Part One

Kagome sat quietly within her circle of friends from the feudal era, whom were each staring intently at the flames flowing up and down with the gentle wind.

The sun had set and a quarter moon was broadly shown within the cloudless sky. Shippou slept soundly, curled up with the small fire-cat demon, Kirara.

Sango sat next to Miroku, slightly nodding off to sleep, unintentionally leaning on the houshi-sama. The monk didn't mind at all and tried his best to keep from groping her; he enjoyed the soft contact and didn't feel like enduring another lump before sleep.

Inuyasha sat about three feet away from Kagome with a disconcerted look on his face. He made no effort to hide his anger all day. Only one person knew why he was brooding more so than often … Kagome.

Kagome tried her very best to avert her eyes away from his and hold back a giggle, because every time they reached his golden ones he would let out a harsh growl which would only encourage another stifled laugh.

It all started the day before…

"Okaasan, I'm home," Kagome announced, dropping her schoolbag, slipping off her shoes and heading straight for the cabinet to get a snack.

"Kohnichiwa Kagome-chan. How was school sweetheart," Ms. Higurashi asked sweetly while drying the last of the dishes.

She sighed heavily. "Exhausting, all I did today was take tests and try my best to answer questions to why I was in school with an unidentifiable disease." She shook her head at the numerous sicknesses mentioned to her. "You'd think granpa would just stick to one illness."

Ms. Higurashi smiled. "He only does it so you can go on your adventures with your dog-eared friend. When will you be going back?"

"Well, I promised Inuyasha that I would be back by tonight," she said, yawning lightly before she continued, "I'm going to take a short nap though."

"Ok dear, I left a bag full of ramen in your bedroom for you, Souta is spending the night at Kenichi's house, your grandfather went to an old friend's house and I have to go away on business, so when you wake to leave the house will most likely be empty," her mother chirped in one sentence.

Kagome nodded, ran upstairs into her room and closed the door behind her. `Everyone seems so busy today,' she thought to herself.

The afternoon sun was beginning to fall behind the two peaks beyond the large city of Tokyo that could be seen through her window. She decided to slide it open a little and let the evening air circulate around her room. With that done she grabbed her second backpack, which was larger than the first, and began to pack it with needed supplies for the Sengoku Jidai. When finished, she set her alarm clock, plopped face first into her flaccid bedding and immediately fell into a deep slumber.

Inuyasha sat against the Bone Eaters Well impatiently waiting for Kagome to arrive. "Where the hell is she? She told me she would be back tonight," he fumed.

He waited for another hour alone and when she didn't show up he decided that he had waited long enough, so he reluctantly jumped into the well to fetch his Kagome.

He passed through the portal and when he landed cleanly on the well floor he hastily jumped out of the old well and walked out of the small well house. Inuyasha became slightly dizzy when his nose was overwhelmed with the many different scents that drifted with the evening wind in the future. He regained his composure and dashed to Kagome's house. He looked up and jumped onto her windowsill.

`I don't believe this broad is sleeping,' he thought while sliding the already parted window open some more and crawling in her room quietly.

He kneeled next to her bed watching her sleep, debating on whether or not he should disturb her.

"Do what y-you want, I-Inu-yasha," Kagome sputtered in her sleep twisting around to face the wall.

"Huh? Is she dreaming about me," he whispered confusedly.

"Oh, Inuyasha you do care," she gasped clear as day, but remained asleep.

"What the hell are you talkin' about," Inuyasha spat out both curiously and rudely, but edged closer to her.

She twisted back around towards Inuyasha still in a deep sleep. Her eyes parted partially and stared straight into Inuyasha's golden ones.

"Inuyasha, don't speak," she whispered still lost in a dream state.

"Ka-Kagome, are you o-" His sentence was cut short when she leaned in close to his face and unexpectedly captured his lips.

`What is she doing,' he asked himself grabbing her shoulders, ready to push her away but ended up pulling her closer with need.

`Oh Kami-sama, this feels so real. Please don't let me wake up,' Kagome thought to herself, sliding her arms around Inuyasha's neck.

`Does she know what she's doing? Does she really want me this way? I-I don't care,' he feuded with himself.

Indulging the sweetness of her unsuspecting kiss, he returned it with greater force, she responded by letting a moan escape her throat and meet his lips. His male instinct took over leaving no room for reason. He roughly pinned her down on her back with one clawed hand holding her wrists, the other greedily roaming her upper body.

"Inuyasha," she cooed, her voice tainted with lust.

Her aroused scent clogged Inuyasha's senses driving him to slice the uniform top along with her thin lace bra, revealing her small flawless mounds.

She shivered from her sudden exposure. He grinned and latched his mouth to her left erect nipple, leaving the other teased by stray strands of his silvery locks.

He trailed his tongue up to her neck and began caressing her pulse point, eager to hear her heated reactions. He released her wrists, slowly traced his claw along her curves, slipped it under her skirt and shredded the cotton cloth that block his goal.

She groaned, aching for more contact. With her hands now freed, she began untying his red fire-rat haori and tugged off his white inner kimono. Eager to get Inuyasha in the same state of undress as her, she tried to pull down his hakama, but had trouble doing so due to a mysterious bulge on his behind.

Inuyasha failed to notice how much trouble she was having trying to undress him because he was drowning in her sweet taste.

"Inu-yash-a … wait … I can't get your … pants … off," she said, her sentence broken from his continuous wandering hands. "Inuya-" she began again, but he hushed her by reclaiming her lips possessively.

`Ok this dream is not going to my liking. Why won't his pants come off,' Kagome thought to herself.

She slid her hands down the small of Inuyasha's back causing him to emit a purr-like growl. Then she slipped her right hand in the back of his hakama… `What in the seven hells is this,' she asked herself freezing every part of her body.

Her hand had met with the touch of a long furry tail that shifted erratically from left to right. `This can't be what I think it is. OH MY KAMI-SAMA IT IS,' she screamed in her thoughts.

Inuyasha sensed her arousal start to dissipate. He looked down at her and saw her wide-eyed expression. `Did I do something wrong,' he questioned himself.

Her shock wore off and was replaced by utter amusement, she started laughing hysterically, unsure of how else to react to her recent discovery.

"What the hell is so funny," he asked getting frustrated.

She only laughed harder.

"Buzzzzz! Buzzzzz! Buzzzzz," the alarm clock erupted causing both hanyou and miko to jump out of their skin.

Inuyasha jumped off of Kagome, grabbed the alarm clock and threw it out the window.

`I hate those things,' he told himself, turning back to Kagome, who had a sickened look on her face. He arched a brow and defended himself, "What? That thing makes so much noise, it hurts my ears."

`Oh my Kami, this is real, I'm not dreaming … and Inuyasha … has … a … tail,' Kagome finally realized. She huddled into the corner of her bed and quickly pulled the sheets around her, trying to hide her body from Inuyasha's piercing ambers.

"What is it now," he asked, climbing back onto the bed. He wanted to finish what she started despite the interruptions. He reached out to pull down her sheets, but stopped when she cringed at his actions.

"Don't you still want me," he whispered sending chills through her spin with his intoxicating husky voice.

"This is real, not a dream…" she said blandly, still absorbing the truth.

"So you didn't really want me … like this," he leaned in to capture her lips, but she turned her head away.

He stared at her with an irritated glint in his eyes. `I don't believe this. We've already gotten so far. Why does she wanna stop now?'

"You have a tail," she stated in a low tone almost as if answering his thoughts.

"So what," he responded, not finding it to be a big deal.

"Inuyasha has a tail," she repeated emphasizing his name.

"Look if you have a problem with it then I'll just go." He stood and slowly walked to the window as if waiting for her to change her tune.

"You have a tail." She broke out in laughter a second time.

"Grrrr!" He balled his right fist and gripped the windowsill with his other.

"You have a tail … and this was - this was real." Her laughter droned on with her thoughts. `This is unbelievable.'

He'd had enough. "Goodbye ya dumb broad," he hissed and jumped out of the window, leaving his tops behind, too pissed and confused to remember.

"Wait, Inuyasha," she called out from the windowsill, recovering from her hysterics.

He ignored her yells and continued on his way to the well house, muttering obscenities under his breath.

"I don't understand why me having a tail is such a big fucking deal," Inuyasha growled out while jumping into the well.

Climbing back out of the well in the Sengoku Jidai, he thought more about her distasteful reaction to his recently revealed tail.

`You have a tail … and this was real …' he recalled her saying. He looked blankly at the sky and thought harder about her comment, then it came to him. "Kagome thought she was in a dream … until I threw that loud thing away!"

He climbed up the Goshinboku tree and settled on the highest branch with a glum look on his face.

"Keh! That still doesn't explain why my tail was so damn funny," he growled.

"Stupid wench," he mumbled, and then finally noticed he was bare from the waist up. "Shit!"

Kagome sighed and as she watched Inuyasha's retreating figure. "Boy will there be some issues to deal with when I go back through the well."

She fell back on to her bed replaying the heated moment shared with Inuyasha in her mind.

"Ok, so that whole time I was awake … no dream … how am I ever going to face Inuyasha now? He probably thinks I'm some kind of loose geisha."

`But he wanted you just like you always imagined,' a small voice mentioned in her mind.

"I totally ruined it though. How could I have acted so insensitively towards his tail? I mean he is half dog demon so since he has ears why not a tail," she conversed with her thoughts.

Kagome suddenly shook her head vigorously and her guilt was quickly replaced with anger.

"Why hadn't he told me about his tail in the first place? And what was he doing in here anyway?" She eyed what was left of her clothes and grumbled.

Then she saw his left behind tops and sighed again, her anger washing away.

"I can't even stay mad at him, even though he ruined my uniform …" She looked down under the sheet at herself, noticed what shape her underwear was in and twitched. "…and my favorite pair of panties."

Next she decided that it would be best to return Inuyasha's clothes, because he would have too much of a big head to come back and retrieve them himself.

Sluggishly she redressed in a new pair of panties, a different skirt and settled on being braless in one of her snug white T-shirts.

She neatly folded Inuyasha's tops and stuffed them into her already full backpack. Tossing it onto her back she grabbed the large shopping bag of ramen and calmly left the empty house. When she walked into the well house she took a deep breath. "Might as well clear things up now before it gets too out of hand." With that said she jumped into the well unsure of what to expect, on the other side, from the hanyou.

~*~

Part Two

Kagome had some difficulty climbing up the aged vines with all her things, but finally made her way out of the depths of the Bone Eaters Well.

Huffing, she dropped her things on the ground and sat on the lip of the well. Her breathing steadied and she let the peaceful night of the feudal era greet her. She loved this era in the night. It was so different from her own; there were no bright lights, loud noises or rushing people.

The tranquil surroundings left her thoughts unoccupied and a gently breeze tickled her raven silk-like tresses compelling her to giggle as it brushed her cheek.

“Does my tail still amuse you wench,” Inuyasha muttered from behind, causing her to gasp and whip around.

His face pulled her back to reality and she sorely responded, “I wasn’t even thinking about that, Inuyasha!”

“Feh,” was his only reply.

An awkward silence soon followed, leaving both Inuyasha and Kagome uncomfortable.

Suddenly feeling brave about the situation, Kagome broke the silence with, “It was pretty funny though.”

“I don’t see how,” he quickly spat out.

‘Why did I even open my mouth,’ she asked herself. When she thought back to how she discovered his tail she did think it was funny, especially with how dumbly she reacted. She didn’t want to mention that though.

“What wasn’t funny was you trying to take advantage of me,” she replied, deciding to take the offense.

“Nani,” Inuyasha barked, bewildered as to how she could say such a thing. “You’re the one who came onto me outta nowhere! You practically gave me no choice … I’m a man, ain’t I,” he concluded.

Kagome was ready to retort, but held her tongue as a blush tinted her cheeks.

A second silence plagued the air as Kagome twiddled her thumbs and Inuyasha crossed his arms.

‘Did I really just throw myself on him like that,’ she pondered. Then thoughts of his tail returned and before she could stop herself the words fell out of her mouth.

“Can I touch it.” She clasped a hand over her mouth in disbelief at what she'd just said.

Inuyasha just gawked at her unsure of what to think about her question. ‘What the hell does she mean by "it"?’

When she saw the look he gave her she couldn’t help but laugh. “Your tail, Inuyasha! Your tail,” she giggled out enjoying the relief laughter gave her from the embarrassing silences.

Inuyasha was all the opposite, he couldn’t believe she was still laughing about his tail. It bruised his ego, but he couldn’t let her find that out. “Where’s my clothing, stupid woman," he demanded when he grew tired of her high- pitched giggles that were directed at him.

She stopped and stared at him blankly as if not understanding his request. Then she remembered and coolly answered. “It’s in my backpack and since you have forgotten my name, you can get it yourself.” She began to laugh again as he stared at her dumbfounded. “As a matter of fact bring both bags with you,” she said and walked away towards the village, leaving Inuyasha no room to reply.

She heard his growl but thought nothing of them. ‘He’ll cool down and bring the bags to the village … especially when he sees the bag full of ramen,’ she convinced herself and grinned.

Her comrades, Sango and Miroku, warmly greeted Kagome in the small hut that belonged to Kaede-bachan.

“Lady Kagome,” Miroku started. “Are you not going to be staying for long? You don’t seem to have your usual belongings?”

Kagome gave a good-natured smile and answered, “Inuyasha is bringing my things. I don’t know how long he'll take, though.”

He nodded, understanding that the hanyou was in his usual gruff mood.

“So where’s Shippou-chan and Kaede-bachan,” Kagome asked, noticing that the kitsune wasn’t there to give the regular energetic welcome.

“Shippou-chan is with Kaede-bachan helping her with the sick in the village. We suggested he should keep busy, then you would be here before he knew it,” Sango replied with a worn-out grin.

Kagome could only imagine how the small kitsune would fuss about her being gone. “He wasn’t too much, was he?”

“He became tolerable once Inuyasha left to wait for you by the well,” Miroku chided in.

The three sat in a comfortable silence until Miroku asked, “Since Kaede-bachan is out, what shall we have for supper?”

Before Kagome could open her mouth, Inuyasha had barged into the hut with her things. “Ramen,” he replied, letting everyone know that he had heard question and wouldn’t stand for anything else.

“Fine,” Kagome said and stuck out her hand, waiting for him to give her the bowls of ramen.

He gave her the entire shopping bag and sat down expecting her to begin fixing the meals.

She only stood up and stared at him intently.

“What are you waiting for? Get to it woman,” he bellowed.

Sango and Miroku both knew what she was waiting for, but chose to stay on the sidelines this time.

“What does it look like I need, Inuyasha,” she said, stressing his name, just so he knew she used it.

The tone of her voice warned him, telling him that if he made another wrong move he would be kissing the ground. His eyes darted around the room searching for what was missing that Kagome needed. He looked over to Sango and Miroku with pleading eyes as he sensed Kagome’s patience growing weak, but they only looked away.

‘What great friends they are,’ he told himself.

Kagome watched him look around the room for what she needed and chuckled at how he looked like a lost puppy. ‘He still doesn’t even realize what it is I need.’

Inuyasha heard her chuckle and abruptly stooped his search. ‘Why am I letting her get away with treating me like this? All she’s been doing is laughing at me like I’m some kinda joke.’

“Do you want ramen or not,” Kagome said in a huff.

The mention of his favorite food made his ears perk up, but he gave her the look of doom. He felt like she was mocking him.

“I already said I did, so just make it already,” he mumbled, positive that she was no longer angry enough to sit him.

“Inuyasha, I swear you are so hopeless! Water! I need water! Geez, you act like I haven’t been fixing this for you for the past two years. Now, go get it,” she exploded, not believing that he could truly be that clueless.

‘This whole time it was water! Why couldn’t anybody simply just tell me? It’s not like I can read minds,’ he thought.

“Feh,” he replied, but quickly left to fetch the water, not wanting to stick around his so called friends any longer.

When he was gone, Kagome toppled over and hugged her sides in a fit of giggles. Sango and Miroku soon joined in; they too thought what just occurred to be amusing as well.

Recovering, Kagome quickly started a fire so that it would be ready when Inuyasha got back with the water. “Poor Shippou-chan will never forgive us for letting him miss that,” she stated to her friends who in return, nodded.

“May I ask, Lady Kagome,” Miroku began, “why Inuyasha seems more out of it than usual?” He and Sango took a seat next to the short flames that were steadily growing higher.

Kagome contemplated on the thought of telling her friends about Inuyasha’s tail. Images of them asking her a flood of questions about how she found out made her turn pink and decide to keep her discovery to herself.

“Err … he’s just still steamed about me being … late,” she fumbled. ‘Gosh, I suck at lying.’

Luckily, Miroku accepted the answer, but Sango looked at her skeptically. Before she could comment on Kagome’s peculiar response, Inuyasha had returned with the needed water in a large wooden bucket.

“Thank you, Inuyasha,” Kagome thanked him, for more reasons than one, while taking the water and beginning her task of fixing everyone’s meal.

“Keh.” He scowled and sat in the corner of the hut waiting for his ramen.

Sango watched the small interaction, but shrugged off her confusion. Her body became stiff when she felt the wandering hand of the houshi on her rear.

“Hentai,” she roared and grabbed the nearest weapon she could reach, which was, of course, Hiraikotsu, and whammed him in the skull causing the monk to fall over, comatose.

Kagome cracked a smile as Sango’s anger ebbed away. She turned and found Inuyasha staring at her with a rumbling in his throat. She rolled her eyes and sighed.

“Am I not allowed to smile anymore, Inuyasha,” she asked, handing a bowl of hot ramen and chopsticks to the demon exterminator.

He snorted and turned his head with his arms folded.

‘Why can’t he form sentences,’ she mentally screamed, but held her composure as she handed him his undeserved meal.

His nose twitched and he ungratefully turned and snatched the bowl without giving any kind of thanks.

She let him get away with his rudeness and silently ate her own dinner.

The monk remained unconscious while the three ate. When Sango finished, she reluctantly laid him in a more comfortable position and covered him with a thin blanket.

“Thank you for supper Kagome … and uh …Inuyasha,” she said awkwardly, “I’ll be going to bed now. Goodnight.”

Kagome nodded and watched her ally go across the room from the monk, place a mat on the floor and lay to rest.

Shortly after, Kaede entered the silent hut with the sleeping kitsune tucked in her arms. She wasn’t at all surprised to see Kagome had retuned.

“Kobanwa Kagome-chan, Inuyasha. It is late and this old woman is tired. Let me lay the child and rest thy self, so we may speak at first light,” Kaede whispered.

Kagome gave her recognition and gathered the used Styrofoam ramen bowls to place to the side for when she would return home and dispose of them correctly.

When she returned to her place by the fire, she realized that it was only she and Inuyasha left awake.

He noticed the same thing and decided to join her by the fire that was slowly burning out.

She began to feel uneasy as she felt Inuyasha just gazing at her. “What is it,” she murmured, getting tired of him just staring at her with nothing to say.

“Let’s finish,” he stated with a fang-bearing smirk.

Her eyes widened in disbelief. ‘I can’t believe he just said that! And he has the nerve to grin after acting like a full-fledged jerk during dinner. He is sooo not getting away with this!’

With an angry tick in her left eye, Kagome stood up and Inuyasha did the same. She stepped towards him, turned him around and began pushing him out of the hut.

‘She really wants me. Now I can show her whose boss,’ he pondered with a lustful beam on his face.

He let her guide him to the edge of the village and then she stopped. He felt her step away and he turned around to see her staring at her with intense anger.

Inuyasha audibly gulped.

“Sit!” *Thud* “Sit!” *Thud* “Sit!” *Rumble*

“What made you think that after the way you just acted that I would just give myself to you,” she thundered, now towering over the back of his head.

The subduing spell wore off just enough to for him to lift his head. “You just don’t want me because of my tail, isn’t that it,” his voice had a hint of sorrow.

‘Is that why he’s been acting like that? Because he thinks I don’t like his tail … I do like his tail … he should have told me … It does go well with his ears …’ An image of Inuyasha on all fours with his tongue out panting and his tail wagging made her burst at the seams.

“You are too much Inuyasha,” she laughed out and strolled away as if nothing out happened.

Leaving the hurt hanyou alone to guess what suddenly changed her mood. With the spell completely worn off he decided to sleep in a treetop, rather than return to the hut to face Kagome’s mood swings.

Anger filled him as he realized that Kagome wouldn’t finish what she started and he would be left alone all night with his throbbing flesh unpleased.

“Dumb broad,” he snarled.

~*~

Part Three coming soon.