A/n I'm am so sorry to all you people who read my story! The internet has been down in my area for five days, so I couldn't send my story to Rita. So please Read and Review! Thanks to Rita who reads and edits all my chapters! If she didn't this story would suck alot! LOL Anyway on to the story! Oh and one last thing I'm sorry that my last couple of chapters have been a bit short, but they will be longer for now on.

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.

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Ending of last chapter:

Inuyasha was going to go buy Kagome a Christmas present while he could get the girls to distract her. He would find the perfect gift, but what that was he was unsure. Inuyasha guessed he would know when he found it. So for now he would just sit back and enjoy the ride to the mall.

Chapter 19 Jealousy Can Kill...

A half an hour later the group pulled into the mall parking lot. Kagome had fallen asleep on Inuyasha's shoulder, and awoke as the vehicle stopped. The mall they were at wasn't as big as the one Inuyasha had been to a couple of days ago but it was still big. Everyone got out of the van and walked toward the mall. All of a sudden Yuka jumped behind Kagome and Inuyasha. She was trembling in fear, and was about to cry.

"Yuka, what's wrong?" Kagome asked while trying to comfort her friend.

"That him." Yuka pointed to a guy getting out of a blue car.

"Who's he?" Kagome had no idea what was going on.

"I guess you don't know yet." Eri started.

"Know what?" Kagome was about to yell, but was cut off.

"He's the guy Yuka has a crush on, but she is afraid to talk to him." Eri said simply.

"Yuka that's not like you." Yuka was now calmly walking along with the rest of the group.

"I know Kagome, but he is just so hot, nice, smart an,..."

"I get the point, why don't you ask him to the Christmas Ball?" Kagome smiled at her friend.

"Go on Yuka!" Ayumi encouraged her.

"You can do it." Andrea said.

"Yuka, YukA." Inuyasha, Jordan and Mike chanted.

"Ok, ok I'm going. I'll meet you in the mall later." Yuka said as she walked away from her friends.

'Ok, ok, come one Yuka you can do this. You have asked guys out before what's so different about this one.' Yuka thought in her head.

The others walked into the mall, Inuyasha wrapped his arm around Kagome's shoulders, and she looked up at him. He bent down and kissed her on the lips.

"That was nice of you to encourage Yuka." Kagome said sweetly.

"I don't think I could stand listening to that human go on and on for the rest of the day."

Inuyasha said. Even though his ears were cover by an illusion they were still very sensitive.

"Don't worry my love, you wont have to." Kagome kissed Inuyasha on the lips, but was pulled away from him, Inuyasha growled. He was starting to get annoyed by Kagome's friends.

"Kagome come on we are going girl shopping!" Andrea said with a bit too much excitement.

"What are you girls up to?" Kagome eyed her friends.

"Nothing we swear. Now come one." Ayumi said as she grabbed Kagome's hand and pulled her away from Inuyasha.

As soon as Kagome was out of ear shot Inuyasha spook, " Are you guys shopping for your girls now or later?"

"Why don't we do it now and then send the stuff back to the house so the girls wont be able to find out what we are getting them." Mike suggested.

"Ok, meet back here in 45 minutes." Jordan said.

"Alright." With that Inuyasha took off into the crowd, he had to find Kagome the perfect gift.

He wasn't even sure what to get her.

Back in the Feudal Era

Sango looked at Miroku from the corner of her eye, he had been too good to her lately. He hasn't groped her once. They had been back for a couple of days and everything has been going pretty well. With the exception of a few cases of the cold, and a roof needing repair. Sango was kind of disappointed that no demons had been attacking lately, she was almost bored.

Miroku looked towards the door, Keade just left to go treat one of the villagers and Shippo was happy to go with her. It was the first time they had been alone since they climbed out of the well.

Flash back

Miroku could hear Kagome crying but it soon was heard no more as a blue light surrounded them. Sango and him were now on the other side of the well. He looked at Sango and then to the top of the well. Sango was about to start climbing up to the top when a hand stopped her. Sango turned around and looked at Miroku, he looked sad and depressed.

"What's the matter Miroku."

"Sango my love once we climb out this well and go back to the village things will now be the same as they were before." He stated.

"No Miroku the won't be the same, we both know that we love each other. We can be happier now." Sango took Miroku's hands in hers.

"Sango that's the thing, we wont be able to tell anyone. If Naraku found out that we are in love, he would use that in some twisted way. If something happened to you Sango I wouldn't be able to go on."

"Don't say things like that Miroku, please don't." Sango started to cry. "I'm scared Miroku, what if he does find out?" Miroku pulled Sango into a passionate kiss, they broke apart and looked into each other's eyes.

"I guess the only thing we can do is, pretend as if nothing has happen between us." Miroku sighed.

"Once Naraku is dead we will be able to be together once more." Sango kissed Miroku again. They climbed out of the well as if nothing had happened.

End flash back

Sango walked over to Miroku and sat in his lap, Miroku was very surprised by this. He wrapped his arms around her. Sango laid her head on his chest and listened to the even beating of his heart. She wished that he could hold her like this everyday and night. She wanted so bad to be with him. Miroku kissed Sango's collarbone, she turned around and looked him in the eyes. Sango was about to speak when he caught her lips with his, she closed her eyes and melted into his hold. He licked her bottom lip, begging for entrance and she allowed him permission to explore her mouth. They broke away from each other and tried to catch their breath.

"Miroku you know we are not supposed to be doing this." Sango scolded, trying to hold a serious face.

"It not like you didn't want me to." Miroku was about to kiss Sango again when he heard something.

"Miroku, did you hear that?" Sango whispered.

"I wish I never." Miroku let go of Sango and got up. He went outside the hut and found a man staring at him.

"Can I help you sir?" Miroku smiled kindly.

"I am looking for the beautiful Sango." He said proudly.

"May I ask why?" Miroku started to twitch a little.

"I came to proclaim my love to her." The man jumped off his horse, and walked into the hut. Miroku followed right behind him.

"Sir, I do not appreciate you.."

"Sango my love, I am here to take you back to my lands. I promised you once I became a noble man I would come, sweep you off your feet and take you my home." The man got down on one knee.

"Sokahtoa, slow down lets sit and talk." That's all Sango could get out, she hasn't seen this man in six years. He just shows up and tells her that he loves her and wants to marry her.

"How did you find me ?" Sango asked.

"It wasn't hard my love, I went back to your village, and a couple of people, that are now living there, told me that you were travelling with a group in these lands. I have search through every village and I was told in the last one to come here." Sokahtoa said.

"Sokahtoa it has been six years, I told you that I would not marry you. I'm sorry." Sango looked him straight in the eye. He seemed enraged.

"You are making the biggest mistake of you life Sango, one way or another you will be mine." With that Sokahtoa got up and left. Sango went to the door and watched as he rode off into the distance.

"What.." Miroku was about to question Sango but she put her finger to his lips.

"I will explain everything, how about we go for a walk." Sango took Miroku's hand in hers and walked out the door. She grabbed a blanket that was hanging on a hook by the door.

"Sango if someone sees us..."

" That's why I got this." Sango put the blanket around her and Miroku's shoulders. "Plus Miroku, it's freezing out here, who would want to be out."

Sango looked towards the river, she knew the perfect spot for them to talk. She lead them down by the riverbank, she counted out 23 and a half steps and then stopped. She bent down and started to push to snow about from the ground. Miroku wondered what she was doing but said nothing. Instead he started to help her push the snow away. They were lucky that there wasn't a lot on snow on the ground around this area. The riverbank didn't get much snow because the trees covered them pretty well.

Miroku looked at the river, it was frozen, but it was not safe to walk on just yet. Sango stopped digging and looked at the ground closely, then she grabbed something and pulled. To Miroku's amazement, a trap door opened.

"Are you just going to stand there all day or are you going to come down with me." Sango giggled.

Sango reached the bottom first and lit some candles, then she went to turn on the battery powered lamp that Kagome had gotten for her. Miorku's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he reached the bottom. It was a large cave that was big enough for four people to walk around in and, it was warm. A blow up couch stood in the centre of the cave, and a small wooden chair was off to the side. Wooden beams supported the walls and roof of the cave to make sure the cave wouldn't collapse.

"When did you find this place?" Miroku asked.

"About a year ago, Kagome and I were swimming around in the hot spring and we found a whole bunch of tunnels. One of them lead to here, so we decided that we would make it our own little hide out. Didn't you guys ever wondered why we spent a lot longer in the hot spring, when we were in this village." Sango looked at Miroku.

"Not really, whenever we would come back here Lady Keade would have chores for us so we never really noticed how long you would be gone for." Miroku laughed a little. "So how did you do all this?"

"It wasn't to hard, first we got supports for the walls and roof, then we dug the land entrance, and Kagome brought the rest of the stuff from her time. We also read some books on how to properly do all of this, but it only took about two months." Sango finished and sat on the couch.

"So tell me about this Sokatoa guy." Miroku rolled his eyes when he said his name.

"Somebody's jealous." Sango taunted.

"Why would I be jealous, your mine." Miroku sat on the couch with Sango and kissed her.

"Ok I'll tell you about him. Six years ago Sokatoa stumbled into our village, he was after being robbed and almost beaten to death. I cared for him until he was able to leave our village. He asked me for my hand in marriage, but I refused. He then promised me that he would come back someday and we would be married. I laughed and told him that he would have a wife by then, and then he left. I haven't thought about that day in a long while." Sango looked at her only love, she would never leave him for Sokatoa. "Miroku if you're worried that I'll leave you for him, don't worry, because I could never. He's a nice man but..." Miroku caught Sango's lips with his, that was all he needed to know.

They left the cave a half hour later, Sango made sure she turned off the lamp and blow out the candles. She also made sure she pushed all the snow back on to the trap door. Miroku and Sango walked back to the village, both feeling content...

Inuyasha had been through most of the stores at the mall and he still couldn't find Kagome a gift. He looked at clothes, jewelry, books, shoes or anything else he thought that she might like but found nothing. Inuyasha was about to give up when he noticed a small shop off in a little corner. It kind of reminded him his time. The shop was old and didn't have all the new type of techniques in it. Inuyasha looked around the shop, there was Kimonos, dresses, spell books, but something caught his eye. An old locket, it had a small pink jewel in the middle of it, was tarnished and Inuyasha would have to buy a chain for it, but it was beautiful. An old lady came out from the back of the shop.

"May I help you young man?" The old woman smiled at Inuyasha.

"Yes I would like to by that locket right there." Inuyasha pointed to the locket.

"Oh you have such wonderful taste young man, and you are very lucky. I have a woman that has come in here everyday for the past week to look at this locket. She would stare at it then her husband would come and they would leave together. My what a beautiful couple they make, him with his silver hair and her long black hair tangling together as they walked away hand in hand. She usually comes around this time. I thought she was going to buy it, but she said she had one like it." Inuyasha eyes shoot open, was she talking about him and Kagome.

'This old hag must be crazy.'

"How much?" Inuyasha grunted.

"That will be 28, 900 yen." Inuyasha got the money from his pocket and passed it to the old woman. She took the locket and put it in a small case and gave it to Inuyasha. He turned and was walking out of the store.

"I'm sure your mate will love it." The old woman said.

Inuyasha flew around, but the woman was gone. He shrugged his shoulders and left the store. He had a strang feeling that he was being watched, but when he looked around there were to many peoplr around to pin point anyone. Next, Inuyasha needed to go buy a chain to go with the locket. He also wanted to get something else to go with the locket and chain. He stopped at a store and then ten minutes later he walked out of a jewelry store and went back to meet the others. He got back and saw his brother standing in the food court.

"Bother what are you doing here." Inuyasha asked.

"I just couldn't wait to see you again brother. Jordan asked me to come and pick up your Christmas gifts for the girls."

"Why didn't you have Terry do it for you?"

"I wanted to get out of the house for a while."

"Sure, here." Inuyasha passed his bags to Sesshomaru, right as Mike, and Jordan walked up to them.

"Hey dad." Jordan called. He had five bags in his hands.

"Yo, Dad!" Mike followed right behind Jordan, with four bags.

"Find everything you need boys?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Almost, a couple of things you will have to get for us." Mike said.

"Like what?"

"Lets see.." Mike stopped in mid sentence, Hojo walked towards them with a handful of bags. He dropped them next to Inuyasha and then said hi to everyone.

"I must be on my way back to the house, so if you boys would help me take these bags back to my car, I will be on my way."

They guys grabbed their gifts and walked towards the door, they piled them into the back of Sesshomaru's car and went back into the mall. They all sat down and started to talk about random stuff.

"What do you think the girls are buying?" Hojo asked.

"You never know with them." Mike answered.

"I can't image what Aalyah is buying." Jordan commented.

Mean while

The girls had finished shopping for their boyfriends a while ago and met back up with Yuka. They were now doing a little shopping for themselves. Right now they were standing in Cath Secret. Kagome need to buy some new bras and stuff. She had been so busy for the past while that she didn't have time to shop. Now she had all the time in the world, at least for the next week or so.

Kagome was going to do everything she normally would have done if she been in the feudal era. She had missed going to the mall with her friends, talking on the phone with them, and she even missed going to school at some point. All she really wanted to do was just take a week off from hunting jewel shards, and relax. Which was what Kagome was doing at the moment. She had never told anyone how she really felt about the situation before and now she did have someone to talk to it about, she had Inuyasha. They were going to be Mates, so they have to be open with each other. She loves him so much.

"Kagome maybe you should buy this!" Eri said, she was holding up some lingerie. Kagome blushed a deep red, she hadn't really thought about having sex with Inuyasha. At least not at this moment.

"I'm sure Inuyasha would love that." Aalyah added. Kagome's blush deepened.

"Come on guys leave her alone." Andrea walked over to Kagome. "Kagome their just playing, you don't have to be embarrassed we are all friends here."

"Ya, ok girls lets pay and get out of here. I have some shopping to get done with Inuyasha." Kagome walked up to the cashier and pay for what she had. The girls followed her lead and did the same.

They went straight for the food court knowing that the guys would be there. As soon as they got close enough to the food court they could see the guys sitting their and waiting. Kagome was about to walk towards Inuyasha when Eri stopped her. Kagome turned to her friend and looked at her.

"Hold up Kags, Andrea called Amy to come get our bags, so the boys wont be able to see what we got them." Eri explained, while Eri was talking to Kagome Andrea and Aalyah both slipped something into Kagome's shopping bags. Aalyah saw Amy and walked over to her, she spoke a few words and then motioned the other girls to follow her. Amy had her car parked outside the door with the trunk opened. She told the girls to put their stuff in and then said goodbye. Amy didn't have much time, and drove off. A few minutes later everyone was in the food court talking and trying to find out what they got each other. Kagome pressed Inuyasha for information but got nothing.

"So what are we going to do now?" Hojo asked.

"Well Inuyasha and I have to go do some family shopping and then we can meet back up with you all." With that Kagome grabbed her mates hand and walked away.

"That was strange." Eri looked at her friends.

"How was your day so far baby?" Jordan asked Aalyah who was now sitting in his lap.

"Great and yours?"

"Good." Jordan kissed Aalyah on the lips.

Inuyasha and Kagome walked hand in hand through the mall. They stopped in a couple of stores and found some gifts for Sota, Margret, and Grandpa, but Kagome had a new problem she would have to buy gifts for Jordan, Mike, Amy, Sesshomaru, Andrea, and Aalyah. She had some idea about what to get Jordan and them but she had no idea what to get Amy and Sesshomaru.

She was wondering about how Inuyasha really felt about spending Christmas with his half brother. He seemed fine on the out side but Kagome wasn't sure if he was really ok with it. Kagome looked at Inuyasha, he seemed to be smiling at something, and he was staring at some one. Kagome looked in the same direction as Inuyasha, she saw a young couple holding their children in there arms. The father was lifting a little girl into the air, and she was giggling, the mother was holding a small enfant in her arms. Kagome smiled at the sight, she loved children and she has been told that she would be a good mother some day.

"Inuyasha do you want to start a family?" Kagome asked.

"Oh course I do. I would love to start one right now only for we still have to defeat Naraku and find the rest of the jewel shards." Inuyasha looked away from the happy family, and into his mate's eyes.

"Inuyasha what are we going to get your bother?" Kagome asked suddenly worried.

"I'm not sure."

"Ok, we'll walk around to some of the different stores, and if we don't find anything we will ask my mom or Jordan to pick out something for us." Kagome looked at Inuyasha, he was staring at the family again.

"Come on Inuyasha." Kagome pulled Inuyasha away, and they walked around to some stores. After almost an hour they still couldn't find anything for Sesshomaru and Amy, but they got everyone else gifts.

"Kagome why don't we go find our friends." Inuyasha was fed up with all this shopping.

"Ok." Inuyasha kissed his lover on the lips, and they made the way through the crowd, back towards the food court.

Hojo was sick to his stomach, there was only so much a guy could take watching his girl kiss another guy. He had followed Kagome around the mall watching them from afar. He was going to take care of Inuyasha once and for all, he was going to show Kagome that she deserved a real man, and not some freak. Hojo looked down at the chain he had been given, and then tossed it into the nearest garbage can. He had to set his plan into motion soon, if not it would be ruined.

He looked towards a soda machine and nodded his head towards a girl. She was wearing a pair of tight hip huggers jeans and a halter top. She had light brown hair, and violet coloured eyes. She was beautiful only for she wore too much make up.

'Kagome, I know you think you love that jerk, but he has put some spell on you that I'm going to break. I will send Inuyasha to hell if it's the last thing I do. What do you mean last thing? Your going to let some punk take your girl. Get out of my head! Get the fuck out, I told you I can handle this with out you. You say that, but are you sure you can do it? Yes! I don't want to do this anymore' Hojo put his hands to his head, his vision went blurry but then it focussed again.

Inuyasha turned around for the millionth time, someone was following them but he couldn't figure out who. He could feel their eyes watching his every movement. He was starting to get annoyed. He looked down at Kagome, she seemed to have noticed it too.

Inuyasha saw something out of the corner of his eye, it was Hojo. His anger rose from within, he want to shred Hojo into pieces. Inuyasha's eyes flashed red, Kagome could feel his aura get stronger, she turned to Inuyasha. She could tell from his face that he was about to turn full demon. ' I'm going to kill that fucking asshole. He going to die today,' he thought.

Kagome started to fear the worse, if she didn't do something, Inuyasha could hurt someone. She pulled Inuyasha quickly towards a door, to her surprise it was open, she pulled him into a small closet. She hugged him and told him to calm down, but he pushed her back.

"Inuyasha please, come back to me." Kagome was starting to get scared.

"Kag..om..e." Inuyasha slumped to the floor, but his aura got stronger.

"Calm down Inuyasha, please calm down. Inuyasha please!" Kagome was now by Inuyasha's side pleading with him.

'It worked before, maybe it will work again.' Kagome bent down slowly to Inuyasha and kissed him gently. She wrapped her arms around his neck. Inuyasha didn't move, but his aura change back to normal. Kagome sat in Inuyasha's lap and he wrapped his arms around her.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Ya, are you?" Kagome looked Inuyasha right in the eye.

"I'm fine, come lets get out of here." They both got up, and walked out of the closet. A few people stared at them and some boys started to cheer. Kagome turned a bright red, as did Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha how could you do this to me?" A girl ran up towards Inuyasha and Kagome. She looked like she had been crying.

"What fuck are you talking about?" Inuyasha recognized this girl, she worked at the store near the shrine. "Jo Len?"

"Wow I"m surprised you remembered my name. You could have phoned me, after the wonderful night we spent together." The girl started to cry again.

"Stop your bawling wench. One, I have only met you once, and that was at the store. Two, stop going on with this bullshit." Inuyasha could smell the girls fear, she was put up to this by someone, but who.

"How can you say that Inu hunny, you said you loved me and that you would never leave me." The girl's crying became louder. Kagome was starting to get pissed off, she knew that Inuyasha would never cheat on her.

"Go away before I get angry." Inuyasha's features were cool and calm, his voice sent shivers down Kagome's spine. He sounded like Sesshomaru.

"I love yo..." The girl was cut off by a hand to her cheek, Jo Len stumbled back, and fell into a garbage can behind her. Kagome walked over to her and took a deep breath. "Please don't hit me again." Jo Len's voice was small, and sounded child like.

"If you ever come near me or MY Inuyasha again, I will beat the shit out of you. You got that?" Inuyasha was taken back at the way Kagome was acting. Jo Len nodded her head and Kagome walked back to Inuyasha.

"Now shall we be going." Kagome smiled at Inuyasha, he was still in shock. He had never seen Kaogme like this before.

Inuyasha and Kagome arrived back to the food court a little while later, and found their friends pigging out on ice-cream. Inuyasha asked Kagome if she wanted some, she said yes and he went to buy some. It just hit Kagome, how could Inuyasha buy Christmas present and ice cream without any money, but then he had to have some. So where did he get it, she would have to ask him tonight when they were alone. Kagome sat with her friends and joined in on their conversation. Inuyasha returned a few minutes later with ice-cream. He had gotten Kagome two scoops of chocolate and for himself he got three scoops, chocolate, vanilla, and maple.

"Hey Inuyasha, did you have fun shopping?" Andrea asked.

"No." Inuyasha said.

"So Yuka, who's your friend?" Kagome asked.

"Kagome and Inuyasha I would like you to meet Brain." Yuka introduced the three and the conversation moved on to a new topic.

"Now Jordan you and Mike have to tell us how you guys got beat up." Inuyasha's attention went right towards the boys faces, both of them had a fat lip and a few bruises.

"There nothing to tell." Jordan simply answered.

"Oh no your not getting out of this Jordan, you tell them or I will." Aalyah said from his lap.

"Alright, ok so me and Mike were walking behind the girls. They told us they had some girl stuff

to talk about, so we told the girls we were going to meet them outside music stop in 15 minutes. Mike wanted to get some cd's and stuff. So when we come out a bunch of guys had circled around our girls..."

"These were not just any old guys I might add, the were the wolf gang. They are the rivals of our gang. So we just started to fight." Kagome tuned out at what Mike was saying and focussed her attention on her friends. She noticed that Aalyah's shirt was ripped up a bit, and she had a few small cuts, and Andrea had a new shirt on, and she had a large cut going across her arm. Kagome turn her attention back to Mike.

"One of the gang members grabbed a knife and started to swipe at the girls, that's when Inn Lang, um, Chung came and broke up the whole thing." Everyone in the group was shocked to hear what happened.

"Mike, look there's Terry, I guess its time to go." Anyway it was nice meeting You Eri, Yuka, Ayumi, and Brian but we must be on our way." Jordan said and stood up.

"Come on can't you stay for another while, wait how are we going to get back to our hotel?" Yuka said.

"A car will be here shortly." Mike answered them before Jordan could.

Everyone said goodbye and the group left. A while later they were back at the mansion. Aalyah and Jordan went upstairs to there rooms and Andrea and Mike decided to go for a quick swim. Sesshomaru walked up to his half brother, and spoke for a second with him then he left. Kagome raised her eye brow, but Inuyasha told her to follow him. When they got back to their room Inuyasha shut the door.

"What's up?" Kagome asked.

"Sesshomaru is having a formal dinner at 7:30, we are not to be late. Also, Hojo has removed his chain, and threw it in a garbage can at the mall." Inuyasha went over to the bed and sat down. Kagome joined him.

"No surprise there." Kagome paused, "Inuyasha were did you get the money to go shopping?"

"For the past year I have been doing odd jobs around the shrine, your mother has been paying me for them. I told her I didn't want to take her money, but she insisted that I did. So I saved it in a jar that I keep hidden under your couch." Inuyasha stated.

"Oh, so I guess we should start getting ready." Kagome got up but was pulled back down.

"Not yet." Inuyasha pulled Kagome into a passionate kiss...

Sesshomaru's dining room 7:30

Everyone was sitting around a big table, there were a couple of people that Kagome didn't

know. They all wore business suits, and did not smile. The group were chatting quietly among themselves, when Sesshomaru and Amy stood to talk to everyone.

"We would like to welcome everyone to our home." Amy started.

"Tonights dinner is being held in honour of Kagome, who is soon to be my sister in law, and my brother Inuyasha. We are also here to celebrate the merge of two companies."

"What?" Kagome whispered. She couldn't believe what was happening, her mother was going to give their company away.

A/n I hope you all liked this chapter! I didn't have no clue on how the money system works in Japan but oh well. Ok well review! I need 5 reviews! If anyone has any songs that they would like to be used in the Christmas ball chapter tell me in the reviews!

Later Days