Chapter 5: Traveling

Kagome is dreaming

Kagome rolled over and 'woke' up to find Inu-Yasha staring at her with his glowing eyes. "I love you Kagome" he said then he leaned forward into the kiss. . .

Then Kagome really woke up and looked around her. 'Why can't my dreams ever be reality? He never even told me that he loved me. . . sigh ' She went back to sleep.

Inu-Yasha's dream

Kagome is staring at him with a longing look on her face "He doesn't love me. Why do I even bother?" Inu-Yasha tries to tell her but she turns and walks away into the darkness. "Kagome! Wait come back!"

Inu-Yasha woke up drenched in his own sweat panting. 'Damn'

In the morning

"Inu-Yasha, I had the most. . . interesting dream." Said Kagome

"Really? Feh, who cares?" said Inu-Yasha 'why am I always so mean to her when I love her so much?' he asked himself.sigh "Kagome, wait. . . I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

'He said he was sorry . . . ' "I was about to tell you about my dream. You said that you loved me. . . then tried to kiss me." Said Kagome.

"I did huh? Was it like this?" Inu-Yasha then leaned towards her and they kissed for a long time "I love you Kagome"

"I love you too Inu-Chan. . . lets go for a walk." Said Kagome.

The two of them left the sleeping Miroku and Sango and headed towards the beach.

"Its so beautiful here." Said Kagome gazing over the water that reflected the night sky. "but it's a little chilly."

"You stay here, I'm going to get something." Said Inu-Yasha.

"What is it?"

"It's a surprise." Inu-Yasha went back to the camp and took some of the fire and fire wood and carried it back to Kagome. "Now we can have our own little fire by the beach."

"That sounds very romantic. . . put it over there out of the other's view so that they won't be disturbed by the light." Said Kagome.

Inu-Yasha did as he was told and walked to the part of the beach that Kagome pointed to and set the fire up. Then he took off his outer coat (his feudal clothes were in a pack back at camp) and laid it on the sand for Kagome to sit on. Kagome sat down next to him and looked at Inu-Yasha anew in the light of the fire, how his clothes made him look sexier than usual and his button up shirt looked like it was a size too small because you could see all of his muscles and it looked like they were going to burst through.

Inu-Yasha looked back at Kagome, at her new look. He still wasn't used to the half-demon look on her, but it made her more attractive to him. Her eyes had changed to a deep violet that seemed to be an endless void. He then leaned over and they kissed. As they were kissing, Inu-Yasha gently pushed Kagome's hair out of the way and reached for her school uniform tie. He loosened it and slipped it off with out Kagome noticing and when he went to take her shirt off, Kagome pulled away.

"What are you doing?" asked Kagome.

"Well...I...uh..."

sigh "Look Inu-Yasha, even though I love you, I'm just not ready yet. Do you understand?"

"Yes...I'm sorry."

Kagome turned away from Inu-Yasha and looked at the fire. After a few minutes, Inu-Yasha said "Look, the sun's coming up."

Kagome turned and scooted over to Inu-Yasha and leaned into him and they watched the sunrise together. Today is the day that we go back to Japan and begin our search for Shippo thought Kagome its my fault that he is even in this situation, if I didn't go off on my own like that, then Sessho-Maru would of never been able to get me and now Shippo might be dead! Then Kagome buried her head in Inu-Yasha's chest and started crying. "We might never see Shippo again and its my fault!" she cried.

"Its not your fault, I was the one that handed Shippo over to him instead of my stupid sword... if its anyone's fault its mine sigh he'll be alright, Sessho-Maru needs some leverage over us so he can get the Tetsusaiga."

Kagome sat silent next to him and continued to watch the sunrise. Inu-Yasha was no longer interested in the sun but only looked at Kagome. It was getting harder and harder to resist his demon side that wanted just to take her now, and listen to his human side telling him to wait until she was ready.

Unknown to both of them, there was another side effect to the poison that Kagome took...

Back at the camp

Miroku was woken up by the sun and sat up. Looking around he saw that Inu-Yasha and Kagome were missing. He got up to get something to eat and saw them sitting together on the beach with their own little fire. I wonder how long they have been up? Kagome's been really depressed lately, hopefully we'll find Shippo so she'll snap out of it Miroku walked around some trees to do his business and when he was done, he got some fore fire wood and took it back to camp. Sango was up and starting the fire again and Miroku went back to help.

On the beach

"Looks like Miroku and Sango are up" said Inu-Yasha. "Maybe we should go back" If we are with Sango and Miroku, I might be able to control my self better

Inu-Yasha stood up and helped Kagome up. They put out the fire and walked back to camp.

"Hey, Inu-Yasha, could you go get some fish for breakfast?" said Miroku.

"Sure..." Inu-Yasha turned away and headed back to the water. Kagome watched him go and then walked over to Kirara and sat down and started petting her.

Miroku and Sango exchanged a look and Miroku said "Wait up Inu-Yasha, I'll help" and ran to catch up with him.

"What's wrong Kagome?" asked Sango.

"...its Shippo...something's wrong..." said Kagome.

"Maybe you just aren't used to your new body yet." Said Sango "Did you talk to Inu-Yasha about it?"

"A little...like flying and stuff, but that's it."

"Well maybe you should talk to him about it, and we need to find out what day you turn human again."

"How am I going to tell my family? What will they think? I'll never be able to go back to school again!" Kagome buried her head into Kirara's fur and began crying again.

she doesn't know that her family is dead! "Shhh... it'll be ok." Said Sango "You could visit your family on the nights you turn...human...again and they'll never know, you are with us so much of the time that they shouldn't suspect anything/"

Inu-Yasha and Miroku returned then with some big fish and Kagome stopped crying and acted like nothing was wrong. They cleaned the fish in silence and set them over to cook.

"We leave as soon as the fish's cooked," said Kagome "We can eat on the way." They finished cooking and set off, Kagome on Inu-Yasha's back and Miroku and Sango on Kirara. Kagome sat chewing her food slowly, not even caring what it tasted like while she thought ahead. Today we have to get to the well, and get by my family without anyone noticing...and then...back to feudal times... "THE SHIKON SHARDS!" Kagome shouted "WHERE ARE THEY?"