Sora: ok, yes I know it has been a LONG time since I have updated, but I am going to try and update much faster *crosses fingers*. So I had about half of this chappy written but my computer lost it *tear* so now I am starting over.

Thank you so much to my reviewers from forever ago :)

Inuyasha: May I add that in "I Get Cell Service In the Feudal Era, Really?" I think your author's note was longer than the story and you keep forgetting disclaimers!

Sora:….

Hahah, kay I will work on that! *concentrates and repeats to self* short author's notes, short author's note, short author's note. Annnnnd the disclaimer:

I have nothing funny to say. I do not own Inuyasha, however I did buy him a shock collar, and it works almost as well as Kagome's sit.

Shippo: So here goes the story!

(A/N I am not doing the "Last Time" thing anymore, if you guys just fell in love with that and want it back tell me :p, but I thought it seemed awkward.)

Kagome's POV

I walked back to our make-shift camp, sighing, why did things always have to be so complicated between Inuyasha and I? He kissed me; now he's ignoring me; talk about mixed signals. I felt the urge to look back at him, to look into his eyes, to see the reassurance that he wanted me, but I refused to show that weakness. I clenched my fists at my sides, but I could feel my neck turning, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a glimpse of silver hair.

Boy was I a goner. My head turned swiftly to him, dreading and waiting for what I would see there. If I caught him off guard, could I tell what was really going on in his heart? But when I turned to look, he was gone. I stared stupidly around, until I realized that he was sprinting back to camp, and now he was far in front of me. I sighed, there went my "moment of truth," all that build up for nothing; the Feudal Era was definitely going to give me high blood pressure.

I reached the spot where Sango and Miroku were sitting just as Shippo was waking up.

"Kagome, why is Inuyasha acting so funny?" were the first words out of Shippo's mouth, I sighed, knowing that if Inuyasha was within earshot he would—

Thunk! (A/N Ok yes that is the sound of Inuyasha punching Shippo…)

"I ain't acting funny!" he growled, I giggled, he reminded me of Yuka's feisty Chihuahua. Inuyasha glared at me, but his heart wasn't in it, there was something else in his eyes. And it didn't quite seem like love. But maybe if you tilted your head to the right 65 degrees, closed your left eye, and squinted the right one…THERE! Now I could clearly see it, of course it was love.

But behind my bravado, my heart deflated, and I knew, this wasn't a small teenage crush. I loved Inuyasha.

Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku all stared at me like I was crazy.

"Are you okay?" Sango asked, looking as though the funny farm might be our next stop, of course here in the Feudal Era, they didn't have any. So they were stuck with me!

"Oh Kami!" Inuyasha exclaimed, and I looked curiously at him,

"It was the sun! Now you have permanently damaged your eyes! How could you be so STUPID," he started to trail off,

"Stupid human women, always nagging, but can't take their own advice…"

"Inuyasha!" I interrupted him,

"It's FINE, I was just trying to see something that I didn't know if it was there or not."

"Oh," he said looking faintly embarrassed. I stopped myself from laughing, knowing this would only make him defensive, and then he would start insulting me, and then, well it's the same every time. We are the same cliché every time we fight, like a rerun that I just keep watching no matter how old it gets.

"Well… I guess we should be heading back to the village," Miroku said sensing the tense atmosphere.

"I believe Lady Kagome has a "test" to study for," he prompted when none of us moved. Surprisingly Inuyasha was the first one to move handing me my big yellow backpack, bow, and quiver. I took it from him, not looking into his eyes, I didn't know if I could ever look into his eyes again.

A clawed hand reached toward me, making its self seen to my downturned eyes. I jolted up, and his eyes stared into mine, searching. I don't if he found what he needed, but I think I did. I saw that he cared, and for now at least, that was enough.

I grasped his hand, and I experienced a momentary feeling of weightlessness as he pulled me easily onto his back, and without a backward glance to see if Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara were following us, he started running. His feet skimmed across the grass as his long strides seemed to become some form of gliding over the ground. I rested my head on his shoulder and relished the clean fresh air of the Feudal Era. I always noticed that when I went back home, in the busy streets of Tokyo the smog was distinctly there.

"Kagome," Inuyasha said hesitantly, as if unsure what to say.

"Yes?" I replied, holding on tight as we jumped over a small gorge.

"I-," he paused and then continued in a different direction, seeming to think better of what he was going to say,

"What's your favorite animal?"

"What!" I exclaimed, that was definitely not the direction I thought he was going to go.

"What's your favorite animal?" he repeated stubbornly, I knew he would never concede to the fact that that was not his original question.

"Dog," I said smiling to myself, up until I had come to the Feudal Era, I would have replied White Tiger every time, but then something, or rather someone, had changed my mind.

"Why?" I asked, still confused as to the motivation behind his question.

"I just, well…we spend so much time tracking jewel shards, fighting demons, fighting with each other," he trailed off and then started again,

"I just want to know everything about you, I feel like I should know what you like, what things you enjoy the most, but when I try and think of what your favorite color is; I don't know," Inuyasha said, not looking at me, I could feel the strain of saying his feelings, even ones as minimally embarrassing as these were, in the fact that the muscles in his neck were tight.

I grinned stupidly, from ear to ear.

"What's your favorite color?" I asked.

He snorted,

"As if you couldn't guess."

"Well I could but then what would we have to talk about?"

He turned his head to me and smiled.

For the rest of the day we talked, although I think I talked more I still learned so many trivial things about Inuyasha, although I guess they were trivial I held them all close to my heart. A scar on his shoulder was from when a guppy attacked him, I guffawed so hard at that that I thought I was going to stop breathing. I guess Feudal Era guppies were bigger, or that's what he says. He hates the smell of green beans, but loves the smell of oranges. He is actually an Akita (A/N That's the kind of dog I think he looks like, if you want to see a picture of an all white Akita, that is perfect see the link at the bottom.) and thinking back to what an Akita looks like I could definitely see the resemblance!

If only everything will work out, I know I could live like this forever, lifting my arms out feeling, like Rose on the Titanic. But Rose didn't know how close she was to losing Jack, and my heart turned to lead.

Sora: How'd you guys like it?

Kagome: A lot, a little, a teaspoon, a cupful, a gallon, 34 pints, 2 quarts?

Sora: Were you just in Home Ec?

Kagome: Nope.

Sora: Ummm… Ok.

Inuyasha: Well review or else she's gonna drive us all crazy *barks*

*shock collar shocks him*

Wow, that didn't even hurt actually kinda felt good like all tingly. *barks more*

Sora: *slaps her head* Oh my god, he is such a baka that he likes getting shocked!

Shippo: Oh look here is the web address for a cute Akita puppy!

.com/media/dogs/anonymous/kisu_akita_

Miroku: Oh look it's Inuyasha! Where did you get that picture of him!

Inuyasha: That ain't me!

Sora: Well review everyone and I'm going to try and update soon!