The soft morning light filtered through the curtains casting the beams onto Kagome's face, causing her to flinch and leave the dream state she'd been happily in.
Blinking in confusion momentarily she gazed around, trying to remember where she was. She tried to sit up but found herself pushed lightly back down onto a broad and well-defined stomach. Then last night hit Kagome and the memories of their love making filtered into her mind.
She blushed furiously when she realized it was Inuyasha who was holding her to the couch and she tried to squeeze out of his masculine arms, but she was failing.
Sighing in defeat she laid her head back down onto the mate's shoulder and breathed softly against the soft, slightly tan skin. His neck was soft, softer than she'd expected and she sighed contently against his sensitive skin.
Inuyasha's ears perked up and turned towards her, he grunted slightly in his sleep as he readjusted his arms around her, drawing her closer to his body. She giggled and blew air into the little white triangles, causing them to twitch dramatically.
"Damn Myouga," Inuyasha muttered absently as he batted the air around his ear, searching for the flea demon that wasn't even there. Kagome fought the urge to laugh once again and watched her lover mumbled softly about ways to kill a blood-sucking flea.
She reached up and flicked the ear with her fingers causing them to go into another spasm, "God damn you, flea, don't make me hurt you…"
Kagome continued her taunting with the sleeping inu for some time all the while enjoying all the mumblings her mate was making, only catching a few words now and then.
Once again she reached up her hand to flick the ear but she gasped loudly when Inuyasha's clawed hand grabbed her before she could pull away.
Inuyasha cracked open an eye and smirked lovingly at his mate, "What the hell are you doing?"
Kagome giggled slightly and leaned into his embrace, "Just bugging you."
Inuyasha grunted and released Kagome, causing her to whimper slightly at the lack of warmth. Stretching, Inuyasha sat up and stared at the sun that was beaming through the curtains, annoying him considerably.
"Damn curtains," he mumbled as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
Kagome smiled and poked him in the cheek, "We should get up."
Inuyasha stuck his bottom lip. "But I don't want to," he pouted. Kagome giggled again and bit his bottom lip lightly, taking that as a signal; Inuyasha began to passionately kiss her.
After breaking apart the kiss so Kagome could breathe, Inuyasha decided that he should get up, stretching his arms up over his head he yawned loudly, sporting his fangs. Kagome watched him as she walked towards her staircase, picking up discarded clothing from the night before and tossing the articles that belonged to her lover.
Inuyasha was just about to call out to her about how he needed his haori when the thing came flying back into his face muffling his cries. Grumbling he flopped back down onto the couch and stared at the ceiling while he blindly slipped the haori on.
He heard mumbled curses from above him, where Kagome's room was, and he chuckled softly to himself, "She's been hanging around with me too much...she has a potty mouth."
After he finished dressing he sat patiently as he awaited his mate to come down from her room, heaven knew how long she was going to take, his ears twitched up towards the ceiling as he searched for the sounds of her moving around upstairs.
Kagome came downstairs and held her hand out for the hanyou, who took it silently. She smiled softly at him as she walked towards the well, the sunshine beaming down and casting soft light onto her glowing hair, the bluish tint shinning brightly. Inuyasha didn't even notice him lean his head against hers as he inhaled the scent of her hair; she looked up at him and giggled.
Her hair smelled nice, like vanilla and lavender, the scent played with his nose, and he craved that smell even more as he continued to breathe her aroma in.
Linking fingers, Kagome slipped the door open to the well house and pulled him idly in after her. He grinned as Kagome mumbled something about her lazy hanyou.
Gathering her up in his arms Inuyasha lightly kissed her forehead before jumping into the well to the past.
Sango and Miroku sat cross-legged at the base of the well, watching Shippou and Kirara play nimbly in the tall grass that resided near the small clearing the well was positioned. It had been at least a week since they'd left the well, not liking the look on Kagome's face when she traveled back in time to see if Inuyasha had returned.
She hadn't come through the well for at least three days, and they were growing worried, for Inuyasha's disappearance and Kagome's lack of well hopping.
"Houshi-Sama? Do you think something bad happened to Kagome-Chan?" Sango asked, breaking the silence between the two adult humans, she ran an exceptionally long piece of grass between her long and slender fingers as she stared around the clearing absently.
The monk played with the hem of his robe absentmindedly and only nodded, not really listening to what Sango had to say. Sango, however, was unaware and she started to freak out.
"I knew something bad happened!" Sango leapt to her feet and Miroku looked up at her as if seeing her for the first time.
"Sango, I have no idea what you are doing, but maybe you want to sit down?"
Sango gave him a dark, dark look, "You weren't even listening to me were you?"
Miroku picked at the hem of his robe and then only grunted in response, obviously not listening.
The blue light surrounded Inuyasha and Kagome as they transcended time and landed five hundred years in the past. The soft chirping of birds filled the air and the soft white clouds floated idly above Kagome.
Smiling, she left Inuyasha's arms and insisted that she climbed out of the well herself, Inuyasha shrugged and jumped out of the well in one jump.
Suddenly Sango and Miroku tackled him to the ground, knocking the wind out of him and making him yelp in surprise.
"Inuyasha!" Miroku and Sango both screamed at the same time both pounding him into the dirt to the point Inuyasha was seeing double.
Miroku whacked him with his staff and Sango with her boomerang, "Do you have any idea how worried Kagome-Sama is!?"
"Yeah the poor girl was in near hysterias, she kept coming back here just to see if you came! How could you be so cruel to Kagome-chan?" Sango yelled and hit him extra hard on the head, for good measure and successfully knocked the poor unsuspecting hanyou out.
Kagome huffed and cried out in happiness as she slung herself over the well and stood up proudly, only to see her two friends beat the crap out of her mate. She raised an eyebrow and cleared her throat.
The two humans whipped around guilty and moved their offending weapons behind their backs, "Kagome-Chan!" "Kagome-Sama!" they said at once.
Kagome smiled and trotted over to Inuyasha looking him in the face, trying to convince herself that Inuyasha was just fine, the hanyou stirred slightly but made no move to sit up from his positon.
Shippou jumped into her arms and buried his head into her shoulder, smiling widely and talking a mile a minute about how she missed him.
Kagome only patted his head and set him down next to Kirara.
Shippou looked up at her, "Kagome…why do you smell like Inuyasha?" Kagome blushed brightly as the kitsune turned to Inuyasha. "You did something to her, didn't you, you big idiot?"
Inuyasha was instantly on his feet and chasing the little kitsune around, though it was fairly obvious that Inuyasha was barely putting any effort into catching the little kitsune, but instead only teasing him.
Kagome smiled softly at how cute the two were and then turned to Sango and Miroku, "Shall we go?"
Kagome began walking towards the village and Miroku and Sango followed close behind.
Inuyasha sat on the roof of the hut and listened to the soft breathing of his mate and his friends. He hated to admit it, but he'd really found peace in listening to their breaths, he'd wanted to sleep with Kagome, but decided that if he told the world he loved Kagome, someone would use it against him, especially that perverted houshi.
The soft sound of foot steps broke Inuyasha from his thoughts as he glanced down and watched Kagome walk briskly out of the hut, flipping her hair she looked around for the inu hanyou.
Dropping down silently he slipped his arms around her waist, making her yip in surprise, nuzzling her neck softly with his cheek he felt her sigh contently.
Kissing her softly he whispered, "I'll always love you."
Kagome giggled and nodded, "I love you too, Inu-kun."
He wouldn't mind if the world stopped right then, because he was holding his mate.
He was holding his reason for living.
