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Recap:

"InuYasha," she whispered…'that was my first kiss!' Kagome thought. 'I'm so happy I could share it with InuYasha.' Kagome laid her head on his chest, holding him closely.

InuYasha returned her embrace; thinking 'That was my first kiss! And it was with Kagome…she didn't reject me…I have to tell her how I truly feel! B-but not now; I'll tell her later on tonight for sure.' He then thought of plans and different ways to tell Kagome.

Chapter 10:

My Confession of Love

"Sango, I don't understand this problem. Do you mind helping me," Kagome asked her roommate in math. Kagome and InuYasha had gotten back just in time to get to their Advanced Mathematics course.

"Sure…hey, what were you and InuYasha doing? You took all lunch period and I've heard from some people that you two were making out," Sango said with a giggle.

Kagome blushed, 'one kiss isn't making out!' she thought. 'They must have exaggerated…dumb rumors.'

"We didn't make-out," she protested, "but he did kiss me." She said that in a low whisper, so InuYasha wouldn't hear. She blushed again as she told her best friend.

"Kagome…did he tell you that he loves you?" Sango asked, her voice drowned in excitement for her best friend. Kagome just sighed; placing her chin in her hands, she looked off into space.

"No," she said blandly. Sango could tell that she longed to hear those words spill from his lips. She sighed again and continued to work.

The end of the day came fast. Sango and Kagome walked to their dorm room like they did everyday since Kagome stopped going to work. When she opened the door, all the books she was holding hit the floor. Sango looked at their room to see what had left Kagome so speechless.

"What the hell happened here?" Sango screamed as she looked at the chaotic and very disorganized room. Everything from undergarments to jacks where strewn onto the floor; not to mention all the books, random objects from cabinets, CDs and shampoo bottles.

Kagome regained her composer.

"You have to repack your suitcase again," Kagome sighed. "Let me help you." She remembered that Sango had to be out bright and early the next morning for her vacation. They had to work overtime if they were to get any sleep tonight.

"Ah! Your right! Hurry, I think most of my cloths are in that corner of the room!" Sango yelled while pointing to the pile. The rush was on.

Sango and Kagome spent the next four hours cleaning and repacking Sango's bag. After what seemed to be an eternity, they finally had finished. The let their energy-drained bodies crash on their beds.

"I'm so glad that we got all your stuff packed again," Kagome huffed with a smile. She felt so guilty that Kikyo had done all this.

"Thanks to your help; we got it all done before midnight!" Sango panted with exuberance. Kagome saw Sango instantly doze off into a peaceful sleep. As she began to close her eyes, there was a knock on the door. Kagome shot up off the bed to see who could be visiting at this hour.

She opened the door quickly. Nobody was scene. Kagome closed the door questionably; she then noticed something on the floor. An envelop lay there; it had InuYasha's name written on it. With a smile, Kagome quickly opened it and read:

'Dear Kagome,

I turned the thoughts of you over and over again in my head…I wasn't sure about it before, but now I'm certain about how I feel about you. The truth is that I love you! But I'm still not sure that you feel the same way; so I want to meet you under the biggest tree in the forest. I want to tell you that I love you in person. Please show!

Love,

InuYasha'

Kagome blushed as she finished reading. 'InuYasha honestly says he loves me! I can't believe it! I have to go and meet him!' With that, she put on a coat on and ran out the door.

She ran to the biggest tree in the forest; InuYasha was already sitting under the tree. He was talking to someone but Kagome couldn't hear what he said or who was with him. To her distress, she saw that it was another woman sitting there with him; in the darkness, she couldn't make out the visage of the visitor.

Suddenly the girl pulled InuYasha into a passionate kiss. Kagome couldn't believe her eyes…they were kissing! Without being noticed, she turned around quickly and ran into the closest building.

What she didn't see then, was that InuYasha pulled away from the girl and pushed her down, hard, to the ground.

"You're not Kagome! What the hell did you do that for slut?" InuYasha spat at the girl who had imitated being his Kagome.

InuYasha had immediately known it wasn't her by the foreign sent; before he could say anything, she had latched onto him for the kiss. She smelled strongly of perfumes; not herbs, like Kagome had always smelled of.

"Mm… I've reached my goal; I'll leave then," Kikyo sniggered. InuYasha just growled dangerously at her. Just then, Kagome's herbal scent came to his nose; it was mixed with salty water as the odor drifted by him.

'Oh no…she saw me with this wench!' InuYasha made a mad dash for the building, following Kagome's scent. He halted as he reached the entrance of a girls' restroom. He pressed his dog-ear to the door; he could hear the faint sound of someone sobbing.

InuYasha swallowed hard at what he was about to do. He opened the door quietly; making sure that nobody was in there besides Kagome.

'Good,' he thought with relief. He came over to the closed stall where her smell was strongest.

"Kagome?" His words were met by silence. The sobs had stopped.

"Please just listen to me!" he pleaded. "I received a letter with your name and scent all over it as I was walking out of my dorm. It said some pretty serious stuff; you had told me to meet you under the biggest tree in the forest. But when I got there, you weren't even there. There was some other girl that claimed to be you. She did look like you, but I wasn't fooled; she didn't have your scent."

"If she wasn't me, then why did you KISS HER?" she yelled as loudly as she possible could. She slammed the stall door open to look InuYasha in the eye.

"WHAT! That wench kissed me! I was trying to pry the slut off me!" InuYasha yelled in defense. He hadn't meant it to be that loud; or that rude.

"Then, you- you didn't kiss her? Then what was that letter all about?" The confusion in her voice was obvious as well as her anger.

"I didn't send you a letter," InuYasha stated surprised as well. Kagome quickly pulled out the piece of paper for InuYasha to see. He read it over, blushing deeply whenever the word 'love' came up.

"But you sent me this letter!" InuYasha said as he pulled a note out of his pocket that looked like the same paper used as Kagome's.

She thought back to the letter she had gotten earlier that day. She felt so relived that InuYasha wasn't in love with some other girl! But she felt hopeless at the thought that Kikyo had tried to break up their friendship.

"InuYasha, Kikyo was trying to trick us!" she said with a surprising grin. InuYasha was just glad to hear that she wasn't mad at him anymore.

"Kagome?" he asked nervously. "Can we get out of here? I really don't want to be in this bathroom if someone comes in". After they left, InuYasha was intent on making sure Kagome was safe.

While walking to their rooms, they took a detour to InuYasha's dorm. The moment was right; they were both alone. He had to talk to her. He had to tell her now!

"K-Kagome. Th-there is something that I want to tell you," he stuttered out nervously. Kagome looked up him to see that his face was flushed. Kagome blushed at the adorable sight.

"What is it InuYasha?" Kagome asked as they reached InuYasha's dorm. They entered before he continued to talk.

"I wanted to tell you that I really do lo…love you," he said turning his back to her. He felt flustered at his own words.

"You…you what?" she exclaimed, thinking that their incident today had made her delusional. He really wasn't just saying what you she thought he was saying!

"I said I love you!" he shouted with his back still facing her. Even without looking at his face, she could tell he was going into blush-overtime. Kagome grabbed his shoulder and turned him around to stare into his eyes.

"Do you really mean it?" she asked hopefully.

"Y-yes, Kagome. Ever since I met you, all I ever think about is you! All I ever wanted in this life was you! I've always felt so empty…I felt so burdened that I couldn't tell you what I felt…and I just wanted to-" InuYasha didn't finish his rant. Kagome had pressed her lips against his; the shock had made him lose his balance and he landed on his bed clumsily.

Still connected by the mouth, she had landed on top of him; he ran his fingers through her thick hair and she slipped her hands behind his neck. He bit her lower lip, pleading for entrance, which she graciously gave. This is the moment that had secretly hoped for since they met.

A surge of powerful emotions coursed through her entire body like bolts of lightning that sent cool shivers down her spin. The same magical feeling happened to InuYasha. It was so right! Kagome broke the kiss abruptly.

"InuYasha, I love you too," she gasped out gently, "but I was always too afraid to tell you." Kagome spent that night in InuYasha's room; but not due to sleep. The night was sleepless as the two lovers made-out passionately, letting their emotions finally ride out freely.

Away from the making-out session and far past the boarding school; Kikyo had just arrived home.

'My plan was a success,' she thought happily, licking her lips at the memory.

"Where have you been all night?" her father asked impatiently.

"I was doing some more looking around to see if Kagome might have hidden the jewel," Kikyo lied with ease. "I didn't find it."

"Hmm…well, go to your room. You'll receive your orders tomorrow."

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