Summary: Inuyasha learns the concept of a birthday, and how close Kagome's is from now. He doesn't know what else to give her, other than one thing. InuKag.

Rated M for past lemon content.

Birthday Gift
Chapter 11: Kikyou

As she did, Inuyasha looked behind him, opposite of Kagome's direction. He sensed something familiar… She better have not come to make everything ruined like Naraku had just done!

"Inuyasha…" She said solemnly, giving him the look that he dreaded.

"K-Kikyou…" He stammered. She came up to him and took his face in hers. It seemed as if she meant to kiss him, but he jerked his head back. He was okay with talking, but kissing would send Kagome into a sitting frenzy. It was hard just to think of that word.

"What is wrong, Inuyasha? Don't you love me?" She asked. He felt like the two women had trapped him. He loved Kagome, and it was obvious since they had their own child together. But, it was hard to tell the first woman he loved that he didn't care for her anymore.

Well, he had to rephrase that in his mind. He did care for her. It was nearly impossible not to still love her, even if he only loved her for the person she had been before dying. He was desperately in love with that woman, but the reincarnation in front of him wasn't the same.

"I…" He paused in attempt to find out how to say this. He did, but not the woman that was standing before him. He knew that, but saying it was much harder than just confirming it in his mind.

He looked up to see Kikyou waiting. She didn't look like she wanted to take no for an answer. But, when did a woman want to hear the person they 'loved' didn't love them back? Did she even love him at this point? Or did she just want to drag him to hell so they'd be together?

Why were women so confusing!

"I love Kagome." He told her. He wouldn't say whether or not he did love Kikyou if he didn't have to. Hopefully she wouldn't remind him that he had to answer her question directly rather than how he did answer it. But, she took the answer and took a step back from him.

"Don't… Don't you want to come to the afterlife with me?" She asked him. Inuyasha didn't reply. He looked down at the ground, trying his best to avoid looking at her. He knew she was upset, and he'd rather not talk to her about this. After the silence carried on and he avoided her eye contact long enough, she became enraged.

"Don't you want to come to the afterlife with me!" She yelled. Inuyasha's ears gave a twitch of pain from her loud voice before turning to her.

"No. I have Kagome here. I love her now, not you. Kikyou." He stated. Kikyou didn't like this and began to advance towards him. The look she gave him made him think that she'd drag him to hell if he wouldn't go willingly.

Her hands rested on his shoulders and the ground began to glow red. He wanted so much to be with the Kikyou he loved, but this wasn't right. He had a family to look out for now. This couldn't happen!

Inuyasha used what he could muster from his will to back up from her. The ground continued to glow red as Kikyou attempted to drag Inuyasha down again. He backed up from her, but this time he found it hard.

His mind begun to go hazy as the red light grew brighter. He did love Kikyou before Kagome, so wasn't it right that he go with her? He had no idea that his thoughts were being tainted by Kikyou. He attempted to get away, but this time he couldn't. He was completely happy with the idea.

"SIT!" Kagome commanded. Inuyasha plummeted to the ground as Kikyou continued in her journey to the afterlife. Without him, might I add.

Whether or not Inuyasha liked having his face shoved into the dirt, he couldn't have been thankful of it more than he was now. As Kikyou vanished, he looked up, taking careful note that he wasn't decending into the ground and she was. He looked back at Kagome, smiling. Kagome was fuming, but she didn't know the whole story… Yet.

"Kagome! Thank you!" He said. He scrambled up from his position on the ground. He hugged her tight, making her unable to sit him without sending herself to the ground as well.

"You were going to go to hell with her!" Kagome snapped. Inuyasha released his grip on her and shook his head.

"No! I watched you go and then she came. She tried once but I didn't want to, so I backed away." He paused long enough to take a breath. "Then she tried to take me a second time and started making me want to… Like she was mind-controlling me." He told Kagome. Kagome looked to where Kikyou had once been then to her hanyou. He was here, Kikyou was gone.

"Okay." She said, smiling. She suspected that he may not be telling the truth, but that was fine. Just as long as he was still with her.

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Yes, this means that the next chapter will be the last one. I have a story in mind – the sequal. Didn't I already mention this? Anyway, I will be posting the summary of it in the epilogue. If you are interested in reading it, LET ME KNOW so I will put it up.

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