Alright, you are all going to hate me for what I'm going to do in this chapter, but you know what, it'll help the relationship later on.
As the sun rose, Inuyasha slowly opened his eyes, curing the evil ball of fire that was disturbing his sleep. He brought his hand up to his eyes to block the cruel light, but to no avail. It was time to get up. He sat up on the branch where he had perched and slept and took a look at the campsite below him. Minoru was gone again this morning, most likely working out or something, but other then that, everyone was sleeping soundly, except for one. Kagome was sitting up, staring at something in her hands.
'Is she looking at the thing she got yesterday?' He jumped down and walked over to her.
"Kagome, what are you looking at?" he asked, crouching next to her. She looked over at him and gave a 'good morning' smile.
"These? It's what I went back to my era for." She replied. She showed him what she had been looking at before he had arrived. In her hands were to pieces of metal that were on two separate strings, and when put together that formed a heart.
"Why did you get them these things?" he said, taking one away from her to get a better look. He hung it in the air by his finger and put his face really close to it. Kagome couldn't help but laugh at his curiosity.
"They're special necklaces. In my time, people who love each other wear them."
"Why?"
"Because well...you see that half of the necklace you have?" he nodded. She took the half that she had and hung it next to his. The two charms connected and formed a heart.
"See? When they come together, they make a heart. It's like a signification that each person is half of the love, and when joined, their love is stronger then anything."
Inuyasha took the other one from her as well and connected the two charms to make the heart.
"Your era sure is strange. It's just some metal on a string." He said, handing them back to her. She put them back in the box where she had gotten them from and put it in her bag.
"Well excuse me, but what would you know about showing affection?" Inuyasha scowled and looked at her.
"And what is THAT suppose to mean?" she faced him as well and got closer to his face to try and get him to back down.
"You don't know HOW to show people that you care, if you do care at ALL!" He did what she did and got closer.
"Of course I care!" he yelled back, "And who the hell do you think you are telling me I can't show affection?"
"Well, prove me wrong if you're so sure!" she yelled.
"Fine, I will!" he said blushing. Inuyasha suddenly closed the gap between them and caught her in a kiss. She was surprised at first, but easily and happily melted into it and kissed back.
When they pulled away, Inuyasha looked in her opposite direction and continued to blush.
"Told you!"
Kagome was blushing and she immediately turned away.
"F- fine." She said. All sorts of thoughts were racing through her head right now. Inuyasha of course was having the same thoughts.
From across the sight, the demon exterminator had seen the whole scene between her friends and couldn't help but smile.
'They kiss each other and even then they don't say a word about their feelings.'
Sango watched as Kagome began to go through her bag and pull out cups of instant noodles for everyone. She pulled out all the stuff she would need to cook, and didn't look at Inuyasha once. She was way too embarrassed.
Sango sat up and pretended that she had just woken up by stretching wiping her eyes.
"What's up Kagome?" she asked as she walked over to her best friend. Almost as so as she got there, Inuyasha got up and headed into the forest. Sango then turned her eyes to the girl. Kagome was a bit jittery this morning. I wonder why.
"What's wrong with Inuyasha?" she asked, faking curiosity. Kagome nearly dropped the cup in her hands.
"N-n- nothing! Everything's perfectly fine!" she nearly shouted.
"Kagome calm down! I saw what happened between you and Inuyasha."
Kagome's face went red.
"It's alright Kagome, you should be happy about this sort of thing!" Kagome nodded her head and put her cup down, turning to her friend.
"Sango, I am happy, but I just don't know what to say now! It's awkward!" Sango shook her head.
"Kagome, just say what comes naturally to you and that new ice will be broken!"
"Ladies, am I interrupting something?" asked Miroku as he came over to the girls.
"Oh no Miroku, don't worry about it." Said Sango. Kagome managed a nod and handed Miroku a cup, as did she with Sango.
"Where's Minoru?" asked Sango, noticing that he wasn't around. Miroku looked behind him and around, but saw no one.
"I don't know." He said.
'If I'm lucky he's given, that stupid son of a...'
"We should go look for him." said Kagome. Miroku and Sango both shook their heads simultaneously. Kagome laughed at them as she thought about what would be taking place between them in three days.
'They really are made for each other.'
Just then, Inuyasha came back.
"Hey, the food is ready!" he said. He sat down next to Kagome who handed him the food, and yet again began to blush. Inuyasha however, paid no mind and continued to scarf down the food. Miroku watched Kagome for a minute.
"Well Kagome, do you have a fever, or is something making you nervous?" Sango elbowed him in the ribs. Kagome gave a small gasp and started looking at the floor. Inuyasha, with his mouth full of instant ramen, looked over at Kagome and swallowed.
"What's wrong Kagome, are you sick?" he asked. He put his hand on her forehead and then on his. "You don't have a fever... what's up?" Kagome stopped blushing and Sango removed her elbow from Miroku, and they both just stared at him.
"Are you kidding me?" Sango asked. Inuyasha thought for a minute.
"Did I do something?" Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Don't you remember this morning?" she asked, the redness returning. Yet again, Inuyasha thought, but couldn't think of what she was talking about.
"Am I suppose to remember?" Kagome's eyes were beginning to fill with tears. She stood up and tried to walk to the well.
"Kagome, what's wrong?" asked Inuyasha, getting up as well.
"SIT YOU STUPID JERK! SIT SIT SIT!" and she ran off crying. After being sat, Inuyasha immediately bolted after Kagome. Sango sighed and held her head with her hands.
"I'm missing something, aren't I?" asked Miroku. Sango explained what had happened between their two friends earlier that morning. Miroku rubbed his chin, contemplating the events.
"I should think that Inuyasha would remember such an event." Said Miroku.
"I know, but what do you think is wrong with him?"
Miroku was about to answer, but just then, Minoru came running out of the forest.
"MIROKU!" he yelled.
"What's wrong?"
"There's someone who really needs the service of a monk in the forest! They can't hang on much longer!" Miroku looked back at Sango.
"I'll be back, don't worry." He said, and with that, he went off with Minoru to help.
As they ran through, Minoru told Miroku that they were just up ahead.
"I'm going to go to the village and as a priest for help as well!" and he left Miroku. Miroku just kept going straight and did eventually come across a person. A woman in fact. A beautiful woman.
She was about as tall as Miroku, with long brown hair, a very loose kimono, and a strange smile on her face.
"Are you the person who needs my assistance?" he asked. The girl smiled at him and strode over to him.
"Yes, I do believe I am."
Sango was laying on her back, looking up at the clouds, when she heard someone enter the campsite again. It was Minoru.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, "aren't you suppose to be helping that person?" Minoru nodded his head, but he had a certain sadness to it.
"Sango...I think that there's something that you need to see." Sango got up on both her legs.
"What are you talking about?"
"Your fiancée."
Inuyasha had finally caught up to Kagome, who was over flowing with tears.
"Kagome, what the hell did I do?" he yelled. He grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to look at him. She bit her bottom lip and smacked him.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WHAT DID I DO?'? YOU KISSED ME AND THEN TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT IT!" she screamed. Inuyasha rubbed the pulsating red hand mark on his cheek. Fortunately, it became virtually invisible since he began to blush.
"I...kissed you?" she nodded her head and began to cry again. Inuyasha began to panic.
"Kagome, please don't cry! I really don't remember! Let me make it up to you! I'll give you one free favor. Anything you want, I'll do." Kagome stopped crying for a minute.
"You really mean anything? Even if I say I want to activate your prayer beads thirty times?" Inuyasha stiffened a bit, but nodded his head. Kagome laughed.
"Alright, here." She reached into her pocket and pulled something out. Inuyasha held out his hand to receive the item. It was another necklace, like the one this morning, though Inuyasha had forgotten.
"What is this for?" he asked. Kagome took it from him and put it over his head.
"When I got them for Sango and Miroku, I got a pair for us too." Kagome reached into her shirt and pulled out her half on the chain.
"What does it mean?" he asked. Kagome laughed again.
"It basically means that I want to be with you forever." And she leaned up and kissed him.
Miroku was backing up from this woman. She was obviously trying to seduce him, but he couldn't let that happen. What would Sango think if she found out?
"Ma'am, I'm sorry, but I'm already promised to someone." He said, his back now against a tree. The woman laughed a little and slowly ran her finger up and down his chest.
"Oh my dear monk, that has never stopped me before." And she crashed her lips into his.
Minoru pulled Sango through the forest at high speed.
"Minoru, what are you trying to show me?" Minoru looked around and peaked through a bush. "This" he said. Sango moved him a bit to see through the hole he had opened, and let out a low horrified gasp.
She was watching Miroku kiss another woman.
It seemed like her whole world around her was crashing down. How could he do this to her? After everything that he'd said? She just couldn't take it. She covered her mouth and just began to run back. Minoru watched her newly caused sorrow, and a small grin crept across his face.
"Perfect." And he ran after her. It was his turn to make a move.
Miroku was now pushing the woman off of him. he pushed her so hard that she fell to the ground.
"What the hell was that? I told you I already have someone I love!" the girl got up and wiped her clothes off a bit.
"Me too, it's called money, and one of your little friends paid me to do that. Though by the looks of ya, I got the better deal." She winked at him and walked away and out of sight, leaving Miroku flabbergasted (I was cracking up when I wrote that word).
'One of my...no...there is no way in hell!' Miroku immediately began running through the forest. If his assumptions were correct, he was already too late.
He made it back, to find Sango, crying in Minoru's arms. She was leaning on is shoulder, with his head on hers.
"Sango, what's going on?" he exclaimed. Sango barely had the courage to look at him.
"It doesn't matter." More tears came to her eyes.
"Sango please, let me..." Sango shook her head with so much force, the tears in her eyes went flying.
"NO! I don't want to hear any of your lies! I've decided. I'm going with Minoru."
DON'T KILL ME FRIENDS! I SWAER TO GOD THAT THERE IS A HAPPY ENDING! Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, no Inuyasha did not just spontaneously loose his memory. There is a reason that will soon be explained. Anyway, until next time!
