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Chapter Thirteen

At The Higurashi Shrine

Inuyasha picked Kagome up bridal style and hopped out of the well. Kagome grabbed his hand and led him to the sliding- glass kitchen door.

"Hi, Mom! We're home!"

"Oh, hi, dear!" Kagome's mom turned around and waved warmly.

"Feh, you make it sound like I live here." Inuyasha wouldn't mind that, but he found it odd that Kagome's mom had already liked him that enough to just accept him.

"And why shouldn't she? We all like you here; Sota thinks of you as a friend, role model, and hero, my father likes to talk with you, and I think you're a nice boy." She smiled brightly at the end of her explanation.

"Feh, you phrase it like I'm a prodigy child or model guy." He crossed his arms in disgust.

"Well, aren't you?"

He blushed thoroughly, "Um, no. Far from it."

'That's true!' Kagome knew the real Inuyasha, but she also knew the one he portrayed himself as around people, the selfish, arrogant, independent, jealous, and macho fool. "I have to go to school tomorrow if Sota can't get my notes, Inuyasha."

"Where is he!" Inuyasha demanded, but before Mrs. Higurashi could answer, Inuyasha tore up the stairs with Kagome on his heals. They found him in his room reading a manga called "The adventures of Iron man and Copper boy!" and laying upside down over the side of his bed. (A/N: That's what I do when I read "The adventures of Iron man and Copper boy!"! … …..-. JKJK, I only read FMA, Trigun, and Inuyasha…and sometimes the ones in Cover Girl. -.)

"Sota! Can you get Kagome's notes from her friends for her test tomorrow?"

Sota fell off his bed when Inuyasha stormed into the room. "Hi, Sis! Hi, Inuyasha! When did you guys get back?"

"ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION!"

"Inuyasha, SIT BOY!" Sota giggled at the sight of his hero being taken out by one word.

"What is soo funny, boy!" Inuyasha spat from the ground.

"Well, Sota, can you do that for us?" Kagome flash an innocent smile at him.

"Oh yeah, sis. Actually, I actually did." He got up from the bed and went to his bag, bringing back a packet of papers with typed notes on them.

"Who typed these?"

"I did during study hall." (A/N: Study hall, work period, call it whatever you like.)

Kagome ran over to her little brother and squeezed him tight. "Oh, Sota, thank you, what a good little helper you are!"

'So all I have to do is type some notes and she'll hug me like that!' Inuyasha was actually jealous of what Sota had just gone through.

"What's wrong, Inuyasha? Are you okay?" Inuyasha was knocked out of his thoughts.

"Um, yeah…fine. Thanks, Kid, you saved us a lot of time."

Sota loved to receive praise from his hero, Inuyasha. "Oh! Yeah, No Problem!"

"Come on, Kagome I'll help you study in your room." They walked down the hallway to her room. Inuyasha sitting on her bed with some of the notes in hand, Kagome at her vanity (A/N: Her desk thing with the mirror, for those of you who didn't know what it was…I didn't mean to offend any of you who did know….-, continue on.) "Okay, Sally has three times as many dimes as nickels and twice as many quarters as dimes. In all, she has $5.55. How many coins of each type does she have?"

"Um, she has three nickels, nine dimes, and eighteen quarters…Right?" Kagome pulled out her calculator to check. "Sweet! I'm right!"

"Very good! Another?" They had been doing Algebra problems for three hours now. They had already done Bio, Language, Foreign Language (with much difficulty), and all that was left was Global studies. So far, they had been studying for six hours.

"Sure, but we'll only do a little of global. Six hours is a lot of time! I aught to do very well on the tests, thanks, Inuyasha!"

"No problem, what area are you studying for Global?"

"Your era!"

"Really! Anything about us or the jewel?"

"Yes." Her voice dropped, she didn't want to look, in fear of seeing something bad.

"Oh. You know what, let's leave it a surprise." Her eyes looked at his; she knew that he sensed her fears, even if he wasn't a half-demon now.

"Let's not do global. I'll do it later." She got up and walked over to the bed. His eyes looked at her questioningly. She ignored them and sat next to him. He draped his arm around her shoulders. She knew he was unsure if that was okay, so to welcome him, she grabbed his hand and pulled his arm tighter around her.

"Kagome…?"

"Hmm?"

"Um …I….I, um, think we should go back."

"Why?"

"Well, we studied, I mean, I could even pass that test now! And the new guys probably need our help getting back where they belong."

"True, okay." She rose, letting his arm fall, unwanted. A hurt look appeared on his face. She turned to see this and made a quick decision. "Inuyasha…"

"Yeah…?" She steeped close and kissed his lips gingerly, flashed him a sweet smile and turned to walk away again.

"Thanks."

"No Problem!" 'Yes! I even got a better reward than Sota!'

The walked out of the room and down the stairs to tell Mrs. Higurashi they were leaving again holding hands.

"Um, mom…?"

"Yes, dear?" Her back was facing them; she was making dinner for Sota.

"We're leaving now."

"Oh, soo soon? Hmm, well, I have already packed your bag with more food and the supplies I bought from the pharmacy. There should be enough Ramen there to last even Inuyasha awhile." Sota walked in while she was saying this, he noticed Inuyasha and Kagome holding hand and ran out of the room laughing.

"What's with the brat?" He looked around to see what he was laughing at, noticed he and Kagome were still holding hands, blushed, let go of her hand, and ran after Sota. "Hey, Sota! Get back here! Hold still!"

"Inuyasha, SIT!"

"Gyaa! Damnit!"

"Inuyasha watch your mouth!" Mrs. Higurashi put her hands on her waist in disgust. Mrs. Higurashi and Kagome focused their attention on each other again. "So you're leaving already?"

"Yeah, we have to help our new friends. Plus, Inuyasha helped me study, so I aught to be pretty prepared for the tests I have coming up."

"Okay, well, you two be careful. Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha came from the upstairs. "Yeah..?"

"I have a change of clothes in the closet, change into those and give me your Haori and your Hakama. They need to be washed; they have stains all over them!" Inuyasha did what he was told with, Sota's help, and handed his ball of clothes to Mrs. Higurashi. His new outfit consisted of a pair of loose fitting khaki pants and a black wife beater (tank top/muscle shirt) with a red button down shirt over it. Kagome looked at him with half glazed over eyes for the first couple of minutes, causing Inuyasha to wave his hand back and forth in front of her face.

"When I get my clothes back, we're leaving." Inuyasha crossed his arms and glared at the floor.

"You're not even going to change back?"

"No. It's bad enough we'll be late anyways."

"It'll still be dark when we get back."

"So…?"

It took twenty minutes for Mrs. Higurashi to wash the clothes. She put them into Kagome's bag; she could tell how impatient Inuyasha was getting. Kagome gave her mom a quick hug, and then Inuyasha dragged her into the well. They returned to camp to find everyone still awake, giving Inuyasha no time to change into his normal clothes or to let go of Kagome's hand.

"Ahh-haha, Inuyasha has a girlfriend and a new style." Miroku, Shippo, and Ed all laughed so hard they fell backwards.

"Shut up! Kagome's mom had to wash my clothes!" He went and punched all of them on the fore head, hard enough to leave a large goose- egg.

"Aww, Kagome's mommy loves Inuyasha!" They all laughed more, while their goose- eggs made new friends.

"GRRR!"

"Aw, Inuyasha, don't let them bother you, I think you look cute, you'd fit in with those clothes in my era, with your hat of coarse. That was if you wanted to anyways. Maybe we could go out sometime, maybe to the movies or a party." Kagome flashed a mischievous smile, only Winry, Ed, and Al knew what she meant by that. Winry giggled while Ed and Al shuddered.

"Winry and I think you look cute, too!" Sango smiled. This caused Ed and Miroku to think the same thing 'We need to borrow those clothes!'