A/N: Well, I found out that I'm a gypsy! That's right, my entire family on my father's side are gypsies, and therefore I have gypsy blood. Anyway, I figured that I'd proclaim my gypsy heritage. I went to school dressed like a gypsy and danced around the school. Eventually, my clumsiness caught up with me. I broke my ankle! Lol, just my luck! Anyway, I'm in major pain right now, but I decided I'd update for you guys!

Inuyasha is a merciless assassin who can never satisfy his lust for blood. His life is full of lies, cheating, drugs, sex, and killing. And then he is hired to kill a girl who is different from all the others, and his bitterness is put to the test. Can she change him from the monster he is?

Chapter 7:

"Show me who he is and I swear to you I will kill him!" Inuyasha's fury exploded as he held Kagome, mounting higher and higher until he couldn't control his anger. He slowly untangled Kagome's body from his own and stood up in a fiery rage. He paced back and forth beside the brook, the peaceful atmosphere doing absolutely nothing to calm him. He kicked and spat at the ground, splashed an angry hand through the water, and tore at his hair. He felt an overwhelming need to protect Kagome, the girl that had suddenly gotten him to open up. And under his protectiveness was the constant voice reminding him of his weakness, forcing him to keep hiding his emotions whenever he felt his shield edging away. The voice that kept reminding him that he was supposed to kill her.

"I don't want to get you involved. I don't know how dangerous he is, Inuyasha! I don't want you getting hurt."

Her voice sparked something horrible inside of his. With a shriek of anger, he raced towards her and grabbed her by her shoulders, his nails digging into her soft flesh. He ignored her flinch of pain and the soft, pitiful cry that escaped her lips. He shook her violently, her hair flying around her face, her eyes full of fear.

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? ARE YOU JUST GOING TO LET HIM KEEP HURTING YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO LET IT GET WORSE AND WORSE UNTIL HE KILLS YOU ONE DAY? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE WAITING FOR? YOU-" and suddenly his rage was cut off by her sobs of pain and fear. He slowly released her from his violent grip, backing away and shaking his head in regret. He watched with horror as drops of blood began to grow from the places where he had dug his nails into her flesh. He looked from her eyes to her lips to the blood and her hand gripping her shoulder in pain, and then he remembered the bruise.

"Oh my God… Oh my God…" he murmured over and over again, shaking his head harder. Kagome looked down, tears streaming down her face. Her lips quivered and she bit her bottom lip softly, expressing her pain and feelings of betrayal. Inuyasha took three quick steps towards her, his arms outstretched to embrace her, but she stepped back quickly. She wrapped her arms around her self and cowered away from him.

"Kagome, I-" he began to speak, trying to send the words welling inside of his heart out through his mouth. But she held up a hand to stop him, and he drew back in horror as her hurt suddenly turned into anger and she raced at him. He took a step back, bracing himself as he watched her as if her actions were in slow motion. She first clenched her fists, her feet pushing off the ground as she leapt at him, and her mouth opened to form a shriek of anger as her body made contact with his. And then she was punching his chest, her fists making contact with his firm body, then drawing back to hit him again and again and again. And then, after about fifteen hits, she shrunk back and fell to the ground, sobbing hysterically.

Inuyasha slowly sat beside her, his heart taking over his mind, and wrapped his arms around her carefully. And then she was kissing him, passion emerging from her lips to his and his arms were holding her tightly against his body and her hands were pressing on either side of his face and she was pressing her body against his. And then his lips were on her neck, and the on the wounds that he had made on her arms, licking away the blood and kissing the wounds and then his lips found their way back to hers and more time passed than Inuyasha could keep track of until they pulled apart, holding on to one another as if they would die if they let go.

"I'm sorry Kagome. I'm sorry… sorry… sorry," his lips kept muttering the word over and over until she pressed a finger against his lips to silence him and then she smiled at him, saying all she needed to say, understanding that what he had done was out of desperation and frustration.

"I think…" Kagome began, smiling, but then her voice faded away. Yet her soft smile was still there.

"What?" Inuyasha asked, grinning. Kagome fell on top of him playfully, giggling, not knowing how much of a turn-on her flirting was to him. "What?" he asked again, a soft laugh escaping his lips.

"I think I…" she added one other word to her sentence, playing with Inuyasha. Her fingers trickled down his stomach to the belt of his pants and she played, flirting, with the button.

"C'mon, spit it out Kagome," Inuyasha said, breathing heavily from the turn-on of her actions. "I'm not good with suspense," he said, grinning. "Sometimes I… get… a little… CRAZY!" he yelled.

Kagome screamed and laughed as he turned her over and straddled her, tickling her sides and then her stomach and then her neck, and she giggling and kicked about, begging for mercy. Then, his lips took the place of his hands, exploring her body and tickling her neck, then nipping her ear playfully. They rolled around and kissed and explored one anothers' bodies until Kagome spoke out what she was teasing Inuyasha with a few minutes before.

"I think I love you!" she exclaimed, stopping him dead in his tracks, his lips two inches below her belly button.

He looked up at her, his eyes meeting hers in a shocking gaze. Then, a genuine smile grew on his face and he moved his lips up to hers and they continued kissing and rolling around. Their worlds only contained one another, not paying attention to their surroundings until they reached the end of the forest ground and dropped one foot into the brook, the water engulfing them as Kagome shrieked with laughter.

Inuyasha soon found himself laughing too as they continued kissing each other in the cold, icy, brook water. And then he sat up in the foot-deep water, and brought Kagome into his lap.

Her words froze him even more than the icy water of the brook:

"Do you love me, too?"

A/N: Oh boy, how is he gonna answer this? I was planning on making the chapter a lot longer, but then I didn't because I think this makes a pretty good cliffhanger. I'll only update if I get REVIEWS! C'mon people, good or bad, lol! Have mercy on my, I'm crippled with a broken ankle!