AN: This is the end of the fic. I hope ya'll have liked this 'trilogy'. If you want more adventures, don't hesitate to ask. I dedicate this chapter to my brother, who wrote the vast majority of it. Enjoy!
Chapter 5
Love Me Or Leave Me.
"So what do all think?" Inu-yasha asked Yugi and his friends.
"A definite improvement." Kaiba said
"I'll say." Serenity blushed. "Kagome, why didn't you tell us he was so cute?"
"That's it." Joey said. "Listen up you freaky Ware-wolf. Change back to your old disgusting self right now or…"
"Or what? I can't change back until morning" He told them all. "Like it or not, I'm stuck this way for the rest of the night so I'd appreciate it if you'd just leave me alone." In a way they all felt kind of sorry for Inu-yasha, but in other ways, they were kind of insulted by him.
"Hey just wait a minute." Tea said to him. "Is it really so bad that you're human for one night each month? Look at us, we're all human 24-7. I think that if you ever gave it a shot, you'd find that being human isn't quite so bad." They all had to agree with Tea. Being human was no piece of cake but they would all rather be human than anything else. Even Kaiba. "Let's go guys and leave Inu-yasha alone like he wants." She finally said and walked off. Yugi, Tristan, Joey, Serenity, Shippo, and Kaiba all followed after her but Kagome stayed.
"Why aren't you leaving?" He asked her.
"Maybe because I don't want to." She answered. This was her one night to really find out what Inu-yasha's heart was made of. Here he was all to herself, with no Songo, no Muroku, and no demons to mess it up. "Hey, do you think…" She began. "Do you think that we could just take a walk together?" She asked him.
"Sure, why not."
Inu-yasha took Kagome by the hand and they walked around the park for a while under the star light. It was just the two of them with no other humans around to bother them. The crowds had all gone home or moved off to another concert location elsewhere. It felt good to be hat free. His ears didn't hurt, he couldn't smell the usual stink of human pheromones that usually made him gag, and he was with Kagome. She always smelled sweet to him, but on nights like this, she always smelled just a little sweeter. Maybe, he thought, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to put aside the Han-you for one night. Maybe this was the opportunity he'd been waiting for to win Kagome back from Joey.
"Kagome." He said looking at her. "I love you." She gasped.
"You do? You really do, Inu-yasha. You're not just saying that because of Joey or because this is your one night as a human this month?" She asked him.
"No, I mean it, and I'm sorry that I've never said it before until now. I always seem to find some way of messing things up between the two of us but not this time." He said to her, drawing ever so nearer.
"Oh, Inu-yasha." Their lips met and for the first time Kagome felt the love behind the words. Joey and everything else disappeared for that one instant. But only for that instant. Then Kagome pulled away. "NO!" She cried. "Inu-yasha, I can't do this with you." she told him. "I'm with Joey now, and…and…"
"And he's not here." Kagome looked around and he wasn't. He'd gone off with his friends. "Let's just forget about that pretty boy for tonight. Let's make this our night, Kagome. Just this one time, after that, if you don't want to go any further than just being friends. I promise that I'll understand." It didn't take her long to answer.
"Let's go then." She said and led him off by the arm to the fairgrounds where they spent the night playing games, eating cotton candy, and getting to know each other all over again. At one booth in particular, the bottle bash booth, Inu-yasha won a stuffed panda for Kagome. Then Kagome dragged Inu-yasha to the photo booth, where she made him sit still long enough to get some decent pictures together. They eventually wound up on the ferris wheel, where they got an amazing view of the entire city, from the bright lights of the buildings to the peaceful sea shore.
As he sat next to Kagome in the ferris wheel, Inu-yasha felt happier than he'd been in a long time. The truth is, he'd seen all of Japan back in his time; he'd seen it all again during his travels with Kagome. But seeing it now, with all the changes that time and advances in everything brought, it made seeing his homeland another adventure all together. It was like exploring another world. What made it more amazing was that he was doing with Kagome at his side.
Yugi stood perplexed by the complexity of a seemingly simple game like the bottle toss. He couldn't understand how he, the Game King, had been unable to hit even a single bottle.
"This game is rigged." He said pouting.
"That's okay Yugi." Tea told him. "You don't have to win me anything."
"No, I really wanted to get you that doll." Yugi was really disappointed and Tea could see it so she took off her jacket and told him to step aside.
"Here we go." She said handing over her money and taking a ball in hand. With one throw she knocked down every bottle in the stack and won for Yugi the cutest little doll that she had ever seen.
"Gee, thanks." He said, humiliated. Just then Serenity and Kaiba came walking up with a gigantic teddy bear, bigger than she was, in her arms.
"Look at what Seto won for me!" She exclaimed with joy.
"Nice." Joey said. "Hey sis, we haven't done anything together in a while, why don't we go over to ring toss and I'll win you a gold fish?"
"I doubt that you could even hit the cone much less toss a ring around it Wheeler." Kaiba sneared.
"Come on now you two." Serenity said. "Where's Kagome, Joey, I wanted to show her my new teddy bear too."
"You know what, I don't know where she, or dog breath took off to." He replied.
"Do you think that they're somewhere together?" Tea asked. "I mean Inu-yasha did seem pretty upset."
"Maybe." Joey said. "If they are together then they can have each other."
"You don't mean that." Tristan said to his friend.
"No, I mean it. If she'd rather hang around with that half demon dog of hers than they're welcome to each other." It was plain to see that Joey was smarting over something.
"What happened?" Yugi asked him. "Tell us."
"You know after we took off, I realized that Kagome wasn't with us so I went back to camp and looked for them but they weren't there so I went down to the lake and saw them kissing." He told them all. Yugi and his friends were all shocked. For one, they never thought that Kagome would do something like that to Joey behind his back For another, they thought that she was too smart a girl to get involved with someone like Inu-yasha. Sure he was a good friend and all, when it suited him, but Yugi and the others never really had that much trust in him. He was a han-you after all.
Just then, though, they saw Inu-yasha and Kagome coming down the path towards them. Perfect, Joey thought. Now he had a chance to confront them about the whole thing and punch Inu-yasha's lights out. He went around some of the booths until he was behind them. As the sun peaked over the horizon, Joey rushed up behind the dark haired han-you and lifted his arm for the punch. But just before contact, a clawed hand swung back and caught Joey's fist in mid air! Joey looked at Inu-yasha. "Your…You're hair-?" he stuttered.
Inu-yasha grinned wickedly. His hair had turned white, and his dog ears were back. "Another new moon over," he said. Then, in one clean, quick motion, he gave Joey a head-but, sending him three feet back.
"Serves you right for trying to hit him," Kagome said, putting the cowboy hat on Inu-yasha's head.
"Whyah…..nap time for Joey," the blonde haired boy said. The others ran over to him, and tried desperately to revive him, but it was no use. His lights were out, and no one was upstairs.
Epilogue
Joey was out of it for most of the ride home, but he did manage to wake up for lunch.
"So are you guys back together for good?" Shippo asked Inu-yasha and Kagome.
"'Back' together? We were never together to start with," Kagome said.
Inu-yasha was suddenly crushed. "You mean last night meant nothing to you?"
"Don't give me those puppy-dog eyes," Kagome said, "Of course it meant something! It was the most romantic night I've had in long time."
"What, are you gonna have his puppies now?" Joey said from the back. Kagome reached over and smacked him. "Ow!" he cried.
"No, you jerk," Kagome said, "I care about Inu-yasha, but I still care about you, too."
"Then why did you ditch me?"
"Because of Mai!"
"You mean you ignored me because Mai passed out on top of me after that concert?"
"That's not what it looked like to me."
"Nothing happened, alright. You're my girl, okay?"
"I'll have to think about it."
"Well at least things are back to normal," Yugi said, yawning in an attempt to put his arm around Tea.
"Yugi," Tea said, "What's going through your mind?"
"Oh nothing," he said with a defeated sigh. But then she put her arm around him. Yugi was on cloud nine.
"Bye guys!" Tea called as they dropped her off at her house. When they'd driven out of sight, she got her key, and made to put in the door, but then her mother opened the door for her. She did not look happy.
"Uh…Mom?" Tea asked.
Her mom handed her a small, long white box and said, "Bathroom. NOW!" as Tea stood there, groaning from embarrassment. She was only thankful that her friends weren't there.
Serenity opened her bedroom window, and climbed in. But as she shut it, she heard her mom say, "Checking in?"
Serenity turned around. "Um…Hi Mommy!" she cried, running to hug her mom.
"You're grounded till your 80," her mom said, hugging her back. "And no phone calls."
"Okay," Serenity said, dejected. But it had been worth it.
"So, did you get anywhere with Tea this weekend?" Yugi's Grandpa asked him when Yugi got in the house.
"I, uh, don't know what you mean?" Yugi said, blushing and running uyp to his room. But he dropped Tea's gift from the fair.
"Oh ho!" Grandpa Mutou said, picking it up, "Some things never change, I see." he said, laughing his old head off as Yugi grabbed the doll and ran off.
"I'm home dad," Joey called, walking into the apartment. His dad raised up off the couch, looked at him for a minute.
"You were gone?"
"And did our watch dog protect you from delinquents this weekend?" Kagome's grandpa asked her as she and Inu-yasha went passed the Shrine's shop.
"I behaved, Grandpa," Kagome said, going inside the house.
"Yeah," she was a perfect lady," Inu-yasha said, heading to the well house with Shippo on his shoulders.
"Hold on there," the old man said, "this porch hasn't been swept in three days."
"I can't sweep in these clothes," he said, pointing to his band tee, jeans, and blue cap. "They're brand new!"
"Ah, yes I see." Kagome's grandpa said, looking at him. "Well, I have an old uniform of mine you can wear until that ratty, old kimono of yours is clean."
"Well, I'm out of here," Shippo said scurrying off. "See you later, Inu-yasha!"
"Hey, wait a minute! Where are you going?" Inu-yasha yelled at the kitsune.
"Home." Shippo replied as he went inside the mini shrine.
"Hey, but…but-" Inu-yash protested, but then, Kagome's grandpa dropped the Shrine clothes in his outstretched arms.
"Time to work." the old man said. Inu-yasha groaned. Such is a dog's life.
The End
Chapter 5
Love Me Or Leave Me.
"So what do all think?" Inu-yasha asked Yugi and his friends.
"A definite improvement." Kaiba said
"I'll say." Serenity blushed. "Kagome, why didn't you tell us he was so cute?"
"That's it." Joey said. "Listen up you freaky Ware-wolf. Change back to your old disgusting self right now or…"
"Or what? I can't change back until morning" He told them all. "Like it or not, I'm stuck this way for the rest of the night so I'd appreciate it if you'd just leave me alone." In a way they all felt kind of sorry for Inu-yasha, but in other ways, they were kind of insulted by him.
"Hey just wait a minute." Tea said to him. "Is it really so bad that you're human for one night each month? Look at us, we're all human 24-7. I think that if you ever gave it a shot, you'd find that being human isn't quite so bad." They all had to agree with Tea. Being human was no piece of cake but they would all rather be human than anything else. Even Kaiba. "Let's go guys and leave Inu-yasha alone like he wants." She finally said and walked off. Yugi, Tristan, Joey, Serenity, Shippo, and Kaiba all followed after her but Kagome stayed.
"Why aren't you leaving?" He asked her.
"Maybe because I don't want to." She answered. This was her one night to really find out what Inu-yasha's heart was made of. Here he was all to herself, with no Songo, no Muroku, and no demons to mess it up. "Hey, do you think…" She began. "Do you think that we could just take a walk together?" She asked him.
"Sure, why not."
Inu-yasha took Kagome by the hand and they walked around the park for a while under the star light. It was just the two of them with no other humans around to bother them. The crowds had all gone home or moved off to another concert location elsewhere. It felt good to be hat free. His ears didn't hurt, he couldn't smell the usual stink of human pheromones that usually made him gag, and he was with Kagome. She always smelled sweet to him, but on nights like this, she always smelled just a little sweeter. Maybe, he thought, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to put aside the Han-you for one night. Maybe this was the opportunity he'd been waiting for to win Kagome back from Joey.
"Kagome." He said looking at her. "I love you." She gasped.
"You do? You really do, Inu-yasha. You're not just saying that because of Joey or because this is your one night as a human this month?" She asked him.
"No, I mean it, and I'm sorry that I've never said it before until now. I always seem to find some way of messing things up between the two of us but not this time." He said to her, drawing ever so nearer.
"Oh, Inu-yasha." Their lips met and for the first time Kagome felt the love behind the words. Joey and everything else disappeared for that one instant. But only for that instant. Then Kagome pulled away. "NO!" She cried. "Inu-yasha, I can't do this with you." she told him. "I'm with Joey now, and…and…"
"And he's not here." Kagome looked around and he wasn't. He'd gone off with his friends. "Let's just forget about that pretty boy for tonight. Let's make this our night, Kagome. Just this one time, after that, if you don't want to go any further than just being friends. I promise that I'll understand." It didn't take her long to answer.
"Let's go then." She said and led him off by the arm to the fairgrounds where they spent the night playing games, eating cotton candy, and getting to know each other all over again. At one booth in particular, the bottle bash booth, Inu-yasha won a stuffed panda for Kagome. Then Kagome dragged Inu-yasha to the photo booth, where she made him sit still long enough to get some decent pictures together. They eventually wound up on the ferris wheel, where they got an amazing view of the entire city, from the bright lights of the buildings to the peaceful sea shore.
As he sat next to Kagome in the ferris wheel, Inu-yasha felt happier than he'd been in a long time. The truth is, he'd seen all of Japan back in his time; he'd seen it all again during his travels with Kagome. But seeing it now, with all the changes that time and advances in everything brought, it made seeing his homeland another adventure all together. It was like exploring another world. What made it more amazing was that he was doing with Kagome at his side.
Yugi stood perplexed by the complexity of a seemingly simple game like the bottle toss. He couldn't understand how he, the Game King, had been unable to hit even a single bottle.
"This game is rigged." He said pouting.
"That's okay Yugi." Tea told him. "You don't have to win me anything."
"No, I really wanted to get you that doll." Yugi was really disappointed and Tea could see it so she took off her jacket and told him to step aside.
"Here we go." She said handing over her money and taking a ball in hand. With one throw she knocked down every bottle in the stack and won for Yugi the cutest little doll that she had ever seen.
"Gee, thanks." He said, humiliated. Just then Serenity and Kaiba came walking up with a gigantic teddy bear, bigger than she was, in her arms.
"Look at what Seto won for me!" She exclaimed with joy.
"Nice." Joey said. "Hey sis, we haven't done anything together in a while, why don't we go over to ring toss and I'll win you a gold fish?"
"I doubt that you could even hit the cone much less toss a ring around it Wheeler." Kaiba sneared.
"Come on now you two." Serenity said. "Where's Kagome, Joey, I wanted to show her my new teddy bear too."
"You know what, I don't know where she, or dog breath took off to." He replied.
"Do you think that they're somewhere together?" Tea asked. "I mean Inu-yasha did seem pretty upset."
"Maybe." Joey said. "If they are together then they can have each other."
"You don't mean that." Tristan said to his friend.
"No, I mean it. If she'd rather hang around with that half demon dog of hers than they're welcome to each other." It was plain to see that Joey was smarting over something.
"What happened?" Yugi asked him. "Tell us."
"You know after we took off, I realized that Kagome wasn't with us so I went back to camp and looked for them but they weren't there so I went down to the lake and saw them kissing." He told them all. Yugi and his friends were all shocked. For one, they never thought that Kagome would do something like that to Joey behind his back For another, they thought that she was too smart a girl to get involved with someone like Inu-yasha. Sure he was a good friend and all, when it suited him, but Yugi and the others never really had that much trust in him. He was a han-you after all.
Just then, though, they saw Inu-yasha and Kagome coming down the path towards them. Perfect, Joey thought. Now he had a chance to confront them about the whole thing and punch Inu-yasha's lights out. He went around some of the booths until he was behind them. As the sun peaked over the horizon, Joey rushed up behind the dark haired han-you and lifted his arm for the punch. But just before contact, a clawed hand swung back and caught Joey's fist in mid air! Joey looked at Inu-yasha. "Your…You're hair-?" he stuttered.
Inu-yasha grinned wickedly. His hair had turned white, and his dog ears were back. "Another new moon over," he said. Then, in one clean, quick motion, he gave Joey a head-but, sending him three feet back.
"Serves you right for trying to hit him," Kagome said, putting the cowboy hat on Inu-yasha's head.
"Whyah…..nap time for Joey," the blonde haired boy said. The others ran over to him, and tried desperately to revive him, but it was no use. His lights were out, and no one was upstairs.
Epilogue
Joey was out of it for most of the ride home, but he did manage to wake up for lunch.
"So are you guys back together for good?" Shippo asked Inu-yasha and Kagome.
"'Back' together? We were never together to start with," Kagome said.
Inu-yasha was suddenly crushed. "You mean last night meant nothing to you?"
"Don't give me those puppy-dog eyes," Kagome said, "Of course it meant something! It was the most romantic night I've had in long time."
"What, are you gonna have his puppies now?" Joey said from the back. Kagome reached over and smacked him. "Ow!" he cried.
"No, you jerk," Kagome said, "I care about Inu-yasha, but I still care about you, too."
"Then why did you ditch me?"
"Because of Mai!"
"You mean you ignored me because Mai passed out on top of me after that concert?"
"That's not what it looked like to me."
"Nothing happened, alright. You're my girl, okay?"
"I'll have to think about it."
"Well at least things are back to normal," Yugi said, yawning in an attempt to put his arm around Tea.
"Yugi," Tea said, "What's going through your mind?"
"Oh nothing," he said with a defeated sigh. But then she put her arm around him. Yugi was on cloud nine.
"Bye guys!" Tea called as they dropped her off at her house. When they'd driven out of sight, she got her key, and made to put in the door, but then her mother opened the door for her. She did not look happy.
"Uh…Mom?" Tea asked.
Her mom handed her a small, long white box and said, "Bathroom. NOW!" as Tea stood there, groaning from embarrassment. She was only thankful that her friends weren't there.
Serenity opened her bedroom window, and climbed in. But as she shut it, she heard her mom say, "Checking in?"
Serenity turned around. "Um…Hi Mommy!" she cried, running to hug her mom.
"You're grounded till your 80," her mom said, hugging her back. "And no phone calls."
"Okay," Serenity said, dejected. But it had been worth it.
"So, did you get anywhere with Tea this weekend?" Yugi's Grandpa asked him when Yugi got in the house.
"I, uh, don't know what you mean?" Yugi said, blushing and running uyp to his room. But he dropped Tea's gift from the fair.
"Oh ho!" Grandpa Mutou said, picking it up, "Some things never change, I see." he said, laughing his old head off as Yugi grabbed the doll and ran off.
"I'm home dad," Joey called, walking into the apartment. His dad raised up off the couch, looked at him for a minute.
"You were gone?"
"And did our watch dog protect you from delinquents this weekend?" Kagome's grandpa asked her as she and Inu-yasha went passed the Shrine's shop.
"I behaved, Grandpa," Kagome said, going inside the house.
"Yeah," she was a perfect lady," Inu-yasha said, heading to the well house with Shippo on his shoulders.
"Hold on there," the old man said, "this porch hasn't been swept in three days."
"I can't sweep in these clothes," he said, pointing to his band tee, jeans, and blue cap. "They're brand new!"
"Ah, yes I see." Kagome's grandpa said, looking at him. "Well, I have an old uniform of mine you can wear until that ratty, old kimono of yours is clean."
"Well, I'm out of here," Shippo said scurrying off. "See you later, Inu-yasha!"
"Hey, wait a minute! Where are you going?" Inu-yasha yelled at the kitsune.
"Home." Shippo replied as he went inside the mini shrine.
"Hey, but…but-" Inu-yash protested, but then, Kagome's grandpa dropped the Shrine clothes in his outstretched arms.
"Time to work." the old man said. Inu-yasha groaned. Such is a dog's life.
The End