By: Patche

Disclaimer: Do not own Inuyasha… only this story.

Slight Confessions
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"Sango!" Miroku bolted into the room, dressed in his lab coat. "Sango, I got here as soon as I could…" He said, rushing to the woman's side and taking her hand in his.

Sango smiled weakly at him. "False alarm." She sighed with relief, patting her enlarged stomach with her free hand. "Just early contractions." She moved his hand up to her cheek. "Everything's fine." She finished weakly.

Miroku pushed her bangs away from her forehead and placed a light kiss on the skin he exposed.

Kagome sighed longingly watching the two of them.

"Kagome. You should probably call Inuyasha to come get you. They're putting me on bed rest, so I won't be able to show you the way to Mayu's school." Sango said softly to the girl waiting on her.

Kagome nodded and left the room heading for the payphones outside.

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"Taisho construction…" Inuyasha mumbled into the phone.

"Inuyasha, please?"

"Yeah."

"No, I need to speak to Inuyasha please…"

"It's Inuyasha…"

"Will you please go get him?"

He let out a loud huff. "What do you need, Kagome?"

"Oh… Inuyasha! Sango's in the hospital right now. I went over there and she started going into labor or something and I need you to be here!"

His eyes widened in shock. "Oh, I'll be right there." He said, hanging up the phone and running from the construction site to the hospital.

"Hey, Yasha? Where are you going, kid?" One of his coworkers shouted to him just as he reached the edge of the site.

Inuyasha tossed his tool belt on the curb as well as his hat. "Sango's in the hospital. I'm just going to take a long lunch! Tell me brother I'll be back as soon as I can be!" And with that, he disappeared into the streets of Tokyo.

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"So, what was the emergency?" Inuyasha asked stepping into the waiting room after being briefed by Sango and Miroku on the situation.

"Sango thought she was going into labor!" Kagome exclaimed from her chair in the waiting room. Inuyasha nodded and sat down beside her.

"Yeah, I get that. Why am I here?"

"Oh." Kagome looked down in her lap. "I had to let you know that I couldn't get Mayu after school…"

"Why not? Her school's just down the road from here." Inuyasha asked.

"Well, yeah. I don't know the way home. I didn't even know the way to Sango's!"

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow curiously as he looked at the girl next to him. "Then how did you get to Sango's?" he asked flatly.

Kagome shrugged. "I walked around aimlessly until I recognized the house…" She admitted as a light blush creeped onto her cheeks.

Inuyasha rested his face in his palm. He felt bad. He had been so rude to her and didn't even bother to tell her the way. And she, because of his obvious bad mood, lied to not seem like such a burden to him. He didn't know why he had to act this way around her. Kagome just brought weird feelings up and reminded him so much of Kikyou and had that potential to be the greatest thing to fill the hole in both his life and his daughter's life.

"I'm sorry. You can go back to work, Inuyasha. I know I've been bothersome lately…"

Inuyasha shook his head and lifted it from his palm.

"Well not even just lately… this whole time." Kagome sighed. "I can find my mother or someone to stay with… if you really don't want me around…" Kagome gasped when she felt an arm reach up and wrap around her shoulders.

"No. Mayu needs you to stay. Hell, I need you to stay."

Kagome looked up at Inuyasha shocked. Her hazel eyes were wide with confusion and excitement.

"You need me to stay?" She asked in disbelief.

Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah, I do." He didn't bother to explain and Kagome didn't demand him to. If that was the truth, she was more than satisfied. She smiled and leaned into him slightly.

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"Awwwwwww!"

The sounds of Inuyasha and Kagome talking filled the speakers of the TV screen as several angels had circled around to watch their interactions.

"Izayoi, he's so sweet sometimes…" Ayame murmured, turning to the older woman behind her. Izayoi was sporting a soft smile as she watched over Ayame's shoulder.

Ayame let out a soft huff. "It's kind of sad, though…"

A girl slightly younger than Ayame peered up at her. She had long black hair and soft brown eyes. "Why is it sad?" She inquired.

Izayoi spoke before Ayame could answer her question. "Well, Rin, it's sad because Inuyasha and Kagome can't be together… at least not for very long. Once the masters figure out what's wrong with the portal, Kagome will be summoned back. And it looks to me like they're slowly falling for each other."

Ayame scoffed. "I wouldn't say its love yet. I mean, Kagome's always had some weird crush on the guy, but Inuyasha can't be in love with her. It's only been a month and they only just got on talking terms."

Rin let out a curious 'mm' while she turned back to the screen. "Maybe so. But, being Inuyasha's guardian angel and all… I've come to know him fairly well and…" She paused shaking her head. "He never acts like this around anyone other than Mayu. I don't think he's ever had the slightest desire to comfort another person unless it was his daughter. He wouldn't even comfort Kikyou!"

Ayame rolled her eyes. "Well, true, but Kagome's constant crying is probably getting on his nerves. He's just trying to shut her up."

Rin gasped. "Izayoi!"

The older woman took her focus from the television.

"Why is it that Kagome can cry?"

Ayame nodded her head softly. "Yeah, I was wondering that too… and all the lying all of the sudden. She shouldn't be able to do things like that."

Izayoi's eyes widened before she turned away from the girls, giving them a slight shrug for an answer. "I have to go back to watching over Mayu. Enjoy your little movie, ladies! Oh, and Ayame, Kira will be waking soon. You might want to get to it."

Ayame sighed and slumped her shoulders, detatching herself from Rin's television.

'I wonder how it is that Kagome can suddenly do the things human beings do when she is only an angel…'

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Mayu bounced joyfully that night on her way home from school with Inuyasha and Kagome by her side.

"And then, Momiji asked me my name and now we're BEST FRIENDS! Isn't that great, Daddy?"

Inuyasha smiled, paying full attention to the sidewalk ahead of him.

"I felt bad, though for this one boy…" Mayu started again. "He had orange hair and weird green eyes and a tail! And everyone was ignoring him because he looked funny. I tried to talk to him, but he was really mean! He called me a mean name and then laughed at me when it hurt my feelings…"

"Keh! Don't let losers like that get to you… He can take his problems and stick them up his-"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. "What on earth are you trying to teach her?" Kagome looked down at Mayu. "Mayu, he was mean to you because he probably thought you were going to pick on him or make him feel like even more of an outcast… If you want to be his friend badly enough, I'm sure he'll come around. He just doesn't know how to react to kindness when no one's ever bestowed any upon him…" Halfway through, Kagome forgot that she was actually talking to a five year old.

Mayu made a confused face "Oh… okay… So I should be friends with him?"

Kagome nodded and reached over to grab Inuyasha's free hand. "Yes, indeed!"

Inuyasha felt his heart begin to race at the contact, but didn't bother to look over at her. He knew what she was talking about when she lectured Mayu. It was some kind of metaphor for how people treated him all his life.

'Like that day at recess… that one brave girl that wanted to be my friend… the one person all throughout school that had the guts to talk to me…'

Why did she care so much?

"Yeah, Kagome's right…"

Mayu and Kagome both looked over at the silver haired man who still hadn't turned his gaze from the sidewalk ahead. "I'm sure he needs a friend, Mayu."

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Inuyasha sat on the couch that night, digging through the cable menu for something interesting to watch when he stumbled upon it.

'THS Investigates: The Life and Death of Higurashi Kagome'

His eyes widened as he quickly selected the program, desperate to discover what it was that made this woman so remarkable and why she seemed to be invading his every thought lately.

He had noted that only recently had the fallen angel become a prominent fixture in his mind. The mystery surrounding her, her purpose with him and his daughter, that nauseatingly sweet nature she had about her, the way he'd feel guilty when she started crying…

She was the complete package, really… save for the 'not being alive' bit.

He watched the television flicker pictures from her childhood of her smiling face alongside her mother while some deep-voice narrator told her story as if he knew her personally.

"Hey, what are you watching?" Kagome asked, groggily stepping out of the shower and lazily wrapping a towel around her wet hair.

Inuyasha immediately changed the channel to the news station and turned to face the interruption.

His breath hitched in his throat. Never once could he honestly say Kagome inspired sexual feelings in him. Calling her gorgeous was an understatement, but she held a very graceful and very innocent beauty when he first met her. The woman standing before him now, dressed in nothing but an old skin-tight t-shirt and some very very tiny shorts, did much more than inspire an erection.

It wasn't just her body, though. That hadn't changed at all since the first time he found her naked in the grass. It was everything about her. She was just…sexy.

'However wrong it is to think that…' Inuyasha thought to himself.

"The news." He muttered, turning away from her in a desperate attempt to hide his newfound fixation with her sex appeal.

"Oh…" Kagome replied softly. "Can I join you?"

'Of course you would…' Inuyasha thought to himself, grabbing the pillow next to him and holding it in his lap to 'make room for her'.

Kagome let her hair down out of the towel and shook it a little before tossing the wet linen in the laundry basket and taking a spot next to Inuyasha on the couch.

"…and saved all of the puppies… What a sweet story, Akira!"

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha, who seemed so intent on keeping his eyes glued to the screen. They were so close, though.

'I wonder what it would be like…' Kagome thought to herself. 'I wonder how it would feel to kiss him… What would he do?' She mentally slapped herself. 'Stupid! Why are you even thinking these thoughts?! He'd push you away, call you crazy, and get you out of his life as soon as he could. You know that…'

"Are you okay?"

Kagome snapped out of her internal argument with herself and looked up into those gorgeous amber eyes she'd been so fond of for the past five years of her existence.

She sighed before answering, deliberating whether or not she even wanted to talk. "Can I ask you something?"

Inuyasha nodded.

"What am I… to you?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened as a small, faint blush crept onto his face. He stumbled through his mind searching for words to speak, but he was drawing one of the biggest and most embarrassing blanks of his life.

She could have asked this any other time and he was certain the answer would be much easier to speak out, but in his current condition, the only word that came to mind was "Hot".

Kagome furrowed her brow, taking in whatever he'd just uttered out. "What?"

"Uhh.. Uhh.." Inuyasha looked around frantically. "I mean, you're…." He started using his hands to push the words he so desperately needed to say out. "I'm hot hah… Uh…" He had run out of steam.

Kagome sighed and turned away from him. "It's okay. I was just curious. Today in the hospital, when Miroku rushed in to see Sango and make sure she was alright, they kissed and just looked… happy. I don't know. It's probably some hormonal imbalance. Those seem to happening a lot to me lately." She looked down at her lap gloomily.

"I noticed." Inuyasha chuckled.

Kagome didn't bother with the fake smile in response to his comment. She was still trying to figure out what he meant when he could only say 'hot' in regards to his feelings for her. Not that being hot was a bad thing… It was just much shallower than she'd hoped.

"You're my friend, Kagome…" 'My friend that I now harbor very sinful sexual urges for, mind you…'

Kagome looked up at him, still maintaining her straight face.

"You asked what you were to me. That is what you are." Inuyasha answered what he assumed to be her mental question.

"Just a friend?" Kagome asked, mentally kicking herself the instant the question left her lips.

'What. Are. You. DOING?! Stupid, stupid, STUPID Kagome!'

"Well, I mean… Lately…" Inuyasha started. Kagome interrupted him, however.

"No, it's fine. I don't even know where that came from… It was just hormones, like I said. It's like I'm twelve years old again, I swear. It's ridiculous. I must seem so crazy to you right-"

Kagome was silenced by the sound of her name coming from the television.

"On a slightly less resolved note, the fifteen year court case against Higurashi Kagome's murderer has become the spark of interest once more…"

Both she and Inuyasha tore their gazes from each other.

"…as evidence that once proved Naraku Onigumo, or the Scribbler to be innocent regarding her murder. This would only suggest that the man that murdered Higurashi Kagome years ago not only framed an already infamous serial killer, but also still walks the streets as a free man as he has been for the past fifteen years."

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A/N

Dun dun dun… I know you guys have a billion questions, so I'll steer you in the direction of questions I intend to answer in further chapters… If it's not Naraku, who on earth could have murdered Kagome? What the eff was up with Izayoi? Why is Kagome losing her mind? Who is Mayu's friend? Is Inuyasha in love? Find out in a few days… when I update again because I really want to finish this story. Heh

Please review. I love to hear what my readers think.

Love always

Patche