ch3bl Chapter 3~Inside a Warding

Inuyasha woke in a tightly enclosed barier, barely able to move. He looked up and saw the girl who'd hit him with the rock wringing out a cloth, and turning back to him. When she saw his eyes were open, the cloth fell.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered, her eyes sad. She'd hoped that after he'd woken, he'd be back to normal, but his face still bore the evidence of his demon form.
He snarled at her. "Where am I?!"
"At the village, Inuyasha..." She lifted the cloth and moved over to the warding. "Lay back down, you're still not healed yet..." She reached through the warding and eased him back to the mat.
Her actions confused him. *Why is this human treating me with tenderness?* He wondered silently.
She gently opened his kimono and winced at the sight of the deep gashes in his chest. "..." Tears pierced her eyes and she gently bathed the wounds.
He hissed as the cloth was pressed to his painful wounds and he felt the pressure let up a bit.
"Gomen." The girl said, lifting a bottle of some strange clear liquid and poured a bit on the cloth. "Th-this will probably hurt..." Her eyes met his and he saw a deep sadness in them. "I'm sorry if it does." She gingerly touched the cloth to the wound.
He howled in pain. He couldn't remember pain like this. He never felt pain. Yet, he noticed the pained expression on the girls face, almost like doing this was hurting her more than him. "Leave me be!" He snarled.
She slowly withdrew her hand from the warding, sadness filling her eyes. "What if they get infected?" She asked, lifting another cloth and bathing his sweating brow. "You'd die..."
He snorted. "A few little scratches wont kill -me-. Why the hell does it matter to you, anyways?"
She looked sad. "..." She shook her head. "Let me bandage your wounds. It wont take very long...I promise." She said, helping him sit upright. She left the warding long enough to get her first aid kit and returned, pulling some gauze and sergical tape from it. She silently applied some salve care of Kaede, then wrapped the gauze around his chest gently, keeping it tight, but not tight enough to be painful.
Her eyes closed and she felt a tear roll down her eye as she finished the roll off with a piece of tape. Her hand then went for the pain killers, and she handed him a cup of tea and two of them. "Here, it should help the pain..." She said, before turning away from him.
He threw the pills at her and she felt tears prick her eyes again. "I don't need help from human bitches." He snarled, glaring daggers.
Kagome sighed sadly, wishing her Inuyasha was with her. She felt a tear roll down her face and didn't bother brushing it away. "Very well, Inuyasha. Very well..." She closed her eyes, laying just outside the warding, her back to him.
"Who are you anyways?" He snarled.
Kagome sighed. "A friend..." She rolled towards the warding and looked sadly at him. "Get some rest..."
He flopped onto his back, looking away from her intense stare. His eyes moved back towards her, however when he felt a gentle hand on his arm. "What?"
She stood and retrieved a blanket, gently laying it over him and tucking it around him. "Sleep well..." She said softly before returning to her makeshift bed beside his. She faced the opposite wall, her heart shattered. "I love you..." She mouthed, picturing haunting golden eyes and soft white hair, a cute nose over soft lips.
Inuyasha barely caught the soft almost silent words. He glanced over at the trembling form and sniffed, smelling salt along with many other almost familiar smells lingering in the air around the girl.

Kagome yawned as she woke and rolled, to her surprise, she was being studied by red and blue eyes. A pain entered her heart and she tried to smile, but knew she just looked miserable. "Good morning, Inuyasha..." She said, sitting in her bag and trembling against the chill.
He watched her shiver in curiousity. Human feelings had always confused him. He didn't understand why humans were the way they are. His eyes flitted across the young almost woman, who sat nearby. A sweet smell filled his nose and he frowned.
Kagome ruffled through her bag, grabbing some things for her bath and glanced around the room. "Miroku-sama, please, keep an eye on Inuyasha..." She said softly before leaving.
Her footsteps brought her to the spring quickly and she silently stripped, slipping into her bathing suit and stepping into the water. She sank onto her knees and pressed her hands into her face, crying. "Inuyasha..."
She heard the sound of battle coming from the village and stood quickly, fear filling her. She was about to run back when two hands grabbed her. "KAGOME! You love that stupid dog-turd!?" Kouga cried angrily. "How could you?!"
Kagome closed her eyes. "Let me go, Kouga..." She said, ripping her arm from his grasp and scooping her stuff up as she ran full speed towards the village. She saw Inuyasha in full demon form coming towards her and she closed her eyes, waiting for the claws that were bound to rip through her delicate skin.
Instead, she was grabbed and thrown over his shoulder as he ran in the opposite direction.
"Eh?!" Kagome gasped, the wind suddenly whistling around her.
Her 'captor' was silent, running through the trees at impossible speeds, bouncing up into the trees, before leaping from tree to tree, until they reached a desolate cave.
Kagome turned towards him after he set her onto the ground, her eyes afraid. "Inuyasha...?" She whispered.
"You are spared." He said coldly. "Because you saved me."
She fell to her knees, tears falling down her face. "You didn't kill them all did you..." She whispered, fearing all her friends were dead.
"No."
She relaxed, wrapping her towel around her shoulders, her eyes closing and she prayed for her friends. "Thank you..." She whispered softly, a tear slowly winding down her face.
*He must still be in there somewhere...if I could just find the Tetsusaiga...* She sighed, laying on the cold cave floor and sighed, sadly.