Chapter Ten. O:

To the Future.

Kagome and Inuyasha stood in the dark well, Inuyasha had his arm securely around Kagome's waist supporting her weight while she leaned herself against his chest. She breath heavily like the curse had taken it toll on her even more in the last five minutes. Inuyasha starred down at Kagome, his eyes began to fill with worry. He quickly shifted her backpack onto his back more securely picking up Kagome in his arms. He leaped out of the dark well, landing in the shrine. Light peeked in from the windows in the shrine and the air smelled clear here, he could hear odd sounds from the distant road. He knew they were the big metal objects that moved from places to places, Kagome once told him they were called cars and everyone used them. Inuyasha slide the door open to the shrine letting himself out. His golden eyes flickered around as he scanned over the surrounding area. Everything was so familiar to him, he'd been here so many times before in the past. To think this might be his last chance to see her and her family again stung hard against his chest.

He quickly shook his head from the thoughts and leaped to Kagome's window, unlocked as usual he stepped down into her room. Her scent absorbed his presence and wrapped around his body filling him up. He immediately felt calm and peaceful setting Kagome down on her bed and pulling the blanket over her. Her brown chocolate eyes starred up at him. Her throat burned as she moved her lips to speak,

"..Inuyasha, I know it must be difficult to come here, but thank you.."

Inuyasha brushed Kagome's hair away from her pale face, he starred at her kneeling down beside her bed and keeping his fingers against her hair. He wanted to say everything on his mind right now to her but it would be better for her to lie down and rest. He simply smiled at her as she returned the smile with her white lips closing her chocolate brown eyes letting her body go limp. Inuyasha leaned down to Kagome's ear and whispered softly against it,

"Rest now, I'll go get your mom and grandpa, I'll be right back. I promise."

Inuyasha quietly left Kagome's room with her in a light sleep. She seemed so peaceful while she slept, he enjoyed not seeing her in so much pain.

Kagome's mom looked out of the kitchen door frame to smile at Inuyasha as she looked him up and down. She always greeted him with a smile, and clasping her hands to his ears and rubbing them always seemed to happen as well. Inuyasha grunted in annoyance shifting away from her mother, sliding his hands in his kimono sleeves he looked up at her face with a serious tone.

"Kagome is sick, she needs medical attention. In my time we don't have advanced things like you guys do here. Please make her better.." Inuyasha felt the worry pulsing off Kagome's mother as she rushed past the half demon up the stairs to Kagome's room. Inuyasha felt no need to tell her mother about the curse yet, he didn't want to ruin her mood to much in the next ten minutes. His ears twitched hearing Kagome's mom speak to her daughter in a gentle voice, asking how are you the same thing you would except from a caring mother. Inuyasha found himself wondering into the kitchen looking down at the counter top was a freshly made lunch, most likely for Kagome's grandpa or younger brother. He did the right thing right? Letting her mother the closest person to Kagome take care of her? She had to make her better. She just had to. Inuyasha closed his golden eyes leading himself away, he would of ate it but his stomach had no desire for food. He hadn't eaten much in the last few days but what was he to expect? He sat down on the ground next to the cat, his eyes narrowed down at the sleeping feline,

No worries what so ever, lucky.. Inuyasha thought watching the fat cats stomach move up and down gently. In a way Inuyasha felt bad of this peaceful life style he had taken Kagome from in order to find the jewel shards, normally a person would have a burning desire to come back to this place. Kagome didn't though, alwaysaguring with him about not going home. Why was that? Human seemed so confusing to him.

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Kagome opened her brown eyes hours later to find it easier to breath. She glanced through the window and saw the sun just about setting behind the trees. She drew up her strength and pulled the covers away from her fragile body. A feeling of pain spread through her body. She glanced at her arms, the dark purplish bruise still there. She frowned greatly at seeing these, her mother had placed some sort of lotion against them which made them sting even more. Kagome let a sigh escape her now pink colored lips.

A smell entered her nose making her stomach growl. Food was being cooked and it smelled so good it almost made her mouth water. She shifted away from her bed and guided herself down the stairs into the living room. Her eyes widened at what she found sitting in her living room though. Her mom and grandpa and little brother were all sitting around him to, discussing what had happened. Inuyasha was sitting there, but there was a difference, instead of his full lock of silver hair it was pitch black, instead of his gold eyes they were typical chocolate brown. He had no fangs, no claws, he was a simple human. Inuyasha looked up from the table at Kagome who had her mouth hanging open at the sight.

"Oh, Kagome you're awake...yeah..night of the new moon..I guess more people know my secret now.." Inuyasha pulled away from the conversation he was having with her family and walked to Kagome who starred up at him.

"You're are completely human right now? No strings attached?" She asked quite confused, Inuyasha's lips curved into a small frown while his expression began to change to annoyance rather then worry.

"Are you stupid or something? It is like all the other times I changed. I am just going to be stuck like this all night. Ugh and the sun just went down. This is so lame, and in your time I might add. Now I have to deal with all these damn human emotions." Inuyasha complained looking away from her.

Kagome rolled her eyes, crossing her hurt arms over her aching chest trying to ignore the pain. She muttered something under her breath knowing the stupid dog wouldn't be able to hear what she said while he is in his silly human form. Kagome bit down on her lip as she thought about punching Inuyasha several times in the arms till he got bruised enough to feel the pain she was feeling. Was that to mean of her? Inuyasha would probably freak out though. Kagome let out another sigh as she realized. This was going to be one long night with Inuyasha in his human form. I guess this would be a better chance to talk to him about what they were obviously going to do about things. Kagome looked passed Inuyasha to her mother who was staring at her from the table. She knew what she was thinking and in a soft voice she smiled through her words,

"I feel much better, mom..Thank you."

Inuyasha glanced down at Kagome while he stopped complaining and smiled gently for the first time in awhile. He knew she wasn't lying. He could tell by the way she looked in her face she was feeling better. Her cheeks were rosy and her lips had a color to them. She was still pale though, and he knew she still had a fever. But, she wasn't planning on dying any time soon.

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Inuyasha and Kagome sat on her bed with there backs leaned against the wall. A soft breeze flew in through the window making the curtains softly drift in the breeze. Kagome's eyes were staring at the curtain while it danced. There was a awkward silence between the two of them. Inuyasha grunted and shifted on her bed.

"So, Kagome...you feeling good?"

"Better than earlier, Thanks for coming with me. I don't think I would of gone back without you."

Inuyasha flinched slightly at this and a soft blush rose into his cheeks. He looked away from her, shoving his nose up into the air holding his chin up high.

"Heh, well whatever! Maybe if you weren't so stubborn you wouldn't have a curse on you."

"Inuyasha..who are you going to choose?"

Kagome totally killed Inuyasha's high and mighty act as his shoulders relaxed and he turned to face Kagome looking at her in the eye. He moved his lips softly, "Kagome..I want to save you both..but honestly..if it really has to come down to deciding..I think I am going to have to kill Kikyo..I can't let you die." Inuyasha bawled his hand up into a fist, clenching her blanket up in his hand looking away. "It's tough you know..I mean. This isn't easy. This was never easy..I still care for her Kagome. She is my past. She was a person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, as a human in this form. I wanted to live with her. Set her free of her duties. Now, I have to take away the once thing that is keeping her attached to this world. I know you can't say you know how I feel. I doubt you could even imagine yourself in my shoes. But, I want you to know..don't think you are going to die because I vowed to protect you even if it means I have to do something I would never imagine in a million years."

Kagome laughed softly closing her eyes tightly. "I'm always saying you're selfish. Right now though, you're the most un-selfish person on the face of the planet Inuyasha..Here I am clinging to my life. All most forcing you to choose me..I'm pretty selfish right now, aren't I?"

Inuyasha shifted closer to Kagome, grabbing her hand and pulling her against his chest into a tight hug laying his head against the top of hers. Her scent filled his lungs while the feeling of at peace once filtered his body once again. Such a weakness for him. He ran his fingers through her hair as a sigh escape his lips shaking his head.

"Nah, Kagome..you're perfectly human."

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Awe. Chapter ten is so cute.

Yeah, I haven't updated in forever, but I am not saying I forgot about this or anything. School is just really time consuming.

I actually started to write this while I am dying of sickness. Funny isn't it? Well I feel like crap. But anything to please the people.

Hahaha. Well.

ChibiNeko23 over and out.

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