InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Chapter 21

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Decisions

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho or any characters or plotlines associated with either show. Let's put it this way: If the characters, situations, or storylines are recognizable, then I don't own them. I own the particular plot of this story and the few characters that I made up and will make up, but that is it. At least, I think it is.

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Chapter Twenty-One

Kagome climbed up the side of the well with a sigh. She really needed a rest. She had warned Guardian and Kikyou that there was no way that she was going to be doing anything remotely resembling training while she was at home this week. As far as she was concerned, everyone was taking a vacation. That is, if you could call studying incessantly a vacation. But compared to all that Kagome had been doing these past six months it really would be a vacation to do nothing but study and sleep for a whole week. Throw in a few of those juicy dreams about Kurama, maybe this time with her in the driver's seat, so to speak, and she would really have a great week.

Kikyou!

(A/N: Who woulda thunk it? Kikyou a pervert!)

Kagome made her way to the house and opened the door. “Mom, I'm home!”

“I'm in the kitchen, sweetheart!”

Kagome ran to the kitchen to give her mom a hug before going up to her room to change. Kurama should be over soon to start their study session. Kagome sighed. She didn't know what she was going to do about him. She didn't really know what she felt for him. It was stronger than what she had felt for Inuyasha and with a few new symptoms, too. She did know that she didn't like this new distance of his one bit. He might not want a romantic relationship with her, and she wasn't going to push for one, but he wasn't going to stop her from being his friend whether he wanted her to or not! The problem was she wasn't exactly sure how to accomplish that.

Kagome heard the doorbell ring downstairs and hopped off her bed where she had been staring off into space. “I'll get it, Mom!” She ran downstairs and flung open the door and did the first thing that came to mind. She threw her arms around his neck and said, “Hey, Kurama! I missed you!”

To say that Kurama was surprised was an understatement. He had thought that she would give him the cold shoulder after the way that he had treated her last time. That was what any typical teenage girl would have done. But Kurama was quickly figuring out that nothing about Kagome remotely resembled typical. She was emotional, impulsive, and unpredictable…and he loved every minute that he spent with her. He gave up. It was really no use trying to keep her at a distance. He could just hope that he could stop himself from getting as close to her as he wanted to, at least until this whole Demon World debacle was sorted out.

Kurama stopped in the kitchen to say hello to Mrs. Higurashi before following Kagome to her room. They proceeded with the study session, each trying to ignore the call of their respective hormones. It was considerably more friendly than the last session. After a couple of hours, Mrs. Higurashi called them down for dinner, after which Kurama got ready to leave.

Kagome saw him to the door, greatly encouraged by his friendliness that evening. “Do you want to do something tomorrow for lunch? Maybe we could go to that place at the park that we went to last time?”

Kurama sighed regretfully. “I'm afraid that I have a previous engagement that will take up most of my time this week. We could, however, go to a favorite restaurant of mine for dinner later in the week. That is, if you like Italian.”

Kagome squealed. “I LOVE Italian! Fettuccini Alfredo is almost as good as oden!”

Kurama laughed. “And since this was my idea, you have to let me pay for this date.”

Kagome blushed. Luckily Kurama was already turning to leave and didn't see it.

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Kagome sprang up from her bed sweating profusely. The dreams had started again. Luckily she had gotten a little sleep before her sleep had been interrupted. She couldn't say that she minded them that much. They weren't unpleasant.

They're wonderful!

Yes, but why are they only affecting me in this time? You would think that it wouldn't matter where or when I was. It's not as if I didn't think of Kurama as incessantly in the past as I do here.

Maybe it's just when you see him. Or maybe it's a psychic connection. You feel his presence here when you don't there.

Kagome resolved to think about it later. Maybe it was a demon thing. She'd look it up in Sesshomaru's library.

Or you could always ask Mr. Fluffy himself.

I don't think that would be such a good idea. I don't know much about youkai family dynamics, but I'm going to be Sesshomaru's sister. I don't think that he would take it kindly if I asked him about the sex dreams that I have been having about some youkai/human from my time. He would probably insist on coming through the well to kill Kurama for…well, I'm sure that Sesshomaru would come up with some reason to kill Kurama.

Does Sesshomaru ever need a reason to kill anything?

You do have a point, which only emphasizes mine. We cannot go to Sesshomaru with this.

Then we will just have to muddle through this on our own.

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Kurama watched the sun rise from his balcony. He had been up since he had awoken from that dream. Again he wondered what was going on with him. At least he knew that he wasn't completely cold blooded. There was nothing cold about him whenever he was around Kagome. So, could Yomi be wrong about the other things?

There was also this merging with Youko that his other half had mentioned. Did he really want that? How could he prevent it from happening? Especially when he would need his demon powers more than ever in his dealings with Yomi. And there was still Sachi (A/N: Yomi's second in command. That is his name right?) to deal with.

He remembered everything that he had done as Youko. He was cruel, methodical, and would do anything to achieve his ends and get rid of anyone who stood in his way. Kurama did not want to be like that again. He wouldn't revert back to who he was in the past. But parts of Youko's personality had already spilled over into him. He wanted to stop the spread before it got any further.

But how did he accomplish that?

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The rest of the week followed much the same fashion. They went on their date, each secretly wishing it was a real one. The dreams kept on coming during the early hours of the morning, mainly because that was what time Kurama went to sleep. Kurama spent most of his days when he wasn't in class assisting Genkai in training his friends to present to Yomi before coming back to the city to help Kagome. Both the fighters and Kagome were progressing better than he could have hoped. He had known that his friends had the potential but they were exceeding his expectations. And Kagome…well, if she kept up the pace that she was going, she was going to give him a run for his money in the academic department, especially considering how distracted he had been in class lately. When he had told her this she had just laughed and gave him all the credit for being an excellent teacher, like she didn't have anything to do with it. When all this was over he was really going to have to work on her self-confidence.

When it was time for Kagome to leave again, the parting was better than last time. There wasn't as much of a distance between them as there had been before. Both thought that being anything more than friends was unlikely…but that didn't stop them from hoping for more, just not until all the craziness in their lives was sorted out.

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This chapter was mostly filler but it served it's purpose.