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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters and I never will. I also don't claim the rights to the title "Maybe Memories" by the Used. The lyrics to that song are at the end of the chapter, as always.

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Maybe Memories

Whole-hearted Confession

Kagome blushed a bit and nodded, allowing Inuyasha to pick her up bridal style and carry her towards the village, with the rest of the group. She sighed and leaned her head into his chest 'I'll get some rest, and maybe he'll tell me what was on his mind later.'

The group was all sitting inside Kaede's small hut, listening to Kagome talk about what had happened after Inuyasha took her away to get help. "Well, we met this REALLY nice half earth elemental. She was also half priestess, so she helped heal me. She was INCREDIBLE with herbs."

Kaede's curiosity was sparked by this "What was this maidens name? I would like to meet her if I haven't yet."

More than willing to talk to the group, Kagome answered "Lady Emiko, and she said she had trained under an old woman by the name of Lady Solada who passed on a month or so ago. Do you know either of them?"

"O my… O my I was unaware Priestess Solada had passed on… She was a very skilled healer, but not much for fighting arts. Last I saw of her, she was accompanied by a girl, almost a young woman. Very pretty little thing, dark brown hair, and stunning green eyes… Solada and I were speaking of her for a while, and she mentioned how talented the girl was. Very adept student seemed to soak up all the knowledge she could. We both predicted the girl to become as skilled as my sister, Kikyo, with the right training."

A short nod from Inuyasha and a quick nod from Kagome signaled they both knew her "Yah! That's Emiko! She knows a lot. But I think she was bored where she was, and she was talking about going somewhere else to learn more. Though that might have changed since Mai changed."

"Mai? Am I crazy, or are you speaking of the girl's panther familiar?" Kaede questioned, a little confused.

"Yup. That's him. Inuyasha made him change into a human, with some odd inu-youkai magic!"

Inuyasha was growing bored and impatient with the conversation and growled softly, so only Kagome could hear. She seemed to understand immediately and changed the subject "Kaede... Could you fix some ramen? I'm sort of hungry and I would fix it myself if Mr. Grumpy here would let me, but he won't."

The old woman nodded and left the hut to get some firewood and water, while the regular group lazed around, talking about nothing. Shippou was bobbing around Inuyasha and Kagome since Inuyasha had Kagome in his lap, asking annoying questions.

The usual thump proceeded as Inuyasha's hand collided with Shippou's head. Kagome yelled out "SIT" and was surprised as she was squished between Inuyasha and the ground. Blushing a bunch.

"Uhh… Uhh.. Inuyasha! You're squishing me!" squeaked Kagome. Not only was he squishing her, but the close contact made her a little "excited" and nervous at the same time.

"It's not MY fault wench! You should have thought of where ya were before you went on SITTING me!" growled out Inuyasha… the closeness was getting to him too, and his face was burning up with his blush. Sure... If this was any other situation but the one in front of everyone, he would have been HAPPY to be squished up against Kagome. But of course, everyone in the hut was staring at them.

A surprising sound came from Kagome's throat, which resembled a likeness to a growl as she tried to squirm out from under him "I've been around you too much... I'm starting to sound like you…"

When the spell wore off finally he leaped off of her, blushing and started to advance towards the door, needing to get away from all of the stares… The whole situation was too embarrassing for him to bare "Feh. Whatever." Had thought her little growl had been the cutest thing ever… Wouldn't admit it "Going for a walk. Won't be back 'til dinner. Take care of Kagome for me."

With that he rushed out of the hut and started to run so nobody could call him back. Was gone and out of site within seconds. Kagome tried to get up to call him back, but found she was in too much pain to move from her flattened position on the ground.

"Here Kagome, let me help you up. That must have hurt!" Sango held her hand out to the girl who feebly began to stand. Her head was pounding, and it felt like her heart was beating out of her chest. Something didn't feel right and she couldn't tell what it could be.

"Lady Kagome are you alright?" inquired Miroku as he watched Kagome begin to sway and put a hand to her head. Sango rushed to her side to support her.

"I... don't know. I feel sort of…" she continued to sway in Sango's hold, holding a hand to her head a groaning a bit "I...Inuyasha?" she whispered out before she fainted in Sango's arms, the same odd light appearing from her as the day of the fire.

Shippou rushed over to where Sango was laying Kagome down "What's wrong with her Sango? Why is she glowing like that? Kaede? Miroku? What's wrong with Kagome?" asked a worried Shippou. Kaede was standing over the girl, clearly baffled by it all.

Miroku and Sango were just as oblivious as to what was going on so Miroku put a hand on Shippou's shoulder "Shippou, I have an important job for you. Go get Inuyasha, alright? If anybody knows what's wrong, it will be him."

The little kitsune nodded his head and with that was off and running out the door. He followed some of Inuyasha's scent and once he got pretty close to the strongest place of his scent he started calling out for him "Inuyasha! Inuyasha? INUYASHA! Are you there? Inuyasha please come! There's something about Kagome I have to tell you! She needs help or something!"

The hanyou couldn't be seen but as he heard this news a few leaves rustled as he landed swiftly behind the kitsune "Shippou… Wait, what's wrong with Kagome! Did I hurt her that badly?"

Shaking his little head while he spoke "No, I don't think it was you. She just sort of collapsed and is now all glowing. She looked pretty pale when I left and none of us know what's wrong!"

"She must be… Runt, ride on my shoulder, we're going back to the hut." Inuyasha watched as Shippou leaped onto his shoulder "Hang on tight." With that he took off towards the hut at a fast pace, hoping Kagome would hold off for a bit longer.

He was deep in thought as he thought back on the conversation Emiko had had with him

Flashback:

"Inuyasha, you do know Kagome is a priestess, correct?" Emiko asked, her green eyes searching his.

"Feh, of course I do. I know everything about Kagome." He said in his usual cocky, know-it-all voice as he crossed his arms "Why do you ask?" He was just a bit suspicious of what she was getting at.

"Do you know then, that she will have to go through a transformation?" she asked, tilting her head a bit.

"What about it?" He really didn't want to ask more questions, because he didn't want her to realize he hadn't known anything about it.

Green eyes rolled because she knew he really didn't know. He was too full of pride to ask her more about it, so she just decided to tell him about it and act like she thought he knew about it "Well, if what you say about her coming from the future is true, it's going to be more difficult for her, and different."

This had caught his interest, but he wouldn't ask more. He just hoped she would continue telling him, which she did "She'll struggle through it. She's a different sort of priestess from many I've seen. Her heart and her soul is so pure, every time she loves she loves completely she grows stronger. The transformation she will go through will ensure that she continues to grow strong enough to earn the love of the one she loves."

"But there's a catch, isn't there?" asked Inuyasha, beginning to grow worried.

"Yes, there is. After the transformation, if she doesn't gain the love she needs, she'll grow weaker. The transformation will be painful for her. And during the transformation, if the one she loves isn't there, she may perish or be sent back into her time forever."

His heart stopped for a second as he looked at her incredulously. The look soon disappeared from his face as it turned to one of determination "I'll never allow that to happen."

End Flashback

'Kagome… Hold off. Please hold off Kagome… and please let me be the one you love.' Thought Inuyasha as he continued to speed along. They finally arrived at the hut and Inuyasha put Shippou down as he rushed into the hut.

And there was his Kagome, lying on the floor, glowing. At first he thought he was too late and he let out a strangled cry. But he finally found he had jumped to conclusions as he watched her chest rise and fall. Her breathing was shallow and a look of pain was stretched across her unconscious, beautiful face.

Without looking at the others huddled around Kagome, he went straight to his woman and took her in his arms "Shhhh… Kagome its fine, I'm here." Brushing her hair out of her face and off of her neck, he noticed that she was wearing the amulet with his blood on it. Maybe she did care about him.

After an hour or so the rest of the group left the two to be alone, all worrying about the still unconscious Kagome held in the hanyou's arms. Inuyasha continued to keep vigil on Kagome, watching her face go from an agonizing look of pain to slowly start to relax.

About another hour after the group had left the girl began to stir. Inuyasha decided it was a good time to say what he was going to tell her before "Kagome… I lo-"but of course his attempt was thwarted when the girl in his arms sat up suddenly and knocked him in the face.

"Hey! What happened? How long have I been out?" She felt a little sore, but looked at Inuyasha and saw he probably felt sorer, considering he had a nose bleed "I'm sorry Inuyasha… I was kinda shocked out of unconsciousness by something. What were you going to say?" she ripped off a little piece of cloth from her sleeve and handed it to him.

Holding the piece of cloth that she gave him to his nose he began to stutter out "I… I… I lo… lo…" And of course, he was once again interrupted by a little kitsune who at that exact moment came flying in towards Kagome.

"KAGOME! You're alright! You're alright! I'm so glad you're ok! What happened?" flew into her arms which made her fall back into an annoyed and angry Inuyasha.

"What's wrong Inuyasha? Can't you tell me now?" a confused Kagome inquired. Inuyasha just shook his head and got up and stormed out of the hut once again. Nothing was going as he planned. Why did he keep on getting interrupted?

This is when he began to plot a way to get her away from all distractions and tell her. Because if he didn't tell her soon she was going to become weak and even more vulnerable to her enemies, and he himself was going to have an emotional breakdown.

Back in the hut, Shippou and Kagome chatted away. Sango and Miroku soon returned to the hut and said that Kaede had gone to take care of a sick child. None of them mentioned or noticed that Kagome looked a tad bit prettier and more vibrant and there wasn't a scratch on her. Not a burn marred her skin anymore.

"Hmm. I'm hungry! I'll make us some rice balls, because I'm sick of ramen. Sound good to you guys?" Kagome asked as she began to drag out the things she would need to cook rice balls with. The entire group nodded eagerly, even if their faces did turn a little green at the mention of ramen.

She began to roll the rice into balls with different sorts of meat in the middle of them, and then put the rice balls on a plate divided into different sections. One side of the plate was for chicken rice balls, one for beef rice balls, and one for fish rice balls.

Shippou was the first to grab a rice ball and stuff it into his face and soon all of them were shoving rice balls down like no tomorrow. Kagome was eating a little less than everyone else, just because she wanted to save enough for Inuyasha, but didn't think that would happen.

After they all ate Shippou, Miroku, and Sango crashed, rubbing their full stomachs. Shippou was groaning and complaining "I ate tooooo much…. But Kagome's cooking is so good I couldn't help it… I ate toooo much and my tummy hurts!"

"Hai, I ate too much too. Kagome's cooking really is irresistible. Whatever man gets her as a husband will truly be lucky…" saw the look Sango gave him and spit out after "Though I bet Sango's cooking is just as good!" blushing he thought of how he really wanted to tell her his feelings.

Sango blushed a little and patted her stomach "The best thing to do with such full stomachs is to go to sleep. So I'm going to take a nap!" soon fell asleep with her head resting on Miroku's. Shippou curled up in Kagome's lap, but Kagome was still too awake and worried about Inuyasha to fall asleep.

Humming to herself, she didn't notice Inuyasha entering the hut. He walked in front of her before she noticed him, and looked up at him with questioning eyes. He squatted and looked her in the face "I want to show you something. Will you come with me?"

Confused eyes looked up into his but she nodded and set Shippou down on the cot. Inuyasha took her hand in his and blushed a bit as he pulled her along. She followed him and smiled slightly as she looked at their interlocked hands. How she wanted this to mean something more.

They soon reached a pretty secluded part of the forest with a glassy clear pond. Inuyasha began to say what he had wanted to say for years now "I lo…" but was starting to get interrupted by an oncoming demon.

When the demon appeared Inuyasha glared a growled violently "NO! You are NOT going to prevent me from telling Kagome what I've wanted to tell her! So just get the FUCK away or I'll kill you slowly and painfully."

Still, the stupid demon continued to advance. Inuyasha growled violently and easily took the demon out with tetsuiga. With that he rushed over to Kagome.

She was beginning to say something but he grabbed her face with both his hands "Shut up wench," with that he gave her a soft kiss before he continued on "Let me tell you what I've wanted to tell you for a long time."

He waited until Kagome slowly nodded, surprised by the kiss. What was he going to tell her? Inuyasha pulled in a shaky breath and finally let those three treacherous words escape his mouth "Kagome… I love you."

Well that's the end of chapter 7! I hope you liked it, even if I updated this one a long time after the last chapter. I'm not sure... It seemed a little short to me, tell me what you think.

Ok, I'm gonna ask for a smaller amount of reviews since it doesn't seem to be getting done lol… I'm going to ask for…. Drum roll plz... –drum roll- 5 reviews!

Lodke: thank you for that bit of information! I didn't know that, because I haven't seen the 3rd movie. But I did know that his father hadn't lived long enough to teach Inuyasha stuff like that… So I sort of changed it around a bit.

Lov ya 4 eva: thanks! I really try to keep it interesting!

Pay backs a bitch: thanks! I did ok at the horse show. Anyways, who knows what would have happened if she hadn't woke up? I don't really plan ahead a lot….

Azngirlchibi: Lol, I'm sorry, was it confusing? If it was, I'm sorry. Sometimes what I want to happen doesn't exactly make its way onto the paper how I want it to.

Ok, here are the lyrics to Maybe Memories! Ta DAA!

And we trudge along through the mud, and we tried to call it home, but we weren't alright, not at all, not for one second.

Never have been one to write it down, Now I think I can, I know I'm stronger now, who is looking south? Not me I'm not looking back, I'm done denying the truth to anyone, cause I'm alive.

You showed me how, you seemed to find a hole, but I just laughed and smiled, begged and rolled my eyes, even cried and denied the truth to you, just like the truth to me, mostly lied.

I'm not going to look back

Write it out like glittering butterflies.