I'm so so so sorry that this chapter came up a lot later than it was expected to be up. To tell you the truth this was suppose to be up around friday or saturday. But here we are at sunday and also...this chapter isn't as long as it was intended to be, it was suppose to be a lot longer! But you my dear friend decided to visit me yesterday, and that means that she was with me for like 15 hours of the day lol and then when she left it was 12 and i wasn't done writing the chapter...PLUS i had a movie to watch. So that's my excuse...forgive me.

Another quick note on this chapter, it's suppose to be kinda of serious, but since I'm not that good of a writer and because I'm more of a funny person, I don't know how serious it will actually seem. So it would be nice if pople could tell what they think. But don't worry, they whole chapter's not serious! Another thing sorry if the characters are a little ooc at any point, just in case any of you may think so.

I almost forgot, my beta Avi (aka: Carrie) has returned to me! Seems she was gone on a skiing trip and forgot to tell me lol. So she's now checking to former chapters for spelling and grammar so I can post them over with no mistakes! Yay. And this one will be checked shortly also but I just didn't want you guys to wait any longer! SO THANK YOU AVI!

Disclaimer: I'm not worthy.

Kagome: Oh NO! Inuyasha got at the prozac again!

Inuyasha: * sings * We are the sunshine family

Kouga: errr....what a nutcase.

Kagome: Be a nice happy Inuyasha and hand me the pill bottle.

Inuyasha: NEVER! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Miroku: You know, I kinda like Inuyasha this way.

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Chapter 11: Mixed Emotions

There was a small silence that graced the room after Kagome had taken a seat on her bed. Even though it only lasted about a minute or so, to Kouga it seemd like an hour.

He had been ready to talk to her down stairs, he was actually anxious about it. He even had all is questions planned out, ready to be answered. But now that they were actually alone...his mind was kind of blank and he couldn't think of how to start out the converstaion.

Kagome sat patientlyon the bed, she was somewhat ready to explain the situation to the wolf, but it seemed that he had gone mute and she for one didn't have the slightest clue of what to say first. Buyo suddenly rolled out from under the bed , his pudgy little body waddled to his feet and then struggled to get on top of the bed. Kagome felt pity on her poor kitty and helped him up only for him to stand up beside her and plop down.

'Should I apoligize?', Kouga though to himself. He figured he should but why apoligize for something that he wasn't even sure that he did? Maybe it was the fact that he kissed her, but that couldn't have been that big a deal, she did kiss him back, plus he was the one who actually had to break it. 'She's probably waiting for an apology'. Then he was wondering why he was feeling so uneasy about it, he'd never been at a loss of words before when it came to a serious matter, well this was serious to him anyway, it was awkward.

"Kagome", he began, figuring in his head what exactly he was about to say, "I'm sorry about the kiss, I didn't mean to force myself on you like that, it's just...at the time those girls...they were really getting to me and I wanted them to shut up and go away--"

Kagome had gotten up off the bed and walked over to him during his ramblings and put a finger up to his lips to hush him. "It's okay Kouga, I didn't mean it", she blushed slightly as she went over in her head how awkward that sounded.

Kougas's eyes went wide as she could feel him smirk at her, even though she had bent her head down to hide her face.

"I-I didn't mean it like that", she begun to come up with some excuse to wipe the proud, cocky grin that claimed his face, "I meant that, that's not exactly what made me feel guilty", she still had a pink tinge to her cheeks, she turned around and once again took her seat on the bed next to the round ball of fur that hadn't moved since it got there.

Kouga followed behind her, but instead of taking a seat behind her, he decided to sit on the chair at the desk across from her bed. Though he was still concerned, the thought that kagome didn't mind the kiss was still fresh in his head. But then a question struck, "You feel guilty?", how did he make her feel guilty of all things?!

Kagome shrugged her shoulders, she was still trying to find the words to explain her little situation, and she knew if she tried to explain it, the words would not come out the right way, 'well, here we go', "Kouga", she had a half hearted smile, "the thing is..I guess is that...", she averted her eyes away from him to look out the window, 'do I really wanna tell him about the whole Kikyou mess?'

Kouga stared intently at her, just waiting for her to continue. He was getting a bit impatient, he wanted to know the problem so that he could turn it around and make her happy again.

Kagome could feel his eyes burrowing into her head, "you see, I always thought that I loed Inuyasha", Kouga's fist balled up at the sound of the name, "all that time ago...I thought he loved me too. But then Kikyou was ressurected. It just so happens that I'm her reincarnation, and when she came alive again...it was hard to hide from that fact", Kagome turned to look at Kouga to make sure he was understanding her. And just as she thought, he was listening to every word.

"And Kikyou and Inuyasha were in love all those years ago. When she came back, so did his love for her. And it didn't really help that he saw her everytime he was looking at me, and that still happens...sometimes", a small crystal formed in the corner of her eye as she was reminded about the said situations.

Kouga's heart fell and his eyes narrowed, 'that fucking dog! Hurting Kagome like that for a fucking zombie! How can she love him if he does these things to her!?', he tightened his fist, making his sharpe nails dig into his fleash, but not enough to draw blood. The half-breed made his woman cry, that was more than enough to make Kouga furious, "I'll kill 'em", Kouga mumbled under his breath.

Kogome never heard exactly what it was the wolf had said, but she knew it couldn't have been too friendly, "But you know...", Kagome was smiling now when Kouga looked up at the surprise of her new upbeat tone she had suddenly taken and he saw what seemed to be a blush, it was hard to tell since both of them had neglected to turn on the lights. "....when you kissed me back there in the mall", the blush in her cheeks rose, "I kissed you back....then when I actually realized what I was doing, I didn't stop myself. Well because I should admit it...I liked it", now her blush was all the way up to her ears.

As soon as she said that, Kouga gazed at her in utter surprise, he had never expected her to admit something like that. She was now giving him a smile. As shy and innocent as it was, it didn't hide the bright red blush that seemed to glow in the dark when he gave her a wide smirk, "is that so?"

Kagome's eyes widened ever so slightly, 'great Kagome, you had to go and tell him that didn't you? Now he'll probably have a big ego trip...not to mention use it against you!', she looked to him again, 'and why is he staring at me like that?' She averted he eyes to the window again, she didn't like to believe that she had caused that big, charming...lecherous? Grin on his face, "It kinda opened my eyes I guess, it made me realize that I'm not hooked on Inuyasha, I can't be if I'm able to kiss someone else. I think having to fall in love with him was just something that came with being Kikyou's reincarnation", she shrugged her shoulders, "I actually don't even feel guilty anymore, I guess I just needed to talk to someone about it", she turned her head back to Kouga, her tears hd disappeared and she gave him a bright smile. "Thanks Kouga"

She had one of those irrisistable smiles on again that rendered Kouga to smile back. He was estatic that her feelings for the hanyou weren't as strong as they ever were but they were still there faintly but at least this was a definite meaning that he had a chance, "I'm always here for you Kagome". His innocent caring smile turned into his imfamous smirk which obviously said 'I'm not only here to listen'

Kagome's blush returned once more, but then her eyes narrowed into a playful expression, "and don't count on that kiss happening ever again!"

Kouga made a playful growl emitt from his chest, causing Kagome's eyes to widen and wonder what was about to happen. Without warning, Kouga pounced on his unsuspecting prey and began to tickle and prod at her tender sides.

It just so happened that Kagome was extremely ticklish, and as soon as the tickling began she let out a surprised scream and was laughing heartily as Kouga continued his attack, "ohh, n-no, stop it K-Kouga!", she was trying her best to convince him to cease the tickling, but to no avail.

Kouga was now practically straddling her hips, trying to keep her from getting away as she wriggled beneath him, 'never happen again eh? That's what she thinks!'

Kagome couldn't take the tickling anymore, "Okay, OKAY! I s-surrender!", she shouted with her eyes closed, thinking that if she opened them as she was laughing so hard that they might just pop out.

Everthing stopped suddenly and Kouga stared down into her flushed face and waited for her to open her eyes as she let out a couple more muted laughs that caused her body to pulse beneath him. She opened her eyes to reveal bright brown glossy orbs that shone with happiness, "I thought you would surrender to me", he said giving her a victorious grin only inches away from her face.

"Hey, you caught me off guard! It wasn't fair!", she pouted playfully and poking the predator in the chest. She hadn't noticed that Kouga had been staddling her until she actually looked down and saw that he was, then her eyes wandered up to meet his as a crimson blush stained her face. This time she could feel the burning sensation in her cheeks and there was a slight sensation churning around in her stomache.

"Well then, you'll have to be on your guard next time won't you?", he said once again only inches from her face. He could smell her arousel and he wanted nothing more than to satisfy it and his own. But being the sly wolf he was, he decided he was going to tease her instead, that would indeed turn the tables around. As much as his body struggled against that decision that's what he was going to do. After his little diabolical scheme played in his head he flashed her another sexy smirk.

"Your the one whose gonna have to keep your guard up Kouga!", she narrowed her eyes in mock threat.

Kouga raised his eyebrows, "oooh, am I?"

She let out a breathy sigh, that ending in a bunch of silent giggles, which caused her to wriggle under Kouga's body again, and once again he had to control himself. She turned her head to look to her alarm clock. 7:30. "It's been a really long day, I think I'm gonna get some rest", she said as she turned her face back to Kouga giving him a tired smile. She seemed to have forgotten that he was on top of her, almost treating it as if it were normal.

Kouga smiled back. She did look quite exhausted, 'well, at least she's ahppy again'. He lifted his legup over her so that he was no longer straddling her and plopped down to her right and lid down beside her. Which caused poor Buyo to shift his weight. "Good idea Love".

Kagome turned her head to look into his face and saw his huge smug smile before he closed his eyes to fall asleep. She laughed evilly, "on the floor buster!",with that she pushed his form of the bed , with great difficulty if I might add he was a muscle bound wolf demon after all, until there was a hard thump on the floor and a groan.

"buster?", Kouga moaned. Well it was worth a try. The a pillow came to greet his face and was followed up by a blanket that covered all except his legs during it's landing.

The girl was looking over the edge of her bed at the pile of tangled wolf and blanket. When he emerged, the static had caused his hair to stick up in every direction. She covered her mouth to hide her giggles, "Well, better get some sleep, we have school in the morning!"

"School?"

"Yeah, the place I go to learn, and since you were so very kind to stay here and keep me company, you have to come", she gave him a bright smile as she sey her alarm clock for 6:45. "Night Kouga!", those were her last words before she quickly dosed off into sleep.

Kouga listened to her evened out breathing and went over in his head the moment they had just shared, "good night...Kagome", then he slowly drifted off into a semi-sweet slumber.

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THE END!.....of the chapter that is. Now how many of you, for any second during that chapter thought that this was going to be a lemon?hmmmmm?

Miroku: I

Inuyasha: Stupid monk we already know you did, you have sex on the brain 24/7!

Kouga: Hey, I'm pretty sneaky eh, getting Kagome all fired up like that.

Kagome: You didn't get me.....'fired up' * blushes * You just caught me by surprise and all.

Miroku: Now now Kagome, we all have desires, theres nothing to be ashamed about

Kagome: w-what!? What happened to Sango, she should have hit Miroku over the head by now!

Sesshoumaru: This Sesshoumaru put her in the cupboard with the fox.

Ashley: What! Ugh, Sesshoumaru why'd you have to go and do that for.

Miroku: I'll get her!

Ashley: Okay, let's respond to some reviews shall we?

Playful Kagome, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to put you in distress! Forgive me. Anywayz I don't know about the Hiei/ Kagome thing, I'm more of a Kurama person myself, but I actually haven't found any Hiei pairings around but I'll be sure to check it out if you'd like to recommend one! And your right Sesshoumaru's gook looks make up for his rebelliousness.

Sesshoumaru: I'm not your eye candy wench!

Ashley: eeee, anywayz Say hi to Asia for me I bet she's cute! And by the way were you by any chance mislead by this chapter?

Kouga:EvilCheese eh? Strange name but I love my fans so that includes you, And I do hope theres a lemon later too! *gives Ashley suspicious glare*

Ashley: i love Inuyasha forever I give you huggles back, you always have such nice things to say and it just boost my spirits up completely whenever I read your comments. Unfortunately no I don't have AIM but I do have MSN! If that means anything? Lol, I don't think we'd be able to sell my story lol, it's not that good haha, but it would be nice to have some money on hand lol. And the whole nice thing, I actually think I'm too nice for my own good lol.

Inuyasha: Nice my ass! You paired Kagome with the wolf!

Kouga: Shut up and deal with it! You get to be with her in almost every other story.

Inuyasha: That's because those people know what the real pairing should be!

Ashley: SHUT UP!...........there. Now, thanks to all of you!!!!!Sorry I couldn't personally reply to everyone!Playful Kagome, Kin103(glad you found my story and even happier that you like it!), Sarah (I intentionally made Kagome's mom like that, and I can answer your other question sorry, you'll just have to read on!), DemonFireGirlHotaru(thanx), Puffin(another question I can't answer but yes he will find out at some point!), Kiara(thanx), Saiyan-legacy102(did you think I forgot ya? Lol. Yes the scream was from when Kouga grabbed her and congrads on third place!), EvilCheese(I love your name lol, and please tell others about my story if you think they'll like it!), Crimson Release(I'm enjoying your story also!), And of course i love inuyasha forever (huggles)!

Please Review makes me happy and also posts the chapters! And tell me what you thought of this chapter because I wanna know how I write when I'm trying to make the atmosphere a little serious. Once again PLEASE REVIEW!