Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or and other of the characters from Inuyasha the anime/manga series. Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha and I wish her all the best with the rest of the series.

Author's Note: This is turning into more of a story in the format of a song fic...Well the song this time is called Suki to Itte. It's a song from the anime series Sailor Moon, and once again i don't own the song ,the series, or the artist who sings it. Also this is chapter 16 part A. I'm having a bit of writer's block...which conveniently started in the middle of chapter 16, so I figured I'd split it up so all the ppl waiting for the next chapter wouldn't hunt me down and hurt me for such a long wait. And as always R&R .

What head is confused

Trying hard not to give away that he was awake, he lay limply against the tree, trying to keep his breaths at an even pace.

"I know she's gonna catch me,"he cringed at the thought of being sat. Not that he didn't like the taste of dirt, which conveniently was 10 feet below him, but he preferred to avoid it for as long as possible.

Focusing on Kagome again, he began to hear her mumble to herself. Only picking up a few words, he listened harder.

"I love Inuyasha,"he heard it breathlessly escape her mouth, barely above a whisper.

"WHAT?!?" he mentally screamed to himself as he replayed what he had just heard come from Kagome over and over again.

Hearing her continue, he listened, expecting her to start laughing, and say it was just a joke to see if he were awake and listening to her.

"Inuyasha really would always be there for me like in my dream...he may not be as open as he was in my dream but I'm sure he would never leave me...I'll never have to worry about that...Because you're my security," she said turning in his direction, wishing he could hear her.

This had his mind reeling. "She's not joking. There's no way she really loves me, but she wouldn't have said it otherwise. Kagome...she loves me," he thought as he heard her lie back down.

Opening his eyes, he looked towards her. Noticing her eyes were closed, he jumped off the tree and neared where she was sleeping. "Kagome," he said to see if she was awake. When she didn't respond he continued,"Kagome...I love Kikyo, but I know that I also want you in my life...now I'm confused...why do you have to love me?"

When it remembers your smile?

"Inuyasha..." she said as she was awoken by him talking to someone. Turning over she found him beside her.

Startled by her waking up, he jumped a little.

"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" she said with worry in her voice.

"Keh, nothing. Just seeing when you were going to get up? With Sango, the monk, and the kit off looking for that shard in the northern lands, we won't have to wait as long for everyone. When you get up we can go," he said trying to cover up why he was there, but sounding harsher than he had meant.

"Oh, ok. Well I was just waiting for you to get up," she said sitting up and smiling at him.

Staring at her for a moment, he saw another element to her smile that he had never seen before, hope, hope that he would love her back, a hope she didn't know he knew about.

"Kagome, you don't want to love me. I don't deserve your smile," he thought before he was snapped back to reality by Kagome saying something to him.

"Inuyasha, are you just gonna stare off into space all day or are we gonna go. I mean you were the one who wanted to go so badly," she said as she bent over to pick up her bag, by that time having gathered her stuff together.

Walking over to her, he took the bag from her and slung it on his shoulder, "Get on my back it'll be faster."

Bending down so she could get on, he remembered the smile she had just given him, the same one she had given him when she had woken up.

I saw you in my dreams, but you're not my type

The day being uneventful, Kagome had asked Inuyasha to let them stop early, and he had simply given in without any complaint. As a matter of fact Inuyasha had been acting weird all day. He had carried her bag the whole day, hadn't asked for any food, even though he knew that there was mounds of ramen in her backpack, and had even let her win a argument almost immediately.

As she unpacked her sleeping bag, she asked,"Inuyasha, what's wrong? You've been acting weird today."

"Keh, wench are you done unpacking yet, I'm hungry,"he rudely snapped back.

"That's the Inuyasha I know, but still I wonder what was bothering him?" she thought as she began to cook the ramen.

After they ate they sat in silence, each absorbed in their own thoughts.

Inuyasha had become even more confused as the day had went on. He had began to look at Kagome in a a different way, a more than friendly way, and this was confusing him.

"If I love Kikyo then why would I be thinking this way? It makes me think that I...no that can't be...I don't love Kagome," he argued with himself, while Kagome looked on even more worried than she had been earlier.

"What could be bothering him. He tries to cover it up, but he's been acting really weird today. He even let me win that argument about which way we should turn. I thought I was gonna have to sit him to get him to let us go my way ,but he gave up and went my way so quickly....That's not like him,"she mused as a sleepy feeling began to take over her.

Standing up, she walked over to him and sat next to him, snapping him out of his other world. She was determined to find out what was wrong with him before she even slept a wink.

"Inuyasha?" she said, tapping him on the shoulder.

"What?" he growled at her, while in his mind he was kicking himself for sounding so harsh.

"I just wanted to talk. You know you can tell me anything, right? If something's bothering you, we can talk about it."

"Keh, I told you nothing's wrong," he said trying to sound earnest.

She didn't believe him, but decided to let the issue alone for the night.

"Okay Inuyasha, but if you feel the need to talk to me, I'll be right here. I'm gonna go try to get some sleep. You should too, we had to leave early if we hope to reach that village tomorrow," she said getting up and walking over to the sleeping bag.

It had been a long time since she had laid down to go to sleep, but something wouldn't allow her to go to sleep. That something was Inuyasha. She still worried that there was something that he wasn't letting on about. Deciding sleep was not an option, she sat up to see if Inuyasha was still up.

Glancing toward the fire, where he had been before, she found his spot to be empty. She continued to look around until she found the sleeping hanyou, high in a tree, near where her sleeping bag was.

"I guess he figured he would need his rest for tomorrow, although he's never really cared about sleep before. Ok Kagome you need to get a grip...stop worrying about him for five seconds and worry about how you're gonna get to sleep," she told herself.

After a while of sitting there trying to fall to sleep, she gave up and figured she could take a bath in the hopes of making herself tired again and giving herself time to think of ways to get Inuyasha to open up to her, if that was possible.

Looking toward the tree, she considered waking him up to tell him where she would be going, but thought better of it, "One if he knows I'm taking a bath, he may try and take a peek, and Two he may try and rush me and tell me I'm keeping him up...so I better not."

So she gathered her things and headed off in the direction of the hot spring, in search of a sleep bringing and worry relieving bath.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha had been absorbed in a dream, about who other than the Miko who had just left for a bath.

Dream

"Kagome, where are you taking me?" he said as they walked down a street in Kagome's time.

"You'll see,"she said as she flashed him a sweet innocent smile.

After a while they arrived at a place called a Movie rental store. Walking inside,he saw the walls lined with the things Kagome had shone him once before called Dvds. After she had picked a few, they set back towards her house.

As they were walking he took her hand in his. When he did this she looked at him and smiled, the smile that was reserved for him, and him only.

Sitting on the couch, hand in hand, they watched the movie Kagome had picked out, but soon the movie was forgotten, as the couple looked into each others eyes, faces getting closer and closer together.

Breaking away from the kiss, Kagome said, "Inuyasha, I love you."

Looking at the women he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, he said with all the love he felt for her, "Kagome, I love you too."

Opening his eyes from his dream, he didn't know what to think, the dream had just confused him more. He knew he had to figure out his feelings for Kagome but having dreams like that only proved to complicate matters further, but when he happened to glance down to where Kagome was sleeping, he knew what he was feeling, fear.

Jumping out of the tree, he landed on her sleeping bag.

"The one night I decide to sleep this happens. I'll never sleep again," he promised himself, as he sniffed to see if there were any sign of a struggle, there wasn't, but there was a scent that he had often smelled, the scent of vanilla ,the scent of Kagome's shampoo.

"She's taking a bath!! She could've at least told me!" he yelled to an imaginary person.
Continuing to smell Kagome's intoxicating scent, he followed it to a nearby hot spring. There he found Kagome, with her eyes closed, leaning against a rock, apparently thinking about something.

"Probably me," he thought as he silently leapt into a nearby tree to keep watch over her, "Kagome...I dreamt about her...but I don't love her. I care for her as a friend and that is all," but while he was thinking this he began to have more than friendly thoughts as he glanced down at the marvelous sight he saw below him.

"She's beautiful. How I wish I could hold her, smell her scent...wha...what am I saying, I'm start to sound like the monk. She's not for me to look at," he thought, turning the other direction, not allowing himself to see the forbidden beauty that stand below him in the crystalline pool.

Your magic eye speeds up my heartbeat

Heading back to the campsite, as she began to finish her bath, he said to himself, "I'm glad that I didn't get caught. Here we go again, I have to pretend to be asleep, but if I didn't she would probably know that i looked at her...and I would get sat till next week," failing to realize that Kagome had come up next to him as he finished his sentence.

"Why would you get sat till next week, Inuyasha?" she asked already knowing the answer.

"K,K,Kagome! Uh..uh..no,nothing," failing miserably to cover up what he had done.

"Did you like what you saw, Inuyasha?" trying to trick him into telling her what he'd done so she really could sit him till next week.

"Yes," he said still trying to think of a way to get out of this.

"Huh!!I didn't expect that," she was thrown for a loop with his answer, but was determined to make him pay for seeing her naked, "Ok, play time is over, Inuyasha! SIT,SIT,SIT!!"

Falling face first into the dirt, the incantation kept him there for quite a while, but when he was able to move he didn't, fearing that Kagome would say "it" again.

"Inuyasha? Are you ok? I'm sorry, I over reacted," she said trying to get an answer out of him.

"Damn right you did! I was just trying to see where you were and happened to see you! I'm not perverted like the monk! Like I would want to see you with no clothes on..." he was going to continue his rantings about how wrong she was until he noticed the faint scent of tears, her tears, "Kagome, don't cry. Please, I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell at you, please just don't cry," he said as he stepped up to her and embraced her to calm her tears.

"Inuyasha, did you say you were sorry?" she looked up, hoping that she had heard correct.

"Yea, so what?" turning his face away so she couldn't see the slight blush that had begun to form.

Turning him to face her again, she smiled up at him, making his heart race. Her eyes were the window to her soul and right now she was truly grateful for those simple words that he had just said to her.

AN: That's the end of part A, hope you liked it . R&R Not sure when the next part of the chapter will be up so keep checking back.