Disclaimer: ok I have to put this in saying that I don't own anything cos I don't. It all belongs to whomever made Inuyasha up I know her name but don't want to burden you with my horrible spelling of it. Chapter one

"Kagome, may I speak to you for a moment?" Miroku asked.

"Ya, sure I guess. As long as you don't ask me to bear your children again." Kagome replied as she hesitantly hung back and looked up too see how far away Inuyasha was.

"Please forgive me for that." Said Miroku while doing the one handed pray thingy. "But no. it's something else that I have on my mind."

"What is it then, Miroku?"

"Well, uh, you know how I used to love Sango?"

"Yeah?" Kagome replied getting slightly irritated that he wouldn't just get to the point like he normally does "Wait! You said 'used to'. What happened? Did you guys get in a fight while I was away? What happened-"

Here Miroku held up his hand to stop the flow of questions coming his way form Kagome.

"No, we haven't gotten in a fight. It's just that I don't feel any affection towards her anymore. Looking at her doesn't give me the thrill it used to. Nothing does."

Kagome was shocked. She never saw this coming. How could she be so blind?! She would have to start opening her eyes more often!

"Is there some one else then?" She asked, but how? He wasn't gone long enough anywhere to meet some one new. And they hadn't gone to many villages more than once. . . And he was too sensible to do the whole 'love at first sight' deal.

" Yes. . . there is I'm afraid" He replied with hesitance, "Do you want to know who?" almost as if egging her on. Like he wanted to her to ask.

" Well only if you want me to know." She said also with hesitancy, fearing what he might say.

"Well, it would be a load off my chest."

"Well, it looks like it's getting dark and since it seem so hard for u to say it I think I'll just go ahead to Kaede's-"

Miroku saw his chance, this was it now or never, she looked at him as if asking with her beautiful facial expression for him to go with her. "It's you!" he spat out at her as he turned on his heel and headed for Kaede's hut at top speed.

Kagome just stood there shocked. She didn't know what to do. She certainly didn't love him or even like him. Poor Sango would be heartbroken. Kagome sensed that there would be a change in their relationship. Yet she had thought that him being tense around her was that he was nervous like he was about to do something real serious as in propose. But not like this. He had just dropped a bombshell and she knew she was the only one who knew and the only one who would be able to fix this mess. And her life just gets even more twisted every day.

"Kagome!!!!!!" Inuyasha yelled. "Where are you? The food's done!"

"Huh?" Kagome heard some one calling her name.

"KAGOME!"

Ah, yes it was Inuyasha's voice she had heard. Brave, handsome, self- centered yet still kind and gentle at times. Oh, well she had better go as to not anger him more than he already sounded.

Where is that girl? He wondered. Then he caught a whiff of her scent. It was so flowery and beautiful and gentle and kind, just like her. Yet it was oddly enough familiar. "Kikyo" he muttered under his breath.

"What Inuyasha? Did you just say something?" Asked Kagome. At the sound of her wonderful voice he snapped back to reality.

"Huh? What? Oh. The food's done and we have been waiting for you. It was nothing." He replied.

"Oh, ok" she replied with a hint of disappointment in her voice, she had hoped that he would finally say who he loved, her or Kikyo.

"Ya, hey what took you so long?!" he demanded.

"Oh nothing." Kagome replied deciding to use his choice of words and hoping that was all it really was. Nothing.

"Hey is something bothering you?" he asked

"Oh well no not really." she said as her voice trailed off. His freaking hanyou senses had to kick in. " Yes there is I know there is I can sense it. Now tell me what is it? Is it a shard?"

"No, not a shard its about some one."

"IS it that guy who thinks he's your boyfriend?! Is he giving you a hard time?! 'Cause if he is just let me know-"

" No, no, no Inuyasha it's not him. And besides why would you care YOUR NOT my boyfriend!" Kagome said as she interrupted Inuyasha. She knew she shouldn't have even begun to tell him anything. He wouldn't understand.

"Well then what is it?" he half yelled at her. It had better not disturb your concentration for sensing the shards!" Ooops. He shouldn't have said that. . .

"INUYASHA! Is that all you care about? Finding the shards so that you can become a freaking full demon like Sesshomaru?" she screamed at him. Then she took off running towards the well.

"Kagome! Wait up! No that's not what I meant!" said Inuyasha as he caught up to her.

Why does he have to be so fast?! Kagome stopped; she knew she couldn't have out run him. He pulled her close into a warm embrace.

"It's ok, it's ok" he said in an attempt to soothe her as he ran his hand over the top of her head "Whatever it is I promise I'll help you through it"

"Promise?" she said feeling like a little kid.

"Yes I do. And if you want I won't tell anybody anything"

A simple "Ok" was her reply before taking a few deep breaths and dried her tears and she began to slowly tell him every thing that happened.
"He told you what?!" Inuyasha roared at Kagome when she was done.

"Inuyasha, please, keep your voice down, he or they might hear you. We have been gone for a while now and no doubt they are worried or what they could possibly be thinking." Kagome said.

" When I get my hands on that monk, I'm gonna-"

"Gonna what Inuyasha? I'm not even you're girlfriend! You sound as if you are jealous! " Although I wish I could be and by the way he's acting it seems as if he feels the same way too.

" Me? Jealous? Yeah right. Well so what! We can't have this going on in our group!"

"What do you mean? He has been Sango's boyfriend for at least a year! And has been obsessing over her for even longer! And besides you are right about one thing."

" I am? I mean of course I am! What am I right about?"

"Well only half right and you didn't mean to be either. But anyways, we can't tell Sango. It would just break her heart. And after what happened before with Kohaku and he family. I don't think that she can survive any more heartbreak. Even if the Jewel is almost complete!"

" I guess you're right. So what do we do now? Never mind. I am going to talk to Miroku right now!"

"Oh no you don't! Not with out me. And I don't think I could comfortably talk to him right now after what has just happened."

"Fine then I guess I'll wait" Inuyasha said at last, for fear that if he didn't Kagome would yell 'sit', he tried to avoid that as much as possible.

"Good. Well we had better get back. We have been gone long enough" Kagome said to break the awkward silence. As she turned around she caught Inuyasha smirking as he gave her a sidelong glance that he thought she didn't notice. Until now he hadn't really seen just how beautiful she really was. With her skirt so short it showed how nice her legs were and even though her shirt was a long sleeved one he knew that she had nice long arms too. While pondering this and looking at her he realized that her frail frame could come in handy for reasons to carry or protect her.

"Inuyasha! Hurry up!" Kagome yelled seeing that he wasn't behind her, and that he was in fact still; at the well with the same expression on his face. She knew that she wouldn't have to tell him because eventually he would realize where he was and where she was, and based on how fast he can ruin she could have been 2 feet from the steps and he could have beater her inside. After hearing Kagome's yell at him to 'hurry up' he decided to go up and run up to her and put her on his back like always. Then he set off to surprise Kagome.

A/N: K this is my first fic ever so when u R and R like I want you to please do, do be nice! And I am working on getting the next few chapters up soon, I only have about half of it written in advanced but look out for my other fan fics soon to be coming..Coming Back, and another one with no name( p.s. they r both Inuyasha.