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A/N: Hello and welcome back to my fic... I really hope that you enjoyed chapter one. Thank you to all my reviewers! It's good to know that my fic is being read. This segment is more like a continuation of chapter one… but let's call it chapter two just cuz I can, it's my fic! Well, I hope you enjoy this next chapter…

Chapter 2: My Special Place

"Kagome we're here" Inuyasha said as he pulled his hands down from her eyes.

It was like nothing she'd ever seen before; there was a waterfall that thundered down into a crystal blue pool, the moon illuminating everything with its pale glow. This was Inuyasha's special place? How did she never hear about this or run across it before… Maybe Inuyasha had hid this place from everyone for a reason.

Kagome's jaw dropped in amazement, she was still too stunned to speak; there was something about this place that made her want to cry. She felt the tears well up in her eyes as she stared in awe.

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome, who was misty-eyed and asked her, "Kagome, what's wrong? Don't you like it?"

"Inuyasha, I love it, this is the most spectacular place I've ever seen," Kagome said letting the tears run down her face, "how long ago did you find this place?"

Inuyasha scratched behind his head trying to think of exactly how long it had been that he found this magical place, "a while ago…" he said after a minute of thinking.

Kagome laughed light-heartedly then said, "So a while before you met me, I'm guessing?"

He nodded, "I was a pup when I found this place, well actually my mother found this place when we were walking around in the forest one day, just outside of the Western Lands."

Kagome's eyes widened at the last words "The Western Lands… You mean where Sesshomaru is living now?"

Inuyasha smiled half-heartedly not really letting it touch his eyes, "Yeah…" he said letting his voice trail off, like his thoughts were a thousand miles away.

I wonder what happened, Kagome thought to herself, not wanting ask and spoil the moment. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's hand and pulled her toward the crystal blue pool, "C'mon" Inuyasha said letting goof her hand and smiled at her with a devilish grin on his face, "let's go for a dip"

"I don't know…" Kagome said looking into the water "wouldn't it be cold?"

"Don't really know," Inuyasha said with a smirk in his voice "guess we'll have to go in and find out, huh?"

She looked back to find Inuyasha with his white shirt underneath his haori wide open. Kagome blushed slightly as she glanced over his smooth, perfectly sculpted chest.

It wasn't like she had never seen him with his shirt off, because she had. It was just that most of the time she was patching him up from battle, so normally she didn't notice…until now.

"What?" Inuyasha said as he let the white shirt flutter to the ground landing on top of his haori, already on the ground. The moonlight shone off of his bare chest causing Kagome to blush even more fiercely, but in the moonlight it wasn't visible.

"Huh?" Kagome asked snapping out of it.

"You were staring" Inuyasha said smiling out of the corner of his mouth at Kagome.

"Oh, I was…" she said embarrassed, "sorry."

"It's okay" Inuyasha said walking toward her.

He stood in front of her and lightly brushed his fingers against her face, causing her heart to speed up slightly. Inuyasha chuckled quietly as his sensitive hearing picked up on Kagome's accelerating heartbeat.

"So, what exactly were you staring at?" Inuyasha asked as he began to run the tips of his fingers along her cheek and along her jaw, he pulled her face up slightly, causing her to get lost in his eyes.

"Hmm?" Kagome said not being able to unscramble her thoughts as she was locked in his warm amber gaze; he lightly traced her jaw with his claws, causing tingles to run up her spine.

"What were you staring at?" he asked again gently.

Finally pulling her thoughts back together, "Nothing…" she said letting her voice trail off.

Inuyasha leaned forward putting his lips close to her ear, "Kagome, now why try to lie to me?" he said in a whisper, lips brushing slightly against her ear, causing her to shiver, " you know you're not a very good at it."

Kagome realized how close Inuyasha was pressed against her, his toned chest warm against her body through her clothes. He pulled his face back from her ear and smiled.

"Your chest…" Kagome said looking down at his chest, touching his chest lightly with her hand, then letting it fall back down she added "when you took of your shirt, it caught me off guard that's all."

"See," Inuyasha said holding her face and kissing her forehead, "that wasn't so hard now was it?"

"I guess not" Kagome said as Inuyasha as he letting go of her face and stepping away from her.

Inuyasha walked back over to his pile of clothes and proceeded to remove his hakama pants. "You comin' in?" he asked as he stood there in his red boxer shorts that Kagome had given him.

"Yes" Kagome said as she sat down to remove her shirt, her shoes and socks. Then she turned around and pulled her shirt over her head and unbuttoned the back of her skirt and let it drop to the ground until she was left with just her bra and underwear. The wind blew softly, tousling her hair and sending a chill through her making her shiver slightly in the cool night air.

Inuyasha stepped up to the edge of the pool and screamed "Banzai!" before jumping in feet first, splashing into the pool. He shot back up, shaking his head, water flinging at Kagome.

"Hey!" she said laughing as the water splashed her. Inuyasha smirked at Kagome, silver hair hanging into his gold eyes.

Inuyasha stepped out of the pool walking toward her, water glistening off his skin in the pale moon light as he held his arms out toward her, "Wanna hug?" he asked grinning at Kagome.

"Not right now!" Kagome said as he took another step closer to her, "No, you're all wet!"

Inuyasha got a wicked grin on his face as he took another step forward; at this point he was standing right in front of Kagome. She put her hands in front of her trying to push him away. He looked down at her hands pressed against his chest and smiled, "What exactly are you trying to accomplish?" he asked looking at her face.

Kagome glared at her hands thinking that might help her push him away, "Trying to push you back and it's not working…" Kagome dropped her hands defeated.

Inuyasha took the opportunity to give Kagome a hug, "Ugh! You're so wet!" Kagome whined as his wet skin touched her. Inuyasha laughed as Kagome tried squirm away, "Inuyasha let go."

"Don't worry… I'll let go" he said as he lifted her into his arms.

"No," she said holding around his neck tightly, "you wouldn't!"

He smirked, perking a brow at her, "I would," he said challenging her walking up to the edge of the pool with Kagome still in his arms.

She held on tightly as they both plunged into the water. They came up to the surface of the water, gasping for air. Kagome glared at him teasingly, as the two of them stood there in the waist deep water, hair hanging in her face.

"Nice hair" Inuyasha said pulling back the hair from in font of Kagome's eyes and tucking it behind her ear.

"You too" Kagome said giggling looking at his face, eyes covered by his bangs, "this water isn't as cold as I thought it would be…"

"I knew it wouldn't be," he said smiling out of the corner of his mouth at her.

She smacked on the shoulder "Why didn't you tell me that before you decided to pick me up and jump in the water!?" she asked annoyed "you said you didn't know…"

"Well I did…" he smiled crookedly at her "you're not mad at me are you?" he asked innocently, lifting her chin with his finger to meet his gaze.

Kagome's breath caught as she stared into his gentle golden eyes, "I'm annoyed, not mad. Besides, even if I was I couldn't stay mad at you."

Suddenly, Inuyasha's back stiffened his whole body going rigid as the wind blew by. Kagome stepped back as a low growl began to rumble in his chest. She put a hand lightly on his rigid shoulder to try to calm him down.

"Inuyasha what's wrong?" Kagome asked confused, "what is it?"

"Kikyo" he said quietly, voice acidic, then he shouted "I know you're here! Why don't you show yourself!? I'd recognize your stench anywhere!"

He turned around to face Kikyo as he walked out of the water. She emerged from the trees behind them; her soul collectors weren't with her which came as a surprise to both of them. Kagome stepped out of the water to stand behind Inuyasha, his arm outstretched, acting as a protective barrier between her and Kikyo. She looked from underneath his arm to look at the expression on Kikyo's pale face. She stood there looking exactly the same as the last they'd seen her: young, beautiful, expressionless and dead.

Another growl rumbled in his chest as he stared at the priestess, "What are you doing here Kikyo?" Inuyasha demanded expression fierce.

Kikyo remained expressionless as she spoke, "Well Inuyasha, it seems as though I'm not the only girl you've ever taken to this place," Kikyo's dead voice responded, ignoring the question altogether.

"You didn't answer my question…" Inuyasha said trying to remain calm caught off guard by her statement, "What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" voice calm but a slight edge to it.

"I heard voices coming from this direction, so I thought I'd investigate," Kikyo said with mock innocence "I also thought it might be nice to come back to this place filled with such good memories." She smiled to herself, thinking back to another, better time, back when she was still alive.

"Inuyasha, What is she talking about?" Kagome asked confused. Inuyasha turned his head to look at her out of the corner of his eyes, he bit his bottom lip deliberating like he wasn't sure if he wanted to tell her or not.

Kikyo smiled, dead eyes now focused on the couple, Inuyasha's deliberating expression and Kagome's confused face, "I see that you didn't tell her," it wasn't a question.

"That's none of your business and none of your concern" He said venomously.

"You're right Inuyasha," Kikyo said observing his angry expression, "it is none of my business."

"Tell me what?" Kagome asked starting to get really annoyed "what's none of her business?"

"Nothing," Inuyasha said now glaring Kikyo.

Kikyo ignored Inuyasha entirely, dark eyes peering at Kagome behind his arm, "he didn't inform you that this place was—"

"SHUT UP KIKYO!!!" Inuyasha screamed venom even thicker in his voice now.

She continued acting as if Inuyasha had not said anything, "This place used to be ours," Kikyo explained a faint smile coming to her lips; "You thought that you were special? That maybe, this place would always to yours?" she smiled patronizingly at Kagome, who looked down at the ground sadly.

Inuyasha's arm dropped to his side, defeated. He looked at Kikyo sadly with betrayal in his eyes, "why…?" he asked, voice trailing off.

Kikyo smiled at him walking forward, she leaned forward to whisper into his ear, "Because Inuyasha, my purpose is to make your life a living hell… is it working? It looks to me that your precious Kagome is doubtful how much truth you are telling her…"

Kikyo leaned away from his ear to look at his sad expression; she stroked his cheek with the back of her hand, smiling. Inuyasha leaned into her hand slightly; Kagome watched as Kikyo did something unexpected…

Kikyo's expression changed, ever so slightly; she turned her hand over, like she was going to stroke the tips of her fingernails along his cheek. Instead she scratched her fingernails along his cheek making four thin scratches along the side of his face. Inuyasha didn't even flinch as she did this, not even wiping off the small trails of blood that ran down his face.

Kagome couldn't see his face, but she knew the expression that would be on his face: sad, betrayed, hurt. Kikyo smiled with an expression that said I guess my work here is done.

Kikyo turned to make her way out when Kagome emerged from behind Inuyasha back and said speaking to Kikyo's back "Why would you do something like that? Don't you even care?" her expression was frustrated, angry.

Kikyo turned on her heels gracefully to face Kagome, "you see my foolish reincarnation, I was brought back into this world fueled on the fury and hate for him," she said pointing to Inuyasha "I died hating him, and there's nothing that you or ANYONE ELSE can do about that. What you fail to understand is that my new heart doesn't feel love, or remorse, or any of those other things that will make me feel sorry for what I do or ever will do to cause him anguish, or pain. To answer your question, no, I don't care."

Kagome said nothing as Kikyo made her leave… Kagome felt angry, frustrated, confused. Kikyo disappeared as quietly as she appeared leaving no trace of her being here except for the scratches on Inuyasha face and the doubts now planted in Kagome's head.

Why would he lie to me about this place? She thought to herself as she stared back at Inuyasha's emotionless expression.

A/N: Alright…so what did you think? I hope that you enjoyed that little scene between Kikyo and Inuyasha; I know I did… so yeah I almost started crying when I was writing it… well sorta, I got a little choked up but that was about it. Review please and thank you!

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