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"For You"

By Night Youkai

Chapter 1

The spring leaves rustled through the trees as a lone figure sat looking into the old dry well. 'She's late.' He thought and turned his back on the well. His long sliver hair blew in the breeze and his dog like ears twitched searching for any sign of danger. Inuyasha was peeved that Kagome had left for her world. He didn't understand why these exams so important. She had been gone four days now.

'How long did these things take?' he was about to jump through the well and drag her back when.

"Inuyasha? Are you out there?" called a voice from the well. "Hello?" She knew he was there. He always hung around the well when she ran late. Kagome's trips through time were a major sore spot between her and the moody hanyou. "Well I guess Shippo can have all this Ramen!"

"Hey Kagome when did you get Back?" came a voice from above. The hanyou would have preferred to sulk and ignore her, but his stomach got the better of him.

"Just now. Can you give me a hand these bags are heavy." Inuyasha reached in the well and pulled them both ease. He would have complained about her constant need to over pack, but then he wouldn't get any Ramen. Once out side the well Kagome dusted herself off and shook out her long raven hair. 'Her hair smell like fruit she called strawberries.' He liked her scent he wonder how she got it to smell like that. His sensitive dog like nose allowed him to smell her without getting to close. Her light and happy spirit seem to shine brightly in soft brown eyes. It made his soul smile, even if he didn't outwardly smile. There was such joy in her it warmed his heart. All his life he was alone with no one to care. He wandered from place to place finding nothing but loneliness in the wake of blood of the youkai he slew just to survive. He never felt for anyone till fifty years ago when he met the sorrowful miko that cracked open his heart. Then everything changed. When the demon Naraku and his evil plan to take the Shikon jewel shattered his world. Nuraku turned them against each other. Kikyo sealed him to a tree with the last of her power and all her hated. She died believing that he betrayed her and killed her. Inuyasha died with his last thought

'I was a fool. She never cared.'

'He seems to be off somewhere again.' Kagome thought. Inuyasha seemed to be pain. His mind seemed to wander off somewhere she couldn't follow. If she asked him about it he would brush her off and leave. That would hurt more then his silence. Inuyasha had changed since they first met and she unpinned him from the 'God Tree'. When she broke that arrow she felt her soul bind to his. In the months since then she has felt him get closer and closer to her heart. Till one day she realized that she was in love Inuyasha. While this realization filled her with overwhelming joy it also filled her with deep sadness. She knew she could never claim his heart as her own because it was claimed by another. By Kikyo.

"Hey Inuyasha we better head to the village so I can start making the ramen. Okay?"

"Huh? Okay." He was tossed out of his train of thought by her sweet voice. He carried her bags back to the village as the sun started to set behind them.
Kagome was unusually quiet this evening. Not that he would admit it, but he liked it when she would chatter or hum while she made ramen. He watched her smile as Shippo, the little Kitsune, tell her of his lastest adventures. He found himself becoming jealous of the child, because he was receiving attention of praise as Kagome ruffled his red hair with her hand. Shippo jumped in her arms and thanked her again the candy she brought. Inuyasha snorted and continued to eat his ramen more vigorously. Why was he was jealous? Why should he care if she gave more attention to the little Kitsune? He knew he cared for her and protected her from danger, but that was as far as it went wasn't it?

"Slap!!!!!"

"Houshi-sama!!! Keep your wandering hand away from ME!!" Shouted Sango, the taiji-ya. This was a common occurrence after dinner. Miroku always went for a grab or feel of Songo's rear. He stop trying for Kagome after the first time when Inuyasha said "Human or not touch her again, and I'll cut you down with the Testsusaiga." That had been the end of that. Sango on the other hand was special to him. She was the only one he didn't ask to bear his child. She made his heart warm and he admired her strength. Every time it seemed they were getting close to one another he would panic. He would push her away the only way he could by groping her.
Miroku cared deeply for all of his friends. They had become a family and they would do anything for one another, but there was something so special about Sango. He knew he could be happy to share a life with her if let himself. All the more reason to push her away. His Family curse, of the Wind Tunnel, in-bedded in his right hand, could kill them both. 'Better to love at distance then be a danger up close.'

"Sango you misunderstand me, I only mean you warm you from the on coming chill in the night air." He smiled while rubbing the handprint on his cheek.

"Some how there seemed to be a chill around the same time last night. I swear you do it again I'll tell Kirara to bite your head off." Replied Sango, glaring daggers at the monk. 'Why did he constantly do that?' Sango went back to eating her ramen. When Kagome went back to her own world everyone stays in the village near the well. During this last visit Miroku had been so kind to her. He listened to her talk about her brother Kohaku and he told he of some of his travels. It seemed like such a lonely existence. She never knew that kind of loneliness. She had always had her family and the extended family of the village, but that was before Naraku took her brother, killed her family and destroying the village. Even then she wasn't left alone because she met her second family soon after that. Inuyasha the hanyou, Shippo the orphan youkai, Kagome the time traveling miko, and of course Miroku the lecherous cursed houshi, they were all there for her. She felt for Miroku. What she felt for him she wasn't sure, but by dinnertime he would grab her rear and put them back at a distance. She just didn't get him. "Anyway we're glad you have returned Kagome-chan. There is a rumor of a jewel shard in a village a day and a half north from here."

"Really? Then we should get an early nights rest. And head out first thing tomorrow." Kagome replied.