She went flying and landed in a tree twelve yards away. She fell out of it and hit the ground, bruised, burned, and bleeding. One of Naraku's poisonous insects came behind Renkotsu.

"What? Now? Fine," he said to the insect. "Well, I'd love to stay but I have to be somewhere." Renkotsu woke Ginkotsu and threw Jakotsu's lifeless body on Ginkotsu's base and jumped on himself and they took off. InuYasha ran to UtsukushiiInu's side.

"UtsukushiiInu? Wake up! UtsukushiiInu!!"
She moaned and opened her eyes slowly. She was in a lot of pain.

"Where's Renkotsu?" She bolted upright, hurting her shoulder, which had resumed bleeding.

"Be careful! You'll hurt yourself," InuYasha said, concerned over UtsukushiiInu.

InuYasha never talked like that to me. He really doeslike her, Kagome thought sadly. I shouldn't be thinking about InuYasha right now. I should be thanking UtsukushiiInu. She saved my life. And after I was such a jerk. Ugh, I hate regrets, and right now, I have the biggest one ever.

"Um, UtsukushiiInu?"

"Yeah, Kagome? What is it?" UtsukushiiInu asked, rubbing her side, which was bruised badly.

"Thank you for saving me. I would've died if that would have hit me."
"It's no problem. It's what friends do for each other. I wasn't gonna let you die."

Some friend I am. Man, I wish she'd stop saying that. Friends. To her, we're friends, to me, she's my opponent. This is eating me alive!

"Hey, what's wrong, Kagome? You're barely talking."
"Oh, nothing. Nothing at all."

InuYasha turned his attention back to UtsukushiiInu, who was appearing to be barely affected by the wounds on her body. It was apparent the burn on her other side would scar. UtsukushiiInu, despite the pain, stood up.

"Well, let's get going if we're gonna kill Renkotsu! I wanna finish him off for what he did to me."

"Really? You don't wanna, you know, rest?" InuYasha asked.

"Heck no! I don't need rest! I need to kill something!"

"You know how to recover quickly."

"Sure do, Sango. Now let's get going!"

UtsukushiiInu took off in a sprint, running across the battle worn field.

"Wow," InuYasha said, a little bit louder than he had hoped, just in earshot of everyone else.

"Wow?"
"Um, no. I said, uh, let's go now. Don't accuse me of liking UtsukushiiInu!" He pointed at Miroku.

"I didn't accuse you of anything."

InuYasha looked embarrassed. He stood up and ran off to UtsukushiiInu.

"Oh yeah, he likes her," Miroku teased.

Sango and Shippo laughed, while Kagome frowned.

STOP SAYING THAT! STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!!!!!