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. I also do not own any of the songs I use in this fic -
Author's Note: The chappie is up Also I wanted to clear a few things up, as you may have seen, Inuyasha is acting a little weird, well he is supposed to be acting that way, he is realizing that he loves her, and he doesn't know how to deal with the new feelings that he is feeling, so he is staying quiet most of the time to try and figure out what the feelings are . Hope that cleared up some things...Now onto the chappie

If I don't do anything, I can stay near you

As he sat there that night, after everything had settled down and Kagome had finally went to sleep, he couldn't help but question why he had apologized.

"I wonder why I did that, I've never done it before. Most of the time I just try to get her to stop without telling her I'm sorry," this continued well into the night, seeing as he had told himself that sleeping would only cause more trouble.

As the sun rose that morning, Inuyasha opened his eyes, apparently having falling asleep. Bolting upright, his gaze quickly dropped to the sleeping beauty below him.

"Thank Kami," he said to himself, as she began to stretch.

"Morning," he whispered to her as he dropped silently to the ground.

"Morning," she yawned, thinking that he was being extremely nice.

"When's breakfast?" he asked not too long after, his stomach growling loud enough for her to hear.

"Hehe, soon I promise. If you want I have some granola bars in my bag."

That's how the morning went, no mention of the things that had happened the night before, with the only difference being Inuyasha being unusually sweet.

As they walked in the direction of their next destination, silence prevailed as the conversation starter was caught up in her own thoughts.

"When he told me sorry last night, I didn't know what to say. He's never been so sweet to me. It's making it harm on me. I know he loves Kikyo, but the way he's been acting makes me want to tell him, even though I know that it would only complicate our already shaky friendship..." she thought, letting out a sigh.

"She's depressed, I wonder what I did this time?" he thought to himself, "She's really getting to me, I used to not care that she was upset, now I can't help but feel as if I need to make her feel better, the need to protect her."

By the middle of the day, Inuyasha could tell that a storm was coming, and decided to stop and find a shelter to ride out the storm in.

"Kagome, get on my back. A huge storm is coming our direction, I need to find shelter to get you out of it."

As the sky began to become black, they jumped from treetop to treetop, in search of a village or camp. The rain began to lightly drizzle and nothing had been found. Giving up the search for a camp, he settled to find them a cave to stay in.

"It may not be the best place to spend the night, but at least we'll be dry."

As they landed on the ledge that lead to the cave he had spotted from the tree they had been in, she couldn't help but gasp.

"It's beautiful!" she exclaimed, as she looked around the cave. Its walls seemed to shimmer, as light danced around the cave.

"Keh," was his only response, for he had no clue how to respond, not wanting to sound too girly or soft.

After the effects of the beautiful cave had worn off, they realized one fact, the cave may be dry, but they were far from it. Ultimately leaving them in a very awkward situation, either stay wet and risk the chance of getting a cold which would delay them in their search for the jewel, or remove their clothing.

Realizing this fact first, Kagome immediately went to her bag to see if anything had managed to stay dry. To her luck, under her books, shoved into a plastic bag, undoubtedly put in there by her mother, was a blanket big enough for two people to fit under.

"I love my mom," she said aloud, confusing him.

"Keh, what now?" he questioned.

"Well in case you haven't noticed. We're wet and..." she said as a blush spread across her face, her annoyance turning into embarrassment, "Well...all the extra clothes I had are wet and we need to get dry so...." she stopped, being far too embarrassed to continue.

All he could do was stare at her, his mouth making a silent "O".

Breaking the silence, Kagome quickly added, "BUT I do have a blanket. We can share it."

Inuyasha's mind was racing, all the things he had thought about not to long ago while she was bathing rushing through a mile a minute.

"Uhh...ok," was all he managed to get out, trying to maintain self-control, as well other parts of himself.

As they made the fire, they both dreaded what they knew would be coming, being naked beside a person you could barely keep your hands off of when they were clothed.

The fire was now ablaze and the time had come, so turning around, back to back, they removed their clothes, in hopes that the other was not stealing a glimpse.

Closing their eyes, turning around, and sitting on the ground near the fire, they huddled together under the blanket, that had apparently shrunk while they were laying their wet clothes near the fire to dry.

Trying to keep from touching one another was another problem. Arms, legs, hands, just about any flesh that could touch had.

Touching flesh has set off a reaction in not only him, but her as well.

As she sat there, she couldn't help but think of all the things that they could be doing under the blanket other than what they were doing now, her thoughts mainly residing in the realm of Miroku's thinking.

Inuyasha had become distracted, as Kagome's scent wafted toward his nose, the scent becoming very intoxicating. It was all he could do to not make her his right then and there.

Trying to take their minds off of the things they were currently on, they began to talk about anything that popped into their heads.

"So do you think that Naraku has gotten any more shards?" Kagome said as she tried to scoot further away from him, but only moving about an inch or two.

"Uh...I don't know," he replied, "Ka, Kagome uh... do you think the clothes are dry yet?"

"I don't think so, but I have an idea. If we go to sleep, then when we wake up they should be dry. Sound like a plan?"

"Keh, If you think it'll make the time pass sooner," he said, truly thanking the gods that he could at least be able to escape the torture he was now in.

Laying her head on his shoulder, careful to not touch any part of him, trying to avoid the hentai thoughts for the moment.

She soon fell asleep, and he sat there, thinking that even though this was a little awkward, he wouldn't be able to find another person that he would rather be here with than her.

"I may not be sure of how I feel about you right now, but I'm glad that you're here with me," he said, as he laid his head on top of hers, deciding that it was better that he didn't try to do anything, allowing him to stay here with her just like this.

The clouds, the road, and the mind leave singing

Hours later she woke up, due to the rain that was splashing on her hand.

"I guess I picked the only spot in the whole cave with a leak," she thought, laughing to herself.

While she was asleep, Inuyasha's arms had managed to wrap themselves around her waist, so she sat there for quite a while trying to get loose to check and see if the clothes were dry. Once she was loose, she cautiously made sure he was still asleep before she took her section of the blanket off and walked across the cave, toward the fire. Kneeling down, she touched her underwear, which were dry. She touched her shirt which was also dry.

As she put them back on, she couldn't help but wish that they weren't dry yet.

"Oh well I guess it wasn't meant to be," she thought to herself.

Not wanting to wake him, she walked over to the entrance of the cave, and sat down just far enough away as to not get wet.

Listening to the rain seemed to calm her, to quell her worries.

"The rain's beautiful. It's like its singing song, just for me," she thought, as she began to sing a song she had never heard before, as if lead by the rain.

It was a song of sadness, one of worry, but also one of hope most of all, love. The words just flowed into her, as if the song was made for her, to allow her to express her emotions in song.

He awoke to someone singing, the person sounded like his mother in a way. All of her songs had been about love, but had always had a sort of sadness to them. An unspoken sadness had always been there, always, even in the happiest of songs. This song had the same quality to it, but instead of it hiding the sadness, it was the song. A song of unspoken love and heartache.

He couldn't help but be captivated by her song, nearly brought to tears by it. Listening the song, he feel asleep, feeling as if something in him had changed, even if he couldn't exactly tell you what it was.

Say you love me, say I'm dear

Getting dressed the next morning, he couldn't forget her song. It had touched him, in an unspeakable way, although he had not realized it yet.

Arriving in the next village, they searched all over the town, hoping to find a substantial rumor to follow, finding none they decided to move onto the next village. Gathering supplies, but as they did this Inuyasha was very quiet. The new feelings he was experiencing were confusing him further than he had been in the last few weeks, and he was trying to sort them all out. While doing this, he tried to avoid Kagome as much as possible, seeing as when he saw her, his heart raced and he felt a little funny, which confused him even more.

"What the hell is wrong with me, I don't get sick!! I feel like this whenever I'm around Kagome...hell I don't know!!" he growled, scaring a few people in the market that he was in.

After everything was gathered, they set off, ready for nearly anything.

"Inuyasha, you ok?" she asked, once again becoming concerned because of his quietness.

Turning toward her, he had expected to tell her the usual Keh, but as he looked at her, his face softened and for the first time in quite a while, he gave her a straight answer.

"I'm just thinking about something, it's just a few things I've realized recently."

"Oh, ok. Do you want to talk about it?" she said, confused at his openness.

"No, you can't help," he barked at her, adding in his mind, "You'll probably just make it worse."

Later that day as he was setting up camp, and she was starting dinner, he couldn't help but sneak a glance in her direction. He had been doing that the whole day for no reason, he had sensed no danger so he knew she was fine, but for some reason he caught himself on numerous occasions doing so.

Once the camp was set, he sat down to join Kagome, who was just putting the water in the cups of Ramen.

As she handed him the cup, her hand brushed his, which caused him to nearly drop it. Catching the cup before it scalded both of them, he looked to see if any had spilled on her, completely missing the almost half of cup that had spilled on his own arm.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed, sure he had hurt himself pretty badly. Nearly running over to her bag she quickly grabbed a bottle of water and poured it on his arm.

"What are you doing?" he growled.

"If you haven't noticed, you just spilled half of your ramen on your arm! I'm trying to make sure you're ok," she said now applying ointment to his arm.

"Oh, ok," he said, a blush rising on his face.

As she finished wrapping his arm in a bandage, looked up, asking "Are you sure you're..." her words leaving her as she looked into his eyes.

She had never seen that look in his eyes before, a look of longing. Unable to look away, her heart started to race and a blush appeared on her face.

With her being so close to him, his heart was pounding as well. But when she looked into his eyes, he nearly kissed her on the spot. He could almost completely hide the fact that he wanted to kiss her, but his eyes gave his soul away, they would betry him in a moments notice. His eyes showed how much he wanted to take her into his arms, how much he wanted her, and even though he didn't realize it yet, how much he loved her.

Mentally screaming at her, he said, "Please I need to hear that you love me. Tell me you love me."

As if to hear his silent plee, she started, "I, Inuyasha, I, I, I..." the sentence left unfinished, as his face began to come closer to hers.

All logical reason had left him, even though he didn't know exactly how he felt about her yet, he knew that this felt right. But at the last moment, he turned away, leaving both of them disappointed.

In the split second before he turned his head, he had thought, "I can't do this...It's not right now matter what I think."

Little by little I gently grow used to you

After the incident earlier that day, he decided to keep his distance. Like he knew would happen, Kagome was depressed. He didn't know what to tell her. He would tell her he was sorry, but he didn't think it would be the right thing to say. The only thing that would make her feel better was if he were to tell her that he loved her, and he just didn't know the answer to if he did or not.

The sun was setting and they still hadn't talked to each other, feeling to akward to even attempt to talk.

Soon it was night, and it was time for bed. But the issue had still not been solved. Getting up for where she was, Kagome walked over to him, determined to at least talk to him.

"Inuyasha?" she said trying to get his attention.

"Keh, what?"

"Uhh, about earlier...forget about it ok? I'll forget about it too, 'kay?" she said smiling at him.

"Feh, okay," he said, not really knowing what else to say.

"Well...I...I wanted to ask you something. Well I have a test coming up and I need to go home for at least a little while, I can be back after the test in a few days. Is that okay?"

"Since we haven't found anything...fine you can go, but be back in a week."

It was long since he had told her that she could go, but he began to have second thoughts.

"I can't believe that I'm gonna let her go," he thought to himself.

Doubting that he could stay here alone for a week, he considered getting her after a few days, but decided that would be bad, and he would probably get sat like before.

"I don't think I could be here...without her...for a whole week," he said, not really to anyone.

The next morning, he woke up extra early, to be able to at least walk with her to the well, if nothing else.

When she awoke, she gathered all of her things, trying not to wake him. After all the pots and pans, blankets, and clothes were put into her bag, she turned around to head off in the direction of the well, but was stunned to see Inuyasha leaned against a tree.

"So you were gonna leave without saying bye?" he asked her accusingly.

"Uh...I didn't want to wake you," she said trying to defend herself.

"Well you didn't, I've been up waiting for you. I'm gonna walk you to the well."

"Okay, you promise I can still go, you're not gonna pull me back and tell me I can't go?"

"Keh, no,"

When they were almost to the well, Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hand, turning her around.

"Kagome, don't go...I...I....well we need to find the shards," he studdered.

"But I have to, I have a test, please, I promise I'll be back..." he pleading becoming anger, "I'll say "it". "

"Ok then, if you're going... I'm going too," he said as he picked her up, ran to the well, and jumped in.

"I may not like her time that much, but at least I won't have to be without her for a week."

AN: There it is, Chap 6 part B. I hope you liked it, I've been going through a lot...my dad had his toe amputated, so we've been back and forth to the hospital, making sure that all the infection in his toe is gone. Plus school started and I have AP classes which give a lot of HW, so I'll try to update as soon as possible, but I'm not going to promise when it will be. Thanks so much for reading. Please R&R. Hope you liked it !