When You're Feeling Down

CONTINUATION OF A ONE SHOT

I don't own Inu-tachi. And I'm 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 closer to owning Tessaiga.

READ: I'm trying to make my chapters longer, 2,000 words or more (or close to ) AND, I edited the last chapter, but forgot to take out the part where Inu says "seems like you guys got a pretty good fire goin'" but they actually DON'T have a fire! hahahha!

THIS IS FOR THE BEGINNING ONLY: Kagome thinking, Kagome's other self

They say that love is something you can't rush into. They say there is no perfect guy. They say to always take precautions. Some say there is no such thing as love at all. But Kagome did not care about what they thought, this was her life not theirs. You can't rush into love, unless it was meant to be, where her words. There is a perfect guy, Inuyasha. She didn't need to take precautions, she'd been around him for almost two years now. To her, there was love. Whether he decided to admit it or not, there was something. And she would pull the something out of him, if it killed her.

"Kagome, you're falling asleep back there. You're going to fall off, at this rate."

"Huh?" She hadn't realized they were still running at high speed, so deep in thought. "Oh! I wasn't sleeping, not at all... just thinking. I guess I spaced out." She was deep in her thoughts. All those tales of they and them, were they all really true? And who were they? Do I even care? They have bad thinking anyway... you can't just predict things. They are definitely wrong, because I know that I have Inuyasha as the perfect guy at least. Perfect. How is he perfect if he's so mean? He's NOT mean! Okay, maybe he is, but it gives him character, and makes us laugh. Who couldn't stand a laugh now and then? He should go a bit easier on Shippou, but... But nothing, he's a jerk. Admit it.

"NOT A JERK!"

"Uhh... sooo, what were you thinking about?"

"Oh... sorry... well, I'll tell you once you tell me what you were thinking about."

"I wasn't thinking!" Yeah, right. How can you not think?

"Of course you were."

"How would you know, anyway?"

"Well, it's kind of impossible to not think. Whether you are thinking about breathing or about-" - she said the following very quietly so he could barely hear her - "Love, you're thinking about something."

"Feh. I was just thinking about those stupid flowers." Which, was sort of a lie. He had been thinking about Kagome, Kikyou, and the flowers. He didn't know why the flowers were there... he just couldn't shove their sorry butts out of his thinking.

"Oh, yes, I still have them of course-" She said, drawing the flowers in closer, if that was even possible, since they were already so close. "They really mean a lot to me." A stab at his heart. Inuyasha was still confused about the Kagome and Kikyou situation. Who did he love the most? Did he even love Kikyou anymore? Sure, it was true he'd chase and follow her scent every now and then, but was it now out of pure curiosity or did he really still love her? Around Kikyou it seemed like everything could just come out, no problem, but around Kagome he always felt weird, and had trouble saying things... did he really love her?

Kikyou (haha, kick you) wanted him to become a human for her, so she could live a normal life. Sure he'd accepted then- but definitely not now. Even if they had the jewel he wouldn't dare turn human, Kikyou tried to kill Kagome and even if Inuyasha did love her, he couldn't forgive her for that! And if worse comes to worse, Kikyou might have just wanted him to turn human so the jewel would be gone, she can leave him, and lead a normal life! She might not of... but you can never tell.

"Inuyasha are we close?" Kagome asked him, breaking him of his thoughts. It seemed like she could tell when the worst time possible to talk was.

"Should be," he replied, sort of upset. "Just a minute." He started running faster, Kagome held on tighter, then jumped into the air to get up to Kirara's height to yell out at Sango, "Are we close? Kagome wants to know!"

"Take a look for yourself!" He turned his head forward, got a glance at the village over the treetops, and Kagome tried to peer over his shoulder and see. After they had both got a look he started to fall back down (not like AHHHHHH, IM FALLING! more like landing for him haha). Once he got on the ground he started running again, but didn't jump.

"Did you see, Kagome?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I have?"

"It just looked like it was difficult to see over me," realizing he might start an argument, because she can turn anything into one, this one by saying "Do you think I'm too weak to see over you?"; he decided to not say anything more. "Never mind."

"Inuyasha, you were thinking about Kikyou, weren't you?"

"Why are you bringing this up!"

"Because I want to talk about it now, before we get to Kaede's!"

"Keh. So what if I was?"

"I just don't get it! She tried to kill you, she tried to kill me-" - Inuyasha seemed to twitch once he heard this - "And the only reason she lives is because she wants you to die and go to hell (the exception of cussing because it is not like saying what the - are you doing?) with her!" He had to ponder this for a moment. She was right, he'd already thought about the killing part, but Kikyou did want to kill him and make him go with her. Maybe she didn't really want him, but just wanted to kill him and this was the only way she could get him to do it, to make him think she still loved him! What a freak!

"You're right, I've been thinking," Inuyasha told her. "But not necessarily about what you think I'm talking about. I've been thinking about you and her. Like, do i really still love her? She tried to kill both of us, and maybe when she wanted me to become human it was just so she could live a normal life without the jewel. For all I know, she might have just ignored me after that! She didn't want me as a human, she wanted a normal life! Like you said too, all she wants is for me to go with her, and she's making me do it by having me think she still loves me!"

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry..."

"What for?"

"it's my fault most of this happened! If I hadn't even gotten here, you wouldn't be off the tree, but if I didn't kill the jewel, you could become a youkai, and I could just live a normal life... then you wouldn't have to worry about saving me, gathering the jewels, and even the new moon like tonight-" She was interrupted by Inuyasha.

"Shut up!" Kagome was shocked! Had he just told her to shut up? All she did was care about him, and she gets told to shut up! How rude!

"What?"

"I said "shut up"! Maybe at first I hated this, but I'm glad we're stuck together. It's like... the more the jewel, the more time progresses, and the more all of are better friends..." He couldn't bring himself to say "and the more I love you"... he wanted to, he wanted Kagome to know how he felt, but something stopped him. Maybe she didn't love him. But that sounds weird. She never fails to express how she thinks of me...

"Inuyasha..." So, he didn't mean that he was mad at her, he just hated it when she blamed herself for everything. There wasn't any reason for her to blame everything on her, because how is she supposed to help it? And sometimes what seems to be the worst can be the best.

"Kagome, never mind. I lied. I mean-" maybe he was being a jerk!

"So you don't like being around me and collecting the jewels?"

"No, I mean, when I said how we all become better friends... I meant something else, but I just couldn't say it." She really needed to stop this mood switching and actually trust him and let him finish, because so far he hadn't said anything wrong. Sure, the shut up wasn't nice, but in it's own way it was, because she had no reason to blame herself for everything that's happened.

"Say it." He hesitated, but he would say it, Kagome was manipulative like that, able to make anything come out of him. At first she wasn't able to, but after two years, if she can't then something is wrong, here...

"IloveyoumorethanKikyou." It took Kagome awhile to process what he had just said, then awhile to actually think about what he had just said.

"I'm glad you said something, Inuyasha." Nobody said anything for awhile.

"After two years, you can finally tell me something personal, and it's not while you're human."

"I... say stuff while I'm human...?"

"All the time... it's when your human heart comes out."

"So, you like me better as a human?"

"No way! I like you better as a hanyou... you may not be the nicest as a hanyou, but it gives you character. I would kill myself before letting you become permanently human over hanyou."

"You'd die for me?"

"Duh, I thought this was obvious."

"We'll talk later, Kaede's is just... right... up... here we are." He came to a stop at the edge of the forest, let her down, and then they both walked at a normal pace towards the hut in question. They took a few steps, and then Kagome grabbed his hand, and acted like there was nothing wrong. But inside, she was happier than ever before. Inuyasha was sort of surprised and started to blush, then once Kagome saw his face she did too, but they just laughed at it, mentally. Nothing seemed wrong with this picture to either of them. When he looked over at Kagome's are hand, she was still holding the flowers he gave her. She really wouldn't get rid of them... ever. They meant too much.

If she gave them away, she'd hate herself. She'd kill herself. She'd probably break away from Inuyasha, because she couldn't bear to tell him she had gotten rid of the flowers he got for her. She'd also kill herself because those flowers will keep her standing. She'd also break away from Inuyasha because if she got rid of the flowers, they'd kill her and then she wouldn't be able to be near him. She didn't know anything about that, but she did know what she would do. The flowers aren't exactly a bad thing, even though they would kill her, because they were created and set to stay alive forever by magic. Not bad guy magic. True love. Something thought impossible by everyone.