Chapter 14

Kagome sat on her bed, hugging her knees to her chest, as tears streamed unmercifully down her face. She didn't know what else to do with herself at the moment.

She had a father. Not one that treated her like dirt underneath his finger nails. From what she heard, he cared about her. And was a good guy. Why hadn't her mother ever told her about him?

Sobs started racking her body as she thought about the nights of sleep she could have had, had her mother not kept this secret. The nights where she had stayed up for hours, crying, and praying to the gods for them to change her life. To send that demon she called a father back to where he belonged.

But it had all happened. All could have been avoided had her mother followed her heart all those years ago. Or, her mother telling her who her father really was. Even if it had been after Lue had left. It still would have changed something. It still would have helped.

She heard a light taping on her door. Not even looking up, she just ignored it. So the knocker, decided to ignore the fact that the door was closed. Inuyasha walked into her room.

Upon seeing her tears, he winced. Not quite knowing what to do. The first thing that came out of his mouth was. "Stop crying!" But this was the entirely wrong thing to say.

"Why! It's not like it'll change anything! My mother lied to me for 18 years! a little crying won't change anything!" She screamed. As she buried her head into her knees.

She felt the mattress groan beside her, as the hanyou sat down. She stole a peek at his face, to see him studying her intently. Then he spoke, and his words left her dumbstruck.

"You're right, it won't change anything, so then why cry? Why not laugh? Does crying make you happy or something? Cause it sure as hell doesn't make me happy to see you cry!"

'Since when did Inuyasha start being so...wise?' Kagome thought, as she stared at him blatantly.

"What?" He asked. She threw her arms around his neck. Burying her face in his chest, as his arms came up to encircle her back.

"You're right! You're right! I'm sorry! It's just..." Kagome wailed, as more tears leaked out of her bloodshot eyes.

Inuyasha leaned back, and brought a hand up to wipe the tears away from her face. "It's just what?"

She looked into his golden eyes, like melted gold, and so beautiful. She could get lost in them for hours. "So...so much. Everything that's happened today, is just...so much."

His gaze shifted from her face to the floor, as if he found the carpet much more interesting then her face. As he muttered something she couldn't hear.

"What?" She asked.

"I said...It's my fault. If I hadn't gotten myself hurt, or if I hadnt been knocked out... it wouldn't have happened." He said, with the most hurt in his voice she'd ever heard before. Not only him, but ever.

"No, it isn't. If I would have just told you from the beginning, none of it would have happened. And that's not all, everything today has been just so stifling... well, maybe not everything" She said the last part giving him a meaningful look.

A hint of playfulness erupted in his eye, as he looked back at her. And she barely had a chance to brace herself before she found herself leaning back on her bed, with the hanyou right above her.

"What? I'm not 'stifling'?" He asked, smirking. He seemed to really want to get off the previous subject.

"Not yet." She said, returning his smirk. He watched her for a few minutes, just staring at her chocolate brown eyes.

"So, are you gonna kiss me already or what?" She asked.

He didn't have to be told twice, as he descended on her, there lips connecting with immediate energy. The kiss started out chaste and sweet, but morphed into something much more passionate, needy, and almost animal.

He only relinquished his hold on her senses when he sensed her need to breath, and he started trailing kisses down her neck, and along the low curve of her shirts neckline.

She matted her fingers in his hair as he barraged her senses. They'd known each other for 3 years, There need for each other had long ago taken away any modesty between the two. That first kiss had taken away everything, all there barriers, and all there self control.

She suddenly felt his lips on hers again, and greedily accepted everything he offered her, and offered everything she had in return. As his tongue slipped into her mouth, teasing, and tasting.

She felt his hands on her bare back, as she pushed his haori up, and around his chest, trying to get it over his head, the need to be close to him was overpowering, to feel his flesh against her own.

Inuyasha kissed her hard, as his youkai blood screamed for him to take her, he found himself pulling up her shirt, as she in turn, tried to remove his haori, he sat up, and took it off, as she took off her own. The delicate fabric of her bra hid little if not nothing from him.

He started trailing kisses down her collarbone, when she suddenly moaned, "Inuyasha..."

Instantly, her arms were empty, her body cold from where Inuyasha had been pressed up against her only seconds ago. She sat up, not caring she was only in her bra, and looked around, to see Inuyasha leaning against the wall at the foot of her bed, looking like a war was being waged inside him, as he gritted his teeth.

"Inuyasha...? What...?" She asked, bewildered as to what was going on, and why he had so suddenly jumped away.

"I can't...take you. Not now." He said, never once unclenching his teeth.

"Take me?" She asked, then suddenly realized, what would have happened had he not jumped away. Her cheeks flushed red, as she thought, 'Like you didn't already know!'

"If I had stayed over there, I would have. And I can't do that yet." He said. "I'd be putting you in to much danger."

"And, what if I don't care?" She asked. He shot her an angry look, then instantly blushed and turned away, reminding her quit effectively, that she wasn't wearing a shirt. She pulled her blankets up over her chest.

"It doesn't matter!" He said. "I won't do it! If I did, every youkai would come after you! They despise hanyou's. They would never let one's mate live."

"Are you saying I can't protect myself!" She yelled angrily, looking around for her discarded shirt. It was all the way by the door to the hall. Damn.

"No. I just want us to wait till after Naraku's dead. All right?" He asked. Kagome nodded. "Besides, I haven't even asked you yet."

"Asked me what?" Kagome asked curiously. As she held the blanket up, and tried to reach her shirt at the same time.

Inuyasha blushed, making no attempt to help her retrieve her shirt. "To...um...be my..." He mumbled something incoherent.

Kagome froze, and looked at him curiously. He was still blushing. "What?"

He sighed, something he didn't do to often, before saying. "Will you be my mate?"

Kagome fell off the bed. She had been yanking on her comforter, trying to make it come with her to the door, when it suddenly came free, at the same time Inuyasha's words had left his mouth.

The second she fell, he looked away, hurt evident in his eyes.

"Did you just ask me to marry you!" She spluttered. He nodded.

She stared off into space for a minute. Not even attempting to pull herself off the floor, or cover herself back up. As the blanket had slipped off her in her fall.

Inuyasha's head was swarming. 'I never should have asked her! She was just telling me how bad her day was, and then I spring this crap on her! And, why would she want to bind herself to a disgusting half-breed like me anyway?' he shot a glance her way, and blushed. 'and she still isn't fucking dressed yet! Does she have any idea how hard it is to control myself when she has clothes ON?' He got up from the bed, walked across the room, and picked up her shirt. He then tossed it to her.

The shirt hit her in the face, and it just slid slowly down her front. As she stared off into space. Inuyasha growled, before stepping over to her.

"Just forget I ever fucking said anything! Just get dressed, and go to bed!" He moaned. She seemed to be shaken out of her stupor. As she grabbed her shirt, and slipped it on, and he walked back to the door.

"Inuyasha?"

"What?" He snapped.

"You didn't let me answer."

Inuyasha spun around to stare at her. She was smiling. She got up from the floor, and walked over to him, slipping her arms around his neck, before whispering. "Mates. That's for life right?"

Inuyasha, to shocked to speak, only nodded.

"I think I could go for that." She said, as she kissed him lightly. She then took his hand, and dragged him over to her bed. "But tonight, could you just hold me?"

Y, E and S, where all in that sentence. And usually, the answer, is hidden within the question.

Okay, short and fluffy. And a little lemony. Only a little. I hope you all liked this chapter, I've had this in the making for a while. He did manage to get her mind of her father, didn't he?

I'm probably not gonna post again till next week, because I'm going camping tomorrow! Well, if we fix that blasted car of ours! Grrr!

PS: In the last one, I'm pretty sure I messed up. It was when Kagome was 6 that her father started being mean to her. And the rating went up to M. Just so you know!

Till next time! The all Powerful Fu Fu!

I'm the all powerful Fu Fu!
Mwahahahaha!
(Sry, had the urge)

Disclaimer:
Why aren't they mine?
I wish they were
But I'll settle for terrorizing them
(Grin)