so the next day at school was a little awkward Inuyasha sat with Kikyo near the front of the class she leaned on him and talked all period even though he barley paid any attention. his focus wasn't on his girlfriend like it should have been but somehow found its way to another tall thin girl with long raven black hair. he couldn't help but staring at her he couldn't get her out of his head. Kikyo noticing this tried even harder for his attention.

"Inuyasha" Kikyo whined " did you hear what i said, i asked you if you wanted to come to my birthday party at the end of the month."

"sure can i bring my friends?" Inuyasha asked motioning towards Kagome's group.

"sure all of them except Kagome, i get the feeling she doesn't like me very much." Kikyo said with a small frown on her face.

"Fine i guess that's fair." Inuyasha said staring in Kagome's direction in a slight day dream. Kikyo fully aware of him gawking at the other girl quickly became inpatient and wanted to put and end to this nonsense, after all she was the prettiest most popular girl in school and Kagome was just a nobody.

"Hey Inuyasha wanna spend sometime together after school today?" Kikyo asked loud enough for Kagome to hear.

"Sure why not." Inuyasha replied while pretending to pay attention to the teacher because Kagome has turned to look in his direction and he didn't want to be caught staring at her. The next few periods flew by quickly up until history.

Kagome sat in a seat in the very back of the room that was by itself so no one could sit on either side of her. Inuyasha walked in the room Kikyo wasn't there yet so he walked to the back of the room and pulled a desk up directly behind Kagome's, earning a few looks but no one said a thing. So as the class continued Inuyasha sat there bored and alone Kikyo had walked in late with the shadowy looking figure who sat alone in the opposite corner of Inuyasha and Kagome Inuyasha didn't pay to much attention to their entrance because his half demon senses had picked up on a scent that was driving him crazy and he knew to whom it belonged to.

(Inuyasha's thoughts)

"what is it about this girl, I can never seem to take my eyes off her and now her scent alone is enough to arouse me, this has never happened before...HEY snap out of it" Inuyasha yelled at himself while looking off another way. But he couldn't help but look back into her direction.

(Kagome's P.O.V.)

"ugh damn that Inuyasha why did he have to sit directly behind me, well at least he isn't talking to me but still I told him I didn't want to be friends." Kagome said recalling their conversation then she noticed Kikyo and Naraku walk in slightly late. Kikyo sat in the front as usual and naraku sat in the very back opposite her and Inuyasha also as usual. But then Kagome noticed something very unusual Kikyo looked back at naraku and he winked and gave her one of his disgusting smiles and instead of a look of disgust like she would have normally given him she smiled to herself and turned around to face the front of the class. Something was up she could tell but she didn't know what. As the class went on Rin began to assign partners for the next big project that was due next Friday. Kagome hoped that she wouldn't get paired with either Inuyasha or Kikyo she even crossed her fingers.

Rin finally getting around to her began listing off names. "Kikyo you can work with Koga, Ayame you can work with Naraku, and Kagome you can work with Inuyasha."

"no no no no no! of all people why him" Kagome quietly pouted.

"whats wrong with me anyway?" Inuyasha asked from directly behind her with a cocky looking grin on his face. Kagome had completely forgotten he was sitting right behind her when she had said that

"well id tell you but If I did we would never get this done and I just want to get this done and over with so when can we work on it?" Kagome asked ignoring his question completely.

"today is fine I guess if your not busy?" Inuyasha stated while trying to remember if he had anything to do today but nothing could come to mind. "So will you at least let me give you a ride to my house since you don't really have any other way of getting there? That is if your not busy today." Inuyasha asked looking directly into her eyes. She couldn't help but slightly give in especially since he was right she didn't have any other way of getting there and she is free today.

"yes that's fine ill see you after school then." Kagome replied and then turned around. She didn't say another word to him until the end of the day which came rather quickly. "She was walking towards him, he was leaning against his car and she had to admit he did look rather hot from here stand next to his mustang." Kagome thought to herself. Inuyasha had just spotted Kagome heading his way when he saw Kikyo doing the same. "Uh-oh" he thought. Both of them reached him at the same time and he was completely speechless. They both stood there looking at each other and then back at Inuyasha.

"what are you doing here?" Kikyo asked Kagome while wrapping her arms around Inuyasha.

"I'm going to Inuyasha's house to do this stupid history project." Kagome said seriously lacking in enthusiasm. Kikyo immediately turned to Inuyasha.

"but Inuyasha you said you would spend time with me today." Kikyo pleaded giving her most innocent look she could muster up.

"sorry Kikyo I have to do this project ill call you tonight?" Inuyasha said with a small smile. Kikyo giggled agreed and nudged Kagome aside as if she had forgotten she was there she kissed Inuyasha and walked away. Kagome looked away and waited for Kikyo to be out of ear shot before mumbling some things about her. Inuyasha opened the car door for her and walked around to his side and got in Kagome was already buckling her seat belt. They drove to Inuyasha's house in complete silence. Inuyasha couldn't help but sneak glances at the girl.

When they got to Inuyasha's house Kagome stared in complete amazement at the size of it and the security gates and beautiful front yard. But she quickly began to act like it was nothing special and she couldn't care less. Just as Inuyasha approached the front door a strange yet somehow familiar scent hung in the air the second he put his hand on the door handle a picture from a reoccurring dream he has been having since he was a little child appeared in his head. It was a tall demon with long black mangy hair going wild in all directions with glowing red eyes and long fangs he had claws like Sesshomaru and himself he even had a set of black dog ears on the top of his head in fact he looked similar to Inuyasha. But what really bothered Inuyasha the most was what hung at his side a sword, but this sword was not Tetsusaiga this one was different it sat in its sheath and never came out but Inuyasha could feel something coming from the sword a life force, a demonic life force...one like Inuyasha had never sensed before.

"hey Inuyasha snap out of it already." Kagome called out to him. Inuyasha finally came to. "you've been standing in the same spot for three minutes holding the handle aren't you going to open the door?" Kagome asked curiously.

"oh yea right" Inuyasha replied quickly pushing the door open taking one step inside and halting dead in his tracks. Before him stood the demon from his dream from the image that had just struck his mind not even a minute before. Inuyasha shook his head to make sure he wasn't seeing things, but his senses weren't lieing to him there before him stood the very demon that had been haunting his dreams for years with Sesshomaru directly across from him as though they were having a casual conversation. Inuyasha not moving and letting Kagome in looked the demon up and down before turning to Sesshomaru with a look in his eye that not even Sesshomaru had seen before.

"who is this? What is your name demon?" Inuyasha demanded. Never taking his eyes off the tall black haired demon he might have looked slightly older and much more calm with crystal blue eyes instead of the glowing red ones from his dream but there was no mistaking it was the same demon. The demonic aura coming from the strange looking sword at his side was more then Inuyasha needed for convincing.

"its safe Inuyasha, he's a friend of mine." Sesshomaru announced causing a confused look to appear on Inuyasha's face. "why not come in and let the girl behind you in as well and we can explain.

"yea because you have a lot of that to do." Inuyasha said letting Kagome finally walk in and shutting the door behind her. Just then Rin came out from the kitchen.

"hey Kagome could you come help me in the kitchen for a minute and leave the boys to talk." Rin suggested with a bright smile.

"uh sure.. Mrs. kaoru" Kagome said unsure of what to do but received a nod of approval from Inuyasha and went off into the kitchen with Rin

"please call me Rin when were not in school, I have a strong feeling your gonna be around here more often." Rin said with a bright smile on her face.

"Uhm Ok..Rin" Kagome said unsure of what was going on.

"well I guess while they fill Inuyasha in I might as well let you know whats going on, that man out there is Inuyasha's brother." Rin started before being cut off.

"which one? I figured the tall one was his brother or father because they look very similar but the other man with black hair also looks a lot like him?" Kagome spat out totally confused to what was going on.

"oh yea I forgot you never met Sesshomaru, Ok well lets start from the beginning then Sesshomaru is my husband he is Inuyasha's half brother and is much older then him by about a hundred and thirty years I'm sure you know their demons and can live for centuries. But Inuyasha had a full brother who's only 13 years older then him that's the other man that s out there with the black hair his name is Jeff but before inuyasha was born Jeff had an accident where he lost control of his power and hurt someone and put a lot of people in danger. So he sealed himself away somewhere until he was able to control his power but Inuyasha was to young to remember his brother and no one ever spoke of him after he left but today he came back." Rin spat out all at once taking a huge breath when she was finally done.

"wow" Kagome mouthed while looking back out into the room where the guys were to see Inuyasha throw a punch at his brother Sesshomaru who easily avoided it. " why did you tell me all this?" Kagome asked confused to why Rin told her this story about Inuyasha she was only over to do their project and now what had she gotten herself into.

"well I don't know if you noticed but I have a feeling Inuyasha may have some strong feelings for you I've seen how he looks at you." Rin said smiling.

"well I don't know about that seems to me like hes more interested in Kikyo." Kagome said letting her mind drift off.

"its only a phase just be patient and give him some time Kagome trust me I just know these things." Rin assured her still smiling brightly giving Kagome just the slightest hope.

(Back with Inuyasha)

" I cant believe you all hid this from me for this long why didn't anyone tell me!" Inuyasha shouted furious that he had never been told of his brother.

"actually that was my fault, I specifically asked that I be erased from this world because knowing this family I knew you would try to find me and I wasn't ready to return to this world until very recently." Jeff said finally speaking up.

"we'll anyway Inuyasha Jeff is going to be staying with us for awhile and id appreciate it if you showed him around and stood with him as often as you can I've had him put into all your classes at school to make it easier, he hasn't been in this world in fifteen years not much has changed but where he was is a lot different from here and id like to prevent any accidents." Sesshomaru said with a completely serious face this time.

"That's fine anything else you would like to tell me that I should know?" Inuyasha said sarcasticly.

"yes actually, your adopted." Sesshomaru said cockily with a smile.

"ha ha." Inuyasha pretended to laugh sarcasticly heading into the kitchen. "come on Kagome lets head upstairs to start working on that project." Inuyasha said turning towards the stairs and heading up with Kagome not far behind.

So up in Inuyasha's room Kagome and Inuyasha began to work on their project together. They lay down on the floor with a poster board Kagome glued while Inuyasha was cutting things out, the room remained quite for most of the time until Inuyasha spoke up.

"so Kagome...you look nice today." Inuyasha began feeling the nervousness building in his gut. But why was he so nervous? He had never been nervous with a girl before why now why this one? He couldn't explain it.

"thank you Inuyasha but can we just do this so I can get out of here." Kagome replied with a blank look on her face. He could tell she wasn't to thrilled about being his partner and being here.

"Kagome you don't have to be here if you don't want to I can have Rin assign you a new partner." Inuyasha said feeling bad that she was unhappy because of this little scheme to get them to be friends again.

"Its not that Inuyasha" Kagome paused, she was about to say something but stopped herself and looked away.

"then what is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked with a worried look on his face now.

Kagome then looked up with a serious face full of worry and she began to speak " its just Kikyo. Ever since we were little she always took everything I wanted and shes always been cruel towards me for no reason and when I met Songo and Miroku she started acting the same way towards them." Kagome said without taking a breath with tears beginning to well up in her eyes but she was fighting them.

" I never knew Kagome.." Inuyasha began to say. " she seemed like a nice girl when I met her she may have been a little forward but she never seemed like she would be capable of all these things you say."

Kagome couldn't stop the tears this time they fell freely as she spoke. " see this is why I didn't want to talk about this because I knew you wouldn't believe me." Kagome said in between sobs. Inuyasha moved to her side and embraced her in a tight hug surprising Kagome and causing a slight tint of pink to cross her cheeks.

"Kagome its OK I never said I didn't believe you I know you wouldn't lie to me, and please don't cry I cant stand it when a girl cries I never know what to do." Inuyasha said smiling down at her still embracing her.

"well your doing a fine job right now." Kagome said smiling back up at him causing both of them to blush furiously and Inuyasha to slowly let her go.

"well uhm why don't we get back to the project Kagome?" Inuyasha said now embarrassed.

"but what are you going to do about Kikyo?" Kagome asked afraid of his answer.

"well Kagome. Kikyo is just a girl you see girls come and go all the time there's always a new one coming around." Inuyasha started to explain causing a frown on Kagome's face, she thought what if he was just saying this to her and then she just becomes one of those girls she wouldn't want that. But Inuyasha quickly noticed this and saved himself. "friends though those are a lot harder to find and you guys all came to me looking for friend ship and you were all sincere about it with no other motives. Id take my friends side over just some girl any day." Inuyasha finished hoping that had corrected the misunderstanding.

"then what category do I fall under." Kagome asked curiously.

Inuyasha smiled " you fall under a special category all by your self. Your my friend first but there's something that makes you special I cant quite put my finger on it." he said still smiling. " and as for Kikyo don't worry I'll take care of that, I like you a lot Kagome and this girl isn't worth losing you over." Inuyasha finished his sentence and put his hand on top of hers and squeezed lightly. "lets finish this project." for the rest of the night they sat there talking and goofing around they finished their project and had plenty of time left to spare so they began talking about school and their friends. Kagome finally realized it was getting late.

"well I have to go Inuyasha its getting late." Kagome finally said.

"let me give you a ride home?" Inuyasha offered.

"OK." Kagome agreed smiling. So her and Inuyasha headed down stairs and out the door to his car they got in and he began to drive towards Kagome's house. The ride there was fairly quite they talked a little about music because of a song they both liked that had come on the radio. When they finally arrived at Kagome's families shrine Inuyasha got out of the car and walked her up the stairs to the front door.

" well goodnight Inuyasha" Kagome said staring deeply into his large golden eyes while he glanced back into her brown ones. Without realizing it they had become very close to each others faces.

"goodnight Kagome" Inuyasha whispered. Before they both noticed how close they were to each other and they both began to blush furiously. Inuyasha turned around quickly and headed down the stairs leaving Kagome there staring after him until he pulled away. Kagome went to turn around to go inside her house when she felt something hard hit her in the head and everything went black.