Unknown Love
By Temperamental Kagome
If you have any flames, go ahead and flame me. I don't care. I don't like flames, but I can't control you. Anon; reviews are accepted, but will be deleted if needed. Please, please, give me constructive criticism if you have some. I spell check and go over typos, so there should be a minimum, but I might have missed some, and I apologize if I do.
NO FLAMES ABOUT THE PAIRING I CHOSE. Those are the only flames I will not allow. I will either delete the anon. review, or block the user who posted the flame. IF you mention that you don't like the pairing, but your review ISN'T a flame, I won't do anything to you.

obliviandragon: mwahah...haha... ha? yeah here goes, another sucky chapter.. x.X

Phantom Dragon of Eternal Chaos: -hides- um . . . teehee. Yeah, I'm beginning to take a liking towards InuSan . . . strange, 'cause I never even considered it. Oh well, teehee. I still like InuKago the bestestestestestest :)

animeroxz: teehee . . . here goes :)

btw: yes, the chapters are labeled one.(chapternumber) purposely. So it looks sort of like a decimal . . . teehee.

Chapter One.3: Attack Within The Night (I couldn't let human Inu go with Sango without having some kind of attack, that would be weird)

I don't own Inuyasha. Unfortunately enough. If I did, Inuyasha and Kagome would already be together, with a little bit of Sango jealousy teeheehee.

The next time he awoke was not because of Sango, nor was it because of Kagome. Not even Kikyo, or Koga. Not Sesshoumaru. None of those people. At first he woke up to pure darkness and the sound of rain, the feeling of Sango's head on his shoulder. It took a moment for his eyes to adjust, but once they did, he realized what he was facing. How he would take it on at this time was unknown.

"Sango," he muttered into the darkness, hoping to wake her up and not attract the attention of the thing. When she didn't budge, he figured he didn't say it loud enough and nudged her. If he said it any louder, they'd be done in a second.

"Inuy—" He covered her mouth before she had a chance to say anything more.

"Shh."

"What are we doing?" She mouthed towards him. He motioned towards her Hiraikotsu, and she got the message. He stood, quietly, and she picked up the thing as she stood up also. Inuyasha poked her then pointed to the sleeping youkai in the corner.

It's too close to Kagome, he thought. Then something came to his attention. Kagome! Of course . . . what has Sango been doing? Surely . . . it just doesn't seem right. Oh well, I don't have the time to think about this right now. I'm human, and we've got a youkai SLEEPING in our cave.

"How will we get to Kagome?" She whispered. Inuyasha couldn't fight, being in his human form, causing Tessaiga to remain unchanged if he pulled it. If she used her Hiraikotsu, there was no way Kagome could wake up and use her arrows in time to help her.

Inuyasha set off towards her without another word. He tried to be as quiet as he possibly could be, wondering many things on his way: what was Sango doing? And how did the youkai not notice them? Maybe because it was dark?

"Kirara," he whispered, gently touching the neko-mata to awaken her. She rolled over and started to meow as a sign that was was awakening. The youkai moved a bit, but did not wake up. Which proved to be a good sign.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome murmured into the darkness. She gently rubbed her eyes, letting them adjust to the light, not saying a thing. Something must be up, considering the fact that he did not say a word at her waking.

"Let's go," he told her, gently poking Shippo next. She covered his mouth, knowing the situation. Kirara ran off to Sango, but didn't transform. It made noise, noise that could wake the sleeping giant. As soon as Shippo awoke, Kagome covered his mouth and quietly moved in Sango's direction. Inuyasha left the blankets she'd brought, but picked up her zipped backpack. He didn't even have the blanket that was around him anymore, it fell off in his earlier attempts.

He got about halfway when the sleeping youkai turned to face them, and awoke.

Must to their despair. They all got the sign: Kirara transformed, everybody hopped on, then Inuyasha started running. Who cared about noise, now. The thing was already awake. For a better strategy, Kirara lifted up into the air, and once Inuyasha arrived, Kagome let her hand down.

"Try to hang in there, Inuyasha," she said as she grabbed his wrist, letting Kirara fly up and out of the cave. "Let go of the backpack if you must."

"I won't," he returned.

"You're a strong one, let me help you up here." She pulled on his arm and tried to stay on top of Kirara's back as he came higher. His arm with the backpack in hand came over the top, and Kagome picked her backpack up, so that Inuyasha could get up. He used both hands to push himself up, and Kagome watched in worry of him falling. But he didn't.

"Kirara, you hang in there now," Kagome said. She knew Kirara had never taken the stress of all of them being on there. Well, not everybody, considering the fact that Miroku was absent, but close enough.

This was not their escape from the sleeping monster, however. An explosion came from the cave, as the youkai emerged. It was bigger than it looked inside.

And it was not going without a fight, from the looks of it. Kirara needed to find a place to stop, so Sango could strip down to her slayer's suit. Then it would be easier to kill.

As if on cue, Sango said, "Kirara, I hate doing this to you, but until Inuyasha's youkai powers return, we'll have to stay in the air. Then, once they do, we can find a spot to rest for a bit. I can get down to my slayer's suit, and in the meantime, Inuyasha will be able to hold it off."

"Sango-chan, I can try and distract him if Kirara let's me down quickly," Kagome offered, already digging down into her backpack for the bow and her arrows. "Shippo could probably go with me, the more people the better. I also hate to do that to him, but he does serve useful." Shippo didn't seem to care. The kitsune jumped on Kagome's shoulders as she dug through her backpack.

"Okay," Sango replied.

Kagome dug deeper, pulled out a bow, then her arrows, put them on, and then finally responded with, "Okay. Take me down." Kirara flew down and landed on the ground after she looked the area, needing to search in the dark. Shippo jumped off Kagome's shoulder and onto the ground first.

Then Kagome did something very unexpected.

She moved towards human Inuyasha then planted a light kiss on his lips.

"I know we survive every time . . . but I just wanted you to know . . ." She really didn't know what to say next, but got off of Kirara and almost immediately got one of her arrows ready. Shippo acted like absolutely nothing happened and stood next to her, following when she ran.

"Kagome, does he have a jewel shard?" He asked, referring to the youkai.

"Yes, Shippo," she walked along a dirt trail, keeping her arrow in front of her. "He does." Rumbling was heard in the background, and then the two could see it coming for them in the dark. Well, not really dark anymore. The light was slightly peering over the horizon. Any moment now, Inuyasha would be . . .

"It's the same kind of youkai as the one we fought before!" Shippo shouted, referring to the past scorpion youkai (movie one, Toki wo Koeru Omoi).

"That will make this job even easier," Kagome said hastily, obviously needing time. "Shippo, I'll get him with my arrow, you try and distract him with your fox magic, okay?"

"Got it!" Shippo ran off towards the youkai like told and promised. Kagome tightened her grip on the arrow as the youkai got even closer. If she could find the jewel shard . . .

There. Right on it's back. Shippo's shouting out of "kitsune-bi!" was heard, and she took the signal as she watched the top spin on top on the monster. Kagome got closer this time, letting it be distracted, and moved over to it's side so she could get a clear shot.

After taking a deep breath because she felt too close to it for comfort, she shot her arrow at it's back.

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The nerve of her . . . but . . . I knew it was coming eventually, Sango thought. She felt slightly jealous at Kagome's kiss. Only two days, and she already felt this way? She must've been hiding something before for him, and she just never realized it.

Inuyasha would have been more affected if he was in his hanyou form. Their second sharing and yet again, he was in a different form.

Kirara herself had her own mind on things. She was a neko-mata, so she couldn't exactly speak, but that didn't stop her from having a mind all her own. It felt nice, being the bystander in everything. But lately something was up with Sango. She'd always thought Inuyasha and Kagome would get together eventually, even with Kikyo, but what was up with her taijiya owner? What was going on with her?

"Inuyasha, I can see the sun's coming up," Sango said in a not-very-satisfied tone. It made Kirara wonder even more.

"Keh. Finally. I can be back in my real form soon enough." Sango caught that. Real form. Did that hint anything towards him staying a hanyou now? It didn't take a year for her to decide how she would want him, anyway (AN: reminds me of eggs. Hmm, Inuyasha over-easy? Or over-medium? Or maybe even over-hard?). She wanted him hanyou, of course. If he was human, sure, he'd admit all he felt, but only because his human side was forcing him. If he was youkai, he could slaughter them all and lose his soul. But if he was a hanyou, he'd stay the way he was meant to be . . .

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A longer chapter, but still short x.X argh.

Throw the sharpepeppepreprperpeprrrrrrr objects. Teehee.

-tK