Hey guys. So, this is kind of important. I have never really written a story from a male point of view before, so this is no easy task. This story maybe the hardest to get into character for, but is my favorite to write, and I'll miss it once its finished. The end is in like maybe six or seven more chapters or less, depending on my final decisions. Thanks so much for you encouraging reviews, please keep them coming. Here's your new chapter. :)

She Needs Me

So many months have passed since the screw up with me, Kikyo, and Kagome. In these months, Sesshoumaru moved out, so did Dad, and Mom started going on dates regularly.

In three months, senior year will be over, and I'll be graduating, and most likely taking over Dad's business with Sesshoumaru. Things are changing so quick, it's almost hard to keep up.

Sango and Miroku are engaged. Shippo grew about five more inches, making him 5"11 almost my height. Kikyo recently started training with her miko powers. (Lucky for me, two mikos in a row.)

The summer months and the first half of the semester are damn near a blur to me. In the summer, I went to Kyoto the whole three months with Kikyo. She has other family members there and ever since we went there, her mom always hints at marriage. Fuckin' wonderful.

Speaking of marriages, Kagome's is still on as far as I know. Ever since that day a few months ago, I've probably only spoken two words to her.

There's a knock on my door, and Kikyo pops her head in. "Come in," I say, scooting over on my bed to make room for her.

She sits down next to me, but sits on the bed so that we're face to face.

"Alright, so, we need to talk."

Immediately, it's like everything freezes, the last time someone said that to me I was depressed out of my mind.

I grab one of her pale hands, and ask, "About what?"

She sighs and squeezes my hand. "So, you know my mom really likes you."

I nod, and I'm praying to Kami she's not trying to tell me that her mom is a cougar. Her mom isn't exactly a MILF.

"Her and the rest of my family insist that I marry you after we graduate."

The words marry and after graduation ring in my ears. We've just barely been dating for a year! Who gets married at 18 in 2010? No one, dammit.

"Inuyasha?"

I look down at Kikyo. "Huh?"

"Tell me what you think of that."

"Isn't it a bit too soon to be talking about marriage?"

She sighs. "Yes. But, they won't approve of our relationship, otherwise."

"Kami, Kikyo! Who gets married before they even have a chance to be in college?" Not that I plan on going.....

I brush a strand of hair out of my face. "We're so young."

"My family prefers it that way."

"Well, do you want to get married?"

"Not directly after high school, but eventually, yes."

"It's only a few months shy of it being a year since we met, Kikyo."

"Do you even want to marry me, Inuyasha?"

I get off the bed and stand up. "Well, maybe I wouldn't mind in the future, but graduation is only a few short months away!"

"Don't yell at me! This wasn't my idea but I thought you would be okay with this, you told me you loved me!"

Just once. "And I do! But why rush into this?!" I yell, swinging my arm and affectively knocking over my alarm clock.

"Then why can't you just marry me if it would make me and my family happy?"

I look at her for a minute. How the fuck did I end up falling for two mikos who just have to please their family members so badly? Then, I laugh. It's not a knee-slapping doubled over type of laugh, but it's a sarcastic hoarse sound.

Kikyo's eyes narrow, and she frowns. "There is nothing funny here, Inuyasha."

"There kind of is, you want to marry me so that it'll get your family off your back. I'm not marrying anyone unless it's for me. Why should I change my life to make someone else happy?"

I pull her off the bed, and press my lips to her forehead. "If you marry me, let it be because you just want to be with me for a long time, not because your family fucking wants you to!"

"But don't you get it, Inuyasha? They gave me the nudge I needed, I do want to be with you."

"Think about it for a few days." Who am I really telling that to?

She nods and mumbles something about having to wash her car, before silently leaving the room.

I sit back down on the bed, running my hand through my hair.

Damn.

"So, what are you going to do?"

I look at Miroku as I sit down at the lunch table. He jumps right into the main course of things lately. No 'how are you, Inuyasha' no hi, but the probing of a worry of mine for the past week.

"No clue."

"She probably expects an answer soon."

I frown at both the scent of the nasty as hell mystery meat and Miroku's obvious statement.

"I know. I don't know what to tell her, though."

"Do you want to marry her?"

"I don't know."

He chuckles. "Well, there's your first problem, my friend."

I sigh. "I miss the days when chicks were content with using me for my body."

"Me too."

Sango sits down next to Miroku, and Shippo follows after her.

"Alright, Inuyasha, plain and simple, don't marry her." She says.

Shippo frowns before taking out a lollipop. "Let him do what he wants. If he marries Kikyo, it'll be just like marrying Kagome."

My head drops on the table, and I hear collective punching noises. I look up, and Sango tweaks my ear. "It's barely been a year, you should think about this, a lot."

"What the hell do you think I'm doing?"

"Lower your voice, here she comes."

Kikyo sits down next to me, and leans up and kisses me on my ear, which twitches involuntarily from the contact.

"Hey Kikyo," Miroku says, hesitantly.

She smiles. "Hey, everyone."

Shippo and Sango mumble something in response.

"Kikyo, I-" She cuts me off,

" I love you."

She catches me off guard, and my friends watch me expectantly, and so does she. "I-I love you too, Kikyo."

She beams. "Well, I have to go to the mikos club, so see you later!" She chirps, before damn near prancing out of the lunchroom.

Sango sighs. "Oh Kami, please don't marry that girl, for all thats holy and sacred in Japan."

Miroku chuckles. "It's not that bad if he marries her."

I pop a french-fry into my mouth, as Sango goes on.

"She looks exactly like Kagome, thats unhealthy."

There's also that to consider. Do I really want to wake up to that face every morning for the rest of my life?

It was uncanny enough, the rare days she spent the night with me. Seeing her would take me by surprise all too easily.

Shippo tosses a candy bar my way. "Hard to think on an empty stomach."

Sango and Miroku sweat-drop.

On the way home, mom texts me and tells me she needs me to buy some prayer charms. From Higurashi Shrine.

Dammit, I should have moved in with Dad or Sesshoumaru.

After months of not talking to Kagome, it's pretty odd that I show up at the shrine.

I park the car at the bottom of the shrine steps, and in a few minutes I'm walking into the shrine gift shop.

Guess who's on duty?

I snatch up two charms that my asked for, and I put them on the counter. I make eye contact with Kagome and I'm already regretting it.

"Inuyasha,"

I nod. "Hey. How are you?"

She starts typing the price of the charms on the register. She swipes her hair out of her face and smiles. "Alright. You and Kikyo alright?"

The register dings and I want to frown, but I smile instead. "Great."

"She was here the other day, getting charms for first marriage."

Shit. "She wants to marry me, because her family thinks thats best."

Kagome smirks. "I can relate."

This was essentially the same thing, wasn't it? Except I'd be Hojo in this case. Ugh, never mind, I'd never want to be Hojo.

I take the bag of charms. "Yeah."

Later, I'm watching TV in the living room. The house is quiet nowadays because Sesshoumaru or Dad isn't around. Mom is here often, but her new job takes up most of her time.

On the screen, a man gets down on one knee and asks the woman to marry him. He tells her that they've had a fairy tale romance. Bullshit. If things were fairy tale, I wouldn't get headaches from thinking about my situation.

The door unlocks and Mom walks in carrying a statue of Buddha.

"We're not Buddhists," I sniff.

She rolls her eyes. "I know that, smart-ass. I'm selling this."

She's become an antique salesperson.

She looks at the TV and chuckles. "Nice show,"

"Hardly. It's not realistic at all. That bullshit doesn't happened in real life."

I get smacked on the head as Mom sits down beside me.

"Watch your mouth. Is something wrong with Kikyo?"

I sigh. "Her family is really pushing this marriage after graduation thing."

She tweaks my ear. "Do what you want to do, even if you're quite young."

I turn to look at her, and her eyes are on the TV. "No mother should be this calm about her 17 year old son getting married fresh out of high school."

"I'm not the ordinary mother. How was Kagome at the shrine?"

"You did that on purpose. She's fine, probably pumped about being married in like, two months."

"You never know, Inuyasha. It is an arranged marriage."

Semui and Dad are a clear example of an arranged marriage being more than just a favor to the family. Of course, I don't say that because I like living to some extent.

"Your father is picking you up tomorrow,"

Speak of the devil, "Why am I still being carted back and forth if I'm almost a legal adult?"

"Your father wants to spend time with you."

Thought he only wanted to spend time with Semui.

I stand up, and walk upstairs.

"Welcome, Inuyasha!" Semui says, giving me a huge hug.

"Hi, Semui." I offer as I nod at my Dad. Him and Semui got an apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo. It's fancy, with at least four bedrooms and a mini bar in each one.

"Anywhere you wanna go, son?"

I shake my head. "Thats alright. I'm gonna chill in the guest room."

Semui giggles, "He's right, it's late, let him sleep."

For once, I can thank Semui for something other than the birth of Sesshoumaru.

"I'm tired," I say, as I head for the room thats supposed to be mine.

The room is smaller than the one back at the mansion, but it has a decent sized bed near the window, and miscellaneous crap that he likes I like. He was so frickin' right with the ramen, though.

It's pretty late. Miroku and Sango should be arriving at that club they said they'd be going to tonight. 'Invite Kikyo', Miroku had suggested.

I can't even make myself talk to her right now. I'm too afraid of her bringing up the marriage. Why couldn't she have said 'some day' instead of after graduation.

I lay down on the bed, in the dark. The lights from the moon and street lights are practically forcing their way through my window.

After a while, I start to get drowsy, the dark of the room being replaced by the darkness behind my eyelids.

Then my phone vibrates and the song 'I like big butts' plays. I groan and snatch it up. "Yeah?" I slur.

"Inuyasha? You awake?"

I check the time on my phone, 3:42 AM. "No one should be awake at this hour, Miroku. If this is something about Sango's butt....."

"It's not! It's serious, I need you to listen to me-"

"Talk about Sango's ass at 3 AM? No thank you,"

"Shut up! This isn't about Sango's ass!"

My head is starting to hurt and I sigh. "Then what do you want?!"

"Kagome is missing."

Thanks so much for reading this far. I hope the time lapse isn't too confusing, I consider this part two of the story, since we've reached the tenth chapter. Please review! Keep a lookout for the next chapter of 'It Kills Me' entitled: 'Pushing All My Limits'. (title subject to change.)

With that said, Sayonara!