Hi everyone! Here's a new chapter for you to enjoy, but I have a few things to say. This story so far has had over 250 views but only 8 Reviews, which is a bit disheartening. So it would be greatly appreciated if, when you're done reading, you leave a review and just let me know what you thought of it.

Constructive criticism is always appreciated!

On a slightly different note, do you guys like the alternating chapters (I had plans to alternate between the two pairs for another few chapters before bringing them together as a group) OR would you guys prefer more InuxKag oriented chapters? Because it seems to me that out of the few people who reviewed, they like my InuxKag chapter more, but maybe I'm wrong and you like the MiroxSan ones just as much?

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There's some curse words in this chapter, but they're no worse that what Inuyasha says in the show.

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Inuyasha is not mine, sadly.

Point of view

Inuyasha

"Die half-breed!"

The Mistress Centipede screamed as she dove, glistening pointed teeth first, down towards his head. He tried to move out of the way, but her severed hands held him fast to the ground with a strength that not even he could get loose from. He felt a powerful snarl surge up from inside him, it's crazed fury and murderous intent shocking him and easily passing by his inner confines as the Mistress Centipede's teeth flashed right above him.

"NOO!"

The girl Hanyou's voice rang out in a strange mix of fear, desperation, and something else that he couldn't decipher, instantly halting the inner fury at its sound.

Suddenly she was there, up behind the Mistress Centipede with her claws ready, blue eyes filled with determination...that warped into surprise as she tripped on something and fell, slapping her hands flat against the demon's back as she did. Pink light flooded out from her hands, surrounding, engulfing, and distorting the demon so that within seconds she was completely gone, severed hands and all.

There's no demon smell, no dust or even powder of it left, no hands either. He sat up while looking down at himself, the only evidence of the fight with Mistress Centipede was the creases in his clothes from where he had been grabbed and held down. Inuyasha looked up at the girl Hanyou who had somehow caused this complete and total destruction of her foe, and blinked as his mind tried to process what he had just seen. What the Hell just happened?

She was staring at him with relief coming from her dark brown eyes as she looked him over quickly, and it took him a second to register that she was checking to see if he was hurt. That realization hit him just as her trembling, exhausted body gave out on her, and she fell to her knees then toppled onto her right side, still staring at him.

His first instinct was to lunge out and catch her when he saw her start falling, but his mind screamed at him. Did you not just see what happened to that other demon?! Don't touch her, idiot! So he watched her fall, yet no pain appeared in those dark eyes as the relief melded into a kind of soft happiness at that he was truly fine.

He blinked at her, emotions started tumbling through him so fast that his thoughts couldn't keep up. She's glad that I'm not hurt, when just minutes ago I was going to kill her? And then that scream, was she worried about me? How could that be? Why should she care? She could have used that time to make her getaway, not help me. He suddenly became aware that he was slowly moving closer to her, and immediately stopped himself. Why does she care?

"What's your name?"

Her gentle tone jerking him out of his thoughts, and his eyes widened at her. My..name? She wants..to know...MY name? He felt his face heat up and he couldn't look at her anymore. Nobody had asked for his name in years, with all of the people or demons he encountered having always settled for 'Hanyou', 'Filth', or 'Half-breed'.

"Inuyasha."

He answered quietly and tensed, waiting for some kind of comment about how creative his parents had been with his name, or what kind of lame half-ass demon was he suppose to be, or just...something...predictable. Something that would put her in with everyone else he had met since his mother died, they treated him how a Hanyou should be.

"Inu..yasha."

She repeated in such a soft way that his eyes instantly snapped over to her face to see a slight smile on it, her eyes half closed. He felt his face flush even more at this and almost as a knee-jerk reaction demanded her name even though he could see she was losing consciousness. Her eyes had almost closed, but fluttered open just enough to look at him before sliding fully closed.

"Ka..go...me."

Kagome. He thought, leaning a bit closer to her as she passed out, his mind telling him that it was safer now that she couldn't do anything to him. She was pretty badly hurt when the stupid Centipede threw her against that tree, but if her demon blood is anything like mine she'll be healed up soon. Despite these confident thoughts he bent his head slightly closer to inhaled her scent just to check how bad the wounds really were, then froze.

Most of the blood that he could smell on her was her Hanyou blood, but he was now starting to smell human blood as well.

What the Hell? He inhaled again and there was no mistaking it, while most of the blood smelled of Hanyou, Kagome herself now smelled human. He pulled away from her and leaned back until he fell into a sitting position. What happened? I KNOW that she was a Hanyou when we were fighting the Centipede demon because of her aura and the fact that she went to attack it with her claws.

He glanced down at her closest hand, confirming for himself that she was indeed a human when he was saw the flimsy nails at the ends of her fingers instead of claws.

If she's a human now than that means that she can't be healed by her demon blood, and that means that unless I do something, she'll bleed out or be killed by some random demon who smells her while wandering near my border. He looked at her face, his mind replaying the way she had spoken his name. A human doesn't have the power to do what she just did to the Centipede, that had to have been a demon ability of hers, right?

He scoffed at himself.

Who are you trying to fool, eh?! That couldn't have been a demon power, it felt too...light, yeah light. Too light and clear to be demon power, so that leaves us with something weird and dangerous that made every fiber of our being want to run away as fast as possible, AND it means that we have no idea how this power works or how to defend against it.

But Kagome attacked the Mistress Centipede when she had me pinned down, instead of running off when she had a golden opportunity to do so. He slowly reached out a hand towards her shoulder. Plus that weird power of hers didn't do anything to me when she used it on the Centipede, which means that she didn't want whatever happened to her to happen to me as well, right? I don't think she had planned to use it on me, even when I was going to attack her earlier.

He tensed, his right hand twitching with the instinct not to do this, and he touched her shoulder gingerly. Nothing happened, so he placed his whole hand on it and still nothing happened to him.

He released the breath that he didn't realize he'd been holding, closing his eyes in relief then opening them to look around the clearing. Nighttime was approaching judging by the darkening of the forest around them, a breeze shook the trees leaves, and the babble of the stream seemed to change into dark mutterings. A sudden picture of this girl just laying here, injured and in her human form, vulnerable to whatever things skulked in the dark, appeared in his mind and made it up for him.

Inuyasha crouched next to her and gently picked her up in his arms, one under her knees and the other bent to support her back. He shifted her a bit to make her head fall against his chest, not wanting it to flop back and make her look like she was dead. He stood up, turning in the direction of the only cave that he knew was nearby and took off through the forest.

He made bounded through the now black and fading orange of the forest, to the field of tall grasses that practically hid the vegetation covered cave at the far end. He lept through the field in two large leaps, pausing only to smiff at the entrance of the cave to be sure nothing had taken up residence there since the last time he used it. Sensing nothing amiss, Inuyasha entered and walked down the steep grass covered interior of cave till he got to the moss covered bottom of it where he laid her down.

He took a deep inhale to determine if any of her wounds were still bleeding, and a couple of them were lightly, but he had no bandages or healing herbs to treat them with. He stood, staring down at the red-stained girl.

I know that I smelled a village around here, they're bound to have some of the stuff I need to treat her wounds so she won't die before she turns back. Inuyasha was at the cave entrance in a flash, carefully checked the breeze to see if it would reveal the location of the village, and to be sure that there were no demons just waiting around to attack Kagome as soon as he left.

Sensing no demons or other dangers to Kagome, Inuyasha left for the village which was not very far at all for the set on top speed Hanyou. He arrived at a forested edge of the village just as the last traces of sunset started dimming into the dark sky, and most of the villagers were either inside their huts or were heading in them.

Inuyasha crept along the blacked edge of the forest, sniffing for the scent of healing herbs. Till he found a great concentration of them to be in a hut at the foot of a long staircase, set going up the hill at one end of the village.

Getting as close as he could, he determined that there was no one inside. So with a smirk of victory he shot across the open ground from the forest to the hut and was inside within seconds. He immediately started going through the different jars and pots of herbs. Some of these smells I recognise because of mother, but I don't know...is this something you treat wounds with or was this for fever? Or how 'bout this one, it smells bad enough to tend wounds with...

He frowned at the different pots of herbs, then he spotted a bit of red out of the corner of his eye and, curiosity peaked, opened the larger box that it was in. He pulled out a long red Hakama then a white Haori, and saw other white clothes that he judged to be underclothes still in the box. These look like women's clothes and Kagome does need new ones...

He took them out and set them on the floor, before turning to start rifling through the folded collection of different sized bandages by the herbs, trying to guesstimate how many of them he'd need for Kagome.

His ears suddenly caught the sound of a step outside and a hand gripping the woven hanging mat in the doorway. Damn all these herbs, they're messing with my sense of smell! He spun to face whoever it was and came face to face with an old woman.

She only had one eye and the other was covered by a black thing, she was stooped with age and wore an only slightly surprised expression as she saw him. He growled threateningly at her hoping it would make her leave so that he wouldn't have to do anything to her, but she didn't budge from her place just inside the doorway.

She stared at his face, then looked at his right hand that was holding some of her bandages in it. Her face softened slightly and she blinked back up at his still growling face.

"Who be the bandages in ye're hand for?"

Inuyasha blinked, body stiffening as he tried to hide his surprise at her question.

"What makes ya think that they're for someone else, old hag?"

He scoffed out at her, only to get a slight narrowing of her eye at his choice of words and tone.

"Ye are nay injured but ya have blood on ya, and ye're trying to take some of me bandages and herbs."

"Well maybe I just wanted some, huh, didn't think of that did ya?"

She gave him a deadpan look.

"Ya're a half demon, what would ya be needing such paltry human healing things for yerself when ya can be healed by yer demon blood from even the most grievous of wounds?"

"Hey! I never said that I was a Hanyou, what makes ya think I'm one?! Maybe I'm just a kind of demon you've nev-"

"I can feel yer demonic aura, and no demon that I've ever come across has felt like ya. That be how I know. Now who be the bandages for?"

Inuyasha looked down at the bandages in his hand and then at the clothes he had put on the floor. I could keep arguing with this old bat and win, or I can suck it up and get Kagome what she needs. I don't know what all this herbs do, but this one must since she smells like this hut. He snarled internally at himself, then lowered his ears slightly and kept his eyes fixed on the clothes.

"They're for a girl that was attacked by a demon..."

He heard the old one intake breath in a slight gasp.

"A human girl? Do ya know what demon did it? How-"

Her cautious question had his head and eyes up in an instant.

"It wasn't me if that's what you're thinking!"

"Of course it was nay ye! I've never heard of a demon caring for a victim of theirs before, so why would ye? Where be she, and why did ye nay bring her here in the first place if ya knew there to be a healer here?"

He looked down at the bandages in his clawed hand.

"It's complicated."

After a moment, he lifted his eyes to hers again.

"I didn't think to bring her here because I didn't know what would happen, alright?! I just need ya to give me some herbs and stuff so that I can fix her up."

"Absolutely not."

She walked by a shocked Hanyou to start shifting around the jars and pots on the sleeves behind him.

"Whatta mean NO!?"

He demanded, whirling around to snarl in her face while brandishing one of his clawed hands.

"What I mean is that ye're nay going by yerself because it sounds to me that she be needing a healer who knows what they be doing, and not just a good intentioned yet inexperienced Hanyou. Now what are her injuries, and how bad be they?"

He blinked, and pulled back away from her while lowering his hand. Confusion clear in his eyes.

"Well? We nay have all night!"

He blinked again, then shook his head to clear it.

"Injuries..Well she had..."

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