Chapter 10!!!! Yaa!!!!! My second longest fic....^_^

Chapter 10

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"YOU!" Kagome yelled. She looked into the eyes of none other than...Inuyasha.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"You just told me what you're doing!!! Going with that....going with Kikyo!"

"...No. I never said that." Inuyasha pulled Kagome into a hug. "I don't like you...I love you..." Inuyasha whispered. "I don't think you're pretty...I think you're beautiful...And I wouldn't cry if you left...I'd die..." The hanyou whispered.

Kagome was crying again. "Inuyasha..." She was speechless. Looking up into his golden eyes, those eyes that now shone like the sun...even in the darkness of night. Those eyes that showed her the truth...the truth that what he said was in fact the truth. "What-what about Kikyo?"

"Don't ever worry about her again..." Inuyasha whispered. He gave her one last final hug and pulled her away. "What do you say we get you back home and back to that party of yours?" He said with a truly sincere smile, not some half-hearted one. Not a usual, Inuyasha-smirk, but a real smile.

Inuyasha brought a hand up to wipe away Kagome's tears.

Kagome gave a little laugh. "Alright (I say that a lot? Don't I???). Let's go." Turning around to jump in the well, they were stopped by a Shippo jumping into the arms of Kagome.

"KAGOME!!!!" The kitsune yelled. "Oh, I missed you!!!"

"I missed you, too, Shippo! How've ya been?" Kagome asked.

"It's been boring without you and Inuyasha around. Miroku's still being himself though....ugh..."

Kagome laughed. "How ARE Sango and Miroku?"

Shippo got a mischievous look on his face. "Oh...they're okay..." He said with a smirk, as well.

"What's that supposed to mean, brat? Okay?" Inuyasha asked peeking over Kagome's shoulder.

"Well...why don't you come see for yourself?" The kitsune said leaping out of Kagome's hold and running off towards the nearby village. "Well, are you coming or not?" He called over his shoulder.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome, and she got on his back. Quickly they'd caught up to the kitsune and passed him, however, picking him up on the way. "Slowpoke..." Inuyasha mumbled.

Upon arriving at the village, hardly anyone was out, well, obviously because it was night. But Miroku was outside calling for Shippo. "Shipp- Inuyasha?! Kagome?! Is that you?!" He yelled.

"The one and only..." Inuyasha said coming to a stop at the monk.

"I thought you two had died over there!"

"It...hasn't been very long...?" Kagome pointed out.

"But it feels like it!" Sango said walking out of the hut. "What took you so long?"

"There was...some business we had to attend to..." Kagome answered before Inuyasha could.

"Oh...Well, come in, stay the night!" Sango said motioning for everyone to come in.

Once inside, and everyone was seated, Inuyasha spoke up. "Where's Kaede?"

Miroku glanced over at Sango. "Well...we were getting there."

Kagome knew instantly. "You mean...?"

Sango nodded. "Just yesterday."

"What? What about the old woman? Yesterday what?" The dense hanyou asked.

"Inuyasha? Are you that oblivious to the fact that Kaede is...passed on?!" Kagome yelled.

"What? That old hag died? Bout time..." He mumbled to no one in particular.

"INUYASHA?! How can you say something about a respectable woman! SIT!"

*THUD* "AND CAN I ASK WHAT THAT WAS FOR?!"

"YOU SHOULD RESPECT PEOPLE LIKE KAEDE!"

".....feh..."

Kagome sat back down in her seat before getting up to yell at Inuyasha. "Well, in other news..."

"Everything's faired well while you were gone." Miroku said smiling.

"Yes, quite well...wouldn't you agree?" Sango said grinning as well.

"Okay, spill, what happened?" Kagome asked sitting back up on her knees.

"Well...seeing as how long you guys were taking to get back, I decided to take the first step and...well...to put a long story short," Miroku started.

"Oh, golly! They're getting married!" Shippo yelled.

Kagome and Inuyasha sat wide eyed. "........huh?" they both mumbled together.

"You heard him. Loud and clear." Sango said.

"......wow." Kagome said. That was all she could say.

"Took you two long enough!" Inuyasha said.

"Well, those things don't exactly happen over night!" Kagome yelled at Inuyasha again.

"What about you two? Have you patched things up yet?" Sango butted in.

That shut Kagome and Inuyasha up.

"I well..." Kagome stuttered.

Miroku got a devilish look on his face. "That my man, Inuyasha! Leaving the girl speechless!!!"

*THWACK*

"Perv..." Inuysha mumbled sheathing his sword. "It coulda hurt a lot worse, too!"

"Well, to complete the question, Sango," Kagome scooted closer to Inuyasha. "Yea. I guess you could say that!"

THE END

NOT!

YOU HAVENT' EVEN REACHED VALENTINE'S DAY!!! (even though that was weeks ag...0_o) AND WHAT THEY WERE SCHEMING TO GET EACH OTHER!!! (no I didn't forget that either!!!) SO TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR.....

A Walk on the Wildside

Ja ne!

Ps. Is anyone getting author alert updates? Cuz, I'm not. And it's pissin me off... every time I log in to check my email, I'm waiting for author alerts and reviews...but NOTHING IS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, guess it's back to the old fashioned way.....-_-'