Disclaimer: Hey, I got back 8 dollars. Only $2.45 left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then I own Inuyasha!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 9

InuYasha's POV!!!!!!!

When I kissed Kagome, I wasn't expecting to be so…intoxicated by her smell, driven wild by her taste and lost in her touch. Didn't expect it. don't really mind, but she is my best friend, and I can't dump Kikyo yet.

Why?

Think about why rich/famous people dump others. They got them knocked up. they got someone else knocked up. they don't just leave on a whim. No one announces they're dating on a whim, but Kikyo made sure that everyone knew. Hell, I think she grabbed a phonebook and started calling just because I told her I'd go out with her. yes, I told her. she asked me. god, the way she reacted, I might as well have asked her to marry me.

…

Speaking of marriage, Kikyo seems to think that that event isn't far off, if her magazine selection is any indicator.

Anyway, I was so glad when the door knocked us out of our little worlds, I nearly yelled with happiness. At the rate that we were kissing, I might very well have finished what Naraku had started, with or without her permission.

Kagome's POV

While we were kissing, I kept thinking about how much I loved InuYasha, how smooth his lips felt or how warm his mouth was, even how slick his tongue was. I didn't think about what Naraku had done, I was thinking about how wonderful a kisser InuYasha was.

When the door slammed, I was slightly mad, but another part of me was cheering, this means that I wouldn't push InuYasha. Loving him since I was 10 and not showing wasn't easy. When he starts kissing me, it gets harder. Now, who knows where I'd end it?

Both of us were cheering mentally when no one came in, but we quickly got everything ready and into the car to go.

I held the box in my lap, then laid my head on it to think. I fell asleep quickly, dreaming of my father. It's an easy thing to do, dream of dad. It's harder to do it without crying in my sleep, or talking.

Dream sequence.

I held the ball in my hand, holding it out to Sota, in the seat next to me. I laughed when he grabbed at it, missing by a mile, then glaring at me. I made a simple barrier underneath the ball and moved it, watching it fly around his head as he tried to grab it. he got mad quickly, yelling at me to stop it. I grinned at him.

"Why should I?"

"Sissy! Stop it!"

"Kagome, stop teasing your brother." Dad said, from the driver's seat. I glared at the back of his head, turning back to Sota. "Catch it if you can!" I yelled throwing the ball at him. it bounced of his stomach and landed by my feet. "Guess you couldn't catch it!" I taunted as I picked it back up, playing with it myself.

"Sissy, give me the ball!" Sota screamed, only 6 years old, to my 12. I laughed at him, then handed it to him, pulling out my angel.

It was always in my pocket, and I loved to see it, but that was the last day that I actually took it out of my box. After the crash, it stayed locked away and hidden, a reminder that it was all my fault.

Sota, like always, leaned over to swipe the angel away. Like always, I moved back. This time, the door opened, dropping Sota and I onto the street, since he had a really good hold on my ankle and neither of us were buckled. When I screamed, dad looked back…and he hit another car. The accident shredded the front of the car, so bad that Dad had the pedals breaking legs and the rear view had somehow become embedded into his shoulder. I crawled over to him, then heard what he said. "Don't cry Kagome…don't you ever cry…I love you all…" Then he was dead and I could barely hold back tears. When Sota came over, Dad was gone.

I've never told anyone else what he said before that.

I barely remember is.

"You have a rough life ahead…I hope that you'll be ready…"

I barely remember…I don't think about it…though that has always made me wonder. What did he mean?

End dream.

I woke up to InuYasha shaking my shoulder and telling me to wake up.

When I looked up at him, I realized that I had been crying in my sleep again. Wiping my eyes on my sleeve, I tried to smile. It came out more like a grimace.

InuYasha chuckled weakly, and quietly said, "What did you say?"

"What?"

"You were dreaming. I know what your dream was about, I just never…what did you mean when you said that "You have a rough life ahead…I hope that you'll be ready…" then you said what you told us your dad said, "Don't cry Kagome…don't you ever cry…I love you all…". What was that about?"

I winced. "No idea…"

InuYasha stared at me for a second, then he scoffed and looked ahead. "We're here. you wanna go talk to the others, or do you want to go sleep up in your room?" Yes, I have a room. I have a whole suite, at their house. It has everything, including a ton of clothes. I just never use it, I sleep in with Inuyasha when I sleep over. not in that perverted way, mind you, we just slept in the same bed.

"I'll be fine." I answered, picking up the box and heading in beside him. Scoffing at me when I shifted the box, he grabbed it and carried it under one arm. "Weak human."

"Weak human? Do my ears deceive me? I happen to recall many times that I won whatever game we were playing because you were staring at the asses of weak humans."

He glared at me, then we stepped up to the porch. When I reached for the door, it opened itself. A tall figure stared at me stonily.

I gulped and shrank back.

A/N Ok, so I made a bet with a friend and lost a few dollars, how was I supposed to know that her mom even could find a hairless cat to buy? I need another $7.45 to get Inu.