Chapter Seventeen (Christmas Day)

It was early in the morning. Kagome snuck quietly into Inuyasha's room as did Sango into Miroku's. They both had their shirts off.

Damn he looks hot! The girls thought at the same time about the person in front of them. and at the same time, they pull of their covers and yelled "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"(A/n, the guys were wearing pants, shorts, w/e...)This made the guys jump.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Inuyasha screamed at Kagome.

"A new way to wake you up." Kagome said.

"How long are you going to do that for?" Inuyahsa sat up, now she saw his full chest. She blushed. "You like that don't you?" He said with a huge grin.

She gave him simple smiled and said, "Just wake up, it's time to exchange gifts."

Aww crap, today's the day I ask her.Inuyasha thought.:: So what? Why would it matter?:: Right, but if she doesn't accept, then can we go on even looking at each other?::We'll deal with that if the time comes.::

They got dressed and went downstairs to the tree. The tree was magnificent. It stood all the way to the ceiling and has tinsel, lights and ornaments on it. Inuyasha noticed something though. Some of the ornaments had Kagome's families' names on them. Then he noticed that Sango, Miroku, and his names were on there too.

Kagome noticed Inuyasha looking at the ornaments wile going downstairs. "Like them? My mom made them. She said that you, Sango, and Miroku are practically family so she made them to put on the tree."

Sango and Miroku started to come downstairs also.

"Well let's start exchanging gifts." Sango announced.

So they all sat by the tree, their gifts were already there. Inuyasha's crystal rose was under they tree.

"Ok, lets start with this gift. It's from Miroku to Sango." Kagome gave the give to Sango.

Dear god... Sango thought, then she opened her gift.DEAR GOD!Her expression changed as she opened her gift and took the necklace out of it's box. She sat up and hugged Miroku who was sitting on the couch next to her. "Thank you so much Miroku. "She whispered in his ear while still hugging him and as she parted, she planted him a kiss on his cheek. They both blushed.

"Ok, here's one to Miroku from Sango." Kagome said giving him the gift. He opened the large box first. "Thank you my dear Sango. Wait, what's this?" He opened the card and began reading to himself.

Dear Miroku,

Right now, I don't know what your feelings are, I'm not even sure how I feel. But right now and since I've met you, I haven't felt the same way since .I know that much. Actually, I know how I feel, but I'm afraid, afraid of rejection. I'm afraid if I tell you, you won't be serious about it and leave, leave me. Miroku, I love you.

After done reading, he was in tears. He looked up at Sango, she was looking down, also crying. Me hugged her in a long embrace. He whispered that only she could hear, "I love you, too."

These were the happiest words to her ears and hugged him back. "Oh!" was all she could say while crying.

"Hey Miroku, what did the card say?" Inuyasha asked out of curiosity.

"Really, what did it say?" Kagome also surprised as to how her friends reacted in the card.

"Can I show them?" Miroku asked when he let her go. Sango nodded and Miroku gave them the card to read to themselves .Kagome and Inuyasha read it and Kagome started crying to and hugged her friends.

Inuyasha just sat there smiling at his friend and whispering, "Congratulations. Looks like everything worked out for you."

"Yeah well, lets see how everything works out." Miroku whispered back.

Kagome, still sniffling a bit said, "Ok, here's my gift to Inuyasha."

He opened it and looked at the picture and especially at the picture frame that was surrounded by 'I love you' he took his eyes off it and saw Kagome crying. He walked up off his seat to hug Kagome and said, "What's wrong?"

"You hate it don't you?" Kagome whispered to him.

"No, of course not, I love it. I'm glad you gave that to me." He whispered back.

"Why?" Kagome tore apart from him, she stopped crying. "Why Inuyasha?"

He got up and kneeled down on one leg facing Kagome and said, "Will you marry me?" he opened the box with the ring in it.(a/n, you know, I could stop right now and leave it as a cliffhanger but that would be very evil. Muhahaha. but I won't)

There was an eerie silence after Kagome gasped. She had her hands cupped over her mouth when she saw the ring. Inuyasha lowered his head, "It's ok, you don't have to."

Kagome burst out a giggle.

"WHAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY, WOMAN? I POUR MY HEART OUT AND ALL YOU CAN DO IT LAUGH AT ME?!" Inuyasha exclaimed still in his position.

Kagome stopped giggling and smiled at him, the smile that melted his heart instantly. "Of course I'll marry you." She jumped up and hugged him.

Her friends sighed in relief, not knowing what she would say after such a long silence.

"Inuyasha, was that your gift to me?" Kagome asked.

"Tough question, well sorta..."Inuyasha rubbed behind his neck.

"Then what's that?" Kagome asked while pointing to the last gift under the tree.

"Well, I had to make sure that you wouldn't reject me, I had to know if you felt the same was as I do you. Kagome, I love you."

She had tears of joy and hugged him again, "I love you , too. What was that gift?"

"Open it and find out. It was for if I wasn't sure how you felt."

She opened the gift and she was in awe." Oh, Inuyasha, it's lovely."

"But not as lovely as you." Inuyasha said starring into her beautiful eyes, full of life and love.

"That was great! I have everything on tape. "It was a voice from behind the kitchen counter.

"MOM! YOU TAPED US?!?!?!" Kagome screamed at her mother.

"Well, I didn't know that was going to happen, but I couldn't resist taping your first Christmas with your friends and fiancé." Her mom winked at Inuyasha.

"AHH! Mom! you are so nosy!" Kagome screamed at her mother.

Inuyasha tugged on her arm. "What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked. He pointed to the box, still with the ring inside it. "OH!" He slipped the ring on her finger .He stood up and kissed her passionately. Miroku and Sango did the same. Kagome's mom got it on tape.(a/n, Muhahaha, you'll see the point in this.

"Well, since it's Christmas and every store is closed, let's go ice skating." Kagome suggested wrapped around Inuyasha's arm.

At the park they rented ice skates. It took them an hour to get used to skating, and they weren't the only ones there they weren't the only one's there so there was music playing, so they skated in couples and for a long time too...

Chapter Eighteen (Inuyasha's last day until the spell wears off/ epilogue)

It was already 3:00 and Kagome's mom was going nuts over planning the wedding.

"Kagome, do you want it to be during the summer or winter?" her mom asked while holding 2 phones to her ears.

"MOM! You said I couldn't even get married until I was at least 18!" Kagome said to her mom.

"Well, that was before you went through the well, I kinda already knew this day would come..."

A lot has happened during the week when the gang was in Kagome's time. Back on the other side of the well, Sesshomaru and Rin got engaged and were to be married when she was old enough too. Rin was so happy and she was 10 now so she understood what engaged meant.

Inuyasha went back to his time when he was again a hanyou. Being engaged to Kagome, he had much more power to kill Naraku to protect Kagome. The Jewel was complete.

"Here Inuyasha, do what you want with it. I will love you no matter what will happen." Kagome said handing him the jewel.

"No, you keep it, I am happy the way I am right now, with you." Inuyasha handed Kagome the jewel back.

"Well what can I, what do I do with it?"

"You don't have to do anything if you don't want to."

So Kagome decided just to protect it from other demons... but that won't be a problem anymore because...

"You're going to stay here in my time with me?!" Kagome said with joy to Inuyasha.

"Yeah, and so are Sango and Miroku, since we have gotten our revenge on Naraku, and we're going to get married in a couple of days, "Inuyasha said blushing. Kagome giggled." I might as well live here, with you, if that's ok of course."

"Of course it is!" Kagome hugged him.

The day of the wedding...Everyone from Kagome's family had a small wedding in the clearing in the forest behind the shrine that was surrounded by flowers. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru patched things up and Inuyasha invited him to the wedding, along with Kaede and Shippo. Sango was Kagome's maid of honor, Miroku was Inuyasha's best man, Shippo was the ring bearer, and Shippo's "girlfriend" was the flower girl since Rin was with Sesshomaru and rather be sitting next to him during the wedding.

".....I now pronounce you, man and wife. You may now kiss the bride." The preacher said. Inuyasha and Kagome kissed(a/n, no duh)

Ten years later

Sango and Miroku got married a year after Inuyasha and Kagome did. They moved into a house next to Kagome's shrine. They had 4 kids, one boy, one girl and a pair of girl twins.

Rin was now 20 years old and got married 2 years before. She and Sesshomaru had 2 little boys.

Shippo was 18 now, he is still dating his girlfriend...

As for Inuyasha and Kagome, they had 6 children.(A/n now weren't they busy? lmao) 3 girls and 3 boys. Kagome still protected the jewel and decided that she would pass it on for generations to come to protect it also.