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Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha...so yeah.

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*~* Do you love me, Inuyasha? *~*

*~* Chapter 2: In love with you *~*

'I don't know if I can do this'

Kagome looked behind her uncertainly to her encouraging best friend to try to plead for more time...or just to never have to do this.

Placing her hands on her hips, Sango glared into the girl's eyes, telling her that she won't get out of this that easily.

"Kagome, I'm not letting you go another day without telling him. You will tell him today. Right now." Pointing her finger in the direction of camp, "Go."

"But Sango..." whined Kagome, fully turning around to plead with her nagging friend.

"Again, don't "but Sango" me. You're going to tell him and I'll make sure we give him enough time to get the words out too...got it? Now, go get 'em!" She yelled the last of her encouragement as Kagome was already being shoved toward camp.

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"Inuyasha? What do you think was wrong with Kagome? She was so quiet after that last battle. Do you think something happened while we weren't watching her?" Shippo asked, looking up at the older dog demon curiously.

"Keh. I don't know runt. She obviously won't talk about it with us...so we'll either wait and ask her later or squeeze it out of Sango. Don't worry 'bout it." Crossing his arms behind his head he laid back on the ground, looking at the already darkening sky.

"But, Inuyasha-"

"Hey Inuyasha, can I talk to you for a minute?"

Inuyasha looked up from his spot on the ground to the blushing female at the edge of camp. Raising his eyebrow in curiosity, he slowly stood and walked over to her.

Smiling shyly up at him, Kagome took his hand and walked off past a snickering Sango, who she promptly shoved back towards camp with a knowing look at the returned abused monk.

After giving Kagome a confused look, she winked and went to sit by the fire to give the hurting monk a meaningful glare.

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After walking for about 15 minutes, Inuyasha's curiosity was peaked; he stopped and asked the question that has been running through his mind for the whole walk to this secluded area.

"What did you want to talk about Kagome? Why couldn't we talk about it with the others?"

Stopping a little in front of Inuyasha, Kagome turned around and took his other hand in her own. (she's still holding his hand from grabbing it at camp). Looking up to meet his eyes, Kagome spoke, "We couldn't talk about this with the others because this doesn't concern them."

After looking questioningly at their hands, Inuyasha brought his eyes up to Kagome's. "Kagome?"

Pulling his upper body down by his arms and closing her eyes she pressed her lips to his in a chaste kiss.

Leaning away from his body, blushing heavily, she opened her eyes and whispered the words that she's always dreamt of telling him. "Inuyasha, I love you."

Inuyasha was shocked. His eyes widened and he found it hard to breathe. 'She loves me? Me?...this has got to be a trick...she can't love me...what do I say? I know I love her...but...I'll tell her. We can deal with all the bad stuff later...'

From his silence, Kagome suspected the worst and took a step back, pushing her chin to her chest to hide her slowly tearing eyes. (A/N Her eyes have tears in them...they're not ripping apart or anything..)

"It's ok...you don't have to say anything...I understand."

Broken out of his reverie, Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome take a few more steps back, letting go of his hands.

Thinking quickly, he reached forward, grasping one of her hands in his right and softly grabbing her chin in his left, pulling her face up to see the first tear streak down her cheek. (A/N that rhymed! lol ok. Mom's laptop is burning my legs again. Ok!)

"Kagome, I-"

He was cut off by a huge force slamming into his side, sending him flying across the clearing.

Kagome looked on in tears, hoping that the energy she felt slamming into Inuyasha was not who she thought it was. Looking up at the dark shadow hovering above her, she realized who it was and ran to help Inuyasha.

"INUYASHA!" She screamed running towards the destroyed section of forest across the clearing.

"INUYASHA! IT'S NARAKU! HE'S-"

"RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!" He screamed, trying to get his bearings straight so he could save the woman he loved.

Turning around, she shrieked and was lifted easily into the air and into the arms of Naraku, still shrieking and thrashing.

Smiling evilly at Inuyasha, Naraku touched the pressure point on Kagome's neck to stop her from any escape, then looked down to the snarling dog demon.

"Do not worry, Inuyasha. I will take care of your human." Turning Kagome's face to get a better view, he continued, "Beautiful, isn't she? She'll make a good servant, seeing as how you lot took the others from me...although...I did kill Kagura...but she was going to die anyway, so it doesn't matter."

Laughing, Naraku rose higher into the sky, "She is mine now, Inuyasha. You will not be strong enough to take her back." With that Naraku disappeared with Kagome unconscious on his shoulder.

Glaring up at the sky, Inuyasha rose his tightly clenched fist and snarled out, "I WILL KILL YOU NARAKU! YOU WILL DIE BY MY HANDS!"

With that he collapsed to the ground, curled himself into a ball and whispered sadly, "I'll get you back Kagome. I'll get you back...because... I love you."

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To be continued..

Sorry to leave you with a cliffy! I honestly have no clue what else to write today...plus I think my pants are black cause my mom's laptop has been on for hours. I erased like half the chapter and rewrote it...so...yeah. Thank you all again for reviewing! If I get a snow day tomorrow (friday) then I'll write another chapter...but I don't think so. My school sucks and they think we can handle anything this world throws at us. Jerks. Anyways...I'm going skiing this weekend so I won't be updating until Monday. Just so ya know. Yeah. Hope ya liked this chapter!! I really like where my story is going. I don't think it's gonna be very long...maybe like 6 or 7 chapters. Depending on what I write in each one. I already have the story line kinda brainstormed out so...yeah. Ok! Well! Review please! ^- ^ Cya!

*~* koinu-no-ai *~*