Chapter sixteen: Falling For You

"What do you mean? You said to try and not get my room messy, so I didn't."

"You actually listened? Wow, that's an improvement."

"Feh."

"So then, can I go back home? Or is there something you need?" Kagome asked.

"Oh, no, you're not going anywhere, you're going to tell me why you were so late today!" Inuyasha said, picking her up bridal style, and throwing her down onto a couch.

"I don't have to tell you anything." She said, wanting to keep Sango's affairs fairly private.

"Yes, you do." He said, smirking.

"I am sworn to secrecy." Kagome said, pulling an imaginary zipper over her mouth.

"Well, then I guess I'll just have to make you tell me." Kagome's eyes widened, she didn't exactly know what to expect, she didn't know the guy all too well, but it seemed like she did, for some reason anyway. Inuyasha got on top of Kagome's small form, and held her legs down with his knees, so there wouldn't be any kicking.

"What are you doing?" She shouted, trying to struggle out of his hold, but to no avail.

"Still not going to tell me?"

Kagome shook her head, saying no. An evident grin appeared on Inuyasha's face. Inuyasha began to tickle Kagome lightly. She struggled to stifle her fit of giggles. She was so ticklish it was rather odd. But Kagome stayed true to her word, for a while anyways. Inuyasha began to pick up the pace, and grabbed her waist, and continued her prolonged torture. Finally Kagome gave in.

"Ah! Okay! Okay! I'll tell! I'll tell! Just…stop…!" She giggled.

"Stop what?" Inuyasha said, who now had a hold of one of her feet.

"Tickling me!!!" She screamed, accompanied by rapid laughter.

"Say, Inuyasha is so much better than me."

"Inuyasha… is so much worse than me." Inuyasha tickled her fiercely, and Kagome gave in again.

"Inuyasha is so much better than me."

"Say, you are the most handsome, fastest, and strongest."

"I am the most beautiful, fastest, and strongest."

"Kagome, don't make me!"

"Kagome, don't make me!" She repeated. Inuyasha sighed, and figured that was as far as he could push her. Inuyasha got off of her, and almost immediately she bolted from the couch, and made a break for the door. She was having fun with this game, obviously.

"Catch me if you can!" She giggled.

Inuyasha was getting a bit frustrated, all he wanted to know was why she had been late, and she was making into this huge deal, what was with her? Something important must have happened. Right now, he had to catch Kagome before she hurt herself.

Kagome ran around the room crazily, jumping over beanbags, chairs, and even small tables.

"Come on Kagome! This is getting old!" Inuyasha said, the only thing separating them was his bed. He moved to the left, and she moved to her left. He moved to the right, and she moved with him. Then Kagome decided it would be fun to go out onto the balcony, she was acting like a little child. Kagome burst open the glass door, and ran out onto the balcony, however, running backwards on a balcony you've never been on before might not have been the best idea.

"Kagome! Be careful! You could fall ov—!"

Kagome screamed, she was holding onto the railing of the balcony, and she was easily fifty feet in the air. She noticed the thin metal rail wasn't meant to hold much more than sixty pounds, and was giving way.

"Inuyasha! Help!"

"Hachi, I want you to look after Sango, and see if she'll ever forgive me. I really think that she was telling me the truth. It's just a tough choice, Hachi, do you understand? I don't want anything bad to happen to her that can be prevented, or, my friend, I'm afraid you won't be happy for quite a while

Hachi, fully understanding his master's request, nodded, and hurried off back to his job.

Miroku sighed, and grabbed for his desk stress ball. He had no idea why he kept it, but it did make him feel better. Miroku sat in silence for a while, pondering how he was going to get Sango to forgive him. He had just sided with Naraku, not even bothering to ask for her side of the story. Sango did have some good points. Had Naraku really just wanted to use self-defense, he could have knocked her out by the pressure points in her neck, everyone in their ranks knew that, it was common sense. But the thing that puzzled Miroku the most, was that Naraku said that Sango had passed away during their battle, what was that all about? And another thing that occurred to Miroku that made him feel like the stupidest guy in existence; was that Naraku wasn't even supposed to be checking in on that sector.

Miroku slammed his fist down on his desk in certain anger, wishing he could take back everything he had done to Sango, switching her jobs, yelling at her, everything. The amount of guilt he felt was tearing at his very being. The need to hold Sango in his arms was so strong; he could almost feel her in his arms, saying that everything would be all right. As for now, everything wasn't all right. He had to find that damned videotape! Then he could force Naraku into exile with a reason. Inuyasha probably would have sided with his friend about getting rid of Naraku no matter what the tape showed. Miroku decided he would ask Inuyasha about it now. He also needed to discuss the matter about Kikyo. She was coming for a visit in three weeks, and wanted to set up 'arrangements', Miroku had tried to tell her that Inuyasha had made up his mind and moved on, but she insisted.

Miroku picked up his phone and dialed the investigating team.

"Hello, investigating sector here,"

"Hey, Shippo?"

"The team is not here right now, if you would like to leave a message for one of the main investigators, press one now."

Miroku, slightly annoyed, hit one.

"If you would like to speak with 'Shippo', please hit—"

Beep. Miroku hit one before the stupid machine could finish.

"You have chosen to leave a message for Shippo, leave your message, name, and number after the beep."

Beep!

"Hey Shippo, it's Miroku, call me back as soon as you can, thanks." Miroku said, and then hung up abruptly. He needed to tell Inuyasha about all of this, after all, he was Inuyasha's advisor, it was his job to 'advise', and that's just what he was going to do.

"Inuyasha!!!!!" Kagome screamed, she lost her fingering, and began her decent downwards.

"Kagome!!" Inuyasha, without a second thought, jumped off the balcony, and ran down the side of the castle. Luckily, he made it down way before she did. From down there, he had a pretty good view of her panties. Quickly shaking the perverted thoughts out of his head, Inuyasha leapt into the air and caught Kagome in one swift movement.

"Whoa, thanks Inuyasha!" Kagome said before passing out. Inuyasha sighed, and jumped back up to the balcony. Inuyasha barely had time to place Kagome on his bed before there was a knock at the door. He tucked the covers over her shoulders before he responded.

"Who is it?" Inuyasha demanded.

"Miroku."

"Oh, alright, come on in." Inuyasha said.

Miroku opened the doorway, to witness a girl sleeping in his lord's covers.

"Uh, was I interrupting something?" He asked.

Inuyasha blushed slightly, realizing what Miroku was referring to. Yeah, having a girl asleep in your bed would give one that impression.

"No! Miroku! I wouldn't do that!" Inuyasha said loudly.

"Okay! Okay! I trust she won't wake up then?" Miroku asked.

"She shouldn't, why?"

"Because, I have some things I need to tell you."

Inuyasha nodded, finally someone was going to tell him something. Unlike Kagome over there, who had almost gotten herself killed because she wouldn't tell him. The thought of losing Kagome made Inuyasha shiver, he wanted her near him; that much he was sure of.

"So what's going on, Miroku?"

"Well we have two issues at hand here. Do you want the first one or the second one?"

"I don't care, whichever one is better news than the other."

"Okay then, well, there was a breach in the demonic testing lab yesterday, we don't know who did it, or anything."

"That's the better news?! What in the hell could be worse than that!?" Inuyasha practically screamed. Unknown to either men; Kagome was listening to the whole thing, she had woken up at the sound of Inuyasha's screaming when Miroku came.

"Well, the worse news is that Kikyo is coming for a 'visit' in three weeks or less."

"Oh. That is worse news."

Kagome cracked an eye open, and listened hard, trying to recall who Kikyo was. Then it came to her. It was the bitch that had broken her nose!

Kagome was pretty weary about Kikyo's return, she hadn't liked that woman since the first second she laid eyes on her. That hate only grew after she had broken her nose. Which happened to still be broken. Kagome relieved her mind of the complaints, and focused on what Miroku and Inuyasha were saying.

"Didn't you tell her that I didn't want to see her again?"

"Yes, about five times actually. I don't know what you even saw in her before anyways, I mean what could have possibly possessed you to like her? Besides, I think Kagome would make a much better bride than Kikyo anyhow."

"What?!"

"Oh come now, lord Inuyasha, surely you know you love her. It is quite obvious you know. For crying out loud, you let her sleep in your bed! And you let her have some of the most expensive dresses that our designers have made!"

Kagome felt really guilty about the dresses now. She was certain she owed much more than her life to Inuyasha, seeing as how he had saved her. How could she repay him? He already owned just about everything there was, even her. Kagome was also flattered that Miroku thought highly enough of her to compare her to one of royal status, even if she was a conceited self-absorbed loser. Royalty was royalty.

"Inuyasha, what are you going to do? We certainly don't need Kikyo breathing down our necks, and the formula from the lab is nowhere to be found."

"Give it time, Miroku, they can always figure it out again, and as for Kikyo, call her and tell her she is not permitted on these grounds." Kagome silently cheered from her listening spot from under the covers, nothing was going to get in between her, and her Inuyasha! …Her Inuyasha? Where had that come from? Was she honestly falling for this dog demon lord? It was very possible.

"But lord Inuyasha, she could declare war on your kingdom."

"Let her, they come form a lesser kingdom, and couldn't possibly take down our army."

"But Inuyasha! Her widowed mother has married into a much higher class, they now equal our status."

Inuyasha paused for a moment, then sighed in defeat. "Fine, let her come." Kagome's heart sank.

"Okay, Miroku, let Kikyo come, and send as many search teams to find that formula as you possibly can, the first team to obtain that formula splits a three million reward pool, is that clear?"

"Yes sir, have a good day."

"Oh, Miroku."

"Yes?"

"Cut the 'sir' and 'lord' crap, you know I won't allow friends to call me that."

"Right Inuyasha, it just slipped my mind, sorry." Miroku said, and then slipped out the door to perform his lord's wishes.

Kagome decided this was a good a time as any to 'wake-up'. Inuyasha came over, and sat by her side.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Hmm? Oh, yes, I'm fine." Kagome said, sitting up, and getting ready to leave. Inuyasha held her down.

"You still haven't told me why you were late!" He said, gritting his teeth. This was getting really old, really fast.

"Fine, but will you do me a favor?" She asked.

"It depends, now tell me why you were late Kagome! It's not that hard!"

"Alright already! I just woke up late is all."

"That's it? That's why you were late?" Inuyasha asked, he could hardly believe his ears, there had to be something else.

"Why did you get up so late?"

"I just forgot to set my alarm, it's that simple."

Inuyasha could sense Kagome lying from a mile away. He decided to play along though.

"Something tells me you're not telling the whole story. It wouldn't happen to be linked with that Naraku incident, would it?"

"You're not going to let this drop, are you?"

"Nope, now answer me."

"Fine. Yes, it is, Sango was guarding the lab when Naraku demanded entrance, he attacked her, and she was just doing her job by attacking him, so he knocked her over, she couldn't win, and he ended up making the whole place fall down, and then Sango went to tell this all to Miroku, and turn Naraku in, but Miroku didn't believe her, but he believed Naraku, so he fired her off of the defense squad, and put her in this maid job, and so she kept me up all night crying, so I accidentally slept in, okay? I'm sorry."

Kagome said in a rush. Inuyasha's head was spinning. This was all new to him. He really didn't like Naraku, and he knew Miroku didn't either. The only reason Naraku had been hired in the first place was because of his tactics, and he would have proven useful, however, now that he had betrayed his own kingdom, he proved to be a threat.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, I'll go now."

"Wait, Kagome, you didn't do anything wrong. Why are you so upset?" Kagome looked away.

"Inuyasha, I really don't know where to begin. I'll think about it tonight, and let you know tomorrow. In the mean time, have a nice day." Kagome said.

"One more thing, what was that favor you needed?"

"Do you know how I could get some money? I need to get something for a friend."

"Yeah, how much do you need?" Inuyasha asked.

"Inuyasha, I couldn't I already owe you so much… I can't."

"Yes, you can, now what do you want to buy?"

"I'm not sure, I was going to go look around the market."

"You think 500 dollars would cover it?" He asked.

Kagome's eyes widened. "That much? That's a lot!" Inuyasha just handed it to her like it was absolutely nothing.

Kagome walked over to Inuyasha, and have him another hug, this time, Inuyasha surprised Kagome by actually returning the hug. Kagome felt warmed by the abrupt act of kindness, and skipped slightly out the door.