InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Snowy Love ❯ Stroll In the Snow (and hot springs too!) ( Chapter 4 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Chapter 4

"You might not know this one..." Kagome informed Inuyasha, reading the card after having picked it from the box. Inuyasha was sitting at the table and Kagome walked up in front of the table. "Hmm...." Kagome said, thoughtfully. "Uh..." She made the film sign.

"Film..." Kagome nodded. "Well how am I supposed to know that?!" Inuyasha demanded. Kagome shrugged. Inuyasyha sighed aggravatedly. Kagome held up two fingers. "Two words..." Kagome held up one finger. "First word..." Kagome pointed at the rug. "Floor." Kagome shook her head. "Ground?" Kagome growled at him and pointed angrily at the floor. "Uh...down?" Kagome slapped her forhead agrravatedly. "Slap?" Kagome made an x with her arms and shook her head rapidly. "No...x?" Kagome stamped her foot angrily. "Stamping...foot...down?" Kagome roared frustratedly and pointed at the ground again. "Uh...I don't get it." Kagome crossed her arms and was still for a second, then beamed with an idea. She crouched to the ground and picked up a piece of dirt.

"Pick up? Uh..." Kagome shook her head and pointed to the dirt. "Dirt..." Kagome nodded enthusiatically. "So...the first word is dirt?" Kagome shook her head. "What?" Kagome slapped the dirt on her arm and rubbed it in and pointed at her arm. "Uh..." Kagome pointed at it repetitively. "Arm?" Kagome sighed loudly and shook her head. "Uh...." Kagome stamped her foot again and held up two fingers. "Oh! Uh...Second word..." Kagome began dancing and Inuyasha thought, for a second she was having a convulsion. "Oh!" Inuyasha cried in realization. "Going insane---insanity!" Kagome frowned at him and shook her head. She was thoughtful. She then quickly crouch to the ground then popped up and spun around. "Uh....leap frog?" Kagome sighed irritably and looked about ready to give up. Again she held up one finger. "Okay...first word...didn't we already do that one?" Kagome shook her head. "Oh yeah...I couldn't guess...well you're making no sense!" Kagome put more dirt on her arm and pointed at it. "Uh..." She rubbed dist all over her arms and motioned entusiastically at them. "Oh...uh dirty?" Kagome nodded very cheerfully and gave Inuyasha a thumbs up. "So...that's the first word? if it isn't don't get mad at me..." Inuyasha told her, fearfully. Kagome nodded.

"Cool! I did it!" Kagome shook her head and put two fingers up. "Oh yeah...the second word..." Inuyasha moaned. "Do I havta?" Kagome nodded. "Oh man!" Kagome grinned and began to do more modern dancing which of course Inuyasha couldn't identify. Kagome sighed discouragedly, but brightened with an idea and began dancing the old fashioned Japanese way. "Oh! Oh! I know this! I've seent this! WHERE have I seen this?!" Inuyasha was thoughtful for a moment. Kagome watched him expectantly. "Dancing, right?!" Kagome nodded. "Yay!" Kagome turned her hand around in a circular motion, waiting for more. "Oh....no I have to put them together...........what was the first on again?" Kagome fell to the ground, but quickly popped up. She picked up the dirt and pointed to it. "Oh yeah! Alright...dirty, right? Okay...wait..." Kagome sighed and was tapping her foot impatiently. "What was the second one again?" He asked. Kagome hung her head very low. "I'm just kidding! Dirty dancing? Right?" Kagome looked very pleased.

"Thank you! I as so SICK of that! Gosh! Most people would guess that in a mili-second!" Kagome ranted.

"People in your time! I still don't know what you're talking about!" Inuyasha cried.

"It's simply one of the greatest movies of our time! Well...my time..." Kagome said slowly. Inuyasha glared at her.

"How am I supposed to know any of this modern stuff?" Inuaysha inquired. "How am I supposed to act this stuff out?" Kagome pondered this for a moment.

"'Guess we can't play charades..." she said sadly. "Hmm...I wonder what we can do then...oh I know!" Kagome cried happily, leaping for her backpack, she soon revealed what appeared to Inuyasha to be a very tiny glass jar that had some sort of pink liquid in it.

"What the..." Inuyasha began, staring at the small thing.

"Nail polish," Kagome cut in cheerfully. "You paint your nails with it...mine really need it...it would be funny for you to wear it on your nails!" Kagome laughed.

"What? I'm not wearing pink! Besides...I don't want you to laugh at me!"

"Oh come on Inuyasha! You're no fun!" Again Kagome made her poubting face. Inuyasha stared for a moment, but suddenly broke out of his daze.

"No! No way!"

"Too bad I don't have any other colors..." Kagome sighed sadly. "Hmm...I know! I can teach you how to dance right!" Kagome cried, cheerfully.

"Nope! Nah ah! No way, no how," Inuyasha said, stubbornly, crossing his arms.

"Why not?" Kagome whined, looking glum. "You're such a party pooper!" She cried angrily, turning away.

"Uh!" Inuyasha gasped, putting up his hand to say something, but only said, "Mmmmmnn..." in an upset tone.

"But I know how to make you do these things..." Kagome said evilly. 'That scares me somehow,' Inuaysha thought. 'Oh I know why! Kagome's scary when she tries to make you do stuff!' Kagome suddenly turned, grinning, "Truth or Dare!"

"What?" Inuyasha whimpered, looking terror-stricken. 'What's she going to do, torture truth out of me or else I do what she wants? Oh wait...I don't crack under pain. Mwa haha! She can't do it! Ha! Wait! What if there's some gizmo in the future the forces the truth out of people *bite nails* *bite nails*!'

"So...you have to choose, truth or dare?" Kagome said, smirking evilly. "If you choose truth you have to answer any question i ask you truthfully. Dare, you have to do what ever I dare you, okay?

'Well...I don't want her to know the truth...' "Dare!" Inuyasha replied

"Alright, that means I dare you to wear this nail polish!" Kagome cried triumphantly.

"No way!" Inuyasha argued.

"You have to, Inuyasha!" Kagome chimed happily. Inuyasha didn't budge. Kagome frowned. "Or else!"

"Or else what?" Inuyasha inquired, not the slightest bit fearful.

"Sometimes when my friends and me play this game we have a consequence if you don't tell the truth on truth or you don't do a dare..." Kagome began.

"Consequence?" Inuyasha said, curiously.

"It has to be reallly, really bad!" Kagome cackled evilly. "But we have to agree on it, cause I'll have to do it to if I refuse to do the dare or if I lie..."

"Huh?"

"Remember the take turns thing I taught you, Inuyasha?"

"Yeah..."

"That applies on this too...so how about the consequence is you have to...run outside in the blizzard naked," Kagome finished rather quickly.

"What?" Inuyasha protested, blushing rather furiously. "I'm not doing that!"

"Then its perfect! It has to be something neither of us would ever do!" Kagome cried cheerfully.

"No way!" Inuyasha agrued loudly.

"Shh!" Kagome hissed, index finger on her mouth.

"No way I'm doing that!" Inuyasha whispered angrily.

"You won't have to," Kagome began. Inuyasha sighed in a relieved manner. "That is...if you tell the truth and do your dares." Inuyasha felt his stomach twisting rather horribly. "The same goes for me, too, Inuyasha. If I don't tell the truth in truth or if I refuse to do a dare I have to do it." Inuyasha was ignoring the part of him that wouldn't mind Kagome running around nude as much as he could.

"I think it's a bit extreme..." Inuyasha replied, quietly. "It's really bad."

"Oh, it's not so bad. It's not like I'll look if you do it. And, in any event, I don't particularly care if I have to do it. I'm used to the cold and I can always warm up by the fire." She then smirked. "Plus you get to see me naked, so I'm pretty sure you'll be alright."

"What do you MEAN?!" Inuyasha shreaked, face becoming far redder. "I don't WANT to see you naked!"

"Oh right like I'm supposed to beleive that," Kagome said sarcastically. "I saw the way you ogled at me when you saw me before..."

"I did not ogle! I--I--I turned away! Don't you remember?!" Inuyasha shouted angrily.

"Shhh!!!" Kagome hissed loader than before. "It doesn't matter, you've already seen me before. Maybe I should go for something worse. I mean, I've already seen you naked too...plus I don't really care...*sigh* help me here, Inuyasha!"

"N-no!" He cried, quite alarmed. "That's bad enough!" He sersiously didn't want Kagome thinking of something worse than that.

"I guess..." Kagome replied, thoughtfully. "But I guess I have to look, don't I?"

"Why?!" Inuyasha demanded, panicking.

"Because," Kagome began, "I have to make sure you do it. It's the rules of truth of dare. The darer has to watch the daree do the dare. I forgot one of the most fundamental rules," Kagome preached.

"Can't we bend the rules?" Inuyasha asked, gulping.

"'Afraid not that one..." Kagome replied, sadly. She then perked up. "Oh well! Now you won't lie, will you?"

"Damn you!" Inuyasha muttered under his breath.

"Hey!" Kagome cried, offended. "I don't make this stuff up!"

"Sorry..." Inuyasha said, truly apolegetically.

"Alright," Kagome repleid, seemingly reassured.

"They're aren't any other rules are there?" Inuyasha inquired.

"Well...there are..." Inuyasha groaned. "Like we can't make each other do anything against the law...or against our morals..."

"Morals?" Inuyasha said, blankely.

"Yeah, like you can't make me have sex with you."

"Who do you think I AM, FRICKIN' MIROKU!!!!!!!!!?" Inuyasha roared.

"Shut up! Do you want to wake everyone up!?" Inuyasha seemed to calm down slightly and sat down, but was muttering things grumpily under his breath. "It was JUST an example, Jesus Christ!" Kagome said, rather loudly. "Anyhow," she whispered, seeming to try to make up for all the noise that had been made. "So...uh.." She began counting on her fingers "Nothing against morals, against the law...have to watch...oh yeah, and we need to state our morals now. So mine, uh...can't hurt any one whose innocent, I won't steal anything valuable, and I won't use anyone or put anyone in life threatening danger, oh yeah, plus I can't do anything obscene. You?"

"I don't really have any morals. But can I say that I won't get nude?" Kagome frowned at him.

"Yeah right. You're NOT getting out of the concsequence and besides that I won't dare you to go nude anyway. I'm not like that," Kagome reassured him.

"Well...I won't give my tetsaiga away or...wait what do you mean by obscene?"

"Like...like anything...well...pornographic or something..." Kagome explained blushing a bit.

"What?" Inuyasha inquired, completely misunderstanding,

"Like...well basically I won't do anything in the way of...you know..." Aparently Inuyasha didn't know, "Oh forget it! You won't dare me to do it anyway. And if you do, I'll explain then!" Kagome hissed.

"Whatever. Oh, and I won't do anything girly!"

"What?! No way, Inuyasha! You're SO not getting out of THAT! Those are seriously the funnest dares," Kagome smirking.

"What?! But I don' wanna!" Inuyasha complained. That was pretty much the most embarassing thing he could think of, besides going nude of course...well actually they're were worse things...

"I mean against your morals. Like things that are like criminal to you!" Kagome explained harshly.

"Oh..."

"Dares are about doing things you don't want to do, that's the point," Kagome told him.

"But...but I don't know what you don't want to do..." Inuyasha complained, quietly.

"Oh, I'm sure you'll figure it out," she assured him. "So...what will it be? Truth or dare?" She asked him.

"Hmm..." Well...I don't want to wear pink, and she probably doesn't know the sort of questions to ask me...but I can't lie... "I guess truth."

"Chicken!" Kagome said, smirking. "Fine...hmm...what should I ask you..." Inuyasha had to admit to himslef, he was rather fearful. What would she ask? "I guess...hmm...you're hard... I know!" Kagome beamed. 'Great.' Inuyasha thought, sarcastically. "Besides Kikyo...have you ever loved somebody?" Besides being a very embarrassing question, it was rather difficult to answer. Had he? He was thoughtful. Did he love Kagome? He had to confess to himself that he did like her...he couldn't deny it any longer...but wasn't sure if he loved her... Kagome studied him as he was deep in thought. "You have to answer..."

"I know," Inuyasha replied, in a slightly irritated tone. "I'm just...thinkin'..." Then again, did Inuyasha really know what love was in the first place? "I don't really understand it, though."

"Understand what?"

"Love," Inuyasha answered, still deep within his thoughts.

"Well..." Kagome began slowly. "...it's not too hard to understand. It's just... basically...well..."

"What?" Inuyasha asked, his full attention on Kagome

"It's hard to describe," she replied dreamily. "It's like, when you look at the person..." Kagome suddenlty broke out of dreaminess. "--or thing--" But only for a moment and quickly smiled peacefully again, "--you feel the happiest you ever were. But when you're around them you feel nervous too. But you feel like there's nothing else but you...and...and...them...and...time is gone and everything, just gone...too...and when they smile you're heart speeds up and you're throat goes dry when they ask you a question about..." But Kagome paused, seeming to be off in some dream world. Inuyasha felt like maybe he was too and almost didn't notice her stall.

"About what?" He managed to ask, gaze unable to leave Kagome.

"Anything! You just can't answer..." She then turned to Inuyasha. She laughed nervosuly. "Oh...look at me...I'm making no sense...you probably don't understand a word I'm saying." She was out of her dream world now and looked rather sheepish. But Inuyasha never understood anything better in his life. He then realized that he did indeed love Kagome.

"Yes...I do--uh--I have loved someone...other than Kikyo." he replied, quietly, and thought he was going to blush, but somehow he didn't. Usually these sort of things always made him feel so uncomfortable and embarassed, but somehow now it felt so natural.

"Oh! Have I ever met this someone?" Kagome inquired, smirking.

"Well..." Inuyasha began, he then frowned and quickly smirked. "Hey...I only have to answer one question!" Kagome giggled.

"Yeah...I guess you do...oh! Now it's your turn to ask." Inuyasha looked at Kagome with a puzzled look, but suddenly brightened in realization.

"Oh! Uh...truth of dare?"

"Hmm...I pick...dare!" Kagome replied, excitedly. "Make it a good one! I play this a lot so you shouldn't make it too bad...rememeber you can basically make me do anything..."

"Anything, huh?" Inuyasha said to no one in particular, pinching his chin thoughtfully.

"Well..unless it's against my morals--or the law!" Kagome added.

'Dang...what do I make her do? I should make her do something embarassing, but not too bad...I've never played this, how am I supposed to know what to do?! Hmm...maybe...' Inuyasha seemed to recal a little incident where Kagome had refused to do a certain something... "I dare you to..." But was it good enough? "...sing."

"What?" Kagome inquired, though she had most definetly heard him. "Geez...I've never been dared that before..." Inuyasha wondered if he had dared a good thing or not. "Do I have to?"

"Well...yeah," Inuyasha replied.

"I don't...like singing in front of people..."

"That's what dares are all about, right Kagome? Doing what you don't wan't to do," Inuyasha said, grinning.

"Do you have to rub it in?" Kagome asked, again sulking, but she couldn't help smiling, Inuyasha nodded. She stood up and straighted her skirt. "So...what do I have to sing?"

"Well...you don't know any of the our songs, do you?" Kagome shook her head. "Well...then pick something," he told her. Kagome was thoughtful for a moment.

"Hmm....how about...the hokey pokey!" She cried cheerfully. "It's a good thing I don't have to do the dance."

"Whata you mean?" Inuyasha inquired. Kagome blushed slightly.

"Well...there's this dance with it...it's really stupid...I'm just glad I don't--why are you looking at me like that?" Inuyahsa was now grinning evilly at Kagome. He now started rubbbing his hands together greedily.

"How about you do, do the dance," he said, smiling broadly. Kagome was feeling a great panic come over her.

"Y-you can't make me!" She said stubornly. "You can't add to your dares!" She exclaimed.

"Hmm..you never mentioned that rule...so I guess you just made it up now," Inuyasha replied, feeling very smug. 'Sweet revenge...' he thought. "You have to do it."

"No way!" Kagome argued defiantly.

"That is...unless you'd like to go outside in the blizard..." Inuyasha continued. "...butt naked..." Kagome gulped quietly.

"Fine!" Was her response. "I'll do the stupid dance!" she cried. "It's not that bad anyway." And she waved her hand in a careless fashion at these words. "*ahem*," she said, getting ready to preform. Inuyasha stuffed some potato chips in his mouth from the bag he had found.

"Hey! Where'd you get that?!" Kagome demanded.

"You're backpack..." he said, spaying Kagome with potato chip crums.

"Give me that!" Sne demanded and snatched the bag from Inuyasha's grasp.

She tossed it away hitting Miroku in the head who simply muttered, "Sango, I didn't DO anything this time! Do you have to be so VIOLENT?!" In his sleep.

"Alright..." Kagome breathed nervously. And she began the classic hokey pokey dance, "You put your left leg in, you put your left leg out." With those words she stamped her leg forward and then behind her. "You put your left leg in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around..." Kagome slowly spun around. "That's what it's all about." She sung, clapping on each silable. You put right leg in, you put your right leg out. You put your right leg in, and you shake it all about. Kagome went on with this for sometime, you know how the dance goes. Kagome cast a nervous glance at Inuyasha, he was just staring, unblinkingly at her when finally, Kagome paused for a second, appearing to be trying to remember something. Suddenly she sprung into action, "You put your head in, you put your head out. You put your head in and you shake it all about," With shaking her head wildly, Kagome caused most of her hair to fall out of place and tangle. "You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around...that's what it's all about." Kagome began spinning around over and over and over. Inuyasha felt dizzy just watching her. "The hokey pokey! The hokey pokey pokey! The hokey pokey!" She stopped. "That's what it's all about!" And Kagome concluded with a small bow.

Inuyasha was simply staring at Kagome. She probably looked so stupid! But Kagome scouldn't help feeling she got off easy. The hokey pokey was mainly shouting, it didn't take much singing talent to preform. She was just glad Inuyasha didn't make her do a real song. But he was just STARING!!! Finally he said, "That was cool! Show me!" He lept up onto his feet.

"Maybe some other time," Kagome replied, somewhat out of breath. 'Well...that was quite unexpected.' she thought as she sat down.

"So THAT'S how songs are in you time?" Inuyasha inquired in wonder.

"Well, not really. That's more of a child's game than a song," Kagome explained, fixing her messed up hair.

"Hey! You said you'd do a song! Not a child's game!" Kagome stared at Inuyasha for a few moments in a defeated way.

"Inuyasha...I'm tired...don't make me do more..."

"You have to. I dared you a song not a game," he told her slowly, like she was too stupid to know the difference. There was a short quiet, but soon Inuyasha smirked and brightened with an idea. "Oh i get it!" he began. "This was your way of getting out of singing! You're too afraid!"

"I am NOT!" Kagome argued loudly, but quickly looked nervous. "I just thought...well..."

"Bock babock! Chicken!" Inuayasha exclaimed in a taunting tone, bending his arms and flapping them to mock Kagome even further. Kagome growled.

"I am NOT a chicken! And I'll prove it!" She cried and with that, stood up and grabbed her back and sat down. She dug through it muttering very nastily, things even Inuyasha's ears couldn't pick up. "Here! Here are me CD's!" she exclaimed, shoving sveral CD's still in their plastic cases at Inuyasha.

"They reak of a smell I've never smelt..." Inuyasha murmured wonderingly.

"Probably new smell...I hate it...but a girl's gotta have new stuff..." Kagome replied, smartly. Inuyasdha studied them curously.

"Why did your give me these tiles?" He asked. Kagome shook her head.

"No...those are just the cases," she said, grabbing them from Inuyasha and openeing one of them. She pulled out one of the round disks. "See...you put this in a CD player and ity plays music."

"What sort of insrument is this?" Inuyasha proded it with his claw and Kagome brought it out of his reach.

"It's not an instrument, it's a recording of music. Here are the songs listed on each CD," she explained pointing at the backs of the cases. You choose which one you want me to sing." Inuyasha grabbed on of the CD cases and looked at the back.

"But I don't even know what they sound like..."

"Here," Kagome said, taking the CD case and opening it. She revealed a stereo from inside her back pack that was rather small and pressed a button that opened the CD compartment.

"Ooh..." Inuyasha exclaimed at it's opening.

"Oh that's nothing,' Kagome assured him, placing the CD in. The small screen on it, blinked several time and a number appeared on it.

"Ahh..." Inuyasha said in amazement.

"Now...I'd better turn it down so it wonh't wake anyone up..." Inuyasha watched the stereo, his mouth agape and turned to Kagome wondering what she had meant by this statement. "There..." And with that pressed the play button. And he heard music, but it was different than any he had ever heard.

"Where's it coming from?" Inuyasha asked, picking up the stereo and examining it.

"From the speakers." Kagome told, not able to hold back a smile. She pointed at the speakers and it was clear Inuyasha didn't understand at all.

"This is a nice song..." Inuyasha said. Kagome pressed the stop button.

"Yeah...the original song is from America...this is the Japanese version of it." Inuyasha didn't seem to comprehend, but Kagome decided explaining everything in the future to Inuyasha could take a very long time.

"But is that how the whole song goes? She's not singing words...just a tune..."

"It's only the beginning," she told him. "If you want me to sing it..." Kagome began, she then blushed slightly. "...then I guess I will..." She suddenly gasped, her heart was beating far too fast...clutching it she quickly stood up and turned away. Inuyasha stood up too.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she told him, forcing a smile. 'Stop it you!' She thoughts told her heart. 'God don't make me out to be some love crazy teenager!'

'Wow, why does she look so nervous...maybe I should be nice and let her off... No! She can't know I like her! That would ruin everything!' "So...are you going to do it, or go out into the blizard?" he asked smriking. 'God I must sound like such an insensitive jerk right now...' he thought.

"I'm going to do it..." Again, forcing a smile....did she have to pretend to be so dang happy all the time? She bent over and picked up the controller to the stereo that was lying right next to it and skipped the CD back to the beginning of the song and paused it. "I'll just play the song while I sing..." Kagome explained, Inuyasha sat down, wondering how the rest of the song would go. Kagome took a deep shuddering breath. 'C'mon you can do this...' she thought. 'It's not that big of a deal...' She pressed the play button on the controller and immediatly had to begin singing.

"Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da," Kagome sung slightly hoarsly. She seemed extremely shaken. And was pulling on her hair when she sang, "I'm, tugging at my hair," and immediatly after singing that stopped abruptly and began tugging at her skirt and sang, " I'm pullin' at my clothes," and stopped that immediatly after singing that line. "I'm tryin' to keep my cool, I know it shows," right after this entirely true stement, Kagome was left looking down at her toes. "I'm starin' at my feet." Kagome could only blush after this line, "My cheeks are turnin' red," 'Why did it have to be THIS song!' Kagome's thoughts rang. She hoped Inuyasha didn't notice how alike the song was to the situation. Poitning out how nervous shew as wasn't helping anything. "I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feelin' nervous," 'Obviously!' her thoughts screamed angrily. "Tryin' to be so perfect," 'Inuyasha,' she thought, 'Please don't notice!' "Cause I know you're worth it, you're worth it. Yeah." 'Just great,' Kagome thought sarcastically, "If I could say what I wanna say, I'd say I wanna blow you away." 'Dang it!' She thought angrily. "Be with you every night, am I squeezing you to tight??" Memories of her and Inuyasha were soon rushing to Kagome's mind as she sang, she hoped it would stop. "If I could see what I wanna see, I wanna see you go down on one knee." 'Dear lord,' said her thoughts

"Marry me today. Yes, I'm wishin my life away...with these things I'll never say." There was a musical break of guitars playing the tune and it was unbearble for Kagome to stand there, trying her best not to look at Inuyasha and wondered if he had noticed the similarity to her and the song. She hoped he didn't assume she had those feelings for him... But who was she kidding? He wouldn't How farfetched would that be? "It don't do me any good, it's just a waste of time. What use it to you, what's on my mind?" It was then Kagome began realizing that this song definitely applied to her and she began wondering if she was wasting time that maybe she should tell Inuyasha? 'Have I gone insane?' She mused. "If it ain't comin' out, we're not goin' anywhere," Kagome was now starting to get emotional, which was something she would have liked to have avoided. But now it was too late and she wasn't singing the song in a somewhat quiet nervous voice. Now she was singing it bravely, with passion. "So why can't I just tell you that I care? 'Cause I'm feelin' nervous, tryin' to be so perfect. 'Cause I know you worth it," Kagome's emotions exploded with the song. 'You're worth it. Yeah!" It was then Inuaysha began to get the feeling Kagome was speaking through the song and singing not for him, but to him. He wasn't sure if she was just getting into it or if it was just him...but it was strange,.. 'What's going on here?' He thought.

"If I could say what I wanna say, I'd say I wanna blow you away," 'WHAT AM I DOING?! Kagome's thoughts exclaimed. Nervousness was creeping forth again. "Be with you ever night, am i squeezin' you to tight? If I could see what I wanna see, I wanna see you go down on one knee," It was obvious now, to Inuyasha that he had been wrong. Kagome was just trying to sing well...what had he been thinking? Kagome, feeling that way about him? Alright, maybe IN SOME OTHER UNIVERSE! "Marry me today. Yes, I'm wishin my life away...with these things I'll never say. What's wrong with my song?" Now, with out knowing it, Kagome's emotions had taken hold and there was no stopping them. "These words keep slippin' away. I stutter, I stumble, like I've got nothin' to say." No...Kagome seemed compeltely serious now. And Inuyasha couldn't help thinking back to all the times this last line of the song rang true...but could Kagome have something to say to him? Could she have kept her mouth shut while thinking things like she was singing in this song? It seemed impossible. "'Cause I'm feelin' nervous, tryin' to be so perfect. Cause I know you're worth it," she sung this line softly and it seemed less emotional, but the way she was looking at him... Inuyasha could almost see into her soul through those eyes, she was trying to reach to him, her heart was, whether she was aware of it or not. And the way she was smiling at him guiltily like she knew she should have said something, but never did. Inuyasha stood up almost sub-consiously and Kagome couldn't help feeling a bit nervous that he was.

"You're worth it. Yeah!" He took a step forward. "Da da da da da da da da da," Kagome's heart was pounding in her chest, he was walking toward her. "Da da da da da da da..." She paused a bit and stuttered, she was getting horribly anxious and Inuyasha wasn't stopping. "Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da." But Kagome kept singing as Inuyasha so tediously aproached her, "Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da," she continued nervously. "Yes, I'm wishin' my life away...with these thing's I'll never say. If I could say what I wanna say," Inuyasya had stopped walking, just in front of her and was studying her. "I'd say I wanna blow you...away. Be with you every night, am I squezzin' you too tight?" Kagome blushed very badly and her eyes where glued to the floor. "If I could see what I wanna see, I wanna see you go down...on one knee." Finally Kagome gathered up the courage to look up at Inuyasha. "Marry me today. Yes, I'm wishin' my life away." Her face was turning redder and Inuyasha stepped closer and was looking at her with questioning eyes. "With these things I'll never say."

As the song paused Inuyasha took a step closer and said in an unbearable soft voice, "Kagome?" And his gentle hand was slowly moving toward her face.

"With these things I'll never say," Kagome croaked, a large lump in her throat. Neither of them could speak and they just looked at each other for a second. Kagome: dreading what Inuyasha was going to, Inuaysha: simply confused and bewildered.

Suddenly Shippo screamed, "Bloody murder!!" Kagome and Inuyasha turned, thoroughly scared out of their wits by this sudden outburst., Both were forzen, thinking the yound fox demon had awoken. There were a couple of dreadful minuted just staring at Shippo, wondering if he was awake or not. But soon he began snoring softly and their fears cleared away. The two sighed in a relieved manner. Kagome then turned to Inyasha. "So, truth or dare?" She asked, cheerfully.

"Oh..." Inuyasha said slowly, mind scanning over what had just happened. "...yeah...uh...I guess dare." He replied, blinking vacantly. Kagome was trying to put what happened behind them...maybe it was best... Kagome cackled evilly.

"As you wish...hehehe!" She said, smirking. "I dare you...you to eat all the food in this cabin..."

"Ooh..." Inuyasha said, again rubbing his hands together, "I like this dare."

"And leave a note behind saying, 'Inuyasha did this, hahaha!!'" Inuyasha just stared at her.

"Are you INSANE?! They'll KILL me!" he shouted. Kagome motioned for him to calm down.

"It's either that or go stark naked into the blizzard of the century," she said, poiting her thumb at the window where there was a plain view of a raging storm. Inuyasha was silent for a moment, then growled angrily.

"Dang it, you!" He grumbled and slowly got up and walked to where the food was stored, Kagome not far behind. It was a matter of moments later when Inuyasha had cleared the room of all it's food contents. "Done..." He replied, for once rather full, he was rather satisfied until he turned to see Kagome holding out a sheet of paper.

"Here you go," she said, brightly. Inuyasha looked at her with a very fed up face. kagome laughed cheefully. Inuyasha muttered several vulgar things as he scribbled down the prescribed note. "There," he handed her the note which hshe immediatly read. "Do you aprove?" He inquired in an vexed tone.

"Yeah, it's good," she answered, ignoring the mocking subtext in Inuyasha's question and placing the sheet of paper on one of the empty shelves. The two walked back into the room everyone else was in and sat.

"Truth of DARE, KaGOme?" He inquired, smirking.

"Dare," she said, in a a bored tone. She did a fake yawn.

"I'm going to SO get you back!" he cackled.

"Well...in that case...truth..." kagome replied, rather content. Inuyasha growled.

"You--" But he stopped. "Fiiiine..." he said happily. "I have the perfect question!"

"Oh you do, do you?" Kagome asked, not threatened in the slightest.

"Yeah...I just have to think of it first..." Inuyasha was silent, deep in thought for several moments.

"Well?"

"I'm thinkin'!" He shouted at Kagome. She sighed aggravatedly. "I got it!" Inuyasha laughed sinisterly.

"Just get it over with," she told him in a bored voice.

"Fine! Uh...so, Kagome?"

"Yeah?"

"What's the most nasty dream you ever had, in great detail?" Kagome's face went bright red on the spot.

"You can't ASK a person that!" She cried.

"Um...I-think-I-just-did? Maybe?" Inuaysha said in a mocking way, he then exploded with laughter.

"That's just...horrible!"

"I know," Inuyasha replied, looking very pleased with himself. But he looked at Kagome's face and his smile faded somewhat. She looked very anxious. "Oh...I'm sure its not that bad, kagome" There was a pause. "You don't have a sick mind do you?"

"No...it's just...you know the person whose in it..." she returned quietly. "...I don't want to have to say..." 'Why does Inuyasha always have to wind up in my dreams!' Kagome's thoughts demanded.

"Fine," 'What?! Have I gone soft?!' Inuyasha thought. "Just tell me the dream. You don't have to say whose in it, alright?" Kagome sighed in a relieved manner.

"Thank you." A smile spread onto Inuyasha's face.

'Dang! I am soft! Well...I did figure out I love her, right? Still...I'm SOFT!' He thought to himself. "So..." he began, smirking. "What was the dream."

"Well..." Kagome replied, her cheeks heating up quickly, her eyes averted. She seemed very interested in her lap, somehow. 'This is AWFUL!' she thought. "........."

"Yeah?" Inuaysha inquired, a grimace still on his face.

"I was in this hot spring..."

"That makes sense," Inuaysya mused aloud. Kagome frowned at him. "Oh! Sorry, go on."

"...and there was this..." Kagome's face turned far redder. "...this...boy..."

"Go on..." 'When I found out what guy was in her dream, he's dead meat! Of course...I guess a guy can't help winding up in Kagome's fantasies...but still! I have to get rid of him somehow *plot, plot plot*.'

"...and...well...we just sort of started kissing, alright?" Kagome sighed. She was glad it was over.

"That's..." Kagome looked at Inuyasha nervously. "...it?"

"What do you mean? It's pretty bad!" Kagome stated angrily. "I mean, isn't it?"

"Not at all!" Inuyasha ranted. "I mean...that's nothing! I've had TONS of way, way worse dreams than THAT! That's kid stuff!" Kagome stared at him in shock.

"Tons?" Kagome inquired out of disbelief. "That are way worse?!"

"Phh yeah!" Inuyasha said in a duh tone of voice. "Anyway...you have to ask now."

"Hmm...alright...truth or dare?" Kagome asked, still a bit surprised about the information she had gathered from Inuaysha about himself.

"I don't want the others getting mad at me about more stuff, so how about truth?" Inuyasha replied.

"Alright," Kagome said smirking. "If you're dreams are so much worse, what happened in the nastiest dream you've had?"

"Me?!" Inuyasha cired, a bit alarmed. "Well...alright...but we'd better be doubly sure Shippo's asleep. It would poison his mind..." He said.

"Shippo?" Kagome stated, blankly. "Nah! He already knows quite a bit about that sort of stuff. You'd be surprised."

"Exactly. It's beyond what he knows..." Inuyasha said, quietly.

"Beyond?" Kagome responded in disbelief. "Well...I don't think I want to hear it then! How about we do dare then, ok?" Kagome suggested, nervously.

"Fine, I don't really care, actually," was Inuyasha's careless reply.

"I dare you...to kiss Shippo!"

"Pah! Big deal! I'll do it!" Inuyasha said.

"French kiss, on the mouth," Kagome added. Inuyasha's face was etched with the utmost disgust and horror.

"God no!" Inuyasha shreaked. "No, no...NO!"

"FIne, then I suggested you start undressing, Inuyasha, because there's a blizard waiting for you outside," Kagome told him triumpahntly. Inuaysha was rather quiet.

"Hey!" he said suddenly. "You got out of your thing, so I should get out of mine!" Inuyasha bellowed.

"I didn't get out of it!" Kagome argued.

"Yeah, but I don't even know the guy that was in it! So I souldn't have to french Shippo, it should only be a peck sort of...thing...."

"Fine!"

"And since your dream sucked butt...I should only have to kiss him on the forehead!" Inuyasha continued.

"What?!" Kagome shouted in protest.

"Shh! Yeah, I mean it was nothing. SO what, in your dream you kissed a guy naked in a hotspring, big whoop!" Kagome frowned at him for a long time.

"Alright," she said in a defeated way. "But this really sucks, you know."

"Whatever," Inuyasha replied. And with that he walked over to where Shippo was sleeping and stared down at him for a second.

"I thought it was no big deal, Mr. Hotshot Half-Demon," Kagome said, smirking.

"It's not," was Inuyasha's reply. And he knelt down and began slowly leaned toward Shippo. Kagome laughed. "Cut it out!!"

"Sorry..."

Inuyasha grunted. And finally his lips touched Shippo's forehead and quickly he tried to pull away, but Shippo clung on oth is ears and pulled him downward

"Kagome..." Shippo murmured in his sleep.

"What!" He then pulled him father down toward and kissed him full on the mouth.

"Mmm mmm!!" Inuyasha said, mouth on Shippo, struggling to pull away. FInally he manged to. Kagome was laughing hysterically. "Shadup! Pah pah!" He said, spitting. "That was DISGUSTING!" Kagome giggled. Sometimes he was so cute! "God! DO you know that this "INNOCENT" little fox demon fantasizes about you?"

"SO?" Inuyasha growled. "Alright, I see you're angry. Walks always make me feel better...how about we go on a walk outside?" She suggested cheerfully.

"Kagome! There are winds outside that could lift us from the ground! Not to mention it's BELOW FREEZING OUT THERE!!!" Inuyasha roared.

"So?" Kagome said again. "It would be nice. We'll just where some warm clothes." Inuyasha stared at her for a moment, wondering again if she had cracked. But he couldn't deny those beautiful brown eyes.

"Alright...I guess it couldn't do any harm.." He said, scratching the back of his neck casually. 'Except make us FREEZE TO DEATH!!' He thought, but despite this, he went along with Kagome outside.

The blizzard had subsided substantially they discovered, and it was definately bearable to walk through and Inuyasha actually found it pleasent being with Kagome in some fresh air. His feet were beginning to become frostbitten however... "This is crazy, you know," he told Kagome. Kagome laughed.

"Yeah, probably is. Hmm...is that just me, or is that steam in the air?" she inquired, presently, studying the sky. Inuyasha squinted.

"Yeah, it is...weird..." They continued walking and found the steam so thick they could barely see until Kagome suddenly gasped. "What is it?" Inuaysha asked, blinded by the steam.

"It's a hot spring!" And soon Inuyasha found that Kagome was right. The steam had been lifting north in the wind and they could clearly see the hotspring in the ground.

"A hotspring? In the middle of a frozen wasteland?" Inuyasha said blankely. "Is that possible?"

"Guess so," Kagome replied, sitting on the ice and putting her feet in. "Ahh...it's nice and hot...hmm..." She closed her eyes pleasently. Suddenly she turned to Inuyasha. "C'mon, Inuyasha, it's real nice." Inuyasha had been so surprised by the hotspring he had simply stood there staring.

"I dunno..." he responded.

"Oh c'mon...it's cold out here...I think I'm going to go in my clothes..." Kagome stated, taking off the many jackets she was wearing. Slipping off her shoes lastly, Kagome then slid in. "ooh--hot! Ouch....you get used to it though...c'mon! Don't just stand there!" She coaxed cheerfully. Inuyasha slowly approached and dipped his frost bitten toes in. He never wore shopes, even in the cold. Just then, Kagome took hold of Inuyasha's arm and pulled him roughly, causing him to fall in.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried angrily. She giggled. He looked up. "The snow tickles your face..." He said, wrinkling his nose.

"Yeah..." was her response, as she too looked up. But it wasn't long before she looked at Inuyasha and an evil smirk crossed her face. She then splashed him, getting the half demon more thoroughly soaked.

"Hey!" he cried and began an onslaught of splashed Kagome's way. But Kagome could move rather fast and swam away. "It's not fair, these coats are weighing me down!" And Inuyasha then stripped all of the coats off and dove after Kagome. He soon found her, the hot spring was rather deep, and he grabbed Kagome by the foot and brought her up the surface with him. But Kagome couldn't come out of the water since Inuaysha had her foot, she was lying in the water. She was flayling about like a fish out of water, trying to get air, but Inuyasha simply thought she was struggling. Suddenly, Kagome sprung up and grabbed Inuyasha's arm gasping for breath. Inuyasha then let her go. "Huh?"

"I couldn't breath..." she said, taking quick deep breaths. She still hadn't let go of his arm. Inuyasha definetly noticed this. Kagome was still breathing heavily, clasping arm tightly in her hands.

"I'm so sorry," he managed to get out in all the shock he was experiencing.

"It's alright..." Kagome began coughing for a bit. "I'm fine...just a bit shaken...you know..."

"Dang...I'm so stupid..." Inuyasha murmured.

"No you're not--" Then Kagome started coughing rather badly and couldn't stop.

"Kagome?! Kagome?! Are you alright?! Kago--" It was then inuaysha thought of something. He turned to the coats he had taken off and reached into the pocket of one of them to reveal a water bottle. Kagome at first wondered how Inuyasha had gotten it, but quickly grabbed it and guzzled down more than half of it. She was breathing somewhat heavily again, but Inuyasha was just so happy she had stopped coughing. "Are you alright now?" Inuyasha inquired, worry apparent in the question. "Kagome?" But she didn't reply at first. "Kagome?! Please say something! Please...tell me you're alright!"

"Don't freak out!" She nearly screamed. "God!! What's wrong with you I was only--" But Inuaysha didn't care that Kagome was screaming at the top of her lungs at him. He was just happy she was alright, and joyously embraced her.

"You're okay...you're okay..." He whispered happily, holding her tightly in his arms. "I thought...I thought I had really done something to you Kagome..." Kagome was stunned.

"W-what?" His arms tightened around her.

"You're alright aren't you?" He inquired, pulling away slightly to look at her.

"Yeah..." She replied, blushing deeply. It was then Inuyasha realized what he had done would definitely make Kagome think he liked her and pulled away entirely.

"Sorry...I was just happy...is all..." He assured her. There was a silence.

'I could tell there was emotion in that...' Kagome thought. 'But Inuyasha doesn't...have feelings for me does he? Well...even if he does, they're probably nothing compared to Kikyo...I mean...he kissed her...or did she kiss him?' She thought.

"What are you thinking about?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.

"I was just wondering if...this would happen with Kikyo too..." 'That was a dumb thing to say,' Kagome thought.

"it wouldn't..." he said quietly. "She always hated the water..." he forced a slight smile. "She'd never go in it...didn't like getting wet all that much..."

'I met the hugging part,' Kagome thought. 'But I wonder...I wonder if there's subtext in that answer...oh, me and my subtext!'

"Why would you wonder that?" Inuyasha inquired, his voice somehow soft. Kagome looked away from Inuaysha, as most do when they're about to lie.

"I don't know...no reason..."

"Is there something you want to say to me Kagome?" Kagome looked up at him in a surprised manner.

"What do you mean?"

"Is they're something...never mind..."

"What?"

"Nothing...I guess that song sort of got to me, you know? Must have been well preformed..."

"Thanks..." 'Wow a compliment. You're never cease to amaze me, Inuyasha.'

"You just seemed so sincere...but i guess I don't know what I'm talking about do I? I mean...I had to ask you what love meant..." Inuyasha said.

"Some people go through their lives never knowing," was her reply. "My answer wasn't that good..."

"No, it was..."

'What? ANOTHER compliment? Oh no, last time he did this, he stole the chikon shards from me and pushed me in the well!' Kagome put her hand on her shirt. 'No...they're there...this is just bizarre...' "Inuyasha, it's alright, you know. You didn't mean to make me almost drown, you don't have to make it up to me."

"Huh?"

"You know, you're a lot nicer than you probably know," she said smiling. She took his hand under the water and smiled. "You have a good heart." 'Hmm...what are you doing THIS time, Kagome? Making him feel better?' She thought.

'Alright...I save her millions of times from the edge of death and nothing happens. I nearly drown her and she says I have a good heart. Miroku's right, women just don't make slightest bit of sense...' Inuyasha thought.

'Maybe I'm doing this because I feel there's the slightest chance...the very small chance...that Inuyasha could feel the same way about me...oh I bet it's wishful thinking, but maybe it's worth a shot........alright, say something Kagome. Just tell him how you feel......great, I can't talk. How can I tell him how I fell if I can't say a word. Maybe I can show him...no! I can't do that!' But Kagome's body was ahead of her mind and she suddenly grasped hold of both Inuaysha's arms.

'What the--' Inuyasha thought. It was then Kagome used Inuyasha's arms to boost upward to his level and she paused for a moment. 'Okay...what is she doing?' he thought. It was then Kagome kissed Inuyasha and at first his eyes widened in utter shock. 'WHat in the h**l is going on here?!' But it was a matter of moments when Inuyasha began to sink into Kagome and feel his thoughts and surprise fade away. He couldn't help but kiss back even if for a second he thought of resisting Kagome. All around them, as they kissed, geysers were spurting up into the night sky, getting Kagome and Inuyasha more thoroughly wet, but they didn't seem to notice. They kissed for some time until Kagome felt her arms starting to ache rather badly under her weight. They soon gave way and she fell back into the water. The geysers died down and all around them was silent. She soon clung to Inuyasha warmly. "I didn't think you could ever like me," Inuaysha said in a stunned voice.

"What do you mean? I thought I was so painfully obvious...'' was Kagome's reply.

"You?" He asked in surprise. "No...I was the obvious one..."

"Inuyasha?"

"Yeah?"

"I hope this doesn't freak you out or anything...but...I'm going to be honest with you..." Inuyasha was a bit frightened by these words.

"What? What is it?"

"I...I love you...I mean...I really do..." Kagome murmured. "I don't want to sound corny, but....I don't know...you just make me so happy..." She made a confused face. "Somehow..."

"I'm not freaked out..."

"You're not?" Kagome said, happily.

"'Cause, I love you, too, Kagome." Kagome looked up at Inuyasha with a surprised expression. "I mean...I didn't know it until you told me all that stuff about love...I realized that all those things...they matched what I was feeling perfectly. I know I haven't always been the nicest in the past..."

"Let's forget about that now..." 'Wow...I guess Inuyasha wound up being boyfriend material. Who would have thunk!?' Kagome thought. 'Ah...now I'm so happy! Nothing could ever ruin thise! This is love! I know it in my heart!' her thoughts continued. She held Inuyasha even tighter and smiled gleefully. Inuyasha looked down at her.

'Dang...I guess I'm boyfriend material Who would have thunk?!' Inuyasha thought.