Chapter 24/ A whole new world

A/N: This chapter is not scary. Sorry ya'll. More or less it's like a climax to the grand finale! What this chapter is is a little Inuyasha and Kagome romance. Not a lot since I'm not very good at it. Sorry. Hope ya'll do enjoy it though.

Disclaimer: Nope…not even the romance…poo.

Ashes to ashes, lust into lust…

Inuyasha sat in his room thinking. They were so close to finding the truth about Naraku, but something was bugging him. What was he missing? It really didn't help that Kagome keeps getting attacked either.

Inuyasha sighed as he stretched out onto his bed and stared at the ceiling.

Kagome had told him what happened in the bathroom and so concluded that the dude that came to see Naraku had died. What if they left the CD?

Inuyasha was about to bolt up when another thought struck him.

He had no idea were the man had slept. He relaxed in the bed again and tried to think of anything that could lead to having his hands on that CD!

Inuyasha rolled over onto his stomach and went threw the attacks in order from the beginning.

It really all started when Kagome and Sango and Shippo arrived. Could they have something to do with everything that has happened?

He shook his head. No way. They were in as much danger as him, Koga, Miroku, and Ayame.

Then another thought struck him…the first time they came in counter Kikyo was a few days after they arrived!

Flash back…

Reporter: "We are stationed here in front of the house belonging to a young girl and her mother. Her mother had been found inside murdered in the bathroom closet, her daughter was found not to far in an ally also murdered. We have reports that the daughter, Kikyo, had been out with her friends when she left to go home to, apparently, finding her mother for dead…"

At that time Inuyasha had walked in standing at the door way looking around at the pale faces.

"Oi! What's going on? Why is-"Everybody shushed him then returned back to the news. Inuyasha sat down next to Miroku and watched what was happening on the screen. A picture popped up receiving gasps of surprised at the young girl. It was a picture of Kikyo the way they found her. Her body was twisted in a direction that it shouldn't be twisted, her jaw was missing, leaving her tongue to hang out, and her eyes open wide in fear. Her arm was pointing at the screen and what looked like straight out of the door way were Kagome had currently coming threw. Looking at the screen Kagome stared at the dead girl realizing what she was seeing dropped to her knees. That's just not right! She…she's the girl I keep seeing!

Kagome bolted from her position on the floor and ran over to were Sango was still gaping at the screen.

"Sango! What's her name?" Sango looked at her with wide eyes.

"Kikyo." Suddenly the room got cold. Kagome looked at the screen and saw the hand twitch a little.

"Everybody! Out of the room NOW!" Everyone stared at her like she was insane. "What are ya'll stupid? GET OUT NOW!"

"Why?" But Kagome didn't answerer. Turning everyone saw what made Kagome stop speaking. Kikyo once a picture on the screen was now a moving picture on the screen! Kikyo's face had gotten so close to the screen that you could see all the cut and bruises she had received. Her eyes were cold and deadly and her tongue lolled out as she tried to make a sound. Then all went static. No one dared to move.

"What just happened?" Inuyasha had regained his composure first and turned to look at Kagome. Sango had turned away from the screen as well and was shivering with fear at the site she witness. Miroku and Koga were staring at the ground face white with terror, and Shippo had long since bolted from the room to find somewhere that looked happy. Kagome was still staring at the screen blankly.

"Hello? What happened Ka-"

"I don't know Inuyasha. I don't know…" Kagome started to shake. Sango went over and hugged her trying to make her feel better. "All I know is that…she is following me."

End Flashback…

They never really talked about it after that. So maybe there is something going on between them.

Inuyasha stood up and walked towards Kagome's room. Opening her door Inuyasha thought his heart had stopped when he saw her bed empty but it resumed it's beating when he saw her form by the window.

The wind was blowing softly playing with her hair in fancy dancing patterns. Her eyes were shining in the light of the waxing moon in the sky. Her face was drawn in a small frown that made something in his heart cringe.

Casually he strolled over and leaned on the window next to her.

"You ok?" He asked softly. Mutely she nodded, never taking her eyes off the moon.

"You don't look ok." He said. Kagome's eyes met his for a brief moment before shifting her gaze back to the moon.

"It still kinda bugs me I guess."

Inuyasha stared at her bemused. "What does?"

"All this ghost business we have to deal with!" Kagome said. She pushed her hound out the window and swept it as if to whip away this whole ordeal. Sighing Kagome walked over to her bed and plopped down on it with her head in her hands.

"We came here to relax, have fun, and fool around, to get away from the stress over there for a month. Too bad it followed."

"What do you mean by that? What followed?" Now they were getting somewhere.

Silence

Kagome's eyes met his again with such intensity that Inuyasha felt a little weak in the knees. Such fear and anger resided in them. Inuyasha wished more than anything at the moment to whip all that away. He made his way towards her about to comfort her when her words stopped him cold.

"Kikyo. Kikyo followed me here."

…The knight in the river now only rusts…

Sango and Ayame were both reclining on the couch in the living room. Koga and Miroku were in separate chairs facing them and Shippo and Kilala were near the roaring fire close by.

"How can we stop this?" Koga suddenly asked.

"Simple. We find a CD, figure out who kills who, we kill them and were done." Sango said.

"We've already been threw this though." Miroku complained.

"He's right. We still have no way of getting the CD without risking anyone's life. We need to look in another direction." Ayame said. They all sighed.

Moment's passed while they all listened to the fire. It cracked and snapped, making words fare too softly for their ears. Each person was trapped in his or her own thoughts.

"I have an idea." Shippo called out softly. No one took notice, to far gone with their thoughts. Shippo studied each of their faces realizing that they weren't thinking about any CD…

Well…not everyone.

Sango looked like she was still thinking about the situation at hand since her face was very serious and bleak looking. Thank God someone was…

Looking over at Ayame you could defiantly tell that her mind was not on their mission. In fact by the way she's looking at Koga you could tell what she was thinking about. She even had a light blush forming…

Koga was no better. In fact he was staring at his feet! And look at that hue on his face! Now was a time Shippo wished he had a camera.

Miroku was the most obvious though. Heck, he was staring point blank at Sango with a perverted smile on. Not to mention there was a little drool.

Shippo rolled his eyes upwards. Such a bunch of fools…

"Hey!" Shippo yelled as loud as he could. The result was quite comical.

Everyone jumped as if someone shocked them before scurrying in a huddle in the middle of the floor.

"S-Shippo! What d-did you do that for!" Koga yelled.

Shippo gathered his wits swiftly. Someone had to be mature around here.

"I had an idea."

Silence

"Well!" They all chorused.

"I wanna go back to the placed behind the doors." Shippo said calmly.

"You wanna go were?" Ayame asked. Sango and Miroku had gotten very still. They knew what he meant.

Back to where they found him…

…The passion burns a warm tender flame…

"What do you mean followed?" Inuyasha asked quietly.

"Well…more like haunting."

"How long has it been going on?" He watched Kagome play with her hair, watching as her eyes moved to the top left down to the bottom right. She remembered something…but then tried to forget it.

"Tell me!" Inuyasha snapped causing her to jump.

"A few days before the contest was announced." She said in a rush. "I first say it during school…then while I was walking home with Sango. Funny thing, Sango didn't see it. No one on the street did and neither at school…"

"What happened?" He asked a little more gently yet firmly. He needed to know.

"Well…

Flash back

Kagome looked around the clearing then saw something that made her freeze. A girl, that looked a lot like her, without a jaw hanging by a rope around her neck. Her blood shot eyes stared at her with her tongue hanging out of her jawless mouth. Her body was torn and broken hanging limply with only one problem, her arm was parallel with the ground and was pointing strait at Kagome. Kagome tore her eyes away from the image, to with disgust. Suddenly she felt something wrap around her leg. Kagome looked down and saw, what looked like a pink snake, sneaking around her ankle. Before she could react it gave a sharp tug that sent Kagome to the ground.

"You! You areee the one I'm looking forrr! Give meee you powerrrr!" The girl screeched out. Kagome noticed that the pink snake was actually the girls tongue! She was drawing Kagome closer and closer.

"N…no! Leave me ALONE!" Kagome shouted. All of a sudden everything turned a brilliant green and then white. Kagome could see that her powers had reacted to her cries and had saved her again. Threw the light Kagome saw only a skeleton hanging by the rope from the tree.

End Flashback

"…and then there was…"

Another flashback

Kagome and Sango were heading for Kagome's home to work on her home work so on and so forth. While on the way to the house, they past a dark ally. Kagome stopped as a shiver went threw her spine. As she glanced over into the ally she saw a person rising from the shadows. She was walking towards her in what looked like a torn dress. Kagome could see that Sango had also seen this and was going pale in the face. Looking back Kagome saw that it had stopped and was looking at her hands and brought them to her face. Pulling them down Kagome saw that her eyes were open and that they were nothing but the whites of her eyes.

Suddenly everything grew darker. Kagome grabbed Sango's hand to make sure that she was still with her. As she looked back into the ally the girl was gone. Sighing Kagome dragged Sango with her past the ally when Sango's hand was yanked from hers. Turning she saw Sango standing their shivering with her hands over her eyes.

"Sango what's wrong?" Kagome asked. Sango pulled down her hand and Sango's image vanished into the girl in the white dress. Kagome screamed and shot out an energy blast strait at her. Then the image vanished leaving Kagome alone in the middle of the street. Kagome frantically looked for Sango in the ally.

"Kagome where are you!" Kagome heard Sango's voice around the corner. Sprinting Kagome caught up with Sango and gave a huge sigh of relief and crashed on the pavement.

"Kagome! Man you looked like you saw a ghost!" Sango commented while helping her up.

"Sango, you have no idea." Kagome said to herself.

End another Flashback

"…then the next time was here." Kagome took a bated breath. She stared at Inuyasha worried that he would think that she was the cause of it all. His eyes were turned away staring at the moon threw her window.

Kagome waited holding her breath just knowing that he was going to turn around and walk away. She brought this and got their group in the middle of it all. It was all her fault.

To say she was surprised when, instead of walking away, he went and opened the window even wider then already, was an understatement. He shocked her even more when he turned with a smile and held out his hand.

"Hey Velma, come with me."

"What?" Kagome asked surprised.

"Come with me." His smile grew at her confusion.

"Why?" She asked cautiously. He rolled his eyes. Must she ask so many questions?

"Don't you trust me?" His face was saying that he was hurt but his eyes showed humor. Was this some kind of a trick? What if it was another ghost pretending to be Inuyasha and would drop her to her doom once out of the window!

Nah. She would know if it was a ghost or not. But then…what is he up to and what is with that creepy smile of his. Oh, look. Their goes his eye twitching…better answer his question.

"Yes…" Kagome said slowly. Well ghost, she thought to her self, guess now's your chance to kill me. Shakily she took his hand.

Quick as a flash Inuyasha jumped out of the window bringing Kagome along for the ride. She didn't even have time to scream before Inuyasha swung her onto his back.

Kagome gripped his shirt tightly as the plummeted towards the ground.

'Crap!' Kagome screamed in her mind. 'I should have known!' She was certain she was going to die right then and their. She buried her face into his shoulder thinking this was the end.

"You Ok back their?" Inuyasha called out. Kagome realized that they were no longer falling!

"W-what…I thought we were going to die…" Kagome said amazed. They were flying! The ground flew below them at such an amazing pace it seemed like a blur in her eyes.

"This is incredible! Are we really flying?" She asked. Inuyasha laughed a little.

"I wish." He said. His feet touched the ground before springing up again getting higher. "This is as close as were going to get. Just think of it as falling with style."

Kagome smiled at his little joke while watching things come at an amazing speed only to pass in a blur. Thank God she wasn't motion sick.

"Still…it seems so unreal." She commented. "Like a whole new world…"

Inuyasha laughed out loud at this.

"What?" Kagome said a little offended. That's what she thought anyways.

"Nothing…you just reminded me of a song." He glanced back and gave her a smirk.

"Oh? What song?"

"I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?"

His voice carried peircing the night air. If their were people around their were sure to hear him…not that she minded.

"Nice Inuyasha. Earlier we were talking about Scooby-doo and now Aladdin. Way to many cartoons don't you think?"

"Heck no! There is no such thing as too much cartoons!"

"Heh, whatever you say." Kagome stared out ahead of them trying to figure out were they were heading. "Inuyasha…were are we going?"

"You'll see…"

A few minuets passed as they aproced a city. Inuyasha smirked to himself. Wait till Kagome get's a load of this.

"I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride…

Kagome stared at the back of his head wondering what he ment or just singing to himself. Suddenly Inuaysha jerked them to the side just barly missing a wall then jumping on said wall going sideways, vertical to the ground.

Kagome tighted her hold on him while in the back of her mind noticing him holding on to her tighter too.

"Inuyasha! This is crazy! Are you trying to kill us?"

"A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming…"

They had just passed the city limits and were running along the edge of a huge lake. The moon reflected off of its surface making it shimmer like silver. He really was showing her a whole new world…

"A whole new world (Kagome)
A dazzling place I never knew…

Inuyasha made a huge jump, soaring over a bridge…it felt like they were hovering for a moment…


But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you…"

Inuyasha smiled at hearing Kagome singing with him. In midair he jumped a little more. They could see everything up here!


"Now I'm in a whole new world with you!" (Inuyasha)

Kagome laughed. It was just like in Alladin. Just without a majic carpet… Kagome lifted her arms from around his neck letting herself feel like she was flying. Looking around her she could see birds taking off from the bridge to join them in their flight.

It was an…

"Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky…

Inuyasha let go of Kagome for a brif moment swinging her to the front only to hold her in a bridal way.

He landed on the top of the highest point on the bridge. The wind ripped threw their clothes tugging at them for their interference in their flight.

They had stood there for only a second before Inuyasha smirked down at the bewildered Kagome as she continued to sing her part and then jumped off the bridge to the water below.

A whole new world
Don't you dare close your eyes (Inuyasha)

Kagome almost shut them completely. The ground was approching again…and this time she was in the front!

Suddenly Inuyasha's feet hit a hidden rock in the water and propelled them vertical from the water.


A hundred thousand things to see
Hold your breath - it gets better (Inuyasha)

Inuyasha let Kagome lean down a little letting her hand skim the surface of the water. He continued to dance across the waters surface like a bulet. To anyone who looked…it was like seeing a shadow.


I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be

They reached the end of the lake and Inuyasha ran a little further aiming them for a rocky edge of the lake away from wondering eyes…

Kagome turned her gaze to Inuyasha seeing him smile for real. She was amazed that he wasn't even out of breath yet!

As if reading her thoughts Inuyasha turned his gaze down at her and his smile turned into a smirk.

Kagome pouted a little at his smirk but it didn't last long.

A whole new world (Inuyasha)
Every turn a surprise (Kagome)
With new horizons to pursue (Inu)
Every moment red-letter (Kag)

Inuyashastopped running finally but didn't let her go. His gaze was still locked on hers.


I'll chase them anywhere (Together)
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you

Finally Inuyasha let Kagome down onto her feet but didn't let go of her hands. Strick that, he couldn't let them go…

A whole new world

Inuyashasang softly…waiting for her reply. He felt Kagome tighen her hold on his hand.

That's where we'll be (Kag)
A thrilling chase (Inu)
A wondrous place (Kag)

He couldn't help it anymore. He pulled Kagome towards himself and envelopped her into a hug. Almost instantly the hug was returned. Smiling they sang the last part of the song…


For you and me…

…Love and me are one in the same…

"No Shippo. It's too dangerous." Sango said firmly. Kilala mewed in agreement beside Shippo.

"But-"

"No butt's Shippo." Miroku said.

"Yeah, we promised Kagome to take care of you and were going to keep that promise." Koga said.

"Plus if we didn't…it would be our heads coming off next…" Ayame said making everyone shiver.

"Hell, we'll take Naraku head on five times instead of facing Kagome's wrath." Sango said miserably.

"Then what are we going to do about this?" Shippo questioned.

"Well just have to wait when the time comes." Miroku said soothingly. "Patience is a virtue. No one ever gets anything from hastiness."

"Except Inuyasha, but he's an exception." Koga said.

"Too true." Everyone said with a sigh before going back to their thinking.

…But what difference does all of this make…

Inuyasha swiftly slipped threw the open window on Kagome's room with said girl on his back. Kagome slid off his back just before landing on her butt. Kagome glared at him from that position.

"What?" Inuyasha asked sweetly. Like he didn't know…

Kagome's hair was a mess. Her face was stark white but this time Inuyasha knew why so it's didn't matter at the moment.

"Y-you did that on p-purpose!"

"Did what?" Inuyasha said all innocent like.

"Don't act all innocent! You meant to drop me a hundred feet the bullet your way towards the mansion at a break necking speed!" Kagome yelled in a huff.

"Oh…is that all…well then yeah, heh, I did do it on purpose." Inuyasha turned his back on her before breaking into fits of laughter.

"Ha, ha laugh it up dog boy. You'll get yours."

"Ooooo I'm shaking."

Kagome stuck out her tongue at him causing him to go into another fit of laughter.

"Jerk…" Kagome muttered.

Once Inuyasha got his laughing spell under control the room lapsed into a comfortable silence. Kagome glanced at the clock and gasped.

"It's 3 in the morning!"

"Snap! We better head off to bed pronto!"

Inuyasha and Kagome made a mad dash to the bathroom to brush their teeth like good children. Evidently they ended up making it a race to see who can finish first while still having cleaned ALL their teeth.

Kagome was the first to spit and wash her mouth out.

"Ha! I win! Boo Ya!" She did a slight victory dance. Inuyasha finished soon after and spit as well.

"Yeah, yeah go yell it to the whole world why don't you." He grumbled.

"Hey Inuyasha?"

"Hm?"

"Thank you." Inuyasha turned to ask what for but was suddenly met with a pair of warm lips.

Both were a little shocked. Kagome was actually aiming for his cheek, too bad (Or not) that he moved. Inuyasha took this chance to deepen the kiss a little.

They both broke away looking very red in the face, unable to meet each others eye.

"Uh…w-well, good night Inuyasha." Kagome said.

"Good night Kagome." They both made their way to their separate rooms. Kagome closed the door behind her and locked it before sliding down to the floor.

She placed a shaking hand over her lips still tingling with the feel of his, wanting to savor the feeling forever.

…Should I love just for love's sake…

Inuyasha was basically no different.

He had taken Kagome out to forget everything for a brief moment.

It worked. They both forgot the danger they constantly faced.

Mission accomplished.

That's all folks.

…

Thank God he got a reward!

He felt like he was lighter then air. There was a bounce to his step as he got into bed. The warmth of her lips where still their even as he closed his eyes dreaming up more of her kisses.

…I don't think so that's not what I am
But destiny's odd, my thoughts I now damn
Water, water, drown this rose bud
Ashes to ashes, dust turn to mud

A/N: Ok I'm tired…so I'll end here. Sorry ya'll. Also, that is as far as I can go in the 'romance' department. Maybe next time will be better. And girls…look for a guy like that! The kind to be on cloud nine after one kiss! I know theirs one out their! Please leave a review! Love ya'll Jane!