Hello everybody and thanks for the great reviews. For my friend that was confused about why Inuyasha did not transform in chapter 5 that is because it was a full moon and Inuyasha transforms into a human when there is no moon. I hope that clears things up a bit for you. Now on with the chapter and I hope that you enjoy it.

7. An Evil Scheme and an Expression of Love

Far away from the group collecting the jewel shards a demon walked through a floating castle. It appeared to be a young girl with white hair, wearing a white dress and holding a mirror in her hands. She walked through the dark halls of the castle going to a secret room where she was greeted by another demon who was wearing a baboon pelt to hide his identity. He removed the animal pelt revealing black hair and evil, cunning eyes.

"Hello Kanna, show me what Inuyasha and his friends are up to," he said in his evil voice that was full of malice.

"Yes lord Naraku," the demon, Kanna replied.

It was the same Naraku that had pitted Inuyasha and Kikyo against each other 50 years ago and now he almost had the Shikon no Tama completed. He looked within the mirror and he saw Inuyasha and his friends walking away from the village where his incarnation had battled them. Naraku was very angry at what he saw because his demon should have been able to finish off Inuyasha and the others that traveled with him. Then the two demons felt a fierce wind come out of nowhere and when it died down a female demon stood in its place. She had black hair like Naraku and she was the one capable of controlling the winds.

"Kagura tell me what happened," Naraku commanded the woman.

"The female hanyou protected Inuyasha using her demonic powers," Kagura reported.

"Good she has acknowledged them at last andnow I can move along with my plan. Tonight I need you to make a distraction for the others while I get that powerful female hanyou."

"Yes Naraku," Kagura answered.

She grabbed a feather from her hair and flew away creating another enormous gust of wind as she left.

The gang had been walking for quite awhile now and they were all silently thinking about how they would find and kill Naraku.

Sango decided that she would break the silence and said, "If we need to put more distance between us and that village that we were at this morning then why don't we all ride Kilala?"

None of the others answered her, instead they climbed onto the cat-demon's back and she flew off. Even Inuyasha sat on the creature's soft fur because he was still going over what his sister had done to save him in his mind.

Kagome noticed his confusion and said, "What's the matter Inuyasha?"

"It's nothing to worry about Kagome. I'm just thinking," he replied and gave her a reassuring look.

Hearing the loving tone in Kagome's voice Inuneesan asked, "You love my brother don't you Kagome?"

Inuyasha had now jumped off of Kilala and was running ahead of the cat, out of earshot.

"What makes you think that?" Kagome asked in a squeaky voice.

"Your tone of voice says everything," the girl replied.

"Alright you got me but I can't help loving him even if I know that your brother's heart belongs to Kikyo," she replied in a whisper so the others wouldn't overhear.

"Well at least you're finally admitting it," Inuneesan said to Kagome.

Kagome asked, "Is it that obvious?"

"What the fact that you love Inuyasha?" Sango asked hearing what her friend had said.

"Of course that's obvious but if you want my opinion I don't think that Inuyasha deserves a woman like Kagome," Miroku added and reached out to stroke Kagome's butt.

In response he got a nasty slap from the other girls.

"I don't love Inuyasha," Kagome said and was blushing.

"If you don't love him then why are you blushing Kagome?" Sango asked noticing that Kagome's face had turned bright red.

"Give it up Kagome we all know but I don't know why you'd choose a mutt like him," Shippo put in not fully understanding the conversation going on around him.

"Fine I'll give up seeing how everyone knows," Kagome said angry that they had figured out her secret.

"So are you going to tell him then?" Inunessan wanted to know.

"Umm… I…" Kagome stuttered not knowing what to say to this question.

Then Inuyasha returned and Kilala followed him to where they could set up camp for the day.

Inuyasha was sitting off by himself as usual and Kagome decided that she would go talk to him.

There's going to be no moon today, I hope nothing too bad happens because I won't be able to protect anyone tonight, Inuyasha thought as he sat by himself.

"Inuyasha are you alright? You've been acting very strange today?" Kagome asked, snapping Inuyasha out of his thoughts.

"There's no moon tonight Kagome, and my sister and I will lose our powers," Inuyasha said worried for the safety of his friends.

"You found us a good place to camp so we should be fine tonight. Don't worry about us Miroku has his wind tunnel and Sango has her hiraikotsu and Kilala to protect us," Kagome reassured him.

"I guess you're right we're just going to have to trust them tonight. Is there anything else you wanna say Kagome? You wouldn't have come over here for no reason," Inuyasha asked and gave her his full attention.

Oh man how do I say this, Kagome thought frightened of expressing her feelings.

"I… um… wanted to say," she paused lost for words.

"You wanted to say what?"

"That I … love you Inuyasha," Kagome finished.

"You love me?" Inuyasha asked not sure of what else to say.

There I said it, I'm a foolish girl and now Inuyasha is going to hate me, Kagome thought.

Inuyasha didn't know what to say to this but he thought, Kagome I love you too but I'm not supposed to say things like this and if I do what do I do about Kikyo, I love her too.

Inuyasha quickly surveyed the area to make sure that no one was watching and then he did something that Kagome would never expect and she was shocked out of her wits. He drew Kagome close to him and kissed her soft lips. Kagome felt like she was in heaven and she passionately returned the kiss. The two of them were flooded with emotion and the kiss lasted for quite awhile. When they finally pulled apart from each other Kagome didn't know what to say to Inuyasha's express of emotion but she was happy and she smiled at him.

He smiled back and said, "Kagome I love you too andI need you here with me, always. I think that my actions explain that well enough."

She just nodded too speechless to say anything.

Kagome turned to go but Inuyasha grabbed her delicate hand and said, "Let's not let the others know about this for now alright?"

"Alright," she said and went to rejoin the others.

I hope you liked that. I'm evil making Inuyasha do things like that aren't I? But it's fun to be evil MUAHAHAHA! Please review or you'll never find out what Naraku will do.