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What Makes Me Different Makes You Beautiful

Inuyasha walked out to the front of the hut and sat down. Kagome followed him shortly after and sat beside him. "Inuyasha?"

He looked to her. "Yea?"

"Are you still battling it?"

"Yea." he said and looked in front of them again.

"Did you mean it?"

"Mean what?"

"That you loved me." Kagome said and waited his reply, hoping she didn't just imagine it.

Inuyasha looked to her sincerely, "Yes."

Kagome smiled and looked up at his face, "Then why are you still fighting?"

"Because I don't want you to fear me."

"Inuyasha." she touched his face, "What do I have to fear from you?"

He tensed, "Me."

"I don't."

"Why not? You should, you know." Inuyasha advised her.

She shook her head, "Nah, I don't fear you at all. Sure, you might be boastful, egotistical at all times, and a real pain…but Inuyasha, those are just things you are."

He looked down a bit. She tilted his face back up to face her, "You are not only those things. I know this because you are everything to me." she admitted.

He sat back away from her, "But Kagome…why didn't you tell me?"

"Would you have believed me?"

"No."

"That's why."

Inuyasha nodded and looked back into the forest, "So, what is the plan now?"

"The plan?" she asked, not sure of what he meant.

"Are you going back?" Inuyasha asked, afraid of what she'd say.

"Not till I find the rest of the shikon shards. I am the shard detector, after all." she jested.

He looked back to her and smirked, "I didn't mean that."

"I know."

"Kagome…"

"Inuyasha, I don't want to leave." she jumped up some and pulled him close. "Please. Don't make me leave." she whispered.

His arms wrapped around her. "Kagome. I won't. It's up to you." he smiled against her hair.

"Inuyasha…"

"Yea?"

"Do you…ever wish, you know?"

"Do I wish what?" he asked against her ear.

"We were together?" she asked and he pulled back.

She knew it was coming. He didn't. Ever.

He touched her face then.

She held her breath.

"Always." Inuyasha admitted.

She smiled at his words. "Me too."

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Day 6

Inuyasha was pacing. This was the final day! He knew her menstrual time was at an end! Her enticing smell was lowering. He loved it! He paused. Oh no!

He ran to Kaede, "hag! How come her smell is getting a bit easier to deal with now? You said 7 days!"

Kaede sighed, "Up to 7 days is the normal balance, Inuyasha." Kaede stood up straight from her herb garden and shook her head, "You did not listen to my words yet again."

Inuyasha "feh'd" and stormed off. He did so listen! Maybe not all of the words, but enough to remember!

He saw Kagome and smirked, walking up to her like he was big and bad.

Kagome looked at him strangely, "What are you strutting around here for?"

Inuyasha paused and gaped. "Because! I can stand being around you again!"

Kagome's eye twitched as she turned on her heel, "Inuyasha?"

"What?" he asked, a bit annoyed.

"SIT!"

THUD

Kagome stormed off, 'What is wrong with him!' she sighed, 'We were all warm and fuzzy yesterday…MEN!'

She thumped her foot on the ground, arms crossed and leaning on a tree, closing her eyes.

Inuyasha appeared beside her, his face a bit battered and dirty. "What was that for?"

"Because you were being a jerk."

She was at her moodswings again! Maybe she needed more iron! You know, because it was SO chronic that she have it, Inuyasha thought!

Kagome looked at him with a peeved glare as he stepped back, "Don't you think I'm going to be apologizing this time!" His jaw dropped as she turned away, her nose in the air and 'Hmmph'd' as she does so many times around him. "You deserved it!"

Inuyasha growled, "I don't deserve to be treated like a dog!"

Kagome smirked, "Well that's what you are, right?"

Now it was his eye's turn to twitch, "Kagome…"

"OH, but that's right!" she said sarcastically and turned to him, pushing him back some. "You are still part human so you are more arrogant and greedy, right!" she remembered what he had said years ago as Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru battled. (movie 3, swords of an honorable ruler)

Inuyasha grabbed her wrists as she shoved at him and held them tight.

She whimpered some, "That hurts Inuyasha! Quit it!"

Inuyasha brought her closer, "So does what you just said."

Kagome looked at him in shock. 'What did I say that he didn't?'

"The fact that you only see me as arrogant and greedy really pisses me off considering what you said only yesterday that those were only a few of my traits! What else is there, then, Kagome? What other traits are so wonderful that you decide to stay by my side even when you could go home or shoot me with an arrow?"

The truth hurt. He knew it did. But he wanted to know! Damnit, she said it, she should at least explain her reasoning!

But all he got was, "Let me go, Inuyasha." she turned away from him.

He stood there, shocked, as he let go of her wrists. She turned fully away from him and refused to see his eyes.

"Kagome?"

Kagome tensed a bit, "Leave me alone."

Inuyasha sighed, it was -his- turn to tell her what he thought was so beautiful about Kagome. He had to have some compromising if he ever wanted to know what she meant.

He placed his hands on her shoulders, but didn't turn her around. She tried to move away but he kept her steady, "Listen, Kagome…" he started and she ceased her movement like he knew she would. He began to tell her everything he never could admit to himself.

"You might be a pain in the ass to me as well, and you might not care about what I have to say but I'm going to tell you anyway. When I first met you when the Mistress Centipede was attacking, I was surprised you actually trusted me enough to let me go after how badly I said you looked and smelt. I was surprised you would even think to let me go. I was surprised when you looked like Kikyo in that priestess outfit…" he paused as she tensed at Kikyo's name.

He shook his head and stepped closer, wrapping his arms around her from behind, pulling her close and speaking more as she gasped. "But over time, you grew on me. And I meant it when I said I wanted to protect you in my father's burial site. I never really got over my dad not being there, my mother being gone shortly after. No one ever really showed me any kind of kindness."

"But Kikyo…" she started, almost smiling that he was so close to her, holding her and not trying to seduce her on her menstrual cycle. He must have really valued her.

"Kikyo and I loved once before, Kagome. But she died like I said." he paused and closed his eyes, "And it hurts to say it but I don't think I've ever loved Kikyo as much as I love you."

Kagome's eyes shot open in shock as she stayed still so he'd go on, thinking 'did he just say that? Is he ill? This isn't some ploy for me to take his beads off is it…'

Inuyasha sighed, "When I think back now, Kikyo was a great friend but she didn't show the true happiness you did. She restrained herself too much to ever be normal, even if she was a priestess. I understand you have to be like that, but she barely ever smiled. I can't change the past and I don't want to. If I had one chance to make it right with Kikyo, I wouldn't take it."

Kagome turned her head against his in admiration, though she didn't know what for.

"Kikyo was so quick to pass judgment on me before, so I feel she never loved me as much as I her." he smiled and pulled Kagome as close as he could so he could feel her against him. "But you have always been there, you never strayed from my side and if you shot me, well, you were under a spell. You can't change someone's heart, I know. But you requested that I stay a half demon, that I wouldn't change so many times…

"But…it never occurred to me why you would ask that besides the fact that I can't tell who is friend or foe. But you requested it, now I see, because you came to like me as a half demon, who I was, not who I wanted or was going to be."

"Was?" she asked as she turned around. He looked down at her and gave a genuine smile.

"When we collect the remaining shards, you decide what to do. I have no use for them anymore. Like you said, I'm strong enough as a half demon, and every battle we've had, we've always won."

Kagome gave a huge smile and wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's neck, hugging him tightly.

He was almost knocked off balance as he smirked and wrapped his arms around Kagome's waist. "I really mean it, Kagome. I'll stay a half demon because now I know someone doesn't care what I am, just who I am."

Kagome leaned back and looked up into his eyes, "Inuyasha?"

"Yea?" he asked.

"Thank you."

"For?"

"For telling me everything." Kagome looked down, "I know I'm a pest and I'm always in the way and I can't really fight except for my arrows…"

"Kagome…" he began.

"No, wait, but I don't want you to think that you have to look after me at all times." she smiled to herself a bit, "I'm not saying I'm not depending on you, but I'm not depending on you all the time…and--"

"I know." Inuyasha smirked as she looked up to him in shock. "I know you don't need me to be there…" he leaned down and whispered against her lips, "But I need you to be here."

And their lips locked.

Kagome's eyes shot open wide and then slowly closed as she pulled Inuyasha closer to her. Inuyasha found this as acceptance and relaxed a bit. God how he loved Kagome.

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Day 7

Inuyasha was doing backflips, front flips, sidekicks, you name it, he was doing it as Kagome was off her menstrual cycle.

Miroku and Sango blinked as they saw their ecstatic friend. "What's gotten into him?"

Miroku shrugged, "Maybe he got a doggie treat?" he answered as they walked out of the hut.

Kagome walked out with Ayame and Kouga. "C'mon Kouga! I can kill you now!" Inuyasha almost let out a squeal as he ran up and jumped from tree to tree.

Ayame blinked as Kouga smirked. "Uhm, Kagome, maybe you're safer from Inuyasha when you're in heat." Ayame muttered.

Kagome sweat dropped, "You got a point…"

Kouga and Ayame smiled evilly at Kagome, "You…sly devil!"

Kagome backed up, "What?"

Ayame sniffed Kagome and smirked, "Oh yea. Definitely."

Kagome blushed, "Just…don't tell the humans just yet."

Kouga crossed his arms, "Ah well, at least we know random demons won't be tackling you every month now."

Kagome blanched, "Huh?"

Ayame smiled, "Yuki is going to have a playmate!"

Inuyasha fell out of a tree and both him and Kagome's faces were priceless, "WHAT!"

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LOL There you have it, Inuyasha mated with Kagome on Day 6...

They'll have a baby shortly after Kouga and Ayame have Yuki…

And this is the END of my fic!

Until next time, my wonderful reviewers…ja ne!

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