Love Only Me

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha I repeat, I do not own Inuyasha or anything concerning the manga or anime. The little Japanese woman who wrote the story does. I will not repeat this disclaimer in the forth coming chapters. The characters are property of Rumiko Takahashi except for the characters I've made up.

A/N: You better like this story! *smiles sweetly like Sesshomaru* Oh by the way, this story contains graphic sexual content so if your not of age go away and if you don't, well don't blame me when your mother catches you.
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Kagome had been back in the feudal era for a week now after having had an argument with InuYasha. He was mad at her for being nice to Koga. His jealousy got her so riled up that she yelled at him and screamed the command, “SIT BOY!” After he said a few expletives he looked up at her and called her a dumb bitch. Kagome turned around on him and pounded him in the head.

“I’m going home I don’t need to take this abuse from you. Maybe, I should have gone with Koga, he might treat me better. Any body would probably treat me better than you do InuYasha!”

With that she had called out Kirara’s name and went home. After staying there for a week or two, her friends made her realize that InuYasha was simply jealous and that maybe, she is giving Koga the wrong idea. She realized that she enjoyed Koga flirtation because he always spoke romantically to her and treated her like a lady. ‘Koga is rather charming I wish that InuYasha would be more like him, but InuYasha has also been sweet at times.’ Then something out of the corner of her eyes distracted her from her thoughts, she heard Shippou whimpering.

“Shippou are you alright?” Kagome asked then put a hand to his forehead. With alarm forming on her delicate brows she said, “he’s burning up!”

Miroku and InuYasha turned around both hearing what Kagome had said.

“I don’t feel so good, I am so tired.” Shippou cried into Kagome breast.

Kagome pulled out an ear thermometer from her bag and took his temperature. He did indeed have a fever. She gave him some children’s Tylenol and bit her lip. What were they going to do? Demons don’t get sick, so why is Shippou sick. They couldn’t keep going with Shippo so sick. InuYasha walked toward Kagome and put a hand on the fox cub’s forehead. He actually looked worried for a minute until his gruffness entered the scene.

InuYasha frowned worriedly then replied to Sango.

“Have Kirara carry him back to the old lady Kaede, she will cure him. Kirara you stay with him until he’s well then find us out, Feh, we can’t be stopped by one small sick fox cub. We have Shikon jewels to find so we can find Naraku.”

“Maybe I should go with them?” Kagome put in; however, InuYasha shook his head no.

“We need you to help locate the jewels.”

“I agree with InuYasha.” Miroku concluded in thought while he petted Kirara who was sitting upon his broad shoulders. Then he continued before Sango opened her mouth.

“And we need you too Sango, your strength and abilities to exterminate demons are extremely crucial. Kirara can take care of Shippo, right Kirara?” Miroku said petting the little two tailed feline. She purred in response.

Kirara transformed and took Shippo on her back and carried him to the village while the rest of them continued on. After traveling for a while they had stopped for camp. There was a waterfall lagoon not so far from where they stopped. They all heard the falls from the distance. The air around them had a sweet aroma of orchid flowers and it made for a very peaceful and serene area. Miroku prepared the dinner as Kagome pulled out her CD player and put in the fresh batteries. She put in one of her favorite dance CD’s.

Sango looked inquisitively at the device as did InuYasha. When she pressed play Sango had her boomerang ready to destroy the thing and Miroku jumped clutching to the rosary on his right hand both Kagome and InuYasha started to laugh.

“It’s a CD player. I told you guys that music was going to come out of it.”

“What kind of music is that? It’s so noisy.” InuYasha said his ears twitching to the music.

“Its dance music, look you dance to it like this.”

InuYasha sat down and watched Kagome swing her hips provocatively her skirt rising dangerously high with her movements. She grabbed Sango and had her do the same. Both Miroku and InuYasha were in a trance as they watched the two girls gyrate their hips and move their bodies to the rhythmic beat. InuYasha’s heart beat began to rise; he frowned at his own lustfulness. Kagome seeing him frown wanted to make him smile. She danced over to him and pulled him to a standing position.

“Dance with me InuYasha.”

He stood there with his hands folded into his Yukata.

“Feh, that looks stupid.”

Miroku however, got up and danced to the beat with Sango. Sango was surprised by his ability to move so gracefully while he danced with her since she felt so awkward dancing. He found the beat immediately and pressed her body close to his. Shocking her, his hand rested on her lower back supporting her as he gyrated against her lithe form. Snaking his hands around her body making her feel excited. It had felt so intimate that Sango blushed.

InuYasha then looked at Kagome who peered up at him pleadingly to dance with her. She 56tiptoed up to him and put her hands into his. She turned her back to him and wrapped his arms around her waist. He blushed. She moved ever so provocatively against his form dancing to the song My Will. She sang while she danced with him, he got the hang of the beat and he smiled enjoying the encounter with Kagome. After the song ended Miroku checked the dinner and said;

“Wow that was almost like having sex. It was the first time I got to touch my sweet Sango without getting slapped.” He touched his cheek with fondness and smiled as he watched her brew. Sango made a fist and mumbled something under her breath. He tasted the stew he made and was always happy to know that when he threw things together he made a pretty decent meal. They ate and continued to listen to the music enjoying the company. It was weird that they could speak to each other on a more adult level now that Shippo wasn’t there. Then they started to clean up their mess while Kagome sung one of the songs that played next. It was a love song sung by an artist she admired. The song was Come. She began to sing:

How she sang it made InuYasha’s hair stand, in a good way. It was so powerful so beautiful so pure. It hurt his heart to hear her sing the words. It was like they were meant for him. He saw the raw emotions that she felt for him in those lyrics and the beat of the song moved his imagination.

Everyone was stunned by the pure voice that emitted from her. After she was done singing the song they clapped. Kagome blushed she hadn’t let go in so long and sang. It was a long time since she heard her CD’s and it had been a long time since she expressed herself artistically in front of anyone it felt good, she felt good. She had been keeping a journal of poetry, art, possible lyrics, music as well as her thoughts about her trip back and forth through the Bone Eaters Well that contained her fears and dreams of InuYasha and her new friends. She had so many of them already stashed in the hut that she stayed in with her friends back at Kaede’s village.

“Wow Kagome I didn’t know you had such an angelic voice. What other facets about you do we not know about yet?” Miroku said with praise. He was eyeballing her appreciatively. InuYasha growled and encircled a possessive arm around Kagome.

“What did I say now; all I did was comment on how beautiful her voice was.” Miroku said scratching his head. Kagome looked down and giggled. She couldn’t believe how good of a mood she was in. She then remembered a game she played with her friends in the modern era. They didn’t play it exactly how Kagome intended to play that night, but she heard stories from a friend who played this way when with boys. It was kind’ve risky, She wanted to get InuYasha to notice her as more than Kikyo’s reincarnation but as Kagome Higurashi. She tried everything else but he never would just come out and tell her how he really feels for her. He’s done things that she would consider romantic, but then he’s whole demeanor would change and then she was left unsure again. He certainly let her know when he didn’t like something she did of coarse.

Kagome sighed at her thoughts but then shook them off; tonight they were just going to have fun.

“How about we play a game before settling in for the night it would be fun.” Kagome said smiling with a slight blush to her cheeks and a tingle in her body.

“What kind of game Kagome?” Sango asked.

Kagome blushed. “Well, I figured since Shippo isn’t here we play a more adult game; it’s called strip poker.”

“I’m in, how do you play the game?” Miroku asked already interested since the word strip was in it.

“Well, we sit in a circle everyone gets five cards. Whoever gets a hand first wins and everyone else has to take an article of clothing off since we don’t have poker chips.”

Miroku’s eyebrows shot up at the game. “I’m ready to play lets go.” He said squatting down next to her. Kagome then looked toward Sango and InuYasha, surprisingly they were both game as well.

Within the hour both Sango and Kagome were down to nothing but their underwear. InuYasha sat looking at Kagome with arousal, then he would look away embarrassed when she smiled at him. To get his mind off of how good Kagome looked he boasted that he was still fully dressed.

“Hah, it seems that luck is on my side tonight.”

He said while watching Kagome slip off her bra making sure to cover her bare breast with her arm. She tossed it at him and it landed on his ear. His toothy smile spread across his face wickedly and Kagome laughed. Miroku paid more attention to Sango since for the time the object of his desire was making a fantasy come true. He did take a peak at Kagome because why pass such an opportunity to feast his eyes on naked beautiful women. He was nearly fully clothed as well since he took off a lot of jewelry.

Thirty minutes later Kagome and Sango were out of the game since they had nothing else to take off. They sat holding their knees up to cover their bodies while watching InuYasha and Miroku battle it out. Both didn’t want to lose to the other. Both were down to their underwear. Kagome made a note to get them both some boxers since they only wore a cloth tied at the hips. Both of them stared at each other beads of sweat forming on their eyebrows.

“I need two cards.” InuYasha growled low. Miroku handed InuYasha the cards he needed. InuYasha looked at them and made a face.

“InuYasha you really need to work on your poker face.” Kagome giggled. He returned a snarl. Miroku put one card down and picked up one. Then he looked at InuYasha. They hesitantly placed their cards open up for all to view. Kagome and Sango sat holding their knees looking at the cards.

“Looks like Miroku won.” Sango said. InuYasha’s face turned bright red.

“I am not removing my under garment! Hell no!”

“Oh come on InuYasha, Sango and I did it.” Kagome said trying to hide her smile. While she still embraced herself.

“That’s that’s different, your both girls. That’s ok…”

“InuYasha, those are the rules to the game, now we all played by the rules so do you, now off with it, or I will use the command and take it off myself.”

InuYasha growled but he complied. He took it off slowly. Miroku turned around so he wouldn’t have to see. Sango’s eyes became huge in her head and gasped out loud so Miroku turned her around too and walked away with her.

Kagome gulped her eyes transfixed to InuYasha’s manhood. She’s never seen one before but she couldn’t believe that they would come that big.

“What? Are you not satisfied?” He said pulling up his arms to his usual whatever I don’t care stance.

“Oh, I would be…I mean…yes I am…no no…I meant…um never mind…I just meant… oh forget it.” She stuttered with a beautiful shade of pink blush flushing her face. Now InuYasha smiled. Kagome still looked at him, all of him with heat in her eyes. She traveled his broad shoulders and muscled arms all the way to his hard chest and stomach, then she continued looking as ash blonde hair traveled down the deep v of his pelvic area down to his enormous member that lay asleep under her approving eyes. InuYasha’s eyes widened at this unnoticed passion of hers. He stepped forward trying to examine her eyes. He could tell that her heart rate went up. The flash of her throat quickened. Her mouth became dry. He came near to her and he smelled it on her, her lust for him. She was moist between her legs.

Kagome breathed laboriously, “InuYasha can I…” she said reaching out toward it. Then realizing what she had said she blushed and covered her face. “I don’t know what has gotten into me tonight. I’m sorry, I’m so embarrassed.”

She turned away from him but he grabbed her hand.

“Kagome, go ahead I …” He said, his mouth thirsty for a sip of her.

He placed her hand on his organ and just the innocent touch alone made him shudder. She snatched her hand back.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

InuYasha licked his lips, “You didn’t…it’s just…it feels nice Kagome.” He said rather thickly. It had been fifty years since having had an encounter.

Kagome touched it again and was amazed at how warm it felt. It felt like velvet in her hand. She got closer to him and inhaled his male scent. With her other hand she continued to explore his finely tuned body hard from all his battles and wars. He kissed her deeply drinking in her soul and with knowledgeable fingers he felt for the heat of her person massaging the inner parts of her body making her spill her juices over him. His member jumped beneath her hold startling her.

“Oh, it moved.” She said in wonder exploring it some more since now it was wet in her hands and much larger than it was originally. He then forcefully shoved her away from him and with a flash threw her clothes in her direction.

“Get dressed Kagome we can’t do this.” He panted raggedly. His blood wanted to have her and make her his but he couldn’t succumb to that desire.

Kagome sighed not knowing what had just happened. She thought she was making progress. She pressed her fingers lightly to her swollen lips trying not to cry. However, InuYasha instinctively sensed her upset and cursed under his breath. He also smelt that she was on the verge of tears. He didn’t want to hurt her feelings, but he couldn’t mate with her, she’s too fragile.

“You didn’t do anything wrong Kagome…I just don’t want to hurt you ok.” He said to her as soothingly as he could while he embraced her. He kissed her one more time, gently not wanting to let the moment end but pulled away from her nevertheless.

“You do understand what I said, you didn’t do anything wrong, it’s me, I don’t want to hurt you ok.”

She nodded in understanding, but it still didn’t take away the hurt. ‘He must be thinking he’s betraying Kikyo.’

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At a distance away with their backs turned to InuYasha and Kagome, Sango was having an exploration herself. After seeing InuYasha’s she wondered if Miroku looked like him.

“Please let me see yours too Miroku.”

“Sango what has gotten into you?” he giggled nervously scratching his head while covering himself.

“Nothing, I just want to see that’s all… Miroku will you kiss me?”

Miroku turned around looking at her blinking. He then put a hand to her forehead.

“What are you doing Miroku?”

“Checking to see if you’re feverish too, you might have caught what Shippo has.”

Sango pulled his hand away and looked at him lustfully. She’s never known what his body looked like underneath all of his robes, but looking at him now she noticed that he was a thickly muscled man. He rippled with hard flesh. His chest smooth and bare from any body hair she traveled down his torso. He began to back away from her trying to find something to hide behind. He wasn’t used to this Sango at all. She looked down and her eyes became really big. He was well endowed as well. All of a sudden she became hot. She forgot that she was still undressed and that she was with the flirtatious monk. She got on her knees and started to examine it. Miroku was backed up against a tree. She traced light finger tips over his organ and made him groan.

“Did that displease you Miroku?”

“No.” He responded through gritted teeth.

“Then why did you make that noise?”

Miroku bent down to look her in the face. He looked in her eyes to see if she was being for real.

“Let me show you what you did to me, you have to experience it in order to understand exactly what it is you do to me my sweet Sango.”

He then took his hand and touched her crotch making her gasp as he tickled the soft hair there. With widened eyes she understood.

“Miroku, I felt a stir in my belly is that what you felt?”

“Yes Sango, that is called desire. I feel that all the time with you” With his other hand he began to caress the curves of her bottom. She continued to feel his member and watch it grow within her palm. Its silkiness surprised her yet its strength surprised her more. It all of a sudden became rigid in her hold. She moved her hand back and forth on it, pushing its skin to and fro. Miroku told her to tighten her grip on him.

Miroku kissed her hungrily and continued to tickle the lips between her legs creating a friction within her that made her gasped and immediately she let out a gush of release. Miroku laid over her with his forehead pressed to hers shaking from his own lust. Sweat formed on his brow as he clenched his teeth he cursed the nine hells that laughed on his dilemma. He couldn’t take her not like this. He didn’t understand what was happening. He didn’t understand why she had become all of a sudden amorous toward him. ‘She’ll regret this tomorrow if I take advantage of her tonight.’ He kissed her softly one last time before he told her to rise and finding her kimono he told her to cover herself.

“Wh..Why?”

“I need to make sure this is something you want when you realize what transpired between us, now please leave me be, for if you stay I can not be held accountable for my actions toward you.”

Sango picked up her clothes and backed away from him and tried not to cry. She joined Kagome on the ground. She rolled out her pallet and tried to sleep. But was too curious as to why she allowed Miroku such liberties with her person to begin with. Her heart was confused he had his advantage this night being that she was somehow so horny she couldn’t control herself and yet he let her go. ‘He must not be attracted to me since I am far different from the girls he does frequent with. She looked at her calloused hands and continued her self analizing ‘I’m a demon slayer, browned from the sun and strong. I am destined to be alone now that my village is gone. Miroku was just being kind to me when turning me away, he was trying not to hurt my feelings because I am ugly to him and that is why he didn’t make love to me.’ Finally after chastising herself for crying over her undesired status she fell into a fitful sleep.

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The night was so hot that Kagome felt really stifled. She kept having lustful dreams about InuYasha. She’d wake up and notice that he was up in the tree sleeping and not doing the things she dreamt he was doing to her. She eyed Sango and Miroku and saw that they were sleeping as well. She really needed to take a cold bath. The little lagoon was nearby. It was just about twenty feet away from the camp. If something were to happen she could scream out. With that thought over taking any other doubts she grabbed her bag and portable CD player and headed toward that direction.

Kagome stopped at the pool. It was beautiful under the moonlight. It had a trickling water fall and flowers were sprouted all around it. The air there smelled so peaceful. So, sensual…Kagome noticed again that between her legs got wet. She thought about InuYasha making love to her again.

‘Why in the world am I being so shameless?’

She lit some candles so that she could see better and took out her loofah and her bath gel. She squeezed some gel onto her loofah and sniffed it, it smelled like Lunar flowers. She smiled sensuously as she began to rub it over her body. The water was cool and invigorating. She decided to wash her hair under the water fall and it felt so good. Then her mind started to race again thinking of InuYasha rubbing his hands against her skin washing her body.

‘There I go again, I really need to stop he still loves Kikyo. Why would he bother to think of me that way?’

So instead she started humming a tune that she called forever love.

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He was prowling the night. Something in the air didn’t sit well with his senses. He smelled a curious smell. It was so powerful and strong, yet sweet and delicate. It smelled of a sensual flower mixed with a light hint of lunar flowers. He followed the last scent and followed it to a pool of water. Golden eyes honed in on the woman bathing beneath the falls.

‘That is InuYasha’s woman.’

He decided to watch her yet he didn’t know why he wanted too. She seemed so inhibited washing herself the way she did. He decided to use his ability and tap into her mind and see what she was thinking about out of curiosity. The aura of emotions that welled up within her was chaotic. One moment she was thinking lustfully about his half brother and the next she was thinking sad thoughts about his half brother. Becoming more curious about this weird priestess he decided to go deeper into her thoughts until he could see what was playing in her mind.

InuYasha took the soap from her and began to wash her body intimately. Her heart began to race. His hands slid up her breast and he kissed her neck as the cool water ran over both of them. She then bathed his hard body and felt the muscles tighten under her palm. She turned to face him and began to kiss him while he ate up her soul in that one kiss. Her knees began to buckle. Kagome smiled ruefully as she shook her head mentally sadness entered; a memory of Kikyo being embraced by InuYasha formed in her mind. She remembered her pain at hearing his declaration to her. Pain struck her heart in spades. She got out of the pool of water and began to dry off frowning now as the memory washed over her anew. Still naked she decided to record her composition. She turned her CD player on record and she began to hum a tune.

The song floated to Sesshomaru’s ears and he was amazed that this girl could be so talented as well as curious about the round object she hummed into. He enjoyed the song; it was so sad and beautiful. His emotions were elevated due to him tapping into her thoughts but anyone looking at him would not have known that at the moment he felt licentious. He continued to watch her transfixed having one more reason to hate his brother.

All of a sudden Sesshomaru sensed that they weren’t alone. Something was coming toward the girl. In a flash of light he jumped down to where she sat. Startled from her thoughts she screamed as she watched Sesshomaru’s hand glow firefly green as he pulled out his whip and at the same time snatched her up and killed what seemed to be a human being who lunged toward her.

Sesshomaru killed the silent assassin in a heart beat while holding onto Kagome’s naked body. She looked shocked. He however held no emotion on his face. But inside he was quivering. He didn’t understand why he just saved a human girl, his brother’s girl at that.

She looked up at him having forgotten that she was naked under his hold. She was frightened.

“Woman why is it that you are out here alone in your present condition?”

Kagome blushed. She remembered that she was naked. She wanted to crawl under a rock so she hid her face within the fur that he wore.

“Wench answer me before I become impatient.”

“I…I was taking a bath.”

“Where is my brother then?”

“I left him asleep to bathe on my own.”

“Tell me what your name is?”

This he said thickly, Kagome looked up this time with questioning in her eyes and saw a flicker of heat in his eyes. To confused she didn’t comment.

“Well?”

“It’s Kagome scum bag now put her down, you have some nerve putting your paws all over her like that!”

An angry InuYasha held a fighting stance with his sword already erect.

“Kagome.” Was all that Sesshomaru had said. He didn’t understand why he was still holding her. Or why he bothered to have a small conversation with her it had to be the scent of the lunar flowers that she bathed in.

He looked her straight into her eyes to her soul. She shivered beneath his hold. He then ran a hand down her body as he inhaled her. He looked back up at her and into her eyes. He saw fury on the surface but could tell she was more curious of his actions then she was angry but at the same time he saw her arousal. He frowned in his mind something wasn’t right but his face still held no expression as he set her down.

“Little brother you should keep a better eye on your woman.”

The aristocrat began to walk away and without looking back at her he began to hum her tune. Then he turned into a ball of light and flew away.


Kagome stared into the night as the soft wind blew through her hair. She had no idea what that was about and she had no idea why he protected her and cradled her the way he did. He could have killed her on the spot or left her to be attacked. Then she thought about how he touched her. It stirred her stomach. ‘My god what is wrong with me today? How can I have been turned on by Sesshomaru too? This is not me at all.’

Miroku and Sango pulled up to see Kagome looking off into the night and InuYasha snarling furiously at Kagome as he covered her up. Thoughts about her and his brother flooding his mind with quiet rage.

“Would you mind telling me why you were…why you were in Sesshomaru’s arms!?”

Kagome turned innocent eyes onto InuYasha.

“I honestly don’t know what happened except that he saved me.”

She walked over to where the dead body lay and crouched over it. InuYasha still fuming followed as did Miroku and Sango.

“Weird, this human doesn’t have a human scent on him. In fact he smells like…flowers?”

Then he sniffed Kagome. He blushed after everyone noticed him sniffing her hair.

“You too smell like flowers, like lunar flowers, but your scent is still your own and that of my half brothers.” He snarled at her condescendingly.

Kagome quirked an eyebrow at him. What seemed like a good night was about to be over.

“Humph, at least Sesshomaru said I smelled nice.” She lied. InuYasha sat back on his legs and looked stricken.

“Do you want him too Kagome?” Again he said with disdain.

Kagome sighed with frustration. Then turning around on her heals she yelled:

“NO INUYASHA I’M NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL!!!!”

The two of them were now nose to nose growling at each other. Kagome was about to scream out the command when InuYasha called her a whore, but Miroku thrusted his staff between them holding his head in exasperation.

“Look the two of you, if you don’t mind. We need to figure out if this guy was sent by Naraku so Kagome do you see any shards?” With an eyebrow twitching Miroku stated ever so patiently.

Kagome looked at Miroku who was standing there rather annoyed. He was tired of their arguing. Sango appeared to agree with Miroku both of them being highly sex stressed as well.

Kagome turned and looked at the human. She didn’t see any shards.

“Well, then it appears to be a random act of violence that Sesshomaru had thwarted.” Sango said. Then Sango sniffed the air around the body closely this time with some sort of recognition.

“This flower is an aphrodisiac, it is used to make people become well…” She blushed. Miroku then smelled the air too. “You know I have been smelling this scent all night it might explain a lot of things..”
He said looking at Sango pointedly, the blush on her face turned crimson, but he thought it was a pretty shade on her. Averting his eyes from staying on her too long while sexy thoughts swirled in his head he concluded then looking up at InuYasha.

“… including why Sesshomaru reacted too Kagome the way he did.”

Then looking at Kagome Miroku tsked.

“You should not have been bathing in the middle of the night alone Kagome. Promise us that this situation would be the last time you put your life in danger.”

Kagome nodded her head sorry that she caused them all alarm. She then turned around and apologized to InuYasha but he was still upset with her for being so reckless. The image of her naked in his brother’s arms still overwhelmed him and it had pissed him off further remembering how his brother caressed her body, a body that he felt somehow belonged to him. He looked at Kagome with disgust and snarled running off in front of her. Kagome felt like crying.

A week had passed and InuYasha still harbored anger towards Kagome. Kagome was so tired of the argument that she stopped apologizing. Instead she harbored anger of her own. How many times did she have to apologize? She didn’t throw herself into Sesshomaru’s arms. Out of anger she told InuYasha that she did enjoy being in the arms of his brother which further hurt him. That night she put on her head phones and zoned out. While InuYasha took a walk in the forest alone. Miroku and Sango sighed and kept each other company. Miroku tried to play strip poker again with Sango, but Sango gave him a wary eyebrow and told him the game couldn’t be played with just two people.

Some time had passed by and it had been a while since anyone heard from InuYasha. Kagome taking off her headphones and putting her journal away looked up worried.

“Hey guys, I’m going to go and get InuYasha, it’s getting late ok.”

“Ok.” They both replied. Kagome headed into the woods looking up into the trees for InuYasha her anger now dissipated she thought to give it one more try and explain to him why she had gone for a late night bath. Maybe she should be honest with him. Writing in her journal made her see that he was very jealous expecially seeing her with Sesshomaru his brother who wanted him dead.

Miroku and Sango looked off at her from where they sat playing a quiet card game.

“They need to really get it out of their system; this unsaid attraction for one another is driving me crazy.” Miroku replied to Sango as they watched Kagome enter the wood.

“I couldn’t agree with you more.” Sango said in return then slapped the monk for caressing her bottom again.
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InuYasha was furious more so with himself than with Kagome. She didn’t belong to him, she should be able to go into whoever’s arms she wished. Didn’t he make his pledge to Kikyo some time back. He remembered the time when he turned to see that Kagome was there watching him and heard what he had told Kikyo. He remembered too the stricken look on her face. But she came back knowing that he still loved Kikyo and that he made his choice.

She agreed to be his friend; he remembered the torn feeling he felt when she flat out told him that she shares the same desire to be with him as Kikyo does. How he wished he could have both. But as time passed on he noticed that he didn’t really think about Kikyo as often as he did. Instead his mind would go back to Kagome’s smiling face or her legs showing through that short skirt he waited anticipating for another show of her cotton panty He shook his head trying to remove Kagome from his mind, he owes Kikyo his life. Had it not been for him she would have never lost her life falling in love with him.

But he fell in love with Kagome, she wasn’t Kikyo as he so often saw her when they first met up, In fact, whenever she would dress in Kikyo’s clothes he hated it. He wanted to see Kagome in her own clothing. He began to love Kagome as herself. When he looked at Kagome he no longer saw Kikyo. But can he truly say if it was love he feels for Kagome. Demons consider that emotion a weakness with the exeception of some. They married for power and allies not for love. Hell, he knew of humans who did the same things. Wasn’t it love that had him sealed to a God tree for fifty years? Wasn’t it love that put them all in this mess to begin with? Why Kagome thought it was a strong emotion was beyond his understanding. All evidence proves that love is weak, it does not conquer all. But his feelings for Kagome were different from what he felt for Kikyo, so was it love or something all together different. Then he heard Kagome’s voice tell him from a memory.
‘Love has many faces InuYasha, it is different for everyone you meet. For example, I love Miroku but not in a lovers way, more like a really good friend and I love Sango as a sister and Shippou I love like a little brother, but I love you most of all in a whole different way like…a special best friend.’ All of a sudden in the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of soul carrying shiki kami. Kikyo’s soul serpents.

“Kikyo…” he whispered

Kikyo turned to his voice.

“InuYasha.” She said with a sad expression.

“Have you forgotten me InuYasha?”

InuYasha approached her. He stood inches away.

“No I have not.”

“Then you still care for me InuYasha?”

“Yes I do, but…”

InuYasha looked down his bangs covering his eyes he felt low because he had changed his mind. He clenched his fist and looked back up to her trying to find the words to tell her. He now only wanted for her to return to her death peacefully.

“Oh, I see. That girl means more to you than I do.” Her brown eyes rimmed with tears.

“I’m sorry Kikyo, I cannot give you my life. I thought I could but now…I want to live… with Kagome. But I promise to still avenge you and I promise to still protect you and I will never forget you for you were my first love.”

Kikyo looked down her own eyes filled with hateful tears she hated Kagome. Memories of them filtered through her mind as she realized that she hated being in this world and she hated everyone with life, she hated everything that was happy. Why should she care all her happiness was gone. All her dreams to live a normal life with the man she loved had been snuffed from her by the evil creature Naraku, and now that she had a second chance to have InuYasha in death it was stolen by her reincarnation. No she would not let him go. If she had to drag him to hell against his will then so be it, but she would never let him go.

“No.” Was all she said in a small voice. InuYasha gathered her in his arms and held her. She fought with him for a minute before clutching on to his robes in desperation.

“Kikyo, you will always be in my heart for I will always love you.” He bent to give her one last kiss before he would never touch her again; one last kiss for old time’s sake he could at least give her that.