*INUYUSHA is owned by Rumiko Takahashi yadda, yadda, yadda.

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Dear Reviewers: Sorry, it took long. It is my preliminary exams this month.

I don't know where I got the name Kidome. I just thought it sounds cute. Artemismoon seems to think it's a mix of Kikyou and Kagome... So, you people can take Artemismoon's idea or whatever you want it to be.

Am I getting the spelling of the sword right this time? Gomen, I've been getting a lot of different versions of that sword's name.

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JAPANESE TRANSLATION:

Udasai- Shut up

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Chapter 8: First Love Versus New Love



SENGEKU JIDAI



It was the embarrassment of the century.





[Flashback]

['Kuso, it feels so warm. And, and, and smells so good.'] He liked this feeling. It felt like he had dead and went to heaven. Was he dead then? If this what it feels like when you're dead, he was glad that he died then.

A cool air breezed over his body. He shivered. How could it be cold all of the sudden? He had to have that warmth feeling that he felt earlier. Maybe the gods realize that he was not supposed to be in heaven. Iie, please, he needed to feel that warm feeling again. And also he needed to drink in that sweet utterly breathtaking scent before the gods threw him out. Just a little more, please, just a little more to feel and smell that heavenly sweet scent that he loved so much. He moved towards the warmth and the source of that scent. Good, the warmth was spreading throughout his body starting from his front then going down to his legs. It wasn't enough. He lifted his arms and attempted to gather that wonderful warmth feeling to his body. He had always been possessive, to his possessions, his Shikon-no- tama, his swords, his ramen, his friends, his woman, HIS, and this was not different. However, it was still not enough. He curved his body to allow in more of that warmth to spread to every contours of his body. And oh, that heavenly scent was stronger now that he was successful in capturing that warmth. Feh, he would not let this go. His grip tightened. No matter what happens he would never let this go. Tightening his grip more on his newly possessed possession. He had sworn to his tetsusaiga. HIS.

[End of Flashback]





He hated being teased. When are they going to let it up?

"My, aren't we in the mood today?" Kaede-baba tried not to smirked at the fuming hanyo.

The hanyo after being rudely awakened or was it after he went into a shock. Or was it after the future girl walked out without even making use of the curse necklace with only one word from her mouth. Whatever it was. The consequences were routine: The future girl went back to her time. Shippou got angry with him and once the little kitsune realized he was well enough to be kick on the face- he gave out his best shot and ran as far away from him as possible. Sango was disappointed but did not say nor did anything, which had made the hanyo feel guilty. Why do they think it was always his fault? He hated it when they make him feel like a villain. He walked out of the hut not even bothering what the monk had got to say.

So now he was sitting on the fence with the old woman in the garden and he was not in the mood for jokes.

"Udasai, baba," the dog-demon barked. "Or you'll find yourself near your beloved shrine but this time below the ground."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, and I thought after we've been through you would have at least change Inuyasha." Miroku shook his head as he walked in on Inuyasha's threat. "You should be more mature and respect your elders. Like me." He added. "Ohayo, Kaede-sama."

"Ohayo, Houshi-sama." Kaede greeted back and went on brushing the dirt out of her herbs before putting them on her basket.

"What do you want?!?" Inuyasha growled. Man, he was really living up to his dog creature side of his family. "And I know this isn't about me respecting some pathetic human."

Upon hearing that, Kaede only sighed and went back to work. It was really a good decision on her part to put that cursed necklace to that rude hanyo's neck. However, she wished that Kagome could be here right now to put some little respect on that boy's body. Since, the girl was not there, she decided to let the monk do his job without interrupting. This could be a better punishment for that boy and she could not wait for the explosion to happen.

"See here, Inuyasha," the monk began what would be his long lecture to his lost disciple. Hmmm... That does not sound right. To his converted demon friend, that does not sound right either. Oh, well. "We all have been worried when you did not wake up as soon as your wounds were healed."

"Feh."

Miroku ignored that. "But not as worried as Kagome-sama was about you."

The monk paused trying to take a glimpse if the hanyo cared. And seeing the dog-demon's shoulder slumped was a big indication that he did care. He was just too stubborn to say it.

The monk sighed.



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KAGOME'S TIME (She was still living in the temple with her family)



"That jerk!" Kagome fumed as she climbed out of the well and walked briskly to her house. It no longer felt like she had come home. No, that was not it. She slowed down to a stop and stared up at her window.

When did she start feeling that the past feels more like a home than her own time? Was this the consequences of being in love with Inuyasha? She did not even know how she could have fallen in love with that rude, egotistical, ill-mannered, ultra-possessive hanyo. All right, she did know. Sometimes. Oh, every time. Every time he protected her. Every time he was sweet to her. [Like the time she gotten sick and he stayed over and even given her his mother's medicinal recipe for her fever.] Every time he carried her through his back even though he knew she could either ride Kirara or ride her bike. And even every time he gets jealous whenever Kouga- kun declared his love for her. And oh so, every time he let her glimpsed into his human emotion when she knew how he hated having to deal with what he termed as human weaknesses.

She loved Inuyasha. She loved everything about him. Yes, even when he was being a jerk. She loved him. She loved him with all her being. She was incomplete without him. She had long time ago decided that he was her other half. And no one could ever replace him in her heart. No one. No one.

If only, he sees her in the way she sees him.

She would even take on his rudeness if he could only show her some signs that she was in some way important to him like Kikyou was and still is.

Yes, she would take on his rudeness. At least it had made a difference between her and Kikyou. She hated it when he compared her to that miko. But she hated it more if he saw her as the miko and not as Kagome. So, his rudeness to her in a way made her feel he was seeing her as Kagome. His rudeness somehow made her feel he was hers. So, even if it was only for a moment, even if it hurts, at least she could pretend that he was hers and only hers.





[Flashback]

She felt warm all over. She snuggled closer and her face came in contact with something hard. She rubbed her face to it and heard a groan coming from about.

['Wait a minute.'] She was fully awake now and stared at the hard warm object that her face in contact with. It was his chest. He didn't look that much when he wore his haori, but now she could feel and see how firm all his muscles were. He was hard all over. She blushes as she stared at the face of the owner of that warm chest that she was a while ago rubbing her face in. He looked so innocent like this. He gathered her closer to him when she instinctively moved back. It was as if he was trying to infuse her into him. Was he? Should she wake him up? But this feels so good. His arms were around her giving her warmth. Making her feel safer than she ever felt in all her life. He always had that ability to make her feel safe.

She sighed. This was what she always dream of. Him and her: Alone. Together. But she knew this would not last long either. Once, he wakes up it would be like nothing happened. Oh, she knew him so well. He was that predictable to her. But for now he is asleep. She will take advantage of that. She smiled as she closed the distance between them. Yes, she will take advantage of it. For now, she will pretend this was forever.



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She wiggled to make herself more comfortable when her cold feet came in contact with his sheen. Bad move. It jarred the hanyo from his peaceful sleep.

Then things happened quite simultaneously.

Inuyasha opened his eyes and immediately his golden-amber eyes locked into the deepest blue-eyes belonging only to the girl who had set him free from the ancient tree. His arms and legs were around her, locking her to him. He groaned as he felt her rubbed one of his ears. She giggled when his sensitive ear twitched. He glared at her which only made her giggle more.

She moved closer to him and laid her head on his shoulder blades, her playful hand lay still just about his ear.

Was she letting him touch her like this? His eyes wavered as that question and confusion filtered into his brain. Instinctively the girl sensed that the boy was troubled. She looked just in time to see his bewilderment and smiled. She was about to bring him closer to her---.

"Inuyasha!"

"Good you're---" Miroku entered just in time to catch Shippou as he jumped into his arms. He moved the kitsune away from his face to look at what had made Shippou ran to him and was shocked to see the couple in bed. Of course, he was not really shock at the fact that Kagome was in bed with Inuyasha. She had been doing that ever since they all notice it calm the hanyo. But what made him paralyzed was the fact that the hanyo had his arms around the girl hugging her to him. ['It's about time.'] He smirked.

That was a worse move that jarring the hanyo from his sleep. He misinterpreted the perverted monk's grinned.

He looked back at the girl and for some stupid reason no one knows why. He reacted stupidly.

He moved away from so fast that it pushed the girl off the bed. As if that was not enough.

"What the fuck were you doing, temee__!" He shouted at her. Adding to the injury he had foolishly caused.

That's it. When will she ever learn? Kagome got up from her position and gave the hanyo a fierce look.

And decided against using the curse.

She walked out.

[End of Flashback]



"Kagome, good your back." Kagome's mother called out as she saw her daughter standing outside staring up to her window. She just came in from grocery and immediately sense that her daughter was distressed. She was never wrong when it comes to it. Her motherly instinct was strong and she was glad for it. "Help me make our lunch?"

"Ah." Kagome smiled and walked inside the house together with her own family.





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SENGEKU JIDAI



[Flashback]

That's it. When will she ever learn? Kagome got up from her position and gave the hanyo a fierce look.

He's going to get it now.

He instinctively closed his eyes as he anticipated the pain he will feel as he was slammed down by the cursed necklace. He waited. And waited.

Nothing happen.

He knew.

He knew, even before he opened his eyes that he would not see her in front of him.

The scent. The scent that he loved so much, but never admitted except the time when he thought he was dying from the yokai-spider's poison. But that doesn't count. Does it? He opened his eyes and he knew. He knew without being told that she had already left the room. Bringing with her everything that he wanted but knew he could not have. He inhaled deeply; taking in her scent before it completely the wind carried it with him on his journey.

And Kagome was oblivious to all this except him acting as a jerk.

[End of Flashback]



Yeah, he knew he acted stupidly. It was the only reason he didn't chase after the girl and forces her to stay.

['Argh, darn it!']

The monk had gone on and on until he made him shut up. Or more correctly until he left the village just to be alone. He needed to think. To assessed everything.

Has it been that long since they all started to gather those shards? He knew he changed even though he does not want to admit it. As time passed by he had become more trusting. Was this because of Kagome? Was she responsible for his change?

He thought of things that happen between them starting from the time she released him, to meeting Shippou, Miroku, and Sango. Their quest to gather the scattered shards before Naraku could get hold of it. He thought of his dream to become a full demon, to be powerful, to be invincible, and his desire to avenge Kikyou. He thought of Miroku's desire to avenge his family against Naraku for getting the cursed hand. Of Sango's desires for revenge for killing her family, her whole village, and for using her beloved brother for his evil plans. He remembered the time when Kagome gave the tetsusaiga to him. He remembered the sad look Kagome had when he constantly turned to Kikyou or when he turned into an uncontrollable yokai. Or those times when ---. So, it was that long.

He stopped and looked up and was startled to find himself beneath the Goshinku tree where he was trapped for fifty years.

"Huh, she had set me free." He smiled as he touched the spot in the tree where a scare was still visible from an arrow. He had to admit. She had freed him not only from the arrow. "She had set me free and made me feel important."

His smile saddened. "Gomen, Kagome, I wish I could have met you before anything like this ever happen. You are truly unique. But I -- I have an obligation to fulfill. I need to see this to the end. You were the one who had thought me not to run from it. And I will not."

His eyes stung and the images in front of him started to waver.

A wind drifted through him carrying a scent. Carrying an old familiar scent. He knew this scent too.

He blinked his eyes trying to recover. He wouldn't let this person see him like this. He could not trust her. He laughed at that. How ironic it was that he could trust a girl from different time, yet this girl whom he was willing to become human with could not make him trust her. Kagome and rest thought that he did and he never let it known otherwise.

He would not let her see his weaknesses.

"Hello, Inuyasha."

"Kikyou."



ON TO CHAPTER 9

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Yay! Finished. That took longer than I thought.

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, because this chapter will decide the course of story whether it will be longer or shorter.

I don't remember what you call the top of Inuyasha's kimono- was it haori? I'm too lazy to find out about it.

Twenty reviews - to get me to write the next chapter. ^_^

Cliffhanger is the best, forces your readers to review. (LOL)

Honestly, I wasn't going to put cliffhanger here but I got hungry. So I ended it that way.