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Chapter 6: Dreams and Willow trees

The group had left the town early the next morning; Inuyasha was back to his half demon self and was as grumpy as ever.

Kagome sighed sadly, wishing to the gods that they could just stop somewhere for a while. They had been walking all morning and it was already late afternoon.

Inuyasha looked at the young woman beside him, noticing how tired she was. He feh'd slightly and lifted the girl into his arms.

Kagome blushed "Wh-what are you doing Inuyasha?" she stared up at the silver haired boy.

Inuyasha glanced down at her for a moment "You looked like you were going to fall over, so I decided to save you from the embarrassment of falling on your face" he replied gruffly.

Kagome growled at him and turned her head away, she whispered softly, knowing for a fact that no one but the hanyou would hear her "you would never let me get hurt Inuyasha."

She heard him whisper very lightly, his breath tickling her ear "Not in a million years Kagome."

She blushed, knowing he meant it.

Sango and Miroku weren't paying attention to the two behind them; Sango was trying to keep Miroku's wandering hand from her backside.

Kirara and Shippo watched the monk and the exterminator with amusement. Eriani and Amarinthe laughed a little as well, they led the small procession through the winding hills of Sylvicia towards their Lord's home.

"MONK!" Sango shrieked

SLAP!

Miroku had a lecherous smirk on his face "Forgive my wandering hand Lady Sango."

Sango just glared at him "yeah, sure, your 'wandering hand' " she walked away from him, jumping up onto Kirara's back with Shippo "Damn lecher." She muttered to herself.

Kagome couldn't help but laugh at the two.

She watched Miroku as he turned around, surprise on his face "Why Lady Kagome, when did you leap into his arms? Did I miss something?"

Inuyasha growled dangerously at him, a blush gracing his tanned cheeks. "There was no 'leaping' involved monk. She was tired so I am carrying her for a little while."

Kagome blushed "I should be used to walking so much…"

Amarinthe turned her head for a moment "I'm not surprised you're so tired Lady Kagome, traveling through dimensions usually takes a toll on people with magic." She turned her attention back towards their path "We should be arriving at our destination soon."

Kagome sighed, and settled herself into Inuyasha's warm embrace, he smelled so wild. Just like the forests back where they first met. Like fresh air….and rain….

She dozed off a bit, her mind lingering in the place between sleep and consciousness.

She heard a voice, no wait, several voices. They were all speaking to her at once.

"Kagome….Kagome….Listen Kagome…Listen…" the voices whispered to her she felt her body in Inuyasha's arms but her mind teetered in the dream state she looked around "Where am I?"

The voices seemed to die away as a man's form stood before her "Kagome…"

She watched the man "Who are you?"

The man laughed softly "Silly girl, that doesn't matter right now Kagome, My time is short with you; I must tell you something of importance."

She merely nodded and the man continued "there is someone betraying Lord Enahi, they are within his home, you must warn Enahi or more lives will be lost."

Kagome watched the form waver slightly "Who is Lord Enahi? Why are you telling ME this?"

The man chuckled again "You have much to learn little one, just remember what I told you." The man walked up to her, his form becoming more solid, he cupped her cheek in his hand, hazy gray eyes watched her as his long black hair floated around them "Oh and one more thing, always listen to your heart…it will never lead you astray." He stepped away from her and began to vanish "Till next time Kagome…" he vanished completely.

Kagome woke with a start; they had stopped and were standing before a huge palace of some sort.

Inuyasha looked down at the girl in his arms and whispered so only she could hear "What's the matter, Kagome?"

Kagome looked up at him and shook her head no; she whispered back "I'll tell you later ok?"

Inuyasha merely nodded and they all walked inside the large palace.

Five Guards met them inside the gates; they seemed overjoyed to have Eriani and Amarinthe there "Lady Eriani! Lady Amarinthe! Welcome home!" one of them said to them, he embraced Eriani and then Amarinthe, the other guards smiled happily.

Eriani smiled "It's so good to be home…" she looked around then looked back at the small group behind her, she turned back to the guards "take each of these people, get them cleaned up and dressed appropriately. Then take them to the throne room, we shall all meet back there." She said the first to the guards then turned to the group.

Each one of the guards took on of the newcomers, they had a little tiff with Inuyasha about Kagome but they allowed him to carry her to her room then they led them off to his.

The guard smiled at Kagome "You must be Kagome correct?"

The young miko nodded "Yeah, this place is so peaceful…I kind of like it here."

The guard smiled again and turned towards the door "Lord Enahi likes to keep it that way; a servant will be in to help you in just a moment." He bowed to her before exiting the room.

Kagome watched the man leave "He was friendly…"

A few minutes later a servant girl walked into the room, carrying a blue bundle of cloth, with a pair of shoes on top.

The servant girl set them on the large luxurious bed spread. The room was huge, colored in dark and light blue hues. The bed was canopied in deep blue velvet and the windows were open, allowing the fresh air to flow through the room.

Kagome smiled at the girl "Hi, what's your name?"

The girl looked up and smiled, her violet eyes were bright and happy "My name is Etomi, We need to get you cleaned up M' Lady. The Lord expects to see you all very soon.

Kagome was ushered into the bathroom and into a large blue tiled tub. The tub itself was almost the size of the huge bed!

The girl washed Kagome's hair and then helped her out of the tub and helped dry her off.

She then quickly led the miko back to the room and helped her into a very soft and expensive looking gown of sky blue, with silver trim on the sleeves and neckline.

Kagome looked up at herself in the full length mirror after the servant girl had finished.

The satiny blue material pooled like water around her, her shoes were the same color as the gown.

Kagome's hair had been pulled back away from her face and up into a messy, but sophisticated bun, small tendrils of hair fell about her face.

Kagome was shocked by her appearance "Oh my…is that me?" she didn't know she could look that pretty before. Of course she was only sixteen now so she never really had a chance to ever dress formally

The servant girl smiled "Your very lovely Lady Kagome." She took Kagome's arm "Now its time for you to go and see Lord Enahi and your friends, I'm sure they are waiting for you now."

Kagome nodded and allowed the girl to lead her out of the room, the guard, who had been waiting outside the door of her room, led Kagome the rest of the way down to the Throne room.

Sango and Miroku were already spruced up and waiting in the large room.

Velvet curtains hung from the large windows and the floor was made of black marble. the throne was made of what looked like a dark wood, no one occupied the chair at that moment.

Kagome joined her friends and smiled at Sango "You look so pretty Sango!"

Sango smiled at her, she was dressed in a rose colored gown and her hair had been allowed to flow freely about her shoulders.

Miroku was dressed in a pair of black pants, with calf high black boots, he had a deep purple tunic on and it was belted at his waist with a shiny black belt. They had left his hair alone but he looked so regal now, like a prince or something.

Kagome smiled and stood beside her friends, they were waiting still waiting for Inuyasha and Lord Enahi to arrive.

BAM!

A large boom was heard above them, they could hear someone yelling, but they couldn't make out what they were yelling about.

Eriani and Amarinthe, plus two guards dragged in a rather huffy looking Inuyasha.

Kagome gasped, he was gorgeous.

He looked up at Kagome's gasped and blushed a little bit.

He was clad in black leather pants with a bright red shirt with billowed sleeves; he had a black satin sash tied around his waist holding his beloved sword.

His hair had been pulled back into a braid; they had left his long side bangs alone it made his ears more prominent on his head but that him look that much more dashing.

He wore calf high boots that had buckles going all the way up the side of them.

The pants were very tight on him, Kagome noted, as he walked down the steps to join them.

He looked away from them as he joined them, letting out a small comment to Kagome "you look nice."

Kagome blushed deeper "thank you Inuyasha, you do too."

He blushed.

Eriani and Amarinthe left the room and returned with a tall black haired man, in between them.

The man surveyed the group before him and smiled, he had soft gray eyes and his black hair was cut short. He wore a long blue tunic and a pair of dark gray pants with a pair of mid calf high boots.

The man walked to the throne and sat down, Eriani and Amarinthe flanked ach side of the chair.

The man looked at the young people before him "We'll I wasn't expecting four of you…"he looked down and saw Shippo and Kirara walk into the throne room "Correction, six."

Eriani looked down at her Lord "Lord Enahi, this is Kagome." She gestured to the young girl clad in sky blue.

Enahi's eye's widened "K-Kagome?" he stood and walked down the steps, he embraced Kagome.

Kagome was stunned "I-I what?" she looked at her friends; they were as confused as her.

Kagome took a deep breath, she inhaled the mans scent, a billion images flashed in front of her eyes, like an instant playback on a video camera.

Kagome gasped "D-daddy?" she took a step back from the man, who had gotten rather teary eyed "I missed you so much Kagome…"

Kagome smiled, and then frowned "Why didn't you stay? Why did you leave me? Why did you leave us?"

Enahi frowned "It was too dangerous for you, Souta and your mother to be here….so I had to leave you all in your mothers homeland….I am very sorry Kagome."

Inuyasha stepped over to Kagome, who was shaking "Kagome, calm down…"

Kagome glared at her father, moving away from Inuyasha she was shaking "you left us! How come you never visited? We needed you dad! And you weren't there!" she shouted at him, tears fell from her chocolate eyes.

Enahi took a step back "Kagome- I- I am so sorry-" he tried to reach out for her but she pulled away from him "Leave me alone!" she ran out of the room, leaving through the large double doors out into the large palace gardens.

Enahi frowned; he had no idea that she would be so angry at him.

Inuyasha growled at Enahi for making Kagome upset, he stalked out of the room, leaving Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara and a very dismayed Lord Enahi behind to find Kagome.

Kagome had found her self in the center of a grove of willow trees, she stopped and stared at the trees "Weeping willows…how suiting…" she ducked under the long branches and sat in the soft shade of the tree.

She knew she shouldn't have gotten so angry at him, but she just couldn't help it. He had just up and left one day and never said a word. That was when she was 8, Souta had only been a little over a few months old.

Inuyasha followed her scent all the way into the small grove of trees "Kagome?" he smelled her, but he couldn't see her anywhere.

She heard Inuyasha calling out to her, but didn't call back to him.

She sniffled and whispered "leave me alone Inuyasha…."

Inuyasha smiled and stuck his head into Kagome's little hideout "Didn't I already tell you I wasn't going to leave you alone Kagome?"

Kagome's head shot up at that, her eyes wide and her cheeks flushed "I-Inuyasha- I-"

He crawled into the little hideaway and sat across from her "Well…since we're alone now. You mind telling me why you got so startled earlier?" he looked at her, his gold eyes questioning hers.

She was leaning against the trees trunk with her knees brought up to her chest. She clenched her arms around her legs and sighed "It was a really weird dream…there was a man and he was talking to me….telling me something…." She tried to remember what the man had been talking about "Something About my Father…." Her eyes widened "Oh gods! I have to warn him!" she grasped Inuyasha's hand "Come on! I need to hurry and tell my father!"

Inuyasha, hearing the urgency in her voice and smelling her fear, he hoisted her onto his back and ran towards the castle "what is it that's so important Kagome?" he called back to her.

Kagome laid her head against his back "there is someone within the palace, betraying my father. If I don't warn him… more lives could be lost." Inuyasha nodded and they finally screeched to a stop inside the throne room, Enahi was still there, conversing with Sango and Miroku.

Enahi looked up "Kagome? What's wrong?" he saw the panicked look on her face and strode up to her.

Kagome got off of Inuyasha's back and frowned "there is someone within your household betraying you Father."

Enahi looked taken aback, as did the rest of the occupants of the room.

Seeing how serious his daughter was, he turned to Eriani and Amarinthe "both of you search the castle at once! Report anything or anyone you deem suspicious." The two women nodded and ran out of the throne room.

Kagome looked around at her friends and sighed "I guess I could explain a bit…"

She went on to explain what her dream had consisted of; she had remembered most of it.

"The man had long black hair and grey eyes too….he acted like he knew me."

Enahi frowned "interesting…"

Kagome sighed again and walked back towards the gardens "I'm going to go think for a little while….If you need me…just send Inuyasha, he'll know where to find me." And with that she left, walking back to her willow trees.

Inuyasha scowled "What is she doing running off right now? It's not safe right now!"

And he was right, not five minutes had passed when they heard a scream from the direction of the gardens,

Inuyasha growled "Kagome!" he bolted out the door, looking for the girl. He was followed by Sango and Miroku, Enahi was told to stay there with Shippo, Kirara had transformed and was ordered to stay and protect the Lord and Shippo.

Kagome had just made it to the grove of Willows when a blond haired man appeared before her, sword in hand. "Well well…I see the little princess has returned home." The man smirked "Your stay will have to be cut short I'm afraid." He lunged at her and she barely dodged it, she knew she needed help, fast, so she did the only thing she really knew how.

"INUYASHA!" she screamed as she ran away from the man

He heard his name, he ran faster than he ever knew he could, he had to get to her "KAGOME!"

He leaped, catching Kagome's attacker off guard, he slashed at him with his claws "get away from her!"

Kagome shrieked as the man dodged Inuyasha and Grabbed her around the waist, the evil man turned quickly "Touch me mutt and she dies!" he held his blade to her throat for emphases.

Kagome swallowed hard, how did she always end up in these kinds of messes?

Inuyasha growled defiantly "Don't you dare hurt her."

Sango had her hiraikotsu ready and Miroku glared at the man as well.

Kagome looked at her friends, if they tried anything…he would kill her and if they did nothing…well he would kill her anyways. Kagome grimaced, so then…she had to do something to save herself!

Kagome's hands went instinctively to his arm that held the weapon "release me NOW!" she felt her fingers grow hot and noticed a red glow emitting from her hands, she sent the glow forcefully into the mans arm.

He screamed in pain, dropping his weapon.

She moved her hands to the arm that held her "I said let GO damn it!" she did the same thing to that arm too.

He threw her away from him, howling in pain "You burned me you bitch! I'll kill you!"

Kagome had landed on her backside and was still facing the man.

Inuyasha was about to lunge forward to protect her but Kagome threw her hands towards the man first "You're not killing anyone!" she let out a huge blast of red energy, turning the man to ashes.

She panted, standing up, her legs buckling beneath her. But no worries, Inuyasha's strong arms wrapped around her waist "Good job Kagome." he whispered in her ear.

She nodded her thanks and then abruptly passed out in his arms.

A/N Muahahahaha! I am evil yes? I think this one might be a little shorter but oh well; there shall be more fluff in the next chapter promise! but for now I shall ask you all to R&R!

Lovely InuYasha's Angel - See? I typed! hope ya liked it, I'll update as soon as I can

stargirl567 – Oh thank you! And I promise to update soon

M- First, why did you post twice? And second, if they declared their feelings for one another now then there wouldn't be a very good plot! Duh! Hehe well I'm glad you liked it anyways

Babyyangel – there was a little fluff but there will be a whole LOT more in the next chappie!