Mysti-Reious: Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh! I haven't put up a chapter for a few MONTHS!!!!!! GAH I HATE MYSELF!!!!!!! Gomen-nasai!!!!!! I've been caught up in semester exams, winter break, Christmas, New Years…….. -Sigh- Yeah you get the point, right? Anyways, to make it up, I'm going on CHAPTER UPLOAD FRENZY!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna put up a TON more chapters to make up for lost time, so I don't own Inuyasha, R&R! HERE WE GO!

Chapter 7:

All You Need Is Love!

Kasumi and Inuyasha walked into the hut side by side, talking and laughing like present-day teens. They joined the others around the cooking pot.

"What's for lunch?" They asked at the same time. They looked at each other and laughed. Kagome tried to ignore them by turning back to the pot. Kasumi leaned towards Inuyasha,

"Is she a good cook?" She whispered.

He shrugged, "She makes good ninja food." He whispered back. She tilted her head to the side, so to explain, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's backpack and pulled out a small covered cup of noodles. He offered the bowl to Kasumi and she turned it over and over in her hands. Inuyasha impatiently pulled the cup away.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha barked, "Get some hot water for my ninja food, would ya?"

Kagome whirled around and glared at the bowl in Inuyasha's hand, "Why are you going through my bag?!"

"I wanted to show Kasumi!"
"I didn't know!" Said the sorceress, ducking her head.

"Whose side are you on?!" The hanyou snapped.

"I don't know! I'm just winging it!"

Inuyasha gave up on her but still wanted the noodles, "Kagome, where's my water?!"

Everyone took a step back as Kagome burst into flames,

"Inuyasha…" She hissed, making him regret his words. "SIT BOY!"

Inuyasha did a faceplant onto the floor, still holding the bowl above his head, "Careful! Don't spill it!!"
"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT BOY!"

By now the Inuyasha-sized crater was deep but, somehow, he managed to keep the ramen in the cup. Kagome charged out of the hut without a word. Everyone stared after her as Inuyasha crawled out of his hole, unamused. He sat down as if nothing happened and peeled off the lid on his prize.

"Hey Kasumi, could you use your powers to make some hot water?" He asked.

Kasumi turned around, water boiling at the end of her fingertips. She flicked her wrist at him and the water hit him dead-on in the face. He yelped and fell back, spilling the contents of his precious ninja food all over himself.

"You missed the bowl!" He cried angrily.

"Wasn't aiming for the bowl." And Kasumi dashed off after Kagome.

"WASTED!" Inuyasha groaned.

Shippo shook his head, "Drama queen." He muttered. Sadly, he forgot the "drama queen" had very good hearing, and so the small fox demon ended up with a big boo-boo on his head.

Outside, Kasumi quietly approached Kagome, who was kneeling next to the river and poking the ground with a stick. Kasumi plopped down next to her and caught a glimpse of a single tear on the Kagome's cheek, which was immediately wiped away by said priestess.

"What?" Kagome asked impatiently.

"Whoa, did it just get colder in here?" Kasumi sweatdropped, but it froze and fell to the ground, "Lookit! You FROZE my sweatdrop!" She bent down, picked it up, and looked at the sky, "He was so young!"

The edge of Kagome's lip twitched up for a second before she snapped, "Just tell me why you're here."

"Isn't it obvious? I wanted to make sure you were okay."

"Why do you care?"

"Ouch."

"Just leave me alone!"

Kasumi froze; this was definitely not the same Kagome.

"Oh…okay." Kasumi walked back to the hut, making Kagome regret being so rude. Inside the hut, Inuyasha was picking noodles off of his kimono and his hair, Sango and Shippo played with Kilala, and Miroku was messing with his prayer beads. Everything was so…calm! Kasumi came to her senses and snapped,

"Baka Inuyasha! You're so selfish!"
He looked up, picked a noodle from his shoulder, and held it out, "Want this one?" He asked innocently.

"You're playing with noodles at a time like this?!"
"A time like what?"

"Kagome's upset!"

"Upset?"

"That's what I said! Now go out there and fix it!" She grabbed Inuyasha by the shoulder and flung him out the door, then casually sat down with everyone else.

Since Inuyasha had been flung out of the hut, he had a hard time keeping his balance and ended up tripping over the stairs.

"Well that's just great." He muttered. Kagome didn't even look at him, so the hanyou walked over to her and sat down.

"Hey." He tucked his hands in his sleeves.

"Hi." She huffed.

"So…what's happening?"
"You should know!" She suddenly jumped up and hovered over him.

"Gah! W-what'd I do?"

"WHAT DID YOU DO?! I TELL YOU WHAT YOU DID!"

Inside the hut, everyone was listening, and Kasumi was carefully peeking out from the crack of the door.

"What's happening?" Sango whispered to Kasumi.

"All hell has frozen over." Kasumi whispered back.

Back outside, Kagome was on a rampage.

"What's the matter with you?! Things couldn't be more OBVIOUS! Do you need a billboard?!"

"What are you talking about?! What's so obvious?!"
"I'm talking about you and Kasumi falling in love!"

"Say WHAT?!"

"Yeah, I saw you guys by the river being all perverted and you being all bare-chested. Sikko."

Inuyasha scratched his head, trying to remember, when a thought hit him. He jumped up and yelled,

"I wasn't doing anything freaky!(1) She was only healing my wounds! She was apologizing for hurting me when we fought, so she healed me! So just calm down!"

"CALM DOWN?! DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! I AM TOTALLY CALM!"

"If you're so calm then why are you biting my head off?!"

"SI-"
"And don't try to 'sit' me! Just listen(2): I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH KASUMI! GOT THAT?!"

Kagome gave him a death glare, fury bubbling up inside her, but then she broke into tears and senselessly started to sissy punch his chest.

"I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!" She screamed.

"K-Kagome! You-you don't…" He was torn apart, but he tried to shake it off, "Kagome! Kagome, stop! Kagome! KAGOME!" He grabbed her wrists, "Just WHAT are you trying to do?!"

"Let me GO!" She sobbed angrily, trying to pull away.

"Not until you tell me what you're trying to accomplish here!"

"Just LET GO!" She bawled. Inuyasha's jaw clenched; it hurt deeply to see Kagome cry. What do I do?!, he thought, What can I do?! The little voice in his head took over and let go of Kagome, only to pull her into a hug.

"I'm…sorry. I didn't mean for you to get upset." He found himself saying.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong?"

Inuyasha realized he was trembling, and said

"You know, that really hurt."

"What? Me punching you? I didn't do it that hard-"

"No I mean you said…you hate me."

"Oh, that."
"Yeah, THAT."

"Sorry…I'm so sorry Inuyasha. For everything."

Inside the hut, the hidden audience went:
"Awwwwww!"

Mysti-Reious: That took longer than I thought, I think this is my longest chapter so far. Okay, inference time!
(1) "I wasn't doing anything freaky!" Anyone spot that? It's from "Ouran High School Host Club", when the twins called Tamaki a "nasty pervert." Lol XD

(2) "Sangoscourage" wrote a review saying: "For once, I hope she [Kagome] doesn't sit him and listen to reason! Inuyasha should take a stand against her jealousy, for once and quickly explain things angrily." Did you like it? I don't own Inuyasha, R&R!