A/N: I am so sorry for the long time between updates! But I am so strapped for an idea, I have the worse case of writers block for this story, but I thought of a bit and thus out came this chapter. Thanks so much to all those who reviewed, but I don't know what I'm going to do about this story, I haven't a clue as to where it's going to go, I'd appreciate any ideas or thoughts!

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Chapter Five

"I SAID NO KAGOME!"

Sango sighed and Miroku settled himself on the ground. "Might as well sit down Sango, they'll be at this a while."

She nodded before sitting down next to him.

"I'M GOING INUYASHA!"

"How long have they been at this?" Shippo asked, licking his lollypop.

"I'd say about an hour." Miroku said looking up at the sky. "Since Kagome chan has a rosary as well, she can no longer simply sit Inuyasha since he can use his summon as well."

Which was all too true. For the past hour Kagome had tried to run to the well only to be forced to say sit and then Inuyasha would just summon her to his side. Kagome was not getting far.

"I have to go home Inuyasha! I have things to do!"

Inuyasha fought the mobility of the spell and lifted his head to growl at her. "No you're staying here where you belong!"

Kagome sighed rubbing her temples. Ever since Inuyasha had put the rosary on her he'd been even more difficult about her going home. Insisting that the past was where she belonged, not in her own time.

"Inuyasha," Miroku spoke up, "Kagome needs to go home sometime, you cannot keep her here." He gave the other male a look that said clearly this would result in crying and they both did not want to see it.

Inuyasha grumbled into the dirt. He violently rejected the idea of Kagome leaving him- them. "Fine, go home to your stupid time. But you better be back in a day!"

"A day? I need more time than that!" Kagome poked his head from her seat in the dirt beside him.

"That's all you'll get wench, if you stay longer I'll go and drag you back!"

Before Kagome could retort Sango spoke up, clearly out of frustration, "Kagome chan, Inuyasha is being generous, best to take advantage."

Kagome sighed before picking herself up and jumping down the well.

It just wasn't fair. Thanks to Inuyasha Kagome would never catch up on all her school make up work. And it didn't help that everyone said she should just quit and fail the year.

She was working so hard to keep her grades up...

She shook her head to clear it.

It was almost sun down, the time she was supposed to go back to the feudal era but she was so tired, she didn't think she could make it to the well if she tried.

Kagome didn't even think she could make it to her bed if she tried.

After a thousand tests and quizzes she rushed to do a make up project, help for at least a little while on the beautification committee, and start on her massive amount of make up work.

Setting her backpack next to the table she sat down on the steps and rested her head against the wall.

She'd feel better if she just rested her eyes a bit, then she'd go through the well like she promised.

Inuyasha came out of the well grumbling. Kagome was two hours late!

He quickly leaped to her window and slid it open to find her room empty. "Eh?"

Souta however was walking past to his room when he spotted his hero. "Inuyasha!"

"Uh, hey kid." Inuyasha climbed into her room and crossed his arms. "Where is she?"

"Kagome passed out on the stairs! She sure was tired." Souta stuck a chip in his mouth and chewed. "I was scared to wake her up so she could go to sleep in her bed, but now you're here you can do it!" The little boy's face brightened as Inuyasha frowned.

Kagome passing out on the stairs was not good. The wench hadn't looked that tired when she left, what happened to her?

Picking her up he carried her up the stairs and put her in her bed before crossing his arms to glare at her from where he sat.

But after a few minutes his frown faded and he closed his eyes. If she could sleep, so could he.

"AHHH!" Inuyasha woke instantly as he heard Kagome's scream.

"What's wrong!?"

"SIT BOY!"

"Argh..." He mumbled, face down in her carpet. "What was that for wench?"

Kagome glared at him from her bed. "I woke up and you were towering over me! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"I wasn't towering over you!" He grumbled.

When he'd fallen asleep he had unconsciously moved closer, like a guardian angel.

"What are you doing here anyway?" She asked rubbing her eyes.

"You didn't come back, so I came to get you." He frowned as the spell wore off. "What were you doing that got you so tired, you passed out on the steps." Inuyasha peered closely at her face.

"I'm not some kind of super hero Inuyasha, I had a lot of things to do for school, I was so tired by the time I got home I just dropped." Kagome waved him away. "Now go outside so I can change."

He grunted and went out the window to wait in the tree just like she asked.

He had heard the kid talking about how school was hard enough while he was there, but with Kagome never there it must be even harder for her.

"Hmph, this school thing isn't so important, she'll just have to quit. Then she won't have to go back to her own time at all!" Inuyasha smirked at his own intelligence.

She'd quit; she'd see it his way.

"WHAT?!" Kagome yelled angrily.

They were back in the feudal era, around a nice fire. Sango, Shippo, and Miroku were all sitting on the ground while Kagome and Inuyasha were standing.

"I can't quit school! If I don't go to school I won't have a future at all!" Kagome said tearfully, "No job would hire a girl who dropped out of the 9th grade!"

"Job? What do you need a job for?" Inuyasha demanded. "You'll just take Kaede's place as healer in the village!"

"Inuyasha, I think lady Kagome had intended to have a job in her time, not here." Miroku said gently.

Inuyasha blinked in disbelief. "What? She can't, she belongs here, in this time!"

"Inuyasha, you can't honestly believe that you can keep her here just because you mope every time she leaves." Sango said while helping Shippo spin his toy top.

"I DON'T MOPE!" He bellowed. "She belongs here and she'll stay here, and that's final."

"Excuse me? You can't decide my life!" Kagome was seeing red now.

She'd just about had enough of him deciding everything about her life!

"Maybe I wanted to be a doctor, or an artist! Not stuck here in the past with a grumpy dog for company!" Kagome shouted back into Inuyasha's startled face.

"Maybe I wouldn't keep you company!" He yelled back.

"Oh goodness, they'll be at this all night." Sango sighed.

"Couldn't he just ask her to stay here with him after we defeat Naraku?" Miroku held his head up with his hands, "Why must be treat her in such a way? It is not proper to treat a lady in such a fashion."

Sango glared at him, "And it's proper to rub her behind?"

"It's the hand! The hand is cursed!"