Once Upon a Hope

I do Not Own Inuyasha!

Walking down the road I turned and looked around, it felt as if seemed something was following me. "H-hello..?" I heard myself call out, and somewhat my voice trembled, but either way, I called out into the darkness but there was no movement and no sign of anyone around me. I thought to myself for a moment "Pull yourself together Kagome. You're only imagining things… just get back to the village." So I decided to continue on my way. But then, I heard it again. That sound of movement behind me. I went to turn around again but when I did I was caught in his strong arms as he breathed into my ear whispering "I caught you, now you must be subdued." I could feel him around me. I was somewhat breathless and just in pure bliss as he held me close to him, I could hear his heart beat and felt his body move with every breath he took.

A giggled escaped my lips as I pushed him away "Inuyasha! That was mean of you! I was seriously scared for a moment that someone was following me!"

He let go of me and threw his hands up in the air as he gave that smirk that I loved oh too much.

"Keh, what can I say?" He chuckled as he slowly released me from his grasp and took a few steps back "you were only taking forever Ka- Go- Me." He crossed his arms and stood there waiting for me to respond. But I just looked at him while he stared me in the eye with his amazing golden eyes. I couldn't take my eyes off of him; he stood there for a while still doing his little smirk.

Soon I was able to gather my words after I realized how long the silence was. "Inuyasha, you know it takes a while to find the herbs needed!" I rolled my eyes at him and looked at the basket that was on the ground next to me. It was only half full. Today happened to not be my day on finding anything useful for anyone. I sighed as I picked up the basket and whispered softly as I started to walk away "I'm sorry all the same… how did your day go?" I was trying to make some light conversation but after a long pause I turned to look at why he wouldn't have answered my question. There he stood in the moonlight, just standing there with his smirk; a thought crossed my mind at this moment in time… he had to be up to something.

"Let's just get back to hut shall we?" he walked up next to me and took ahold of my waist and pushed me toward the trail leading to the hut. Yes. He was defiantly up to something.

"I- Inuyasha! What's with you today? Why are you in such a rush to get back, don't tell me something hap-"he cut me off my covering my mouth with his hand and looked me the eye before he spoke.

"Can't you just trust me for once? And will you just shut up and enjoy the moment! You always have to ruin everything with your constant nagging!"

Nagging?!

I was not nagging! I just wanted to know what the hell was going on with him today!

I felt somewhat embarrassed on how he would say that I was a constant nag, even though I don't nag. But I shut my mouth all the same to see what he had in store for me. It was an exciting feeling, yet a worrisome one.

As we approached our little piece of 'home' I noticed it was shining for some odd reason. As we got closer I noticed that it wasn't really shining but glowing. We got even closer. My breath was taking away when I same the inside. There were lots of candles everywhere. I have never seen something so pretty. With all the candles there were rose petals and other flowers surrounded a mat on the floor that had a bit of food on the top of it and two spots for a what seemed like where a couple might sit.

I stood there in the door way, awestruck, as I turned my head to Inuyasha and looked up at him. He looked pleased with himself as I stood there speechless and dumbfounded.

"W-why… h-how did you… but you're not… wait…" I couldn't seem to form even the slightest sentence while I was looking at him with my shocked expression. But before I even could he put his finger up and hushed me.

"This is just something I wanted to try. The monk helped me set this up… said it would be something like 'romantic'? How girls like this stuff. Anyway. I wanted to do something nice for you cause your always the one doing things for me and the village. After all you came back here leaving your family behind just for my sake... And well... Kagome… I just wanted to say… umm... T-t-thanks…"

He couldn't look me in the eye while saying that. But I didn't care at all. I was happy, so happy that I was near tears, and I guess he could smell them cause as soon as they started forming in my eyes his attention was back on me.

"Wha-? Why are you crying? Don't tell me your mad or anything!" he responded quickly before even a single tear could leave my eyes. I shook my head and smiled at him.

"No Inuyasha… I'm actually very happy, you're so sweet." I said softly before I hugged him and just couldn't stop smiling. I was indeed, very happy.

He scratched his chin and looked up at the sky "Well… you know, it wasn't really a big deal. But hey, why don't we get inside, it's getting a bit cold outside and I don't want you catching a cold of any sort again." I nodded as I was ushered into the hut and sat down on the mat as he took a seat next to me handing me a plate full of boar meat and veggies.

I giggled as I saw the half burnt meat before me. He seemed to really have tried his best to make this a good meal and just an all-around pleasant evening, so I didn't say anything and just ate the food anyways.

This is an amazing night.

That was all I could think. Nothing more. And nothing less.

Thanks For reading! Now. Depending on the reveiws i get I might actually add some more chapters to this. I wanted to see if i coulf write something people might want to read cause ive never written anything like this before! So please spare with me! 3

~~Roo~~