Author's Note: o.o You're all perverts. Decidedly. But that's ok. Cause seeing as it was popular demand, something could happen between Inuyasha and Kagome soon. ;-) Soo many reviews for my little story... n.n You guys rock! I'm sorry it took so long to get this out. It's my first heterosexual lemon. Please don't report me to I think all of you are old enough to make a decision as to whether or not you want to read the lemony part. And it's not very graphic at all...

Chapter Thirteen: Alone Together

"Oh yes!"

"Gods, I'm going to--!"

"Kagome!"

The aforementioned girl threw the paper wad to Inuyasha again, who was across the room lounging on a comfy-looking chair.

"I'm bored." Kagome said.

Inuyasha caught the wad amazingly, again. "What else is there to do? Besides, this is kinda fun."

Kagome gave him a dirty look. "I could think of a few things we could be doing about now."

"And here I thought you didn't have a gutter-mind." Inuyasha said, the last part of his sentence muffled at the shirt she'd thrown at his head.

"I meant fine-tuning the plan!"

Inuyasha stood up, throwing the shirt aside. "What's to fine-tune?"

"Everything," Kagome said anxiously.

She stood up too, going to the window cautiously. Castle guards were still looking for her on Yumari's orders, and she was still cooped up in Inuyasha's room. Not that that was such a bad thing.

Inuyasha came up behind her, encircling her in his arms. It made Kagome blush when she felt his bare chest, even through her own clothes. Every night Kagome got to sleep right next to him, cuddled in his warmth, their opposite colored hair clashing all over the pillows.

"I just think there are too many possibilities for something to go wrong." Kagome went on, "For someone to screw up."

"There are. But only because if this plan goes right, we're free forever." Inuyasha said smoothly. His breath tickled her neck, making her blush deepen.

Was he insinuating something?!

'Hn...' Inuyasha thought lazily, 'bubbles.'

Kagome splashed water at him. "Are you even listening?"

The hanyou blinked, trying to clear his eyes of water. "Listening to what?"

"I was talking about something of importance, you know." Kagome said, rolling her eyes.

Inuyasha grinned slyly. "What could be more important at the moment?"

"Well, gee, I don't know, what we'd do if someone came in without knocking."

"Who'd do that?"

"You know who." Kagome groused.

"Are you talking about my mother?" Inuyasha asked, "Cause she never comes to my room. Not since I was four."

She sighed. "I mean Kikyou."

Inuyasha's expression changed instantly, and he was growling in the softest of tones. "She won't be coming in there unannounced, if at all."

Kagome picked up on the not so subtle signals. "What happened between you two?"

The hanyou got to his knees on the sandy bottom of the river, grasping her arms. "Let's just say that I completely turned down her proposition of marriage and she wasn't very happy."

Kagome's arms were already covered in goose bumps, having nothing but her underclothes on in the cold river, but he sent a trickle of electric warmth through her skin when he touched her.

"So what... umm... what did she say?" Kagome asked, trying to draw her own attention back to the subject.

"She didn't say much at all." Inuyasha said quietly. He was unnervingly close to her. She could see a few droplets of water slid lazily down his glistening chest. "But I told her that if she tried what she did again, then I would kill her. My heart belongs to someone else."

Kagome was further unnerved by the seriousness in his eyes. So to deflect the situation, she flicked some water at him. At the last second Inuyasha grasped her hand in a firm but gentle grip, bringing it to his mouth. He sucked on her fingertip, letting his fangs graze softly over her skin. Oh yes, he had definitely been insinuating something. But Inuyasha had been a good puppy in her company for far too long.

"Inu... Yasha?" Kagome stuttered in a whisper.

Inuyasha took a small step towards her, leaning into her, trapping her in his embrace. "I love you, Kagome."

Kagome had known it, and known it for almost as long as she'd known him. But it was a startling revelation nonetheless. Her words, if she had any at all, were stuck in her throat. Inuyasha was gripping her sides in a questionable way, and there was a hunger in his golden gaze that Kagome had seen nowhere before. And suddenly, before Kagome had the time to register what was happening, Inuyasha was...

...laughing?!

His head was leaning on her shoulder, his fuzzy ears twitching against her cheek as he laughed.

"What's so funny?" Kagome asked suspiciously.

"The look on your face." Inuyasha said, his laughter subsiding.

Kagome blinked in confusion. What was so funny about her expression? But then he had her hand unnervingly near his mouth again. The way Inuyasha was sucking on the tip of her finger was making her face flush. A tingly warmth spread its way through her body, from her center outwards. It was a weird and new feeling for Kagome. But in light of this new feeling, she found her voice.

"What're you--."

Only to be cut off by Inuyasha. "Shhh. Talking would ruin what's around us now."

His golden eyes were so soft; so vulnerable. And Kagome was so susceptible to them that way. Her mind was becoming mushy, and it was getting harder to think through the haze of what he was doing. Speaking of, what was Inuyasha doing? Whatever it was, it was causing a new kind of heat south of her stomach.

Kagome saw her own hand cup the back of Inuyasha' neck on its own accord—when had she gained her hand back? She felt the prince's fangs on her neck, gently grazing her and causing electricity to shoot once more through her body. Inuyasha was trailing upwards, leaving heated flesh behind him and aiming for her lips. He zeroed in on his target, capturing her in more than her previous daze. Inuyasha's lips were still silk against her own, and she felt his tongue ease its way into her mouth, playing and dancing with her own in a way that seemed to make her melt.

His hands, one tracing ticklish patterns against her lower back, the other holding her hip and gently squeezing, were deepening the sensations she felt. Her own inexperienced hands were taking control all by themselves. One was still cupping his cheek; the other was massaging the base of his velveteen ears. The river water which they'd been soaking in for the better part of the afternoon was still undisturbed around them. Somehow Kagome felt they'd moved closer to the shore. It caused her to think a little more through her incoherency.

'Just how far is Inuyasha planning to take this?'

The hanyou's next movement, however, left her too breathless to reason with herself. Inuyasha had found the hem of her plain dark colored dress, lifting it up. The almost scratchy material was clutching at her hips where he left it bunched just below the water. His fingers found her core and made no qualms about exploring it. His other hand helped steady her in the water, keeping her front to his chest and making him marvel at the feel of her body's curves. It didn't take long for him to have her writhing in his embrace and biting her lip to silence her moans. Soon after, she climaxed, her hands gripping at his bare shoulders and moaning as loud as she dared.

"Do you love me Kagome?"

Her body was still shaking slightly with the aftermath of her orgasm, and she had a light grip on his shoulders. But he had to know. When he'd said he loved her she hadn't said anything back. So, therein was his problem.

Kagome's breathing was ragged and he felt, through the tips of his fingers still pressing against her flesh, a pulse go through her. Gently, as she was still gripping his shoulders, he lowered her onto the sand of the beach. They still lay half in the water, but it was all the better for Inuyasha.

"My Kagome..." Inuyasha growled softly, his lips close to the skin above her chest; letting the words heat up her flesh once again.

A soft blush was making her skin seem even more beautiful in the dying sun. The beads of water slipping away from her skin glistened like glitter. Still Kagome didn't speak. Her breathing returned to normal, though he could feel the warmth beginning to pool once again in her core. Slowly he removed his fingers, leisurely and making sure she felt every sensation on their way out. The movements made her gasp deliciously.

But Inuyasha decided he couldn't wait to hear her say it. Once again capturing her lips, he craftily trailed his hands up her tantalizing curves, and playing with her breasts, flicking his thumbs and index over the nipples, taut from the cold river water. And she was gasping and moaning and mewling from the sensations into his mouth, making him even harder than he was when she came, if that was possible.

'Kagome... why won't Kagome say it on her own?' Inuyasha thought.

"Inu—Yasha," Kagome tried to say between intervals of kissing.

He trailed wet kisses down her jaw line, sliding smoothly down her wet neck and grazing his fangs over her collarbone. One of Kagome's hands had once again gone to the velveteen ears, while the other, bold as it was, was gripping his manhood through his flimsy pants.

"I love you," Kagome whispered. He froze.

"Say it again..." Inuyasha mumbled. "Tell me you love me."

Kagome blushed, but was determined to be mature. "I love you."

And then he was kissing her and rubbing her heated flesh with his hands and she was moaning and gripping him and shyly bucking her hips against him. Finally unable to take it no longer, Inuyasha found the drawstring to his pants, letting himself free.

"If you tell me to stop now... I don't think I can." Inuyasha said, half warning Kagome and half warning himself to be gentle.

"Stop," Kagome said, as if testing his theory.

Inuyasha was on the verge of hesitating when she pressed against him lightly, lifting her hips. "I can't," He said simply in answer.

His claws trailed her ribs before sliding to her hips and gripping her, drawing her closer to his own hips. With one fluid movement, he was inside her, filling her to the utmost. Kagome whimpered before moaning, grabbing his shoulders and bringing him close for a kiss.

Inuyasha began moving in and out of her slowly, savoring each small movement and committing it to memory forever. They moved together for a while, their moans of passion the only sound apart from the rushing river and wildlife around them. It was as if the world didn't exist, and they simply were.

Then Kagome began to tighten around him, her hands squeezing his shoulders and her breathing becoming faster and shallower. Inuyasha's breathing matched her own and he moved faster than before, faster and faster until—

As they both reached their climax, Inuyasha bit down on the juncture between Kagome's neck and shoulders, and began nursing the wound soon after. He bit his own wrist, mixing his and Kagome's blood in one of the most breathtaking kisses he'd ever known.

"Right... so... what did you do?"

Inuyasha sighed, in an exhausted but happy way. "I marked you."

"And tell me again what that means...?" Kagome asked.

He'd explained it all once before, right down to every little youkai trait that had to do with it... but she hadn't understood a word.

Inuyasha kissed her forehead. "It means that you are my mate."

"Does that mean wife?"

He nodded and wrapped his arms around Kagome, both of them feeling the heat of their combined bodies and the warmth of the fire they had made in front of them. He could feel her breathe against his shoulder, her head just below his chin. Neither saw the figure in the castle windows, looking down on them with contempt, a slight smirk marring his ethereal features.

Inuyasha: Umm...

Kagome: Yeah...

Sesshoumaru: smirk

Kagome: How did I know you'd use this against us?

Inuyasha: Bastard.

TBC...