Chapter 4. Inuyasha's 'playful side'

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

All of these stories have a point in the plot of the story and are both essential and important if not read you will be very confused!

(We are now back in the regular story line but more flashbacks will come some will be long some will be short)

Present time:

The two love birds were still wrestling under the tree and had gotten blossom petals tangled in their hair, neither cared about anything in the world then the moment they were sharing.

Inuyasha was now 23, and Kagome was now 22, Inuyasha had continued his training in the medic field ever since that day when Kagome collapsed, since that time however she seemed to have healed completely for some reason, but that didn't mean Inuyasha stopped his learning in becoming a doctor, the fear that she would become ill again would stick with him for the rest of his life, so he would not stop just because she appeared better, once in a while she would become weak and if not sitting down she would faint.

She was healthy enough to began school again, and she graduated with respectable marks in school, she continued to take course classes in collage, that involved literature, writing, business and art. Both her and Inuyasha were very good artists and writers.

Totosai had taught him a lot and was very strict at the same time but Inuyasha never regretted a minute of his training (even the parts where he had to do chores!) Anything for Kagome was worth his time.

Kagome found her strength again and pinned Inuyasha against the tree but just as she was about to 'avenge' herself, when she noticed a green velvet box fall out of Inuyasha's jacket. Kagome reached to pick it up Inuyasha tried grabbing it first but she was faster.

"Is this yours Inuyasha?"

Kagome said while holding the box in front of his face like you would a dog with a bone, while she eyed the box with much curiosity.

Kagome noticed the worry in his eyes and decided to make him work for it.

Kagome wiggled the box in front of his eyes while saying,

"Come on! COME ON! Work for it! Catch it! OH it's over here now!"

Kagome tossed the box in and out of his site, Inuyasha surprisingly couldn't get his hands on it, he wondered why.

"Let's see what's inside shall we… a little trinket or some…thing."

Kagome gasped at what she saw, inside was a ring, there was an oval shaped cut diamond, the edges where sharper and smother, the ring glittered magnificently in the evening sun it had a perfect reflection of the sunset, it was like looking at a mirror, the ring was made of platinum the most precious metal for a very precious someone. On either side of the diamond were three princess cut diamonds that aligned flawlessly with the ring's shape.

"Inuyasha…."

Inuyasha didn't say anything, all he did was smile at Kagome.

"Inuyasha…is this real?"

He nodded.

"Is this for…me?"

Once again he nodded.

She took another look at the ring and noticed on the inside was her name along with an inscription that read:

'To Kagome my dearest, love always & forever Inuyasha.'

"Inu…Inuyasha? This…this isn't a prank is it?"

"No my love it isn't, for the longest time I've wanted to tell you this but I've always been scared that one day you'd wake up and realize you were friends with a monster such as myself."

"NO! I'd never do that! Why would you say that! After all you've done for me you think I'd abandon you just like that!"

Kagome began crying, Inuyasha was horrified everything was going wrong.

"Kagome, please don't cry I wasn't saying you would! It was just my own insecurities about life, I mean no one has ever stuck to me like you have, Miroku and Sango are good friends but I have always felt we had a special connection that most people don't have with their friends like you and me do!"

Kagome looked up and stopped crying.

"That and the fact that you took care of me when I was recovering from my illness!"

Inuyasha chuckled at how enthused her comment sounded, and gathered Kagome up in his arms and rested his chin on her head.

"And I never regretted a single second of it! I'd do it all over again, but without you being seriously ill part of course!"

"Mmm…"

Kagome moaned as she snuggled into Inuyasha's chest, listening to the steady yet comforting beat of Inuyasha's kind and gentle heart.

"Kagome?"

"Hmm?"

Kagome said while stroking Inuyasha's hands and tracing patterns along his skin.

"Will you marry me?"

Kagome's heart skipped a beat, Inuyasha noticed and began to get worried.

"Kagome are you alright!"

Kagome sat there frozen as a statue, she was completely speechless, she knew this was coming one day but she never really imagined what it would sound like when it actually happened.

"Inuyasha….what did you just say?"

'What a dumb question to ask! I can't say anything other then that!'

Inuyasha sighed happily, and pulled Kagome out of his lap, the got on his knees and held the ring up and asked,

"Kagome will you be my precious love, my mate….forever."

Kagome was in tears again, but this time Inuyasha knew they were tears of joy, she was really trying to find her voice again,

"Hai."

She didn't intend for the yes to be so formal because this was Inuyasha, but at least he knew she said yes, unfortunately after she couldn't talk but there was no need for words, both inched closer to each other, and shared the most passionate kiss anyone has probably shared in years.

Kagome's every emotion and words were being shared through the kiss, her fears sorrows and happiness, things got more emotional when he asked for entrance into her mouth by enveloping her mouth as much as possible with his lips and licking them a little, but not enough to where he was slobbering all over her.

The way their tongues were dancing was not for dominance, but simply to show how much each cared for one another.

Not that neither cared, but more passer Byers were staring, most of these people had seen the two in this park before acting like children every time they saw them, but this was a bit of a surprise, they had never seen them display behavior that was so 'adult like' at the moment.

A few of these people whistled or hooted, some still shouted the famous 'GET A ROOM!' phrase, unknowing to Kagome one of these people seemed to love to shout that more so finally he stuck out one of his fingers and flicked them off, this was a shock coming from a doctor but everyone has there limits on tolerance!

Another women saw them, and had a 5 year old girl with her and when she shouted her 'praise of noticing' Kagome gave her the finger only it happened to be the one in which her ring was placed on and the women saw this and scoped up her daughter and ran away as fast as humanly possible while her child shouted,

"MOMMY! Why do we have to leave for? I want to see!"

They finally broke apart (5 minutes later) and stared intensely into one another's gaze never braking eye contact until Kagome let out a sigh and small groan as she began to loose her foot balance.

"Kagome!"

Inuyasha caught her before she was even close to touching the ground.

"Are you alright!"

Inuyasha said while checking her pulse, and feeling her fore head, for medical purposes Inuyasha felt her stomach, back and legs to see if that was the cause of her problem until Kagome said,

"Inuyasha! Settle down I'm fine haha!"

Kagome giggled, Inuyasha thought this was hardly the time to be laughing, but when she saw his expression.

"I'm just a bit flustered and tired, today has been FULL of surprises and 'special' events!"

Inuyasha thought about that and came to the conclusion that maybe she was right, but he did think that that kiss tired her out also.

"Ok my love, maybe I did er…. Overreact.."

Kagome giggled and kissed Inuyasha's cheek, he blushed, Kagome found it funny that even after all kissing back there, he still blushes by a simple peck on the lips.

"Come on doc, let's go home!"

A few weeks after Kagome had come home from the hospital all those years ago Inuyasha stayed at her house for almost a year after that but he eventually went back to staying at home with his parents but by the time he turned 20 he got an apartment, then since the doctors discovered her had 'real talent' he earned enough money to buy himself a type of apartment that costs as much as a house, but he hopped to one day have a real house and not live in the middle of the city where he could hear all the crime and various other activities he wished not to take part in.

Inuyasha drove him and Kagome to his apartment, Kagome stepped in and noticed something was different, it wasn't just the smell, but then she noticed that the entire dining and living room was practically decorated with roses and hearts.

'OHHHKKKKK it's not even valentine's day!'

"Inuyasha what's all this for?"

Inuyasha looked at her like she was crazy.

"What!"

"Take a wild guess Kagome!"

Kagome thought a second, then all of the sudden her eyes became real sparkly and her voice also became higher pitched too.

"You mean you did this all for…me?"

"Who else wench?"

Kagome's expression dropped, when he called her her old nickname, and she reminded him not to call her that but he only keh'd and smirked at Kagome, a shear sign he'd soon 'forget'.

"I made this dinner special for you!"

Kagome blushed and beamed a smile at him.

"I see you've brought out your once forgotten art skills out again, I missed that!"

"Really?"

Inuyasha questioned Kagome with much curiosity.

"Mm hmm, I remember when we always used to do this for hours together just painting and sketching random objects and people, it was those times that we did our best and most unique pictures!"

'I never knew it meant that much to her, maybe when I've got time we'll do that again, my hand's got an aching art cramp, my hand's just dying to work it's self off in creativity!'

"Kagome what is that?"

Kagome looked up from her 'master piece' apparently offended.

"IT'S A FLOWER DUM DUM!"

"WHOA! SORRRRRY!"

Inuyasha cringed back in fear he did not want to upset Kagome, she had very 'unique' perspectives on drawing everyday objects, it was like some days you could tell exactly what it was and others she could give you jet leg just trying to figure out what exactly it was that she was creating on that not so white sheet of hers.

Kagome glanced at Inuyasha's sheet and noticed he was drawing a picture of someone, a person who looked awfully familiar yet beautiful at the same time.

"Inuyasha who are you drawing?"

"Oh! Nobody!"

Inuyasha said real fast as he quickly folded up the sketch he had been so carefully working on and stuffed it in his back pack like common garbage.

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome said sternly.

"I swear it was nothing hahaha…"

Inuyasha laughed nervously, Kagome knew so much better then to fall for that tone of his, so she leaped in the air which shocked Inuyasha especially when she landed ON TOP OF HIM, but this was only to distract him, she was strong enough to pin him down, while she grabbed the sketch out, Inuyasha began trying to grab it out of her hands but wasn't putting all his effort into it because he didn't want to rip it.

"GIMMIE THA' BACK!"

Kagome ignored him and the longer she looked at it the more she realized who this was.

"IS THIS KIKYO!"

Inuyasha was horrified when he heard her say that.

"WHAT? OH HELL NO!"

"THEN WHO IS IT?"

Inuyasha looked at the floor, finding the patterns oh so fascinating.

"Just as I thought, it's her isn't it?"

Inuyasha let out a deep sigh and quietly said,

"Do you really want to know who it is?"

Kagome nodded her head.

"It's you alright! I didn't want to show you because I thought you would laugh at how horrible it looked or get mad at me because you may have thought I was making fun of you!"

Kagome gave him a somewhat shocked glare before she grabbed him by his waist and hugged him tightly.

"OHHHH Inuyasha how can you say such things! I love it!"

"Huh?"

Inuyasha didn't expect that one.

"You… you do?"

"Of course, this is real good and it looks exactly like me only…"

"Only what?"

"Only this Kagome is a lot prettier then I actually am."

Kagome sighed sadly.

"If only I actually was this beautiful, but I still love it all the same."

"Kagome…"

Inuyasha couldn't believe his cute little doggy ears, why would Kagome think so low of her self?

"Kagome how can you say that! When your beauty doesn't even compare in the sketch I drew! In reality I don't think I could actually sketch your true beautiful appearance without a few flaws!"

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome hugged Inuyasha and they stayed like that for about a minute, before they broke apart and decided to clean up and eat.

A few weeks later:

"AND THE WINNER IS INUYASHA AZAKURA!"

The crowd cheered very loud, and Inuyasha had the hell shocked out of him, he had actually won! He couldn't believe it.

The blue ribbon was placed on the very sketch he had drawn of Kagome, only this time it was in color and looked more like a photo graph then a drawing.

Kagome ran up to Inuyasha and kissed him on the cheek, saying her congratulations at his amazing talent.

"But Kagome if it weren't for you I would've never discovered I had such talent!"

"Inuyasha!"

Kagome giggled, Inuyasha thought this was the perfect opportunity to tell her,

"Kagome I…"

FLASH

"MR. AZAKURA HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE TOKYO'S YOUNGEST ARTIST AND POTENTIAL CHILD PRODIGY!"

"I uh…well great I guess."

For the rest of the afternoon he was hounded by various reporters and saw later that he was on T.V and everyone at school the next day was cheering him on for his 'unknown' talent, Kagome Miroku and Sango seemed to be the only one's who's attitudes didn't change towards him during that time, he had even been offered money for college which he saved for a along time until, that is Kagome's accident.

"Inuyasha? Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha had spaced out thinking of all those memories that he almost forgot that Kagome was in the room with him.

"Hey weirdo what were you thinking about?"

Kagome said while smiling.

"Oh well…you know just memories."

"Hmm well I'm hungry are we going to eat soon?"

Inuyasha laughed and replied that they could eat at that moment. By the time the meal was finished both were filled, and decided to settle down in front of the T.V. The two had wrapped them selves up in a really warm blanket while both of their added body heat made their position all that more comfortable.

Kagome fell asleep towards the end of the movie they were watching, Inuyasha smiled and buried his head into her hair and inhaled the scent like you would a drug, he almost became high, but was stopped when he heard Kagome giggling and trying to whack his face gently away from her head.

Her giggling was so cute to him though, this only made him want to mess with her more.

"Kagome!"

"Inuyasha…hahaha!"

Inuyasha began kissing her head and tickling her slightly, then Inuyasha began rubbing his head against her back and hair.

"Mmm Inuyasha stop it!"

Kagome was trying to sound like she was annoyed but anybody could tell by the smile on her face that she was enjoying every single second of Inuyasha's 'flirtatious and playful side'.

Kagome threw her head back and hit Inuyasha square in the nose, for a second she thought he was going to get upset but then he surprised her with a present of his own.

"Inuyasha are you ok?"

Kagome tried to sound as sincere as possible but she couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh I've never been better! I've got a punishment of my own!"

"Huh?"

Before Kagome could say anything else however Inuyasha took the opportunity to capture her lips as she gasped, but soon she gave in and began to passionately play along with him.

Inuyasha loved the feel of Kagome's gentle hands embracing the sides of his face as he kissed the life out of Kagome.

Inuyasha picked Kagome up while they were still kissing, it was a real wonder as to how they didn't bump trip or fall into anything on the way to Inuyasha's bedroom.

Inuyasha laid Kagome gently on his bed.

"Inuyasha I'm not 'Yawn' sleepy!"

Inuyasha's smirk became that was very VERY similar to Miroku's.

"In that case…."

Inuyasha jumped on top of Kagome and both locked each other's lips in a furious battle of love, both removed each other's clothing, Kagome's shirt and bra were the first to go, Inuyasha latched onto her front from there.

"Inuyasha…."

Kagome said quietly she reached out to stroke his ears, which caused him to moan out in pleasure and begged for more, in the last moment's of their love making session both would be left breathless and gasping for air, even Inuyasha with as much endurance, agility and strength he had, NEVER expected something like that…from Kagome of all people.

Inuyasha still laid on top of her, both enjoying listening to each other's breathing and hammering heart beats, Kagome still was stroking his head and ears like a cat, Inuyasha was emitting a sound that sounded very similar to that of a cat's purr but it wasn't as deep, and could be clearly heard.

"Oh Kagome…."

"Shhhh…sleep now Inuyasha!"

"Ye..es…"

Inuyasha a few minutes later slipped into an unconscious state while Kagome laid awake a little while longer, studying the little boy like face and thought about just how un innocent he was! This had been her first time, doing that and she was grateful, there was no other person in the world that she wanted to share this special experience with.

But she did find his behavior strange, he was more sensitive and passionate then usual, not that she minded but then she began to think maybe he drank too much, and that helped in bringing out the person she had never met in Inuyasha before.

'Oh man, do I have to pee!'

But when she tried to get up Inuyasha pulled her back down on the bed.

"Inuyasha! Let go I gotta pee…."

Inuyasha just smiled and snuggled his face in her arm.

"Did I mention I have to go REALLY REALLY bad!"

"NOOO don't leave me!"

"Ok Inuyasha now your just being a baka! Now let go uhh!"

Kagome grunted as she tried to get out of Inuyasha's strong grasp. Then Kagome thought of something that maybe would make him let go.

"Your not going to let me go are you?"

Inuyasha smirked and shook his head no.

"Ok then you win!"

"HEH!"

Inuyasha said then,

"Looks like your coming with me then!"

"Haha huh wha'!"

Kagome thought she won.

"Ok f..fine with me!"

Inuyasha said kind of slurred, Kagome blushed and couldn't believe he had just said that.

'Oh you cannot be serious!'

Kagome saw no choice and tugged with all her strength to lug Inuyasha's body out of the bed, when she succeeded in that, she had to keep him balanced since he was still drunk and wasn't to light on his feet at the moment, on their way to the bathroom, Inuyasha crashed into a lot of things while giggling and basically walking thorough his dream world not realizing events happening in reality.

BAM

"Inuyasha are you ok?"

Inuyasha had hit his head into the doorway, while he laughed at the impact.

"Hey..h-how'd tha' ge' therrre?"

Kagome rolled her eyes and continued to drag him, he was now leaning against her back while whispering nonsense in her ears.

Kagome finally reached the bathroom door,

"Ok Inuyasha, sit here like a good little boy ok?"

"I A GOO'D BOY I GOO'D BOY!"

Inuyasha chanted Kagome thought this was both annoying yet disturbingly cute at the same time, she responded,

"Ok then Mwah I'll be right back!"

Kagome kissed Inuyasha on the cheek.

'He must've mixed the drinks! So this is the so called great prodigy Dr. Azakura? HAH as if!'

Kagome took one last look at him and couldn't help but feel as if she was with a little boy.

'That's his true personality at heart, only a little boy, how am I ever going to deal with you?'

Kagome smiled and shut the door, BIG mistake.

Kagome knew she had to hurry so she could get Inuyasha back to bed, bed rest was the best thing for him at the moment.

But she didn't want to rush either, doctors say it was always good to pee after having sex, but she was sitting back for a moment when she heard loud banging and crying at the door.

First thing Kagome thought:

'OH MY GOD IS HE CRYING? WHERE'S THE CAMERA WHEN YOU NEED IT?'

"KA'GOMMMMEEEEE…EEE!"

For some reason the crazy thought had formed in his head that she was trying to escape from him and he was begging her not to leave.

"I'M NOT LEAVING YOU! CALM DOWN!"

"HELP ME I'M DYING!"

Inuyasha seemed to be getting more dramatic by the second.

'Note to self: ALWAYS watch what Inuyasha drinks!'

"YOU AREN'T DYING I SWEAR NOW CALM YOUR SELF OR I UH…..WON'T READ YOU A STORY!"

Kagome had no idea why she had said this but she had a feeling it would work.

"Sniffle' OK I be guh good!"

"Ok promise?"

"……"

"Inuyasha!"

"K' k' I pwomise!"

And he did, when Kagome got out of the bath room Inuyasha immediately latched onto her like a lost child who had just found his mother, Kagome really felt sorry for him and got him to bed as soon as possible, so he could rest, Kagome had to help him in bed, because of his condition, she wrapped the covers around his shivering body.

"Kagome?"

"Yes what is it Inuyasha?"

"You said you'd wead me the stowy!"

'Oh right I thought he was at least joking on that part! Where am I going to find a kid's book around here?'

"Ok Inuyasha do you even have any picture books?"

"Yes."

Inuyasha pointed to the book shelf with all Inuyasha's study/ medical books.

"Inuyasha those aren't books for kids!"

"I'm not a kid! And not those THOSE!"

Kagome sweat dropped 'Of course you aren't!'

Kagome looked further down and saw a tub that looked awfully lonely sitting at the very bottom of the shelf, Kagome walked towards it and peeked inside and gasped.

Inside were toys books and some pictures, she didn't know Inuyasha had even kept half of this stuff lots of these things she remembers Inuyasha and her playing with when THEY WERE 5!

Kagome choose one and read it to him, it was the typical happily ever after princess marries the prince, all that mess. By the time Kagome was finished Inuyasha had fallen asleep and was sucking his thumb. It was so cute! Kagome kissed Inuyasha softly on the head and then placed herself close to his chest, subconsciously Inuyasha placed his arms around Kagome's body pulling her even closer, Kagome smiled and at that moment decided she could die a happy women right there.

A/N: Not sure if I would call that a lime or citrus or whatever it's called, I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter!