Chapter 1

It was clear to him who he wanted now. It was clear who he needed now. Inuyasha knew he needed to tell Kagome. He had been doing a lot of thinking lately and had finally figured it out. Inuyasha wanted to be with Kagome. How would he tell her though? Did he wait for her to come back from her world, or did he go and tell her himself. She had left to study for one of those "tests" again and would be coming back in two days. Inuyasha didn't know if he could wait that long.

Kagome had just finished taking a shower and decided it was time to hit the books again. As Kagome struggled to catch up in math she found herself stopping.

"Inuyasha…" she mumbled. Kagome couldn't help but think about him. What if something was happening that she wasn't there for? Naraku could have appeared and she wouldn't be there to help. Or worse. What if Kikyo showed up and Inuyasha was with her? Kagome always became upset at that thought. She knew she was in love with Inuyasha, but there wasn't anything she could do. Well, she could tell him, but then that wouldn't do any good. He was still hung up over Kikyo and that would only lead to an argument and then their journeys would be extremely awkward because he would know. Not that she could really blame him for still being hung up over her. Inuyasha had been pinned to the Sacred Tree for those fifty years that Kikyo had been dead. When Kagome had finally waked him up, it had only felt like a day or two to him. Not fifty years. To wake up and find out that you had been asleep for fifty years and that the woman/ man you once loved had died already… she couldn't imagine what that would feel like. That was why she couldn't tell him her true feelings. Kagome tried to work more on her trigonometry, but was failing to concentrate.

"I give up," she stated as she got up from her chair and flopped onto her pink, fluffy bed. "I'll study tomorrow." Kagome lay on her bed and stared at her white ceiling. Every moment she lay there was surrounded by the silence of her room. It had been quite a while since she had last come home. The Feudal Era had pretty much become her home. As much as she loved her family and being in her own bed, she could never seem to feel quite the same in her own house anymore. For Kagome, home had become wherever she was sleeping, whether it was under the stars or in a mansion, it didn't matter as long as Inuyasha was watching over her. Here, Inuyasha wasn't there to watch over her as she slept. There was no crackle of a wood burning fire that she had become so familiar with. There was no little bushy tailed fox demon sleeping next to her. Her home in the present almost wasn't her home anymore. Well, it was, but it just didn't seem to have the same effect on her. Kagome had noticed that whenever she came home, even if it wasn't after a fight with Inuyasha, she always felt a little sad. She would find herself thinking about Inuyasha all the time. She couldn't be apart from him. She wanted to be with him at all times, but she knew she had to come home every now and then. Life would be so much easier for her if she could just stay in the Feudal Era all the time, but Kagome knew it wasn't that simple. Before she knew it, the flow of sleep drowned out Kagome's thoughts and she was in a peaceful slumber.

"Inuyasha, just go to her," said the lecherous monk, Miroku. "You obviously want to tell her something, so go do it. Kagome won't get mad that you came if it's something important."

"And I think we can all say what that something is," Sango stated.

"Damn it you two! Would you stop pestering me for once in your lives!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Look Inuyasha, do you care about Lady Kagome?" asked Miroku.

"Yeah of course."

"Then go. We all know how you feel about her, so just do it. And do it now because Lady Kagome will not wait forever. If your reason to tell her is really that important, then you would go and tell her how you feel before it's too late. Now, is your reason that important?"

Inuyasha's reason was definitely important enough. He had so much to tell Kagome and he knew that she probably wouldn't wait forever. And she'd been waiting long enough. Just then Inuyasha rose to his feet and headed for the well. It was time he told Kagome just how he felt about her.