Time for a change part 40
Like A/U fics? Try this one. Make sure to review. A Thin Line by Moonbunny I haven't read it but it
comes recommended.
I don't own Inuyasha..... now I have to go to my therapy appoinment so I can deal with it.
*Make Sure You Read The A/N At The End When You Are Done Reading!*
Inuyasha quietly opened the well shrine door and stepped through holding the sleeping Kagome in his arms. Inuyasha looked at
the well deep in thought. He had a knawing feeling that he had forgotten something, but for the life of him he couldn't think
of it. Inuyasha looked down at the girl in his arms and smirked. He stepped up onto the side of the well careful not to disturb
Kagome. 'Whatever it is we can use the shards to come get it.' he decided as he leapt down the well. Only then did he realize
what he had forgotten. His eyes widened with realization but there was nothing he could do to stop it. Thanks to his rosary
the well let him and his passanger through. Getting back however would be another thing as the shards were still in Kagome's
room hidden away.
As they appeared on his side of the well Inuyasha cursed himself for being so careless. It seemed he was destined to be sat
into oblivion by an angry Kagome for fainting, kidnapping her, and now cutting her off from her time until they found another
shard. 'Blast it! I didn't see the Tetsusaiga in the pack either!' he thought unhappily. Inuyasha sighed. There was nothing
that could be done so he jumped out of the well. Inuyasha considered briefly where he should take Kagome. To Kaede's hut, or
the unfinished house. 'Keh, If I go to Kaede's they'll probably nag me for taking her from her house and that might wake
her up.' That decided it. Inuyasha REALLY didn't want to deal with an angry and sleep deprived Kagome so he walked to the
unfinished house that was much closer anyway.
Inuyasha quickly covered the five hundred yards or so to the unfinished house. Knowing Kagome's fondness of bathing, he had
specifically placed the house about equidistant from both the well and the river. Inuyasha walked through the entrance and
looked around. It seemed Sango and Miroku had been busy as both the center room and the left room where both completely finished.
Inuyasha walked into the left room and set down Kagome on the bed he had built as an afterthought the last time he was here.
It was larger than Kagome's bed and made of oak wood. The 'matress' was made of various animal pelts and was filled with
feathers. Inuyasha was actually fairly proud of it. It had taken him and Miroku quiet a while to sow all of those pelts together.
He had asked Miroku to fill it with something soft, and the monk had come through for him while he had been gone.
After he had set her on the bed, Inuyasha went back to the main room with the bag and started a small fire in the firepit before
rummaging through it just in case the shards or the Tetsusaiga were there. Unfortunately, the weren't however Inuyasha did find
some bedding and went back to where Kagome was sleeping to toss some sheets over her and put her head on a small pillow. Satisfied
that she would be comfortable Inuyasha placed himself in the doorway where he could watch Kagome as well as the entrances to
the house.
Kagome stirred in the bed and opened her eyes a little. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't in my room. 'Where am
I?' she thought groggily as she shifted her head towards the dim light source. She noticed it was coming from a fire in another
room. She couldn't see the fire but she could hear it crackily. What she could see though was a silouette in the doorway.
A silouette with dog ears. 'Inuyasha.' she thought feeling much better knowing he was around. "Inuyasha?" she called quietly.
Inuyasha's head jerked in Kagome's direction startled. He hadn't been sleeping, but he had been thinking deeply. "Go back to
sleep." he said. Kagome sighed and sat up. "Where are we? This isn't Kaede's hut." Kagome asked stubbornly. Inuyasha got up
from his spot in the doorway and walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge. He gently pushed Kagome back down and she
didn't try to resist.
"Sleep." he said firmly. Gently, he reached up and started to run his hand hand through her hair. Kagome felt a wave of exhaustion
hit her as felt her self drifting back to sleep as she enjoyed the feeling of Inuyasha's hand. "You still haven't told me where
we are." she mumbled sleepily. The last thing she heard before falling asleep was "Home."
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Inuyasha didn't sleep that night. He was too nervous to sleep. It wasn't becuase he was fearing the sits he knew were to come
for this, he could deal with those. His mind was ablaze with thoughts on how he would approach Kagome. Over the night he had
considered hundreds if not thousands of strategies and ideas on how to ask her. He had thrown everyone of them out of the
proverbial window. Now the sun was rising and soon Kagome would awaken. Inuyasha glanced over at Kagome and gulped. Despite
everything that was telling him otherwise, Inuyasha couldn't get rid of the lingering doubt and fear that Kagome wouldn't
want to marry him, atleast not yet, and it was driving him crazy. But he was steadfast in his resolve to ask her. Kagome was
worth the chance of regection many times over.
Inuyasha continued to plot how he was going to ask her when she started to stir. His mind went blank as she sat up and rubbed
the sleep out of her eyes. Inuyasha watched her silently until she looked over at him. "So where are we?" she asked. Inuyasha
blinked. 'Why isn't she yelling at me?' he wondered. "Er.. We're in my time." he said. Kagome nodded. "Okay." Inuyasha stared
at her. "Okay? You're not angry or anything that I just snatched you out of your room?" he asked dumbfounded. Kagome smiled
a little and got out of bed. It had actually been quite comfortable, maybe even better than the one she usually slept in.
Kagome sat down next to where Inuyasha was sitting in the doorway. "I'm sure you have a perfectly good explanation." She said
looking at him. "So what is it?" Inuyasha gulped. Any and all plans he might of had went out the window. "Will you be my mate."
he blurted out blushing.
Kagome blushed a little too and studied him. "Have you had any sake to drink today?" she asked. Inuyasha shook his head confused.
"Are you feeling like you might faint?" Again another confused shake of the head. Kagome nodded satisfied. Grabbing him she
kissed him fiercly. A surprised, but not displease Inuyasha snaked his arms around her and returned the kiss. When she pulled
away she rested her head on his chest happily. "All right then. I will marry you." she said snuggling into his kimono. Inuyasha
felt a surge of relief and happiness through him.
Inuyasha pressed his mate to be against him looking down at her. 'And I didn't even get sat.' he mused as he started stroking
her hair. Kagome sighed enjoying all of this. After a few minutes of silence and Inuyasha running his hand through her hair
Kagome spoke up. "So where exactly are we and how did you find a bed?" she asked. Inuyasha smirked. "I build the bed." he
said a little proudly. "And we are in our house." he stated. Kagome shifted a little so she could look up at Inuyasha. "OUR
house?" she asked. Inuyasha nodded. "I built it with Miroku and Sango's help. Its not done yet though." Realization dawned
on Kagome. "So this is where you've been disapearing off to." she mumbled.
Inuyasha nodded and drew her close and kissed her again. "I love you Kagome." he murmered. Kagome felt her heart flutter. "I
love you too Inuyasha." she said. With that said Inuyasha picked up Kagome and carried her over to the bed, their bed. "What
are you doing?" Kagome asked confused as Inuyasha sat her down on the bed and sat next to her. "If your going to be my mate.
I have to claim you." Kagome eeped and unconsciously crossed her legs. Her face was beat red. Inuyasha noticed this reaction
and started to blush too. "N-not like that." he said. "Oh." Kagome said and blushed even darker when she realized that she
had sounded more dissapointed than releived. Inuyasha simply smirked. "And you tell me to get my head out of the gutter." he
said. Kagome simply sat there blushing. "That will come later. We still have to find the shards and you can't be pregnant during
that. And Naraku would use that to his advantage and would come after you. Once we have the jewel and Naraku's gone we'll
get to that." Inuyasha explained still blushing.
After a few moments Inuyasha decided to get on with it. "So where do you want it?" he asked. Kagome desprately tried to keep
her mind out of the gutter. "W-what?" she asked. Inuyasha gave a sigh of exhasperation. "Where do you want me to mark you as
my mate?" he asked. Kagome thought about it for a moment. 'So its like a tatoo.' Kagome grinned evilly as she thought of places
she could make him put in. Noticing her grin Inuyasha warned. "Make sure you don't mind me touching you there in public."
he warned. That eliminated about 70 percent of her ideas. 'I could have him put it on my foot." she thought, but discarded that
idea due to her ticklishness. "I don't know, you pick." she finally said giving in. Inuyasha nodded, secretely pleased. "All
right, I'll put it on your neck." he said.
"Why the neck" she asked as she brushed her hair out of the way and tilted her head sideways. 'It must have some kind of romantic
youkai meaning.' she thought. Inuyasha smirked. "Becuase no one can remove it without killing you." he said. Kagome sighed.
"So much for romantic." she mumbled. Inuyasha snorted. "I think its romantic." he grumbled as he pulled Kagome closer and
extended one of the claws on his hand. "This is going to hurt a little." he said apologeticly. Kagome nodded. Taking a deep
breath, Inuyasha pressed his claw down on her skin and winced when he started to draw blood. Kagome, kept still and silent,
though it did hurt quite a bit. She didn't want Inuyasha to stop. As quickly and carefully as he could he drew a small arc
and put three small slashes under it right on top of her main artery. With every heart beat blood started to flow out.
Fearing for her safety, Inuyasha quickly got to the next part and cut his wrist, then pressed it to her neck. The pain almost
instantly disapeared and was replaced by a warm feeling. Kagome sighed in relief. The two of them sat there for several minutes
in silence until Inuyasha removed his now healed wrist from Kagome's neck. The mark was no longer bleeding. It now looked like
a scab, except this scab would never go away. "There." he said satisfied. Kagome reached up and felt the mark. "Did you bring
my bag?" she asked. Inuyasha nodded and went to the next room and brought it back. Kagome dug through it until she found a
small mirror. She used it to look at the mark while she ran her fingers over it. "What does it do?" she asked.
"It will make you smell faintly of me. That way all youkai will know your my mate. The mark is actually a word from an old
youkai language. Myouga taught it to me since I would someday need it to mark my mate." Kagome nodded still looking at the
mark. "What does it mean?" she asked. Inuyasha smirked. "It says mine." Kagome shook her head and smiled a little. "Typical."
she teased. Then she pointed at him. "Do I need to mark you or something?" she asked. Inuyasha shook his head. "Human blood
is to weak to do that. Besides." he said indicating the rosary with a smirk. "You've had me marked as yours since we met."
Kagome kissed him then got up. Inuyasha grabbed her. "Where are you going?" he protested. Kagome pointed to her blood stained
uniform. "I need to wash. Which ways the river?" she asked as she got out her bathing supplies and another set of clothes.
Inuyasha pointed towards the front of the house. "The wells that way." Then he pointed to the back. "The rivers that way."
Kagome nodded and walked out the back doorway, admiring Inuyasha's handiwork. Inuyasha let himself fall back on the bed a
goofy grin on his face. 'She's my mate.' he thought. He was still giddy at the thought.
'Finally I don't have to worry about being over friendly.' he thought. He laid there for a few minutes before he got up. If
he was overprotective before, it had only multiplied now. He started to walk out of the house and towards the river following
Kagome's scent. He didn't want to leave her alone for any amount of time in his dangerous world. He quickly came upon the river
and walked out of the forest looking for Kagome in the river. He found her. "Kyaaa! SIT!" *Wham* Ok so maybe he did have to
worry a little bit about being over friendly.....
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Shippo was bored. Very bored. Since Kagome and Inuyasha had been gone he hadn't had much to do. He had detected their arrival
last night, but hadn't gone looking for them. He was bored, but he wasn't as bored as last time he had been when he had risked
the wrath of an irritable hanyou. Shippo watched boredly up in his tree as Sango stormed away after pummeling Miroku. Yeah
he had been really bored when he had changed into Kagome. He wouldn't ever change into Kagome again. Watching Miroku get up
and preparing to follow Sango to apologize gave him an idea. He wouldn't ever change into KAGOME again... Grinning Shippo
took out on of his leaves and placed it on his head. "Transform!" he shouted.
Shippo was bored. Very bored.
Well guys, This was supposed to be the ending of my story right here. I had the ending line planned since chapter 1. However...
people have been asking for a sequal. Seeing that I already have a huge reviewer population there is no reason for me to write
a sequal when I can just continue with this story. That way maybe I can get over the 100,000 word mark =). Therefore I am planning
to continue the story instead of writing a sequal. Please review and tell me what you think about that :).
Like A/U fics? Try this one. Make sure to review. A Thin Line by Moonbunny I haven't read it but it
comes recommended.
I don't own Inuyasha..... now I have to go to my therapy appoinment so I can deal with it.
*Make Sure You Read The A/N At The End When You Are Done Reading!*
Inuyasha quietly opened the well shrine door and stepped through holding the sleeping Kagome in his arms. Inuyasha looked at
the well deep in thought. He had a knawing feeling that he had forgotten something, but for the life of him he couldn't think
of it. Inuyasha looked down at the girl in his arms and smirked. He stepped up onto the side of the well careful not to disturb
Kagome. 'Whatever it is we can use the shards to come get it.' he decided as he leapt down the well. Only then did he realize
what he had forgotten. His eyes widened with realization but there was nothing he could do to stop it. Thanks to his rosary
the well let him and his passanger through. Getting back however would be another thing as the shards were still in Kagome's
room hidden away.
As they appeared on his side of the well Inuyasha cursed himself for being so careless. It seemed he was destined to be sat
into oblivion by an angry Kagome for fainting, kidnapping her, and now cutting her off from her time until they found another
shard. 'Blast it! I didn't see the Tetsusaiga in the pack either!' he thought unhappily. Inuyasha sighed. There was nothing
that could be done so he jumped out of the well. Inuyasha considered briefly where he should take Kagome. To Kaede's hut, or
the unfinished house. 'Keh, If I go to Kaede's they'll probably nag me for taking her from her house and that might wake
her up.' That decided it. Inuyasha REALLY didn't want to deal with an angry and sleep deprived Kagome so he walked to the
unfinished house that was much closer anyway.
Inuyasha quickly covered the five hundred yards or so to the unfinished house. Knowing Kagome's fondness of bathing, he had
specifically placed the house about equidistant from both the well and the river. Inuyasha walked through the entrance and
looked around. It seemed Sango and Miroku had been busy as both the center room and the left room where both completely finished.
Inuyasha walked into the left room and set down Kagome on the bed he had built as an afterthought the last time he was here.
It was larger than Kagome's bed and made of oak wood. The 'matress' was made of various animal pelts and was filled with
feathers. Inuyasha was actually fairly proud of it. It had taken him and Miroku quiet a while to sow all of those pelts together.
He had asked Miroku to fill it with something soft, and the monk had come through for him while he had been gone.
After he had set her on the bed, Inuyasha went back to the main room with the bag and started a small fire in the firepit before
rummaging through it just in case the shards or the Tetsusaiga were there. Unfortunately, the weren't however Inuyasha did find
some bedding and went back to where Kagome was sleeping to toss some sheets over her and put her head on a small pillow. Satisfied
that she would be comfortable Inuyasha placed himself in the doorway where he could watch Kagome as well as the entrances to
the house.
Kagome stirred in the bed and opened her eyes a little. The first thing she noticed was that she wasn't in my room. 'Where am
I?' she thought groggily as she shifted her head towards the dim light source. She noticed it was coming from a fire in another
room. She couldn't see the fire but she could hear it crackily. What she could see though was a silouette in the doorway.
A silouette with dog ears. 'Inuyasha.' she thought feeling much better knowing he was around. "Inuyasha?" she called quietly.
Inuyasha's head jerked in Kagome's direction startled. He hadn't been sleeping, but he had been thinking deeply. "Go back to
sleep." he said. Kagome sighed and sat up. "Where are we? This isn't Kaede's hut." Kagome asked stubbornly. Inuyasha got up
from his spot in the doorway and walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge. He gently pushed Kagome back down and she
didn't try to resist.
"Sleep." he said firmly. Gently, he reached up and started to run his hand hand through her hair. Kagome felt a wave of exhaustion
hit her as felt her self drifting back to sleep as she enjoyed the feeling of Inuyasha's hand. "You still haven't told me where
we are." she mumbled sleepily. The last thing she heard before falling asleep was "Home."
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Inuyasha didn't sleep that night. He was too nervous to sleep. It wasn't becuase he was fearing the sits he knew were to come
for this, he could deal with those. His mind was ablaze with thoughts on how he would approach Kagome. Over the night he had
considered hundreds if not thousands of strategies and ideas on how to ask her. He had thrown everyone of them out of the
proverbial window. Now the sun was rising and soon Kagome would awaken. Inuyasha glanced over at Kagome and gulped. Despite
everything that was telling him otherwise, Inuyasha couldn't get rid of the lingering doubt and fear that Kagome wouldn't
want to marry him, atleast not yet, and it was driving him crazy. But he was steadfast in his resolve to ask her. Kagome was
worth the chance of regection many times over.
Inuyasha continued to plot how he was going to ask her when she started to stir. His mind went blank as she sat up and rubbed
the sleep out of her eyes. Inuyasha watched her silently until she looked over at him. "So where are we?" she asked. Inuyasha
blinked. 'Why isn't she yelling at me?' he wondered. "Er.. We're in my time." he said. Kagome nodded. "Okay." Inuyasha stared
at her. "Okay? You're not angry or anything that I just snatched you out of your room?" he asked dumbfounded. Kagome smiled
a little and got out of bed. It had actually been quite comfortable, maybe even better than the one she usually slept in.
Kagome sat down next to where Inuyasha was sitting in the doorway. "I'm sure you have a perfectly good explanation." She said
looking at him. "So what is it?" Inuyasha gulped. Any and all plans he might of had went out the window. "Will you be my mate."
he blurted out blushing.
Kagome blushed a little too and studied him. "Have you had any sake to drink today?" she asked. Inuyasha shook his head confused.
"Are you feeling like you might faint?" Again another confused shake of the head. Kagome nodded satisfied. Grabbing him she
kissed him fiercly. A surprised, but not displease Inuyasha snaked his arms around her and returned the kiss. When she pulled
away she rested her head on his chest happily. "All right then. I will marry you." she said snuggling into his kimono. Inuyasha
felt a surge of relief and happiness through him.
Inuyasha pressed his mate to be against him looking down at her. 'And I didn't even get sat.' he mused as he started stroking
her hair. Kagome sighed enjoying all of this. After a few minutes of silence and Inuyasha running his hand through her hair
Kagome spoke up. "So where exactly are we and how did you find a bed?" she asked. Inuyasha smirked. "I build the bed." he
said a little proudly. "And we are in our house." he stated. Kagome shifted a little so she could look up at Inuyasha. "OUR
house?" she asked. Inuyasha nodded. "I built it with Miroku and Sango's help. Its not done yet though." Realization dawned
on Kagome. "So this is where you've been disapearing off to." she mumbled.
Inuyasha nodded and drew her close and kissed her again. "I love you Kagome." he murmered. Kagome felt her heart flutter. "I
love you too Inuyasha." she said. With that said Inuyasha picked up Kagome and carried her over to the bed, their bed. "What
are you doing?" Kagome asked confused as Inuyasha sat her down on the bed and sat next to her. "If your going to be my mate.
I have to claim you." Kagome eeped and unconsciously crossed her legs. Her face was beat red. Inuyasha noticed this reaction
and started to blush too. "N-not like that." he said. "Oh." Kagome said and blushed even darker when she realized that she
had sounded more dissapointed than releived. Inuyasha simply smirked. "And you tell me to get my head out of the gutter." he
said. Kagome simply sat there blushing. "That will come later. We still have to find the shards and you can't be pregnant during
that. And Naraku would use that to his advantage and would come after you. Once we have the jewel and Naraku's gone we'll
get to that." Inuyasha explained still blushing.
After a few moments Inuyasha decided to get on with it. "So where do you want it?" he asked. Kagome desprately tried to keep
her mind out of the gutter. "W-what?" she asked. Inuyasha gave a sigh of exhasperation. "Where do you want me to mark you as
my mate?" he asked. Kagome thought about it for a moment. 'So its like a tatoo.' Kagome grinned evilly as she thought of places
she could make him put in. Noticing her grin Inuyasha warned. "Make sure you don't mind me touching you there in public."
he warned. That eliminated about 70 percent of her ideas. 'I could have him put it on my foot." she thought, but discarded that
idea due to her ticklishness. "I don't know, you pick." she finally said giving in. Inuyasha nodded, secretely pleased. "All
right, I'll put it on your neck." he said.
"Why the neck" she asked as she brushed her hair out of the way and tilted her head sideways. 'It must have some kind of romantic
youkai meaning.' she thought. Inuyasha smirked. "Becuase no one can remove it without killing you." he said. Kagome sighed.
"So much for romantic." she mumbled. Inuyasha snorted. "I think its romantic." he grumbled as he pulled Kagome closer and
extended one of the claws on his hand. "This is going to hurt a little." he said apologeticly. Kagome nodded. Taking a deep
breath, Inuyasha pressed his claw down on her skin and winced when he started to draw blood. Kagome, kept still and silent,
though it did hurt quite a bit. She didn't want Inuyasha to stop. As quickly and carefully as he could he drew a small arc
and put three small slashes under it right on top of her main artery. With every heart beat blood started to flow out.
Fearing for her safety, Inuyasha quickly got to the next part and cut his wrist, then pressed it to her neck. The pain almost
instantly disapeared and was replaced by a warm feeling. Kagome sighed in relief. The two of them sat there for several minutes
in silence until Inuyasha removed his now healed wrist from Kagome's neck. The mark was no longer bleeding. It now looked like
a scab, except this scab would never go away. "There." he said satisfied. Kagome reached up and felt the mark. "Did you bring
my bag?" she asked. Inuyasha nodded and went to the next room and brought it back. Kagome dug through it until she found a
small mirror. She used it to look at the mark while she ran her fingers over it. "What does it do?" she asked.
"It will make you smell faintly of me. That way all youkai will know your my mate. The mark is actually a word from an old
youkai language. Myouga taught it to me since I would someday need it to mark my mate." Kagome nodded still looking at the
mark. "What does it mean?" she asked. Inuyasha smirked. "It says mine." Kagome shook her head and smiled a little. "Typical."
she teased. Then she pointed at him. "Do I need to mark you or something?" she asked. Inuyasha shook his head. "Human blood
is to weak to do that. Besides." he said indicating the rosary with a smirk. "You've had me marked as yours since we met."
Kagome kissed him then got up. Inuyasha grabbed her. "Where are you going?" he protested. Kagome pointed to her blood stained
uniform. "I need to wash. Which ways the river?" she asked as she got out her bathing supplies and another set of clothes.
Inuyasha pointed towards the front of the house. "The wells that way." Then he pointed to the back. "The rivers that way."
Kagome nodded and walked out the back doorway, admiring Inuyasha's handiwork. Inuyasha let himself fall back on the bed a
goofy grin on his face. 'She's my mate.' he thought. He was still giddy at the thought.
'Finally I don't have to worry about being over friendly.' he thought. He laid there for a few minutes before he got up. If
he was overprotective before, it had only multiplied now. He started to walk out of the house and towards the river following
Kagome's scent. He didn't want to leave her alone for any amount of time in his dangerous world. He quickly came upon the river
and walked out of the forest looking for Kagome in the river. He found her. "Kyaaa! SIT!" *Wham* Ok so maybe he did have to
worry a little bit about being over friendly.....
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Shippo was bored. Very bored. Since Kagome and Inuyasha had been gone he hadn't had much to do. He had detected their arrival
last night, but hadn't gone looking for them. He was bored, but he wasn't as bored as last time he had been when he had risked
the wrath of an irritable hanyou. Shippo watched boredly up in his tree as Sango stormed away after pummeling Miroku. Yeah
he had been really bored when he had changed into Kagome. He wouldn't ever change into Kagome again. Watching Miroku get up
and preparing to follow Sango to apologize gave him an idea. He wouldn't ever change into KAGOME again... Grinning Shippo
took out on of his leaves and placed it on his head. "Transform!" he shouted.
Shippo was bored. Very bored.
Well guys, This was supposed to be the ending of my story right here. I had the ending line planned since chapter 1. However...
people have been asking for a sequal. Seeing that I already have a huge reviewer population there is no reason for me to write
a sequal when I can just continue with this story. That way maybe I can get over the 100,000 word mark =). Therefore I am planning
to continue the story instead of writing a sequal. Please review and tell me what you think about that :).