Chapter 15

Kagome tossed and turned but to no avail, so she took a pillow and snuck downstairs. She sat on the bottom step, clutching the pillow and instantly fell asleep.

Inuyasha woke up the next morning and left his room, he was aobut to go to the bathroom when he saw something on the steps. He looked, it was kagome and she was asleep. She was wearing his shirt and her gym shorts again. He poked her and she kind of slumped so he picked her up and put her back in her room. He sat in front of the tree instead of going back downstairs and looked at all the decorations. The same red and gold orbs and the three Santas were on there just like every Christmas but there was a new ornament. It was a picture of him and Kagome all dressed up and smiling brightly, waving at the people taking the picture. They were just little kids...Inuyasha stared at the gold frame trying to figure out what grade they were in. "You were both in third grade, it was after the Christmas concert. Remeber? Kagome sang a solo." Inu turned around to see Sesshomaru standing there, a slightly groggy Shippo half asleep on his hip and Kagome had just come up behind Sesh almost in tears beacuase she'd woke up and she'd been moved from her haven. She made brief eye contact with Inuyasha and the tears vanished but he'd already seen them. "Well now that everyone's up let's open presents shall we?"She pushed past Inuyasha and sorted out all the presents. Everyone loved their gifts. Kagome got a laptop from Sesshomaru and a gorgeous new blue coat to match her boots and scarf from Shippo. She checked all the other tags but there was no gift from Inuyasha. This hurt her a bit but she fought back the tears by telling herself she was being selfish and greedy.

After everyone went back top their mrooms to admire their new gifts Kagome remained on the couch, looking at her gifts without really seeing them. She loved her nice gifts but she was really hurt because Inuyasha hated her. "kagome?" She looked up, it was Inuyasha holding two small gifts that were poorly wrapped. "Uhhhh...here." He tossed them to her and then sat on the back of the couch with his back to her. She opened them and smiled, one was a necklace. It was a locket on a fine gold chain, it had a blue rose on the front and 'I love you' evgraved on the back. Inside was a picture of each of them, she laughed because he was scowling in his picture and opened the other gift. It was a silver charm bracelet. There was a heart, a rose, a small pairt of ears, an 'I'm sorry' and an 'I love you'. She smiled and fingered the I love you charm, "Thank you Inuyasha...but...I never expected you to apologize. I was never mad..I thought you were.." Inuyasha put the jewelry on her and they wlaked into the kitchen only to be stopped in the doorway by Rin, Sesshomaru, Shippo, Kagura, and Sesh's green haired friend Jaken. "Mistoe! Mishy! Mish!" Shippo was squeaking at them through a mouthful of toast. Sesh pointed above the doorway to some mistletoe, "Its mistletoe so you two have to kiss!" Inuyasha blushed crimson and looked away but Kagome turned his face to hers and nodded, smiling. He smiled and kissed her, it was deep and passionate yet still light. They broke apart to cheers, applause, and Rin's video camera, "Smile!" Inuyasha frowned because he knew she was going to tape the rest of the day and she did. That night Kagome snuck downstairs and walked through the pitch blackness of the basement over to Inu's bedroom doorway. She walked through and laid on the floor. She'd just started to feel sleepy when she felt two arms wrap around her waist and pull her up onto the bed. She got under the covers and snuggled up to Inu's bare chest. falling asleep pretty much instantly. Inuyasha played with a hole in his pajama pants pocket, listening to her slow and steady breathing. "I love you Kagome...Merry Christmas." he puts his arm around her waist and fell asleep too.

Author's note: woohoo! 15 chapeters and none of this was typed at Xnmas! haha XD but I did write this story near Xmas so it makes sense.