Ok, I wanted to wait a lot longer before posting this, but I love it so much I just couldn't resist hehe.

It's something I started a long time ago, and kinda randomly found it on my computer and was like ohhh this good lol. I love stories about Kagome and Inuyasha both being half demons, I dunno why but they're just so fun and interesting ^.^ Anyways, this story will general follow the plot of the real Inuyasha, but with changes and differences to ajust to Kagome being half demon instead of a girl from the future.

Also, don't forget to review and tell me what you think! I also love suggestions as to what you wanna see in the story. ^_^

Enjoy!

Your Heart For Mine

Summery- Kagome is half dog demon, severely injured trying to protect the fox demon child she's taken in. When Inuyasha stumbles across them… a love story like no other unfolds.

There was something about rain that put Inuyasha in the foulest of moods. He hated how it made his hair wet and dripped down into his ears. He hated how rain made tracking scents more difficult, especially when he's trying to hunt his dinner. Overall, there was nothing good about stupid rain.

So you can see why rain for 5 days straight would put him in one of the foulest moods of all time.

He bounded out of the small cave he'd made into a temporary home and went running, hopefully running off his bad mood in addition to stretching his leg as he raced through the forest, running as if he'd never run before in his life. He spent most of his morning on this run, and by midday his stomach was growling loud enough to scare off even a demon.

Inuyasha immediately went into hunting mode, easing his way smoothly through the forest like he'd done ever since he was a child. The rain had chased most animals and demons into hiding, but now that it had stopped all sorts of creatures were emerging and ready to get out.

A small scuffling noise hit Inuyasha's ears, and he instantly knew it was a rabbit by the scent. He raised his claws, ready to leap and strike… when the unmistakable scent of blood hit Inuyasha's nose.

It stopped the half demon in his tracks. The scent was strong, not too far away, but what startled Inuyasha the most was that the blood was that of a half demon.

Inuyasha stood up tall, twitching his ears and lifting his nose into the air to try and get any more information. He could hear a slight whimper, and the scent of the blood told Inuyasha the half demon was female.

Curious, Inuyasha leapt up into trees and began leaping from branch to branch towards the mysterious half demon. As he came to a small clearing, the roar of a demon sent him on high alert.

Below, a large boar demon was towered over a small, whimpering form. Below the tree Inuyasha was in, a tiny fox kit was watching with tears streaming down his face as the boar lunged at the form again.

"Worthless half demon!" the creature screamed, raising its fist to deliver the dying blow. There was a flash of red and silver, and the boar cried out as his arm was severed from his body.

"What is this?!" he roared. Inuyasha landed in front of the girl, whom he could tell was heavily bleeding, and flexed his claws.

"I've been cooped up for days from this damn rain; I think I'll take it out on you and your ugly face!"

The boar began to laugh. "You think you can defeat me, half demon?! I'll slay you into bits of ribbons!" The demon lunged at Inuyasha this time, raising his surviving arm. Leaping to meet him, it only took one hit for Inuyasha to sever the boar's head and instantly kill him.

He landed easily next to the boar's body, flicking its blood off his claws. Instantly a bundle of orange fur shot out of the trees and raced at the injured female, screaming "Mama! Mama!" The female half demon uncurled slowly, flicking the black dog ears on the top of her head as she realized the boar demon was gone. The kit lunged itself at her chest, sobbing heavily as he clung to her. She took the child in her arms as best she could and nuzzled his head.

"Shh Shippo It's ok now." She glanced up at Inuyasha, recognizing him as her savior.

"Why did you save us?" she asked slowly, her golden eyes boring into Inuyasha. Inuyasha swallowed, suddenly nervous as she stared at him.

"You're a half demon." He stated the obvious. For a minute the two just stared at each other, golden eyes boring into golden eyes. Then the girl's eyes began to flutter, and she slumped to the ground and passed out. Shippo immediately began to cry harder, shaking her shoulder before turning to shoot a pleading look at Inuyasha.

"Keh! Don't worry kid, I'll look after her." It was then that Inuyasha noticed the small pool of blood behind the girl's left shoulder. He leaned down and carefully heaved the small half demon into his arms. The blood was dripping from a severe wound on her back, claw marks. Shippo leaped onto Inuyasha's shoulder as he began running, carrying the girl back to his makeshift cave hidden in the forest.

-0-

1 hour earlier…

"Mama! Can we have duck for dinner tonight?" Kagome laughed as her adopted son shot her a pleading look with his hands clasped in front of him.

"You like duck that much eh? Sure we can have duck for dinner." She was rewarded with a huge smile from the kit as he began to jump up and down in excitement.

"Let's go to the pond now and hunt! Can we go now mama? Please?" The kit begged again, Kagome laughed and nodded, causing the kit to leap into her arms in excitement.

"Yay! Hunting time!"

Kagome took off into the forest, letting Shippo cuddle against her while she ran. In no time at all they were at the small pond not far from their tiny camp.

"hmm, we may be here a little while Shippo, I don't see any ducks yet." The kit pouted but nodded before he leaped out of his mother's arms to peer into the water.

Kagome smiled fondly at her son as she settled herself behind a bush to wait for the ducks, letting memories flood back to her as she watched Shippo play.

She had been on her own for less than two months when Shippo had come into her life. Her mother had been a lady, her father a well-known and respected dog demon around the village where she had come from. She had been sheltered in her village, never knowing the hatred felt for half demons in the outside world. She had been raised a lady, protected by her father and loved and raised by her mother. But everything began to change three years ago when her father was killed.

InuHiro was not a high ranking member, but was still part of the dog demon pack of the east. Born to one of the warriors in the pack, he had left his pack as a young demon and found his place in the lands between the east and west, where 200 years after leaving he had met her mother. The village had respected him for his protection over the village, but after his death things began to change.

Whispers began to surround Kagome and her mother, followed by glances and indifferent attitudes. When Kagome's mother died from illness less than two years later, a small group wasted no time in driving Kagome from her home, calling her horrible names she had never heard before in her life.

She really didn't know how she had managed to survive those first two months. She had been raised a lady, she had no knowledge how to hunt or fight. She ate a mostly vegetarian diet at first, afraid and inexperienced when it came to hunting. But everything changed when she came across an injured fox demon and his kit one day…

Kagome sniffed the air, trying to remember where she had spotted that grove of fruit trees a week ago, but all she could smell was forest.

"Please…"

Kagome whipped around in surprise, finding herself facing an injured demon pulling himself forward by one arm, his other arm clutching something desperately against his chest.

"W-what?" Kagome whispered, plastering her ears to the back of her head and flinching back least he try to attack her.

"M-my son…"demon said softly, coughing harshly. Kagome was startled to see blood when he coughed.

"I don't have much longer; we were attacked by the thunder brothers… please, take my son. He'll be all alone after I'm gone…" He slowly removed his arm from his chest, revealing a small kit curled up asleep against his father's fur.

"Please, I don't have much longer. His name is Shippo." The demon let himself collapse onto his side, causing Kagome to rush over despite her fear. The demon stared up at her as she gently took his hand in hers and did the only thing she could think of. She sang.

She sang a lullaby her mother often had sang to her to comfort her and help her fall asleep. Kagome kept singing until she saw the demon's eyes slowly close and he became still, the hand in hers going limp. The tiny kit began to stir in his father's arms, so Kagome careful took him and cradled him in her arms. She also took the long fur wrapped around the father's body and carefully wrapped the kit in it. It was in that moment that 15 year old Kagome decided she would raise this child as her own.

"Shh Shippo it's ok. You're safe now…"

"Mama!" Kagome snapped out of her thoughts as she heard Shippo call her. He was trying to be quiet; pointing excitedly out onto the water where three ducks were quacking and bathing in the cool pond.

Kagome smiled and stood up, making her way to the pond to catch dinner for herself and her son. But before she could do so, an alarming scent hit her nose. Kagome barely had time to gather her son in her arms before a boar demon came crashing through the bushes, his eyes narrowing and his snarl growing prominent as he caught a whiff of her scent.

"A filthy half demon polluting the area? I shall kill you half breed!" Kagome wasted no time and took off running in the forest, but the demon was close behind her and Kagome knew she stood no chance if she was forced to stop and fight. She crashed blindly through the bushes, her panic making her clumsy- and an easy target.

She was struck in the back with such a force it sent Shippo flying from her arms and into the trees ahead. She collapsed to the ground, blood oozing from the claw marks on her back. The demon came crashing into the bushes, his roar getting louder as he realized his prey was no match for him. Kagome curled into a ball, trying not to cry as she knew what was going to happen.

"Worthless half demon!" She heard the boar cry. Then there was a grunt of pain, another cry of "What is this?!" There was a thud next to her, and then to her surprise, a deep masculine voice she didn't recognize.

"I've been cooped up for days from this damn rain, I think I'll take it out on you and your ugly face!"

She could hear the boar began to laugh. "You think you can defeat me, half demon?! I'll slay you into bits of ribbons!" There was another cry, several more large thuds, and then Kagome felt Shippo slam into her chest, crying as he cuddled next to her.

"Shh Shippo It's ok now." She soothed, even though she knew she was heavily injured. She glanced up at the stranger, taking note of his silver hair, golden eyes and handsome face.

"Why did you save us?" Kagome wasn't sure who this man was, but he had chosen to save them when he could have easily walked away.

"You're a half demon." He simply said, his deep voice sending a shiver through Kagome. For a minute they simply stared at each other, then Kagome began to feel faint, and suddenly everything went dark.

-0-

Inuyasha didn't have much to offer the girl and the kit, but what most people didn't know about Inuyasha was that deep down, wayyy deep down, he was a very giving person.

Inuyasha watched carefully over the girl and the kit as they slept on the bed of furs he had pushed up against the back of the cave. The kit had been awake for a while, but had eventually succumbed to sleep and curled up against the female.

Inuyasha's stomach growled, reminding him that he had forgotten his dinner when he saved the girl, and it was catching up to him now. It had been several hours since he had rescued the two, and Inuyasha wasn't known for his small appetite.

The kit was the first to awake; twitching his nose and then his ears as his eyes slowly opened and made contact with a set of very impatient gold ones.

At the large scowl adorning the half demon's face, the kit buried his face back against the female's body and whimpered, and Inuyasha almost fell over in shock when he smelt the salty composition of tears.

"Are you CRYING?!" He demanded, his jaw nearly dropping in shock. The kit shot him a glare from behind the female's arm, his eyes still watery from tears.

"I'm not crying!" He insisted, his little mouth turned up into a pout.

"Keh! You are too cryin'!" Inuyasha retorted, crossing his arms with a smirk on his face.

"I am not!" the kit insisted, jumping up from behind the female and glaring at the half demon.

"Are too!"

"AM NOT!"

"ARE TOO!"

"AM NOT!"

SMACK!

"Ow! That hurt!" The kit pouted and jumped back to take cover by the female, nursing the bump on his head.

"It was suppost to hurt brat." Inuyasha snapped, the scowl still slapped on his face. He couldn't stand his growling stomach any longer and moved towards the cave entrance.

"I'm going to get something to eat. If you need something, holler. If you can stop blubbering that is…"

The kit continued to glare at the half demon's retreating form until he couldn't see him anymore, crossing his arms with a grumpy pout.

"I'm not blubbering…"

-0-

It didn't take Inuyasha long to catch some fresh meat, in this case a young boar. Less than an hour and he was already on his way back to the cave, trying not to imagine the scent of cooking boar that was soon to come.

As Inuyasha approached the cave, he could hear the annoying pitch of the kit and the soft, feminine voice of a female talking, and he knew she was awake. When he stepped into the cave the female was instantly crouched in front the kit like a mother protecting her child, her teeth bared in what Inuyasha quickly knew was a warning.

He dropped the boar on the ground and dropped down in front of it to begin gutting it.

"I'm no threat to that brat. Besides we both know you'd have no chance if you were to attack me."

Kagome stopped snarling at the stranger once she realized he was the one who had saved her and Shippo.

"Who are you?" she asked, her tone indicating she was still suspicious of him. Shippo stuck his tongue out at Inuyasha, causing the half demon to raise an eye brow.

"I should be asking you that, seeing as I saved both your asses…"

"I'm Kagome." She replied quietly after several minutes. "This is my son Shippo."

"Inuyasha." He replied without looking up. The scent of blood hit the air as Inuyasha began to clean out the boar's guts, causing Kagome to look away and try not to be too disgusted. Inuyasha noticed her evasive maneuver and tried not to laugh.

"What, you don't like cleaning guts?" The look Kagome shot him confirmed another theory.

"You don't know how?" he tried not to look surprised. Kagome sniffed.

"I know HOW… sort of." She muttered. Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"You're gonna need to learn if you wanna survive on your own, especially with that brat." Shippo stuck his tongue out at Inuyasha.

It didn't take Inuyasha as long as he thought it would to coax Kagome over to the boar so he could teach her how to properly prepare it, but he had to admit she wasn't bad. He just had to ignore the horrified look on her face as he dug the guts out with his bare hands, covered with the animal's thick blood.

"We have to leave the cave to cook this. I'll show you where." Shippo clung to Kagome as the two followed Inuyasha out of the cave to where Inuyasha's make shift fire pit was. They stuck the meat onto sticks as Inuyasha built a small fire, and before long, the smell of roasting meat filled the area. Inuyasha kept alert, sniffing the air and listening for any signs of approaching demons as the meat cooked.

It didn't take long for the meat to cook, and less than a half hour later, Inuyasha was pulling the first pieces of meat off the fire and handing it to Kagome, who took the meat and immediately passed it to Shippo without even considering some for herself. The kit happily began to chomp on the meat, and only Inuyasha noticed the warm glow in Kagome's eyes as she watched the kit eat.

"Here" Inuyasha handed Kagome the next piece of meat, waiting until she began to gnaw on it before he took a bite of his own meat. He had just swallowed his first bite and was about to float off into a cloud of meat when rustling in the bushes caught his attention.

"Half demon…"

Inuyasha was instantly on his feet, meat and growling stomach completely forgotten as he flexed his claws, sniffing the air to name his opponent.

"Mistress Centipede, been a while since I saw your ugly face. I was beginning to think you were scared of me or something."

"Scared? Of a mere half demon?! HA! I'll enjoy eating your flesh half breed!"

"Inuyasha?" Shippo whimper from his place in Kagome's arms.

"What is this? Has the half demon found a mate?"

"T-that's none of your damn business!" Inuyasha snapped, tensing his body for the attack.

"Did I strike a nerve, half breed? Won't matter, soon you'll all be together again in my belly!"

Kagome's eyes widened in terror as Mistress Centipede slithered through the bushes, over 20ft tall with a long slithering tongue. Shippo began to whimper and buried himself against Kagome's chest. Kagome began to feel faint with hopelessness herself as the reptilian demon loomed over them. But in front of her, Inuyasha began to chuckle.

"I ain't scared of you ugly hag!" In a flash he was in the air, claws bared at mistress centipede. She whipped her tail at him, sending him flying into the base of a large tree. Inuyasha moaned and pulled himself to his feet, baring his teeth. Mistress Centipede laughed and shot at him, hands raised to strangle him. Inuyasha leaped at her, his own claws raised and slashed downward, connecting with her left arm and shredding it to pieces.

"Damn you half breed!" She screamed, clutching the shattered remains of her left arm. "I shall devour the female and the kit of yours as revenge!"

"I don't think so!" Inuyasha leaped in front of the terrified Shippo and Kagome, claws flexed and teeth bared.

With a hiss, Mistress Centipede dived for them, but Inuyasha scooped Kagome up in his arms and leaped, barely missing the attack. He landed next to a tree and set Kagome down behind it, Shippo shaking in her arms.

"Keep that brat quiet and stay hidden." Kagome nodded and huddled next to the tree, clutching Shippo close to her.

"Where are you half breed?! I must have it!"

Inuyasha smirked, "Don't you worry you ugly hag, I'm right here!" He leapt through the trees, his claws raised and ready, but was caught off guard when Mistress Centipede's tail wrapped around his waist and slammed him against the trunk of a tree.

"And now you die filth!" Inuyasha only smirked as Mistress Centipede squeezed her tail and wrapped it completely around Inuyasha.

Huddled behind the tree, Kagome gasped as she saw Inuyasha completely constricted. But before she could do anything, the spot where Inuyasha was wrapped began to glow, and suddenly there was a flash of light and Inuyasha came bursting out, pieces of Mistress Centipedes flesh landing around them.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome leaped to her feet, almost forgetting Shippo was still wrapped in her arms. Without missing a beat Inuyasha slashed down, his claws connecting with Mistress Centipede's face and slashing downward clean through her whole upper body. Kagome turned away and flung herself and Shippo against the tree as blood and Centipede guts flew everywhere.

For a moment, everything was quiet. Kagome remained huddled against the tree, Shippo shaking against her.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha leaped in front of her and Shippo, various pieces of blood and guts all over his red outfit and silver hair. Before Kagome could respond, Shippo popped his head up.

"Inuyasha?" The kit flung himself from Kagome's arms and straight into the startled Inuyasha's.

"I was so scared I thought she was gonna eat us!" The kit wailed, sobbing hysterically into Inuyasha's shirt.

Inuyasha turned as white as a sheet. "ah… no-no crying. Just uh…" He shot a look at Kagome, almost pleading for help. But he could see her eyes were brimming with tears as well, hands clasped in front of her.

"D-damn it everyone stop crying!" he hollered. It had the opposite effect, instead of calming down, Shippo began to wail louder and it wasn't long before Kagome launched herself to him as well, crying into a fistful of his shirt. Inuyasha sighed loudly.

"What the hell have I got myself into?"