Chapter 20

After about an hour of yelling and cursing to her hearts constant, Kagome took a calming breath and got settled into her bed room. It was linked to Inuyasha's through a bath room and a balcony. 'Stupid jerk.' Kagome thought as she placed a barrier on all the possible entrances he could use to sneak into her room while she was reading. Once she was sure that there was no way for him to get into her room, Kagome sat down on the floor and opened all eight of her books as she began to look what she was looking for. Just as she began to get into her reading, Kagome heard a knock on her door. After marking her place, Kagome looked at her door and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's me…can we talk?" Inuyasha was heard.

"Not really…I'm busy…" Kagome growled.

"Kagome…come on…please open the door." Inuyasha growled as he tried to hold back his temper.

"I said no…and if you don't listen and give me some time then you can forget about us talking later on before I go to sleep." Kagome growled.

Knowing that she would do what she said, Inuyasha turned around and walked away. Once she was sure that he was gone, Kagome looked down at her book and found something very interesting in her inu demon book volume two. As she read what she had found, Kagome began to realize that this was not something that she was surprised to find. 'In fact…this just give me an idea…as soon as I find a neko hanyou I'm going to ask for this…the neko sibling ritual…hopefully with this I will remember everything.' Kagome thought as she began to put her books away.

Once she was done putting her books away, Kagome gathered her things and walked into the bath room. Once she was sure that Inuyasha wasn't in the next room, Kagome turned on the shower and got undressed. As she entered the shower, Kagome cold feel the warm water she had set slowly turn cold. 'What is going on? I mean it feels good but…how?' Kagome thought as she allowed the cold water to give her some energy before it went back to its warm state. Just as she was about to get out of the shower, Kagome heard a knock before she heard Inuyasha say, "Can we talk now?"

"Uh…let me get dressed first…I'll go to your room once I'm done." Kagome called back as she used the extra water in her hair to freeze Inuyasha's bath room door still.

"Alright, I'll leave the door open for you." Inuyasha called back as he turned around to go and get into his sleeping clothing.



'Wow…it's this late…I hope our talk won't be that loud…I don't want to wake anyone up.' Kagome thought as she began to get dressed. Although they weren't going out yet, she felt as if they should be. 'Uh…I guess I'll just have to wait…I can't even remember why I was mad at him now…Helios…' Kagome thought angrily as she got into her black tube top and black sleeping pants. After getting into her sleeping clothing, Kagome walked across her room, into the bath room and into Inuyasha's room. She wasn't surprised at all when all she saw was red.

Just as she closed the door behind her, Kagome heard Inuyasha say, "So…are you going to sit me again or can I stay on the bed?"

"Uh…you can stay on the bed…I'll just sit over here." Kagome growled as she sat across the bed and against the window doors that led to the balcony.

"Uh…sorry.." Inuyasha mumbled.

"Its ok…I shouldn't have done that anyway…so what did you want to talk about?" Kagome asked as she looked up and out the window.

"I was wondering if you would go to the ball with me." Inuyasha answered. "I mean I figured you'd want to stay here because of my big mouth."

"I still want to go…and I'll be happy to go with you Inuyasha." Kagome answered as she turned to look at him. "Because every time I'm with you I feel safe, cared for and…warm…I like it." She whispered the last part.

'Well now's a good time as ever.' With a big grin, Inuyasha looked at Kagome and asked, "Well then will you go with me as my girlfriend?"

Kagome started at Inuyasha in complete and utter shock. She never thought that he would ask her that nor did she think that he liked her in such a way. Just as Inuyasha was about to say something, Kagome threw herself at him and wrapped her arms around him as she said, "Yes, I would love to go as your girlfriend."

"Good…because even if you said no I would have told everyone that." Inuyasha growled as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Um…good night Inuyasha." Kagome whispered as she closed her eyes and began to fall asleep.

Within minutes the two of them were fast asleep. Neither caring if they were seen as they were or if they were woken later on, all that mattered was that they were finally together and neither one of them was going to let go again. That night Kagome was kept safe from any dreams are visits from her guardians. Soon the two were woken up when they heard a familiar voice say, "You should have been up by now…but since you're not getting up…breakfast will be served soon."



As the sound of his brothers voice, Inuyasha opened his eyes while Kagome staid asleep. Once he was sure that she hadn't woken up, Inuyasha glared at his brother and said, "What the hell? If you wake her up I'm going to kick your ass."

"We have more problems to deal with before the ball." Sesshomaru stated as he began to take a serious tone.

"And what would that be?" Inuyasha growled as he slowly removed Kagome off of him so that he could stand up.

"Just look around you little brother. It would seem that Midoriku has other plans for your mate to be." Sesshomaru answered in a calm voice was he pointed to the floor.

"This have better be good." Inuyasha growled as he stood up and looked around his bed room floor.

Covering his entire floor, even where he stood were books on magic, demon spells, miko spells and curses. However all of the books were blank, they had a title on each and had the level of one had to be in order to practice each books yet the pages were blank. Inuyasha turned to his brother and asked, "Did she just…did Kagome just break one of the underworlds rules? Once punishable by death."

"I believe she did…but not of her own free will…the time is coming where we will all have to continue the battle that we should have finished long ago." Sesshomaru stated.

"So what the hell are we going to do now? If anyone finds out at the ball it isn't going to be pretty." Inuyasha growled.

"Well if that happens we'll just introduce her as the oldest heir to the underworld." Sesshomaru replied as if it was the simplest thing to do.

"Feh, just make sure that these books are burned…I'm taking Kagome to her room." Inuyasha growled as he reached to get his new girlfriend.

Just as Inuyasha had reached for her, all of the books in the room disappeared as she finally began to wake up. Inuyasha turned to Sesshomaru only to find that he had already left the room to leave them alone to talk. Just as Kagome began to rub her eyes, she looked up to find a very serious looking Inuyasha. Thinking that she had kicked him out of bed in the middle of the night, Kagome quickly got out of his bed and said, "Shit, I'm really sorry about that."

"About what?" Inuyasha asked as he turned to gather some of his clothing to take a shower. 'Was she able to read my mind?'

"For kicking you out of the bed, I really didn't mean to." Kagome answered.



"Oh, you didn't kick me off…I woke up and didn't want to wake you." Inuyasha answered as he unknowingly let out a small breath.

"Oh, well…I guess…um…what are you doing?" Kagome asked as she lazily fell back onto the bed.

"I'm going to take a bath since you took on last night…I suggest you do the same thing." Inuyasha answered as he turned to face her with a large grin. "Unless you want to join me."

Quickly turning away to hide her blush, Kagome smiled and said, "Um…maybe some other time."

"Promise?" Inuyasha growled as he easily climbed on top of her.

"Uh…Inuyasha…someone might walk in." Kagome whispered as she looked up to face him. "I don't want that to happen again."

"Feh" Inuyasha growled as he got off of her, "Fine…but you owe me one."

With a grin on her face, Kagome blinked to the bed room door and asked, "Or what," in a teasing voice.

Before Inuyasha could do anything about her, Kagome ran out of the room and out into the hall way knowing that Inuyasha would not go after her if he knew what was good for him. With a grin on her face, Kagome walked down the stairs and to the kitchen only to find everyone already seated and waiting for her. 'Shit…they must have been waiting for us.' Kagome thought as she bowed down before everyone before saying, "I am very sorry to have kept you all waiting. Inuyasha will be done much later."

"Don't worry about it Kagome." Sango said as she tried to keep herself from yawning.

"Yeah, we all know that Inuyasha takes a bath before he comes down for breakfast." Miroku added.

"So just sit down so that we can all eat already." Rin added in a playful tone.

With a smile on her face, Kagome took a seat next to Rin and across from Sango. Sure enough just as they had all said, half way through the meal, Inuyasha walked down in a pair of black pants and a black dress shirt. With a smile on her face, Kagome looked up and faced her boyfriend and asked, "Could you have token any longer?"

"I could have." Inuyasha answered with a grin of his own as he took his seat. "But I didn't want to keep you waiting to long."

"Very funny." Kagome growled.



"Oh yes, Kagome you are to go with Sango and Rin to get ready for the ball once you are done with your meal." Sesshomaru spoke up.

"What?" Kagome growled out. 'I can get ready on my own…it's not that I don't mind it's just that they could have at least told me something last night.'

"Sorry we didn't tell you sooner but you were angry last night." Rin stated.

"We just didn't want to upset you more." Sango added.

With a smile on her face, Kagome faced all of her friends and said, "Of course not…I just want to take a bath in my own room before I meet up with you guys. If it's alright with you….Lord Sesshomaru."

"Don't worry about him…if you want Sango can go with you and she'll walk you to my room." Rin replied.

"What about her dress?" Inuyasha asked.

"Sorry my friend but you will not get a chance to peek at her what so ever." Miroku stated with a grin on his face.

"Neither will you." Sango hissed.

"All of our dresses are in my room." Rin said with a smiled on her face.

"Don't you sure rooms with Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked in a confused voice.

"Rin and I share a bed room however when it comes to these things, my mate is given a grand room for her to dress and get ready." Sesshomaru answered.

"In other words it's a huge room where we'll have everything we will need." Sango added with a grin of her own.

"Well then," Rin said as she stood up to leave. "I'll see you two later on today…just don't take to long."

"We won't. Come on Sango." Kagome said as she stood up as well.

"Wait…where am I supposed to go?" Inuyasha growled.

"You can just relax with Miroku and Sesshomaru until we send a maid to let you know that we're done in the room." Kagome stated in a teasing voice once more.

After seeing his eyes flash red, Sango held back her laughter and pulled Kagome along so that they would leave the room before she temped Inuyasha more then what she already had. Once the girls were gone, Inuyasha turned to Miroku and then to Sesshomaru. Once they were all sure 

that Kagome would not be able to hear them, Sesshomaru looked at his brother and asked, "Are you sure you want to do this? You don't have any idea what this might do to this life time."

"I don't' care…I want my mate back…and I will get her back." Inuyasha growled as he allowed his demon blood to surface. Every since he had been given his memories back, all of them had slowly been able to recover all of their talents and powers.

"Inuyasha, what do you think will happen when she kills Naraku?" Miroku asked.

Not wanting to talk about this topic any longer, Inuyasha let out a dangerous warning growled before he violently stood up and took his leave. Before he could go after his best friend, Miroku turned to face Sesshomaru and asked, "Why aren't you going after him?"

"If I were him I would be doing the same thing…I know you were never once a demon before but you have to understand…the link we create…is never meant to be broken." Sesshomaru stated in a serious voice.

"Yeah but what if by doing this we're all torn apart? What if Rin is to be kept away from you if Inuyasha really does get Kagome back?" Miroku asked. "Would you really leave with that?"

With the cold grin he had ever seen, Miroku stared at Sesshomaru as he answered, "I would make a deal with Naraku himself if it meant that I kept Rin at my side."

After leaving a speech less Miroku behind, Sesshomaru took his leave and went in search of his brother. Although he had no idea what he could be possibly be feeling, he knew that he did not want to find out. Just as he had thought, Sesshomaru was not surprised at all when he found his younger brother out in the back court yard with his dragon. As he felt his brothers angry and sadness slowly leave him, Sesshomaru took in a deep breath and said, "You have to understand that he is mortal…he will never understand of our link with the one we mate."

"You can't say that…he loves Sango just as much as any mate would love and devote himself to his mate." Inuyasha whispered as he continued to smooth out his dragons scales.

"So then you do understand what I was trying to say all along." Miroku was heard as he approached the two of them.

"What are you doing here?" Sesshomaru asked in a surprised voice.

"You have to give me some credit cousin…after all…no matter what life time we're in I'll always be able to understand family." Miroku stated with a grin on his face.

"Yeah, I knew…I didn't know how to tell you that I didn't care." Inuyasha answered as he turned to face Miroku. "I mean I want her to stay with me…I want her to my side forever."

"So then what are we going to do?" Sesshomaru asked.



Inuyasha turned around and faced his dragon with a sad face. He knew what he had to do, he didn't like it but he knew that he had to do it. He had to let her go; if not for his own happiness but for the happiness of his friends. 'It's what she would have wanted.' Inuyasha thought sadly as he pulled out a dragon scale from his dragon before saying, "I'm going to allow Midoriku to choose how this ends."

Before either one of them could say anything, Inuyasha jumped onto his dragons back and flew out of sight. Miroku turned to face a very surprised Sesshomaru and asked, "What are we going to do now?"

"I have no idea…I don't even know what I'm going to tell Rin." Sesshomaru answered.

"Can we let him do this? Would we be able to live with ourselves?" Miroku asked.

"If it is something that he chose than I will not stop him…" Sesshomaru said as he turned to leave.

"this isn't right!" Miroku yelled.

Sesshomaru stopped walking and turned to face Miroku before he growled out, "He knows that this would be what his mate would want. Once she remembers that it is her selfishness that has caused all this…she would give up her mater…to insure all of our happiness. They will live without one another for the shake or our happiness…do not put shame in that."

A/N: well there you have it. Another chapter finished and done with. I would like to apologize for the long wait but with work and school, things have been hard for a while but I will diffidently try harder to update as soon as I can. Please let me know what you think.

Darkiceone