Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, I only own my story.

Authoress' Note: sorry for the lack of Inu/Kag in the last chapter. Although they are the main couple in this story, I wanted to go places with my other couples before getting back to them. But don't worry; to make it up to you this chapter is going to be mostly Inu/Kag. Yay! Enjoy and review please!

Easier Than Love
Chapter Twenty-One

Inuyasha walked back into the dark living room and sat down beside Kagome. She snuggled up next to him and he wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Did you get me water?" she asked, looking up at him.

"No, sorry. But I didn't want to interrupt what was going on in there."

Kagome's eyes lit up and she scooted up so she was sitting level with Inuyasha. "What?! What's happening?" she asked like an excited schoolgirl.

Inuyasha laughed at her excitement and kissed her. "Go see for yourself, but try to be subtle; I know that's hard for you."

"Shut up Inuyasha" she said playfully, getting off the couch, "You know I'm a master of stealth." And with that, she fell to the ground and crawled from the couch to the archway of the kitchen. Inuyasha stifled his laughter as she army-crawled across the floor and stuck her head into the kitchen to see what was happening. It was even harder for him not to laugh when she started kicking in delight when she saw what was going on. She then scurried on her hands and knees back to the couch and climbed back onto the couch next to Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha! They're making out! And they're covered in bubbles!" she whispered, although her whispering was much louder than a normal whisper.

Inuyasha placed a finger in front of Kagome's mouth to quiet her. "I know Kagome; I was the one who saw them first. And please, be quiet."

"Shut up! I am quiet!" she exclaimed.

"No you aren't!" Sango and Miroku's voices came from the kitchen.

Kagome looked to Inuyasha who was looking at her with an I-told-you-so face, "I wasn't lying. And now they're angry at you. Do you see what you did?"

"We're not angry" Sango said with a smile and she led Miroku from the kitchen and down the hall. They went into Sango's room and closed the door. The door opened again a few seconds after and Sango stuck her head out, "And Kagome?"

"Yeah Sango?"

"Peek on us again and you're gonna get it. Love you!" she added the last half cheerfully and closed the door behind her.

"I thought I was being stealthy" she said with a pout.

Inuyasha laughed at her, "Stupid. If you had seen yourself you would have know that you were being anything but stealthy."

Kagome shrugged and cuddled up to Inuyasha once more. She leaned up to his ear and laughed.

"What?" he asked, now knowing what to do with her.

"Do you think they're going to have sex?" she whispered and then collapsed into a fit of giggles.

Inuyasha looked at her with a stunned look on his face, "Kagome…how old are you?"

"Old enough."

"That's what I thought. Come here, let's just watch some TV until you are too tired to function anymore…maybe then you'll quiet down a bit."

Kagome nestled herself under his arm and frowned, "That's mean Inuyasha. I don't like you anymore."

Inuyasha pulled her into a tight hug, "You love me"

"So what? I don'tlike you one bit!"

"I know you don't Kags, I know you don't. Now watch TV."

They sat on the couch for an hour or so before Kagome began to fall asleep on Inuyasha and he wouldn't allow her to keep telling him she wasn't tired. He helped her up and led her to her bedroom. He sat her down on her bed and flipped the lights on and began rummaging through her things to find a pair of pajamas. After some digging he managed to find pink shorts and a white tank top and tossed them to her.

"Put your pajamas on Kags. It's time that you went to bed. When you're dressed, come out and I'll say good-night to you." He said and he started to leave the room.

"Why are you leaving?"

"Because you're changing."

Kagome smiled, "You're such a gentleman Inu. Just stay here, turn your back if you want but stay in here."

Inuyasha smiled, "All right. Hurry up and put your pajamas on."

Kagome quickly changed and then walked over to Inuyasha and hugged him from behind. "Will you stay with me tonight Inu?" she asked into his back, "Please?"

Inuyasha turned around and held Kagome in his arms, "If you really want me to, I would be happy to."

Kagome nodded and pulled him towards the bed after he flipped the lights off. Kagome turned the lamp on her bedside table on and plugged her cell phone into its charger. Inuyasha laid his silver blackberry on the bedside table next to her dark pink RAZR and unbuttoned his shirt. He took the shirt off and put it on the floor next to the bed before slipping under the sheets with Kagome in just his jeans. She pushed herself into his chest and he wrapped his arms around her.

I forgot how well she fit me. He thought as he held her close, it's like we're two halves of the same person.

Kagome began to toss and turn and Inuyasha pulled her closer. "Just go to bed Kagome. Close your eyes and go to bed."

Kagome took a deep breath and although Inuyasha had been expecting her to yawn and go to sleep, what Kagome did surprised him.

"I don't wanna close my eyes." She began to sing in a hushed voice, "I don't want to fall asleep…" she began to drift off, Inuyasha could tell how tired she was but he smiled as she kept trying to sing. "Cause I'd miss you baby…"

Inuyasha pulled her close, "And I don't wanna miss a thing" he finished, singing in her ear. "Now please go to sleep."

"Cause even when I dream of you…" she managed to sing before sleep finally claimed her and she relaxed against Inuyasha's body.

Inuyasha laid his head close to hers and smiled as he took in the vanilla smell of her hair, "…the sweetest dreams will never do. I'd still miss you baby…and I don't want to miss a thing." He finished before he allowed himself to fall asleep with the girl of his dreams in his arms.

Sango and Miroku lay in Sango's bed, still awake. Their bodies intertwined and the moonlight shining in the window reflected the skin of their naked bodies. (A/n: yes everybody. They had sex.) Miroku kissed Sango's forehead and pulled her close to him. He looked past her to the clock sitting on her bedside table, who's red numbers blared the time at him. "2:45"

"It's really late Sango. Do you want me to go?" he whispered.

Sango wrapped her arms around him, "No, don't leave. Please."

Miroku smiled at her and kissed her lightly, "you don't need to ask me twice. The longer I get to stay with you, the happier I am."

Sango smiled and nestled her head under Miroku's chin. "I really do love you, you know that right?"

"Yes, I do know that. And I hope you know I love you too."

Sango nodded, "Did you like dinner?"

Miroku chuckled, "almost as much as I liked desert."

Sango punched him in the chest, taking him by surprise. "Don't make me regret anything Miroku Kashi! Or you will be sorry!"

"My apologies Miss Takai." He said with a smile and Sango simply shook her head.

"You're unbelievable."

"Is that bad?"

She smiled and closed her eyes, "Not exactly. I'm going to bed. Good night."

Miroku's grip on her tightened, as if someone was trying to steal her from him, "Good night Sango."

Rin and Sesshoumaru sat awake in Rin's living room, looking at their surroundings. As much as they had tried to unpack everything, and despite all of their work, the living room was filled with unopened boxes and the apartment was in disarray.

"Well, it's now…" Sesshoumaru looked at his watch, "Three in the morning. Do you want to keep going and sleep all day tomorrow? Or go to sleep now and then have lives tomorrow?"

Rin weighed the two options in her mind and then shrugged, "It's up to you Sess. I'm wide awake right now so I can keep going. And Donatella never needs me on the weekends so I could sleep tomorrow if that's what ends up happening. It's up to you really, if you have plans for tomorrow, we can just go to bed."

Sesshoumaru thought for a second, "Well, if I was going to do anything tomorrow it would be to tell my half-brother about this. But that could be any time I suppose. I'm not tired either so I say we just keep going and stop when we are too tired to stand anymore."

Rin popped off of the couch and smacked her knee in enthusiasm, "Then lets get going! We have no time to waste!"

Sesshoumaru shook his head, "I don't know where you get your energy from Rin, but I'm sure glad that you have it cause I don't."

Rin pulled him off of the couch and pointed to several boxes with "BEDROOM" scrawled on them with red sharpie. "Those can go into the bedroom and once they're in there open them up and start taking the stuff out of them. I'll be in soon to help put stuff away. Can you handle that?"

Sesshoumaru scoffed, "Of course I can. Who do you think I am?"

Rin smiled and simply pointed to the bedroom, "Then get started!"

Sesshoumaru took the boxes into the bedroom, leaving Rin alone in the living room, surrounded by a mess she had no idea how to start cleaning up.

She walked over to her china cabinet and opened up the cabinet doors underneath where she stored random items that had no place. She dug through until she found a small picture frame. She dusted it off with her sleeve and closed the cabinet doors. She took the back off of it and taking the ultrasound picture off of the mantle, slipped it into the frame. She refastened the back and turned the frame around to see the picture of her baby. She placed the frame on the coffee table and smiled.

"It doesn't matter how messy it is in here. It's home because of you." She said, placing a hand on her stomach as she peered into the bedroom to see an obviously disgruntled Sesshoumaru unpacking box after box. "It's home."

Authoress' Note: a little longer than usual so I hope you liked it. Please review!!!