Disclaimer: I'm not happy saying this but...Inuyasha is not mine. He belongs to one very lucky lady........

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CHAPTER 10
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After a very content silence, kagome rerluctantly broke it. She sighed, " Inuyasha? Did you mean it when you asked me to marry me?"

" *gulp* she's gonna say something important, I can smell it on her* Of c-course Kagome...why?"

" What am I going to do about Hojo? He's nice and all but I can't be betrothed to him and married to another can I?"

" Sure you can, everytime he asks when you'll get married just say ' Give me another month to think it over'" When inuyasha had said what she should say to her, he said it in a high girly voice to mock Kagome. She scowled at him and would have yelled at him but brushed it aside for the more important matter at hand.

" I can't do that, but I figured out a plan. I will scare him away."

" How are you going to so that? Oh! Never mind, you simply need to look at him, right?"

*Oooooo.....I should really get him for that one......but I havee to ignore our playful teasing for now*

"I'm pretending you didn't say that...anyways I am going to act rude, obnoxious, disgusting, and just plain mean."

"Won't take much acting since ya already got the qualities, eh?"

Kagome could'nt help but smile at this. I told Sango this is exactly what he would say. *This is odd* thought Inuyasha * she should be screaming at me for that one....but she's smiling instead*

"Anyways, after I scare Hojo away...we can...*gulp*....confront my parents."

Inuyasha stiffened at the thought. He usually wasn't a coward and never backed down from a fight; but somehow thinking of asking kagome's parents, whom were royals with a lot of power, if himself, a farmboy, could have her hand in marriage frightened him. Kagome saw this thoughts written all over his face and smiled at him.

"Don't worry..." she said as she sexily slinked over to him, "I'll make every wincing moment worth it after."

Inuyasha was excited at the thought and when kagome went in to kiss him lightly he grabbed her roughly and kissed her with deep passion. He layed on top of her on top of that picnic blanket and hungrily kissed into the late afternoon. (A/N: nothing happens! A princess needs to be a virgin on her wedding day!)

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Thus the games began the next day, starting with kagome's prep time in the morning. She left her hair unbrushed and messy and sloppily pt on her dress and set out for breakfast downstairs. She had sat down at the table and put her feet up on to it until her mother told her to put them down before Hojo arrived. Kagome shrugged and put them backdown. *There are other ways to be rude* she thought * I can leave this one till desperate measures* When everyone was seated both Inuyasha and Hojo were sitting directly across from her. She sloppily ate all her meals, she slouched, slurrped, and burped and ate some stuff with her hands. When she was asked a question she would pick at her teeth or toenails and her answers to questions were accompanied by scowls and smirks, much like Inuyasha's perfected expressions. Everyone was downright disgusted, that is except for Inuyasha, he sat there with a smile thinking *Damn, she looks good with messy hair!*

After a week and a half, Kagome was rewarded for her disgusting actions when Hojo had to leave because of an "unexpected emergencie at home..." and he promised to be "...back sooner or later.." Kagome was estatic until she realised he hadn't actually called off the engagment. Now she would have to wait a month of no letters until the law said it was an invalid engagement. It was a law that a betrothed have to write letters every week after they meet for the first time or the betrothment would be cancelled. So as long as no letters came, or Kagome managed to destroy them before they reached the palace(heh heh heh), she was free of Hojo for good. She jumped around in her room and didn't notice Inuyasha creep in until he gently layed a hand on her shoulder.

Kagome shrieked, but calmed when she turned to look Inuyasha's eyes.

"Inuyasha! Don't DO that, you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"You almost gave me one when you picked your toenails at the table. Anyways, when do I get my award?" he whispered huskily into kagome's ear.

The tone sent shivers down her spine, "R-reward? for w-what? you didn;t do anything about my parents!"

"Yeah but I kept your secret and didn't tell anyone what you were scheming and I stuck around even though you were absolutley disgusting. I think I deserve something."

"Your right....you do deserve something" Kagome purred as she slid one of her dress sleeves down to expose her shoulder.

Then Kagome shocked him when she slapped him playfully in the face. "You Baka! Your such a pervert!", but Inuyasha heard all the love in her voice and wasn't worried for a second. kagome however, feared she might have gone to far by slapping him and gave him a kiss on his nose.

"Sorry about that love, what should we do for the next month?"

"MONTH!?!"

Kagome explained the law and when she was done Inuyasha gave a nod of understanding.

"So, like I said before. What should we do?"

"Oh...I can think of a few things..." said inuyasha as he dragged his hand down from kagone's neck to exposed shoulder. She replied to this with a wack on the head that sent him to the ground and a "prvert" muttered to him. Kagome had been thinking more along the lines of horse riding and other outdoor activities. Outdoor as in as far away from a bedrom as possible.

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They had decided on swimming. They would ride their selected horses once again and sim in the pool of water. So they set off with their bathingsuits under their clothes(after Inuyasha had the Royal Dresser made him one.) They let the horses go and they grazed around the edge of the pool of ware. Kagome stripped down ro her bathingsuit and blushed when a whiatle sounded behind her. She turned around and inuyasha was imitating a dog, with his "paws" held up and his tongue hanging out.

"Inuyasha! Don't be silly!"

She turned back to face the cool water and dived in. When she surfaced she hugged her shoulders. There was no one onthe surfsce. "Brrrr....it's cold isn't it Inuyasha?" she said as she turned around to look for him in the water. She didn't see him sao she waited for him to surface. Finally she saw silver hair coming up. But she was shocked when his head didn't breech the surface for air and instead his body just evened out and he was laying head down in the body.

"INUYASHA!" she cried frantically as she swam towards his body. She flipped him over and shook him while yelling into his ear. Still, he remained motionless and she dragged him to shore. She started to cry and cried as she pulled him onto the bank and layed him out on the grass. There was no choice, she had to use CPR. (I don't think they had it back then but oh well!) She opened his mouth and pumped on his chest. "One...two....three...breath!" With this she leaned down to breathe in air. She was surprised when she felt a tongue in her mouth and arms slide around her waist, pulling her into a kiss.


She pulled away and looked down into Inuyasha's grinnung face.

"I got you good!" he said and started laughing.

She hit him in the chest with her fists.

"You idiot! I was so...so....nevermind you jerk!"

" So what? Worried? Ha ha! You know you were worried!" he sat up and grabbed her into a hug. Even though she was really upset, all her angers left when he embraced her. She melted in his arms and couldn't stop herself when she whispered out, "I love you Inuyasha"

Inuyasha chuckled, "I love you too Kagome."