HOWDY!! U guys r lucky, I felt like writing today...newho, this is my favorite chappie (and the longest)!! Oh ya! I have a little authors note to explain something...but if I say it now it'll give away the whole fluffiness of the chapter! So im saying nothing...and forgive the rather large interruption in the middle of the chap! U no..."Talkin" Thinkin ((me interruptin story))
Disclaimer: (Goes outside in the middle of a thunderstorm and holds up a fork)
"LET LIGHTNING STRIKE ME DOWN IF I OWN INUYASHA!"
(as our authoress prepares for the blow, the sky clears and the birdies sing. She looks up)
Darn...
Hanyou
Chapter 4: The New Moon ((that should explain something))
Kagome ran for a good 3 or 4 miles before she found herself getting tired. Hmmmm...that's odd...InuYasha never gets this tired this fast...Oh well! She thought nothing of it, and decided while taking a break to leap up into a tree to watch the sunset.
It's beautiful, she thought, as she saw the beautiful pinks clash with the redness of the setting sun. After the sun disappeared below the horizon, she was going to jump out of the tree. But something was different. She took a good look at herself, and noticed that she was human! Horrified, she hastily looked up into the sky. There was no moon.
"Damn it! I am such a baka! How could I forget about the new moon! And end up in a TREE no less!" Growling, which now that she was human sounded kind of sad, she looked down at the distance from her to the ground. She had to choices: A.) She could wait until morning, helpless, in a tree. Or...
"INUYASHA!!!!!"
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InuYasha ran towards her scent until his sense of smell got to weak. He started to get really tired, but he forced himself to walk. Damn...in a time like this there is only one thing to do...
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"KAGOME WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?"
He strained his weakened hearing, and he could have sworn he heard a faint 'InuYasha!' in the distance. He kept yelling for her to keep yelling ((doesn't that sound weird?)) and ran as fast as he could towards her. As he came closer to her voice he heard:
"INUYASHA! IS THAT YOU?"
"Kagome? "KAGOME WHERE ARE YOU?"
"Look UP, baka!"
Sure enough, InuYasha looked up and there she was, high up in a tree. "How the hell did you get there?"
"I came up here to watch the sunset, and now I'm stuck," she explained.
"How could you forget about the new moon?"
"Dunno. But more importantly, how am I going to get down?"
InuYasha thought for a moment, and got an idea. "Do you trust me?" he asked.
Kagome was surprised by the question. "I trust you with my life InuYasha!"
"Good! Then jump."
"WHAT?!"
"Jump and I'll catch you."
"Are you sure?" she asked uncertainly.
"Of course I'm sure," he replied, but in his mind he was planning the possible places she would land so he wouldn't miss her. I'll never forgive myself if I miss...he thought.
"All right..." she said, and slid off the branch...
...and right on top of InuYasha.
They laid face to face, Kagome on top of InuYasha. "Oops!" she exclaimed, her face quickly reddening. She quickly got off of him. He got up as well, only he had gotten the wind knocked out of him, so it took him a bit to get his breath back.
Kagome saw this, and quickly apologized, "Sorry, InuYasha."
"Well, maybe if you would REMEMBER things then this wouldn't happen!" he snapped. "Damnit, I mean...oh just forget it ok?"
"Okay," she said and shivered from the cold air that came with the breezy summer night.
"Are you cold?" InuYasha asked, and without waiting for a reply, he draped his haori over his shoulders.
"But now won't you be cold?"
"Keh, I'm never cold!" he stated proudly, and then he shivered.
"Hypocrite," she muttered, and started to walk off towards a nearby tree, leading him by the hand.
InuYasha blushed at the contact, but she didn't notice. "Where are we going?" he asked.
"We might as well stay here for the night since it's too far to walk back," she explained, and sat down, dragging him down with her. They sat next to eachother against the tree, and InuYasha shivered again.
"That's it," she said, "take this back, you're cold too!" She took it off, and forced it upon his shoulders.
"But now you'll be cold!" he protested.
"Well, only one of us can stay warm, so I vote you."
"I know a way we can both stay warm," he said, and pulled her into his lap, enclosing her in the warm sleeves of his haori. "Better?" he asked, his face turning pinkish.
"Much better," she said, and snuggled into his chest.
((lets c...to stop be4 the good part and make u wait for me to finish typing...or keep going...KEEP GOING!))
They sat there for a while, both lost in their own thoughts. Kagome's thoughts led her to thinking about their journey, and when it would end, and how it would end, and if she wanted to leave if it ended the way she thought it would end. ((wow I got lost in that)) Would she have to stay and guard the jewel? Jewel...she thought, and pictured InuYasha leaving to go to hell with Kikyo, ((DOWN WITH KIKYO!!!!!!!!!!!!!)) or turning into a full youkai. He would never stay the way he is...These thoughts unknowingly made tears roll down her cheeks.
InuYasha was lost in his own thoughts as well, until he noticed Kagome's tears. He hated it when she cried.
"Kagome, what's wrong?"
Kagome noticed that she was crying, and wiped the tears away. "Nothing." She said quickly. But no matter how many times she wiped them off, the tears just kept coming back.
"Tell me, Kagome," he asked gently, wiping away her tears with a thumb, "what's wrong?"
"What are you going to do when the quest is over?"
Caught off guard by the statement, InuYasha just replied, "What?"
"What are you going to do when the quest is over and the jewel is completed?" she repeated.
"Well...I...I..."he wanted to tell her that he wanted her to stay here with him, and no one else, but he was too afraid she would reject him. So, he countered it with another question, "Why?"
"I-I don't think that I want to leave. I just want to stay here..." With you, she finished off the statement in her mind.
"No one ever said you had to leave, Kagome."
"I know, but I don't think I would be able to keep coming back if you weren't here."
"What? Why wouldn't I be here?"
"Aren't you going to go to hell with Kikyo?" When he didn't answer, she decided to continue, "Well if you ARE going to hell with Kikyo, I just wanted you to know that I will always love you." ((everybody at once now...AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!))
She stared at him for a moment, and seeing no reaction from him, she started to cry harder, and pushed away from him, and ran off.
InuYasha sat there, letting what she said sink in. She said she loves...me? Oh SHIT! She's gone! I am such a baka! I didn't say anything!
He ran off in the direction she went, trying to catch up.
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Kagome ran as far as she could until she couldn't run anymore. She knew that if she just stayed where she was he would find her, so she hid behind the bushes.
A moment after she crouched down in the bush, she saw InuYasha come to a stop by a tree, panting. "Damn...it...Kagome! You...didn't...give...me...a...chance..." He plopped down against the tree, pretty close to losing it. Not being able to stand seeing him hurting like that at HER expense, Kagome walked over to where he was, and sat down in front of him.
"K-K-Kagome..." he said, and pulled her into his arms, nearly giving her a heart attack. ((heehee! Im so descriptive aren't I? Back to the story, ill try and shut up...)) "I love you too! You ran off so fast...that I couldn't tell you. Well I'm telling you now. I love YOU, Kagome. Please stay. I don't love Kikyo. I don't think I ever really loved her. I love YOU."
((awwwwwwww............))
Before she could respond, he kissed her. She responded after the initial shock wore off, and they found themselves in a passionate kiss. They stopped to breathe, and InuYasha looked up. The sun was coming up.
"Kagome, when the sun comes up, and we are hanyous again, will you...will you..."
"Yes?" Kagome said, losing her patience.
"Will you...will you be my mate?"
Caught off guard just as InuYasha was, she tried to hold back the tears of joy and nodded. She pulled him into another breath-taking kiss, and when they pulled away, the were hanyou again.
"Are you sure?" InuYasha asked, dreading the answer.
"If I wasn't, do you think I would've said yes in the first place?"
"Touche'..." ((Y'all should know what this is...U no...On guard! Touche'! hee))
((Ok...here is the long author's note I was referring to before...forgive me for the interruption! Gomen! Newho, lemme explain. From what I have read in countless InuYasha ff fluffiness, when he takes a mate, he leaves a mark first. U no, like a vampire. I do not know this for sure, but I will use it nevertheless. It is strictly from all of the stories I have read having this in it however... and of course, they...(ahem...coughcoughcough) after all, they wouldn't call it a "mate" would they? Ok, back to the story now..,))
InuYasha pushed away the hair from her neck, and slowly sank his fangs into the lower part of her neck. He let go and licked off the blood there, leaving a small scar on her neck. Kagome caught on quickly, and followed suit, which surprised him a bit. Now they both had a mark that looked almost exactly the same. Kagome suddenly got up, a playful smile on her face.
"Catch me if you can!" she said and sped off, leaving an almost comical trail of dust.
InuYasha leapt up and sped off after her, following her addictive scent. However, Kagome was high up in a tree, out of view.
"Hmmmm...her scent stops here..." he started to think and got worried, panic overriding his senses.
"Shit! Kagome, where are you?" He ran off in random directions, trying to find her. Kagome giggled, and when he passed under him, she jumped on top of him, effectively pinning him to the ground.
"Haha! Got you! You baka, did you even think to look in the tree?" she said, and playfully tugged his ear.
"Ouch! Oh just shut up!" he said, and tried to get up to lift her off of him, but he couldn't feel his legs. ((oh yes...I forgot to mention...I made this thing with the boysenberry up...do boysenberries even have thorns???))
((The next morning-Yawn...im sorry! I should be typing the story!))
"Kagome, can you get off now?"
"Why, can't you push me off yourself?"
"Yes I can! Well, not at the moment.."
"And just exactly why not?" she asked, and fake pouted. (())
"I can't feel my legs."
"What?!" Kagome exclaimed, all serious now.
"I-can't-feel-my-legs. Now will you get off?!"
Kagome got off, and propped InuYasha against a tree. "Let me see your foot."
"I can't move my foot either, baka!"
"Oh, right." She pulled his foot over and saw a little thorn sticking out, just barely penetrating the skin. "So that's all..."
"What's all?"
"You have a boysenberry thorn in your foot."
"P-P-Poisonberry?" InuYasha asked, his face pallid.
"No baka!" she said, and playfully hit the back of his head, "It's a boysenberry! A thorn from a BOYSENBERRY!" ((no do u understand y I said wat I said earlier?))
"Oh...but isn't that just a thron?" InuYasha asked, and moved to pull it out.
"NO! InuYasha, don't touch it! For us, love, it's dangerous." Watching his face pinken at the name she called him, she smirked, and continued, "It's a thorn that when touched by a youkai, it hurts them severely. But since we're hanyou, it only makes you feel numb. It'll probably only last for an hour." She went to pull it out...
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
"I'm pulling it out. It probably got there when you were running around like an idiot. Besides," she said, pulling his other limp limb ((haha I made a rhyme)) over, "you have another one in this foot."
"You can't pull them out either, love," he explained, "you're hanyou too ya' know."
"I know."
"Huh?"
"I'm going to use tweezers," she explained, pulling a pair out of her pocket.
"What?"
"Things that help you pull stuff out," she said, and pulled them both out and threw them off somewhere. "Now we need to get you up."
"How do you suppose we do that?" he asked dryly.
"I already have an idea," she explained, ignoring his sarcasm, "Give me your hand and lean onto me."
He leaned onto her, and she hooked his motionless legs around her waist and stood up. Kagome was carrying him, just like always used to carry her.
"Where to?" she asked, sounding very much like a taxi driver.
"Ano...anywhere I guess."
Kagome leapt off into the trees, randomly running around. She didn't feel like going back yet. Then she got an idea. "Hey Inu-chan?"
InuYasha turned crimson from the name, but found that he liked it. "What?"
"You know what would be fun right now?" she asked, stopping at the base of a tree.
"No, what?"
"TICKLE FIGHT!!!" she yelled, and in one swift motion, she dropped him to the ground, straddled his waist, and pinned his arms down.
"Hey! No fair! I can't move!"
Completely ignoring him, she asked slyly, "Tell me Inu-chan. Are you...TICKLISH?" And without waiting for an answer she started tickling him mercilessly.
"Y-yes I am! S-s-stop that HAHAHAHAHA! I-I give! S-stop!"
"Are you sure?" she asked quite plainly, but InuYasha could tell she was hiding something.
"What are you planning?"
"I won't tell you until you give."
"Fine, I give."
"Good!" she said, and leaned over on top of him and kissed him. InuYasha pulled her closer and trailed loving kisses down her neck...
((I will not write a lemon I will not write a lemon I will not write a lemon...))
OOOKKKK...newho, the next chappie will just start off AFTER (coughcoughcough) and since now they r official mates...(coughcoughcough) what will the others think?! (gasp)
Next Chappie: The reactions Part 1
BWAHAHAHAHHAA!!!!!!!
freaky-hanyou
p.s. forgive the weird spacing...stupid quickedit...