Chapter One: Early Morning Talks

He gently placed her curvy body atop of the massive, comforted bed. He then gave her feather light kisses up and down her neck, but teasingly stopped when he reached the corner of her mouth. "Are you sure you want this?" He asked her, one last time.

She hesitated a bit before answering. "Yes." She let out gasps of nervous air. Taking this moment, he slipped his tongue inside of her mouth, closing the distance between their lips.

He broke the kiss, receiving a whimper from her lips. He smiled. He loved to see her need his touch like this. It made him go absolutely crazy to hear her moan like that for him. "You know how long I've wanted you?" He questioned. She gave him a cheery smile.

"I could ask you the same question." She replied. His eyes grew wide in surprise. Enjoying his reaction, she leaned upward and clasped her mouth over his.

'I can feel the heat burning inside of him.' She thought and licked the tips of his lethal fangs.

'Her mouth is sweet, almost candy-like.' He pondered and trailed his hand up the side of her thigh, under her short skirt, and rested it on the swell of her hip, fumbling with her panties.

Kagome opened her eyes and sat up quickly in her bed. She dazedly gazed around her small room with wide eyes. 'Not again...' she thought as she slumped her feet off the side of the bed to touch the cold, carpeted ground. She shuffled her feet around until she felt a soft, purring ball curled up on the floor.

"Buyo?" She asked quietly. The cat gave a soft meow and stretched out his short legs about with a yawn. Kagome bent over and gracefully picked the cat up with slim hands and sat him on her lap. "Buyo, do you think these fantasies will stop?" She sighed. "Oh great. Now I'm talking to my own cat." She slid her hand down the side of her cat's silky white fur, stopping at the auburn splotches and rubbing around the outline of them. "Buyo, have I gone crazy?" The cat gave a loud, reassuring meow. "This is silly." With that, Kagome sat up without thinking, her poor, fat cat falling to the floor with a thud.

"Meow..." The cat whimpered. Kagome peered down at the clump of fur on the floor.

"Sorry Buyo." Kagome apologized and gave a quick wink at the cat. She yawned, reaching up to cover her mouth with her hand. She glanced over at the clock. It read in big, bright numbers, 3:30 AM. 'Damn...' She thought bitterly. "These stupid fantasies are waking me up too early." She opened her window and stuck her head out. A soft breeze flew by the window, causing her long, raven hair to billow to the side in front of her face. She peered towards the well house through the strands of hair that swept over her gray blue eyes. "Should I?" She asked herself. "Yeah. I'm gonna go see him."

With that decided, she raced to her drawer and pulled out her tight blue jeans and a spaghetti strap, white shirt and flung it onto her bed, which happened to land on a sleeping Buyo that had crawled up onto the mattress. She slipped her pajama pants down her slim legs and lifted her t-shirt over her head. This left her in her white bra and underwear. She shivered a bit as she glided over toward the bed and dressed herself with the clothing she had picked out.

Once fully dressed, she went over to the mirror and picked up her brush, gently running it through her hair. She tossed the brush down on the dresser and raced out the door to her room, grabbing a stray, gray sweatshirt and flung it onto her body. She quietly tip toed down the stairs to the back door and slid the glass out of the way, closing it behind her. She walked slowly to the well house and stepped inside, gazing down at the old, wooden well.

She jumped, skipping numerous steps from the door. She had no idea why she had just done something so impulsive. Maybe she was happy? Happy about what? Maybe it was because she was going to see him. She always got excited when she thought about him. Not just mentally, but physically. She remembered. 'Shit... I'm in heat.' She thought coldly. "He'll know. He always does." A small smile crept along her lips and she flustered a bit. She then remembered the first time he had noticed it was her time of the month.

He waltzed up to the girl's form inside the hut and gave a small sniff of the air. "What is it? Do you smell a demon?" She asked him worriedly. She stood up and walked over to him. "What's the matter?" He gazed down at the girl in front of him with wide eyes. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?" He smiled. "What!?"

"Your scent..." He chided. "It's... different..." He trailed off and lifted a hand to her cheek, massaging her tender skin. She tensed as he bent down and nuzzled his face to her neck, taking random whiffs of her.

"What are you doing?" She questioned nervously. He reached his free hand down to the end of her skirt and pushed it up a bit. Realization hit her as she remembered this was her first time of the month since being with him. She pushed his hand away and backed up away from him. "Stop it." She said. "I know what you are thinking and I can understand why it's hard for you to back down from doing something like this, but you must contain yourself." She told him. He surprisingly nodded and turned away, blushing madly along with the girl. He went to leave when she suddenly grabbed his arm. "Don't feel like I'm rejecting you. It's just that if we ever do happen to do something like that, I don't want it to be because you can't keep yourself off of me."

"I'm sorry. It's just... your scent... it's driving me crazy. I should leave..." He turned away again and went to the opening of the hut. Before leaving, he turned to meet her eyes with his. He smiled. "It's not only your scent that drives me crazy. One of these days, you'll realize that that's not the only reason you'll have to push me off of you." With that said, and still blushing, he turned around and left, leaving her blushing terribly and totally love stricken.

'I wonder how he'll act this time around...' She thought as she quavered through the purplish blue mist that surrounded her. She thought back at all the other times she had been with him during her time of the month. After that first time experience, she had usually tried to avoid her, keeping as much distance between them as possible. And now, here she was, going to go and check up on him while she was in heat. 'Hah. This'll be fun.' She thought.

The mist faded away gradually as her bare feet landed on the base of the well. "Crap! I forgot shoes!" She thought. She giggled a bit as she figured how foolish she was. 'First, I think to go see him while I'm in this state, then, I show up without shoes on!' She smacked her head with the palm of her hand and climbed up the side of the well using the green vines that dangled from the top.

Stumbling out of the wooden well, she peered out around the luscious, green forest and up over the hill. Even though she couldn't see the hut, she knew that it was there beyond the field of grass and village dirt. Without noticing it, she was on the ground. 'Did I just fall? Am I that out of it?' She thought to herself.

"Geeze, how clumsy could someone be?" Kagome turned around and met gazes with the silver haired half demon. She smiled at his arrogance. As much as she didn't want to admit it, she liked it when he was almost mean to her. She covered up her attraction with fatal shouts and subduing spells. She stood from her place on the grassy ground and wiped off the dirt from her rear. He turned his head away, blushing at her actions. "Anyway, what are you doing here so early in the morning?" He crossed his arms and looked back at her.

"Oh, nothing. Just thought I might come and see you." She said to him nicely, almost sounding sarcastic. He 'feh'd' and leaned back against the well. He sighed.

"Oh great. Now I have to deal with protecting an extra weakling." He huffed. Kagome leaned back against the well beside him.

"Oh please. It's not like I can't protect myself. I'm not as weak as you think. You know how many times I've had to help save you?" She crossed her arms as well. He peered down at her and smiled weakly.

"You know, your slowly turning into me." He told her. Kagome fluttered her eyes open and gazed up at him and caught his eyes with hers. She released her crossed arms position, realizing what he was saying.

"How so?" She asked him, a bit offended. He slid a free hand down and clutched hers with his. "Inuyasha?" Her lips quavered at his touch. He gently squeezed her hand with his.

"We're together so much, we constantly pick up each other's traits and characteristics." He turned his gaze out toward the grassy hill. "Think we should head back?" Kagome nodded and stood up with him, still hand in hand.

'Does he realize it yet? Is that why he's acting like this, holding my hand and talking to me softly?' She pondered and they walked slowly up the hill. He stopped abruptly. "What's the matter? Why did we stop?" He peered down at her.

"Do you want to go back to them just yet? Don't you want to go somewhere and talk first?" He questioned her. With wide eyes, she nodded.

"Yeah, sure, but..." Her words were cut off as he began walking again, but off to the side, away from the village. With his hand still clutching onto hers, he picked up the pace a bit more. They entered the forest, idly walking around, hand in hand. "Inuyasha, where are we going?" She asked him. "Do you even know where we are?" Suddenly, she felt his hand release and she bumped into his back. "Why did you stop?" She peered around his body and spotted what he was looking at. She stepped beside him, studying the tree with him.

"Kagome, look. It's..." He trailed off.

"The God Tree." She finished for him. "Where..."

"We first met." He finished. He took her hand in his again. Kagome gazed down at their clasping hands. "Let's go sit down." He told her and led her to a spot under the tree where there were large roots sticking out above the ground. He sat down on one of the roots, as did she.

"What did you want to talk about?" She asked him finally after an awkward silence. He peered down at her, her skin pale and almost white under the moonlight. Her hair highlighted with blue from the night sky. Her lips and cheeks pink with flush.
"Us." He answered.

"Us?" She echoed. She breathed in and caught the air in her throat. What was this going to lead to? He had never been like this before... so calm, and almost like he... liked her... "What about us?" she asked him.

"Am I too... mean?" He questioned her. A gasp flew out of her mouth.

"How could you say that? You protect me with your own life, not thinking about the consequences. You don't care what anybody else thinks. You don't care that there are millions of demons that call you names and curse your name with their last breaths because some wretched human girl loves you." With that said, a hand flew up to her mouth, covering it with a gasp.

A shimmer of affection ran across of his amber eyes as his mouth hung open in awe. Had she really said that? "Kagome..." He said out loud, and bent down, hovering his lips over hers. He breathed, taking in her breath. "Did you really mean that?" He asked her.

"Why would I lie about something like that?" She told him. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his chest in a deep hug. She let out a small gasp of surprise.

"Kagome... I..." He was cut off of his words by a familiar voice.

"This is entertaining." The monk said sarcastically from the end of the clearing in front of the tree that they sat under. Sango leaned against a random, skinny tree beside Miroku and crossed her arms.

"I see you've finally succumbed to your love." She said boldly. "Took ya long enough."

"I'd say..." Miroku stated with her.

"Excuse me!? Can't you see that me and Kagome are trying to talk here!?" Inuyasha shouted at them, blushing. He stood up, releasing his hold on Kagome and ran after the two.

Kagome smiled from her perch on the root of the tree. She sat there happily thinking of Inuyasha and how she had just admitted to him how she felt. She thought about the hug that he had just given her. 'Does he love me?'