Hi everybody! This is my first Inuyasha fic, and also my first piece of writing in english beams proudly, so please bear with my and my crapy english.

the idea for this short one-shot came suddenly, and from nowhere, but when I thought about it, I just knew I had to write it. this wrote itself pretty fast, actually; considering that I had been writing another IY fic - wich is still un-finished - but I've been busy writing original stories.

Anyway, please just tell me what you think of it - nice, ok, horrible, atonishly good (yeah, right) etc. - I'll really apreciate your opinions!!

read and enjoy!

when it is over: engagement?

By: Cyan Moon

"Ah, I would kill for a bath right now!" Kagome groaned.

"why, Kagome-sama, I humbly volunteer to wash your back; and if you like you could-"

crash

Miroku was stopped dead on his tracks when a giant boomerang hit him in the head. hard.

"Damn hentai" Sango muttered as she stepped over his fallen form. Kagome just shaked her head. he would never learn, would he?

"ouch..." Miroku said faintly, still in the ground.

it had been a hard day. they had found a shard... and the big hog-demon that had it incrusted on its stomach. it hadn't been that hard to defeat it, but as they had been hunting it, it had led them right into a big puddle of mud, a very big puddle of mud.

Kagome could still feel the mud all over her, and being the clean freak that she was, she really, really felt that she needed a bath.

"I think there's a spring nearby" said sango, looking as needy for a bath as she was.

"that would be nice, but what I really want is a nice, long, hot shower. piping is probably the thing I miss the most about my time." she said with a sigh "and cars. but I cant even drive, so it doesn't really matter." she added with a sad look to her bicycle, wich had apparently looked positively yummy to the youkai; for it had practically eaten one of the wheels, perhaps thinking it was some sort of small animal. so now Kagome had to drag it along. something she was starting to grow tired of.

"Uh, whatever" Sango said, uncertain of what Kagome was talking about.

"That reminds me," said Shippo, perching up on Kagome's shoulder "when we finally defeat Naraku, and finish getting all of the shards, what will happen then?" he looked confused.

"What do you mean Shippo?" she asked back, even more confused than he was. she didn't notice than Inuyasha, who had been in front of them as usual, looked quite interested with Shippo's question, and he had slowed down in order to hear her answer, his keen - cough adorable - ears twitching in her direction.

"Well, you miss your time and all that, right?" she nodded. "so when our quest is over, will you go away and I'll never see you again?" he finished with teary eyes.

oh, Shippo she thought, touched at the fact that he didn't want her to leave. she had thought of that, actually. she glanced to her dog-eared companion. he wont want me to stay. he's to busy trying to run after a walking pot to actually notice me. that thought pretty much ruined even more her mood. she still tried to look cheerful for Shippo, though "of course not Shippo-chan!"

a hopeful glint appeared in his eyes "so you wont leave?!" he asked excitedly.

"well, I guess I'll go back to my time, but I'll visit you all the time and bring you lots and lots of chocolate!, what do you think of that?"

apparently he liked it a lot, since he just yelled "YAY! Chocolate!!" and started jumping around them, happy as you can get.

"well, is good to know you wont forget about us, Kagome-chan" said Sango as she watched Shippo trip with a rock, and a second later getting up and resume his running as if nothing had happened, still screaming "chocolate!" at the top of his lungs (wich happen to make Inuyasha to get his ears flatten to his head, and wich also gave him a bad head-ache. note to self: hit Shippo as hard as I can when Kagomeisn't looking).

"are you kidding?, you guys are my second family, I could never forget you!" Kagome chirped happily.

"that is certainly good news Kagome-sama" said Miroku seriously.

"up already, houshi-sama?" Sango asked menacingly.

"honestly, Sango dear, I was only making a suggestion."

"yeah, right."

Inuyasha, on the other hand, wasn't all together pleased with her answer. going away? what the hell is she thinking? did she really not understand that she belonged with him? he knew she was dense, but it wasn't that hard to figure out... was it? he frowned. after all, didn't he protected her? what else did she need to figure it out? bring her a fucking deer of something? but he already did that all the time... besides that she probably would yell at him for giving her something bloody. keh, picky bitch. he thought affectionately. although, he wouldn't mind fighting, she looked cute when she was angry.

and she still looked oblivious, talking and laughing oh so naturally. well, no way he was letting her think she could just go and leave him. keh, like I'd let her, over my dead body she's staying with that weakling of hobo.

apparently he would have to enlighten her about her future.

"OI wench!" he said as he turned around to face the others, Shippo colliding into his leg as he stopped. "what's this shit about staying in your time, you're not leaving here!!"

"what the heck do you mean Inuyasha?!"

"exactly what you heard wench, you. are. not. leaving!" he said, getting closer to her meanwhile, just tossing Shippo aside.

"YES I AM!!" she practically scream, anger flaring up within her. who the hell did he think he was to tell her what to do!?.

"NO YOU'RE NOT!!"

"AND WHY EXACTLY IS THAT?!" even as furious as she was, she couldn't help but ask. why did she want her here so much? for his own sake, she hoped he didn't say something akin to a shard-detector. she wouldn't be held responsible if he said that, and therefore earning himself a cozy Inuyasha-shaped hole in the ground.

"'cause you're staying here with me as my mate!!" he immediately felt relieved for finally speaking his mind, he had seriously thought he was gonna burst with so much inside him. "and there's no argument for that, got it?"

he didn't found none, though; seeing as everyone was too busy staring at him in disbelief with their mouths hanging open and eyes open wide.

"what?" he asked lamely, before shaking his head, as he kept on walking. to his favor, he didn't blush one bit.

Kagome was the one who recovered speech first. and she did blush.

"did he just said what I think he said?" she asked, still shaken.

"I think so." answered Sango.

"and, did he just... proposed?"

"I-I think so."

both girls looked at each other for a minute, still looking amazed; before they screamed, grinning, and started dancing and jumping happily, giggling all the way.

"I'M ENGAGED!, I'M ENGAGED!!"

"YOU'RE ENGAGED!!" they hugged themselves excitedly, ignoring the noises of pain from Inuyasha, whose ears had almost exploded from their scream.

Miroku, meanwhile, just thought that if it had worked on Kagome, maybe it'd work on Sango. a grin worked its way to his face when he started fantasizing about Sango's and his honeymoon... he went back to earth when he remember a tradition Kagome had told them about.

"well Kagome-sama, congratulations! may I be the first one to kiss the lucky bride?" he said as he hold her hands in his.

"WHAT!!, FUCKING MONK, YOU'RE DEAD!!!" Miroku ran for his life when the pissed off hanyou started to chase him.

"That's right, I'll be a bride, all dress in white" said Kagome dreamily, ignoring the monk being chased by his new fiancé.

"white? since when you dress in white for your wedding?" asked Sango confused.

"western custom" she said with a dismissing wave of her hand. "and Inuyasha will wear a tuxedo..." she immediately melt into a puddle of goo at this thought.

"does that mean I'll be getting brothers and sisters?" asked Shippo innocently.

Kagome blushed, Miroku grinned (thinking about the making of said brothers and sisters, no doubt),and Sango and Kirara just stared at him. weirdly enough, Inuyasha still didn't blush.

"you can bet on it Shippo, al least a dozen pups to play with" he said proudly.

Kagome blushed ten times harder.

Shippo just squealed in joy and kept on running around happily.

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a while later Inuyasha noticed that Kagome was in the back of the group, apparently pondering on something. he jumped, and landed beside her, startling her.

"Inuyasha!, you scared me out of my wits!"

"uh, sorry" he said absentmindly "hey, you don't like the idea of being my mate? 'cause I-" she cut him off by kissing him in the cheek, looking him in his shocked eyes.

"of course I am, Inuyasha"

"keh, you better, 'cause you don't really have a choice in the matter." he said crossing his arms and looking smug, although he was melting in the incide. Does she has to be so damn cute?

"of course Inuyasha" she said, knowing better than to get angry at that. she went back to her thinking, although she spoke out loud. "I was just thinking, I'll have to get a new tub to fit us both..." she mused to herself, her hand on her chin. walking right pass Inuyasha.

this time, however, he did blush.