"Inuyasha?" He heard it, a soft soothing voice call to him. Calling him from the darkness of his nightmare. One that he'd had many times before. He cracked a golden liquid eye open. "Inuyasha?"

"What do you want?" he asked sharply, he wasn't really the type to be all sunshine a daisies, especially when he'd just been roused from a nightmare.

"Hm, you were having a nightmare again, weren't you?" the owner of the voice, a young woman asked as she sat beside the hanyou, who's eyes went wide now.

"How the hell..." "Inuyasha, please. Just like you know when I'm having one, I've come to learn when you have them."

This made the hanyou blush bright red. "I...I never knew you...noticed things like that..." The woman smiled a soft smile.

"Inuyasha, I've noticed many things about you, Sango and Miroku, Shippo, even about Sesshomaru." "...what do you think you notice about him?"

"Well, I'm not completely sure, but I really don't think he hates you as much as you might have been led to believe." Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"What're babbling? You were there that day I got Tetsaiga!" "True, but I think he's noticed how you're matured since then. Not just as a man, but also as a strong and skilled warrior." Inuyasha blinked wildly, his cheeks deepening their red color.

"Wha...what do you mean?" "Hm...he comes to test your new strengths, his actions helped you to know of the Wind Scar, he stopped your wild demon rampage, he shoved you out of Sounga's attack that day...there are other things too, but those are just a few. Not to mention how you and he worked together to defeat Magatsui, he trusts you with the care of his charge...well baisically his daughter."

Inuyasha thought back to those times and had to admit, that Sesshomaru did seem to show up to test his new found powers...and he did stop the rampage...Inuyasha wondered how Kagome had noticed this and he hadn't. Then again he was used to the demon lord looking down on him for being a hanyou.

"What else?" "Well, not much else about Sesshomaru...yet, but I noticed that since Miroku met Sango he never once asked her to have his children...well until a few years ago. I've noticed that he's kept and did keep his word when they got engaged and then married. He didn't chase anymore skirts...unless they were Sango's. He's learned to tell the truth more, as well. Probably to set a good example for their children."

"Hm...yeah I noticed that too...what about Sango?" "Hm...since we met her, she's become more trusting of demons." "Yeah...that it?" "I've also noticed that she does still have nightmares, probably about when Naraku used her brother to kill their people, and their father." "Hm..." "I've noticed that she doesn't have them that often though."

"You've noticed so much...how could I not have noticed..." "Hm," the woman snuggled up to the hanyou "You were busy making sure we were all safe, I understand that it takes all concentration to do so. Don't worry," she kissed his cheek. "I've noticed, so that i can tell you, so that you'll know..."

Inuyasha felt where she'd kissed his cheek, he had liked it and knew that thee was no way that this woman, that Kagome would ever turn on him like Kikyo had; of course it had been Naraku's dirty trick that led to that, but still...Kagome...she was nothing like Kikyo.

Inuyasha remembered the first night he'd met her, the woman from the future.