Summer Days

Author's Note: This is my first Inuyasha fic so I may get a few facts wrong since I've just started watching this show from the second episode and so far I'm up to the 18h one, so please go easy, my facts may be wrong. Ok, so Inuyasha and Kagome are now closer than anyone would ever think and things from their past are starting o come back to mind. Some things may help them out, though Inuyasha that may not admit to one thing- that he asked Kagome to be his mate when they were SIX YEARS OLD!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or the characters! But I do own Inu! YEAH! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~* Chapter 12

Inuyasha yawned tiredly as he jumped from branch to branch back to Kaede's village, Inu and Shippo on his back. Kagome's three weeks were up and they were o meet her in the village. That involved waking up early as well. Miroku had stayed in the village, but Shippo and Inu waned to go along with Inuyasha and the half demon agreed to it, strange enough. "When we ge Kagome, where are we gonna go next?" asked Inu curiously.

"We're gonna go get Sango and continue our search for the shards and the guy who killed your parents." He answered. Inu grinned and pointed ahead.

"GREAT!" he said and when they reached the village, he jumped off of Inuyasha's back and ran up to Kaede's hut. "Hi Granny Kaede!" he piped. The old woman smiled and greeted them all. Miroku smiled.

"I was hoping you'd all make it back in one piece." He said and grinned. "I'm surprised even more you're sill sane Inuyasha." He said.

"Feh. I've been in tougher situations." He said. The door opened and Kagome stuck her head.

"Anyone here?" she called and grinned when she spotted them all. Shippo and Inu ran up and hugged her. "It's like returning back home from a long business trip." She said with a grin. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her. "I'll explain it later." She said.

"So, is your 'school' year over?" asked Miroku and Kagome nodded.

"No summer school either, which came as a real shocker to me seeing as though I missed so much school." She said and then she turned to Inuyasha. "That reminds me, I REALLY need to tell you about something." She said.

"What about?" he asked.

"A dream I had. It was pretty strange cuz it was really familiar. Like I was remembering something from my past instead of it being a dream." She answered. Everyone looked at her curiously. Inuyasha some how had a feeling he knew what she was talking about.

"Right. We'll have to make time for that. Now we should get going. We have o make it to Sango's village." He said, taking Kagome's bag from her and putting on the floor of the hut. "We'll be back soon enough." He added to Kaede, so we'll leave that here." He allowed Kagome to climb on his back and they made their way out.

"So, where's Kouga? You didn't kill him did you?" Kagome asked Inuyasha as Shippo and Miroku walked on the path and Inu hopped in the tree tops a little ways ahead of Inuyasha and Kagome.

"Course I didn't kill him He left and said he wasn't coming back 'il you did. So we're leaving early so we won't have o run into him." Answered Inuyasha. Kagome wrapped her arms tighter around his neck to keep from falling since she had brought a smaller book bag of items.

"You want me to tell you about my dream now?" she asked. Inuyasha looked sightly over his shoulder at her.

"Go ahead." He answered, focusing on where he was going.

"Well I was in math class and fel asleep and I had this dream about us. You were six and I was five. The thing was, I was in your time and all without falling hrough the well." She informed. Inuyasha nodded. "We we're alking about things like mates and all and we were playing a game-"

"A mix between tag and hide-n-sneek?" asked Inuyasha and Kagome nodded.

"Yeah, and then you told me I was your mate. though neither of us knew exactly what one was. Your mom was there too and she could SEE me. In my world my mom couldn't even see you though. She took us back to where you lived and she sang this song.. Then right before we fell asleep you asked me if I'd your mate forever and I agreed as long you didn' call me a wench or bitch anymore." She informed.

"Yeah, I remember all that." Said Inuyasha calmly. "Now I do anyway."

"So does that mean we've known each other for all this time and never knew it?" asked Kagome, looking at him with a serious expression.

"Well yeah. Fact is, you were always either sleep or under some type of daze whenever you came into my world." Inuyasha informed. "My mother told me you were real and from another time and the only reason I could se you was because we were both kind of lonely. there was no real excuse on my she could see you though." He informed.

"When did you find all this out?" asked Kagome sharply. Inuyasha just shrugged.

"Dunno. I was thinking about something and it came to me that you was the girl that I made friends with those years ago. Only reason I went after the shikon jewel to become fully demon was to be accepted into something and become stronger. You do realize after you left I didn't trust anyone else after my mother died?" he asked. Kagome leaned her head on his shoulder and sighed.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha." She whispered.

"its not your fault. you just waned to know some facts." Said Inuyasha genly. Kagome let out a sigh.

"Inuyasha. did you mean it when you said I was your mate forever.."

"Hey look!" called Inu from up ahead. "I found a village!" he called excitedly. Inuyasha came up to the boy's side and looked at the village.

"Does his look like its Sango's village?" asked Shippo as they entered. Kagome climbed off of Inuyasha's back and looked around.

"there she is!" he said excitedly and grinned. "SANGO-CHAN!" she called excitedly. Sango grinned a the sight of her friends and ran to greet them, hugging them all. Inuyasha looked at her in confusion and she laughed.

"Sorry Inuyasha. I forgot you didn't do the hugging lovey stuff." She said brightly./

"Feh." Muttered the half demon and turned away, watching them out the corner of his eye.

"It's been a long trip." Said Kagome with a grin. 'Don't mind him." Sango nodded and turned to Miroku. The monk grinned at her innocently.

"Lovely Sango. Its great to see you again." He said and opened his arms for a hug. Sango rolled her eyes and hugged him. The next sound was a loud slapping noise and Inuyasha looked at Miroku, who had a large red hand print on his face.

"I don't even know why I bother." She said, clenching her fist at her sides. She turned to the others. "We can leave right away, but first I'd like to say good bye to my family." She said and they nodded. She lead hem back to her house where her 13 year old brother (this is two years later so he'd be 13 if they didn't have him die) Kohaku was waiting. He grinned at them and looked at Kagome, blushing shyly.

"Konnichiwa." He said sheepishly. Kagome smiled and gave a small bow.

"Konnichiwa, Kohaku-kun." She answered brightly and the boy grinned.

"We've got fresh tea and snacks made. Would you guys like to come and get some before going on your journey?" asked the boy excitedly. Sango looked at the others.

"We've really got to be going, Kohaku." She informed.

"Oh come on, Lovely Sango. It would be nice." Said Miroku and turned to Kohaku. "Lead the way." She said and the boy grinned, leading hem into the house.

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Kagome sat silently listening to Kohaku tell stories about when he and Sango were younger, and hey were all very interesting. She had also managed to pick up some facts about the feudal age that she hadn't known before. Miroku and Sango were sitting next o each other and Inuyasha sat next to Kagome. It was what they usually always did whenever they stopped at a place to eat and rest, but Kohaku seemed to think something else of it. "Miroku-san. Are you and my sister dating?" he asked. Inuyasha began choking on his rice ball. Sango went red, but Miroku grinned.

"How'd you know? Are we that obvious?" he asked. Kagome hit Inuyasha really hard on the back as she tried to keep he half demon from choking.

"Sango, is he serious?" she asked. Sango scowled.

"NO!" she announced. Kohaku looked at his sister sadly.

"Too bad. I think you two look nice together." Said the boy thoughtfully, and continued to eat. Sango blushed a little and Miroku grinned innocently. Inuyasha leaned toward Kagome.

"What do you think is going wrong here?" he asked. Kagome looked between their two friends and noticed Sango hadn't slapped Miroku this time. Maybe there was something they were hiding from them.

"Well we had better get going. We want o get somewhere before nightfall." Said Sango, getting up. Kohaku nodded and prepared some of the food for his sister's journey.

"I'll tell dad you said good bye before you left." He said and Sango nodded, hugging her brother before leaving. As they made their way into the woods, Inuyasha took the time to point out Sango hadn't slapped Miroku. She just shook her head.

"Kohaku has taken a liking to Miroku. I couldn't just slap him so instantly like I usually do." She answered casually. Then she stopped and faced Miroku, slapping him extremely hard, catching the monk completely off guard. "That's for putting me on the spot and tapping my ass." She said and marched ahead of them all.