A/n Hey I'm sorry Kagome's last dream wasn't in italic, but oh well. Also I'm sorry for taking so long to update, life has been very busy lately around here, so I'm going to try to update every week or two weeks. Or I can make my chapters shorter so I can write them quicker. Its up to you! Thanks to Rita who, reads, edits and sometimes posts my chapters.

Disclaimer- I don't own Inuyasha, any of the Inuyasha rights, or anything else to do with Inuyasha. I wish I did but I don't so you know.

This sign ' -Means someone is thinking to themselves
This sign - Means a flashback
When Italic font - means dream

Ending of last chapter:

Kagome shot up in the bed, she was shaking slightly. She could hear Inuyasha telling her to calm down that it was just a dream, she lean back into his arms and listened to his steady heart beat. It was the same dream she had before, except that this time she saw the whole dream.

Inuyasha had been awake for almost a half an hour with Kagome having nightmares. She settled back into a dreamless sleep. Inuyasha wished that for once, she could just be left alone, no night's mares, fighting demons, Kouga, Hojo, or anything. He was going to have to do something.

Chapter 17 Dancing, Dresses and Outdoors fun.

Kagome awoke the next morning, she could hear the wind howling, and it sent a shiver down her spine. She snuggled closer to Inuyasha, she moved her hand closer to Inuyasha's head, and then started to rub his ears. Inuyasha started to purr softly, Kagome smiled and started to rub his ear harder. His purring got louder, and Inuyasha wrapped his arms around Kagome tightly. He started to rub her back little. Kagome leaned down and kissed Inuyasha on the lips, his eyes opened little, and then fully open. Inuyasha smiled at Kagome and then kissed her, she relaxed into his hold and kissed him back. Inuyasha flipped Kagome over so that he was now on top of her, but he was careful not to crush her. Kagome blushed a little at the position they were now in, but she didn't say a word. Inuyasha kissed Kagome again, this time with more passion, he wanted to show Kagome that he really loved her. He wanted to make up for all those times he had hurt her, he wanted to make up for everything. Kagome kissed Inuyasha back with the same passion, and she deepened the kiss. Inuyasha felt the urge to take her then and their, but he wouldn't let it happen. They broke apart panting, Kagome smiled at Inuyasha, and he rolled back over and pulled Kagome on top of him.

"I could get use to this every morning." Kagome said, she sensed that Inuyasha was nervous about something, but she waited for him to speak.

"Kagome what did you dream about last night?" Inuyasha asked after a very long pause.

Kagome had to tell him, it some what had to do with their future, so she guessed he had almost the right to know. She never bothered to tell him about the dream when she was in the hospital but now she was going to. She took a deep breath and started.

"To tell you the truth Inuyasha it was the same dream I had in the hospital, except this time I went through the whole dream. At the beginning someone is dragging you away from me, and I try to run after you, but no matter how fast I would run I couldn't catch up to you. I screamed you name and when you yelled back to me, I couldn't hear you. Then everything went black, next thing I knew it I'm on an alter wearing my grandmothers wedding dress, and the person standing next to me isn't you. Its Hojo, he smiles at me, I can't even scream or move, but I can hear a fight going on behind me. Its you, and as usual you save me, so then we are running or leaping, I'm not quiet sure, and someone shoots at us with a gun, and I get shot. My stomach is bleeding, I start screaming and then I realize that we just lost our first unborn pup."

A small tear ran down Kagome's cheek, she whipped it away quickly and then looked up at Inuyasha. A slight tear ran down his cheek, he didn't even bother to hide that he was crying. Losing a pup or your mate are the two things that demons really get pissed about. Most turn into unstoppable killing machines and some commit suicide.

"Kagome that is never going to happen, because I will always protect you, and our future pups. Ok, you don't have to worry. It was only a dream, it will never come true." Inuyasha whisper into Kagome's ears. Inuyasha whipped the last of Kagome's tears and sat up in the bed.

"What time is it?" He asked.

"Umm 8:00, do you want to get up and go get some breakfast?"

"Sure."

Kagome got off Inuyasha, but not with out giving him one more kiss, she got up and went to the bathroom. Inuyasha slung his legs over the bed and stretched. He made the bed for Kagome and opened the blind. Inuyasha was shocked, he couldn't see anything out side. The blizzard was hitting them full on, the snow was coming down like there was no tomorrow, and the wind only made it worse. Inuyasha guessed they would be spending the day at the cabin. He walked out into the hall, and almost bumped into Sota.

"Morning kid." Inuyasha said.

"Hey Inuyasha. Come on were going to be late for breakfast." Sota said as he raced down the stairs. Kagome came out of the bathroom and found a very confused hanyou.

"Is he always this excited over breakfast?" Inuyahsa asked.

"No it's just on days like these mom makes a special breakfast."

"Well I guess we shouldn't be late now, should we." As Inuyasha said this he picked up Kagome and raced down over the stairs. When he got to the kitchen he put her down. Kagome giggled and went to sit down in her seat. Inuyasha took a sniff of the air, a couple of things he recognized and others he didn't, but it all smelled good.

"So mom what are we having today?" Kagome asked cheerfully.

"Pancakes, crepes, bacon, apple sausages, fried eggs, bologna, ham, toast, rice, cereal, and oat meal." Margaret said with a smile.

"What's bologna, and crepes?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.

"Ahh I don't know, mom always has something new for us to try, whenever she does this for us." Kagome sat as she took bits and pieces of everything and Inuyasha did the same.

Kagome's Grandpa walked into the room, he had returned sometime last night before the storm hit. Margaret handed him a bowl of rice and he sat down to eat. He wasn't too fussy over what he ate, as long as he ate. Everyone started to eat, Inuyasha for once took his time and actually tasted the food. By the time breakfast was over there was not a scrap of food left. Kagome told her mom that Inuyasha and her would do all the dishes, so that she could have a break. Margaret didn't even try to argue with her daughter and left the room to go play cards with her dad and son in the living room. Kagome walked over to the sink and started to scrub the dishes, while Inuyasha cleaned off the table. A few minutes later she felt two arms snake around her waist. Inuyasha kissed her neck and it sent chills down her spine.

"Inuyasha I'm trying to do the dishes." Kagome giggled as she tried to wash another plate, but ended up dropping it back down into the sink as more kisses were placed on her neck.

"Inuyasha please." Kagome whimpered.

Inuyasha growled in her ear and then picked up a cloth to dry the clean dishes. Kagome looked out the window, there was almost 15 cm of snow after falling and it didn't seem like it was going to let up any time soon. Something caught her eye, someone was out there standing in the snow, and Kagome froze. She dropped the plate she was washing on the floor and ran towards the door. Inuyasha looked out the window and then followed Kagome. She was already out the door, Inuyasha put on his boots, grabbed his coat and hat and ran out the door. He caught up to Kagome who was running towards the back of the house. Then Inuyasha saw it, a demon was running towards the forest. He couldn't believe it, this whole time that Inuyasha has been in this era he had never sense one demon. Now all of a sudden they were popping up everywhere.

'Damn it, I don't have my sword.'

"Inuyasha." Kagome yelled. It was only now Inuyasha noticed that the demon had stopped running and was now facing both him and Kagome. It started to grow from its smaller form, into a demon that was now taller then a 2 story building. It had red eyes, and sort of look like a monkey.

"Kagome get behind me." Inuyasha growled.

"What are we going to do?"

"Don't worry Kagome I'll take this demon out with my own hands." Inuyasha smirked and charged at the demon, he jumped into the air, his claws were seconds away from ripping through the demons flesh, when it disappeared.

"What the fuck?" Inuyasha was now standing in mid air, well more like falling towards the ground. Kagome wasn't worried she knew Inuyasha would easily land on his feet, with out getting hurt. Inuyasha walked back towards Kagome, and bent down. Kagome took this as a single to get on his back and she did. Inuyasha ran back towards the house. They entered the house and went right back to the kitchen.

"Kagome why were you outside?" Kagome's mother called, coming into the kitchen.

"It was nothing mom."

"Ok dear," was all she said as she left the room.

"What's going on? I have lived in Japan my whole life and its only now that demons decided to come after me."

"Kagome we don't know what the hell is going on here, but we will find out soon." Inuyasha was sure his half brother would knew something about what's going on.

"Ok Inuyasha, so what do you want to do today?" Kagome asked.

"Feh, I don't care." Inuyasha answered.

"Come on Inuyasha there's got to be something you want to do?"

"Well maybe, you will think this is stupid, but can you teach me how to dance." Inuyasha blushed a little, sure he knew how the dances in the feudal era, and he knew a couple of dances from this era, but he didn't really feel like making a show out of himself and Kagome at this Christmas ball thing.

"Sure Inuyasha, there's only three days until the Christmas Ball, but that should be lots of time to teach you how to dance. We'll start after we finish cleaning up." Kagome said cheerfully. Inuyasha was already kicking himself.

Two hours later

It was around 11:30, and Inuyasha had already learned how to do the swing, the Charleston and some break dancing. He already knew the swing but they practised it anyways. Every year at the Christmas Ball they had a Jazz group for the entertainment, so Kagome had to teach Inuyasha jazzy dances, she had learn such a long time ago that they seem to just come natural to her. But the break dancing came from some classes that Kagome and her friends took for fun, but Kagome got pretty good at it. Next Kagome decided that she should teach him, slow dancing, but then she remembered that he danced with her at the hospital. Oh well she didn't care it was a chance to be close to her Inuyasha and she would take it. Kagome wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's neck and he automatically put his arms around his waste. Sota sat on the couch and watch his sister and Inuyasha dance slowly to the music. Margaret had asked him to help out with the lessons, Sota ended up being his own mothers partner. He didn't mind really, but there was no way he would slow dance with his own mom.

"That's it, I think you got it Inuyasha." Margaret said.

"Inuyasha where did you learn how to do the swing?" Kagome asked. She had no idea where he could have learned it.

"One night when we were in the feudal era, I heard you telling Sango that you loved to dance and that you loved to do the Swing. So when you would come back to your time and I followed, I read the books in your house on dancing and then saw it on T.V." Inuyasha simply said.

"You seize to amaze me Inuyasha." Kagome answered.

Margaret looked at her family. (Grandpa is sitting in a chair a cross the room) She loved that her family was now a family again. Kagome went away so much that she didn't get to spend any time with her, and now they have Inuyasha to add to their family. After a few more minutes of dancing Kagome and Inuyasha took a break. They went into the kitchen and got something to drink for everyone. They came back out with the drinks and sat down. Kagome just remembered something she was going to need something to wear at the Ball, she never packed the dress that Inuyasha gave her, so now she had no clue what she was going to wear.

"Mom I have nothing to wear to the Ball." Kagome said, she looked over at her mom. Something seemed different about her lately, but Kagome couldn't figure out what.

"Well then, I guess we will have to go find something. How about we go look through the old clothes in the spare bedroom and see if we can find anything." Margaret suggested.

"I guess so. Sota why don't you play some cards with Inuyasha."

"Sure sis." Sota decided he would teach Inuyasha how to play poker.

Kagome and her mother went down a small set of stairs into the basement, something scratched Kagome's arm, and it felt like a tree. Margaret flicked on the light and their stood a Christmas tree. 'When did mom get this?' She thought. Margaret walked on towards a small room, and Kagome followed. The room was only about as big as her room at home, it had a small bed, a dresser with mirror and a closet. Kagome remember when she was younger when she and her friends would play in this basement, and the room. There were some many hiding places, for hide and seek. You could always find a new one. Kagome smiled as she picked up a picture of her and her friends about 11 years ago, they were all setting on the bed smiling. Kagome remembered that day, her dad and mom had a Christmas party, so the children played downstairs, and had a little party of there own. It was so much fun.

"Kagome come here have a look at this."

Margaret had a box opened on the floor in it was some old clothes and a couple of old dresses. She pulled out a light pink dress. Kagome took it from her mom and looked at it. It was made of lace, and was off the shoulders. The back was low, and it would come to about just below Kagome's knees.

"Mom it's beautiful."

"I wore it to the first Christmas ball your father, and I ever went to. I found it in an old shop, the women told me that she had only one ever made, and I bought it. Now why don't we go upstairs, so you can try it on and then I can take it in some for you."

"Sure. What are you going to wear mom?" Kagome asked as she left the room.

"I have a dress upstairs that I bought for the Christmas Ball a few years ago but I never got to wear it." She answered.

"Sorry mom, that was my fault because I was in the feudal era."

"No Kagome dear it wasn't, I could have went out, but I wanted to wait until we came back up here with our family."

"Oh mom." Kagome gave her mom a huge and they went up stairs.

It was about an hour and an half later and now Kagome and her mom were almost finished Kagome's dress. Kagome looked out the window for the billionth time. The storm was starting to clam down a bit, and soon Kagome and Inuyasha would be able to go outside in the snow. She was going to invite her friends over later to have a snowball war, and to have the traditional snowman building contest. Every year Kagome and her friends would build a snowmen that would "look" like them. Whoever's snowman looked most like them, won, and they got a prize. This year they would have to make 7 snowmen. Sota, Inuyasha, Kagome, Hojo, Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi were all really excited. This year Kagome knew her team would actually have chance to win the snow ball war, with Inuyasha on her team there was no way they team could lose.

Margaret finally finished working on the dress, she told Kagome that she could take it off and that anything else that needed to be done, could be done without Kagome having to be in it. She went and took off the dress and then handed it to her mom. Then Kagome went to find Inuyasha. She walked down over the stairs and saw Inuyasha and Sota horse playing in the living room.

"You almost got me that time kid, but next time you should do this." Inuyasha said, as he dogged Sota and then put him in a half nelson. Kagome giggled and then ran to jump on Inuyasha, but she wasn't quick enough. Inuyasha had let go of Sota and then caught Kagome in his arms.

"Good catch Inuyasha." Cheered Sota.

"She is a good catch." Inuyasha smirked.

"Come on, put me down Inuyasha." Kagome said while trying to hide a blush. Just as Inuyasha put Kagome on the floor, the phone rang. Kagome picked it up.

"Hello." She said.

"Hey Kagome." It was Eri.

"Hey Eri, what's up?" Kagome wasn't surprised that it was Eri. She suspected that as soon as the snow let up a bit she would get a call from one of her friends.

"Not much, but I noticed that the storm is dying down, and was wondering if you wanted to come to the hotel for a while or something." Eri said.

"That sounds great Eri, but I got a better idea, how about you come down and we have our tradition snowball war, and snowman building contest."

"Oh my god, we haven't done that since you started getting sick, and stopped coming up here, we'll be down there in an half an hour or less."

"You sound like the pizza boy."

"Cya soon." Eri cut in.

"Bye." Kagome shook her head at the phone, and then left to go talk to Inuyasha and her brother. They were now in on the floor playing cards again.

"Hey boys do you want to go outside in the snow with me?" Kagome asked.

"Ya sis, come on Inuyasha. I'll race you outside." Sota got up and ran towards the door to get ready. Inuyasha got up and walked over to Kagome.

"Who was that on the phone?" He asked.

"Eri. Her, Ayumi, Yuka and Hojo are coming down to have a snowball war, and a snowman building contest."

"Oh, well I guess we should get going." Inuyasha said and pecked Kagome on the lips before starting for the door.

"Why are you so excited?" Kagome asked.

"This is something else I can beat Hobo at." Inuyasha said with a smirk and left the room.

'I should have known.' Kagome thought.

"Mom we're gone outside." Kagome called just before she went outside. There was still quiet a bit of snow falling but it was nothing the group couldn't handle. Kagome rounded the cabin into the back yard. She looked over and found Inuyasha and Sota already making snowballs for the war.

"Sota you know that you can't start making snowballs, until the rest of the group is here."

"Well wait no longer." Yuka said as she walked into the yard.

"Hey guys."

"So lets get this war started." Yuka said.

"What about teams?" Ayumi asked.

"Me, Sota, and Inuyasha, against you four." Kagome said.

"Isn't that unfair, four of us against only three of you." Eri said.

"Don't worry Eri, its fair. Come on Kagome." Sota said.

"Ok you all know the rules. We get 20 minutes to build our forts and make snowballs. Once that's up, its time to begin. Whoever takes over the other teams fort wins the war, and remember girls no aiming below the belt." Yuka shouted across the yard.

"Yup." Kagome yelled back.

"Do you have to be so loud." Inuyasha grumbled.

"Sorry, I forgot about your ears." Kagome giggled.

Kagome and Inuyasha both set out to build their fort on one side of the yard. While Sota made as many snowballs as he could. On the other side Eri, Yuka and Hojo made the fort and Aymui was making the snowballs. 20 minutes went by very quickly, and both groups where ready, and the war was on. If you were a bystander and watching this snowball fight, you would think that Hojo and his group were winning, but that was so wrong. Hojo and his team came at Kagome and her team with all they had in the first few minutes of the fight. Inuyasha wasn't really expecting any of the snowballs to actually hit him, but the very first one that was thrown, by Hojo, hit him square in the face. Inuyasha whipped the snow off his faced, he looked at Kagome who grinned at him, and then Inuyasha started to throw snowballs like there was no tomorrow. Most of his snowballs were aimed directly at Hojo and most of them hit. Kagome started to fling snowballs at her opposing team, while getting hit a few times. Ayumi aimed one right for Kagome and through it with all her might, but it wasn't on the right course and ended up hitting Hojo in the back of the head. He was only standing a few feet away from her. Hojo glared at Ayumi but said nothing.

Soon both teams were starting to run out of snowballs, and Hojo's team retreated down behind the safety of their fort. Inuyasha and Kagome did the same.

"Do you got any more snowballs made kid?" Inuyasha asked.

"Working on it Inuyasha." He replied.

"We'll have to go for a sneak attack Inuyasha. Catch them while they're down." Kagome panted.

"No, I think they will be expecting that." Sota said, from behind a huge snowball pile.

"Your right Sota, we will let them make the first move, then we attack." Inuyasha growled.

The group sat for a few minutes and waited, and waited. Still no one came, soon Sota got fed up with all the waiting and stood up. Right when Sota stood up he got pounded with snowballs. Kagome pulled him back down and looked at Inuyasha. He just seemed to be in deep thought. He looked up once or twice and then back to Kagome. He opened his mouth to speak but then shut it again. Kagome started to get frustrated with him.

"Inuyasha do you have a plan or what?" Kagome finally asked.

"I do have one, you get on my back and we'll jump out of the fort and throw snowballs at them. They'll get the shock of their life." Kagome just sweat dropped.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Sota said. " Here sis, take some snowballs and get going." Sota

pushed some snowballs to Kagome. She took as many as she could carry and got on Inuyasha's back.

He jumped out of the fort, and Kagome didn't really throw any of the snowballs, but more like dropped them on her opponents. They seriously didn't know what hit them. Inuyasha landed right between the two forts, he looked at Hojo, who's faced looked quiet surprised. Inuyasha smirked, put Kagome down and ran to the other group's fort, and walked into it.

"We win." Kagome squealed.

"That's no fair Kagome you never told us that Inuyasha was a professional high jumper or something like that." Eri wined.

"I'm not." Inuyasha simply said and walked back to their fort.

"Good job Inuyasha." Sota cheered.

Kagome walked over to her friends, to speak to them for a minute. "Come on now guys, don't be sour losers, lets start the snowman contest. I'll run and tell mom to be ready to judge in an hour."

Kagome walked away from her friends and was about to run to the house when someone caught her by the wrist. At first Kagome thought it was Hojo, but she turned around and found a hanyou staring at her. Inuyasha bent down and kissed Kagome on the lips. At first Kagome just stood there and blushed but then she kissed him back. She would never get use to Inuyasha showing his affection towards her in public. Inuyasha smirked against Kagome's lips, she broke their kiss and look up to his face. He winked at her and then walked away. Kagome watched him for a second and then ran towards the house.

Hojo stood on the spot and watched Kagome run to the house, his face was red and if he was a cartoon you would see steam coming from his ears. Inuyasha walked pass Hojo, he reeked of jealousy. Inuyasha took another sniff of the air, there was something not right. Inuyasha looked at Hojo, a small demons aura, was floating above his body. Inuyasha couldn't do anything, but watch it disappear away, he shook his head and walked back to the group.

"Inuyasha do you know the rules to the snowman contest?" Eri asked.

"Yeah, Kagome told me about it earlier." Inuyasha mumbled.

Kagome came back with a box of old clothes and the contest began. At first Inuyasha watched everyone starting to build their snowman. He chuckled and walked over to the box of old clothes, he picked out what he wanted for his snowman and then went to go build it. Kagome saw Inuyasha do this and thought it was a very smart idea. She also went over to the box and got some clothes. The last time she did this, Kagome ended up with the most ugliest pieces of clothing but not this year. She walked back to her spot and started building again. In the end everyone had very impressive snowmen, but Yuka did the best. Her snowman had the curves, the hair and facial features of herself. There was no way anyone could beat her. Kagome came in second and then Hojo.

Yuka looked at Kagome and then to Inuyasha, she smiled a little and then walked over to Kagome and whispered something in her ear. Kagome nodded her head and then walked over to Inuyasha she asked Inuyasha something and he answered with a "Sure" and then Yuka walked over to Inuyasha.

She got on his back, and Inuyasha jumped into the air and then landed and the other side of the yard. Yuka got off his back and bowed to Inuyasha, then she ran back to her friends.

"Wow that was so cool." Yuka said.

"How about we all go inside to get some hot chocolate?" Margaret asked.

"Sounds good." Eri said in agreement.

"Come on, I'm freezing." Ayumi said as she walked passed the group.

"You guys go on in, we'll be in there, in a sec." Kagome said to the group.

Everyone walked towards the cabin and then around the corner and out of sight.

"Inuyasha that was very nice of you to let Yuka, have a ride on your back." Kagome said as she hugged Inuyasha.

"Ya, but now I want my reward." Inuyasha grinned. Kagome leaned up and kissed Inuyasha on the lips. They broke apart and then walked back to the cabin.

When they got inside everyone was already in the living room drinking hot chocolate. Kagome's mother handed Inuyasha two cups of hot chocolate for him and Kagome. Inuyasha laid them on the table next to the couch and then sat down. Kagome was about to sit on the floor next to Inuyasha when he pulled her into his lap. Kagome picked up there hot chocolates and handed one to Inuyasha. The rest of the group was just sitting around talking. The phone rang next to Kagome and she went to pick it up.

"Hello.."

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