A/N: so sorry for the wait but school got started back up and I've been extremely busy but hopefully this chapter makes up for it
Disclaimer: sadly I do not own inuyasha
Chapter 18 The decision
Today was the day everyone was going to kaedes, everyone had noticed the bit mark on kagome's neck and miroku made a few perverted commits till inuyasha threatened to kill
him and sango slapping him across the face. Shippo had informed everyone about nozomi being his girlfriend, which he was then in the middle of kagome and sango hugging him and
squeezing him telling him how happy they were for him. Inuyasha and miroku just gave him a pat on the back saying "congrats." As the gang finished packing and was about to leave,
kagome noticed shippo was missing and figured he was telling nozomi good bye until she saw the two walking up the dirt path holding hands.
"Kagome I'm going to stay here with nozomi for a while i'll meet back up with you and the others later, could you tell kaede sorry for me and that'll I'll be there later."
"Sure thing shippo," kagome smiled at the young kitsune before her hugging him then running to catch up with the others.
"Where you run off to wench," kagome rolled her eyes then look inuyasha dead in the face.
"Unlike you I notice shippo wasn't here and was about to go look for him, when he and nozomi ran up to me."
"So where is the little runt," kagome took a big sigh then looked away from him
. "He said he'll come to kaedes later, that he was going to stay with nozomi for a little while longer."
Inuyasha huffed then mumbled something under his breath then continued walking ahead leaving kagome behind him with sango and kilala.
"what's gotten into him this morning, he was all sweet and nice last night now all of a sudden his being a complete jerk, what could possibly be bothering to be so mean."
Kagome's thoughts then were interrupted by sango, "kagome are you okay, you seem upset about something."
Kagome looked at sango and noticed miroku had walked up a head to go see what was bothering inuyasha, she hadn't realized he had walked off.
"I'm fine sango, really nothings wrong," she lied,
"are you sure kagome, ever since this morning all you and inuyasha have been doing is fighting, did some thing happen last night."
"No nothing happened last night I have no idea what's wrong with him, he want even look at me." Sango sighed and hugged her friend,
"he's probably upset because he has revenge kikyo's death and know she's going to be looking for him to drag him to hell with her, but he can't just leave kagome and us to go with some one he doesn't even love any more. I bet that's the reason he's so upset but he shouldn't be taking it out on kagome like that."
The rest of the walk was in complete silence except for the occasional slaps across miroku's face and the bickering between inuyasha and kagome.
"So miroku did you find out what was wrong with inuyasha,"whispered sango hoping inuyasha couldn't hear her.
"Sadly no, he said he was fine, so how did it go with kagome, did you get anything out of her," "no, she said that there was nothing wrong, I couldn't get anything out of her."
They both sighed and continued walking, inuyasha was in the front and kagome was lagging behind obviously lost in her thoughts and sango and miroku walked side by side with
kilala in sango's arms. They finally could see the shrine from the distance and the steps leading up to kaede's hut, "Kaede were back," yelled kagome happy to see the old miko,
"Kagome ye is back so soon what happen."
"Kaede we destroyed naraku and completed the jewel he's finally gone."
Kaede's eyes widened in shock, and then she gestured for the others to sit by the fire and tell her every thing that had happened.
"So naraku is truly gone,"the group nodded their heads yes then kaede looked around the room for shippo.
"Where might be shippo, did he not return with ye,"
"oh, I almost forgot, shippo met a girl named nozomi in the other village and he's saying with her a couple of more days he said he's sorry and will be here later."
"So who is this nozomi person,"sango and kagome glanced at each other and smiled.
"Nozomi is a fox-demon like shippo except she has a twin brother named tomo, shippo and nozomi grew to like each other and he just asked her to be his girlfriend yesterday."
"Ahhhh, I know who ye is talking about, she is a very beautiful girl indeed, so I'm assuming she said yes."
Both the girls smiled again and nodded their heads yes, then noticed the guys had left. "I wonder where those to wondered off to," "beats me," they both got up and went outside to
see if they could find them. They didn't see them outside the hut so kagome went to the first place where she thought inuyasha could be and sango looked threw the village for
miroku, figuring he was out womanizing. Kagome stopped in front of the sacret tree seeing inuyasha perched up on one of the branches looking off into space. "Inuyasha…," his
thoughts were interrupted by a small voice then realized he wasn't alone anymore he looked down to see kagome starting up at him. He looked at her confused seeing the sadness in
her face, "inuyasha why are you mad at me," he jumped down from the tree to land right in front of kagome causing her to gasp. He looked at her lovingly and slid one hand down
her face and wrapping the other around her back.
"I'm not mad at you kagome I could never be mad at you. She laid her head on his chest then began crying softly,
"but every time I tried talking to you, you'd snap at me or just ignore me, what did I do to make you hate me so."
"Kagome I don't hate you, I was never mad at you today, I just didn't feel like talking, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings or make you think I hated you, I love you more then life its self, I've just have a lot of stuff on my mind lately is all."
She nodded her head yes in his chest still holding on to him as her sobs quitted, inuyasha continued holding her and running one hand threw her hair all the way down her back trying
to comfort her. He pulled her away from him just a little bit so he could see her face; he wiped the tears away from her face and kissed her lightly on the check. Kagome smiled then
kissed him on the lips lightly, but instead of backing away inuyasha had pulled her closer turning it into a passionate kiss. He let go of her lips so she could catch her breathe, then
jumped in the tree placing kagome in front of him so they could watch the sunset.
With sango and the womanizer
Sango had found a place in the village where she saw a lot of woman there and guessed miroku was there causing the problem for all of them to be there, she made her way threw
the crowd and sure enough he was sitting in the middle of it all.
"Oh, miroku your so brave,"
"hehe indeed, but do you think you could do me the honor of baring my child."
"Oh, master miroku your so funny hehe,"
"MIROKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Um excuse me ladies but I have to go."Miroku got up and ran the other direction from sango,
"that does it I'm going to hurt that perverted womanizer so bad he'll never be able to walk again."
Sango stormed off after him throwing hiraikotsu over her shoulder, miroku ran threw inuyasha's forest hoping to lose sango and hide some where before she found him, he was
surely in for it now. Inuyasha's ears twitched at the sound of some one's feet running in his direction, he looked down and noticed kagome and fallen asleep in his arms. He smiled a
little and shook her,
"hmmm, five more minutes,"
"you've got to get up kagome some ones coming." This woke her up and she looked at inuyasha,
"what is it," "I don't know but I don't think it's a demon."
Kagome nodded her head yes as inuyasha wrapped his arms around her holding her close to him as he jumped out of the tree, he placed her down on the ground and then stood in
front of her protectively, drawing tetsiga as the person got closer. Then from out of the bushes came miroku, who screamed seeing the pointed sword at him.
"Miroku what the hell are you doing," inuyasha put his tetsiga away and wrapped his arm back around kagome's waist.
Miroku bent over trying to catch his breathe then looked at inuyasha again,
"you've got…..to...hide...me... sango…mad." Said miroku out of breathe.
"So what did you do this time you lecher, and besides why should I hide you."
Kagome elbowed inuyasha in the side, "be nice."
"So what happen miroku, why is she so mad."
"Well, I don't really know exactly….,"
then inuyasha cut him off, "you were womanizing again weren't you."
Miroku blushed then shook his head to protest but decided against, "you pervert no wonder she's mad at you,"
"miroku I'm sorry but I'm no going to hide you, you know what you did was wrong, and it hurt sango, you're going to have to face her on your own. I thought you cared about sango, you did tell her you loved her and wanted only to be with her then you go and do this I can't believe you."
Miroku looked down ashamed of himself, he didn't mean to hurt sango at all, and he didn't realize what he had done that was so wrong until now. In the distance they heard sango
yelling threw her tears screaming miroku's name. Then they finally saw her come out in to the clearing tears rolling down her cheeks, she looked at inuyasha and kagome and then
saw miroku sitting in the grass his head held down in shame. Kagome smiled and nodded her head at sango as did inuyasha, then they walked off leaving the two alone. After they
left sango let out a sigh then turned to miroku tears still rolling down her face, she raised hiraikotsu over her shoulder and aimed it in miroku's direction,
"MIROKU……,"
she huffed once more then fell to the ground crying dropping her boomerang bone to the ground wrapping her arms around her legs and then cried into them. Miroku looked up to
see sango fall too the ground sobbing into her knees. He felt horrible, he got up part of him wanted to go comfort her, but the other half wanted to keep his distance, he hesitated a
little but he adventualy walked over and sat by her,
"sango…,' he was quite but he was loud enough for her to hear him.
He heard her mumble something but all he could make out was 'why."
"I thought you cared about me, that I was the only one you loved, why, why would you go and flirt with all those women then ask them to bare your child, I guess now I know I mean nothing to you."
Sango never once looked miroku in the face instead she looked at the stars. Miroku pulled her into his arms and held her tight even when she tried getting away from him he just held her tighter, finally she stopped struggling and started crying in his chest.
"Sango you may not believe me but I love you a lot, you mean the world to me, you make to cutest face expressions when you blush and slap me after I grope your butt, and I love it. I know I shouldn't I have flirted with those girls today but they didn't mean anything to me, you're the only one that I want to bare my child, I know I do stupid stuff some times but I only do because I really care about you sango. I would do any thing to keep you from harms way, I love you and I really do mean it."
Sango was listening to every word the monk had said, she had stopped her crying and laid there in his chest in shock and felt stupid for over acting like she did, she almost killed
him.
Sango looked up at miroku staring in his eyes,"miroku… I had no idea that you cared that much for me."
"Can you ever forgive me sango,"
"I will on one condition," he nodded his head yes and continued to stare into her eyes, watching the blush form on her cheeks.
"That you promise you want flirt with any more women but me, which means no more womanizing, or any of that stuff."
"I promise sango," he cocked any eyebrow and smirked at her before leaning in and giving her a kiss on the lips.
When he pulled away sango's face reassembled a tomato, which made his smirk widen before standing up, "let's head back to kaedes." Sango nodded her head yes and grabbed miroku's hand as he help her up of the ground and headed in the direction inuyasha and kagome had went off to early.
With inuyasha and kagome
Inuyasha and kagome decided to leave miroku and sango alone; they walk side by side until inuyasha swiped kagome off her feet carrying her bridal style. She smiled at inuyasha
and laid her head on his chest as they went back to kaedes. Inuyasha looked down and noticed kagome had fallen asleep in his arms he smiled then kissed her on the head before
walking into the hut. He slid her into her sleeping bag careful not to wake her up, then head for the hut door again but looking back to make sure he didn't wake her. When he knew
she was good and asleep he left to go lay in a tree some where knowing that miroku and sango probably still yelling at miroku by the sacret tree. He's been seeing a lot of kikyo's
soul stealers around lately so he knew she was looking for him or calling him to her, but he still didn't know what he was going to say or do. He loves kagome with all his heart, but
he did make a promise to kikyo, he had no idea what he wanted to do, but one thing was for sure he did really want to spend the rest of his life with kagome.
"This is the hardest decision I've had to make what I'm I going to do?"
A/N: well there's the end to this chapter, so what do you think he's going to do, will he stay with kagome or keep his promise to kikyo, find out in the next chapter, "Fare well and good bye." Please review and let me know how I did and again so sorry for the wait.