ALOHA!!! I'm back and I'm STILL hyper!!!! lmao! Well I have nothing better to say to you besides AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HYPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao well… now that THAT'S over with! Let's carry on with the story shall we?
Disclaimer: I SO don't own Inuyasha… And I sound like a valley girl! crying
It was days after they had defeated Tyronos and Kagome was finally sitting up on her own. Inuyasha was already running around like a lunatic and getting fidgety every time he was sitting still too long. The only time he didn't seem to mind sitting still was when he was sitting with Kagome.
"Kagome? Are you awake?" Inuyasha asked as he poked the sleeping girl's shoulder. She moaned and rolled over to face him.
"What?" She asked groggily, glaring at him for disturbing her.
"You want to go outside?" he asked, with a child-like air about him that Kagome had never seen on him before.
"Ok…" Kagome said cautiously, still confused about his child-like demeanour. Inuyasha smiled and grabbed her hand to pull her out of bed. When she was finally standing, she wobbled slightly on her feet, because she hadn't used her legs in about a week. As soon as Inuyasha let go of her hand, she started to topple over and he had to snatch onto her once again to prevent her from falling. He decided that now wasn't the best time to have her walking on her own, but since she wouldn't let him carry her, Inuyasha had to settle with having her lean on him with an arm wrapped around her waist as she took each careful step. Soon she was able to walk on her own, she was just too lazy to let go of Inuyasha just yet, so she continued leaning on him slightly and linked her arm around his waist as well. Inuyasha almost laughed because he knew perfectly well that she could walk, he was just enjoying having her so close. He didn't even seem to notice that Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were all watching them. Shippo snickered as he saw them walk straight past the hiding place the three eavesdroppers had chosen. Miroku instantly wrapped his arm around the kitsune's face to muffle the sound. Shippo glared at the older man and stopped laughing immediately. Sango had a look that said "HOW CUTE!" and Miroku decided he'd take a couple of leaves from Inuyasha's book, not the ones about fighting, but some of the cute things that he's done for Kagome.
"Where are we going Inuyasha?" Kagome suddenly asked, breaking the comfortable silence.
"You'll see." Inuyasha teased and Kagome scowled at him and stepped on his foot.
"Oww! I have half a mind to not take you now!" Inuyasha said with a hand on his chest as if she had just delivered an emotional blow.
"You will take me to wherever we're going or else I swear I will s-i-t you all the way to Canada!" Kagome threatened, Inuyasha knew she would do it too. That was the part that scared him!
"Fine, we'll go, but only because I've been planning this for the past day and a half!" Inuyasha said, laughing at Kagome's expression.
"You planned something for me?" She asked in disbelief
"Yes, is that a bad thing?" Inuyasha asked, trying to keep a confused expression on his face, when he knew perfectly well what the answer was.
"Of course not! The idea that you would go out of your way like that to plan something for me is too adorable! I knew there were reasons I loved you!" Kagome said happily while she elbowed Inuyasha in the ribs to let him know that she was only joking, and she really did know why she loved him. Inuyasha glared playfully and gave up trying to keep a straight face and burst out in laughter. She had never seen him laugh like that before. He was either chuckling evilly, laughing evilly, or not showing any emotion other than anger! She was getting pretty freaked out by the whole situation.
"Ok. I've let it go so far, but I can't stand this anymore!" Kagome said as she stepped away from Inuyasha, who looked extremely depressed to not have her presence there anymore.
"What's up with you Inuyasha? You're smiling, acting like Shippo, and laughing! You never laugh!" Kagome exclaimed, flailing her arms around in the air.
"I'll explain in a minute, in the meantime, turn around." Inuyasha instructed with a shy smile. Kagome looked at him in confusion and slowly turned around. There was a giant building. It looked like a mansion, but the only word that could come to mind when Kagome tried to explain it to herself was, BIG. She turned back to Inuyasha, searching his face for answers.
"This is where I was raised." Inuyasha explained with a voice that indicated sadness. Kagome's eyes lost their confusion and filled with sympathy.
"We don't have to go in if you don't want…" Kagome said quietly as she linked her arm around his.
"No I want to go in, I just wanted you to come with me so I could show you my past. You said a while ago that you wanted me to be more open, and so I am." Inuyasha said and he started to pull her closer to the large mansion. When they arrived at the door to the mansion, Inuyasha pushed it open and led Kagome inside his old home.
"Welcome home…" Inuyasha whispered to himself and he wandered away down the hall, leaving Kagome to stare in awe at the main room. It was painted a dark crimson red with dark, almost black wooden trim. There were pieces of amazing artwork lining the walls, and the paper doors had intricate designs of a large dog demon painted onto them. As Kagome finished observing the room, she noticed that Inuyasha was now way down the hall. She scoffed at him andhurried to catch up. Just as she was getting close enough to him that she could almost touch him, he stopped walking. She slammed into his back and knocked them both to the floor.
"Very nice Kagome." Inuyasha mumbled out of the floor. Kagome blushed and scrambled to her feet, Inuyasha did the same.
"Well if you hadn't have just randomly stopped I wouldn't have ran into you!" Kagome defended herself as she brushed the dust off of her uniform and followed Inuyasha into the room he had stopped in front of. She noticed that there were little drawings of a little boy in red playing with an older woman. She realised that they must be standing in Inuyasha's old bedroom.
"It's still here…" Inuyasha whispered, quietly as the wind, and he leapt over to the farthest wall and removed a painting from it. He placed the painting gingerly onto the ground and revealed a hole in his wall. There was a miniature set of shelves inside and there were a bunch of trinkits placed on it. Inuyasha smiled brightly and lifted up the object in the bottom right hand corner. It was a small flat box, which was covered in dust. Inuyasha placed the painting back on the wall to cover his secret hiding place, and walked over to Kagome, holding the small box. When he was standing right in front of her, he blew all of the dust off of the box, right in her face.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shrieked and she let out a giant sneeze. Inuyasha laughed at the way she sneezed, She bent all the way over and then flipped her head back and tossed her hair over her shoulders.
"Don't laugh at me! You just blew a bunch of dust in my face! How do you know I wouldn't have an allergic reaction?" Kagome demanded, completely forgetting about the little dusty box.
"What on earth is an allergic reaction?" Inuyasha inquired, but he soon forgot all about his question.
"Don't distract me Kagome! I'm trying to do something and you're holding it up!" Inuyasha complained, causing the girl to hold up her hands in surrender.
"Thank you!" Inuyasha breathed as he lifted the box back up to eye level with Kagome.
"Inuyasha? What's th—"
"Shh, let me finish!" Inuyasha whispered moodily, instantly silencing the young girl.
"Kagome, it has been a tradition in my family for many, many years that the man give his mate this symbol of love, and for the woman to pass it down toher first born son. Are you with me so far?" Inuyasha asked, and Kagome nodded, shivering because she knew what was coming.
"So Kagome, would you do me the honour of becoming my mate, or wife… whatever you want to call it!" Inuyasha said as he opened the little box. Inside was a silver necklace with a pendant made of a pale green stone, carved into a heart. Kagome gasped and took a step back from Inuyasha in shock.
"You're serious?" She asked, and he nodded.
"Deadly serious." Inuyasha said, wondering why she wasn't screaming in delight yet. Kagome stepped forward to where she was before, and gazed down at the necklace that was being offered to her.
"You know my answer." Kagome whispered and she turned around. Inuyasha thought she was rejecting him at first and he felt his heart start to break. But when he saw her lift up her hair, he figured out that she was merely asking him to put it on for her. Inuyasha smiled in delight and placed his precious family heirloom around the girl's slim neck. When the clasp was done up, after a little bit of struggle on his part, Inuyasha put his hand on her shoulders and he could feel her shaking. He turned her around to face him and saw she was smiling brighter than he'd ever seen. Her eyes started to fill up with tears and she dove into his arms.
"Inuyasha!" She screamed into his shoulder, muffling the sound slightly, and Inuyasha smiled.
"I love you so much…" She whispered just loud enough so he could hear her.
"I love you too…" Inuyasha breathed as he wrapped his arms around her thin form as tightly as he could.
(A/N: AWW!!!!! I had half a mind to stop here but decided against it because that'd be mean)
"Miroku… where are we?" Sango asked as they walked into the large doorway that had been opened previously by Inuyasha.
"We are at Inuyasha's old home… I wonder why he would bring Kagome here…" he pondered with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know! Let's go, I don't much feel like getting torn to pieces right now." Sango said and she turned around, tugging on Miroku's sleeve to make him follow her. Suddenly Inuyasha and Kagome came walking into the main room, hand in hand. Sango gasped and Kagome's eyes went wide. Miroku smiled innocently, and Inuyasha started to grow.
"What – are – you – doing – here?" Inuyasha demanded, tightening his grip on Kagome's hand unconsciously.
"Inuyasha! My hand! Oww!" Kagome shrieked and he immediately released her.
"We were just… going for a walk?" Miroku tried to explain, to no avail.
"You followed us here didn't you?" Inuyasha demanded, receiving a nod from Sango and a hung head from Miroku.
"Inuyasha, please don't hurt them? It's not fair, they were just curious as to what was going on… what if we had gotten into trouble and needed their help? Did you even think of the good side?" Kagome said in an attempt to defend her friends, although she was pretty angry herself.
"See Inuyasha? We were merely looking out for your well being!" Miroku agreed with an enthusiastic nod.
"If there was any danger I would have been able to handle it, if I'm not mistaken it was me who has been saving you all ever since we started this journey so you all owe me!" Inuyasha exclaimed. Kagome raised an eyebrow at him.
"It's not MY fault that the demons have some sort of fascination with me and kidnap me so much! You think I like having to be rescued every 5 minutes?" Kagome asked with an edge of anger in her voice. Inuyasha now regretted he had even opened his mouth, because it was now full of dirt from one of Kagome's sit spells.
"I didn't mean that…" Inuyasha mumbled from in the dirt and he saw Kagome's feet walking away into the forest, followed soon after by Miroku and Sango.
"Come back here! You can't just leave me sitting here in the dirt!" Inuyasha shouted as he scrambled out of the him-shaped hole and ran after his three friends, who were laughing hysterically as they ran.
"COME BACK HERE!" Inuyasha bellowed as he caught a glimpse of Kagome dashing behind a bush,Sango leaping behind a rock, andMiroku standing in the middle of a clearing looking confused. He was apparently searching for a hiding place because he soon crawled into a human-sized hole in the trunk of a tree.
"Well now that wasn't obvious!" Inuyasha said sarcastically as he went to search for his friends.
Ok now I'm ending it! lol what did you think? I figured I'd put at least a little bit of humour in here! I mean seriously you have no idea how hard it is for me to not revert back to my usual writing style and make it stay pretty serious! It's hard people! I advise you don't try it because it's a pain in the ass! lol well I'm going to stop babbling and let you review so I'll see you next chapter! TTFN!!!
