summery: This is a one-shot story just about Kagome's thoughts and feelings for our favorite hanyou.

DDW15: hey! Another one-shot story! Again, please be gentle when reviewing! I love writing and hope to add more stories as I get better!

Disclaimers: I do not own Inu Yasha, the great and mightly Rumiko Takahashi does. *sigh*

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It's funny, you know, the irony of the whole thing. To think he might care about me enough to love me. I know now that it's stupid of me to even think about it, he loves Kikyo.... and he will never forget her. I know all he ever sees when he looks at me is her, he never sees me, he sees through me. It hurts......

And yet... I still love him.....

I'm not sure when it happened, or why, but I found myself in love with the stubborn hanyou. He always protects me, and a few times it has seemed as though he really cares about me.... but it's just wishful thinking by a simple school-girl like me. But, all those intimate times, those rare times when he's sweet to me, or gentle..... my heart aches with longing....

But.... if he doesn't care, why does he get so protective of me when it comes to Koga?

He is so complicated, like a two headed coin. No matter how many times you flip it, the result is always the same, and you are left to puzzle. Every time Kikyo shows up, he completely forgets I'm there.... and it hurts again... my heart can't take it.....

I lay here tonight, deep in my thoughts, and watch him sleep in his tree, peaceful and at ease....

It's hard to believe, when you look at him now, that he is so aggressive and powerful. He looks so innocent.... like a child. He had a rough life growing up.... no one accepted him because of what he was. He loved his mother a lot, and she was taken from him at such a young age. His father was dead already, and his older half brother Sesshoumaru holds no love towards him. He was left alone... it had to have been terrible for him, being so young....

And that's one reason I love him... he's strong...

Watching him now, I see his ears twitch, as if listening to the night around him. Those ears were the first thing I noticed about him. They're sensitive to the slightest touch... but I know he loves it. His eyes were probably the next thing about him I fell in love with. Their amber depths are so full of emotion.... they can be cold and harsh, and then warm and gentle, though it is rare to see them like that. He holds a tenderness to him, but his heart is so fragile and hurt easily, he has built a wall around it, and won't let anyone get too close.

How I wish I had the power to break down that wall... and show him how much I cared... but... do I want to risk his rejection?

What if he doesn't feel the same as I do?

What if he shoves me away and builds the wall around his heart higher?

What if.....

What if.....

What if.....

What if my heart can't take the pain.........?

The End

DDW15: so. that's it. Inu-chan: I wasn't even in it! That's not fair! DDW15: this wasn't about you! It was about Kagome's feelings! Inu-chan: *growls* I don't care! I wasn't in it! DDW15: *sigh* Kagome!! *Kagome appears* the word, please. Kagome: SIT! Inu-chan: *eats dirt* DDW15: thank you. Kagome: no problem. *grabs the furious hanyou and drags him off* DDW15: anyways. review! Thanks for reading!