Disclaimer: Don't own Inu, never have.


A bad situation, but one that we hadn't been in before. Spiders, hell, she's going to be terrified of spiders before this is over. Here we where, in some fucking cave, looking for a jewel shard when we suddenly got ambushed by those spider head things. Again…

I guess that I should start thinking of these things as a mortal enemy, right up there with Naraku, Sesshomaru and Kouga. The evil spider heads. Now that just sounds stupid.

But, they got us again. I guess I should give them some props, spiders have a horrible way of ruining my life. First of all, we have to deal with the biggest spider of all, Naraku. He's one giant hairy spider who spins his web and is always playing with his puppets. Flies he attracted to him, only to eat them and tie his silk to their husk so that he can lure others towards his trap. Then we have our first encounter with spider heads, which made me reveal my secret when I could have lasted another month without telling Kagome. Another month where I wouldn't have let it slip that I had begun feeling something her. And now we've met them again, right when I was about to actually tell her what I felt. Great, just great. Stupid fucking spiders.

So here I am, tied up in great web while spider heads are scurrying all around us. Miroku is just below me, tied up all the way up his neck, just so that his head can be seen. Shippou is already encased, while they're only getting to work on Sango. Kagome is just to the left of me, upside down and her green skirt flipped so she was showing off way more skin then usual. And she was now mumbling about perverted spiders and thanking god that Miroku had been knocked out.

I wasn't at all panicked. I knew Shippou was still struggling in his cocoon and that Sango was still kicking. I guess Miroku just had an unnatural fear of spiders and that's what had gotten to him. Kagome was trashing around, and I was just fine. None of those spiders had come anywhere near Kagome, or me. They where all busy with Sango at the moment, and I for one, was shamelessly enjoying the view.

"Oi! Kagome!" I finally yelled over towards her, who in turn turned to glare at me. She knew I could get us out of here in a split second.

"What do you want?" She yelled back, now blushing pink as her shirt began to slip up towards her head.

"If we get out of this alive, I love you!" She stared at me more a moment then blushed deeper.

"What?"

"I said I love you, damn it!"

"Only you could be romantic in a time like this!" Below us Sango gasped and stared over at Miroku, who was surely missing out on a great show.

"Well, do I get points for trying?"

"Yes! Yes you idiot! Now get us down from here!"

"Fine!" I glared over at her; this wasn't how I had really planned on telling her. But it had seemed halfway right to only tell her in a time like this. And halfway was the best I was ever going to get. I huffed somewhat moodily, not really compelled to do anything. So what, if we all got eaten by spiders at least I was going to take her down with me.

"Ugh! You're such a jerk! Sit!" And with that, the beads activated, bringing the whole web crashing down, Kagome, spiders and all, with me.

It took awhile for us all to get untangled. Miroku was still unconscious, Shippou had been unwrapped and Sango was currently off killing the spider heads that still lurked in the cave with Kirara. That left me with an angry kitsune and an angry Kagome.

Now, if things had gone to plan it would have happened something like this. A giant ugly, something would have had the jewel shard, which would capture Kagome at some point. Then I would save her from his evil smellyness, blast it to pieces and proclaim my love to Kagome right after she had gotten the shard. Then she would say she loved me too, blah blah blah. You see, perfect.

But no, that wasn't how it had turned out and now I was stuck with a moody Kagome who knew my secret. Who actually knew what I felt for her. And now she held so much power over me that it was scary. She had the power to turn me down, she had the power to think of how she would respond, instead of just being wooed into saying she loved me too. Terrifying.

I watched her out of the corner of my eye as she rocked Shippou back and forth in her arms, crooning to him and telling him that those evil spiders will never get to him again. It was hard not to be a bit jealous as I watched her. What wouldn't I give to watch her cuddling some miniature version of myself in her arms. I know that Miroku would have laughed at me, said I was acting like some lovesick puppy. Well, damn it! I'm in love, it's making me sick not to know how she feels about me, and goddamn I am just a puppy when you get down to it. Grumbling unhappily I crossed my arms over my chest, a purely defensive position, even if it makes you look tough, and let out a small 'feh'.

Kagome turned to look at me as she placed the now sleeping Shippou next to Miroku. It was hard to meet her curious gaze, but I glared back, every nerve in my body now going on the fritz as she continued to stare at me. Slowly, so very very, tantalizingly slowly, she crept towards me until she was right in front of me, balanced on top of her knees.

"InuYasha?" She asked attentively. I just continued to glare at her as I muttered out another little:

"Feh."

"I…um…well." I watched her fiddle with her hands. Finally, she bit her lip as she brushed her hair behind her ears as she stared at me. "Say it again."

"I don't know what you're talking about…" Maybe if I pretend that I didn't say it, it will all just go away. Then I could try again and get it perfect next time.

"You know what I want to hear. Believe me, its taking all myself control not to jump you right now…" She bit her lips, and continued to stare at me.

"Jump…me?" I asked, while secretly wondering what the hell that meant.

"Well, you know. Just kinda jump on you, and uh…kiss you and…stuff…?" She trailed off, now breaking my gaze. And, like the idiot I am, all I could do was make a bit of a fish face at her, just a dumbstruck "O".

"I love you."

"Do you?"

"Of course! I wouldn't have said it if I didn't meant it." I glared at her, she was really stupid sometimes.

"And you won't leave me for Kikyou?" She snapped her eyes back to mine, checking for any proof that I might be lying to her.

"No. I have a duty to Kikyou, but as of now you are so much more important then her that…well. I dunno, she doesn't even exist for all I care." Kagome smiled happily at me and suddenly lunged forward, hugging me around my neck.

"I love you! I love you so much, I can't believe you didn't know how much I love you!" She started crying suddenly as she pulled away to stare at me again. "You're just so…unbelievable!" She hastily whipped away her tears and stared down at my lips.

"Uh…"

"You're so stupid! Just so, so very stupid!" And with that she lunged at me again, only this time instead of hugging me she kissed me.

My whole head was kind of floating in a happy fuzzy place. Like I didn't have a care in the world, no more Naraku, no more Sesshomaru, no more competing with Kouga over Kagome. She loved me, I loved her. We had actually said it out loud. It was a miracle in my book! And all of this without interruptions by anyone! I'd died and gone to heaven!

But then a loud coughing noise could be heard behind us, Miroku had jus woken up, saw us kissing, or as Kagome would later call it "making out", whatever the hell that meant, and decided it was time to break us up. Kagome lunged backwards, seemingly forgetting that she had tangled her hands in my hair. And with her hands went a few strands of my hair. So there we where, blushing idiots who where out of breath as if we had just ran the marathon.

"I…"

"Umm…"

"Well, well well…" Miroku sat up and stared at us, grinning lecherously at us all the while. "Just wait until Sango hears about this! Perhaps she will finally come over to my side of thinking. If InuYasha can admit his feelings then perhaps Sango can do so as we-," Kagome suddenly cut him off with the single yell of:

"SPIDER!" Miroku promptly passed out. Kagome turned to stare at me.

"Umm…"

"Yea…"

"Well…"

"It was certainly better then our first kiss."

"No claws this time."

"Yea." We stared at each other some more before Kagome grinned at me slyly. "So, meet you tonight after everybody is asleep, 'Kay?" I stared at her, a bit dumbfounded. I nodded and she gave me a little peck on the lips before voicing her concerns for Sango. "I wonder where she went? Shouldn't she be back by now?"

Okay, so maybe spiders aren't all that bad. So they might be these great big, hairy, nasty things. But when it comes to bonding people over trauma…well nothing better works. As for Sango, she came back a fifteen minutes, shard in hand. And as for Kagome, and me well lets just say we lived…Happily Ever After.

Or as happily as you can with annoying neighbors like Miroku….


A/n: Popping in quick, just to let you know that I have an actual story worked out in my mind. No, it won't be twenty chapters long, look for it to be about...oh, three to five chapters long. So, keep your eyes peeled for it. Thanks and please review!