A note from your author: I haven't done this in a while so I don't own Harry Potter and Inuyasha, but if I did they would be doing everything bent upon my will. Thanks to all who have reviewed, and I honestly can't remember when the last time it was since I updated so that doesn't really matter, I am going to get on with it before they start playing that stupid music and try and get me off stage.

Chapter 11

"You did what?!" Ron and Hermione said in almost perfect unison. They both stared bug-eyed at Harry, Ron was about to give a thumbs up to Harry when Hermione said:

"This journey is going to be awkward." She looked directly into Harry's eyes as if he was going to deliberately make it worse. She then went back to pacing Ron's room.

"This Inuyasha character," Ron said, even hearing that name Harry felt a small amount of the green feeling. "Does he really want to go with us? I mean can't we just ditch him somewhere?" Harry loved the idea but he knew it wouldn't be possible, and Hermione seemed to know it too. She called him an idiot and they both started yelling at each other.

"Do they always fight that often?" a voice whispered in Harry's ear.

"More than you would think." He looked over at the owner of the voice, and was surprised to see Kagome smiling at him. "Is there somewhere where we can talk? Alone." She said looking at him, Harry noticed for the first time Inuyasha wasn't with her.

"Where's—" Kagome cut him off.

"Let's just go." She said using the same tone with Harry as she had with Inuyasha.

"Oh yeah, follow me." Harry knew a few ways out of the house but they all went down and out, but Harry did know one that led up to the roof. When they were situated on a porch that seemed to be placed there and then forgotten, Kagome started to speak.

"Harry about last night," Harry looked up eagerly, was she going to say she liked it, was she going to say she wanted more? "I think now that everything will take off we probably shouldn't do it again." (A.N. kissing nothing else! Perverts.)

Harry didn't know what to think. He was just figuring out what he was feeling for Kagome and now she was asking him to stay away.

"No," he said, "I will respect your wishes and not kiss you, but don't ask me to stop feeling something for you. I haven't quite worked out exactly what I feel yet but, please don't ask me to stop."

Silence followed his speech. The only sound between them was the wind blowing around the house and the house answering back with creaks and groans

"Kagome, please say something." Harry was desperate for something after what seemed like hours. When she looked at him there were tears in her eyes.

"The only way I can start something is if it's with him." She looked at the person across from her; both wore the same expression of a crushing weight that had been added to their souls. "I never meant to pull you along, I just thought he was dead and I would finally be able to move on. But now," she left the sentence hanging there like she was going to leave a ten pound weight hanging. "I have to see if there is something between us still. We have a whole history together, you know? I'm so sorry." Without another word or glance she opened the door and was gone.

Harry sat down and thought. He wondered how many times he had stat and thought that day. As of late he had been thinking a lot, the emptiness being more than he ever felt. More than when Cedric, more than when Sirius died, almost more than when Dumbledore died. Harry looked up at the stars and wondered if the three men were laughing because rather than worry about Voldemort he was concerned about what he feels toward a girl he just met.

How long he spent up there he wasn't sure, but when he went downstairs the entire house was quiet. He sneaked into his bed just as the sun was trying to bring some light a few hours before dawn.

When Ron woke Harry a few hours later, he grilled him about where he had been and why he was gone for so long. When they got downstairs Hermione greeted them the same way Ron had woken up Harry. She was about to ask him even more questions but Harry was saved by the twins entrance.

Both looked very tired and Harry wondered if they got any sleep. As if in answer to his question Fred yawned and George started to put orange juice in his cereal.

"Not a wink of sleep. You'd think they would put some sound proof charms on the walls or something." Fred yawned again. George seemed incapable of words and just looked dully at his ruined cornflakes. "Of course they had to have the squeakiest bed in the whole house. At this point Hermione could no longer hold in her giggles. Her face turned so red Harry and Ron had to excuse her and themselves and the ushered her out the back door.

They wandered up the hill until they heard bickering coming from behind the trees.

"It isn't hot enough bitch; you have to get it warmer!"

"I haven't made this in a while, don't you start yelling at me!"

"Oh, well I'm so sorry I'm trying to help you." Inuyasha's voice was so sarcastic Harry wondered how Inuyasha was able to finish his thought if Kagome was standing over him. And sure enough Harry could hear a deadly voice answer to Inuyasha's annoying tone.

"You think you're helping me? Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, and ……." Kagome paused, Harry knew she was just waiting for Inuyasha to lift up his head or move slightly. "SIT!"

By this time Harry and the others had reached the place Kagome had now created a new slightly large hole. Hermione started to giggle again, but Ron and Harry were happy to see that she wasn't turning red.

"I can see where that would come in handy." Hermione said to Kagome, and both girls giggled even harder. "I wish I could do that on a moment's notice." She said looking wistful. This made Ron look worried and when he was worried he said stupid things.

After the damage was done Harry was left standing alone with Kagome while Hermione and Ron fought. When Inuyasha make a slight groan behind her, Kagome wondered if she and he fought like them. Then she wondered if Harry ever had anyone to fight with like that, as soon as she finished thinking that she chastised herself, you turned him down remember, said the voice that always seemed to be there at the right moment, you said you wanted to start something with Inuyasha. She looked back at the form behind her; he had gotten himself up and was scratching his head. Despite of Harry standing next to her, she was able to forget everything and just get lost thinking about the past with Inuyasha.

She went over to the fire and started to stir the ramen she had been making when the whole fight started.

"Feh, I told you, you needed to let it get hotter." Inuyasha said in a calmer voice. The only thing he knew about last night was when he was watching her window she came out to tell him she would be staying with him. He relished in his victory, but now looking at that skinny, dark haired kid, he knew this thing still had feelings for Kagome. The only chance Inuyasha had against him was to make Kagome think that he, Inuyasha, was the better person.

"So when are we leaving?" Ron was finally able to say after he and Hermione were able to take a break from their fight. Before Ron had said anything there was still a calm air around the characters. But now that their mission had finally been brought up the tranquility had all but disappeared.

"Well I think we need to start right away, Naraku hasn't let out all of the demons yet, there is only a small party of them. But even a small party can be difficult to handle, and we need to find them before any more are released." The rest nodded at Kagome's comments, even though Ron and Hermione didn't really understand the power of demons.

"I ran into a couple when I was trying to find you. It seems like Naraku is just letting out demons even if they aren't on his side." Kagome looked at Inuyasha and he nodded.

"You mean Koga? He released Koga?" Inuyasha nodded again, he didn't want to divulge the information that he had knocked Koga completely out when the damn wolf wouldn't get out of his way. "Did you see any others? Shippo, Sesshomaru? Did you see them?" She seemed desperate for information, but as an idiot Inuyasha didn't see it that way.

"Feh, wouldn't that stupid kid follow me everywhere if I had seen him? And I don't think Naraku would be stupid enough to release Sesshomaru." Inuyasha let out his comments like they were simple things on a grocery list. He didn't see the damage he had done until it was too late.

"Well excuse me if I wanted to know where my family was, and if you had seen your brother." She turned her back on him and Inuyasha felt guilty for his airy manner.

"I didn't see anyone else, I might have seen Kagura and Kanna, but it would be obvious that they would be resurrected with him." Inuyasha tried to calm his words and it seemed to work.

"And the Tetsaiga," she looked at his gold eyes, "What about the Tetsaiga?"

"Its fine, I haven't used it yet but if need be, its there." He patted a rusty broken down sword at his side; Harry wondered why he bothered with such a broken thing. He didn't know much about weaponry but he knew no sword was probably better than a rusty sword.

The past conversation was going over Ron, and Hermione's head and Kagome seemed to realize it before she was about to ask Inuyasha another question. When she turned to them, Hermione seemed to understand what was going on but Ron wore a confused look on his face. Kagome seemed to think that it could slide, but she stopped when she almost opened her mouth to ask her question. She took Inuyasha by the hand and led him away from t he crowd. She figured that it would be better to ask him in private.

"What about Kikyo?" Kagome tried to keep her voice sympathetic and it worked. Inuyasha was surprised at her comment but then saw she was concerned about him. He was also grateful she hadn't asked in front of the enemy, the other two he didn't care about, he was also appreciative that he could be candid with Kagome without having that boy watching.

"No, she is defiantly gone; she died along with the others when Naraku was destroyed." His feelings were finally ebbing away for the dead priestess. She would always remain imprinted on his soul, but now she had become more of a watercolor painting, there was still something there but all the details had faded away.

"How did you survive? Didn't everyone … die?" Kagome's feelings were mixed, she was glad she had the hanyo standing next to her but she was so angry at herself, she hated the fact that she forgot the final moments with her friends. She hated that she had no idea what had happened to them, but the thing she hated the most of all, was the fact that she was grasping at air to try and hear anything about them.

Inuyasha took a long time to respond, he was having a hard time explaining it as well.

"I don't know, after he was gone we went over to you, you had been hit on the head and there was a large bruise growing across your face. You, you …" he still had a hard time seeing her lying on the ground as if she were dead. The image resurfaced and he had a hard time swallowing. Kagome placed her hand gently on his and willed him forward. "You were dead; at least that's what it seemed. Then you turned into this ball of light and you disappeared." Inuyasha was finally able to swallow which he did quite a few times to try and get the taste out of his mouth. "You were gone, we had no idea what had happened, but Miroku thought since you had helped us rid the world of Naraku that you would have been taken back to your world. I went back to the village, I knew that Miroku was right but I couldn't let go of you that easily. I went to the well, but it was gone. I kind of forgot everything else. The next thing I know I woke up near the spirit tree near your house. I went to your mother but she didn't recognize me. She threw me out and threatened to call the police." Kagome remembered the frustration of trying to tell everyone about the feudal era. "So I went underground and waited until I could feel your power. I was able to track you and now I'm here." Before she was able to move he grabbed her and held her in his arms. Kagome had forgotten how good it felt to have someone there to protect her. For some reason she forgot everyone else and just remembered how good it was to be with him.

"Well, we should get back." She looked up at him, but neither of them wanted to break free.

"Just wait, I just want to … just wait." Inuyasha could never say out loud that he couldn't think of time without her. He felt if he could hold her like this then everything would be fine and Naraku would just disappear. "Fine let's go back."