Finally! You guys took longer than usual to review. Did you know that if you don't sign in for a review, you can review my story as many times as you want? Ok, I'm starting to use parts of the original chapters again. Most of this chapter was supposed to belong to the original chapter 9 but I had to change it.

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Chapter 12

There was a knock on the door, "Kat, can I come in?"

Tanya knocked again and waited for a response.

The only one she got was an impatient cough from behind her.

"I'm coming in and there are others who want to see you," Tanya said as she turned the handle.

She entered, "Inuyasha and everyone else came to say hello."

Kat didn't even look up.

Tanya walked over, "Jason is over too. He asked me to marry him this morning."

Tanya showed her the ring but Kat's gaze didn't move from the wall.

Tanya blushed with anger and used the back of her hand to smack her friend across the face.

A red mark began to appear and Kat's gaze moved towards the floor.

Hot tears spilled down Tanya's face, "How could you not care? I'm sure it took all of his wits for him to ask me and here you are moping! You always encouraged our relationship even though we used to fight a lot. You were always there for us. Don't you care?! Can't you see? You're not the only one that misses him!"

Inuyasha placed a hand on Tanya's shoulder to stop her from continuing.

Tanya shot him a glare before seeing the expression in his eyes.

She paused a moment before growling out an excuse to leave.

Inuyasha watched as the odd girl let out a string of curses and slam the door behind her.

He walked over to Kat and knelt down beside her.

He could smell the salt of her tears, "Am I really that mean? Does Tanya think I'm that horrible? I do care about her and Jason getting engaged!"

Inuyasha sat there not really knowing what to do after all, he was never really that good with crying girls.

He thought about something a moment before pulling her into a hug, "Don't worry, Tanya didn't mean it. She is just worried about you."

Tears began to stain his fire rat kimono.

Kat sighed, "I know. I feel so bad. It's almost Christmas and here I am moping. I just miss him so much."

"Then go after him," Inuyasha suggested.

Kat stiffened in his embrace, "He doesn't want me to find him."

"Bullshit. You know he loves you," Inuyasha said.

"Really? Then why did he leave?" she asked flatly.

"He truly loves you. Don't you see? He didn't want to see you get hurt. He couldn't live with the fact that he could make a mistake and end up killing you," Inuyasha told her.

"He wouldn't hurt me purposefully. I'm a battousai too. I'm just as good as him and I can stick up for myself," Kat pointed out.

"You're preaching to the quire. I know that. I can smell the change in you," he said.

"How did you and everyone else pick up slang and modern day phrases?" Kat asked.

Inuyasha grinned, "Too much TV."

"So everyone else picked up slang too?" Kat asked.

"No, that was Kenshin's wish," Inuyasha said.

"He wished for everyone to have poor grammar?"

"Yep," Inuyasha said.

Kat noticed that there was something different in the way he spoke.

He seemed sad; it was almost as if he didn't want her to go after Kenshin.

Then it hit her, "You love me."

(A/N: HA! Another cliffy! Oh well, you'll just have to wait till the next chapter. You can me happy by reviewing *Hint hint* PLEASE REVIEW!!!)