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Summary: Inuyasha is presented with a one-time opportunity – to become a full demon. With his childhood years, not to mention the first ever reason for hunting down the Shikon Jewel in mind, his choice seems apparent – a no-brainer. But there's a catch. Becoming a demon will mean giving up the life he knows now. In fact, only he will remember his life as a hanyou, while others will now only know him as Inuyasha the youkai. Is he willing to give everything and everyone up?

Chapter Nine

Inuyasha had decided to 'attack' the village the next day. But as he approached, he could sense already that Kagome was no there. He got his explanation soon enough.

"You're Inuyasha right?" The question was asked in a chipper tone.

He looked down to see Shippo smiling up at him. Inuyasha couldn't suppress his grin. "Hey runt."

Shippo immediately frowned. "It's Shippo! You don't hear me picking on your size, do you?" He paused, then added in what he probably thought was a malicious tone, but really just sounded fucking hilarious: "Giant."

Inuyasha held back his laughter. Shippo was still as feisty as ever. He exhaled slowly through his nose to kill his urge to chuckle, before saying: "What's up Shippo?"

Shippo grinned at the sound of his name, and relayed his message: "Priestess Kagome wanted me to tell you that she got called away to a distant village, and won't be returning any time son. But she wants to talk to you when she gets back."

"When will that be?"

Shippo scurried to a nearby tree. "She says there will be an arrow in this tree, and that will tell you she's back. So you should check this tree regularly."

"Thanks Shippo."

"No problem. I just wanna help Priestess Kagome out any way I can." His face took on an expression of sadness. "She's all I have." He added in a quiet voice.

Inuyasha remembered Shippo being an orphan – father killed by the Thunder Brothers – back when he was still a hanyou. He could only imagine how alone Shippo had to have felt when he woke up in Inuyasha's youkai world. Or worse, he probably had to watch his father die again.

Sympathy washed over him, and he headed for the kitsune, ruffling his hair playfully.

"Don't worry. You'll always have Kagome. That's for sure." Inuyasha said reassuringly.

"I sure hope so!" Shippo said smiling again. "She's nice! And so is her family. Anyways, I'm going to go play with Souta now. See ya Inuyasha!"

He watched as the little fox demon scampered away, reminding him of a ball of fluff floating on the wind. He grinned. "See ya runt." He said under his breath.

Kagome was gone for a total of seven days: the longest seven days in existence. Inuyasha ran out of things to do fast. He couldn't bother tracking those three goofballs he once considered 'friends', and although Naraku's house was okay, he never wanted to stay there too long, easily annoyed by Kanna's never-ending advances. He already told himself he wasn't going to sleep with her again: a promise that was actually pretty easy to uphold. Even if Naraku's house triggered his sleeping youkai – the atmosphere was too much for him not to – the awful lay was too centered in his mind when he was there for him to lose control that much. The head made it tempting, but the lousy fuck that followed didn't make it worth it.

Of course Kanna didn't know why Inuyasha was suddenly pushing her away, and she seemed pretty pissed about it. But hey, that wasn't his deal.

Then finally, that arrow pierced the tree.

He saw her the very next day, simulating an attack not necessary. She appeared to be looking for him anyway. Or at least, he wanted her to be walking in the forest looking for him.

He was actually stooping in a bush, hidden from her sight. He waited until she walked passed him before jumping out and grabbed her waist, accompanying that with a vicious- sounding snarl.

Bad move. Even though her reaction was the desired effect he had hoped for: she had given a frightened yelp and definitely looked terror-stricken. But apparently, going through her little head was the fact that she was under siege, and spun around fast to face her attacker, firing a powerful miko blast from her palms.

It wasn't until Inuyasha was groaning on the ground that she realized what she did. "Inuyasha!" she exclaimed, her tone concerned as she knelt down beside him. "Are you alright? I'm so sorry? I thought you were a demon!"

Inuyasha managed to give her a small grin. "I am a demon."

"You know what I mean. You scared me."

"That was the plan. Didn't think you'd attack me though–"

"Sorry!"

"I'm fine Kagome." He got off the ground and smiled. "See."

Kagome nodded and stood up as well, brushing off the dirt on his shoulder. Then she gestured for him to walk with her. She told him the abbreviated version of her trip: a village had been under demon attack due to the defiling of their most important shrine. Too many demons for the slayers to handle. Slayers made Inuyasha think of Sango, but the chances that she and Kagome met were slim. Kagome said that she helped exterminate the demons, then purified the shrine.

"So…did you miss me?" Inuyasha asked teasingly after she finished.

She gasped, blushed some, then snorted. "You wish."

"Aw come on Ka-go-may, you knew you missed me a little."

She smiled. "I like when you do that."

"Do what?"

"Stretch out my name like that: Ka-go-may. It's nice. And familiar, but nice comes first."

Inuyasha longed to talk to her about why it was familiar. But he didn't know how to bring it up with her without seeming…well, insane is a nice way to put it. He could only hope she'd bring it up with him soon enough.

Her smiled grew some. "So…did you miss me?" she teased right back.

Part of him wanted to scoff and tell her no, but the other part – the bigger part – told him to just be honest.

So he took her hand and squeezed it affectionately. Then, looking her straight in the eye, and speaking with the utmost sincerity: "More than you can imagine."

Her face turned crimson. Then murmured quietly: "I missed you a lil' bit too."

"Oh I know." Inuyasha said proudly.

"Inuyasha!"

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In the weeks that followed, Inuyasha went to see Kagome. Not necessarily every day, but enough to say with confidence that they were spending a significant amount of time together. He'd go for her, or sometimes, Shippo would come looking for him. Shippo was exactly the same as Inuyasha remembered, but it was obvious that the little fox demon didn't remember him at all.

The same – thankfully – couldn't be said for Kagome. Though it was clear she didn't remember him completely, they would be hanging out and they'd do something or he'd say something and she fall quiet, murmur something about her past and how she wished she could remember it more. Or how things looked so familiar to her, yet so unclear. Then she shake her head and tell hi not to worry about it, and immediately fall back into previous conversation. Inuyasha still waited for the day when Kagome would want to talk about it. He sure had a lot to say.

He had been lying on his back in a grassy plain, cloud-watching, when he heard the sound of scurrying coming his way. He looked up just in time to she his favourite kitsune grinning at him.

"Hey Shippo." He said pleasantly.

"Hiya Inuyasha!" Shippo relied brightly.

"Does Kagome want to see me?"

"She does, but not now. She's meeting with her friends right now."

"Friends?"

"Well…one friend, and her family. It's this pretty demon slayer named Sango she met in the far away village she went to a while back, remember?"

Inuyasha vaguely remembered that specific trip, but he certainly remembered that demon slayer. "Sango, you said?"

"Yup. Ya know her?"

I did, once upon a time.

Shippo scurried away, leaving Inuyasha to his thoughts. He wanted to see Sango, just to see how she was doing. Yet the last time they met, back before his youkai transformation, she had said some pretty powerful words. Words not to be taken lightly, whether she remembered saying them or not.

Still his curiosity got the better of him, and he headed towards the village by treetop, wanting to keep out of sight. He stopped when he was near enough to see the meet and greet.

There was Kagome, laughing with undoubtedly Sango – he couldn't mistake her athletic form and brown hair with anyone else. But the two weren't alone. A male stood behind Sango – almost in a protective way – with a hand resting on her shoulder, a staff in his other hand.

Inuyasha gasped.

Standing behind undoubtedly Sango was undoubtedly Miroku!

There was no mistaking the hair, the attire. The only thing that was different was the fact that he no longer kept his hand wrapped, seeing as though there was no longer a wind tunnel to keep covered. And if he wasn't convinced yet, Inuyasha noticed the hand once resting on Sango's shoulder was now creeping down to her bottom – a classic Miroku move.

One rub was all it took for nature to take its course. Sango slapped him in the usual fashion – a classic Sango move. Some things would never change.

He began picking up on their conversation due to his enhanced hearing:

"You keep your hands away from there!"

"But Sango my dear, we're married now. Aren't I allowed to affectionately caress my wife?"

Married! Wife! When did that happen? Sure Miroku had proposed to Sango once upon a time, but Inuyasha hadn't thought they would go through with it.

"Of course you can caress me…but appropriately. You can't be doing those things in front of Ichigo. He's only a child."

"Just a child, meaning he has no idea what's happening anyway. Besides, shouldn't he see how much I love you?"

"Humph. I don't know about you, but I do not want to be responsible for the corruption of our child."

Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock. No fucking way. Not only were they married, but they had a son too? When did all of this go down? Had his eyes been closed at the time?

It was then Inuyasha indeed noticed a small boy, about four or five, with brown hair and wide and innocent indigo eyes, playing with Shippo. Then the kid laughed, showing off his brand new baby teeth. Inuyasha caught himself smiling. Gross as it may be, Sango and Miroku make a handsome little boy.

Just then, from leaning out of the tree to peer at the child, the branch he was sitting on gave way, and snapped before he could react to it. Before he knew it, he was face down in the ground.

"Fucking branch." He cursed after he hit the groud.

He was fixing to get up before he heard rustling of bushes. Kagome soon appeared over the top of the shrubs. "Stay down, they'll see you." She warned. Then she smiled in amusement. "I know you'd come spy on me. Poor little youkai, can't live without can you."

Inuyasha scoffed. "Don't get cocky."

"You'll come later on tonight right? You have to wait until everyone else in town has gone to bed. But you'll come right?" He nodded, and her smile grew. "That's good, because I have something to show you."

"What is it?"

"A surprise."

"Really?" he said, instantly intrigued. "What is it?"

She frowned. "I can't tell you! It will spoil the surprise!"

"Please? Can I get a hint?" she shook her head. Now he frowned. "Ka-go-may."

She shook her head, giggling now. "You'll just have to wait."

He huffed. "I hate waiting."

Kagome only giggled some more. "I'll see you later Inuyasha."

Inuyasha was still pouting when Kagome retreated, but couldn't resist the smile playing on his lips. He shook his head, chuckling.

"What am I going to do about that girl?" he murmured to himself.

One thing was for sure: he was definitely eager for tonight.

A/N: cliffies!! dont you just love 'em? thats how you hook ppl on ur stuff: leave 'em hanging.

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