Author's Note: Hey guys sorry for the wait on this chapter! Hopefully you guys like it and please send in the reviews cuz I am really close to 100 for this story.

Chapter 9 (right? lol): Crystallized Love.

"Kagome!" Sango called to her raven headed friend "come look! It's snowing!"

Kagome ran to the window where her friends were standing, sure enough it had started to snow. She could only watch as the crystal white snow flakes landed on the window, each one unlike the other, no two the same, but both just as special. She couldn't help but think the snow flakes were like the people she saw around her. No one was exactly the same, but everyone was special in their own way.

Even Inu Yasha Kagome thought to herself with a smile. But she didn't need to tell him that, for she already had a long time ago…

Flashback

"Kagome" Inu Yasha, 11 years old, said to her "why are you friends with me?"

"Huh?" Kagome, 10, said as she lay on her bed, her head hanging over the edge of it, she liked the feel of the blood rushing to her head and loved to look at her long raven hair flowing down to the floor "What brought this on?"

"Nothing I just…" Inu Yasha began to explain "I…"

"You what?" Kagome pressed.

"I don't know why you've been so nice to me Kagome" he finished "I mean don't get me wrong I like you and I'm very glad to have you as a friend but its just that I don't get it, I'm a hanyou, yet you don't treat me as such, its as if I can be a normal person around you."

"Of course you can silly" Kagome told him "I don't care if you have demon blood running through you, I know you wouldn't hurt me and that thought alone makes me confident enough to be your friend."

"But everyone else treats me like dirt" Inu Yasha protested "don't you feel uncomfortable when the other people give you dirty looks for being around me?"

"No" Kagome said as though she couldn't believe he was asking her this.

"Come on Kagome look at me" Inu Yasha said turning towards her. He had been sitting on the floor and was now looking at her in the face, which was upside down "I'm…different."

"Obviously" Kagome said "everyone's different."

"That's not what I mean" Inu Yasha said rolling his eyes.

"Look Inu Yasha I'm looking right at you and all I can see is a nice person who's a great friend to me" Kagome told him.

"Yeah right" Inu Yasha muttered.

Kagome sighed and looked out the window. She gasped at what she saw and quickly got up and ran to it "Oh Inu Yasha look, it's snowing outside!"

"Come on Kagome this is serious" Inu Yasha said as he got up and went with Kagome to the window.

"Inu Yasha have you ever thought of yourself as a snowflake?" Kagome asked.

"God Kagome don't be stupid of course not" Inu Yasha said.

"I'm serious look" Kagome said pointing to a two snowflakes on the window. "Here's me" she said pointing to one "and here's you" she indicated the other.

"So what?" Inu Yasha asked her.

"Look how different I am from you" Kagome said "your snowflake isn't even similar to mine. But that doesn't make it any less beautiful or magnificent and no matter what it's still a snowflake. So you see? You can be a different as possible but that doesn't make you any less of a person and a great person at that. If people could only see each other as snowflakes maybe then they'd be able to appreciate each others beauty more than they do now. Because even though no two flakes are the same, people can't help but admire their beauty, we spend so much time adoring the beauty of the things around us, but those things aren't really all the that different from the people we see every day."

Kagome was greeted with silence. She looked over to Inu Yasha, whose head was bent so low that his bangs were covering his eyes. "Inu Yasha are you okay" she asked him, inching closer to his face "did I just confuse you even more? I'm sorry maybe I should have used something else as a metaphor."

"No, you didn't confuse me" Inu Yasha said looking up at her and allowing Kagome to see the deep blue tears of gratitude in his eyes.

"But I made you cry!" Kagome said with a tone of sadness in her voice "I'm so sorry."

"D-don't be…" Inu Yasha said, but his voice trailed off as he quickly embraced her tightly.

Kagome lost her balance in her surprise and the two went tumbling onto the bed behind them. "Are you alright?" Kagome asked him.

Inu Yasha looked over to her, the tears still welled up in his eyes "How come you always know what to say to make me feel better. You always see the good in people Kagome, even when they can't see it in themselves. I…I…"

"Inu Yasha?" Kagome said, a dark blush creeping up her cheeks.

"I don't know what I would do if I didn't have you" Inu Yasha told her, an even darker blush settling onto his own cheeks "I…really like you Kagome…a lot! Like what my dad felt for my mom only I don't know what to call it."

"Huh?" Kagome said going redder as he grabbed her once again and kissed her.

At first Kagome kept her eyes open wide, unsure of what to do. But slowly, she began to feel more comfortable and feelings she had never felt before came rushing through her and she could slowly feel her eyes drifting closed.

The two stayed like that for a while, if Kagome was honest with her self, she knew she didn't want it to ever end. She knew right then and there that the two of them would always be together.

End of flashback

"She always knew just what to say" Inu Yasha told Miroku as the two of them stared out the window "even when I was feeling like I should run away and never come back her words were always a great comfort to me."

"You really did love her didn't you" Miroku said with a knowing smile.

Inu Yasha looked away, almost positive a crimson hue had found its way onto his cheeks"Maybe, I don't know."

He looked at Miroku who was giving him a look that could only mean something along the lines of yeah right.

"Well, I was really young then you know!" Inu Yasha protested, feeling the heat in his face grow "I didn't even know what those feelings were! How could I have possibly known whether or not what I felt was real!"

"You know it was" Miroku told him firmly "and if she was such a great friend to you then how can you stand to do this to her? HONESTLY!"

"I just…I…" Inu Yasha stammered, unsure of the right answer "I don't…know."

Kagome continued to stare out her bedroom window (a/n: around this point I started listening to the song Listen to your heart to get into the mood so it would be a good idea to listen to this song while your reading this.) She didn't know what to do. Her heart and mind were telling her two different things. She knew that she should still be angry, that he had caused her too much pain to be forgiven so easily. But, somehow, whenever she saw his face, his smile so pure and gentle and his eyes so kind, all the memories of an Inu Yasha she used to know, used to love, came flooding black. And, even if only for a moment, she could forget all the pain. As though the fist that had been tightly gripping on her already weak heart would let go and she could once again be the little girl that always saw the bright side of things, the one who always seemed to know just what to say. For it seemed now, that the little girl Kagome had once been had gone away, lying dormant in the pit of her heart. And although she knew it was wrong to place her emotions, her pain, her happiness, her heart into the hands of the one who had betrayed her so many years ago, she couldn't help but feel as though he was someone she could lean on, like the strong cherry blossom tree in the park that had been her haven for so many years.

She walked out into the snow and spun around, letting the cold embrace her. She suddenly found herself running towards the park that was only too familiar. She ran up to the thick trunk of the cherry blossom tree she knew so well but had not visited at all lately. She hugged the thick bark of it, surprised that her arms, once too small to even fit halfway around the trunk, could now wrap themselves around the full circumference of it. "Inu Yasha" she whispered softly, tears running down her cheeks.

Then she felt it, the warm hand on her own. It was pulling her, but where? She couldn't tell. All she knew was that she liked the feel of it on her frozen wrist. And suddenly, she felt strong arms, warmer than the hand wrap themselves around her waist and pull her closer to an even warmer figure. She leaned into it, feeling safe and happy, her legs gave way and soon the two of them were kneeling in the snow but not at all minding the feeling of the cold on their knees.

Kagome opened her eyes slowly and looked up at the warm figure embracing her. It came as no surprise that her eyes met the golden orbs possessed by Inu Yasha. Her heart sped and her face flamed, she felt dizzy and almost drunk. Her words uncontrollable she found herself saying "Inu Yasha, you're here."

Inu Yasha nodded and pulled her tighter "Inu Yasha" Kagome said with a smile, never looking away from him "My beautiful, beautiful snowflake! Please don't ever let yourself forget how precious you are to me."

And then, feeling warm and happy, she lay her head back down on his strong chest, hearing the pounding of his heart in her ear. Surprised, Inu Yasha leaned back against the bark of the cherry blossom tree. Shifting Kagome into a more comfortable position, he couldn't help but whisper in her ear "even if you were a snowflake, you'd be no more beautiful or precious to me than you already are…"

The two stayed there, lost in a world of memories, feelings both had thought were forgotten and locked away, rushing back as quickly as though they had never left.

Author's note: And I'm done another chapter! I was feeling in a really romantic mood when I wrote this one so that's why it's so mushy. My apologies to anyone who doesn't like more than one paragraph of mush per chapter. So anyway please review and let me know what you think, I'm so close to 100 reviews that I can smell it! Well…maybe not smell it but you know what I mean! So anywho please review review review!