Adoration And Fidelity

Alright here we go! I've been a little excited about this chapter. So I'm going to make this short. Thanks so much for the reviews. Keep telling me how you feel about the chapters and how you think it's going. On with the chapter!

I haven't updated this fiction in a while because... well I had this chapter ready as soon as the one before it was posted, but I only got around to reading through it and fixing the errors today.

Rating: M for Mature

Warnings: Sexual Content; Extreme violence; Offensive Language

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but I do own the storyline.

Recap: "Inuyasha..." Kagome muttered bringing her hand to her chin. That was not Inuyasha's usual response. He never told people the reason for killing was that he was 'bored'. What had gotten into him?

"Kagome, come on. Let's quit wasting time." Inuyasha began to walk off and Kagome followed. End Recap

Chapter 14: My Adulation For You

Walking, Inuyasha and Kagome had just left the village they had saved moments ago. Inuyasha was walking a couple feet in front of Kagome and Kagome carefully watched his back.

"Inuyasha is something wrong?" Kagome knew she should have never asked, because chances were she would not get a straight answer.

"No." Kagome let her hands fall to her sides and leaned her head forward in defeat.

"You sure?" She pushed.

"Yeah..." Inuyasha's voice was a little quiet, but not sad... more like content. Kagome quickened her pace just a little to catch up to her companion and walk by his side. She leaned forward to look at his face. He just kept looking ahead and had just a normal stubborn look on his face.

"Inuyasha." Kagome grabbed his hand and he stopped beside her. A small blush appeared on Kagome's face, but not Inuyasha's - surprisingly enough. He just looked at their combined hands and then her face. "Please... don't lie to me."

"Kagome..." Inuyasha looked down at her lips and then her eyes. His heart was pounding and little did he know hers was too. He could feel the heat radiating from both of them and something seemed to draw them closer. She wanted an answer, but he didn't have one for her, but as his face slowly went closer and closer he felt she would no longer worry about one.

"Um... an... answer..." She garbled half heartedly. Inuyasha didn't listen so well to what she was saying, but did hear.

"I wasn't lying." He whispered. His hot breath scraping Kagome's lips from the closeness between the two. As their hearts pounded fiercely they came even closer without yet touching - if that was possible.

It only took one more seconds for their lips to - ever so gently - collide. The feeling was new and strange. A swelling appeared in both of their stomachs and throats. The fear of the sudden action kept them from deepening the kiss, but not stopping it.

Once the two pulled away they could only stare at each other. Neither knew what was next to do. Things suddenly became a little awkward. That kiss was much more than fireworks.

Quote by me: Just because you see fireworks doesn't make the kiss a kiss with someone you'll be with forever. You will feel those fireworks with anyone you kiss and love. Love is what makes the kiss great, not the fireworks.

Inuyasha and Kagome certainly had both the love and the fireworks with their kiss.

"Umm..." Kagome turned her head to the side with flushed cheeks. She yearned for more of his lips against hers, but it wasn't like she could just ask. What had that kiss meant? Why had he done it? Did he feel the same way about it as she did? So many things were running through her mind. She couldn't handle such an overwhelming feeling. "I'm sorry." Kagome called as she turned away from him completely.

Inuyasha watched Kagome run off. He just stood there. He had never experienced a kiss like that. He had kissed Kikyo a total of two times and neither times had he gotten such a fabulous feeling.

Now he was worried whether or not he had scared Kagome off. He hoped that she only needed a little time to think things over and not the rest of her life. He would never forgive himself if he had in any way hurt her or screwed up there relationship.

He didn't really know exactly why he had kissed her. It just had felt... right. It was unexplainable and from the moment that she had hugged him for building her a new home it had not gone away. It had just spiked something in him. All of his sides needed her by him. It seemed as though now she was a part of him. He had such adulation for her. Her heart was so kind and loving.

Meanwhile

Kagome stopped her running to breath. Her brain flashed with confusion and the feeling in her wouldn't disappear. Her lips were aching. No, not because they were soar, but because they were needing more of what she had had moments ago.

The was her first kiss and it had been with the man she truly loved. What was she supposed to do? Would things between her and Inuyasha become ill at ease now. That was the last thing she wanted, but what was she supposed to do? She was scared. She was scared of these feelings. Inuyasha was the only person who made her feel this wasyand she didn't understand how to handle such emotions.

"Kagome! Hey!" Kagome looked towards the direction that her friend called her from. Sango was walking over to her and she seemed extremely happy.

"Hi, Sango!" The miko waved as Sango finally reached her.

"Is something wrong?... You seem kind of flushed. Are you sick?"

"I'm fine." Kagome said after a couple moments. She didn't know if it would be to great of an idea to tell Sango what had went on between her and Inuyasha. She would keep it to herself for now.

"You left the celebration early on yesterday. Were you tired or something?"

"No, actually... Inuyasha had something he needed to show me."

"Hmm? What?"

"Well he... he built me a home." She watched Sango's eyes glitter suddenly.

"That's great Kagome!" Sango hugged her quickly. "That was really nice of him." She pulled away. "Does this mean you two are going to be getting married?" Kagome blushed intensely.

"W... w... what would give you that idea?" Kagome looked away from her friend. Had she somehow found out about the kiss?

"Well... I was just thinking. So it's true than?"

"NO!" Kagome yelled covering her face and shaking her head. "H... he just thought I needed a place to stay since I was living here."

"Well that was nice of him. Not like the usual Inuyasha." Sango said looked up and placing a finger on her chin. Kagome's mind flashed with the way he had kissed her just before. 'That wasn't like the normal Inuyasha either. Why is he acting different around me and no one else?' Kagome contemplated. 'Could it be he trust me more now.? Or is something more serious?' "Well Kagome I have to go and see Miroku. I was just going to stop and see all of you, but I told him I'd be right back. We'll talk later." With that said, Sango rushed off in the route she had originally been headed in. Kagome was once again left all to herself. She had only a small trace of guilt for not telling her friend the truth, but she would preferably not anyway. Some things were better left unsaid and that was just how life went.

"Kagome." Kagome turned abruptly when hearing Inuyasha. Her heart pounded.

"Oh... Inuyasha... um... I was just heading back to Kaede's..."

"I'm going to go. I'll be back later tonight."

"Go where?"

"There's something I have to do." After he finished those last words he jumped off in the opposite direction. It was more like he needed some time to think.

Kagome was glad he was going in a way. It would give her some time of her own to ponder about all of the recent event.

That Night

Kagome hadn't really taken much time to think. She had wanted more time, but she had needed to help Kaede with a sick villager.

The miko was walking in the night towards a place she so missed. The moonlight was the only thing she had to guide her and the sound of chirping crickets was the only thing that could be heard other than her gentle footsteps.

It was very cold out and Kagome had wished she had had enough sense to turn back and get a jacket, but she didn't so now she would have to suffer in the cold. She was being to lazy to turn back now.

Walking through the clearing of dying grass, she came across her destination. Leaning down she rested her elbows on the bone-eaters well. Sighing she began to stare down into the dark depths and longing beheld in her eyes.

She missed that feeling she used to get when she jumped down. She missed knowing that after whatever period of time she would be able to see the family she had been missing dearly the whole time she had been away. Kagome longed to have things the way they used to be, but than again if that were the case Sango and Miroku wouldn't be married yet and Inuyasha would have never built her a home. None of them would have ever been able to move on with their lives and it was okay with Kagome that she had to sacrifice a part of her for all of them to finally have a part of themselves back. They deserved that much.

Kagome leaned her head to the side. She was getting a little tired now. She wondered about heading back to the home Inuyasha had built her, but she didn't want to yet. She wanted just a little more time to herself. Another moment flashed in her mind. That kiss... She still didn't know what had been going through his mind then. Had he been thinking of Kikyo? She would not have been surprised, considering it was a reasonable explanation for why it was so sudden.

With those thoughts in her mind she was afraid of going back. She could not bare facing Inuyasha if that was the reason why he kissed her. She hoped dearly it was not, or else her first kiss would mean nothing to anyone, but herself. That would be just wrong.

'What should I do? How can I face him after that? I was such a fool to not pull away when I had the chance...' She truly felt she was foolish, but she also felt weak. She would not have been able to pull away even if she did want to. In all truth she hadn't wanted to. Even now she wanted to feel more of Inuyasha. It had given her such a pleasurable feeling to have his lips kissing hers.

"Kagome, there you are." There was relief in the voice behind Kagome. She turned to see Inuyasha standing there with that same look of relief in his eyes as he had in his voice. "What are you doing out here?" He was acting so calm, as if nothing had happened between them.

"I was just... going for a walk and I came across the well. I just wanted sometime to stay here and relax." She said, which was almost the complete truth.

"You shouldn't be walking around this late at night."

"I know, but I didn't sense any danger." Kagome watched him closely as he approached her. "Ah... about earlier... I'm sorry." Kagome blushed and looked down.

"What are you apologizing for? I kissed you. I should be the one saying sorry."

"Only if you kissed me thinking I was Kikyo." Kagome went to cover her mouth. Had she said that out loud? She hadn't meant to. She felt so embarrassed. The blush on her face increased and Inuyasha stopped coming closer to her. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." She didn't get a chance to finish when Inuyasha's hands grasped her shoulders firmly and he jerked her so she looked him in the eye. They were looking intently into her own optics.

"Baka..." Was all he said as he pushed her back a bit and let go. He turned his face away from hers and looked off to the side. "I thought by staying here instead of going to Kikyo I proved that she wasn't the one on my mind." He mumbled enough for only Kagome to hear. Kagome was definitely surprised for him to say something like that. Though, what he said was honest.

"Y... you have... I was just... I didn't mean to say that..." Her eyes widened as she felt something warm against her lips once more. Her mind rolled and tumbled all over the place, until finally she could realize what was happening. He was kissing her again! Stronger this time. His hands had returned to her shoulders and he was tense and worried, not knowing if what he was doing was right.

When Kagome felt her form collapse against his she went to pull back from fretfulness, but was stopped by his hands holding her there. 'What's going on? Why?' Kagome's mind wondered. Both her body and her heart wanted to continue this kiss, but her mind didn't know. It was perplexed. This was so sudden and unexpected.

"Inu..." She tried to mumble out. "yasha..." But as she opened her mouth to speak the last part Inuyasha's tongue entered her mouth and she gasped. Her heart beat ten times harder. This was most definitely a first for her. Her whole body was stiff, but that feeling soon turned to an awkward joy inside of her and she relaxed. Her stomach was swirling in a million different directions as Inuyasha's arms finally wrapped around her.

Would this go any farther? Kagome found that her own mouth was excepting this and the kiss deepened just a little more. Finally the realization that they needed to breath crossed them and they pulled back. Inuyasha had only a small tint of a blush on his cheeks, but Kagome's was a little more red.

The miko looked down. She was scared in a sense and amazed in another. So this was what it felt like to have the love of the one you loved... to have to adulation of the one you adulated...

Within moments the first snow flakes of winter began to fall. It was a new beginning... for everyone.

You can't honestly say you didn't love this chapter... Well yes you can... But I can't. It wasn't my longest chapter, sure, but it did have the most romance and that is something to definitely be thankful for.

Hey for those of you who have actually stopped by my Inuyasha and Kagome site could you tell me what you think of the design. At first I liked it, but now I'm thinking about going through all of the hassle of changing it again. I work good with changing designs, just not places.

Adulation means Praise or Admiration

So if you have adulation for someone you admire them.