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Last Time:

"Are you coming, miko?" Sesshoumaru shouted. "I was under the impression you desired to return to your village."

Kagome stared for a moment, then jumped up with a smile. "Lead the way!" Sesshoumaru glared, and she clamped her hands over her mouth. "Sorry, sorry! Please show me the way back!"

CHAPTER 4: ITS NOT FAIR

"Kagome! Wake up!" InuYasha shouted, standing over her angrily. She opened her eyes sleepily, then saw who it was.

"Ten more minutes." She rolled over, intent on ignoring him.

"Kagome! It's already an hour after dawn. Get up!" InuYasha shouted. He tried to shake her, scowling as his hand went through her. He concentrated hard, and managed to push her a little bit.

Kagome sat up with a glare. "InuYasha. I didn't get to enjoy my day off. Let me sleep, or I'll seal you inside the smallest container I can find!" Then she fell back down and muttered sleepily. "Stupid ghost waking me up every morning."

InuYasha grinned. Knowing how weird it made people feel when he touched them without making himself solid, he stuck his hand through Kagome's head. She sat up with a yell. "InuYasha! Sit!"

InuYasha slammed towards the ground, and went through the floor. He didn't start getting angry until Kagome started ranting. "I swear, do you have to do this every morning? Naraku's dead, the Shikon no Tama is complete and vanished already, and all I have to look forward to everyday is miko training. Why do you insist on waking me up?"

InuYasha mumbled something, but it was too low for Kagome to hear. And now, Kagome was too awake to sleep. "Whatever, InuYasha." She grumbled. "Now I have to get up."

"About time." InuYasha griped. "Sesshoumaru's out back."

Kagome bolted upright. "I forgot about him!" She scrambled up. "Get out so I can change! Oh!" She gently shook Shippou. "Good morning sunshine."

"Okaa-san!" Shippou grabbed her in a hug. "Where've you been! You haven't been here in two days."

"It's a very long story, Shippou." Kagome soothed. "InuYasha will tell you all about it, and then you can come to me with questions, okay?" She started to shoo him out. "Oh, and Miroku and Sango might be coming soon."

"How do you know?" Shippou asked innocently.

"Just a hunch." Kagome said with a smile. "You go play, okay?"

"Okay!" Shippou ran out, calling for InuYasha.

Kagome smiled softly, then grabbed her clothing and changed quickly. I still have to tell Kaede, the villagers, Shippou,, EVERYONE! This is not going to be easy.

"KAGOME!" Shippou's terrified scream reached her ears easily. In a panic, Kagome grabbed her arrows and headed out, running at full speed. InuYasha's calls also reached her.

"Leave him alone you bastard! Fight me!"

Kagome burst into the clearing behind the hut and found a terrified Shippou in the hands of a furious Sesshoumaru. Fury engulfed Kagome long before she could rationalize that she should be scared. "SIT!" She shouted, and looked confused when Sesshoumaru didn't go down. Then she remembered. Cheese balls! I'm going to have to apologize to InuYasha. "Bad dog!" Sesshoumaru went down, letting go of Shippou at the last moment. Kagome stalked forward, her anger making InuYasha shrink back instead of yelling at her for her mistake.

She picked up Shippou and hugged him before whirling on Sesshoumaru. "Don't you dare EVER threaten Shippou again." Her tone was nearly a growl, and a rather healthy one for a human. Of course, as Sesshoumaru was the object of her rage, he was hardly in a position to critique. "If you even think about scaring him again, I will order you to wear a pink tutu and sing one of those disgustingly ridiculous songs from West Side Story!"

Sesshoumaru rose with a snarl, poison dripping from his claws. "Put that poison away!" Kagome snapped, her anger making her forget that she'd promised not to order him around. The poison disappeared, but the hatred in his eyes did not.

"This Sesshoumaru is not a dog to be ordered around." His tone was low and soft, the type of tone he got right before he killed someone.

"Really?" Kagome's absolute fury at the threat to her adopted son had made her lose complete control. "Cause it seems to me the only thing you're missing is a collar and a leash!"

Sesshoumaru surged forward, his youkai going out of control. With a snarl, he lunged for her throat. . .

Only to have a barrier send him back as a voice called down "Rule number one: Sesshoumaru may not harm Kagome." For the first time, there was commentary at the end of this statement. "And you're both acting like idiots!"

"Hey! No commentary!"

"Too late, Dog Breath! I'll say it again if I like: 'You're both being idiots!' Grow up! "

"I said no commentary!"

"Oh, shut up!"

The voices faded, and the four remaining figures just stared at one another. "Gods are crazy." Shippou whispered.

"You're telling me." Kagome whispered back, trying to hold back a giggle. A growl reminded her of the situation. Now that she wasn't going insane, she could see that she'd over reacted. Not that he hadn't over reacted either. But he'd never apologize unless she ordered him to.

With a sigh, and a slight shiver of nervousness, she turned to Sesshoumaru. She gulped, but decided to proceed anyway. "Sesshoumaru, I-" She paused, then took a deeper breath. "I'm-" She tried again, but found that she couldn't get it out. "Oh, the hell with it!" She shouted. "We were both being idiots and we both over reacted, so I'll forgive you if you forgive me."

Sesshoumaru just glared at her, then turned to walk away. Frustrated, she turned to Shippou. "What happened, anyway?" Shippou looked away guiltily. "Shippou!"

"I didn't mean to do it!" Shippou protested. "It was an accident."

"Like hell it was!" InuYasha protested, finally getting up the courage to speak.

"Sit boy!" InuYasha fell again. "Watch your language around Shippou." She turned to Shippou. "Now, tell me everything. And I mean everything, Shippou."

"Well, I was chasing after InuYasha." Shippou started. "And InuYasha told me everything! Then Sesshoumaru showed up and I thought that since he can't hurt me that I'd play with his tail. It looks really fluffy! But he got mad and told me to get off, and I told him no. So he pulled me off and I yelled for you."

Kagome groaned as she fell to her knees in frustration. "Why me? Why me?" She looked up. "All I ever asked for was to be a normal girl! And then you had to send me to the past, you had to give me some responsibility complex so I'd go after that thrice cursed jewel, and you had to make me nice enough to try and save a taiyoukai that hates me. WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO DAMN MUCH!"

"Watch your language, Kagome." InuYasha mocked.

"Sit boy!" Kagome muttered. "Thanks to the two of you not saying anything, I now feel like the biggest jerk that ever lived in the history of the world, past, present, and future!"

"Why? It's just Sesshoumaru." InuYasha asked.

"And you're just InuYasha. And he's just Shippou! And I'm just Kagome!" She was making herself angry again. "It doesn't really matter. He's been put in the worst possible situation imaginable for him, and I just snapped like twig and insulted him in the worst way I could imagine. I called him tame!" She stood with a sigh. "I'm absolutely horrible!"

She stood and walked back to Kaede's hut, feeling worse than she'd ever felt in her life. InuYasha just stared after her. "I still say he's just Sesshoumaru." He muttered.

Kagome

"See you tomorrow, Kaede!" Kagome shouted.

"See ye tomorrow, child." Kaede answered. "And be careful!"

"I always am!" Kagome shouted back. She started running, loving the feel of the wind in her hair. And as she ran, she thought. She ought to find a way to apologize to Sesshoumaru. He really hadn't done anything wrong, and she'd assumed the worst. She sighed. "Talk about racial profiling. I really need to work on my trust issues."

She made it to the well and automatically asked. "What was my time?"

"Like I paid attention!" InuYasha shouted. "Just go already!"

Kagome smiled sadly. "I'm sorry, InuYasha. I'll tell everyone you said hello, and I'll bring extra ramen."

InuYasha turned away from her emotional display. "Don't bother! It's not like I can eat it anyway!"

Kagome's smile faded. "I'm sorry." She jumped in, feeling the wonderful glow of the well. Her smile had returned by the time she landed at the bottom. Of course that smile faded when the glow from the well didn't weaken. "What the-"

A hand grabbed her roughly and pulled her from the well, then pushed her back. She fell to the floor, and felt the bruises forming on her butt. She rose angrily. "InuYasha, you-"

A hand grabbed her throat, and Kagome froze. "Did you think you would kill me, wench." That cold, emotionless voice was nothing like InuYasha's, and never could be. "I will not allow you to cause my demise in any way. Including throwing yourself down a well in an attempt at suicide."

Kagome glared at Sesshoumaru, forcing herself to remember that she had already been evil incarnate today. "Sesshoumaru, if you would listen for a moment, I will explain it to you." She tapped the hand at her throat. "Please remove your hand."

After a moment, Sesshoumaru complied. Kagome rubbed her throat for a moment, then turned to Sesshoumaru. "First of all, I owe you an apology. What happened earlier was an extreme over reaction, and I don't and won't blame you for not trusting me in the future. I wouldn't trust me either. I just hope that one day I can prove to you that I am worthy of trust."

She paused, then continued. "Now, as to where we are, we are in the exact same place, five hundred years in the future. I'm going to ask you not to attack anything here. Nothing will pose any kind of threat, and no one will try to harm you. They won't recognize you as a lord, and they don't believe in demons. So please, please don't attack anyone or anything."

Sesshoumaru took note of it, but said nothing. His anger was still too potent. Not only had she humiliated him, but she had tried to kill him!

"Thirdly, the air here is much different than in the past. You'll have to cover your nose until you adjust, or else you'll pass out."

"You underestimate this Sesshoumaru." He growled.

"Maybe I do." Kagome said with a shrug. "All I know is, InuYasha had a hard time with this place, and he's only a hanyou. I figure, as a full demon, you'll have an even worse time of it."

She went to the well house's door and pushed it open. "Welcome to modern day Tokyo."

The smell hit him hard and fast as he stepped out. When she'd described the smell, she had failed to mention its strength was beyond normal. This is all that damn god's fault. He thought, as the world slowly went black.

Sesshoumaru

His eyes opened slowly, but his ears worked quite well. "What the hell'd you bring him back for?" InuYasha

"I couldn't just leave him there InuYasha! He collapsed after leaving the well house! I couldn't leave him there!" The wench.

"Why the hell not?"

"The same reason I didn't leave you alone on that tree!"

"That's not an answer!"

"InuYasha." Kagome's voice got that sweet tone she used when she was annoyed. "If it bothers you so much, then why don't you get him out?"

"I will!" InuYasha grabbed at Sesshoumaru, only to have his hands slip through. With a growl, he concentrated and managed to tug Sesshoumaru's hair. Sesshoumaru grabbed at the hand, and mentally cursed when his hand went through InuYasha's. InuYasha grinned. "That just made up for the fact that I can't kick you out!"

"InuYasha, you're being unbelievably annoying." Kagome said, a hand pressed to her temples to relieve the headache that was quickly forming. "How about you try acting like an adult for once? Or at least try to act like Shippou. He's being more mature about this than you!"

Shippou bounded in with a smile. "Kagome! Guess who's-" He stopped, and gulped as Sesshoumaru stood.

"Sesshoumaru, how do you feel?" Kagome asked worriedly. Sesshoumaru merely glared at her and walked out of the hut. She sighed. "I guess that means he's okay."

InuYasha immediately got up and followed him. "InuYasha, don't you dare bother him." Kagome growled.

"I'm just making sure he doesn't hurt anyone!" InuYasha yelled. "He's likely to kill everyone, considering how pissed off he is!" InuYasha rushed out, and Kagome shook her head.

With a small smile she turned to Shippou. "What were you saying, Shippou?"

"Evil spiwits begown!" A young boy's voice sounded through the air.

"Get away from me, Kohaku!" InuYasha screamed back. "OW! I said get away, you stupid brat!"

"Don't you call my son a brat, Inu-baka!" That was Sango for sure.

"I'll call him whatever I damn well feel like!"

"Now InuYasha, don't you think you should be nice to a pregnant woman?" Miroku made his appearance.

"It's not MY fault she's pregnant, you hentai!"

"Evil spiwits begown!"

"Leave me alone you puny little- OW!"

Kagome groaned, but couldn't help the smile that was slowly spreading across her face. "It's okay, Shippou. I think I got the message." Shippou laughed and hopped down from her shoulder, running out to go play with Kohaku. Kagome exited the hut, and barely kept back a laugh as Sango and Miroku's three year old son sat on InuYasha, who had a seal on his forehead. Kohaku, they'd found, was pretty powerful for someone so young. But so far, the only times he was able to use his powers was when he was trying to "play" with InuYasha. It was quite comical.

"Auntie Kagome!" Kohaku shouted, the first to realize she was there. He ran for her, and she picked him up with a laugh.

"How's my favorite nephew?" She asked. He giggled and gave her a hug, which she returned fiercely. "Your parents aren't being mean, are they?" Kohaku shook his head. He leaned over and whispered in her ear, and an evil smile stretched over his face.

"Now, Kohaku, that wouldn't be very nice." Kagome said, mischief glistening in her eyes. "After all, he doesn't even have a sporting chance with that seal on him."

Kohaku pouted, and then realized what she was saying. He squirmed, so Kagome put him down and watched as he ran to InuYasha. He pealed off the seal, and InuYasha jumped up. "Now, Auntie!"

InuYasha looked confused, then whirled. "Kagome, don't-"

"Sit boy!" InuYasha hit the ground amidst a flurry of giggles from a certain three-year old boy. "Damn it, Kagome, why'd you-" The hiraikotsu, armed with one of Miroku's seals, smashed through his head.

"Don't you dare curse around my son, Ghost Dog." Sango threatened. "Or so help me I'll have Miroku purify you so you have no choice but to pass on!"

"Cranky fatso." InuYasha muttered.

"What did you say, you puny-" Sango swung at him, only to pass through. InuYasha made a face and kept going.

"Fat!" Another swing, another miss. "Plump! Overweight! Obese! Flabby! Pig-"

"Sit boy." InuYasha slammed down again as Kagome went over to a teary eyed Sango. "Don't you worry about a thing, honey. You look gorgeous!"

"But I'm so fat!" Sango wailed. Kagome soothed her as best she could, calling out for InuYasha to sit every few seconds. The combined effort cheered Sango enough so that she could enter the hut.

A single demon lord stayed at the edge of the sight. No wonder the hanyou gets along with them. They are more insane then he is.

--------------------Author's Rant--------------------

Obsessive_Goddess: Another chapter of randomness up. Honestly, who can't see Sango being a hormonal bitch when she's pregnant?

Sango: I can't! [glares at the rest of the InuCast] You guys agree, RIGHT?

Kagome: Sango, you know I would never see you as bitchy.

Sesshoumaru: All females are bitches.

Kagome: You're not helping!

Sesshoumaru: It wasn't meant to.

Sango: HIRAIKOTSU! [Sesshoumaru ducks away]

Obsessive_Goddess: Well, at least they're not trying to go after me anymore. [returns to typing]

--------------------End of Author's Rant--------------------