Chapter 19

It's been 5 months now and right now Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, and Kagome were in a hot bath at a village while Miroku was in a room waiting for the others to return from the bath.

"Kagome, I'm going to go in the other room now, I bet Miroku and Kirara are bored." Sango cheerfully said.
"Okay, I'm just going relax a little more here. Shippo, Inuyasha, do you want to go with her?" Kagome wondered.
"Sure, I'll go, can I have some chocolate Kagome?" Shippo asked.
"Sure it's in my backpack in the same room as Miroku, go ahead." Kagome replied.
"Yay, thanks Kagome!" Shippo walked out with Sango and then looked into Kagome's backpack and found the chocolate.

"Hmm? Inuyasha, how come you didn't go out with Sango and Shippo?" She asked.
"There's enough room to swim now." He grinned. "Thanks for teaching me." He said.
"You welcome Inuyasha, I suppose since you want to swim in here I'll go in the other room then." Kagome insisted.
"Aw, I don't want to be alone. Stay in here with me, please?" He pleaded as Kagome put on her skirt.
"Okay, I'll stay in here, but don't get me to wet okay?" She told him.
"Kay." Inuyasha said and then started swimming.

The tub was 3½ deep and could barely touch the bottom. He kept swimming around and around. But... 5 minutes later he stopped and started to glow. Kagome and Miroku sensed it too but they weren't sure what was going on. When Kagome looked at Inuyasha and saw him back to his older self. Kagome then shifted her head away covering her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked, not knowing he transform to his older self.
"Miroku, can you bring me my backpack in here please?" Kagome asked with her eyes still covered and did not move.

"Uh..." Miroku looked at Sango.
"Go ahead, she said for you to go so go." She said a little un-edged.
"Okay." He said as he grabbed Kagome's backpack and entered the room.

"Here Kagome. Ah! Inuyasha, what are you doing...?" Miroku asked.
"Miroku, give these to him, I'll be in the other room with Sango." She said without looking at either of the guys.

As Kagome told Sango that Inuyasha was back to his regular age Miroku did the same to Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked at himself and noticed that what Miroku said was true. Sango nodded and wasn't surprised. Kagome sighed and said she was going out for a walk. Shippo said that he would come with her but Kagome said no because she wanted some alone time for once. Sango and Shippo couldn't go against that; Kagome never actually had any alone time, if she ever did, it was because she had a fight with Inuyasha. After Kagome left 10 minutes later Inuyasha and Miroku came out.

"Hey Sango, hey Shippo, what's up?" Inuyasha said in a usually voice.
"Inuyasha! You are back to normal!" Shippo shouted and jumped onto Inuyasha's shoulder like old times. But just like old times time...
WHACK
"Ow! What was that for?!" Shippo shouted at him as Inuyasha laughed.
"I felt like it." He then snorted.

Inuyasha yawned and then looked around noticing that Kagome wasn't around. He wondered if she was mad or even sad about something.

"Where's Kagome?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"She went to go on a walk alone. She didn't say when she would return though." Sango replied.
"It seems she was shocked that her prayer was answered a while back." Miroku said to himself out loud by accident.
"Prayer?" Shippo sounded curious to know about.
"Nothing!" Miroku shouted and waved his hands around insanely.

Inuyasha growled at Miroku and head out of the room to look for Kagome.

'Inuyasha is back to normal now. I wonder if anything has changed between us now. I doubt he would want to talk to me for a while.' Kagome thought to herself.

Kagome was in a tree sitting on a branch that was is to get on. She didn't pay attention to her surroundings, but she knew someone was behind her. She knew it was Inuyasha no doubt. She didn't speak nor move at all, she just kept looking toward her left and stared at the opened fields.

Inuyasha watched her for about 5 minutes silently.

'I was transformed into a stupid 5 year old brat... and... Kagome, she... took care of me... like I was her own. She fed me, bathed me, and even protected me. But why? She didn't have to do any of it for me.' He thought to himself and blushed a little.

Inuyasha jumped into a branch of the same tree right above her branch and sat silently.

"Is there something you want to ask me Inuyasha?" Kagome said quietly.
"Why did you take such good care of me when I was under that stupid waters spell that made me a little brat? You know you didn't have to." He asked in an annoying cocky voice.
"I know, but I took care of you because I wanted to." She said in a soft voice but then sighed afterwards.
"You always want to help people I know, but why help me? We both know I get you angry and mad." He spoke with an arrogant voice.
"What, I can't help you because I care about you?" She looked up to him with soft eyes.
"Feh!" He snorted.

Kagome looked away from him and sighed. She knew she would argue with him if they kept talking like that. She hopped off the branch and decided to walk some more, it wasn't toward the hut that the others were in. In fact, she didn't really know where she was going. Inuyasha followed her though.

"Why are you following me Inuyasha?" She asked nicely.
"Because... it's not safe for you to be out here by yourself." He said quickly.
"As usual?" She said sarcastically as she began to hug her legs kind of and rested her head on her knees.
"Feh!" He snorted again.

Inuyasha didn't mean to be so rude like that. He remembered Shippo telling him that he was rude to Kagome a lot and sometimes hurt her feelings. Inuyasha knelt down near Kagome.

"Sorry." He said a little slowly.
"For what?" She looked straight towards her instead of looking at Inuyasha.
"For being... so rude..." He told her.
"Don't be sorry, it's just in your nature to be like that, but I can tell you're tired... Why didn't you go to sleep in the hut?" She asked.
"I don't know." He looked away. "Not use to it." He said in a low voice.
"Do you... wish... to sleep on me as you did younger?" She asked him.

Inuyasha didn't know how to answer. He wanted to say yes, but his pride said no. Inuyasha blushed a little bit and couldn't really answer. He just nodded slow and rested his head on Kagome's chest as she wrapped her arms around him. After Inuyasha was in a comfortable position he fell asleep. Kagome started to feel tired and fell asleep also.

2 hours went by and the two of them finally woke up and headed back to the hut where the others were. They were happy to see that they finally decided to come back.

"Inuyasha... do you think its okay to go to Kouga's den tomorrow? You know, to see Keya and the other wolves." She asked before walking in the hut.
"Fine, but if that bastard tries to sweet talk you I'll kill him." He said it with a bad attitude.
"Okay." She smiled and went inside and then slept for the night, so did the others.

Next morning Kagome and Inuyasha went to Kouga's den to check on the wolves, Kouga started to make Inuyasha jealous of him again.

"Hi Kagome, done babysitting a mutt now?" Kouga said annoyingly.
"Shut up you bastard!" Inuyasha shouted.

Kagome just sighed and continued to pet the wolves as they greeted her. Inuyasha knew she was being irritated by him and Kouga arguing so he stopped but Kouga continued to try to get him mad.

"Kouga, can you stop giving Inuyasha hard time? You're just trying to take advantage of him." She said to Kouga with even looking at him.
"Like to spoil my fun don't you Kagome?" Kouga replied.
"Sometimes" She smiled.

Kagome and Inuyasha stayed for an hour or 2 and left to return to the hut. But on the way back...

Was someone they didn't really expect.