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Chapter 6

When it got late they all decided to go to bed. Eventually they pulled themselves apart from each other (I wonder how they managed that?) and they all said good night and went to sleep. For some reason it was very easy for them all to get to sleep that night. It was probably due to the fact that they were all VERY happy. Little did they know, they were being watched. The stranger watched from a tree not too far away that they couldn't see, but far enough not to be detected. The person stayed there for a while, just watching them, until all of them were sound asleep. The dark figure surveyed them, then leapt off into the distance, until a later date, when they would make their presence known.

The next morning

Kagomes eyes fluttered open, as memories of the night before came flooding through her mind. A small, pink blush crept up on her face and she looked around. She turned around to see InuYasha walking towards her. When he got closer she got up from her sleeping bag and stood standing face to face with him. She looked deep into his golden eyes, as he did her chocolate brown eyes. Kagome and InuYasha stood there for a while, getting lost in the depths of eachothers eyes until Shippou finally broke the silence with his wailing of "Kagomeeeeee…" Kagome quickly broke out of her Trans and turned her head to where the scream came from. She turned her head back to InuYasha, gave him a meaningful look, turned around, and started walking over to the disturbed kit.

" Kagome, I-I-I-I f-f-fell a-a-and c-c-c-cut my elbow." Cried the kitsune between tears

Kagome bent down in front of the sobbing figure and began to wipe away his tears. She looked down at the elbow that Shippou was pointing to. There was the tiniest cut that was hardly bleeding and a few scratches around it.

" Aww, are you okay? Do you want a band-aid?" Shippou nodded his head, with tears still streaming down his face and his bottom lip stuck out and quivering.

Kagome picked him up and brought him over to her bag, knelt down, and put him beside her. She rummaged through her bag until she found what she was looking for, then she bandaged up the 'wound' and gave Shippou a big smile. He smiled back up at her and looked down at his elbow.

" Is that all better?"

" Yeah, thanks Kagome." Shippou said as he got up and ran off to go play again.

Kagome watched the little fox child as he played. He would climb trees, spin around in circles until he fell down, and play tag with Kirara. Kagome had grown quite attached to him, she had grown attached to all of her friends, but Shippou was like a son to her.

InuYasha POV

InuYasha watched as Kagome tended to the young fox child. She was so warm, caring, and compassionate to the demon. He watched as she cradled him in her arms and bandaged his wounds. InuYasha truly did love Kagome, and he always had. Kagome was nothing like Kikyou was. Kikyou was cold and bitter, she always wanted what she didn't have, and was willing to let InuYasha suffer for it. InuYasha never really wanted to be human, he couldn't understand why Kikyou didn't use it for something else. 'Why did I have to be human for Kikyou and I to be together anyway? Didn't she love me as I was? Wait, she couldn't have loved me. If I had to be a human for us to be together and she had to get rid of the jewel for that to happen? If she didn't have the jewel I would have been just a useless half demon to her, and nothing more. But Kagome, Kagome loves me the way I am, I don't need to be human. She doesn't have the jewel that she would just use on me to get her way. And she wouldn't use it for something that InuYasha didn't want. She was going to give it to him when they finished it.'

As InuYasha was in thought Miroku and Sango had been talking when Miroku noticed that InuYasha was staring at Kagome. He simply looked at him then looked away. He knew that InuYasha was desperately in love with Kagome and was probably thinking about her. But he also knew that they had to find the jewel shards and Naraku.

" Sango, I think we should be heading out soon. We've been here for two days now and we still haven't finished the jewel or found Naraku. We need to do that."

" Yeah, we should go tell InuYasha."

Miroku and Sango walked up to InuYasha and patted his shoulder. He turned around to look at them as they began to talk. InuYasha agreed and told Kagome to get ready to go. She agreed and started to pack her things up in her bag. InuYasha went to the top of the cliff from before and looked out to try to see which way they should go. He decided to follow the river and head up stream. There were quite a few villages that way and he figured they could ask the villages if they knew anything of Narakus whereabouts.

It was a cool day in Sengoku Jidai. The wind blew gently though the trees as the sun beat down on the group as they packed up their belongings. Kagome pulled out some clean clothes and went and got changed. It had cooled down immensely the past few days and Kagome didn't want to freeze on their travels. She quickly changed her clothes and came out of the shack she had used to shield her. She was wearing dark blue jeans that hugged her figure and flared out a bit at the bottom, a black, form fitting, long sleeve shirt that had a V neck, and a red and black leather jacket. All together it looked pretty good.

When they were all ready to go, InuYasha was coming back from atop the cliff. He leapt down and over to the group. When he got there he looked over at Kagome and his jaw dropped to the ground. 'She looks so HOT!' Kagome noticed his stare and giggled a bit. InuYasha blushed and so did Kagome. They were already in this whole relationship but they were both still pretty shy/nervous. (Aww, that's so cute!)

" Is every one ready?" InuYasha hollered.

" Yeah, we're all ready, we're just waiting on you. Which way are we going?" Miroku yelled over as he started to walk towards InuYasha.

" We're going to follow the river. There are some villages up ahead. I thought maybe we could see if they know any thing about Naraku, seeing as we have no real lead."

" Okay. Maybe they can tell us and if not, we won't have to sleep outside anymore! We can maybe stay there." Kagome said happily.

" Okay, so what are we waiting for? Let's go find Naraku." Sango said eagerly

They all started walking along a path through the woods (the order of walking positions is- Shippou, Kirara, Sango and Miroku, and Kagome and InuYasha) they walked like that until lunchtime when Kagome made ramen. Them they started to walk in the same positions again. The conversations were kept to a minimum and were just between Sango and pervert, and Kagome and Inu. They were simple, like stuff about the leaves, their favourite weather, favourite season, etc. Somehow, Kagome and InuYashas conversation turned into a face lock. It seemed that InuYasha hadn't had enough for lunch and was starting to eat Kagomes face. (Hehehe, that's so nasty) Somehow, they had managed to keep walking while doing so, so the rest of the gang didn't notice. That is until InuYasha and his meal walked into a tree by accident. After that they refrained from making out.

Okay that's all for now, I'd like to say thanks to all of you who reviewed!