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First of all, I want to apologize why this took so long….Lots of things have been happening this summer, and I've been very busy….Every time I tried to write something, another thing would come up. Thank you all for being so patient with me, I really appreciate it.  I tried my hardest on this chapter, with all the things going on around me; I also had no ideas whatsoever popping into my head…..I'M SO SORRY….


GOMEN NASAI MINNA-SAN!!! Please forgive me! I hope you like this chapter! Please review! And please* be gentle with me…..


If any of you have any time, please read my other stories…..


A Day in a Tavern and Two Drunk Men
Troubles in the Future
First times to Many Obstacles
Life of Fame [Yu Yu Hakusho]


I'm sorry……


Here's the chapter, I hope you like it.


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By the way, to the people who read my other story, A Day in a Tavern and Two Drunk Men, has* been updated. Fanfiction.net began doing weird stuff…………..I put it up a few days ago, and I checked just now, and it is up…..If any of you have been waiting for that chapter, it's there now. I'm sorry, for the long wait…..Again, CH. 27. UP. Thank you all so much!!!


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"Come on Kagome, what's the point of coming to the carnival, if you're not here to have fun?" Sheri asked, elbowing Kagome softly in the side.

Inuyasha sighed. 'Fun…? FUN?! That was not* fun.' He thought rubbing his now sore ears from Kagome's screaming on t he ride. 'I can't believe they pay* to go on something like that.' He then tried to think of ways to change her friends minds out of going to the rides.

"Kagome, can we go there?" He asked pointing at another food booth taking her hand in his.

Kagome smiled. 'This'll be a great excuse.'


 "See, we can't go on rides right now, we're sorta hungry." She said, unconsciously tightening her grip on Inuyasha smiling back at them. Inuyasha looked down at his head and slightly blushed trying to shake his head free of the emotion taking him. Hojo looked on at them confused.

Sheri laughed. "Like we'll believe that lame excuse."


Kagome glared at her. "I'm not going on another ride! The only* reason I'm here, is BECAUSE the kids wanted to come!"

Hojo blinked. "K-Kids?"

"NOT LIKE THAT!!" Kagome yelled embarrassed trying to hide her face from everyone. "Errr…..Inuyasha and I are just babysit-"


*bam*


Inuyasha muttered curses under his breath as his face met the ground once again. 'Damn that wench.' He thought, but not after feeling guilty about calling her a wench for the thousandth time since they met.


"You okay there dude?" Hojo asked pulling Inuyasha up as the angry dog demon pulled his arm away.


"Let go of me. I can take care of myself." He said glaring at Kagome for forgetting about the 'S' word.

'What the heck is a dude anyway………..' He thought to himself continuing to glare at the poor naive boy.



Kagome shrugged at them all and tried to laugh in hopes that they forgot the fact she accidentally sat Inuyasha. "Eheheh…."


"What was that all about?" Ayumi asked referring to Inuyasha's recent hit to the ground.


"Hm….I don't know!" Kagome said hastily. "He probably tripped and fell on his face………..INUYASHA BE MORE CAREFUL!" She yelled.


Inuyasha looked at her confused. "Eh………...?"


Kagome gave him a death look that said, 'Play along or I'll sit you until your back breaks' look. She then smiled at Sheri. "You were saying? About rides?


"I was just saying let's go on another ride!" Sheri smiled.


"…..I don't want too go on a ride…" Kagome whined. "You know* I hate roller coasters…and you still* pushed me on that ride alone…"


"You weren't alone, you had cutie here with you!!" Sheri smiled winking at her.

Inuyasha looked at her oddly. 'OOOOOK…….' He thought.

"Kagome, out of curiosity, why haven't we ever seen Inuyasha?"

"Huh?" Kagome asked confused.

"Well, we always run into your other friends every now and then, but Inuyasha, never…and considering how close you two are, that's very odd." She said, as the others nodded in agreement.

Kagome blushed furiously and Inuyasha stared down at the ground.


"I-I never said we were close." Kagome stuttered. Inuyasha perked his ears sadly.



'Were not?….' He thought with mixed feelings of sadness.

"It's obvious Kagome."

Hojo looked on confused yet again. "What do you mean close?"


Ayumi shook her head. "Nothing Hojo. Kagome, is Inuyasha from a different city or something?"

Kagome gulped, "Uhm….yea….I guess……you could say that………" She stuttered.

They all looked confused. "Well, since he doesn't come here much, don't you wanna give him a fun time?" She said, gesturing towards the carnival. "I mean it's not everyday he's with you, then…."


Kagome felt a hint of guilt hit her. 'He has helped me babysit all this time…….He hasn't complained much…..He saved my life so many times…..I guess I owe him….all the things he's done for me…..'


*Flashback*


"Kagome.....I...." Inuyasha continued to stare at her with an odd glint in his eyes.


"Inuyasha...."


*End Flashback*


Kagome blushed furiously. 'That's right….He almost kissed me that night….' She thought.


"Kagome? Why are you blushing?"

Kagome stared down at her feet. "I'm blushing?? Uhm….heh….its just a little warm out here…is all…."

Inuyasha looked at her oddly. "Are you okay?"

"Yes thanks." She said not looking at the half demon.


"How'd you meet?"" Ayumi asked nudging Inuyasha getting more and more interested.

"Well I was bound to a tree--errrrr….I was…she….We were in a forest….." He stuttered tumbling over his own words.

Kagome laughed nervously. "We met in a forest……and just….hung out since then…...eheh…….heheh…..."

"WOW!" Ayumi smiled. "It sounds totally romantic…..A beautiful day in a forest……." She said starry eyed.

'Romantic?' Kagome thought chuckling to herself. 'I don't think almost getting killed by a giant centipede is very romantic…'


Inuyasha stared in shock. 'Romantic? ROMANTIC? ERRR……I don't think that's the right word…..Although I wish it was….The right word would be…. uhm…. Confusion… no that's not the right word…. hate… well….pretending. I was about to kill* Kagome when we first met…Yeah,  I was pretending.' He thought continuing to look down at the ground.

'I couldn't bring myself to kill her…..I just wanted the Jewel…And I would expect her to hate me….But then again," He thought glancing at Kagome, "She's always been there for me…She accepted me for the hanyou that I am…she cried for me…"


"SO!! Did you guys meet in the night under the moon?" She asked her eyes filled with stars as the other girls there 'oohhed' and 'ahhed'.

Kagome smiled. 'Well….I first saw him in the morning bound to that tree asleep…when we actually met* err…talked to each other….it was night when I ran into the forest away from the centipede…' She thought.


"Well you see…..we met twice….the first time…I just ran into Inuyasha and he didn't exactly see me…" She said trying to explain the complicated situation. "That was in the morning…and then we met again later that night..."

"WOW KAGOME THAT IS SOOOO ROMANTIC!!!" Sheri joined in.


"Eheheh..heheh…heheh……"


"So you two have been hanging out ever since then?" Ayumi asked.


"Uhm…..yeah…..I guess….."


"When did you do all this? I mean….you've been sick all this time….It doesn't seem like you have much time for meeting people you know, I mean you've had all these diseases…..."

"Ehehe…..heheheh……I don't know….eheh..heheh…"

'Sick? I don't remember Kagome ever being sick…..' He thought to himself.


"It's hard to believe you and Inuyasha met through all these hard times…." Sheri said, "I mean, you haven't had enough time to go anywhere with Hojo…"


Hojo nodded. "Hmm…..I wonder why…..Are you feeling okay right now Kagome?"

Kagome nodded nervously. "Yup!"

'Go…anywhere with Hobo?!' Inuyasha thought. 'WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!'

"Uhm……go where Kagome?" Inuyasha interjected. Kagome looked up as if shocked by his question gaping at him.

Eri smiled and rushed in. "OH DIDN'T YOU KNOW?!"


Inuyasha looked at her oddly. "Know what?"

"Hojo's been asking Kagome out on dates all the time!!" She smiled as Hojo and Kagome blushed crimson.

"D-Dates?"

"Yea you know….when a guy likes a girl….and a girl likes a guy they go on a date and spend time together and…."

Inuyasha didn't hear the rest of what she said.

'Guy…likes…girl…Girl…likes guy…Kagome..likes* him..?' He thought angrily. 'THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!! SHE WOULDN'T LIKE SOME FREAK LIKE HIM!! W-Would she..?'

"Why didn't you go Kagome?" Eri said looking at her friend.

"Uhm…..things came up….I've been really busy lately…."

'She….She doesn't love him…does she?' Inuyasha thought. 'Please no….'

"It's alright!" Hojo smiled. "There's always next time!" He said smiling at Kagome making her blush madly.

'Damn him.' Inuyasha thought. 'I can't believe Kagome…..'


Ayumi looked over to Inuyasha. 'Hmm….I wonder what's wrong with him…He looks sad….It can't be…because of Kagome and Hojo…Can it..?' She thought.


"So………..are we going to have some fun?" Ayumi interjected.

Kagome sighed heavily. "No……." She sighed heavily trying to move away from them.

Ayumi sighed. "You owe me one Kagome! Time to call in the favor."

Kagome laughed. "Since when did I owe you something?"

She gave Kagome and evil glare. "Alright then, be that way, I guess I can tell everyone here what happened at the party."

Kagome flushed and everyone stared at her; mainly Inuyasha. He looked at her oddly.

"Kagome?" He asked trying to get her to look him in the eye.

Kagome chuckled nervously. "Where did you want to go Ayumi?"

Inuyasha looked at her oddly. 'Well then, I'll just ask her later what happened then.'

"HA! I knew you'd see things my way!" She yelled triumphantly.


"Fine Fine……" She mumbled. "Where should we go?"


"There!" Ayumi pointed at the ferris wheel. Kagome looked at it from a distance. "Well, doesn't look that* bad.."

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Kagome groaned. "LOOK AT THE LINE! ITS GONNA TAKE FOREVER!"


"IT'S WORTH THE WAIT!"


Inuyasha looked up at the 'big circle' wondering what dangers it had. He went over to Kagome and tapped her shoulder.

"What does this do?"

"It spins around a circle."

Inuyasha looked at her oddly. "Not like the last one right?"

"Nope, I don't think so….."

"Ok…."


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"Yuki no!!! We don't have time to go on merry go round again!!! We need to try and get Kagome and Inuyasha together!!"

"PLEASE?? OH PLEASE???" She begged as Taki pulled on Sota's arm.

"But….we don't have any time…" He sighed looking ahead spotting Kagome with her friends.

He stared wide-eyed. 'Maybe….I should let Kagome's friends handle this…' He thought knowing that Kagome's friends always tried to match her up with people. 'I just hope they don't make her go with Hojo…..' He thought grimly.


"SOTA!! PLEASE!!!!"

"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!!!" He sighed, walking over to the merry go round.

"OH YAY SOTA YOU'RE THE BEST!!"

They ran up to the ride as fast as they could handing over the tickets to the man. He led them to the merry go round and off they went.


"WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Taki yelled on the merry go round.


"Let's get off! If one of my friends see me—" Sota yelled trying to stop.

"WHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEE!!" Yuki yelled as the ride went faster and faster.


"Please…Please….no one see me….." He muttered holding on the horse.

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"Alright….Next two people!" The man yelled, pulling Inuyasha and Kagome onto the

ride.

Ayumi smiled. "Kagome! Inuyasha! We decided, not to go on the ride, we'll see you when you get off!"

"No wait! Ayumi! You set us up!" Kagome yelled. "I'm not going on this ride!"

It was too late. The man had already locked her and Inuyasha in and the ride was

beginning to move.


"Err---I'm gonna kill them for this!!"  She seethed as they ascended up into the air. After, she muttered and moved her head to look out the window yelling at her friends.


"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?!?!?!"


Inuyasha pulled her back abruptly.


"What? Why'd u do that?" Kagome said looking at the hanyou surprised.


"Don't go to close to that. What if it breaks?"

"It won't."


"Stop being so stubborn and do it!" He growled.


'You are so lucky we're in a ferris wheel right now…Otherwise, I'd sit you so many times.' Kagome pouted and crossed her arms as the ferris wheel continued move up and down slowly.


Inuyasha sighed glancing at Kagome. He knew he shouldn't have been that rude with her but he was angry with what the girls had told him about her and Hojo. So many things were going wrong. What about that 'favor' Ayumi called in about something that happened at a….party?  He looked out the window seeing people everywhere. He began to mutter to himself asking himself why he went here in the first place.


'….Damn Hobo……' He thought angrily. 'Out of all the places HE HAD TO BE HERE!' He thought clenching his fists accidentally cutting his palm with his sharp claws. He couldn't feel any pain, he just sat there clenching harder as the red liquid came rushing out.


"INUYASHA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"


"….Huh…?" He looked down at his hand and opened his fist seeing his palm. "Ohh…….."


Kagome looked around as if trying to find something. When she was convinced she wouldn't find it, she ripped off a piece of the bottom of her shirt and gently wrapped it around Inuyasha's hand.  


Inuyasha gulped and stared at her while she continued to bandage, concentrating on her face. She wasn't making any eye-contact with him at all, her beautiful brown eyes were just concentrating on his cuts. He began to take in her scent trying not to lose himself. He looked back at her face again as her hair covered her face.


"You should really be careful…..What were you doing?" She looked up when Inuyasha didn't answer and saw him staring down at her. He reached out his uncut hand and moved her hair behind her ear to see her face and leaned in closer.


Suddenly, the cart they were in began to shake and they fell forward. Inuyasha caught Kagome and pulled her back up to the seat.


People in the other carts began to panic and they began screaming and banging on their windows.


Kagome looked on confused. "What…..?"


They both looked down at the operator.


"DON'T WORRY! DON'T PANIC! There's just something wrong with the machine!" He yelled, pressing a button making the ferris wheel spin in tremendously fast circles.


Kagome screamed. "ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Inuyasha began slamming on the side of the cart but the steel wouldn't cut. The man at the control began pressing random buttons causing the ride to go extremely fast again. Kagome felt back onto Inuyasha, knocking the breath out of him.


"Ugh." Inuyasha said looking down at the girl who slammed into his chest.


"Inuyasha I'm sorry!!" Kagome yelled frantically trying to move off him.


 The operator then pulled another lever frantically causing the ferris wheel come to an abrupt stop causing everyone in it to fall hard straight forward.


The operator sighed wiping sweat off his brow. He gulped and pressed another button. The ride began to shake. He pulled the lever yet again and the ride stopped.


He looked up at the people stuck in the ferris wheel. "I'm going to go and get some help!" He yelled running out of the area.


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"What is he doing?" Kagome yelled banging on the windows. Inuyasha pulled her back. "He said he was gonna get some help……."


Kagome sighed and sat down. 'Why do all these things happen?' She thought in anguish. 'I'll never go a ferris wheel again.' She thought.


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"HELP HELP!!! The machine in the ferris wheel went nuts! Is there someone here that can help?" Yelled a man running across the circus.

Sota looked at him confused. "Hmmm………I wonder who's stuck in there."


"Let's go Sota!" Taki yelled running towards the ride.


"Hey wait for me!"


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Sota's eyes widened. 'It can't be……..'


"KAGOME!!! INUYASHA!!!!!" Sota yelled from the outside.


Kagome jumped and looked out the window trying to yell as well. But Sota couldn't hear her, or any of the other people.


"WOOOOO!!!  INUWASHA AND KAGOME ARE STUCK IN A WHEEL!" Taki screamed running in circles.

Yuki pulled on Sota's sleeve. "Will Kagome and Inuwasha be stuck there forever?"


Sota blinked in shock. "I hope they don't……." He sighed.

'At least……on the bright side….now they get to spend time together.'


"KAGOME !!! INUWASHA!! DON'T DIE OKAY?!?!?!" Taki yelled waving at them.


Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

'Stupid ride…..' He thought.

"Sota! Is that Kagome and Inuyasha up there?" Ayumi cried with the rest of Kagome's friends. Not to mention Hojo frantically screaming Kagome's name.


"Yeah….I heard the machine went nuts and that the operator went to go find someone to

help."

"Well is she okay?! Nothing hurt her right?!?! There's no danger up there?!?! IS THERE??"

Sheri put a finger to her mouth to shush Hojo. "Don't overreact."


Hojo sighed and looked up at Kagome in the cart.


"I hope that help comes soon……."

***3 hrs later***


Hojo began to pace back and forth muttering things to himself like…'Why didn't I go in the ride with her' and 'Why did this happen'.


Ayumi, Sheri and Eri were sitting on the ground staring at the ferris wheel while Taki and Yuki played tag with Sota.

For the whole three hours, Kagome and Inuyasha were silent. Both sat with grimaces on their face. They sat as far as they could from each other, looking out opposite windows from each other.

Kagome tapped her fingers on the side of the window. Things were much more silent for the last few hours. The people trapped in the ride settled down, and were now either asleep or staring off into space.

Inuyasha wasn't doing much either except thinking. He glanced over to Kagome seeing her pout as she let out a deep sigh.


"What's the matter with you?" He muttered. He didn't even bother to turn his head to face her.

"What's it to you?" She said, using the same tone as Inuyasha.

"Feh. If you don't wanna answer fine with me. Not like I care anyway." He smirked.

Kagome glared at him. "Fine!"

Silence filled the air again. But this time, it only lasted a few minutes. Kagome turned to him. "Inuyasha……….what are you doing?"

"Thinking."

"About?"


He opened in his mouth ready to tell her to mind her own business but then reconsidered.

"…….About………you……in general."

"Me? Like…..what about me?"


"Everything. It's too much to explain." He whispered not understanding why he was being so open. "Kagome….What exactly is your….relationship with that Hobo person?"


Kagome stared at him shocked. 'Is he……..jealous?'

"Inuyasha," She sighed, "I'll have you know there is nothing going on between us. We've been through this about Kouga." She said still not understanding what he got so tense about since he had Kikyo. "He's not my type. You know?"


"Then what is your type?"

"Uhm…………." Kagome shrugged. "He would have to be nice, write my poetry, he be jealous easily………You know?"


"In other words, the exact opposite of me?" Inuyasha said without any emotion whatsoever.


"That's not what I meant………Inuyasha….you mean so much to me……….." She said, gasping when she shocked herself for saying that. Inuyasha looked at her for the first time while they were in there.  She looked up meeting his gaze.


He leaned in closer to her and closed the gap between their lips, softly kissing her.

'Kagome…….' He thought as he snaked his arms around her waist.

Kagome couldn't believe it. Was this a dream? Was Inuyasha………….really kissing her? Her thought stopped there. She couldn't think of anything else but how she felt.

She put her arms around his neck but seconds later he abruptly broke the kiss.

Kagome stared at him. "What?"


"Next question………."


"What?!" Kagome exclaimed glaring at him.

He put a finger to her lips and stopped her. "I promise this is the last one."

"Fine………."

"Well, we wouldn't be in this ride right now if you didn't agree with your friend to go on this 'ferris wheel thing'. But she said she was calling in a favor because you owed her something…and that something happened at a party. What was that?"


Kagome stared at him. "Nothing!"


"Kagome tell me now."

"It's none of your business!!!!!!!!!"

He sighed. "Why can't you tell me?"


"Its not* important!!!"


"Fine……You don't trust me enough." He said, turning back at the window as the sky starting turning darker.


"Inuyasha?"


*No answer*


"Inuyasha…….."


*Still no answer*


"You're ignoring me aren't you?"


"Leave me alone."



"Inuyasha………….errrrr!! Why is it so important to you?" She said trying to squeeze the answer out of him.


"FINE THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She yelled, giving in. "That night, at the party……….my friends got me lots of  drinks….and uhm…….I got drunk……And……"


Inuyasha stared at Kagome. "And what?"


"…………I sorta…………uhm……..that is I……….kissed Hojo."


"WHAT?!?!" Inuyasha screamed almost breaking the "cage" they were in. "WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU KISS THAT WEIRDO?!!? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD?!!?!?"


"I was drunk…………………What do you expect?"



"THAT'S NO EXCUSE!" He yelled jumping up bumping his head on the top of the "cage".


"Inuyasha be careful!" Kagome yelled as the place they were sitting shook. Inuyasha sat down rubbing his sore head mumbling curses.


She looked at him as he held his head down staring at his feet rubbing his head and pouting.


Kagome sighed and took her hand out to him. "Here let me see……."


"No." He said simply trying to move away.


"Inuyasha….I told you there's nothing between me and Hojo…..I was drunk………."  


Inuyasha didn't listen. He kept glaring out the window. "…..Whatever you say Kagome……..Whatever you say……."


Not long after, the man returned with some help and they were out of the ride. Kagome came out as her friends and her brother came rushing towards her.


"Hey………."



"Kagome!! Anything interesting happen?" Ayumi smiled.


Kagome looked back at Inuyasha who was looking straight at the ground.


"N-No….." She said looking at the sky that was beginning to darken.


"We better get going home."

"But—"

Hojo ran up to Kagome. "Are you alright?!?!?"


"Yes….I'm alright…Thanks for asking Hojo."

Inuyasha growled biting his lip. He looked extremely angry

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Kagome smiled and walked away from him.



"I'm sorry….we've had a long day. I'm gonna get going." She said walking over to where Inuyasha, Sota, Taki and Yuki were.



"Come on kids, we're going home."

Sota gaped at her. "What?"


"It's late. You've had your fun. We're going home now*."

Sota stared at his sister. She didn't seem to be in a good mood and this was the type of mood he didn't dare argue with. 

He grabbed Taki and Yuki's hand and followed Kagome, and Inuyasha trailed silently behind them.


'What happened……?' He thought.

They all headed to the bus stop. It was quiet as could be. All that could be heard was the sound of their breath escaping their lips. Kagome stood on one side and Inuyasha stood far away on the other. The bus came and the ride home was silent. Even Yuki and Taki were silent.

They all headed into the house. Kagome sighed heavily and dropped her things. "I'm going to my room." 



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