number!" Grandpa suggested, obviously coming to like the regular visitor.

"Maybe. Maybe I'll call him tomorrow.." Kagome said, thinking nothing of it and waiting eagerly for her food to finish.

"KAGOME! PHONE! IT'S HOJOU!" Kagome's Grandfather called from the hallway, startling Kagome from her studying.

'Hojou?' Kagome thought as she forced her eyes away from her math book. She pushed her chair away and jogged down the stairs at a slow pace, careful not to jostle her stomach too much, dinner having finished but a few hours before, and she wasn't too eager to chat with Hojou at the moment. But nevertheless, the polite miko skipped into the hallway where she took the phone from her grandpa.

"Hojou?" She asked, bringing the phone to her ear.

"Kagome? Is that you? How are you feeling? Has your mumbalidous cured yet?" Came Hojou's voice at the other end.

Kagome's eyes lids dropped in annoyance.

Grandpa…' She thought, irritated at the weird diseases he was making up to all of Kagome's friends. She was surprised that she was still shocked by some of the most odd sounding things he came up with.

"Yeah, I'm pretty much all better now. So, is that all you wanted?" Kagome asked, jut itching to get off the phone and start on her studying again. She had plenty of time to talk to Hojou at school, now was supposed to be her time to herself.

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go out to breakfast with me, tomorrow?" He asked, cutting straight to the point. "Unless…you need more rest?" He added politely. Kagome knew she couldn't turn him down.

"Alright…That sounds…okay…What time?" Kagome asked, still very unsure about going out on a date with Hojou. Her last one, a couple of months ago, had been cut short because she had to go back to the feudal realm to see Inuyasha again. She had missed him so much and knew she didn't feel right with Hojou. She didn't feel for Hojou what she felt for Inuyasha.

'But what do I feel for Inuyasha? It's still pretty cloudy…but I'm sure I'm in-' She thought before Hojou's voice shattered her drifting thoughts and pried her mind back.

"Oh! What? Sorry, I missed that." She said, hurriedly.

"I said, we could meet at the pancake house just down the street!" Hojou repeated, not losing his temper with her lack of attention.

'Inuyasha would have…he would have yelled at me for not paying attention to him….' She thought.

"Alright…I'll see you then, Hojou! I should get my rest now…Thanks for calling!" She cried, mildly happy that a sweet boy had called her. "Oh! And thanks for the foot massage!" She said, not waiting for his reply before she hung up the phone and ran back to her room.