chapter one

Kagome's Pain

After a long, hard day of fighting angry demons, inuyasha and kagome walked back toward kaedes village. inuyasha, as usual, had his arms crossed infront of his chest. he didnt know how happy it would make kagome feel to see him walk with his hands down by his side for once. she gave him a wierd glair, "are you mad, inuyasha?" he growled and turned his head away, "what gives you that idea, you stupid wench." it was quiet for a moment. inuyasha was kinda getting worried because she wasnt screaming at him. he turned his head just a little to see what was going on. what he saw broke his heart. kagome was walking with her head down, like she was sad or crying. "kagome..." he was cut off by somthing very disterbing to his ears.

inuyasha layed face down in the cold, hard dirt. "that'll teech you not to call me names, you...you... bastard!" she stomped off leaving inuyasha to regain conchesness.

when she came to the small cosey looking hut she froze, ' i should go back for inuyasha, i mean he did feel sorry…. but now i know he's sorry! ' she stomped the rest of the way into the hut and sat down aggents one of the walls. sango, miroku, and, shippo just watched her every moves, that is until she spotted them gocking at her. "whats your problem! hevn't you ever seen some one mad before!" she ran out of the hut crying. they just sat there, still in shock, staring at the empty doorway.

kagome ran as far as her legs could carry her, then stopped from exostion, "what is it with inuyasha anyways?" she sat down on a tree stup neerby and cried until it hert. so she stopped and looked arround her. she didnt even notes how beautiful it was. the river ripples sparked the moons light that shadowed the trees. she gasped at how full the sky was with stars lighting up what the moon didn't.

she wisperd to her self wile nealing by the river and looking at her sarrowful reflection, "i wish inuyasha was here to share this beautifule moment with me."

she stood and shook her head, "NO. not after what i did to him. he wont follow me, he wont even think about following me." another tear rolled down her cheeck, "i probably dont even have any friends, now that ive been such a bitch to them. they probably dont like me anymore." she decided that there was no way to keep from crying any longer, and busted out in tears. her crying racked her body and she couldnt take all the pain anymore. she dropped to her knees and sobbed for a few minutes. it seemed like her life was hedded for the worst, until it got a little better.

"what are you crying about?" kagome stopped imedietly and turnd her head quick. to her suprise it was inuyasha! she thought for sure that she would never see him again. but there he was, arms crossed and everything, the whole package. she jumped up and dived into his arms crying, "oh, inuyasha, i thought id never see you again." he wrapped his arms around her, leaving no room between them, "you cant get rid of me that easly." she smiled and relized that she was blessed, blessed to have such a wonderful family there in inuyasha's time.

that struck her hard and broke her happy thoughts, ' sango, miroku, shippo! damn how could i forget about them? i have to go appologise right away!' she pushed inuyasha away and ran as fast as she could. inuyasha stood eyes wide open as he watched her run faster than he'd ever seen her run before. He scratched his cheek in confution, "what did i do this time?"

kagome ran faster and faster until she couldnt keep up with her long legs. she flew forward and landed hard in the dirt. " Shit!" she slowly sat up and noteced she was coverd from head to toe with dirt. she knew she had cuts all over and would soon have many bruses, but that didnt stop her. she jumped up and ran again, not as fast as before but good enough for her. She felt as if her knee was broken, but she didn't care. There friend-ship was more inportant than an injery.

As she got to the top of the hill, on the outskirts of the vilage, her knee gave out. She rolled all the way down, leaving dust trales behind. On the way down she thought for sure all the rocks would kill her, but luckley she only got scraped up more.

When she got to the bottom she slowly crawld to her knees. Her eyes started to get blurry, but she easily shook it off. "I cant stop now. Ive come so far." She stumbled to her feet, but only to fall back down on her knees. She screamed in pain, remembering about her injered knee. A few tears rolled down her cheek, but she endured all the pain and used a nearby tree to balance up onto her feet. She knew that she would black-out soon so she tried to hurry up again.

She walked slowly at first and then did a limpy, jog, kinda thing. "Sango…..Miroku……Shippo!" they heard her and came running out of the hut. To there suprize they saw kagome doing her linpy, jog, thing, looking really tierd and hurt, and out of no were inuyasha comes jumping out of the forest looking really mad. They were more stunned than ever. See they thought that kagome was running from inuyasha.

They ran to kagome and stopped when they where infront of her. "kagome lets go" miroku grabbed her arm roughly. She fell to the ground in tears. Miroku looked at his wet hand and flenched when he saw the blood. "kagome im so…" but he was cut off by an angry hanyou, "damn you, you perverted monk let me see her!" inuyasha barged through the crowd and saw her body, "kagome..what..happened?" he neald down by her, but was soon pulled back up by a pissed off girl, "inuyasha you bastard! How could you do this to kagome!" inuyasha just looked at her with a "WTF" face. "kagome trusted you to protect her and then you do this." Miroku growld. "What are you talking about! I take my eyes off her for one second and you say this is my falt!" inuyasha growld back. "we saw you inuyasha, don't lie!" Shippo protested.

Kagome sobbed harder and they all turned around to tend to her needs. "stop it! Please don't fight! Im sorry sango…miroku…shippo", she stopped to take a deep breath, "I didn't mean it", she stopped to take another breath, "will you forgive me?" she looked up at them with tears in her eyes. Sango dropped to her knees and hugged kagome. She flinched in pain and made a small noise. Sango felt and heard her and loosend her tight hug to a soft, firm hug. "we forgive you kagome."

Inuyasha crossed his arms across his chest, closed his eyes, and turned his head away, "you can say it to them but not to me. You didn't even do anything to them." There was a small silence. Then inuyasha felt gental arms around his waist, "im sorry, inuyasha. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." He slowly uncrossed his arms and wrapped them around her, "you didn't hurt my feelings."

He could feel kagomes grip loosen and looked down. She had eather fallen asleep or passed out. He picked her up bridle style and caried her into the small hut.

When kiade came home she cleand kagome up and tended to her wounds. 'kagome, what did yee get yeeself into this time?' kiade thought wile shaking her head side to side slowly. Inuyasha walked in and sat in his usual place agenced the wall. He closed his eyes and acted like he didn't care about kagome, but kiada knew he cared more than anyone else. "inuyasha." Inuyasha opend his right eye to look at her, still acting carless. "Kagome is healing slow, but well. Do yee wish to be alone with her?" inuyasha closed his right eye again, "feh" was all he said. Kiade took that as a "hell yeah". so she picked up all her suplise and left the small hut silently.

Inuyasha looked out the hut and saw no one around. 'good I can be with kagome now.' He sat down by her side and watched her beautiful, raven hair blow with the little wind that snuck into the hut. Her soft, pail skin, glowing in the moonlight that shown through the hole were the roof was suppost to sit, but was destroyed in a recent battle. He looked her up and down, from head to toe at her nicely built body, just to see her shivering. He wispered to his self, "she could catch a cold and that wont help her get better any time soon." He pulled off his red kimono and placed it gently over her. Then he slowly layed down next to her and cuddled her into his arms.

Miroku walked into the hut and saw how cute they were and stopped, fonding on how inuyasha was such 'a laidies man'. 'I think its time to try sango again tonight.' He got a lechrus smirk on his face and turned to go out the hut, only to run right into sango. They both fell backword onto the ground.

Sango sat up rubbing the back of her head, "what is it miroku, why didn't you go in?" he jumped up and then helped her up quickly, "are you ok my sweetness?" she put on a "WTF" face, "did you bump your head that hard?" miroku took her hands in his as she blushed,"no my sweetness im just fine, thank you for your consern." He rubbed his face on her beautiful, soft hand. She quickly pulled away and slammed him onto the ground, " why would I be conserned about you!"

she stomped into the hut and stopped, mimicking what miroku did earlier, she turned and ran out. On the way, pealing miroku off the ground. "why didn't you tell me, you perverted monk!" miroku shrugged his shoulders, "I didn't think you'd care, my sweetness."

(back at kagome and inuyasha)

inuyasha could feel kagomes shivering get stronger. He moved closer to her and tightend his hug, but not too tight, just enough to keep her warm.

Kagome passed in and out of conchiousness. She could feel inuyashas firm, warm body. He had said something before, but she didn't quite catch it because she had fallen asleep half way through it. even if she hadn't fallen asleep, his voise was so muffled. After giving up from exhaustion she fell asleep again.

It just broke inuyashas heart to see kagome like this. She was all beat up, from head to toe. He wanted to help so bad, but knew he could only wait for her to recover. Something botherd him though, but he didn't know what it was. What ever it was just didn't feel right. He didn't know if it was evil or good or both. He could tell kagome feelt it too, because her shaking grew heavier.

Inuyasha wisperd as he pulled her even closer, "ill protect you kagome, don't worry." Kagome cracked her eyes a little, her vision still blurry. She could see inuyasha with a woried look on his face. Using all her energy she gently put her arms around him. Inuyasha, shocked, cracked a smile. "Kagome, just rest for now." Kagome closed her eyes again and nodded. She pulled her arms from around him to infront of him cuddling in his,what she thinks, heavenly arms. She didn't know what to do but talk, "inuyasha…thank you." "for what", inuyasha ponderd on her words. "for everything." Kagome moved her sor body as close as she could to him. He blushed stuttering some words. "i..i..uh. it..was..uh..nuthing."

"It was something to me." she smiled and leand up to his lips. Inuyasha had atleased five shades of red on his face. Then she stopped. Inuyasha was kinda disapointed that she had passed out from exhaustion. So was the unexpected audience that had fallen into the hut.

Inuyasha jumped up to gard kagome, but only hurt her. Her body had been so used to inuyashas suporting her, she fell forward onto the groung with a big thump. Inuyasha spun around and saw angry eyes meet his. 'oh shit.' He thought in the back of his head. He leand down next to her to try to calm her down. "im sorry, kagome, I didn't mean to. I was just trying to protect you." Kagome looked at him like he was dirt. "you could have atleast told me." She said trying to hold back her anger. "im sorry." Inuyasha said in a begging voice, "im so sorry." He leand over and helped her get off of her stomach and back onto her back.

Inuyasha turnd around and stomped toward the little kitsune. He wisperd, "shippppooooo!" shippo backed up, waving his hands infront of him in fear. "now, inuyasha, don't do anything you'll regret." Inuyashas right eyebrow twitched with frustration, "why would I regret this." Shippo tripped fell backward onto the ground,"inuyasha…" inuyasha cut his sentence in half, knocking him unconchens. He layed there on the ground with a big bump on his head and swerled eyes.

Inuyasha walked back to kagome which looked more angry than ever. She didn't have enough energy to yell at him, so she just ignored him. "kagome?" he asked. she turned on her other side, only to roll onto one of her wounds. She flenched and maid a small moan from the pain. After the stinging disaperd, kagome tried to relax.

Inuyasha watched the whole time with sad eyes, wishing that she would let him help her. 'I wish I could just tell kagome how I feel. ' "kagome….." she gently inched her way back onto her other side, facing him again now. She could tell it was important by the sound of his voice. He blushed when he saw her beautiful, brown eyes. He turned his head a little to avoud eye contact, "um…nothing."