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"Talking"

'Thinking'

Last Time

"Naraku is one of the most wanted men in Japan as we speak," Sesshoumaru began.

"Yes, I think I have heard about Naraku before, now that I think about it. He is a dangerous shape-shifiting demon," Miroku added.

"Indeed, he has killed human and demon alike. One human in particular Kenji Higurashi." Sesshoumaru stated with seriousness in his voice.

Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha were stunned. That was Kagome's father.

"Kagome...what are you doing out here? Why are you crying?"

Kagome didn't say a word, she just wiped her tears from her eyes and got up and tried walking way.

"Kagome, stop! Why are you leaving? Why can't you just tell me what's wrong?"

Kagome stopped for a moment, then turned around to face Inuyasha.

"I don't want anything to happen to you. Or anyone else. I can't let you get near me, or you'll die. So just move on and live without me." Kagome said only loud enough so that Inuyasha could hear. Before running off out of night.

Chapter 7: Mixed Feelings

Inuyasha just stood there, not moving his position from where he was standing. Kagome had already disappeared into the distance, and yet he didn't go after her. Still shocked from what Kagome had said. How could she expect him to stay away from her?

'Holy shit, what is wrong with me? Why do I care so much? Yeah, she's my best friend but why is it that it hurts so much when she pushes me away? It's almost as if something is missing,' Inuyasha thought to himself.

Miroku and Sango walked up slowly behind him, not saying a word. They had witnessed the whole thing, neither of them not knowing how to react at all.

"Inuyasha...are you ok?" Miroku asked cautiously.

Inuyasha turned to his friends, pain was written all over his face. His face turned down the ground as he just stood there for a minute not saying anything.

"Inuyasha...?" Sango called his name. Inuyasha just standing there not saying anything was unnerving.

Inuyasha then looked straight at his friends, determination in his eyes. There was something more then that though, as Sango and Miroku could see. At this time they didn't know what it was, that's what scared them the most.

"Inuyasha, at the risk of being scared by what you're planning I'm going to ask, what are you thinking?" Miroku raised an eyebrow.

A confident smirk spread across Inuyasha's face, before he ran off in the direction of Kagome's house. Miroku and Sango just stood there not sure what to do.

"What are the chances that Inuyasha is going to make this worse?" Sango asked Miroku.

"Very good, I believe." Miroku nodded.

With Kagome and Inuyasha...

Inuyasha climbed in the window of Kagome's bedroom. There she was just sleeping on her bed. He walked over to the sleeping girl and sat down besides her bed.

Kagome probably had just got home because she was still in her regular clothes and had not changed into her pajama's. Even though she was asleep tears still escaped her eyelids.

Inuyasha was very worried about her, his eyes softened as he looked at the girl before him. He wiped away the stray tears and tucked Kagome under the blankets.

"Inuyasha...please...don't die..." Kagome wined in her sleep, she was having a nightmare.

These words shocked Inuyasha, what could Kagome possibly be dreaming about? Gently Inuyasha shook Kagome awake.

"Inuyasha..? What are you doing here?" Kagome asked half asleep, sitting up on her bed.

"Kagome, I don't know what's going on with you but I just wanted you to know that no matter what, I will protect you." Determination was written all over Inuyasha's face, his eyes held a very serious expression.

"Inuyasha..." Kagome bowed her head, making her bangs cover her eyes.

Inuyasha kneeled down on his knee's so he could try to see Kagome's eyes. Taking his index finger and lifted her chin to look into her eyes.

Tears flowed down Kagome's face, it pained Inuyasha to see her likes this.

'Why Inuyasha? Why are you doing this? I can't be near you, I don't want Naraku to kill you!" Kagome screamed in her mind.

"Kagome, why won't you tell me what's wrong? I already know this has something to do with that Naraku bastard. He killed your father, didn't he Kagome?" Inuyasha pressed for answers.

"How...how do you know about that?" Kagome stuttered.

"I had Sesshoumaru do some digging, Kagome tell me, what's going on?" Inuyasha wanted to know what hurt her so bad that she couldn't even be near him.

"Inuyasha...I can't...he'll kill you too. I can't tell you. I don't want you to die." Kagome finally broke down into sobs of tears.

Inuyasha eyes softened, stunned by Kagome's words. Before he thought of anything else, he sat on Kagome's bed next to her, and pulled her into a warm embrace. Kagome's eyes widened for a second in shock before she melted in his arms.

'Inuyasha...you really do care, don't you?' Kagome thought to herself, as the tears welled in here eyes once again as she hid her face in Inuyasha's chest and broke down.

Inuyasha just held her tighter, whispering reassuring words of comfort in her ear. Both Inuyasha and Kagome stayed like that for awhile, until Kagome had fallen asleep. Once Inuyasha was sure Kagome was asleep, he pulled her into his lap and held her against his chest.

'I'll always protect you, Kagome.' Was the last thought before Inuyasha fell asleep as well.

Next Morning...

Kagome was the first to awaken from her peaceful rest. She looked at her surroundings to discover that she was in Inuyasha's lap. A light shade of pink crept upon Kagome's face.

'He is so cute when he's sleeping,' Kagome thought to herself, bringing a bright smile on her face.

Then she thought to herself this was the perfect opportunity too rub Inuyasha's cute little doggy ears, so she let her hand reach up to the top of Inuyasha's head, but without even opening his eyes Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hand.

"Don't even think about it," Inuyasha said with a smirk and opening his golden eyes.

Kagome answered with a pouty face and got off Inuyasha's lap and into her closet to pick out her clothes for the day.

"Inuyasha, you might want to go home and take a shower and change out of those clothes," Kagome said from inside her closet.

"Feh, all right I'll come back and pick you up when I'm done ok?" Inuyasha walked over to the closet.

"Yeah, sure." Was Kagome's only response.

"I'll pick you up in a half an hour," Inuyasha informed Kagome before jumping out her window and running to his place.

Kagome picked out her clothes and started her morning routine. Take a shower, comb hair, get dressed, eat breakfast, think of ways to kill Kikyou while waiting for Inuyasha to pick her up. Kagome put on a blue sweater where the sleeves were like miko sleeves with regular, blue jean hip huggers, with white tenis shoes. She let her hair down and put on some lip gloss and eye liner before she went into the kitchen and grabbed a piece of toast before waiting at the bottom of the shrine steps for Inuyasha.

It was only a few minutes after she had walked down the shrine steps before Inuyasha pulled up in his red convertible. He was wearing a tight white T-shirt and black jeans. Kagome got into the passenger seat of the car and they drove off to school.

Fourth Period...

Class was boring as usual. Inuyasha was sitting right next to Kagome, Kagome trying to keep from falling asleep. Inuyasha took out a piece of paper and quickly wrote something on it and passed it to Kagome.

The note read...

Kagome,

Meet me on the roof after school, I need to talk to you about something important.

Inuyasha

After Kagome had read the note she looked over at Inuyasha a gave him a nod for her response.

Kikyou saw Inuyasha pass the note to Kagome, rage just built up inside her. She had to get that note.

The bell for the end of class finally rang, while everyone was going out the door Kikyou had walked up behind Kagome and pushed her down making her drop all her stuff, even the note.

Kikyou quickly bent down and snatched the note then left the class room.

"Bitch..." Kagome whispered under her breath.

"Here let me help you," Inuyasha bent down next to her and helped pick up her things.

Kagome gave him a bright smile, making Inuyasha blush but making sure she didn't see that.

Lunch

"He stayed the night with you!" Sango exclaimed.

"Yeah I just woke up this morning in his lap..." Kagome whispered the last part but Sango heard her anyway.

"IN HIS LAP!" Sango shrieked.

Kagome covered Sango's mouth with her hand.

"Sango-chan be quiet people are staring."

Sango pushed off Kagome's hand and looked at her very seriously.

"Kagome-chan, did you use protection?"

"SANGO-CHAN!" Kagome screamed.

"Now look who's yelling, and chill out Kagome-chan, I'm just kidding." Sango giggled.

"Anyway, Inuyasha told me in a note that he wants to meet me on the roof after school because he has something very important that he wants to talk to me about," Kagome said a little annoyed with Sango.

"Oh my god! Are you serious!" Sango was excited, was Inuyasha finally going to tell Kagome that he likes her?

"Yeah, I hope it's nothing too serious." Kagome said in a worried tone.

"Oh I think it's serious, but I'll think you'll be happy." Sango gave her a reassuring smile.

After School

Kagome and Sango were standing at Kagome's locker while she gathered up her things.

"So...Kagome-chan, what do you think he's wants to talk to you about?" Sango asked, even though she had an idea of what it was already.

"I don't know." Kagome said simply.

"Kagome-chan, you like Inuyasha don't you?" Sango gave Kagome an evil smirk.

"What! No of course not...ok...maybe a little...no more then a little...all right, all right A LOT GEEZ! STOP ASKING ME!" Kagome yelled.

"Uh...Kagome-chan I only asked you once.." Sango giggled.

"Hehehe...heh...I...knew...that.." Kagome said nervously.

"Well I got to get home, good luck!" Sango said smiled before leaving the school building.

Kagome put the rest of her things in her backpack then started walking towards the door to the roof. Up the 8 flight of stairs, when she finally reached the door to the roof, what she saw surprised her.

Inuyasha and Kikyou kissing...

A/N: Sorry for another short chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. Please read and review.