InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Remembering You ❯ Elevator Conversations ( Chapter 8 )

Author Notes: I'm really sorry about the lack of updates for this fic and my other one. I was so determined to get the chapters done but I ran into an old friend of mine, writer's block. After going to this fic hundreds of times over the past month I would stare at it for bit and not know how to continue on. It seems like I couldn't phrase anything the way I wanted to and the dialogue just seems pushed and rushed. . . even now, after tackling this chappie for all this time I am very unsatisfied with it. . . Well, I hope you like it anyways. . . until next time!

Disclaimer: Inuyasha doesn't belong to me. . . but I can dream can't I?

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' thoughts

(. . .) author's useless commentary

Elevator Conversations

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

#warning: cuss words come up here and there b/c that's Inuyasha's character and I tend to cuss in real life. . . sorry#

After much argument between Inuyasha and Kagome on if they would be going to work that day or not, it was finally decided that they would be going.

"What do I do about clothes?" Kagome asked as she looked down at her present ones that she had been wearing for twenty-four hours.

"Wear what you have on now." Inuyasha shrugged as he went over to his closet to pull out his fresh clean clothes for the day.

"I can't do that! Ewwww. What would Mr. Williams think? I go into work two days in a row with the same clothes! I have to change clothes!"

"What's the big deal?"

Kagome stared at him flatly, "Said by the man that is getting dressed into a clean suit."

He looked down at his clothes much like Kagome had done before and let out a sigh. "Fine."

She brightened up and clasped her hands together. "So I can go home to get some clothes?!"

"I didn't say that."

"But you-"

"We can go to a store and buy you some new clothes."

"I don't need new clothes, I just need to swing by my house." She looked slightly annoyed by now but Inuyasha wouldn't budge on his decision.

"You have got to be the only female in the world that claims she doesn't need new clothes. It's okay, it'll be my gift to you. Afterwards I can drive you to work, which you seem so determined to get to."

"Don't be stupid Inuyasha, I'm not going to work with you. What will people think seeing the new employee with the CEO? They'll think I slept with you or something to get the job."

Kagome got up from where she had been sitting on the bed and made her way toward the front door.

Inuyasha grumbled as he grabbed his wallet, car keys, and briefcase. "You did technically sleep with me."

"What?" She called out from the other room.

"I was wondering if you needed to pee."

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"Common label my ass." Kagome was trying on a skirt and blouse in the dressing room of the expensive brand-name store, Versace. After another argument between Inuyasha and Kagome on if he should accompany her in buying clothes or not; Kagome, once again, won the argument and was dropped off in front of a `common label store.' "He's too rich for his own good."

She was the first customer in for the day, for the fact that Inuyasha `called in a favor' so that Kagome could get something to wear. At hearing that she was touched, but after seeing the store name her jaw fell open. She was led into the store and Inuyasha told the attendant there to put it on his tab. `How often can a person go to a store that they have tab? Can you even have a tab in clothing stores?'

"Are you okay miss? Do you need some assistance?" The attendants voice was heard outside the curtain of the dressing room.

"Yes, I'm fine. I don't need any help, I'll be out soon." Kagome called back. `How confusing could it be to put on a blouse and skirt? Has anyone really asked for help doing that before?'

Buttoning up the final button and zipping up her skirt she looked in the mirror. A simple black skirt that went past her knees and a gray blouse. She didn't want to use that much of Inuyasha's money so she settled for the least expensive looking clothes, even then the price in total would be over well over twenty thousand yen. (approx. $200)

`Why couldn't he have dropped me off at Wal-Mart or something?' She sighed and stepped out of the dressing room.

"Those colors suit you very well miss." The smiling attendant said to Kagome.

`It's not like you'd tell me if they looked terrible on me.'

"Would you like to wear them out?"

"Yes."

With that the attendant was cutting off the price tags and taking off the security tags. As soon as she rang up the items Kagome left the store with the previous day's clothes in a paper bag from Versace. `Yesterday's clothes didn't even cost me one fifth of today's. . . how the heck am I going to repay Inuyasha?'[Author ID1: at Mon Dec 1 16:52:00 2003 ]

Entering the building of Touken Ginkou that was only a few blocks away from the fashion district and smack dab in the financial district, Kagome was stopped by one of the security guards.

"Hey Kagome." The black-haired, tall, and good-looking security guard smiled down at her.

She smiled back, this was the security guard that helped her out yesterday when she didn't know where she was supposed to go. Yesterday she would have thought him drop dead gorgeous and willing to get his number, but after the whole thing with Inuyasha this security guard just seemed average and didn't spark her interest. Even so, Kagome was one to be friendly. "Hi Ryo. Thanks for helping me out yesterday, I don't know what I would have done without you."

"That's no problem. Sorry to be holding you up from work but can I see your security pass?"

"M-my security pass?" Kagome's eyes widened and she twirled her fingers around her bag and paper bag out of nervousness.

Ryo grinned, "Yeah, you know those plastic laminated things that allow you to enter the building?"

"Haha. . . uh. . . I left it up at the office?" She shifted her weight from one foot to the other.

"You don't have one do you?" Ryo grinned some more.

"Uh. . . no, sorry. I didn't know I needed to ask for one."

He gave out an exaggerated sigh and gestured toward the elevators. Pressing the button for up he grinned again, "I guess I'll have to escort you upstairs until you get one."

"You don't have to do that! How dangerous could I be?"

"You would be surprised at what young beautiful women can do to a financial building."

Kagome blushed at his comment, "Do I just have to prove to you that I work here?"

"Basically."

"Arg! Then you can come up with me and talk to Mr. Williams, he'll straighten everything out."

Just then the elevator bell sounded indicating that it had finally arrived at their floor. When the doors slid open who was to be standing there but our faithful hanyou, Inuyasha. He had been waiting downstairs in the basement until he smelt Kagome come into the building. He then waited to get on the elevator that she would be getting on as well, but when he arrived to see the face of the woman he loved, there was a security guard flirting with her. Being greeted by a surprised but happy smile from the said woman compensated him. Just as he was about to say his good morning to her she turned around and talked to Ryo.

"See now I can prove it!" She turned back around stepped into the elevator that was now only occupied by herself and Inuyasha and held the door open. She met eyes with Inuyasha and asked, "Mr. Touken, is it not true that I have been working here as of yesterday and that I am a employee of your bank that does not seek harm?"

Inuyasha raised a confused eyebrow, "Of course you work here, you're working under Mr. Williams. . . you've forgotten already?"

"No, no, just needed to prove that I work here to this security cautious guard of yours. He does his job well." She let go of the elevator door and it began to slide shut, but just before it was fully closed she called out to Ryo. "I'll make sure to get the security pass so as not to run into the same problem!"

Ryo blushed, "You do that."

With the doors closed the elevator started making it's long and steady journey up. Kagome was contented in the silence, until she heard Inuyasha growling. She turned to look at him. "What is it now?"

Inuyasha growled some more.

"What did I do now? What, are the clothes I picked out not to your liking?" Kagome was getting irritated by now. This was a routine that happened so often when she was venturing through Sengoku Jidai looking for shards of the Shikon no Tama.

"Why were you flirting with Ryo?" He grumbled out, much like how he used to when he mentioned her being too nice to Kouga.

"You have got to be kidding me Inuyasha! I wasn't flirting with him! You think that me talking to another person of the opposite sex is flirting!" Kagome fisted her hands and settle them on her hips.

"He was trying to get in your pants."

"News flash! I'm wearing a skirt!"

"Even worse! It's easy access!" Inuyasha was now yelling as well, and it was a surprise and their luck that no one was trying to catch an elevator.

"Oh my God! Don't tell me you were thinking about that the whole time when we were traveling together! You thought a skirt was easy access?!" Kagome was also yelling and they were facing off, much how they used to.

"Well, that's how guys see skirts! The only thing we have to do is lift up the skirt and there you are!"

"You're being ridiculous!"

"Ridiculous?! Do you know how many guys I've had to fight off so that they wouldn't try anything on you when we were traveling?! Could you blame them with your short skirts?!"

"Are you saying that I want to draw attention to myself?! Granted, in the Sengoku Jidai it might have been a little on the short side but here in this time it's perfectly normal!"

"Fine, whatever." Inuyasha huffed and leaned against the wall of the elevator. "But you still shouldn't have been flirting with Ryo."

"I wasn't! I was just talking to him! And what makes you think that I was flirting with him?"

There was a pause then Inuyasha spoke, "We don't use security passes here."

Kagome froze in her movement, "Oh."

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"When will your replacement be taking over your position completely?"

"The set date is November 20th."

Kouga and Mr. Williams had been discussing the actual change in company status that was to be occurring for the past half hour. They were finally getting into the specifics with Kouga readily writing everything down on a legal notepad.

"Who is authorizing the change?"

"Mr. Touken." Instead of scribbling down `Inuyasha' Kouga wrote down `Inukkoro.' (the translators say it's `Dog Turd')

"What's the full name of your replacement?"

"Oh that would be Kago-" Mr. Williams was cut off when he noticed his office door opening. "May help y-. . . Oh Kagome-kun! Just the lovely lady I wanted to see!"

Kouga caught her sent immediately and turned his attention toward her. She was walking to the office saying her morning greetings to Mr. Williams, still having yet to notice him.

"K-kagome?" The wolf demon was gasping out as he looked upon the grown up miko.

She finally noticed that someone else was in the room and looked toward the source of the voice. The two young people locked eyes, each pair widening with surprise. Kagome's face spilt out in a smile and hugged him while he was still seated. "Kouga-kun!"

"What are you doing here Kagome?" The thoroughly confused youkai asked.

"She's my replacement. How do you two know each other?" Mr. Williams was also smiling, his eyes crinkling in good humor.

"Uh. . . well, you see. . . we. . . yeah, you know!" Kouga was at a loss for how to explain himself. What was he supposed to say? `Oh, we met in the Sengoku Jidai when she was traveling with Inukkoro.' `Damn! I should be able to make up better lies than this! I'm a lawyer for god sakes!' (no offense to lawyers)

"Oh, Kouga-kun and I go way back! If memory serves me correctly I was. . . what was the title he used? I think I was `his woman.'" Kagome answered cheerfully as Kouga-kun looked at her dumbfoundedly and Mr. Williams just kept on smiling. That was until they heard a growling voice from the office entrance door.

"The hell you were."

The three occupants turned toward the voice seeing a white hair livid hanyou standing in the doorway.

"Hello Mr. Touken, how may I help you?" The oblivious Mr. Williams cheerfully spoke through the thick air.

"Just came to check up on Miss Higurashi's progress." Inuyasha was struggling to keep his tone civilized while speaking through clenched teeth.

"She is doing very well, a fast learned this one is. Oh, and amazing news! She has met what seems to be an old boyfriend of hers." Man this guy was naïve.

"He's not an old boyfriend." Inuyasha was now glaring at Kouga.

Seeing the challenge in the hanyou's glare the full youkai smirked and spoke, "Of course I am. Kagome and I used to be very much in love, we only broke up because it just wasn't the right time."

Kagome was now standing there with an amused expression on her face, making no move to stop the on coming quarrel between the two young men.

"You guys never went out!"

"How would you know this Mr. Touken? Oh! Were you the jealous best friend of Kagome that is still upset of letting a lovely lady slip past him?" The old man said teasingly. Heck, he had nothing to worry about, he had always gotten along with Inuyasha and he was retiring in a month. It was Inuyasha's big loss if he fired him now.

"Why thank you Mr. Williams, at least someone thinks I'm worth while." Kagome smiled at him.

"Oh! And so the plot thickens! From where I see it the past went something like this: Kagome-kun showed an interest to her best friend, Mr. Touken, but he did express that he returned her feelings. And so our distressed damsel moved on and found our dashing lawyer, Kouga-kun. When the sparks started flying Mr. Touken, who was still Kagome-kun's best friend became jealous and confessed his undying love to her. But alas! It was too late! She and the aforementioned dashing lawyer were very much in love and had even planned to ride of into the sunset together. Then! The heroine realized the day before they rode off that she still harbored feelings for our bank CEO. With that she told the dashing lawyer that it just wasn't the right time for this. When she ran over to the apartment of her best friend, she was met with an empty apartment, for he had left to move away for he did not think he could live knowing that he had lost her. The three went their separate ways until a faithful day, much like one today, they were once again reunited by the power of fate!" When Mr. Williams finished with his story Kagome was teary-eyed.

"You guessed it perfectly Mr. Williams! That was a lovely story."

"It is your story Kagome-kun, it should be told to the world. Let us sell it to a movie company so everyone can know the hardships you have faced."

"Hey, hey! That's not even close to what happened!" Inuyasha was yelling once again.

Kouga slung an arm over Inuyasha's shoulder and gave out an exaggerated sigh, "Do not lie Inuyasha, that is how the story goes. Our love triangle is not simple one Mr. Williams, it is a thick and complicated mesh of spider webs that can easily be torn if Kagome was to forget about dog boy and come with me!"

"I could never choose between the two of you! Instead, I must choose a fourth party!" Kagome was now speaking in a dramatic tone, one used most commonly in Soap Operas.

"A fourth party? Whoever could this fellow be?" Mr. Williams seemed to be really getting into the whole thing now.

Kagome turned to him grasped his hands in hers then said in the same dramatic way, "Let US ride off into the sunset Mr. Williams! It is fate that have brought us together!"

The old man laughed, "Yes! We shall! We are meant to be Kagome-kun! I can no longer be denied! Let us venture off and find a new happy life for the both of us!"

Kouga was chuckling now, his arm still slung across Inuyasha's shoulder. Inuyasha was seething, even with the talk of Kagome riding off into the sunset with another male made him livid. But his emotion soon changed as he saw Kagome break out into an all out laughter.

"Ahahahahaha! You're so funny Mr. Williams! That's what I love about you, we click on the strangest level!"

"I kid you not my fair lady! But remind me to pick up my wife on the way to the sunset."

Now Kagome, Mr. Williams, and Kouga were bursting out laughing at the silly situation. Inuyasha, however, was not laughing but he was no longer angry. He looked on at the three, more specifically Kagome, and felt slightly depressed.

Inuyasha never knew that Kagome could laugh like that. Sure, they had shared smiles and laughs in the time they spent together but never a full-blown laughter like the other three were having. He just knew how to make her cry. He knew what Kagome's most sad, angry, and hurt expressions looked like, but did not know the one where she was most happy. He wasn't even sure if she ever was completely happy. He felt like a selfish bastard. He had felt complete happiness with Kagome multiple times already, and he had yet to give her one. When she had told him she would stay by him, regardless of his decision on her or Kikyou. When she was willing to risk her life by approaching him when he had turned full youkai. When she told him she liked him, the simple words that pulled him through the five centuries of loneliness. When she recognized him, sealing the deal of them being soul mates. When she had smiled him. When she reached out her hand to him. When she looked at him. When she cried for him. When she always said the right thing. When they had kissed. With the listed seeming endless in Inuyasha's mind he felt that he had let the woman he loved down.

As the three continued laughing Kagome turned her head toward Inuyasha and gave him a full blow smile. His heart skipped a few beats as the glowing smile was directed at him. After a few seconds he gave a small smile as hope welled up inside of him. Hope, that one day he would be able to make her the happiest person to walk the earth. That was his goal now and he was set on completing that goal.

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"Okay, now Kagome, I'm going to have you sign a few documents." Kouga scooted his chair over slightly to sit next to her so he could explain where to sign.

"Sure thing Kouga-kun." Kagome looked up from an account file that Mr. Williams had given her to look over and get familiar with. Since Mr. Williams', and soon to be hers, branch consisted of only a few top clients Kagome was in great need of memorizing each client. Touken Ginkou was known for their relationships with their higher clients on a more personal level. Mr. Williams was like a personal financial advisor and many of his clients were sad to see him go. Kagome was determined to make the transition as smooth as possible for both parties and tried to get to know the clients before ever meeting them.

"For the first signature I want you sign right there." He pointed to a line at the bottom of the fourteenth page where Mr. Williams' signature already rested in a line before it.

"What am I signing away here?" Kagome asked as she let her eyes skim through the contents of the pages.

"That's the document that going to transfer all of Mr. Williams' responsibilities over to you. It also talks about your how much power you have and your restrictions within the occupation."

"This is so weird." Kagome said as she quickly put her practiced signature at the bottom of the line.

"This isn't weird. It's common procedure. It happens a lot when large positions in companies is to be replaced with a new employee."

She let out a sigh as she finished signing and dating the document. "I don't mean the document. I'm talking about how you know so much about legal affairs and hearing you with a vocabulary that goes beyond hunting, beating Inuyasha up, and claiming me as your woman."

"You thought I was stupid?" Kouga's voice held a bit of hurt in it and Kagome quickly corrected herself.

"Of course not! It's just. . . I knew you were smart, as was Inuyasha. . . but I never thought either of you would ever become book smart."

"I can see your doubts with Inukkoro but with me too? I'm hurt Kagome." This time his voice didn't hold the hurt like before but held humor within them.

"Don't make fun of Inuyasha. He's still my best friend you know." Kagome huffed as Kouga brought out another document for her to sign.

As he pointed to another line he spoke, "Is he only your best friend? Seeing that you have your memories back I thought maybe you would be more than that by now."

Before her pen touched the paper she looked up at Kouga with a surprised expression on her face. "What do you mean by that? What does it matter that I remembered or not? You're not implying that I remembered while I was you know. . . sleeping with him or something?"

"No! Nothing like that! I meant more along the lines of why you remembered. He did tell you didn't he?"

"Tell me what?" Kagome was now grasping his upper arm trying to coax him into telling her.

"The sort of terms-and-conditions in which will allow you to remember." He was now looking at Kagome as if he was stating the obvious. To everyone but Kagome it was the obvious. For all the time they had been waiting for her to be born and to come of age the rest of the group knew perfectly well what it would take for Kagome to remember. Her soul would have to want to remember and it would have to be soul mates with Inuyasha's soul.

"He didn't say anything like that. . . I thought all the memories flashed back to me because I met him again and the photographs triggered my memory. . . is there something else that did it?"

With the now desperate expression on her face he wanted to tell her everything that he knew just so her eyes would lose the lost look within them. Even so, he visibly swallowed in his dry throat and answered. "It's not my place to say. You'll have to ask Inuyasha about that."

She faced down as she stared at the armrest of his chair. "I feel like I'm put in the dark again."

"Inuyasha wouldn't do that to you if he knew how much this bothered you. Confront him and demand him to tell you. You have every right to know."

Still looking down Kagome answered with her voice trailing with the evidence of on coming tears. "Thank you." A large intake of air could be heard as she straightened herself and sat back in her chair. "Now, about these pesky legal documents. Where else do you need my John Hancock?"

Kouga watched her in admiration as she tried to appear strong. He flipped through the previously forgotten document and pointed to the line once again. "Here."

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"So how was your day?" Inuyasha ripped through the uncomfortable silence that seemed to surround him and Kagome as they were in the car.

"Fine."

"What did you do?" He tried once again to get rid of the tension from the atmosphere but it proved futile.

"Work."

"Did you get all the legal matter over with? Or will I be seeing Kouga around the office some more?"

"Yes." Her eyes will still trained upon the passing city scenery out the passenger side window.

"Yes to which? The first or second question."

"Second."

Silence fell upon them again and the only the hum of the engine could be heard as Inuyasha maneuvered expertly down the streets of busy Tokyo. Much like the day before the two of them had been working until the late hours of the day and were heading toward Inuyasha's apartment.

Unsure if he should attempt at a conversation once again he asked one more question.

"Has your memory cleared up yet?"

"You tell me." Kagome continued to stare out the window as she snapped at him now.

The response he got from her surprised him.

"Did I do something wrong?" He asked sheepishly and worriedly.

"No." Her answer was forced out as her teeth were clenched together.

"Then why are you mad?"

"I'm not mad." Her answers were still clipped and hard.

He pulled into his parking space at his apartment as she answered. As soon as the car was still Kagome unbuckled her seat belt and ready to get out of the car in a hurried motion when Inuyasha grabbed her upper right arm. (steering wheel on right side of car in Japan)

"What's wrong with you?" His expression showed that he was frustrated now.

"Nothing is wrong. Let me go, I'm tired and I want to sleep."

His grip tightened a bit as he glared at her now, "Something is wrong. You're mad at me for some reason and I'm not letting you go to sleep until we settle this. Haven't you ever heard of the phrase `never go to bed angry'?"

"We always did in the Sengoku Jidai, who's to say we should change our method from now on? We fought, we went to sleep, woke up and acted like nothing happened. It was a daily occurrence. It seemed to work so let's continue on with that."

He looked at skeptically, "Is this about something that happened back then?"

"No. It's not about anything. Just let me go so I can go to bed." Her voice had yet to rise but by the tone she used it was obvious she was barely holding on.

"I told you I'm not letting you go to bed angry."

Kagome seethed at that statement and tried to tear away from his grasp. "If I remember correctly, that statement only referred to couples."

At her statement of badly chosen words Inuyasha's grip slacked enough for Kagome to smash into the car door from the suddenness of him letting go. As she was rubbing at her shoulder that hit the window she looked up at Inuyasha. The look in his eyes was enough to kill her. Within them held pain and betrayal.

"Inuyasha. . . that came out wrong. I didn't mean-"

"You said exactly what you meant." He quickly composed himself and a mask fell upon his features. It was expressionless and he made quick work of getting out of the car.

Kagome hastily followed him as he was making his way toward the elevator. "Inuyasha! You can't just walk away like that! You always did that! Whenever there was something you didn't want to talk about you insulted me or walked away! It's not fair!"

He mechanically pressed the button to call for the elevator. "I guess we're one in the same. You can't accuse me of avoiding sensitive subjects when you did that as well."

The doors opened and he stepped in with Kagome right at his heels. "Fine! We were both stubborn and young! Now that we're older, and hopefully more mature, don't you think that we wouldn't be able to work this out?!"

"You're the one that didn't want to talk before. I'm just keeping up with your lead."

"And yet you still don't know the reason for my behavior."

"It's not my responsibility to know that when you won't tell me."

"If you really love me you would know without me telling you!"

Inuyasha whipped his face toward her with a scowl on his face. "Are you going to throw that in face every time we have an argument?! That I should know everything about you and that I should be able to read you with your attitude?! Are you going to throw into my face that I'm the moron that not only loves you but also is in love with you?! That I'm the moron that will never be loved back?! I don't need this crap Kagome!"

Door had opened and he was about to storm out when Kagome suddenly pulled him back in making him fumble and slam against the back wall of the elevator as she pressed the door close button then punched in the red emergency stop button.

"What the hell are you doing?!" He protested as he attempted to get up and open the doors.

"Osuwari." He crashed in the floor of the elevator as Kagome sat down neatly in front of him with her legs tucked underneath her. A string of cuss words could be heard from Inuyasha that would make the worst of sailors blush. "We're not leaving here until we settle this. I lost you without knowing it for five years. I'm not about to lose you again just because we both are the most stubborn people on the face of the earth." Near the end evidence of tears was there in her voice.

Inuyasha collected himself and sat with his legs bent and propped up in front of him as his back rested on the elevator wall. He avoided looking at her and stared at the ceiling. "You never lost me."

"I know. . . I didn't have a chance to miss you because I didn't remember. I'm sorry. . . You went through the pain and I just popped into your life again with my memory that came back conveniently. . . I know you have doubts about my feelings toward you, but I have no idea how to settle them without lying to you and myself."

"So you don't."

"I don't know. . . I don't know if I love you or not. . . and I don't want to lie to you by saying I do when I'm not sure. . . it makes my feelings sound fake when I have to tell you that I have to think about my feelings, that maybe I should just know. . . but. . . there are things I do know." She looked at him with a pained expression as tears poured down the sides of her face.

Inuyasha was tempted to just pull her into an embrace and tell her that it was going to be all right. But if he were to do that the two of them would be back at square one. They couldn't let this or anything else from then on to go unsettled just for the sake of not confronting the pain that would come from facing it head on.

"I know how it felt the first time I met you. The first time you called me by my name. The first time you came to get me from my time. The first time you protected me. I know how it felt every time I saw you. Every time you called me by my name. Every time you came to get me. Every time you protected me. I also know how it felt every time you were with Kikyou. Every time you had a faraway look on your face when you thought about her. Every time someone mentioned her name. Every time I was compared to her. And now, I know that I felt these emotions because I cared for you so much. I care for you more than I care for anyone else. If anyone in my family, one of my friends from school, or our friends from the Sengoku Jidai were to die I know I would have cried and become sad. But I also know that I would have moved on. I know that if you had died I wouldn't be able to live anymore. I would have given up on life all together. How would I go on knowing that you were no longer there?" The tears continued on as they trailed down her cheeks. "I don't know if that's what love is but that's what I know."

"Kagome. . ." He tried to reach over and pull her into the previously contemplated embrace but held back when he saw her scoot away.

"I care about you so much that sometimes it hurts. It hurts when I know you're lying to me. It hurts when I know you're keeping things from me."

"What am I keeping from you?" He was now trying to scoot over to her.

"From how Kouga-kun talked about it's something pretty big." She evaded locking eyes with him and stared at the ground.

His eyes widened, "What the hell did that wolf say to you to make you so upset?"

"Kouga-kun is not one to blame here. . . he's not the one keeping things from me. You should be happy about this actually."

"Huh?"

"He wasn't going to tell me because he said that it wasn't his place to say and that you should be the one to tell me."

"Tell you what?"

". . ."

"Kagome?"

Her gaze slowly made it's way to his. "Why my memories came back to me."

He chocked on air as his eyes widened. "I-I can't tell you that."

"See! You are keeping things from me!"

"But you're the one that told me not to push you. I can't tell you that without it seeming like a push. Heck, it would be more like a shove!"

"Better to be shoved by you then pushed by someone else!" Saying that she stood up pressed the emergency stop button again and the doors opened. She stepped out with Inuyasha fumbling to get up and catch up to her.

"Are you sure about this? Once I tell you there is no going back. Can you deal with that?" He asked as he spun her around by tugging at her shoulder.

"Yes. . . please just tell me. . ."

Inuyasha took in a large intake of air as he tried to calm his nerves and get the courage to tell her. He reached for her right and hand and placed it over his rapidly beating heart. "Do you feel that Kagome?" Hers eyes widened slightly and looked up at him. "That's what you do to me whenever you're near. It's been like that ever since I saw you for the first time. At first I thought it was because you looked like Kikyou." He felt her flinch at his comment but he continued anyways. "But later, when I realized that you were Kagome and only Kagome something happened. My heart beat faster than before. Knowing that you were you and no one else made my heart beat faster. And now, with the thanks to Midoriko and Amaterasu-sama I know why it did."

Kagome brought her gaze that had been fixed on where her hand lay to look into his eyes. They locked gazes and a thick silence hung over them as Inuyasha was searching in her eyes for an answer. When he saw that the answer was going to inevitably told to her, he let a small smile tug at his lips and leaned forward. He kissed her on the forehead, her right eyelid, her right cheek, then her ear. With the butterfly kisses being showered over her Kagome involuntarily shivered. He let out a hot breath that scorched her ear, as did the words that followed. "It beat faster because you're my soul mate Kagome. I'm your soul mate. We're soul mates."

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A/N: okay, about the price on the Versace clothing. . . clothes in Japan are expensive, forget brands, but if it was a brand imagine how expensive that is! I'm not even sure if the twenty thousand yen would be able to cover the price of the skirt and blouse! I have no idea when the next update will be so plz don't wait up. . . I mean, I will finish this fic. . . that's a long ways away but it will continue. . . hopefully the next update will take less than a month!