InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Do You Love Me? ❯ I Love You ( Chapter 1 )

AN: I just edited this, cutting out all my annoying author notes. Seriously, this story was too angsty for me, mainly because I didn't know what was going to happen. I was just typing, so it got a bit depressing. Besides that, there are no other changes. So enjoy~

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Do You Love Me?

Chapter One

I Love You

By: blue sakuras

"Inuyasha!" Kagome called out as she climbed out of the old, broken down well. "Where are you?" She was puzzled. Usually, when she came back, he was waiting at the mouth of the Bone Eaters Well to drag her off somewhere. He wasn't there today. And just when she had finally decided to tell him.

She loved him.

Well, it was natural. After traveling together for two years or so, she had finally come up with enough courage to tell Inuyasha her feelings.

She only hoped he wouldn't reject her.

"Inuyasha?" She called out one more time, before starting towards Kaede's hut.

"Keh. What wench?" he called out from behind her, having sneaked up on her while she was pondering.

"Can you come with me?" she asked him shyly, suddenly wondering if this was a bad idea.

`No! I have to go through with it. I promised myself last year. If I still had these feelings for him, then I would tell him.' She thought to herself and reminded herself of the promise she had made to herself.

"Where to?" Inuyasha was being quite cooperative today. Kagome had thought she would need to subdue him once or twice before he would relent.

"Just somewhere." And she gestured around towards the forest with her hand. `Inuyasha's Forest, because he was pinned there, at the God Tree for 50 years.' She thought, remembering when she first met him, pinned up against the tree. He looked so beautiful when asleep there. No, not beautiful. There was no way to describe how he looked to her. That first meeting. She most likely knew she loved him from the moment she laid eyes on him. It sounds corny, but she knew that was what it was like. To feel your heart swell with emotion, not a bad feeling, but of one of happiness. Happiness that you found your love. Happiness that he was there.

They headed towards the general direction Kagome had directed them in. After walking for a few minutes, which seemed like hours, because of the awkward silence between them. It wasn't like what they were used to anymore. After having no time at all for being alone with each other anymore, because of Sango, Miroku, and Shippou. Not to mention Kirara. Kagome couldn't help but feel a little resentful of Sango and Miroku. Miroku had expressed his feelings along so easily. Well, easier than it would probably take Inuyasha.

"Here" Kagome's thoughts were cut short as Inuyasha pointed to a small clearing up ahead.

"Alright."

As they walked up to the small rock, Kagome planted herself comfortablely on it. Inuyasha took his usual stance. Sitting on the rock, he sat in an Indian-style position, crossed his arms, and leaned back against a tree. Kagome looked at him, secretly admired his physicue.

"What?" Inuyasha asked her. "Is there something wrong with me?" Kagome, embarassed at being caught staring, turned her head away sharply, to avoid Inuyasha seeing her blush.

"N-nothing. Anyway, Inuyasha…." Kagome suddenly lost all the courage she had when she first got here, less than half an hour ago.

"What is it? Spit it out." And Inuyasha was not helping her.

"Well, I-I w-w-wanted t-to say t-t-hat I l-lo….." and lost her voice, too ashamed to finish her sentence. She suddenly felt so embarassed to even have considered doing something like this.

"Finish your sentence! And what the hell has gotten into you? Can't talk right anymore?" he asked her, more of a joke than one of mocking. Kagome was too much in thought of the overflow of emotions she was experianceing to her the joke. This made her angry.

HE was mocking HER for trying to tell him her feelings. Well that does it.

"Inuyasha, I love you!" and after saying the sentence in a rush, and mostly out of impatience, Kagome gasped and clamped her hands on to her mouth, looking at the rock she was sitting on. Looking at the sky. Looking at her toes. Looking at anything, ANYTHING but Inuyasha.

Her emotions had confused her. She knew what she should do. Make a joke out of it. Make it look like she was just fooling around.

"Inu-" and got cut off once again, this time by Inuyasha. He placed a hand over her mouth.

Inuyasha grasped her chin gently and tilted it upwards, facing him, so that amber eyes met blue ones. He gazed deeply into her widening pupils.

"Kagome, did you just say you loved me?" he asked, with feeling, with hope, with anticipation, with….. love.

She gazed back into his eyes. He wasn't rejected her! Her heart was soaring, and she was in bliss, knowing she wouldn't be shunned by Inuyasha, and he was going to admit his feelings too!

"Y-yes." Her hesitant answer was timid, almost shy. But she was sure, now she was sure. He would say it back. He would RETURN her feelings!

"I don't love you." Kagome looked back at him in shock. Their eyes still met. This time, one with confusion and hurt and the other completely serious, with no other emotion showing in his eyes.

"What?" Kagome asked, so quietly, that Inuyasha's ears leaned forward to catch that one small word that mirrored Kagome's emotions.

"I'm sorry Kagome. I don't." Kagome's eyes now held no more confusion, no anger, no happiness, no hope, just one emotion. Hurt.

"Why?" she choked back the sobs she knew were coming. She felt her eyes start to water. She knew her tears were approaching. `No! I will NOT cry in front Inuyasha. You can still save yourself. Call it joke. A trick. Something!' her mind raged at her. She wanted to get up and run. Run and never look back. To run back to the well, back to her time, back to her room, back to her bed, where she could be alone and cry her heart out. Her broken heart.

But her legs just wouldn't move. She willed and tried, but she was glued. By what? His eyes, gazing into her own, watching as the pain started the tears. A tear slid down her cheek. Then another. One by one they fell, each falling faster and faster, until her face was blotchy with tears.

"Kagome." Inuyasha started gently. Kagome only looked at his eyes even more, hoping to find a trace of remorse or anything remotely human. But there was only regret.

"I don't want to hear it!" and her legs finally worked.

She ran. Ran back. She heard Inuyasha calling to her, standing on the rock she spilt her heart out on. He was calling for her to stop. If he wanted her to really stop, why didn't he chase after her? Her mind was in agony. She didn't want to feel anything anymore.

She jumped.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted. She had ran. She wouldn't turn back. He wanted to run after her. But he couldn't bring himself to do it. He felt ashamed at how her treated her. It must have taken all her courage to even come that close to telling him. She must have been terribly distressed after hearing his harsh words.

He hadn't meant to be so cold. He was never given the chance to explain. No one had ever told him that. Excluding his mother. Kikyou never said it. Kagome told him. Kagome probably thought that Inuyasha was still moping after Kikyou. He never said he loved her. He NEVER, not once, said that to Kikyou. When she was alive, or not. He never told her. He never had the chance to tell Kagome any of those things, that nothing had ever happened between him and Kikyou. What, with Miroku, Sango, and that annoying Shippou constantly bothering them and making sure that there was NO alone time for the two.

"Kagome, I'm sorry." He whispered to her retreating figure.

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She ran all the way back. She jumped into the well, and struggled to climb out of the Bone Eater's Well quickly. She swiftly left the small well house. She couldn't stand to look at the place anymore. It held a sad memory for her. So miserable, she never wanted to see it again. She'd ask Souta to seal the well. Gods knew that HIS scrolls worked. Unlike Grandpa. It was a good thing no one was home. Kagome was sure she couldn't face anyone right now.

She slammed the door to her room, and flopped onto her bed. Her composure completely crumbled and she sobbed her heart out.

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THE NEXT DAY

"Inuyasha! We've been looking all over for you!" Miroku called out to Inuyasha, who was currently gazing down at the Bone Eater's Well. Inuyasha made no move to acknowledge either Miroku's or Sango's prescence, let alone Shippou's.

"INUYASHA!" Miroku called loudly next to Inuyasha's right ear. Startled, the hanyou jumped into the air and punched the monk in the face.

"Ow…."

Inuyasha was surprised. He hadn't meant to hit him. Well, it was his mistake for disturbing Inuyasha's thoughts.

"Inuyasha. Stop thinking. It's scaring me." Shippou called out and quickly hid behind Sango's foot, hoping to taunt the poor guy so that he would stop acting so weird. Instead of making any moves to silence the kitsune or hurt the monk further, Inuyasha just sat back in the position he was in before they interrupted him.

Sango, noticing the gloomy expression, asked him gently, "Where's Kagome?" Inuyasha, upon hearing her name, looked up sharply at Sango.

The demon extermiator was shocked to see such emotion on Inuyasha's face. It was an open expression. A face that showed regret, sadness, misery, ashamed, and remorseful. Sango was thoroughly surprised. She bet that Inuyasha had gotten into another fight with Kagome, and it most likely had something to do with Kikyou. Silently, she motioned for the monk and fox to follow her, to allow Inuyasha some time alone, and to get Kagome back from her time.

"She's not coming back." Inuyasha said to their retreating backs, but his eyes still not leaving the well. He stood up. "She sealed it from the other side. I can't go through. She sealed it."

"What?" was the response of the three.

"I can't pass through it anymore. I tried over and over all day and night yesterday. I jumped in and out for hours. She sealed it. She se-se-…" and the hanyou kneeled onto the ground, breaking out in sobs.

"She left and she's not coming back…." He said in such an emotional tone, that Sango's heart was filled with such sadness. She ran over to the hanyou.

"Inuyasha." She whispered to him. "It's alright. Everything's going to be ok." And Inuyasha grabbed Sango into a hug, and cried on her shoulder. Miroku and Shippou just watched, not knowing what to say or do, as Sango tried to comfort the hanyou.

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AN: ta ta~