Kagome emerged from her humid bathroom after blow drying her hair. A gush of cold, fresh air invaded her nostrils and she sighed happily. She had a long, thoughtful shower contemplating her current living situation. The day prior sure had thrown her for a loop and she had went back and forth between calling Sango but opted out of it. The situation was too weird to get other people involved. More than likely they were overacting over a mere coincidence. She ran her hands through her fluffy hair fresh from the dryer, checking for any damp spots as she walked to the living room. She glanced over at InuYasha, slumped slightly in front of the couch with his eyes closed. She pierced her lips and walked over to him curiously.

"Are you supposed to wash these things' hair?" She whispered to herself, placing her hands on her knees and inspecting the lifeless Shikon. She picked up a handful of his florescent white hair from behind and sniffed. Her face lit up in surprise. "Wow it doesn't smell at all. I guess that makes sense." She lingered for a few moments, feeling the silky strands between her thumbs. She sat back to back with him, her awkward side of her tingling. She leaned back with a guilty look on her face and wrapped herself in his hair. "It's like a blanket." She whispered again, glad she lived alone so nobody could judge her.

"Kagome, what the hell are you doing?" InuYasha asked without moving, an obvious smile on his face with his words.

Every muscle fiber in Kagome's body painfully tensed up and her eyes nearly snapped the connection with the optic nerve.

"If you wanted to cuddle, all you had to do was say so." InuYasha chuckled, fixing his posture and looking over his shoulder at her. She wouldn't meet his gaze.

"Mother fu-I thought I turned you off!" She jumped back, her face nearly twenty degrees warmer than it had been. "Were you just pretending!?"

"Perhaps your touch was enough to turn me on?" He tried to conclude.

"Okay, don't say that sentence again." Kagome put her hands in her face in embarrassment though he didn't seem to understand why.

"Your face is really flushed." He pointed out, tilting his head as if to get a better look.

"Yeah, it does that." She grumbled. InuYasha rotated himself away from her and adjusted his posture. His hair was long enough to lightly dust the carpet.

"I was created for you, right? Then… if you want to play with my hair, I have no objection to it."

His words were kind and made her heart thrash against the walls protecting it. She didn't think she was susceptible for falling for her beta-project. Actually, that sounded like her completely the more she thought about it. She was a fool when it came to falling in love with anyone that was remotely nice to her. Everything about him made her wish he was real. He had made her so happy since his arrival, she hadn't noticed it before. Her phone was laced with recent searches of objectaphilia and if she was clinically ill to be having such thoughts. Even so, Sango found him attractive as well. But he wasn't hers to begin with, and that's what killed her slightly, knowing this bond they had formed was only temporary.

Kagome bravely scooted closer to him on her knees, she gently pushed his hair over one of his shoulders and rested her head on his back. He smiled softly and reached over to meet her hand resting on his shoulder.

"You weren't created for me, I was merely hired to test you for your true owner." She admitted sadly. It felt like just yesterday she unwrapped him like a Christmas present.

She may have imagined it, but she felt his shoulders slump slightly.

"I see. Have you met them?"

Kagome bit down on her lip and pondered on what to say. She didn't want to worry him; was it possible to worry him? "She's very pretty. I can only hope you two will click as well as me and you do. You keep me on my toes for sure, but maybe it was the excitement in my life I was missing."

Kagome drew herself back to the event that happened with the mysterious woman Izayoi. For a split second she could have sworn she saw his eyes shift from gold to brown when he touched Izayoi. She had overcome her initial shock- which was kinda easy considering she's been living with a high-tech humanoid that towered over her. If she could handle that, she could handle anything.

"Do you think… anything about me, InuYasha?" Kagome asked. "Not of me- like…uh." She didn't understand why it was hard to find words around him sometimes.

"I think you're very kind and could light up a room, but you also seem to have a barrier around you that you don't want others seeing. My memory per se, began the first day I met you- if that's what you're asking?"

He shuffled around again to meet eyes with her, knowing that was going to strike a nerve in her.

"Barrier? What do you mean?" She scoffed, slightly disappointed he moved away, she had gotten comfortable.

"You don't talk about family- you have no family portraits up. You don't go out with friends." He counted on clawed fingers.

He watched in fascination as a vein popped up on her forehead. She stood up with her hands on her hips. How dare he be programmed with attention to detail.

"Nobody asked you." She curled her lips into a devious grin. "InuYasha…." It had been a while- and she nearly forgot about the feature.

He returned the sly smirk on her face. "Wouldn't do that if I were you, sweetheart." Knowing what she had anticipated. It really didn't take much to tick her off.

"Sit."

He growled through the electric shock signaled in his necklace but instantaneously made the split decision to reach out and grab Kagome's ankle delivering the flow of the shock to her as well. A very unattractive noise came from Kagome and she tried to pull her ankle free but fell backwards on her ass.

"Ha!" InuYasha triumphed in her face.

"You son of a bitch." Kagome slapped away his hands and wrestled him until she found the tops of his ears and powered him down. It reminded her of the time she had to put her little brother in his place for snooping through her stuff when they were younger. InuYasha slumped over peacefully onto his side, any trace of audaciousness had faded. Exhausted, Kagome dusted herself off and altered between her right and left middle finger vigorously in InuYasha's face as he slumbered. "I take back all mushy thoughts of you prior to this! I win, motherfucker."

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It wasn't long before Kagome grew bored and literally kicked InuYasha back on, inviting him to watch a movie with her in her room. He obliged with no reluctance, and they carried on as if they hadn't purposely induced an electric shock to each other.

They were both lying on their stomachs, looking up at the tv screen in her bedroom while they ate popcorn. They also took turns saying "that's you" whenever an ugly character came on the screen.

Kagome turned her head, watching as InuYasha ate one piece of popcorn at a time. She giggled at the sight.

"Does that even taste like anything to you?"

He examined the popcorn between his claws and shrugged. He really had only been consuming it since she was. Kagome reached over for her phone on her nightstand and pulled up the search engine.

"I have a theory about Izayoi." She started, clearly losing interest in their movie as she still had a mystery to solve. InuYasha simply waited for her to continue.

"What if she was also a beta-tester and that's why you wrote her name and they modeled you after her son?"

InuYasha glued his eyes back to the tv and rested his chin in the palm of his hand. "Let me know when you have a theory that isn't dumb as shit."

Kagome smacked a pillow on the back of his head, causing his hair to stray in all kinds of directions. He didn't seem phased though.

He did have a point, and she felt like a proud mama that he had picked up her potty mouth. Izayoi didn't recognize InuYasha, she merely said he resembled her late son and that made her happy to see him. Even so, how did InuYasha foreshadow encountering Izayoi if they had not already met prior?

Kagome attempted to do a search on Aisha, but she didn't have much of a lead, having failed on retrieving a last name.

"Try typing in Izayoi too." InuYasha suggested, looking over her shoulder. Kagome darted a glare at him, so he retreated and quickly looked back at the movie trying to stifle a smirk. He seemed to get enjoyment out of annoying her.

"No shit." She rolled her eyes as if it was obvious that was her next move. Ayumi was better at this investigation stuff than she was by a long shot. To her surprise, she actually came across some valuable links. "Well, she wasn't lying. Here's his obituary." She said after reading a few lines. "Takahashi, Aisha. Is that ringing any bells for you?"

InuYasha shook his head.

"Okay, when you hugged her, did you feel anything…?" Kagome dragged on. She prayed to every god she could think of that he wouldn't retort something stupid back.

"It was very brief. I felt a twisting in my chest- it's hard to explain. That with a combination of an electric jolt like the necklace emits." His face was serious, trying to remember the events at the café more precisely.

"Okay hear me out. What if we find where Aisha was buried and see if that evokes anything for you. Cause touching Izayoi clearly did."

InuYasha began to comedically inch his head away from Kagome and back at the television screen.

"Goddammit, I'm serious!" She pulled at the forelocks of his hair, so he would look back at her.

"Okay woman, jesus. How are we going to do that?"

She stared at her phone and puckered her lips. That was a good question, but her heart was racing, and she knew she had to have been closer to finding something out.

Next Update: 12/7/18