A/N: Happy holidays and hope every one had a great Christmas, here's chapter 17 hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own inuyasha, but I do own nozomi and tomo
Chapter 17 Shippo's girlfriend and the mark
"So kagome how did you get inuyasha to let us stay for two more days," "trust me it wasn't easy sango I finally got him to agree by saying me and him could get a hut of our own,
while we stay here." "Good thing the headman gave us an extra hut, and its right next to the one we are already in." Sango and kagome stopped walking down the path and looked
around when they heard laughing and kids playing. They saw shippo and they guessed that was nozomi and her brother tomo playing in a field in the distance. Kagome looked at
sango and smiled, "they look so cute together wouldn't you agree kagome." "Kagome nodded, "I'm so happy shippo found some friends," "me to." "It's getting late we better go
see what the boys are up to," the girls let out a big sigh then headed back to the hut where they heard the monk and hanyou in a deep conversation. They stopped to see how deep
they were, they smiled realizing this was there chance to go to the hot spring without them spying. But then sango frowned realizing her stuff was in the hut with the monk. "What's
wrong sango," sango sighed then looked at kagome, "my stuffs in there with the monk." Then they saw shippo walking up the path with the biggest smile on there face then they both
yelled out shippo and ran towards him causing him to stop and look at both of them with an confused yet scared look, wondering what they wanted with him. "Umm… hi guys,
what's up," "shippo do you think you could do us a favor?" "Sure like what," "well we were going to go to the hot springs since the guys are deep in conversation but my stuffs in
the hut with them." "Let me guess you want me to get them for you without the guys noticing me." They both shook there heads yes and looking at shippo with pleading eyes, "fine
I'll do it, but it's only because they give you guys time only with each other," the girls squealed and hugged shippo before he left to go sneak into the hut. He came out with an arm
load and a bump on his head. "Always gotta pick on the little guy," sango grabbed the stuff while kagome hugged shippo and told him thanks, then she whispered something in his
ear that made him smile. "Shippo, to show you how thankful I am I have some pockey and candy in my bag for you that you can have." "Really kagome I can have it," she
nodded her head yes as he ran off inside the hut to get his treats. The girls smiled and continued down the path heading for the springs. "What would ever do without shippo, I'm so
glad he has friends that are so close to kaede's," "me to sango."
"Hey runt what do you think you're doing going threw kagome's bag again, I thought I told you last time to stay out of it." "Kagome said she had some pokey and candy in here for
me that I could have." Inuyasha was silent for a moment then spoke again, "where is kagome any way runt, I haven't seen her in a while." "No of your busy, beside I told kagome
that I would keep you two away from her and sango." "WHY YOU… I have ever right to know where my mates run off to, wait a minuet did you just say you're suppose to keep
us away from them. Is she mad at me," inuyasha lowered his ears to his head then sat back down holding the kitsune to the ground. He looked over to miroku who had the same
confused look as inuyasha did until he started smirking realizing where the two had gone off to. "What are you smirking at monk," "inuyasha think do you remember what shippo had
grabbed out of kagome's bag the first time he came in here." "Yeah so he grabbed a bunk of towels and some soap," "well inuyasha shippo just said that kagome and sango didn't
want us to come find, that he was suppose to keep us away from them." "Yea so get to the point already monk," miroku sighed and looked at inuyasha with annoyance, "which
means there at the hot springs you idiot." "Well of course they are anybody could of figured that out you stupid monk." Miroku and shippo both rolled their eyes at inuyasha's
ignorance, "he's so clueless some times it amazes me how he's lived so long."
As the hot spring came to few they saw a girl already in the springs, as they got closer they could tell she was a fox-demon, "that must be nozomi, shippo's friend, no wonder he
blushes when he talks about her she's beautiful." Sango nodded her head in agreement, "do you mind if we join you," nozomi jumped when she heard a voice but opened her eyes
to see it was those two friends of shippo he has been traveling with. She nodded her head yes and watch the two get undressed then slip into the water in front of her. "So your
shippo's new friend nozomi right," the girl nodded her head and blushed at hearing shippo's name. "My name is kagome and this is my friend sango she's a demon slayer and I'm a
priestess, we're some of shippo's friend that he's been traveling with." Nozomi smiled at them and continued to watch them. "We've heard so much about you it's nice to finally
meet you." Kagome gave her a warm smile, "he talks about me." Kagome and sango both nodded and continued to smile at the girl, "what kind of things does he say about me?"
"Well he says a lot of things about you actually," nozomi blushed at the statement." "He says stuff like your some much fun, you're sweet, smart and kind and that he really likes
hanging out with you." "He thinks I'm sweet, and he likes hanging out with me." The girls saw the kitsune turn a bright shade of red, "I knew she liked him and we'll all know
he likes her, maybe they'll become boyfriend and girlfriend." Both the girls thought both smiling even wider and kind of squealing at the thought. "Are you two alright,"
"oh…um… yea we're fine we're just happy shippo's made a friend as nice as you." "Oh, okay," they finished bathing in silence, then just sitting in the water enjoying the warm.
"It's killing me ,I wanna know what she thinks about shippo, it's easy to tell she likes him, her face is still red." Finally sango and kagome couldn't take it anymore the got
right by nozomi almost in her face and both asked, "What do you think about shippo?" Nozomi turned redder and started stuttering trying to say the right thing. "Well…,"
"I…um…," she couldn't speak, sango and kagome sat back down in the water with smiles on there faces which kind of scared nozomi. "We knew it," "knew what," nozomi
swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat scared at what they were going to say next. "You have a cruse on shippo don't you," "well…I…um…," she still couldn't find the
right words to say, "You do don't you?" Nozomi took a sigh then figured since she couldn't hide her secret any more she admitted it. "Yes…. I do, please don't tell shippo," the
girls squealed again this time louder causing nozomi to hold her ears. Sago and kagome both hugged the kitsune. "We want tell him, I'm so happy for you guys," "you mean he likes
me too." The girls nodded their heads they gave her one more hug before letting her go and backing away a little, "He likes me."
Inuyasha and miroku were walking down the path with shippo trying to pull inuyasha back, but was throw in to a near by tree. Then they heard a loud squeal, "inuyasha did you hear
that," "Yes it came from kagome and sango they might be in danger, come on hurry up miroku." Shippo sighed then looked at the two idiots running toward the spring, "if they
would have listened they could tell that they weren't in trouble that they were happy about some thing. Boy, are they going to be in for it when kagome and sango sees them, then I
can't even imagine the trouble those two are going to be in." Shippo got up and headed back to the hut to finish eating his goodies, far away from where inuyasha and miroku was
heading. As shippo headed to the hut he saw tomo playing with the other two kids outside but he didn't see nozomi. "I wonder where nozomi is," he shrugged his shoulders and
went inside to eat his candy and wait for his friends to return to the hut. He noticed kagome's stuff wasn't in the hut any more, then it dawned on him inuyasha and kagome are going
to be sleeping in the hut next to this one. He then reminded himself to thank kagome for talking inuyasha to stay two more days.
At the hot springs
Sango and Kagome sat down and enjoying them self, nozomi had left to find shippo. They opened their eyes when they heard some one running toward the hot springs. "I knew it
was too good to be true," "you got that right," sago grabbed her boomerang bone and hides it in the water. "You think they would have learned there lesson by now," "yep." "Boys
are so dumb," "you said it." Just then saw could see miroku and inuyasha in the distance running toward the hot springs. "You ready," kagome nodded her head, as miroku stopped
at few feet away from the springs. Sango picked up her Hiraikotsu and threw it at miroku knocking him to the ground. "SIT," "what did you do that for sango, we ran down here to
make sure you girls were okay," "why wouldn't we monk," Inuyasha sat up and turned his back towards kagome so he wasn't looking at her. "We heard you squeal we thought you
were in trouble." "Inuyasha we squealed not because we were in trouble we squealed because of nozomi likes shippo, and besides if we were in trouble we would have screamed.
We've told you two especially you miroku not to spy on us while were in the hot springs." 'Besides where were you when you heard us squeal," miroku sat up and turned red, "well
we were…um…," "well monk where were you. Just as I thought," sango picked up her hiraikotsu to throw at him again but stopped, when she saw inuyasha hit miroku over the
head and turned him around, she could hear him mumbling "stupid lecher always getting me into trouble." Kagome heard him to, "inuyasha we're about down you'll just back to the
hut we'll be there in a minute." He brushed her off by saying his famous word "keh", and grabbed miroku and headed off toward the hut. Sango and kagome giggled as the two left,
"what are we going to do with those two," "your guess is as good as mine."
When inuyasha came in shippo was trying not to bust out laughing at inuyasha and miroku. "What happened to you two," "don't ask when you see kagome tell her I'll be in the hut."
With that inuyasha stormed out after throwing miroku on the floor. When inuyasha left shippo couldn't hold it in any more he started laughing uncontrollable. He wiped the tears that
formed in his eyes from laughing so hard then he got up to go find nozomi. Sango and kagome finally decided to get up and leave after inuyasha and miroku were gone and was
heading back to the hut when they saw shippo leaving. "Oh, hey kagome, inuyasha wanted me to tell you, his in the hut," shippo pointed to the one next to where miroku was in.
"Thanks shippo, where are you going," "to find nozomi I need to tell her some thing before we leave, have you seen her?" "In a matter of fact I have she was in the hot springs with
us but she left way before we did I think you can find her in the field by the tree, that you'll were playing by today." "Thanks kagome," Kagome smiled as the kitsune left waving
good bye. "Well good night kagome I'll talk to you in the morning," "night sango." When kagome walked in she noticed the futons were already out and pushed together to make
one big on, then she saw that her stuff was already in there. She looked over by the wall to see inuyasha sound asleep or so she thought he was. She walked over to him and laid in
his lap but was surprised when he wrapped his arms around and pulled her closer to him. He let out a sigh of contentment then nuzzled into her neck kissing it lightly. He laid his head
back down on hers and held her close to him, "now's your chance tell her, your all alone with her nobody to bother you, she needs to know either you tell her or somebody
else is going to tell her before you do." "Inuyasha…" said kagome pulling him out of his thoughts, "hmm," "are you okay?" "Yea why wouldn't I be," he pulled her away so he
could look at her face. "You're acting different, are you mad at me." He saw the sadness in her eyes and it about killed him, "no I'm not mad at you kagome I could never be mad at
you I was just thinking." He pulled her closer to him hugging the girl in his arms; kagome snuggled up to his chest wrapping her arms around him re turning the embrace.
"Kagome…," "what is it inuyasha," he let out another sigh then laid his head back on hers. "Remember when I gave you some of my blood and it made us mates," kagome nodded
her head yes. "Well that was only the first step in becoming mates, there's one more that I would have to do for us to truly be mates, then no man could have you or take you away
from me." Kagome was silent and inuyasha swallowed the lump in his throat that appeared when he was talking. "What is you have to do," inuyasha was quiet, "inuyasha if your
scared that I don't want to be with you then you're wrong you're the only person on this world that I want to be with inuyasha, I love you." Inuyasha smiled and hugged the girl in his
arms even tighter, "I love you to kagome." "I'd have to mark you on your neck so it would let other demons know that your mine and they can't have you, like I would let them
touch you anyway." Kagome giggled and tilted her head to the left so inuyasha could get better access, "are you sure about this kagome." "Yes," "this might hurt a little but I'll try to
be as gentle as I can." She held on to his hand as he started to kiss on her neck and licking before he bit down on her neck. She squeezed he hand tight till he was done trying not to
scream. He licked up the blood then kissed her neck softly. When she knew he was down she laid her head back down on his chest with a smile. She looked up at him and noticed
he was deep in thought but he was still smiling. Kagome turned around so she was facing inuyasha and gave him a light kiss on the lips. In re turn inuyasha kissed kagome back but
made it a deeper kiss filled with all his love and kagome kissed back making it even deeper, inuyasha licked the bottom of her lip begging for entrance, she aloud him entrance and
kissed him even more till he let go of her lips to catch there breathe. Kagome smiled and laid back down on his chest falling to sleep on her hanyou as he wrapped his arms around
her waist. When he knew she was good and asleep he picked her up and placed her in the futon and then cuddled up to her placing an arm around her waist and carefully pulling her
closer to him making sure not to wake her then he to drifted of to sleep.
Shippo finally got close to the tree where he saw nozomi sitting with her back propped against the tree looking at the stars. "NOZOMI…….," she looked and saw shippo running
up towards her. She got up as the kitsune came up to a stop in front of her out of breathe. "What is it shippo," "no...zomi I… have…to tell… you something." Nozomi's heart
skipped a beat, "shippo why don't you catch your breathe first then you can tell me." He nodded his head still breathing hard, minutes later he finally caught his breathe he looked at
nozomi and grabbed her hand in his, his cheeks turned a bright red. "Nozomi would you….um… be my….girlfriend," nozomi gasped and turned a crimson red and shook her head
yes. "You will," shippo hugged nozomi in his arms all night long till they both fell asleep under the tree.
A/N: I finally got this chapter done and I have to say this has been my favorite so far, I'd like to thank every one who has read and reviewed. Let me know what you'll think about this chapter, so PLEASE review! I'm not putting the next chapter up till I get 90 reviews so I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did typing it. )