Chapter 10

So I decided to update once again because I have ideas for the story and people want more. So here it is.

I don't own Inuyasha

As Inuyasha turned around, Kagome knew what Koga was going to do.

"Stop!" she shouted as Koga pulled his arm back for a punch. Kagome knocked Inuyasha over, and since she stood where he had, Koga's blow landed on her jaw, the demonic force knocking her off her feet and sprawling her on the ground.

"What the hell?" Inuyasha asked, his voice trailing off as he caught sight of Kagome's crumpled form.

He knelt next to her, whispering, "Baka. He's a demon. Why did you do that?"

"Didn't…want…to see you….get hurt," she mumbled, the pain forcing her to blackout.

Growling in Koga's direction, Inuyasha picked up Kagome's limp form and ran out of the room, leaving behind a stunned Sango and Miroku, and a shocked Koga, who could only stand there dumbly and ask himself, why did I do that? Especially to the girl I love.

Hours later, Kagome woke in intense pain, and as her eyes opened to catch sight of Inuyasha, she found that she was unable to move her mouth in the slightest. Whimpering slightly, Kagome begged Inu with her eyes to explain what was going on.

Eyes glistening with what appeared to Kagome as tears; Inu looked at her bandaged face.

"Koga broke your jaw," he said simply. "The force broke it in two places. They had to wire your mouth shut. You won't be doing much for a while, including talking. Why did you do that, anyway?"

Kagome looked at her best friend. Was there any way to explain the feeling she'd felt ignite in her heart as Koga drew his arm back? She had felt the intense urge to protect Inu, and there really was no way of telling him, even if she could talk.

As these thoughts ran through her mind, Inuyasha processed her facial expressions, figuring that she was thinking of why she did it, and somehow he understood. Inu had no idea how he knew, but deep down he did.

Shrugging his shoulders, Inuyasha pointed to Kagome's mouth. "It'll be a long time until you can do anything yourself, so I'll be your nurse until then."

Attempting to laugh, but only hurting herself in the process of imagining Inuyasha in a nurse outfit, she cringed at the pain that racked her jaw. Tears fell from her brown eyes to get caught on the bandages half way down her cheek.

Not knowing what to do, Inu pressed the nurse call button, and in rushed a pretty brunette with a slender build and long legs. Kagome, in too much pain to know what was going on, just laid on the bed, crying.

"She just started crying. I think she tried moving her mouth. Give her something to help with the pain!" Inuyasha yelled at the dumbfounded nurse. Shaking her head, she inserted a needle into the IV sticking out of Kagome's hand.

Almost immediately, Kagome closed her eyes, the last image and sound she experienced were Inu screaming at her to not go to sleep, and the nurse explaining it would help with the pain.

Don't worry Inu. I'll be fine. The angels will protect me, she thought towards the hanyou as her brain fell into unconsciousness' velvet grasp.

Inuyasha sat a mere five feet from where Kagome stood, his hands at his face, but Kagome didn't know what he was doing.

Closing the distance between them, Kagome saw what he was doing; Inuyasha held his hands over his eyes as he silently cried. He glanced up slightly, saw something, and commenced his sobbing.

Confused, Kagome looked to where Inu had, and screamed; she saw herself, in a hospital gown, bandages and with an IV stuck in her hand.

Inuyasha's head snapped up, glaring directly at where Kagome's face was. Fear ran through her veins. She could see herself, yet there she stood, in the outfit she had been in before the accident.

"What the hell is going on?" she asked aloud.

"Who said that?" Inuyasha growled, slowly rising from his seat next to Kagome's bed.

"You can hear me?" she asked, confused yet again.

Inuyasha guardedly nodded, then something filled his eyes; fresh tears.

"Kags? Is that you?"

"Yeah, Inu, it's me," Kagome answered quietly.

Tears escaped his amber eyes as she spoke, his face crumpling.

"Don't tell me that you're dead?!" he shouted, obviously scared.

"Baka! If I were dead, you would know. One, my heart monitor would have stopped and two, your sense of smell would have told you. I'm not dead, but I don't know what's going on," Kagome answered, hoping to calm her friend down.

Sighing, Inuyasha sat back down. "You're astral projecting."

"No way!" she said in response. "I thought that shit wasn't possible?!"

Inuyasha shook his head and smiled slightly. "Obviously it is, baka."

"Well, since it is, genius, do you know how I get back to my- oh!" Kagome said, some unseen force pushing her to the floor at the end of her sentence.

"KAGS!" Inu yelled in her general direction, running right up to where she laid in a crumpled mess. Without seeing her, Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her waist and somehow hoisted her up.

"Inu…" Kagome whispered as she saw a bright light explode in front of her eyes. She once again fell to the floor.

"Kagome! Kagome!" the silver haired hanyou yelled as he felt his friend's presence ebb from this world. Sobbing, he looked at her body. As he laid eyes on her frail looking body, her back arched up off the bed at an extreme height, almost like someone tied a string around the middle of her spine and was pulling her from above.

Grasping her shaking shoulders as she landed with a thud on the bed, Inu pinned her to it, making sure if she had another episode that she wouldn't hurt herself.

Gasping through her bandages and opening her eyes, Kagome looked up at Inu, who straddled her body and practically sat on top of her. Brown orbs widening in surprise and recognition, she sobbed and grasped her friend in a huge hug. Inu lowered himself so that he lain next to her and hugged her tightly to his chest, careful not to pull out the IV nor harm her jaw.

Kagome remembered everything that had happened while she astral projected and wanted to forget it, actually, but knew that it was something that would happen again, and she must not forget what went on during her time outside her body.

Her sobs subsiding, Kagome once again fell asleep, this time in Inu's arms, warm and protected. They both fell into unconsciousness at the same time, content and happy to be with each other. The couple stayed asleep all night, no more astral projecting nor strange dreams; just two best friends who knew not what their destiny would bring.

So I loved this chapter, and hope it satisfies some people's hunger. Hopefully I can write more, cuz school's coming up soon and during that time I have absolutely no time to myself. Until next time, BambiBlack