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Fate Gives Second Chances

Chapter Two: It Was Just A Dream

"DON"T LEAVE ME INUYASHA!" she screamed at him as though he was just pretending.

Then his body disintegrated into dust as she held him in her arms and was blown away by the wind to leave her sitting there all alone in the dark. Clinging to the blood soaked tattered strips that remained of his kimono and necklace in her arms.

Kagome sat up in the dark of night with the tears from her nightmare still streaming down her checks. She had been so terrorized by it that her entire body was trembling. As she became aware that it had just been a dream her trembling stopped and she felt comfort in being surrounded by her companions around the dying remains of their camp fire.

But even though it had been nothing more than a dream she couldn't stop the tears that kept falling down her face. Though at the moment she didn't care. She knew that even if she stopped crying she wouldn't be able to fall asleep again. Instead she got up from where she had been sleeping and moved to sit beside the small flames left by the fire they had made earlier. It had nearly died out so she put on a little more wood and poked the embers around with a long stick to keep the fire going. They would all need it for cooking breakfast in a few hours anyway.

They were getting closer and closer to finding Naraku, wherever he was hiding, she knew they were getting close. The thought of find him filled her with dread, as if she knew that something horrible was going to happen when they found him. She knew that he was only hiding so that he could power himself up, and the longer they took to find him the more powerful he got.

These thoughts made even more tears to fall down her checks only to shortly rest on her chin until they plummeted down to the ground. Then just when she thought she didn't have any tears left another one would make it's escape down her face to follow all the others.

She just sat like that for almost ten minutes, silently in front of the fire as tears involuntarily fell down her face.

When Inuyasha could stand it no longer, he quietly jumped down from the tree in which he had been resting. He had awoken just before she had from the sobbing noises she had made in her sleep. Just as he leaned over to see if she was awake, she sat up shaking from head to foot, but quickly calmed herself down. He had watched as she had gotten up and gone to the fire, only to sit there feeding the fire as tear after tear dropped down her face.

Kagome gasped. "Is something wrong Kagome?" Inuyasha asked as he sat down beside her in front of the fire.

Inuyasha had been so quiet that Kagome hadn't heard him sneak up behind her, and having him so close by with the memory of what she had dreamed still fresh in her mind brought about a whole new flood of tears.

She threw her arms around him, and cried into his kimono. She hadn't wanted to show such affection, but she was so worried that he might be hurt let alone die and leave her that she couldn't restrain herself.

"Oh, Inuyasha..." she wailed into his chest.

Her actions had shocked him into a speechless state, and before he knew what he was doing his arms had instinctively encircled themselves around Kagome pulling her closer to him.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha whispered into her hair, "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Kagome tried to move away, disconcerted at the way she had fearlessly shown her feelings and thrown herself at Inuyasha, but she felt something pull her closer. Suddenly she realized that his arms had ensnared her to him. She lifted her head and looked up into his worried eyes.

Why is he hugging me? Why is he holding me so close, it's almost as if he's worried about me? Hw hasn't held me this close since he tricked me to get the Shikon no Tama shards, and then threw me down the well. She wondered helplessly dazed at his actions.

Inuyasha looked down into Kagome's confused eyes. She always had a way of amazing him, and her strange ways filled him with wonder and curiosity (though he'd never tell).

"Tell me what's wrong, Kagome." He said as he brushed the tears off her cheeks.

"I...I....I had a bad dream." It seemed so stupid to say that she was crying over a dream. Something that she knew hadn't happened, yet it had seemed so real to her. The image of Inuyasha blowing away in the wind kept coming back to her. But he was with her now. Holding her against him and trying to comfort her. Maybe she was still dreaming. No, this is real. This was them just being together.

"Was that all? What'd you dream that made you cry so? Did you fail one of those test thingys, or something?" He asked curiously.

"No baka. I wouldn't be this upset over a test." She answered as a smile began to spread across her face, but disappeared at her next thoughts. "I dreamt that Naraku injured you, and you died." 'Thinking about Kikyo while I was the one holding you.' she finished in her head. One more tear streamed down her face as the sorrow returned to her.

"Don't be stupid Kagome! Naraku won't kill me before I kill him. Besides I don't plan to let him of all people take me from this world." He stated rather haughtily.

"Oh Inuyasha, you're too much sometimes." She mumbled as she looped her arms around his neck. "You're just too much."

He held her closer and whispered in her ear, "Not too much for you. Now go back to sleep Kagome, you'll need your rest so that you won't get worn out so easy tomorrow."

"Hai Inuyasha. But I'll always be by your side." she barely breathed back as sleep began to fill her mind.

She snuggled into his lap and promptly fell asleep. Inuyasha didn't have the heart to force her to let go of him, and in truth he really liked having her sleeping form in his lap. He studied her face and traced it with his eyes. He sat like that till morning. Just sitting peacefully with Kagome like he had wanted to do so many times.

Just before sun up he placed her back in her sleeping bag, careful not to wake her or the kitsune.

He jumped back into his tree, and thoughts of Kagome raced through his mind. It was funny how she had tried to befriend him after he tried to kill her. How she had cried for him when he was hurt. How she always came back from her time where it was safer. How she tended his wounds. How she was caring and gentle with Shippo like Kikyo once had been. He had promised himself to Kikyo, and Kagome still stayed by his side. In fact she was going after Naraku with him just to seek revenge for her friends and all the people Naraku had hurt. She was even helping him seek vengeance for what happened to him and Kikyo. She was going to revenge Kikyo even after Kikyo had tried to kill her. Stolen her soul. Stolen her jewel shards. Yet he had still picked the dead miko.

He had picked the cold, malicious, dead first love over the kind, gentle, and brave faced girl who would stand by him no matter what. His choice seemed so stupid now. How could he have picked Kikyo. She wasn't the Kikyo he had once known, but now callous and filled with anger and resentment. She had chosen death when she could have used the jewel to save herself. How could he have loved her when she was so different from Kagome. With that thought realization hit him like a brick on the head.

'I don't love her anymore. I love Kagome!'

It was very clear to him now. He would have to break his promise to Kikyo. He would go with Kagome. Now he just needed the right moment to tell her.

That was the same morning that they had found Naraku, and the same morning that Kagome's nightmare came to life.

DSN: You asked for more so here it is. This chapter is dedicated to The-Real-Rosie-Gamgee for reviewing first as my thanks and appreciation for reviewing so fast. Anyway, I can't wait to get on with this story. The only reason this chapter is coming out so soon is because I already had it typed up. Expect a new chapter some time with in the next week. Alrighty then!

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