InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silly Human Mating Rituals ❯ Many Questions ( Chapter 2 )

Many Questions

“Back so soon?” said the startled Miroku. He had been spending some one on one time with Sango and seemed slightly perplexed and maybe a little annoyed that the hanyou and Kagome had only been gone for a few minutes.

 

Kagome was sobbing. Inuyasha was grinning. “Oh yeah,” he thought. “I need to stop that.” Inuyasha's face suddenly turned sullen. Luckily Kagome didn't see his face through her watery tears.

 

“What did you do to her?” Sango screamed.

 

“Hey! Why am I always the bad guy? I didn't do anything. It was the well…,” answered the defensive hanyou.

 

“The well?” asked Miroku. He stood there silently for a minute as Inuyasha draped an arm over Kagome who was still sobbing a little. “I was so busy thinking about Sango…that I forgot the well. Yes, I guess it wouldn't be working anymore…”

 

“What do you mean not working anymore?” asked Kagome between sobs.

 

“I had actually been thinking about the well a long time ago and how it worked. I was actually a little worried that it would stop working once the Shikon no Tama was destroyed. Perhaps it had been the power behind the well. I think you are stuck in our time Lady Kagome,” answered Miroku.

 

Inuyasha's heart was singing. It was his dream come true. “Oh yeah, unhappy face…,” he thought as he tried to wipe his smile from his face.

 

“But I need to have a question answered by Inuyasha. In all of the excitement you never told us what the wish was that you made on the Shikon no Tama. It certainly wasn't to be human, since you stand before us today with dog ears and silver hair,” said Miroku seriously.

 

“I like the cute puppy ears,” said Kagome as she stifled a tear. “I don't know what I would have done if I could never see them or his silver hair again.” She turned to Inuyasha and gave his hair a gentle stroke. He looked into her eyes. Her pretty brown eyes were peering into his golden eyes and he really couldn't take his eyes off of her.

 

“Inuyasha!” yelled Miroku.

 

“Oi, Monk.”

 

“The wish…?”

 

Inuyasha took his eyes away from the precious miko for a few seconds. Not that he wanted to stop looking at her. He was just a little embarrassed and started to look at his hands. “Well, I wished that…Do I really have to tell you?” asked Inuyasha.

 

“Yes…,” goaded on Miroku with some impatience.

 

“I wished…I wished that I could live… with Kagome… forever…,” he blurted out under his breath. Oh he really didn't mean to say that. Now she'd know and he was really fearful of her finding out how he really felt about her.

 

“Is that true Inuyasha…?” the girl said in complete seriousness as her chocolate brown eyes locked onto his. Suddenly her tears seemed to stop falling.

 

There was no way out of this one… “I…never wanted to be alone again. Every time you leave through the well…I wonder if I'll ever see you again…I wonder if it's magic will fade… I just wanted you to stay with me...always…I'm sorry that you can't see your family…I…,” said Inuyasha as his voice trailed.

 

Kagome fought back new tears, cupped Inuyasha's face in her hands and kissed him passionately on the lips. It was a curious kiss. Her kiss contained her salty tears but also held the gentle taste of vanilla and cherry blossoms. Her warm, wet lips were pressing down on his. Now this was heaven. He certainly wasn't regretting his wish now.

 

Sango blushed. Miroku smiled momentarily and then continued to talk.

 

“Ah and now we know why the well is closed…I guess you got your wish Inuyasha…,” said Miroku.

 

“No, not yet…,” said Inuyasha cautiously. He hadn't intended to say anything right now, not with her tears. But it just seemed right--he wanted her to know. He had originally planned on asking her in private, but all he could see now was her. It seemed like they had their own private world.

 

Inuyasha gathered Kagome's delicate, white hands in his tan calloused hands. “I've never needed someone as much as I need you Kagome. Please stay with me. Please be my mate.”

 

“Mate?” asked Kagome looking perplexed.

 

Inuyasha started to stammer in nervousness. No! His wish was supposed to come true! What did he say wrong. “Oh,” he remembered, “Humans don't say `mate'…they say `husband and wife'…”

 

“Wife…Kagome…will you be my wife…?” his golden eyes bored down with wistful yearning into her brown eyes. He touched her raven hair that fell like black ribbons down her shoulders and neck. He wanted her to be with him, live with him, have pups with him, make pups with him… He really wanted to practice making pups with her…But that could wait, he was patient…

 

Kagome's eyes watered as she returned the gaze. “Yes, Inuyasha. I will be your wife… I have always loved you…”

 

Inuyasha was beaming. “She said `Yes!',” he screamed. He grabbed her within the folds of his red fire rat robe and kissed her passionately. Wow! Two kisses in one day. He was starting to feel giddy. Now he felt his wish was finally starting to work. Kagome, his forever. He grinned, he couldn't wait to tell Koga that Kagome would be his mate, er…wife… Ha!

 

Inuyasha lifted Kagome like a bride and whopped an exclamation of joy as he carried her away from the prying eyes of Sango and Miroku. He jumped several times before he was able to find a place far enough away. He set her down carefully on a tree branch, like she was a delicate porcelain doll that might break.

 

“How long…?” asked the hanyou earnestly as he looked into her eyes again. “How long did you..uh…”

 

“Love you?” completed Kagome with a smile.

 

“Yes!” sighed Inuyasha in blissful happiness.

 

“It's hard to say when since I had fallen in love with you long before I admitted it to myself. I suppose I started loving you when you saved me from the Noh mask in my time. When you saved my life, you were so heroic and unfortunately I had been really rude to you. I think love started to stir within me then, but I really didn't know that I loved you. I couldn't understand why I was always thinking about you or why I couldn't get you out of my head. No, I didn't realize that I loved you until I saw you with Kikyo. When I heard you pledge your life to her--my heart broke. I went back to my time and I made up my mind that I should never see you again. We lived in different worlds, different times. I thought that you should be with Kikyo—not me…,” Kagome's voice trailed off.

 

“Kagome…?” asked Inuyasha as he saw a tear on her cheek. He gently wiped it away with a clawed finger.

 

“I stood there in my time looking at the Go-Shinboku tree. I was so sad and I was crying. I then realized that I had loved you. It hurt so much Inuyasha, it hurt so much…,” said Kagome as she reached for his hand. “I also realized that I couldn't live my life without you then. But since I couldn't show you that I loved you I pledged to just be by your side. If that was all I could be to you, that would be what I would do.”

 

She had a weary smile on her lips. He brushed her cheeks and tasted her sweet lips again.

 

When their lips came apart Kagome murmured…”Do you love me…?”

 

Inuyasha was surprised at the question. He thought, “Wasn't it obvious?”

 

She was looking up at him expectantly. He felt that he had to answer. “I pledged to protect you with my life. Feh. Even before my pledge I was always protecting you. When you're here I somehow seem inspired to be a better person—a better fighter… I have never fought as fiercely as I do when I need to protect you. When I'm with you I feel lighter, calmer, happier…When you leave down the well…everytime…it's like my heart is being ripped from me…I want you with me Kagome. I don't want to ever be lonely again. I want you to live your life with me. I really can't imagine my life without you in it. Isn't that love…? Of course I love you, my Kagome,” he said as his golden eyes probed into hers. She smiled warmly at him.

 

“Then I have another question, Inuyasha…,” Kagome paused. “When did you start loving me…?”

“Start…?” said Inuyasha wistfully. He had to pause and really think back. It had really been a whole year, hadn't it? “I remember the first time I saw you. You were running towards me when I was pinned to the tree. I thought you were Kikyo. I was so angry about being betrayed by her…but at the same time so happy to see you running to me. At the beginning it was both love and hate. You looked to be the double of the women I had loved--the women who killed me. I had felt so upset and sick having you around. You confused me so much. But you were so kind to me when no one else would be. You shed tears for me. You even protected me with your life and refused to leave my side when I was a helpless human as we fought the spider-heads. Seeing you cry over me made me so happy that night. Here I was helpless and poisoned. But I was able to lay in your lap, smell your sweet scent and you seemed to really care about me. I loved you then…I couldn't help it….,” added Inuyasha as he blushed. He really wasn't used to talking about his feelings. Demons he could handle. Emotions…Ack!

 

“Inuyasha,” Kagome said softly as she entwined her soft white hand in his large rough hand. It felt so good to hold her hand. She looked back at his eyes. He could see his own face reflected in her eyes. She pulled one hand away and gently stroked his ears.

 

“Sorry,” she added. “I've always wanted to do that again.”

 

“Don't stop!” he said. His ears were actually a source of embarrassment for him. They were a reminder that he wasn't a full demon or a human. But to have her touch him, any part of him…especially a part of him that most people should be disgusted with—somehow it warmed his heart. It was a strange feeling--he wanted it to continue.

 

“Kagome...,” he said with a huskiness in his voice. He bent over and took her in his arms and kissed her.