Luna: Wow, almost to 30 chapters

Veron: Longest fic you've ever done isn't it?

Luna: Yup

Jareth: Someone made a teddy bear wear an outfit like mine and sold it on E-bay?

Luna: Cool isn't it?

Jareth: More like obsessive

Veron: Too true too true…

Disclaimer: Nope. Nothing. Just plot

Chapter 27: Noodle's of Truth

Kagome was perched on the windowsill in the late afternoon; her eyes watching her neighbors walk hand and hand down the beach shoreline. The taller one was quite striking to say the least, long ebony tresses an angular face and sharp red eyes that would only warm when looking at the man beside him.

The other man was quite…bubbly to say the least. He had a messy mop of blonde hair and bright aquamarine eyes that glowed with sheer happiness no matter what happened.

It was taking all her female restraint not to say 'Aww…' when the two embraced and the colder one melted under the brighter one's smile.

Stretching, she closed her eyes and smiled as a familiar song played through the radio in the kitchen. Her eyes locked onto the ocean, watching it glitter and shine underneath the sun's warm rays as she sang along with the woman's soft voice.

Come…my…way…come…close…to me… I'll be with you…I be with you…so come…. my…way…
" Never thought that'd Sango would be able to snag another Namie Amuro fan."

Snapping out of her trance, Kagome turned and stared at Inuyasha. He had a slight smile to his face as he cracked his neck and stretched, the sunlight filtering through the window and making his eyes glow.

I get I get I get, get the feeling… I get I get I get, get the dreaming…

Come my way…come…close…to me…

Her face flushed suddenly and she looked away, her heart beating wildly in her chest. Stupid soul thing…why did she have to have such an attraction to a boy's eyes?

I'll be with you...I'll be with you…So come…my…way…

Come here can you hear me…? So come…my…way…I get I get I get, get that feeling…I get I get I get, get the dreaming…

Come….my…way!! Come…close...to me! I'll be with you I'll be with you…so come…my…way…

" Oi! Kagome, are you okay?" She blinked her stormy orbs wide with surprise at the worried face so close to her own.

Don't blush…don't blush…not single…don't blush…don't blush…don't blu- DAMMIT!

Inuyasha cocked his head at her as she flushed a deep red and averted her eyes. Smiling uncertainly, she stood and turned, desperate for some space between them. Damn tension!

" Let's go out."

After much deliberation on outfits, they managed to look as inconspicuous as possible. Both had dark sunglasses and their hair was stuffed underneath large baseball caps.

" Where to?"

" Somewhere quiet."

Nodding, Inuyasha motioned toward a small noodle shop down the road, with half-broken neon signs and a faded OPEN sign hanging from behind the glass door.

" This place is good."

Settling in the darkened corner of the nearly empty shop, Inuyasha gave her stern look, making her shrink back into the over stuffed vinyl seats.

" Why did you come after me?"

Why? Because for some reason, after everything that has happened, I can't imagine not having you near me somehow. Because if I lose one more person close to me I just might lose my mind. Because you make me secure and know that I'm safe. Because you were the first person I saw when I woke up. Because you love me and even if I can't return it because I'm too stubborn it helps me sleep at night to know I'm not just some burden. Because I feel close to you, even after pushing you away and making you feel like absolute crap. Because I think too much, I think about you too much. I feel guilty about everything I've put you through when I shouldn't. And-

" Because you're my friend. I already told you why." Kagome sniffed, glad to keep her inner ranting to herself.

Inuyasha raised a brow as he took a sip from his ice-cold glass of water.

" Then why were you running to the ocean?"

Because…no matter what you say or how you much reassure me…I should have died. And I can't help but think that maybe if I do, it'll make it all better. But since evidently the fates won't let me and neither will you…

" I hadn't seen the ocean for over fifty years. Why wouldn't I be excited?"

The hanyou rolled his eyes as the waiter quietly set their meals before them.

" Yeah, since I'm your friend taking a quick dip in the ocean is more important then finding me."

" I didn't mean it like that!"

" Tell me the truth. You're lying; I can smell it all over you. What the hell were you really planning after you gave up on finding me?"

Kagome winced as he downed his noodles in one shot, more intent on hearing her answer then the taste of his dinner.

It's probably a good thing you eat so fast…

" I was trying to see, if the ocean would do it…if I was supposed to die after all. Because if you can't get a straight answer from yourself or anyone else, the ocean always seems to have the answer."

Inuyasha's eyes went wide, making his eyebrows rise above the rim of his pitch-black sunglasses.

" You stupid…Didn't I tell you that-"

" I know. But it wasn't enough. I had to know. But evidently, since you saved me and the ocean didn't kill me. It seems to me that my efforts are futile and I'm not supposed to die."

At least not yet…

" You idiot! You trust the stupid ocean more then your friends?" He snorted before standing up abruptly, beckoning her with a rough motion of his hand to follow. " Nice to know you prize our loyalty so highly."

" But I-"

" This isn't your era anymore. You can't just DEPEND on nature or your spiritual prowess or the dead to help you. It's better to depend on the living flesh and blood because you know that it's not unpredictable and if the fates should see to it, it'll be there the next day. Not this whole Zen crap."

Kagome looked down at the ground as she followed him back to the cabana, never taking her eyes off it every step of the way.

But I don't take it lightly. I just don't want to give up. I never do. It's the way I am. And I may love Inuyasha-kun. But, I love you too. Just not like the way you want. But maybe…if the fate's decide.

I could love you too.

But that is impossible.

So I'm sorry, but you're my dear friend. And nothing more.

And that's all it can ever be.

Luna: Finish!

Veron: God, one chapter of fun and you lay on the angst again.

Luna: Well it IS romance/angst

Veron: True.

Jareth: looks at audience with a sign -Save me-

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