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"Spoken"

Thoughts

Chapter 26: Morning

Inuyasha awoke but did not open his eyes. He breathed in deeply and smelled the light scent of vanilla. Kagome? He noticed that he held something warm in his arms. There was no other person it could be. He couldn't quite make out her scent, just the vanilla. Must still be human. I wonder how close to sunrise it is. But I really don't want to move. This feels so natural, so right.

He could faintly hear music and someone gently singing with it. It was in a language that he had never heard before, but it sounded a little like that new style of theatre, kabuki. The voice sounded so familiar and the song was beautiful. Not really wanting to move he allowed himself to relax, and he pulled Kagome closer to him. She moaned slightly. The singing stopped. Was that a moan of pain? I hope I didn't hurt her. Sighing inwardly, Inuyasha slowly opened his eyes to see how bad the girl was hurt.

Kagome was not the first thing his eyes landed on. She was curled up on her side snuggled under his chin. Instead his eyes landed on the woman sitting on the couch watching him. A woman that looked so familiar that he could have almost sworn he was looking in a mirror. But the "reflection" had aged ever so slightly. The woman looked more like how he remembered his mother.

"Inuyasha?" she spoke quietly.

He gave her a small smile to show that he heard her.

She looked at him with some concern. "How old are you?"

Inuyasha was caught off guard. That was not a question he was expecting from Nekoyasha. He thought for a minute. "Do you want that with or without the fifty years pinned to the tree?"

Neko sighed a breathe of relief. "It doesn't matter. You have answered the real question I was worried about. How are you feeling? Can you get up?"

"I feel a lot better than I did last night. I think I could get up. What were you so worried about that you had to ask my age?"

Neko sighed. "Come watch the sunrise with me. I will tell you out there."

As Inuyasha untangled himself from Kagome, he saw Neko gently raise Souta's head from her lap and rest him gently back on the couch. She smiled. "He was worried."

Inuyasha nodded and together they headed outside.

*****

Shippo had been told to wake up the monk and the demon slayer for breakfast. He was about to bound in to the room when he saw that the divider had been pushed aside. Closer inspection showed Miroku and Sango cuddled up together under one blanket. The blanket came up to right under Sango's shoulders leaving them bare and exposed. The blanket was at a slant over Miroku showing that he had no shirt on. Shippo gulped. He was not as innocent as the "family" thought he was. But he didn't really want to see either one of his two friends naked like that.

He turned to go back into the kitchen and leave them be. When he was about two steps from the door when a cool voice questioned, "Were you not going to tell your friends that breakfast was ready?"

Shippo looked up at the Demon Lord and gulped. "Well... I-I... They... I thought they would be better left alone."

Sesshomaru cocked an eyebrow at the kit. He glanced into the room and saw the two young people curled up in one another's arms. Sesshomaru could understand why the kit was nervous to go in there. However there was no scent of mating in the room. It would still make for a very uncomfortable situation though.

"We'll just let the scent of breakfast wake them," he said as he ushered a very confused Shippo into the kitchen.

*****

Neko and Inuyasha sat under the God Tree awaiting the sun rise.

"What do you remember about last night?" the girl asked.

Inuyasha thought for a moment. "I remember you coming to the well house and helping me get to the house. The next thing I know I woke up a few minutes ago." With Kagome in my arms.

"You don't remember anything else?" He shook his head. "I asked you your age because last night, you thought you were five."

Inuyasha looked at her wide eyes. "I don't remember."

"It's ok, but you scared me when you passed out and then woke up like that. You thought I was your mom." Neko looked off into the distance. "You love her don't you?"

"Who? Kagome?" Neko looked at him and nodded. "Well..." He looked at the ground. Yes! a voice inside his head yelled.

We've been through this. I love Kikyo!

Neko lifted his chin so he could meet her eyes. "Last night you said that you had a dream. And that there were two girls that look very much alike. You like both of them, but it felt like you had to love the miko."

Inuyasha blinked at her. Haha! You love Kikyo because you think you owe her something?

Well, don't I? I did take her life from her!

NO! Naraku did that. You gave her hope. She died because of Naraku. You love Kagome because she stays by you.

I love her because she is her own person, and she believes in me.

Aha! You admit that you love Kagome! And Kikyo never really did believe in you did she? She wanted you to become human. Kagome doesn't mind you the way you are!

"But she could never love a half-breed," he said aloud as a single tear slid down his cheek.

"Oh, honey," Neko said as she embraced her cousin as the sun came up.

Inuyasha looked back at the red head in front of him and gave a small smile. She smiled back at him. He stared at her for a moment. "Neko-chan, when did your eyes turn gold?"

*****

A/N: Well, we have Inuyasha up and moving, and no longer believing that he is five. Now then, if Kagome would wake up. And there will be Inu/Kag fluff soon for all those wanting it.

Poor Shippo. I'm not sure which is worse... seeing Miroku and Sango like that or Sesshomaru being nice to him.?

Henrika - Why Sess hates Inuyasha? Hopefully that will come up in this story. If not in this one, then more than likely in the next one. Inuyasha's mother's death? Well, it has something to do with the previous question. I don't know if I will go into how she dies or not. We'll see.

Sweetdaeth - Yeah I know it's hard. But do you really want to figure it out now, or wait until I tell you in the story? BTW you aren't the only one trying to figure that out. ::shoots a glare at Ryguy:: Of course when I reveal it, you can go "I knew it!"

Just random unrelated notes. Cartoon Network has moved Yu Yu Hakusho on me again. I could have been watching it all last week. Grrr.

And Bjorn is mad at me. :( Right before I leave C-ville to go to Florida. ::sigh:: So if any of the chapters start taking on really sad tones, that may be why. Now where did that silly muse go?