Chapter 4: Tender moments

That night Inuyasha pulled Kagome into his room and closed the door, his eyes still red, but more in control. He lied next to her in bed and pulled her against his chest possessively, his nose buried in her hair, her scent caressing him like a cocoon. A pur like growl in the back of his throat, stroking her hair gently. She crooned and mewled happily, her breathing evening out as she fell asleep.

That morning Kagome woke up unusually early, she tried to get up and out of Inuyasha's arms to go to her room, but she found his grip like an iron vice. The more she struggled the tighter he held her.

"Stop squirming bitch, go back to sleep. It's too early." Inuyasha murmured lovingly, nipping her shoulder to make her stop. She couldn't help but chuckle and relax into his embrace.

"That's better, try to sleep some more Koi."

"Ok.. Yasha?"

"Hmm."

"Do you love me?"

"Yes."

"Good, I love you too."

"Gome?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm gonna marry you someday." And with that Inuyasha's ears drooped and he fell back asleep. Kagome followed right after him and his father closed the door smirking. He ran back to his own room and shook his wife awake.

"Wake up! You won't believe what I just saw! Inuyasha had that girl, you know the youngest one with the green eyes, he had her in his arms, she slept in his arms and he wants to marry her, isn't that just adorable?"

The queen chuckled at her husbands behavior.

"Yes darling, it's exciting, but right now is the time to sleep, please come back to bed, I have no energy to run around with you." She pulled the covers over her head, but to no avail, he pulled them off of his wife."

"Come on, lets go watch them sleep." He begged with puppy dog eyes.

"No, I'm tired and sleepy." She placed the pillow over her head and, finally, the king went back to bed, dreaming of his future grandchildren.

Miroku and Sango ran side by side to the breakfast table, Miroku holding Sango's hand. Kouga Already sat at the table along with Inuyasha and Kagome, who were discussing the pros and cons of building a fort that day, well Inuyasha and Kouga discussed, Kagome sort of suggested things now and then but mostly preoccupied herself with braiding Inuyasha's hair.

"It's settled! We'll build a fort out front and battle enemies of the castle!" Inuyasha slammed his hand down upon the table. Now that Kouga had backed off they were back to friends in competition.

"But where will we get the enemies is the question?" Kouga contemplated.

"Aren't King Onigumo and his Son Naraku coming today? For the Summer Festival? That's why your parents came over right?" Inuyasha grinned in an eerily evil way.

"Hey that's right, the Kumo's always come over about a week before it starts, just like us." Kouga rubbed his hands together gleefully.

"Wait, what's the summer fair?" Asked Miroku, he, Sango, and Kagome were from an Island city and didn't know much about the kingdom.

"Well every year, the four Kingdoms hold four festivals for the four seasons. The kingdom of the North has the Winter Festival, the Kingdom of the South holds the Fall Festival, the Kingdom of the East holds the Spring Festival, and we here at the Kingdom of the West hold the Summer Festival." Explained Inuyasha, just as he'd been taught.

"Ok, but what did this Naraku boy do to deserve being the enemy of our fort?" Asked Sango, Kagome was off day dreaming but sort of woke up when Inuyasha had begun explaining the Festivals and she too wondered why the two Princes did not like the other boy.

"Well ever since we were kids, Inuyasha and I were friends and we would always play together when we saw each other, we'd known each other since birth. We first met Naraku when we were, how old were we Yash?"

"Around five if I'm not mistaken, it was for my birthday party remember? It was more or less three days until my sixth birthday when father introduced us."

"Oh yeah that's right, any way, Naraku was kinda shy so we made an effort to be his friend."

"We really tried, we invited him to do everything with us."

"Yeah but then, we went climbing to the top off a boulder Inuyasha's dad had bought, it was huge, almost as big as a one story house. Inuyasha went first, then Naraku, I watched and just as I was about to start climbing, Inuyasha slipped and fell, he landed right next to Naraku's foot, he was holding on with both hand's to the ledge but he was slipping. He called to Naraku to help him out but, Naraku stepped on Inuyasha's hands as hard as he could and watched him fall."

"If Kouga hadn't been at the bottom I would have died, or gotten really hurt."

"Luckily, I was able to jump on the rock and grab his hand so he wouldn't hit the ground. We nearly toppled over but we stayed on. After that we jumped off and ran to tell the adults what happened. Naraku was punished and ever since then we've hated each other."

"Why would he do something so horrible?" Demanded Kagome, how could anyone be so cruel?

"We have no Idea why he did that, or why he wanted to hurt Inuyasha." Kouga said, shaking his head.

The five friends ran outside to prepare their fort for the arrival of their enemy

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