5

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha.

Special Thanks:To my editor ReviewerWriter!

Thanks to all who reviewed!

Recap:

"Were did you get that?" her father demanded coldly. Kagome involuntarily took slow steps backward as he advanced to her. When the shock prevented her from speaking further, he struck her across the face. His fearsome strength sent her flying.

The last thing young Kagome recalled was striking against a wall; then all was dark.

Chapter 8:

Hidden Confessions

Kagome saw the silent darkness of her dorm room; she glanced down at her body.

'I've grown up' she thought as she noticed that she wasn't her younger self anymore. She looked around the room in a panic; she had forgotten where she was for a moment.

Before the panic of that gruesome dream had time to pass, she found InuYasha running to her out of the darkness in her room.

"Kagome, I have to tell you something," he alleged as he halted in front of her, panting from the running he did to get to her.

"InuYasha, this isn't the best time. You—" she didn't get to finish her sentence. InuYasha captured her lips. Pressing them smoothly against his, she wrapped her arms around his neck, while InuYasha slowly lifted her. His hands looped around her waist.

"I want to tell you that I love you, Kagome," he said, smiling shyly. She was so taken back by his words. When she found her voice again, she told him;

"I-I love you too, InuYasha," she said, felling the burden of secrecy lift off her shoulders. She resumed kissing him, with more passion this time. Suddenly, Kagome was pushed harshly off him.

When she went to look back up, she saw the hanyou screaming in pain. That same limb that had haunted her dreams had pierced right through InuYasha's chest. A sinister laugh was heard; the sound getting closer.

"Now my child, are you ready to tell me where you have hidden the jewel?" he asked with malice spreading across his face. She looked at her InuYasha in cold horror.

"Yes! I'll do anything, just please don't hurt him!" she yelled, tears streaming down her face. Her father held the shish-kabob-hanyou with another formed tentacle as he thrust it deeply through his heart. In an instant, InuYasha stopped screaming; his body had become relaxed and his head hung low. Blood fell to the floor.

Kagome woke up in a cold sweat. She looked at the clock; it read 1:34 A.M. These dreams haunted her even now as she could recall every last gruesome detail. She needed to see InuYasha! She had to make sure he was alright.

She ran down the hallway in her PJs; a light blue dress with long sleeves that came down below her hip and navy blue fuzzy flip-flops with yellow stars. She quietly opened the unlocked door to InuYasha's dorm. He was just fine.

He looked so peaceful in his nightmare-less sleep; she could see his chest move up and down. Kagome sighed out in relief; 'He isn't dead; it was only a dream'. She still didn't want to leave him, not with the memory of her nightmare that still haunted her. She couldn't leave him…but she didn't want to wake him either.

With an idea, she crawled silently into the small bed next to him, holding him close to her. He felt her warm body in his sleep and instinctively cuddled up next to her. She fell asleep in his comforting arms; no nightmares would plague her this time.

InuYasha awoke the next morning, bright and early, at six o'clock. When he opened his eyes he saw, and felt, Kagome's body in his arms. He had practically jumped out of bed and fell to the floor at this surprise; his entire being consumed with embarrassment.

The teen stirred from the sudden lack-of-embrace and opened her eyes to see InuYasha on the floor, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

Kagome instantly blushed. 'I slept in the same bed as him, while he was only wearing boxers,' she thought shyly.

"K-Kagome? W-what are you doing here? In my room, in my bed, with me?" he asked, the unbelievable situation was getting to him.

"Um… well you see… I uh… got scared last night…I had to see you and I didn't want to wake you up…so I…" she explained with a nervous smile "You just looked so peaceful," she admitted with a slight blush. InuYasha was still blushing fiercely.

"W-well, you-you're not scared now, right?" he asked as she emerged from under his covers to reveal her pajamas hugging her every curve tightly; not to mention, the clothing had raised up during her sleep to only came up to her thighs.

She was so sexy! He fell backwards at this wonderful sight as his nose began to bleed. Kagome jumped up to get some tissues and then ran over to help him.

"InuYasha, are you okay?" she asked with concern. He just nodded lightly as she helped to stop the bleeding. After the nosebleed stopped, InuYasha had Kagome turn around so he could get dressed in private.

"InuYasha, I'm sorry I snuck into your room while you were sleeping. I was just so terrified that you had really died like in my dream… I just wasn't thinking," Kagome apologized.

"It's okay; just wake me up the next time you decide to come in," he said with a sigh.

"Okay!" Kagome said cheerfully. "Oh! I have to go back to work, I don't have much money left," she said sadly. She didn't show it; but she had an immense fear that she would actually be killed if she left InuYasha's side.

"No you don't; I've been working some things out with my brother," he said. "Okay, I'm done dressing." She turned around, disappointedly, to see him fully clothed. "You won't have to go to work anymore. I can support you!" InuYasha said with a grin. Kagome just gasped at the declaration.

"InuYasha! You couldn't possibly! I mean, you're doing more than enough for me as it is. I don't want to burden you finically as well!" she exclaimed.

"How many times do I have to tell you, I do stuff for you because I want to and because you're my friend," he told her. The word 'friend' was burning his lips. He really wasn't happy just being a friend, but he was too afraid that she wouldn't return his deeper feelings towards her.

He didn't want to end up ruining a wonderful friendship with her. Kagome, however, craved more than just the friendship as well; sadly, she was too weakened by fright to confront him about her feelings. They both secretly sighed in disappointment and closed their eyes in defeat.

"KAGOME!" she heard her name yelled during lunch break. "I almost had a heart attack when I didn't see you in your bed this morning!" Sango yelled. Kagome was sitting across from her seat in the cafeteria. She was busy gulping down an energy drink.

"I'm sorry Sango. I had a horrible dream last night that my father had killed InuYasha. I had to make sure he was okay; please understand," Kagome begged.

"I do understand. You just made me worried!" she pouted.

"So… InuYasha; what were you and Kagome doing this morning?" Miroku asked with interest.

"Not what your thinking," InuYasha snapped.

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" he asked; his hand crept over to Sango as he asked this. Before InuYasha could retort something, a big SLAP was heard and Miroku had a red hand shaped bruise on his cheek. Sango sat silently next to the pervert; her face flushed.

"That's how I know," InuYasha sniggered back.

"So, Kagome…is your love interest letting you go back to work today?" Sango asked with a giggle, hoping to get the attention pushed off her. Kagome choked and unintentionally spewed her energy drink all over Miroku.

"LOVE INTREST!" she and InuYasha blurted out loudly; everyone in the cafeteria looked over at their table to see what this love outburst was all about. Kagome and InuYasha could feel the gaze of all the students on their backs. Chills were sent down their spines.

"What the hell are you lookin' at!" InuYasha yelled as fiercely as he could in the crowded cafeteria. Everyone took the hint; they didn't want to mess with an angry hanyou.

"Ahem… InuYasha still won't let me go to work because he is skeptical that my father may send someone to kill me; so until I can return to work, he has offered to help with my financial needs," Kagome explained just as the blush was starting to fade away.

"Isn't that sweet!" Sango sung out.

The day pressed forward with no suspicious activity. But somewhere South-West of the school, a heated conversation was taking place.

"Father, I don't understand why your putting so much effort into finding the jewel Kagome has," Kikyo commented as she sat impatiently in front of her father. He just glared down at the stupidity of his daughter.

"Why do you have such idiocy slip from your mouth? I'm going after that jewel so I can enslave the humans that taint this world. A New-World Order shall be founded, and I of course will lead the new age," he said with much pride in his voice.

"How come you can't just take it away from her?" Kikyo asked. "She's always wearing it around her neck."

"Why do you think I'm having you get it for me! The jewel will purify me if I touch it while she wears it. I'll turn into ash you insolent dolt!" he said in annoyance.

"Hey! How will that simple jewel help you do all that?" she asked, believing that she could trust her father; when he ruled the new world, she would be at his right at his side.

"That is no ordinary jewel, you foolish girl! That is the Jewel of Four Souls! It is said to give whoever possesses it immense spiritual and physical powers that are beyond belief!" he explained rudely, now clearly disgusted with his child.

"Then why hasn't Kagome gotten this so called 'power beyond belief'?"

"Uhg! Because she is a stupid human that doesn't know how to use it! Now, go up to your room! I want you to go stalk her again tomorrow and try and find out where she is hiding the jewel!"

--------------------------------------------To Be Continued------------------------------------------

That's Chapter 8. Tell me what you thought; R&R!