I do not own Inu-yasha.
Sorry it took so long to write! I also have other stories like In Spite of Me and now Fire Stone that I have type and paste up. Plus I want to put on my one three chapter story. It's short and just a little one-shot I guess. It's a Kagome/Inu-yasha romance though. Nothing special. Then there's another fanfic... That's it! No more fanfics until I have In Spite of Me all up! There's only about ten or so chapters left, so that's GOOD! I don't know where I want this one to go. :shrugs: It could just be a Kagome/Inu-yasha romance from here on. Hey! I think I'll make this the last chapter! I have an idea of how it can go... Well, to the story!
Part Nine
Kagome stared at her diary. Inu-yasha had been reading this. All of the things she had wrote in it. To be secret, and her biggest secret of all. Well, now it wasn't a secret, was it? He knew. He knew.
She sighed. It wasn't suppose to be this way. Not right after Kikyo died. If she did anything relatively nice to him, he could think she was trying to take Kikyo's place, and that was one thing she most defiantly wasn't trying to do.
Inu-yasha sat on the log next to her. "Hey."
She looked at him coyly. "Hey..."
He raised an eyebrow. "What's with the look?"
"Look? There's no look." She looked off in front of her.
"There was a look."
She glared at him. "There was no look, okay? I'm not going to argue with you about a non-existent look!"
He smirked. "You just did."
"ARGGH!" she said, huffed and turned back to her diary.
"You have small handwriting."
She glared at him. "Okay, why the crap did you come over here? WHY? You obviously don't have anything that you really want to say, so why did you?"
He shrugged. "You looked lonely."
She raised an eyebrow. "So? Lonely can be good."
He shrugged again. "Not for you."
"Lonely is good sometimes. No one reads your diary."
He smirked. "I never did get to finish that lovely novel."
"Well, you aren't going to. The Library of Kagome is closed now and forever."
He looked at her, confused. "I don't get it."
She sighed. "You wouldn't. It's funny. Laugh."
"Ha ha," he said weakly.
She sighed again. "Lovely."
"So why are you here?" he asked.
"Trying to organize myself. Sort out a few things." She kept her gaze on her diary. She knew she would turn a bright red if she looked at him.
He brought his face really close to hers.
"Can I help you?" she asked, staring at the diary with intensity now.
"What things?"
"I don't know! Could you possibly be any more annoying?" she said. She stood up and threw the diary on the ground, glaring back at him.
He looked shocked. "I was only trying to help."
"Help with what?"
"Your nervousness."
"And what do I have to be nervous about?" she asked, calming down enough to sit back onto the log.
"Being around me."
"And that would be why?"
"Because. I know you better. I found out about your secret and you think that if you're nice or something, I'll think you're trying to take Kikyo's place."
She
looked at him with wide eyes. "You know this?"
"Yep.
So you're trying to avoid me so nothing will happen. It's what you
always did after a run-in with Kikyo. You'd hide and lay back for a
while, until you deemed it 'safe' to be near me again without hurting
anything."
"Very vigilant," she commented.
He stared at her.
"It means observant. I never really thought you would notice things like that. I thought you would only really paid attention to the important things."
"Oh really, is that so?" He smiled. "I can notice things when I want to." He looked at her with a bright smile.
Her eyes widened.
He raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong?"
"Oh?" She blushed. "Uh, nothing. You were just really happy. It, uh, surprised me." A little smile appeared on her face again.
"You know I don't care, right?"
"Oh?" she said, looking at him.
"About the whole replacing Kikyo thing. You don't have to worry. You couldn't replace her, just like no one could replace you. No matter how people alike people look on the outside... They're just not alike personality-wise."
"Inu-yasha, that has to be the most wise and prettiest thing I have ever heard you say."
He smirked. "I can be smart. When I need to be."
"Huh." She sighed. "I guess you would have to be, to take care of yourself for so long."
"That was more of a trust thing. And an instinct thing. It isn't that hard."
Kagome shrugged. "I don't think I could of lived one day out here without you by my side. I'd be jelly any second."
"That's why you have to let me protect you, and not do stupid thing like stomp off without anyone or weapons when you're mad! How can I protect you if you won't let me?"
Kagome looked at him. "I never thought of it like that. I guess it was stupid. Of course...when I felt her, I instantly knew I had been an idiot."
"Everyone acts like an idiot when they're mad. You don't think."
Kagome smiled. "Like you, huh?"
"Like me."
"So why did you do it?" she asked.
"Do what?"
"I don't know, everything. Why did you protect me? Why did you read my diary? Why did you kill Kikyo on my behalf?"
"Because. I don't like to see innocent people die, I just saw it lying there, and because she would of killed you."
"Aren't I less important than her?"
He glared at her. "And what the fuck would give you that idea?"
Kagome was taken back. "It's just that you, and her, and..."
"Don't ever put yourself below her like that! You are above her."
"Oh?"
He looked away. "I didn't ever see you try to kill her."
"Well... I never wanted to." She really felt that way, but maybe it was a half-lie. Maybe she had wanted Kikyo dead at times, but she never wanted to kill her... So was that the truth? If she had really wanted Kikyo dead, would he of ever resorted to killing her herself? Is that why Kikyo did it then. Was she so tired of Kagome being in the way of her love for Inu-yasha that she felt she needed to kill her? "I...I think she just did it because she loved you, Inu-yasha. Maybe she thought she was protecting you from me or something. I would do the same for you, I'm sure. If I thought someone was hurting you or sabotaging your chance at happiness, I would fix it."
He looked at her with a little smile. "And if I asked you not to?"
"Well, then I would just have to take your word for it that you were fine with it and respect your wishes. Unless I know for certain that it was going to hurt you someway or another. Wouldn't you do the same for a friend?"
"Yes." Inu-yasha said. "Yes I would." He picked up her diary. "Like not reading diaries, right?"
She blushed. "Uh, yes. Like that."
Inu-yasha nodded thoughtfully. "There was something I wanted to tell you back at the hospital, but I never really did."
"Oh? What's that?"
"I'm sorry I didn't get there when you needed me."
"It's okay Inu-yasha, you don't have to apologize. It's not your fault or anything. I was being stupid."
"Yeah, and I was too."
"Hm? What does that mean?"
"I was trying to go for something fake when the real thing was right in front of me."
"What? What are you talking about?" Kagome, asked, blushing at the way he was staring at her. He was intense, like he really wanted to do something and almost couldn't stop himself.
Inu-yasha sighed. Was he going to? Was he really going to say it? Yeah, sure. What the fuck, right? "Love," he said, trying to keep his voice as level as possible.
Kagome raised an eyebrow. "I'm not getting you."
Inu-yasha sighed. "You stupid girl," he said with a smile.
Kagome sighed herself. "You shouldn't keep people guessing. It's not nice."
He smirked. "Yeah? Neither is holding back." He leaned down and kissed her. "There. Maybe now you get it."
She blushed harder than ever before. Oh yes, she got it now. A smile broke out on her face.
And this time...Inu-yasha was sure it wasn't broken.
The end! Yay! One of my shortest stories. Oh well. I kind of like it. Although it barely had any characters in it! It didn't have any OCs though. That's good enough for me. Unless you count the soul things as characters, and I sure don't. For me, a character has to have a name. Like the nurse in the story. She wasn't a OC, because she had no name. That's my point of view though.
Well, now it comes down to saying thank you to all of the people who reviewed. It was a short time span, but it was a little break away from homework. Yes, it was an excuse to procrastinate everything.
Love ya all,
candysweet
May 14, 2005
