Hey guys. I really like the way this is going so far. It seems a little weird but I think it will pull through.

I really want to dedicate this chapter to Garnetgirl. She has helped me keep the faith in this story even after I became stuck. Thank You.

And they all lived happily ever after,

Queen of Hearts (Jamie)

Chapter 4

Don't own Inuyasha

Inuyasha sat beside Kagome's bed and held her hand. He couldn't let go. Not now or she would die for sure. If she knew she had something to hold on to. I have to make her see that I'll always be here for her to hold on to, Inuyasha thought. The doctor said it wasn't right. She should've been dead a few days ago but she was a fighter. But they also tried to encourage the rest of her family and close friends by saying if she had survived this long she could make it through.

It was the hardest thing Inuyasha could do to sit there and not be able to help her in any way. The only good thing that could be said about any of this was that now they knew how they felt about each other. The question was; would it do them any good now? If someone knew about this they also knew that Inuyasha was not the kind of person to stand for any kind of pain to him or to someone he knew and cared about.

He sat the night up with her and couldn't fall asleep. He was too worried about her. He climbed into the bed beside her and laid his head gently on her shoulder. God, it felt good to hold her, he thought. He could smell her too. She smelled mostly like the hospital now but that did not completely erase her smell. She smelt like hot chocolate and cinnamon. It was a very sweet mix and he liked it very much.

Just then a tear fell from his eye to land on her shoulder where his head rested. "Kagome, I don't know if you can hear me but I just wanted to tell you that I love you again. I hope you can hear me. I know I'm not the best person in the world and I know I never treated you right. Hell, I treated you the exact opposite of what I should have. But I love you. I know I'm not much to fight death for but maybe my love is." He was shaking now. His words, trembling from his lips. "God, please don't take her from me now. I love her so much. If you want I'll fight you for her. I know I don't have any godly powers but I have my determination to keep this woman alive. I also have my love for her to give my determination strength. Just don't take her from me now. Please, please, please…" He whispered the word over and over again until he fell asleep.

Unknown to him, Kagome's family watched on with approving smiles curving everyone's face. Everyone, that is, besides Souta who was laughing out loud. Although he was careful to be quiet so as not to wake up the sleeping boy.

Inuyasha woke up to someone's soothing hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see Kagome stroking his shoulder softly. She moved her hand then and stroked his cheek instead. When her hand came away wet he realized that he had been crying in his sleep. He hugged her gently and began crying in earnest into her shoulder. "Kagome. I never meant to do this to you. It's all my fault. I'm so sorry."

She stroked his hair while he cried and then pulled away from him just enough to see his face. "Inuyasha, this was never your fault. I love you and I always will. Because of how I felt I made some wrong decisions. I'm sorry for how I handled everything. I never meant for you to feel guilty. None of this was ever your fault."

"Kagome…" He was silent for a while and then, "Kagome, listen. I've known you for a long time and all through the years I've slowly given more and more of my heart to you and now I can't think of anything better to do than to give you that heart completely." He watched the play of emotions on her face, loving it all. Every new emotion on her face was just as precious as the last, until finally the emotion that settled on her face was love.

"Inuyasha…I don't understand what you're saying." She looked up at him loving every little feature of his face. The way he looked at her made her heart do summersaults that she swore were meant to make her want to lean into him for support.

"Kagome. I'm asking you to marry me. I love you with all my heart and I think it's time you owned it. Will you marry me?" Inuyasha looked at her expectantly.

Sorry for the shortness. I don't know what I'm going to do with this story. I get the idea for all my stories in my dreams. I hope this story will be no different. Thank you all for reading. Please review. Thank you.

And they all lived happily ever after,

Queen of Hearts (Jamie)