Punkwolfdemon: Well time for Chapter four. Now we will

find out if Inuyasha is realizing his love for Kagome. And why

Koga stopped chasing them. And why the hell did Sesshomaru

appear like that suddenly when Kagome was dying? Makes you

wonder doesn't it?

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Chaper Four: The Willow Grove

Kagome wakes up to find herself in Inuyasha's arms, to her

great surprise. And what surprised her even more is that he

is sleeping...with a smile on his face.

"Well I don't want to wake him up, so I'll sit and think. Hey

where are we anyways? I've never been here before. It's really

beautiful. Somethings been bothering me though, that dream I

had when I was *shudder* dead, it keeps coming back. I've

had it several time since Sesshomaru brought me back to life.

And why did he help me anyways? You'de think he'de have

let me die so then Inuyasha would be to sad and blinded by

rage at the same time to fight. Then he could kill him and get

the Tetsusaiga."

Kagome's thoughts tired her quickly, for she was still weak

from everything that had happened. She drifted back to sleep.

Inuyasha comes back from dream world confused and sad.

But he smiles all the same when he sees Kagome. "I guess

she didn't wake up while I slept." He assumed this because

she was still asleep in his arms.

"I wonder if I could get to the village and back before she

wakes up and panicks that I'm gone? Oh well I'll just have

to go quickly. I want to get her backpack and things because

she may have to stay here a while. It's not safe with Koga

running around out there.

Inuyasha got up slowly so he wouldn't wake her, then laid

her gently on the grass. Then started to walk toward the village.

Meanwhile Kagome was having the wierd temple dream again.

Only this time there was one difference.

DREAM

Kagome heard someone opening the door slowly.

She turned around saying: who are you?

One again it was Inuyasha. He walked toward her

just like in all her other dreams except this time it was

different.

Inuyasha: Kagome! Kagome you're alright!

Kagome backed away, "It's never happened like this

before. Maybe something is wrong in the real word!

I have got to wake up!"

Inuyasha: Kagome don't be scared, I'm just worried

about you. I think I...love you.

Kagome's eyes shone with fear and confusion as she

desperatly tried to wake up from her dream.

Kagome: It's not working!!!!!

Inuyasha came toward her and pulled her into a hug.

Kagome gave up being scared and let him. He said

the same three words again, and disappeard.

Kagome: No! Inuyasha! Don't leave me again!

END DREAM

Kagome yelled out in her sleep, but this time it was

different. It was a desperate cry, it held fear in it.

Inuyasha whirled around. "It's never sounded like that

before, maybe I should wake her up?"

But Kagome woke up on her own. She saw Inuyasha

watching her. Kagome leapt up and ran over to him.

She threw her arms around him and began crying.

Kagome: Inuyasha! Don't leave me again!

Inuyasha: What? What are you talking about?

Kagome looked up at him with tears in her eyes, she

couldn't answer him. At least not yet.

Kagome found her voice.

Kagome: Inuyasha please don't leave me again. I

won't be able to take it.

Inuyasha looked down at her with confusion and

worryment.

Inuyasha: I don't want to leave you...but I was going

to go get your things from the village. You may have

to stay here a while.

Kagome: I don't care, just please don't leave me again.

Kagome hugged Inuyasha tightly, laying her head on his

chest.

Inuyasha: I need to go get your things, but I won't be gone

long I promise.

Inuyasha hugged Kagome back fiercely. The feeling came

again. He still didn't understand what it was but he hoped

it wouldn't go away.

Inuyasha let go of Kagome and started to run toward

the village.

Kagome let him go, but her eyes filled with tears.

"What's gotten into me? The moment Inuyasha

leaves my heart almost breaks and I can't stop

crying. Could I be in love with.....Inuyasha?"

As Inuyasha dodged trees, while running at full

speed his mind wandered away from his task.

He couldn't stop thinking about Kagome and the

way she had saved him from being killed by his own

Wind Scar attack.

"Why did she do it? I still don't understand. I mean I

would have done the same for her..."

That's when it hit him. "Maybe she...she loves me?!"

Then Inuyasha arrived at the village. "I'll think about it

later. First I must get Kagome's back pack and talk to

Lady Kaeda.

Inuyasha walks into Lady Kaeda's hut.

Lady Kaeda: So have ye found her yet? Ye have been

gone quite a while.

Inuyasha: Yes I found her. Koga had her...

Lady Kaeda: Oh I see... Do tell me about it.

Inuyasha sits down and tells the tale.

Lady Kaeda: Hmmm... I see.

Inuyasha: What? See what?!

Lady Kaeda: Never ye mind dog. Just get back to

Kagome and protect her.

Lady Kaeda hands Inuyasha Kagome's back pack

and a few other things.

Lady Kaeda: Now off with ye.

Inuyasha starts to go, but Lady Kaeda stops him.

:Lady Kaeda: One other thing Inuyasha, on the other

side of that Willow Grove you speak of there is a

temple of some sort. Take Kagome there. She will be

safe. Trust me. The Willow Grove will protect ye both.

Inuyasha nods, and heads back to Kagome.

As he runs back toward the Grove he realizes that's why

Koga stopped following them. "When we went into the

Grove Koga could no longer sense us..."

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Kagome wanders around the Willow Grove. "I better not go

too far, or Inuyasha may flip out if he comes back and finds

me gone."

Kagome goes deep into thought, thinking about a certain

half demon. All the sudden she notices, she is no longer in the

Willow Grove. "Oh no I wandered too far off, I better head back."

Just then she hears sounds coming from the bushes. Several burly

looking men appear.

"Oh shit! Robbers." Kagome starts to back away, but she bumps

into a rather large man who had snuck up behind her. Kagome

gasps and leaps away from him.

Leader: Well, well, look what we found wandering the woods

by her lonesome boys.

Serveral of the other robbers sniggered to Kagome's horror.

She looks good enough to eat said the large robber that had

been behind her. He licked his lips as he spoke.

Kagome's eyes shone brightly with fear. "Oh why was I so stupid,

I should have just stayed where I was. Wait there, it's an opening

maybe I can still escape."

Kagome runs toward the break in the robbers' ranks. She gets

through just in time.

Leader: After her!

Kagome runs toward the Willow Grove.

Kagome reaches the edge and hides behind a huge Willow tree,

gasping for air.

Leader: Hey where'd she go?

The robbers head away from the Grove, still hunting for Kagome.

"The Grove must be magical. It protected me from those men."

Kagome walks slowly back to where Inuyasha left her. He isn't

back yet so she decides to rest. But she still doesn't feel perfectly

safe on the ground. So she climbs one of the huge Willow trees.

"I should be safe up here, I hope.." Then she drifted off to sleep.

Inuyasha arrives at the edge of the grove, near where those men

tried to get Kagome.

Inuyasha sniffs the air. "That's odd, I smell Kagome's scent here.

But I also smell men." A single word flashed through his mind.

ROBBERS!

Inuyasha takes off full speed back to where he left Kagome.

"Shit. She probably got into trouble while I was gone."

Inuyasha arrives at the clearing. "I smell Kagome, but I don't

see her"

Then he looks up and sees Kagome leaning againest the tree,

sleeping, her skirt flapping gently in the breeze. Her hair flowing

slightly around her.

Inuyasha's eyes shined with a strange new emotion. "She's so..."

Inuyasha shook his head to clear his thoughts.

"I'll let her sleep for now, I'll asked what happened while I was gone

when she wakes up. She seems ok any how."

Inuyasha set down her backpack and the few other items Lady

Kaeda had handed him. He leaped up and gently landed beside

Kagome, who was still asleep. He sat there thinking but soon

drifted off to sleep himself.

Kagome woke up, rather flustered. "That dream, it happened

again." Then she notices Inuyasha asleep beside her. She stares

at him thinking.

Inuyasha wakes up, sensing her watching him. By then she had

scooted right up next to him and was staring at him intently.

Inuyasha wakes up and sees Kagome's face inches away from

his. He is so surprised he falls out of the tree. Making a loud

crash. Kagome is also surprised and leaps back away from

him. But she doesn't fall out of the tree.

Inuyasha: What the hell were you doing?!? You scared me

half to death!

Kagome: S-Sorry Inuyasha, I was just worried about you.

Kagome smiled down at him with an odd look in her eyes.

Inuyasha looked away blushing, he was recalling his dream

he just had.

Kagome launched herself off the tree branch, landing softly

next to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha tried to look her in the face, but couldn't. He turns

away instead.

Kagome: Inuyasha what's wrong?

Kagome looked at him with worry.

Inuyasha: Er it's nothing, come on Lady Kaeda told me about

a place in the Willow Grove where we can stay. No one can

hurt us while we are in the Grove. At least that's what Kaeda

said.

Kagome: Ok lets go.

As they're walking Kagome keeps wondering.

"Why was Inuyasha blushing like that? And why won't he look

me in the face? What's he hiding? Kagome stares at him as they

walk.

Inuyasha notices her watching him.

Inuyasha: If you have got something to say, say it!

Kagome: Er...I've got nothing to say..

Inuyasha: Good...

"I don't understand him, one minute he is looking at me

with a wierd look in his eyes. The next he is his old self.

I'm so confused." Kagome kept her head down and

stared at the ground as she walked.

She felt Inuyasha stop suddenly, Kagome looks up and

lets out a little gasp. "It's the temple, the temple from my

dreams."

Inuyasha senses something different about Kagome and

turns to look at her.

Kagome notices him watching her.

Kagome: What?!

Inuyasha: Er nothing...never mind.

Inuyasha: Come on let's have a look around.

Kagome: NO!

Inuyasha: What?

Kagome: I mean, er how do we know it's safe and all?

Inuyasha: Lady Kaeda told me about it so it's safe for sure.

Now come on let's go.

Kagome timidly nods ok.

"What the hell just happened? One look at the temple and

Kagome looks like she saw a ghost or worse.....a demon."

Inuyasha walked up to the temple steps, Kagome following

him uncertainly.

Kagome: Inuyasha...why don't you go look around first, you

know to make sure everything is ok...

Inuyasha turns to Kagome,"Ok yeah something is defiantly wrong.

But what is it? She seemed fine until we came to this temple."

Inuyasha: Don't tell me you're scared. *sarcastic tone*

Kagome: NO! I just think that you should check it out first...

Inuyasha: Feh..

Inuyasha goes into the temple. He is gone for several minutes.

When he returns, he says everything is fine.

Kagome: Ok. if you say so.

Inuyasha: Yeah, I do say so.

Inuyasha and Kagome enter the temple.

Inuyasha: Follow me, I'll show you where your bedroom is



He takes her down the third hall on the left.

"Just like in my dream...." Kagome became very afraid

because he stopped at the first door down the hall.

Inuyasha: Ok this is your room.

Kagome opened the door slowly and the bed room was the

exact same.

The walls were tinged lightly with lavender, the wooded

floor was shining with polish, there was a four poster

bed with light lavender sheets, pillows and curtains.

The deck doors where open, letting in a cool breeze and

bright sunshine. The lavender curtains were blowing

slightly in the breeze.

Kagome walked into the room slowly, almost reliving her

dream.

Then Inuyasha opened the door, just like her dream, and

walked in. But instead of walking toward her, he looked

around at the room and said feh.

Inuyasha turned toward Kagome, right then she couldn't

take it anymore, it was so like her dream she fainted.

Kagome let out a little gasp and then her started body crumbled

to the floor.

Inuyasha had been watching her and when he saw her falling,

he rushed over and caught her before she hit the floor.

"God, Kagome what had gotten into you? Feh, maybe she is

just tired. Maybe..."

Inuyasha picked Kagome up gently, cradling her in his arms,

he walked over to the bed and laid her on it softly. Then he

started to walk out of the room. But something made him

look back. He caught himself looking at Kagome, admiring

her beauty. His dream came back to him. Inuyasha blushed

and shook his head to clear his thoughts.

While Kagome is unconscious, she had a dream about

Inuyasha. It starts out good but then her dream turns into a

nightmare.

It's after dark and Inuyasha is sitting in a willow tree staring at

the moon, thinking about Kagome. Then he hears her screaming.

Thinking it's a demon, he unsheathes the Tetsusaiga, and runs to

her room.

But there is no demon. Kagome is struggling on the bed

crying and screaming.

Inuyasha feels his eye twitch. "She is having a night mare.

Geez, what the hell happened to her?"

Inuyasha walks over to her and sits on the bed. He picks

Kagome up in his arms and holds her close trying to

comfort her.

Kagome calms down and stops crying and screaming.

All the sudden Inuyasha gets really embarressed and lays

her back on the bed and backs away..blushing....A LOT.

He walks outside onto the balcony and sits on the railing,

watching the moon and occasionaly glancing at Kagome.

Eventualy he gets so tired he sits down on the floor and

goes to sleep.

Kagome wakes up suddenly, looking around her she notices

Inuyasha sleeping on the balcony. "I guess he was guarding

me while I was sleeping. Well no wait, Lady Kaeda said we

were perfectly safe here. So he wouldn't need to guard me.

Then why is he here?"

Kagome gets up and walks over to Inuyasha. She kneels down

and watches Inuyasha's face. A strange emotion appears, her

heart starts pounding and she feels a strange calm come over

her.

Kagome sits down besides Inuyasha and leans on him.

"Inuyasha looks so...so I don't know. But all the sudden I

want to make him happy and be there for him."

Inuyasha starts to struggle in his sleep, he loses his balance

and falls onto Kagome.

Before Kagome knows what's going on, she finds Inuyasha's

head in her lap and his arms around.

Kagome's eyes light up with something, maybe....love.

She pulls Inuyasha's hair out of his face, then notices his ears.

"His ears, they are so cute. I have got to pet them."

Kagome very gently caressed one of Inuyasha's ears.

Noticing how soft and beautiful they were. Kagome

wrapped her arms around Inuyasha and stared up at

the moon.

Inuyasha felt something touching his ear, he started to wake up.

Inuyasha woke up to find himself sleeping in Kagome's lap and

he was hugging her. He felt torn between and hugging her more

and jumping and running away with embarressment.

"This is kind of like my dream!" Inuyasha looked up, and saw

Kagome staring at the moon.

Inuyasha: Kago...Kagome?

Kagome: Hmm? Oh I'm sorry Inuyasha, did I wake you?

Inuyasha: Er no, I...

Kagome looked at him questionly.

Inuyasha looked into her eyes and saw a fire that made

something stir in him, but scared him at the same time.

Inuyasha stood up slowly, then stooped down and picked

Kagome up.

Inuyasha: You should get back in bed, I think you might be

sick with something.

Kagome noticed how he said it differently, not a hint of

sarcasism.

Ok she whispered.

He brought her inside, dropped her gently on her bed then

walked out of her room.

"What was that all about?" Kagome wondered as she

drifted off to sleep.

Inuyasha walked down the hall toward his bedroom.

He was deep in thought.

"I think I really do love Kagome. But how can I tell her?"

He thought about this over and over again until he fell asleep.

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Punkwolfdemon: Oooooo. Inuyasha has got the hots for

Kagome for sure. Am sorry to say that you have to wait

longer to find out why Sessy appeared when Kagome

was dying. I feel like being evil today. Now then also

I think we have established that Kagome loves Inuyasha.

And I just noticed that Koga hasn't said anything in while.

Hmm, I must go fix that. Perhaps he is scheming, We

will see.