Kagome was smiling sadly, remembering all the fun times with her half-demon friend as Trunks boiled with envy. "Ooooooh," Bulma teased, "someone's jealous!" "Shut up, Mom!" Trunks shouted, not thinking, before hastily covering his mouth and blushing.

"…Mom?" Bulma said questioningly, looking curious. "Ha!" Vegeta said, as if he had a 'Eureka!' moment. "No wonder you smell so similar to the woman!" The 'woman', hearing this, screamed, "My name isn't 'woman'! It's BULMA! Get it RIGHT!"

She paused, then looked at the baby in her arms, "But little Trunksie, you grow up to be so hot! I was worried, ya know. You look so angry now!" Bulma and Kagome giggled, and Gohan said, "Onee-chan? Could you finish the story, please?"

She gave the young boy a strange look, replying, "Onee-chan? But I'm your younger sister!"

"But you're older than me now."

"Touché."

…~*0*~…

The next time she woke up, it was dark. In the moonlight, she could see that Inuyasha was sleeping in a futon-like bed on the other side of the room and Kaede was closer to her bed. Sighing, she tested her arms and legs. Kagome could move them, but she was still quite sore. It seemed that her bandages had been changed since last time, because now there was a new, quite bitter-smelling herb concoction on the wound in her side.

Kagome tried standing up, feeling the pain from her injury shoot through her. She flinched and lay back down, tired – but unable to fall asleep – and bored. And worried. And homesick and almost every other negative emotion ever! Sighing again, she heard a rustling noise coming from Inuyasha's side of the hut.

Looking over, Kagome saw the dog-boy tossing and turning in his sleep, muttering things like, "No, I didn't do it!" and "But I love you!" and last, "Kikyo, no! NO!" He shot up out of bed, breathing heavily and eyes wide.

He looked at her, and still half asleep, ran as quick as his legs could carry him (which was very fast), and grabbed onto her, like she would disappear at any moment. "Kikyo," he said, "thank god, it was just a dream…" 'He must think I'm Kikyo,' she thought sadly, 'He did think I was her when he first met me…'

Not wanting to hurt him, but knowing she would have to, she nudged him, murmuring softly "Inuyasha, it's me, Kagome, but relax… It was just a dream. Shhh…" Seeing him look up, her eyes widened at the sight of tears flowing from his eyes. Clutching him tighter, she kept saying quiet words of comfort and rubbed his back, waiting until he was done.

Although she could not walk, she stood Inuyasha up and showed him to bed like a child. "There, there." But by morning, this incident had already been 'forgotten'.

...~*0*~...

I'm sorry it's so short and I took so long! The plot bunny died, and it took a while to revive him...

Plot Bunny: Yup!

Damn bunny...

PB: HEY! And she doesn't own Inuyasha or DBZ, FYI.

*sob*