Chapter 16

Just him and Souta...saying nothing. "are you gonna say something kid or are we just gonna stand here?"

"Sorry, sorry...I..uh...just..."

"Just spit it out kid!" Inu-Yasha had no mind for patience at the moment.

"How can you tell a girl you love her?" he blurted out, rather fast.

Inu-Yasha no longer felt inpatient...he felt very very very akward. He barely knew this kid, yet here he was, asking for advice from the wrong guy. This is so not his area of experties. If he had asked "How do you kill your dead girlfriend?" or "if chicken ramen and low fat chicken ramen tasted any different?" he could have helped him...but this...this was alien territory.

"I dont know what to tell you kid." he replied simply.

"well how did you tell Kagome you loved her?"

His eye slightly twitched as the boy said that, "You did tell her...right?" Souta asked and Inu-Yasha's eye twitched once more.

His brain was calling out for help, 'save me! save me!' but no one came to rescue him. "Look kid... just...make it romantic and then tell her...I suppose" his eye twitched once more. Of all people, why him? Why was this world so cruel to him? There was so many other people in the room he could of asked, why the one he just met? Did he look like the type to be romantic? If you asked him ,he looked a little rugged and not all that romantic. He could be when he wanted to but he was no good at giving advice to 16 year olds. He needed to get out of there and fast before his head exploded "I...I think I hear Kagome calling for me...nice talknig to you kid." and he practically flew from the room. As he left, he paused to let out a relieved sigh, having survived his first man to man love chat, and proceeded to the rest of the group.

"What was that about?" Kagome asked him.

"Mayb I'll tell you when my eye stops twitching."

But why was this boy so interested in love at the moment? Was there some girl he liked? There must be, but who? Hmm...this would have to be further investigated. He was sure he could pick up something if he lingered around the boy, listening to wut he said...but then what if he got trapped and asked more questions? Oh the humanity! He certainly didnt want that, so he guessed that watching from a far...very far, he might be able to pick something up by the end of the night. Which would have been hard if Souta had not taken Ginnie by the hand into the next room alone...he made that VERY obvious.

With the mystery that should have taken all night solved he was rather bored. Miroku was talking with the old man about spells and such. Kagome was talknig to her mom and Sango about...he didnt even know, it was so complicating. Shippo was talknig excitedly with Nikita who also seemed to have the inner child thing going on and Sesshomaru was whispering god knows what into Rin's ear while she blushed and giggled. This left him to himself. He sat on the sidelines, pretending to listen to Kagome's conversation but he was really somewhere else. Somewhere far away, killing demons with tetsusaiga. He made up demons such as one he called Yura of the hair and Mistress Centipede. He did this often, then it hit him, the other art he had never tried...writing. With all these things he made up...why not write them down? He would have to think about it though...he would have to quit the band which they dont do during the winter anyways and what about the artist thing he was doing? So many career choices, so little time.

He looked over to the chatting Kagome. God was she beautiful tonight. He had never appreciated how truly beautiful she was until tonight. Her flowing raven hair, her radiant green eyes, her perfect flawless skin, those beautiful red lips. He found himself getting aroused and was forced to look away. He could look later, when the family was gone..but then..could he? Could he really look at her? He doubted it, knowing him, he'd loose control and hurt her again, or worse. So if he couldn't touch her, sleep with her or look at her...what use was it to be with her?...Nonsense, don't think this way! He told himself. He loved her, what more was there to it? But would she be able to live like this?...There has to be some cure, he thought.And he would find it, for her. He didn't know how he would do it...but he would...he had to. For her sake if not his. I mean, they couldn't stay Virgins forever. Well InuYasha could live forever as a virgin...but Kagome..she could live the rest of her life as one. That brings up the other problem...his life span compared to hers. He was immortal...she was not. When did things become to complicating? 'When you were born!' he thought. If he wasn't a demon this would be SOO much easier. Maybe there was some way he could turn human...You never know. Or if he could turn full demon he could control himself...but he'd heard stories about that. Hanyous who turned full demon and lost their minds. If he did that...what use would it be, he'd be practically dead, problem not solved. All the answers he had ended in one of their deaths, not a happy ending, ill tell you that. He was lost in a train of thought when Kagome called everyone for supper.

"Can you go tell Souta and Ginnie it's supper?" She asked him.

"Ya," he replied and walked towards the door. Man oh man was this something he didn't want to see. "What the hell!" he yelled out as he walked in on Souta and Ginnie making out in the corner. He put his eyes down to the floor. "S-supper..." then quickly shut the door.When it was closed he leaned against the door,sighed and slightly shivered, then proceeded to the dinning room.

So Dinner was nice, Kagome had done a really good job. Even her mother was impressed...but then again parents are forced to like everything their child does.(you know its true). The only displeasant thing was grandpa pulling old 'sacred' animal parts and setting them on the table. Kinda ruined dinner, made you not want to eat...all except InuYasha who still stuffed his face full but half wishing there was ramen instead. Nothing beats a cup o' ramen! Miroku and Sango were happily whispering to each other, laughing all the while. Kagome had half the mind to tell them to stop. But they looked so happy SLAP Oh...nvm...it seems as if he said something she disliked. How those two ever fell in love she will never know, I guess some things are better left unknown. Souta and Ginnie sat far away from each other, embarassed at being caught by InuYasha. They REALLY hoped he wouldnt tell anyone. They looked at each other, blushed, then quickly looked away. Kagome suspiciouslyeyed them, wondering why they were acting the way they were. Ginnie realized this and struck up a conversation with Nikita about their friend Antony who Nikita likes. "So when ya gonna ask him out?" she asked.

Nikita blushed and scoweled "Shut up! If he wants to go out with me he can ask me himself."

"You already rejected him once, then whent out with his best friend Jordo, then dumped Antony when you actually did say yes, what makes you think he will ask you out now!"

"I-I dont know..." She looked to the ground.

Ginnie sighed, "ok, how bout when we go back home I will talk to him and ask him if he likes you...if he does, mayb I will hint at something" she smiled slyly.

Nikita smiled brightly "Yay!" which caught the attention of pretty much the whole table, they all stared at her strangely"...what?"

20 minutes later

"Kagome that was such a great supper!" her mother praised.

She smiled widely, "Thanks mom."

Miroku and Sango were still whispering and giggling, "right now?" she asked him and he nodded.

Miroku casually looked at the clock, "Woah, look at the time, we best be off,theres something I need to attend to."

'HA! Attend to! Thats a laugh! You just wanna do Sango you sick bastard!' InuYasha thought but said nothing.

Miroku's comment seemed to start a wave, "Yes, I think weshould be off as well," Her mother said.

"Aw, alright. It is kinda late."

So everybody left, leaving the house empty except for two. It was action time! They watched a few cheesy Christmas movies before he spoke."Hey Kagome..." he said shyly.

"Yes?"

"I wanna give you something...before Christmas." He looked at the clock., it said 12:01. " Ok...before morning then."

She smiled, "Uhm ok."

He held her hand and led her to the bedroom then let her sit on the bed. His throat tightened and he felt incredibly nervous. This was it, the moment. What if she rejected him! Then what! Would he die, turn to dust and blow away! Or would suicide be his only way out! He was gonna die! Oh the humanity!

He took the present out of the secret compartment in the closet, trying to slow down his breathing although he doubted she would hear it anyways. He just wanted this to be good and being nervous would totally ruin everything he had been planning.

He walked back into the bedroom, she was just sitting there, like an angel. She was beautiful, more beautiful then anyone, there was no comparison. And she was his. he suddenly felt braver...until she smiled and his stomach did flips.

He sat down.on his knees infront of her and gently touched her long slender legs. He could not keep eye contact and simply stared at her stomach. BE BRAVE! He told himself feircely and looked into her eyes, she smiled so he smiled back.

He opened the box slowly and showed it to her, inside was a beautiful pink and purple stone attatched to a necklace. The colour seemed to change at the slightest movement, she gasped in suprise.

"Kagome...I...I love you...Merry Christmas." I BLEW IT!

She smiled and a single tear rolled down the soft skin on her face. "I love you too..." She looked down then flung herself into his arms, laughing and crying at the same time.

He smiled and held onto her tightly, as if she might blow away and the spell would be broken. She pulled away and InuYasha whiped the tears from her face tenderly. He looked at the box, then took the necklace out as it shone in pinks and purples. He put it on her and smiled. "Its called the shikon jewel. It is said it will grant you wishes...corney I know...but I thought you might like it..."

She held onto it, "I love it!"

"And I love you..." he leaned in slowly and kissed her once, softly. As he pulled away she genuinly smiled, "I love you too."

They changed into pajamas and he pulled her into bed, never letting go. He faced her, their noses almost touching and he occasionally kissed her, still holding her protectively and never letting go all night.

The last thing Kagome thought was 'I wish I could stay with you forever.' before falling asleep...no one saw the jewel grow brighter.

Okie, theres 16! Most of you might have guessed what just happened, mayb you didnt. Idn, depends. This is the only part of my story that I have known since about the beggining. I have been planning this forever! Ya..but im not to happy with it... Haha and about how long it took to post, see I didnt realize that I had to accept something for it to work again, I thought that it was being like...renovated and stuff and the option to put new stories on was deleted sigh Im stupid, no need to tell me! lol, so ive had this done for a while and didnt know I could post it, lol. Ok, this is the first chapter I have done in forever that hadnt gotten deleted by reformatting! YAY. Anyways, the new characters that were breifly mentioned, Antony and Jordo. They are also based on real people, my friends and all that was said about Nikita and Antony and Jordo was true. Another thing that you probebly would have never guessed. The Ginnie character is portraying me, yes I know, I think I told you about it. But the Ginnie and Souta relationship, true story. I have a boyfriend who lives in a different city, just like Ginnie. Cept my boyfriend only lives a province over, I wont say where. Ok, I will :P Edmonton. Today is also our 5 month anniversary :)
Jenns friend Characters!
Ginnie: Jenn -(me)
Nikita: Nicole- (best friend)
Antony: Tony (Anthony)- (Good friend, fake younger brother who is 6'4)
Jordo: (Jordan)- (good friend, fake twin brother)
Souta: B (Brandon)- (boyfriend)
Ok, and thats all, I probebly forgot something but Idn, if i did, Ill post it next chapter

Sukida, Jenn