The Dark Side of the Moon by Kourtney

I Love You Inuyasha

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Inuyasha that the great Rumiko Takehashi wrote.

Author’s note: My first -serious- not poking fun at fanfic so please enjoy.

I Love You Inuyasha

To hate him was to love him and she already loved him more than she could ever imagine. So where came the hate? Contempt ran through her blood like a trout ran through a river and her fingers twitched as she bowed her head in anger. He was confused. Fickle. Stupid. But so was she after staying with him so long. And though her body was hateful at the moment she was also full of love and worry for him. So much love. So many times he could’ve had the opportunity to make a move. Friggin’ Hojo was smarter than he was and would’ve undoubtedly made a move by now.

And men said that women were fickle, she chuckled thinking to herself as she leaned back against the hut feeling one moment of okay-ness. And then it was gone. Did she love him? Yes. She’d risked her life a lot for him. She wanted to be with him. Was she tired of Kikyou? Hell yes.

Nestled inside the small hut slept Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara. Luckily this town had provided them the shelter of a hut on the outskirts of town after Miroku had ‘gotten rid of the ominous clouds hovering over the town.’

Inuyasha. One too many times he’d broken her heart. She was tired of waiting for him. Maybe it was hanging out with Inuyasha but a part of him had rubbed off on her. The part that didn’t like to wait around. And she’d certainly had waited around. It had been a day or so of waiting as he talked to Kikyou. The sky was dark, there were many ominous clouds, the stars twinkling, and the moon was nothing but half of a face. Darkness and light.

Kill him. Curse him. Rip out his heart and make him grovel. Make him pay for his trespasses and regret that he hurt you. Kiss away the pain and take what the hell you want. Claim him as yours!

There it was. That voice. That urge to do whatever it was she felt like. It was always there that little voice. Kagome had feared she’d begun going crazy when she first entered the feudal era and here it was that she had. Ever since she’d entered she’d had these voices at the back of her head, like a demon brought to life, and it would tug at her, increasingly so under the full and half moon. And pray not to get caught under the new moon because then it really affected Kagome, her mood swung to darkness and sadness. During the full moon she felt energetic. Her moods had come with the voice in the back of her head.

Make him pay. Make him love you. Seduce him. Take him. He’s yours. Kiss him and force him to love you. Give him no other choice.

Kagome shook it away.

Then there he was. Creeping slowly along the grass towards the hut where they had made their rest. He was trying not to wake her. Too bad he underestimated her ability to stay awake. Or to furthermore wait. “Sit,” she growled quietly. And suddenly he crumpled on the ground. Kagome stood up, brushed back the bitter tears from her face, and marched over to Inuyasha who was grumbling under his breath something about ‘bitch’ and ‘dammit all.’ The light side of the moon was peeping out of the night clouds that had wandered into the sky.

“Inuyasha,” she whispered quietly. His ears perked up at the oddity. Normally her first sit was followed by 5 or 6 more angrier ones. Not a quiet, sound-tempered mind. He got up and began brushing himself off. Kagome reached out and touched his shoulder lightly. Inuyasha jerked back and then just stared at her hand for a moment as if it had burned, he’d only jerked back so because he hadn’t expected that. Kagome grabbed hold of his shoulder lightly once more and pulled him forward wrapping her arms around him in a hug.

“Inuyasha. I missed you so much,” she breathed into his light white hair nuzzling her head into his neck. She was going to admit everything she might as well take her chance holding him tight. She pulled back immediately satisfied with the blush coating Inuyasha’s face. Maybe he wouldn’t be so fickle after all. “Can I speak to you for a moment?” She moved back, nervousness seeping back into her as she brushed back a strand of her hair. “Can I ask you something? I swear you can go to bed after I ask,” murmured Kagome. It was now or never.

“Sure. Whatsup?” Kagome took another nervous step backwards.

“Um… Inuyasha. I’m… what I mean to say…”

“Spit it out already Kagome.”

“I love you.” Her hand whipped up to cover her mouth as a little ‘eep’ sound came out. Inuyasha was silent. His eyes had widened.

“What did you say?” The clouds moved and the dark side of the moon could be seen from below. Tell him! Order him! Give him no choice but you! Do it! DO IT! Kagome blinked as if gaining some odd strength within her. She gritted her teeth and stared him straight on.

“You heard me,” she almost growled. The wind shifted. She loves me, he thought to himself smiling brightly in the dark and his heart jumping up and down in his chest to a quick beat. His smile vanished when she spoke again. “Inuyasha choose. Me or Kikyou. Now.”

“What?” He asked and then something broke inside of Kagome with his next words. “Why?”

How dare he!

“How dare you! Do you honestly think I want to be your second hand clothing? Your backburner-”

“Whats a back-”

Let him know! Let it out! Tell him!

“Inuyasha I don’t want to be second anymore and I sure as hell don’t want you going off to see Kikyou when I love you.” There she said it again. Inuyasha’s head twitched at that word. “I love you. I love you. I love you. I LOVE YOU,” she stomped. Sango and Miroku immediately awoke in the hut and crept closer to the door to hear the conversation giving each other wary looks both with the same thing crossing their minds.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, thought Sango.

Finally one of them is giving in and admitting their feelings. Man Sango’s ass looks rather nice for touching right about now. If I just reach over right now, just yawn and make it seem like I'm just stretching...

-Smack, pain in face, satisfied Sango, somewhat satisfied monk-

It was worth it, thought the monk.

Well they’d been thinking close to the same thing.

“Choose now.”

If Kagome had thought that his use of ‘Why’ had cracked her heart she was about to experience more pain.

“I can’t choose. I mean how do I choose. Umm. Give me a moment.” And there it was. He stood there thinking heavily, not budging, as he had to think about it weighing the pros and cons of having Kikyou or Kagome with him even though he knew without a doubt now that Kagome loved him. That’s what broke Kagome’s heart.

LET ME OUT!

“Fuck it,” she roared. “If it takes you so long to decide than you’re not worth it.” With that Kagome turned on her heel. By then Miroku had fallen over, Inuyasha's ears were flat on his head in shock and having been yelled at like that, and Sango's eyes were wide as saucers. Kagome had never said the f-word.

“Where are you going wench?!”

Run. Make him pay. Make him wish he’d passed away. Give him false security. Leave him now. Don’t go to the well he expects it just leave. Now.

The words hissed in the back of her head like a serpent in her ear and Kagome took them in. She was too used to listening to her normal voice why not try the crazy one?

“Far the hell away from you,” she shrieked and ran as fast as she could.

Inuyasha stood there a mix of guilt and shame in his heart as he watched her walk away undoubtedly thinking she was leaving him for the well to go home. He plopped down on the ground and sat there chewing over what has transpired between the two of them. Give her a day or so, probably more of a week, and she’ll come back and forgive me, thought Inuyasha immediately. She’ll forget all about this. I hope. I mean its not like I don’t care about her. I loved Kikyou first… and these new feelings… well its confusing. She’ll come back and if she doesn’t at least I know where she is so I can chase after her.

He sighed. And his ears twitched when he turned around to see the molten acid burning glares of two of his companions.

“What?” Sango and Miroku huffed out into the darkness glaring at Inuyasha. “Its just sometimes I wish I could have both.”

“Don’t we all,” laughed Miroku.

“Well you can’t you asshole,” Sango cried her hand twitching to want to thrash her weapon, that had been used to kill so many demons, towards Inuyasha’s overgrown head. “And you’re not better than him sometimes,” she growled at Miroku who immediately jumped back in fear.

“I didn’t mean it. I didn’t mean it,” cried Miroku. “You’re the only one for me.”

“Damn right I am monk,” she glowered.

“Its not like they’re different,” replied Inuyasha. “She is Kikyou’s reincarnation after all.”

“Oh hell no!” Sango jumped on top of Inuyasha and wrestled him to the ground beating the pulp out of him. Miroku stared, plopped on the ground, and watched the entertainment as Sango sat on Inuyasha’s back pulling at his ears with all her might.

“Help Miroku! Get your bitch off of me.”

“You had that coming you idiot,” huffed Miroku getting serious, “First of all Sango’s not my bitch. She’s my woman. Secondly Kagome is different from Kikyou you asshole. She doesn’t want you dead first off!”

Sango threw a punch at Inuyasha’s face as she got up off of him, “You’re not worth it.”

“WHAT? You want to go bitch bring it! I held back because you’re a woman!”

Sango slapped him and it echoed in the quiet night. “If she doesn’t come back I’m leaving once and for all Inuyasha,” huffed Sango as she straightened up.

“As am I,” replied Miroku. “So you can pretty much assume Kirara and Shippo will be out of the picture as well.”

“Where the hell do you think you can go?”

“It’s a big world. We’ll find somewhere. Hopefully we’ll find Kagome,” growled Miroku.

“What if she does come back?” He huffed. These idiots what would they do without him? Didn’t they care about him as well as Kagome? And here he thought they were his friends and not just hers!

“Then we’ll talk her out of it and leave. We won’t let her get treated like shit,” said Miroku.

“We’re not going to stay with you forever Inuyasha and neither the hell will Kikyou,” hissed Sango.

“You got a death threat bringing Kikyou in this Sango?”

“No but you idiot she won’t be around for long. She’s one fragment of a soul. She can’t survive off of those soul searchers forever.” And with that Sango and Miroku went back into the hut.

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Rin was running. Rin was running like hell from 5 demons chasing after her. just an hour ago the child had been content picking moonflowers with Jaken watching her nearby seeing how Lord Sesshomaru was off getting them dinner and before she knew it 5 demons had approached. Jaken fearing for his own ass had tired to hide Rin and ward off the demons but hide tail and ran when they threatened to kill him. And then they had smelled her. Smelled her delicious fear from the hills of grass in which she hid. And they had pursued her for nothing tasted better than an innocent child.

And here it was now. Rin was trapped as she came to the end of a trail, rocks around her in a semi-circle, and try as she might she couldn’t jump the 6 feet she needed to get to the top of the hill that jutted over her. Then again she was a child barely 4 feet. The 5 large demons surrounded the opening of the semi-circle laughing nastily as they came closer to the cowering child. Drool trailing out of their mouths filled with teeth that jutted this way and that way.

“Stay away from her,” came a growl. Rin’s heart jumped up filled with hope as she thought to herself that it must be Lord Sesshomaru or Jaken come to save her but as she looked up at the rock jutting over her she saw Kagome with a arrow notched in her bow. She fired and took out 1 of the demons in a cloud of blue light before jumping down until she stood in front of Rin protectively. Kagome sniffed the air not knowing what was in her as the voice came out once more, Let me out. Please let me out and we can kill these beings together. Save the child. Kill the beasts.

And for once Kagome acquiesced to the demon voice and notched two arrows aiming them at two of the largest demons shooting and obliterating them into blue dust. Three down. Two left. Kagome reached back for another arrow and fear coursed down her spine when she felt none left. Kagome turned her gaze towards the frightened Rin and got a fearsome look in her eyes as she glared back at the two large demons. Like hell they were going to get this child. With that thought Kagome threw herself at the closest demon and yelled, “Run Rin!”

The child didn’t run. Instead Rin grabbed hold of the same demon and bit hard on his leg kicking and scratching at him as he laughed and plucked her away tossing her into the bushes.

“I think this girl right here may feed us better than the other,” drooled this demon. Kagome grabbed the demon’s arm jerking it with a nasty twist breaking his arm but the other demon grabbed hold of her and held her tight as his companion moaned in pain. With his uninjured arm the demon smacked Kagome across the face and then punched her in the ribs twice and ran a scratched down her arm just to watch her squirm. Kagome yelled and growled, “Bastards,” her eyes shone brightly taking on a dark hue as her smile broadened despite the pain, her teeth sharpening in the light of the moon causing the demon to pause in his actions, “Let me go so I can kill you,” she growled. And just as the other demon was about to bite into her arm as repayment for her breaking his arm a large shadow fell across the two.

Kagome opened her eyes to see him.

Sesshomaru.