Glossary:

Haori – the red coat Inuyasha's wearing

Chapter 2

"Inuyasha?' This name rings a faraway bell, well hidden in Kagome's heart. Its sound was distant, so distant, yet so attractive. As the person released Kagome gently, Kagome slowly, nervously turned around, her heart was beating so fast that it hurt. "Who is this mysterious person?" This question erupted in her mind before she could even stop it, and her eyes land on a strange boy.

A strange boy with furry white ears poking innocently out of his silver hair.

"Are these ears real?" Kagome asked as she scratched the ears. The boy who called himself Inuyasha looks annoyed with Kagome's childish antics.

"Stop tickling my ears!" He scolded. Kagome retreated, fast. Her head was held low, like a young student waiting for a teacher's scolding.

The cold, night wind blew through the opened window, tugging gently at the duo's hair. Suffocating silence surrounded them. Kagome's fingers fumble the edge of her school uniform nervously, while Inuyasha just stared at her, long and hard.

The time ticked by. At last, Inuyasha broke the silence abruptly: "Do you ...still remember me?" The question came out his mouth slowly and clearly. "As if he's talking to someone retarded." Kagome added irritably. But on second thoughts, there's no denying that there was also a hint of hope in his quivering voice.

"What is he hoping for?" Kagome wondered as she raises her head. Her eyes lock onto Inuyasha's amber ones. "Really nice amber eyes." Kagome made a silent comment to herself. Inuyasha look uncomfortable with her staring straight at him, but miraculously he didn't look away.

"Erm..." This was a very awkward question. "No, I don't know you." Kagome said in a small voice. Inuyasha look disheartened, his white ears drooping down. The tiny tinge of hope shining in his eyes was gone. Kagome felt bad about it. "Do you...know me?"

Inuyasha looked away. He didn't want to look at her eyes. That gaze was still warm, full of concern, but it's different from what she used to specially reserve for him. "She is a different person now." Inuyasha's human heart whispered softly.

It took every ounce of his strength and will power to tell Kagome: "No, It's nothing really. Just thought you look like a girl I knew long ago."

Kagome was relieved. She thought she had unknowingly broken this boy's heart. But the fact hovered in front of her, and yet because of her ignorance, she couldn't see it. The fact is: she really had broken Inuyasha's heart. Subconsciously, Inuyasha could hear millions of tiny glass hitting the floor. "This wretched feeling was almost like what I experience when Kikyo sealed me fifty years ago." But yet, it wasn't the same. Something else was added to it, maybe a dash of anger? Regret? Perhaps a drop of sourness? Inuyasha was in no mood to analyze the sorrow he's tasting now (But then again, the reckless Inuyasha never seems to analyze anything, isn't it? -)

It took a while for Inuyasha to calm down and regain his usual posture. All this while, Kagome dare not make a sound. This weird boy had barged into her room, asked her a question interesting enough to hook up her curiosity, and now, he left her staring at him dumbly as he sort out his own thinking. Honestly, Kagome has every reason to be mad at him for leading her in circles without giving a clue to what is happening, but she didn't, because strangely enough, it seems she had dealt with someone with such a temper before...someone that is well concealed in her memory.

Finally, Inuyasha turned and look at her once more, but this time he was wearing a different expression: a very smug expression. Kagome was quite taken back. She wondered where had all the melancholy went to.

"Hear carefully, wench. Now," He lean closer to her, so close that a few strands of his silver hair tickled Kagome's cheeks, "I'm going to take you to the feudal era."

"Ahhhh..." An ear splitting scream broke through the silent night. It took a while for the Hirugashi family to realize the scream was Kagome's, before frantically rushing out of the house. What they saw was no doubt weird, but amazingly real at the same time: a boy in red haori was kidnapping Kagome.

Inuyasha sensed the worries of the Hirugashi family, and just to assure them, he stopped on a tree before shouting at them: "I'm borrowing Kagome for a while and I'll make sure she comes to no harm!" The Hirugashi family could do nothing but gape at the vanishing shadow.

"Put me down, you jerk!" Kagome yelled as she pound and kick viciously at Inuyasha, but he paid no heed to them. Carrying Kagome like a sack of rice over his shoulder, he quickly made his way to...

"The Bone Eaters Well!" Kagome realized. "So that's why the door was ajar! This jerk had come to my world through that sealed well!"

"Hey! How did you get past the seal of the well?" Kagome asked.

"Sealed? You mean those papers that were pasted all over the well were meant to seal it? Keh! They were useless!"

Kagome sweat dropped. She knew from the beginning that her Grandpa's so called sacred rites and seals were fake, but her little brother, Souta was fascinated by them.

"Ok, we're here!" Inuyasha's voice pulled her back to reality. Still carrying her over his shoulders, he tried pleading her, but his plea seems more like a command: "Now, would you heed my advice and jump into the well?"

"Never!" Kagome yelled. Inuyasha grumbled under his breath and yelled back through gritted teeth: "Like it or not, you're going."

And he jumped into the well along with the helpless Kagome.