CHAPTER ONE

"Finally got ya."

With a last blow from the Tetsusaiga, Naraku split in half, bloody acid filled the air, along with an ear splitting screech from hell, the demon was defeated.

As Inuyasha said those words, he collapsed to the groung, where Naraku's blood was staring to spread all over, burning everything in it's way.

"Inuyasha! InuYasha!" Kagome started running over to the body, before any of that cursed blood can touch him. Blood was still spraying dangerously over the field, and Inuyasha was right in the middle of it.

As Kagome ran over to Inuyasha, dodging and skipping, she could already see some raining blood burning tiny holes in his torn and bloodied clothes. She was all the while thinking about how they had worked and gone through too much together to lose each other. All their efforts to gather the shards of the Shikon no Tama cannot just end this way.

"I'm coming Inuyasha, please...hold on." When she finally got next to Inuyasha, Kagome tried to pull herself and his body up on top of a large nearby boulder.

"Please don't die on me, please don't," she held on to his hand, and put his head on her lap. She remembered the very night Inuyasha had turned human, and asked her if he could lay his head there, and also on that night, he complimented her, and said she smelled nice. Sometimes he can be so sweet, thought Kagome.

By that time tears were streaming down her cheeks, and some fell on Inuyasha's face. She moved her hand to wipe it off when she felt pull on her arm.

"Kagome, you're okay." Inuyasha tried to regain strength to say more. "Damn, man this hurts."

Surprised, Kagome opened her eyes to see Inuyasha give her a weak but heartful smile, he was trying desperately to sit up.

"Oh Inuyasha!" Kagome was so happy, she literally jumped on him and hugged the poor fellow.

"OW!! GOD THAT HURTS!!!!!!!!! KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Sorry Inuyasha *sniff* I thought you were going to die for a minute there. Oh..., you're badly hurt, I forgot, I promise not to do that again." Now tears were falling again, but they were for happiness this time. She hugged him again, this time a little bit lighter.

"Hey! Not so hard wench, you wanna kill me or something?"

"Guess you don't appreciate people for caring about you, do you?" Kagome knew that he didn't mean what he said, but she went along and pretended to be mad anyways. She loved the way they would always tease each other for fun, and they continued on like that for the next couple of minutes. After, Inuyasha fell asleep, and Kagome began wrapping him with bandages, and slapping him full of band-aids.

Later on in the night, Inuyasha woke to find himself covered like a mummy from his toes to his chest. Kagome was sleeping on the other side of the rock, he could see she was shuddering from the cold of the night.

"Stupid girl." He went over and put his shirt on top of her. The wind was blowing softly on her them, the air and sky around them seemed to have changed when Naraku was gone. The blue highlights of her hair was shining in the moonlight.

"You are so beautiful Kagome," he stroked he hair, it was soft and felt good to the touch. Inuyasha brushed her hair with his fingers, he was glad that she was asleep, or he could never have said that. But part pf him wished that she had heard it. How he had wanted to have the guts to tell her, "That'll be the day," sighed Inuyasha. He watched Kagome breathing in and out with a longing look in his eyes for a while. Then he closed it and went back to sleep.