Dreaming Forever

"… " = Speech

'…' = Thoughts

1 Chapter 2

Inuyasha flexed his claws, trying to get rid of all the blood and dirt gathered from the previous fight with a weak youkai. 'Stupid weakling as if you stand a chance against me. Teach you a lesson to insult my mother. Feh! He didn't even know that he just insulted on of the rules of this land.' Looking around Inuyasha tried to find a place that was familiar to him. 'Shit now I'm lost. I guess I got a bit carried away fighting that weakling. Damn it where is Shippo? It doesn't help that I lost my way too.'

"Kuso" swore Inuyasha as he desperately looks for civilization. 'I better find him quickly before the new moon. Damn that means that I have approximately 3 days.'

"KYAA! ~ Someone save me!" screamed a voice. 'Chikuso! That sounds like Shippo!' Inuyasha thought as he ran towards the voice. 'If someone is hurting Shippo, they would wish that they were never born!' When Inuyasha got to the scene of the crime it was not what he expected to see at all.

"Hahaha! Kagome- chan I give! Please forgive me! Hahaha…. I promise…wouldn't … do that… ever again." Shippo forced out of himself as Kagome relentlessly tickled him as his punishment. 'What the fuck is going on??' thought Inuyasha. Before him was Shippo and a girl which looks uncannily like Kikyo wearing miko clothing who is mercilessly tickling him among what seems to be shredded fur on the ground.

"Shippo- chan how many times do I have to tell you that a you can only dry yourself outside the house. The fur, which you shake off, litters the ground! I also didn't mean you can do it in front of the house right on the doorstep too!" sighed Kagome as she got up from the ground and proceeded to get all the fur off her.

Over these 4 days Shippo have adopted to Kagome's way of living. He was expecting some thing drastically different seeing that she is a human and his a youkai only to find that there is hardly any changes only a few minor ones that human have to do in order to survive. He also became part of the family which consists of Kagome: a miko in training, Souta: Kagome's younger brother and Kaede: Kagome's miko sensei and also their guardian. From day one, Shippo had always thought Kagome as his second mother from the way she treated him and the feeling of warmth, love and protectiveness he received from her just like his mother. Although youkais are not accepted in the village but seeing that it's a baby youkai and under Kagome's care they easily accepted him.

"Ne, Shippo- chan here's the broom. I suggest you clean up your mess before Kagome ne-chan starts her punishment again" said Souta as he came out of the house with a broom.

'Shippo has been living with humans?? No way!! A miko too?? Does Shippo have a death wish or some thing?? Or is he kept prisoner there?' thought Inuyasha as he remain hidden from their view just to see what happens next.

Shippo took the broom from Souta and started sweeping but with great difficulty seeing the broom is twice his height. Giggling at the picture Shippo made Kagome took the broom from Shippo and started sweeping instead. "Now Shippo I want you to promise me that you will never dry yourself in the garden anymore okay?" asked Kagome as she swept the remaining fur out of the garden.

"Demo, Kagome-chan" whined Shippo " there are a lot of big bad youkais out there in the forest.

'Okay something is not right here. The way they talk and treat each other is not one of a prisoner and a captor. It can't be seriously that this girl took him in and treated him just like the way she would treat a human. She's a miko for goodness sake. They are trained to kill youkais just like Kikyo who treats youkais with great amount of disgust. Only she doesn't treat me that way seeing that I saved her once which I now regret and I have…. Now isn't the time or place to be thinking about her. Anyway it may seem that youkais rule the world now but that never stopped humans from killing youkais. Of course the result would be that father finds out who killed them and the will be executed but that they stopped them too.' Inuyasha was in such a deep thought that he did not notice the two women heading towards him.

"You think that the youkai would come back again?" one woman asked.

"IF they do they would have to face the wrath of our miko Kagome- sama. True she's a miko in training but she posses so much power and knowledge." Another woman replied.

"How I envy her. So young, so beautiful, so energetic and she looks so fragile but she is so powerful.' The first woman said.

" I know what you mean… hey what's that over there?" the second woman asked pointing to where Inuyasha stood where his red yukata stood out in the forest greens.

"Oh my god!" the first woman whispered as she puts her hand over her heart "It's a youkai. KYAA! ~ YOUKAI!!" she screamed as they both ran towards Kagome's house.

At this point Inuyasha snapped out of his trance and looked at the women screaming. " Chikuso! Stupid skittish noisy women!" muttered Inuyasha.

When Kagome heard the screams of the women she instantly grabbed her bow and arrow. "Souta and Shippo find Kaede-sama and bring her here while you two stay away from the youkai!" screamed Kagome as she ran towards the youkai while Souta and Shippo ran to find Kaede-sama.

Surrounding Inuyasha was a bunch of village men armed with tools. 'Feh! Look at them trembling with fear. This is just great! I promised mother that I wouldn't kill any humans if I could help it but it seems like now I can't so they all have to die. Damn this is gonna be one hell of a pathetic fight.' Thought Inuyasha as he jumped into the air preparing to kill all the villagers with one swipe of his claws. Out of the blue prayer beads went around his neck forming a necklace. 'What the fuck?!' "OSUWARI!!" screamed a girl's voice.

Inuyasha slammed to the ground from midair face first. "What the fuck did you do, Bitch!" yelled Inuyasha as he lifted his face up to glare at her while the rest of his body is immobilised.

"Arigato gouzaimasu Kagome-sama for helping us." Said a villager.

"Oi, Bitch listen to me!"

"It was no problem plus it's part of my job to protect this villager and it's people. If you don't mind I would take over now. I don't want to keep you away from your work any longer" replied Kagome as she ignored the youkai on the ground.

"Oi!"

"Arigato again Kagome-sama we will be leaving now." Said the villager as he and the other retreated back to the village.

"Oi! Bitch!" Inuyasha yelled

"Are you going to continue swearing at me or are you going to stand up and talk like civilized people?" asked Kagome as she sighed from the headache that he was giving her.

'Stand up??" Inuyasha thought as he tried to stand up only to realise that he could've done that ages ago if he tried. A blush made its' way to his face but he made it disappear before she noticed.

"Well are you going to attack me again or are we going to talk. If you attack me I can assure you that you will end up eating dirt again." Said Kagome giving him a soft smile hoping that he would not attack seeing that she does not want to hurt him. With him standing up, Kagome can now study his profile. 'His sooooo cute! No more like hot! I bet his body is like well toned underneath all these baggy clothes that he is wearing. I love his silver hair. His dog-ears are so adorable I really want to touch them. His amber eyes… I could just feel myself drowning in them…stop it now Kagome! What you are now thinking is forbidden not the mention that you're a miko and you set example for others. What will they think if they found out that you were drooling…I mean looking at him like that. I mean it's not like you like him although his ears are so cute.' Kagome blushed from what she was thinking and failed miserably to hide it.

While Kagome had been checking Inuyasha out, he had been doing the same for her. 'She is so pretty absolutely beautiful. Before I thought she looked like Kikyo now I know how wrong I am. Kikyo could never match up to the beauty before me. What I wouldn't give is to have this beauty in my arms…Shit what am I thinking?! I don't like her. She's a bloody human, a weakling just like Kikyo who need me to save her. Gods how much I regret saving her now she's pulling all these stunts to get me to marry her so she could be the queen.' Inuyasha nodded his head mentally determined to think her as nothing but a bitch.

"Oi, Bitch what the hell are these and take them off now!" said Inuyasha holding the necklace, which is around his neck.

"Could you please stop calling me a bitch? I have a name you know and it's KAGOME. K-A-GO-M-E!! And no I'm not taking that subduing spell off you. How would I know that you're not going to attack me?" retorted Kagome. ' Okay any nice thoughts of him are out the window. This guy is so rude! Has he no manners?? Is this how he treats every one?'

"Look woman do you know who your talking to and who your attacking?" Inuyasha said while walking slowly towards Kagome.

"Stay where you are! Not a step more… no stay back !!" Kagome yelled as Inuyasha continued to forward with a menacing glare.

"OSUWARI!!!"

"FUCK!!!"

"KAGOME-CHAN!!!!!" screamed a very happy kitsune as he jumped into Kagome's arms, happy that Kagome is alive and well.

"Shippo-chan!" said Kagome as she hugged Shippo. This scene however did not go unnoticed by Inuyasha 'How could she be like that … that happy towards a youkai! I thought all humans hated youkais because they rule over them and would jump at every chance to kill a youkai'

"Kagome, are you okay? And where's the youkai?" asked Kaede-sama with Souta by her side.

"I'm fine. The youkai that was said attacking the village is on the ground down there." Kagome said as she pointed behind her where Inuyasha laid on the ground.

"Inuyasha?" Shippo asked softy.

"Oi, you stupid brat. You know how much trouble I went to just for you! I risked getting in trouble with father for going out. Attacked by a couple of youkais who stood no chance against me. Had nothing to eat of two days just to get here, Hanagawa valley. Only when did get her I was accused of attacking the village when I was just standing here looking for you by some lousy village women. Surround by villagers who thought that they stood a chance against me! Got attacked by a miko who puts a subduing spell on me and refuse to take it off. Not to mention that I probably have a very pissed off Kikyo waiting for me at home… wait I take that back, that's not a bad point that's a good point."

"You went through all that just for me?" asked a blurry-eyed Shippo.

"Yeah what else am I suppose to do… now don't go crying me." Said Inuyasha softly as he held Shippo who had jump from Kagome's arms to Inuyasha

'Awww… I take it back. Inuyasha is so sweet deep down' Kagome thought. "Ne, Shippo do you know Inuyasha or something?" Kagome asked softly as to not to break the mood.

"Hai, I know Inuyasha. He used to work with my parents. His the Prince ofo the Western Lands, son of the King Inutashi and Queen Shizuko (a/n: I know it's meant to be Lord but king and queen are more powerful ( ), second prince, Prince Inuyasha."

"Prince of the Western Lands? Inuyasha??" whispered Kagome as she looked at Inuyasha who was ginning smugly back at her.

"Oh shit…" whispered Kagome as she fainted.