A/N: Another chapter. Review please.

Chapter Four

Kagome threw open the cabinet doors and stared inside grumpily. This is what she got for trying to help. Being raped.

Well, almost. The hanyou had stopped. She didn't know how she felt about that. Obviously, she was happy since he touched her without permission, but he had just… Did he not want her like that now that he'd touched her?

Sorry for being inexperienced, she snarled inside her head, grabbing three packets of ramen noodles and closing the doors. She wasn't making any sense, but at the moment she didn't care. After all, she had been kidnapped. Some emotional instability was expected, right?

Oh god, she wasn't getting Stockholm Syndrome, was she? Kagome banged her head into the pot she'd found in a cabinet under the stove. No, of course not.

She ignored any more thoughts, the bizarreness of them frightening her, and made ramen.

"What's your name, wench?" a voice demanded behind her. Kagome jumped, not sensing his presence. The spoon she was using to mix the noodles jerked up with her and flung scalding hot water all over her hand.

"Oww," she whimpered, containing a much higher scream of pain.

"Shit," Inuyasha growled. Suddenly he grabbed her hand and dragged her over to the sink, blasting the water on cold and forcing her hand under it. "Stupid wench."

"My name's Kagome, not wench," she snapped, finally fed up with the wench business. He ignored her.

"Keep that under there," he ordered, before storming away. Kagome huffed, but listened to him. Five minutes later, when he didn't return, she removed her numb hand from the freezing water.

"I said to keep the hand in the water," he said, appearing in the doorway. "Don't you listen?"

"Not to people who kidnap me," Kagome retorted. Inuyasha approached her quickly and took her hand. He applied some cooling gel which immediately relieved the burn. Then he wrapped a bandage around her entire hand.

"There," he muttered. "Try not to hurt yourself again."

She scowled, but didn't remind him that he'd scared her and made her jump in the first place. "Sit," she told him. He glanced at her questioningly, but sat at the small table in the middle of the kitchen. Kagome searched the drawers and cabinets until she found two bowls and two sets of chopsticks which she placed on the table.

"Thanks for the bandage," she said, dumping some ramen into a bowl in front of Inuyasha, then some into her bowl. He grunted.

Immediately he began to eat the ramen. Noisily. Kagome rolled her eyes, but joined him a second later in eating. Ramen was delicious.

"Will you take me home?" she asked when they finished eating.

"Why?" he countered, standing. "You'll be safe and happy here. With me." Her eyes widened in surprise. With him?

"Sorry," Kagome said, standing as well. "But I need to go home. My fiancée is waiting for me."

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Sango whistled once, the high pitched sound penetrating the air in every direction. A minute later, Kilala, her cat demon, appeared. Miroku scratched under the cat's ear, which caused her to purr loudly. Sango scowled, still angry at Miroku's earlier behavior in the karaoke. A blush heated her cheeks just thinking of that incident. And not an angry blush.

"Kilala," she said, drawing the cat's attention, and ignored Rin's all-too-knowing gaze. "Can you follow Kagome's scent?"

Kilala meowed and entered the alley. Not two steps in, she crouched down and began to hiss.

"Kilala?" Sango asked, confused. "Come on." No matter how much Sango, Rin, or Miroku persuaded or begged, the cat demon refused to go farther into the alley.

Rin backed away, wary of the distressed cat, and caught of flash of white. Her interest peaked, she took off after it.