chapter three! go me!

disclaimer~still don't own Inuyasha, but i do own Inuhaku. i also don't own the song by the Dixie Chicks.

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Kagome wasn't sure how long she sat in the tree, her tears mingling with the rain puoring around her in the

night. Inuhaku found her around midnight.

"You okay Kagome," he asked hesitantly, afraid to upset her any more that she already was.

[I've sure enjoyed the rain,

but I'm looking forward to the sun.

You have to feel the pain

when you loose the love you gave someone.]

Kagome jumped, startled at the sound of his gentle voice. "You sounded just like Inuyasha for a second, she

told him, wiping away tears from her cheeks with her right hand."I hope he's okay out there in the rain."

That comment wasn't for Inuhaku, more like a thought spoken aloud.

[I thought by now the time

would take away these lonely tears.

I hope you're doing fine on your own

but where do I go from here?]

Kagome jumped down, and Inuhaku caught her neatly in his arms, without even really thinking about it.

She giggled in sudden delight at being close to him.'No, bad Kagome,' she thought to herself. 'You love

Inuyasha, not Inuhaku.' Unfortunately, the heart and mind are two very different things, and apparently

Kagome's heart didn't get that memo, because as Inuhaku set her back on the rain-softened earth, she

leaned up and planted a quick kiss on his lips. Kagome turned and headed back to the village.

(awwwwww, that was kawaii, ne? pity it never happens in real life. boys are idiots *no offence to my boy

readers of course :)*)

A pair of golden eyes watched as Inuhaku followed Kagome back to the village like a lost puppy, holding

her hand. Anger flared inside the *watcher (*read: peeping Tom) even as tears welled in his eyes upon

seeing the very thing he had accused her of. "Sorry Kagome," he said, as the realization of what he had

to do hit him. It was time to get Kagome back.

(O_o, would it be evil of me to cut it off there? okay then, i won't)

"We better just head back to the well now," Kagome suggested after good-byes had been said in the village.

"Fine with me," agreed Inuhaku, who was having the strange felling that someone was watching him (like

the sensation you get when someone is glaring daggers at your back, and you can feel them watching you).

The mysterious watcher (do i even have to call him that, we all know who he is!) followed them to the well,

where they clasped hands and jumped through, back to the future.

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there ya go, chapter three.