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Kagome sank to her knees.
"Inuyasha, I can tell it's important to you so it's important to me." She whispered. His sensitive ears picked this up. He turned around and sighed.
"Should I?" he thought.
Kagome stood up, ran to him, and wrapped her arms around his waist.
"You went through all this trouble, it shouldn't be for nothing." She whispered in his ear.
"Maybe she's right." He thought.
"Well…I…Uh?" he started.
"You what?" she asked to encourage him.
"Well…you know when you care about someone…a lot…and you want to let them know but then you uh…hide your feelings…that happened to uh…a friend of mine…and uh, yeah."
"Damn it! Now I'm babbling! Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." He thought. Inuyasha's face had turned such a bright pink that Kagome could see it in the dark.
"Inuyasha is that really what this is all about?" she asked breaking her hold on him.
"Uh…not really…you see…"
"Inuyasha, just spit it out already!" she yelled, "Why is it such a big deal to you? Is it really that hard to say to my face? Should I turn around and not look at you while…"
"Kagome I love you!" he cut her off. "I love you whether or not you return my feelings. But if you don't then we'll just pretend I never said so, but I can't keep it in any longer!" He continued quickly, blushing like mad.
Kagome backed away into a tree.
"Y…you what?" she said not sure whether or not she had just imagined what he just said.
"Is that really what he said?" she thought.
Inuyasha misunderstood her shock for her rejecting him. The very thing he was afraid of. His eyes filled with sorrow.
"I won't bother you with it anymore." He whispered. He slowly turned around to head back to the hut. His head hung low and he felt as if his heart was being ripped out.
Kagome watched as he turned around sadly and went the direction of the hut.
"He just admitted to loving me and he won't even let me tell him how I feel!" she thought angrily.
"Inuyasha you're so inconsiderate of other people's feelings!" Kagome yelled after him.
"Inuyasha wait!" she yelled running to him. She grabbed his arm and turned him around. His face looked heartbroken. It hurt her to see him like this. It felt like he had just stuck a knife through her.
"Kagome, I didn't mean to make you angry. I'm sorry I…"
Not even waiting to let him finish, she pulled him down and put her lips against his.
"Kagome?" asked a surprised Inuyasha.
"You're so inconsiderate! You wouldn't even wait for me to tell you I love you back!" she said sadly.
"But I thought…"
"Inuyasha, I love you too!"
At first Inuyasha said nothing. Then his lips slowly formed a smile.
"And don't ever apologize for telling me, again." She teased.
For a while, they just stood close to each other, looking lovingly at one another. Finally Inuyasha leaned in to kiss her back. Kagome did the same.
But something she saw in the shadows made her stop.
"Inuyasha?" she said in a frightened whisper.
He froze as he picked up a strange scent behind him. He started to turn around. But before he could he was struck in the back.
"Don't make it too easy!" The figure in the shadows pleaded.
Inuyasha fell to the ground.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed running to his side.
"Girl, you must be careful who you are with! Some demons are dangerous!" The figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a girl that appeared to be Kagome's age. She was of medium height and had dark black hair. Her eyes were a brilliant color of green. She wore a half top made of chords with beads on the ends. On her arms were gloves made of crisscrossed golden rope that finally connected at her middle finger. On her pants, a golden colored rope was wrapped once around her waist and then continued down her left leg until it got to about her ankle, where it frayed. A bead was put on each frayed piece of rope.
Kagome stared her down. She resembled a human, but anyone could tell she wasn't one. Not completely at least. There were two thin, purple stripes on each of her cheeks. On her head sat two ears that resembled Inuyasha's, yet they seemed a bit different.
"What is your problem?" Kagome yelled. The girl looked taken aback.
"I…I was only saving you from him." She stuttered.
"WHAT! That's the craziest thing I ever heard! He would never hurt me!"
"Damn it! That hurt! Who did that?" Inuyasha said sitting up and looking around. Kagome pointed toward the girl. Inuyasha turned to her and growled.
"Get away from her!" the girl yelled.
"Oh, and who the hell do you think you are to be tryin' to order me around?" Inuyasha snarled.
"I suppose I should tell you then. I am half demon Mai, the cat. I thrive in the shadows and protect those with no protector!" she glared at him. "And I will NOT permit you to suck out this girl's soul!" she continued.
Inuyasha was dumbfounded. "I wasn't…" his voice trailed off in embarrassment. Now he understood. Mai had seen him lean in to kiss Kagome and had assumed that he was going to suck out her soul. He looked over at Kagome who seemed to have realized this as well. They both blushed like crazy, and tried to explain what really happened.
"Um…that wasn't…he wasn't about to do that!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Yeah…I would never hurt her in anyway." Inuyasha said backing her up.
"Oh yeah! I don't believe you! I know who you are! You're Inuyasha and you are said to act like nothing but an uncontrollable monster!"
She continued to glare at him and was about to strike.
"Wait!" she yelled making Mai pause. "Mai…I swear he wasn't gonna suck out my soul…he…was only gonna…k…kiss me." She said, her voice getting softer. Her cheeks turned bright pink, as did Inuyasha's. Mai stood there to ponder this.
"Now that I think about it, it did look more like he was about to kiss her rather than suck her soul."
Now it was Mai's turn to blush.
"Oh…excuse me! I'm very sorry for my outburst Inuyasha! I didn't stop to realize that…she might just be your woman." She said quickly.
"Uh…don't worry about it." Kagome told her. They all talked for a while longer, getting more acquainted with each other. Mai seemed to really warm up to Inuyasha as soon as she learned that he too, was a half demon. Night was slowly creeping away. The sky had that grey color that it usually got at 4:45 in the morning.
"Hey Mai, do you want to come with us to the village?" Kagome asked.
"No Kagome!" Inuyasha mouthed to her. Kagome only ignored him and asked again.
"So how about it? Do you want to come?"
Inuyasha slapped his forehead.
"I don't know how Mai will take this." He thought.
Whoa! That took me a long time to type. I write all my stories down on paper before I type it up and I kept coming up with new things for the characters to say and after a while I was barely going by my notebook. But Improvising is good! Well tell me how you like it so far! Oh and sry but tomorrow I'm going on vacation to Colorado and wont be back until Friday. So I probably won't be able to update until Saturday or Sunday just to give you a heads up. Oh yeah I forgot to put my disclaimer notice in last chapter:
Disclaimer notice: I don't own Inuyasha and wouldn't even dream that I did becuz Rumiko Takahashi does such a good job that if anyone other than her were to own it, it just wouldn't be the same! (sry to all yall who have your heart set on owning it one day!) Thank and I'll shut up! grins