Disclaimer: I love not owning Inuyasha...not.  He's not mine so don't sue me!  No$$$ anyway.

Dancer In A Daydream

What an odd situation. / What you got is basic emotions/ can you feel them? / I want to be your lover/ but you're so shy. / What you need is perfect assistance/ let me guide you/ to a land you've never seen before. / I guess you see I have another daydream. / Come and be a dancer/ dance into my daydream. / Join me in my daydream…

                                                                        Ace of Base

Chapter 2

Angel Standing By

Inuyasha had collected as many beautiful flowers as he possibly could to cover the one he loved.  He soon covered her entire body with flowers.  Afterwards, he held the Shikon jewel in his hands.  He placed it in her mouth, deciding that would be somewhere no demon would think to look.  He then kneeled down for his final time.

"I love you woman.  You shouldn't have died.  I was going to have you be my mate for the rest of my life."  He looks down at her full, rosy lips.  As his final goodbye, he placed a warm kiss on her cold lips.  Then he forced himself to run away without looking back.

Almost the second Inuyasha had turned away, the Shikon Jewel started working it's magic.  It began to glow inside of Kagome's mouth.  Inuyasha had wished for several things and the jewel knew what to do.

Soon, Kagome yawned.  The Shikon jewel had disappeared.  She looked around, the quickly realized that she was alone.  She went to bite down one her fingers.  "Why did Inuyasha leave me here...covered in…Flowers...?  Did I die?! Ow!"  She accidentally bit her fingertip. 

She looked down at the bite mark that had drawn blood. With wide eyes, she watched the cut seal it's self in only seconds.  So, leisurely she ran her tongue across her teeth and there, where her tiny canine teeth had been, were two fangs.  She then took her hands up to the top of her head and there, were two fuzzy dog-ears.  She could smell better and see better, but this wasn't right.  This isn't what she wanted.  She didn't want to be...a...half-breed.

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            Inuyasha soon came to the small silent hut and simply stared at it. 'So many memories lie here…'

            **~Flashback~**

Inuyasha was backed into a corner and a possessed Kagome was holding her bow up to him, preparing to kill him.  The bow flies…

He sits inside the hut impatiently waiting for Kagome's arrival.  Sango and Miroku were talking.  Sango turned to him and started talking to him.  Inuyasha then quickly stopped fidgeting…

Kagome and Inuyasha sit on the porch talking…more or less discussing.  Shippo was sitting on Kagome's lap.  Inuyasha remembers how much he envied the tiny kitsune.  They were discussing whether Sango liked Miroku and talking about a…"mood."  He still didn't understand what that was…

Inuyasha was nervously waiting to see if Kagome would be ok after a battle when she had been hurt…

Kagome was lying under a blanket and she tried hard to fight the evil presence that was trying to take over her.  Inuyasha was nervously watching her suffer and feeling that it was his fault completely…

**~End Flashback~**

So many fond memories, and now…that's all they were.  Tears began to well in his eyes as Sango walked up to him.

"Dijoubou Inuyasha?" She asked.  Inuyasha looked toward her, then smiled.

"Of course I'm ok." Inuyasha tried to fake his typical stubborn attitude.  Sango saw right through it.  She walked up to him then threw her arms around his neck.

 "It'll be ok Inuyasha!  She's happy now.  Hey, and maybe she'll still be in her time in five hundred years."  Inuyasha bit his lower lip.

"I have to go tell her family." Sango then regretted mentioning it because he became even more saddened by the thought.

Sango watched as he slowly trudged toward the Bone Eating well.

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He was only feet away, when suddenly he noticed a familiar scent in the wind.  He smiles then sits down for a minute.  'It smells like Kagome.  Honey and flowers…but, there's something different…Is she?!' "Alive?"  He sprinted toward the land from which he had left her, then he saw something he never imagined.  It was Kagome, but she was a hanyou…

Kagome turned around to face Inuyasha.  Tears were falling from her swollen eyes.  She stood up and walked toward Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha?" She paused. "OSWARI!" Inuyasha then took a hard trip to the dirt.  He got up and glared into where Kagome's eyes would have been.  She had run toward Kaede's hut, to see what could be done about this.  Inuyasha soon followed close behind.  He tried not to become angry. 

"Why did she do that?  Darn that woman!  Wretched Woman!"  He soon reached the hut and barged inside.  When he did, three pairs of large eyes welcomed him.  He came to a quick halt.

"Nani?" He grunted.  Everyone continued to stare at him.  Miroku finally walked toward him.  He stops several feet away from him.  He sighs, then looks up to face him.

"What did you do to her?" He asks.  Inuyasha becomes flustered.

"I didn't do anything!!  I found her…" His voice softens out. "I found her like that."  He sits down on the wooden floor, with his arms and legs crossed, like he always did.  Miroku, Sango and Shippo become speechless.  They all sat together silently until Kaede walked out of the room she'd been in with Kagome.

"Inuyasha, where is the jewel?"  She questions in a garbled voice.

"I left it with Kagome."

"Where?"

"In her mouth."

"…" Kaede walks back into the room after uttering a quiet, "hmmm."

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Kagome sits in the room sobbing.  She watches Kaede enter the room, her eyes filled with a new knowledge.  She sits down next to Kagome and clears her throat.

"I understand what has happened now."  She states in a quiet crackling voice.  Kagome wiped her eyes, being cautious of her claws.  She sits up and sighs, prepared to hear the old woman's answer.

"Inuyasha said he left the jewel in your mouth.  Ye said that you felt as though ye had died…and ye indeed had.  So he placed the jewel in your mouth for safekeeping.  He must have wished that ye could live." Kagome nods.

"But why am I a hanyou?  That's what I don't understand.  If he wished for me to live, then I should be a human!  Not a…a half-breed like him!"  Kaede gradually got up off of the wooden bench and walked back into the room Inuyasha sat in.

Still no one said a word as Kaede walked into the room.  "Inuyasha, we need to see ye now."  Inuyasha stood then chuckled.

"What are you now some sort of doctor from Kagome's time?"  He walked in the room following after Kaede.  Kaede took her seat beside Kagome and Inuyasha sat on the floor.  He looked over Kagome's new form.

'She looks so beautiful.  Just like she always did.  Her brown eyes are more golden now, but still gorgeous.  I could get used to her new fangs easier if she was smiling.  The ears are cute and so is the tail…hmmmm…'

 "Inuyasha." Kaede burbles.  He is snapped out of his trance then quickly looked up to face her.

"What?" He barked.

"What did ye wish for?"

Inuyasha was torn speechless and a slight blush comes to his face.  He couldn't tell Kaede, she would make fun of him.  He was almost afraid to tell Kagome too.  'How could I tell her that I wished to be with her forever?  That I wanted to be her mate…I……could just tell her.'

"Kaede, can I talk to Kagome alone for a while?"  He looked up at her pleadingly.

"Yes, of course."  She slowly left the room so it held only the two hanyous.  Inuyasha was silent at first as he moved over to sit beside Kagome.  Finally, he thought of the words.

"Do you remember what you told me right before you…you died?"

"No."  Inuyasha bit down on his lips and fisted his hand. 'She forgot!'

"Well then, never mind.  After you died…I wished for several things."

"What were they?"

"I wished that you hadn't died." He pauses.

"I knew that!"

"I also wished that…that I had told you…I wished that…" His face suddenly started to turn a bright shade of red.

"What?!"

"…"

"Os-"

"I wished that I had told you I loved you before you died!"  He spit the words out in a quick sentence.  Kagome's eyes grew wide.

"I also wished for something else."  He adds quietly, forgetting about her enhanced hearing abilities.

"Tell me!"

"I wished that you were still alive because…I wanted to…I wanted to be with you."

"You wanted to be with me?"

"I wanted to be with you forever!"  He shouts.  Kagome is suddenly speechless.  Everything comes together, why she was alive, why she was a hanyou, and why she couldn't find the jewel.  But, this couldn't really be happening.

"You want to be with me because I look like Kikyo."  She stated angrily.  Inuyasha suddenly becomes angry.

"No!  That's not it!"

"I don't believe you anymore.  Just leave and go back to her like you always do."

"She's dead."

"I know that."

"No, I mean she's really dead, you baka!"

Kagome doesn't know what to say other than…

"How?"

"I killed her.  She came by after you had died, trying to get me to die with her.  I told her off, and then just before she killed me, I killed her.  I swear!"  Kagome had watched his eyes in case of lies, but she found none.  He was telling the truth.

"You want to be with me?"  She states almost as though she was in a trance.

"YES!"  Inuyasha shouted.  Kagome starts to smile as she stands up.

"Then you gotta catch me first!"

****Ain't it cute?  Sorry Kikyo fans.  I truly despise her.  She's not coming back, so Kikyo-lovers, don't be waitin' for that. But don't let that get you down, read and review!   I'd be all so grateful! J****

***I'd like to thank "Stupid" for reading this beforehand.  It's ultra helpful!!! You're awesome!***

****Japanese tutorial time!!****

Dijoubou- Are you ok?

Oswari-sit

Nani-what

Baka- (many meanings…) idiot, stupid, fool, foolish…etc., etc.