Ch.10

Kagome turned and stared at Inuyasha with curiously sad brown eyes. Inuyasha stared back at her regretfuly, but yet curiously as he wondered what she was going to say.

"Neh...What are we going to do about the well?" She asked softly.

"Huh? What do you mean?" He asked tenderly. He leaned in alittle closer to her.

"Well...if the shikon no tama is gone..." She paused and stared Inuyasha straight in the eyes, sadly, hers burning into his forcing him to keep her gaze because it was time to have a really serious talk. Inuyasha returned her gaze. "When I go back home how will I return here again?" For there wasn't a way for her to return back if she left, because she had lost her link to the fuedel times.

Inuyasha's heart skipped a beat.

"Kagome" He stated as if he had seen her get hurt badly by a demon and he could not get to her, a light echo repeated his words softly. His eyes shimmered with emotion. Then there was a long lurid silence that painfuly followed. He didn't know what he should say to her. So many things were rushing through his mind, and he was scared that she would leave him forever.

"Inuyasha?" Came her soft voice which bounced off the walls of the cave and caused another light echo. "I-" She started unsurely. She looked down into the water again as Inuyasha only kept staring at her...not knowing what to do, but he absolutely had to get her to stay here, at any price.

As Inuyasha stared at her, he saw the most amazing person he had ever known... he could not even begin to imagine what life without Kagome would be like...he did not even want to know.

Inuyasha absolutely needed her. She was his whole world... the person that had made him want to live, the person of his infatuation, his very dearest friend, the one and only individual who could control him even when he was a demon and actually make him smile, the being who he would lay down his life in an instant for, without question, the one who he had the most absolute, sheer unadulterated love for.

But did she love him enough to stay in the feudel era? He was so afraid to find out...feelings were overwhelming him. She just couldn't leave him like this!

Inuyasha finally got a grip over his emotions, or as much as he could get. He was not going to let her leave him! Unless, she truly wanted to...

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"Kagome.." He said strongly, startling her. She was afraid to look into his face, because for some reason, he might tell her to leave forever...She slowly looked up into his eyes. His strongly devoted violet eyes met her unsure brown ones, his were so intencely focused on her, and filled with so many unplacable emotions...his gaze made her slightly nervous and a light blush tinted her cheeks.

"I-Inuyasha?" She said again, unsure. "If I leave, how will I come back?" She questioned him again.

Inuyasha stood up from where he was sitting and he began to walk away from her. She stared at him incertain, and wondered to herself where he was going and what he was doing. He stopped a few feet away, standing there with his back to her, and he put his hand frustratedly on top of his head.

He then turned around, and walked back to her determined. He stopped again, straight in front of her and crouched down so that they were at eye to eye level.

His body screamed :Confident: But his eyes shimmered with uncertainty and worry. She trustingly looked into his eyes, and then managed to smile at him.

She knew that he was probably upset over her going to leave because she was one of his very best friends, and now that the jewel was gone it was like Kikyou had said, he had no uses for her anymore...she didn't belong in this world anyways.

"Inuyasha..now your free to go out and do what you want...where do you think your gonna go after this?" She managed to say sweetly.

"Kagome. What the hell are you thinking!" He told her snippily as he brought his face closer, boring into her.

"I-uh" She leaned slightly back and away from his close face. It was so intence. At this point she was real confused. "Inuyasha, what do you mean?"

"I'm goin' wherever you go!" Kagome's eyes began to water up... "You can't come back home with me." She told him reasonably. "You don't know anything about my world and you'v never even been to school...not to mension your ears would be a hard one to---"

"Damnit Kagome!" Inuyasha grabbed her shoulders hard, but not hard enough to hurt her. "Why are you trying so hard to get away from me! You are not leavin'!"

"But Inuyasha!" He was making it so hard for her...She already almost had her mind made up that she would stay here, but then what reason was there if Inuyasha only cared for her as a very close friend...and then what about her family, and school? She couldn't just abandon them! The tears her eyes had began to fill up with threatened to spill over.

"Don't you understand, Kagome!" He stared hard into her face. He saw in her eyes the tears that were about to fall... Inuyasha reached up with his human hand and gently rubbed away the tears before they could spill down her cheeks.

"Inuyasha.." Her voice was wavy as she held back crying. "I don't have a reason to stay here any longer and-"

Inuyasha leaned in before she could react to him at all and pressed his lips firmly to hers. They stayed like that for awhile, and when Kagome didn't make a move to pull away from him he pulled her body to his and wrapped his arms possesively around her small form and hugged her tightly to himeslf, while keeping their lips sealed together.

Kagome automaticaly pressed her hands gently against his chest, because they were still hurt from earlier that day, then

she responded innocently to his kiss.

When she had kissed him back, Inuyasha deepened it more, and the kiss became passionate. One of Inuyasha's hands went to the back of Kagome's head and entangled itself in her soft black hair while the other hand still held her protectively to his body.

They kept kissing eachother passionately until they ran out of breath, and once they had caught it again Kagome leaned up and kissed him two more times before they could make themselves stop.

When they finally did Kagome gazed expectantly up into Inuyasha's eyes, with a blush tinting her cheeks, waiting for him to explain 'what she didn't understand'

"Kagome...what I mean when I say I want to protect you is..." He stared back at her, diving straight down into her beautiful chocolate brown eyes. "Is...I want to stay by your side and keep you safe from harm...forever."

"Inuyasha" She said his name happily.

"I need you here, with me Kagome. So does Shippou." He added.

"Inuyasha, of course i'll stay-- but what about my family? I can't just never go back without saying a word to them...what if they think that I died? I have to get back to them somehow..." And her eyes began to water up again.

"I'm sure there's somehow a way for you to go there and be able to come back again...Kaede would know! We'll ask her tomarrow." Kagome relaxed in Inuyasha's arms.

"I hope so Inuyasha.." She said seriously.

As soon as she said that Kagome was asleep. She had been up almost the entire night, and she was totally worn out. Just as she had gone to sleep, Inuyasha felt himself return back into his hanyou form. He was finally able to relax again.He scooted up against one of the cave walls and let himself drift off into sleep, with Kagome in his arms.

His sences kept keen and alert even in his sleep, for any signs of danger coming.

Though at the back of his mind he was worried that she would not be able to come back from her era.