Me: And I am BACK!

Kouga: And so am I... painful as it was.

Me: I know, I missed the fight. Who won?

Inuyasha and Kouga: I did. NO I DID!

Me: ... Well... whoever says the disclaimer first wins!

Kouga: akumaokami -gets pushed out of the way by Inuyasha-

Inuyasha: Doesn't own -gets pushed out of the way by Kouga-

Kouga: Any of -get's pushed away again-

Inuyasha: Inuyasha -get's pushed again-

Kouga and Inuyasha: -in a grid lock trying to finish- OR THE PLOT! I SAID IT FIRST!

Me: -laughing- Okay... you settle this while reading the story.

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"Kagome, wake up!" Kagome's eyes fluttered open and she almost screamed- Inuyasha had just woken her up. "Come on, Kagome, you have to wake up!"

"Why do you care?" She spat, remembering everything that had happened the other day. "Go find the wolf girl." A sick grin spread across her face.

"Kagome, I know you're mad about me leaving and everything, but-"

"Mad? MAD?" Kagome said hysterically, standing up and looking at Inuyasha. The grin spread into a corrupt smile. "I'm not MAD. Go find the wolf girl! That is, if Hojo didn't decide to just turn her into the police and have her put down as a wild animal!" She laughed even more hysterically.

"Sh- Kagome, SH!" Inuyasha was loosing his temper, but he knew that he couldn't afford to. If he didn't get Yuki back to the right time period, Shesshomaru would murder him. "Shut the hell up, woman!"

Kagome stopped laughing long enough to realize that he was sounding more like how he had before he left. Looking at him with tears in her eyes, she whispered, "Why?"

"Why what, Kagome?"

"Why did you leave?"

Inuyasha stood awkwardly back and bit his lip. Shit. He couldn't very well tell her the truth. "I just had to go."

Kagome looked at him, tears now streaming down her face. "Why? Why did you have to go? That's all Miroku would tell Sango and me, too! I'm sick of that explanation! Just tell me why you had to leave me there!"

Inuyasha knew he had to change the subject- fast. "Kagome, where did you leave Yuki?"

Kagome started laughing again. "Oh, so it's all back to her, huh? She's why you left, isn't she? I left her in hell, so you can go get her yourself!" She looked like she was going to go on with her ramblings when she stopped suddenly. Her eyes rolling into the back of her head, she collapsed. Shesshomaru stood behind her, an irritated look of satisfaction across his face.

"What the hell did you do, you bastard!?" Inuyasha hissed, kneeling besides Kagome and making sure she would be okay. "She was going to tell us where she left Yuki!"

"No, she wasn't," Shesshomaru said flippantly, looking down at Kagome's limp form with disdain. "She wasn't going to tell us anything except to go to hell. Even you must have seen that pattern, half-blood."

Inuyasha stood up and snarled, "Maybe I did see that pattern, but you didn't have to knock her unconscious! Why the hell did you do that?!"

"Because I never liked her, that's exactly why. Your lucky that I didn't do more to your pathetic wench then just knock her out."

Inuyasha wanted to continue arguing, but he knew Shesshomaru was right, for once- if they didn't get Yuki out of that weird human boy's house soon, Shesshomaru would do way worse and Yuki would kill her a second time as soon as she was off that chain.

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"C'mon... wolfy... come on..." Yuki strained against the chain that Hojo was holding, which wasn't all that hard. He didn't want to hurt her, and was too afraid to get close to her- she'd snap at him every time. "Come on... don't you want food...?"

Yuki eased up a bit at the thought. He had been trying to get her to eat that dog food for two days now. Even a predator, a born survivor, has to eat sometime. Hojo smiled.

"See, that's it... come on, girl..." he tugged her a long and, after a while, she just started walking with him, but slow enough to thoroughly make him have to work to get her anywhere within the next two days.

Once he had bought food for himself and some new dog food for her, he sat down outside his house, exhausted. Pouring her a bowl of the new dog food and setting it in front of her, he groaned when she flipped the bowl over with her nose.

"You to eat that!" He said, not wanting to look for anything else for her to eat. She growled- until she caught sent of what he was eating.

Meat. Fish. Sushi. Food.

Snagging the food from the counter, she settled down and tore through the meal, nearly snapping his fingers off the only time he dared get close to her.

"So that's what you like? Meat?" He sighed and went to go get himself some food, praying that Kagome would be impressed that he had held up with the wolf for so long.

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"Sango, wait, you can't!" Miroku tried hopelessly to convince a worried Sango that everything was okay. Kirara twitched in her arms.

"Kirara can tell that something's wrong, and I'm trusting her!"

"Sango, how do you know that it involves Kagome?" He took another stab at trying to get her to change her mind, desperate. Sango turned to look at him, the fire in her eyes making him flinch.

"Because I just do, Miroku." With that, she swung herself and Kirara down the well.

"Inuyasha, if you're involved, Kagome and Sango are going to rip my head off," he mumbled, swinging into the well after them.

Swirls of color and different time boundaries greeted them as the two, one after another, felt the solid ground of Kagome's time under them. Rubbing her head and making sure Kirara was alright, Sango climbed out and dusted herself off, putting Kirara down to shake off the dust. Miroku climbed out right after and sighed, brushing himself off as well.

"Now what, Sango?" Miroku asked, looking around. He had never seen anything quite like it.

Sango looked around for a bit, thinking the same thing. "We find Kagome."

Miroku sighed and opened the door, thanking every helpful force in the universe that it was dark. "We might as well get started."

Sango shook her head, "No I think we should rest." Sango laid down in the far right corner of the shack and closed her eyes, Kirara laying down next to her for warmth.

"Ah, I agree."

"NOT BY ME, YOU IDIOT." SMACK.

"My hand was waiting a long time for that..."

"Get away from me, you pervert!"

----

Kagome's eyes fluttered open for the second time that night. Getting up, groggy and disoriented, she heard shouting outside. "What..." She scowled, remembering what had happened. The shouting must have been Inuyasha and Shesshomaru.

This time she would get them back.

Climbing out of bed and grabbing a bat, she walked outside as quietly as she could and kicked the shack door down. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU COME HERE FOR?!"

"Kagome! You're alright!" Before Kagome could react, someone had hugged her.

"Sa-Sango?" she asked, not quite sure what was going on. Sango nodded.

"Yeah, me and the pervert. Kagome, why do you look so shaken up? And why are you holding that... thing?"

Kagome, seeing her friends, broke down. Weeping hysterically, she cried, "Inuyasha broke my heart!"

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"Night, wolfy," Hojo said, getting into bed and flicking off the light. Yuki knew that today was the day she was supposed to change and it was irritating her to no end. Why was she still like this? And why couldn't that damned human have gone to bed earlier? It was nearly midnight- she had to do something. Fast.

Trying to break the chains with all that she had, she howled impulsively. A clock struck midnight somewhere in the house.

Shit.

She had no idea what would happen, but she could still feel the change. She felt like... she was changing back into a girl.

Double shit.

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Me: Wow... that was... really long.

Kouga: You brought everyone in but me!

Inuyasha: The world's better without you anyway.

Me: Eh, I'll bring you in soon enough. -disappears in a flash of awesomeness to avoid arguments-