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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha.

It was the first time in a long time Kagome woke up actually comfortable, not wanting to lose the feeling she refused to open her eyes and instead chose to snuggle deeper into the warmth surrounding her, sighing happily as it seemed to wrap more securely around her. She pouted against the warmth when It shifted slightly, she threw her leg over it in an attempt to keep it still. frustrated when the object of her warmth moved again she opened her eyes slightly and was met with the sight of sun kissed skin. she furrowed her brows confused for a second before the memories of last night came rushing back, she squirmed in his arms trying to escape, hoping to pretend like nothing ever happened. No such luck, the sleep ridden Inuyasha just held her tighter. She mentally cursed herself for ever coming to him for protection or comfort, she didn't even know why she did it, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Trying to pry his arms from around her was impossible, it was like trying to rip apart solid steel, she blushed slightly realizing just how close she was to him. Even if he was easier to handle being this close to a man, a man that could crush her in his sleep none the less, was unnerving for her. she frowned deciding there was no other way around this she tugged his hair lightly, "oi scruffy."

no response.

"psssst dog boy."

still nothing.

"damn, seriously?! oi, hey! Inuyasha!"

The silver haired man growled lightly, stroking her hair lightly, "shut up and go back to bed."

She blushed at the feeling of his fingers through her hair but ignored it in favor of the impatience she was feeling, "No! its already like 9! get. up."

Suddenly Inuyasha's eyes flew open, "I slept in?!"

"noooo Inuyasha we went back in time its nine o'clock yesterday OF COURSE YOU SLEPT IN!"

"I never sleep in."

"well you did today. does it even matter?"

"YES! I have somewhere to be!"

Kagome snorted, "where?"

He waved her off getting out of bed and running around for his clothes, "nothing for you to worry about, you feeling better?"

"You actually care?"

He shrugged, "even if I said I did you would think what you wanted anyways, just answer the question."

She nodded, "yeah...I am actually, thanks...and uh sorry I did that last night, it wasn't mature."

He walked into the bathroom to change, eyeing her as he walked back out wondering how he hadn't noticed she was wearing what could easily be the worlds smallest pair of cotton shorts and a thin blue tank top. He shook his head, "you handled that quite well actually considering your massive fear of men, I should be sorry for taking advantage of a crying woman."

"I was not crying! and..Its okay...yesterdays kinda a blur anyways ill just consider the kiss disinfecting, dog spit kills germs you know. sooo uh don't be sorry or feel bad or whatever?...wow that sounds weird."

He looked at her cooly, "I said I should be sorry, never said I was."

She blinked at him, he had no sign of any sort of guilt or remorse on his face. before she could ask him why he wasn't or call him a pervert, he left the room. she flopped back into the sheets, enjoying the tell tale slosh of the bed and the smell of pine trees, burning wood, and well earth. one thing Kagome couldn't deny was Inuyasha's place had become her comfort zone here, it all smelled like the forest, nothing like chemical cleaners and the streets of tokyo you would expect. the sent remind her of happier times, of her faint memories at her families shrine as a child. even when the air was tinged with the smell of blood it seemed natural, right, like her short peaceful life mixing with what she had now. she smiled at the idea of happiness and her current life mixing and took another deep breath, taking in the sent of Inuyasha's room. come to think of it, the scents always strongest around Inuyasha, maybe thats the reason I came to him last night. he smells like happier times. she felt a rush of peace flow through her, it wasn't a feeling she often got, so she closed her eyes and let it lull her back to sleep.

Inuyasha stormed out of his office and down to the dining hall for a quick breakfast, stopping when he heard Kagome's name fall from two random female members. as far as he knew Kagome only really spoke to the others with equal ranking as her and him, she never was one to actually try and make friends so a girl sounding worried and talking about her was odd. he listened closer to their conversation, "I hope she's okay! I mean I came back and she was gone!"

The other girl nodded, "I know I didn't even see her leave the room either, Ive been worried about her since she walked into the building last night. I wonder what happened to her."

"I know right, she looked horrifying. she deserves props for dragging that guy in here when she was like that."

Inuyasha frowned confused, "Like what?"

The girls jumped hearing his voice, "B-boss!"

He rolled his eyes, "yeah thats me, your talking about Kagome right?"

One of the girls nodded, running a hand through her hair, "yeah, she came in at like one last night, we where in the lobby. I dropped my coffee when I saw her, I mean she was dragging this guy, wearing his coat to which seemed odd..."

the other girl piped up, "we helped her give the guy to Shippo and some men then she asked us if she could use one of our showers, which was weird, she has one. but anyways we said yes and when she got to our room and removed the coat it seemed less odd she was wearing it. I would wear it too if I looked like that."

He frowned, "like what?"

The first girl shuddered, "it looked like she had just been like raped or something her bikini top was basically shredded so was her skirt oh and there was this huge bruise on her side. we didn't know who she was untill she ripped off that wig and the contacts, it was shocking seeing her standing there looking like that. we got like super worried, its not often you see someone so highly ranked busted up!"

The other girl nodded, "Yeah! but when we asked what happened she was so cool! she was all like 'nothing I couldn't handle.' like it was literally nothing. so cool! and then she smiled at us, it took everything I had not to have a major fan girl moment, she has super pretty eyes, you know."

the other girl snorted, "she's like super pretty in general. and she can kick ass!"

Inuyasha sighed, "Ladies I didn't ask how pretty or cool Kagome is I asked what happened."

The blushed and nodded, "sorry!" the first girl sighed, "then she like took a shower while we made some tea but when I went back to the bathroom she was gone, left her clothes and everything. she took my towel though. neither of us saw her leave, I mean her stealth skills are totally awesome and she's really tough but we where still worried about her. so you know if she's okay?"

Inuyasha nodded, "yeah she's fine nothing to worry about." The two girls let out a relived sigh and started chatting to each other about how happy it made them knowing she was okay Inuyasha frowned, "hey do you still have her clothes from last night?"

one of the girls nodded and dug through her large purse pulling out a plastic bag filled with Kagome's clothes and wig, "yeah we where gonna see what she wanted us to do with it is we saw her again, we couldn't save the contacts sorry."

He nodded, taking the bag from her and quickly looking over the torn contents, it looks like a fucking tornado went through her clothes and they said she has a huge bruise on her side, what the hell happened last night? "thanks." they nodded and he walked off back down the hall, a new anger settling in as he reached the door of the room where the owner of Duchess was being held.

Miroku and Kouga instantly perked up when he walked into the room, "oh your here boss!"

He looked over to them and nodded, "yeah I had some other things to take care of. what are Sango and Rin doing here?"

The two females looked at Inuyasha coldly, Sango was the first to speak "Miroku told me that the bastard tried to touch our friend so I told Rin and we both agreed we wanted to get to chop off at least one of his fingers."

Inuyasha nodded, not really caring if the two girls took out their rage on the man currently tied to the chair, "okay then..but first," he turned to the owner of Duchess who was still trying to hold his pride together, "what the fuck did you do to her last night?"

The man grinned, "I told you I tried to give her what she wanted."

before Sango and Rin could scream at the man Inuyasha snarled causing everyone to flinch back, "BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!"

Rin blinked, "took the words right outa our mouth boss there's no way...hey whats that?"

Inuyasha tossed the bag to Rin who opened it and gasped, pulling out Kagome's shredded skirt and bikini top. Miroku and Kouga sucked in a breath too shocked to say anything, Sango made a sound that sounded like an angry beaten cat, "did he...did her rape her?"

Rin shook her head in denial tears threatening to spill from her eyes, "Did he...boss? did he d-do that to her?"

Inuyasha shook his head, "She didn't smell like another man, not that deeply. but I don't know how far he really got with her, she washed his sent from her body."

Miroku took a deep breath, "but he didn't actually rape her?"

"No but I'm curious," he turned his full attention back on the man he was itching to kill, "what exactly did you do to her?"

The man just laughed, enjoying the thought that he might have the upper hand over one of the most feared men in Japan.

Another snarl from inuyasha and a quick swipe of his claws and the man was missing a finger. He screamed as blood flowed from his hand and onto the floor, Inuyasha watched him with cold rage, "so do I have to ask again?"

"your just pissed your bitch is a cheating whore!"

another finger, another scream, "I don't think I heard you correctly, I could have sworn you just called her a whore but that wouldn't be right would it?"

The man opened his mouth to reply when Inuyasha's phone went off, He picked it up and saw a text from shippo: Kagome's here. she wants to know where the owner of Duchess is. I told her to wait in the security room while I checked where he was held on my laptop in my office, what should I do now?

Inuyasha furrowed his brows wondering why Kagome wanted to see the owner of Duchess but dismissed the thought, just send her here, I'm with him so it doesn't matter.

okay. thanks.

He looked up, "Sango, Rin go do something else."

The girls looked at him shocked, "BUT!"

"now."

the two sighed but recognized the finality in his tone and left, a few minuets of silence and quite whimpering from the injured party passed before Kagome walked it nodding to Miroku and Kouga then turning to Inuyasha, "he's missing two fingers?"

Inuyasha raised a brow, "yeah."

She frowned, "only two? has he said anything about the spiders?"

"nope not asking about them yet."

"then what the hell are you asking about?"

"what exactly he did to you."

hearing this the owner of Duchess looked up at Kagome, "so your the whore from last night? your even prettier like this..now be a doll and explain to your rabid dog that you were hitting on me and your the one who suggested we have sex."

Inuyasha growled at him and Kagome narrowed her eyes, "I did no such thing, you would try hump anything with a pussy and pretty face, I would never fuck something so pathetic."

Inuyasha smirked for a second but then remembered what the two girls in the hall had said, he looked her over noticing she was wearing a tight dark blue button up with a black and silver plaid skirt. He sighed and turned her towards him ignoring the confused look in her surreal eyes, silver shadow and black liner making them look even brighter and larger than usual, she kinda reminded him of a lost kitten like that. he threw the thought from his head as he popped open the bottom three silver buttons on her shirt, lifting it up as he went, when he had finished he found himself looking at an angry purple and yellowish bruise erupting from just above her hip and stopping somewhere in her shirt. he traced it lightly with his fingers, "you wanna tell me what really happened?"

she looked at his hand, embarrassed and ashamed, "he caught me off guard. he had tried to rape me, my clothes got torn in the struggled, he hit me in the side with a lamp knocking the wind outa me then pinned me to the desk...you know what happened after that."

he brushed a finger lightly across the damaged skin, "are you leaving anything else out?"

She laughed lightly, "I unplugged your alarm clock last night not wanting to wake up today, as a result you ended up sleeping in and being late for whatever?"

He chuckled pulling down her shirt and re buttoning it, "not exactly what I meant but good to know."

She nodded, "sooo...can I beat the crap outa him?"

Miroku and Kouga smiled, "thats our girl!"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "no."

She frowned, "why not?"

He shrugged, "you have other things to do, Sango and Rin want to see you." he leaned in closer to her, whispering in her ear so only Kagome could hear, "plus your hands start shaking whenever you glance at him. Ill take care of it, okay?"

"I dont need-"

"its not about what you need, its about what I want. now go." He watched he go before turning back to the man, "so since thats cleared up why don't you tell me what you know about The Spiders."

Back with Kagome:

Kagome walked Into Sango's room having already found Rins empty and sure enough the duo was sitting in Sango's large velvet comforter when they saw her then instantly sprang up and pulled her into a hug, "YOUR ALIVE!"

She scoffed at the two, "no I'm a fucking ghost of course i'm alive!"

The giggled and pulled her to the bed, asking a million questions about how she was hurt what happened and if she was really okay, receiving short answers and grunts for replies. Sango, getting tiered of the cat and mouse game she was playing threw in the question Kagome was no where near ready for, "So whats with Inuyasha? he got all super scary when that guy called you a whore. and I don't mean normal 'Ima fucking kill you' Inuyasha scary I mean, 'Im going to make you wish you where dead this is gonna hurt so bad' Inuyasha scary."

Kagome hated that she could feel her face heat up when she recalled last night, the way he kissed her and called her his, the fact that it calmed her down, the fact she had been lulled to sleep by the feeling of his fingers in her hair and the sound of his breathing. She sighed, "how would I know?"

the two girls gave her a pointed look and Rin scoffed, "your blushing! you of all people are blushing! I call bullshit on your denial!"

Sango nodded, "and you look extra pretty today, wore that outfit me and Rin insisted you look great in. sooo has someone decided to admit her attraction to her boss? I mean sure you may not like him very much but you have to admit that you like certain things about him."

Kagome sighed, "I cant admit something I'm unsure of."

Sango flopped down and screamed into her pillow out of frustration before snapping an angry glare at Kagome, "OH COME ON HOW THE HELL COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE UNSURE!"

"I dont want to mistake respect and admiration for attraction."

The two other girls blinked, "respect and admiration?"

"yep. Inuyasha is the strongest male I have ever met and is a worth opponent, I will admit I think I respect and maybe even admire him a bit for that. as for the attraction I think your confusing it with that feeling of respect."

Rin face palmed, "holy crap you trying to dissect your feelings like a science project. kagome you don't blush about people you respect!"

She frowned, "I wasn't blushing."

Rin glared at her, "okay think about this scenario for a second don't interrupt just think, lets say that Kikyo gets her old ranking back and she starts sleeping with Inuyasha again, and he kicks you out of his place upon her request. how would you feel?"

Kagome raised a brow, "I would find him to be a pathetic man who thought with his penis over his brain and lose all respect for him, furthermore I would hate her, I like his place and she does not deserve such a high ranking."

Sango sighed, "okay then...how would you feel if they where dating?"

"thats impossible he has no feelings for her."

Rin looked at Sango then back to Kagome, "Okay so lets say a new girl come along and she takes a liking to Inuyasha, he likes her too. they start dating, fall in love, one day get married. then how would you feel."

Kagome was silent for a minute, starring at her lap brows furrowed, Imagining Inuyasha falling in love with some women. An image of him holding some faceless women to him like he held her the night before passed through her mind and her chest tightened uncomfortably, "I-I don't think I would like that very much...it makes my chest hurt...why does it do that?"

The two girls squealed as Kagome rubbed and poked at her chest trying to rid herself of the feeling, worried it would be permanent, until Sango grabbed her wrist. She looked up confused and Sango smiled, "the feeling wont go away until you feel re assured or see him again, trust me."

Kagome frowned, "thats not good, what will I do if I need to battle. you cant have respiratory problems in a fight."

Hearing this Sango looked dumbfounded and Rin burst out laughing, "OH MY GOD! THAT...THATS JUST..." She tumbled to the floor laughing and gasping. climbing back onto the bed when she calmed down, "Honey you don't have Respiratory problems, you like Inuyasha."

Kagome blinked, "I think you hit your head Rin, we have gone over this. I hate the man."

Sango nodded, "we know, but you like him too, its called a love hate relationship. you like him but at the same time cant stand him."

"I refuse to believe I like him."

Rin sighed, "okay how did you feel last time he kissed you?"

Before she could stop herself the words where out of Kagome's mouth, "Uh...well hmmm It wasn't bad I guess. I felt different? safer maybe? uhhhh okay?"

The starred at her, Rin furrowed her brows, "that sounds nothing like the parking lot when was the last he kissed you?"

"uh last night?"

the two girls stared at Kagome, "HE KISSED YOU LAST NIGHT AND YOU DIDNT TELL US! BAD KAGOME!"

Kagome nodded, "y-yeah.."

The both sighed and Sango smiled, "okay Kagome heres what we want you to do, kiss him."

The raved haired girl looked at her like she had grown a second head, "huh?"

"When he's not expecting it, kiss him. let us know how he responds and how you feel okay? it will help you understand the love hate thing and its about timed you learned about attraction."

"will you drop it if I do?" the two girls nodded and she sighed, "fine. I will, but first Im going to go beat the shit outa things in the training room." before the two girls could respond Kagome was out the door.

with Inuyasha a few hour's later.

Miroku sat next to Kouga in the interrogation room starring at the blood spattered wall his boss was leaning against, "Uh you know boss you didn't have to keep torturing him after he told us what we needed."

Inuyasha raised a brow, "I know, but it made me happy. Oi Kouga get rid of the body."

Kouga nodded and picked up the dead man now wrapped in plastic. When he left Miroku sighed, "You know Inuyasha, cutting off all his fingers and toes, pulling out his teeth, gouging out his eyes, cutting off his tongue, then decapitating him was a little extreme."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "I also burned the shit outa his wounds. couldn't have him bleeding everywhere."

Miroku looked around the room, "Uh...you practically painted the room and us all red."

Inuyasha laughed darkly, "did I? oops."

"Is this about Kagome?"

Inuyasha glared at his friend, "what makes you think that?"

"you where awfully protective and defensive of her... your usually not like that about anyone..did you continue to torture him because you where angry he touched Kagome?"

"and if I did?"

"I'd ask you if you have feeling's for the girl."

Inuyasha shrugged, "I may or may not have decided she was mine."

"and when deciding this did you give her a choice?"

Inuyasha starred at him like he was an idiot, "She doesn't have one. whats mine is mine and thats that."

Miroku sighed frustrated, "Kagome isn't a toy or your apartment, she's a living being who I think would like a say in becoming something under the category of yours!"

"it doesn't matter what she would like she doesn't get a say."

"why the hell not?!"

"she would say no."

Miroku glared at his long time friend, "Inuyasha your being ridiculous and stubborn you cant just claim Kagome as yours!"

"sure I can."

"she's much to free spirited and rebellious to allow it."

"she can't object to something she doesn't know about."

"so your just going to go on considering her yours without telling her?"

Inuyasha smirked, "yep. she lives with me it wont be hard keeping track of her."

"INUYASHA! she is not a pet!"

"No she's a Kagome. a very rare species of cat-like women who tend to have horrible tempers and enjoy killing things, food, and sleeping. Its easy to keep a Kagome if you give her enough of these things and occasionally comply to her odd whims."

Miroku mouthed 'to keep a Kagome' several times before shaking his head, "fine but when this bites you in the ass Im so going to rub it in your face, that girl cannot be kept."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and went back to his apartment to shower, when he got out of the shower and walked into the living room Kagome was lying on the couch eating wonton strips and watching t.v. and Miroku said she couldn't be kept . "your back."

She looked up at him briefly, "your shirtless. any other obvious things we should point out?"

He rolled his eyes, "your always rude, obnoxious, and annoying?"

"ehh? at least I leave my bodies with their head." when he looked up she pointed at the t.v. it was flipped to the news talking about the fire at Duchess and the owners murder, "I mean the investigators or whatever are all in your pocket so you have nothing to hide but would it kill you to try hiding it?"

He grunted and flopped down next to the section she was lying on glad his huge couch took up most of his living room with its odd turns, "takes too much time to hide it." he looked at the story on t.v. for a few minuets until he felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned to see Kagome on all fours, looking rather cat-like, curiously and cautiously leaning in closer, and closer until she was hesitantly kissing him. he felt his eyes widen as hers closed, what the hell? Her lips where soft and hesitant on his screaming out her innocent curiosity to him, he turned to fully face her and cupped her neck before binging her deeper into the kiss. she stiffened for a moment before responding to his touch allowing his lips to guide hers. smirking against her he deepened the kiss even more sliding his tongue past her slightly parted lips. she squeezed his shoulders tightly before relaxing and meeting his exploring tongue with her own.

A few minutes went by with the kiss become hotter and more needy, Kagome didn't really understand why she had listened to Sango and Rin but was relieved to find the painful tightness in her chest disappeared when Inuyasha had kissed back, replaced with the familiar warm tickley feeling she got when he kissed her in the parking lot and last night, Ill have to ask Sango and Rin about that feeling later...they seem to know a lot about this love hate thing. Realization hit her and she pulled back, "Oh! Inuyasha! do you know what a love hate relationship is?"

He looked at her confused for a second and she removed her hands from his shoulders, "uh yeah why?"

"Sango and Rin says we have one, they said I would understand it better if I kissed you, but I still don't get it. can you explain it?"

Inuyasha felt his eye twitch, You have got to be fucking kidding me. I am going to fucking kill Sango and Rin. "You wouldn't understand."

"I would so is someone actually told me something other than it means I like you but I hate you."

He raised a brow and grinned, tilting up Kagome's chin, "Oh so little miss rebel like's the big bad wolf ne?"

She glared at him, "you more of a Shiba Inu loud, over confident, annoying little things. I ate one once a while back, they didn't taste very good but their fluffy, make good hats."

He glared right back, "yeah love hate relationship sound's about right now that I think about it. and did you know Shiba Inu's get along well with cats but have a bad tendency to bite when said feline scratches them?"

She snorted, "yeah because they are to retarded to realize cats don't like annoying brats."

She stuck her tongue out at him and he growled, "do you ever even try to say something that isn't annoying or bitchy?"

"you just think its bitchy because you know it's true."

"is not!"

"is too!"

"God your so fucking annoying!"

"Im annoying!? YOUR AN EGOTISTICAL, SELF ENTITLED, BASTARD! AND YOUR ANNOYING!"

"AND YOUR A FUCKING LUNATIC WITH ABSOLUTELY NO REALIZATION OF REALITY OR MORALS!"

She lunged at him in an attempt to strangle the life out of him and they both went tumbling to the floor, "FUCK YOU!"

"YOU WISH YOU LITTLE BITCH" they both started throwing punches and Kagome even threw a lamp at his head, never stopping hurling insults at each other, eventually their fist fight turned back into a screaming match, Kagome would threaten to gouge out his eyes and Inuyasha would threaten to throw her out the window. She called him a ball-less bastard and he called her a brainless bitch.

she told him he couldn't handle her and thats he was on his 'eternal period' and he shot back that he could. she told him to prove it. He pinned her to the wall and kissed her only pulling back when she thought she would faint from lack of oxygen, "ohhhhh so thats what a love hate relationship is."

He rolled his eyes and looked around his apartment, "No Kagome thats fucking destructive."

"so its our kind of love hate relationship then."

"I never even said I liked you much less loved you."

"ehh? neither did I."

He looked her over as she leaned against the wall, "You not ugly though, not too horrible to be around sometimes either"

She smiled to herself, "You ain't too bad yourself dog boy. and destroying your place is fun."

He chuckled and shook his head, "I would say you have to stop killing my apartment but you needed that didn't you?"

She smiled mischievously at him, "I have needed a lot of things in life Inuyasha but your the first one to give them to me." He nodded and they stayed silent for a few minutes until she sighed, "so what now?"

"hmmmn?"

"the love hate thing...do we pick one or what? I have no idea how these things work and I figured since your a whore you should know."

He rolled his eyes, "I haven't ever been in a love hate relationship, most people don't have those you know, its usually one way or the other with me. but hey let life run its course, we either kill each other or we don't."

"uh...okay something tells me that wont sit right with Sango Im not even sure its sits right with me."

Inuyasha shrugged, "Feh. wench they don't have to know and it will be fine just deal with it, it wont be any different than our usual life now we just admitted that we don't fully hate each other. its really nothing."

She furrowed her brows, "well okay...but if this backfires its all your fault."

he sighed, "mmhhmm whatever." with that Kagome left the room claiming there was no way she was going to 'clean that shit up' Inuyasha watched her go smirking with his eyes focused on the movement of her body as she walked away, feh. cant keep a Kagome my ass.

and a quick note to all of you who read Sweet Dreams and don't check my profile. The next chapter of Sweet Dreams will be late. Im sick and I just can't think sex when i'm sick.