Title: The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud

Chapter Twenty: Realizations

I feel my wings have broken in your hands

I feel the words unspoken inside

And they pull you under

And I would give you anything you want

You were all I wanted

And all my dreams are falling down

Crawling around

"Tell me something, my friend, what exactly has been happening between you and our Kagome?" Miroku spoke up as he turned to look at his hanyou companion.

Sango was sitting under a tree with Kirara, polishing Hirakotsu. Kagome and Shippo were off in the open land chasing after one another, laughing incessantly.

Inu-yasha couldn't suppress the urge to smile at their playful twosome's antics. Try as he may the hanyou had chuckle when the pair fell onto the ground tickling and wrestling each other into submission.

Somebody save me

Let your warm hands break right through me

Somebody save me

I don't care how you do it

Just stay, stay come on

I've been waiting for you

"Inu-yasha?"

"Keh, ain't a damned thing going on between me and Kagome."

"Are you quite sure, Inu-yasha?"

"Feh, I think I'd know. Everything's fine between the wench and me, we ain't fighting are we, lecher?"

"That was what surprised me in the first place." He smiled deviously.

I see the world has folded in your heart

I feel the waves crash down inside

And they pull me under

And I would give you anything you want

You were all I wanted

And all my dreams have fallen down

Crawling around

Inu-yasha stood facing the cheerful miko and kitsune and went slightly towards them before turning back to the dark-haired monk, "Don't you worry about Kagome."

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"Inu-yasha do you think that Sango and Miroku suspect something?" Kagome spoke up from her place in the high tree next to the hanyou. He was staring off into the majestic land looking for some form tangible form of understanding as to how they would be able to find the jewel shards.

"They've been suspecting things for a long time now, wench, or haven't you noticed?" Inu-yasha drew the miko closer to him as though there would never be a point where they were close enough.

Somebody save me

Let your warm hands break right through me

Somebody save me

I don't care how you do it

Just stay, stay come on

I've been waiting for you

"I guess so, are you tired?"

"Keh, wench, hanyous never get tired." He nuzzled into the crook of her neck, where it met her shoulder and her pulse point danced frantically under his attention.

"I'll take your word for it."

Things were growing calm and the lovely sensation of being with him hadn't left her in the slightest.

"How is it that you let us camp this early?" she whispered delicately.

"Keh, you kept on complaining that you needed to study, crazy bitch. You won, Kagome."

"I've always found it interesting, how a pathetic hanyou, his bitch, a youkai exterminator, monk, and kitsune were able to beat me, even with the help of the abomination's brother.

"What are you talking about?"

"You won."

Kagome snapped out of her daze, those words spoken by Katsuro at that very moment he said them were surprising, yet wholly unimportant at the time. The miko had been more worried about getting out of that wretched place with her life.

All my dreams are on the ground

Crawling around

"What's got you so tense?"

"I won."

"Yeah, I said that already, Kagome."

She shook her head furiously, "That's not what I meant. Before when Katsuro had me-" she stopped sensing the hanyou's upset, but she had to finish, "He said that we won."

"What are you talking about, woman?"

"He told me that he was wondering how we could defeat Naraku."

"Keh, that what we've all been wondering."

"No, he said we won. Katsuro is from my time so something had to have happened for him to say that. We had to have won. Katsuro said that…that he was going to perform a spell so that no woman would ever be born who had the power to stop him."

"He was going to kill your soul."

"It's the only thing that makes sense, all we have to do is figure out how we're going to kill him."

Inu-yasha leaned against the tree with a groan, "As if we haven't been thinking about that this whole time, crazy wench."

Kagome hit his shoulder, not meaning to hurt him or even try to, "Now we know that we have a shot though."

"There is that."

They settled into a peaceful rest before, "Are you implying that you doubted that I would win before?"

A smile, "I never doubted that you would win, Inu-yasha."

The hanyou blushed and grunted. "Keh!"

Somebody save me

Let your warm hands break right through me

Somebody save me

I don't care how you do it

Just stay with me

I made this whole world shine for you

Just stay, stay come on

I've been waiting for you

A/N:

Hey, I hope that you all are having a merry day.

The song in italics is "Save Me" by Remy Zero, I think it is just so good and it is wonderful in the anime music video at

Quote of the moment: "And in the end it's not it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." From the memorable Abraham Lincoln.

Much luv, Enchanted