Inuyasha hit the ground and turned to rush back to Kagome. Instead he already saw that runt there, with the one who wanted to kidnap Kagome flying right at them. "Damn it! I'll never get there in time!"

Sango readied her Hiraikotsu. Just in case. "I don't think we have anything to worry about Inuyasha. I don't think that Hiei would let her get hurt. Your piddling around may have just cost you Kagome. I know she is in love with him."

Inuyasha glared at Sango with a growl. "Until I hear her say that, it is not true. She would not fall for someone like that!"

Hiei glared as he threw off his black robe to reveal his blue shirt and black hakamas. He held his hand up that sported the image of a black dragon on his arm. "Now father you will see just what I can do. And I won't let you have the one I love!"

Kagome was now sitting on the ground. The power of the wind that sent her friends flying away from her knocked her down. When she heard what Hiei said she gasped and held her breath. He did love her! Then a thought from what her mother told her one day when she had yet another fight with Inuyasha.

She had told her that when a guy truly gave his heart to someone that he truly loved, what would happen next was amazing. The feeling of knowing that someone truly loves them gives that person a strength that they didn't know they had. Well at least she told her that was what it felt like to know that her father was in love with her.

Kagome dropped her head and let the tears stream freely down her face. That was the reason he was able to pass through time with her. He had given her his heart and she never knew it! "Hiei."

Hiei smiled a feral smile as his bandana slid away revealing his jagan. Then his arm began to swirl with black flame. He glared at his father who was coming at such a speed he could not avoid it if he wanted to. "Now it is your end! Dragon Of The Darkness Flame!"

Inuyasha starred in a mix of horror and wonder. He was shooting a flame from his hand that looked like a huge black dragon. "Damn it."

Sanosuke was surprised that he could wield the dragon that well. "Not good enough! She belongs to me!" Then he swerved and the flames from the dragon just barely hit his clothes.

Hiei smiled. With a twist of his wrist it sent the dragon racing after him. With his free arm he reached behind him and took Kagomes hand, moving her to stand directly behind him. "My dragon will not hurt me or you. Just stay behind me."

Kagome nodded. She was certain that his dragon would not hurt her. He said it wouldn't and she trusted him explicitly.

Sanosuke speed up and landed turning with a whirl of water to stop the dragon. "This dragon will not be enough!"

Hiei glared. "It will be more than enough to save Kagome from a fate with you!" Another push of his arm and the dragon swooped in picking him up and going to the sky.

Kagome closed her eyes and hid her face in Hiei's back. The horrible screams coming from him were torture for her ears.

"It will be over soon Kagome. I am sorry."

Kagome shook her head no. "It is alright Hiei." Though the screams proved to be too much for her and she collapsed at his feet in a heap.

Hiei gasped as he looked at her. He turned to hear the last scream as his father's charred remains fell from the mouth of the dragon to the ground. Calling it home to his arm he reached down and picked up Kagome and was gone.

Inuyasha starred. "Where did they go? What the hell did that little runt do with Kagome!" Growling he looked all around, trying to sniff them out.

Hiei was standing behind the group the whole time. He smiled at the frantic look on Inuyasha's face. "Now do you see just how weak you would have been to protect her?"

Inuyasha turned and growled. "What the hell you talking about, you runt!"

Hiei gently laid the unconscious Kagome down on the ground then turned to face the hanyou. "Had I not been here with her this time, then you would have let her down. Stop acting like you are the only one that can protect her. It is clear that she is not as safe with you as you thought she was."

"She is safe with me bastard!" Inuyasha's hand was trailing to Tetsusaiga.

Hiei turned away from him in annoyance. "Were you watching the same fight that I was fighting baka. You got slung away from her. As well as the others. There would have been no way that you could have gotten to her in time. Once he would have touched her he could have opened up a portal and been gone with her. We could never figure out what time or dimension or world my father was from so we could not have gone and retrieved her."

Inuyasha's glared hardened. "Your father! How do we know that you killed him? Maybe you are giving Kagome a false sense of security and then he is going to show up and take her away anyway!"

Hiei glared as he picked up his foot. In a flash he was there punching the stupid hanyou sending him flying twenty feet back. "You idiot! Why would I risk the one person in the world who could melt the heart that beats inside me?"

Sango smiled as she looked up from Kagome. "So that is what happened."

Hiei turned. "What?"

Sango rested Kagome's head in her lap. "When Kagome came back with Yukina we all figured out it was the connection of the tear gem that brought Yukina with Kagome. I would guess that Yukina could pass back and forth without Kagome now as well. I had been trying to figure out how you could have come with her, because she said you didn't give her anything. But you did."

Inuyasha was now sitting and listening.

"What are you talking about slayer?" Hiei was not glaring, but had his normal mask of boredom on.

Sango smiled down at her best friend and sister. "Yukina's tear gem was a special part of Yukina. That was what enabled her to come. It had great value to your sister and she gifted it to Kagome. Therefore she was able to come. You gifted Kagome something of more value to her. Your heart. Love can connect through the bonds of time and space. That is what my mother always told me."

Hiei smiled. A real, true smile. "Hai. Did you catch that Inuyasha."

"So it is true."

"Hai."

Inuyasha charged! "Iie! I won't let you take Kagome away from me you sawed off little bastard!"

Hiei groaned to himself. Inuyasha was a complete idiot. "Fool." He would not kill him. He knew that Kagome still saw him as a friend, and would be quite upset with him if he killed the idiot. Instead he side stepped and kicked him in the gut. Sending him flying again.

x

Yusuke and Kuwabara never did like Inuyasha. And now their little Hiei had a girl. Kuwabara looked over at Kurama as he said, "Now all we got to do is find Kurama a girl Yusuke."

Yusuke smiled. "Hai. I think it would do him some good."

Kurama glared.

Keiko walked back into the room. Watching and not knowing if her daughter was going to be taken away from her was too much for Sora and Sota. Both had feinted and were now resting comfortable in beds in another room. "What are you planning now Yusuke?"

Yusuke smiled as Keiko sat next to him. He wrapped an arm around her as he said, "You will want to help with this one. Kuwabara and I want to find Kurama a girl."

Keiko's eyes widened. "That would be wonderful! Yukina and I were just talking about that the other day. About finding someone for Hiei and Kurama. Well Hiei found someone himself, and now it is time for Kurama."

Kurama glared.

Botan had been there in the shadows throughout the whole thing. For some reason she didn't talk as much as she usually did. She knew the reason. Kurama. 'But how can I tell anyone!'

Kurama sat and listened as Yusuke, Kuwabara and Keiko tried to plan out his future. "It is all pointless."

All three of them looked at him. Keiko spoke, "And why is that. I thought that finding someone Hiei would even look at was impossible, but look at him now!" She was now standing and pointing to the screen.

Kurama looked her in the eye. "I said it is pointless. I can't give my heart to someone if I don't have one to give. I am going to go and wait at the shrine for Kagome and Hiei. I am sure he will bring her home for the night." Then he was gone.

Koenma starred after him. "I thought so."

All eyes turned to him.

He smiled as he sat down. "I think I know who Kurama is in love with, and I know it won't be easy for them to get together. Too proud to admit it either one of them. But just let this one run its course. Give it a year, then start planning the rest of his life. Since the youkai that wanted her is dead, then case closed. Good job."

Yusuke looked back at the screen. Inuyasha was barely able to stand now and yet he still kept trying to hit Hiei. "Poor fool. Come on itoushii. Lets go home."

Koenma saw Botan go in the room where the family now slept. He followed her and smiled at her longing face. "When they awake I want you to take them home."

Botan nodded. Her mind somewhere else and on someone else.

x

Hiei was still sending that damned hanyou flying with a kick or a punch. "When will you get it that you can't get me!"

Standing he laughed. "Fine. Time to use Tetsusaiga."

Miroku smiled. "If you do that Inuyasha, you will hit us and Kagome as well. Besides it is clear that she cares about him more than what you want to admit. It would make her angry."

Moving his hand from his sword he glared. "You are not good enough for her."

"And you are?"

Inuyasha stopped everything at that. He was not anywhere near good enough for her. "Iie. I don't think anyone will ever be good enough for Kagome."

Hiei could agree with him for once. "Hai. But I will keep her safe."

Inuyasha starred at the ground. He was defeated and he knew it. "You better. And don't you dare hurt her! You hurt her and I swear that I will find some way to kill you for it."

Hiei glared. "Same for you hanyou." He then turned and picked her up. "Koenma has a screen that shows everything Kagome does. I am sure that her mother, little brother and grandfather saw what happened. I am taking her home so they can see for themselves that she is okay. We will be back in a day or two."

Sango nodded as she stood next to Miroku.

Inuyasha turned his back to him. "Hn."

Hiei then took off for the well. Her bags didn't matter, they were coming back later that day or the next day anyway.

Reaching the well he smiled as he kissed her forehead. "Itoushii." Then he jumped through the well.