Okay, yes I realize this chapter has been a while in coming but it will be longer and I've been really busy…so here it is

The glow around the girl diminished as she sat there panting a little. "I...I did it." She managed to choke out. Naraku had with drawn, but she had no doubt he was coming. "I beat back Naraku." Although the poison wasn't able to take complete effect signs of the poison were still evident.

The raven haired miko's eyes usually a warm chocolate brown had lightened to an amber color. Her finger nails no longer resembled a human's but were now claws. And the finishing touch, to small black dog ears had appeared among her raven tresses.
Although Naraku didn't control her yet, his sign was still visible. In the miko's place sat an inu-hanyou not unlike Inuyasha himself. Kagome turned towards him her amber eye's glowing. "Thank you Inuyasha." She stated simply.

Inuyasha frowned at her. "For what? I couldn't do a damn thing, it was all between you and Naraku!" Not aware of the hand still holding hers, his other hand balled into a fist. And I hated every fucking minute of it. One day, I swear that bastard really will pay for twisting up all of our lives so much!

Kagome smiled secretly, not reallly sure how to explain to Inuyasha exactly what he had done for her. Mostly it was the fact that her was there by her side making sure she was alright. "Thank-you for watching over me." She said simply. She turned a little and noticed the kitsune for the first time.
"I know he's coming back..." Kagome whispered softly, her now amber eye's taking on a darker hue. "He's coming to get me...he said he was coming." Kagome shivered at the remembrance of the cold presence in her body. "A seal?" Kagome glanced back up. "I..I don't have enough power to create one, and I'm afraid he would be able to find me, he put something in that poison...he can reach inside my mind."
How can I battle myself? The young miko-hanyou, questioned herself. He can find my weakness' and use them, how can I compete against that? Fear, worry and the seeds of doubt had planted themselves in her mind. She had used almost all her power to beat Naraku back, if he came any time soon...she feared she wouldn't be able to resist him.

Without thinking, Inuyasha's formerly fisted hand grabbed the miko's shoulder. "He won't get you again!" he said fiercely. "The rest of us will hunt him down first, and then he won't have any control over you- because the dead can't do anything!"
It had been bad enough being powerless over Kagome's fate once, but his blood boiled at the thought that the mutated mass of youki that was Naraku might creep into her mind again. In fact, if it hadn't been for Tetsusaiga strapped to his hip, the half-inuyoukai might have gone into a blood rage at the idea.
Tetsusaiga or no Tetsusaiga, if Kagome's possesed by Naraku, I'll rip the next demons I see into such minscule shreds that no one will ever be able to find them again.

"Inuyasha you..." A small smile lit up the sad girls face. The sorrow was replaced breifly by an emotion she was trying hard to supress. Her heart beat painfully in her chest and the love reflected deep in her amber eyes. "I..thank-you again Inuyasha." Kagome lifted one clawed hand and placed it over top of the one on her shoulder.
"There's no need to track him down though..." Dispare echoed within her voice, the smile fading. "He's coming here...To get me." A small sigh escaped as Kagome remembered Naraku's parting message. I shall see you soon... again the cold voice rang through her head.
"Inuyasha, I don't know if I can hold him off. I don't know how but...her can get inside me! How can I fight myself!" Amber eye's turned to him pleading. "I'm scared."

"We'll just have to kill him as fast as we can, then." Inuyasha growled. Then something occured to him. "Wait..." he said slowly. "He's coming? HE is coming!"
An insane grin spread over the hanyou's face. "We can kill the bastard then! That means he's not going to send one of his puppets instead! We've destroyed the puppets, now we can get rid of their source!"

The hanyou-miko nodded slowly. "I...I think so...I mean he said that...he said that he would see me soon." Kagome turned away from the excited silver haired hanyou. "Inuyasha, can...can I ask you something?" Kagome couldn't stand it any longer...she wanted Inuyasha to know how she felt. With the threat of Naraku looming closer she didn't...couldn't deny her feelings any longer.

Inuyasha calmed down momentarily. "Yeah? What is it?"
He was so jubiliant that the hanyou had no idea she wasn't speaking of the upcoming battle. Who could possibly think about anything else at at time like this?
As it happened, he was a little nervous she would be critizing something, or asking whether he'd try to keep her behind- especially since he'd been planning on putting her on the other side of the well...

"What's Kikyou to you?" Kagome was well aware that the silver haired inu-hanyou was not expecting this at all. She would be bringing up the topic of the upcoming battle, but she had to get this off her chest first.
"What I mean is..." The female hanyou stopped. What did she mean? Amber eye's turned to gaze at the inu-hanyou in front of her. "What I mean is... do you still love her?"
This was deffinately harder than she had first thought. Her heart beat was steadily increasing as she waited for his reply. What am I doing? She asked herself. I must be crazy, of course he still loves her Her eye's were cast downwards once again dreading the repsonse she was about to get.

The question startled him. "Kikyou?" Inuyasha looked away. "Kikyou is...an obligation." He sighed. "I hate knowing that if it wasn't for me, she'd probably have lived to a ripe old age and been happy. And she always reminds me of that. Every time I see her, I think 'This is your fault, you baka. She wouldn't be stuck in this half-life if you'd just left her alone fifty years ago.'"
He glared at the ground. "To be honest, I really don't know how I feel. Kikyou- I don't know who she is anymore. Maybe I never knew, but I don't think she would have wanted to take anyone to hell when she was alive. Even when she shot me to Goshinboku, there were tears in her eyes. She didn't want to do it!"
The hanyou shook his head, smacking his forehead. "It's all just-just...so complicated."
Inuyasha turned back to Kagome with a funny look in his eyes. "Then you come along and turn everything upside down. Even if somebody else had come and freed me eventually, I probably would have stayed in that tree brooding and feeling bad for the rest of my life."
"Only you wouldn't let me stay there. On your first day here, what do you do? You have the legendary Shikon Jewel, and then you break it into tiny shards, you idiot!" He snorted. "Of course, I can't leave well alone, and end up following you around, looking for the stupid things. Even worse, I end up-"
Inuyasha cut himself off, changing the words. "-getting used to you, so now I can't stand the thought of you leaving!"
He put his hand back on her shoulder. "I don't know about Kikyo. I do know that I won't let Naraku get to you, for what it matters."

The raven haired girl stood abruptly facing Inuyasha and looking him in the eyes. Something was reflected there, in the depths, something she knew well. Her own amber eye's held the same thing, fear, confusion, loss, guilt and ever present so far at the back you had to look extremely carefully was the emotion that had caused this whole mess. Love.
"You're wrong Inuyasha..." The girl whispered so quietly she could barely hear herself. "You're wrong, it's not your fault Kikyou died, it's that bastard...Naraku." Abruptly the girl turned away not able to look at him any longer.
"Oh Inuyasha, I...don't know what to do." Her voice lowered even more pain and sorrow laced her words. "I miss my life, my friends sometimes I just can't stand it here. I want to go home so badly." A small tear trickled down the girls face.
"An obligation, that's what you called Kikyou and that's all that kept me here, in the Fuedal Era. My obligation to fix what I broke." The two ears on her head drooped a little. "But then, as I spent more time here, I met Shippou, Miroku, Sango and I really got to know you..."

Here the girl paused unable to continue, yet she knew she had to say it...if she didn't now, she knew deep in her heart she would never have time to, she'd never get a chance.
"A pain deep in my heart, that's what you represented, I denied it for as long as I could, I tried to tell myself I was imagining things." Now she turned to face Inuyasha her eye's shining with the love she felt. "I can't deny it any more Inuyasha. I know you'll protect me with all you've got and I want to help. Inuyasha...I...I love you." Finally she had said a deep warmth began to spread through her body. She had finally admitted to him how she felt.

Inuyasha's face resembled the color of his clothing, as her words sunk in. "W-what?" he blurted out.
A split second later, he cursed himself for the way he sounded. "Oh fuck, that didn't sound right- that wasn't what I meant to say. J-just hold on, while I sort out my thoughts, okay?"
NOW I get that stupid question about Kikyou. Fuck, fuck, fuck, I'm such an idiot. Why didn't I get it? What am I supposed to say now?
At the same time he was mentally screaming at himself, an oddly nice feeling was welling up in his chest. B-but she loves me. She said she did. But what if she meant someone else? What if she still- I mean, what if she really likes Kouga and is lying to me to save his skin, or something? That doesn't make any sense, but she's smarter than me, damn it! This could be some sort of trick! Maybe Naraku's possesed her again!
"Then why are you always so nice to that mangy wolf?" He blurted out. "Do you love both of us, or are you just saying this, but you really love him and j-just don't know it?"
The warm feeling was going away, replaced by a rotten sensation in the pit of his stomach. If she really does love me, she'll hate me now.

The warm sensation began to slowly go down as the raven haired miko-hanyou listened to Inuyasha's response. "Osuwarri!" The command came out coldly. "I can't beleive you Inuyasha!" The girl burst. Tears began to stream down her face as she regarded the prostrate form of the hanyou lying on the floor in front of her.
"Osuwarri! Osuwarri! OSUWARRI!" The girl turned away unable to contain herself any longer. Anger burned in her veins, not a good thing considering it was stirring the poison that still lay in her blood.
"Do you love me Inuyasha? Or do you just love Kikyou? I'm sorry I ever told you!" Tears continued to fall, now they fell faster, the smell of salt water entered the hut.
"Why are you nice to Sango all the time Inuyasha? Do you lover her and not know it?" Kagome felt a rant coming on and good one it would be. "Don't you think I would know the difference Inuyasha! I don't love Koga! He's a friend, he's helping us defete Naraku, and on occasion he can save me when you're busy fighting another enemy! I know who I love, or I thought I did. Are you really that dense Inuyasha! Osuwarri!" The girl added in again not wanting the hanyou to come near her at the moment.
Her voice lowered to a deadly soft tone. "I don't love Koga Inuyasha, unlike some I only have room in my heart for one person. I can care for alot of people Inuyasha but this feeling..." She shook her head, her back now turned. "This feeling I only carry for one person...and that's you."
Her voice rose again as she spun to face him tears flying from her face. "Why can't you understand that!"

A hand began desperately waving around from inside the small pit Inuyasha formed. "Wait a second! Wait a second you self-centered idiot!"
Right on cue, the spell wore off, and Inuyasha shot up, glaring at her. "So I said something stupid! I say stupid things all the time, what makes you think that now would be any different? Gods, what part of my life do I not fuck up?"
He stomped over to her, grabbing her elbow. "Now stop subduing me for a minute and actually listen! Can you really blame me for jumping to negative conclusions? How do you think my life's been so far? For the first fifteen years of my life, everyone except for my mother hated my guts, and she died pretty soon on anyway! Kikyou claims to love me, but you've seen for yourself her idea of love- 'Let me drag you to hell, because goodness knows your life doesn't matter any, and you can't be expected to have any reason to live other than me'!"
"You know all that anyway, wench! So where the hell do you get off, expecting me to suddenly believe someone when for the rest of my life, you've been the only fucking person who didn't feed me a pack of lies! Sango and Miroku have both lied to us, and you were the one that forgave them!"
He paused. "I didn't want to, but you did. But you don't have any understanding for me now. Why is it, Kagome?" The half-inuyoukai's tone became pleading. "Why don't you forgive me?"

Kagome watched Inuyasha carefully. "I can't forgive you cause you're so stupid!" Kagome brushed her tears away hurredly as she approached Inuyasha slowly.
"If I'm selfish what does that make you?" She asked quietly. A small giggle rose in her throat but she quickly pushed it down concentrating and making sure her amber eyes showed nothing.
"You're such a baka pup Inuyasha. You never know when to stop do you?" Her head cocked to one side as she watched him closely her steps stopping. "You screwed up royally! That I have to admit! But..."
Now she allowd a small smile to grace her features. "That's why I love you!" She threw herself into Inuyasha's arms hugging him feircely. "You never know when I'm serious or not...you have to learn to trust people Inuyasha." Her muffled voice came from his shoulder.
She pulled herself out of his arms and stood about a half foot away. "That's what I'm here for, so you can learn to trust. And right now...you have to trust that I love you." A small blush crept onto the girls features.

His face now resembling Sango's eyeshadow, Inuyasha tentitavely began to stroke Kagome's hair, fighting down the raging blush. "I-I...I'm going to shut up before I say something stupid now."
The hand that wasn't attending to her hair wrapped itself firmly around her waist, crushing the miko-hanyou against him.
Damn...why can't I just say it? Whenever I try, something else comes out. And I don't want to insult her any more! She doesn't deserve it! Damn...I don't deserve to be slammed into the ground for trying to say it either...It just goes in one big circle, doesn't it?
"You're...you're very important to me, Kagome." He said, quietly enough so that only she could hear. Kaede didn't have to know his weakness, although he suspected Naraku already knew.
"Just- just put up with me long enough so that I can get over this stupid block and tell you more." His face was flaming now.

The girl in his arms nodded her head now resting on his shoulder as there was no where else to place it. "Inuyasha..." Her two dog ears twitched as she heard the familiar voices of the tajiya and houshi. The light patter of rain on the roof added an atmosphere to the hut she wasn't really sure if she wanted.
Again a sighed escaped her lips as she inhaled the tangy scent of Inuyasha...pines and lilies. She gingerly unwrapped his arm from his waist and stepped back a little. "I'll be here for as long as you need me. That's a promise." Her amber eye's delved into his trying to say without words how much that promise meant to her.
But can I keep it? Again the small voice of doubt entered her mind. How long can I truly stay with him before Naraku tears apart, like he did Inuyasha and Kikyou? Now grim resolve entered her mind. No! I won't let that happen! DO you hear me Naraku! You won't have me!

Inuyasha's cheeks had lightened to a faint pink by now, as he awkwardly looked away after Kagome had finished speaking.
"Those two had better not be eavesdropping again." he muttered darkly. "They don't have such perfect lives either."
When Naraku comes, we'll be ready for him. This time, he dies! I won't let him ruin any more lives, even if I have to die as well!
His thoughts turned to the pair outside. Miroku and Sango...They each have their own scores to settle with Naraku, but at least they have some chance at happiness after this is all over. Once he's dead, Miroku's wind tunnel will close up, and Sango...well, she can use the Shikon to bring her brother back to life. Kagome won't be under his control any more.
I don't care about becoming full youkai anymore. I'll do anything to kill him now.

Okay I realize this chapter was a little touchy feely…but it was bound to happen sometime. So if you don't like it just let me know…nicely though please.