Disclaimer: Ok ya I don't own Inuyasha and I never will so let's get on with the story.

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TO THE READERS: Hey readers! Thanx a bunch for all of the reviews! It makes me really happy to know that so many people like my story! And seriously people, DON'T WORRY the story isn't over yet!  It still has a bunch of chapters to go before it's done. And all of them are written out so you don't even have to worry about me not updating! I'll put at LEAST one chapter out each day! Thanx again and enjoy chapter 5!

-Japanime625

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CHAPTER FIVE- Confessions

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It was nearly midnight when Kagome's family came back home. Kagome was sleeping in her room but InuYasha was still lying awake on the couch. InuYasha could hear everything that happened. Mrs. Higarashi walked into the kitchen and got a drink of water. Then she walked back into the room where Kagome and InuYasha had been eating, picked up the dishes and walked back into the kitchen to put them in the dishwasher. Then she walked into the room where InuYasha was 'sleeping'. She looked at him for a moment to see if he was really sleeping she assumed he was and bent down to rub one of his ears. InuYasha's ear twitched and then he rolled over. Kagome's mom smiled and walked up the stairs to go to bed. Sota had gone up to bed as soon as he came in. He looked very tired, so did Kagome's grandfather. Grandpa noticed the 'sleeping' half-demon on the couch and was about to pull out some of his little paper spell thingies. InuYasha didn't care. His spells were too weak to do anything to him. Kagome's Mom stopped him before he could try anything though. She said that InuYasha would be staying with them until Kagome went back to his time. So Grandpa went upstairs and also went to sleep.

InuYasha opened his eyes when he was sure that everyone had gone upstairs. He sat up on the couch and looked out a window at the full moon. He stared at the moon in silence for a while. Then he heard a noise and he looked at the corner of the room to see a pair of glowing eyes. His hand reached towards Tetsusaiga that he had leaned against a small table for the night. Then the shadowed figure came into the small amount of light that was in the room and Inuyasha saw that it was only Buyo. The fat cat jumped up onto the couch and onto InuYasha's lap where it curled up. InuYasha rolled his eyes and started to pet him.

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An Hour Later

InuYasha crept up the stairs not making a sound. Then he quietly walked down the hall and opened a door slowly so he wouldn't make any noise. He stepped into the room and quietly closed the door behind him and walked over to a bed in the corner of the room. The person sleeping was under the covers and InuYasha couldn't see their face. He carefully lifted the covers and saw the face of the person and sighed. It was Sota.

Dammit… wrong room…

He snuck out of the room and closed the door. Then he walked to the other side of the hall and opened the door. He stuck his head in. This room was pretty big in comparison to Sota's room. There was a queen size bed and a lot of drawers and shelves. InuYasha smelled perfume that reminded him of Kagome's Mom. Must be her mom's room…. Where the hell did Kagome put her room!

He quietly snuck back out without making a sound. Then he went down the hall and came to another door. This one had a pink doorknob. He opened it and saw more pink. Unless Kagome's grandpa likes pink, I think I found her room…

He quietly walked in and saw Kagome sleeping in her bed. He sat there next to her bed and watched her sleep. If only Kagome could know how I really feel about her… he thought. Why can't I just tell her? Why is it so damn hard for me to say?

He didn't notice Buyo had come into the room with him. The fat cat jumped onto Kagome's bed and curled up against her. Kagome opened her eyes sleepily.

"I guess I could at least admit it out loud… Even if she's asleep and won't hear it… At least it's a start…" he whispered.

Kagome blinked a few times to wake herself up. She was facing away from InuYasha so he couldn't see that she was awake. what's InuYasha talking about? she closed her eyes as InuYasha came closer.

InuYasha took Kagome's hand in his and kissed her gently on the cheek ((A/N: lol have you ever seen the fairly odd parents episode where Timmy's like 'I wish I had cheeks of steel!' and Wanda's like 'I hope you mean your face!' lol! Ok anyway…)) "Kagome…" he said quietly. "There's so much that I want to tell you… But I don't know where to begin…"

He let go of Kagome's hand and gently picked her up in his arms. He sat down on her bed and leaned her against his chest and continued, still thinking that she was asleep.

"I wish I could tell you this while you're awake… I… I love you, Kagome…I love you so much that I can't stand to see you hurt. I might have thought that I loved Kikyo before, but I realized a while ago that it was YOU that I loved… Kikyo could never replace you. And someday I'll say my final good-bye to Kikyo and you won't have to worry about her anymore… It'll just be me and you… me and my Kagome…

You said that you would love to stay in the feudal era with me and I hope that you were telling the truth… It wouldn't work out if I stayed in this era with you. I'm a demon and I wouldn't belong… And I can't use the jewel to become a human anymore because it went back inside of you… not that I'd WANT to become a human but I'd do that for you…

But I hope that you change your mind and we can stay in the feudal era together. We could build ourselves a home and Shippo could stay with us since he needs someone to look after him… Heh, ya know, Shippo's been with us for so long it's almost as if we adopted him or something… he's been treating us like we're his parents or somethin'… he's always following one of us around and he almost called me 'daddy' the other day… he could stay with us and we'd be like a little family… I might not be the best daddy material but I would like to have a family with you…

:sigh: I feel like I'm talking to a sack of potatoes… I'm saying all these things straight from my heart and you can't even hear me 'cause you're sleepin'… I wish you were awake… That way you could tell me if you loved me back… But I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up… Who would love a half-demon? You might be nice to me an' all but I don't see how you could love me… I wish I knew how you feel about me…"

He rested his cheek on the top of her head and sighed. He closed his eyes and put all of his attention on listening to Kagome's heartbeat. The sound of a heartbeat was very soothing… That's odd… her heartbeat's a little faster then it normally is when she's sleeping… ((A/N: not that he usually listens to her heartbeat while she's sleeping of course)) her breathing is going faster than it should be too… she'd only be breathing like this if she was awa— a single bead of sweat made it's way down the side of his face. He noticed Buyo sitting on the bed. The cat was looking at him.

That damn cat woke Kagome up! How much did she hear? Inuyasha blushed. She'll be angry.. I snuck into her room and now I'm huggin' her… She'll think I'm like that monk now!

Kagome opened her eyes. Inuyasha's heartbeat was going really fast. I guess he found out I was awake… She reached up and started to rub one of InuYasha's ears. This caused him to become more afraid.

She'll start off bein' nice and then she'll hit me with somethin' I just know it!

"InuYasha, calm down… It's ok, I'm not going to hurt you…" Kagome turned around so that she was facing InuYasha. She let go of his ear and lightly kissed him. InuYasha calmed down somewhat, but his ears drooped.

"Kagome?" he asked. "H-how much did you hear?"

"I heard everything…" Kagome replied with tears of happiness in her eyes. "I'm so happy!" She hugged InuYasha tightly and he hugged her back. "I love you, InuYasha… I'm so happy that you love me too…" She let the tears fall from her eyes as she hugged InuYasha.

"Kagome… Don't cry… I hate it when you cry…"

"I'm sorry… It's just that I'm so happy…"

"Shhh… It's ok, Kagome… Don't cry… come on, you don't wanna wake your family up… Shhhhh…" InuYasha started rocking back and forth, trying to get Kagome to calm down.

After a few minutes, Kagome calmed down and she just rested in InuYasha's arms with her head against his chest.