This should have been so much longer but I was tired of making you guys wait. My writing time has been cut short a lot lately. I'm literally passing a lot of sleeping hours to write and I wake up early with a toddler, mind you. That is if I feel like writing. I've been so tired I can't write more than a sentence. Lol. I hate spring cleaning.
Chapter 7
Kagome had to fight the urge to roll her eyes. To think, just seconds ago they had been in each other's arms…
Kneeling down by his fallen form, she waited for the spell to wear off so he could sit up before speaking.
The look on his face wasn't annoyance as usual but a longing that tore at her heart when he rose to stare at her. Not even rebuking her for sitting him and instead kept quiet.
Biting her lip, Kagome spoke in a quiet voice. "You told you loved me and I wanted to tell you I love you. Why do you keep running away like this? Are you afraid-?"
Inuyasha put his finger to her lips to quiet her blathering. "Maybe."
Eyes growing big, Kagome was speechless. The hanyou never admitted to being scared, ever. "What?"
"I've never had such strong feelings for someone. Not even Kikyou… I just don't know how I'm supposed to—" he furrowed his brows, "act?" ears twitching backward he looked her right in the eyes. "I'm afraid I'll mess everything up and lose you."
Sighing, Kagome took his hand in hers, holding it to her cheek. Forgetting she'd ever been afraid of those claws in the first place, "Please don't run away more."
"No more," Inuyasha promised, caressing her cheek.
Kagome sealed that promise with a soft kiss, dragging her fingers through his silver locks. Trailing upwards until they reached the white triangles on top of his head, stroking the pointed tips, Kagome secretly reveled in the softness. She waited for Inuyasha to grab her hands and pull them away but he never did. Instead, he almost seemed to go lax as if he enjoyed it for a moment. Until he realized what she was doing, and a rumbling began in his chest. His ears twitching as if her fingers were pests, he drew back, pressing his forehead to hers with a glare. Kagome blinked back with cheeks tinged with red. Still reliving in her memory both of the kisses they'd just had she didn't really care if she had to face his wrath. She was much too high in the clouds for that.
"Since when did you get permission to go touching my ears? I am not an actual dog, Kagome. I am not your pet. I'm your—" Inuyasha was the one blathering now.
Fighting back a giggle, Kagome put her finger to his lips which made the hanyou blink. "Beloved." Kagome finished, watching as he turned as red as his robes; all the while twitching because he could not escape this time.
"In case you didn't already know this already. I love you, Inuyasha." And with those words, Kagome stood up and walked away, leaving a stunned hanyou in her wake.
"W—wait! Kagome!" he was on his heels in seconds after getting over the initial shock.
Kagome smiled as he found her hand, threading his fingers between hers. Maybe they were getting somewhere now.
That's how the others found the two minutes later as they made their way back to Kaede's village. Every so often the two new lovebirds would gaze at each other with a smile. It made Shippo make 'ew' noises and faces who refused to ride with the two of them and instead with Kirara, Miroku and Sango, where the later two were smirking at each other in obvious glee. They always put on a poker face when Kagome or Inuyasha turned to look at them, so none knew the wiser on the way back.
There was a small light in the darkness that was Naraku. Now they needed to defeat him before he did something else.
Kagome had been mostly silent on their way back and Inuyasha thought she might have fallen asleep on his back once again. She surprised him by speaking. "Say Inuyasha?"
"Hmm?"
"What if we made a dagger out of a sacred arrow?" she asked in a timid voice, expecting him to shut her idea down at once as he realized what she was getting at.
"It might work…" Inuyasha trailed off, jerking to a stop.
"Ah!" Kagome hit the ground with a hard thud, getting the air knocked out of her lungs. Heaving, she lay there in a stunned stupor as Inuyasha rambled.
"You better not be suggesting what I think you are, Kagome." Inuyasha wagged his finger at her, not even helping her from the ground.
Huffing, Kagome pulled her own self up. "I just think if I had a dagger made from a sacred arrow I could get close enough to Naraku."
"No!" the hanyou said so sharply that the girl took a step back in surprise.
"Why not?" she crossed her arms, "It could work."
"What if it doesn't work, and he killed you instead?" Inuyasha was definitely against it.
Against it or not, Kagome was determined to talk to the others about it later.
Inuyasha would have to get over it. If it was the only way to get rid of Naraku, then she was determined to do it. Being scared all the time was no way to live. Then there was the fact that she was afraid of having Inuyasha out of her sight since Naraku took sick pleasure in impersonating him. The whole thing was getting downright irritating… at least the ordeal had gotten Inuyasha to confess. Everything that happened was almost worth it just for that mind blowing kiss.
Kagome sighed dreamily, inciting a weird stare from Inuyasha. She simply smiled and skipped ahead of him.
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