Hi there! It's me. I've finished my high-school and I'm pretty satisfied by my exam grades. Now it's holiday and I finally can rest and do my favourite hobby: write fanfics :P.

I do not own Inuyasha. He is the property of Rumiko Takahashi.

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A new day in our heroes' lives has ended. Stars were beginning to appear on the clear spring sky, the sun colored the land with orange, red and violet shades and the wind beat calmly. That day had been perfect…almost too perfect for a certain hanyou. It seemed that it wasn't to sense at all! Naraku wasn't showing himself, Kagome didn't sense any Jewel shards, there were no demon attacks…how can a hanyou have some fun around here?! Because of this, Sango went to the taijiya village and Kagome went back to her time. But it wasn't as planned: some yelling, a single damned word and Inuyasha's was kissing the dirt.

Now, Inuyasha was standing in his favourite branch in Goshinboku.

-'That stupid wench! If she doesn't come back tomorrow, I'm going after her!' he yelled in his mind, clenching his fist. 'That wench has something coming if she thinks that she will escape from me!'

The sound of Miroku's staff was heard before Inuyasha saw him. He growled in his mind.

-'Now what the fuck does HE want?! Can't they just fucking leave me alone?!!!'

Miroku sat himself at the base of the tree, not looking at the hanyou.

-"This was a beautiful day, wasn't it my friend? No problems, no worries…Everything was as Kami pleased."

-"Shut up!" Inuyasha growled. "We've been lying here for three fucking days! I'm sure that that bastard, Naraku, is searching for the Jewel shards and we're standing here like a bunch of idiots!"

-"Calm yourself, Inuyasha…we can't do anything until we hear a rumour about something out of the ordinary…plus Kagome-Sama is in her time, and Sango is still in her village, repairing her Hiraikotsu, after it was damaged in the battle with that centipede."

-"Yeah…" Inuyasha scoffed. "That was the single fun we had, if you could call it that way… But, what takes her so long?!"

-"Inuyasha…she didn't go there just to repair her boomerang…she needs to visit her relatives' graves…"

Inuyasha relaxed a little.

-"Maybe you're right…That bastard Naraku! Because of him Sango lost everything! Her family, her village and her brother, Kohaku, is under his control! If we don't find that bastard, and kill him, he surely will use the shard in Kohaku's back and when he'll do that, Kohaku will die! That fucking bastard!"

-"Naraku has cursed us all…"

-"Miroku…"Inuyasha said softly.

Miroku looked at his right hand that held the Wind Tunnel.

-"If we don't kill Naraku, I will be absorbed by the void, like my grandfather and father before me…"

Inuyasha looked at him with sympathetic eyes. He knew how it's like to be cursed by Naraku. 50 years ago, he and his first love, Kikyou, were fooled into hating each other, and because of that Kikyou was killed and he was pinned to the Goshinboku. All that time he was living the same nightmare: Kikyou's betrayal. But…someone suddenly waked him up from his meant to be slumber. That someone was Kagome. He still didn't know why he thought that she was Kikyou. Everything about them was different. Even if Kikyou liked him as a friend, she loved only his human side, wanting to use the Shikon no Tama to make him full human. But…Kagome loved him as a hanyou. She was the only person, after his mother, which loved him as he was. She was his first true friend, and thanks to her, he made new friends like Miroku, the monk, Shippou, the kitsune, and Sango, the demon slayer, with her nekomata, Kirara, all of them being after Naraku and the Shikon no Tama.

He was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard Miroku getting up.

-"Well, it's pretty late. I'm going to sleep…See you tomorrow my friend."

-"Yeah," Inuyasha said.

-"And don't worry, Kagome-Sama will surely come back and we will continue the search for the Jewel shards."

And with that, he left. Inuyasha remained alone on his branch. He sighed.

The Shikon no Tama…because of it everything began. Because of it, Naraku appeared and Kikyou died. It was true that he wanted to become full demon at the beginning with the Jewel's help, but after Tetsusaiga was broken and his demon side unleashed, he realised that it wasn't such a good idea, especially after he heard from Kagome about his violent behaviour…and his horrible acts. He still remembered the time when he had killed an army of bandits, the smell of their blood still hanging on his hands long time after. Everyone was scared about his demon form, but…Kagome wasn't. Kagome was the single one that was close to him in good and bad times. Every time he was injured, she was always by his side to treat his wounds, even if he didn't need treatment. She was always by his side when he was insulted of what he was. She was always by his side when he transformed and, one time literally saving his heart from the darkness. He touched his lips. He could still feel her lips. That was their first kiss, a kiss that saved him from the loss of his mind. He remembered everything from that time. He remembered Kagome's confession of love. That wasn't the single time he heard her say that she loved him. He remembered the time when Naraku kidnapped her and that baby almost controlled her soul, but she resisted and before he jumped through the wall, he heard her shout her love for him.

Kagome loved him…he still didn't understand why. Who would want to love a filthy, lowly, good for nothing hanyou? No one had these rights, but still, she remained by his side, after all the pain he had inflicted to her. Why did he do that to her…he still didn't know. He was too stupid going after Kikyou to think about her feelings, but every time he came back, he found her sad or angry with him. He didn't want her to be sad because of him! He wanted to see her smile. That smile that made his feet turn to jelly and that made his heart beat two times faster; her smell was like a blanket that covered his wounded heart and soul; whenever time they touched, he could feel electric shocks on his skin and he could sleep without awakening whenever he was holding her. With her beside him, he was the happiest person alive, and felt that he needed to protect her with his life. He loved her. Without her beside him, he would die. He wouldn't let something bad happen to her, not wanting to loose her like he had lost Kikyou the second time.

He shook his head to clear his mind from the painful memories. He could feel the moisture in his eyes but he whipped it away. Kikyou was his past, but she was avenged now. Kagome was his future.

-'I won't let anything happed to Kagome! I will protect her with my life!'

He looked at the sky and saw that the sun was gone and the full moon took his place.

-'Was I thinking for that long?'

He sighed.

-"I wonder what Kagome is doing?" he asked himself. "Is she okay?" He shook his head. "Of course she's okay! She's in her world!"

But a small part of him was still worried. What if she was still angry with him and she won't come back? He gulped.

-'No! She will come back! Will she…?'

After a few minutes of kicking himself, he couldn't take it any longer. He jumped from his branch and headed to the clearing of the Bone eating well. From a few jumps, he was in. The blue light of the portal engulfed him and accepted him, and after a few seconds, he was on the other side. He jumped out of the well and exited the shrine. He ran on the Shrine lands and jumped in the tree that was close to Kagomes' window. It looked like everyone was asleep, even Kagome. He checked the window. It was open.

-'At least she's not still angry at me,' he thought, knowing that the window is closed when she didn't want to see him.

Carefully, he entered the room and her smell bombarded him. He breathed in deeply and her face flooded his mind. When he was in her room, he always felt safe. He had some nice memories about this room. He blushed at the time when they almost kissed, but Souta came in, and also the time when the same Souta made him take a bath. Man, that bath was hot! However, the thought that Kagome saw him like that made him blush harder, but…not just she saw him in that state. He couldn't lie that he didn't saw her in the nude sometimes. But it was always by accident! But…seeing her like that…in her natural beauty…her pale skin, her perfect curves, her long and slim legs…AH! He shook his head. He didn't have the right to have those kinds of thoughts about her! She was too perfect for the likes of him! He still didn't understand why she loved him…He didn't deserve her love! She may love him as a hanyou, but…only as a friend. She wouldn't really love him! And even if she loves him, she wouldn't mate with him, and commit the Blood-exchange ceremony. He sighed and turned to the bed where his goddess was lying. She looked so peaceful as she slept, her breath and heartbeat regular, her hair freshly combed, smelling nicely from her modern products. She was beautiful. She was his Kagome.

-'Looks like she's fine…I should be going now…'

He turned to the window and was prepared to jump.

-"Inu…yasha…"

-"Kagome?" Inuyasha looked at Kagome. He came closer and looked at her face. Her eyebrows were furrowing, her eyes were moving under her eyelashes…he realised that she was having a nightmare.

-"Hey Kagome!" Inuyasha said quietly, trying to wake her. "Wake up, Kagome!"

Kagome was beginning to move her head from one side to another. Inuyasha was beginning to worry. He knew that he could save her from demons or other evil presences but he couldn't help her in her dreams.

-"…no…Inuyasha…"

-"Kagome! Wake up, Kagome!" Inuyasha said louder.

-"Inuyasha!" Kagome bolted off her pillow screaming, almost hitting Inuyasha.

He came by her side.

-"Kagome!"

Kagome turned to him with teary and terrified eyes. Her whole body was trembling and sweat covered her forehead.

-"I-Inu…yasha?" she looked at him confused.

Inuyasha grabbed her shoulders.

-"Yeah, it's me, wench! Snap out of it! You had a nightmare!"

He couldn't stand seeing her like that, so terrified, and crying. No…he never saw her like that! She looked like someone died.

In a second, Kagome threw herself at his chest, crying hysterically.

-"Th-Thank Kami, I-I-Inuyasha! Yo-You're alive!"

-'Did…Did I die in her dream?' he thought confused.

Inuyasha didn't know what to say. Instead, he embraced her tightly, letting her cry, just wanting her to relieve herself. He then took her in his arms and, after he plopped himself on the floor, he placed her in his lap, shielding her from the world with his sleeves.

After a few minutes, Kagome stopped crying. It was just a nightmare. Inuyasha was alive and he was in her room, holding her.

-'But it felt so real…'

-"Oi, wench!"

Kagome looked at him with puffy, red eyes.

-"You okay?" he asked her, worry evident in his eyes.

-"I am now," she said.

-"Keh! From the looks of it, it was a pretty bad nightmare…"

-"Yeah…it was…"she trailed off.

-"Do you want to tell me what happened in it…well, if you would feel better…"

Kagome let out a shaky breath. Inuyasha could feel the smell of tears coming back.

-'Shit! I knew I shouldn't do that!' "Oi, wench! Don't cry anymore! It was just a fucking dream! That shit didn't happen!"

-"But it looked so real! I dreamt you've died, Inuyasha!!!" she almost screamed.

Inuyashas' heart skipped a beat. Did she really dream that? She was terrified of his death? By the look of it, it was true.

-"I don't want you to die, Inuyasha…"

He held her tighter.

-"S'okay…I won't …I'm here…don't cry…" Inuyasha shushed her.

-"I was so scared…"she trembled in his arms. "You were fighting a powerful demon, I don't know what kind, and then the ground just opened and you fell…" Tears were starting to gather. "You managed to grab the edge of the cliff, but you had so many wounds…I tried to help you but my hand just went through yours…And then you fell!" Tears started running on her cheeks. "I couldn't save you, Inuyasha!"

-"Kagome! It's okay! Nothing of that happened! It was just a dream…" he said as he embraced her tighter and began to release a rumble from his chest. The sound was so soothing that Kagome was asleep after a short period of time. Sensing that she was asleep, he took her in his arms and placed her in bed. As he was about to leave, he felt a thug at his haori.

-"Don't leave…"he heard Kagome's voice.

-"What?" he faced her.

-"Please stay…" she said.

-"But, Kagome…"

-"Please?"

He could smell the tears again. That nightmare must have been terrible if she's so terrified.

-"Okay, Kagome." Sensing her relief he relaxed. He didn't want to see her scared or upset.

Kagome scooped closer to the wall making place.

-"Kagome? You want me to…?

-"Mm-hmm" She nodded.

-"But Kagome…Do you really want that? I'm just a weak hanyou…" 'I…I don't want to hurt you, Kagome…You don't know what being with you really does to me!'

-"I don't care that you are a hanyou. For me you are Inuyasha…my friend."

There she goes again…How could she trust him so much that she lets him, a weak, filthy hanyou, sleep in her bed?

-'Because she's the kindest person on Earth, that's why…' he thought. 'Kami, give me strength.'

He placed Tetsusaiga next to the bed and climbed in next to Kagome, placing his hands under his head. He then felt her hand on his chest and heard her voice.

-"Thank you."

-"Keh!" he said while blushing.

Kagome yawned.

-"Good night, Inuyasha."

-"Good night, Kagome"

And with that she was asleep. He remained awake for a few minutes before sleep overcame him as well.