A.N. another chapter down, and I seem to be no closer to the end. Maybe this is a never ending mess. I don't know, but I'm either going to eventually finish it, or just delete it. It didn't go over to well and well I don't have the patience to finish this.

last time

"Hi Kagome," said the voice on the other line, "it's James from psychology. How are you?"

now

"Hi James," Kagome said into the phone. "What's up?"

" Nothing," he said. "I remember that the teacher said I should call you if I ever needed help with anything in class. I guess your her favorite student."

"That's funny," Kagome laughed. "The old bat is always giving me a hard time."

James laughed on the other line. I like his laugh, she said to herself.

"So," James said, "I was wondering would you like to get dinner with me sometime?"

"Oh… well sure," Kagome answered surprised by the invitation.

"Great!" he said, "what day is good for you?"

"Well," Kagome thought, "I'm not sure. I'm waiting for a call from that store Hot Topic I was hoping to get a interview. I'm starting to run out of the money I came here with, and I need some kind of income even though I don't owe payments on my car."

"Oh, well if you need help with a job… how do you feel about bar tending?"

"Never done it," Kagome said.

"Oh, well you need experience so I guess that's out of the question."

"Yeah, I don't know. I saw a thing on tv today about a archery course here I might check that out, I'm a skilled archer," Kagome said.

"Yeah," James agreed. "That might work out."

"Yeah, I hope so, I need some kind of job."

"I hope things go well for you, um… how about I come to your house to pick you up for dinner tomorrow night around eight?" he didn't know what to do, Kagome was a big secret to him. He remembered when he was young there were stories of his ancestor Kouga being in love with a human priestess back in the feudal era. He figured it was a coincidence that she and Kagome have the exact same name. Maybe they are ancestors, he thought to himself as he hung up with Kagome.

The next day when Kagome was getting ready for class, she didn't notice that there was a note sitting on the windowsill.

"Sango, Miroku," she said knocking on the spare room door.

"Yeah," said her friends sleepy voices.

"I'm going to school," she said through the door. "I will be back around three this afternoon."

"Okay," came Miroku's voice, and then a groan.

"You two are disgusting," Kagome whined before leaving her friends.

20 minutes later

"Alright class," came the professors voice as he entered the room. "This is new, but I am going to pair you all into pairs and you are going to spend four weeks analyzing your partner."

The whole class groaned, nobody wanted to do a project like that. Why couldn't they do something like go out and pick some random person up and ask them to be their guinea pig.

"Oh, shut up," the professor said to the class. "Every second person in will be partnered with the person to their left."

Kagome perked up a little and turned to her left, being the second person in from the isle she smiled. "Well Mr. Wolfe, I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other."

"I guess so Ms. Higurashi," the boy said, "but don't think you can get out of dinner."

"I would never think of doing a thing like that!" Kagome said placing her hand on her chest pretending to be offended.

"Okay class, calm down," the professor chided, "don't think this will be easy. When you aren't in class, or at work or with your families I want you to be with your partners. You will keep a log of everything they do, what you talk about and how they react to certain situations. At the end of each week, you will turn in a copy of your log to me, keeping the hard copy. At the end of this four week study period you will write a five page essay on your findings of your partner. This is worth a semester's grade so don't mess up. You are free to go, start as soon as you get the chance."

Without another word, the class filed out leaving just James and Kagome left in the room with the professor.

"So," James said, "what do you do next?"

"I go to mythology in the English dept. and then I go to my 'English learning course' also in the English dept." Kagome explained as they walked out of the building.

"wow, two English courses," James said, "and mythology is one of those classes that you have to pay attention or you totally screw up."

Kagome nodded, "it is but I'm having fun in the mythology class. We are discussing a lot of different things right now. Dr. Edwards want's to start a project, it's just the class needs to collaborate on what we want to do."

"Oh, I see," the man said walking with Kagome until they got to the far building. " well how about I meet you at the coffee shop across the road and we can start our project?"

"Sounds good," Kagome said with a smile before entering the classroom.

InuYasha watched Kagome and the wolf walk towards the English building with anger raging in his eyes. Why should I care anyway? he asked himself,

He waited a few moment's and then followed Kagome into the building. He wondered how long it would take before Kagome realized he was in her class.

"Miss Higurashi!" the professor exclaimed as Kagome walked through the door, "where in the seven hells were you? We started our project the day you didn't show up, and now you are stuck being partnered with your friend from Japan."

"My friend from Japan?" Kagome asked, "What are you talking about?"

"That young man, what was his name? Oh there he is, Mr. Taisho come here," the professor said motioning to someone who just entered the room.

"Yeah?" said the voice of none other than InuYasha.

"Can this day get any worse?" Kagome said out loud as the two men before her started talking about the project they were to work on.

A.N. That's the end of this chapter. I guess I'm getting my groove back. Go me! R&R! tell me what you think!