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Chapter Ten

Only In My Dreams

Inuyasha had gotten quite sick of the sympathetic glances Miroku, Sango and Shippo kept sending him, so he decided to spend the night in the Goshinboku. "The god tree; where Kagome and I met." He nestled himself in one of the higher branches and started to dream.

Inuyasha's dream

Inuyasha sat on a hilltop, the warm sun kissing his skin softly and the gentle breeze playing with his hair. He turned to find Kagome walking out of the woods behind him.

"Nice affects on the weather." He flashed her a quick smile.

She shrugged her shoulders lightly. "It's nothing." Her face was attempting to show happiness, but Inuyasha could tell something was wrong.

"What is it? What's wrong?" He turned to her with concern in his eyes.

She turned to him and managed a weak smile, sighed, and nestled herself against his arm.

"This is hurting you, isn't it?" He rested his arm across her shoulder.

She turned up to him and started to cry into his chest.

"I'm sorry, I haven't been able to find Nanita and defeat her yet. This is killing you and I know it." He kissed her head lightly.

Kagome looked up at him with a sad smile. "Look at me; I promised you a good dream and here I am crying and you look terribly sad. This isn't fair to you."

"What does it matter what is fair to me! You are the one like this! It is awful that you have to go through this! It was supposed to be me and you sacrificed yourself to save me!" He grabbed her shoulders so her face looked at his. "This is unfair to you!"

She managed a weak smile. "Why do you always carry more burdens than are expected of you? You always say you have to do things that you don't and shouldn't have to. You take the blame whenever of us gets hurt or something goes wrong; why? It's not your fault any of this happened."

"Then who's is it?"

"No one's. Not really anyways, it's Nanita's, but it's not yours for sure. It was my decision to sacrifice myself for you, you didn't make that decision. It was my free will. Don't worry; things always turn out well in the end. They always do. Just have a little faith in us." She smiled up at him, kissed him gingerly on the lips and snuggled closer to his chest.

He looked down at her and sighed. "Hey, are we going to act like this when we get you back to normal?"

"YES SIR…if that is okay…?"

"Sounds good to me." He pulled her closer; she rested her hand on his thigh, seductively. He looked at her and raised an eyebrow. She passionately kissed him, holding nothing back. He was a little sad when she pulled away, but flashed her a sweet smile. "That was nice!"

She flashed him a smile in response. "I do try."

"I can tell. Do you practice?" He smirked mischievously.

She glared. "And whom would I practice on!" She spat distastefully.

"I am just as curious as you are. Hmmm… let's think about your options: Miroku?"

"Gag…besides, he's taken. Next!"

"Koga?"

"I love him as much as you do."

"Ah, so it's really close and personal."

"Shut up and tell me the next one."

"Okay, hmm…that moron at your school…who is he…homo? Hobo? Jojo?"

"Hojo and double gag, he follows me. It's creepy. I think he has an extra chromosome."

"What?"

"Never mind… no. Next."

"I don't know, I'm fresh out unless you like our enemies; Naraku, Sesshomaru, one of the random demons we fight with. I know, I've accidentally killed your true love, you poor thing."

"Shut up! You could only kill my true love if you killed yourself." She snuggled closer to him and sighed contently.

He kissed the top of her head softly. "Will you stay with me?"

She looked up at him, but his gaze was distant, he was deep in thought about this. "What brought that up?"

"I was afraid that this would make you too skittish to stay close to me. That you would fear for your condition, even though I wouldn't let this happen to you ever again. "

"Have you ever known me to be afraid of anything…ever?"

"This is true."

"Yes, I'll stay with you… forever."