All of my reviews were good, so I'll kepp going with this. XP This chapter isnt as long as the first, but I like it so HA!

"No..." Kagome gasped and fell to her knees.

The barrier around the others fell and Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, and Koga all rushed to her side. Inuyasha slowly walked over to where Kikyo once was.

I can't believe it. She's…gone. I don't owe her anything anymore. Rest in peace Kikyo.

"Kagome, Kagome, are you alright?" Sango asked with extreme worry.

"Lady Kagome, what is it?" Miroku asked.

"Kagome?" Was all Shippo and Koga could ask.

"Mew."

Inuyasha walked over to her.

"Kagome, please, say something." Sango asked on the brink of tears.

The young miko lifted her head and met Inuyasha's gaze.

"I'm so sorry Inuyasha." She cried and flew back in the air, knocking Koga, Miroku, and Shippo over.

"Kagome!" was cried out, as balls of white light flew into Kagome's chest. They just stood there in aw.

After about forty or so, they stopped.

Shippo slowly approached Kagome's lifeless body. "Kagome?"

She opened her eyes and stood.

"Kagome? What just happened?" Koga asked and approached her too.

She sent them bone-shattering stares that stopped them in their tracks. Kagome didn't answer. She looked at the hanyou and whispered, "I'm so sorry."

Then she ran, as the pink faded back to the forest.

I killed her! I killed her! Oh my God, I killed her! How can this be happening? Why! He must loathe me now! Oh my God! Why did this happen to us!

These were Kagome's thought as she ran. Somewhere deep inside of her, she found some new agility, new speed that let her feet move like they never had before.

I have to get away. I have to get away from them. Away from him. Away from the pain.

"Ahh!" Kagome gasped as she fell on her front. She rolled over and groaned.

"Stupid tree root…" Kagome opened her eyes and found two amber ones staring back at hers. She instinctively screamed his name.

"Inuyasha, help!"

"It's me you baka!" He helped her sit up. "What the hell were you thinking, running away like that?"

"I...don't know."

"A-huh." He said in an unbelieving way.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, I don't know what happened! I must have gotten out of control! I would never-,"

"I saw and heard everything Kagome. So did the others." He interrupted.

"Oh." Inuyasha captured her lips in a heated kiss and pushed back onto the ground again. He startled her hips on his knees and pulled back, putting his forehead against hers.

"If anyone should be saying 'I'm sorry' Kagome, it should be me."

"For what?" She breathed heavily.

"For being too big of an idiot to realize my true feelings and yours all this time. I wasn't thinking about what my heart really wanted. I was ignoring all signs of love for anyone. I kept thinking I had loved Kikyo when what we had, was nothing. I was too stupid that I ignored my love for you. I-,"

Inuyasha was cut off when Kagome pulled down on his neck, forcing his lips to collide with hers. Not that it really mattered, because soon he was licking her lips for entrance. Kagome moaned and let him in. For a couple of minutes, they played tongue-tag. Then she pulled away.

"What?" Inuyasha asked, out of breath.

"What is this?" she cried. Tears slipped out of her eyes and down her face.

"What are you talking about?" He wiped away her tears.

"I…can't…do this."

"Do what Kagome? Can't do what?" What the hell is she talking about?

"Be with you like this! Oh God…" Kagome pushed him off and started walking in a random direction.

But…I thought…Was Midoroku wrong? Does Kagome not really love me? Inuyasha thought.

"Where do you think you're going?" he called out and ran after her.

"I don't know!"

"Kagome, come back here danmit!" Inuyasha grabbed her wrist and spun her around to look at him.

"I killed the woman you love…"

"NO, you didn't Kagome."

"What are you talking about? Kikyo was destroyed when she was purified."

"I mean, you didn't kill the woman I love," Inuyasha chuckled.

"But Kikyo-,"

"I love you Kagome. Pay attention next time I apologize."

Kagome just rammed her lips into his.

"Oh my God…" Kagome gasped and cuddled to Inuyasha's chest. He wrapped his arm around her small waist, covered only with his hoari. "After traveling around feudal Japan for four years, I never thought I would be having sex with you after a huge fight."

Inuyasha lightly laughed at this.

"What?" she asked and playfully slapped his chest.

"I love you." He kept laughing.

"Uh-huh. So, what do you call us, I mean, on demon terms?"

"Mates. You and I are mates." Inuyasha kissed her forehead.

"Mates…I like that." Kagome smiled. She ran her hands over his chiseled abdomen.

"Good, because it's a life-time thing. Your lifespan will be extended to match mine too."

"Cool," she replied. "Now let's go find the others. You came out looking for me and took my virginity. Can't wait to hear what Miroku says about that."

"Keh."

"Kagome! Where were you guys? We were worried about you two." Sango called as her friends walked up. It was almost dusk and everyone was wondering where they were. "Miroku! They're back!" she called in the hut.

The monk walked out and met up with his friends.

"Where were you two for so long? Inuyasha, please, have you, ahem, proved your manliness to Lady Kagome?" Miroku said the last part so only Inuyasha could hear it and raised an eyebrow in suspicion. It only earned the monk being knocked unconscious.

"So, Kagome, are you okay? Maybe we could go to the hot springs or something like that?" Sango realized her friend had been quiet ever since she came into the village. Usually that meant she needed to talk, girl to girl.

"Sure." Kagome grabbed her bag and they walked toward the springs near the village. Inuyasha just sat down next to the hut. Soon, Miroku joined him.

"So, how is she?" Miroku asked.

"We're mates."

Miroku hit him over the head with his staff.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"

"You were supposed to bring her back to us, not TAKE HER VIRGINITY!"

A couple of people stared at the two men.

"Are you trying to drawn attention to this!"

"Inuyasha, what the hell were you thinking?" Miroku asked, ignoring the hanyou's question.

"Um, I love you? Isn't that what everyone has been telling me to think for THESE PAST FOUR YEARS!"

"Yes," Miroku became silent before asking a dreaded question. "Tell me…you didn't…force yourself on her, did you?"

Inuyasha grabbed Miroku's throat and pinned him against the wall of the hut two feet above the ground.

"Don't EVER suggest I would rape someone, especially Kagome, got that monk!" Inuyasha snarled. Miroku just shook his head violently, needing air. Inuyasha let go and he fell with a thud.

"I…just…wanted…to be…sure…that's all…Danm."

"Well, now you are. Anyway, are you going to make good on your proposal to the demon slayer, monk?"

Miroku lightly held his neck. Wow, any harder and he would have killed me.

"I do. She brought it up when we were talking about you two. We were thinking about waiting after we find Kohaku. He wasn't anywhere near Naraku when he died."

"Ya."

"So, Kagome, are you feeling okay?" Sango asked her friend and lowered herself into the warm water. Kagome stepped in too.

"Uh, yeah." She was silent for a few moments. "Hey, Sango?'

"Yeah Kagome?"

"Do you know anything about... doing it?"

"Doing it? What's 'it'?"

"Uh…you know…it."

"It…oh…OH!" Sango turned beet red. "Uh…not sure…why do you ask Kagome?"

"It's me and Inuyasha, we…did it."

Sango stood straight up.

"REALLY! WHEN! WHY HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING THIS FORM ME KAGOME!"

"SANGO! Sango, calm down, we just came back from the forest after…it happened."

"Oh my gosh…he didn't, you know, force himself on you, did he?" If he did I'll kill the bastard.

"NO! In fact, I was the first to…uh…"

"Initiate the process?" Sango suggested. She knew this was a difficult subject for the two to talk about.

"Yes, thanks."

Both girls were beet red when they returned to the village after talking about what had happened between Kagome and Inuyasha.

R&R!