A/N: I have a lot of people angry at me right now heh heh :dodges flying objects: I got kicked off the computer by my Mom!!! I'm sorry T.T! Geeze.. Well, to make up for that really bad cliffie, I wrote a chapter with fluff! YEY FLUFF:dodges more objects: WILL YOU KNOCK IT OFF:glares: Well anyways, I've had this done for a while but hardly anyone reviewed my last chapter ((THANK YOU UBER BUNDLES OF AUTHOR LOVE IF YOU DID!))... So I figured no one read it yet... SO HA! JOKES ON YOU FOR NOT REVIEWING IF YOU DID READ! Well, enough of my rambles; here's the chapter and R-E-V-I-E-W!

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DISCLAIMER: I still don't own Inu-Yasha. Rumiko Takahashi does. ((You were looking forward to some creative disclaimer weren't you :D))

Inu-Yasha, Stay With Me!

Chapter 8

Inu-Yasha looked at the girl with an expression that confused Kagome, she had never seen him make a face like that.

"How can you even suggest something like that?" Inu-Yasha said to her with an extreme touch of attitude.

"But, Inu-Yasha it's the only way to cure you... Even Kikyo knows this is the only way!" Kagome put the arrow down next to her and pushed if off to the side. She was starting to get aggravated with the hanyou and didn't want to break the arrow in half... Meaning yeah, she's about to scream. "Well, now that you know that you'll be more than willing to do it right!? Now that you know Kikyo would do it if she could!"

"..Kagome.." Inu-Yasha said actually surprised that Kagome was this defensive all of a sudden. "What do you mean 'if she could' anyway?"

"I'm the only one who can help you in this way. So it's either you let me shoot you with or you let Naraku's magic kill you, Inu-Yasha." Kagome stopped herself from saying anymore. She bit her lip trying not to scream at him anymore. "Those are your only choices." She hushed her voice immensely as the others stared at the soap opera unfolding before their eyes.

"I," He cleared his throat. "I don't know." Kagome pushed her still moist bangs away from her eyes. "I need to think about it." The girl turned to him and looked at him. His gaze met hers and he picked up a message that he could have sworn said, you don't have too long to think..

Unfortunately, he had to agree she was right.

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The rain clouds had parted to the night sky which was pitch black, only stars, the new moon. Kagome felt bad, Inu-Yasha could feel the pain of Naraku's magic fully tonight and she had to sit there and watch him go through it. The other's of course had gone to bed, but knowing that Inu-Yasha wasn't even sleeping that night made everytime she laid down on her pillow give her that guilty feeling and ran back to check on him. Eventually she got tired of running back and forth and decided to stay up with him that night.

"Inu-Yasha is there anything I can do?" Inu-Yasha was squirming around under the sheets and finally found a comfortable position, only to shake his head. Kagome took her handkerchief from her side and once again wiped Inu-Yasha's sweaty brow.

"I should have figured the new moon was coming... 'cept I was sleeping for so long I guess I lost track." He gripped the blanket over him with full force while trying to hide the pain he was in. "Kagome you should go back to sleep, you look exhausted." And he was right, she had thick bags under her eyes and with every blink she looked one step closer to sleeping.

"No, I'll be fine. Besides, I'd feel bad."

"Why, I told you I'll be fi-" He stopped and cringed as another jolt of pain went through his body.

"Uh-huh." Kagome smirked with a smart look imprinted on her face. "Just try to relax, I'm staying up whether you say I can or not." She took her hand and began brushing his bangs to either sides of his face and watched as his eyes followed the movement of her hand.

"Kagome," Inu-Yasha started almost like a child would say to a stranger, hiding behind his mother's leg. "Everyone is asleep but us ... right?"

"Yes.." She said nodding her head along with her answer.

"Can I, um, tell you something?"

"Sure, what is it?" Her heart fluttered. She hoped it was finally 'Kagome I realize that I don't love Kikyo, and it's you who I love and want to be with,' but she knew it couldn't be. Not with the expression he held on his face. "You can tell me, it will never go further than this conversation." Inu-Yasha exhaled at her saying this and refused to look at her.

"Right now," He took a pause. "I don't think that I've ever been so afraid before in my life."

"Inu-Yasha..." Kagome had nothing more to say, at least, she couldn't think of anything more to say.

"I'm not ready to die..." Inu-Yasha looked straight ahead, almost embarrassed to face Kagome and once again cringed in pain. Kagome herself choked down more tears, knowing it would only complicate the situation. "I always thought I can't die happy until the day that I defeat Naraku, well I was wrong. I've done it, and I still have too many things left to do.. there's still so much I have to learn, and things I need to say.. especially to you Kagome." He looked back at her.

"To me?" Inu-Yasha nodded his head and continued.

"Which is why I'm going to let you shoot me with your arrow, I'm not ready to die yet and I know that you would never do anything to hurt me ... so, I trust you Kagome." He smiled at her weakly.

"Inu-Yasha," Kagome reached down and gingerly hugged the temporary human form of him. She felt his arms come around onto her waist and back and pulled her down so she was lying next to him. "Thank you..." She said smiling as he looked at her next to him. She adjusted herself by putting her head on his chest and snuggled in close. She got more and more tired, her head rising and falling with every breath that he took.

"Kagome, why don't you get some sleep." Inu-Yasha said moving a hand to her head and nuzzling his nose into her hair.

"Ok." She said drowsily while Inu-Yasha shifted the blanket so it covered both of them. He watched as Kagome slowly stopped playing with his black strands of hair and drifted off to sleep, and stayed watch over her the whole night, himself falling asleep a few hours later.

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"Well, well, well, it looks like you two had an interesting night..." Inu-Yasha's eyes cracked open to see Miroku talking with Sango, Shippo, and Kaede all staring at the two. Inu-Yasha looked to Kagome who was still sleeping soundly in the crook of his arm.

"Shut it, monk." Inu-Yasha said irritably. He noticed Sango, Shippo, and Kaede smiling at him. "What's your problems?"

"Nothing... But Miroku said that you finally told Kagome you love her and that you guys went the next step ... whatever that means.." Shippo said as Inu-Yasha turned sheet white.

"W-w-what?!" He screamed loudly but not enough to wake Kagome.

"Well, don't yell at me, it's the way you two fell asleep last night, not my fault." Miroku said putting on a face of innocence.

"It's my fault that your mind is permanently in the gutter too I suppose?" Inu-Yasha questioned back.

"Well, Inu-Yasha, glad to see ye are so lively today."

"Compared to being human last night, the pain I feel today is nothing."

"That's right, it was the new moon last night.." Sango said just realizing the fact. Inu-Yasha wasn't paying attention, he was still looking at Kagome's sleeping form as she still turned in his arms.

"I believe we should leave Kagome to sleep, she hasn't slept this soundly in a while now." Miroku said.

"Aye, she truly has tired herself out. I need some herbs, and I would be grateful if ye came along to fetch them with me." Kaede said giving the message to everyone to get out. She smiled back at Inu-Yasha and let the door flap go behind her, as she and the group left the hut in silence and with no arguments.

Finally it was quiet and he could go back to sleep with Kagome... That was the plan until she opened her eyes and yawned.

"You're a half demon again." Kagome smiled. The sunlight caught his hair giving a soft glow to his face. "I fell asleep last night... I'm sorry..." She said still waking up and proceeded to rub her eyes.

"It's ok. I fell asleep a little while after you did, the pain kind of subsided while you were here." He looked to her shining brown eyes. "Probably your powers helped to purify it a little."

"I'm glad." She said still lying with him. She tried to straighten her hair out but gave up realizing that she had obtained too many knots for her to possibly untangle with her fingers. The cool almost winter air brushed through the hut, making Kagome cringe and move even closer to Inu-Yasha. "What do you say I make something to eat?"

"As long as there's noodles I say yes." He said looking to her.

"Well, I'm going to need to go back to my time for them... Do you think you'll be ok for an hour or two?" She said getting up regrettably and feeling the cold chill with no one's body heat to share.

"Yeah I'll be fine... Just hurry." He said with an eager tone.

"Yes, your highness." Kagome laughed as she left with her backpack over her shoulder. It felt good to walk in the cool air, she inhaled it deeply as it cooled her throat. She smiled basking in the late fall sunlight, she hadn't smiled in so long she forgot how wonderful it felt to be happy. She approached the well and jumped in the all so familiar light bringing her back to her normal era.

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"Kagome you're back!" Her mother exclaimed taking her daughter in her arms.

"Mom ... can you let go of me? I'm kinda in a hurry..." She said talking into her mother's shoulder.

"Sorry, I just miss you is all."

"Where's Sota?" Kagome asked looking around.

"He's at school, Dear... Are you going today?"

"I wish I could, Mom, but I promised Inu-Yasha I'd come back today." She said opening the cabinet in her kitchen and pulling out cups of ramen and other food. Once her pack was full she put it on the kitchen table and ran up to her room quickly. She picked out her long sleeved uniform from her closet putting it and a new skirt on. Feeling much cleaner she also brushed her hair and raced back down the stairs to the kitchen where her mother sat at the table waiting for her to come back down.

"Leaving already?" Her mother said with a sad tone.

"Mom I gotta!" Kagome was bouncing she was so eager to get back. "Inu-Yasha's awake.. And well he's feeling better so I want to spend some time with him." She said realizing that she shouldn't have said that. She never spent time with her real family anymore. Softening her tone she added as she hugged her mother: "I'll come back soon, I promise."

"Alright Kagome, be safe."

"I will, thanks Mom." Kagome said trying to run unsuccessfully weighted down by her heavy backpack.

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Kagome now exhausted by the running she did all the way back to the village had given up and started walking, dragging her back pack behind her.

'Running probably wasn't a good idea... I forgot how tired I was ... oh well the village is just up a head.' She sighed mentally and entered the village and eventually the hut, seeing Inu-Yasha was still the only one there and was still awake.

"I'm back..." She said tiredly. She noticed the blank look on Inu-Yasha's face and walked into the room placing the backpack down. "Inu-Yasha you ok?"

"Kagome.. I didn't think you'd be back so soon.." He said in a monotone.

"What are you unhappy I did?" She chuckled. Inu-Yasha grunted and cringed a little, the pain obviously making itself known.

"Kagome, when you were gone, Kikyo came... She told me a few things ... like that there's no way the arrow could save me and that you're only trying to get rid of me so I don't stop you from going back to your time."

"What?!" Kagome looked at him confused.

"Kagome you better start explaining ... and I sure as hell want the truth right now."

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A/N: Well yeah sorry this took so long to get up ... but I must teach a lesson! Mwahaha well anyways.. I worked very hard on this chapter ... meaning I wrote about 7 different versions of the Inu-Yasha Kagome scene... but I liked this one the best ... please you guys review! last time hardly anyone review :pouts: well i hope you enjoyed my attempt to make this longer.. It was about 4 pages on WordPad XD!

'Till Next Time!

A friend in words,

--KB