So, I've decided to write some more of this one. I've got so much writing to do! So much time, so little creative energy. Anyway, he ya go.

Chapter 2

Kagome sat at her desk in her room. Her brain was totally fried and it was only halfway through exam week. C'mon, Kagome, only three days left. She was studying for her next one. It was on Physics and the fact that she missed Inuyasha didn't help her studying very much. Her exams had gone well so far. I don't want to ruin it now. Then I'll have to go to summer school! I can imagine mom now, hysterical, 'Kagome, why didn't you keep up with your studies? It was the only thing I had asked you to do!', and Inuyasha, 'Keh, I don't understand what could be easier, scribbling a few things down on some paper! You've fought demons but you can't do something so simple?' But then again, they wouldn't say that, mom would understand about it and Inuyasha doesn't even know what paper is, never mind talking about it. He wouldn't really care anyway. He's more about fighting than education. "But he would care if I had to take classes during the summer. . ." her voice trailed off. I promised I would stay in the feudal era for another two weeks after this. . . it was the only way he would let me go for a full week. He is going to be angry if I have to stay here for another two.

"C'mon Kagome," she told herself. "You can't give up now." She looked down her notes and forced herself think about her exam papers. Isotopes, leptons. Got it.

That train of repeating kept going through most of the night until finally, she had to sleep.

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Inuyasha was having similar problems five hundreds years earlier. It was almost dawn. He supposed to on guard duty for the night but his mind kept drifting to Kagome. He face was contorted in thought and his eyes had a sleepy look. He had been feeling kind of empty lately and he knew in his mind that feeling he was having was loneliness. He would not admit this to himself. Why does she have to go there every week? I've asked her to stay here with me so many times but she never gives me a straight answer. He thought for a moment. Maybe I'm just being too selfish. But still, I should ask again.

There was a rustle in the forest and his ears perked up. Damn I'm losing my alertness. He sniffed to discover it was only a small chicken. Great, I got breakfast today. Just as he thought that, a blur out of the corner of his eye tackled the small figure.

"Oh hey Inuyasha," said Shippo as he held up his catch. "I got breakfast today, huh?" he said with glee.

Inuyasha was taken back. Kid's getting better. I didn't even hear him this time. His face spawned a smile. "Guess you do!"

Shippo started back to the village, which was recently repaired with help from the two wolves, Koga and Ayame. Inuyasha had contemplated in his mind that he now had Kagome. It was that easy now. No Koga, no anyone.

"You got a cub now or what?" Inuyasha turned to see Koga standing on a log. Inuyasha's face was engulfed by a red blush. In truth, Inuyasha HAD thought of Shippo as family the last few weeks, but he wasn't about to admit that to Koga.

"Of course not," Inuyasha said with fake disgust, "That's crazy!"

"Oh really? So far, you've taught him to hunt, fight and detect enemy demons. Those are FATHERLY duties Inuyasha. Not that you were skilled at any of those, but I'm not stupid."

Inuyasha didn't say anything to this. He turned around and stalked back to the village mumbling threats under his breath. "Anyway," Koga lengthened the word, "I didn't come to laugh at you this time."

"Well, what is it then?" asked Inuyasha, gloomy.

"I think it's time Ayame and I get back to the tribe. Thanks for everything, but they're probably going crazy without us, I mean I left Ginta in charge."

"Whatever. See ya."

"Well, I've just got to find her first," Koga said looking around the forest.

"Well, she's probably with Sango or back at the village," offered Inuyasha.

"Well at any rate, I'm going to go look around."

"Fine."

Koga hopped of the path into the forest. Now that Inuyasha was alone, his mind turned to thoughts of that snake that had destroyed half the village. It had told him "That sword you carry holds great power." What was he talking about? How does he know about my sword? He took out Tessaiga and examined it. Tessaiga, have you been keeping your power hidden from me? He unsheathed it and swung it around, as though fighting off some invisible opponent. Even so, should I risk it? He sheathed it and continued on his way. Although finding out the answers to these questions would prove to be difficult; he could tell Miroku was now keeping a closer watch on him now after that night. It seemed he did not trust him completely about the snake's offer.

By this time the village was looming in the distance, Kirara and Shippo playing outside, with the smell of cooking chicken in the air. "Hey Inuyasha, you're right on time! The chicken's almost finished Sango says!"

"Yeah? Alright!" he said quite childishly. He ran to the Kaede's hut and stepped in, the delicious chicken on a spit above the fire. Indeed, it was starting to brown and darken. "Oh, hi Inuyasha," said Sango.

"Hey, is it ready yet?" he said eagerly.

"Almost, just wait," she said with annoyance.

"Hmpf," he said sitting down in a corner. "Where's Ayame? Koga's lookin' for her."

"Um, she's off in the village somewhere. She wanted to check it out. Besides, all the villagers fawn over her. I think she might like the treatment a little too much."

"Well when she comes back tell her. Wake me when it's ready." He closed his eyes and tried to sleep with the enticing aroma of chicken in the hut.

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"C'mon Kagome you'll do fine, just calm down," coached Yuri and Umi.

"I'll try," she replied reluctantly. The door to the classroom door opened and the teacher spoke.

"Come in, come in!" he said cheerfully. "Your papers are on your desk. Sit down and write. Now I want silence. You all have one exactly one hour and a half to finish."

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"So Kagome, how do you think you did?" asked Ami. "You didn't have any problems?"

She sighed. "No, no problems," she said dreamily. Her thoughts were on Inuyasha.

The group looked at each other. "Kagome is everything ok?" asked Yuri.

"Why?" she asked, plucked from her dream state by her friends. "Why would you ask that?"

"Well, you've been distant for most of the time except for when you're studying and even then you're focused on something else," stated Umi.

"Yeah, we've all been worried about you lately," added Ami.

"Don't tell us it's nothing either," finalized Yuri.

Kagome was surprised about this. "Well, my 'boyfriend'. . ."

"He's involved?" they interrupted. "Is he two-timing you again?" they asked hopefully.

"No, no he's great. But let me explain. You guys haven't even met him yet, so don't write him off." She paused. "I miss him," she said simply.

"Why is that? Doesn't he visit anymore?"

"Oh yeah, well we've only had to stay apart for a few days, and he usually visits when I'm sick. I usually see him almost every day."

"So what's the problem now?"

"I miss him, that's the problem."

"That's it?"

"Um, yeah."

"Kagome, you just need to talk to him, like on the phone or something. You'll be fine."

Yeah that'll be easy. Calling five hundred years into the past. And if I go back, he's not going to let me leave.

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"Inuyasha!" He woke up with a jerk.

He yawned. "Is the chicken ready yet?" he asked as he stretched lazily looking up at Sango.

"We already ate Inuyasha," she started. "You wouldn't wake up, so we left you. It is late in the evening yet."

"What?! I was hungry!" he yelled.

"Yeah, well we've got bigger problems."

"Something to wake me up for?"

"Koga hasn't returned yet, and Ayame has left to see if she could find him," she said gravely.

"That's it? C'mon Sango, that's probably just Koga just playing some stupid game or trick. You just can't fall for it," he brushed off.

"Well, when did he leave?"

"He said he went looking for Ayame somewhere in the forest."

"When was that?"

"Earlier this afternoon, but really I don't see any reason to worry. Just let him hide out there all night."

"Well Ayame should have been back a few minutes ago. I'm still worried."

"He probably convinced her to get in on it." He looked around the small hut. "Hey, where are Miroku and Shippo?"

"They've both gone to the next village with Kirara to check out rumours of a snake demon attacking around there. It was probably the same one that we saw four nights ago."

Inuyasha's ears perked up at this but his face stayed adamantly neutral. "Keh."

"Inuyasha, you can't be thinking about what that snake said, can you?" she asked him with prejudice.

Again he was trying to keep his face neutral. "No, of course not," he said unconvincingly.

"Inuyasha?"

"Ok, fine, you got me, but it's my choice!" he growled. "Why should you even care?"

"It's probably a trap of Naraku's," she reasoned, "and besides Kagome comes back in a couple days and it's a two day journey, there and back."

He pulled an irritated growl and turned around. "Fine. I'm going out for a walk." He walked rebelliously out the door and jumped into the trees of the forest.

"Where's that stupid wolf now?" he asked himself as he travelled. There was an eerie feeling in the woods that night that he couldn't quite place at the moment. The combined force of the lighting and that feeling had his mind playing tricks on him.

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The shadows were looking like shapes and the forest sounds began to drown his ears in something that can only be described as an uproar. The shapes were becoming more distinct as the forest began to change around him. The shadows now became living, breathing, demons from his past. These demons had bullied him even since he was a small child. They were distorted things and whenever he fought they just pummelled harder the next day. In short, they were the only demons that he had ever truly feared. Some of the shadows had even become humans that had chased him out of their village one day, and beat into an inch of his life. He wasn't truly afraid of these humans but it had caused him more pain than he had ever felt in his life. Suddenly everything had seemed suddenly bigger to him. He looked down and gasped. He was in the frail body of a half-demon child.

"What?" His voice had come out higher and more boyish than his normal voice. "No! This can't be happening, I must be dreaming!"

The demons in a clearing ahead suddenly turned their heads towards him. "There he is! Kill the half-breed!"

Inuyasha then realized that whether this was real or not, he was weak. He ran for his life, through a patch of bushes and came to another clearing. He ran as fast as he could. He was running the other side of the clearing when over the crest of a small mound came more demons, all cheering for his blood. He turned around and was grabbed by the nearest one. "LET ME GO!" he screamed.

The demons surrounded him in a large circle. They seemed to be starving and he thought at that moment that he was done for. Something slammed into his side and all the demons instantly dissipated in a puff of smoke. Ayame and Koga lay next to him, their eyes wide and a ghostly white colour covered their skin. "Koga? Ayame?"

They seemed to snap out of a trance, shaking some their heads to try to get their vision back. "What are you doing here?" asked Koga surprised.

"I-" He was about to tell them what he had experienced. "I don't remember," he said with haste. He did not want them to know what he was afraid of.

Koga and Ayame watched him for a second. "Yeah, us neither," said Koga finally. He paused, thinking. "You mind if we stay another night?"

"No go ahead," said Inuyasha trying to make sense of what they had just experienced. "Stay as long as you'd like."

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Inuyasha had thought a lot about the incident on the walk back and had come to the conclusion that there was something in the air that night. Something must have made them hallucinate so vividly that they could tell what was real or fake. He hadn't shared this with any of the others yet, hell none of them had. They hadn't even told Sango what had happened. When she had asked, they had just said they had gone for a walk. She had eyed them suspiciously but had not pressed the issue. They were all very thankful for that.

Inuyasha was waiting for Miroku to ask him if he had known about anything that could cause that kind of an effect on people. If confirmed, he would out and tell what he had experienced with the group and his theory about it. The only real problem with that was that Miroku wouldn't be back until the afternoon of the next day.

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Whoa! Another chapter finished! I'm really happy with this one, so everybody tell me what you think! Anything please tell me! If it's stupid tell me! If it's awesome tell me! Thanx!

Peace out!

Nolan