Next Chapter! I was so disappointed that my story wasn't getting the reviews that I wanted.. But I realized that there is nothing that I can do about it and maybe people don't like my pairing. I have new inspiration and here it goes! sorry for the loooooooonnngggg wait.. i had a lil bit of writer's block.. meh... and now that im through havin a fit.. here's the long awaited next chapter!
MWAH!
Chapter 11: Aishiteru... I love you...
'...' Character's Thoughts
"..." Character Speaking
Sage's Speaking or Flashbacks
Link held Kagome's hand and marveled at her bright aura. Everything about her just made him tremble. He wanted to be around her everyday of his life.. to feel her presence about him every moment of his days. He didn't know why...
'Some things like this usually take time to realize... I shouldn't be feeling this.. not now...' he thought sadly, and he halted in his steps. 'What if she thinks I'm pressuring her?' His eyebrows crossed and he released her hand reluctantly, 'I am supposed to love Zelda... that's the way that destiny has foretold.' he felt a jolt in his heart and the sound of Kagome's voice filled his ears.
"Li-kun... daijoubu?" she looked at him, worry filling her orbs.
Link's heart seemed to stop at that moment, he felt it hard to breathe and the world began to blur and spin. He blinked and swallowed thickly...
'Kun... She called me... kun... no one's ever called me that...' he stared at her determinedly, and a smirk played across his lips, 'Kagome...'
The young maiden's eyes grabbed at his face, and she stared at him with half-lidded affection, her lashes flashing beautifully his way.
"Kagome... I want to show you this place... but you have to promise that you will try to keep it secret from Zel- er... anybody.. okay?" he stated.
She simply nodded, "I promise!" she said vivaciously, her hands clasping together behind her back.
"Good." he replied, smiling back at her, "Now, let's go... we don't want to waste anymore time." he said, moving forward, but not before stealing a quick smirk towards her.
Kagome giggled, "You sure seem vibrant!" she said, following quickly behind him, "Where are we going that's got you so excited? You got me wishin' we were already there!" she said.
Even without looking, Link knew she was smiling... and that made him wonder whether she was always like this... before... and after that bastard hurt her. Always so happy and jubilant. So strong hearted, and admirable. Such qualities made him think of the stories of his mother and father. He looked to the sky and squinted against the blindingly beautiful rays of sun.
Maybe today wouldn't be so hard on him. Kagome didn't seem the type of girl to be pushed aside.
'Ha. That's alright with me. Just as long as she warms up to my graces. Hehe..' he smirked, laughing aloud. He could hear it now... 'HENTAI!' he snickered.
"What's so funny now, Link?" Kagome said looking up at him with a look of mirth.
"Nothin'.." he stated, the laughter coming to an immediate halt.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. You sure laugh a lot for nothing to be funny.." she said, putting a crooked finger to her mouth.
"Maybe I just find humor in everything around me!" Link said, staring over his shoulder to look at her.
She raised a thin eyebrow, "Oooookkaaayy..." she laughed greatly. A kind of laugh that shook her shoulders and made her eyes tightly embrace her cheeks.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Nothin'."
"Oh SHUT UP" he grabbed his hat from his head and shoved it in her face, chuckling to himself when she stopped dead in her tracks and grabbed on to the green sock-for-a-hat.
Kagome still giggled slightly, but the smell of Link's hat was surprisingly... intoxicating. She expected it to smell like sweat and dirt, because, by the looks of this place, they didn't seem to have a grand supply of hair products. Peculiarly, it had a clean, earthen smell to it... the kind of aroma that would fill your senses... like an early spring morning, with the sun gazing down upon the Earth like one giant eye, lifting the dew from the freshly cut grassy hills.
She looked slowly over the brim of the hat towards Link's befuddled expression and blinked. It was now that she took the time to admire his features.. since the second she met him, he had always had his hat atop his head. Now that he had it off, his blonde hair shone softly and was pulled back into a tiny, messy, ponytail at the back of his neck, with a few strands sticking out here and there, with his bangs laying messily across his forehead.
"Hey.." he said, stepping forward, the crisp grass rustling under his boots, ".. can I have my hat back?"
Kagome continued to stare at him contently, lost in the sea of cerulean blue...
'He is so beautiful..'
Kagome shook her head and slapped herself mentally, dragging herself out of her stupor, and answered Link, "Hm..." Well.. almost answered him.
"Aw, c'mon."
Kagome smirked at him and put the hat on her own head, "No!" she giggled and held the hat upon her head with her hands.
"Yes.."
Kagome shook her head, "No!"
Link stared at her smiling figure and gripped the top of the hat, and pulled gently, but she held the hat down upon her head still, "C'mon Kagome, you're acting like a little girl.."
"And what's wrong with that?" she stuck her tongue out at him.
This was fun...
"What's wrong with acting like your a little kid is people start getting the wrong idea..." he smirked, putting a hand leisurely on his hip.
Kagome struggled from Link's grip, while still trying to keep the hat pressed firmly on her head, but it was no use... she stopped struggling and slowly looked up to his toned face and blinked.
'Oh my Goddess she is really pushing her limits here...' Link thought, as he felt himself blushing again. All the blood rushing to his face...
"Li-kun..." she began.
"Y-yes?" he choked out.
"I'm sorry for behaving the way I did.. I just thought I would have a little bit of fun is all," she looked at her shoes, "I'm sorry that I sounded immature.. that must be really unbecoming... and annoying." she released her grip on the hat, slowly.
/FLASHBACK!
"HEY KAGOME! Hurry up and quit acting like a damn idiot! Kami.. I can't get ANYTHING done around here! Stupid woman!"
/END FLASHBACK!
Remembering what Inuyasha had said made her want to scream... yet she loved him...
Link started and reached his hand to bring her face up to him, "Don't worry about it! Besides, no use getting worked up over this, I was only joking, it's just a stupid hat." he smiled warmly at her.
Something, somewhere inside him made him want to see her happy all the time.. made him want to make her smile.. to hear her laughter. Her happiness... released a feeling deep within him that he couldn't complain about... he couldn't put a finger on it.. but he couldn't complain about it either.
Link looked for something in her eyes... anything that could tell him what she was feeling right now.. he wanted to know..
Loneliness...
It sparked in her grey brown orbs... and then something else.. though he couldn't quite place it.. but..
...He would try.. he would try to empty all of the lonely feelings that she had inside of her and help her feel needed...
... wanted...
Kagome noticed that he had been staring for some time.. seemingly contemplating something... though she didn't know exactly what. At that moment, she wanted to cry... some emotion flared from within her that made her eyes brim with tears. She felt a loneliness that was so deep.. the ocean seemed like a puddle. All of the sudden, she felt so alone... that being homeless on the streets seemed like better company.
"It's because of Inuyasha..." she said aloud, accidentally... surprising herself, she jerked her head away from his gaze, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that.. forget I ever said that name." she said, fighting the urge to throw herself to the ground and beat a hole through it. Her voice strained, like a tight wire tied to two cars moving separate directions.
Link couldn't help it, "That was 'him' wasn't it..." he said, taking a step towards her.
Kagome was silent... she hugged herself and bit her lip.
'...he knew..'
"The one that I loved so dearly with all my heart... that I would have gladly died for him... yes... Inuyasha..." Kagome said.. her voice cracking slightly, hinting the quickly arising tears.
Link was alarmed and quickly took action..
'No more tears...'
'No more suffering...'
'I WILL NOT allow her to feel like this anymore...'
Link aggressively turned her body around, and placed his hands on her shoulders, boring into her frightened eyes, "Listen to me, Kagome! How can I help you understand that this... Inuyasha person... is a bastard! Love isn't something that you can just pass around.. the word 'love' is powerful... it should be used cautiously.. and the only time you should EVER say that you love someone..." he paused to pull her warmly into his arms, ".. is if you mean it... sincerely mean it.." he said, his voice cracking.
He buried his face in her hair, inhaling the sweet smell of roses, "Don't ever hang on to something that has nothing to hold on to.. don't lower your standards to love someone that doesn't deserve you... that isn't worthy of you... Kagome... you are worth so much more than him... you will wear yourself down.. using all of your energy on somethin' that only hurts you..." he ran his fingers through her silky raven hair, "I want you to be happy... happy like you were when we were walking through the Fields.. happy like that... always.. I don' wanna see you crying anymore..." he said and he hugged her to his body firmly, as if a breeze could come by and sweep her away from him any second.
Kagome leaned limply against Link's chest, listening to his words... feeling them soak into her heart and her mind... she slowly felt the emptiness melting away from her soul and the desire to be with Link was stronger than she had ever known... ever felt before, with anyone..
"Link..." she wrapped her arms around his well-defined body, "I.. I'm so--"
"No." he interrupted tenaciously, "Kagome.. don't say you're sorry. You have no reason to, dammit.." he said.
'Why?.. Why is Link doing this? What gives him the right to tell me what to do and what not to do.'
She could hear the steady beating of his heart in Link's chest come to rhythm with hers, and the perfect way that she fit underneath his chin made her so irresistibly lost with him that she felt almost dizzy.
'He is doing this because...'
"Kagome... you are more than likely going to freak out when I tell you this... but... here me out... there is something about you that has made me attracted to you in such a way that.. if I was away from you.. I would get so miserable.. I wouldn't know what to do with myself... the way you are.. the way you make me feel.. it's all so precious to me... I want to get to know you better.. I want..."
'... he cares for me..' she smiled against his chest and moved closer to him.
Link paused...
'Kagome...'
"Don't worry, Link. You don't have to worry... because.. there won't be a day that I won't be with you.." she blushed a pretty pink, "... you won't get the chance to feel miserable or troubled... and if you and I ever reach that place you were telling me so much about..." she stopped to look up at his dumbfounded face.
"Then... we could get..." she gripped his gloved hand with her slender one, ".. better acquainted..." she beamed.
'Well, alright!' he thought.
Link smiled a lopsided smile and grabbed Kagome's hand fully, "Well then, let's go!" he ran, with her trailing behind him.
The flapping of his green hat on his head jostled and flipped around as they ran. The tender sound of Kagome's scintillating laughter and the fleeting rush of the wind against his face felt so reviving and it freed his mind of worry or doubt. Kagome was with him now, and she was fighting to stay by his side..
'Zelda can wait...'
It is said that when a lovebird dies, it's mate just gives up on living so it can be with them again...
The dark world swirled around Inuyasha and wrapped him in a sacred warmth. Here, in this darkness, he could sleep eternally without the regret of his past coming back to haunt him. Inuyasha needed that break.. between Kagome and Kikyou... he always had a reason to feel not good enough...
...he was torn...
...he was empty...
That endlessness that he feared so horribly forced him down everyday of his waking life, and the constant bitterness that flowed from all around him.
All the lies that he told made up for all that he lacked... and it killed him. Even when he was with Kagome... he felt horrible... because he had felt that he had broken his promise to Kikyou... When he was with Kikyou... Kagome's voice and tender touch flooded his mind...
he didn't want to wait for a second chance...
,nothing would make it okay...
It was hard for him.. every moment, every single day... at the beginning.. and on through to the end..
... all the memories seeped slowly.. painfully through his veins...
But, finally, in the arms of these warm shadows, he found comfort and release from the torture, and he was escaping one last time.. from this sweet madness... but at the same time.. a glorious sadness that kept him from everything that he once loved... dreams that he'd lost.. stories that had never been told.. a love that he never had the chance to conjure... battles that had never been won...
He felt so comfortably empty that anything that crossed his barren mind was shrugged off and sent somewhere else in the farthest reaches of his dying heart. Here, nothing mattered... and that was alright. Inuyasha could close into his dormancy without the disturbance of unrelentingly disconsolate nightmares.
He'd felt lost.. devastated.. before..
...he remembered...
But it didn't pain him...
... at least he didn't think so...
It was close now... the end of everything... he could feel it taking over him... slowly, taking all of his memories away. To anybody else.. this would be pain.. this would be suffering.. to have all of one's recollected thoughts taken away from you, and leaving you as an empty shell of a person..
To Inuyasha, however, it was like taking a breath of fresh air.. a loss of dejected weight.
He smiled a wicked smile and closed his sullen amber eyes, and then...
.. he was gone...
The lives of the Higurashi family we're never the same.. a special ceremony had been held inside of the well-house. With all of Kagome's friends and family standing in a circle around her 'monument.' Though, most wondering why the ceremony was being held inside of a well-house, other's not really caring.
White paper covered the small enclosure and the flap doors had been closed. Inside, Grandpa had set up a table, and was painfully setting three items delicately upon it...
"A flower.." he uttered, and placed it on the left side of the table, a tear, already making it's way down the wrinkled slope of his face. It was Kagome's favorite flower.. a full bloomed lily, its petals exploding from its center and folding slightly over, to reveal its shimmering, graceful color inside.
He continued on..
"Incense... and a candle.." he spoke.. setting the items right of the flower, as the fresh smell of the crisp candle made its way to his nostrils, smelling of Kagome's bath salts that he had once bought her for her fifteenth birthday.
"And a bowl of rice..." he pulled the steaming bowl of rice from his black haori and placed it on the right side of the candle and incense.
He finished and said a small prayer to guard the Higurashi shrine from the impurity of death, then walked from the well-house and quickly shut the doors.
Looking out from the well-house, he saw many forlorn faces and young people holding each other, crying on each other's shoulders, some, on their knees, praying to the Gods for Kagome's safe journey to the other side..
...and one, standing there, smiling..
.. it was a small smile.. it wasn't a sneer.. it wasn't an excited smile..
Grandpa walked up to the girl who stood there with the wistful beam stuck on her face and looked into her eyes, "Why, young lady, at the funeral of my dear Kagome do you show up with a smile on your face. If you are such a good friend of my granddaughter, then you would be respectful.."
The girl looked down at Kagome's grandpa and spoke, "Why would you want to be forlorn? I know.. everybody else knows that our Kagome has gone to a better place. She is happy, and if that is so. Then I am happy. If I were to cry... if I were to shed tears, then that would only show how ungratefully selfish I would be. If I knew Kagome.. I would know that she wouldn't want me crying over her... that's just the way that she is... and has always been. So... that is why I am smiling."
Kagome's grandpa's face grew softer and he smiled at the young girl, "You have wisdom beyond your years, young one." and he turned and walked away.
Ayumi smiled and turned her attention to the old man whom she knew so long as he began to speak:
"Many of you knew my granddaughter all of your life. She went to school everyday she could.. she made good grades.. she wanted to graduate and go to college.." he stopped to see a boy with a handful of lilies, crying silently.
"Kagome had her whole future ahead of her, and she wanted to make it grand.. she had a lot of ideas for what she wanted to be. But outside of her schooling, Kagome was more than just an intelligent young lady, she was a wonderful sister to her brother, Souta, she was a beautiful daughter to her mother, and an adventurous granddaughter.. None of you here couldn't stop and think of what she was to you in your lives... you wouldn't be here if you couldn't..."
Hojou felt the tears flowing more and more.. one after another, to where he couldn't see.. and the world was a mournful blur. The lilies in his hands wafted their smell up to him and he remembered the first day he had ever given her a gift... it was a box of fat-free chocolates (to help keep her healthy) and two lilies wrapped together with a pink ribbon. He remembered what she said to him that day...
/FLASHBACK!
"Here, Kagome, Happy Valentines Day!" he said to her, handing her his gifts of chocolates and flowers.
"Oh, Hojou... thank you so much... Oh wow! Are these... they are, Hojou.. you remembered my favorite flower! Lilies.. oh they're so beautiful... and chocolates! Arigatou, Hojou-kun!" she said and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"No problem.." he said, smiling, and returning her embrace.
/END FLASHBACK!
He laughed softly. No matter how hard he tried, he could never win Kagome's heart. She never thought of him as more than a friend... no matter how hard he tried, she would never warm up to him like he wished her to. He didn't pressure her.. because he was her friend.. and nothing would change that.
"...if Kagome were here right now," Grandpa continued, "..if she were to see what a fuss she has made, then she would be devastated... she would wonder why you all are crying... We all know how hard it is to lose somebody dear to you... I understand that you are hurt from her being gone... but if I knew my Kagome... she wouldn't want any of you to be upset for her... after all.. if you look hard enough and think of the vivacity that she brought to all of our hearts.. she hasn't genuinely departed from this world... she is still here.. right beside us, whispering in your ear that she loves you. So do not be mournful for Kagome's departure from the human world. Because as a wise girl once told me, 'I know... everybody else knows that Kagome has gone to a better place. She is happy now, and if that is so. Then I am happy.'" he said, holding back tears as his face lifted up in a wrinkled smile, "Arigatou." he finished, bowing.
Everyone bowed in return and stood, waiting to pay their respects to Kagome, praying at her monument for her journey, thanking her for the ways that she touched them while she was alive, and telling her goodbye.
Grandpa wandered over towards the boy with the handful of lilies in his hand and put a hand on his shoulder, "Your name is.. Hojou.. is it not?"
"Yes." he said, quite befuddled.
Grandpa smiled and led Hojou inside of the monument, "Listen Hojou-san, I am going to tell you the truth about Kagome's death. She did not die of an illness, as I told everybody else, to keep the confusion at a minimal. There is a story behind Kagome that you may not believe... but every bit of it is absolutely true."
Hojou just nodded his head and the worried look on his face grew stronger, "Go ahead."
"You see, Kagome was no ordinary girl..." he began.
"No of course she wasn't, there's no denying that--"
"Shhh, shh, let me explain. Kagome is not ordinary, because she is the reincarnation of a powerful priestess who goes by the name of Kikyou. Because of that power that she held within her, she was able to travel five-hundred years through time.. from modern day Tokyo, to the Sengoku Jidai, the fuedal ages of Japan, and back again... using this well."
Hojou stared at the sealed well and a look of disbelief crossed his face, "Are you sure? I mean, it just looks like a plain ol' well to me." Hojou said, tapping the wood and looking at it as if it were a specimen in a lab.
"No." he stated simply, taking Hojou's hand from the old well.
"Okay, gomen, continue." he said, putting his hands behind his back.
Grandpa cleared his throat and continued, "Across the well, there was a boy that went by the name of Inuyasha. While Kagome and Inuyasha were together across in that time, they formed a bond... a love of sorts... but as far as Inuyasha has told us, Kikyou was his first love, and he would always remember her as such..."
Kagome's grandfather told the tale, and all the while, Hojou listened intently, grasping this new information. He didn't really understand some of it, but he simply nodded his head and let the old man continue with the story.
"..but there was one day.. that Inuyasha had gone too far. The previous evening, he had proposed to her his love... Kagome, shocked by this news said that she had to think on this. But the half-demon did not quite understand, so he took it as a rejection, and went to his past love. Kagome had caught them together and her anger overflowed. She couldn't take it anymore.. so in her grief, she did all she could do at that moment.. she couldn't return home.. because the love that she shared with him would be remembered, and it would slowly eat her up inside, because she knew that she couldn't have him. She couldn't stay in that time, because she would be constantly reminded of his presence. since she was a part of a group, and Inuyasha was in it.." he sighed.
"So what happened to her?" Hojou asked worriedly.
"Kagome committed suicide." he stated simply.
Hojou gasped a gasp that was almost too big for his body, "B-but why! Why would a person like Kagome do such a thing!"
"I just told you."
"B-bu-"
"Okay, out, out!" he said, shooing Hojou from the monument.
Hojou quickly bowed to the old man, "Thank you for the information." and handed Grandpa the bundle of flowers that he still held in his hand, "Here, these are for her." he said, and then departed from the Higurashi Shrine.
Grandpa stood looking down the path that Hojou took for some time and then down to the flowers that lay in his hands and smiled, heading to the well-house, to place them on the table with the rest of the offerings.
Link had taken turns and bends, still holding Kagome's hand, and conversing with her randomly. Kagome hardly never stopped talking after he had finally headed on his way, with her happy mood right beside him. She talked of how beautiful Kokiri Village was and how 'adorable' all the children were. She talked of the fun she was having traveling with Link, seeing places she's never seen before, doing the things she'd never dreamed of. Kagome's voice wasn't very big, but it could carry for miles if she wanted it to. Link unconsciously listened to her every word, nodding occasionally and chuckling at the way that she marveled at everything around her like it was new. He had been in such a haze that suddenly, he realized they were almost there.
"Kagome.." he leaned over to her, ".. close your eyes.." he said, making sure she shut them tight.
"Oh! I'm so excited!" she said, closing her eyes tightly and moving with the direction of Link's hand.
"Now make sure you have your eyes closed, okay? You wouldn't want to ruin the surprise." he said, leading her around fences, along the stream, that once lead him to Zora's Domain.
He went across small paths and bridges that he remembered being so much bigger than what they were now..
Regretfully, the waterfalls aside of the bridge were flowing just as they were seven years ago, which sort of ruined everything.
"Kami-sama! Link! I hear waterfalls!" she squealed, but still obediently kept her eyes shut as tight as she could.
Link simply chuckled and lead her on, seeing the place slowly coming into view and visualizing the look on her face when she saw it.
'I can't stand it anymore..' Kagome thought excitedly, wanting to pop her eyes open at that second. Since she was young, waterfalls had always been so majestic and beautiful, she always wondered why the water continually flowed down and down, never stopping. Never resting..
'Wonder where all the flippin' water comes from..' she thought, getting more and more excited by the second.
"Ohhh.. Link hurry up, I wanna see!" she begged, laughing and gripping Link's hand tighter.
Link rolled his eyes and quickened in his pace, after all, he was just as excited to show her as she was to see, "Alright, alright." he chuckled.
He turned the last corner and stopped. He had seen this sight so many times, but it was so wonderful, that every time he came across it, he had to stop and marvel at it.
Miniature paths grew from the walls like vines and stretched all the way across to the other side of the cliffs, some going under, some going over, and when he finally lead Kagome to the top of one of the paths, a giant waterfall lay at the end, flowing over in majestic power. He wondered if the gate still worked..
At the end of the path on the right, there was a small pool, deep enough that Link could stand up in, and hang his arms over the sides. He remembered the cool water, brushing over his body like a silk sheet.
He nudged Kagome softly with his elbow, and stood directly in front of the waterfall, "You can... open your eyes now."
Kagome slowly opened her eyes... at first, all she could see was water, but her eyes opened wider and she almost fell over the path, into the water below, "Oh, Kami-sama..."
She looked around and around and couldn't speak, couldn't breath. She kept staring around her, the soft mist from the waterfall, kissing her eyelashes, and her face. Her eyes widened every time she turned to meet something new about the place.
Link just stood there, letting her take her time, knowing (and getting ready for) the biggest glomp of his life. He smirked aside of himself, watching her movements, as she turned round and round, smiling brightly.
Kagome, finally being able to catch her breath, turned to Link and beamed, "This is the best!" she said, and, just as Link had expected, jumped in his arms and thanked him over and over again.
Link returned her embrace and was taken aback at how strong she had jumped on him, he almost tumbled backwards.. and that would've not been good. She laughed vivaciously and then stopped suddenly and gasped, jumping from Link's arms..
Truly befuddled, he questioned her, "What?"
Kagome pointed behind him, "IT'S A SPRING!" she squealed and ran for it, taking her shoes from her feet faster than Link could blink and shoving them into the water.
"Ahhhhhh!" she sighed and Link laughed harder than he ever remembered laughing before. So much, he had to sit down.
Kagome turned around and grinned at him, "What? My feet were killing me!"
Link's eyes began to water, and he went over and plopped himself next to her, still snickering at her antics. He joined in with her and took his boots and putting his feet inside the cool, refreshing water, watching her small, dainty feet, slowly bob in the waves.
He leaned back, putting his hands behind him for support... but accidentally putting his hand on hers. She smiled warmly towards him and she linked her fingers into his.
A small blush crept up on Link and he smiled lopsidedly.
"You know, Link, you're the first person that ever wanted to show me something like this.. I've always wanted to see a waterfall... ever since I was a little girl, my mother and grandfather told me that I would someday see one... but... that day never came... till now.." she said and smiled, ".. thank you..."
Link's smile slowly faded and his expression was unreadable by Kagome, but if she were him, she would known, that it was a look of warm predilection..
"Uh. Kagome.." he swallowed, ".. listen, I wanted to tell you this for a long time... but.. I recall.. a long time ago.. me and you.. we had something.. I can feel it... every time you embrace me... or when you are around me.. there's something familiar about it.. I... I just know it.." he said, shakily.
Kagome looked at him with a small look of knowing in her eyes and then, a flash of memory struck her like a blow to her head... it was of her and Link... one day.. she and him.. they were together.. and once.. he had told her...
"..I.. I even remember, telling you that I.. I loved you..." he said, looking down at their feet.
Kagome was silent for a while..
'That he loved me...'
"...I'm sorry. That was stupid," he said, scratching the back of his head and looking away, "I know that it sounds dumb.. but I--" he was stopped by a slender finger on his lips.
"Shhh... Link.. I remember it too.. you told me you loved me... I even remember what place.. and what time of day..."
Link blushed... 'She does..?"
".. and at that time.. I didn't know what to say... but I can say now that I bet I felt the same way as you... and I don't remember if I ever told you before... but... I love you, too.." she said softly.
Link pulled her to his chest and stroked her soft hair, putting his forehead in the nape of her neck, "You remember..."
Kagome shuffled herself closer to his chest, and rested her head in his comfort, "It took me some time Link.. the minute I opened my eyes to this place, I remembered... so vaguely.. but everything seemed so familiar.. I remember having a life with you.. somehow.. I don't know how it happened... but how can two different people remember the same thing, and yet it not be true..?" she said softly.
"It can't... somewhere, in the time that you were banished from this world, your were reborn in two different times.. this world, and your world. When you came back here, I didn't remember who you were.. I remembered seeing you, but not having a relationship with you.. and so... we forgot each other.. but now that the real you has come back, all the memories that we shared with one another has, for some reason, reached us.." he said, contemplating the situation, ".. that is the only explanation that I can think of..."
Kagome looked up to him, "You're probably right... and now that I'm here, I'm more than likely going to have to pick up where I left off... as... a goddess... I shouldn't even be here with you right now. It isn't my place."
Link looked back at her sadly, "Whatever happens, I know for sure, that I will always be with you, no matter what... I promise.."
Kagome's eyes widened slightly and her lips were slightly agape in fascination, "Link.."
"I mean it," he said and quickly moved in to softly capture her soft mouth in his, running his hand through her hair to support the back of her head. He felt her gasp slightly underneath him, but, paid no mind..
'Oh my god.. he's kissing me...' Kagome's confusion mounted higher than her nervousness, but everything that he was doing right now, was so right... and she felt that she'd endured this with him once before...
'Yes.. I have.. and from I can tell, it wasn't half bad..' she thought and returned his kiss passionately, sending electricity through Link's spine.
OK GONNA END IT HERE! LOL! OMG! 16 pages and 5793 words... im trying make up for the long wait that u guys had go through kuz i was being a brat... TT I am really really REALLY sorry! thank u for being patient tho...