(If you like Kikyo I suggest that you don't read this chapter!)

Chapter 8

Inu-Yasha set the sleeping Kagome into her car. He was just about to hop in after her but remembered that she had her stuff here. Not to mention he didn't have the keys. He ran inside.

"Sango?"

What he saw gave him bad thoughts. Sango and Miroku were sitting on the couch in each others arms and they were wearing housecoats with nothing on underneath.

"Oh, Hi Inu-Yasha."

"I came to get Kagome's things. And do you know where her car keys are?"

"Yeah, there in her bag."

He grabbed her stuff and walked back to her car. he unzipped the bag and began to rifle through it. He found her keys and was just about to close the bag when something caught his attention. It was a picture she drew of him. It was really good but he couldn't remember posing for it. She did it with her mind. He wondered how. Then he read what it said in the corner, 'can't get you off my mind.' It made him grin from ear to ear.

Then she groaned. Afraid she would wake up, he stuffed the picture back in and started the car.

When he arrived in front of his house he realized that he didn't have Kagome's house key, just a car key and by the looks of it, no one was home at her house. He didn't mind, it just meant he would get to spend more time with her.

Careful not to wake her up, he picked her up and carried her into the house bridal style. he had to smile when she buried her face into his chest.

Inu-Yasha listened for noises; it seemed that Sess had gone to Rin's for the night. Thank God! They were really loud last night.

He decided that putting her into his bedroom was best. Slowly he slid her onto his bed and pulled the covers over her. he stood straight up and couldn't resist the urge to just look at her. She was so peaceful and beautiful, like an angel. And all he could think was, 'I can't believe she's mine.' he never wanted to let her get away from him. He wanted to spend his life with her. But then something struck him, 'That's what you said about Kikyo also.' He was angry with himself for thinking that. Kagome was different, she would never hurt him. But what would she think of him keeping that secret from her? Would she be angry? Would she be scared of him? He didn't know and he wasn't sure if he wanted to find out. Kikyo didn't take well to it. She had wanted him to find a way to turn human for her. She couldn't be with a youkai. 'Bitch.'

But that was in the past, it was time to forget the bitch made of ice. But he couldn't forget her, she had hurt him in so many ways that he just wanted to scream. No one could understand the pain he went through. It was like she tried to bring him to hell with her, take away his soul and leave him for dead.

Not until that moment did he realize he was crying. He hadn't shed tears since his mother died. Quickly he removed the tears from his face with the sleeve of his shirt as if he was afraid someone would see.

He felt suddenly drained. He redid his illusion charm to make sure he wouldn't be spotted and sat down in front of the bed, leaning just in front of Kagome's face. With in 5 minutes he was fast asleep.

Kagome's Dream

She was in a forest where all the colours were weird. The grass was purple, as was the leaves on the tree's and the tree branches were pink. She was running, trying desperately to find something, what? She didn't know.

Tired, she collapsed to the ground and she heard a growl. Slowly she turned around and saw a huge white dog.

She had a dream like this once. It was the same dog. She didn't know if she should scream and run away or stay. It didn't seem to want to harm her.

She still marveled at its size, it was huge, probably bigger than her house.

Then 2 swords popped into the sky, one was big and wide and the other was slender.

She was going to speak to the dog but couldn't for her dream ended.

End of Dream

Her eyes opened. 'What was that all about?' She curled up in her blue blanket... except it wasn't blue, it was red. 'Where am I?' she asked herself.

"You're awake." Said a friendly voice from the door.

"Inu-Yasha, you scared me... So did your room, I didn't know where I was."

He laughed, "Yeah I know, you fell asleep on me last night so I brought you here."

She blushed. She was embarrassed that she fell asleep ON him. And she had tried so hard not to.

Then she remembered. It WAS Monday and she really WAS going to be late for school.

"What time is it?"

"5."

She let out a relieved sigh. "I have to go home and get ready for school. I'll see you there." She waved, grabbed her stuff, quickly kissed him, and ran out of the house.

She wished she had slept longer. She felt tired and was getting a headache from yawning so much. She could have slept for at least a half an hour longer, she still had half an hour before class started and she was ready to leave.

She decided to go to Inu-Yasha's. She opened the door and just about fell over in shock and fright. He was standing right there, apparently just about to ring the doorbell.

"YOU SCARED ME!" she said half laughing but he didn't join. He had a pale sickly look to him. "Inu-Yasha?"

He handed her something. It was a paper. She looked back at Inu-Yasha who still looked scared. Slowly she unfolded it. It said, 'Dear Mutt Face, You better watch you're fucking back from now on. I've got eyes everywhere. You better not leave your bitch alone either because the second you do she's mine. Sleep with one eye open.'

She felt suddenly sick. She handed back the paper. "Who wrote this?"

There was only one person who he thought did it, "Kikyo." He closed his eyes for 3 seconds. When he reopened them he found a distressed girl in front of him. She looked on the verge of tears. "Don't worry." He said pulling her into an embracing hug, then she began to sob into his shoulder. He gently rubbed his hand along her back to comfort her. "I won't let anything happen to you, I swear." He pulled away and looked into her eyes, "You hear me? You're safe." Then he pulled her into his arms again.

This had been the first direct threat to her life. She had never felt so scared and helpless in her life. Suddenly she didn't want to go to school. She just wanted to go back to bed. She knew she had to go to school though. She whipped her eyes and left his arms.

"We gotta go to school SNIFF" She grabbed her bag from where she dropped it and closed the door.

School

School had been weird. They found it hard to concentrate on their tasks. Kagome's hand shook violently when ever she thought of the letter and Inu-Yasha just stared into space. He was always like that when he had something on his mind but now his eyes were full of concern and worry unlike his usual bored expression that school seemed to give him.

A single tear shed onto her paper. She hadn't realized she had been about to cry. Making sure no one was looking she whipped her eyes and began to work on her picture again.

Lunch

"Do you think we should call the police?"

He shook his head, "No, if she doesn't want to be found then she won't be."

"How?"

"Connections."

She wondered what that meant. Did she have friends capable of hiding her?

"This is going to sound silly but--- will you stay overnight?" she would feel safer with him there.

"Your staying at my house, it's much safer with Sesshomaru and Jaken there. Plus my house has better security."

She didn't expect that answer. She decided not to argue. She wondered what her mother would think of her staying at a boys house for a while. She scolded herself, she was 20 years old. Why should she care what her mother thinks about? She was even considering moving but she didn't know where and she would need a job.

After School

"Common Kagome, let's go get your stuff."

She nodded, hopped into her car, and followed him on his bike.

Home

"I'll be right over, I will just tell my mom and then I'll come." She waved and ran inside.

The only problem was she didn't know what to tell her mother, how could she tell her that she was staying at a boys house for a while? What would she think? She could lie and say she was going to Sango's. That would have to do.

"Hey mom, I'm going to be staying at Sango's for a couple days to...practice."

"Alright honey, phone me just to check in."

"Ok Mama, oh and..." she fiddled her fingers, "I've givin it some thought and I was thinking it was time to move out, I was thinking of getting my own job to pay for it."

Her mom looked in shock but smiled gently, "That's ok, but if you want to stay no one is forcing you to leave, I wouldn't care if you stayed forever."

She tried to smile back and then nodded her head and turned around to go get her things. She could see it now, 40 year old Kagome still living at home with no job and 12 kids. Ugh, what a horror. This just made her want to move out even more.

She had to move out so she grabbed the part of the newspaper with the jobs in it and stuffed it with her other things. Staying at Inu-Yasha's house meant she could get a job without her mother even knowing. It would be great. But she had no idea what she wanted to do. She could be a waiter, a cashier, but she didn't really want to do anything like that. She thought about what she liked to do. Music and art was all that came up and she didn't think she could do something that involved any of that.

BRING

Why did Sesshomaru always seem to answer the door? She swore he was the houses butler, and he kind of reminded her of lurch from the Addam's family. Scary. Except Sesshomaru didn't look that scary, he just answered the door. She was almost expecting him to say 'You rang.'

"So where will I be sleeping?"

"In one of the spare bedrooms."

"I get my own room?"

"Of course."

She was blown away, this was awesome! She wasn't even staying there for that long and she got her own bedroom not that she doubted that they didn't have a lot of spare bedrooms. The one chosen was a room with red walls that she had seen when looking for Inu-Yasha's art room. Except now there was furniture, a bed with a green blanket and a desk in the corner. A bedside table right beside the lamp with a basic computer lamp atop it.

"Wow, Inu-Yasha, this is almost to much." It was then that she saw the dresser in the corner. She was so happy. She gave him a nice warm hug and began to unpack. "Thank you so much! This is great."

She couldn't stop smiling and the smiling was wearing off on him, making him smile. For that moment she forgot why she was there.

She was sitting on her bed reading the newspaper. "You follow the news?"

"Nope, I'm looking for a job."

He was impressed, "Really, why is that?"

"I'm tired of living at home."

He nodded, it was understandable. That was why he was leaving. He was a little disappointed to leave though. He would miss this basement. The one thing he hoped for was to be able to decorate the whole house like this instead of having to hide it away in the basement. He was tired of Sesshomaru's rules, he was to formal with his decorations. Inu-Yasha bet that the moment he moved out the basement would be remodeled.

"Any luck?"

"No." she sighed. She couldn't find a single thing she would want to do. "But I cant read all of them, some of them have really tiny writing."

"Like what?" he said walking up to her.

"This one." She pointed.

He could read it, he wasn't even close to it though. Stupidly without thinking he said what it said, "'Seeking a guitar teacher, 100 dollars a lesson.'."

When he realized he actually said it he mentally hit himself over and over for being so stupid. Luckily she was to overjoyed to notice.

"Oh my god Inu-Yasha! That's perfect! I'm going to phone right now."

She was so excited. It would be her first job and it would be something she liked to do. She wondered who she would have to teach. She dialed.

"Hi, I'm phoning about the guitar job in the paper."

"Oh, do you know how to play?"

"Yes, I'd really like to teach it. I'm in a band right now, I have been playing for over 5 years now."

"Can you come by tomorrow? If I think you're good you can start tomorrow as well. Let's say 4 o clock."

"Alright." She got the address and happily hung up the phone.

She squealed in delight.

"How did it go?"

"I'm meeting her tomorrow. If it works out I'm hired!"

"Congratulations!" he said happily and kissed her lovingly.

She was so happy that the kiss felt amazing; she could have sworn she heard fireworks. She didn't want the kiss to end to she let him probe her mouth with his tongue. He pulled away.

"I'm really proud of you."

She did a little dance around the room while he watched in amusement. He loved to see her happy. For some reason he always wanted to make her this happy no matter what. He just hoped the kid she'd be teaching wasn't a little brat.

And there you go! Chapter 8. Amazing huh? Lol. w/e. I had fun with it. Please review! I want at least 3 reviews or I won't continue. See you! BUH BYE!