***Author's note: hey guys, this is dedicated to a friend of Drama Kagome's and mine, amurima-chan, who is getting married tomorrow, and we want to wish her a happy day and a happy time! Each chapter has it's own song, this one, the song is No Spell by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I hope you like this! Next is Drama Kagome's part, then the last we both wrote.

FYI: we don't own Inuyasha.

Time Changes

I walked out into the narrow aisle, hearing my cue with the right music. My maid of honor, and my best friend Sango, smiled at me before walking out before me, and giving my hand a reassuring squeeze before releasing it.

"Good luck," she whispered. She went before me because she was also being my flower lady, as everyone liked to call her.

Then as I watched her back, I took a deep breath, closing my eyes, and counted to ten, then followed her slowly.

This was it. I was walking down the aisle slowly, to the beginning of a new time, a new life. We were leaving everything I've ever known behind, moving farther ahead, then I'd ever imagined myself going. The times have changed.

I found the one familiar face that had the same nervous excitement mine had, and the only face I wanted to see right now. Inuyasha. Words couldn't even begin to describe how much I love him, the word love wasn't even a remotely close enough word to describe the feelings I have for him.

We've had our ups and downs, fighting demons, being torn apart, Kikyo. The time I once knew with him, the year before, with the fighting and the making up, the almost losses, and the leaving. The stupid arguments, it was different from now.

I took all those little things for granted, not realizing how much I'd miss them now. I missed the look in his eyes when I forgave him. I missed making up after fights. But was it really so bad to loose them, because of what I have now with him? I don't think so, because of the way he was looking at me as I walked up to him.

"Hold on tight and enjoy the ride, this is all that you get."

I smiled at the saying. My brother Sota told me yesterday before I came here. He hugged me and then I left, leaving him there, he wasn't here now, and I wished he was, and I didn't fully realizing the meaning of his words until now.

This was all that I got, and I had to enjoy it. I had to do what I wanted to do, and I was doing it right now, ignoring a quarter of the villagers who begged me not to marry Inuyasha. I was enjoying it and I couldn't help but ask myself that when I'm older if I would look back and regret anything I've done. But the answer was no. I'd never want to regret anything, I'd loved every moment, even fighting the demons and my hair getting filled and clumped with demon goop. I was with Inuyasha every step of the way, and that will forever stay with me.

Time changes, even if it's just a small amount of time, because as I'm walking down the aisle, under the trees of Inuyasha's Forest, I saw the same people who begged me not to marry him smiling happily for me, some of them with tears in their eyes.

I remembered the first time I was in this forest, the first time I saw Inuyasha pinned to the Sacred tree, the first time I walked through it. I knew this wasn't going to be the last. I would walk through this forest many more times, I would see this forest many more times, and I would watch how time changed it, and how time changed the way I looked at things. It seemed that it wasn't as big as it was when I first saw it, it wasn't as dangerous to me when I first walked through it.

I became stronger with time. Time changes everything, it changes the way everyone looks at things, it changes the way people act, the way people feel, it changes everything. Experience changes people, and time holds experience.

I just had to hold on and enjoy what is thrown at me, and I remember a quote I've once read. 'Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a nicely preserved body, but to come sliding in saying 'Damn! What a ride!'.' I'm not quite sure who said it, but they were so right. I wanted to spend my life with Inuyasha, no matter how many demons I had to face to do so.

The times have changed, and the jewel was gone. This new life, I didn't know one thing about it, an I was kind of afraid to up into that big black abyss, but those two things came back to my mind as I stepped up next to Inuyasha, who took my hand, almost as if to reassure himself as well, not that he was going to back out, just like me, but to be reassured that this was really happening.

I saw Rin and Sesshomaru, a groom's man and my bride's maid, Shippo the ring bearer, Sango and Miroku, Miroku, who was standing next to Inuyasha, who was staring at me. They were all smiling, well, except maybe Sesshomaru, who had on a semi-pleasant look, they were all happy for me. And Inuyasha, who never once took his eyes off me since I walked out.

I looked at the wedding kimono he was wearing, white and black, his silver hair, and finally his face.

I locked eyes with him, and everything else around us disappeared. I knew this would be forever imprinted into my memory, the vows, the things the preacher was saying, even if it wasn't fully registering in my mind at this exact moment. I was like a robot, doing what we had practiced the day before.

As I looked at him looking at me, his expression soft, his eyes warm, I thought of the first time I laid eyes on him. The imagine of him pinned to the tree came to mind, asleep, he looked lonely and peaceful. Then I remembered that not to long after he woke up and was freed from his imprisonment, he had tried to kill me, and looked at me with pure hatred.

That wasn't what he looked like now, and I couldn't help but think about how everything we've been through, all that time has changed, and lead up to this.

I'd been with him through everything, and I knew that I'd still be with him if the world was dead and gone. I wouldn't let him go through it alone, just as I knew he wouldn't let me go through it alone.

Inuyasha's POV

When I looked into her eyes, I found the same nervousness I held inside myself. I had waited for this day, this imagine, for as long as I realized I loved her, even if I couldn't fully live it at the time.

I realized I loved her sometime during our journey looking for Naraku and the jewel shards, and I painfully realized I couldn't tell her, I couldn't tell her if I wanted to protect her. If Naraku found out if I truly loved her, he'd use her against me, more so than he already had, just as he used Kikyo, and I couldn't bare that to happen.

I had kept my distance, still protecting her, but I kept pushing her away, but things slipped.

Like in the castle, that was a big slip. I can remember yelling at myself, but I didn't care in that moment, because she was kissing me, and that was all that mattered. She was kissing me.

And here I am now, getting married to the same girl who cried for me, the same girl I tried to kill when I first met her, the same girl that has the power to stop me.

I was holding her hand and staring into her eyes. I wasn't sure this was really happening, I was sure I would wake up in moments, being alone and finding out that I actually didn't go after her the day she told me she loved me, that I let her seal the well, that I let her go from me forever.

I went after her though, after I saw that look. The horrible betrayed look she gave me when I told her that she could go off and I wouldn't care what happened to her. But I was lying and I went after her, and I found her crying, and I just put my arms around her and tried to comfort her.

I wasn't listening to the preacher, and I wasn't very aware of my surrounds, until Miroku nudged my elbow, and I looked at him, and he nodded to Kaede, who was looking at me, and mouthed "Vows," under her breath, and my eyes widened a bit.

I said my vows, looking into her eyes as I did so, then I listened to her's.

I stopped paying attention again as she said hers, only hearing her voice and the way she was looking at me, getting lost in her eyes, and Miroku had to nudge me again.

Kaede was giving me a concerned look, and Kagome didn't seem to realize it either because she looked at Kaede the same time I did.

"I do," I said. The words rung through the air, sounding almost unreal, and I had the urge to pinch myself to see if I was sleeping or not, but I resisted.

"I do," she said, and the finality of the words settled around us.

"You may kiss the bride," Kaede said, and gave him a look that asked if I was paying attention or not. I smiled and pulled Kagome to me and kissed her.

Later, at the reception, I had my hand in Kagome's and we had our dance and everyone was off doing other things, Miroku and Sango were talking with us.

"Were you in a trance because of the fact you were getting hitched, or were you thinking about the activities for the honeymoon?" Miroku asked with a smile.

I growled at him lightly, too happy to really try.

"Miroku!" Sango scolded. She pulled him by his ear. Sango smiled apologetically. "Sorry guys. You know him."

"It's fine," Kagome told her smiling. "Why don't you and I go dance Sango? Leave the men alone for a bit."

Sango smiled back as Kagome and nodded, and Kagome grabbed her hand and they went off.

I watched her go, but Miroku brought me out of my thoughts.

"I've never seen you look after her like that," he said quietly. "You mostly glare after her, or look indifferent."

"Like what?" I snapped.

Miroku shook his head. "You wouldn't understand it if I tried to explain. But it was a big change from almost a year ago."

But I loved her more than a year ago. "Why not?" I asked.

"Because you would fight me on it, and deny it all. You did the same to Kagome, before she almost left," Miroku told me. "And you guys stopped fighting after a bit."

I fought Kagome on everything. Then, after she scared me, I stopped fighting her more and more, afraid that she would leave for real this time.

"Heh," I said. I looked away to where I spotted Kagome dancing with Sango and Shippo. I didn't really want to listen to him anymore.

Kagome and Sango came back over with Shippo, and Kirara followed them.

Kagome smiled at me, and I got up and took her hand and lead her to dance. Time changes, and I had no doubt about it changing for us even more now. A future together. Old age, eventually, children. We had so much time ahead, and so many more experiences to live. Time changes, and I was going to change us all so much.

I started to dance with her, forgetting my aversion for it, because I had already done it a couple of times. I kissed her as we danced, and she smiled at me.

"Inuyasha," she said. "I love you."

"I love you too Kagome," I told her, my heart beat pounding in my chest from those words, no matter how much I've heard her say it. She loved me, and I loved her, and no matter how much time would pass, we'd still love each other. That was the only thing that time couldn't change. How much I loved her would never change, if only to grow.

Kagome put her head on my shoulder, and I stroked her hair, holding her in my arms. People danced around us, Miroku and Sango, Rin and Sesshomaru, the villagers, and it was a sweet peaceful moment, probably the only moment that would be forever untouched by time.

****Author's note: hey guys, I hope you liked it, but, most of all, I hope that amurima-chan liked it. Was it good? Again, this chapter was based off No Spell by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Next it Drama Kagome's chapter, which I will hopefully post tonight. Thanks for reading and please review!