Disclaimer: I forgot this for Chapter One. I do not own InuYasha, the plot, the story, the anime, the manga, anything except some merchandise that I either bought or was given to at Christmas. So there.

The two stayed like they were, as if time stood still. The older of the pair couldn't beleive his admittably unique ears.

WHAT? DID SHE REALLY JUST SAY THAT? I've lost too much blood, I'm hearing things. Oh, Kagome, please say it one more time. Please say it again, please say those sweet words again. Let me know whether to kiss you or jump off a cliff.

Kagome coughed, bringing InuYasha back from his wishful thinking.

"InuYasha? Are you alright?" she still spoke as if she were a six-year old in the company of someone very important.

InuYasha looked more than alright, if truth be told. He was practically shining light, he was beaming so widely. His ears were wiggling, apparently of their own accord, and his eyes were a bright amber color. He was practically dancing inside. He reached out and grabbed her hands, pulling her on top of him, laying on his back in the process. "I'm happy." the white-haired hanyou said simply.

Kagome giggled. "Me too," she answered.

InuYasha put his head on the back of her head and pulled it down enough to give the young girl laying on top of his body her first kiss (that wasn't from a maniacle hanyou-turned-demon.) She met his lips willingly and when his tongue gently pressed at her lips awaiting entrance, she gladly parted hers. They kissed with a ferociousness neither had felt ever before. His arms tightened around her tiny waist when he felt her tangle her long fingers into his silky hair. Before either was quite satisfied, the wind blew hard, whipping their long hair around their faces and making it difficult to continue the kiss. So they parted, InuYasha stood up, taking Kagome with him. Carrying her bridal-style, and picking up her pack on the way past the well, they were quickly at his deserted camp. Setting Kagome gently down and acting as if time was something to be beaten, he reached into the humongous yellow backpack Kagome carried and pulled out her sleeping bag. Unzipping it all the way and laying it over the ground, they were sheilded by the surrounding trees from the wind. He returned to Kagome, picked her up, carried her the full two meters to the bag, and lay her on it carefully, as if she'd break at the slightest bump.

Kagome watched all of this, only seeing a red and white blur, because he took a grand total of 15 seconds to execute all of the above tasks.

He lay beside her on his side, holding himself up with one arm and holding her hand with the other. Kagome blinked, seeing the fast-moving blur turn into her beloved InuYasha. She leaned up slightly and kissed the end of his nose. He squeezed her hand and looked at his angel, trying to commit everything to memory. This is perfect- almost.

He leaned down and kissed her again, like before. He let go of her hand in favor of laying it on her stomach.

Kagome broke the kiss, asking him, "What next?" breathlessly.

What does she mean? I wasn't done kissing her!

"What do you mean?"

"Do you... I love you," she punctuated this statement with a kiss to the corner of his mouth. "I mean to say- exactly how far are you wanting to go tonight?"

OH! Oh. I couldn't do that to her... yet. Wait. I can very much do that to her, but I don't want to yet. She deserves to be taken in a room full of roses, and candles, or something.

"Kagome, if you mean what I think you do, I don't want to do that yet. This isn't the right place and I want you to be sure you're ready." He said, tucking her hair behind her little ear and kissing her forehead.

"Alright, InuYasha. But you should know I've thought about it for a long time now and I'm ready. I've been waiting for you to love me, and I'd decided that whenever you did, I would do anything you wanted to, and not regret it," said the girl underneath him.

What? Really? She wouldn't? No- don't do it, InuYasha, hold yourself back.

But she's so beautiful... and she's willing...

And she deserves better!

...Right.

All Kagome saw of this small battle in InuYasha's mind was a tiny flicker of something across the hanyou's amber eyes.

"Not yet."

InuYasha sounded as if he regretted those words even as he was speaking them. He gave Kagome a final kiss then rolled off of her, laying on his back beside her on the bag. They were both silently looking at the stars when he saw Kagome shiver slightly out of the corner of his eye.

"Cold?" His concern showed in his voice.

She nodded. "Only a little, though."

Not saying a word, InuYasha sat up and quickly removed his fire-rat haori, laying it over Kagome. It was large enough longways to completely cover her, and the shivering stopped in a minute. He lay back down, his toned upper half now clearly bared.

"Thank you. But aren't you cold now?" she asked.

"Huh? Oh. Uh- no," was his truthful answer. Kagome, with you here, I don't know if I'll ever be cold again. "You should get some sleep," he said after a while.

He received no answer. When he looked over, a small smile graced his face. Humans... Kagome was already out cold.

The sun rose in a few hours, shining its brightness and looking down on Japan from its place in the skies. It saw a couple in a small clearing of a forest, one with white hair and dog ears, the other with black hair and covered by something red. It saw the first figure rise, being careful not to disturb the second, and walk a short distance away. It busied its eyes with a nearby village when he saw it start to use the bathroom behind a bush.

Let no one say the sun will not deliver privacy.

InuYasha strode back to where Kagome was after he was finished. She was still asleep, so he took it upon himself to make her breakfast. He rekindled what was left of the fire, and looked in her bag.

Let's see. Clothes, one of the wierd things she puts over her chest, more stuff I can't identify, RAMEN! RAMEN! No, she won't want that for breakfast. But it's for me. MY RAMEN! MWAHAHA! Okay, what else? What's this? InuYasha lifted out what looked like a stack of papers that were all connected at one end. It had someone's face on it and lots of colorful writing. He opened it up. It was full of pictures and more insane writing. Oh well. I'll ask Kagome later. Okay, nothing in here for breakfast. InuYasha gave up looking in the yellow bag and instead went back into the forest and caught a rabbit. By the time Kagome woke up it was just finishing being roasted. There was also some berries and a boiling kettle of water for tea.

Kagome yawned and sat up, smelling the delicious food. She smiled when she saw InuYasha scratching behind his ears with his foot. It was cute. She crawled over to him and replaced his foot with her own nails, which made him sigh happily with a goofy smile plastered on his face. Oh, that's the spot. After the scratching, he turned around and kissed her. "Good morning to you too, InuYasha," she laughed.

"I made you breakfast! Look!" He sounded very pleased with himself.

"So you did. Thank you. Let's eat!"

They did, with InuYasha watching her face the whole time. She seemed to like it, and he was even more pleased with himself.

Oh, yeah!

"Kagome!" he ran over to her bag and pulled out the mysterious paper-like object from before. "What's this?" To reinforce his confused look, he sniffed at it slightly.

Trying very hard not to laugh, she told him it was a magazine. She told him what it was for and what it had in it. She went over to him and opened it up to a random page. Wha? Without looking at it, she told him it had stuff in it people thought it was useful to know or wanted to know.

"Kagome, why do you want to know that?" he said with a smirk.

She finally looked down at the page she had showed him. "Oh!" Just her luck, it was a page full of Kama Sutra and other sex positions. It displayed several drawings of the correct "technique" and had many columns of advice and other such stuff that she was very embarrased to have him know she read.

"I- I don't read that part," she lied.

Right. "Sure," he said aloud.

"Really I don't! I just.. skip that part! Really!" she flustered.

InuYasha's smirk got even wider. "For someone who's telling the truth, you sure are touchy," he said.

Kagome just stuttered out some more, watching his smirk grow the whole time, until she had enough.

"OSUWARI!"

AHH! Oh, that hurt.

Several hours later, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou arrived on Kirara's back. After recieving greetings, and in Shippou's case, candy, from Kagome, they set off again. Shippou led the way happily licking a lollypop, followed by Sango, who was carrying Kirara. Miroku walked after them, staring at Sango's ass the whole time. Finally it was InuYasha and Kagome, who were discreetly holding hands.

I wonder why we have to hide this from them, he thought, looking down at their clasped hands. I'm not ashamed of it. I wonder if she is... If she can love me, can't she do it openly?

Even as he was thinking this, Kagome pulled her hand away from his and ran up to Sango. InuYasha watched her whisper something in her ear. Miroku, Shippou, and InuYasha stood on in what can only be called complete perplexity as both girls jumped up and down screaming.

"I"m so happy for you!" Sango cried.

Did she just...?

"Yo, Kagome! Did you just tell her?" he yelled across Miroku's head.

"I had to! She's my best friend!" she yelled back.

Miroku walked over to InuYasha. "You know what they're deafening us for?" he asked over the screaming.

"Yeah."

"Oh. InuYasha?"

"Yeah?"

"Why are they deafening us?"

InuYasha looked at Miroku and said calmly, "Kagome and I are... uh... together."

"Congratulations. Was it good?"

"What? Of course it... NOT LIKE THAT YOU PERVERT!" InuYasha growled. Miroku wisely moved away.

After things calmed down and were explained to Shippou, they moved on, this time with Kagome and InuYasha holding hands, but more apparently. It was a cloudy day, and looked as if it were going to storm. They were walking through a mountainous region when the rain finally began to beat upon them.

"You stay here! I'll find a shelter!" InuYasha yelled to everyone, who ducked under a large tree.

Several minutes later, InuYasha retured, and led them all to a large cave not very far away. It had three different sub-chambers, and it was decided that Sango and Kirara would take one, Shippou and Miroku would bunk together, and InuYasha and Kagome would take the last. As they all walked off to their seperate 'bedrooms,' Miroku winked at InuYasha suggestively. He got flipped off.

After rolling out her sleeping bag, Kagome pulled out a black silken babydoll. She rolled it up very quickly so InuYasha couldn't see it.

"Hey, InuYasha, turn around and let me get dressed," she said politely.

He did as she requested, then turned back around when she said it was okay. Holy shit! She was dressed in something short, sheer, and open in the front. He could see her long legs, small waist, some of her enticing cleavage, and the matching underwear. His cock twitched at the sight and partly hardened. She walked over to him, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him. Oh God... I don't know what's going on here but I think I like it. Yeah, I definitely like it. God, she's sexy.

He deepened the kiss and put his now fully healed arms around her tiny body. Kagome pushed her chest against his, making him groan.

She pulled away. "InuYasha... I love you...please?"

He tried to regain the kiss. "Please what, baby?"

She lent him victory for a moment before ending the kiss once more. "Will you... make love to me?"

Someone review, please, and tell me if you'd like me to continue. I will, but I need at least one review first.