(the next day, Saturday)

Driving up to Kagome's house, InuYasha grabbed his phone and looked at the time.

"Damn, 6:30am might be a little too early for the weekend."

Glancing up the shrine steps one last time, he drove off; deciding to give her a little more time to sleep.

Smiling, Kagome curled into her covers and relished the feel of her soft comforter. Saturdays were the best! No school, no uniform, no getting up at 7am, nothing could be better than the feel of her fluffy oasis.

Suddenly, Kagome was aware of extra weight on her bed and squinted her eyes open to see the golden ones of her boyfriend.

"Good morning, my prude little minx."

Lifting to a sitting position, Kagome made sure to cover her, silk tank top clad, chest with the comforter.

"And good morning to you, my lecherous horny little doggy."

Smirking, he grabbed her hand and rubbed it against his cheek, "but I'm a good boy now, you have tamed me."

Yanking her hand free, she laughed at his strange 'dog' humor.

"Sure, like I believe that one. You still have eleven months to go with me."

Closing his eyes, he had a very creepy smile, "eleven more months of trying to get in your pants."

She hit him on the arm for that one and got up to go to the restroom, but when she came back, she had forgotten to cover herself up.

InuYasha stared, wide-eyed and drooling, at Kagome's skimpy form. The only things keeping him from fully witnessing her feminine physique, was the matching set cream-colored silk tank top and shorts.

She tried to move faster than him, but that was pointless. There he was, right in between her and her robe.

"InuYasha, will you please hand me the robe?"

Looking behind him, he grabbed it and held it out to her, "first, I want to see some skin."

Crossing her arms, she gave him and pointed stare, "how stupid do you think I am? The whole point to the robe is to keep you from seeing this much skin, so what sense would it make for me to show you more?"

InuYasha just shrugged and walked back to the bed with her robe.

"Then I guess you don't get it."

"Fine by me, besides, I need to get dressed."

"Speaking of that, dress for hot weather."

"Why?"

"It's a surprise, and you may want to bring a bathing suit."

Smiling a little, she started pulling out some clothes and looked at him.

"I'll see you downstairs."

"Nope, I'm pretty comfortable on your bed."

Walking over to him, she stood in the middle of his legs, satisfied to see him visibly gulp as he stared, mesmerized by her bountiful bosom, the peaks hardening as they rubbed against the silk fabric of her tank.

"Unless you want my Dad to kill you, staying downstairs would be better for your health."

Hanyou or not, he didn't want to feel the wrath of Kagome's dad, because (for some reason) he wanted the guy to like him.

Getting up, InuYasha moved close to her neck and gave her a soft caress of his lips on her skin before walking out.

She tried to ignore her body's reaction to him and continued pulling clothes out.

Once dressed, she hopped down the stairs and came up behind her boyfriend.

"Okay, InuYasha! I'm ready to go."

Turning around, the hanyou had to do his best to keep 'little Inu' from making an appearance as he waved goodbye to her parents. He walked her quickly out the door and over to his car where he wasted no time in pushing her against it and capturing her lips.

Completely surprised by the sudden assault, Kagome took a moment to finally reciprocate. It was strange to her, she hadn't fully made up her mind on whether or not she liked him, but when he kissed her, all kinds of things would happen. This kiss, however, was very different.

He ravaged her mouth with need as he grabbed one of her thighs and lifted her leg onto his waist, giving him the perfect position to grind his hardened arousal into her covered heat. This elicited a moan from both of them as he rocked into her hips and felt her move into his own.

Stopping, he opened the car door and was about to slide on top of her, but her hand stilled his movements.

"Inu, we have to stop."

"Why? I know you want it too."

"Maybe I'm not too keen on my first time being in front of my house or in a car."

"First time? Trust me, babe, I wasn't going to mate with you. I was only gonna do over the clothes stuff."

Ouch, something about the way he said that really hurt her. Feeling rejected and sad, she shoved him off and shut the passenger door. InuYasha, being the simpleton that he was, didn't know what caused the sudden change in atmosphere, but decided to let it go as he drove off.

Seething, Kagome stared out the window, "I'm sure there's a demon out there that would love to make me his mate."

"What did you just say?"

Turning her head to him, she looked ready to kill, "I said, I'm sure there's a demon out there that would love for me to be his mate."

Pulling over, InuYasha slammed on the breaks and stared at the floorboard, speaking very calmly.

"No other demon or human can have you. You are mine."

Crossing her arms, she looked towards him, "yeah, I'm yours until the year is up, then I can be with someone that actually wants to be with me. And, who knows, maybe I'll meet a nice demon that wants to mate with me."

Clutching the steering wheel, InuYasha had no idea how tight he was gripping it, until the wheel gave under his hands.

"You want to talk about me not wanting to be with you, but don't you think it's the other way around? I know you can't stand to be with me."

"That's not true! It may have been at first, but I actually enjoy being with you now, so that's why it sucks that you don't really want to be with me."

Looking over at her, he smirked.

"You're not as smart as you think you are, if you can't figure out how I feel about you. For crying out loud! I showed up to your house this morning at 6:30am, because I couldn't wait to see you! Tell me, does that sound like I don't want to be with you?"

Gazing into his eyes, she wanted to believe him.

"Then tell me, if it wasn't about getting money, would you have still dated me exclusively?"

"If the money wasn't involved, I would still follow you around like a puppy that wants a treat; I would still shower you with unwanted touches, and you would be the only girl on my mind and, eventually, in my bed."

Blinking, she cocked her head slightly, "I don't know how you made that sound sweet and perverted at the same time."

Leaning over, he captured her lips and scooted her a little closer. Stopping for breath, he grinned at her, "like I said before…it's a gift."

"It's also a gift of yours to get on my bad side."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean your hands that are currently squeezing my ass."

Letting go of her butt, he smirked and started the car back up.

"By the way, you'll be meeting my brother and my best friend today."

"What?! Stop the car!"

"Why?"

"Because I want Sango to go with us. Three guys and one girl is a bad idea…I'll be ganged up on."

"Yeah, I don't like that combination, now three girls and one guy is more like it."

Slapping him hard on the arm, she called Sango and arranged to pick her up. He drove to her friend's house and got a good look at Sango when she got in.

"Miroku is going to really like you."

The girl raised an eyebrow at him, "why's that?"

Chuckling, he drove off, "you'll see."

About twenty minutes of girls chatting and rock music blaring to drown them out, they finally reached their destination.

"Inu, what's this?"

"This, my sweet, is a water theme park."

Smiling, she walked up and kissed him on the cheek before grabbing his hand as Sango looked on in awe. After the long line for the entrance, they were finally in and Kagome couldn't decide what she wanted to ride first.

There were crazy slides everywhere, and Kagome went for the tallest one first, dragging InuYasha onto it. He groaned, but followed her tank top and short shorts clad form.

He seemed irritated, until he saw the radiant smile on Kagome's face, and for some reason he found it hard to feel anything but happy. The line was long for this slide, but they waited patiently with the rest of them as they slowly made their way up to the fifth stair set, halfway to the top.

"It's funny, I didn't peg you for the adventurous type."

Looking back at him, she couldn't hide the slight blush, "then maybe that means there's more to me than you originally thought."

"And I'm willing to get to know every last inch of you."

"Your pervy comments don't surprise me anymore."

He moved in close and Kagome couldn't deny her reaction as her knees tried to give way, but her boyfriend caught her before she could go tumbling down the stairs.

"They may not surprise you, but I think they do a little something else to you now."

As he held her, she realized she still had on her tank and shorts.

"Oh no! I forgot to give my clothes to Sango. What am I going to do?"

"Helloooo, did you also forget that your boyfriend is a half-demon?"

She stared for a second before stripping down to her light blue bikini (a halter for the top, and a miniskirt style for the bottoms with a hint of her covered butt showing) and handed them to him, smiling.

Wow, her body was a perfect 10! He stared in bold appreciation of her perfectly perky breasts practically busting out, her tiny waist and softly toned stomach, and that modest yet flattering barely-there skirt covering her most intimate area. Let's not forget those incredibly creamy toned legs. Was he salivating yet?

"InuYasha? Are you going to give them to Sango?"

Shaking his head, he glanced down quickly and covered his raging 'situation' with her clothes, laughing nervously before maneuvering around the other people, being as quick as possible so he could be with her again.

Kagome felt nervous showing so much skin without having her dear boyfriend around, especially since she could feel eyes on her. Covering her stomach with her arms, she glanced around and, sure enough, there was some demon eyeballing her like she was a delicious scoop of ice cream he couldn't wait to lick. Said demon, moved around some people to stand right behind her where he leaned down and whispered in her ear.

"Nice ass, sweetheart."

If that wasn't bad enough, he proceeded to take his filthy hand and cup her butt! She whirled around and slapped him hard on the face.

Rubbing his slightly red cheek, he grinned, "I like a girl with some spunk."

"How dare you touch me! I have a boyfriend and I'm not interested in anyone else."

He grabbed her wrist with one hand, waist with the other, and pulled her close as she squirmed to break free.

"I don't care if you aren't interested, because I am."

She kicked and shoved until she got winded. Last resort, she yelled, "InuYasha!"

The demon forced her into his embrace and trailed kisses down her neck as she fought.

"What the hell is going on here?!"

The obnoxious demon stopped to look up at a very pissed off hanyou. With all the strength he had, InuYasha punched the arrogant bastard that dared to touch her! He went flying over the railing and landed hard on the ground.

Turning around, he quickly grabbed her and held her gently in his arms.

"Are you alright? I tried to get back as soon as I could. I'm so sorry I left you."

Kagome inhaled and smiled, so happy to be in his embrace.

"Everything is fine, now that you're here."

He didn't know what possessed him, but he lifted her chin and gave her a long, sweet, and passionate kiss which left both of them reeling, until they heard someone clear their throat behind them. Releasing her, he smirked as he played with the ends of her hair.

"I like that bathing suit on you."

She knew that she would be asking for it, but she didn't care.

"What do you like so much about it?"

Raising a brow at her, he looked her up and down and nodded his head, "easy access and great for some underwater fun."

Rolling her eyes, she didn't hide her smile from him.

"That's my adorably gutter-brained boyfriend for ya."

Giving her a disgusted look, he swallowed hard, "did you just call me adorable? That's even worse than cute!"

"And why is adorable and cute so bad?"

"Because guys, especially to their own women, should be considered hot and sexy, manly and brave, virile and irresistible."

Giggling, Kagome moved with the line, stopped, and laid her back against his chest. She closed her eyes and rested her head on him.

"Maybe I find adorable and cute to be sexy, manly, irresistible…did you ever think of that?"

Before he could say anything, it was their turn down the slide and, low and behold, it was a two-person floatie.

Lifting from her comfortable position, she jumped up and down with exicitement.

"Ready, Inu?"

Turning around, she was surprised to see no hanyou.

"You coming, Kagome?"

Facing the front, she shook her head and grinned at the patiently waiting half-demon on the floatie, of course, he was in the back.

"Why do you get the back?"

"All the better to cradle your booty, my dear."

Taking a deep breath, she got in with the help of the workers and felt InuYasha take the handles up where her legs were at, purposely pressing her intimately against him.

One shove from a worker, and down they went through the slide. InuYasha's yelling and Kagome's laughing could be heard all the way down, and when they emerged from the water, InuYasha could have kissed the ground.

Turning around to check on Kagome, his jaw dropped and eyes went wide. There was Kagome, jumping up and down in the waist deep water, having a blast and not realizing that her top was completely gone!

She stopped and saw InuYasha eyeing her and pointing, but didn't know why.

"What is it, Inu?"

Wading over to her, he hugged her to keep prying eyes away from his woman.

"Kagome, your top is gone."

"What?!"

Glancing down, she blushed ten different shades of red and held him tighter.

"Do you see it anywhere?"

Looking around, InuYasha smirked as he saw the little piece of cloth floating near the slide.

"I see it! Can you move with me?"

"Seeing how the other option is to let everyone see what cup size I am, yeah I'll go with you."

They made a strange site as the two moved slowly in the water to reach her top, and Sango watched on the sidelines with an amused smirk.

"Oh, Kagome, what have you gotten yourself into?"

"I believe they need some assistance."

A brown-haired boy with violet eyes walked past her and over to the pool. Sango watched as he fetched the top out before the couple could reach it.

InuYasha was a mere inch away when someone snatched it out! Looking up, he saw none other than Miroku.

"Does this belong to you?"

"Very funny, jerk. Just let me have it so we can get out of here."

"Say please."

Staying silent for about thirty seconds, InuYasha didn't plan to give in, but Kagome elbowed him.

"InuYasha, just do it!"

"Fine! Miroku, please hand me the top."

Leaning over, Miroku let him have it, but he didn't expect InuYasha to yank it so hard that his friend fell into the water.

"Serves you right for not giving it to me in the first place."

InuYasha smirked and gave Kagome the top, hiding her with his back as she put the bikini top back on.

Sango waited for them at the snack stand and was surprised to see the violet-eyed boy with his arm around InuYasha's shoulders.

"It was all in good fun, my friend. No harm was done to your incredibly beautiful girlfriend that I have not had the pleasure to properly meet yet."

Kagome, who was on the other side of InuYasha, peered over to the guy.

"Are you InuYasha's friend he wanted me to meet?"

"Why yes I am! My name is Miroku, and I am the best friend of this hanyou. We have known each other since third grade, so if you wanted to know any juicy details, I would be the one to ask."

Kagome looked like she was about to ask a question, so InuYasha thought it a good time to interrupt them.

"Never mind all that, Miroku, that girl over there is Sango. She is Kagome's best friend, so why don't you go make nice."

Glancing over to the snack stand, Miroku had to do a doubletake. She was in a black one piece held together by a gold ring in the middle, leaving her sides exposed. He thought she looked like a goddess.

"If you two will excuse me."

He walked off and InuYasha thanked God he could distract him.

"Ladies are his weakness."

"Then it seems like you have something in common."

Kagome walked off after that, and left InuYasha confused. She knew the kind of life he lived before, so why did it seem to bother her so much now? Remembering that demon who practically tried to molest her in line, InuYasha thought it best to chase after her; leaving her alone was not a good idea.

Scenting the air, InuYasha found her hiding in a small corner behind a row of lockers. Walking up to her, his irritation, at the situation, died as he smelled salt and water, a clear indication that she was crying. He lifted one clawed hand and wiped a tear from her cheek.

"Why are you so upset? You know what my life was like before you, the kind of person I was, so why let it get to you now?"

She looked up and InuYasha was shocked to see so much emotion swirling in the ocean of her eyes.

"I don't know why. All I know is that it hurts to think about you being with other women the way you are with me. And maybe I wonder if you wish you were still out there having a new girl a night, instead of having to spend a whole year with me."

If he didn't know any better, he'd swear that she really cared about him the way a girlfriend is supposed to. Perhaps, their talk in the car earlier didn't squelch her doubts and worries.

"Why would I want any of those skanks when I'm with the most beautiful and sexy girl I've ever seen?"

Sniffling, she stared up at him with a pout, "so all it would take is a girl prettier than me, and you'd drop me like a bad habit?"

"What?! No! That's not at all what I'm saying!"

He placed his hands on her hips, squeezing them slightly.

"I only want you, don't ya get that? Other women exist, but I don't even pay them any attention. Remember when I called you the 'Holy Grail' of Tenrou High?"

She nodded and let him continue.

"I'm starting to see how right I was. There isn't and will never be, another girl like you. Kagome, you're sexy as hell without even trying, your extremely smart, and kind, and gentle; you have a way of surprising me when I least expect it, and any guy should feel lucky to be with you, so I'm just happy I get to be the lucky one."

Gazing into his golden depths, she could see the sincerity and couldn't stop herself as she leaned up and kissed him. It was the first one she initiated, which made it all the more special to InuYasha as he pulled her hips into his, deepening the touch as he massaged her tongue with his own. She moaned low in her throat, which urge him on as he hiked one of her legs up onto his hip, pressing his stiffness insistently into her heated core.

Releasing her lips, InuYasha began a trail of kisses down her neck, feeling a sudden need to nibble the sweet spot, to feel his teeth pierce her skin.

Lifting his head, he squeezed his eyes shut, remembering where they were.

"Kagome, wasn't it you that said you didn't want your first time to be in a car…well I don't want it to be at a theme park either."

He was right, and why was it becoming harder to resist him? Getting control of herself, she took a deep breath and walked with him back to Sango and Miroku, but a new person seemed to have joined the group.

InuYasha smirked as he grabbed Kagome's waist when they approached the silver-haired demon.

"Kagome, this is my brother, Sesshomaru."

Waving, she smiled at him, "please to meet you."

Looking from his half-brother, to the girl by him, Sesshomaru nodded his head once.

"It's good to see my little brother settle down, and finally court someone properly."

She seemed confused with the terminology.

"Court?"

"Yes, a demon term for finding the potential mate and dating them."

"How would you know if he has found his potential mate?"

"It's all in the nose."

InuYasha decided to interject, "what he is trying to say, is that you smell like me because we've been around each other so much."

She could tell InuYasha was very uncomfortable with what his brother was saying and decided to change the subject.

"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to ride some more slides."

Grabbing InuYasha by the hand, Kagome started walking over to the second largest slide.

Sango smiled at them, until she felt a hand on her ass. Doing a quick elbow, she found it collided with Miroku's face as he went tumbling to the ground.

"You stupid lech! Every time you try it, you'll hit the floor, so why do you keep doing it?"

Walking over to her, Sesshomaru lifted her hand and kissed it.

"Do forgive him, my dear. He has always been a slow learner."

Blushing, she followed the tall silver-haired Adonis as Miroku watched from the floor.

"Oh, goody. Looks like I have some friendly competition."