"No!" Inuyasha barked back immediately.

"And why not?" Kagome asked with a huff of indignation.

"Why would I?! You and your face!"

Kagome suspected the second sentence was, like she had produced the other day, an unfiltered brain dropping.

"I told you I'd wear a mask if it'd make you feel better."

"Shut up!"

"Suit yourself. Though it's a fine opportunity to kill me and steal the Jewel, whilst I'm all alone, wandering about woods, for you or any other demon whom is moseying about these parts..."

"Fine, I'll go with you!"

Pleased, Kagome mused to herself at just how easy it was to manipulate him, and suddenly she felt very guilty about doing so to a child. Well, admittedly he was much older than she was, but he certainly didn't act it! And-

"Oi."

Kagome gave her companion no response. She was still contemplating her little manipulative scheme.

"Oi! Woman!" This time, Kagome heard him and glanced back at her companion in mild confusion.

"Is this... some kind of joke?"

Kagome stopped walking.

"Whatever do you mean?"

"You're not taking me with you into the woods for... some other reason... are you?"

"No, whatever are you referring to?" asked Kagome in complete innocence.

"Er, nothing." Inuyasha's eyes flickered around, looking at everything except her.

Then, Kagome's overactive teenaged brain turned back on, and reminded her that she just asked a man to be alone with her. At night. In the woods. Where no one else was around. Brilliant.

Kagome blushed at her own stupidity. "I have no impure intentions, if that's what you're-"

"Shut up! I thought you were you plotting to seal me up again! You pervert! Who'd want to do something with a woman so ugly?!" Inuyasha blurted out.

'So that's what it was?' Kagome thought to herself.

"Inuyasha-san... I haven't got a bow and arrow with me. And even if I did, I have no idea how to do up such a seal."

"Oh."

They were silent again.

"Then why are we going to the tree?" Inuyasha asked. For once, Kagome though he was asking a perfectly logical question.

"I'm not sure how to get to the well, except from there."

"...and we're going to the well because...?"

"That's how I get home. I think."

"...you think?"

"Well, that's how I got here."

"Huh."

They walked in silence the rest of the way.