Part Five : Such a Perfect Moment
The night came, and the night went. For Kagome it was the hardest night she'd ever slept. Actually it was more then hardest night she'd ever not slept. She couldn't sleep at all. She was so nervous. What if he only liked her as a friend? What if the only reason he liked her was because she was Kikyo's reincarnation? She shuddered at the thought. Inuyasha still hadn't come back, and the others were still sleeping.
She sighed to herself. Inuyasha hadn't come back, and it was the break of dawn. By now she'd have expected him to have returned and be bugging them to wake up and head out. It was strange to wake and not have him there. In fact, it was just a little lonely.
"Inuyasha..."
"What?" he said in a dull, somewhat annoyed tone. He yawned, and sat down cross legged about a foot away from her.
"Are you tired, Inuyasha?" she asked a very obvious question. He looked at her blankly. "Yeah, so am I."
"What? Didn't you sleep well?"
"No... not really."
"Something on your mind?" His tones seemed softer, almost as if he was worried about her. "You can tell me, if you want."
She lazily rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Inuyasha was one strange inu hanyou and she had trouble understanding his moods and his personality.
'I shouldn't attempt figuring him out... he's too complicated... but how many people are easy to figure out?'
He leaned over and, to her surprise, kissed her cheek softly. She sat there in shock, full knowing that her cheeks had gone a bright shade of red. She didn't even notice that a light pink covered his face. It was just like before.
"Inu... Inuyasha..."
"Get some more sleep, Kagome," he said, standing up. "I'm going to go out for a little while longer. Make sure everyone is ready about an hour after dawn, okay?"
"I... I..." She couldn't form any words, the fact that he had just kissed her cheek was still sinking in. 'Am I dreaming...?'
"Oi, Kagome! Did you even hear me?" he spoke a bit louder than before. Shippou whinned a little, bit didn't actually wake.
"I..."
He sighed, with a slight growl mixed in, "Just do it, Stupid."
He turned around, not even really noticing that he'd let his temper slip. He'd been so careful lately not to call her that, too.
"Osuwari..." she mumbled, then smiled satisfactorily and she heard him crash to the ground. The others bolted into a sitting position and looked around panicked.
"What... happened?" Sango asked, rubbing her eyes.
"Huh?" Shippou hopped to his feet.
"It was just Inuyasha," Kagome said. She laid back down and closed her eyes. "Just go back to sleep."
'That idiot... he ruined such a perfect moment... Or maybe I did...'