Author's note: hey guys, I'm writing this on vacation right now. I'm visiting cousins and even though I love them, I WANT TO GO HOME! You'll be reading this when I am home though. I miss my baby (my cat) and my doggie and my friends, and my bed. Really missing my bed. I have to stop worrying about everything, that's basically what's making me want to go home. Here I'm worrying about my little sis, and my stuff and everything else. I'm ranting now, so I'm just gonna start the chapter.

FYI: I don't own Inuyasha, but other characters not in the series belong to me.

Chapter 10

When Inuyasha woke up, he immediately got changed and ready for school, and walked to Kagome's house. He waited for her, and her mother saw him and told him to come in. So Inuyasha waited in the kitchen for her, and when she came down, she was very surprised.

She smiled at him. "Hi Inuyasha. You're here early."

He nodded. "Heh."

"I haven't even ate breakfast yet," she stated.

"Well hurry up, I don't want to be late for school," he said.

He watched her eat breakfast, not saying a word, and when she was done he walked to the door and waited for her there. She made it to the door with her stuff a couple of minutes later, and they started walking to school. On the way to school, they talked about dinner last night, and that Rin said yes for Kagome going over every other day. So today, Kagome was going to go over Inuyasha's.

When they got to the school Kagome said goodbye to him, and met her friends at the doorway to the school. But what she didn't expect Hojo standing with them, and Sango and Amaterasu looking quite annoyed.

Hojo stopped talking to them and smiled at Kagome. "Hello Kagome! Are you going with that silver haired boy?"

Kagome stopped, then blushed. "Inuyasha? No, he's not my boyfriend. We're just friends."

"Oh, okay," Hojo said, smiling more widely at her. "Maybe we could see a movie together then."

Kagome froze. "Uh, Hojo, I'm really busy this week and next week."

"Oh, then whenever you're free," he suggested. He shrugged and was still smiling.

"I really don't know when I'm gonna be free, Hojo," Kagome told him. Sango and Amaterasu were watching her closely.

"Oh," Hojo said. "Still whenever you're free. Bye Kagome." He walked away.

Kagome sighed. And Sango and Amaterasu were still watching her.

"Did you tell him you're busy just to get him to go away, or do you really have things to do?" Amaterasu asked.

"Uh, I have things to do," Kagome told her.

"Like what?" Sango asked. She had her arms crossed.

"Like you guys coming over later today and sleeping over, and Inuyasha coming over tomorrow, and I'm going over his house today after school," Kagome said. She blushed and looked away from her two best friends.

"You're going over Inuyasha's?" Amaterasu asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I am. After school today," she told them. "And tomorrow he's coming over."

Sango and Amaterasu smiled at the same time. "You guys seem to be spending more time together. Are you busy with Inuyasha for the next couple of weeks?" Sango asked.

Kagome blushed. "I'm hanging out with him for the next couple of weeks," she told them.

"Aw," Amaterasu said. "That's cute. So you like him?"

Kagome blushed deeper. "Maybe."

Amaterasu and Sango's smiles got bigger. "That could turn into a yes," Sango stated.

Kagome blushed deeper and hurried to her locker, leaving her two best friends behind.

At lunch, when they were all sitting together, Jurou and Amaterasu sat together, and Kagome sat next to Amaterasu and Inuyasha, and Miroku sat next to Jurou, and Sango sat next to Miroku.

Sango actually liked Miroku, despite his perverted-ness, and she actually enjoyed talking to him.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, with his dog ears and silver hair, and she knew he was wonderful looking, she loved how he looked, and she wanted to run her hands through his hair. She also liked how muscular he was.

She felt so tiny compared to him, but she didn't mind. He could wrap his arms around her and she'd be warm and safe.

So she talked with him at lunch about her favorite movies, what kind of movies she likes, all because he asked her those questions none stop.

When lunch ended, Kagome was reluctant to go. She wanted to talk to Inuyasha for the rest of the day. When she departed for her locker, she quickly got to it and grabbed her afternoon books. During her classes she did all of her work quickly, so she wouldn't have any homework.

At the end of the day, she hurried to her locker and grabbed her things. Before she could close her locker, Amaterasu and Sango got to her, and they were smiling.

"We've decided to arrive at your house at nine o'clock, sunshine," Amaterasu told her.

"Only so you could spend more time at Inuyasha's house," Sango told her.

Kagome blushed. "Um, thanks, I guess," she mumbled.

They smiled and looked at something behind her. "We'll just be leaving," Amaterasu told her. Amaterasu and Sango hurried away.

Inuyasha moved so he was standing in front of her. "Hey," he said.

"Hey," she said back. "Are you ready?"

He nodded and she smiled and started walking. Inuyasha followed, even though her smiled gave him butterflies.

They walked down the stairs and out the door, on their way to Inuyasha's house.

"So after dinner maybe we could watch a movie together," Inuyasha suggested. "What movie would you want to see?"

Kagome shrugged. "I don't know, any movie."

Inuyasha nodded. "Alright."

When they got to the house, Rin greeted Kagome with a big smile and a hug.

"Hi Kagome!" Rin said. "It's so nice to see you again!"

"Nice to see you too Rin!" Kagome said back.

Rin pulled back. "Okay, so you're staying for dinner, and staying afterward, right?"

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, who was looking at her. "Yeah, I guess so."

Rin smiled. "Okay," she said, hurrying into the kitchen.

Inuyasha lead Kagome over to the couch. Kagome didn't sit down though, after Inuyasha did.

She smiled at him. "Can I play with your ears and your hair?"

"What?" Inuyasha asked, even though he knew what she said. "No!"

Kagome pouted. "Why not?"

"Because I don't like people touch the top of my head!" he told her.

Kagome jutted out her bottom lip. "Please?" she asked quietly.

Inuyasha scowled at her, she wasn't fair. Didn't she know the affect she had already? She didn't have to go that far into it. But he still resisted. "No."

Kagome crossed her arms and sat down. She didn't look at him, and when he started to calm, she looked at him, and jumped at him and grabbed his ears gently, not to hurt him.

"Hey!" Inuyasha shouted.

Kagome rubbed his ears, and Inuyasha fought to try and get her to stop without hurting her, and when she rubbed the base of his ear, he gave up, and closed his eyes, just letting her rub his ears, not aware his arms were resting on her waist.

A low growl started to come from him, and Kagome felt his chest vibrate. She giggled, and Inuyasha smiled, still with his eyes closed. She took one hand off his ear and started running her hand through his hair.

After a few minutes, maybe a half an hour, Rin walked in, and smiled at them. "Dinner's ready guys," she stated. "Sessh's home too."

She walked back to the kitchen, leaving Kagome and Inuyasha to get up and walk in by themselves. After they released their hold on one another.

They were blushing when they walked into the dinning room. They all ate dinner, Rin asking Kagome so many questions, like when she first saw Inuyasha, and how she felt when he first save her, and asked if she liked him, with Inuyasha sitting right there.

She blushed. "Um, I like him, he's really nice," she mumbled.

"No, I mean, do you like him?" she asked.

Kagome blushed deeper. "Uh, I-I..." She blushed even deeper, and stopped talking because all she did was stutter.

Rin smiled. "And Inuyasha must like you if he keeps walking you home and protecting you."

Inuyasha growled at her. "That's none of your business, Rin, so butt out," he snapped.

Rin smiled, and put her hands up. "Alright."

They finished eating, and Inuyasha told Rin and Sesshomaru that they were going to watch a movie downstairs. And it wasn't every nicely said either.

When they got downstairs, Inuyasha asked Kagome what she wanted to watched.

"I don't care," she told him. "Anything."

Inuyasha smiled. He picked out a scary movie, and during it, he felt Kagome curl up next to him and sometimes hide her face in his shirt. He put his arm around her, and she seemed a little better.

Inuyasha couldn't explain the feelings that were forming for this small girl. He felt them once before, with Kikyo, but he thought maybe that was becoming a shadow of what he felt for this girl at his side.

After the movie, he drove her home. She had told him that Sango and Amaterasu were going to be over her house at nine, and the movie ended at quarter to nine. Before she got out of the car at her house, she looked at Inuyasha, then hugged him.

"See you tomorrow," she whispered.

Inuyasha relaxed and hugged her back. "Okay."

She released him and pulled back. Before she left the car, she smiled at him, and reluctantly closed the door.

Inuyasha waited until she was inside to pull out of the driveway and drive home.

Kagome hurried upstairs when she got inside, and put her things down in her bedroom and quickly straightened it up. Right as she was putting some books on her desk, Amaterasu and Sango popped up in her bedroom.

"Hey, Kagome," Sango said. She smiled at her.

"Hi guys," Kagome said.

"How was Inuyasha's?" Amaterasu asked.

Kagome told them about what they did, and then she started to tell them that she liked him, more than a friend. Kagome knew she was starting to fall for him. She just had to let herself admit it out loud.

Amaterasu was delight at this news, and decided to try and help her out.

"I can't have Jurou ask Inuyasha if he likes you," Amaterasu stated. "Guys don't like talking about their feelings at all. And even if I did have him ask, he wouldn't say it."

Sango sighed, then thought of something. "Well, there are certain ways you can tell if he likes her," she told them. "If he takes a sudden interest in us, and starts asking about her when she's not around."

Amaterasu smiled. "Where'd you learn that?"

Sango shrugged. "Just something I read."

"Where?" Amaterasu asked. "I'd like to know too."

Sango smiled at her. "On this site I accidentally found on the internet. I can't remember the name of it."

"Well, what else did you read?" Kagome asked, smiling.

"Well, if they look at you really quickly, and keep repeating," Sango told them. "And if they tried to be close to you, and walking home is one sign too."

"Aww," Amaterasu said. "He really likes you, Kagome."

"Groping is another sign for some boys," Kagome said, giggling. Amaterasu laughed too. "And still doing it."

Sango blushed, but smiled. "How about Hojo today?" she asked.

"Yeah. He likes you Kagome, really likes you. Especially since he has it up for whenever you're free," Amaterasu told her. "I don't think he'll ever be rude to you. I think he might be better than Inuyasha in a couple of ways. He's polite, loyal, trusting, not possessive..."

"And on the other hand, you have Inuyasha, who's protective, really strong, rude, arrogant, and possessive," Sango said, adding on to Amaterasu's sentence. "I think in your case Inuyasha might be the better choice. He can protect you, not bored the kidnappers to death with health talk and crap like that."

The other two girls laughed.

Mrs. Higurashi opened the door. "Okay girls, keep it down, some people are trying to sleep," she told them. "Don't get too loud."

They nodded.

"Night Mom," Kagome told her.

"Goodnight girls," she said, closing the door.

They giggled a little after she left.

"But Hojo is nicer," Amaterasu told Sango. "He wouldn't say things that hurt her, therefore, he's safer."

"But Inuyasha could be nice when he wants to be. Remember he let her hug him, and he makes sure nothing happens to her, even when he just met her. That means he has a good side," Sango explained to Amaterasu.

Amaterasu sighed. "He could show it a little more often," she grumbled. "He can honestly be a jackass sometimes, especially to Kagome."

"But he makes up for it later," Sango pointed out.

Kagome watched them go back and forth in amusement. She found it amusing how they could go from discussing signs a guys shows, to debating about which boy would be better for Kagome.

"And besides, Inuyasha is older than Kagome, and Hojo was is a few months younger than Kagome," Sango said, knowing Amaterasu's old fashioned side.

Amaterasu sighed again. "And if you get together with Miroku we can all have a triple date," she was starting to lean to Inuyasha's side, because he could protect Kagome and we was older.

The rest of the night they talked about how Inuyasha was better for Kagome, and that Miroku liked Sango more than he did any other girl.

They fell asleep one by one, the light still on.

****Author's note: Wow! okay, so I just got back on Friday, and my inbox was flooded! I had over one hundred emails from Fanfiction, and others being facebook! Lol, okay, so I was really delighted and deeply happy! I was kind of getting depressed there, after a couple of days, and I've finally found the one thing that scares me senseless. My baby cousin who's about four, she woke up in the middle of the night (she was sleeping right next to me) and she was crying! I woke up from it, and she would sit up crying, the roll over and repeat. When I touched her and asked her what was wrong, she started screaming. The first night it terrified me, then the next it still scared me but I knew what to do. So spinning out in cars, almost drowning, horror movies don't scare me, up that does. Okay, thanks for reading and please review!