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A/N: Hi everyone! I just thought of another story (two-shot) and I felt like writing it… Yeah, I know (again and again!) that I should be writing the next chapter of 'Stay' but I really like to get this posted. By the way, if you like to read one-shots I have one written, just check my profile and see it. Maybe you would even be interested in reading Stay… It's up to you.

So here it goes! Note that it will be Inuyasha's first time to meet Houjou in this story…

This is just a two-part story. Just a sweet possible scene on my favorite couple, Inu/Kag… Please enjoy it!

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Disclaimer: Inuyasha isn't mine… Too bad…

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Chapter 1

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Inuyasha was sitting on a high branch of a tree with his back leaning on its trunk as he waited patiently. He gazed up to the sky and looked at the setting sun. It had almost sunk down completely.

'That wench!' Inuyasha muttered under his breath. 'She told me she'll be back before sunset and still there's no trace of her! She always has to make me fucking wait so long!' He growled, jumping down the tree swiftly to head for the Bone-Eater's Well.

When Inuyasha finally reached the well, he instantly jumped inside.

'Why do I always have to fetch her?.! She's going to have to explain and apologize to me for this!' complained Inuyasha as he leaped out of the well and went straight to his usual entrance to Kagome's house—the window on Kagome's room.

'What?.!' Inuyasha exclaimed when he entered Kagome's room only to find out that she wasn't home yet. 'Where the hell is she?.!' He grumbled, walking towards the window to look outside.

The sun was long gone to be replaced by the moon on the dark starry sky.

'It's already dark. I wonder if something bad happened to her…' Inuyasha thought as worry began to fill his heart. 'This is really damn annoying! I hate it when I have to worry like this for her!' He clenched his fists tightly. Then he heard footsteps coming from the road. Inuyasha gave out a sigh of relief. 'She's safe.' He thought, instantly sensing Kagome's familiar sweet scent in the air. But relief was again replaced by anxiety when he sensed the other scent close to Kagome. 'She's not alone.' Inuyasha thought, wrinkling his nose in disgust. 'Damn it.' He cursed softly. 'She's with a human male!' He silently leaped out of Kagome's room and hid himself on top of a tree beside Kagome's house.

It was awfully dark but because Inuyasha had sharp eyes, he had no problem seeing Kagome and the boy.

Kagome and the boy stopped a few meters from Kagome's door; Inuyasha could clearly see them from his hiding place. He stayed silent, not wanting to miss a single word from the possible conversation between them.

'Um, so we're here.' The boy said, flashing a warm smile at Kagome.

'Thank you for the wonderful afternoon, Houjou-kun.' Kagome said, smiling back. 'I enjoyed myself pretty much.' She added.

'Well, I must be going now,' said Houjou, handing a bouquet of flowers to Kagome. 'Hope you like them.' He added.

'How can I not like them? They're so perfect! Thank you…' Kagome said softly as she got the flowers from Houjou. Her eyes twinkled happily as she looked at the bouquet closely.

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Inuyasha was hating the scene more and more as it lasted longer. The boy certainly liked Kagome—Inuyasha could see that clearly—but Kagome wasn't doing anything about it. 'Does this mean that Kagome likes this guy?' Inuyasha thought dreadfully. Again, he felt the same feeling he felt whenever Kouga was near Kagome—pure jealousy and protectiveness. And it was killing him. He was already having a hard time controlling his anger or he would be jumping on that boy to beat him up so he wouldn't come close to Kagome ever again. He knew Kagome would surely get mad if he did that so he couldn't do anything but growl in his position and continue to watch them. It hurt him so much to see Kagome so happy when she was with that boy. 'On the other hand, Kagome always has to worry when she's with me. I always have to put her into danger. She always has to get hurt…' Inuyasha thought bitterly. 'Many times I want to push her away. Just so she can live and be safe…' He looked into Kagome's face, seeing her smiling happily. 'But she told me she wanted to stay… And I also wanted her to stay. Has she changed her mind now? I hope not.'

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'So, I'll just see you at school on Monday?' Houjou asked hopefully.

'Um, I guess so.' Kagome said uncertainly.

'Good night, Kagome.' He said, looking intently into her eyes.

'Good night.' She replied.

'Kagome, may I kiss you good night?' Houjou asked, blushing slightly as he talked.

Kagome also blushed and was too flustered to answer.

Taking that as a yes, Houjou began to lean forward to kiss Kagome on her cheek.

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Inuyasha couldn't believe what he was seeing. Kagome was actually letting this guy kiss her! Now this was too much for Inuyasha. There was no way he would be letting this wimpy boy kiss Kagome!

'If Kagome is going to allow that boy to kiss her, well, I'm not allowing it!' Inuyasha thought, slashing a twig loose from the tree and throwing it quickly towards Houjou's direction.

Inuyasha began to smirk after seeing that he had hit the guy perfectly on the head. And more importantly, he wasn't able to kiss Kagome. 'Keh! That's what you get for being fucking annoying!' He said, smiling victoriously to himself.

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'Are you okay, Houjou-kun?' Kagome asked worriedly, trying to look at Houjou's head.

'I'm all right, actually.' Houjou replied. 'I just got hit by a twig, that's all. Probably carried by the wind.'

Kagome picked up the twig that had hit Houjou on the ground and examined it. 'By the size of this twig, it can't just be carried by wind…' She thought. 'I wonder if Inuyasha is here…' She looked around but saw nothing strange around her. 'Yeah, perhaps it's the wind…' Kagome finally said.

'You should go inside now. It's already getting cold.' Houjou said, showing his concern for Kagome.

'Okay.' Kagome said. 'Make sure you check on that bump you have on your head, all right?'

'Yes, don't worry anymore.' Houjou assured her. 'Bye.'

'Bye.' Kagome said, watching Houjou disappear in the darkness of the night. After taking a final look around, she walked towards the door and entered her house.

'I'm home!' Inuyasha heard Kagome's cheerful voice say. He decided to go back to the other side of the well, knowing that Kagome wasnow safe so he didn't need to stay anymore. Besides, he didn't want Kagome to know he was spying on her— 'No, just guarding her. Inuyasha corrected in his mind.

After bounding out of the well and returning to Sengoku Jidai, Inuyasha rushed through the forest until he finally reached the clearing he had in mind. There were fewer trees in that part of the forest and it was more lit by the moon. The grass field was filled with wild flowers in different varieties and colors. It was such a peaceful and lovely place.

Inuyasha suddenly remembered the way Kagome's face looked when she got the flowers from that boy.

'Keh! I can't understand why she likes having that trash!' Inuyasha grumbled to himself, looking up into the moon that was hanging in the sky.

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Meanwhile, back on the other side of the well, Kagome was also looking up on the moon. She was standing in her room, looking out on her window with her chin lying idly on her hand. She sighed then looked back at her desk where she laid the flowers Houjou had given her. 'Inuyasha will definitely get mad if he knew that I had gone out with Houjou-kun. To think that Houjou-kun could have kissed me if it wasn't for that twig…' She looked back into the moon and sighed. 'I don't understand why Inuyasha always gets mad when he sees me with other boys. He's so selfish sometimes…' Kagome thought, a picture of the silver-haired hanyou looming in her mind.

'Kagome?' It was Kagome's mother.

'What is it, Mama?' Kagome asked, hurrying a little towards the kitchen to see her mother. 'Do you need some help on the dishes?' She said.

Her mother smiled. 'No, I can handle these on my own.' She said. 'I just wanted to ask if you would like to get some ramen for Inuyasha. I'll just leave them on the table later.'

Kagome's eyes widened in horror at her mother's words. 'Oh no! I forgot! I must be back there already!' She cried out, racing back to her room to fix her things.

'Why did I have to forget such important thing?.!.?.!' Kagome muttered as she began to toss all the things she needed on her yellow bag. 'Inuyasha's going to kill me!' She said, biting her lower lip softly.

After some more minutes of preparing and packing the ramen for Inuyasha, Kagome headed for the well house to go back to the past.

It was silent. Kagome slowly climbed out of the well, praying that Inuyasha wouldn't be around when she reached the top of the well—waiting for her.

Unfortunately for Kagome, Inuyasha was long standing beside the well, waiting for her. He was looking straight at the well, his eyes fixed on the well's mouth. Bucket list marathi movie 2018 watch online. He smiled the moment he sensed Kagome's scent inside the well. 'Finally.' Inuyasha thought, crossing his arms on his chest.

Kagome took a peek on the surroundings around the well and her eyes immediately saw Inuyasha—staring back at her.

'You wench!' Inuyasha said, obviously looking pissed off. 'What took you so fucking long?.!'

'Well… I had to go to school.' Kagome said, half of the truth.

'You told me you'd be back before sunset.' Inuyasha pointed out, looking at her sharply.

'Sorry, I had to attend to some business and I forgot the time…' That went well. At least she wasn't telling a lie to Inuyasha.

'Some business?' Inuyasha repeated. 'Like seeing some boy on your time?' He wanted to tell Kagome but instead he said, 'Like what?'

'Nothing important…' Kagome replied. She really wanted to finish their conversation badly. 'So, have you eaten? I brought you some ramen.' She said, smiling brightly at Inuyasha. 'Stop questioning me and I'll give you ramen for the whole week.' Kagome thought, praying desperately that Inuyasha would just forgive her.

'Ramen?' Inuyasha said, his ears twitched a little. 'We had finished dinner but you could still give me some ramen.' He told Kagome.

'Let's go back to the village then. I'll prepare you some ramen there.' Kagome said, smiling happily. 'At last, it's over.' She thought, mentally sighing in relief. She started to walk towards the village, walking ahead of Inuyasha in case he changed his mind and bothered her again.

But Inuyasha didn't raise the topic anymore—at least not yet. He was just smirking as he followed Kagome back to the village. 'Don't relax, we're not yet finished. You still got some explaining to do…' He thought, a smirk of mischief on his lips. 'Not even ramen will make me forget, this is much more important.'

When they finally reached the village, Kagome immediately entered Kaede's hut to boil some water to cook some ramen for Inuyasha.

'Kagome!' Kaede said in surprise to see Kagome back so late. 'We've finished eating. You want something to eat?' She asked.

'No,' said Kagome, smiling warmly at the old priestess. 'I also finished having dinner back at my house. I just need to fix ramen for Inuyasha.' She explained, placing a pot of water on the burning fire.

'Inuyasha?' Kaede said. 'Well, just make sure you take a rest right away after you finish… Inuyasha might decide to go shard hunting again early tomorrow morning. Good night, Kagome.' She rested on her futon and closed her eyes to sleep.

'Good night, Kaede-baachan.' Kagome smiled, taking out a cup of ramen from her bag. 'Everyone's already asleep.' Kagome thought to herself, looking around the room. 'I wonder what time it is… I'm feeling sleepy…' She yawned, pouring some hot water into the cup of noodles. She put out the fire and then headed outside, carrying Inuyasha's ramen.

'Inuyasha?' Kagome whispered, not wanting to disturb anyone. 'Inuyasha!' She called out again.

Inuyasha leaped down from his tree swiftly and stood beside Kagome.

Kagome uttered a small gasp of surprise when she saw Inuyasha beside her already. 'You scared me!' She said, sighing. 'Here's your ramen.' She held out the cup of hot noodles to Inuyasha.

'Forget about ramen,' said Inuyasha unexpectedly.

'What?' Kagome said, unable to register Inuyasha's words clearly into her mind.

'I said forget about ramen,' repeated Inuyasha, making the words clearer for Kagome.

'You made me prepare and you're not going to eat it?.!' Kagome said in disbelief.

'I lost my appetite.' He told her simply.

'You're so impossible!' Kagome told him. She placed the cup of noodles on the ground and sighed. 'I'll just leave it there in case you have your appetite back.' She glared a little at Inuyasha for wasting her time. Instead of sleeping inside, she was standing outside with an annoying hanyou.

Inuyasha didn't seem to care that Kagome was currently shooting glares at him. He held out his hand to Kagome and said, 'Here.'

Kagome lowered her gaze from Inuyasha's composed face to Inuyasha's extended hand. On Inuyasha's hand was a pretty bouquet of colorful wild flowers.

'Eh?' Kagome asked, looking back into Inuyasha's eyes. She never pictured Inuyasha giving her flowers—it was one of the most impossible things Inuyasha would do. She continued to stare at Inuyasha with a weird look on her face. 'Are you all right, Inuyasha?' She asked worriedly.

Inuyasha couldn't believe it. The least he expected was for Kagome to think that he was sick! 'That's it! I'm not doing this ever again!' Inuyasha said in his mind. 'I'm perfectly fine!' Inuyasha told her. Inuyasha could see confusion in Kagome's eyes.

'Then what's that for?' Kagome said, looking at the flowers on his hand.

'Don't you get it yet?.!' Inuyasha asked her, a little frustrated. 'I'm giving you flowers.' He said the words while blushing furiously. 'Why have I gotten myself into such an embarrassing situation?.!.?.!' He asked in his mind over and over again as he offered the flowers once more to Kagome.

This time, Kagome accepted them silently. 'Thank you…' She said only a little louder than a whisper. Her heart was beating fast and her cheeks were flushing. 'It could be possible after all…' Kagome thought, her lips curling slowly into a lovely smile as she looked down at the flowers on her arms. 'They're so beautiful.' She said more to herself than to Inuyasha. She lifted her head to look at Inuyasha and said, 'Thank you very much, Inuyasha.'

'Keh!' Inuyasha said, looking away from Kagome. He could feel his cheeks burning even more and his heartbeat wasn't normal anymore. He loved to see Kagome's smile—her wonderful smile. That made him happy, especially because he was the one that made her smile… 'Don't thank me anymore. I'm not going to do that ever again.' He told her, still not looking at her to hide his real emotions.

'It's all right. I don't want you to do it often anyway,' said Kagome, smiling at him. 'I'm just glad you did it—even just once.' She said. Kagome couldn't describe the feeling inside her heart. It was like her heart wanted to explode. She just felt so great. 'This was probably the best thing I ever received from a boy,' thought Kagome. 'Of course, Houjou-kun also gave me flowers—even more beautiful than these—but… I prefer Inuyasha's gift. I like it better because I love him…'

'So will you stay here more often?' Inuyasha asked all of a sudden, snapping Kagome out of her thoughts. He turned to look at her, waiting for her answer.

'Huh?' Kagome furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

'I gave you flowers so you'd stay here more often and not return to your time that often.' Inuyasha explained to make it easier for Kagome.

But Kagome still didn't get it. 'What do you mean stay here more often?' Kagome asked more confused than a while ago.

'Well, you seem to like flowers a lot so I gave you some so you wouldn't have to go back to your time to see that bo—' Inuyasha stopped his sentence when he realized that he would be telling Kagome that he had actually seen her with a human male. 'Never mind. It's late. Let's sleep.' He said instead, turning his back at Kagome.

'Are you telling me that you've come to my time a while ago?.!' Kagome asked, her eyes flaring in anger.

'No,' said Inuyasha immediately, still not looking at her.

But Kagome didn't believe Inuyasha anymore. 'So you were the one who threw that stick on Houjou-kun's head?.!' She said, looking crossly at Inuyasha.

'Why are you so mad about it?.!' Inuyasha asked her, his temper rising bit by bit. He had spun around to meet her enraged eyes.

'Because you could have hurt him seriously!' Kagome replied.

'I don't care if I hurt him badly.' Inuyasha said, folding his arms in front of him.

'What if he had seen you? We'll be in a major trouble!' Kagome said, her hands clenched on her sides.

'Kagome! That boy was going to kiss you!' Inuyasha told her. 'I was just protecting you!' He yelled at her, growling angrily at how ungrateful Kagome was.

'Did I ask for your help?' Kagome asked him. 'If I was going to let him kiss me, it's because I want him to. You shouldn't have meddled with my business!' She retorted furiously.

'What?.!' Inuyasha had completely lost it. 'Well, I'm not allowing some weakling to kiss you!' He roared, not minding the people he would be disturbing.

'And who are you to decide who should and should not kiss me?.!' Kagome asked angrily. Apparently, she didn't care too if they were making noise now. 'He's so unfair!' Kagome shouted in her mind over and over again while glaring at Inuyasha, hoping that it would kill him.

Inuyasha paused. 'Keh!' He finally said, tucking his hands inside the sleeves of his red coat and looking up at the sky to avoid Kagome's sharp glares.

Kagome controlled herself from saying the terrible word that would activate the necklace around Inuyasha's neck. 'Look, I have my own mind and heart. That's why I have my free will to decide what I want to do and what I want to say.' Kagome said, looking into Inuyasha even though he wasn't looking at her. 'You also have your own heart and mind. I can't make you do something you don't want to do. That's why I always make it a point never to ruin your privacy—if you know what I mean. When it comes to Kikyou and you, I never stopped you when you wanted to meet her, did I? I never told you that you shouldn't kiss her, did I? I never interfered with your relationship with Kikyou… I didn't push her away. It's because I respect you and I want you to be happy.' She sighed. Inuyasha was still not looking at her. 'That's why I would like you to do the same and make me decide on my own…'

'That's different…' Inuyasha said, finally looking into Kagome's eyes. Anger suddenly left his amber eyes as he settled his eyes on her.

'How's that different?' Kagome asked, unable to understand Inuyasha. 'You are allowed to meet Kikyou but I'm not allowed to see other boys in my time?.! You're so unfair!' Tears were forming on the sides of her eyes. No. She wasn't going to cry. She held them back and glared at Inuyasha. 'Tell me how's that different!' She demanded.

'You wouldn't understand…' Inuyasha told her, avoiding her gaze once again.

'That's because you've always made things hard to understand! You always confuse me!' Kagome said, her anger getting the better part of her. At least she wasn't crying… 'Why don't you look at me?.!' She told him. 'How will I understand if you wouldn't even try explaining it to me?.!'

Inuyasha knew he had to explain things to Kagome and make things clear. It was only making things hard for both of them. But what would he tell her? He still didn't have the answer. 'Give me time.' He said.

'Time? I've given you a lot of time Inuyasha!' Kagome said, not accepting Inuyasha's reply. 'When will you finally have the answer? I'm getting tired of waiting for you…'

'Then don't wait for me anymore!' Inuyasha said, getting tired of the conversation they were having. 'I didn't ask you to wait for me, did I?.!'

Kagome froze in her position, her eyes went wide in surprise. Inuyasha had just told her to leave, didn't he?

'I'm going to sleep.' She spoke the words softly, not having any strength left to continue the conversation.

'Fine!' Inuyasha said, turning his back at her again. He heard something drop on the ground. It was the bouquet of flowers he had given to Kagome.

Kagome turned her back at Inuyasha too but she didn't walk away. 'I'll still wait for your answer,' said Kagome. 'We can't go on like this forever. It's only going to hurt more if we don't settle things now… Whatever decision you'll make, I'll bear with it… I won't leave. I just want to know where I should be—I want to know where I truly belong.' And she left, leaving Inuyasha alone and deep in thought.

'Kagome…' Inuyasha whispered her name softly. 'She's right. I have to choose. But who will I choose?' He stared up on the moon, seeking the answer in the bright orb above him.

'Listen to your heart…' That was the only thing he heard at the back of his mind.

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A/N: So, who will it be? Of course it will be Kagome! I wonder how Inuyasha will be making his confessions… Anyway, please do review. Don't you think this was kinda sad? I feel pretty sorry for Kagome… She's getting tired already…. But of course she won't leave Inuyasha, right? Review please. Next chapter to be posted when I get 20 reviews or more! Ja ne!