Only Him

Sorry that this chapter has taken me a little long to update. I had just been so busy. School is coming to an end soon. You can expect much more fan fiction updates than. It's strange. I recall, in the beginning of the school year, telling you all that school has slowed down my fictions. It seems like that was such a short time ago. I remember typing it like it was yesterday. Thanks for your reviews again. I can understand how much of a pain it is waiting for a cliff hanger, like the last one was, to be continued, so I am going to supply this chapter as quickly as I can to you all, even with school on my back.

Warning: Sexual Content

Rating: M for Mature

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters associated with the series.

RECAP: As Inuyasha ran full speed ahead he wondered what Kagome would be doing a days walk away from the village. He knew Kagome's scent anywhere, but could his mind be playing tricks on him. That was more than possible. Inuyasha knew this, but it was worth his time. 'How could she have gotten through the well?' END RECAP

Chapter 5: Reunion's Hope

Inuyasha was close. He knew exactly where he was, but had no idea where Kagome was headed. She was actually heading in the direction of Sango's village, only slightly off course.

Inuyasha jumped to the final tree he could before coming so close to the scent that he could see Kagome. He looked on in surprise. It really was Kagome. She was back! But how? Had the well let her through? Inuyasha wanted to jump towards her and pull her into an embrace, but that was very unlike him.

The hanyou waited patiently for a few moments, sucking in the image. Kagome just walked on by. She had not been paying very close attention to her surroundings. She was thinking, Inuyasha could tell. He wondered what was on her mind this particular day. Was it him? A part of him hoped it was.

The breeze ticked across Kagome's cheeks and whistled as it whipped along her hair. The ground beneath her was dry and dead. It had obviously not rained in some time around here.

Inuyasha didn't exactly know how to approach her. He wanted to tell her she was stupid for coming out here all alone, but that was not the right question at a time like this. He knew perfectly well, Kagome wouldn't like that. She probably just came to see her friends and tell them she was safe.

Inuyasha thought about this and realized that was not possible. She would have no idea where they were, or what happened unless Shippo had told them. Shippo would have told her they died. 'She must think...' Inuyasha had been wondering where that sadness was coming from. He frowned and lowered his ears ever so slightly.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha stepped out from the bushes, just as Kagome took her fifth step farther from him. She stopped. This was to be expected. Suddenly everything was tense. Kagome paused before she could turn around.

"Inu..." She reeled around fully and looked her companion in the eyes with utter shock. "Inuyasha..." Suddenly her throat was dry. She wanted to blame the gods above for playing this cruel trick on her. She tried to turn around and pretend like she didn't see this mirage, but he was to realistic. She didn't care if it was just her mind playing tricks on her. She wanted to look for as long as she could and remember every feature she had missed in the past.

As Kagome looked upon his beautiful amber eyes and red haori, she noticed how he looked exactly the same as he had when they had said goodbye. He held the look in his eyes. She didn't know what it was. Regret, maybe? Pain caused by love?

What hurt Kagome the most was that she didn't stay from the very beginning. If she had things could've been different. There is no one else in the world for her other than Inuyasha and if he was gone than she would just live with his memory.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha spoke again when he smelt her brewing tears. Kagome turned her back to him and began to walk away. "What the..." Inuyasha looked at her retreating back. He knew she had seen him. Why was she leaving? Was she mad? He needed to know.

Inuyasha jumped forward and grabbed Kagome's shoulder. She tensed in his grasp.

"Are you mad?" He questioned. He could hear it. The rapid pounding of her heart in her chest, it only increased, almost dangerously so. He could smell sudden excitement.

Kagome knew that touch. This was no mirage! She turned around quicker than before, only to face a somewhat bewildered partial dog demon.

"You're alive?"

"Do I look dead?"

"But Shippo..." Kagome didn't want to go into explanation. He had made her breathless. She didn't know what to do. Within moments she had wrapped her arms around him and began to cry into his chest. He was caught off guard at first, but ended up returning the embrace. "I thought I had lost you."

"H.. hey now." Inuyasha stuttered. "I'm here. I'm alive. No crying."

"But... how?" She didn't really require in answer. If he was there, that was enough.

"Later. After you tell me how you came back to the feudal era and what you're doing all the way out here." Kagome pulled back and looked up into warm honey eyes.

"I don't know how I got through the well. I just jumped and..." 'Pleaded.' Her mind finished. "Waited." She didn't want to explain what she was doing so far from the village just yet.

A Few Days Later

Kagome wiped the sweat from her forehead. She was fatigued. The day was drawing to an end. She watched the steady sunset, with saddened eyes. Everything had been explained. She had though with Inuyasha all would be well. It was better than before, but she still missed her family. She had continuously tried getting through the well earlier on in the day, but it had done no good.

"It looks like I can only choose one side." She sat on the wooden well. Her skirt covered only to her mid thigh. She had been lucky that she had a suitcase worth of clothing that she had left in the feudal era over time, but eventually she would have to buy new clothes. Feudal clothing.

"It's to cold for you to be out here at this time." Inuyasha's voice was both firm and gentle at once. Kagome looked his way without a reply at first. He stood there, the woods in his background, the grass beneath his bare feet. He kept his arms crossed over his chest stubbornly. His eyes looked more golden with the coming night.

"I'm fine." She said finally and looked back towards the setting sun.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome's back. He didn't want to make her sadder than she already was about her family. He wished his could somehow help her, but there was really nothing he could do for her.

"Are you tired?" The tenderness that accompanied his words sent a chill down Kagome's spine. Her mind flashed to their first and last kiss. She blushed and looked away from the sun and down the well. Inuyasha approaching footsteps made her want to run with embarrassment. 'I shouldn't be thinking about that.' "You should get some rest."

Kagome bit her lip, her mind returning to her family. She longed to see them and at least say goodbye, she just couldn't win. They were probably worried sick.

"Hey." The hanyou placed a strong, comforting hand on Kagome's shoulder. Their was no tenseness that came with the small amount of contact. "You'll see them again." As uncharacteristic as it was for Inuyasha to act so sympathetic, he felt it was all he could do for her right now.

"I... I miss them." The miko began to open up to him. Inuyasha pulled his hand back and let it hang at his side. Taking a seat on the well's wood, beside Kagome, he readied to listen to all she had to say. "I miss them a lot. I just want to say goodbye." She looked away from the well's blackness and into Inuyasha's eyes. "But... I'm also glad." Those words made Inuyasha's ears perk up in curiosity. "Because when I was there I just wanted to be here, not just to say goodbye, but to stay forever." That explained a lot.

"Why?" Inuyasha inquired softly. Kagome watched the quivering of his orbs.

"Because of you." She had confirmed something that had been on his mind for a long time, whether she would choose her family or him if given the choice.

"Kagome." She was staring at him so intensely now that he could barely contain his emotions.

"When you kissed me..." The blush was concealed by the night. "I realized how much it would truly hurt to leave you. I had been worried all along about leaving, but when we kissed that worry intensified." She was being blunt, but Inuyasha couldn't say he minded much. "I..." Her shoulders seemed to shake. She looked away from Inuyasha again. A salty smell came from her eyes. "I never wanted to let you go. I had said that I would always be by your side, no matter what, but... I failed... I had made a mistake..."

"Enough." Inuyasha did something that was very unlike him. He turned Kagome's face to him and kissed her forehead. Kagome's eyes widened at the contact. She reached her hands foreword and clasped the front of Inuyasha's haori in her hands, leaning her head into his chest. She wanted to cry out in desperation. There was nothing she could do. No one could help her. Not even Inuyasha, or so she thought...

"Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered again into him. His ears flickered, but he did not respond, knowing she was saying it just for comfort. He enjoyed that she saw him as so consoling, but now was not the time to be jumping for joy. Even he had enough sense to know that, him especially. Kagome tugged a little more at his haori. Inuyasha had not expected her to tug so hard. He felt forward into her.

Kagome's eyes widened when she realized what she had done. Inuyasha and her were going to fall and she would be on the bottom. The well was a far drop, but as they began to fall, Inuyasha quickly turned so Kagome was on top. Expecting to hit dirt ground right away, the couple closed their eyes, but when the fall did not come they reopened them.

Familiar. That was all Kagome could think for a split second. Her brown orbs searched the glowing lights, mixed in a deep ocean's blue. Her orbs once again grew large.

"The well...?" The hit the ground softly. Inuyasha on the bottom. Kagome looked up, only to see a wooden roof. "The modern era." She got up hastily and rushed up the walls. Inuyasha on the other hand took his time, adjusting to what had just happened and trying to figure out why.

Amber eyes searched until they found a rosary necklace. Inuyasha placed his hand on the beads and examined them as they hung from his neck. 'Could it be?' He recalled Kaede's words.

"The rosary beads is what binds ye to Kagome, as well her her time."

"The old hag was right." Inuyasha dropped the beads, noticing Kagome had already climbed up and out of the well. He got up and jumped. Kagome tried slid open the well's door at the top of the stairs. She had obviously missed her family. When the door wouldn't budge she pulled harder and harder, struggling so desperately. Inuyasha could only watch.

Suddenly the miko fell to her knees, covering her tearing eyes with her hands.

"What's wrong?" Wasn't this what she wanted? Inuyasha wanted to know. He watched her clutch her skirt and shake her head. With bangs shading her eyes, she began.

"We..." Her teeth clenched together. "When I went back to the other time I had been excited." She began to admit, confess. "But I soon found that there was nothing to be excited about. You were all dead."

"We weren't. We're all alive and healthy."

"But... still." She bit at her lip. She was making no sense. All along she had been acting this way. Desperate, confused, hurt. "If they're... what if..." She couldn't bate to finished.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha stomped up the wooden steps. "Don't sat stupid stuff. They're fine."

"But... how do you know?" She looked up at him, with reddening eyes.

"Because I smell life, not death." He held out a hand and helped her to her feet. "The doors just jammed. Don't get so worked up." Inuyasha gave one strong pull and the door slid open. Kagome giggled, feeling like a fool.

"Thank you, Inuyasha." Kagome ran forward into her home, excited once more. As Inuyasha watched her go he felt as if he understood her a little more. She was strong, but she loved the people around her dearly and that was something that would never change. She had a good heart. Inuyasha loved that in her.

I know this was a short chapter, but I feel like I should stop it here, plus my wrists' are getting sore. I hope you enjoyed!