HTF

Chapter 10

~~Half-Confessions~~

*I don't own Inuyasha*

~~Kagome~~

"I've been here for a very long time…" I pout at my half demon friend. He smiles at me from the other end of the hospital bed.

"Yes, we have. But you only have a few more days to go."

"Why can't I go now?"

Seriously, I want to go home…

Inuyasha smirks, "Because you're too silly to leave. And you complain too often about your muscles hurting, baka!"

I sit up higher.

"Hey, now," my little voice squeaks. "Doc told me to tell him everything!"

He just rolls his eyes at me. He mutters under his breathe, but I'm too far away to hear him. I raise an eyebrow, but he shakes his head, his ears turning to and fro from this action.

My eyes widen along with the grin on my face.

"Can I?"

Inuyasha looks at me questioningly, but notices just where my attention is drawn to.

"Fine," he sighs. He gets up just as I have a giggle fit and walks over to the head of the bed. He sits down with his back to me.

I eagerly hop on my knees over the pale green sheets. My fingers instinctively rub the dog-like ears, bringing joy to the both of us.

Me? It's so much fun to pet him like a little doggie!

Inuyasha? I know he likes it (though he won't admit it) because I can hear a low, happy rumbling from him every time I do this to him – which has been often since I've been locked up in this melancholy room. The only thing that brightens it up is my constant company – Inuyasha.

He's been here with me the entire time I've been here. Every time my muscle pains made me want to scream, he was holding me. Every time I made a mad-dash to the bathroom to throw up, he was right behind me. Even when I was sweating like crazy (just about every girl's worst nightmare), he'd half-complain about the smell but would still be by my side.

Shoot, he's here with me when I'm extremely giddy, like a few minutes ago when we had just finished our two-hour-long kids' song fest. I was recalling every song I knew in the book, and throwing them at Inuyasha.

I laugh as I think back to see the priceless look on his face when I sung the lyrics, "Ruben, Ruben, I've been thinking just how wonderful life could be, if all the men were transported far beyond the farthest sea."

Inuyasha's ears twitch at the sound of my laughter, but I smooth them out again.

I smile, happy with the world until a throbbing pain forms in the back of my head. My eyelids droop as I lower my hands.

~~Inuyasha~~

My growl/purr deepens as Kagome eases the tension that has built up over the years. All of it washes away with the touch of her soothing skin against mine.

Thiiiissss feeeelllsss sooooo daaammmnnnn gooooooooddd!

I am literally two seconds away from shaking my leg when Kagome withdraws her hands. I nearly whine in disappointment.

…

Okay, I did whine.

But when I turn around to ask Kagome why she stopped, I see her in a tight ball on her bed, her arms securely wrapped around her head.

I sigh.

It's another one of her headaches.

I think headaches are minor, only painful compared to humans, but the doctor told me that the poison was making her headaches easily comparable to someone getting hit in the head with a metal baseball bat…all the time…

Later, when the flock of doctors left, I had asked Kagome what a baseball bat was, but she told me to picture me getting hit on the head with Tesagia's broadside… At half of what I could swing if I was going to use the "Wind Scar."

'Ouch'- was all I could think of when she told me that.

I scoop her up. I sit and lie back on the bed, careful not to cause her any more pain.

She moans as she stretches herself over me. More like to the side of me, but still on top of me, her head resting on top of my chest.

Awkwardly, I rest my arm on her back.

I struggle to not move my chest when I inhaled, but what can't be helped can't be helped. Instead, I made my breathing as even as possible.

And then we just lay there, me stroking her hair with my free hand, Kagome enduring another headache.

~~Kagome~~

"Ugh…" All of the giddiness that had been bubbling inside of me has washed away, leaving this pain to rot inside my head.

This headache is taking forever to go away…. And the doctors can't give me anything for it because it would 'interfere with my other medications.'

At least Inuyasha is taking care of me, otherwise this stay in the hospital would drive me crazy… I don't know if I'd make it.

That might just be the teen girl inside me talking, or the one taking a lot of drugs, but I am glad Inuyasha's here.

His chest vibrates as he sighs with his mouth closed, making me smile. I wrap my arm over his torso.

"Hey Inuyasha?" I look up at him, my headache basically gone.

"Yeah?" He says, his eyes closed.

I try to piece together what I'm going to say before opening my mouth.

"The other night…. When we were… Kinda like this," I start, indicating our position. "I woke up the next morning in a strange position."

"How so?" He stops combing my hair with his hands and cocks his famous, black eyebrow.

"Well…"

Come on, Kagome! Think! Think!

"I couldn't get out of bed… because you were hugging be from behind."

He doesn't say anything, so I keep going.

"When I tried to get out of bed, you said something strange while you were sleeping…"

"Hrmmm….. That makes two of us." He mumbles. "Wha'd I say?"

I raise an eyebrow at the first part.

I scoot off him and drag myself to the top of the bed. I plop myself on my side, head level with Inuyasha.

"One word, and that makes it all the stranger." He shifts on the small bed to face me, his eyes half open. "'Mine."

I'll tell you right now, I've never seen that boy's eyes shoot open and eyebrows fly up so fast before in my life. He reminded me of a dear caught in headlights for a moment, but the ears and golden eyes kind of annihilated the picture immediately.

"Were you dreaming about ramen again? Or that caramel you were sooo enjoying the other night?"

~~Inuyasha~~

"Uhh… hehe.. You caught me." I put my hands up in mock defense, then put them back where they were. One cradling the back of Kagome's head, the other propping my head up. "I was dreaming about the newest ramen flavor. You know, the salmon and wild rice one?"

Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap-shit! Crap Crap-shit! Shit-crap! Crap!

"Umm…" Kagome thinks about what I said. I start to think that she didn't buy my story, and I was frantically searching for a new one.

Maybe I was a boy playing with the red ball? Oh! Even better, I was dreaming of my mother, that'll make sure she doesn't bring this conversation up again.

Her eyes brighten. "Oh yeah! I remember now… If you want, I can tell Mom to go get you some if you want it that badly…"

She flashes me a sneaky smile.

"Nah." I tell her, shaking my head, which is kind of hard when I'm still propped up on my arm. "I'd rather you get it. When you're well again, and I'm with you to make sure you get enough."

"Hey, I thought two cases was enough last time, and besides, I couldn't carry more than two walking home! I have to climb up the steps remember?" Kagome closes her eyes as her pink lips curl into a smile. Her lips, the lips I wish to kiss so badly, part, "So what did I say?"

I'm so focused on her perfect lips that I didn't hear her right at first.

"Umm, what?"

"What'd I say in my sleep? Hope it wasn't embarrassing…"

Should I tell her the truth? Well, I've already kind of lied to her already…

"Only that you love me." I smile at her.

A/n: *hides behind shield* Ohh! I just know something's going to happen, and I'm not quiet sure it's gonna be all that pretty either…

I'll update soon, I promise!

As long as you keep sending in those reviews! Over 15 now! Sweet!

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