InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 14c ( Chapter 19 )

Kagome was stunned by Inuyasha's sudden departure momentarily before she quickly and quite limberly jumped the back of the sofa and chased after him into the kitchen. When she came around the corner entering the kitchen she saw that his hand was just reaching for the door handle, since she was wearing only socks she stopped running and slide right up behind him and reaching out and slammed the door he was trying to open, smashing into his back. It was on instinct that Kagome reached out and wrapped her other arm around his waist to keep her balance and like wise as Inuyasha instinctively reached behind him with his right hand to aid in steadying her. Kagome was pressed full against Inuyasha's back.

"Where are you going?" Kagome breathed over Inuyasha's left shoulder.

Inuyasha felt nothing but sure surprise at the sudden close quarters he found himself in, "Kagome, move out of my way!" He said forcefully, frustrated at being unable to escape the roaring sounds of the movie that was drumming in his head, and trying to pull the door open again stepping back slightly causing Kagome's to tighten her grip on his waist as he was knocking her off balance.

"No!" She said just as forcefully pushing back, and slamming the door again. "I'm not going to allow you to run away and shut me out!" Kagome found herself in a tough tug-a-war at the door seeing as Inuyasha was easily 20 times stronger than her but she was determined, even pushing her knee into the back of his to throw his footing off.

"I'm not trying to shut you out just the movie, get the hell out of my way!" Inuyasha, at this point, was screaming in his frustration at the fact that Kagome could actually keep him from opening a door.

"What is going on in here?" Mrs. Higarashi asked startled at the site before her. The television had been too loud for her to understand what was being said but she heard the shouting and out of worry came to see what was happening. Inuyasha and Kagome fighting over the opening of the back door in such an intimate looking manner was not what she expected.

"Inuyasha was just going to leave without saying anything and I am trying to prevent that, Mama." Kagome replied, flushing at the thoughts that might be going through her mother's mind at seeing them like this, but she knew if she backed away he would bolt so she stayed where she was.

"Kagome, I'm trying to tell you as nicely as possible to either step back willingly or I'm going to use a little more force and possibly knock you down." Inuyasha was seeing red as the sounds of Belle's screams and the sounds of hungry wolves filled his too sensitive ears.

Mrs. Higarashi stepped forward at this point, not sure of what to do but knowing with her mother's instinct that Inuyasha needed to get away from whatever feelings the movie was stirring in him. She reached out and grabbed Kagome by the shoulders. "Step back, dear. He needs some space and probably some fresh air. Inuyasha!" She said, pushing Kagome aside and placing her hand on his shoulder. The sudden touch of her hand stopped Inuyasha in his tracks, which was opening the door and getting the hell out of there. "Don't run off leaving Kagome to either worry about you or, more than likely, chase after you."

"Yes, Inuyasha, lets go outside. Maybe take a walk and we can get away from the sounds of the movie, huh?" Kagome's mother was right; she was not letting Inuyasha walk out on her without telling her why first.

"Fine, whatever! Can I just leave the house now?" Inuyasha said, itching to get away.

"Yes." Kagome said, quickly following after him. Mrs. Higarashi watched the duo disappear from site before closing the door and going back to the front room to turn down the movie.

"Inuyasha, surely you can't hear the movie anymore from here?" Kagome said pulling Inuyasha by the sleeve bringing him to a stop in front of the Sacred Tree.

"Kagome, please, go back inside …." But he was interrupted by Kagome raising her hand.

"You said that you weren't shutting me out and trying to make me leave so you can leave is shutting me out. You are not going to just run away like some little child." Kagome knew that she was throwing fuel on the fire by trying to rile him up but decided that making him mad was probably better than what he was feeling at the moment.

"I am not a little child, Kagome." Inuyasha said, pissed at the new thought of him acting like a child, which he probably was, didn't he act like one about half the time?

"No? Well you are a hundred and twelve year old Hanyou who is running away from a children's movie. You were going to leave without even saying goodbye or goodnight or even feh. You went from enjoying the movie and laughing at it to running away from it, what happened?" Inuyasha tried to turn this way and that to get away from Kagome's penetrating look but she wouldn't allow it.

"Nothing happened, I just couldn't take all that singing. No one told me people were going to just starting singing at will." Inuyasha felt terrible for lying but he just didn't want to talk about it.

"Liar." Kagome said with hurt in her voice. "You're going to actually stand here and lie to my face? They weren't even singing when you left. If you're going to lie you might as well just give me the silent treatment." Kagome just stared at him, watching him look at the ground, and tried to will the tears threatening to come up to stay at bay.

It didn't matter, though; Inuyasha could sense the change in her and cringed at the thought of making her cry. "Don't cry." He said, taking a step closer. "I'm sorry, okay? Just don't cry."

"I can cry if I want to. You can't tell me when I can cry and when I can't." Kagome said, angrily swiping away a tear that fell "You don't trust me, do you?"

"What are you talking about?" Inuyasha asked confused.

"I'm talking about you and your inability to trust anyone completely. Sure when your guard is down you'll share something with me but that's it isn't it?"

"Kagome, calm down." Inuyasha felt the situation getting out of hand, it was one thing for him to be upset but it was another to get Kagome worked up over something that wasn't true. "I trust you."

"Do you? Do you trust me with your feelings, with your thoughts? No, not unless I drag it out of you."

"That isn't true, I told you about my mother without you asking."

"Just that one time. So you'll tell me about things that happened years ago but not what's happening right now? It's like you are so afraid of being hurt so you hurt first." She reasoned.

"No, I don't ever want to hurt you, Kagome. This is not even like that." Inuyasha couldn't grasp how this conversation had taken such a turn.

"Than what is this like?"

UUHH. Inuyasha's brain thought, did he really have it in him to tell her about the self-pity he was feeling?

"Kagome can always be trusted, she's shown it time and time again. Has she ever run away from you when your demon blood has taken control? Not once." Inuyasha's conscience reminded him.

That's true, Inuyasha thought looking up at the branches of the Sacred Tree. The only time I ever scared her into running away from me was when I tried to steal the jewel from her after she set me free. Inuyasha looked back into Kagome's eyes that were searching his for some understanding. "Sit with me." Inuyasha said, gesturing to the branches above.

Kagome looked up in wonder, "I've never climbed this tree before, Inuyasha, the branches are to high for me and I don't climb trees using a ladder."

Inuyasha nodded his understanding and without a word grabbed Kagome by the waist and jumped up to his favorite branch. He tried not to smile at Kagome's surprised scream.

"Tell me before you do that." Kagome said, scooting back to lean against the trunk of the tree.

"Sorry." Inuyasha smiled a weak smile and turned his attention to the bright lights of Kagome's city. "It's so different here, it always amazes me."

"I'll bet." Kagome laughed, looking out at the bright lights of the city.

"I'm a bad person aren't I?" Inuyasha asked suddenly and quietly, eyes looking at his hands on his lap.

Kagome's mouth dropped as she stared at her best friend. A bad person? "I would never say that you're a bad person."

"You sure?" Inuyasha's head popped up, Kagome flinched at the sudden movement and the slight sarcasm in his voice. "I never want to stop and help anyone and when I do I usually complain about it the whole time. I only care if turns out a jewel shard is involved or Naraku."

"Because you're focused on what needs to be done," To gather the jewel and go to hell with Kikyo, Kagome's mind reminded her and she flinched inwardly.

"You can easily say that because that's all we've been doing since we've meet, but I never willingly helped people in need."

"Probably because no one helped you in your time of need. You were taught that you needed to fend for yourself so it was applied to other people, if I were to walk, well you don't wear shoes, but if I were you I think I would be the same way."

"No instead you're the type of person who can see the good in the bad that people do."

Kagome laughed at this comment, "You telling me that I am biased about good in people?"

Inuyasha raised his eyebrow at Kagome's use of big words but fortunately it was a word he just happened to know the meaning of. "When Miroku kidnapped you and stole the jewel shards, and then proceeded to try and suck me up in his Kazanna you were so sure that he wouldn't hurt an innocent that you allowed yourself to be pulled in."

GGGOOODDD example, shouted Kagome's mind as her eyes widened and her mouth made a small o. "Mmph, saved your life didn't I?"

"On blind trust." He informed her.

"Instinct." She corrected.

"You could have been wrong and that would have been the end for the both of us."

"I thought you were going to cut off his hand?" She said sweetly.

"I'm always going to talk shit, right down to the end, but I was seriously worried about how I was going to get myself out of that situation." He wasn't going to admit that he became terrified when he saw Kagome coming in above him, or that if he had swung the only person he would have been hit was her.

"I've wondered from time to time why I'm that way, me and my mother seem a lot alike but before my father died we were night and day. But ever since I found out that I have been living with the Shikon-No-Tama, physically inside me, I've been thinking that when I was chosen to be it's next protector, I wished for it's goodness to keep it pure and so I see the good in people and don't become corrupted by the bad." Kagome said with a thoughtful expression.

"That's pretty deep, Kagome." Inuyasha said, nodding his head at what she was allowing him to try and understand.

"Yes, and not at all on the subject. You've never seemed to think of yourself as a bad person before, more like practical, so what about the movie made you change your mind?"

"The Beast."

"What about him?" But Kagome knew what was coming. Who knew a Disney movie could do such a thing to people, make them consider what type of person they were.

"Everything about him. It might as well be me on the screen, we're exactly alike."

"I think you are far from being like the Beast."

"I wouldn't have allowed that old woman to take shelter in my home so the same curse would have been cast upon me."

"You don't have a home to refuse her shelter in. And he's a spoiled brat known for his cruelty, she was wearing a disguise to test him and he failed." Kagome was starting to feel like they were talking about real people instead of a cartoon.

"That makes me feel better, thank you very much." Inuyasha said crossing his arms across his shoulders, he always hated the fact that he had no place to call home but a tree.

"I know, so why don't you tell me what you will so I can try and understand better what happened?"

"I can't believe that you don't think the Beast and I are alike. If I had my way in the beginning I would have smashed the well, preventing you from going home to see your family and leaving them to worry about you. The first time you did leave I was ready to drag you back kicking and screaming, even though I had told you that I didn't need your help. And when we are together I make things stressful for you. Besides dealing the demons everyday and chasing after Naraku and finding the jewel shards and putting up with me you also worry about failing in your studies."

"I may not be doing as well I would be if I went to school everyday but my difficulties with my studies is not your fault. I spend almost all my free time studying and doing my best to make up for all that I've missed." Kagome felt that her studies would be a testy subject; they fought over her leaving to take tests all time, because it interfered with finding Naraku and all the jewel shards.

"I thought you wanted to talk, Kagome. There is no use in your telling me that I have no fault in how bad you might be doing in school; we both know that's not true. We fight over it all the time." Inuyasha said deciding to give up pretending. "I never want you to leave. You have to Oswari me to get away and if you do get away without my bringing you back immediately I never give you more than three days. I'm abusive towards you, Kagome. The only thing I haven't done is strike you, because I never actually hit you when I tried to take the jewel from you."

"No, you didn't, Inuyasha, and you could have. I won't deny that you are verbally abusive towards me. If that's the case you treat everyone the same. We all take the same abuse from you, but we see past it to see that you truly care for us and do everything in your power to keep us out of harms way. Actions speak louder than words and we don't always say what we truly mean anyway. We stay with you, we fight with you, we argue with you, we try to make you see your actions in a different light, we accept you for who you are, and do you know why?" Kagome by this point had moved closer to Inuyasha, her knee just barely brushing his thigh.

Inuyasha felt his whole body flush when Kagome's knee brushed against him. "Because you care." He said, after swallowing the lump that had formed in his throat.

Kagome realized that this could be her chance to tell Inuyasha how she felt for him. He seemed to almost need to know that he was loved and she so much wanted to make him feel warm and secure in her warm blanket of love. Could she? Should she? Kagome struggled with herself, the effort causing her breathing to increase. Why not? Kagome finally reasoned, she should get it off her chest in case she never got the chance again. "You know it's more than that, don't you, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha felt heat sting at his cheeks as he blushed. "Yes." He said softly, looking down at his lap.

"Do you? Do you know that I love you?" Kagome said just as quietly. She too could feel a deep crimson blush creep up to cover her face as she attempted to bare her soul and wait in anxiety to see what would happen.

Inuyasha's head snapped up at Kagome's question. "Say that again." He demanded, having to make sure that he had heard right.

Kagome looked down at Inuyasha's hands. The ones she had been admiring not too long ago, and felt a great urge to hold them in her own so she reached out to him, taking hold as if he were her anchor, looking him square in the eye she repeated, "I love you."

Inuyasha felt pure excitement running through his veins. She loved him? Could it truly be possible? He squeezed her hands with his and leaned his head in closer to hers, their foreheads almost touching. "I never thought it could be possible." He said, his breathing heavy.

"Why not?" Kagome said with laughter in her voice, closing the distance between them, and resting her forehead on his.

"Because no one as good and as pure hearted as you could love a hanyou like me." Inuyasha tried to keep the self-pity he felt when saying such a thing out of his voice but knew he failed miserably.

"When I first meet you, I didn't think `here is someone I could fall in love with'. In fact, you were an example of everything that I didn't want. In the beginning you were always so harsh and rough, cold and condescending. But when I realized that most of what you did and said was done to protect yourself from being hurt by me, from allowing yourself to open up to me, I saw that you are a very strong willed person. I admire that in you, Inuyasha. I love that about you even if sometimes you drive me crazy with it, and you make me have to oswari you. OH NO!" Kagome screamed as Inuyasha went smashing to the ground below them.

By the time Kagome made her way down the tree and over to him, Inuyasha felt the first signs of the spell wearing off, as he was able to lift his head to glare at Kagome. "You better not laugh, Kagome." Inuyasha warned as he saw signs of amusement in Kagome's eyes as she approached him.

Isn't it strange that as soon as you're told not to do something, the urge to do it anyway becomes far greater? Kagome found herself in just this situation. Kagome attempted to swallow her laughter as she knelt down before him. "Are you alright? I'm terribly sorry, I don't know what I was thinking."

"I have no idea what you were thinking either." Inuyasha said while trying to unsuccessfully pull himself up from the ground. "Leave it to you that the first time you use it after going out of your way to not use it you do it on accident." He grumbled to himself, but not out of Kagome's hearing and it broke her damn.

Sweet, joyous laughter filled the air. Kagome was laughing so hard, she was crying. "I know. That's what's so funny about the whole thing. I didn't mean it."

"YOU'RE LAUGHING!" Inuyasha shouted, trying to keep his own laughter to himself, and shot up from the ground, his aim being to tackle Kagome. But being around Inuyasha taught Kagome a thing or two about her reflex skills and as soon as she saw that he was going to make a move towards her she took off running, laughing the whole time.

Unfortunately, Kagome's speed was just no match for Inuyasha's and he easily caught up with her. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome by her waist and pulled her to the ground, falling so she would fall on him, keeping her from hurting herself. Kagome never once stopped laughing, even as she struggled to get out of his hold. Rolling over till she was lying on her side on the ground, squirming her way out of his hold.

"Oh no you don't." Inuyasha said laughing and lifting himself up and lying on her back, pinning her to the ground.

"Oooph." Kagome said as her breath came rushing out of her lungs. But her laughter wouldn't quite so she was now struggling to catch her breath.

"Okay." Kagome said, struggling to take in a breath. "I give. Get off." Kagome laughed some more when she felt Inuyasha's chest shake with his own laughter. "I can't breath." She demanded, shoving herself up from the ground with all her might.

"I win." Inuyasha said, laughing, rolling off Kagome.

Kagome laid there for a moment, trying to catch her breath and cease the laughing that was now causing a pain in her side. "You won." Kagome agreed breathlessly.

Kagome, recouped from the chase, rolled over onto her back and found Inuyasha lying on his side with his head propped up on his hand. Kagome moved her arm to act as a pillow.

Inuyasha could not take his eyes off of Kagome. He had always thought her to be beautiful but at this very moment she was exquisite. She was more radiant than the sun as her face showed how truly happy she was lying there on the ground, with him. Love was evident in her features, when Kagome smiled and asked him "What?" he wondered if he could taste her love. His eyes drifted down to stare at her smiling lips and with a decisive look in his eyes he leaned down and kissed her.

Kagome's mind with blank; she was unable to comprehend anything that wasn't Inuyasha's lips on hers. When his mouth opened over hers Kagome found her whole body shaking as she did the same. It was the most exciting and scariest feeling she ever felt. Heat churned in her belly melting any butterflies that might have made their home there. Without conscious thought Kagome lifted her free hand to stroke Inuyasha's cheek. The groan her touch brought from deep within Inuyasha's chest brought Kagome's eyes fluttering opening. She pulled away slightly and smiled at him, kissing him once more she pulled away from his embrace.

Yes, Inuyasha thought, his eyes closed savoring the sensations that came with kissing the girl he loved. It's wonderful. Inuyasha slowly opened his now dreamy eyes to look down at Kagome, who was smiling at him.

"That was my first kiss." She whispered to him.

"Mine to." He whispered back.

They stared at one another for a while before Kagome turned her attention to the stars shining brightly above them. Inuyasha, feelings his arm going numb from holding a propped position for too long scooted closer to Kagome and to lay down next to her.

Long moments passed and not a word was passed between them. Kagome eventually moved where she could lay her head to rest on Inuyasha's chest while his arm came to rest on her back, messaging her ever so slightly.

"What happens?" Inuyasha whispered into her hair.

"What do you mean?" Kagome said, lighting her head so she could look at him.

"Between Belle and the Beast." He said, reaching up to stroke her hair.

"Oh." Kagome said, turning her head back to its original position. "When you left, Belle was running away because she was scared and gets attacked by wolves.."

"I heard the wolves."

"… and the Beast shows up just in time to save her but gets hurt and she decides that she has to stay and take care of him because he saved her life."

"So she considered leaving even after he was hurt?"

"Yes, she didn't really want to be there, but she stays because she owes him her life. She somehow gets him on the back of Philippe and takes him back to the castle, where they have a fight about who was to blame about what happened and she thanks him for saving her. Things begin to change after that. He wants to do something for her, with some advice from his servants; he shows her his huge library filled to the ceiling with books. He tells her it's hers."

"He gives her a room of books?" Inuyasha asked confused.

"She loves to read and he could tell that she was excited by all the books so he gives it to her. What you must remember is that she is supposed to break the spell so the Beast has to win her heart over, and she wants someone who can stimulate her brain, give her knowledge and excitement. The library is a beginning, they start reading together and it helps to make them more comfortable with one another."

"The beginning of what? A romance between Belle and the Beast?"

"Inuyasha, they said in the beginning that he had a find a woman to love him as the Beast to break the spell and make him human."

"So she's supposed to fall in love with him as the Beast so she can live with him as a human?" Inuyasha questioned.

"Before the last petal falls from the rose, yes, or he'll stay a Beast forever."

"Does she know this? That he's not really a Beast but a mean human with a curse on him?"

"No." She said, thinking about it. "I don't believe that she knows that there's a spell, she just thinks that the castle is enchanted."

"So he doesn't tell her that she is being kept there because he wants to use her to break the spell? He made her promise to stay forever, made her father leave without letting them say goodbye, and he doesn't tell her that they're all humans with a spell on them all so she'll fall in love with him?" Kagome nodded. "That sounds awful selfish to me, how is that making him a better person?"

"No he doesn't tell her and I think just having contact with Belle is changing him, he hasn't changed any on his own. Anyway, they start to bond, she shows him how to get the birds to come to him, and they even have a snowball fight. They just get closer, they decide to have a nice dinner one night, dressing up, they eat and dance to a song the teapot is singing and end up on the balcony. He asks her if she's happy and she says yes but he can tell that something is bothering her so he asks and she says that she misses her father and wishes she could see him at least one last time. So he takes her to his room in the west wing and lets her see her father through the magic mirror that was left to him and she sees that he father is really sick, probably dying if no one aided him. So he lets her go." Kagome hoped that she was recapping the movie right, it had been a while since she seen it and she already forgot to mention the fact that Gaston is trying to have Belle's father committed for being crazy so Belle will agree to marry him.

"Really?" Inuyasha said, not really believing her, the Beast was the reason the old man was sick in the first place.

"Yes. Because he loves her, he knows that he has to do it for her to be happy."

"I see. That's really something." Inuyasha thought back to when he was going to tell Kagome that he couldn't see her anymore to release her but she ended up telling him that she wanted to be with him no matter his relationship with Kikyo. He could understand the feelings of the Beast.

"Yes, but her happiness is short lived when Gaston shows up with men to take Belle's father away because he was crazy and going on about a Beast kidnapping Belle, he had the people who were around when he said it and people who were curious from the village were all there. He tells Belle that he'll fix the whole thing if she agrees to marry him, she says no again of course so her father locked into the back of a carriage, but Belle pulls out the mirror. Oh forgot to tell you that she lets her take the mirror with her and the little tea cup ran away with Belle, anyway she has it show them the Beast to prove that her father wasn't crazy. Belle tries to tell everyone that he was kind and wouldn't hurt anyone but Gaston senses enough about her true feelings to feel jealous enough to start an angry mob by scaring the people into thinking that the Beast would eventually attack them and that they should kill the Beast."

"That Gaston guy is such a Bastard."

Kagome laughed, visioning the scene in her mind full with Gaston singing. "He scares them with his song."

"Feh, why do they have to have so many songs?" Inuyasha asked, rolling his eyes.

"Most of the songs they come up with are pretty good though."

"If you say so, Gaston starts an angry mob to attack the castle, then what happens?" Inuyasha asked, hearing Kagome tell the story was even better than watching the movie.

"The servants at the castle realize that they are going to be attacked and try to get their master involved but he's so heart broken at the thought of losing Belle and the fact that the last petal is fixing to fall off, realizing that he isn't going to help them they all get together. And as you know everyone but the Beast is a piece of furniture so they all gather in the hallway and after they break through the door they wait for them to come in and they jump to life and attack them. It's pretty funny. The candle is running around burning people. The clock has a pair of scissors and is going around scaring people with them, even stabs this one guy in the butt. All kinds of things are happening, the armoire, Belle's wardrobe cabinet, pulls men into her cabinet and dresses them up like woman, fresh with curls in the hair and everything. Gaston looks for the Beast and finds him up in the West Wing and doesn't put up a fight when Gaston starts to hit and kick him, even knocks him over the balcony onto the roof of the castle. Gaston starts to make fun of him because he isn't fighting back and says it's because he's in love with Belle and he can't have her. It's when Belle shows up that he actually puts up a fight. The Beast thinks he's won because he had Gaston hanging over the side of the castle begging not to be dropped and he takes pity on him and tells him to leave and climbs up to were Belle is but Gaston stabs him in the back and gets knocked off and Belle keeps him from falling. She tries to reassure him that he'll be okay but he knows he's dying and is grateful that he got to see her one last time and tells her so before he dies…"

"HE DIES! Are you kidding me, he goes through all that and even let another human beat on him for a bit before he dies? What kind of movie is this? What happened to her love saving him?" Inuyasha couldn't believe it; the idiot gets stabbed in the back because he finally shows some kindness to others? How messed up.

"It does. She cries over him after he dies and tells him not to leave her and that she loves him, she says it just before the last petal falls and so his spell is lifted and he is turned back into a human." Kagome smiles at him, happy that she could give him a happy ending.

"So he doesn't die? I bet you cried the first time you saw, huh?" Inuyasha said, happy to hear that the Beast indeed survived, he wasn't surprised that Gaston got himself killed.

"I'm a girl, of course I cried. But, Inuyasha, you're not a Beast. I don't care what you say you are not like him. Sure at first glance you may see some similarities in manner and talk but you are not a bad person. People judge you before you judge them, you respond to the situations that are dealt to you in the only way that you can or know how, that doesn't make you a bad person. You lost your mother when you were just a child and it's amazing that you've survived as long as you have considering how young you were when you were left all alone. You were an outcast everywhere you went so you lived in the forest, and made the trees your home. You were shown the harsh side of life and you hold some anger because of that. It's understandable, and you've allowed yourself to open up to Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, and we've met all of them in not so pleasant circumstances, but we've all come to love one another, right?" Kagome said looking down at him with hope in her eyes.

"Yes, Kagome. We love one another." Inuyasha reached up and brushed Kagome's hair out of her face. "I love you, Kagome. I don't know what actions tomorrow will bring, when the sun shines it's bright light onto us, but I want you to know that I do love you."

Kagome felt tears sting at her eyes, as she saw nothing but love looking back at her as she stared down at him. Kagome leaned down and placed a feather light kiss on Inuyasha's lips. "As long as you don't have any regrets, everything else will work itself out." Kagome buried her face into his chest. "Well, I am surprised that my mother hasn't come out to see what's happening out here. I don't want to but I need to go inside and I think it's time that you went home." Breathing in his scent deeply, Kagome pulled away from his hold and stood up, dusting herself off. Inuyasha soon joined her and hand in hand they made their way towards the well.

Author's note: OMG I finally finished it. Well, well, well. I also apologize if there are any unforgivable errors, I've been working on this thing for about three hours now, finishing it off and my eyes are getting blurry but it's done.