Chilly Nights

Chapter two

The sun engulfed the small bedroom, beaming into the new day. Everything was alit and the birds cried with happiness as a new morning breeze blew through the trees. Kagome slowly pulled her sleepy eyes open to the new day. As she did the first thing she saw was a blurry mix of sliver and red. Confused she tried to focus still sleepy from the night before. As her vision cleared she saw the face of the sleeping hanyou that had joined her the night before. Kagome smiled at the sight of him and closely studied his features. His eyes were heavily lidded and his soft pink lips were slightly open allowing him to breath soflty. Kagome could feel his faint sleeping breath upon her nose. Some of InuYasha's silver hair had fallen into his face covering his sensitive nose. Kagome then brought a hand up and brushed it away still smiling softly.

InuYasha smelt a familiar scent fill his nose as he awoke from his slumber. He felt a soft hand brush against his face, and a small body pressed gently against his body. Enjoying the warmth and the smell, he kept his eye's closed content with his position. As sleep finally escaped his body his mind finally noticed that the smell and body belonged to the women he adored. Slowly he opened his eyes wanting to see her face. His wish was granted as the first thing he saw was the beautiful face of Kagome smiling back at him looking deep into his golden eyes.

"Morning sleepyhead…" Kagome whispered.

InuYasha stared back intently into Kagome's eyes and blushed when he noticed that his arms were wrapped around the girl's waist and that her legs were entangled with his.

"Umm..I…morning…" Is all the InuYasha managed to get out.

Then it was Kagome's turn to blush feverishly as she too noticed their position. She was so entranced by InuYasha's sleeping face that she didn't notice their close contact. She was very sleepy last night and remember that she wanted InuYasha to stay but not one thing came to her about getting into the position they were presently in. She felt her cheeks go bright red and sat up embarrassed.

"I got to umm…yeah." Kagome leapt up out of bed jumping over InuYasha and dashed for the bathroom faster then she could have said Osuwari.

InuYasha laid there for a few minutes reflecting on the scene that happened only minutes ago. Cheeks still aflame InuYasha smirked and looked up at the white ceiling laying his hands behind his head.

Kagome shut the wooden door to the bathroom with a loud thump. But thumping was only coming from the door, she felt like her heart was going to beat out of her chest. Whoa…what just happened? Me and InuYasha laying their like a real couple? Like he loves me? …love…god I love him…I mean, what? Huh what's wrong with me? Doesn't he love Kikyou? Well I haven't heard from her, saw her, or seen InuYasha run off in a while…and I mean awhile…hmmm… Kagome was now sitting on the plush carpet near her bathtub her arms cross against her chest and her head tilted back against the tube thinking to herself. It was true to of what she was thinking. She wasn't seen Kikyou in a long time. She never thought about till now. It seemed that she just…disappeared from Kagome's life. Not that she minded but it didn't seem right. She had felt so happy and warm in InuYasha's arms and it felt so right to her. But how did InuYasha feel? She wanted to ask but was afraid to. What if he rejected her? She wouldn't be able to handle it.

Kagome stood up from her spot on the floor and looked at herself in the mirror. She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. Kikyou has been gone for a long time. And I have noticed but I didn't really ask. Maybe deep down inside I was happy she was gone…gah…no more thinking about her! She's gone! And now I have InuYasha to myself! So take that Kikyou! Kagome blushed at her own thoughts. InuYasha hers? That was all she ever wanted but did he want her? He had changed a lot lately. He had been a lot nicer. They still had fights and name calling but he seemed more protective and concerned.

Kagome had enough of the thoughts running through her head and walked back to her bedroom slowly brushing her teeth before she left. She trotted back to her room her feet making a soft wump sound on the plush carpet beneath her feet. As she approached her door she took in a long breath and let it out slowly before turning the brass door knob and walking in. As she peered into the room it was empty . Confused she looked out the window to see if InuYasha was in the good tree but to no avail. Frowning, she headed out the door and down the stairs. But before she left. She saw that her bed was neatly made. Her feather pillow back in place and blankets neatly folded out. Smiling Kagome walked silently down the stairs.

InuYasha heard light footsteps coming from the stairs above and turned around from his spot at the open fridge with a apple in his mouth. As he turned he saw Kagome standing at the door frame into the kitchen, her hair tied up in a ponytail. She was wearing a pair of grey Capri sweat pants and a white sleeveless top that showed a little bit of her smooth olive skin at the hip. She grinned at the sight of the Hanyou standing there with one arm on the fridge door the other reaching for the apple hanging out of his mouth.

"Hey." Is all that InuYasha said to her.

"Are you hungry? I'll make some breakfast if you want." Kagome said sliding into the kitchen and pulled out some pots and pan.

InuYasha could feel the tension in the air. He knew that Kagome was embarrassed about last night and he also noticed that she was trying her best to not look at him in the eye and even was trying to hide her blush. InuYasha too felt this way, but was really happy to wake up near the women he loved so dear. Even though he'd never tell her how much he liked waking up so close to her. He also remember in the middle of the night how he had wrapped his arms around her slim waist. InuYasha smiled and sat down at the table and sniffed at the cookies sitting there before reaching for them.

A few minutes later Kagome sat a large bowl of instant ramen in front of InuYasha and passed him a set of chopsticks. She moved herself with her bowl across from him and sat down with her meal.

"hahah, sorry for the quick meal didn't wanna really cook." Kagome chuckled.

"No problem with me!" InuYasha dug right into his meal without complaint.

After their meal the two sat in their chairs sipping quietly on small porcelain cups of tea. Kagome had thought that she'd ask InuYasha if he wanted to stay for the week that she had the house alone, secretly wanting to spent some alone time with him. She was about to ask but InuYasha beat her to speech.

"So where's your family? I haven't seen them around anywhere."

"Oh! I was going to talk about that. They went to visit my Aunt and I was planning to stay home to relax the whole week and-"

"You were going to stay away from the feudal time for a whole week without telling me?" InuYasha interrupted.

"What? No, I WAS planning to stay for a whole week and I was going to come today to tell everyone!" Kagome retorted.

"But you were supposed to come yesterday!"

"I know I know! But I was really wiped from school that day and I fell asleep! And then you…"Kagome trailed off.

"Feh. So you want to be alone this whole week?" InuYasha grunted.

"That is what I was going to talk about! I was wondering if-"

"You wanted me to tell everyone?" InuYasha interrupted yet again.

"LET ME FINSH!" Kagome stood up and slammed the table with her palms.

"THEN GO AHEAD WENCH!" InuYasha yelled back not thinking before he spoke.

"WENCH? WHY DO YOU STILL CALL ME THAT? AFTER ALL WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH?" Kagome's blood that stared to boil.

"BECAUSE YOUR NOT STAIGHT WITH ME!"

"OSUWARI!" InuYasha fell backwards off his chair and landed with a loud crunch his back against the hard floor. Gravity pulled him hard into the linoleum floor as he growled in frustration. Kagome skipped over to him with her hands behind her back and knelt next to the growling hanyou. She whispered into his ear.

"I was wondering if you wanted to stay with me for the whole week. It would be very boring without you. I'll let you think about it, I'm going up stairs to have a bath ok? Osuwari." With her last words she patted the top of his head and headed upstairs to the bathroom.

As the spell wore of InuYasha he stood up and dusted himself off. He watched Kagome walk up the stairs and heard her shut the door behind her. InuYasha sighed.

"This women is going to be the end of me…" InuYasha mumbled to himself.