Chapter 4

They awoke the next day without any urgency. Both of them had been given a day off from their respective duties. At first they didn't say anything. They just laid there in each others embrace.

"Good morning." Kagome eventually said, laughing a little bit.

"Morning." Inuyasha said back smiling.

Kagome prepared breakfast and they ate together. After they finished they went over to see Miroku, Sango, and their kids. The twins saw them first. Umi and Nami ran towards them screaming their greetings.

"Uncle Inuyasha, aunt Kagome!" They yelled delightedly.

"Hey you two!" Kagome said kneeling down and picking up the two and spinning them above her head causing them to giggle uncontrollably. Sango came out first, followed by Miroku.

"Oh Kagome, Inuyasha!" Sango said surprised to see them. "How was your anniversary?"

Both Kagome and Inuyasha blushed.

"It was... Nice." Kagome said.

"Yeah... Nice." Inuyasha agreed.

Miroku and Sango looked each other and smiled knowingly. They invited the group into their house Umi and Nami still hanging onto Kagome's kimono.

Inside they saw a mostly clean house, except where Sango and Miroku's one year old son, Kaze, was playing. Sango called Kagome over to help her with something in the other room. Her real motive was to talk about last night. Miroku was planning to do the same thing with Inuyasha.

"Hey girls, why don't you go play outside." Miroku told Umi and Nami.

"Okay dad." And they ran off pretending that they were birds.

"Alright, Inuyasha. How'd it go?"

"What?" Inuyasha said, caught a little off guard. "How'd what go?"

"Don't play dumb!" Miroku said. "How'd last night go?"

"Oh, I gotcha." Said Inuyasha, catching Miroku's meaning, "It went well. She really liked the dinner, think she had a little too much rice wine though."

"Hey that's not always a bad thing." Miroku said smiling.

"Yeah no kidding." Inuyasha said, thinking back to the night before. "We walked home and before I knew it, she was taking off her clothes and we were in bed."

"Inuyasha, you dog you." Miroku said chuckling. Even Inuyasha laughed, which was surprising since he didn't normally like being called a dog.

"I'll admit, it was the best night of my life..."

"I told you." Miroku said knowingly.

Meanwhile, Sango and Kagome were in the other room having a similar conversation.

"Alright Kagome, don't play the shy girl with me. What happened last night? I want to know everything." Sango said eagerly.

"Alright, alright. Calm down." Kagome told her, putting up her hands. "I'll tell you don't worry."

"Okay so start at the beginning of the night."

"Right. Okay. Inuyasha told me that he had a surprise for me and that it was time to go. Then we walked for awhile with his hands covering my eyes. When we finally got where we were going, he let me see again. It was beautiful. We were by that lake not far from here. The full moon was shining brightly off of the surface. He had a really nice dinner set up by the lake and a big bottle of rice wine."

"Oh that's so romantic!" Sango interjected, "I had no idea that Inuyasha had a romantic bone in him!"

"Neither did I." Kagome admitted. "I was really surprised."

"Okay so what happened next?" Asked Sango.

"Well, we ate and talked."

"What'd you talk about?" Interrupted Sango.

"Hold on, I'm getting there. Okay, so we were talking about all the stuff that's happened since I first came here. We reminisced about all we've been through together and what brought us to this point. It was great. I learned so much about how he felt about all the stuff that's happened. He remembered things that I thought for sure that he'd forgotten. Probably drank too much during it, but that's okay, I think he did too."

"Ooo... Two drunk lovers. So what happened next?" Sango asked, desperately wanting to know more.

"Well, for awhile, we just sat there. We didn't talk, we just sat there. He was holding me and I was snuggled up close to him."

"Aww. That's SO cute!" Sango said, a little louder than she'd meant to. She covered her mouth hoping the guys in the other room hadn't heard. After a moment, they just laughed it off and Kagome continued the story.

"Then we started walking home, holding hands. When we got home we sat on the bed. I could tell that he was going to try something, but that he was nervous, so I made the move for him. I grabbed him and threw him onto the bed and then it just kinda happened." Kagome finished the story blushing slightly.

"Ooh. Spicy. I like it." Sango said smiling. "So how was it?"

"Oh it was amazing!" Kagome said without hesitation, "I only wish that we had started sooner. It just kinda flowed. It was so natural."

"I know!" Sango said airily, "That's just how it is when you're in love. It's so romantic!"

Eventually the two groups met back up. After awhile the two groups said their goodbyes and Umi and Nami came in to join in the farewells. Inuyasha and Kagome walked back to their house. Neither had realized how late it had gotten. It was already night time. They entered the house and ate dinner. As they were walking to bed, Kagome winked and skipped into the bedroom undoing her kimono. Inuyasha smiled and followed quickly, taking a hint for, perhaps, the first time in his life.