Last time: Kay realized that she loved Charlie after having a dream where he died. Though, Sesshomaru is around (at least after he comes back from slaying the demon), and will that put their relationship in jeopardy?

Chapter 16: This

Charlie woke up with no one else in the room besides InuYasha and Miroku. InuYasha looked like he had just gotten back, because he was trying to get comfortable, though Miroku watched Charlie intently.

"What's up?" Charlie asked, looking at Miroku like he was crazy, which he seemed to do a lot.

Miroku wasn't smiling, but he seemed to be thinking hard. "I saw Kay crying last night... Would you know why?" Miroku asked the demon.

"Kay was crying? Is she all right?" Charlie asked, suddenly very concerned.

"Yes, she was fine this morning..." Miroku said, watching Charlie with a small smirk forming.

"What?"

Miroku smiled and laughed a little bit. "You like her, don't you?" Miroku asked.

"What are you talking about?" Charlie asked seriously, still not understanding what he meant.

"You like Kay," Miroku stated.

"Yeah, of course I do. I like a lot of people!" Charlie said. InuYasha raised an eyebrow and cleared his throat.

"You don't get it," InuYasha said, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms.

"Don't get what?" Charlie asked. InuYasha slapped his own forehead and sighed.

"You love Kay, don't you?" Miroku said, raising an eyebrow.

"What?" Charlie said, blushing.

InuYasha growled. "He means--"

"I know the meaning of that question! I'm just surprised by it is all!" Charlie yelled at InuYasha.

"Just be quiet, you fool," InuYasha said, leaning back against the wall. "Anyway, I doubt that you'd like her," InuYasha said.

"Well, you love her, right?" Miroku asked.

"Well..." Charlie said, blushing. "What about you and Sango? Kay and I saw you eating each other's faces just yesterday!" Charlie accused, causing InuYasha's eyes to bulge out of his sockets.

"Yeah? So?" Miroku said, smirking. "But, you didn't answer my question."

"What question?"

"You love Kay."

"NO!"

"You don't love Kay."

"What?"

"You don't not love Kay."

"Huh?"

"Just answer the question truthfully!" InuYasha yelled at Charlie. "Do you love her or not?"

"I..." Charlie said, blushing. "I'm a guy! Why are you trying to get me to tell my feelings to you? To find out if I'm gay? Holy crap! I've got a habit from Michelle!" Charlie said, hitting his head against the floor.

Miroku smiled and laughed a bit. "Just tell us if you love her."

Charlie breathed in deeply and closed his eyes. He kept his head against the floor and smiled and laughed a little bit. "Yes... I guess I do," Charlie said. He could feel InuYasha's eyes on him, but he didn't care.

"I see... So, are you going to tell her?" Miroku asked.

"Tell who what?" Kay asked as she walked into the room, carrying a towel. She looked at Charlie and blushed slightly, though no one noticed.

"NOTHING!" Charlie yelled, sitting up straight.

"Come on! Tell me! I hate being left out..." Kay pouted and Charlie just shook his head. Kay stuck out her tongue and sighed. "Fine."

"Where were you?" InuYasha asked.

Kay walked over to her bag and started to dig through it. "I took a bath," Kay said as she dug through the backpack.

"Why did you do that?" InuYasha asked.

Kay glared at him. "So I could dance around naked in front of you," Kay said sarcastically. Miroku smiled and Kay growled. "Shut up!"

"I didn't say anything, though." Miroku smirked and watched Kay as she dug through the backpack.

"Oh, be quiet."

"What are you looking for?" InuYasha asked.

Kay pulled out a shirt and set it on the floor. She shrugged and kept looking, pulling out a pair of shoes. "I dunno," Kay said, pulling something out of the backpack.

"Why are you looking in there, then?" Miroku asked.

"Hey!" Kay said, ignoring the question Miroku asked. "Look at these!" Kay said, holding up a bandana. She folded one over, a black one with red and yellow flames and something written in Japanese on it, and tied it so it was on her head, resting behind her ears and laying over the high ponytail that she always has. She took the other bandana and walked over to Charlie. "Here. Have it. I won't use it," Kay said, handing Charlie the bandana. It was like Kay's bandana, except it had shades of blue instead of red and yellow.

"Um, thanks..." Charlie said, blushing. Kay knelt down and tied it around his neck, blushing a little bit, but no one noticed once again.

"Well, InuYasha, let's go check to see if the others are all right. They've been gone for a while," Miroku said, standing up and making InuYasha get up. He winked at Charlie before leaving, Kay not seeing that because she was putting away all the stuff she took out of her backpack.

Once Kay had finished putting her stuff away she zipped up her backpack and Charlie cleared his throat. "Hm?" Kay asked, turning towards him.

He scratched his face and looked at Kay carefully. "Miroku told me that you were crying last night... Why?" Charlie asked.

Kay blushed and looked at her backpack, but kept her head turned towards Charlie. Charlie looked at her carefully and her eyes went back to Charlie's face locking with his eyes.

"I... had a bad dream," Kay said, turning her head towards the backpack.

Charlie crawled forward and sat near her. "What was your dream about?" Charlie asked.

"I dreamt... that... you died," Kay said, closing her eyes and holding onto her hand tightly. Charlie looked concerned and sat across from her, leaning against the wall, crossing his legs. Kay crawled over to him and sat next to him, folding her legs and leaning on her arm.

"I'm not going to leave you, Kay. Just make sure that you never leave me, all right?" Charlie said, looking at Kay with a smile. She looked up into his eyes and laughed a little bit and nodded.

"I won't leave you. Never. Promise you'll stay with me?" Kay asked.

"Yeah. I promise."

"Good," Kay said, before closing her eyes and yawning deeply.

"You tired?" Charlie asked, laughing a little bit as Kay wiped her eyes.

"Yeah, I just suddenly got really tired... I just need to rest a little bit," Kay said, leaning against Charlie's shoulder and closing her eyes. Charlie blushed deeply, his cheeks turning a deep shade of red. He looked at Kay and slowly she fell to lay on his lap. Kay's breathing slowed and she looked so peaceful, and Charlie was just blushing like mad.

Kagome walked into the room and looked at Charlie, grinning. I guess I won't have to help them get together after all! Kay's doing that just fine herself, Kagome thought as she walked over to the fire. Charlie blushed even more and Kay scooted closer to him in her sleep.

After her was Sango and Miroku bickering, and once they walked in the room, Kagome quickly 'shh'ed them. They saw the two and Charlie blushed even more, looking at the ground and his ears drooping slightly. He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes, trying to ignore the people who were going to tease them.

By the time that Michelle walked in with Shippo picking on her and Rin holding a bunch of flowers, Charlie had fallen asleep and all was quiet in the room. Michelle grinned and sat down on the other side of the room, waiting for the two to wake up. The rest came into the room, all of them glancing over to Kay and Charlie, sleeping next to the corner.

- - -

Kay woke up very warm, and she was very comfortable in her spot. She slowly opened her eyes and curled up even more, but then blushed as she realized that she was on someone. She slowly sat up and looked back to see Charlie sitting there, asleep and his mouth slightly open. Kay blushed as she looked back to where she was sleeping and she bit her fingernail.

"So, Sleeping Beauty awakens," Michelle said slyly from across the room. Kay's head moved so fast to look at her that it cracked. Kay blushed even more.

"Were you there the whole time?" Kay asked.

"Yup."

"Why?"

"Because."

"I hate you."

"I get that a lot."

Kay growled and glared at Michelle. Michelle just laughed and said, "You should get ready to go to bed again... Though, it looked like your spot there was very comfortable."

"Shut up."

"Heh. You're blushing. You must like him," Michelle teased.

"I said shut up!" Kay said as she stood up.

"Where are you going, you love bird?" Michelle asked.

"For a walk!"

Charlie, and most of the others had awoken during this little fight. Charlie stood up and looked out the door, and he followed her, but still giving Michelle a dirty look on his way out.

"Were you planning that the whole time?" Sango asked.

"That was mean," Shippo added.

Michelle laughed. "Mean is my middle name. I actually got the idea half way through that and decided to tease her more."

"Be quiet and go to sleep, Sandwich," InuYasha said, folding his arms and closing his eyes.

"Hey!"

- - -

Who does she think she is? Kay yelled inside her mind. She kicked a rock and it went towards a tree, hitting it hard. Her toe hurt now. Kay walked to another tree and took a swipe at it with her fingernails, leaving deep gashes in the bark. What right does she have to tease me like that? I know she teases me a lot, like before... But she never took it that far!

Kay blinked as she felt a raindrop hit her nose. She looked up into the sky, and as if on cue, the rain started pouring down. Sighing, she walked farther into the forest, the rain having a certain calming effect on her.

And why bring Charlie into all of this? Kay thought. She looked off into the distance and her mind suddenly jumped to what Kikyo had proposed Charlie.

What if he becomes a dog again? I wouldn't be able to take it,

Suddenly a noise came from the bushes and Kay turned around, and sighed in relief when the only person she saw there was Charlie.

"I thought you were someone else..." Kay said with a sort of fake smile.

Charlie walked towards her and looked down to her. "Are you all right?" Charlie asked. Kay nodded and breathed deeply.

"I'm fine," Kay admitted, glad that she got all the anger out of herself from ranting to herself.

"That's good." Charlie walked over to Kay and then sniffed the air. Though his sense of smell was worsened by the rain, he could still smell fairly well.

"What is it?" Kay asked as she turned to look where Charlie was looking. She gasped.

"Kikyo..."

Inside her mind she was thinking something along the lines of this: Now, how many times do people say her name whenever she just pops up randomly? And everyone's always like that! They just always say 'Kikyo...' It gets annoying!

"Kikyo, what are you doing here?" Kay asked, turning to face the priestess fully. Charlie was wondering the same thing and turned to face her also. She walked towards them and looked at Charlie.

"I was wondering if the demon had thought about my proposition any more," Kikyo said, looking from Kay to Charlie every so often.

Kay looked at Charlie and he smirked.

"I like the idea of becoming a dog again. I can go to the bathroom wherever I want... I can do so many things. I wouldn't have to deal with all this emotion crap... Though, I wouldn't be able to talk, but that's all right, since I can talk with my mind anyway. I really like the idea of becoming a dog again," Charlie said enthusiastically. Kay looked to the ground and held her hands together.

"So it shall be," Kikyo said, putting her hands in an intricate pattern.

"But, I would lose things that I would like to have for a while, and I would like to do something before I consider becoming a dog again," Charlie said, smiling slightly.

"I see. If you ever do decide to become a dog again, you may come find me," Kikyo said before turning around and leaving.

Once Kikyo was out of sight, and hearing distance, Kay turned towards Charlie.

"What do you find so important to do?" Kay asked, looking up at Charlie.

Charlie smirked and simply said, "This."

Kay felt Charlie's lips crash down on hers and her eyes widened. Slowly they closed and she kissed back to Charlie's surprise. He expected her to pull away from her. They stood like that until Kay pulled away, breathing hard. She smiled and leaned against Charlie's chest, laughing a little bit.

"I'd never thought I'd be kissing my dog," Kay said. She started laughing harder and soon her laughing reduced to giggles. Kay moved some of the wet hair away from her face and said, "We should get going back. The others will either be getting worried about us, or suspicious."

Next Chapter: Sesshomaru and Jaken come back from slaying the demon, and you wonder... What is going to happen? Will Sesshomaru find out about the two? Will he be oblivious to it? Is he just going to ignore it?

Kay: (sigh) I better bring Michelle back to life. (magical authoress powers make Michelle alive again)

Michelle: YOU SUCK, YOU COCK SUCKER! And what about Hiromasa?

Kay: What about him?

Michelle: ... You are pure evil.

Kay: Thank you.

Charlie: At least she's polite.

Michelle: Kay, you're nasty. You made Charlie kiss you.

Kay: At least I didn't make anyone make rough sex.

Michelle: OO;

Kay: Some people write stuff like that... It's nasty.

Michelle: Um... Yeah... Whatever.

Kay: I think I'm going to go get an ice-cream sandwich.

Michelle: You do that.

Kay: All righty then.

Michelle: The next chapter that I will force you to read is All My Fault.