CHAPTER TWO: UNEXPECTED

"Kagomeeeeee! Inuyasha's bullying me!" Shippo wailed as he ran away from me.

"WHAT THE HECK!? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO TOOK THE NINJA SNACK SHE GAVE ME!" I shouted and chased him .

"But the snack was niceeeeee!" Shippo kept on wailing. "OMG! KAGOMEEEEE!"

I turned around to see Kagome who was talking with Sango and saw her shot an angry look at both me and Shippo.

"inuyashaaaaa…." She said with her 'sweet', 'sweet' smile on her face. OH NO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. "OSUARI!"

"What did you do that for!?" I barked as I got up.

"I can get you a new pack of the ninja snack you know." She looked at me and then to Shippo. "And, Shippo,"

"Yes K-Kagome?" He asked with a scared tone. Pah! Scaredy fox!

"you know that taking other people's belonging without having a permission is bad right?" She said.

"Y-yes K-kagome.. I'm sorry.." Shippo looked down.

Kagome smiled and walked to Shippo, she patted his head softly and said: "just don't do it again , okay?"

"Okay.." Shippo soon looked up and smiled again.

"pft." I felt so unfair and to be honest I was really pissed off with both Kagome and Shippo. I soon faced the other way and decided that I should go for a walk.

I only managed to step a few steps before Kagome called out to me.

"What is it, Kagome?" I turned back, still pissed off with her being so kind to Shippo.

"Here." A bag of ninja snack suddenly appeared in front of my face.

"WHOA! NINJA SNACK! AND A DIFFERENT FLAVOUR THIS TIME!" I was beyond surprised , took the bag of ninja snack and jumped around . "FOR ME!?"

"yeah it's for you, I know you wanted that snack so bad." She smiled.

"thanks." Surprising even to myself , that I actually thanked her calmly. I didn't know why.

I sat down on the grass and opened the snack and started eating, then noticed that Kagome was still there so I showed her the sign to sit down. She obeyed and just sat silently.

My feelings were as mixed up as the food called salad that Kagome once made for us. I suddenly felt uneasy and I felt that I had to say something to her, so I stopped eating my snack and took a deep deep breath.

"Uhm.. Kagome…" I started, to be completely honest I really didn't know what to say.

"yeah?" she answered in a sleepish tone.

"uh, uhm.. how are you?" I asked after wasting so much time scratching the back of my head.

"Good." Kagome answered after a pause, I guessed that she was surprised by my question. "yeah , everything's doing good . How are you, Inuyasha?"

I honestly didn't know how to answer that , I guessed that I was doing fine. Especially with Kikyo, we were back together again and well everything was just like the old happy times with her. However , the other side of me was declaring loudly that I was not doing fine, I felt that Kagome didn't really liked Kikyo and I also felt that things between me and Kagome were somehow a bit different.

"I , I guess that I'm doing good too." I answered.

"Oh I see.." Kagome responded with a smile, a .. morose smile and tugged her face into her knees that were bent up.

"KAGOME! WATCH OUT!" I screamed as I jumped towards Kagome's direction and carried her away.

"Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, I am so scared!" Kagome panted hard, a wild boar demon was about to step on her while she was sleeping.

I ran to the boar and used my wind scar to kill the boar demon, after that, I soon ran over to Kagome and asked her if she was alright. She nodded and thanked me. Miroku and Sango were somewhere by themselves, they were probably near the lake and talking.

Miroku just recently confessed to Sango after the salamander demon case and well, I just got to know that they had a different atmosphere together. I hated to admit it but well, what Shippo said about me being so dense was true. I set Kagome off to sleep again and I was guarding beside her this time. I closed my eyes and leaned on the tree, and suddenly all those memories with Kagome in her world appeared.

"They're only third graders!" Kagome whispered behind the bush. The two of us were basically stalking Sota, Kagome's brother confessing action. Sota and that girl he likes was hugging. MAN. HUGGING.

"Huh. That kid's doing a good job!" I said.

We weren't looking at each other, but then, as we saw that Sota and that girl , which I forgot the name tightened their embrace. I knew that Kagome must be blushing as hard as I was. I did not know what brought us into it, but then our eyes met, we were looking at each other earnestly. However, Kagome's face went as red as a tomato and I know that my face felt like it was burning. We soon looked away.

I blushed as I thought of that, Kagome and I were almost always together and somehow, I knew that she was extremely precious to me. I even got a kind of feeling that I have never had towards even Kikyo. Besides , Kikyo didn't trust me. She went on her own to kill Naraku when I told her that I was going to protect her. I was disappointed by that , however , I knew that Kagome had always put her trust in me. I did not know why, but I just knew that. Strangely, when Kagome was in danger, even without me around her, I would know that she was screaming for my name and asking for my help.

'Have I hugged Kagome that tight before?' a thought came up to my mind. ' .NO! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING!?'

I was punching my own head and soon found out that my face was as hot as the fire Kaede use to cook.

I looked at Kagome again, she looked so peaceful and there was this strange push in my heart telling me to do something to her. 'DO WHAT!?' I asked myself. 'I don't know, hug her, kiss her!?' my brain told me. No way, NO WAY! i have never even kissed Kikyo! How could I kiss Kagome!? Well, Kikyo and I did kiss, but it was basically HER kissing me. And now I have to kiss Kagome!? Whatttttt !?

I soon killed my thought and tried to sleep.

BUT I COULDN'T !

I looked at her again and the push of me going closer to her was increasing… and before I even realized, I was already placing my lips over Kagome's.

WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST DO!? I soon lift my head and looked the other way, I was blushing as heck. And just in that time, I hear Kagome mumbling something.

"Why is it so cold.."

'GREAT. NOW I WANT TO HAVE HER IN MY ARMS.' I thought to myself.

"Inuyasha…" a voice called out.

"W-what?" I turned around and found out that Kagome sat up and looked at me with sleepy eyes.

"Aren't you going to sleep? It's been a long day today and tomorrow's also gonna be a long day." She mumbled as she walked towards me.

"uhh yeah I'll sleep." I soon gave her an answer.

She gave me an extremely cute smile which caused me to blush again; and as she was walking back to her sleeping bag, her moves suddenly became wavy and she was about to fall, I soon ran to her and caught her. 'WHAT AM I GONNA DO WHAT AM I GONNA DOOO!?' I screamed internally . If I place her back into her sleeping bag that would wake her up but if I just place her on top of the sleeping bag she's gonna be cold! I blushed even more… I seriously did not know what was inside my head in that time. I walked to the tree part, sat down leaning on it and placed Kagome in front of me and pulled her… fine, I admit, I hugged her from behind and… I crossed my legs. So she was leaning on my chest and her whole body was surrounded by either two of my arms or two of my legs.

'This is gonna be a looonnngg night.'