These characters do not belong to me

These characters do not belong to me.

Author's Note!!!!!!!!!

I am not going to be angry, I am not going to be angry, I am not going to be so frustrated, because it will give me a huge headache.

This will be repeated at both the top and bottom of the story since maybe seeing it twice will make people read it.

First we are going to have a little lesson in fanfiction.net. On the just in page or wherever you read this, it reads like this: Choosing a Partner by Silver. You can click on either the story or Silver. If you click on Silver it brings you out to a page with my EMAIL, WEBPAGE, and other stories on it. I'm not going to call people lazy or stupid, because it is entirely possible that you don't know despite the fact that I've told you how do to this once. I am going to include my webpage right here so people will stop asking me about it. I'm not that hard to find!

The group questions. Yes, Inuyasha will treat Kagome better. Yes, I have the story written. No, you can't have the story in its entirety. No, I’m not going to post more chapters, longer chapters, or better chapters. Yes, I'm updating every day usually 2-4 pages.

Before anyone gets mad at me, this is directed at a few people. Well, the Inuyasha treating Kagome better isn't because everyone asked that question. Almost everyone. Most of the reviews I look forward to. Whew, there are a lot of them… I don't mind, though. *grin*

One other thing. I am having a problem with ff.net and uploading. I upload the document, it should be there, it isn't. I'm uploading it in html format, so it should be there. I can preview it, I can post it three or four times, it isn't there. Eventually it will make it.

Choosing a Partner

Chapter 16

By Kenzie Kennedy

Kagome paused at Inuyasha’s door that morning on the way to breakfast. She could hear the train going. It was strangely comforting. She shook her head and walked down the hall a few feet.

"Hey."

Kagome turned to see Inuyasha outside his room with one hand on the doorknob. He pulled the door closed and walked down the hall. "Breakfast ready?" he asked.

She shrugged. "Should be." Kagome turned away and kept going toward breakfast. Inuyasha followed.

At the breakfast table, most of the household was already there. Sango was late, but she spun into the room right behind Inuyasha. "Good morning!" she said happily.

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Looks like someone had a good rest."

Sango nodded. "Exactly. My homework is all caught up finally. All I’ve got for today is my normal workload." She frowned as she went to her seat. Sango stopped, grabbed Miroku’s wrist that was connected to the hand on her backside, pulled it off, and dropped it. "Well, that wasn’t nice." She caught sight of Rimiko carrying a huge plate of pancakes. "But that just cheered me up again." As soon as the plate was down everyone dived into it.

Rimiko asked, "Kagome, what are you doing today?"

Kagome grimaced. "Well, I can’t go outside without Inuyasha so I thought I’d wait for Kaede to show up to give me my lesson. That’s about it for my day."

Rimiko nodded sadly. "I really can’t let you go out, honey."

"I know," Kagome said.

Rimiko glanced at Inuyasha. "What are you going to be up to today?" Inuyasha stared at her. Rimiko snapped her fingers. "You were going to clean the basement up a little. I forgot."

Inuyasha nodded slowly. That sounded like a good idea. This would be his first full day that he would be free. Cleaning out the basement for his trains sounded good.

Sango volunteered her information. "Computer homework and sitting in the library reading that new book."

Rimiko smiled encouragingly at Miroku. "What about you?"

Miroku smiled back hesitantly. "Drawing."

Rimiko’s eyes widened. "You can draw?"

Miroku shrugged. "I’d like to try."

Rimiko nodded to him. "You’ll do fine." The two boys, Sota and Kohaku went off to school and everyone went about what they had already planned to do.

***

After her lesson, Kagome peeked into Sango’s room. "Sango?" she asked quietly.

The girl spun around in her chair. "Yeah?"

"I’m bored."

Sango’s eyes widened. "Oh, no! Call the police! Kagome Higurashi is bored!"

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Very funny. Aren’t you done with your homework yet?"

Sango nodded. "Of course. It didn’t take that long. I was about to go to the library and read. But if you want we could go for a walk or to the park or something."

Kagome sighed. "I can’t go outside, remember? Monsters out to get me until I can defend myself?"

Sango slapped her hand against her forehead. "That’s right. Why don’t you go ask Inuyasha to go with you?"

Kagome flopped down on Sango’s bed. "I don’t think he likes me."

"Really? Why’s that?"

"He’s rude, inconsiderate, takes everything I say wrong, and is a baka," Kagome said forcefully.

Sango covered her mouth as she tried not to laugh. "Wow. With that kind of attitude toward him it’s no wonder he acts rude around you."

"It’s not funny," Kagome protested. "How am I supposed to get to know the guy when he already hates me?"

"Oh, Kagome, he doesn’t hate you. How could he hate someone like you? You’re happy all the time, you’re going to be a miko, and you freed him." Sango thought for a moment. "Of course, the fact that you’re always happy could drive anyone nuts. Being a miko could be a definite drawback because you’d have the power to fry him where he stood if he ticked you off. Adding in freeing him could make him feel inferior towards you and make him rebel against you just because he could now."

"Sango!" Kagome moaned. "You’re not helping!"

Sango sighed. "Then go find him. He was going to clean out the basement and that’s a worse job that those two rooms we did combined. There’s stuff down there from your great-grandfather’s time."

Kagome snapped her fingers. "Yeah!" She ran out of the room to help Inuyasha who, she had decided, desperately needed her.

***

Inuyasha was puzzling over exactly where to put his train when Kagome ran down the stairs and bumped into him. "Watch where you’re going!" he growled at her.

"Sorry." She swept her hair out of her eyes. "Can I help?"

"No."

Kagome frowned. "But I want to help you clean. Do you know how rare this is? Take advantage of it."

Inuyasha scowled. "All right if you have to be a nuisance. What should I do with all this junk?"

Kagome glanced around the room. "Call Mom down and ask her if there’s anything she wants you to keep. Make one pile that’s questionable for her to look through and one pile of stuff that’s trash. Some of this down here is mine and Sango’s, so I could tell you what to keep."

"Fine," Inuyasha bit off and moved down the stairs.

***

They broke for lunch and then went right back to cleaning. Kagome was amazed at how fast the work went with Inuyasha being able to lift the heavy objects as if they were feathers. They worked silently not speaking to one another.

Dinnertime came and went. The room was mostly cleaned up by the time they went to bed. Kagome promised that she’d come down and help after her lesson. She ran up the stairs eager to get a bath and some sleep.

***

The next morning when Kagome came down the stairs, Inuyasha was already finished with the room. Kagome slumped a little disappointed at not having an obvious reason to be around him. Then she snapped her fingers. "Why don’t we teach you to ride that bike?" she asked hopefully.

Inuyasha glanced back at the room, thought of his precious train, and agreed. He followed Kagome out of the house and rolled his eyes when she stood there with her eyes closed for a minute enjoying the feel of sun on her face. "Come on," he said roughly. "Let’s get it over with."

Kagome fitted the bike with the wheels and showed it to Inuyasha. He grabbed the wrench from her hands and tightened the wheels on at least three more turns. Kagome blushed. "Now sit on the seat," she instructed.

Inuyasha grumbled, but he sat on the seat and stared at her. "Put your hands on the handlebars and see if it feels comfortable. We can lower the seat if you want." Kagome offered.

Inuyasha tried it and Kagome saw that the seat was too high. "All right. Get off and we’ll adjust it."

After the seat was adjusted and Inuyasha was comfortable, Kagome began again. "Okay, these are the brakes. When you squeeze them, the wires go down to these little clamps and stop the wheels from turning. If you want to slow down, clamp down the brakes lightly. If you stop the wheels from turning going downhill, you’ll fall because the bike will stop too suddenly." Kagome waited while Inuyasha experimented with the brakes. Kagome saw that he’d have to squeeze them lightly and not use his full strength.

"You push the pedals with your feet and the training wheels balance for you." Kagome pointed down the driveway. "Go ahead." Inuyasha glanced at her. He set both feet on the pedals and pushed them gently. The bike went a few inches and stopped. He glared at her. "You have to keep pushing them," Kagome added helpfully.

Inuyasha tried again. Soon he was rolling around the yard at breakneck speeds. "When do we take these things off?" he asked Kagome.

Kagome shrugged. "Maybe a few days. Whenever you can balance right."

Inuyasha got off the bike and walked toward the house. Kagome blinked. "Hey!" She called to him. "I can’t be outside without you, you know!"

Inuyasha stopped and waited for her to put the bike inside before going in. She had to run to catch up. "If you want me dead, there are easier ways," she panted.

Inuyasha turned and looked at her. "Like what?" he asked.

Kagome gulped. A glint had run across Inuyasha’s eyes that she really didn’t like. "Chocolate," she squeaked and ran off to her room.

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~*Ally*~: Well, it wouldn't be much of a story if Inuyasha didn't like Kagome in the end.

Like-anyother: *Shrug* I don't know. I just thought trains would be interesting. Haven't seen anyone else do any trains.

Author's Note!!!!!!!!!

I am not going to be angry, I am not going to be angry, I am not going to be so frustrated, because it will give me a huge headache.

This will be repeated at both the top and bottom of the story since maybe seeing it twice will make people read it.