When You're Feeling Down / The Flowers That Keep Us Alive (it was a one-shot... so it has two names now, haha)

CONTINUATION OF A ONE SHOT

I don't own Inu-tachi. And I'm 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 percent closer to owning Tessaiga.

READ: -shoves weeds into Kikyou's forehead- Any kind of flower except weeds are too good for you. And If you were Sesshoumaru, you'd probably say that you're so much better than them. Oh, and foreheads, see, I also have a liking for FLCL. Yeah. Furi Kuri. Crap, now I want to dye my hair pink. AND, my next one-shot is going to be where Kagome sees Inuyasha at her time... and he's also at the feudal era! Did he decide to live for 500 more years, just to live in her time? Should I write it? Haha. REVIEW!

"Inuyasha, please, just talk to me."

"Shut up, wench. I don't feel like it."

"At least turn around and face me!" Inuyasha turned, and it seemed as if in a split second his human ears were gone, his hair was silver, his dog ears were back, but something even worse was there... Red eyes, blue pupils, and those horrid purple markings. He shoved his nails into her arm and lifted her up into the air with that one hand, and prepared to strike with his free hand.

"Say good bye, girl."

"Inuyasha... no!" The pain had come. Blood was dripping on the cold hard ground, and Kagome's eyes began to blur...

"Wake up, woman!" Inuyasha screamed at her. She jumped up and was about to fall, but Inuyasha reached for her and grabbed her wrist, then pulled her back up into the tree they were sitting in. It was so close to the well that Kagome seemed to have a sudden urge to leave for just an hour or so...

"Oh, sorry... just getting a little tired... that's all..." The two had come to the tree to talk, and during the day Kagome had grown tired. They'd walked for a long time... from early morning - six, according to Kagome's alarm clock - to probably around five, Kagome thought. But the dream was hard to forget. She knew nothing like that would happen... never... but that can't erase the fact that it happened. I've got to stop thinking about this... She thought. I know Inuyasha would never... never... would he? No! Stop thinking that! Inuyasha'd never do anything like that...

"You okay, Kagome?" She turned to look up into his amber eyes; his hair was hitting the breeze just right and flowing with the wind... he looked so great like that. And his ears. She'd always have a sudden urge to rub them every now and then, but he never let her. If only she could catch him off guard one day... that would certainly get to him.

"Yes, I'm fine Inuyasha," Kagome told him as she tried to look as innocent as possible, then headed for the ears... closer, closer... he grabbed her wrist.

"Don't even." She quickly took her other hand, shoved it into the sky and then got a hold of his ears.

"What a wonderful fish I've caught." She said as she began rubbing them, but he showed no signs of protest.

"Don't say that."

"And why not?"

"It sounds like some creepy line an evil guy like Naraku would say," he turned his head to the side, releasing her wrists - she still kept a hold of his ears - and could remember one villain in particular who had made him do something he had only dreamed of doing. "or Kaguya."

"Ka... gu... ya..."

"Yes, Kaguya."

"I know what you're thinking about."

"Give it a rest, woman," he said, bringing his attention back to her and she let go of his ears. "It's not like I wanted to."

"You give it a rest," she told him. "I'm not stupid, you know."

"Kind of blew me off when you took the hit for that arrow."

"So, now I'm stupid for caring?"

"I never said that!"

"Might as well!" Kagome spat at him with anger. "I did it because I cared, and you said it was stupid I did that! So that brings me to thinking that you think I'm stupid for caring and wanting to save your life!"

"I'd rather you live than me!"

"Since when did you come to this conclusion?" Inuyasha tried to ignore that comment and replied.

"Since a long time ago! Even before Toukajin! You wouldn't know about that though, I kept it in my thoughts..."

"And what were your thoughts?" Inuyasha hesitated, but felt the need to tell her everything she wanted to know. She deserved to know.

"When I was falling-"

(semi Kagome OOC moment)

Kagome didn't give him time to say the rest and told him, "Continue."

"When I was falling-" He was, yet again, interrupted by Kagome, who just wished he would go on and stop repeating himself.

Kagome didn't care about what she'd already heard, "I already heard that." Inuyasha started to give that (anime) twitch, and continued (but he wasn't very happy about it).

"WHEN I WAS FALLING! I heard Toukajin say that he was sure I'd die, and I didn't respond, but I was thinking... As long as Kagome's alive," he hesitated, then said something to cover it all up. "But of course, I was in my human form at the time."

"You baka!" Kagome yelled at him, would have hit him, but might've fallen off the tree, since she was in his lap. "I'm not stupid! Still! I heard you say that you loved me more than Kikyou! Were you lying?" Another shot at his heart. Why did this reincarnation have the power to open up his very soul? The only other one who could do that was Kikyou; but even she wasn't as successful as Kagome. He had a choice; but it could literally kill him to make it. Would Kagome do something like that if he chose Kikyou? Probably not, but if he chose her, Kikyou just might go ahead and kill him. Was it worth it? I don't even have to ask this question... he thought. I know I love her more than Kikyou. I even said it.

"No." He just said, out of the blue, not even realizing Kagome was probably clueless on this subject. But she responded before he had a chance to explain to her what he had meant-

"Now what are you going on about?" She shouted at him. He had made her angry, and what if it was his thoughts, about her and Kikyou? What if he had decided Kikyou, and he had lied about what he said earlier?

"You're not just her reincarnation! That's not why I... uh... love you."

"Then why is it? You know I'll believe you!"

"I don't know. It's something about you... the more I get to know you... you can make me reveal even my darkest secrets. And all this time I've been calling you 'reincarnation' in my thoughts, but you're more than that."

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry-"

"For what?"

"For entering your life, I shouldn't have gone to get Buyo, we should have let him get back on his own-"

"Shut... up! I won't tolerate it! We already spoke of this! Must I repeat myself?"

"...No..."

"Good. Now let's get going to your time."

"How'd you-"

"You've been staring at it for who knows how long." It was true. The whole time she was talking, she was looking at the well... her thoughts were of the well, and her words were of Inuyasha. They both meant a lot to her.

"Before we go," Kagome said as she carefully got out of his hold and tried to climb down the tree, and was doing a pretty good job of it. "Tell me... what are your wishes for the Shikon?"

"Kagome, please don't bring this up-" he said as he jumped onto the ground with ease and helped her down.

"I want to know!"

"Well, I'm not sure anymore, okay!"

"Do you still want to be a youkai?"

"Yes and no!" He started to walk off towards the well, but Kagome grabbed his wrist and didn't let him go.

"I love you as a hanyou." She said, repeating herself from when Kaguya was around. She was hoping he'd remember. Memories were what she wanted him to get, of all the good times...

"I love you as a hanyou, Inuyasha!" This slowed him down, by just a little, in his transformation.

"What's this? Why the hesitation, Inuyasha?" Kaguya retorted, remaining at her post. Doesn't he want to stay with me...? Kagome thought.

"Don't you want to stay here with me, Inuyasha?" He didn't stop any of his thrashing, but in stead raged on more, burying his claws into her arms. How can I stop his transformation...? Kagome tried to get higher, and went up closer, closer... she got him into a kiss, and he started to change back to is hanyou form. Kagome...? Without a second thought, he closed his eyes, and kissed her back.

"Hand over the Shikon shards, or you'll never see your lover again!" Hi-ten shouted at Inuyasha, his brother Mon-ten was atop his cloud, with a captured Kagome.

"Lover? What's all this nonsense about her being my lover?"

"So now a gem means more to you than me?"

"Stay... by my side..." he had just placed the Shikon shard into Tessaiga, in hopes of getting out of this ugly, acid-filled stomach. Kagome was holding on to him from behind, and was affected by the acid all over. But she didn't have a choice, did she? He'd have stayed a youkai, and they'd be trapped in there was a dangerous Inuyasha... and no one else would even attempt to bring him back.
"Come, let's go rescue the real Water God." Miroku told Sango (or Sango told Miroku? Who knows).

"You guys do that, but for me, rescuing Kagome always comes first!" Inuyasha shouted at them as he ran off in Kagome's direction, taking out Tessaiga along the way. He'd save her if it killed him...

"So, how'd you hurt yourself, clumsy?" Inuyasha asked as he approached Kagome. She looked up at him, and he grabbed hold of her hand, then took the hurt finger up to his face once he had kneeled down to her height since she was sitting down. He took out one of Kagome's handkerchiefs, ripped it, then started to wrap it around her finger.

"Hey! That was my favorite one!"

"It's just a piece of cloth," he told her, continuing to wrap it around her finger. "Anyone else around?" He asked, sniffing the air.

"Why?"

"Just wondering."

"You're looking for Kikyou, aren't you?"

"Inuyasha... can't you at least look at me?" He turned his body to face her, but kept his head looking off to the side. "Inuyasha..." She pulled hard on his wrist, which made him turn; then went up towards to him and planted her lips on his. He was, at first, shocked, but then gladly returned it.

"No... but... we... can't-"

"And why not?"

"If Naraku knows we're closer, he'll just use you as bait a lot more often..."

"He already does."

"Then... maybe you shouldn't..."

"Stay here?"

"It's not that I don't want you here, I just don't want you to be killed..."

"Well, I, for one, don't care," she told him as she started to head in the well's direction. "It's worth coming here to see you." He followed, and Kagome moved her hand from his wrist and slid it into his hand, then held it tight. They both walked hand in hand to the well.