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Author's Note: I AM SOOOOO SORRY THAT THIS IS SO LATE! I meant to have it up before I left for Texas, but I was just having a hard time coming up with ideas. T.T Well I'm currently working on chapter four, but I'm not promising to have it up by tonight. Though I might, so keep me on your alerts list people. loveyouguys. :D

CHAPTER THREE

I awoke to the sound of the village; men heading out to hunt, women conversing with each other, and of course the annoying sound of squawking chickens and naying horses. "Ahhhhh.." I yawned and streached out my arms.

"Awake, are ye child? Did ye sleep well?" Lady Kaede asked me, smiling.

I smiled and told her happily, "Mhm."

In return she smiled again, but then her face went serious and she told me, "Kagome, child, no matter how much that boy looks like the InuYasha you know you must not free him from the arrow. My sister, Kikyo, used it to seal him from taking the the Sacred Jewel..and if you release it from him he would surely kill us all."

My face sadden a bit, but then I reassured her, "I won't, Kaede. I promise."

"Good. Now then would you like some rice?" She asked, offering it to me and once again flashing a smile.

"Yes, please." I told her. In fact I was starving. I hardly ate last night. I was too exaused and overwelmed from the day before that I couldn't. I quickly scarfed down two helpings then told Lady Kaede that I needed to go take a bath.

"A..bath?" She said questionally.

I laughed and said, "I'll explain later. I'll be back soon though, okay?"

"Okay, Kagome." She said sounding a bit unsure.

Though she had the right to be. I wasn't going to take a bath..I was going to see InuYasha. I knew Kaede said he wasn't like the InuYasha I knew and loved, but I still had to find out for myself. I ran off towards the direction of the lake to throw off anyone watching me in the village, but I turned into the forest as soon as I was out of sight. That light..it must be him. I thought about this as I ran through the thick woods in search of my ex-lover's thought-to-be; ancestor. I have to take that arrow out. I have to find out who he really is. All these thoughts were overcoming me so much that I didn't even realize that I was face to face with InuYasha. ::Gasp:: My eyes widened and and the pain of seeing his beautiful face again flowed overcame me. Don't cry, Kagome. Pull yourself together already. I told myself over and over again. I mentally slapped myself as I tried to clear my head. I looked back up at InuYasha and then down at the arrow then back up to InuYasha again. "I can do this. I can-" My words were cut off by a loud crack of a tree branch snapping in half. I wizzed my head around and saw Kaede standing there mounted on her horse surrounded by all the village men.

"Nay, child! I warned you not to come to the forest of InuYasha. There are many demons and thieves in these woods. Kagome, please come away from him!" She yelled out at me.

But I knew what I had to do. "No! I have to..oh, no.." My words slowly came to a stop as I looked down not only to see the sacred arrow resting in my hand. My temper must of caused me to unknowingly pull the arrow out. Hearing an evil laughter errupt from behind me, I started to think that maybe Kaede had been right. I slowly turned my head around, not wanting to see what was now standing behind me.

"Hello, Kikyo. Looking a little skanky there now are we? Is this how you really ended up? Figures, I mean, you were always such a slut." I don't know who the hell this "Kikyo" person is, but his words hurt all the same.

I could feel the anger from before rise back up again and I shouted back, "Who's this "Kikyo" chick?! Huh? Is she the real reason why we broke up?! Is she?!"

He just gave me the most confused look and said, "Now what the hell are ranting on about? You're Kikyo, stupid."

I then had to realize that I wasn't talking to my InuYasha..but I didn't. "Oh, I'm Kikyo?! I'm..Kikyo?! You're the stupid one! It's been what..a week? And you already forget all about me?" I continuously ignored Kaedes yells about how he wasn't my old boyfriend and that I should really back away from him. Now we were face to face and he sniffed me. Then a second time. Then a third.

"Oh..you're not her." He stated sounding lost.

"Good job, Captain Obvious." I spat out at him. He narrowed his eyes at me a grabbed me by the throat.

"What was that?" He said lowly and dark.

"Let go of her!" The village men shouted and shot useless arrows at him.

But then Kaede started to chant something and hundreds of beads flew out arround InuYasha's neck. He let go of me and I fell to the ground barely able to breath still. "Kagome! Hurry, say the words of subjugation!" "Huh? Words of..what?" "Just, fast, whatever words you want to stop InuYasha!" "Uh...uhm...oh!" I remembered that InuYasha's family was of demon and human and that he was born a hanyou so he had these adorable little dog ears. So, naturally I thought of a dog. "Sit boy!"

"What the- AHHHHHHH!!" InuYasha screamed as he face planted before me. I kicked him to see if he'd get up, but I guess it was enough to knock em out. "Oh well.." I said and shrugged my shoulders at Kaede.

"Kagome..why did you free InuYasha?" She asked, but not in a mean way.

"I had to. You wouldn't understand, but I just had to." I couldn't quite explain my reasons for doing this to her.

"Aye. Well I guess we should take him-" I interrupted her, "Wait. Kaede, may I stay here with him? I wanna talk to him for a second."

"Okay Kagome. He is safe to be around you now. Just say those words from earlier and he won't be able to hurt ye." She said trying to hold back a smile. But I flashed her one of my mine and she knew she couldn't. "Okay, then. We'll see ye back at the village, Kagome." She told me as she and the other village people returned to their houses.

"Okay. Bye!" I called out as I waved at her. My cheerful side though quickly faded away as he started to wake up.

"Ughhhhhh.." He moaned as he pushed himself up outta the hole I put him in just a few hours ago.

"You, okay?" I asked him, already expecting the sarcastic remark that was about to follow.

"Okay? You knock me out and then ask if I'm okay? What the hell is wrong with you?" He asked me angerily.

Though I shouldn't of even bothered getting mad over this, I did. "Well, how the heck did I know that was gonna happen? I mean was I really supposed to know that by just saying osowari you would--?" I stopped talking for a moment to realize that the baka half demon was once again forced to eat dirt. "Oops..sorry, InuYasha." I said, not really meaning it.

2nd Author's Note: By the way: Hope you guys enjoyed it. It was the best ,well maybe not my best, I could come up with in such a short time. :l & Reviews of course, please. :)