His Only Fear



Rating - R for sexual content in later chapters





CHAPTER 4

The sun had finally settled as the cresent moon shined.

She laid in her sleeping bag, doing the usual. Sleep.

Inuyasha became more aware of her sickness. He was worried that it wouldn't just take away her energy but her life too.

He sat there, right next to her, for hours waiting for her to open her eyes again. He knew he was just wasting his time. Its been hours since her last awakening. Although to him it was worth the time wasting.

In those same hours he thought hard. Hard enough to give him a headache. He thought about the questions she asked him earlier. Guilt was finally consuming him. Inuyasha felt bad about making her feel as bad as he's feeling now. Was it so hard to show some affection?

At that same moment she asked him those questions he wanted to tell her how much he loved her. But Inuyasha thought she might feel disgusted. 'Why would a beautiful girl, like her, love a half demon like me?'

He brushed her strands of hair away from her closed eyes. She let out a little moan of discomfort. Slowly, she opened her eyes to find that Inuyasha was right beside her, watching her every move. She sat up as Inuyasha began to speak.

"I bet your hungry. Here. Eat." He handed the bowl of ramen to her.

Without hesitation, she picked up the bowl up to her mouth and began to eat slowly.

"How are you feeling?"

"I've been better..." Inuyasha noticed that she's still upset about earlier. She turned away to look somewhere else, avioding his eyes.

Inuyasha felt a sting in his heart when she avoided his eyes. He wanted to apologize for his rudeness earlier but the words wouldn't come out. He was afraid that his true feelings would show and it might disgust her.

Kagome put the bowl down and began to slowly go back in her sleeping bag to sleep again. After a moment of thought she turned to look at Inuyasha's eyes for the last time as a tear fell from one eye. Inuyasha's eyes widen.

"Inuyasha, I can't hide it from you anymore. I feel like I might lose the opportunity to tell you."

"What do you mean you might lose the opportunity?"

"I..I could feel my energy slipping away and yes I've regained them but I can't hold on much longer. My life is hang by a single thread....." More tears started to flow out from her eyes. "I want to tell you the truth...about how I really feel about you.." She took a deep breath. "Just in case I might not make it...I want you to know that I..I love you, Inuyasha."

His jaw dropped this time leaving him with nothing to say. Inuyasha wanted to say those same words in return but, again, the words wouldn't come out. Kagome didn't expect an answer from him. She knew that Inuyasha isn't that type of person who would say "I love you". But as long as she took that preasure away from her chest then she would feel ok.

Inuyasha never looked or felt this depressed since the day Kikyo betrayed him. And he can't afford to lose her too. He'd give up everything, even his life if needed, just to keep her from dying. But what is there left to do?

Its a pity. Kagome is only 15. She's still too young to die. It's a shame that she might not live to bare a child nor to get "experience" from the only one she loved. Hell, she didn't even get her first kiss yet!

He gently wiped her tears away as she closed her eyes. She'd already looked like she was in deep sleep. Inuyasha did what he thought was right. Although, he'd never thought that he would shed a tear to an ordinary human. But he did. He slowly bent down to her ear and wispered something, hoping that she would wake up and remember it.

"I love you too, Kagome..." A tear dropped slowly down to his cheek.

He got up and looked out the window to watch the cresent moon. Suddenly, his ears twiched, noticing that someone or something was outside. He heard voices, more similar to a voice of a child.

Laughing....

How is it possible for children to be here in the middle of nowhere??

Inuyasha growled. He ran outside to see what was going on and find out that there was no one there...

Authors Note: *sigh* Still working on how to end this thing. Sorry, it's probably going to end real soon. ;]