Okay, I'm so sorry I haven't updated for a long time! I've been going through a lot lately at school! I feel like I've lost a lot of my friends, I mean they're still there, but…things are just different. Today, school was horrible as usual but sitting in the back with no one to talk to, gives you a lot of time to think, and just for you guys, I thought about what I was going to write, and here it is! Don't worry, I'll try updating more because it's one of the few pleasures I get besides my piano playing.

Quote of the Chapter: I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there, I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do, I just couldn't help myself, I fell in love with you.

(Omigosh! I just found this by accident and I thought it was perfect because it explains Inuyasha and Kagome's love 100 percent!)

Now I have a joke (well kinda) more like a poem: Roses are red, violets are navy, chicken is good, especially with gravy!

Last Chapter:

"Inuyasha…promise me, you'll never forget me!"

"What kind of promise is that!"

"INUYASHA! Just…promise, okay?"

"Kagome…"

"NO! No Kagome…Just promise!"

"I promise."

"Thank you…"

Chapter 4: An Awkward Start

The sun was piercing through the window into Kagome's face as she awoke from her sleep. The previous night after Kagome had finished talking to Inuyasha, they both went into the house. When they had gotten into Kagome's room, there was a sleeping bag and some blankets and the foot of her bed that her mother had put out for Inuyasha to sleep on. After they had said goodnight and Inuyasha was fast asleep, Kagome just lye in her bed unable to sleep so she sat down on her windowsill and gazed up at the moon; soon after she had fallen asleep.

"Gosh, why is the sun so bright today?" Kagome said. She turned around to see Inuyasha in the same exact spot he was last night. Kagome walked over and sat down right next to him. "Should I?" Kagome sat there for a moment, "Why not?" Kagome silently giggled and started to rub Inuyasha's right ear. Almost instantaneously Inuyasha began to smile. "Wow, he's smiling! Why is that such a surprise? He's smiled before hasn't he?" Kagome thought for a moment, "Wait...I've never seen Inuyasha smile! I mean, he's smiled sarcastically before like at Koga or something, but he has never smiled at ME before…"

This thought made Kagome a bit sad but she quietly laughed anyways just because his smile was so funny!

Inuyasha's eyes opened to see Kagome staring at him and laughing. Kagome got scared when she saw that Inuyasha had woken up and took her hand off of his ear.

"Why were you rubbing my ear?"

"Um… Curiosity?"

"Suuuuuuure, then why were you laughing?" Inuyasha sat up and looked her straight into the eye.

Kagome started to blush, "His face is so close to mine…" "Because…because you were smiling…"

"It's not like I haven't SMILED before!"

"Well, this smile was different!"

"HOW!"

"It was a smile…that seemed like…you were happy." Kagome started to get sad again and turned her face away.

"What does she mean by that? I'm happy aren't I?"

Kagome looked up and started smiling again wanting desperately to change the subject, "Anyways, What's up with your clothes?"

Inuyasha had forgotten that he still had the clothes on that Ms. Hagurashi had bought for him. He started to blush. "What's up with those clothes that you were wearing last night?" Inuyasha had never learned never to insult a woman about her clothing.

"WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THEM!"

"Well I just don't understand…"

"Understand what?"

"Understand why women in your time like to show off cleavage."

Kagome smiled at this comment because her blouse was low cut and she thought it was funny so started laughing hysterically, "Well, Inuyasha, you didn't seem to mind last night when you were checking me out!" Inuyasha started blushing.

"Who was checking who out?" Kagome and Inuyasha turned towards the door to see Sota standing in the doorway.

"No one SOTA!" Kagome said.

"INUYASHA! I'm so happy to SEE YOU! Why didn't you come back with Kagome like you always do? Did you two get into a fight? Did you admit how much you love each other, or did you guys ki…."

Kagome ran over to Sota and put her hand over his mouth. "Will you shut up?"

Inuyasha just sat there and stared with slight amusement.

"Kagome Hagurashi let your brother go!"

Kagome turned around to see her mother staring straight at her with "the look" and gently let go of Sota. Sota then stuck out his tongue at Kagome and ran downstairs. "Little brat!"

"Kagome you need to learn how to be nice to your brother!"

"Yes mama."

Then Ms. Hagurashi leaned over so she could see Inuyasha passed Kagome. "Why hello there Inuyasha, would you like to join us for breakfast?"

"Feh, sure."

"Lovely, I'll see you guys downstairs!"

Kagome was so incredibly embarrassed by what Sota said so she walked over to her dresser, and got out the clothes that she would wear for the day and went straight to the shower all with out looking at him even though Inuyasha stared at her the entire time.

After the shower Kagome had gotten dressed and looked at her self in the mirror. "Well, after Inuyasha's cleavage comment this morning, I know that I won't be wearing anything low cut for a while!" She was wearing tight jean caprice, a high-cut, tie-die blue tank top, her hair was down as always, and some brown sandals.

Kagome went downstairs to eat breakfast. When she got there, she saw Inuyasha messing with the utensils as usual because he didn't know how to use them. Kagome then laughed lightly and him and sat down at the table; Inuyasha only glared at her because she found his confusion amusing.

"Thank you for making this wonderful breakfast mama"

Ms. Hagurashi looked up from her plate at Kagome, "No problem dear!"

Inuyasha, after five minutes of dropping the fork, finally got it and starting eating his pancakes.

"So what do you think of the meal Inuyasha?"

"Hm…." Inuyasha continued to chew, "It's pretty good" he said in between the chomping.

"Well I'm delighted you find my cooking good!"

"Hey Inuyasha?" Sota asked.

"Yah kid?"

"I have this new game; I'd like to show you it!"

But then Kagome butted in, "I'm sorry Sota but Inuyasha and I have some shopping to do, then we have to go back to the feudal era." Kagome was still slightly irritated and embarrassed about the incident that happened earlier that morning.

"COME ON KAGOME! You're being so UNFAIR!"

"Kagome crossed her arms and turned her head away, "What I say goes! Besides, our work is much more important than your stupid video GAME!"

"KAGOME, YOU'RE SO MEAN!"

"OKAY EVERYONE STOP!" Ms. Hagurashi said.

Kagome and Sota both turned to Ms. Hagurashi and knew not to go any further.

"I'm sick of you guys fighting! Okay, Sota; Kagome and Inuyasha have to go back to the feudal era so deal with it!"

Kagome started to smile but then Ms. Hagurashi turned to her. "Kagome, next time you come home, Inuyasha can go look at his game if he pleases."

Inuyasha stood up, "Hey? Don't I have a say in anything?" Then all three looked at Inuyasha waiting for what he had to say. "Um…I agree with Ms. Hagurashi."

They all rolled their eyes in amusement.

----------------Later that Day-----------------

"COME ON INUYASHA!"

They were in the store and Inuyasha was still eying the Ramen and Kagome was tugging on Inuyasha's hand.

"They're all ramen so get just one of each!"

"WAIT KAGOME…" but then they were interrupted.

"OOOOOH, Kagome, who's THIS!"

They both turned around and saw Kagome's three friends standing right behind them. Kagome and Inuyasha instantly starting blushing and Kagome let go of his hand.

Yuka went up to Kagome and whispered in her ear, "So Kagome? Is this your boyfriend?"

"Ah………"

"So Kagome, is this the guy that you're always talking about? Inu….something?"Arimi said.

"But Kagome wait? Didn't you say that this is the guy that is still hung up over his old girlf….."

Kagome put her hand over Eri's mouth, "Okay Eri, that's enough isn't it? This is Inuyasha, Inuyasha this is Eri, Yuka and Arimi."

"HI INUYASHA! You must Kagome's Boyf………" Yuka started to say.

Kagome cut her off, "Okay, well we're busy and in a hurry! See yah guys' later, okay bye!" Kagome took Inuyasha's hand along with the basket full of first aid supplies and ramen. Eri, Yuka and Arimi just stood there looking blankly at one another wondering what Kagome was trying to hide.

Kagome was panting, "I'm glad we got away from them before they starting talking about you being my…" Then she realized that Inuyasha was staring at her and listening to her inventively wanting to know what she was going to say. She then looked away and stopped talking.

"Go on…"

Kagome turned around and did a fake smile, "Oh, don't worry about it…it's nothing!"

"You were going to say Boyf….something weren't you?

"No, what makes you say that?"

"Fine, if you're going to be like that, then I'll go and ask some one what "Boyf" means!"

"NO…." but it was too late, Inuyasha went up to a stand where a woman, not too much older than him, was selling egg rolls.

"Hey you woman!"

"Yes, you want egg roll?" (A/N: Okay, this is sort of a joke. Last March, my friends and I went to the Japanese Matsuri Festival and there were little Japanese woman saying "Yes, you want egg roll?" and they also kept saying "Ayyyyyyyyyye yaaaaaa!" We couldn't stop laughing, especially when they waved their little tambourines.)

"No no, I just want to know what Boyf means!"

Kagome put her head in her hands with embarrassment.

"Boyf?"

"Did I stutter?"

"No, no, but I think you mean boyfriend?"

"So there's no such thing as boyf?"

"Sorry, but no."

"Okay, well, then what does "boyfriend" mean?"

"It means when a girl and a guy really like each other and they do stuff together!"

"So basically boyfriend means a friend that's a boy?"

"No no, if a girl has a boyfriend, it means she likes him much more than a friend!"

"Like….love?"

"Not quite, almost though. Basically having a boyfriend means, you're checking if they're the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and fall in love with."

Inuyasha was dumbfounded, "Why would Kagome's friends know my name, and why would they say that I was Kagome's boyfriend? Has Kagome been talking about me?

"Um….Thank you."

"No problem sir."

Inuyasha walked back over to Kagome and just stared at her.

Kagome started blushing in realization that he had just found out what boyfriend means.

Suddenly, Kagome started to walk home as did Inuyasha. On that walk home, there was an awkward silence for about 25 minutes then Inuyasha finally broke the seal of the silence, "Kagome?"

Kagome was surprised that he had spoken and was scared at the same time because she was wondering what he was going to say, "Yah?"

"Have you told your friends about me?"

Kagome wasn't sure how to respond to this, "Um…about you?"

"Duh, that's what I said didn't I?"

"Yah…uh…sure I've told them about you."

"I see…"

There was another five minutes of awkward silence, then once again Inuyasha broke it, "Kagome?"

"Yah?"

"Have you told your friends about the feudal era?"

"OF COURSE NOT!"

"Okay, just making sure…"

"Oh…"

"Kagome?"

"Yah?" then she silently said, "Here it comes, the question!"

"Why would your friends accuse me of being your boyfriend?"

"Omigosh, if he knew that I was calling him my boyfriend behind his back just to let Hojo know I was taken before, then he'd be so mad! Kagome, what should I do?"

"Uh…I'm waiting…"

"Oh, since…..there's not too many guy friends that I have in my life and since you're one of the few, they must've thought you were my boyfriend…" "Please let that work!"

"Oh….okay." Then Inuyasha sped up so he wasn't by her side anymore, but at least 10 ft. ahead.

"I know he knows I'm lying! Why else would he walk faster? Kagome, Why didn't you just tell him the truth…but wait…what is the truth, what do I really feel deep within my heart?"

As Inuyasha was ahead of her, he silently thought to himself, "Stupid Wench! I know that she's lying to me! I wonder what's her real reason for doing things…I bet she called me her boyfriend to her friends just to make her sound cool or something…wait…what if she really wants me to be her boyfriend, what have I gotten myself into?"

--------------Back at Kagome's House------------

Kagome sat down on her bed and started putting everything in her backpack as Inuyasha sat on her windowsill at stared up at the afternoon sun. It was so different from the sun in the feudal era. This sun was a lot dimmer than the one he was used to. He turned to Kagome, they hadn't spoken in over an hour and he wasn't quite sure when that was going to end.

"Oh, now he's staring at me…I wonder what he's thinking."

"I know that she knows that I'm looking at her, why isn't she looking back? I wonder what she's thinking…"

But their thoughts were interrupted by the sound of an opening door. Both Kagome and Inuyasha and Kagome turned around and saw her mother standing in the doorway. "Hey you guys, I haven't heard any noise coming from this room so I came to see what's up!"

Neither replied, they just turned their heads and continued what they were doing. Ms. Hagurashi started to tap her foot and was beginning to get agitated. "Okay you two, get up!" For a moment they just sat their and stared at her, "Don't make me say it again!"

Both Kagome and Inuyasha stood. "Okay, you two are going out somewhere, anywhere, I really don't care, just go!"

"But mama…"

"Kagome…"

"Yes mama" and she put her head down.

" Inuyasha?"

"Um…." He was actually quite scared of Ms. Hagurashi so decided to go along with anything she had to say, "Fine by me..."

"Great! See yah guys down stairs in twenty!" Inuyasha and Kagome just stood their in surprise to what had just happened.

-------------20 minutes later downstairs--------------

Inuyasha had arrived down stairs ten minutes earlier wearing black pants, a nice blue collared shirt and a hat to cover the ears and was now waiting for Kagome upstairs.

"Hurry up Kagome!" Ms. Hagurashi called out.

Upstairs Kagome yelled back, "Okay mama!"

Her mother had told her to wear something…cute and nice so she did. She wore a spaghetti strapped light yellow dress that reminded her of a ballerina when she twirled. She also had on light yellow sandals, pearl earrings, and her hair was half up half down (A/N: For you guys who might read this…Don't get irritated at me; I'm a girl and I like making up outfits!) and she had light pink lip gloss on.

As she walked down stairs, she saw that Inuyasha and Sota were having and in-depth conversation on this new video that Sota had gotten called "Tales of Symphonia" and actually Inuyasha had seemed slightly fond of Sota and his company at the moment. Kagome just sat there at the edge of the staircase and watched as the two tried to kill the monsters and she started to laugh.

Inuyasha turned around and got embarrassed.

"Um…You ready to…." He stopped because he realized what Kagome was wearing. It was one of those cute dresses that wasn't anything fancy or anything in particular, but it just made her look…well, beautiful, or so Inuyasha thought.

"Wow…she looks really nice…"

As Kagome walked so elegantly, Inuyasha had no control over his emotions and was absolutely enchanted by her sudden beauty. I mean, she went from a little 14 year-old girl to a mature, lovely 16 year-old young woman before his eyes.

"What is this I'm feeling?"

Kagome looked at Inuyasha and didn't feel anything really special like Inuyasha did, she just thought of him as the same old Inuyasha.

"Uh, you ready to go?" Kagome said.

After a few seconds of staring at her, Inuyasha finally took his eyes away from her, "Yah…sure."

"So mama, where are we going?"

Ms. Hagurashi stood up from the couch, "You'll see, let's go!"

"Okay" Kagome and Inuyasha said at the same time.

-------------15 minutes later-----------

They had been driving around for about 15 minutes now and they still had no idea where they were going except for Ms. Hagurashi who was driving. Neither Kagome or Inuyasha had any idea what was going on, even Ms. Hagurashi was dressed nice in a long silk blue dress. Then suddenly the car stopped in front of a nice restaurant.

Ms. Hagurashi then turned around to the back seat where both Inuyasha and Kagome had been sitting. "Okay, here's the jip. I have a date tonight, and your dear-ol-mom decided to let you guys come, I'll even pay for the bill, but you'll be sitting at a different table of course."

Kagome and Inuyasha turned to look at each other and started blushing then they got out of the car. Kagome's mother had given the keys to her Nissan to the valet and walked to the restaurant. As they walked in the feeling of the restaurant was peaceful. There were dim candles all over the place, there was light classical music playing in the back round, and the restaurant was basically beige and maroon, overall, the ambiance was romantic.

Ms. Hagurashi told the man at the front desk that she was expecting to meet someone and Kagome and Inuyasha were there by themselves. The man just nodded his head at set them at separate tables.

Now, the problem wasn't that it was awkward, but that Inuyasha had absolutely no table manners what so ever so that thought made Kagome uneasy.

Kagome rested her head on one of her hands, put her elbow on the table and gazed around the room, "This is kind of weird, being with him. It's kind of like a date, but honestly, I really don't want to be here." Kagome turned her eyes towards Inuyasha and just looked at him without a single word.

"I wonder how Kagome thinks about this. I already know not to make her mad because then she might go away again so I should be on my best behavior…wait, why is she looking at me like that?" Inuyasha turned his head towards Kagome and without any realization; they were gazing into each other's eyes like a happy couple.

After about a minute of staring, both of them realized what they were doing and started blushing, well Inuyasha at least; then the waiter came up. "Can I get you two love-birds anything to drink?"

"Love-birds?" Inuyasha thought.

Kagome laughed nervously and said that both of them would have a coke; the waiter then walked away.

Kagome's heart then suddenly started beating really fast when she looked at Inuyasha, "What's going on? Just a second ago I didn't want to be here with him, and now, all I want to do is be with him? What's going on?"

Inuyasha saw that she was turning red and decided to start a conversation or at least try, "So Kagome…um…"

"Yah!"

"So what exactly am I supposed to do here?"

"Basically, people come here to relax and eat dinner!"

"But I always relax when I eat dinner..."

"No, this is different..."

"How?"

"Well…" Kagome couldn't really think of a way that it was different. The only thing that it was definitely more sophisticated than where she usually ate, but eating under the stars was just as romantic as this place, if not more.

"Well…!"

"I guess it really isn't!" Kagome then smiled for the first time since that morning.

"Kagome?"

"Yes?"

"Doesn't this place feel…weird to you?"

Kagome paused for a moment, "Actually, it kind of does!"

"Um…do you want to get out of here?"

Kagome was shocked by Inuyasha's suggestion but also eagerly accepted. "SURE!"

Her mom saw what they were doing from across the room, "I should've known that they would've taken off…well, at least they're together! That's exactly how things should be!" She laughed silently and then continued to listen inventively to her date talking about his exgirlfriend.

-------------Later that Night-------------

"I'm glad you suggested this, it's so much better than being in that stuffy restaurant." Kagome said.

After they ditched the fancy restaurant scene, Inuyasha decided that they should eat outside so Kagome suggested a nearby park also with a lake and now they were sitting in the lush green grass by the lake eating, once again, under the stars.

"Yah, well I can't stand to eat in places with lots of people!" He took another big bite of ramen.

Kagome had already finished her ramen and gave the rest to Inuyasha and now she was gazing at the crescent moon.

Inuyasha looked over to the side and saw her gazing at the sky. Her eyes seemed to be a mirror to the moon and stars because her eyes were illuminated with the beautiful moon and starlight.

Kagome turned around towards Inuyasha and caught his stare. "What?" She laughed.

"Nothing!"

"Come on," Kagome reached over and laid her hand over his, "You can tell me anything!"

Inuyasha started blushing, "Well…I think you look nice tonight…"

Kagome was surprised by his sweet comment and was very flattered, "Thank you."

After a few more moments of silence Inuyasha eventually wrapped his hand around hers and they both continued to look at the sky with any words. It seemed like this night would last forever…

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Okay, you guys, be honest…is my story good; I'm sorry, but I don't want people to be nice, I want people to be honest…part of being a writer is getting some criticism and getting people who don't like your stories, but I always say, if something comes up that you don't like, don't dwell on it, learn from it!