Kiaira: Okay, very tired at the moment, not sure if I can make it. But I will try!

Thanks to the following:

Aphy69: Chemistry…god what an evil subject, our teacher can't teach for crap, 80 of the class is failing.

Sakurascent: It will be happy I swear

Kitsune-Tenshi-16: Well you're going to fine out what's going to happen.

RinElwin: I don't think it was all a misunderstanding, but things will work out.

Lost-in- Dark: They'll be together.

Enchanted-princess: I plan on writing more in the future. Look out for them!

Someone: Thank you, I love getting your reviews.

Baka-Craze: Lol, I'm updating!

Kiyoteh-Kiaira: Hi yeah! I'm sorry for confusing you Kiaira-chan…

InuTori: Not a chance of pulling the grade up, but thank you anyway.

Hopeandlight: Well I feel that all the people to take the time to review, so I should take the time to thank them. Thank you!

Lightningstreak: Well here it is the last chapter.

InuYasha-Junky: I wouldn't call it, just whimpering…or you know…not.

KagInuLove: Come on I wouldn't want a to be with a guy if he treated me like shit, even if he was madly in love with me and I liked him, I wouldn't let myself.

Chat-Chan: Sorry…

Lhaewen: Um…well I guess that would make me a moron, I would leave him in the dust too…

RikalovesShinu: Again, I'm getting abused because I would too…

Fox-firechick120: If you want to know when I update, just add me to your author alert. It will send u an automatic email when I update.

Catalina: I said it would be a happy ending. So don't worry.

CrazyKitty6257: I think you're a good little kitty. Kitties can easily get away with being greedy, lol.

TakeMyPainAway: Lol you don't have to get all crazy, things will work out great!

FlamingRedFox: I know…I was going into such a writers block, I had no idea what to do with Sango and Miroku, I only knew what I wanted to happen in the last chapter.

Houshi-ko88: I do like Teen Titans, but I rarely watch it, I find it more of something I watch when I have nothing else to do. I don't watch a lot of TV, mostly, Danny Phantom, Inu-Yasha and crime shows.

LuckyKittyKagome: Thank you; I liked the effect as well. I'm very proud of it. And it's all thanks to a dream that helped it all out. Lol

RainingFruit: Thank you! It's support from people like you that make it all worth it.

Dreamcatcher16: Playing with style is fun, it's so, stylish! Lol I know I am weird.

A: It does, the only thing that made it grade was Tybalt! Go my fiery Tybalt!

VampyreMistress99: Things, I repeat, things will work out great. Don't you worry!

OniyuriGaaru: Sorry no dramas like that. Thanks for reviewing.

Forbidden Miko: I said they would; so don't worry!

Nyehaan: Why wouldn't something cool happen! This is a huge drama! Anything can happy, bit NEVER a sad ending.

Khstennis01: Don't cry happiness is on the way!

Mew-Xena: Thank you! I love reading your reviews. They make me happy.

Lonelylulaby: Thank you, I thought it was touching myself. I cried when I first wrote it.

OKAY! And now about the thing with my teacher, he didn't say a thing to me. It all started when we did this art project of this self-image of our inner self-using our own picture of myself. So I did this, what I feel, was a beautiful portrait of myself. And I don't think much of myself, so I was so happy with it.

I showed it to my teacher and he re did the face. When he was done, I stared at it in shock. I mean, my art teacher is a beautiful artists and I love his art. But he said my nose was too small and mad this huge, huge nose. He said my eyes were too big and gave me really, really small eyes. And the hugest mouth that I don't even think could exist. "There Kayla, I think it looks just like you." I nearly cried because I felt that I looked like this really ugly person that I once knew. (when my self-esteem was down)

The good news is that when I got home my mom told me to change it back and to keep changing it until he got the idea. And that is what I did. So everything's good!

Disclaimers: I do not own Inu-Yasha, but I do own Noir Angel, which this is based on, so don't steal! I also own both songs used in this chapter, so don't steal them either!

Hidden Amber

Chapter 19- And End to One, A start anew

Two Months later

Kagome and Sango walked down the street from the school as the sun rained down on them. Their book bags and arms full of there school books. The school year was over, both passing the school year they had completed grade ten.

Summer was here and that meant that the club would be open for most nights of the week, Kagome and Sesshomaru would have to talk about that.

Yet the club wouldn't seem the same anymore. Sango had gotten a new position working at the counter; she didn't need to help Kagome anymore. That's because Milla didn't exist anymore. She was no more.

Kagome was simply Kagome, one of the two managers at the club. Even if Milla was crying out for a show that she use to do, Kagome couldn't let her out. She simply couldn't.

"Kagome…" Sango asked turning to her friend.

"Yeah?"

"I know things have been hard since Inu-Yasha found out about O.D.I and things," Sango said in a short whisper. "And I know that I can't understand how you feel, but you're still ashamed of yourself, you can't go on thinking like that. He hurt you, and you hurt him, you're even."

"I'm not ashamed of myself for O.D.I," Kagome looked to the ground. "I'm ashamed because even after we were even, I broke his last string of hope."

"…Kagome?"

"The day I came back to school, after Miroku and you left me," she explained briefly. "He caught me and started asking me questions. They were easy…but then…"

Sango stared at her friend reading all her emotions that were clearly being read on her face. She let her friend carry on, being her friend, she listened.

"He asked me if everything I've ever told him as Milla was a lie."

"And what did you say?"

"I told him everything I ever told him was a lie."

"Um…wasn't it all a lie?"

"Only O.D.I was a lie, around him I was myself," she sighed. "Sango you were right when you said he looked horrible, but that was nothing to what I had expected him to react. He had hope Sango…he had hoped that even if O.D.I was about getting even. He was hoping I cared."

"Kagome…did he really fall in love with you?"

"No man could possibly fake that look in his eyes," Kagome reached the top of the stairs to her home. "I'm not sure if he would ever get over this…or me."

"Kagome…your not saying this because your really afraid of what you may have done," Sango confronted her friend. "I know these thoughts, I had simpler ones around Miroku, and you really fell for him."

Kagome stared at the ground before she nodded, "I did."

&&&&&&

Summer had been going for a week now. Kagome was busy looking at the rent payments in the office for the club. The club has lost a month worth of rent when the police has shut the club down after the simple robbery had shut the club down after the simple robbery had turned into a rape/homicide. The guy still hadn't been caught.

The figures showed it would be a rough summer with a clean sail when the school would reopen for a new school year.

"How do things look," Rin poked in the door.

"We'll be okay I think, good thing my mom's helping with the figuring," Kagome answered.

"That's good," Rin smiled. "Can I come in?"

"Sure, just close the door, ok?"

Rin did as she was told and closed the door behind her before she sat down. Rin smiled at Kagome again, "How have things been?"

"I've been fine," Kagome grinned. "What do you want?"

Rin stared in astonishment, "H-how'd you know?"

"You never have awkward conversations unless you're nervous Rin," Kagome took a quick glance at the security camera.

"OH! Fine huffed. "I want you to come down and hear Sessy-chan sing."

"He's what!"

"Singing," Rin repeated with a grin.

That was defiantly the last thing Kagome had expected Rin to ask. Sesshomaru never sang. Sure he was lead, but Inu-Yasha or Kouga did all the vocals. They were punk rockers; they didn't have to be good singers. (In other words Inu and Kouga suck!)

"Alright," Kagome sighed putting some bills in the office desk. "But this had better be good."

"It is I swear!" Rin said. She opened the door of the office and started out the door and down some stairs and was now on the backstage. "Come on, there starting."

Kagome sighed but followed the young fourteen-year-old girl onto the back stage and stared out onto the main stage. There was Sesshomaru's band playing, the music only starting moments ago, Kagome listened of course, but only sounded the same as all the right of their music,

The same beat in the music, only mixed into a slower clam beat, almost like a sad slow song. Almost like the kind Kagome always heard on the radio.

Rain drops falling from the sky

The clouds so dark and sad

Crying for all it's worth

Kagome's mouth gapped a little and turned to a grinning Rin. "His voice is a lot softer when he sings." Kagome was too shocked to reply.

Such a sad feeling overcoming me

I can feel its pain

Cutting me to nothing

"His voice is softer, who would have thought," Kagome agreed with Rin.

I stare and watch as it comes closer

The feeling that is so foreign and far

I can't simply understand this feeling

It's so deep down inside of me

Rin turned to Kagome and looked straight at her. She thought weather or not she should tell Kagome something important.

Just set me free

So lost within this feeling

So cold without you here

Set me free!

"Kagome I think you have every right to know something very important," Rin said.

I feel it chilling down my spine

Killing my sense of feeling

I feel the need to look away

But I can't bring myself to it

"What it is," Kagome turned to face Rin.

Rin felt her stomach fall out as she tried to find her words. "Well you see…"

I continue to stare out of control

The feeling is stronger now

And I can't fight it!

"Sesshomaru maybe singing this song, but he didn't write it," Rin stated, "Inu-Yasha did..."

Just set me free

So lost within this feeling

So cold without you here

Set me free!

"…For you."

I look over and see you there

Your smile so clear and true

I cannot help but smile

Only because I feel so lost within your eyes

"He wrote this for me…" she stared out at Inu-Yasha who was playing his bass and staring out at the crowd, also watching the band. "When?"

"He started it after St. Valentines."

'Our first kiss," she thought.

There so clear

They're so powerful

I'm just so lost within them

"He practiced it really hard, but when O.D.I came around he lost it so Sessohmaru said he'd sing it for him," Rin said. "I'm not sure if I should have told you, Inu-Yasha wasn't, but I thought you should have been told."

I was set free

I'm so lost within this feeling

It's so warm with you here

You set me free

Kagome turned from Rin and said, "I'm sorry Rin, I have work to do." With that, Kagome left to her office. Yet unknown to even Kagome, when she would make it to the office she would start to cry.

&&&&

Only three days later Kagome was organizing a charity festival that was taking place at the club. Some rich friends of Akira's mother had rented it out for a charity fundraiser for homeless shelters. And Kagome was automatically put in charge of putting it together.

The idea was to have a fashion show for new styles of Kimono's. Sesshomaru knowing nothing about fashion just said he would take care of the food and entertainment. So that left Kagome to work on the fashion ramp and make a make-up room for all the models.

It was a harder job then Kagome would have thought. She had worked for five hours straight already, and still she had nowhere near as done as there should have been. Kouga was outside working on the ramp that would be used for the walkway.

Sesshomaru already got the fancy restaurant next door to serve the food, since the club didn't have a kitchen. And of course the tables were hard to get, but the renters had gave them the money to get the tables.

She rubbed her eyes as she yawned. She had been up for twelve hours before working her five hours when she came to the club. She planed it, log and hard, but it just didn't work. Not that easily done thought.

"Why don't you go home," Sesshomaru called to her by the bottom of the stage.

"I'm fine, I just need some coffee," she yawned again.

"Just go home, you've been up for so long," Sesshomaru told her. "We have plenty of Youkai and hanyou's helping, it's three in the morning, if you want to help, go home and come back around lunch."

"You sure?"

"Yes."

"…Alright."

&&&&&

Of course when she had come back at one that afternoon she was shocked to find the place almost completely done. The ramp was done, all but it had to be painted, and all the tables were almost all set. She stared in ah. It didn't even look like the club anymore.

Some of the designers were already getting their things ready for the show that night. She moved in where some youkai were already finishing setting the tables. She stared around as she wondered what had happen over the course of the time she was gone.

Rested and well, she returned to the stage area where she had left her plans for the stage. She found the pages turned to the very end, meaning Kouga had looked through it and had finished it almost completely.

"Welcome back Kagome," she heard Kouga greet her. "Have a good rest."

"Yes, what about you, aren't you tired?"

"No, I'm only starting to, as soon as I'm finished here I'm taking a nap before the show, Ayame got into the show," Kouga said.

"Oh really? Who's designs did she get under?"

"That Yokia Rei person," Kouga replied.

"Yokia-san," Kagome's eyes widened.

"Yeah…"

"That's Sango's idol!"

"She is…"

"She's so famous," Kagome explained.

"That's probably why Sango nearly freaked out when I told her," Kouga thought back.

It was true that Yokia Rei was Sango's idol, Yokia's cloths were so well known in girl world, that hey all knew she designed many of the cloths that were found in movies, or even on video game characters.

"Oh yeah, Sango got her stuff into the show, she wants you to model her Kimono, as well as Rin, she's back stage, go see her now."

"Me…in the show?"

"Why not, your Sango's best model…her only fulltime model," Kouga explained.

"Okay…I'll go see her then."

Kagome had made her way to back stage where many of the designers had their Kimono's under a watchful eye. She spotted Sango, waved and greeted her friend before she made it to her. Sango smiled and greeted in response.

"It's great you're here, I have the perfect Kimono just waiting for you to wear it," Sango cheered, taking out a plastic bag with the kimono inside. "Go try it on."

"Now? There's still four hours until the show starts," Kagome said.

"I need the time, I have a lot of kimonos to wear, but this one has to fit correctly."

"Fine," she replied taking the kimono from her friend and headed towards the bathroom since, the curtain change rooms weren't completely done yet, or were already in use.

When she returned from the bathroom she found herself a very red shade, it almost looked as if it went with the shade of magenta that her Kimono was. It was magenta with yellow at the ends and collar. It slipped off her shoulders elegantly, and made her look much older then her age.

The Kimono had a long slit in the leg like a Chinese kimono, letting some leg to be shown. Her stocking was the usual white color, but it went all the way up her leg. That left her with the traditional style wooden shoes and natural yellow obi the Japanese have been worn for centuries.

"Wow! It's you! So sexy, but not too much skin showing," Rin, cheered. "I'm gonna get Sessy to get me one for the next festival!"

"Do you really think he's let you wear something like that?"

"No, but I'll wear it anyway," Rin grinned.

"I think it's a little big, it's falling off my shoulders," Kagome explained.

Sango and Rin giggled, "It's suppose to be doing that."

"Great…" she sighed.

&&&&

Of course like Sesshomaru had promised everything had come perfectly into order. The crowd was all neatly seated into their place, they had all gotten their appetizers and some bands played some quiet slow music for the older adults to enjoy.

In just a few minutes the fashion show was going to start, music while the show went on was going to be provided by Sesshomaru's band, them unknowingly being voted into the show. So now, they were going to play in the show, while Kagome walked around for the whole room to look at her. Sure she was use to this stuff as Milla, but she wore and did what she was comfortable with.

As Milla, she was free to act the fool without anyone really knowing whom to make fun of, they could make fun of Milla, but it wouldn't hurt Milla, she didn't exist. Kagome as the walkway model was so different; everyone knew she was just a girl whom has never modeled in her life.

She sighed as the person in charge back stage called the models to line up in the order their designers were placed. She was 17th in line of 18 places. She heard Sesshomaru's band start to play their soft music.

It was strange for them to lay such soft music, even with Sesshomaru singing so softly. It wasn't right. Kagome put on a false smile as she realized, just for this show, everyone was pretending to be something they weren't tonight.

Kagome let her smile fall flat as she sighed deeply. Everyone was changing just for this night, but she reminded herself, it was only for tonight. After tonight, everything would be back to normal, and then some.

Finally, after half an hour of standing in line, Kagome got to the front, as did Rin. They pushed themselves out onto the stage, more of Rin doing so because she suddenly has a very fake smile stuck on her face. A trait given to a face when they were super nervous.

"Don't worry Rin, it's almost over," Kagome whispered to Rin.

They made it down the ramp, did the classic stop and smile, and then turned before walking back downs the runway. Things look smooth for them both, more of for Rin as she had finally clamed down. Yet things went down hill on the way back for Kagome.

As she made it back to the home free space she almost panicked when she saw Inu-Yasha there in the corner of the stage area with his brother and Kouga. While they were both looking at the there instruments, he was staring directly at her. Into her eyes, and into her soul.

She found herself breathing harder, and blushing hotly while looking slightly away from him. She still couldn't believe that he was staring at her so intensely, so…inhuman, yet so human…or hanyouish. Either way, he was using her as a window.

"You okay," Rin asked when they made it backstage.

"Yes."

"Kagome," Sango called waving cheerfully. "You two were great! I can't believe how well those Kimono's fit you, Rin you look so cute, just the right amount of sexiness a young woman should have. And Kagome you look so much older, the look turned out so much better then I would have ever thought it would have."

"Thanks," they replied.

"Now you guys can change," Sango smiled. "Oh yeah, Miroku wanted to talk to you, he's in the light booth."

"Alright, I'll be right back," Kagome said making her way to stage left. She stepped onto the back stairs and went into the wall that leads to the lighting booth. The stairs went thought a wall just beside the left wall of the club. She opened the door to the booth and opened before entering.

"Hey," Miroku greeted her.

"Good."

Miroku and a few other people were in the booth, Kagome knew many of them, but there was an older woman I the booth, sitting in a chair by the light adjustments, but was simply watching the show. "Well it would seem Yokia-san here wanted to talk one of the managers of the club."

"Yokia-san," her eyes widened as she realized, just who that woman was. The woman turned and greeted her, "Hello."

"H-hello," Kagome gave her new guest a bow.

"I was down there watching the show backstage, but after seeing half the show, I just had to talk to the one of the club managers, I did talk to that Sesshomaru fellow, but he said I should come talk to you."

"He did?"

"Oh yes, he seemed quiet sure it would better to talk to you."

"What about Yokia-san," Kagome asked.

The older woman smiled, "I wanted to talk to you about your friends cloths designs."

"Yes, what is it," she asked. By this time, both Kagome and Miroku were focusing on the woman.

"Well once I saw her designs I feel in love with the concept of being in a sexy kimono, but hardly anything being shown. I didn't think it was possible, but your friend has done so, I wish to talk to her about a scholarship into a fashion school someday. I think her designs could really go far."

"You do?"

"Yes, I think her designs are full of life and wonder, and her being teenager, she can see what it is that makes a teenager, she knows what they would like," Rei Yokia smiled deeply. "And a side from that, I wanted to ask you if young Milla would be singing tonight?"

"Huh?"

Both her and Miroku were stung not to many people outside the usually teens at the club knew thing about Milla. Kagome shook her head, "No…Milla doesn't sing here anymore."

"She doesn't, that's too bad, my niece told me about her, I heard she was quiet the singer," Yokia sighed. "Too bad."

"Who's your niece, might I asked," Kagome asked.

" Yokia Kazumi," she replied. "She goes to the middle school, she use to come to the club every week, that was before that horrible robbery, her mother wouldn't let her go since, but likely, I could bring her myself tonight." Rei waved out the window to a young girl sitting at a table with an older gentleman. "She's here with my husband."

"I'm sure I've seen her around," Kagome replied.

"Well, I better go back down, I'll make sure I talk to your friend about that scholarship tonight," she bowed to Kagome. "Nice meeting you." With that, she left out the exit backstage.

"I don't know about you Kagome, but I think that's a sign."

"It can't be," she replied.

"Well, why don't you just sing one more time?"

"Milla doesn't exist anymore," she told her friend.

"Milla doesn't…but Kagome does."

Some of the people in the lighting booth turned and smiled at Kagome. Cheering her on, letting her know, they thought it was a wonderful idea. She stared at everyone, who was looking at her with bright smiles and cheering. "And I just so happened to have that music of that song you wrote complete."

"Didn't I tell you to forget that song," she said.

"Yes, but I couldn't help it, such beautiful words needed such a thing like music to go with it."

"Oh shut up already," a guy next to Miroku said.

"I can't just sing now, everything is booked up," Kagome told Miroku.

"Not according to Sesshomaru, he has many openings, and according to him, the entertainment starts in just a few minutes."

"You all planned this," she screamed. "I can't, I'm not ready, I haven't practiced, and I'll make a fool of myself."

"No one will ever notice, nor care," Miroku smiled.

"Fine…but might I add Miroku…after tonight…your going to find yourself with a few bruise and other nice things like that."

"It will be worth it," Miroku smiled wiping out a walkie-talkie. "Hey Sango, Kagome's going to sing!"

Kagome's eyes widened, "Your all dead!"

"That's nice Kagome," Sango replied from the walkie-talkie. "Miroku that's great, you're so getting a treat tonight!"

"YES!"

"Hey Rin, Kagome's singing," Sango told Rin who was staying close to Sango that night."

"You guys…." Kagome sighed.

"Sorry, you better come down, if your still going to sing that is," Sango replied.

"Alright."

&&&&&&

After making it backstage, Kagome realized that all the models and designers were now cleaning up from the fashion show. Kagome hurried around to look for Sango and Rin. After moving through more people then really should have been backstage she found Rin and Sango. Rin already changed back into her normal cloths.

"Sango, should I change or something," Kagome asked.

"No, you look fine in that, but I have to fix that hair," Sango said taking out a comb and hair spray.

"O-okay," she said.

After a few minutes Kagome looked in the mirror. To really finish off the look of a festival night, Sango had given Kagome the traditional hair, consisting of a loose bun, with it Sango has found some magenta flowers, and had put them around her bun, so it matched the Kimono.

"You ready?" Rin asked.

"Yes…why?"

"Good, Sessy says your up next," Rin, cheered.

"What! You guys are killing me tonight!"

"Sorry, but you agreed to it, we have to push you," Rin told Kagome.

"You guys are going to be the end of me," Kagome sighed yet again.

"Go! Your next," Sango pushed her to where Sesshomaru was standing. "GO!"

"Fine."

Finally Kagome walked towards where Sesshomaru was standing. He didn't turn his head or eyes, but once again he did that creepy thing where he knew whom was standing next to him without looking. "You ready Kagome?"

"Yes."

"Well, you're on then."

"It's been a while, I'm a little nervous," she said him before she stepped out onto the stage. As usually she felt a small jolt of fear in her stomach, but as usual she carried on. Fear couldn't stop her, not this far in the game.

Her music started and she stopped in the middle of the runway. She held the microphone that was on a stand. She picked it off the stand and held it close to her mouth.

Why am I even here in this place?

I'm only one of many

Everyone copying the other

Everyone's the same

The room was silent, much unlike the days the club were open. You could hear the students dancing, hear them cheering. It was dead quiet, adult seemed to respect the ones performing with silence, but it was slightly creepy to Kagome.

All they ever do is play someone

Just as if they are playing a part in a play

There all just puppets in this perfect world

Pretending to be a perfect being

Of course, Kagome knew, after tonight, things would be right again. The club would be busy with students partying and having fun on their summer break. Things would be good again.

You were the same as them

Living in a black shadow

I pushed myself away

You only were sucked in

Kagome felt herself slightly embarrassed singing this song for everyone. Yet, like Inu-Yasha…Kagome had already written a song, about him. It was more on the lines of a poem, she had written it, if only to explain the trouble she was in when she opening confessed to herself that she had fallen for him.

Once so lost in a perfect world

Unperfected, I tired to be free

I never knew you did as well

There was so much tied into what he had told her over the last few months of their affair. (Not sure if that's the right word) She told him things she never told anyone else before. As he did as well. And she now seemed to understand something about him. He was well known in the school, but he didn't want to be. As she did as well, she wanted to be known, but not as Milla, only she didn't have the guts to be just Kagome.

Just so lost in the shadows

I can't believe it

Someone within the shadows

Someone just like me

…But now, she had taken that chance…

You were by my side

You let me be who I wanted to be

No more lies, I'm just so free

Now…she was simply Kagome, Milla didn't exist anymore. Only Kagome existed, and she was free to be perfect, in her own way. A hard worker in Math, and a struggling student in English speaking. That was who Kagome was, the average teenager, who just so happened to help run a teens dance club. She was free.

Her music ended and she had finally gotten over her fear of doing what she loved without Milla. She bowed, as any proper singer would in a real fancy restaurant, and then she turned and exited the stage area.

"KAGOME!" Rin cheered. "That was amazing!"

"Thanks."

"Is that the song Miroku told me you were writing?"

"Yes"

"WOW!" Sango replied.

"So…I'm going to go change now," Kagome told them. "This Kimono is really heavy."

They nodded as Kagome turned back to the change room. After giving herself a few minutes of changing and letting her hair down, she put her Kimono back on the rack, before she returned to where Sango and Rin were now sitting. Sango from way back looked like she was sleeping, but Rin was fanning her with the fan what went with her Kimono.

"What happened?"

"You won't believe it, Yokia Rei just gave Sango a scholarship for a fashion collage for when she graduates."

"I heard, how much," Kagome asked.

"$100, 000," Rin told Kagome. "Per year, for Kijo Kana School of fashion and design." (Again I keep using my friend's nickname)

Kagome's eyes widened, "The fashion school that's almost as hard to get into as Tokyo U?"

"Yes," Rin nodded. "Sango fainted afterwards."

"I would imagine."

"Kagome, you look tired, Miroku says he'll be down in a few minutes to take over, I'm going to go home, you should too."

"Well I am tired, good night Rin, you better go home with Sesshomaru or Inu-Yasha, you're a young lady, but there's still dangers."

"I'm going home with Sessy, Inu-Yasha left a few minutes ago."

"Well that's good, good night."

With that Kagome turned and exited the back stage exit as she pushed the heavy metal door open. She heard the door close behind her as she cut through the alley and onto the sidewalk of the street. She breathed in deeply as the cool crisp night air hit her lungs.

She was surprised so many good things had happened that night. The renters were very happy with the turnout. The Fashion show went well, things for Sango were finally turning out, and Kagome got to sing on stage once more, she knew it would probably be her last time at the club singing, but she felt it turned out wonderfully.

Yet some things still lingered on in her mind. Inu-Yasha. He continued to look at her, stealing glances, even after everything, Kagome thought that he would at least try and stay away from her, but that wasn't the case. It was only turned into the old days, only without the bullying, yet with a twist.

His eyes always showed so much emotion, Kagome guessed the emotion he wouldn't let himself share with the world. That left her just wondering, how a pair of eyes could be so powerful, he shared the same eyes as his older brother…yet Sesshomaru's couldn't hold so much power in one glance.

She sighed as she shook the thought off. All she knew, next time she saw him; she'd have to face him. He couldn't talk to her, only his eyes could. He wanted something, so much that it sometimes scared Kagome when he stole glances. She'd have to talk to him.

That's when Kagome realized just how much Kami must have wanted her to talk to Inu-Yasha. Just as she turned the corner to her home, he sat on a bench. He was sipping on some hot beverage from a coffee shop, judging by the cup.

Being a hanyou, he turned and looked straight at her. That destroyed Kagome's idea of turning and going to Sango's. Yes, kami really liked to screw her up! He had finished, or didn't want his drink anymore because he threw it away in the garbage not two feet from him.

Only a few feet kept her from him. He stared at her with these eyes Kagome could hardly bear to look at. They sent so much guilt threw her system that it scared her. Knowing that somehow she caused someone, even a jerk like Inu-Yasha so much pain.

She stepped closer to him, a little afraid of what might happen, she was just about past him, when she felt it. He placed a hand lightly on her shoulder to tell her to stop without hurting her.

"We need to talk."

"About O.D.I right?" she replied without turning.

"Only a little bit."

"Then what?"

"I have to tell you Kagome, I never expected something like O.D.I, I can't say I deserved it, but I also can't say that I didn't, but besides that point, I also have to tell you that…even thought it was all a lie, I forgive you for it," he told her. "Yet… even though you hurt me a lot…I don't understand it myself…but it would seem that I'm in love with you."

Kagome still didn't turn to face him, she couldn't turn, and it frightened her to think of what the look on his face might look like. Yet she ended up facing him in a twist of fate when he stepped back and tilted her head up by using his thumb and index finger, she never got to look at him that second because as soon as she forced her to face him, his lips were pressed against hers.

The kiss was sadly hardly anything to brag about. It was just skin touching skin, she didn't react to it, she couldn't, her mind had just gone completely blank. All she could think about was what was going to happen the second he pulled away.

That happened a second later, he pulled away, and looked almost to the sky, as if he could read the stars. Yet Kagome knew he couldn't. She knew he was trying to fight back all his emotion. She always thought it was easy for hanyou's and youkai, she guessed it was even hard when it was something that really hurt them on the inside.

"I'm sorry Kagome," he replied. "I shouldn't have done that." He then stepped ahead again, but this time kept going down the street. Kagome could feel her hot tears pour down her cheeks in streams. She closed her eyes and as she let it all burst free from herself.

"Everything I told you was the truth," she said loud enough so she knew he heard her clearly. "O.D.I was a lie, but the things Mil- I told you were things that were all true. I lied when you asked me, I thought I couldn't let you know, but I can't hold it anymore."

She turned so quickly she felt dizzy, he already was facing her with his head only turned slightly in her direction, "Inu-Yasha, you should know what while O.D.I was going on, I learned things about you I never knew, you were kind, and sweet, and a real gentleman. And because I got to know you so well, I only realized a few days ago, because I saw the real you, I fell in love with you."

Her tears continued to run hotly down her cheeks as she watched him turn to face him completely. Her cheeks felt warm, but she also did on the inside. She smiled widely when she saw his expression; it was shocked, confused and happy all at once. The most emotion she's ever seen on his face ever. "And, I'd be honored if you cam over here and kissed me again."

It didn't take Inu-Yasha an other thought, he was already in front of her, with his arms around her slim waist, holding onto her like she might fade away. She held into him as well, her arms locked around him neck, forcing him down closer towards her.

"Wait until everyone hears about this," Kagome thought as she continued to kiss Inu-Yasha.

The End

&&&&

Kiaira: Okay everyone! That's the end…until the epilogue is out, it will be shorter, so it will be out soon. The epilogue basically just tells what happened over the next few years, but not in summary, in a normal story wise.

Man it has been busy here, I just got a Chinchilla, and it's a baby so it could take some time.

Just a question, what was everyone's fav O.D.I date?

Oh and with the two-oringinal songs I have in this chapter, I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in writing some music for either song. I'd love it if maybe someone would send me a file of them playing an instruments and or singing either one. I'd love to receive some.

Love you all, thank you for all your love and support throughout the fic!