The Love of Angels Fallen By: Kyd Fizziks and Eincrow

'Yeah,' he thought to himself, 'Yeah, I'll tell her.'

Getting up from his perch in the god tree and jumping down onto the soft grass below, the young hanyou Inu Yasha got up and dashed off into the forest in search of his, well, companion, Kagome.

'She isn't your mate yet, don't think like that!' he admonished himself. Catching her scent, he was taken in by the tantalizing smell that was her. She smelled clean and fresh, just like wild flowers and other beautiful and wonderful things. He dashed left, and there she was, sitting under a tree, away from their camp on the edge of a small clearing.

"Kagome!" he called out to her, not wanting to startle her by just popping up before her. After him telling her that every noise may have been a demon she had finally gotten the point.

'I need to do this right,' he thought. She looked up, smiling at him, overjoyed at the arrival of his company. She had always felt close to him, there was just something about him, beside the fact that he was a half demon with the body of a god! She felt a little surge of energy in the pit of her stomach at the thought. A small tremor of excitement washed over her, and she tried her best to cover it up.

"Oh. Hi, Inu Yasha!" Standing, she walked towards him. 'Oh shit! Here we go!' raced through his mind.

"Um. Kagome? I have something to tell you." He trailed off; his eyes darted from Kagome with difficulty, over to the edge of the clearing to his left. And there, hidden by the spring leaves until that moment, his golden eyes met two pairs of small bright green orbs, glimmering in the darkness.

He stared, awestruck, as one, and then another demon, shorter than the first by six or seven inches, entered the clearing. The first one held himself to a bit of a regal air, looking down on the hanyou with a bit of distain in his expression, his crème puff of a tail twitching out from behind it.

The second had rich, dark crème hair reaching almost to her feet. An asset when compared against the many forests of which she came from. Her eyes were a light brown. Her clothes were practical, wearing nothing loose or hanging to get caught by a branch when leaping from one to the next. Right now, for she changed with the landscape, she wore soft, brown, leather boots with swaths of dark green cloth wrapped around them. Moss colored pants, poofing out slightly, were tucked into them. Her shirt was form fitting, showing a quite obvious bust, and definitely not reflecting the times but a smarter decision than the usual wide kimono sleeves. Its face was softer, and calmer that the first, who held a whisper of nervousness inside with the situation at hand. "Identify yourselves!" barked Inu Yasha. "Kagome, stay behind me" he said softly.

"Stand down pup! We'll get to that!" Said the male gruffly, commanding tone present. This male strangely reminded Kagome of a jumbo version of Shippo, well a little more mature version, of course.

*** Back at camp***

Shippo was rummaging through Kagome's much-abused backpack. Things were thrown out, landing in a heap, as he searched for what we all knew was his addiction: candy. But a scent reached his small curious nose that made him pop right out of the bag, and look wildly around.

It was so close! 'But it can't be! Their dead!' His eyes darted about. 'I have to make sure!' And with that, he barreled into the trees to the left of the god tree clearing, a blur of brown and crème fur.

*** Back with Inu Yasha and Kagome***

"Look pal! I'm not playing games! Who are you, and what do you want!" Inu Yasha yelled across the clearing, his golden eyes glinting.

"I thought I said to stand DOWN!" Finishing his sentence, he made a thrust with his right paw which hurtled Inu Yasha sideways into a nearby tree with a resounding *THUD*.

"Insolent little whelp!" The first stranger muttered. At this point, the second creature, Kagome guessed was the previous male's mate, judging by the aura of closeness they shared, approached.

"Are you the young miko, Kagome?" She asked, her voice a breathy alto. Looking into the demoness' brown eyes, Kagome snapped out of her stupor.

"Um. yeah." She responded simply.

"Oh, now you've." Inu Yasha's voice issued from the badly beaten tree from her right, which Inu Yasha had been forced to be very friendly with these last fifteen seconds, but it was cut off by a loud squeal from behind her followed by the blur of fur that was Shippo.

"Grandma! Grandpa!" he cried, jumping into the female's arms, which folded quickly over the ball of fluff.

"Oh! Shippo!" She hugged him close. "It's been too long. I've missed my only grandson." The female said quietly and with emotion almost blocking the words in her throat.

Looking down at her grandson, a small tear escaping her eye, pride at the gleam of courage the little Kitsune had picked up since last they met. It seemed that the arrival of Shippo made the male drop his authoritative air, for one of a fun-loving teenager.

"Hey Shippo! How are you, Grandson! I see you've been keeping these two in line?" He chuckled. Kagome just stood by, staring, mouth hanging open slightly, utterly blown away by this family reunion.

"Yeah, Kagome has been great! She's been all nice to me and everything, and Inu Yasha was okay, even if he beat me up sometimes." His voice turned into a little annoyed growl at the end but it did not last. "But okay all the same!" responded Shippo excitedly to his estranged grandparents.

"Oh, that's right, Kagomeeee!" Shippo squealed out, with even more excitement. Kagome snapped out of her shocked stare.

"Huh?! What is it Shippo?" She enquired, stepping forward to see what the little fox demon wanted. She had done it for about a year now, hadn't she? She was almost. his mother.

"Kagome, I would like you to meet my grandparents! This is my Grandpa Cali and my Grandma Naja!" Each of the beautiful fox demons nodded as their names were mentioned.

"He's. our son's son." Said Cali, inclining his head, ruffling the kit's red hair. It still hurt to talk about his son's fall to those lightning brothers, not to mention the fall of their entire clan while they were away...

"Speaking of sons." Cali's eyes latched onto Inu Yasha. "Come over here. I think we may have interrupted a very important thing between you and Kagome." Cali said, his voice brightening.

"Ah, young love!" Whispered Naja to her mate, a smile causing dimples to appear. The color drained from Kagome's face, LOVE? Did Inu Yasha actually love her?

'But. no, it has to be Kikyo, but. well, I love him, and if he loves. *gulp*, me, then, could he be ask.?' Her thoughts stopped immediately as did her heart, almost, as she felt a pair of coarse hands encapsulate hers.

"Um, Kagome?" Her brown eyes suddenly locked onto his golden orbs.

'They are so beautiful,' she thought to herself.

"You don't have to ask, the answer is yes, I'll be your mate." Now, if he was expecting an answer, that wasn't it. He almost fell backward, his head was spinning, this had to be a dream, and it was too good to be true!

"You. you will?" he stammered.

"Yes." She said, smiling. Several things happened in rapid succession after that.

"Well, ya gonna kiss her or not?" Came the gruff voice of Shippo's grandpa from behind them, followed swiftly by Naja growling "Cali!" a sharp *WHAP!*.

"Ow! Sorry!" Cali replied softly. Then a huffy "You'd better be!" Then silence as they awaited the fateful first kiss.