Chapter 13: Journey to the North

Inuyasha joined the group, he looked at Kagome who turned her head away quickly. They walked to the entrance of the cave and Sango jumped on Kirara's back. Kagome looked at Inuyasha who squatted for her to get on his back. She hesitated, "Come on Kagome, I wanna talk to you anyway," Inuyasha insisted. Kamiko smiled, 'Thats right Inuyasha, as of now, we never happened,' Kamiko thought to herself. Kiramita and Keiko walked out of the cave and smiled.

"Oh, good everyone is ready to go," Keiko said cheerily.

"Alright, lets get going then, we have a long journey," Kiramita added. They all sprinted down the mountain, Miroku and Shippou now on Kirara's back with Sango, Kamiko running beside them behind Keiko and Kiramita leading the way, Inuyasha and Kagome slightly behind and Rokan standing at the cave entrance waving to them. They kept up that pace for a while then slowed to a walk.

"We still have a while to go but we don't want to wear everyone out incase they don't exactally welcome us. Panther demons can have the worst tempers sometimes," Kiramita said back to everyone. Kagome wriggled on Inuyasha's back and he let her down. She tried to walk up ahead to where Sango and Miroku were now walking with Shippou on Miroku's shoulder, Kirara on Sango's and Kamiko walking next to Miroku. Kagome was stopped by Inuyasha grabbing her hand.

"Kagome we need to talk," Inuyasha said as she continued to pull.

"What is there to talk about, Inuyasha?" Kagome said hurt dripping off his name making his ears droop slightly.

"Kagome, I'm being serious about this," Inuyasha said with a little hurt in his voice. Kagome stopped and turned to look at him. He wasn't looking at her or looking up for that matter. He was looking down at the ground so his bangs hid his eyes.

"Inuyasha, I've pretty much guessed that you and Kamiko are mates now, but-" Kagome started.

"What makes you think we're mates?" Inuyasha said looking up at her. Kagome blushed slightly.

"Well first of all you found someone whos like you, shes a dog half-demon, shes tough, shes lost her family and needs you, and..." she paused.

"And what?" Inuyasha asked.

"And I heard you guys last night," Kagome said blushing, looking down.

Inuyasha's eyes widened, "You heard that?" he asked, hoping she was lying.

"Yeah, I did. I heard something and listened a little closer, and finally realized what I was listening too," Kagome said turning and started walking away. Inuyasha stood there staring after her trying to think how was he gonna explain this. This was turning out to be worse than his deal with Kikyo. Who did Inuyasha love, Kagome or Kamiko.

Kamiko turned to see Kagome walking alone. 'Where is Inuyasha, why isn't he talking to her?' Kamiko inwardly growled and fell back behind the others. Then she saw Inuyasha walking up with his head down. Kamiko growled and jumped over to him, Kagome turned her head as Kamiko landed infront of Inuyasha. She lingered her eyes then stopped at what she saw. Kamiko slapped Inuyasha.

"Why aren't you talking to her?" Kamiko said to Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked at her with his hand on his cheek. Blood was trickling down his cheek from Kamiko's claw marks.

"I did," Inuyasha said meekly.

"What happened, cause you two don't look together yet to me," Kamiko accused. Kagome watched the scene unfold.

"She thinks we're mates," Inuyasha said,

"Well did you tell her we're not," Kamiko said.

"No, but she heard us last night," Inuyasha said looking at her.

"Oh, well go tell her we're not mates and that you love her you jackass!" Kamiko said getting behind him and pushing him towards Kagome who was still watching. Inuyasha almost stumbled and looked up to see Kagome watching them, listening.

"Go, damn it!" Kamiko said pushing him again, "Tell her how you really feel, and that you and I are not mates, since we obviously can't deny what happened last night," Kamiko added.

Kamiko then ran to catch up to the other giving Kagome a little push towards Inuyasha as she passed, "You tell him how you really feel, Kagome. Hes really too dense to figure it out if he hasen't after all the time you have been around," Kamiko said taking off. Kagome stood there as Inuyasha walked up to her.

"Kagome, I-" he stopped.

"What?" Kagome asked.

"I-"