I hope the length of this chapter somewhat makes up for the time it took to update.

Bubblez4ya I don't know about that. There are lots of stories out there that also do Beauty and the Beast Inuyasha style. At least one of them has to be better. Samurai Fish I hope this chapter satisfied you!

AkeryouSesshoumarusMate I just read it. Very funny! Looking forward to updates. And dark chocolate is ok though I prefer milk chocolate.

C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only that can be arranged. I'll try to fit it in soon.

Isis I try. Thanks for the compliment.

Shero sorry for the delay.

QT102 just make sure you breathe every once in a while.

Samurai Fish I'll see what I can do but no promises.

Adri66215 I'm glad you like the story. Now I have a few words for your friends. Daxter…don't read it then. Sora thanks for sticking up for me. Kairi thanks and if it upsets you just don't read the fight. You won't miss anything. By the way are these the same people from Kingdom hearts and Jack and Daxter?

As suggested by C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only I will have Inuyasha's human side be appearing soon.

Thanks to all my reviewers and readers! Now on with the story…

As always Inuyasha was the first one up, it took him a moment to figure out just where he was. After a couple of confused minutes the events of last night came flooding back. He smiled as he looked at his Kagome sleeping peacefully in his arms.

'She looks so sweet and defenseless when she's asleep.' Inuyasha thought. Just at that moment he noticed that the sun was rising and displaying a beautiful blend of colors through out the sky. 'I should wake up Kagome. She would like this and I think she might hurt me if she found out I didn't.'

Inuyasha shook Kagome lightly. "Oi Kagome wake up." She only stirred slightly and cuddled in a closer. "Kagome come on."

Kagome just curled up more and started murmuring. "Five minutes then I'll get up…maybe."

Inuyasha laughed a little. "In five more minutes there won't be a sun rise to watch."

Kagome finally started waking up. The first thing she did was look at Inuyasha. "What's going on? Why are you waking me up?"

Inuyasha simply smiled and redirected her gaze to the horizon. The sun was slowly making its way up over the trees. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. The rising sun made the heavens glow a vast range of yellows, oranges, and reds. The colors blended into the surrounding blue. "I didn't want you to miss this."

Kagome just stared wide-eyed. After coming back to her senses she turned around and gave him a big hug. "Thanks for waking me up."

All too soon it was time to make breakfast. Kagome decided to try something new. She was going to make pancakes. Though this time Inuyasha decided to help. It took longer than normal to make breakfast considering Inuyasha had no idea what he was doing and he was curious about everything.

"Hey Kagome! What's this stuff? Can I eat it?" Inuyasha asked as he held up a bag.

Kagome turned around from mixing the batter. "Huh? Oh don't eat that! It's flour. It doesn't taste good and its dry." Kagome turned back around and continued mixing.

Inuyasha just gave her a confused look. Peering into the bag he took a deep breath of it. Trying to see what it smelled like. Unfortunately he accidentally inhaled some. A familiar twitch started in his nose. "Ah… ah…. ah"

Kagome heard Inuyasha and turned around to see what was wrong. Her eyes widened when she saw him holding the bag of flour close and preparing to sneeze. "No Inuyasha don't…!" but it was too late. He sneezed...right into the bag. He was soon engulfed in a cloud of white powder.

Kagome coughed. "Are you alright?" She was answered by sneezing. "Inuyasha? Where are you." The sneezing continued. When he didn't answer she simply followed the sneezing, while fanning her away the flour. When Kagome finally found Inuyasha and the cloud had settled she laughed.

Inuyasha stood in the middle on the kitchen, upper body completely covered in flour. His facial expression was price less. Kagome didn't think one face could show so many emotions in such a short span: shock, confused, and embarrassment where just a few of them.

Upon seeing this she continued her laughing fit, clutching her stomach and trying not to collapse. She already had tears streaming down her face. Shippo chose that precise moment to pop up to help Kagome with breakfast. It took a moment to process what he saw before him but when he did he joined Kagome in laughing their heads off.

It took a while but Kagome had calmed down enough to talk. In between gasping breaths she spoke. "Inuyasha… are you…. sure your…part dog…and not cat? I…believe…the saying goes…. Curiosity… killed… the cat." That sent both her and Shippo into another round of uncontrolled laughter.

That made Inuyasha growl lightly in frustration and anger. Hearing this Kagome and Shippo stopped laughing. Shippo scooted back a few feet to get away from the slightly scary demon. Kagome on the other hand just smiled and walked forward until she was right in front of him. She then lifted one of her hands to his ears and began to scratch.

Shippo's eyes widened in surprise and shock as Inuyasha began purring. He hesitantly moved forward. When Inuyasha didn't growl at him he hopped up onto Kagome's shoulder.

"Is Inuyasha going to be ok?" Shippo whispered.

Kagome just smiled. "He'll be fine. Now do you want to help me make pancakes?" Kagome answered as she stopped scratching his ears and walked to the stove with Shippo.

"Okay…Kagome?"

"Yes Shippo?"

"What are pancakes?"

"Well you see pancakes are…" While Kagome explained the concept of pancakes to Shippo Inuyasha was slowly coming out of his trance. When he finally snapped out of it Kagome already had a stack of pancakes and was making more.

"Oi what are you doing?" Inuyasha questioned.

"Making pancakes." Kagome answered.

"….Can I try?"

"Of course! Now all you have to do is flip it just like this." Kagome demonstrated.

Inuyasha watched closely as Kagome showed him what to do. He then mimicked what she did and was rewarded with a perfect pancake. "Hey! I did it!" Inuyasha exclaimed.

"Can you finish up the rest of the pancakes while me and Shippo get everything ready?" Kagome asked.

Inuyasha just waved them off. "Yah yah." He was soon completely absorbed in his task. Kagome and Shippo finished setting the table right as Inuyasha finished making the pancakes. Kagome then sent Shippo up to find Sango and Miroku. As soon as he left Kagome took a wet cloth and started wiping Inuyasha's face.

Inuyasha took a step back. "What are you doing?"

This only caused Kagome to take a step forward and sigh. "Well your still covered in flour and I seriously doubt you want the others to see you like this." Kagome reasoned as she wiped the rest of the flour away. Once she was done she backed up a few feet and spoke up again. "Okay now shake your upper body."

Inuyasha looked at her disbelieving. "Can you repeat that please?" Inuyasha said.

"Shake your upper body."

"Why?"

"Just do it." Kagome demanded.

Though still confused Inuyasha complied with her order. He soon found out why she told him to do shake himself. The flour fell out of his hair and onto the flour. When he was done most of the flour was on the floor and not on him, though his shirt was a slightly lighter color from the stuck on flour.

Kagome grabbed his hand and dragged him into the dining room. "Hurry up! We don't want to keep everybody waiting."

When they entered the dining room everyone else was already sitting down. Once they sat down they continued just staring at the pancakes. Kagome finally spoke up "Come on everyone! Dig in!" they just continued to look at their food curiously.

Kagome concluded that she was going to have to show them what to do. She reached out and grabbed the pitcher of syrup. When she did this everyone looked up and observed Kagome. She then proceeded to pour generous amounts of syrup all over her pancakes and then took a bite.

Shippo was the first one to copy Kagome's actions. After his first bite the other three looked at him expectantly. He broke out into a huge grin. "This is really good!" Shippo exclaimed as he started to stuff his face.

Hesitantly everyone else followed their examples and were all soon stuffing their faces. Kagome and Shippo were already starting on seconds when the others where still finishing firsts. Kagome stopped Shippo when he reached for the syrup pitcher. He just gave her a confused look. As if reading his mind Kagome answered. "Try this. Its called powdered sugar."

Shippo looked at her for a moment before he sprinkled it over his pancakes. He took a bite.

"Well?"

"Its almost as good as the syrup!"

Kagome giggled at his statement. "I thought you would like it." Before long the pancakes where all eaten up. Kagome collected the dishes and headed into the kitchen. Shippo and Inuyasha followed her. Shippo hopped on over to the sink and grabbed a towel to help Kagome with the dishes. While he did this Kagome tossed a broom to Inuyasha and told him to sweep up all the spilt flour. It took a guilt trip, yelling, and whacks on the head but he finally cleaned up the flour.

Afterwards Shippo went off to color or something and Kagome went outside. She collapsed into the tall soft grass and just lay there soaking up the suns warmth.

Meanwhile on the balcony above her Inuyasha stared at her, beside him where Miroku and Sango.

Inuyasha stared at the half asleep girl lying in the grass. He spoke suddenly. "I want to give her something but what?"

"There are the normal chocolates… flowers… promises that you don't intend to keep…" Sango smacking him upside the head with her boomerang abruptly cut off Miroku. "OOOOOWWWW!"

"Idiot! Kagome deserves better than that! Wait I know!" Sango then explained to Inuyasha what to do.

A few minutes later Inuyasha was standing above Kagome. When she felt the sun being blocked out she opened her eyes. She squeaked in surprise when was staring straight into Inuyasha's red and blue eyes. "Don't do that! I swear you people are going to be the death of me if you keep popping up out of no where." Kagome declared as she clutched her heart.

"Sorry. I wanted to show you something." Inuyasha kneeled down in front of her. "Come on get on."

Kagome hopped on and they were off. "So…where are you taking me?"

"It's a surprise."

"Come on! Tell me!" Kagome pleaded.

Inuyasha mocked. "As you said curiosity killed the cat."

"But satisfaction brought him back!" Kagome countered.

"Feh. Still not telling you." Inuyasha said as he stopped running and helped Kagome get off his back.

Kagome took in her surroundings. "There's nothing but trees here. What's going on?"

"The surprise is a little further away. I stopped because I want you to close your eyes." Inuyasha laughed at the suspicious look she gave him. "Just trust me."

Kagome closed her eyes. As soon as he was sure she wasn't going to peek he took her hand and guided her through the trees. Soon they were standing in a beautiful garden. Surrounded by tall trees and a little waterfall. There was a picnic set up by the waterfall falling into the river.

"Can I open my eyes now?"

"Just one more minute." Inuyasha picked a small bouquet of roses and lilies. "Okay you can open them now."

As soon as Kagome got over the shock of the garden she tackled Inuyasha. When they finished rolling she was still hugging him. "Thank you so much!"

After a few blushing moments Inuyasha hugged her back. "Do you like it?"

Kagome jumped off of him and started spinning. "I love it thank you!"

Inuyasha laughed and caught her wrist. He pulled her down so that she landed next to him. His stomach chose that moment to growl. "Lets eat I'm starved."

As they ate they started talking. Mainly Kagome asked questions and Inuyasha answered.

"So what are your other sides like?" Kagome questioned as she took a bite out of her apple. The look on Inuyasha's face made her continue. "I thought something was strange around here so I talked to Shippo. He explained the curse and everything. I also saw the picture in that room. I figured those were you other two sides right?"

Inuyasha swallowed the rest of his sandwich. "Well what you see right now is my demon half. Actually you're talking to my real self." Seeing her confused look he explained. "I used to be a hanyou. In the picture the one in the middle is me. The two on either side are my demon and human half. As you can see the curse released my demon blood so I look like a full youkai. When I first meet you that was my demon half talking, same when you scratched my ears. He tends to be more possessive and instinctive."

"So then the one with the black hair and violet eyes is your human half?"

"Yah. When I was a hanyou I used to turn human once a month, come to think of it I haven't turned human or even talked to him since the curse."

"Why?"

"Why what? Why did I turn human or why haven't I talked to him?"

"Both."

"Well it seems that once a month my demon blood wears out and I appear human. As for the second question, " Inuyasha shrugged. "I don't really know. Any more questions?"

"Nah I'm good." Kagome stood up and dusted herself off. She then headed towards the river with Inuyasha in tow. Once there she waded in and started swimming, clothes and all.

Inuyasha just stared at her. When she saw his expression she waved. "Come on it! The waters just perfect." She then dived under the water.

When she resurfaced Inuyasha was standing right beside her, also fully clothed. She beamed "Nice of you to join me!" She then waded to shore and put a few perfectly smooth and colorful rocks down. Kagome then turned around and spoke. "Now you can help me! Come on find some nice rocks like those ones."

Before Inuyasha had a chance to question her sanity she was once again underwater. 'Well if you can't beat them join them.' And he too dove under. When they both finished they had a fairly large pile of nice rocks and by some stroke of luck a few shells. Kagome gathered them all up with the help of Inuyasha. They placed them in the basket that Inuyasha had brought the food in. Now they were lying in the grass drying off.

Well actually Kagome was weaving a crown of flowers and Inuyasha was fast asleep. Once the crown was down Kagome lifted it to place it on her head. Just as she was about to place it an idea came to her. Very carefully, as to not wake Inuyasha, she leaned over and placed the crown on Inuyasha's head. He moved slightly but just fell deeper into sleep. Kagome giggled at this.

Before long the sun was going to set and it was time to go home. Kagome got up and stretched. Now she had a problem. How do you wake Inuyasha up?

Kagome decided to start with the basics. First she shook him and called his name. That only caused him to smile. Then she tried poking him. He simply rolled away from her. Next she held his nose. Inuyasha squirmed. Kagome smirked. Then he started snoring and breathing through his mouth. Kagome frowned. Finally she used her last resort, she dumped water n him using the pitcher that Inuyasha brought to carry their drinking water in. He just curled up into a ball.

Kagome sighed. 'How am I supposed to wake him up?' All of a sudden an idea hit her. 'Okay if this doesn't work I better start walking.'

Kagome took a deep breath and screamed. "Inuyasha! Help me!" Inuyasha was awake in an instant and growling. It took him awhile to register that Kagome was in no danger and when he did he was mad.

"What'd you do that for! You scared me half to death! I thought you were in trouble!" Inuyasha voiced his anger and concern.

"Calm down Inuyasha. I didn't mean to worry you this much. I just had to wake you up and nothing worked. I tried everything: Poking you, dumping water on you, even holding your nose. Nothing worked!" Kagome explained.

Inuyasha just crossed his arms and mumbled. "Still didn't have to yell…really scared me."

A wave of guilt washed over Kagome as she saw Inuyasha looking visibly upset. She walked over and started scratching his ears. "Look I'm really sorry. I didn't mean for you to get upset but we had to get home. The others are going to start to worry." With that Kagome stood up and took the flower crown off his head. She extended her hand. "Come on lets go home."

It wasn't until they were almost to the castle did Kagome's words really sink in. 'She said home. Does that mean she wants to be my mate?'