Chapter 3

After her chat with Inuyasha last night Kagome felt happier then she had in days. She knew deep down that she should mourn for Kikyou, yet somewhere , she was content knowing Inuyasha wouldn't be pulled down to hell with her.

At the moment she was laying down casually beside Goshinboku, staring up at the sky. As she looked she noticed to golden eyes staring back at her from the top most branches.

" You know, you don't have to stay away from me, you can come and sit with me if you want" she said softly, knowing he would hear her.

"Keh" was his reply, but sure enough he slid down the tree and sat beside her.

After a few minutes of just laying there, Inuyasha thought to himself I need to tell her. As he leaned up against the tree, he spoke with the kindest voice he could muster. " Kagome, I realized over the past few months that Kikyou was never the one I truly loved, and that my true love was you, Kagome." After a few more moments of an awkward silence, Inuyasha turned to face her almost scared of what she would say, and with a sweat mark falling off the back of his head, realized she was asleep and never heard a word that he spoke.

Dam it, How could she of fallen asleep when I just told her how I felt. Now all have to do it all over again, but not today, once is enough for me. He thought.

Inuyasha noticed how she slept and recognized her scent was beginning to change from its normal vanilla smell, to a slightly stronger smell. He couldn't place what the smell was, but one thing was for sure, Kagome was changing, little by little. But what was happening to her?

He had noticed it the night he had taken her up into goshinboku that her scent was getting stronger, but now, it had actually gotten stronger then what it was back then. He leaned in towards her about to wake her up when he noticed how soft her lips looked. Inuyasha leaned forward so he was about a foot away from her mouth when she woke up with a twitch.

As Kagome opened her eyes she noticed Inuyasha looked as though he was trying to get as far away from her as possible. His position, was about a meter away from her and he was laying back as if he had fallen backwards when she woke up.

" Kagome… " Inuyasha started.
Kagomes eyes got large and started to back away looking towards the forrest.

Inuyasha took her response to what he was about to say badly and his ears drooped, Not knowing why she backed away from him as if she was afraid.

Kagome, unaware of the Hanyou's sudden depressed state, was staring off towards the forrest once more, she new what this feeling was, a jewel shard.

This could be the last remaining shard, not including the two in Koga's legs and the one embedded in Kohaku's back. " Inuyasha, there is a shard, just beyond the forest!" she gasped as he turned suddenly, almost causing her to trip.

" Hop on Kagome." He said swiftly, and as she did he ran towards Kaede's to find Miroku and Sango.

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Ok theres another chapter, please review, I hope you like it. Kagome will become a Hanyou in the next few chapters. I wrote this chapter from receiving one review.. i think the more reviews i get, the more i write, it really helps.

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