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' thinking '

"Talking "

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When they had finished dinner, Inuyasha was the first to leave the house. He walked outside and jumped up in a nearby tree, gazing over the village.

"Now I even have to be careful with what I am THINKING!" he muttered. 'I can't have all my secrets told out...' He sighed and turned his head towards the house.

'What if she tells Kagome...? No, I must stop think that! She doesn't tell her... right?' He closed his eyes.

"Damn it! I can't stand this!"

~*~

Kagome watched Inuyasha leave the house and then turned to Kayashi.

"He seems so quiet... Like he's hiding something" She said in a whispering voice. Sango and Miroku where listening to Shippou while he told them about how he fooled Inuyasha before.

"I just ran around that tree and..." Kayashi stopped looking at them as Kagome spoke.

"He is a bit confused right now" She says while looking out the door.

"Why?" Kagome asks her and strokes her hair out of her face. Sango slapped Miroku, he had come too close. A red hand mark was visible on his right cheek as he tried to explain himself. Shippou sighed and walked over to Kirara, who had curled up to a ball by the wall. Kayashi watched all this, trying to find an answer without hurting anyone.

"Well?" Kagome asked again. Kayashi sighed.

"He will tell when he wants" she says and looks out the door again, watching the sun go down. Kiasa had left them a while ago to take care of the wounded. Kagome looked out towards Inuyasha and nods.

'I still wonder why he is so quiet...' she thinks. Kayashi gets up.

"I go out for a while, I'll be back in an hour or so" She says. 'Hopefully I can tell Inuyasha that I won't tell her too much... he doesn't trust me in that point...'

"Huh?" Kagome looks at her. "Sure, we just wait here" Kayashi looks at her, and smiles a little before walking out.

~*~

Inuyasha heard footsteps from the house and felt by the scent that Kayashi was approaching. He turned towards her.

"What?" He asks as she stops and looks at him.

"Can we talk?" She asks. He looks surprised but nods and jumps down. Kayashi walks some bit away before sitting down on a rock. Inuyasha stops some steps behind her.

'I wonder what she wants to talk about... DAMN! What if...'

"No, I have not told her" Kayashi says, her back towards him. He watches her for another second before sighing and sits down next to her.

"That's a relief..." He says without meaning it. 'Ah well, she could have read it in my mind whatsoever so...' She looks at the sun.

"Are you planning to ever tell her?" She asks.

"Well... uh..." He thought for a moment. 'What would she think? Probably that I was just lying...'

"Why would she think it was a lie?" He jagged back, mostly because he first thought he had thought aloud. He then sighed and told her about Kikyo, the many times that things had gotten so wrong, the times than Kagome might have been hurt, and him unable to tell her how he really felt. Kayashi listened to him while nodding.

~*~

Kagome watched the two Hanyos leave and got up.

"Kagome-chan, where are you going?" Sango asked her while getting away from Miroku.

"Just for a walk" She says before leaving the house. Shippou had fallen asleep next to Kirara.

She followed the two Hanyos to the rock. She stopped some way from them, the wind in her face.

'They should at least not be able to smell me...' she thought. She heard Kayashi ask:

"Are you planning to ever tell her?" and listened while holding her breath. 'Tell me what? What's going on?'

"Well... uh..." Inuyasha said, then going quiet for a moment, just looking out in the sky.

"Why would she think it was a lie?" Inuyasha jagged back as Kayashi spoke. He then sighed and told Kayashi about the events with Kikyo. Kagome listened and felt tears coming up.

'Why did he never tell me? You Jerk!' She thought while wiping them away.

"And all that time, I just wanted to tell her..." Inuyasha stopped there, unable to finish the sentence.

"But you couldn't find a way?" Kayashi asked. She glanced backwards, right towards Kagome, who hid behind the stone. Inuyasha didn't notice her, he just nodded. Kagome looked back as Kayashi did. Suddenly, Inuyasha laughed. But it wasn't a happy laughter, just a bitter chuckle.

"I still can't tell her, I still can't... but why?" Kayashi looked at him with sympathy in her eyes before looking out towards the sun.

"Maybe you just have to say it, right out"

"That's the problem... Damn! I can fight of demons... But I can't..." He took a deep breath. "I can't find the courage to tell her that... That I love her" Kagome gasped.

'He... he... loves me?' She thought. She felt her cheeks get hotter and realized that she was blushing. She looked at Inuyashas back where he sat. Kayashi looked at her again, and smiled. Then she turned to Inuyasha.

"I think you just did tell her" She said. Inuyasha looked at her for one second. 'I just...' He spun around into a standing position, facing Kagome who just stood up from behind the stone. He could feel himself blush and looked down. 'DAMN IT! I just opened my heart in front of another Hanyo... and Kagome! Damn it all!'

"Inuyasha..." He looked up, crimson red in the face. Kagome was looking down and blushing as well.

"What?" He muttered, before looking down again. 'Why the hell is SHE blushing for? Damn you Kayashi! I bet you knew this all the time!' Kayashi just smiled and walked away from them, leaving them alone. As the sound of her footsteps was ebbing out, Kagome opened her mouth again.

"Inuyasha, I..." She couldn't find the words, so instead she asked him:

"Did you really mean it?"

"Mean what?" He muttered, still not looking up. 'Damn it! I sound like an idiot!'

"You know what I mean" She said, walking up to him. He looked up. It wasn't before then she saw he was blushing. 'He blushes... again? So this was the reason? ME?'

"Well..." He sighed while cursing himself. 'Blasted Idiot! Now you have started, just tell her!' Kagome laid a hand on his shoulder, making him look her in the eyes. As he looked into her chocolate coloured eyes, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Yes" He said. She still looks at him as he continued. "Yes, I did mean it! Whatever you think Higurashi Kagome, I... Love... You" She smiled at him. 'He really means it...'

"Inuyasha..." he opened his eyes again. She was smiling at him. 'What...'

"Inuyasha, I... I love you too" He jagged back in a confused manner, his face almost back at normal colour.

"You... do?" He asks. She just nodded and hugged him. He returned the hug.

'Kayashi, I don't know how, but you surely can make one talk' he thought and smiled.

~*~

"Sch! don't get so damn loud!" Sango hissed a Shippou while she was covering his eyes.

"But I..." Shippou fell quiet as Miroku hit him on the head.

"Just do as we say!" He mutters and looks at the couple from his hideout behind a big rock. Kayashi sat with her back towards the rock, she didn't need to see; she could hear what they thought and just visual the scene in her head, if she wanted to will say. Sango peeked out from her place at the other side of the rock.

"Good job Kayashi!" She whispers. "They would never get together that way without your help"

"I didn't do anything" Kayashi answers monotone. She just heard Inuyashas thinking comment: 'Kayashi, I don't know how, but you surely can make one talk' and smiled slightly. Sango looked back at her.

"What do you mean nothing?"

"Just what I said, I was just asking him about his thoughts and he spat it right out!" She muttered before closing her eyes. Sango held in her laughter, Kayashi almost looked like Inuyasha right there.

"But still, if you had told him Kagome was there, he had stopped..." She got cut of by Kayashi.

"If I had told him, none of them would have forgiven me!" She said while glaring at Sango. Miroku hissed at her before worriedly looking out from behind the stone, the two hadn't heard her.

"And why?" Sango asked curiously.

"Do I have to tell the details?" Kayashi snorted and closed her eyes again.

"Yes!" Miroku said with excitement but got hit by Sango, but not too hard, in the face. Neither of them wanted the two... or at least Inuyasha, to hear them. Kayashi opened her eyes and looked backwards, like she was looking through the stone.

"We should be heading back" She whispered and got up.

"Why..." Miroku started but then nodded and silently got up and heading back. Sango did the same, still covering Shippous eyes. Kayashi looked at the couple, smiled and got after the others.

~*~

Inuyasha slowly let go of Kagome. They where both silent, standing in front of each other. A soft, gentle wind was leaping over the ground. Kagome looked up at the Hanyo. His amber eyes where looking into her own.

'Those eyes...' Kagome thought. She broke the connection and looked over to the last ray of sunshine.

"We should be heading back..." She said. He nodded before looking towards the village, seeing some persons he did recognize leaping away from the place towards the village.

"Why those little...!" He growls and makes Kagome turn around. She watches the figures of her friends disappearing by the houses. She walks forward and lays a hand on Inuyashas shoulder.

"Leave it for this time, will you?" He looked at her. She had a pleading look in her eyes and he sighed.

'With that face I can't...' He thought. "Okay, for this time then... But if they start saying ANYTHING, I will..." He shut up. "I don't know what I will" He then says, crosses his arms and starts heading towards the village.

"Kagome, you coming?" He shouts over his shoulder.

"Hai!" She replies and gets after him.

~*~

"Damn, Damn" Kayashi murmured and rushed into the house, waking a surprised Kirara up. The others where fast after. "Damn it! Why did You need to get me there!?"

"What's the matter Kayashi?" Sango asked while letting Shippou go. He muttered something that sounded like "I'm not THAT young" and sat down next to Kirara again.

"He saw us... right" Miroku said. Kayashi nodded.

"And he didn't seem too happy about it..." She muttered. Shippou stared wide- eyed at her.

"HE SAW YOU! You are going to regret it" He grinned.

"But us includes you" Sango says, making the Kitsune gulp and shut up.

"Just what should he do?" Kayashi asks them.

"Probably hit us a few times, getting used to it now" Shippou said. Sango and Miroku nodded. Kayashi gazed out the door with a gone look on her face. She then sighed in relief and turned to the others.

"Seems like you all have to thank Kagome later"

"Why?" The tree asked in unison.

"She just made him change his mind"

"Yay! Way to go Kagome!" Shippou happily said. Everybody started to pack their things together. They where speaking to each other while doing so. Kayashi told Shippou how you could use some herbs for making effects of illusions be more real. The Kitsune listened carefully to every word.

"You could also..." Kayashi turned silent as the others too did. Inuyasha entered the house. He glared at them.

"What are you idiots staring at!" He yells before sitting down next to the wall. Kagome, who is right behind, shakes her head at him before getting her stuff. The others where still silent, but continued packing their stuff. Inuyashas voice broke the silence.

"If you continue to be this quiet, I might almost think you where SEEING something weird" He growled. The others gulped (Except Kayashi, who just shook her head) and started to talk again. Sango was finished and walked over to Kagome, who was sitting outside.

"Well, I guess I shouldn't say anything... but" She started.

"It was great" The raven-haired girl answered while gazing out into the sky. It was turning dark blue above them, and some light twinkling stars had become visible. Sango nodded.

~*~

"Well Inuyasha?" Miroku asked the Hanyo and sat down besides him. Not too close, he still didn't know if Inuyasha was angry enough to hit him.

"Bouzu, keep your mouth shut or I make you do it" Inuyasha muttered with a growl while he clenched his fist. Miroku gulped and stood up, getting away from the annoyed Hanyo.

"Since we are finished, we should leave" Kayashi stated.

"I don't want to sleep outside the village! What about Youkais!?" Shippou asked frightened.

"Fox brat! You have no comment in this case!" Inuyasha started to get really mad now. 'I would love to smack them all to a pulp!' He thought. Kayashi turned his head towards him and sighed. He opened his eyes.

'Mind your own business!' He thought. She shook her head and took her last things.

"Kayashi, I have been wondering" Miroku said.

"No, I have no weapons, this towns Mikos doesn't have any" She says without letting him finish the question.

"Why is that?" Kagome said. She had come into the house to see if everyone was finished.

"Don't ask me" The Female Hanyo said. "Perhaps they didn't think they would get attacked. Fools" She muttered.

"And another thing" Sango said. "You haven't asked us about our lives"

"No need to" Kayashi answers. "It's all in your mind"

"Enough talk! Let's get away" Inuyasha rose up and got out the door. "The faster we find that Youkai, the better"

"Hai, we should be leaving. We need to find a place to take shelter before it gets to dark" Miroku says.

"Why don't we stay in the village?" Shippou says but ends up getting hit by Inuyasha.

"Because I don't WANT to! Is that enough answer?" He yells. Kayashi rolls her eyes.

"I know a place in the forest, let's go" She says. The others nod and gets after, Inuyasha snorts before and leaves the little Kitsune confused.

"Shippou-chan, coming?" Kagome asks while getting her bike.

"HAI!" He answers and jumps onto the bike. 'Because I want to? What's that for an answer?' The group silently leaves the village and heads for the forest. Kayashi sighed. The villagers had avoid looking at her, but what had she expected? Sango looked at her back.

'Poor girl...' Kayashi turned around and smiled a little at her. She smiled back, but her smile faded as she felt a hand on her butt.

"YOU PERVERT!" She yells and slaps Miroku. "Leave your hand where it belongs!"

"But it belongs where I put it" Miroku says, resulting in a hand print on his other cheek too.

'They can't stop...' Kagome thought and looked at Inuyashas back. 'Back as normal... Proud jerk...'

He was walking just a few feet's behind Kayashi, his arms crossed and looking straight forward. Suddenly he stops while sniffing in the air.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Miroku asks.

"Sesshomaru is here around" The Hanyo growls. Kayashi sniffs in the air. 'Is that my father's scent? Might be...' She saw the other look at her; she looked back with a questioning face.

"Kayashi, we need to find that place of yours" Kagome said.

~*~

Sesshomaru had seen them leave the village and had gotten away from his usual place.

'Why couldn't they stay in that village, I hate to... huh?' He thought from his place in a tree behind him. He had noticed another person in the group.

'Another Hanyo?' He studied her. 'Inu-youkai there too... But how is that possible?' he rugged his shoulders and thought back about in the village, when he had gotten the news about Yani's death.

*Flashback*

"Hai, Yani died about a week ago" The old woman from the village said. He growled a little but regained his cool. The old one spoke again.

"All left is her daughter..."

"Daughter?" He asks her.

"Hai, Kayashi, come hither" a girl walked up next to the old lady. Sesshomaru studied her.

"You have Yani's eyes" He says. The girl nodded. "Who is your father?"

"Not known" The old one answers.

"I guess my business here is finished" He says and walks of, but he could fell the girls gaze in his back.

*End flashback*

"Kayashi, we need to find that place of yours" he heard that girl Kagome say.

'Kayashi... It's the same...' He thought. 'But she was human... It can't be the same girl... It's best if I follow them' with that, he silently began following the group.

~*~

"Here we are" Kayashi stated as they reached a place by a high cliff wall.

"This is a wonderful place Kayashi!" Kagome happily says. Inuyasha just snorts and jumps up in a tree. He looks around.

'Sesshomaru you bastard, get here so I can...' he stopped thinking; Kayashi was watching him with icy eyes.

'GEEZ! What's next? Allowing him to kill me? Let him take Tetsusaiga?' He thought and snorted. Sango put Hiraikotsu to the wall and sat down. Miroku put his back towards the tree Inuyasha was in. Kagome made up a fire and laid out her sleeping bag before sitting down.

"Kayashi?" Shippou asked the female Hanyo.

"Hai?" She answered.

"Tell about that bracelet of yours"

"This?" She said and held it up.

"Hai"

"Okay, it has a spell for like locking Youki. Every time I put it on, It draws my Youki and turns me human, like this" She closes her eyes and activates the bracelet, it gets around her wrist and changes her to human.

"Does it work on everyone?" Kagome asks.

"Every Hanyo, I should say, If you draw the Youki from a Youkai it would die, and this bracelet doesn't have the strength to keep the Youki" Shippou smirks and looks up to Inuyasha. Kayashi giggles.

"Would work" She says. Inuyasha looks down at Shippou.

"Don't even think of it" He says, and adds: "Fox brat" Shippou sighs.

~*~

Sesshomaru watched the group from his place in a tree. He had the wind against him, so he shouldn't be noticed. He watched the other Hanyo that had joined them.

'Where could she be come from?' He thought. The girl said something he couldn't hear and held up a bracelet. She put it on her wrist and changed appearance. He watched as she turned into a human girl with long black hair, and those eyes... His heart jumped over one beat as he saw them.

'Those eyes... they are so alike Yani's... it must be the same... but how?'

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GOMEN! I can't write longer than this! But I promise I'll try to put next
chapter up in a day or two!

And if you wonder why Kayashi couldn't hear Sesshomaru thinking, it is as
she said in the fourth chapter, she only read minds if she wants to. Because she doesn't know Sesshomarus aura, she can't find his mind in the
way as she finds the others. Hope you got an explanation.

Preview for next chapter – Secrets unveiled!

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"So Inuyasha, you found yourself one of your own kind?" Sesshomaru smirked, but to his confusion, Inuyasha grinned at him.

"Well, you could say that, right Kayashi?" The other Hanyo, Kayashi, looked at Sesshomaru with cold eyes and then nodded with a smirk.

"Then what is so funny?" He asked monotone.

"Oh, nothing, I was just figuring out your reaction" Inuyasha said.

'My reaction? On what?' Sesshomaru thought.

"On me" Kayashi answered him. He jagged back and stared at her.

"So, you are indeed Yani's daughter?" he coldly said.

"Hai" She slowly said. Inuyasha grinned wider.

"Go on Kayashi, tell him everything"

'What is he smirking about?' Sesshomaru thought frustrated.

"I am Yani's daughter" Kayashi started and stared into his eyes with her own icy blue. "And I am also your daughter"

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How do YOU want/think Sesshomaru reacts on the news of Kayashi being his
daughter?

Write the answer you want in the review ;) I maybe use it for the next
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