My Heart Will Go On
Chapter 10: On The Road To Recovery

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Kagome opened her eyes, finding herself in a room of white. She noticed a bed beside hers, and looked over to see Souta on the other bed, tubes and wires stuck inside of his body to help his recovery fasten. She smiled slightly, glad that she and Sesshomaru had found him in time before he had become any worse. As she looked around, she didn't see any signs of Inuyasha, and this worried her greatly. What if Sesshomaru had been wrong, what if he hadn't survived...? What if something terrible had happened!?

Just as she was fretting over these simple things, the window opened up in her room. She jumped up, startled, and looked over to it, instantly sighing with relief. Inuyasha was perched on the window sill, sliding the window open. He hopped in, and she instantly ran to him. She wasn't as bad as Souta, there were no tubes or wires keeping her from the man that she loved, so she ran to him. However, about half-way there she tripped, and started to fall. He caught her before she hit the ground, though she caught his wince of pain as he did this.

"You're hurt," Kagome said simply, looking up towards him as her hand touched his cheek. He gave a faint smile, not caring for himself at the moment.

"How are you feeling? How's your brother?" he asked, trying to avoid talking about his injuries.

Kagome shook her head and pushed him down to her bed, this causing a small blush to come across the hanyou's face. She blinked, then chuckled softly. "I'll be right back," she told him and gave his shoulders another firm push down into the bed. "You. stay. here."

"Feh, what am I, a dog?" Inuyasha growled slightly, but this just made her giggle as she left the room. Inuyasha's ears twitched in confusion. What had he said to make her laugh?

The miko came back in the room a few minutes later, with a nurse and Sesshomaru. Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Sure, Kagome just had to bring in his older brother to let him see him in this weak state. Though he figured, it would probably worse if he saw him like this as a human...

The nurse and Kagome began to tend to his wounds, and he shivered slightly when Kagome's hands touched his bare chest, as they had to remove his top haori to get to his injuries. Nothing really but a few gashes, but if they caused him pain by just holding Kagome, she wanted them looked at as soon as possible. Besides, Naraku couldn't do that much damage to him as a human. But he was confused... why did he feel all tingly over his body when Kagome touched him? It didn't matter where her hands touched, he felt that weird tingly sensation, and her cold hands presed against his chest...dressing his wounds...made him shiver in a pleasure he had never felt before, not even around Kikyo.

"Are you cold, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, noticing him shivering a few times. He blinked, shaking his head, not wanting her to know that just her touch brought him pleasure. At least...he didn't want her to know yet.

"Keh, I'm fine," he told her, and she had to smile at his stubbornness. "You know, you don't have to pretend like everything's okay."

"I'm not pretending!" He huffed, though tried to hide the blush that was on his cheeks. The nurse, thinking she was no longer needed, left Kagome to tend to the rest of Inuyasha's wounds. She happily did so, sitting next to him on the bed as she did.

Inuyasha's heart was thumping in his chest wildly, Kagome's hands were still touching him, and he was feeling tingly all over. He shivered again, making Kagome frown. She didn't know what was wrong, but she wanted to help somehow.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Kagome asked softly, resting a hand on his cheek. When his cheeks flushed red from her touch this time, Kagome instantly knew why he was acting so strange...and blushed herself.

I...Is he really blushing because of me...? Kagome thought, blinking in slight surprise. I wonder...what would he do if I...

When Kagome's fingers ran over his chest and nipples, he shivered again, the blush growing brighter. Sesshomau quickly fled the room, and Kagome rolled her eyes, though she now noticed the nurse was gone too. This left only her, Inuyasha and the unconscious Souta. Hopefully, she wouldn't wake him up with what she was about to do.

A pleasured groan escaped the hanyou's lips when he felt Kagome's hands teasing his nipples. She wasn't doing much as she didn't want to hurt him more than he already was.

Inuyasha's head tilted back as a soft moan escaped him, this causing her to blush. Now she was really curious. Her hands traveled across his chest, making sure to be careful of the bandages that now dressed his wound. She was in awe of how every once in a while, he would shiver when she touched him in just the right place.

When her hands touched his ears, his foot began to kick a bit, much like a dog's would. Kagome stifled a small giggle at this and gently rubbed his ears. This earned her a pleasurable moan, and she couldn't fight it off any longer. She was curious to find out what he tasted like so...

Inuyasha's eyes widened when he felt a pair of lips on his own. They belonged to Kagome, and that was all he knew before he surrendered to his feelings at last. He kissed her back, pouring all of his passion and love for her into that one kiss, this making her gasp into it, and allowing the chance for him to stick his tongue inside her mouth. It all felt too good, they didn't want it to end, but eventually both found themselves parting the kiss, and gasping for air, blushing as they looked into each other's eyes. Amber gold stared into slightly glazed over chocolate brown, and she reached up a hand to cup his cheek once more.

"Kagome . . . I . . ." he frowned, it was hard for him to say out loud, and Kagome knew this. She pressed a finger gently to his lips, making him go silent. She nodded and spoke softly. "I know. I do, too."

Inuyasha's eyes widened slightly. She... she loved him back...? As dense as he was, he always had thought that she just wanted to be around him as a best friend or something... seeing as she had made that promise to always stay by his side. But he allowed the faintest hint of a smile to come across his face...before capturing her lips again in another kiss.

She instantly melted into it, wrapping her arms around him, careful with his injuries, which were already healing.

No one noticed that Souta had an eye open, peeking at them with a grin on his face.

'Finally,' he thought to himself, having only just woken up when they kissed, so he didn't see anything else that had happened. He looked over towards the window, which was still open, feeling drawn to it for some reason.

He blinked when he saw the floating image of his mother in the window, watching the couple with a happy smile on her face.

Souta knew it had always been his mother's dream, since Kagome admitted that she loved Inuyasha, to see little pups running around the house with cute fuzzy dog ears just like their father. That dream wasn't destroyed, it just wouldn't be the Higurashi Shrine she envisioned anymore.

Both Kagome and Inuyasha didn't notice when her mother smiled at them, and whispered 'Be happy', before disappearing.

A tear fell from Souta's eyes when his mother disappeared, and he felt a tug at his heart. It hurt to know that she was really gone...that he would never feel her again...but she would always be there, in his heart...

He turned back to watching the couple, who were now wrapped up in each other's arms, and didn't even seem to notice that he was in the room anymore.

To them, they were the only two in the world right now.

And to them, that was enough.

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TBC

A/N:

This is not yet finished! :) I'm making it a tad bit longer. Perhaps two or three more chapters? Oh! I've also joined ik-eternal, find me under KagomeHigurashiPriestessMiko, or on Inuyasha-fiction under MikoPriestessKagome. Pretty much the same stuff you'll see here though. Enjoy, and please review! Oh, and sorry for the shortness of the chapter, I'll try and make the next one longer.