A Girl's Reassurence By: Umi

Disclaimer: In case you haven't noticed my pen name is Umi not Rumiko Takahashi. Neither is my real name. Therefore if you can understand pure logic then you will understand I do not own the characters in this story, I just make up what happens to them. That's the fun part anyway.^_^

Author's Note's: So how did you all like my last chapter. You know my review pot is getting a little dry. Third chapter and Only twelve reviews. I think Vegito is the only person who gave me two reviews. I am receiving some reviews at Iridescent Dreams but not many. My other story seems a bit more popular. Oh well.

I have six new ideas for different stories but if I start a new one I promise I won't abandon this one. I hate it when people do that. They do some chapter's and then never finish. That's why you always need to check an update date before you read a story. That way you know if it's recent. And you can't forget to review the story either, or they'll get pissed and not finish. *hint, hint*

This story will be hard to write and harder to read. I mean the pain will get to you. Not the pain of the angst, the pain of the bad writing and grammar.But i'm pretty sure if you're as tough as Inuyasha you'll have no problem.^_^

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Kagome had finally gotten out of the water and got dressed. She was in a rather happy mood, all thanks to Inuyasha no less.

She was headed back for the hut when she heard screaming. She didn't rush though, she knew it was just Shippo.

'He must have pissed off Inuyasha again' She thought as she rolled her eyes. Then she started to pick up speed a bit. 'Well maybe I should hurry, it would be kind of cruel to leave poor Shippo there, it would be like feeding him to the wol-er-dogs.'

When she reached the hut she saw Shippo running around it waving something in his hand. Inuyasha trying to catch him, with no luck yet, but he was catching up.

"Kagomeee!" The little boy screamed jumping into the safety of her arms."Save me!"

"Not a chance, gimme that thing brat!". Inuyasha sounded very pissed, so she decided to take a look at what he was trying to get.

She grabbed it out of his hand and gasped at the photo.

"wh-wh-who took this" She studdered.

"We did" Miroku and Sango answered guiltily.

Kagome just picked up her school bag-she had emptied it out and put her clothes in it when she went to the river- and put the picture in the front pocket. Then proceeded into the hut to her enormous yellow bag. There she stuck her school bag in her Sengoku Jidai bag and came back out.

"So we're all gonna forget I have that picture okay?" She said trying to put on a cheery exterior.

"Yeah, sure, whatever" was Inuyasha's response.

"wow!, three whole words from the great Inuyasha i'm not worthy" was Kagome's sarcastic retort.

"Feh!"

"Oh yeah, Inuyasha, sit!"

" and that would be for...?" he wasn't suprised, he just wanted to know what he did to deserve it.

"for telling me I could go to school today and not reminding me, of course i'll be going tommorow" she said rubbing it off.

"yeah, yeah" he said dusting himself off.

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The next day Kagome was up and all packed to go to school.

"I'm gonna leave my stuff here, that way you know i'll come straight back. I won't take too long, but I will want to spend some time with my friends after school" She said heading for the well.

"Oi, I said you could go to 'school' not visit with your 'friends'" Inuyasha said putting emphasis on school and friends, trying to get his point clear across.

"Too bad, you need to be nice, or i'll take the picture out"

"grrrr" was his only response

'ah, so that's what she kept it for, I wondered why she didn't burn it or something' the rest of the party thought in unison.

"don't worry, I'll be back a few hours after the usual." when she went to school she spent about six hours away, a few hours more was nothing to worry over. except to Inuyasha.

It was like the whole world stopped when she left. He couldn't handle it. And now after the whole 'sleeping' with her thing, imagine the pain dog boy will go through.

"fine, go before I change my mind" he said trying to hide his emotions.

"sayonara!" she called as she jumped into the well. Leaving everyone a little heart broken. But they would manage.

Or that's what they all hoped, especially the white haired hanyou.

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"Hi everyone!" Kagome said walking into the classroom.

"Kagome you haven't come in a while, hope your okay now" Ayame told her, getting up from her desk.

"Great to see you well Kagome" Hojo said. This poor helpless fool also was releived to see Kagome.

"Oh, Hi Hojo" Was her modest response.

"Do you..um...want to go out tonight?" He asked, hesistantly for fear of being rejected.

sure enough her answer was "Sorry, i'm real busy...maybe some other time" she added the last part to bring hope back into the 20th century boy.

"okay" he said, beleiving her statement.

"Class please take your seats" the teacher called, walking into the class as the bell rang.

"Kagome, could I borrow a pencil?" Ayame asked from her seat behind Kagome.

"Sure look in my bag" she answered, forgetting about the picture enclosed in that very bag.

Ayame looked into the pocket with the picture. She was suprised to see what the photo was of. She was about to ask what this photo was when the teacher said, "Ayame, Kagome, stop talking or would you like to be sent to the principal's office?" They responded with a nod no as Ayame thought, ' wow, this boy's cute, wonder who he is, oh well it can wait 'till lunch'.

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At lunch Kagome and Ayame sat on a cement table. They're other friends were inside with day duty, so they had to eat inside then clean the class.

"Uh...Kagome...?" Ayame said, not knowing how to ask about the photo.

"Yes?" Kagome replied. Not touching her food yet, just playing around with it.

Ayame pulled the picture out of her pocket and Kagome was shocked into submission (yet again). SHe looked into her bag pocket and saw the picture was , indeed, missing.

"how...what...where did-" she started then was cut off by Ayame's speech. Her brain was still thinking, ' oh my god, how am I gonna explain this, Inuyasha curse you'.

"who is this, your boyfriend?"

"uh..well...sorta, that's... Inuyasha"

"the two-timer?"

"well, yeah...but you see...um"

"you got with him?!"

"quiet down please, and... like I said...sorta"

"what's that mean?"

"Fine... he's my...boyfriend" Kagome finally caved in. 'I might as well tell her that, better than the true story. That he's caught between me and my dead pre-incarnation' She thought.

"So...you slept with him?"

"no...we were at a party...and...I fell asleep, somebody took the picture, and ...I kept it" She stopped every so often to make sure the story was beleivable.

"well...he's way cute"

"NANI?!"

"gomen, gomen Kagome, but don't lose your temper. You know his hair is very unique"

"yeah, sure" she sweatdropped at that comment.

"You should bring him to meet us one day" Ayame said out of curiosity.

"well...I...maybe"

Just then the bell rang and they had to go back to class. Kagome threw her untouched food into the trash while her stomach grumbled at her.'Damn i'm hungry' were her thoughts, along with 'note to self, kill Ayame'.

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Author's Note's: Sorry I took so long. So many school assignments. I have to make two newspaper's. One about a book and the other based on colonial times. It's almost over though, so soon update's will be back to normal. But not too soon, I have like 50 math assignment's I need to catch up on. Maybe if I do them all I can pull a decent grade -_-'

As you probably have noticed I decided against putting Kikyou angst in there. It would have killed me. That's okay right? I still have the idea. Maybe in a later chapter. It was just too hard. I suck at conversation's.

Oh yeah, to inform you people i'm not dead I might put an update in the reviews section. Say how long it will be 'till the next chapter, not that your anxiously waiting. I read some other stories and saw how many review's they had. I totally got jelous and wanted to quit. But then I thought it over and decided to go on for the loyal fans like Cold Fire Pheonix. You're so great. Oh yeah and Sango-sama on Iridescent Dreams forum, you're the best too. Luv Ya!!.

Sincerely,

Umi.

p.s., sorry so short. don't kill, no oOcness in this chapter.