Kagome sat there stunned for what seemed like an eternity to the waiting Inuyasha. Soon he started getting worried about the silence that engulfed the room thinking she was trying to decide on a way to tell him that she loved someone else. "Kagome I underst-" Kagome cut him off saying, "Oh Inuyasha, I'd love too, I've been dreaming that you would ask me that ever since I met you!" Inuyasha drew her into a passionate kiss that took her breath away.

A few minutes later Inuyasha held Kagome in a warm hug and thought about how things would be if he had been brave enough to swallow his pride and ask her to be his mate one of the many times he had wanted to before. Kagome noticed his far off look and frowned as she remembered something.

"Inuyasha, what about Kikyo?" Kagome asked and Inuyasha noticed fear, sadness, hurt, then hope flash through her eyes. "What about her? She is a living statue and if the myth that it's seven years bad luck if you break a mirror is true then I'd hate to see how much bad luck she's gonna have considering every time she looks into a mirror it probably shatters." He said in a reassuring voice. He then added, "I might be in debt to her, but I will never forgive her for the times she's tried to hurt you."

Kagome let out a laugh of relief knowing that Kikyo would no longer be a problem in her relationship with Inuyasha; actually she would probably be able to torture Kikyo with the fact that she is the mate of her old love. Inuyasha marked her as his mate and thought 'How could I have ever feared this, this is the best ay of my life and soon gonna get better.' He smirked at that last thought he had.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next morning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kagome woke up with a smile on her face and humming went over and got some clothes so she could go take a shower. "OH MY GOD!" Inuyasha woke up to Kagome's scream and ran into the bathroom to see what was wrong.

Kagome was staring at herself in the mirror, but her reflection didn't look like her. Her reflection had silver highlights in her midnight black hair, gold brimming her eyes, and two fuzzy dog ears. Inuyasha sighed when he saw nothing was wrong, but Kagome glared daggers at him. "Inuyasha, why didn't you tell me this would happen?" Kagome shrieked, but she wasn't about to just say that. "I wasn't planning on telling my family 'till Christmas dinner but now I'm obviously gonna have to tell them today!" Inuyasha was hurt by her reaction and automatically assumed that she didn't want to be half demon. "I'm sorry if you don't think being half is good enough and since you obviously don't I'm leaving!" Inuyasha yelled. He then stormed out of the house and down the well.

After explaining to her family why she looked different from the day before, Kagome felt extremely guilty for yelling at Inuyasha. She went through the well and decided to put her enhanced senses to the test. She knew Inuyasha's scent 'cause she had awoken to it that morning just a couple hours before. She picked up his scent easily and followed it to a bubbling stream next to a cliff with a huge waterfall and beautiful flowers all around. She gasped at the beauty of the place. She was so absorbed in the beauty surrounding her that she didn't notice Inuyasha who was just upwind until she caught the scent of his tears on the wind. She was utterly shocked by his tears and when she paid closer attention she could sense sadness coming off of him in waves.

The wind suddenly changed directions and Inuyasha looked up at her after catching her scent and gazed into her eyes. She was shocked to see sadness, anger, and betrayal in his eyes. He could sense guilt flooding from her like water from a broken dam; it was on her like a disease. She quietly walked over to him and said, "Inuyasha I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier and it's not that I don't like being half demon, I love it! It was just a bit of a shock at the time and I wasn't thinking." Inuyasha felt bad for yelling and also for jumping to conclusions but his pride would not let him except her apology or apologize himself so he responded instead by saying, "You should be sorry, bitch."

Kagome was shocked and infuriated by that comment but collected herself quickly. "Inuyasha?" He looked over at her, "SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!" After having a colorful one-sided conversation with the grass and flowers underneath him he got up and was feeling even worse. "Kagome I was joking when I said that. I'm sorry I got mad at you and hope you can forgive me." He said after realizing he would just be in more pain if he didn't apologize and it wouldn't hurt since nobody was listening.

About an hour later they were talking about the situation and Kagome said, "Inuyasha this is going to take some getting used to for me, I mean I have claws!" Inuyasha looked at her claws closely for the first time and was shocked beyond belief to find that there were jewels embedded into each of them to look like the Shikon No Tama!

"Why do you have jewels embedded in your claws?" He asked. The only reason to his answer to that question Kagome voiced out loud, "I don't know, maybe it's because I'm the Shikon protector." She decided to test her strength and swiped at a tree the tetsaigia would even have a tough time with expecting just to scratch it and just before her claws made contact the jewels glowed and she was able to slice through the tree like a hot knife through butter. "Wow, I guess the Shikon strengthens my claws for my protection to protect it." She stated.

"I think that is quite interesting and I agree with you fully." Inuyasha said not really wanting to figure it out at the moment and taking his first opportunity to drop the subject. "Well then lets go back to my time and have some fun in the city." Kagome suggested. Inuyasha liked that idea and they left for the well. As they were leaving neither of them noticed except for a shudder from Kagome that was dismissed to the cold that something, rather someone was watching them the whole time and now had a very evil smirk upon his face.