Hello again! I'm sorry about the lateness of this chapter as well. I have been so busy with Tae Kwon Do and other craziness that's been happening but anyways my beloved god sister is coming to stay for a few days soon and I will dedicate all of that time to spend with her since I usually only see her twice a year at most, this is the fourth time I've seen her this year though! Three not so happy accounts but that's all right. Things are somewhat normal now. Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, Takahashi Rumiko, 高橋 留美子 does. I must apologize for forgetting to add this to the previous chapter.

Truth revealed

Sango's pov

I sat nervously as I awaited Kagome's answer. I could feel my heartbeat increase, but not by much to all of my training I was able to slow my heart rate to a certain degree of calmness, and my face became a little warmer. I felt her shift a bit in my lap and when I looked down at her I saw her face was a hairs' breathe away from mine and I felt her hot fragrant breathe blowing on my face.

"I don't know … Kaoru-kun. What do you think will happen if she says yes? Do you think you would date her and … finally stop lying to all those girls about having a girlfriend and then … maybe they will finally leave you all alone. And you will be all hers right?" Kagome stressed the word unnecessarily but I felt my breathing quicken in the slightest.

"I think … I would like it … very much to tell her that I am willing to do anything to win her heart and that I am … relieved that I can finally call her my girlfriend." I paused for a moment before I continued with what I knew was inevitable. "I do have to tell her something first … before she can accept me … if she will have me." She smiled and continued playing along with the charade, humoring me it seemed.

"Well she thinks that anything you say will do nothing to change her feelings for him." Her smile became brighter and a little more confident … is she actually smirking? She looks way too sexy for her own good! I want to kiss her so badly. Her breathe is already so intoxicating so I wonder … how sweet she tastes? "I think she really likes you Kaoru-kun. I don't think you say can change her feelings because she believes that love is blind and that she doesn't care about superficial things like looks, she thinks that personality is what counts. And it's because of Kaoru-kun's personality that she likes him so much not what he looks like, although she thinks it's a bonus that he is so pretty and handsome." She blushed, cutely, at the last part of what she said. I just smiled even wider, though it was more of a smirk though.

"Well if you are … sure … I will tell you … my secret. I really do hope that it doesn't change how you feel about me Kagome." I looked at her tenderly with serious eyes and her expression mirrored mine, albeit her eyes were the purest sky blue I had ever seen and her face much cuter. "I … I'm sorry for not telling you this even though it is something … important to know about me. I … I'm … not really a … um …," I paused to take a deep breath to calm myself down and gulped nervously. I'm really a … a woman … and … not a guy Kagome." I finally let it out and I felt a little better for having confessed to her how I felt and for telling her … what I really was. She looked at me in surprise and as I waited for her to become angry and for her eyes and face to betray feelings of disgust and hatred.

I had unconsciously closed my eyes and I held a breath in and breathed out slowly to calm the torrential storm going on in my mind and heart. I felt something soft rub against my cheeks and I opened my eyes to see that Kagome's face was even closer than when I had closed my eyes. There was virtually no space between our bodies and her face was close enough that they were just barely touching mine. I felt myself let out the breath that I hadn't realized I was still holding.

"I … don't care that you aren't a guy … Kaoru-kun. I don't care that you are a girl … because I didn't … fall for you because of your gender Kaoru-kun. I fell in love with you for who you are … your gentle and kind disposition … and for your wonderful personality." She looked at me with eyes filled with a kindness I had seen in them so many times but what made it different and made my heart beat so fast and out of control was the look of love I hadn't realized had always been there. She smiled at me and pressed her lips against mine gently and softly. It was only a moment before it registered in my head that my love had just pressed her lips against mine in a soft and tender first kiss.

It took me only a moment to respond to her kiss, in that moment when our lips started moving against each for the kiss to become so much more passionate and intense. When we had finally pulled back we were both so breathless but even so the second we took a breath our lips met again and again. It was a while before we stopped kissing to really catch our breath.

I smiled at her tenderly and gently ran my hand through her soft and silky hair to right it where I had messed it up when my hands had unconsciously placed themselves. She had her arms around my neck by the time we broke up only to stare at each other intensely.

I decided to ask her a question that had been weighing in my mind since she had told me she didn't care what gender I was. "Kagome …?" I pause to wait for her signal for me to continue and I smiled at her before continuing, "Did you really mean it … when you said that … you don't care that I am actually a woman after all?" I said hesitantly.

She looked surprised at then a little, "why would I say something I don't mean? I actually … prefer dating you knowing that you are a woman …" she explained shyly. I smiled at her answer and nodded at her to continue. "And that is because … I … don't really like … a guy's … um … anatomy … very much. I prefer a female anatomy over a guy's is what I'm trying to say. And well … what is your real name if you don't mind me asking and … you don't have to tell me if you don't want to but … why did you pretend to be a guy?" She said it so hurriedly I had to listen very closely and replay what she said in my head for a little while before I understood what she had asked me. I smiled at her and gave her lips a quick peck before I answered her, and even though we had just been sharing intense passionate kisses earlier her face flushed but not as red as she had been when we finally pulled away from each other.

I gave her another peck only this time on each of her cheeks as well as her lips because of how cute she looked when she was flustered and embarrassed. "Well … hmm … where do I start …?" I thought for a moment before I asked her, "do you remember how I said my family was slaughtered before?" She looked at me and, though it seemed she was a little dazed, she nodded. "That … has everything to do why I am here masquerading as I male in college." I paused it was a very hard subject for me after all. I felt her arms squeeze me around my neck a little to comfort me and encourage me.

I never got tired of how kind, caring, and gentle she was and I don't think I could ever get enough of her personality, as well as capturing her sweet lips in a kiss. I nuzzled her neck with my nose in return and I felt her skin warm considerably when it came into contact with my nose. I inhaled deeply the scent of sakura* that I loved and missed so much since I started living in the city to save my own life.

When I pulled my head back I smirked at her flushed cheeks and slightly parted lips. Temptation overcame me and I pressed our lips together once again and this time, since her lips were already parted, I pushed my tongue into her mouth causing her to gasp softly at the feel of my tongue rubbing against hers gently. I heard her moan loudly when I pressed my tongue against hers harder and our tongues started to rub against each other hard and lap at each other. I held her in place when I felt her squirming under my touch. I didn't even notice when she had but she had straddled my waist at some point earlier during our heated kisses. I only noticed because when squirmed against me she rubbed her lower half against mine seductively, albeit it was actually by accident, sensually slowly. I grinded my lower half against hers in response to her and she moaned low and loud into my mouth encouraging me. When we finally separated there was nothing I wanted more than to make love to her right then and there. I nuzzled her neck again with my nose and I kissed her neck gently and sniffed her again, oh god her sent was so intoxicating, and I nipped the skin and received moans and soft gasps for my effort.

I kissed up to her ear and nibbled it gently and I played with her lobe a little bit before I felt one of her hands had left my neck was making it's way down to my slightly open legs. It was my turn to moan when I felt her hand rub against my center through the fabric of my clothing. She pressed even harder receiving a much louder moan and I grind myself against that soft hand. I heard her moan at the contact. I was beside myself with joy that she had accepted me so easily and warmly. I was glad for having decided to wear shorts because they were made out of silk meaning that I could feel her fingers rubbing against me as if there was nothing in the way.

I hadn't even realized that she had slipped her hand into my shorts until I felt her fingers slipping into my panties and I felt her fingers hesitantly rub me. I shuddered and moaned loudly as she became bold and started applying more pressure with her fingers. I knew how wet I was and now she knew. She withdrew her hand to look at her fingers covered in a light coating of my wet arousal. She placed her fingers against her lips lightly and I saw her tongue dart out of her mouth to taste it and I saw the delight that ran across her face as she tasted my wetness with her tongue and soon she had shoved her fingers into her mouth and started sucking them clean. I was already aroused to begin with but I even more so now that I had not only witnessed the most arousing and sensual scene in my life the arousing and sensual creature went back for more! She had already reached past my shorts to touch me again and I heard myself groan and grind myself into her hand and she shivered and pressed even harder at my center and she repeated her earlier action.

I had literally forgotten what we were talking about earlier and how it had gotten to this point I don't know but I suddenly remembered when I heard her whisper 'Kaoru-kun'. I stopped her hand from going back for more and she paused to look at me in confusion. I smiled at her reassuringly and she seemed to relax a little before I explained myself and my reason for stopping.

"Kagome … you are just too … addicting. I got distracted from what we were doing earlier. It's really not because I don't want to … in fact it's quite the opposite … I really do want to pin against a wall and make love to you or if I can make it I'll pin you against a bed instead." I whispered in her ear seductively and I could her breathing increase and her heart thump loudly. I finished with that and continued with what I was going to say before I lost focus again. "My real name is (夕歌*) Yuu-uta, (燦御*) Sango. The reason why I lied to you about whom I truly am and hid my true identity … my name … was because of what happened in my village all those months (let's just say the story has progressed to about four months after Sango moved in with Kagome) ago. As I said everyone in my village was murdered when I had been training in the mountains for presumably three or four hours. When I came back the village had been left in a state of chaos despite the fact that we were a village of Taijiya. However I left out the part that I found a note waiting for me right on the door to my own home saying that they, whoever they are (she has yet to discover their name and true intentions other than what was written), thought of my village as a threat and knew that I had survived because my brother had been calling my name as they slaughtered him." I found my voice was caught in my throat as I relived the painful memory of seeing my brother's emotionless lifeless body as well as my parents. He was only 13 and barely lived before his life had just been snuffed out like the flames of a candle.

I felt myself near tears as I spoke and I had to stop. I felt gentle arms wrap around my back in a soft embrace. I hugged her back and I heard her whispering in a sweet and soothing tone in my ear. I hugged her tighter as I felt the beginnings of tears gathering in my eyes. I buried my head into her neck inhaling her soft fragrant hair. I sighed in content when I felt her running her hand through my hair with one hand while the other rubbed my back gently, comforting me.

"You must have been so distraught and shattered when you saw … that your entire family was murdered. Your entire village was murdered as well. People you all knew and were friends with. It must have been so hard for you to be alone and knowing that you were the only one who survived. Being the sole survivor makes you so lonely knowing that there is no one like you is left doesn't it?" I tried to speak but no words would come forth so I settled with nodding my head in answer. She held me tighter when a lone tear managed to escape from my eyes.

The hand that had been patting my back was now on my head, gently running tender fingers through my hair and she kissed the top of my head repeatedly. I felt so calm despite my sorrow because of this girl. She made my pain bearable and eased my pain in a way I never thought was possible, she made me feel so warm inside. Her touch was so soothing and calming. God I'm falling in love with her … or am I already in love? It doesn't matter which one it is … I just never want to let go of this warm feeling … I never want to let her go.

"Are you ok now? What should I call you now though? Is Sango ok when we're in private and when we're out in public Kaoru-kun?" She whispered softly in my ear. I shivered when I felt her lips moving against my ear. I looked up a little from her neck and smiled at her and nodded, I gently place my forehead against hers and rubbed them together tenderly. She smiled at me as we rubbed our foreheads together and she stared into my eyes. Her eyes sparkled with adoration and god how I loved her eyes filled with such kindness and tenderness as we stared at each other intensely with a passion barely hidden.

There were so many things I loved about this girl, her eyes so sky blue and beautiful but ever changing sometimes to a brilliantly dark sapphire color instead and sometimes in between, her adorable heart shaped face, her soft silky hair, she was the very epiphany of cute and kind. I loved the way her hair appeared to have blue highlights in it whenever the sun shined on it as well as how cute and adorable her voice sounded whenever she was excited.

I was brought out of my train of thoughts about my beloved Kagome and how sweet she was by Kagome herself. She had placed a hand against my cheek and she rubbed it gently. She smiled at me encouragingly to continue and I smiled back and put a hand on top of the one against on my cheek. "Everything that happened after that was all a blur. I ran to my home and grabbed the money stashed in my living room and I changed into the most modern and inconspicuous outfit in my house. I pulled my hair up and left for the city. I didn't know where I was going I just ran and ran until I ended up somewhere in Tokyo and one of the first things that happened to me was a kind older couple had seen me wandering the streets not knowing what to do or where to go. They asked me if I had anywhere to go and I had told them that I was lost and I had no where to go. They asked me to stay the night at their house because it had already become night before I realized it. They insisted and I agreed seeing as I couldn't do anything else." I felt Kagome's finger trace a slow circle against my cheek comfortingly. I rubbed my cheek into her finger for a moment before I continued. "They had a daughter who was also a college student they said she had left whatever clothes she didn't want and they gave it to me. They also gave me a suitcase to carry it all. I was lucky it seems that their daughter was a tomboy-ish, they apologized for the boyish clothing, kind of girl and she was also taller but not quite my height." I paused to think if anything else of importance happened. "Well I stayed there for a few days until I saw your ad and I applied telling them that I could finally find another place to stay and thanked them for their generosity. I showed them the date that I was to leave since you accepted my application almost immediately." I smiled fondly at the memories of the kind couple and how she was treated like family while she was there.

"And then you met me and you totally got the hots for me right?" Kagome said teasingly and kissed my blushing cheeks. I decided to play along and tease her.

"And so what if I did? Yeah that's right I just admitted to finding you quite attractive even when we first met. You looked so adorable and … well I couldn't help how I felt." I looked away to try to hide my flushed cheeks but I looked out of the corner of my eye to see she was blushing just as hard. I noticed her looking down and decided to catch her off guard, and I leaned in slowly and kissed each hot cheek in a slow and sensual kiss. She looked up when she felt my lips on her cheek and she had a dazed look on her face as I continued with the task at hand.

I smiled and pulled away. She was still very flushed when I picked her up from my lap and carried her like a child in my arms, and she didn't weigh much to begin with, and went down the hallway to my room. I set her down on my bed and lay down next to her. She was still very dazed as I stared at her. She seemed to snap out of her daze for a moment to look at me and I smiled and she returned the smile in such an adorable manner I fought the temptation to pinch her cheeks. I put an arm under her head while the other I placed around her waist and I pulled her towards me and closed my eyes. I fell asleep to the calming and slow sound of her breathing …

Kagome's pov (this will be very brief)

As I lay on Sango's arm, I really wanted say (or rather think) Kaoru-kun instead being so used to it, I thought back to what was said and done earlier. I couldn't help but blush at the memory of us kissing … I was also getting used to thinking of Kaoru-kun as Sango and that he was a she. I was being quite truthful in saying I preferred female anatomy over males'. To be honest I found it a bit … perturbing knowing what males had 'down there' and quite frankly I didn't find in the least bit appealing.

I sighed in content feeling Sango's, god it was so hard not to think of her as Kaoru-kun, arms around me and her hot breath fanning me in warmth as she slept. I finally understood why 'Kaoru-kun' was so cute in everything 'he' did. I also now understood why 'he' was always so graceful and adorable without meaning to.

What I looked forward to most was tomorrow, a Saturday, a day I could spend with Sango without any limits concerning school. I was also looking forward to Monday because the second her class ends I'm dashing to her class and making sure all of the girls, and if any guys, know that 'he' is taken and is mine alone.

I felt the draws of sleep gnawing at me because of how calm the day turned out to be, other than the nerve wrecking confessions and the passionate kissing. I turned onto my right side so that I was facing Sango and I smiled at the adorable expression on her face. She had a slight smile tugging at her lips and I wanted, ached, to kiss those soft and luscious lips again to feel the hunger and need in them.

I distinctively heard her whisper my name before sleep finally overtook me, and the last image I saw before I fell asleep as well was that of Sango smiling and hearing another soft "Kagome" muttered under her breathe in her sleep.

So there it is! I hope you enjoyed this story! I'm glad it didn't take me too, too long to write this. I usually get easily distracted by reading other fanfics so … yeah. All in all it usually takes me about two to three hours, maybe more if the chapter was particularly hard or if it was much longer and detailed, so that shows how distracted I get especially when it's a really good story! I can't stop until the end!

Oh and before I forget or get too distracted, ha ha, the asterisks * are little notes so here they are:

*sakura - are Japanese cherry trees, there are actually some in Washington D.C., and I was there before as a child and I have pictures of the back of the white house too! They were so magnificent and I remember the light pink, almost white, petals that surrounded me with such beauty …

*Yuu-uta – the literal translation for the name I chose is; yuu means evening, uta means song or modern poem. So the translation is Evening Song, I prefer this reading since it sounds much more beautiful to me.

*Lastly the meaning to Sango's name I chose was honorable. So her entire name would mean 'Honorable Evening Song', sounds pretty does it not? I'd like to think so because it sounds so beautiful in Japanese and English to me.

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