Well de Rouge An Inuyasha X Moulin Rouge Tale

Chapter 10; Just to Love and...(Part 1)

Kagome returned to her hotel room late that night and began placing everything in its place for the night. Her sewing kit in one area, and the fifteen dresses she had to sew tonight. Kagome took out her man powered sewing machine she had received as a gift from her mother, and began to sew all of the dresses together.

She finished her work by two o'clock in the morning, and was still wide- awake. Kagome couldn't sleep. She couldn't stop thinking about him.

Kagome wanted Inu-yasha to be near her during that long night, and her fear was understandable. She didn't want to wake up and find that dark man breathing down her neck. How did Kikyo deal with a psycho like that? Well, one thing was for sure. That guy would have gone a lot easier on her if she were Kikyo. Yet, maybe not! Would Kikyo submit herself to that kind of cruelty? To be forced to do something she didn't want to do?

Kagome shook her head and began folding the dresses and placing them with care into the large bag she had carried them home in. As she folded the last dress, and placed the sewing kit away, a slip of paper fluttered to the floor. Kagome spied it and picked up the slightly crumpled sketch of her perception of Inu-yasha's hidden heart and soul. The man she was in love with; the man behind the mask.

Kagome sat by a mirror in the chair she had slept in that night Inu-yasha stayed in her room because he was drunk. She looked at her bed and giggled as she thought about the content look on his face when he slipped into a dreamless sleep. Even then he looked just a beautiful; cruel and mean for a moment, but so beautiful. It was his mask she had seen before. Now, that mask was gone and all that could be seen was he.

Kagome looked at the sketch of Inu-yasha. She then opened a drawer by her nightstand and pulled out all of the drawings she had made of him as her eyes saw him. Kagome didn't know why she wanted to do this, but she took all of her pins and pushed them into the wall, holding up each of her drawings. She only had eight of them in his demon form, the form her eyes saw him in everyday since the day she met him. Yet the center, in the middle of all of them, she placed the portrait of the one her heart saw. It looked far more beautiful than the others. Even if it had been crumpled a lot more than it was, it still would have glowed with all of his warmth and tenderness. Kagome lay in her bed and looked at all of the drawings fluttering in the night wind. She then sat up again and came to the picture she adored more than anything now.

Kagome didn't know what made her do it again, but she did. She kissed that picture and ran her fingers over it. Kagome felt so foolish kissing a picture and thinking she was kissing his soul, his heart. She giggled over the whole thing, but stopped when she realized that the picture was only of something she wished to see. She wanted to see him like this, without the mask. To see his heart and soul fully exposed to her real eyes.

Kagome sighed as she felt a tear roll down her cheek. "Why couldn't you look like your soul?" she said to herself. "You're beautiful either way. I love you no matter what you look like. I just long for the chance to see you like this, and I know if I wished really hard I still wouldn't see you the way my heart does."

Kagome sat back down on her bed. "You'd be a beautiful human! You'd look like your soul, like your heart. I'm in love with your soul. Is that okay? Can we be soul mates? I'd love you no matter what you were. Your body may look like a demon's, but I don't care. I don't see you the way all those women see you. They see your mask. I can see your soul. You let my heart see your soul."

Looked at the pictures one last time, and turned to her side still dressed in the clothes she had worn that day. She didn't care. His scent was in these clothes. Kagome could hear his heart's words, smell his souls warmth, and feel its need to be free. Just two senses were jealous of the other three. Her mouth longed to taste his kiss, and her eyes longed to see his soul. Her eyes cried to see his soul.

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Inu-yasha couldn't sleep either that night, and walked around the balcony of the hall. The lights were dim and less than a third of the chairs were bolted to the former dance floor. He couldn't believe what had happened to the floor.

Suddenly his ears caught the sound of fluttering paper behind him, and he turned around to spy the booth Kagome had been working in. All of the sketches that hung from its walls were gone, but there were five small drawings fluttering on the floor. Inu-yasha picked them up and looked them over. Two of them were men's outfits, and the other three were women's dresses.

Inu-yasha looked each one over, and smiled as he looked at each one. He went back to his room and placed the drawings by the desk he kept stationary is to send "love" noted to his clients. Yet this time, he wasn't going to write a love note. He pulled out a clean white piece of paper, and worked until the wee hours of the morning on a letter.

As the sun rose that morning he took the drawings and his letter, and placed them in an envelope. He ran out to the streets while they were still deserted, and opened a mailbox across the street and placed the drawings and his letter into the box, and let it slam shut. He smiled and kissed the box for reasons that even he didn't know. "This is my gift to you, Kagome! I hope you'll be happy!"

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It wasn't until late morning that Inu-yasha was awoken from his sleep by the sound of voices in the hallway. He groaned and turned over in his bed to fall back into his deep sleep. He was dreaming about her, and he didn't want to be disturbed.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He turned in his bed once more and pulled his pillow over his head. Finally, his dream's intruder came into the room. "Wake up!"

Inu-yasha groaned as he recognized the voice, Sesshoumaru. "I'm dead! Leave me alone!"

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes, and pulled the pillow off of his head, and wailed it hard on his body. Inu-yasha growled and sat up glaring at his brother. Sesshoumaru merely returned his stare. "Get up! You have errands to run for me."

Inu-yasha fell back in bed. "Today's my day off, no my week off. Get the old hag to do you dirty work," he moaned as he pulled a sheet over his head.

His brother pulled it off. "Wrong! You have the night off, and the rest of these days you just don't have clients because none had asked for you. Well, all except Thursday's client."

Inu-yasha turned in his bed, "It's Sunday, for crying out loud, Ses. Let a man sleep!"

"You fall asleep, and all the stores will close. I need you to buy things in the market. Take some one with you if you like, I don't care. Just get the things on this list."

Sesshoumaru pulled out a slip of paper and placed it on Inu-yasha's nightstand. "Now, Get up!"

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"I've never been more tired in my life!" Inu-yasha complained as he dragged cloth bags of food and other assortments. He of course decided to bring someone with him, merely because he didn't want her to have to worry about that duke searching for her in the halls.

Kagome needed to do some much needed shopping as well. With the money she had collected from working the needle on all of the dresses and shirts at the Well de Rouge. It wasn't much compared to the sum of money Inu-yasha had collected over the week, but it was enough to buy needles, thread, and food for herself.

Inu-yasha walked around the market area with Kagome not far behind him. She looked over her contents, "Lets see! Red thread, white, and green! I'm going to have to get more blue dye soon."

Inu-yasha stopped. "What's the dye for?"

Kagome gave him a weird look and a smile. "The cloth, Silly! What did you think it was for?"

Inu-yasha snorted, "Where do you dye the cloth?"

"On the roof, and as soon as I have the dark color I need, I just dump it down the gutters."

Kagome began walking again, and Inu-yasha followed her as they entered the doors to the Well de Rouge. Inu-yasha placed his contents in the eating area and left them in the bag, not caring if his brother yelled at him later for leaving it there. He soon realized Kagome hadn't followed him in.

He ran out to the hall to find her setting up in her booth again. Inu- yasha grinned as he looked around for his brother. Nowhere!

Inu-yasha made his dodge to Kagome's booth. "Let's get outta here!"

Kagome looked at him not catching a word he said. "What?"

Inu-yasha rolled his eyes and took hold of her hand. "Come on! Sesshoumaru doesn't know we're back yet and I need some more fresh air."

He pulled Kagome by the hand and slipped her out the door. "Inu-yasha, I can't! I'll fall behind in my work!"

The gigolo snorted in amusement. "You need to get out more! You haven't seen how beautiful Paris really is."

He pulled her down the street when she pulled back. "Inu-yasha, I've got all those dresses though?"

He took both of her hands this time and pulled her along. "Come on! Live alive, Kagome! Besides, I want to take you some place."

Kagome groaned but she was still smiling. Inu-yasha leaned in close to her. "Please? I want to share this with you."

She felt her heart beat with an urge to go with him. It was either work, or a day with him in Paris.

"Alright! Just, don't let this be long! I need to finish pinning these dresses so I can get started on the others."

Inu-yasha pulled her as he quickened the pace, and Kagome found herself running after him. "Come on!" he coxed her.

"Inu-yasha, I'm in heals! Slow down!" she pleaded through playful laughs.

They ran down the crowed Sunday streets, and soon Kagome was able to grab hold of his hand again. He dragged her down a deserted street and up a building's fire exit. When they got to the top, Kagome and Inu-yasha's chest were heaving for air. Yet, it was what Kagome saw that took her breath away.

"The Eiffel Tower!"

Inu-yasha brushed wisps of silver hair from his face, and took her hand once more. "That will be our last stop! There's a lot more to see than just that."

Kagome looked at him and caught his glance. He wanted to kiss her right now, the wind in her hair and the look in her eyes. 'No, not yet! She's taken the bate, but I need to reel her in first before I can catch her.'

Inu-yasha took her other hand and pulled her along. "Come on! 'Zee Zitee o' Louv' won't wait!"

Kagome laughed as he pulled her along sharing her laughter.

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"Ah, Myoga's Café!" Inu-yasha began his brag, "Best café in the world! You need coffee? What kind? Strong beans or decaf? This guy has got coffee beans to an art!"

Kagome bit her lip. "But, I don't like coffee!" she said as he dragged her in.

Inu-yasha brought her close to him, "Neither do I, but he's got the best cookies."

Kagome smiled and groaned as Inu-yasha dragged her into the café's kitchen. "We're not allowed back here!"

Inu-yasha groaned and pulled her along, until they found a tiny flea jumping around counting coffee beans. He picked up his head and spied the silver hair and dog-ears making their way into his kitchen.

"Master Inu-yasha? Is that really you?" the flea said in a raspy voice.

Inu-yasha stood up tall as Kagome hid behind his back blushing a little. The flea hopped over to his friend's shoulder. "I haven't seen you in weeks! How's business in the old Well?"

Inu-yasha walked over to the coffee bean grinder and smelled the slight aroma. "It's the usual!"

Myoga hopped down from his shoulder and closed the bean grinder. "Ah-uh! This is a new one I'm trying! No peaking or sniffing!"

Inu-yasha wrinkled his nose. "Speak for yourself!"

Myoga crossed his arms and then turned to spy the rest of his company. "Oh my! And who might this young lady be?"

Kagome blushed nervously as Inu-yasha took her hand. "Myo, this is Kagome!"

The little flea took a bow. "A pleasure, by all means, Mademoiselle! Odd! Inu-yasha, you've never brought a female with you on your visits."

Inu-yasha gave him a rather nervous look, and just grinned. "Um, Myo, I'll talk to you later! Kagome and I actually still have a lot of things to do."

Inu-yasha pulled Kagome out of the kitchen and out a back door. Myo cried, "Wait!"

Just then, Inu-yasha stuck his head back in and looked around until he spotted a tray of warm cookies. He took two, waved to Myoga and left with Kagome trailing behind him.

Myoga shook his head and let out a soft hearty laugh. "Well, I'll be! Just when I thought I had seen everything in my old age. He's really in love with a real woman for once."

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The day flew by faster than Inu-yasha had hoped. He still had so many places to show her and the tower was so faraway now. He was running out of time.

Kagome also began to shiver as the cool night air began to take over the city air. He had brought her to a public garden filled with red and white roses, and began to wonder if they were going to make it to the tower in time. The moment would be ruined. All of his plans were running low on time.

He turned to Kagome finally, and looked at her with sad eyes. "You're cold! I can feel it!"

Kagome let go of his hand and hugged herself and rubbed her arms. "Just a little!"

Inu-yasha snorted with disbelief, "You've been sick once! I'm not letting you get sick again! I'm taking you home."

Kagome looked at him with sad eyes. "What about the tower?"

Inu-yasha smiled and rubbed her arms to help her body heat up. "Well go another day! Come on, I'll take you home!"

Inu-yasha took her hand and led her out to the streets. Kagome looked at the sky, bewildered. "Inu-yasha, it's still day light! We just have clouds coming in."

Inu-yasha looked up at the sky and Kagome glanced up with him. Just as they did, there was the sound of thunder, and a flash of bluish-white light. Kagome jumped into Inu-yasha's arms from the shock. A moment later she found herself looking into his eyes. Inu-yasha caught her stare, and his heart began pounding.

Out of the blue, a raindrop landed on his nose. Inu-yasha's stare with Kagome broke as he looked at the lone drop of water roll of the tip of his nose. It was soon followed by five more that landed on Kagome's shoulders and neck. Hundreds followed these, and then millions as the sky shed a downpour of water from the heavens.

Kagome tucked her neck into her body, bringing her chin to her chest. She then looked up into the rain and closed her eyes as the water soaked her clothes and exposed skin. She shook the water around in her hair and felt the drops rundown the back of her neck before she raised her hands to the sky and looked into the flashes of white light. Kagome was a child again, or at least acting like one. She began to giggle and spun around in circles and let the drops run over her body making her clothing wet enough to stick to her body.

Inu-yasha watched her as she danced in the rain, and laughed at the game she was playing with the rain. It was cool and steam came off the black streets as the cold water hit it. He realized that he was soon soaking in the fallen rainwater, and white dress shirt and trousers were not holding back the water from his skin. The water was soaking through his clothing and the fact he was in a white shirt made it all the more humorous. Inu- yasha watched as Kagome twirled in the rain once more after inspecting his soaked state.

Kagome lowered her arms and smiled as she brushed her hair from her eyes. She smiled as the raindrops plopped on her face and ran down her cheeks and forehead. She pressed all of her hair to her neck and let the water run down her back.

Inu-yasha watched as the drops that landed on her chin rolled down her neck and under the front of her clothes to touch her the most heavenly parts of her angelic body. He was jealous of those drops, and he refused to let them have all the fun.

Inu-yasha strode up to her and touched the wet, creamy, skin on her neck. Kagome felt his touch and brought her face back down from the rain to look at those golden eyes she had loved so much. They were filled with the same emotion she had not seen in his eyes since yesterday morning.

Kagome found his claws making their way to her cheek, and as soon as it got there she felt his palm rest against it. Kagome closed her eyes as her fingertips touch his hand. Inu-yasha moved in closer to her and palmed her other cheek as her eyes opened once more. Kagome let her hands drift to his shirt as she placed both of her hands over his upper chest. Her left hand was jealous or her right, however, since this one was able to feel his heart pound against his chest. Her fingers curled around his white shirt for a moment to push the bubbles of air trapped between his skin and his shirt so that her hands could come in full contact with his body.

Inu-yasha suddenly beamed and came closer to her as the message in her eyes was that she begged for more of this. He pressed his nose to hers and closed his eyes as his hands began to wander into her wet, black locks of hair. Kagome watched him as her heart fluttered by just looking as his contentment. 'He is so beautiful!'

Inu-yasha opened his eyes again and pulled his nose away just to look as her again as the raindrop ran down each of their faces. Kagome's hands slipped out to his shirt's collar and she pulled on it to coax him to come back. Inu-yasha's lips curled into a sweet smile, as he watched Kagome's lips part ever so slightly. She tipped her head back just slightly as Inu- yasha brushed his thumb over her lips.

He didn't think there would be a better chance than this. This beat the tower by far. If there were ever a more perfect moment than this, it would be watching the gods make out.

Inu-yasha looked into her eyes and brought his lips closer to let them touch just slightly to tease them. That tiny touch sent shivers down each of his and her spine, and Kagome's eyes closed to savor the feeling. Inu- yasha teased her lips a moment longer before whispering to them, "If this isn't heaven, then I don't want to know what heaven really is. You're so beautiful!"

Kagome's lips curled for a moment, and Inu-yasha watched as her eyes opened one last time to look at him. Slowly he got closer to her lips once more and both closed their eyes as Inu-yasha leaned into press his lips to her raindrop-wet lips. Kagome leaned into the kiss and kissed him back.

The feeling in Kagome's body went beyond her imagination. Her body felt weak, but strong at the same time. Her heart felt lighter than air, and even though she couldn't breathe, she felt like something cool and warm was running into her lungs.

Inu-yasha's experience was no different, he too felt like his body would float off the ground if his lungs kept filling with this passionate air. His heart was pounding, and Kagome's hands had returned press her hands to his chest to keep his heart from bursting out of his chest. His fingers curled in her hair as he dared her to press a little harder, and it helped her to open her mouth a little more. He let his tongue taste her, and Kagome responded with her own. She tasted sweeter than all the chocolates he received from his clients, and his were warmer than the picture she had kissed last night of him.

Kagome's kisses were filled with passion and the urge for his love in return. They weren't empty; they were filled with want and need. 'This is right! I don't want to spend another night alone without her,' Inu-yasha told himself in his head. 'Oh, Kagome! I swear I'll never leave you again. You won't have to spend those long nights alone. I won't let you. Not now, and ever again!'

Kagome broke their sweet kiss to finally get air, and Inu-yasha gasped. Both opened their eyes for a moment as the rain ran down their faces. Each one laughed for a moment before Kagome's lips begged for a second helping, and Inu-yasha gave in to her pleas. Her tongue touched his fangs and she felt his tongue coax hers in further so she could taste him more thoroughly.

Kagome's hands palmed his face once more as his arms wrapped around her to pull her body closer. They turned their head to the side to press each other's forms to the others, and Kagome's threw her arms around his neck and let her fingers mingle in his wet silver mane.

Inu-yasha finally loosened his grip on her and their lips came apart for a second time. Kagome looked into Inu-yasha's eyes and let her nose nuzzle against his for the last moments of the storm's gentle rain. Inu-yasha closed his eyes and made up the puzzling question in his mind. 'I'll share it all with her! No more hiding. She'll the only one to know outside of them all. I'll share my secret with her. Otherwise I'll never know if she really loves me. This is so much more, this is true love.'

Inu-yasha placed his hand to her cheek once more, and made his confession. "I'm in love with you, Kagome. I've loved you since I discovered I couldn't dance without you...since I couldn't live without you. I'll never let you out of my sight again. You'll never face this world alone, again."

Kagome pressed her hand to his heart once more and pressed her forehead to his lips. 'I don't care what my eyes tell me. You're human under all of this, I know it. I love it! I love every part of you."

"You won't have to either. I care about you too much to let you spend another night alone. I love you. I love everything about you."

Inu-yasha lifted her chin and smiled as his lips pressed a soft kiss to hers once more. Only the sudden heavy rain, and Kagome's cold shivers broke their kiss. "Too cold!"

Inu-yasha grinned and wrapped her in his arms. "You'll never be cold again either," he teased playfully as he took her hand to lead her down the street to seek shelter from the cold rain. Yet with every warm kiss shared a long the way home, the cold never got to them.

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...I know! Don't stop! Don't stop! Don't stop! Well, unfortunately I have to folks. After all this is another two-part chapter, I just need to stop because the next chapter has to have a big warning posted.

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! Ruby's old lemonade chapter is a comin'. (For those of you who don't know what my lemonade is, it's a lemon. Uh duh! Just it's been juiced and there is a lot of sugar, so that the lemon is not just a lemon.

However there will be a conversation before the lemon happens, so if you want to read the dialogue before, I'll mark off the place were the lemonade starts flowing. You won't miss it, but the part before is important to the story. So, you can read the beginning of the chapter, and continue at your own risk. (But the beginning is really big fluff, so I wouldn't miss it.)

See you soon!