Chapter 16- Moments

InuYasha walked swiftly and smoothly across the hallways. He was really memorizing the school. He could tell Kagome was wiped out. It was in her scent. The reek of fatigue emitted from her entire form. But you didn't have to pick it up in her scent to know she was exhausted. He could clearly see her head rolling onto his shoulder and bouncing back up again. Obviously she was trying to stay awake and alert as best she could. Her eyelids were constantly drooping from tiredness. Suddenly InuYasha stopped short and surprised Kagome when she realized after a few seconds that he'd stopped. He looked her right into her deep, tired brown eyes. She stared back lazily but tried to look alert. He looked at her sternly with his intense golden gaze. She shivered under his golden orbs and he fought back the urge to smirk.

"Sleep Kagome." he said straightly. She shook her head.

"Not yet. There is something want to talk about."

"Not right now. Your exhausted."

"But then both of us will forget. You k- owww!" her sentence of defiance was cut short when he pinched her back right between the shoulder blades.

"You'll get an s-i-t for that InuYasha!" she said clearly angry. In response he merely shrugged and pinched her again only harder.

" Dont defy me wench. IM the alfa male here. Not you." he remarked dangerously in a cool, almost cold tone. The tone of his voice almost sounded like when they'd first met. Angry, cruel and full of hate. It was similar, but not the same. She could detect concern hidden within his voice. Obviously still always trying to act tough. His tone of voice then made her blood turn to ice and almost did the same thing just now. She gave him a confused look and he realized that she didn't understand. He shook his head with annoyance and and rolled his eyes. I'll explain some other time, but for now do as i say and get some sleep. That seemed to satisfy Kagome and the relaxed. He suddenly realized how tense she'd been when he had done what he did. 'She obviously had no clue what i was talking about so for me to do that must have made her really confused ' he figured. He could catch the scent of confusion on her when he said that alfa male speech. Now all he heard was Kagome's rhythmic breathing that had evened out, evidently she had fallen asleep.

Finally he had reached the cafeteria and walked through the doors. He could see through the window tops and knew the snow was slowly melting. That meant it was only a matter of time before they would bust out of the school. He stalked through to the other side o the cafeteria to the bed from the nurse's office. He gently placed kagome down on the bed and covered her up with the thin covers.

' they're to thin' he thought and he got an idea. With a huff he shrugged off his heavy red Haori and gently draped it over her sleeping form. Kagome rolled over and yawned slightly but never woke up. She left enough space for InuYasha to lie down next to her if he wanted. He succumbed and got in te bed next to Kagome and drew her close. Kagome smiled in her sleep.

"InuYasha" she murmured softly in such a small voice even InuYasha's sense of hearing almost didn't pick it up. He smirked that Kagome recognized him even in her slumber and she even turned into him. Damn this bitch was good! Her face was now in the chest, which was still covered by his white Yukata and her hands were clutching his shirt possessively. This caused InuYasha to widen his smirk. Who would have guessed that his sweet little innocent Kagome would be possessive at all? He wrapped a strong arms around her slim profile and brought her all that much closer and she smiled again and sighed contently in her sleep. InuYasha carefully, so not to wake her, moved his other arm so that he could use it as pillow, tucked it neatly underneath his silver-haired head. Within minutes of inhaling Kagome sweet scent he drifted off to the world of dreams.

When InuYasha woke up a few hours later he found Kagome still asleep. A look of surprise sprung across his face. 'Wow she must have been really tired to have slept this long' he thought mentally chuckling. His thoughts soon turned over to yesterday's events. How did that jewel shard end up inside that dummy? He thought back to the past adventures both before and after Kagome had come through the well. His thoughts trailed to the ancient noh(SP?) Mask. How the jewel shard had been chipped with the piece of wood that was made into the mask, jewel shard inside it. He didn't know what the mannequin was made of so he couldn't be sure if that was that same or not be he figured he could safely assume that it was the same case with that dummy head! Kagome picked that moment to awaken. Her eyelids fluttered gently like butterfly wings streching on a warm day. To InuYasha, if Kagome were music right now, she wouldn't be heavy metal or rock or rap or even country. She'd be a slow song with long, slow guitar strums. Slow and even and soft. Her mouthy opened a bit and she let out a stiffled, tired yawn, dark eyes still glazed over from the cobwebs of sleep and mind fuzzy with early morning dulness. Her eyelids stayed half closed for a few moments before she let out another tiny yawn. Her mouth tasted funny. Sticky and just tasted weird. She really needed to brushed her teeth. Finally she was alert enough to feel someone's gaze upon her body. She realized the arm around her waist. The white Yukata she was clutching and the silver hair that cascaded over the shoulders of the person.she felt the blood rush to her face, the heat of it warm her cheeks. 'Oh god im blushing...wait hy am I blushing? It's only InuYasha. It's not like this is the fist time we've slept like this...' cheeks burning at how wrong that sounded. She didnt mean for it to sound like she'd slept with him, slept with him even if it was in her head. And it wasn't as if she didn't enjoy laying like this with him...

InuYasha looked down and soon smelt her embaressment and his face went from a small small of contentment to a smirk of amusment. He decided to be mean and tighten his grip around her waist, mindful to do it slowly. He could almost feel her embaressement radiating off of her in waves. He felt like laughing, but he'd save that for later. He leaned down a bit and kissed her forehead, acting lilke he thought she was asleep.

"I love you Kagome" he said. Unfortunalty his feelings betrayed him and his cheeks began to burn red slightly. But he could see kagome's blush from here now. It was slowly making it's way down her neck. Boy was it ever easy to make her blush or what. He thought he'd let her off the hook now. " Kagome." he droned in her ear, "Get up, I know your awake. Look up." Kagome shifted in his arms and flushed even more. S slowly lifted her head up. The prayer beads, his throat, chin, evil, laughing smirk, nose and finally reached his golden eyes. In the year sh'e been with him, he hadn't changed one bit. He was still the headstrong, pigheaded, arrogant, kind, caring hanlf demon she'd met when he was pinned to the sacred tree. The only difference was the softness to his eyes nowadays. He'd learned to trust again. Learned to open up a bit. Despit his rough exterior, InuYasha had a soft spot for his friends but after years of being despised as most half demons were, they had been tinged with shame. Kagome was honoured to have been one of the ones who helped him recover from his haunting past. But she had no idea what horrors she helped him overcome, even if not completely...

InuYasha looked into her loving brown eyes and felt himself drown in them. Once you looked into kagome's beautiful eyes, there was no coming out, but did he mind? Not at all. He loved being enveloped with all the emotion swirling beneath the chocolate depths. She sighed and broke the contact.

"InuYasha?"

"Yeah?"

"What you said yesterday. About the 'alfa male' thing. What was that all about?" she asked sincerely. InuYasha gulped. He knew she was going t o add this sooner or later but that didn't prepare him for actually explaining it.

'Well here goes nothing...'

A/N- I hope this chapter was long enough to make up for my absence recently. Sorry. With school, hockey, friends, boyfriends, and stuff it gets complicated. Plus theres the drama and homework. Plus im not allowed on the computer during school days. But the next chapter will hopefully be a good one. Sango and Miroku will be in the next one to. Sorry i havent updated in a while guys. Lol welll enough of that thanks for reading lots to come. Jaa!