A Journey to the End, By: Yanira Adamson

Ch.1 Happy Birthday Kagome!

Disclaimer: (I do not own InuYasha…yet! When I rule the world he will be mine!

Evil Laugh ; P)

(InuYasha and Kagome are walking on a path that leads to the Bone Eaters Well.)

"InuYasha…do you remember the day we met?" Kagome asked looking at him. "You were still under Kikyo's spell, and when I came along running away from the Centipede Demon, you saw me, and you thought I was her. You commented on why I hadn't killed her yet, like Kikyo did you 50 years ago, but you got a better look at me, and said…" You could see the flames burning in Kagome's eyes. "You said I didn't look INTELLIGENT, OR PRETTY ENOUGH TO BE HER!" InuYasha looked at her, he had hoped she would have forgotten about that day. "And after I set you free from HER arrow, YOU THREATENED TO KILL ME IF I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE SHIKON JEWEL!" Kagome yelled at the poor demon, his hands in front of him as if protecting himself from her screams. "If it wasn't for Kaede, and the prayer beads I would probably be dead right now!" She said thinking of what might've happened if Kaede hadn't put the beads on InuYasha in time for her to say sit. "I can't believe I almost forgot that." She said looking at InuYasha, with a grin on her face that he recognized oh so well.

"Kagome, don't say it" InuYasha said quickly.

"SIT BOY, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit boy!" Kagome yelled, giving InuYasha a deadly look.

"HEY, are YOU TRYING TO KILL ME!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome.

"Why not, you tried to kill me and I didn't even do anything to you!" Kagome said irritated.

KAGOME, it's been THREE YEARS SINCE THAT'S HAPPENED, would you let it go!" He yelled back at her.

"Three years." Kagome whispered to herself. "It's been three years!" She said excitedly.

"Wow, so we met exactly three years ago!" InuYasha said surprised.

"It's my birthday!" She said, starting to walk again.

"What are you talking about?" InuYasha asked looking confused.

"My birthday, the day my mother gave birth to me." Kagome explained to InuYasha. "I'm eighteen today!"

"So?" InuYasha said uncaring.

"What do you mean SO?" Kagome asked angrily.

"Well it's just your birthday, what's the big deal?" InuYasha asked.

"Well, not all of them are, but this one is!" She said, thinking about how now she was old enough to get married. "In my era, your eighteenth birthday means you're an adult." She tried to explain to the confused InuYasha.

"What's the big deal, you still look the same?" InuYasha said without thinking.

"InuYasha," She said in a sweet voice, too sweet to be safe, "SIT BOY!" Kagome screamed annoyed, and angry at him.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR KAGOME?" InuYasha yelled at the her.

"For being a JERK, THAT'S WHY!" Kagome screamed walking away, "I'm going HOME!"

"Huh, hey wait, you can't leave me here!" InuYasha said nervously, getting up from the three foot hole Kagome left him in, then running after her.

"Watch me!" Kagome said jumping into the well.

"Oh, no you don't!" InuYasha said jumping into the well after her, grabbing her by the arm.

(Tokyo, Japan- year 2000)

"SURPRISE! Happy Birthday Kagome!" Kagomes family, and friends yelled when they saw her climbing over the well.

"What's going on?" Kagome asked, confused and surprised at the same time.

"It's your surprise birthday celebration Kagome." Shippo said with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, but what are you, Sango, and Miroku all doing here?" She asked, looking at everyone in the room. "I didn't tell anyone when my birthday was, and there's no way all of you could've come thru the well."

"Oh that," Sango said putting Kirara down, so she could play with Buyo, "InuYasha told us to hold on to his kimono and the shards of the jewel we have so we could all go thru the well, he also asked your mother when your birthday was the last time you were both here, then he asked if we could give you a birthday celebration." She said watching Buyo, and Kirara play with the bell around Buyo's neck. "But we had to set it up, so we asked InuYasha to distract you while we were getting ready."

"Oh!" Kagome said with a guilty expression on her face. "So this was all InuYashas idea."

"Yeah, it was." InuYasha said speaking for the first time since they got there. "And the thanks I get for it are NINE SITS IN A ROW!" InuYasha yelled.

"Well you DESERVED THEM!" She screamed back at him, her temper rising again.

"WHY?" InuYasha asked his temper also rising, turning his hands into fists.

"Do you forget things that easily?" Kagome asked, holding the sit command back. "Well let me refresh your memory, YOU TRIED TO KILL ME YOU IDIOT!"

"Huh!" Everyone in the room looked at InuYasha and Kagome with a look of confusion.

"You tried to kill her?" Miroku asked, walking towards InuYasha. "We told you to distract her, not kill her!"

"I didn't try to kill her!" InuYasha said quickly, seeing the angry look in Ms. Higurashi's eyes. "She's talking about when we first met three years ago, did you hear me Kagome, three years ago." He said looking over at her. "Would you get over it already, even after I give you a birthday celebration it's like you don't even appreciate it."

"Don't worry Kagome; he's just saying all of this to get you in a good mood for what he's going to give you later tonight." Shippo said with a wide grin on his face.

"You stupid fox!" InuYasha yelled at him. "That's supposed to be a surprise." He said holding Shippo by his tail, and hitting him on the head.

"Kaagoomeee," Shippo cried out to her, "Tell InuYasha to let go!" He said trying to get away from InuYasha grasp.

"Okay," She said, "But you have to tell me what the big surprise is, okay?"

(InuYasha went numb, he couldn't move.)

"I'll let you go!" He said before Shippo could tell Kagome anything. "Just keep your mouth shut until I say so!" He said putting Shippo down.

"The cakes ready!" Ms. Higurashi said to everyone, walking in with a beautiful cake shaped like the Go-Shinboku God Tree in spring.

"Kagome, make a wish," Her grandfather said winking at her, "These candles have mystical powers, they grant one wish to the person that blows them out."

"Grandpa, give it a rest will ya!" Kagome said with a sigh.

"Come on Kagome, maybe your grandfather is right this time." Her mother said with a smile. "Go on make a wish, and blow out the candles!"

"Okay, what harm could it do?" She said, thinking of a wish. "What should I wish for, what do I want?"

"Hurry it up, will you." InuYasha said, rolling his golden eyes at her. "I have better things to do, you know."

"Oh, alright," She said, hoping she had made the right choice, "I wish that we could complete the Shikon Jewel, without killing Kohaku or hurting Koga." She thought to herself, while blowing all the candles out in one breath.

"Took you long enough," He said looking down at her, "If I had a chance to make a wish, I would know exactly what to wish for." He said taking the seat next to Kagome.

"I bet I know what it is," She said, thinking about what it would be like having InuYasha around as a full fledged demon, "Last time he turned into his full demon form he couldn't even recognize me." She thought silently to herself.

"Yeah, what do you think I would wish for then?" He asked, looking straight into her eyes.

"You want to become a full fledged demon." She said confidently. "That's what you've always wanted isn't it?"

"Well, I'm not really sure Iwant that anymore." He said plainly, which left Kagome confused, and relieved.

"Then what…" She began before Shippo jumped on her lap.

"Kagome, come on cut the cake!" Shippo said pointing at the knife on the table.

"Okay," Kagome said looking at Shippo, Kagome cut a piece for everyone but InuYasha. "Here you go Shippo." Kagome handed him a fork along with the cake.

"Thanks Kagome!" He said grabbing his piece, and cutting of a bit to eat.

"Do you want something to eat InuYasha?" She asked, with a smile.

"Well, I don't want any of that cake stuff, it smells horrible." He said looking away from it.

"Figures!" She said to herself.

(Kagome went to the kitchen to grab something for InuYasha)

"Where did I put it?" Kagome asked herself. "Oh, here it is." She said grabbing the ramen, and started boiling the water,

(5 minutes later, Kagome walks out with the ramen she had prepared for InuYasha.)

"Here you go InuYasha." She said handing him the noodles. "Hope you like them."

"It's ramen, who doesn't like ramen?" He asked, stuffing his mouth with the noodles. "It's the best kind of food."

(Sigh)

"Of course he's saying that, it's the only food he's ever tried from my era," She said to herself, "To him it's the only food."

"Hey Kagome… Kagome." He tried getting her attention, his face two inches from her own, Kagome realized, and she started to blush.

"Sit!" She screamed, as he fell face first into the cake.

"KAGOME!" He yelled as he got up and wiped the frosting off. "What the hell was that for?"

"InuYasha, sorry I was just…" She tried to explain, but he rushed right by her, to the door. "Hey where are you going?" She said, surprised that he hadn't argued anymore.

"I'm going outside for some air." He said closing the door behind him.

"Mom?" Kagome called out to her mother.

"Go on dear, you're not going to miss anything." Ms. Higurashi said with a smile.

"Thanks mom." Kagome said, closing the door behind her.

"What do you think is going to happen?" Sango asked Miroku, feeling the very recognizable rub on her backside.

(Slap)

"Pervert!" She yelled sitting down next to Shippo.

"Sango, it was the cursed hand, it wasn't me I swear!" He said, his hand on the mark Sango left.

"InuYasha, where are you?" Kagome called out into the darkness, she looked up and noticed that there was no moon in the sky.

"Over here." He said quietly, almost in a whisper.

(Kagome looked up, he was on the Sacred Tree.)

"What are you doing up there?" She asked, trying to get a better look at him.

"Nothing, just thinking." He said jumping down, off the tree.

"About what?" she asked looking at his hair no longer silver, but black and his eyes no longer gold, but a light brown, then she looked up at his head, his dog ears were also gone. He was human once again.

"I was thinking about how many birthdays I've spent alone, about how lucky you are to still have your mother and not just that but your brother, and grandfather too." He said looking through the window at Kagomes family. "Until I met Kikyo, I had no friends, then… well I know Naraku made us believe that we had betrayed each other, but she is the one that killed me." He said, sitting down against the trunk of the tree, looking up at the stars. "Then you came along and pulled the arrow out, I know I tried to kill you, but you never actually hurt me back, unless you count all those sit commands." He said, looking over at Kagome who was now sitting next to him, and was trying very hard not to giggle at what he had just said. "You weren't scared of me or mad until this morning when you remembered about the day we met. You were the only friend I had, the only one that trusted me, well until Shippo, and the rest of them came along."

"InuYasha, I'm so sorry." Kagome said, feeling horrible.

"About what?" InuYasha asked, smiling down at her.

"About how I reacted this morning about something that happened three years ago." She said feeling awful about how she treated him, InuYasha's mother had died when he was only a child, and the only woman he had ever truly loved killed him. She hated admitting that InuYasha had ever loved Kikyo, but she knew that he would never be able to forget about her; No matter how much he tried. It hurt her to admit it, but she knew that InuYasha would never love her, the way he loved Kikyo.

"Forget about it." He said smiling at her. "It doesn't matter anymore." He said leaning in towards her.

"What's going on?" Kagome thought to herself. "Is he trying to...?" So many things ran through her head at that time, but the moment InuYasha's lips touched hers they all went away, all she could think about was how much she loved him, and about how she would never be able to love someone else.

(A/N: Okay if you think this is the end, well it isn't, but if you like it tell me. I didn't think I would be able to end this chapter, thanks for reading BYE ! ^-^ )