Disclaimer: Inuyasha is still not mine. Sad.

Chapter 8

**Kagome Pov**

He looked at me with those golden orbs, straight. Unwavering. He opened his mouth and said, "Kagome, I'm going to die."

Right then, my world collapsed. He is . . . he is going to . . . die? How can that be? Now I felt my hands shaking. I tried to control them to try and stop them from shaking. But it wasn't working. Now my whole body was shaking, from head to toe. The idea of him dying was unreal. It wasn't even possible. If he died, I wouldn't know what I would do. How would I live? If I did live, how would I survive? He must be joking. I looked up and he stared at me with serious eyes. I could tell he wasn't kidding. He was serious. But why would he tell me now? Why didn't he tell me sooner? Did he not trust? Did he think that I wasn't important enough to tell me his secrets? Why? I could feel my mind going berserk. All these thoughts in my head are jumbled. My thoughts can't connect to my brain anymore. What he just said, made my whole body numb and crazy. I still kept shaking not knowing what else to do.

It looks like he noticed because he grabbed me and pulled me into him. Being so close to him made me scared, but almost pleased. He pressed me into him and I could smell him. I could smell his mesmerizing scent. It made my mind and body go weak. My body wasn't shaking anymore and my mind wasn't jumbled anymore. All that was left was the thoughts that were left in my head. All of them kept saying, he's going to die.

I felt a tingle in my nose. I felt myself crying. I can't cry right now. I need to ask him something. But my body didn't listen to my mind. I couldn't help myself stop crying even though I want so badly to ask him many questions. However, my eyes kept on producing tears and Inuyasha just held me until I felt my mind and body go to sleep. I went to sleep with his scent still on me.

"Kagome, wake up." I heard someone calling me. Who was it? "Wake up." I groaned wanting to have more sleep. I was too tired to do anything right now. "Wake up." Someone was shaking me and shaking me. I groaned. So annoying. "Kagome! Wake up!" I wanted to slap them so badly - so I did. I slap the person who was annoying me this early in the morning. "Damn it. That really hurt!"

I sat up from my bed and rubbed my eyes to get the sleep out of them. I opened my eyes and the image was blurry then became clear. I saw Inuyasha rubbing the imprint of my hand where I slapped him. He looked angry. Well he deserved it. Waking me up like that.

"What did you do that for!"

"What do you mean, 'what did I do that for?' You were the one who was shaking me so hard that it probably would've killed me. Plus, I was sleeping. You don't wake up a girl when their sleeping! What are you doing anyway?" I looked at the clock to see it was already 11:00.

"Not a surprise that you didn't remember."

"Wha-what do you mean?" Does he mean . . .

"Our date of course." Inuyasha said interrupting my thoughts.

"Da-da-da-date? Date . . . date!" My face was getting all read, it annoyed me so much. "Now why on earth would I go on a date with you."

"Today's Sunday, so we said that we would meet today for our study date."

"Study date?" Now it came back to me. The library. We still have to do that damn project for History. "A study date is not a date, it's just two people who happen to meet at the same place and time spending time together."

"Yeah, that's so not a date. Okay, call it whatever you want because you are going anyway. Now get ready, you look like a hag. I still have a reputation to uphold"

Now I was really mad. I put a fist up in the air with my face filled with anger. "Why you-" *Slam* Before I could finish the sentence, Inuyasha shut the door. That little punk!

I took off my covers and headed towards the bathroom. I looked in the mirror. Damn it, he was right. I look horrible. Once again, my eyes were puffy from crying. I rinsed my face trying to make my face have a little more life. It was looking a little paler than usual. I went back to my bedroom to pick out some clothes. I quickly dressed in them eagerly to go downstairs. Once I was finished, I grabbed my bag and took off towards the kitchen.

I saw Inuyasha already talking to my mom. I hope she's not talking about baby stuff again. I didn't even bother to talk to my mom, so I took Inuyasha by the arm and guided him out the house. I shut the door behind me and kept walking forward.

"Kagome are you alright?"

"I'm fine," I snapped. I just wanted to get going. The quicker this is the sooner I get to be home. I looked around the street to see any car around. But there wasn't any. Just my mom with her small Subaru. "Where's your car?"

"My rides right in front of you." I looked straight in front of me to find a black motorcycle with two helmets on the seat. A motorcycle. You have got to be kidding me. He's got to be mental if he thinks I am going to ride on that thing.

I start heading in the direction of the library down the sidewalk. I could feel his footsteps close behind me. He grabbed my arm and I quickly turned around. "Kagome, I don't think you want to walk."

"I would rather walk, than ride on that thing."

"Kagome, you have never even ridden on a motorcycle."

"And I would like it to stay that way." I started to walk again.

"Fine, so I guess I'll just meet you there and you can walk by yourself."

He started to walk away. Wait, he was just going to leave me. I thought he would at least walk with me too. But of course, it's Inuyasha. I still don't like to walk alone. I mean some perv could come out at any minute and kidnap me

Without a second thought, I ran up to Inuyasha. I felt him smirking, "Don't say a thing."

Inuyasha kicked his leg over the motorcycle. Show off. I tried to copy what he did, but the motorcycle was too big. I didn't know how to get around it. It was like a boulder or something. I kept trying to go on the motorcycle, but every time kept landing on the pavement. Damn it.

"Here let me help." Before I could protest, Inuyasha already lifted me onto the motorcycle. i felt my face blushing because his hands were touching me. I looked away, so he couldn't see my face was getting red all over. He didn't say anything and just sat on the motorcycle. "Here's your helmet." I would say I wouldn't need one, but an image of getting me killed restrained me from saying anything. I just took the helmet and put it on, so it was securely fastened.

"Okay, ready?" I just nodded answering his question. Without hesitation, Inuyasha started the motorcycle and we were already on our way. I held onto him for dear life. I wrapped my arms around him. Man, I bet he's enjoying this. I pressed against his body smelling his scent again. I felt like I didn't want to let go. Like if I did then I would lose him forever. I felt my arms getting tighter. I wanted to believe that if I kept my arms wrapped around him, that he wouldn't die and wouldn't leave me. Inuyasha, promise me that you won't die and leave me, so I am left alone.

"How are you holding up?" I guess he felt my death grip.

"Uh, just fine."

Finally, we stopped. I didn't want to let go, but I had to. I jumped right off the motorcycle. I looked up and saw a restaurant. "Wait a minute, this isn't the library."

"Well, I figured that you were hungry because you didn't eat any breakfast. So I decided that we were going to eat first, then go to the library."

I was about to tell him that we need to get this assignment done, but I felt my stomach growl. "Okay, that's fine with me."

He led me to the front of the restaurant where the entrance was. When he opened the door, he was close enough to make me blush. I just kept walking hiding my face with a curtain of my hair hoping that he didn't see that. It would be too embarrassing.

There was a black box in front of me with a girl standing behind it. When I walked up to the box, she looked stunned then suddenly smiled. Guess she forgot she was here. Must be a boring job. "Hello, how many people will be joining you today?"

"There will be-"

"Actually, we already have reservations under Takahashi." Reservations?

She looked at a computer that was next to her and started to vigorously press the screen numerous times. "Ah yes, Inuyasha Takahashi. Please follow me." She grabbed two menus from the big stack and started heading towards a private room. She led us into the dark room with no windows, probably because they didn't want any sunlight in. Multiple lights hung from the dark ceiling only emitting a little amount of light. The room was filled with black tables with red cloths covering them and black chairs with red seat covers. Plus a couple of booths on the outside rim of the room with red curtains draping over them. It had a black and red theme which made it look like a vampire had designed it.

The room was almost vacant. Only a couple of people were in the private area. All the people were a bunch of couples. They were kissing, touching, pressing, and anything else a normal couple would do. Part of it made me mad because Inuyasha would even make reservations here, and another part of me wanted nothing more than what the couples were doing. I quickly shook my head trying to release such crazy and stupid thoughts.

"Here you go. Your server will be here in a moment." She swiftly walked off into another room.

We both sat down on the opposite sides of the table facing each other. Inuyasha immediately picked up the menu and searched through it deciding what he was going to order. I didn't wan tot think about food right now. I still had a lot of unanswered questions wandering through my mind.

"How did you know I was going to say yes?"

Inuyasha looked up from the menu and asked, "What do you mean?"

I figured he already knew the answer, but I decided to tell him anyway. "I mean you made reservations."

"So what?" I could see him trying to hide the fact that he was smirking. He already knows what I mean.

Man, he was really making me mad. He was going to make me explain it to him, wasn't he. "You knew I was going to agree to eat with you, since you already made the reservations."

He smiled, "Yeah I know. I just wanted to hear you say it." That does it, you smart ass. I hit him across the head with the menu. I sat back down on my seat and returned to scanning the menu not wanting to deal with anymore.

We didn't say anything after that. We ordered our food and just sat there in silence with only the sound of us chewing.

I looked straight at Inuyasha. He was just eating and staring at his plate not even glancing in my direction. I felt a prick of disappointment stab my heart. He seemed so calm and not unstable at all. How could he not remember what he said to me last night? Doesn't he feel anything. Kagome, I'm going to die. It kept replaying in my mind again. It made me feel sick to my stomach and a aching feeling inside my heart. I felt water collecting at the bottom of my eyes. I tried blinking away the tears, but a couple of tear drops left my eyes.

"Kagome, what's wrong?" His voice was gentle and soothing. It made my eyes water more because it reminded me of the Inuyasha I loved. And still love.

I just stared at the table because if I looked at him it might make me burst into tears. "Inuyasha, about what you said the other night . . ." my voice was a whisper now, "about dying. What did you mean?"

I nervously waited for his answer and wanted so desperately for him to say that it didn't happen or he didn't mean to say it. Or something that told me what I thought was wrong. Instead he said, "Man, I hoped we wouldn't have to discuss this."

"Well it's a little hard to try and avoid this." Then it was silent. It made me a little relieved that he wasn't saying anything because I was too scared for what I was going to hear. But also made me even more sad because he didn't want to tell me. Like he didn't trust me or something. I didn't want that. "Please, you need to tell me." Now I was crying - again. It made me feel like I was a helpless child, which maybe I was. Still, the thought of him dying couldn't help, but make me like this.

I felt Inuyasha's arms on me. It felt comforting and made me a little more stable. "I'm sorry Kagome. I didn't do this to make you cry - believe me. It's just that it's a little hard to tell you. I know that it's hard to grasp, but please remember that it's just as hard for me as it is for you." My tears were starting to dry up and the water stopped coming

Inuyasha didn't return to his seat, and instead just stayed here holding me. It felt like it was just him and me right now. Inuyasha and Kagome.

I know that this is really late. I'm so sorry. I know that I already said that, but I am sorry. It's just that it's summer and I have a lot of traveling ahead of me. I didn't have enough time to write the next chapter. Well here it is. In this chapter, it kind of leads up to when Inuyasha is going to tell Kagome his big secret and the truth of all the lies. Then the next chapter is when the truth unfolds. Hope you liked this chapter and will keep reading. Please review because I want to know what you think. Thanks.

~bluecosmos103~