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Chapter Four...

After had what seemed like endless hours of darkness, the hanyou finally decided to give up on his attempts at sleep before his body slipped from his branch. Going back to reside in his original location in front of the gorgeously blazing fire. Though, he still couldn't keep his attention from the teenage miko, noticing that her gentle breathing had started to fasten.

Frowning in her dreams, a tiny tear started to escape her tightly shut eyes. But the dream didn't last long, since Shippou had started to turn in his sleep and had managed to kick Kagome in her ribs. The sudden pain in her side causing her to wake with a jerk. Opens her dazed eyes, the female took blurry glances around to see if anyone else was wake while she slowly sat up in her sleeping bag. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, they finally focused on a silhouette sitting by the fire which caught her attention. Once her eyes adjusted to the darkness, the blur started to look like a familiar figure that had caused a little grin to form.

Showing InuYasha to be the one sitting in front of the fire with the Tetsusaiga between his legs while the hilt rested against his left shoulder. His slitted, honey colored eyes stared into the orange flame, seemingly to be deep in thought from the looks of things. Kagome took in a deep breath now, bringing in the cool night air before making the move to stand; stretching as she done so. Raising her arms above her head, the girl held the stretch long enough for a yawn to escape her lips before she released the pose. Hiding her yawn with her right hand before kneeling down to cover Shippou back up with her sleeping bag.

After the boy was engulfed within it's warmth, the girl slowly stood in order to walk over and sit down beside InuYasha. Bringing her legs close to her chest as she then placed her chin on her knees and held the bottom part of the limbs with laced arms. She remained silent as she listened to the crickets singing around them. It was InuYasha, surprisingly, whom broke the silence first; asking why the girl was awake at this hour.

"What are you doing up, Kagome?"

Hearing the question, Kagome rubbed at her side; feeling the throbbing from Shippou's little foot still taking over her ribs before she shrugged, as if it was nothing for the reason that she was awake, "I couldn't sleep..." After waiting a few minutes, the Higurashi maiden then asked InuYasha a question of her own that about made the hanyou about choke on his own tongue.

"Hey, InuYasha... did you really mean what you said? Do you really need me here with you?"

His eye's grew wide while her question settled within his stomach, followed by the male slowly glancing over to her as his mind tried to think of what to say. Looking into her eyes, he could have sworn that he was being drawn to her; and vise-versa of course. The closer the two became, the louder Kagome's heart began to beat within her chest. So loud that it was now ringing in her ears, causing the girl to furiously blush. Their lips finally meeting as the two were engaged in a romantic kiss just seconds later. InuYasha was once again, the first to make a move; this time pulling back when he had heard Miroku talking which caused him to react as so. Nervously scratching at the back of his head now while taking a side glance at the monk. Apparently, Miroku was speaking within his sleep since his only audible words were, "Ladies, ladies... don't fight. There's enough of me to go around," which was followed by a pleasurable smirk.

Kagome couldn't help but laugh as she looked over to see the letch still sleeping soundly before she leaned over to lay her head on the shoulder of her prince charming. Looking deep into the fire's flame as she smiled happily; a content sigh escaping her pink lips before her brown eyes closed to the feeling of his own head resting on top of hers. She couldn't have imagined a more perfect night, and this was to be; the start of something more.

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(( A/N: That chapter twas short, I know; yet had all ze makings of a fluff. Short and sweet. I really don't know if I should just end it there with the fluff ending or continue in order to make the story longer... -Le shrug.- Why does life force me choose such a tough decision?! XDD Just kidding -Cough- ))