Hey, Here's my next story! It's gonna be kinda fluffy but bear with me. Thanks for all the reviews!

AnimeGurl4Life18- Thanks, glad you like my story! Here's chapter 4

eliteElite- thank you I hope I can keep it interesting

Angel-4rom-Heaven- Yeah it is kinda sad that Inu has to be a playboy and I know it's repetitive in other fics but I'm trying to knock some sense into that two timer and the only way is to turn him into the very playboy he is

secretshadows- actually I wrestled with the idea about adding Sango and Miroku, I mean it really wouldn't be an InuYasha story with out the endless sounds of rub rub "HENTAI!" Slap! so check out this chapter! I think the ending will please you

inuyashaskris-you want more? You got it! ;D

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The soft moonlight illuminated the face of a young half demon. InuYasha looked over his reflection in the creek outside the empty high school. His demonic features had returned, his claws, his ears, and the half of his heart that was forever possessed by the demon within him had returned. He quickly pulled the tattered bandanna back over his head. 'What the hell! How did I transform back.'

He looked up into the night sky and stared deeply into the silver orb that, before now, he would have been relieved to see shining above him. But now, he longed for the new moon to come and return him to his human self. InuYasha felt a low whimper begin in his throat. 'What if someone sees me?' He experimentally began to tap into his demon consciousness. His mind suddenly burned as the inner demon begged to be set free. InuYasha fell to the ground and fought to return to himself. 'Damn it! I don't have Tetsusaiga. I don't have control!' He rolled around desperately trying to subdue himself. He concentrated his thoughts on Kagome's presence, only her purity had ever been able to restrain his demon blood when he had transformed in the past.

Slowly he managed to come to his senses. He sat up and leaned, exhausted, against a tree. Memories returned to him. "Kagome..." he whispered. InuYasha began to realize what had happened to him. 'Kikyo, she's...I...is this the real Kikyo? The women I ... I fell in love with? How could I have been so blind?' His heart tore in realization. He turned his head back toward the dorm rooms and inhaled deeply. His once again canine nose picked up Kagome's pure scent. Without him knowing it InuYasha's heart had chosen. It had chosen long ago, he never realized it, but Kikyo had been dead to him from the first moment he had met Kagome.

InuYasha sighed. He cursed the demon heart he had once longed for. 'Kagome, I have to bring you back! I have to beat this demon's game! I have to protect you!' He sent his silent pledge to her in the shadow of night. 'I failed to protect you once Kagome! I won't fail again! I'll return you to the safety of your world when all this is over. I'll never put you in danger of me again! Even if it means I can never see you again.' His heart shattered, but he knew that as long as Kagome was with him she was putting her life at stake. He could only live knowing she was safe.

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Kagome tossed and turned in her sleep. Broken memories flooded her subconscious mind. She was cowering in a corner of a giant monument, next to her stood a strange boy with long silver hair and...wait...were those dog ears? Standing above them was a giant white dog with long fangs and poison dripping from his lips. The boy turned to her and gave her an intense look. "Look, I'm a half-demon, I'll probably survive but you don't stand a chance in hell."

Kagome broke down, she was so afraid, she began to sob. The boy suddenly gave her a concerned look. "Wait, are you crying," he grabbed her. "Stop crying, I'm just saying let me protect you!" He pulled her behind him and grabbed his sword, suddenly it pulsed and glowed. The old tattered sword became a full fang. Kagome closed her eyes.

She suddenly found herself in a different place sitting beside the same strange boy. Kagome looked around frantically "where did that giant demon go?' Odd memories spoke to her deep in her mind, she had been attacked. That boy hadn't been there to rescue her.

He turned to her. "Kagome, I'm glad your still alive,"

"You were worried about me?"

He gave her an annoyed look, "Course I was,"

She rubbed her shoulder, "I was too, I mean you took so long to show up..."

"Sorry.." he slowly pulled his arm around her shoulder. "It must have hurt."

She just sat there content in his embrace. Her fears melted away as he held her, she felt safe, knowing he would always be there for her.

Kagome was suddenly sitting by an old dry well. The boy was there with her, but, now bruises and scars decorated his face and body. He wouldn't look her directly in the eye.

"Kagome, I've made my decision, things are getting more dangerous by the day..."

She gave him a confused look. "Your probably right..."

"What's that mean? We're in serious danger! This time we were lucky, but next time...?"

"Well I'm not afraid, Naraku's a terrible demon! We've got to do what we can to destroy him!"

Kagome had no clue what she was saying, it was like a vision, like she was watching all this happen instead of actually being there.

Suddenly the boy moved in closer to her. He grabbed her and pulled her into a passionate embrace. He held her desperately, like she was going to slip away at any moment. "I was afraid," he whispered. "I thought I was going to lose you...I was terrified."

Kagome closed her eyes. She wanted so bad to understand what was happening. This boy that was holding her...she felt like she knew him. But he felt so distant, like a memory that had faded away over the years.

Suddenly he pulled away and stood over her. In his hand was a broken, pink rock.

"I'll hang on to the jewel."

He stood over her, trying to appear commanding and menacing...but, Kagome could sense sorrow and torment in his eyes. She stared up into those clear golden orbs, and for a moment was entranced by them. 'I know those eyes.' Kagome knew she had seen them somewhere. They weren't just part of a dream. The boy turned away from her.

"Kagome..." he whispered. "Go back to your own era!"

He pushed her down into the dry well. As she fell he looked down at her sadly. 'I'm sorry Kagome, but you're safe now.'

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InuYasha sighed in relief as the sun peeked out over the horizon. As it's warm rays touched his skin he felt his body return to its human state, and with his human body, came the sudden wave of exhaustion. He leaned back against the tree to hopefully get some sleep when suddenly he awoke to hear the grating ring of the infamous school bell. 'Damn, why on earth would Kagome choose to go to a place like this every day?'

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Kagome slid back against her locker and stared numbly up at the ceiling. She had just finished up her first period history test and lets just say it hadn't gone too well. She shook her head hard. 'Grr, why can't I concentrate?' In her mind she already knew the reason. The strange boy from her dreams seemed to haunt her. 'All I remember about him were those golden eyes...but...somehow I feel like I know him, like, he's real.' She shrugged off the thought. 'There's no way...it was just a dream brought on by bad poptarts...I'm making too much out of it...but, still I wish I knew who he was.'

Suddenly she turned and crashed into a tall figure. "Oh jeeze! I'm sorry I wasn't looking I...oh, it's... you." She glared angrily at the now very confused looking InuYasha. He held out his hand to help her up, she ignored him and pulled herself up.

As she turned to leave he grabbed her hand quickly. "Wait Kagome! I'm so glad I caught you I wanna talk to you!"

She pulled away. "Why would I want to talk to you?"

He never stopped looking at her. "Because I need to tell you something..."

She rolled her eyes and kept going. "InuYasha, just, go play with your slutty girlfriend and leave me alone!"

InuYasha felt like he had been smacked in the face. He shook off the strange looks he was getting from the wandering sophomores that were attempting to get to their classes. 'Kagome come on, please give me a chance...'

Kagome sighed as she walked, stiff legged, to her next period. 'I really wish that dream boy was real, he would beat up that jerk InuYasha for me.' She smiled at the thought and continued on to her math room.

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"Damn wench, I just wanted to apologize." InuYasha muttered as he trudged to his fourth period. He had brooded all day since Kagome had told him off. InuYasha sighed and looked up at the clock. He was late for math, again! He raced with almost superhuman speed to his classroom.

Slowly he crept into his class. The teacher had her long nose buried in a magazine which made his sneak attempt even easier. Silently, InuYasha slid into his desk. He wiped a thin layer of sweat from his forehead and grinned triumphantly. 'Made it!'

"What are you doing?"

InuYasha turned, immediately the grin fell from his face. Sitting in the seat next to him was none other than Kikyo. 'What, I thought I had this class with...Kagome'

"Uhh, hi Kikyo." He scanned the room momentarily with his eyes. "Where's Kagome?" He had half hoped he would have been able to see her, even if the feeling wasn't mutual.

Kikyo glared hard at InuYasha. "Why are you so obsessed with that stupid wench! I mean come on, she's probably just as much a dirty slut as all the rest of the girls you've dated under that little good girl appearance. Besides, she's ugly as hell!"

InuYasha felt a growl begin deep in his throat. "Don't you ever talk about Kagome like that," he whispered.

Kikyo sneered, "So, you do have feelings for her. How sad seeing as she doesn't return them. Do you really think she would have stayed with you when Naraku is defeated. She will return to her world and then you never see her again."

InuYasha looked at Kikyo, shocked, he felt like a boulder had just fallen on him. "What the, Kikyo, you...you know?" He looked around the room quickly, for some reason no one seemed to hear their little conversation.

Kikyo smiled and opened her mouth to say something else when the bell rung. "Hmph, see you at lunch InuYasha, and by the way, Kagome transferred classes. Shows how much she loves being around you."

InuYasha stayed in his seat as every one else left the classroom. He stared emptily at the chalkboard, lost in the raging thoughts and emotions that had begun to invade his mind. 'Kikyo knows...she still remembers everything, so that means...behind the priestess, this is her true nature.' InuYasha burned inside...though he try to hide it...there still was a part of him that lingered on for Kikyo. He had loved her for too long to be free of her so quickly. He thought about what she had said about Kagome. 'Kagome, I have feelings for her but,...I mean I don't love her do I? I can't love her, I don't deserve her...and...someday I'll have to say goodbye to her, forever. What was I thinking, I'm a hanyou, I don't belong with humans or demons. I'm just better off alone.'

InuYasha slowly plodded into the hallway. He still felt an uneasy confusion when he remembered the haunting words of Genshiki."AHH InuYasha, you do have feelings for her, of that I'm certain. The question is, how far will you go to protect her?"

He raked his hands through his hair. 'Why does every say I have feelings for Kagome? He shook of the thoughts that continued to rain down in his mind. 'Just forget it, my job right now is to just get us out of this place.'

InuYasha continued down the hallway toward the lunch room. He raised his nose to the wind instinctively. Even with his human sense of smell he could tell they were serving old meat for lunch again. His stomach gave a queasy lurch. Then suddenly he picked up another smell. It was really faint but he recognized it. Slowly he moved towards it. As he neared the source, he started to smell something else, something that smelled familiar as well. He growled and as he turned a corner he realized what was making the scent. There in front of her locker was Kikyo, passionately making out with a strange figure. He froze. "Kik...yo? What are you..."

Kikyo turned and smiled evilly at the frozen InuYasha. "Oh, hello Inu. This...she turned and addressed the boy like some new gadget she had just bought, is Onigumo."

InuYasha felt his throat constrict. It really was the human bandit Onigumo. He possessed the rugged handsomeness of Musou.(A/N The guy from "The Man with No Face" if you haven't seen it, well watch it and you'll get it) And he had the strong essence of what, or who he really was, Naraku. InuYasha felt even more confused now. 'There's no way that witch Genshiki could have captured Naraku...did she...did she take away the human Onigumo from Naraku's heart?'

Kikyo grinned at the lost expression on InuYasha's face. "Now get lost you bastard." She purred as if she was asking him to kiss her.

InuYasha ran and collaped in an abandoned hall. Any fiber of his heart that still clung to some hope for Kikyo snapped. He felt like his very soul had shattered. 'Damn, I never realized how long I had harbored this sick love for her. I can't stand it!' He closed his eyes and screamed to no one in peticular. "I Loved You Kikyo! I Pledged My Life To You! How Could I Have Been So Blind! DAMN!" He hid his face in his hands and shook. He didn't know if he should whimper or snarl. Suddenly he quieted when he heard someone walking towards him.

Kagome had just seen the sick display Kikyo and Onigumo had created in the lunchroom hallway. She came around the corner and smiled sarcastically when she saw InuYasha crouched in the corner against the wall. "Ah, so InuYasha is the dumped one for once. How does it feel? You should have saw it coming, dating the one girl who was even more of a player than you."

She expected him to come right back up and throw some insult back in her face. But, instead he slowly nodded in agreement, her smile, involuntarily, dropped into a look of worry. She slowly slid to the ground next to him. "Um, InuYasha...Are you, ok? I mean, its not like you don't go through 5 girlfriends every week."

He shook his head, "No, Kagome, I'm not like that..." He turned and looked at her, every ounce of the pain he had kept locked inside him now shone in his glistening eyes. "Trust me, I'm not the guy you think I am." He turned away. " I don't understand why I'm so upset. Kikyo's a bitch. I was blind, giving my love to her...I just...I don't know...I thought I loved her for so long..."

Kagome turned and looked at him curiously. "So, you were just in the Habit of thinking you loved her?"

InuYasha looked again into her eyes, "Habit?"

"Yeah, I mean it hurts when someone you trusted betrays you...when someone you love...does some thing that destroys all the security you once felt with them." Kagome gave him a sad expression.

Images of transforming into his demon form erupted in InuYasha's mind. He stared up at the ceiling, "I really don't know a whole lot about trust, even the people I care about can't trust me because of...who I am. But..." He silently remembered the feeling he got when he first met Kikyo, the feeling he got when he entrusted himself to her and pledged to become a human. 'God, what possessed me to feel this way.'

Flashback

InuYasha sat down wearily by the rushing stream. 'What's happened to my life? I feel so torn.' He had met once again with Kikyo. He saved her from a giant soul collector that was attempting to steal the souls from her body. In return she had embraced him thankfully. He still felt shivers running down his spine from her touch. He promised her that he would protect her. He pledged his life to her. But...afterward, she had just abandoned him again...like always. And on top of it all Kagome had seen them...and he couldn't even muster the strength to talk to her.

Unknown to him, Sango had quietly followed him, gently she sat down next to his still form. She placed a hand on his shoulder, "hey...you ok?" she whispered with a hint of concern. It was times like this when she felt her feminine instincts take over. Something was wrong with her half-demon brother, and she needed to know what it was.

Reluctantly, InuYasha relayed the story to her.

Sango sighed, 'Why does he get himself into these situations?'

"InuYasha, you really must have hurt Kagome's feelings. I mean she does feel close to you...it probably feels strange to her, to think that you only like her because she looks like Kikyo."

InuYasha felt a strange sick feeling at the thought of hurting Kagome, he hadn't meant to. "I...I don't just like her because she looks like Kikyo..." he replied in defense

"Well," Sango had a thoughtful look cross her face. "Have you ever considered that, maybe it's the other way around? Like, maybe you fell for Kikyo because...deep inside her...you saw Kagome's soul?"

For a moment InuYasha didn't know how to respond to that, after a while he shook his head, "No," he said slowly. "I...I love Kikyo, and I can't keep tearing myself between her and Kagome...I already made my choice."

Sango nodded with both understanding and regret. She knew she couldn't change his mind but, for some reason she felt like she couldn't trust Kikyo. She had secretly hoped that someday InuYasha would choose Kagome. "Well, InuYasha...I guess all you can do now I tell Kagome you've made your choice." And without another word she stood and left.

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InuYasha felt his mind whir as he remembered Sango's words. "Have you ever considered that, maybe it's the other way around? Like, maybe you fell for Kikyo because...deep inside her...you saw Kagome's soul?" He turned and looked gratefully at Kagome. She had wrapped her arms comfortingly around his shoulders.

"InuYasha ...I'm so sorry, I didn't realize that you were hurting like this. I thought..." She stopped, he slowly took her hand and gently squeezed it. She felt herself shiver at his touch. She looked up, he was staring at her intensely. Her heart began to pound rapidly. 'Woah, I never realized how...handsome his face was.' Immediately, Kagome gave herself a mental slap. 'This has got to be the hormones talking... What's wrong with you girl, don't forget who this is...' She grimaced but couldn't turn away from his stare. It transfixed her. Suddenly her heart did a backflip...his eyes were, golden yellow, exactly like the boy from her dream.

She tried to speak but he cut her off. "Kagome, Please don't apologize...It's me who should be sorry,... I'm such an Assholeand yet you're still here for me even if... I mean, I know you...you hate me..." He suddenly pulled out of her embrace, still holding her hands, and turned to stare at her face to face. "I promise you Kagome, I'm not the same guy that you hate..I"ve changed, I'm not a two timing jerk anymore! I promise."

Kagome was speechless. The past had taught her never to trust guys saying things like "Trust me, I've changed." But, his eyes were so sincere and her heart wanted to trust him. She opened and closed her mouth a couple of times and then she stood upquickly. "Umm...I got to goGoodbye, InuYasha." She backed away toward the now busy and buzzing lunch room.

"Goodbye" he whispered reluctantly.

InuYasha watched as she walked away. When she disappeared behind the corner, he closed his eyes. 'Why am I acting this way? I shouldn't be doing this...If I get too close to another person...I can't have my heart broken again, Knowing that Kagome won't be here forever, someday we will part, and I can't forget that.'

"Hey Yash, wutcha doin on the floor?"

InuYasha was jarred out of his thoughts by a voice. He looked up and gaped as he saw the face of an all too familiar monk standing above him. But, he was wearing baggy jeans and a loose, dark purple t-shirt. InuYasha couldn't believe this. 'Oh no, not you too.'

"Miroku?"

"Yea, bro your room mate. Hello" he joked as he helped InuYasha up. "Where have you been, you haven't slept in your own dorm for days. Not that I minded being able to invite some of my.." He winked, "Lady friends over."

InuYasha smiled, for some reason, he felt relieved to see his perverted friend again, even if inside he knew it meant that the demon had captured him and Sango as well. "Oh, I've been around. Ya know, doing stuff."

Miroku returned the smile and laughed as they walked into the lunchroom together, but inside he felt deep sadness for InuYasha. He knew about Kikyo and had just witnessed InuYasha's moment with Kagome. 'So InuYasha has finally discovered Kikyo's true nature, but I feel for him, I mean he has loved her for so long...more than 50 years...'

A/N Yea I have completed yet another chapter. Sorry for all the mushiness lately, I'm reaching the emotional transition point between InuYasha and Kagome, but hopefully some of you enjoy fluffiness. And yes! Miroku is here! and for some reason his memory hadn't been erased. Dun Dun Dun Dun the plot thickens!