Unasareru Chapter 5 As of now, dedicated to Tiger of the Wind, whose reviews I am indescribably happy about.

Yay! Hi everybody! I'm done chapter 5! Pretty damn happy about that! I got to write a bit of fluff! And it was good!

But I still didn't get many reviews! What do you want me to do? I'll stand on my head and sing the national anthem if you review!

P.S.- I'm starting an Inuyasha choose-your-own-adventure. It's a co-effort between Fluffy and me, but she hasn't done any work yet. Check it out when it's done!

WARNING- MASSIVE AND/OR RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF FLUFF AHEAD!



Ijin slowly advanced upon the girl on the ground in front of him. "What- what are you? What do you want?" He smiled darkly. He lifted the sword slowly. Kagome could only cower in fear. The weapon quickly sliced through the air.

Her memories flashed before her eyes. When Souta was born, when her father had died, and when her grandpa had moved in. She remembered when she'd met all her friends at school, as well as Miroku and Sango and Shippou. Would Shippou be okay without her? Then meeting Inuyasha. She had been so infatuated by him, ever since the first time she saw him. She'd never gotten the chance to tell him how she felt about him. She clenched her eyes shut, waiting for the pain to flood through her.

A shadow fell over her. She looked up. The shadow was Tetsusaiga's. Golden eyes glanced down at her. They looked horrified and guilty. "Inuyasha." She panted slightly. Her heart had been racing.

Ijin sheathed his sword, apparently happy enough with his first prize. He flashed the Shikon no Tama mockingly at Inuyasha, then disappeared in a flash of smoke. Inuyasha muttered a few interesting words before turning to the shaking girl below him. His eyes searched hers. "Kagome, are you okay?"

She managed to nod. "He-he got the jewel." She stated, eyes still wide. Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her. His warm embrace was comforting to her. Kagome let her head fall to Inuyasha's shoulder then she allowed herself to cry. He buried his nose in her hair, knowing how easily he could have lost her. He rocked her back and forth until her shaking sobs subsided.



Sango tried to shake Miroku and Kirara awake. Kirara awoke immediately. Miroku slept on. They really couldn't wait there. It wasn't safe. Miroku had been asleep since when he took in all that powder in the battle with Tsuru. Sango was really worried. "Houshi-sama! Houshi-sama! Houshi-sama! MIROKU!" [Okay, in case you don't know, houshi-sama is the name Sango commonly uses for Miroku (at least in my translated manga, on the internet) houshi means a low level Buddhist priest. It can sort of be translated to 'monk' or something of that nature.] She paced madly followed by Shippou and Kirara. "What do I do?" Shippou smiled slyly.

Sango looked at him desperately. She decided on a drastic course of action. She leaned down and crushed her lips against his. His eyes opened quickly and kissed her back. She jerked her head up. She found herself looking down into a smiling Miroku's face. She also felt a hand on her bottom. SLAP!

They all found each other near the village. Kagome was riding her bike, with Inuyasha asleep on the back. Shippou once again flew at Kagome. "KAGOMMMMEEEEE!" She laughed, trying to steady the bike with her feet so Inuyasha wouldn't get to rude of a wake up call.

The hanyou got up to find everyone else eating dinner. Shippou was on top of Kagome's head. No doubt he had been there since the moment he had seen her.

"You're awake." Kagome stated, trying to divert Miroku away from Sango's leg and another potential slap. She stood with a cup of ramen and tossed it to Inuyasha. He'd eaten it in about forty seconds. Then jumped into a [conveniently placed] tree. He was worn out from worrying over Kagome and that creepy youkai, but didn't really let himself get to sleep for fear of another nightmare.

Eventually, he couldn't fight sleep. He stretched out on a limb and looked down at his friends. Silvery moonlight danced all over the camp. Miroku was sliding towards Sango every few seconds. The hanyou shook his head lightly and sighed. How had he ever ended up with these people? A youkai exterminator and her fire cat, a cursed monk, a happy-go-lucky kitsune and a reincarnation of his ex-girlfriend. What an unlikely bunch.

He gave a slight grin and rolled over on the branch. Then he fell asleep.

Tsuru stood before him again. He took up a fighting stance, but the bird didn't draw a weapon of any kind. She looked at him for a moment before speaking desperately to him. "Inuyasha! If you and your friends want to survive, you must destroy Shishou now!" He cocked his head at her. "Shishou? Your Shishou? Who is it?" Tsuru shifted nervously. "The Black Angel." she whispered. "That bastard that tried to kill Kagome?!" he demanded of the youkai. "You work for him?!" He reached for Tetsusaiga, only to find that it wasn't there.

Tsuru nodded, Tetsusaiga under her wing for the moment. "The same. He said before that he didn't want to hurt anyone, but he's been using my powers to harm people through their dreams. I can somewhat control dreams. He is trying to kill all who oppose him, including you and the miko. He befriended her to claim the shards. He's managed to injure Naraku, which is why he hasn't attacked! You will be killed through your dreams if you can't fight him. Shishou went to great lengths to make all the injuries sustained through your dreams look like accidents. Dream injuries are very different from physical ones. They aren't healed so easily. That is why your back and sword wound have not yet healed." The youkai looked nervously again.

"I will help you. I can grant you all the power to fight back, but I can do no more. This is your fight from now on. I won't see anyone else injured. Now I must go. Good luck to you!" the bird quickly flew away, leaving Inuyasha with many questions.

"You're sure?"

"Yes! Inuyasha hasn't yet woken up!"

"That's so strange. You don't think this has something to do with the other ones, do you?"

"I'm almost positive that it does."

"But, who would- ?"

"Ijin! Or whatever that thing was."

"But he doesn't have power over dreams."

So went the conversation between Miroku and Kagome. It was very unlike their hanyou friend to sleep late, not to mention the fact that he had a few new scrapes on him.

Kagome walked over to where he slept. He had fallen out of the tree again, but this time, it wasn't from too high up, so they weren't really worried. She brushed some silver hair from his eyes. He was sweating and his eyes were clenched shut.

"We should wait to head to Tason. Something is ver wrong with Inuyasha." Sango said.

"H-hai." Agreed the girl leaning over the hanyou. After yesterday, she was highly paranoid about everything.

He ran through the forest quickly. -I have to find that Black Angel guy before he hurts anyone else. - Tsuru had given him the ability to inflict damage on his opponent, and he was going to take advantage of it. -His name was- Ijin. He tried to hurt Kagome. Ugh. I should have been there. -

Kagome had been awake for almost two days straight, taking care of Inuyasha who was, unbeknownst to her, serching for Ijin. Sleep threatened to take control. The rest were worried about her. She'd started to look pale and thin and she was skipping meals watching over him.

Eventually, she could no longer stay awake and fell asleep cuddled up next to Inuyasha. Neither could be woken. She had found the key to helping him.

"INUYASHA!"

She didn't recognize her surroundings at all. Kagome was lost. "Inuyasha!" she called again. She could sense him. She sat down and decided to wait. If anything happened, she could just wake up, right?

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"Kagome!" he could smell her. He took off in her direction, which happened to be the opposite way of the direction he had been traveling. He couldn't deny that he was happy to have her near him, but he was growing increasingly more worried at what could happen to her.

He found her unharmed, sitting on a log by a beautiful waterfall. She smiled at him. He stormed over. "Do you know what could happen to you out here? You could be hurt or-" Still thinking she was in the middle of a dream, Kagome walked right up to Inuyasha and pressed her lips against his. He stopped mid-sentence.

Her eyes were closed and he could feel a smile dancing on her lips. It was only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity. He looked shocked and speechless, for once. His lips formed inaudible words.

"I always wanted to do that." She giggled.

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Yay! Oh, I love to write fluff! I don't care if you hated it, cause that was the most fun to write. Okay, big battle coming up soon, so bring our helmets! Let's get ready to RUMBLE!

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P.S.- I know that there really isn't much Sango/Miroku and I'm sorry to fans. It kinda gets off the main storyline. There is more of the characters.

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