I Won't Let You Go
Chapter 10
Please Kagome
Inu-Yasha landed silently on the Higurashi house and stared into Kagome's bedroom window. Sniffing the air, he could tell that Kagome and everyone else were down stairs. He could smell Miroku, Sango, and the rest of the gang and family, including Hojo. Growling deep in his throat, Inu- Yasha leaped to the ground and made his way to the family room window. Hojo and Kagome were sitting on the couch, Sango and Miroku were on the floor, Shippo, Kirara, and Sota were playing in the corner of the room, and Mrs. Higurashi was talking to Kagome and Hojo. Inu-Yasha guessed that Grandpa was already upstairs sleeping. Sighing, Inu-Yasha tried to figure out the best way to get Kagome alone, but he was finding it pretty hopeless. Suddenly Miroku stood up and went into the kitchen. Inu-Yasha ran to the kitchen window and tapped on it gently to get the monks attention as he poured himself a glass of water.
Miroku looked up from the tap and almost dropped his glass of water. Looking around to make sure no one was watching, Miroku pointed upstairs. Inu-Yasha nodded and leaped onto the roof heading to Kagome's room.
"Sango, I'll be right back, I just have to go upstairs for a second," said Miroku.
"Sure," said Sango.
Miroku slowly walked up the stairs and then bolted to Kagome's room and slowly closed the door behind him. Inu-Yasha was perched on Kagome's window sill in his normal position.
"Inu-Yasha . . ."
"Miroku," said Inu-Yasha.
"What . . . how . . . how did you get out of the well house?" asked Miroku stunned.
"There were no scrolls on the roof, that was my only escape,"
"Very clever Inu-Yasha. Do you want me to get Kagome for you?"
"Yes, but first I want to talk with her mother,"
"Okay, I'll get her for you,"
Inu-Yasha nodded.
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"Alright, so Kagome have you any idea where you want to go for your honey moon?" asked Mrs. Higurashi.
"Hojo, what do you think?" asked Kagome.
Hojo was about to respond when Miroku's voice interrupted him.
"Mrs. Higurashi!"
"Yes Miroku?" she called back.
"Can you come up here please?"
"One second! Hold that thought Hojo," whispered Mrs. Higurashi as she went up the stairs. She walked towards to Sota's room, and almost screamed when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning around she saw Miroku standing in Kagome's doorway. "Miroku, what are you doing in there?"
"Just come in," hissed the monk.
With a confused look on her face, she walked into the room to see Inu- Yasha sitting on her daughters bed. "Inu-Yasha,"
"Mrs. Higurashi . . . I . . . "
"What took you so long?"
Both Miroku's and Inu-Yasha's eyes widened with their mouths open.
"I've been waiting for you to get my daughter out of this wedding so she doesn't marry the wrong man,"
Inu-Yasha closed his mouth and smiled, "I had some difficulty getting here,"
The woman smiled and walked over to the half demon, "So, do you want to see Kagome?"
"First I want to talk to you. Miroku could you please leave?" asked the half demon.
The monk nodded and closed the door behind him.
"So, what do you want to talk about?"
"Well, I was wondering if it was . . . *gulp* alright with you if I could . . . have Kagome as my mate . . . or in your terms wife I guess," during his whole speech Inu-Yasha had his eyes staring at the floor since he couldn't look Kagome's mother in the eye.
"Inu-Yasha you silly boy, of course you can, and you are in the nick of time too,"
"You sure? I mean . . . you don't mind me being a half breed?"
"No Inu-Yasha of course not,"
Inu-Yasha smiled, "Can I talk to Kagome now?"
"Not up here, Hojo will find you, I'll send her outside. Ring the door bell,"
Inu-Yasha nodded and jumped out the window.
Mrs. Higurashi went back downstairs and back to her seat in the living room. "Now where were we?"
Hojo was about to answer again, but was cut off again by the door bell.
"I'll get it," Mrs. Higurashi said as she went to the door. Opening it slightly, Inu-Yasha nodded his head to let her know he was ready to talk to Kagome.
"Kagome it's Ayumi, she wants to talk to you!" called her mother.
Kagome got up off the couch and headed to the door which was wide open and no one was there. Before the young girl could say anything, her mother pushed her outside and closed the door.
"Mom what are you doing?" asked Kagome as she reached for the door handle.
"Kagome . . ."
The young miko froze at the sound of her voice, and knew who it was that said her name. Slowly turning around, she came face to face with Inu- Yasha.
"What . . . what are you doing here?" she asked in an angry tone.
"I came to see you,"
"Shouldn't you be with your love Kikyo?" asked Kagome harshly.
"Kagome . . . you're the only one I love . . ."
"Don't lie to me Inu-Yasha! Maybe you didn't know this but I saw you two together, so the jig is up,"
"Damn it Kagome! Didn't you hear the whole conversation?"
"No, but by the way you were holding her I could tell what you were talking about,"
Inu-Yasha slowly walked towards her, "Kagome . . . when you saw me hugging Kikyo, I only did that so I could catch her off guard,"
"What do you mean?"
"Kagome, when I went outside Kikyo was there, wanting me to go to hell with her. I said no of course since I was with you, but she wouldn't listen to reasoning. I then told myself that she wasn't the Kikyo I knew fifty years ago, just a puppet. So I held her one last time before resting her to peace,"
Kagome looked Inu-Yasha in the eye, "Prove it!"
Inu-Yasha reached into his robes and pulled out the white hair band Kikyo always wore. "I only kept it so I could prove that I don't love Kikyo anymore Kagome. I took you as my mate that night, and the words I said to you I meant, I love you Kagome,"
The girl lowered her head and started to cry silently. She felt like such a fool, she should have realized that Inu-Yasha would never do such a thing to her. Kagome was suddenly surrounded by warmth as Inu-Yasha pulled her into his embrace.
"I should have told you immediately, but I wanted to wait until I gave you this," Inu-Yasha pulled away from Kagome for a moment as he brought out a golden jeweled box from his robes. Opening it, he revealed the jewelry inside. "This ring and necklace belonged to my mother. My father gave it to her when they had become mates, and now I want you to have it,"
Kagome stared at the two pieces of jewelry. They were both a beautiful silver, but the necklace had little crescent moons hanging around it, which reminded her of the symbol on Sesshoumaru's forehead. Kagome was speechless for a moment.
"Kagome, will you still be my mate?"
Kagome threw her arms around Inu-Yasha and hugged him tightly, "Yes, of course I will,"
Inu-Yasha smiled and took to necklace out of the box, placing it around Kagome's neck. Then getting down on one knee Inu-Yasha took Hojo's ring off and replaced it with his own. Standing back up, Inu-Yasha pulled Kagome back into his arms and held her there.
"Inu-Yasha, what are we going to do about the wedding tomorrow?"
"We'll worry about that later, right now I just want to hold you, I haven't been able to do that in almost three weeks," whispered Inu-Yasha.
Kagome smiled and leaned onto his shoulder, letting him hold her in his arms. It was then Kagome realized she hadn't told Inu-Yasha that she was pregnant. "Inu-Yasha?"
"Hmm?" he mumbled.
"There's something I need to tell you,"
"What's that?"
"Well . . . I . . . I'm . . . I'm pregnant," she buried her face into his Kimono, not really wanting to see his reaction.
Inu-Yasha was speechless for a second before he lifted the bottom of her shirt up slightly to look at her stomach. He noticed it was a little bigger than usual as he slowly ran his clawed hand across it.
"Is it . . ."
"Yes it's yours," Kagome's voice was still muffled since her face was still buried into his kimono.
"Kagome look at me,"
The girl slowly raised her head to stare into Inu-Yasha's golden eyes.
"Do you think I'm mad at you or something?"
"I just thought you didn't want to have . . ."
Kagome was silenced as Inu-Yasha pressed his lips to hers in a passionate kiss. "Why on earth would I be mad at you? This is probably the happiest moment in my life," whispered Inu-Yasha.
Kagome smiled and kissed Inu-Yasha back. The half demon wrapped his arms around his mate to bring her closer to him. Kagome had wrapped her arms around his neck as they were both lost in the passionate kiss, but soon had to release to breathe. Inu-Yasha cupped Kagome's face in his hands, staring at her beauty.
"Kagome . . . do you . . . do you want me to become human, so that we can be together?"
Kagome eyes widened, but she shook her head, "No, I meant what I also said that night, I love you the way you are Inu-Yasha, I don't want you to change,"
"Well then, I guess when we head back to the feudal era, we'll be paying a visit to Myoga then," whispered Inu-Yasha, wrapping his mate in his arms protectively.
"Why Myoga?"
"He's know more about this stuff than I do, I'm sure he'll know what we can do about this little problem,"
Kagome nodded and kissed her husband again. She had missed kissing him over the past few weeks, and made a note to herself that Inu-Yasha was a much better kisser than Hojo was. The half demon pressed her against the house wall, crushing his mouth against hers. Neither of them paid attention to the front door which slowly opened to reveal a confused Hojo. He had been worried about Kagome and came to check on her, and didn't notice the kissing couple. Kagome had wrapped her arms around Inu-Yasha's neck to bring him closer to her. She could feel Inu-Yasha's tongue slip across her lips, asking for entrance. Giving off a small moan of approval, Kagome opened her mouth to him as he ravished it with that tongue of his. Hearing the small moan, Hojo turned around and noticed the his fiance was kissing some silver haired man with white dog ears. However the boy never made a sound, it was as if his body and voice were paralyzed with shock. He glanced to the side to see his ring lying on the ground forgotten.
"Don't you think we should tell Hojo about this?" asked Inu-Yasha nibbling on his mates lower lip.
"Hojo? Who's Hojo?" asked Kagome playfully.
Inu-Yasha growled lovingly at her before claiming her mouth again, his hands pressed firmly against her back. Kagome's hands slowly reached up and began to rub the dog demons furry white fluffy ears between her fingers. Inu-Yasha nearly lost it as he kissed Kagome even harder, pressing her more firmly against the wall as he began to purr. Kagome smiled against his lips and began to rub his ears harder. The kissing couple still had not noticed that they were being watched, and for some reason Hojo wasn't making a sound either.
Inu-Yasha finally released his lips from hers, both were slightly panting. The dog demon smiled as he noticed his mates lips were slightly swollen form there immense kissing. "When we go back to the feadal era and see Myoga, then I'm going to start building a house for us," whispered Inu-Yasha in Kagome's ear.
"Where will you build it,"
"Where ever you want me to build it,"
Kagome smiled and leaned her head against Inu-Yasha's strong shoulder. His arms wrapped around her tightly, holding her in a firm embrace.
"I should take these off you," whispered Kagome as she played with his prayer beads.
"What?"
"You don't need to wear theses anymore," said Kagome as she started to take off the prayer beads around his neck, but Inu-Yasha grabbed her hands to stop her.
"Don't, I know I hate these beads, but I think it would be best if I wore them, you know how I can get sometimes, you might want to 'sit' me back to reality,"
Kagome smiled and pecked him on the lips. She then raised her hands again and started to scratch behind Inu-Yasha's ears. A deep purr came from Inu-Yasha's throat, and he leaned his head more towards her hand to scratch it better. Kagome giggled and started to scratch his ears harder. The dog demon let out a moan of approval and rested his head on Kagome's shoulder. Inu-Yasha started to whimper slightly in Kagome's ear as he enjoyed having his ears scratched.
"Kagome, you might want to stop that . . ." purred Inu-Yasha.
"Why?" asked Kagome.
"You have no idea how that's effecting me right now," whimpered Inu-Yasha into Kagome's ear as he pressed her more harder against the house wall.
Catching onto his meaning Kagome stopped torturing the poor half demon and just held him close to her. Inu-Yasha took in a deep breath as he inhaled his mates scent, but froze as another scent he recognized was close by. Slowly turning around Inu-Yasha met the eyes of Kagome's ex-fiancé (Well he's not her fiancé anymore so what am I supposed to say?). Kagome was confused at first at why Inu-Yasha turned around, but when she caught sight of Hojo she froze too.
Hojo was still frozen, but he finally found his voice, "Kagome . . ."
"Hojo, I . . ." Kagome could not find the words to explain to him nicely that she was with Inu-Yasha.
Suddenly Miroku, Sango, an Mrs. Higurashi came out the door and were surprised to see Hojo staring at the couple who were still holding onto each other.
"Sorry," whispered Miroku to Inu-Yasha since he wasn't able to keep the boy in the house.
Hojo turned towards the others, "You knew?" he whispered in a harsh whisper.
Sango said nothing, but Miroku slowly nodded his head.
Hojo looked like his best friend had died, but no one spoke since they didn't really know what to say.
"Hojo honey, why don't we all go inside and talk this over?" asked Mrs. Higurashi placing a hand on the boys shoulder.
Hojo on the other hand didn't move or say anything, his eyes were still locked on the couple standing in front of him. Inu-Yasha finally had enough of the silence, "Look, I'm sorry you had to witness this, but Kagome doesn't love you, she's with me,"
Kagome was about to sit the half demon, but she didn't. Even though those words would hurt Hojo deeply, it was the truth after all.
Tears started to well up in Hojo's eyes, and Inu-Yasha would have yelled at the boy not to cry, but he kept silent since he himself almost cried when he thought he would lose Kagome. Inu-Yasha walked over and grabbed Hojo's ring off the ground and held it out to the boy.
"I believe this is yours,"
Hojo looked at the ring, pushed Inu-Yasha aside and lunge forward, grabbing Kagome by the shoulders.
"How could you do this to me!" he practically screamed at the girl.
Inu-Yasha was about to go over there and kill the boy, but Miroku placed a hand on the half demons shoulder.
"Let him talk to her,"
Inu-Yasha nodded.
"Hojo, I'm so sorry,"
"Why? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I wasn't sure! When you proposed to me I was thinking of saying no since I still had feelings for Inu-Yasha, but I thought he didn't love me and that's why I said yes. But then he came to me and told me his true feelings towards me,"
Hojo loosened his grip on Kagome's shoulders, and turned his head to stare at Inu-Yasha. "What is he?"
Inu-Yasha was about to say something, but Kagome cut him off, "He's human of course silly! He was just coming back from a costume party,"
The dog demon wasn't sure what a costume party was, but nodded his head in agreement.
"So this means the weddings off?"
Kagome nodded her head. Hojo sighed, released Kagome, and went to grab his ring from Inu-Yasha. The dog demon gave the ring to Hojo and smiled triumphantly that the boy was finally out of the way. Hojo paused for a second, before turning around and punching Inu-Yasha square in the face. The half demon was barely phased by the punch, while Hojo was hunched over clutching his hand.
Inu-Yasha grunted and walked over to Kagome, holding her in his arms. Hojo finally straightened up, and left the shrine, tears pouring down his face.
"Well . . . that went well I guess," said Miroku.
Everyone stared at the monk and laughed slightly.
"Well why don't we head inside and start planning your real wedding Kagome, but first I'll call all the relatives and tell them plans have changed.," said Mrs. Higurashi.
Everyone nodded and headed back inside.
TBC . . .
well not the end folks, I still have a few more chaps to add to make this story a happy ending, so keep reviewing to find out.
Chapter 10
Please Kagome
Inu-Yasha landed silently on the Higurashi house and stared into Kagome's bedroom window. Sniffing the air, he could tell that Kagome and everyone else were down stairs. He could smell Miroku, Sango, and the rest of the gang and family, including Hojo. Growling deep in his throat, Inu- Yasha leaped to the ground and made his way to the family room window. Hojo and Kagome were sitting on the couch, Sango and Miroku were on the floor, Shippo, Kirara, and Sota were playing in the corner of the room, and Mrs. Higurashi was talking to Kagome and Hojo. Inu-Yasha guessed that Grandpa was already upstairs sleeping. Sighing, Inu-Yasha tried to figure out the best way to get Kagome alone, but he was finding it pretty hopeless. Suddenly Miroku stood up and went into the kitchen. Inu-Yasha ran to the kitchen window and tapped on it gently to get the monks attention as he poured himself a glass of water.
Miroku looked up from the tap and almost dropped his glass of water. Looking around to make sure no one was watching, Miroku pointed upstairs. Inu-Yasha nodded and leaped onto the roof heading to Kagome's room.
"Sango, I'll be right back, I just have to go upstairs for a second," said Miroku.
"Sure," said Sango.
Miroku slowly walked up the stairs and then bolted to Kagome's room and slowly closed the door behind him. Inu-Yasha was perched on Kagome's window sill in his normal position.
"Inu-Yasha . . ."
"Miroku," said Inu-Yasha.
"What . . . how . . . how did you get out of the well house?" asked Miroku stunned.
"There were no scrolls on the roof, that was my only escape,"
"Very clever Inu-Yasha. Do you want me to get Kagome for you?"
"Yes, but first I want to talk with her mother,"
"Okay, I'll get her for you,"
Inu-Yasha nodded.
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"Alright, so Kagome have you any idea where you want to go for your honey moon?" asked Mrs. Higurashi.
"Hojo, what do you think?" asked Kagome.
Hojo was about to respond when Miroku's voice interrupted him.
"Mrs. Higurashi!"
"Yes Miroku?" she called back.
"Can you come up here please?"
"One second! Hold that thought Hojo," whispered Mrs. Higurashi as she went up the stairs. She walked towards to Sota's room, and almost screamed when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning around she saw Miroku standing in Kagome's doorway. "Miroku, what are you doing in there?"
"Just come in," hissed the monk.
With a confused look on her face, she walked into the room to see Inu- Yasha sitting on her daughters bed. "Inu-Yasha,"
"Mrs. Higurashi . . . I . . . "
"What took you so long?"
Both Miroku's and Inu-Yasha's eyes widened with their mouths open.
"I've been waiting for you to get my daughter out of this wedding so she doesn't marry the wrong man,"
Inu-Yasha closed his mouth and smiled, "I had some difficulty getting here,"
The woman smiled and walked over to the half demon, "So, do you want to see Kagome?"
"First I want to talk to you. Miroku could you please leave?" asked the half demon.
The monk nodded and closed the door behind him.
"So, what do you want to talk about?"
"Well, I was wondering if it was . . . *gulp* alright with you if I could . . . have Kagome as my mate . . . or in your terms wife I guess," during his whole speech Inu-Yasha had his eyes staring at the floor since he couldn't look Kagome's mother in the eye.
"Inu-Yasha you silly boy, of course you can, and you are in the nick of time too,"
"You sure? I mean . . . you don't mind me being a half breed?"
"No Inu-Yasha of course not,"
Inu-Yasha smiled, "Can I talk to Kagome now?"
"Not up here, Hojo will find you, I'll send her outside. Ring the door bell,"
Inu-Yasha nodded and jumped out the window.
Mrs. Higurashi went back downstairs and back to her seat in the living room. "Now where were we?"
Hojo was about to answer again, but was cut off again by the door bell.
"I'll get it," Mrs. Higurashi said as she went to the door. Opening it slightly, Inu-Yasha nodded his head to let her know he was ready to talk to Kagome.
"Kagome it's Ayumi, she wants to talk to you!" called her mother.
Kagome got up off the couch and headed to the door which was wide open and no one was there. Before the young girl could say anything, her mother pushed her outside and closed the door.
"Mom what are you doing?" asked Kagome as she reached for the door handle.
"Kagome . . ."
The young miko froze at the sound of her voice, and knew who it was that said her name. Slowly turning around, she came face to face with Inu- Yasha.
"What . . . what are you doing here?" she asked in an angry tone.
"I came to see you,"
"Shouldn't you be with your love Kikyo?" asked Kagome harshly.
"Kagome . . . you're the only one I love . . ."
"Don't lie to me Inu-Yasha! Maybe you didn't know this but I saw you two together, so the jig is up,"
"Damn it Kagome! Didn't you hear the whole conversation?"
"No, but by the way you were holding her I could tell what you were talking about,"
Inu-Yasha slowly walked towards her, "Kagome . . . when you saw me hugging Kikyo, I only did that so I could catch her off guard,"
"What do you mean?"
"Kagome, when I went outside Kikyo was there, wanting me to go to hell with her. I said no of course since I was with you, but she wouldn't listen to reasoning. I then told myself that she wasn't the Kikyo I knew fifty years ago, just a puppet. So I held her one last time before resting her to peace,"
Kagome looked Inu-Yasha in the eye, "Prove it!"
Inu-Yasha reached into his robes and pulled out the white hair band Kikyo always wore. "I only kept it so I could prove that I don't love Kikyo anymore Kagome. I took you as my mate that night, and the words I said to you I meant, I love you Kagome,"
The girl lowered her head and started to cry silently. She felt like such a fool, she should have realized that Inu-Yasha would never do such a thing to her. Kagome was suddenly surrounded by warmth as Inu-Yasha pulled her into his embrace.
"I should have told you immediately, but I wanted to wait until I gave you this," Inu-Yasha pulled away from Kagome for a moment as he brought out a golden jeweled box from his robes. Opening it, he revealed the jewelry inside. "This ring and necklace belonged to my mother. My father gave it to her when they had become mates, and now I want you to have it,"
Kagome stared at the two pieces of jewelry. They were both a beautiful silver, but the necklace had little crescent moons hanging around it, which reminded her of the symbol on Sesshoumaru's forehead. Kagome was speechless for a moment.
"Kagome, will you still be my mate?"
Kagome threw her arms around Inu-Yasha and hugged him tightly, "Yes, of course I will,"
Inu-Yasha smiled and took to necklace out of the box, placing it around Kagome's neck. Then getting down on one knee Inu-Yasha took Hojo's ring off and replaced it with his own. Standing back up, Inu-Yasha pulled Kagome back into his arms and held her there.
"Inu-Yasha, what are we going to do about the wedding tomorrow?"
"We'll worry about that later, right now I just want to hold you, I haven't been able to do that in almost three weeks," whispered Inu-Yasha.
Kagome smiled and leaned onto his shoulder, letting him hold her in his arms. It was then Kagome realized she hadn't told Inu-Yasha that she was pregnant. "Inu-Yasha?"
"Hmm?" he mumbled.
"There's something I need to tell you,"
"What's that?"
"Well . . . I . . . I'm . . . I'm pregnant," she buried her face into his Kimono, not really wanting to see his reaction.
Inu-Yasha was speechless for a second before he lifted the bottom of her shirt up slightly to look at her stomach. He noticed it was a little bigger than usual as he slowly ran his clawed hand across it.
"Is it . . ."
"Yes it's yours," Kagome's voice was still muffled since her face was still buried into his kimono.
"Kagome look at me,"
The girl slowly raised her head to stare into Inu-Yasha's golden eyes.
"Do you think I'm mad at you or something?"
"I just thought you didn't want to have . . ."
Kagome was silenced as Inu-Yasha pressed his lips to hers in a passionate kiss. "Why on earth would I be mad at you? This is probably the happiest moment in my life," whispered Inu-Yasha.
Kagome smiled and kissed Inu-Yasha back. The half demon wrapped his arms around his mate to bring her closer to him. Kagome had wrapped her arms around his neck as they were both lost in the passionate kiss, but soon had to release to breathe. Inu-Yasha cupped Kagome's face in his hands, staring at her beauty.
"Kagome . . . do you . . . do you want me to become human, so that we can be together?"
Kagome eyes widened, but she shook her head, "No, I meant what I also said that night, I love you the way you are Inu-Yasha, I don't want you to change,"
"Well then, I guess when we head back to the feudal era, we'll be paying a visit to Myoga then," whispered Inu-Yasha, wrapping his mate in his arms protectively.
"Why Myoga?"
"He's know more about this stuff than I do, I'm sure he'll know what we can do about this little problem,"
Kagome nodded and kissed her husband again. She had missed kissing him over the past few weeks, and made a note to herself that Inu-Yasha was a much better kisser than Hojo was. The half demon pressed her against the house wall, crushing his mouth against hers. Neither of them paid attention to the front door which slowly opened to reveal a confused Hojo. He had been worried about Kagome and came to check on her, and didn't notice the kissing couple. Kagome had wrapped her arms around Inu-Yasha's neck to bring him closer to her. She could feel Inu-Yasha's tongue slip across her lips, asking for entrance. Giving off a small moan of approval, Kagome opened her mouth to him as he ravished it with that tongue of his. Hearing the small moan, Hojo turned around and noticed the his fiance was kissing some silver haired man with white dog ears. However the boy never made a sound, it was as if his body and voice were paralyzed with shock. He glanced to the side to see his ring lying on the ground forgotten.
"Don't you think we should tell Hojo about this?" asked Inu-Yasha nibbling on his mates lower lip.
"Hojo? Who's Hojo?" asked Kagome playfully.
Inu-Yasha growled lovingly at her before claiming her mouth again, his hands pressed firmly against her back. Kagome's hands slowly reached up and began to rub the dog demons furry white fluffy ears between her fingers. Inu-Yasha nearly lost it as he kissed Kagome even harder, pressing her more firmly against the wall as he began to purr. Kagome smiled against his lips and began to rub his ears harder. The kissing couple still had not noticed that they were being watched, and for some reason Hojo wasn't making a sound either.
Inu-Yasha finally released his lips from hers, both were slightly panting. The dog demon smiled as he noticed his mates lips were slightly swollen form there immense kissing. "When we go back to the feadal era and see Myoga, then I'm going to start building a house for us," whispered Inu-Yasha in Kagome's ear.
"Where will you build it,"
"Where ever you want me to build it,"
Kagome smiled and leaned her head against Inu-Yasha's strong shoulder. His arms wrapped around her tightly, holding her in a firm embrace.
"I should take these off you," whispered Kagome as she played with his prayer beads.
"What?"
"You don't need to wear theses anymore," said Kagome as she started to take off the prayer beads around his neck, but Inu-Yasha grabbed her hands to stop her.
"Don't, I know I hate these beads, but I think it would be best if I wore them, you know how I can get sometimes, you might want to 'sit' me back to reality,"
Kagome smiled and pecked him on the lips. She then raised her hands again and started to scratch behind Inu-Yasha's ears. A deep purr came from Inu-Yasha's throat, and he leaned his head more towards her hand to scratch it better. Kagome giggled and started to scratch his ears harder. The dog demon let out a moan of approval and rested his head on Kagome's shoulder. Inu-Yasha started to whimper slightly in Kagome's ear as he enjoyed having his ears scratched.
"Kagome, you might want to stop that . . ." purred Inu-Yasha.
"Why?" asked Kagome.
"You have no idea how that's effecting me right now," whimpered Inu-Yasha into Kagome's ear as he pressed her more harder against the house wall.
Catching onto his meaning Kagome stopped torturing the poor half demon and just held him close to her. Inu-Yasha took in a deep breath as he inhaled his mates scent, but froze as another scent he recognized was close by. Slowly turning around Inu-Yasha met the eyes of Kagome's ex-fiancé (Well he's not her fiancé anymore so what am I supposed to say?). Kagome was confused at first at why Inu-Yasha turned around, but when she caught sight of Hojo she froze too.
Hojo was still frozen, but he finally found his voice, "Kagome . . ."
"Hojo, I . . ." Kagome could not find the words to explain to him nicely that she was with Inu-Yasha.
Suddenly Miroku, Sango, an Mrs. Higurashi came out the door and were surprised to see Hojo staring at the couple who were still holding onto each other.
"Sorry," whispered Miroku to Inu-Yasha since he wasn't able to keep the boy in the house.
Hojo turned towards the others, "You knew?" he whispered in a harsh whisper.
Sango said nothing, but Miroku slowly nodded his head.
Hojo looked like his best friend had died, but no one spoke since they didn't really know what to say.
"Hojo honey, why don't we all go inside and talk this over?" asked Mrs. Higurashi placing a hand on the boys shoulder.
Hojo on the other hand didn't move or say anything, his eyes were still locked on the couple standing in front of him. Inu-Yasha finally had enough of the silence, "Look, I'm sorry you had to witness this, but Kagome doesn't love you, she's with me,"
Kagome was about to sit the half demon, but she didn't. Even though those words would hurt Hojo deeply, it was the truth after all.
Tears started to well up in Hojo's eyes, and Inu-Yasha would have yelled at the boy not to cry, but he kept silent since he himself almost cried when he thought he would lose Kagome. Inu-Yasha walked over and grabbed Hojo's ring off the ground and held it out to the boy.
"I believe this is yours,"
Hojo looked at the ring, pushed Inu-Yasha aside and lunge forward, grabbing Kagome by the shoulders.
"How could you do this to me!" he practically screamed at the girl.
Inu-Yasha was about to go over there and kill the boy, but Miroku placed a hand on the half demons shoulder.
"Let him talk to her,"
Inu-Yasha nodded.
"Hojo, I'm so sorry,"
"Why? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I wasn't sure! When you proposed to me I was thinking of saying no since I still had feelings for Inu-Yasha, but I thought he didn't love me and that's why I said yes. But then he came to me and told me his true feelings towards me,"
Hojo loosened his grip on Kagome's shoulders, and turned his head to stare at Inu-Yasha. "What is he?"
Inu-Yasha was about to say something, but Kagome cut him off, "He's human of course silly! He was just coming back from a costume party,"
The dog demon wasn't sure what a costume party was, but nodded his head in agreement.
"So this means the weddings off?"
Kagome nodded her head. Hojo sighed, released Kagome, and went to grab his ring from Inu-Yasha. The dog demon gave the ring to Hojo and smiled triumphantly that the boy was finally out of the way. Hojo paused for a second, before turning around and punching Inu-Yasha square in the face. The half demon was barely phased by the punch, while Hojo was hunched over clutching his hand.
Inu-Yasha grunted and walked over to Kagome, holding her in his arms. Hojo finally straightened up, and left the shrine, tears pouring down his face.
"Well . . . that went well I guess," said Miroku.
Everyone stared at the monk and laughed slightly.
"Well why don't we head inside and start planning your real wedding Kagome, but first I'll call all the relatives and tell them plans have changed.," said Mrs. Higurashi.
Everyone nodded and headed back inside.
TBC . . .
well not the end folks, I still have a few more chaps to add to make this story a happy ending, so keep reviewing to find out.