I get bad grades on almost all of my classes, so i must study really hard and do all my homework, that means that the last chapters will be going out even more slow... Gomen ne Minna. Inuyasha is now at 1:00 am, so i don't sleep too much and my mom is a one step of not letting me watch it if I don't start to pay more attention to school. I'm really sorry, but really want to get better grades and also i don't want to stop watching Inuyasha... sooo updates will be slower. Now ENJOY the chapter.

Disclaimer: Just wait Rumiko, and you'll see. Bwuahahahahahaha

Do you think it's love?

I think so...

How much do you care about him?

A lot...

Then, why are you hurting him?

I don't know...

Tell him the truth.

The Bet

Chapter 17: Say It Again

By. Nova

Beta-reader: Kaze no Kagura

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"INUYASHAA!! COME DOWN!"

Sesshoumaru couldn't believe it. Punched by a girl... A GIRL! If you thought that was the worst part, don't say it, because what made him this angry was that his brother had... let,s say won. Kagome had been the first woman that caught his attention...

It wasn't fair! What about the things he felt? Didn't she feel the same? No, she didn't. She was just a stupid woman... for making him this way.

Besides, a law in the universe had been broken: Big brothers always win. But it wasn't that way anymore, at least not for him.

"What do you want?!" asked a sleepy Inuyasha. "It's kind of late to be yelling, don't ya think?"

Before he could make it downstairs, Sesshoumaru grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and threw him at the floor, leaving a stunned Inuyasha.

'What the hell?! I didn't even call him fluffy.'

"What did you say to her? I warned you to stay away from Kagome." He was coming back to himself, with his cold face.

"To Kagome? I haven't done anything" He put on the smuggest smile ever. "What? Did something go wrong with tonight's dinner?"

"... Don't push it, Inuyasha."

"When we were little I wasn't scared of you, what makes you think that I am now?" He stood up, facing his brother. The air was starting to get cold, as if it was feeling the tension between them, until Sesshoumaru made the first move. He punched Inuyasha in the face, sending him colliding with the wall.

Inuyasha reacted right away, trying to hit him, but it was worthless; every single time he tried, Sesshoumaru dodge it easily. He kept going until they stopped in the middle of the living room. Inuyasha took that chance to get his brother. That's when he saw it...

Before his fists could collide with Sesshoumaru's face, he saw the hollow Sesshoumaru's eyes held. Even though his hair was covering his face, he could still see it. Then Sesshoumaru looked up at him. Neither of them kept fighting. They just stayed there for awhile.

"Do you know how it feels? When you think you have something and then someone takes that away from you?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"I'm pretty familiar with that feeling..." Inuyasha looked away.

Both of them sat on opposites couches, Inuyasha was with his legs crossed and his brother looking at the ceiling. He kept talking.

"I was at the front of her house... and I tried to kiss her." He didn't need to look at Inuyasha to know what was coming.

"YOU WHAT?!! BASTARD!!" Inuyasha launched himself at his brother (again), but with a kick, Sesshoumaru sent him to the couch he was sitting on before.

"Calm down, you idiot, and let me finish."

"Keh!"

"And want to know what she said after punching me?"

"S-she punched you... HAHAHAHAHAHA-"

"Shut up and listen." If looks could kill, Inuyasha would be six feet under.

"Whatever... she still punched you."

"... She said your name." He had heard her, while she was running inside her house she had said his brother's name.

Time seemed to freeze for Inuyasha.

She was about to kiss someone else and had said his name? Hadn't Kagome said that she loved his brother? Hadn't she gone out with his brother when they were dating? Hadn't she...

Before Inuyasha knew what he was doing, he was at the door. He was going to get answers, but not like the last time; this time they were going to be real... And what he heard before he was out the door made him laugh... a real laugh.

"You were right. She has bad taste."

All day it was sunny with nice weather. Who could guess that exactly when he decided to go out, the rain would decide to fall?

By the time he got to the steps of the shrine, he was soaking wet. The shrine steps seemed to get bigger with each step. Even with the rain he was hot (Yeah we all now that: Right, girls?!), and his vision was getting blurry.

'Inuyasha,' Kagome thought as she looked at the moon; it made her think about his hair. She missed him so much that was imagining that he was in the rain, looking at her.

It wasn't her imagination. He was in the rain looking at her!

Kagome took a towel and rushed to get where he was. If he was there any longer he may catch a cold or something worse.

"Inuyasha!! Get in the house! It's freezing out there!!"

"Kagome."

"Geez." She went to him, trying to put the towel in his hair, but he grabbed her wrist, making her drop the towel.

"Why didn't you kiss him?" His voice was bitter. He hadn't wanted to raise his hopes but...

She looked away, avoiding his eyes. "Because I didn't want to."

"Would you want to kiss me?" That was it. The rain made something in his brain go wrong. Who would go to a girl's house, making her come out in the rain and ask her to kiss him? Inuyasha would.

"N-nani?" At the moment she turned her head to look at him. Inuyasha started to get closer. This time she didn't move. She didn't want to move.

The rain was getting harder, but to them it didn't matter. The light of the moon was the only necessary thing to look at each other.

Kagome put her hand on his chest.

Inuyasha put his hands on her waist.

She closed her eyes.

He tasted her lips.

It was a sweet kiss. The rain stopped. Just by being there, they felt that everything was right.

Kagome was the one to break the kiss. Her face was covered with a big blush, so she buried it in his chest.

The beat of her heart was too fast.. but she needed to say it.

"Inuyasha?"

"Mmm." He had his head above her trying to register what had just happened.

"I- I love you." Her voice was like a whisper, but he heard her.

No response.

"Inuyasha?" He didn't feel the same way? Then why did he kiss her? Was he getting revenge? He was just playing with her. He didn't love her? His voice broke her thoughts.

"Are you serious?" He loosened his grip a little to look at her. Kagome looked up at him to see if he was joking.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You also said that you loved Sesshoumaru." She could hear the venom in his voice at the mention of her, love, and Sesshoumaru in the same sentence. She giggled.

"I didn't mean it Inu-kun. I was confused" - He put her hand on his face to look better at him. - "The only person I'll let kiss me is you... I love you."

He bent down once again to kiss her, and when their breaths were almost together, he said what he had wanted to say for so long.

"I love you too, My Kagome."

Then his whole body went numb. The world to him collapsed and everything was black.

"INUYAASHAAAAA!!"

Did I just make a cliff, Damn it! I must start to hide somewhere.