Cherry blossoms

It was a bright and sunny day in the forest, and there seemed to be no signs of any demons around. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara had gone off to kaede's village for some information about Naraku. InuYasha had been having trouble catching his scent and couldn't find any clues as to his whereabouts. InuYasha and Kagome stayed behind. InuYasha was high up in a tree staring down at kagome, watching her study. She had fallen behind in her school work so much she had forgotten most of the things she'd been taught. InuYasha sighed and stared at how the sun made her hair look so smooth and shiny. He longed for her smell. She smelled so sweet, like strawberries and cherry blossoms. It had been so long since he had been close to her. He sighed again. He saw her move slightly and dropped her school book. He saw her stretch and rest her head down on the book. She looked as though she was daydreaming. "I wonder what she's thinking," InuYasha said to himself. "InuYasha." InuYasha heard his name. He looked down to where kagome was; she had fallen asleep and was calling out InuYasha's name. He blushed. "Ka- gome?" InuYasha wondered why it was his name she called out.

"No! InuYasha! Please don't leave me!" kagome yelled out running towards InuYasha. InuYasha looked back, turned back around, and kept walking. She dropped to her knees and started crying. Then, the next thing she knew, she was being shaken violently.

"Kagome! Wake up!" InuYasha yelled in kagome's ears and she woke up. "InuYasha? What happened?"

"You fell asleep, and then you started yelling out my name. You were yelling so loud it hurt my ears. No doubt every demon in the forest heard you." InuYasha said softly, as he looked into her soft and tired eyes.

She started to blush and looked away. "I was afraid you'd leave me. I was running after you and..."

InuYasha put a hand on her shoulder and she looked back at him. They stared into each others eyes. They both blushed a deep red as InuYasha said" Kagome, I'd never leave you… I lo…"

"InuYasha! Look out!" Kagome cried and pointed towards a demon approaching.

The demon came closer. He was huge with long fangs and claws ready to shred anything that would dare get in its way. His skin was dark blue, but was covered up with crimson stains.

"He reeks of blood." InuYasha said. "Kagome stay back" and he pushed her away.

InuYasha pulled the tetsaiga out of its sheath.

"WIND SCAR!" he yelled and jumped up into the air and came back down.

And the demon was slain.

He ran to kagome "Kagome are you alright?"

"Yeah. Now what was that you were going to say before he showed up?" She pointed to the dead carcass lying on the ground with guts and blood spilled every which way. The guts lay on the ground and the blood was seeping into the earth and droplets stained the trees.

InuYasha blushed and turned to walk away, but before he could, Kagome ran up in front of him and starred into his eyes and gave him a look as of to say "TELL ME NOW OR I'M GONNA YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALL THE WAY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH"

InuYasha backed away a little and changed his mind and stepped closer and put his arms around her and pulled her closer. "What I was going to say was… I Love You." InuYasha whispered gently into her ear. She blushed as she looked into his eyes and noticed the serious expression on his face but his eyes held a loving sparkle she had never seen before. Then he leaned a little closer and kissed her on the lips. After a moment or two she broke the kiss and blushed. "What's wrong?" InuYasha asked puzzled.

"Nothing, that was just a little bit of a surprise." She said blinking in surprise. She could hardly believe he had really done that.

"Oh. You didn't like it?"

Kagome just grinned and gave him a tight hug. She then leaned towards him and kissed him again, this time longer. "I did. I did like it, but I'm feeling kind of tired. So InuYasha picked her up and jumped up in a tree. He put her down carefully. She almost fell, but he caught her and sat her down close to him.

As they lay on a branch high in the tree, Kagome and InuYasha lay there snuggled up together about to drift off into a deep slumber.

"Kagome?"

"Yeah?"

"I Love You. I won't ever let you go. I'll stay with you forever." he said pulling her closer to him as she rested her head on his chest and said

"And I'll stay by your side until I die."

"Then I'll just have to make sure nothing happens to you."

Kagome smiled and they fell asleep still holding onto each other tight.