Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
We picked the topic for our drug reports in Health today. I got narcotics (codeine, morphine, heroin). Joy to the world.
Sorry this chapter is taking so long. 1) I got grounded. 2) I got really sick. 3) I have a killer headache because I'm sick. Okay it is now 2 days after I wrote ^^^ that stuff. I'm still sick and I just got ungrounded. The headache is gone though. And writing fluff is hella hard.
Wha…? I got 20 review in 8 hours for one chapter. And I got 100. I thought it would take like up to chapter 10 or something lol. Actually I got 107+. This is freaking me out.
Pointless Fact: The presidential suite in the Plaze Hotel in New York is $15000 a night. That's like… a lot.
Vorsith: In 'Turnabout is Fair Play' Kagome gets a rosary activated by Inuyasha. The word is 'stay' lol. And the thing with Sesshoumaru attacking Kagome, what would you do if you saw a _stranger_ getting slammed into the ground a few hundred times by a 15 year old girl in a sailor fuku? Er. Don't answer that actually.
Princess Saphire: Er Bakuryuuha means… * goes to check dictionary* er. I have no clue. If anyone knows, tell me? And with Inuyasha being 85 years older, he looks like in his late teens or something. Inuyasha would _probably_ like chocolate. Even though its bad for dogs, they love it. My grandpa's rottweiler needed medication, but he wouldn't take it, so we used to shove the pill inside a piece of chocolate, and he just eats the thing. (Doctor told us that trick works)
Tsukinoko: That's what I was thinking. Even though the kenatsu from Toukijin is (for my story at least) a youki stream, Ryuukotsusei had a bigger one. Why? Ryuukotsusei used _only_ the fireball looking thing made from his youki (Except the one time pinned Inuyasha to the wall). Sesshoumaru is still basically a physical attacker mostly, so I would assume his youki is smaller. I mean, they felt Ryuukotsusei's youki all the way like a couple _miles_ away, which is almost as strong as Naraku's jaki. But with Sesshoumaru, it's more like a smaller, more contained aura, like with the rest of the physical attaking youkai. Sesshoumaru has a smaller youki (at least that he releases from his body), but Tetsusaiga/Kaze no Kizu was stronger too. Bakuryuuha is made from both, so I figure it was about ¾ as strong as the one against Ryuukotsusei. Ryuukotsusei got nailed so bad by the Bakuryuuha because he was so big, and couldn't dodge well, unlike Sesshoumaru who only got hit by 4, and only made gouges. Ryuukotsusei got sliced up into about 10 to 12 different pieces.
Suns golden ray: Yeah. Fluffy chapter, this is. If either of them had one, their ego would be very strong indeed. Like… visible to the naked eye strong.
I would just email you to reply to your questions, but as my teachers say, "Someone else might have the same question blah blah blah."
Okay that's the end of my notes. I swear I write them way too long.
Recap: Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru beat the shit out of each other, and their unconscious.
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Kagome sighed. She'd seen their fight all the way from Kaede's hut, but then all the flashing lights had stopped, so she'd assumed it was over. She was going to check whether Inuyasha lost or not. That idiot better not be dead… she thought sourly. When she got to their battle site, she gasped.
There were at least 100 less trees in the forest, felled and scattered about like they had been caught in the pyroclastic flow of a volcano. The ground had changed drastically, and one of the hills was missing. Not only that, but she saw both brothers unconscious on the floor, bleeding. Inuyasha's skin was oozing something out of his burns, and the hole in his stomach looked… well… bad. She looked over at Sesshoumaru. He had 2 inch deep gouges all over his body, and was most likely missing a lot of _bone_, like in one place she could see his rib on either side, but in the middle, all the bone was gone. She wondered how long it would take to grow something like that back and then…
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" she screamed. You know those delayed reaction things they do in cartoons? This was the real thing. Inuyasha opened his eye and groaned.
"Ka… Kagome… wh *cough* what is it?" he asked.
"Aaaaah!!" she continued screaming hysterically. Kaede and a couple of villagers came. All of them were armed, expecting the worse. When she saw what had happened, Kaede took control.
"You there, get a stretcher and get someone to help you bring Inuyasha back to the village. You two, get Inuyasha's brother back." she commanded.
"Hai, Kaede-sama!" they answered. Inuyasha passed out again.
"Girl, why are you screaming?" Kaede asked. Kagome just panted in response. "Come with me." Kaede sighed.
After everyone had left, a small log trembled. A single green claw stuck out from under it. "Sess…. Sesshoumaru-saa….ma. Help?" Jaken asked. No one was around to here.
~~~Back at the Village~~~
"Kagome, I need you to help me strip Inuyasha."
"What? Why do we need to do that?" she asked incredulously.
"To bandage his wounds." she replied as if it were obvious (which it was).
"Er…do we need to take off his pants too?" she asked nervously.
"No, all his wounds are on his chest." Kaede replied. Two thoughts flashed through Kagome's mind at the same time.
Thank god. and Damn!. Kagome shook her head as if trying to get rid of the second thought, but ended up with _only_ the second one in her mind. She groaned. She glanced at his left arm. There were a few scars, but they weren't normal colored. They were red. She filed the information away for later.
Hahahaha. She seems disappointed. Staring at him like that. Kaede thought as she proceeded to gently take off the tattered remains of his shirt. The wound in his stomach was already smaller, and his burns had stopped leaking pus, which was good because it was pretty damn gross. After applying a salve to his burns, she needed to bandage his entire chest. "Kagome, I need you to hold him up." she said.
"What? I'm not strong enough! He weighs a lot more than he looks!" she replied.
"Just put him in a sitting position." she said. Kagome complied, and Kaede wrapped the bandaging around his midsection. "Now for the other one."
"You don't mean Sesshoumaru do you?" she asked, looking at Kaede as if she just said that she was banging two H-Bombs together to make a spark.
"Yes I mean Sesshoumaru." she replied. "You, throw Inuyasha's clothes in the fire." she said to a nearby villager who had been standing guard outside.
Okay, remember, he's probably not as bad as he seems. He is caring for that human girl. she told herself.
When they reached the hut where Sesshoumaru was being kept, they found Rin crying.
"Ah, Rin, what's wrong?" Kagome asked.
"Sess… Sesshou… *sniff* Sesshoumaru-sama is going to leave Rin all alone!" she cried.
"Shhh… no he isn't. We'll take care of him." replied Kaede in her best mothering voice.
"Can Rin stay and help?" she asked.
"Sure." Kaede responded. After repeating the same basic procedure on Sesshoumaru as they did on Inuyasha, Kagome went to sleep for the night.
~~~That Night, Inuyasha's POV~~~
When Inuyasha woke up, he was in a blank room. He was also uninjured, which was odd. As he looked around in bewilderment, a figure appeared. It was him, but in human form. He relaxed at this. It's a dream. he thought. Makes sense.
"What are you doing?" he asked the specter.
"What are _you_ doing?" it asked him back.
"I asked you first." he said, starting to be annoyed. Bitch reminds me of Shippo. he thought in disgust.
"Fair enough. I'm your concience. You know, 'that annoying bitchy voice in my head that just won't shut up'?" it asked.
"Oh yeah. You." he replied nonchalantly, as if talking to his own concience _face to face_ was a common occurrence. "Wait, you still haven't told me what the hell you want with me."
"Well," started the human Inuyasha, "I'm here to tell you one thing. If you don't stop acting so mean to Kagome, she's going to leave you."
"Keh, like I care." he said.
"You know Inuyasha, you're a dumb ass. I can feel your emotions." While he had said the 'Keh, like I care' fear had spiked through his concience.
"Er. Well, how do I know you're telling the truth?" he asked. It was his self he was talking to.
"Well. You talked to Eri." he said.
"Eri? Who's that?" Inuyasha asked his annoying little voice.
The human looking double sighed and slumped his head. "The annoying woman who asked you out while you were looking for Kagome's boyfriend?" he asked, as if not expecting Inuyasha to remember.
"Oh yeah. That wench." he said dismissively.
"If you remember, she told you about Kagome's boyfriend. Hojo." he said.
"Keh, why would Kagome go to a pitiful human?" he asked.
"Why wouldn't she leave a rude half-breed?" he contended. That hurt a lot. His concience had voiced one of his biggest fears.
"But…" his mind was racing. Every time he came to the same conclusion. The other Inuyasha was right.
"Come on. Have you seen the way you act to her?" he asked. "You call her a wench, bitch, ugly, stupid, won't let her see her family, compare her to Kikyo _and_ tell her Kikyo is better, say she smells bad--"
"I told her she smells good though!" Inuyasha replied, trying to get his concience to shut up.
"--You told her once. How many times have you told her she smells bad?" he asked.
"Um.. A couple." he replied lamely.
"Listen," said his double, becoming more serious. "What would you do if she told you that you were ugly stupid, a bastard, a half-breed, yelled at you all the time, compared you to SESSHOUMARU--"
"Whoa what the hell was that??" he asked.
"There's nothing I can think of that matches you comparing her to Kikyo. Really, how you can be such a stupid asshole is beyond me." he finished.
"Oi, you got a bad mouth for my conscience." he said.
"I said I was your conscious, not some little angel sitting on your shoulder telling you not to kill shit." he said in contempt.
"Fine! I'll be nicer to her, but don't expect me to tell her I love her." he snapped.
"But you do." replied his double.
"That's not the point!!" he yelled. Suddenly, everything started getting wavy. Inuyasha's double slowly disappeared, leaving Inuyasha with a killer headache, and a body that felt like someone shoved a nuclear bomb in his stomach and let it blow up. When he opened his eyes, he could barely make out the figure of a woman through his haze of pain.
~~~2 Days after the fight, morning. Kagome's POV~~~
When Kagome woke up, Kaede had told her to replace Inuyasha's bandages again. She complied, and went to do so. Walking over to where Inuyasha was, she saw he was still unconscious. I'd be surprised if he was awake, she thought, he has some pretty awful wounds.
She walked up to him and stripped off his old bandages, flinching at how bloody they were. If he were a normal human, Kagome suspected he would have bled to death. After she stripped off his old bandages, she gasped at his wound. It was already much smaller. At least by a couple inches. Wow. He really does heal fast. she thought. The burns were already nonexistent, but the mysterious scars still remained. While she was re-bandaging his midsection, a single amber eye opened slowly.
"Ki…Kikyo?" he asked. "Kikyo…" he whispered.
Kagome jumped back, tears in her eyes. "Kikyo… as that all I am to you? A copy? A shard detector?" she asked, tears multiplying. If there was one thing Inuyasha couldn't stand, it was women crying.
"Kagome… please don't do that." he said softly.
"Why? Why do you care? I'm just a poor substitute for Kikyo, a shard detector! What do you care…" she said, sobbing softly, huddled into a corner.
"Kagome… you're… you mean more to me than that." he whispered, as if he were afraid Kagome would actually here what he was saying. "I… you…" he frowned. "You mean more to me than that. You were never just a shard detector to me. When I'm around you I…" he felt sort of stupid, repeating the same thing, but this time he hoped she would actually be awake to here what he was saying. " I feel calmer somehow, like… when you're around me I can relax. I.." he was going to say it. He would. "I love…" Come on!! Spit it out you bastard! he screamed at himself. "I love… I love it when you laugh." he finished lamely, his body slumping, as if he had just overexerted himself. "An I hate it when you cry. Isn't that enough?" he asked pleadingly.
"B-but why… why do you always tell me I'm stupid and… I'm…" Worse than Kikyo… she finished in her head, tears still flowing down her cheeks.
"Kagome… you… you're not stupid. You're not ugly. You're beautiful and clever and bright and cheerful and…" I love you… he said. My love for Kikyo… it was nothing compared to this. How I can keep myself from just kissing you… he sighed. "You're my friend. Probably my best friend." he said. That was enough for now. It could wait, couldn't it? He hoped. With all his heart.
Kagome smiled through her tears. "Arigato Inuyasha…" she whispered. "Arigato." She ran up to him, and brought him into a bone-crunching hug. He returned it as best he could, trying to ignore the pain, just trying to savor the moment, trying to memorize her scent, the way her hair felt, the pattern of her breathing, and the sound of her heart beating.
"Kagome…" he said. "Thanks for bandaging me but…" he winced. "Could you get off me? It hurts." he said."
"Sorry." she said, smiling sheepishly. "But no." she finished. She did loosen her grip a little though.
"That's good enough for me." he said. They stayed that way until Kaede came to check on them, only to find them both asleep in each other's arms.
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End of Chapter 8
What can I say? I suck at writing waffy romantic moments. Why??? I love reading waffy romantic ass shit. But why can't I write it? *Sigh* whatever. Review and all that good stuff. But you know, don't expect anything better than 'you're my best friend' from Inuyasha yet. For him that's like saying 'I love you' for most people. Not the aishiteru kind but the daisuki kind. Well. That's good for you people. It means I'm going to have to write a hell of a lot more to get Inuyasha to the point where he _could_ say aishiteru.
Once again, sorry this chapter is so late. I got grounded and sick. Please don't kill me.
Thank you MikoGodess! God I suck mispelling concience so much. I put conscious and even consciousness for the love of god. Oh well, what can you expect. I fixed it I think.
We picked the topic for our drug reports in Health today. I got narcotics (codeine, morphine, heroin). Joy to the world.
Sorry this chapter is taking so long. 1) I got grounded. 2) I got really sick. 3) I have a killer headache because I'm sick. Okay it is now 2 days after I wrote ^^^ that stuff. I'm still sick and I just got ungrounded. The headache is gone though. And writing fluff is hella hard.
Wha…? I got 20 review in 8 hours for one chapter. And I got 100. I thought it would take like up to chapter 10 or something lol. Actually I got 107+. This is freaking me out.
Pointless Fact: The presidential suite in the Plaze Hotel in New York is $15000 a night. That's like… a lot.
Vorsith: In 'Turnabout is Fair Play' Kagome gets a rosary activated by Inuyasha. The word is 'stay' lol. And the thing with Sesshoumaru attacking Kagome, what would you do if you saw a _stranger_ getting slammed into the ground a few hundred times by a 15 year old girl in a sailor fuku? Er. Don't answer that actually.
Princess Saphire: Er Bakuryuuha means… * goes to check dictionary* er. I have no clue. If anyone knows, tell me? And with Inuyasha being 85 years older, he looks like in his late teens or something. Inuyasha would _probably_ like chocolate. Even though its bad for dogs, they love it. My grandpa's rottweiler needed medication, but he wouldn't take it, so we used to shove the pill inside a piece of chocolate, and he just eats the thing. (Doctor told us that trick works)
Tsukinoko: That's what I was thinking. Even though the kenatsu from Toukijin is (for my story at least) a youki stream, Ryuukotsusei had a bigger one. Why? Ryuukotsusei used _only_ the fireball looking thing made from his youki (Except the one time pinned Inuyasha to the wall). Sesshoumaru is still basically a physical attacker mostly, so I would assume his youki is smaller. I mean, they felt Ryuukotsusei's youki all the way like a couple _miles_ away, which is almost as strong as Naraku's jaki. But with Sesshoumaru, it's more like a smaller, more contained aura, like with the rest of the physical attaking youkai. Sesshoumaru has a smaller youki (at least that he releases from his body), but Tetsusaiga/Kaze no Kizu was stronger too. Bakuryuuha is made from both, so I figure it was about ¾ as strong as the one against Ryuukotsusei. Ryuukotsusei got nailed so bad by the Bakuryuuha because he was so big, and couldn't dodge well, unlike Sesshoumaru who only got hit by 4, and only made gouges. Ryuukotsusei got sliced up into about 10 to 12 different pieces.
Suns golden ray: Yeah. Fluffy chapter, this is. If either of them had one, their ego would be very strong indeed. Like… visible to the naked eye strong.
I would just email you to reply to your questions, but as my teachers say, "Someone else might have the same question blah blah blah."
Okay that's the end of my notes. I swear I write them way too long.
Recap: Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru beat the shit out of each other, and their unconscious.
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Kagome sighed. She'd seen their fight all the way from Kaede's hut, but then all the flashing lights had stopped, so she'd assumed it was over. She was going to check whether Inuyasha lost or not. That idiot better not be dead… she thought sourly. When she got to their battle site, she gasped.
There were at least 100 less trees in the forest, felled and scattered about like they had been caught in the pyroclastic flow of a volcano. The ground had changed drastically, and one of the hills was missing. Not only that, but she saw both brothers unconscious on the floor, bleeding. Inuyasha's skin was oozing something out of his burns, and the hole in his stomach looked… well… bad. She looked over at Sesshoumaru. He had 2 inch deep gouges all over his body, and was most likely missing a lot of _bone_, like in one place she could see his rib on either side, but in the middle, all the bone was gone. She wondered how long it would take to grow something like that back and then…
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" she screamed. You know those delayed reaction things they do in cartoons? This was the real thing. Inuyasha opened his eye and groaned.
"Ka… Kagome… wh *cough* what is it?" he asked.
"Aaaaah!!" she continued screaming hysterically. Kaede and a couple of villagers came. All of them were armed, expecting the worse. When she saw what had happened, Kaede took control.
"You there, get a stretcher and get someone to help you bring Inuyasha back to the village. You two, get Inuyasha's brother back." she commanded.
"Hai, Kaede-sama!" they answered. Inuyasha passed out again.
"Girl, why are you screaming?" Kaede asked. Kagome just panted in response. "Come with me." Kaede sighed.
After everyone had left, a small log trembled. A single green claw stuck out from under it. "Sess…. Sesshoumaru-saa….ma. Help?" Jaken asked. No one was around to here.
~~~Back at the Village~~~
"Kagome, I need you to help me strip Inuyasha."
"What? Why do we need to do that?" she asked incredulously.
"To bandage his wounds." she replied as if it were obvious (which it was).
"Er…do we need to take off his pants too?" she asked nervously.
"No, all his wounds are on his chest." Kaede replied. Two thoughts flashed through Kagome's mind at the same time.
Thank god. and Damn!. Kagome shook her head as if trying to get rid of the second thought, but ended up with _only_ the second one in her mind. She groaned. She glanced at his left arm. There were a few scars, but they weren't normal colored. They were red. She filed the information away for later.
Hahahaha. She seems disappointed. Staring at him like that. Kaede thought as she proceeded to gently take off the tattered remains of his shirt. The wound in his stomach was already smaller, and his burns had stopped leaking pus, which was good because it was pretty damn gross. After applying a salve to his burns, she needed to bandage his entire chest. "Kagome, I need you to hold him up." she said.
"What? I'm not strong enough! He weighs a lot more than he looks!" she replied.
"Just put him in a sitting position." she said. Kagome complied, and Kaede wrapped the bandaging around his midsection. "Now for the other one."
"You don't mean Sesshoumaru do you?" she asked, looking at Kaede as if she just said that she was banging two H-Bombs together to make a spark.
"Yes I mean Sesshoumaru." she replied. "You, throw Inuyasha's clothes in the fire." she said to a nearby villager who had been standing guard outside.
Okay, remember, he's probably not as bad as he seems. He is caring for that human girl. she told herself.
When they reached the hut where Sesshoumaru was being kept, they found Rin crying.
"Ah, Rin, what's wrong?" Kagome asked.
"Sess… Sesshou… *sniff* Sesshoumaru-sama is going to leave Rin all alone!" she cried.
"Shhh… no he isn't. We'll take care of him." replied Kaede in her best mothering voice.
"Can Rin stay and help?" she asked.
"Sure." Kaede responded. After repeating the same basic procedure on Sesshoumaru as they did on Inuyasha, Kagome went to sleep for the night.
~~~That Night, Inuyasha's POV~~~
When Inuyasha woke up, he was in a blank room. He was also uninjured, which was odd. As he looked around in bewilderment, a figure appeared. It was him, but in human form. He relaxed at this. It's a dream. he thought. Makes sense.
"What are you doing?" he asked the specter.
"What are _you_ doing?" it asked him back.
"I asked you first." he said, starting to be annoyed. Bitch reminds me of Shippo. he thought in disgust.
"Fair enough. I'm your concience. You know, 'that annoying bitchy voice in my head that just won't shut up'?" it asked.
"Oh yeah. You." he replied nonchalantly, as if talking to his own concience _face to face_ was a common occurrence. "Wait, you still haven't told me what the hell you want with me."
"Well," started the human Inuyasha, "I'm here to tell you one thing. If you don't stop acting so mean to Kagome, she's going to leave you."
"Keh, like I care." he said.
"You know Inuyasha, you're a dumb ass. I can feel your emotions." While he had said the 'Keh, like I care' fear had spiked through his concience.
"Er. Well, how do I know you're telling the truth?" he asked. It was his self he was talking to.
"Well. You talked to Eri." he said.
"Eri? Who's that?" Inuyasha asked his annoying little voice.
The human looking double sighed and slumped his head. "The annoying woman who asked you out while you were looking for Kagome's boyfriend?" he asked, as if not expecting Inuyasha to remember.
"Oh yeah. That wench." he said dismissively.
"If you remember, she told you about Kagome's boyfriend. Hojo." he said.
"Keh, why would Kagome go to a pitiful human?" he asked.
"Why wouldn't she leave a rude half-breed?" he contended. That hurt a lot. His concience had voiced one of his biggest fears.
"But…" his mind was racing. Every time he came to the same conclusion. The other Inuyasha was right.
"Come on. Have you seen the way you act to her?" he asked. "You call her a wench, bitch, ugly, stupid, won't let her see her family, compare her to Kikyo _and_ tell her Kikyo is better, say she smells bad--"
"I told her she smells good though!" Inuyasha replied, trying to get his concience to shut up.
"--You told her once. How many times have you told her she smells bad?" he asked.
"Um.. A couple." he replied lamely.
"Listen," said his double, becoming more serious. "What would you do if she told you that you were ugly stupid, a bastard, a half-breed, yelled at you all the time, compared you to SESSHOUMARU--"
"Whoa what the hell was that??" he asked.
"There's nothing I can think of that matches you comparing her to Kikyo. Really, how you can be such a stupid asshole is beyond me." he finished.
"Oi, you got a bad mouth for my conscience." he said.
"I said I was your conscious, not some little angel sitting on your shoulder telling you not to kill shit." he said in contempt.
"Fine! I'll be nicer to her, but don't expect me to tell her I love her." he snapped.
"But you do." replied his double.
"That's not the point!!" he yelled. Suddenly, everything started getting wavy. Inuyasha's double slowly disappeared, leaving Inuyasha with a killer headache, and a body that felt like someone shoved a nuclear bomb in his stomach and let it blow up. When he opened his eyes, he could barely make out the figure of a woman through his haze of pain.
~~~2 Days after the fight, morning. Kagome's POV~~~
When Kagome woke up, Kaede had told her to replace Inuyasha's bandages again. She complied, and went to do so. Walking over to where Inuyasha was, she saw he was still unconscious. I'd be surprised if he was awake, she thought, he has some pretty awful wounds.
She walked up to him and stripped off his old bandages, flinching at how bloody they were. If he were a normal human, Kagome suspected he would have bled to death. After she stripped off his old bandages, she gasped at his wound. It was already much smaller. At least by a couple inches. Wow. He really does heal fast. she thought. The burns were already nonexistent, but the mysterious scars still remained. While she was re-bandaging his midsection, a single amber eye opened slowly.
"Ki…Kikyo?" he asked. "Kikyo…" he whispered.
Kagome jumped back, tears in her eyes. "Kikyo… as that all I am to you? A copy? A shard detector?" she asked, tears multiplying. If there was one thing Inuyasha couldn't stand, it was women crying.
"Kagome… please don't do that." he said softly.
"Why? Why do you care? I'm just a poor substitute for Kikyo, a shard detector! What do you care…" she said, sobbing softly, huddled into a corner.
"Kagome… you're… you mean more to me than that." he whispered, as if he were afraid Kagome would actually here what he was saying. "I… you…" he frowned. "You mean more to me than that. You were never just a shard detector to me. When I'm around you I…" he felt sort of stupid, repeating the same thing, but this time he hoped she would actually be awake to here what he was saying. " I feel calmer somehow, like… when you're around me I can relax. I.." he was going to say it. He would. "I love…" Come on!! Spit it out you bastard! he screamed at himself. "I love… I love it when you laugh." he finished lamely, his body slumping, as if he had just overexerted himself. "An I hate it when you cry. Isn't that enough?" he asked pleadingly.
"B-but why… why do you always tell me I'm stupid and… I'm…" Worse than Kikyo… she finished in her head, tears still flowing down her cheeks.
"Kagome… you… you're not stupid. You're not ugly. You're beautiful and clever and bright and cheerful and…" I love you… he said. My love for Kikyo… it was nothing compared to this. How I can keep myself from just kissing you… he sighed. "You're my friend. Probably my best friend." he said. That was enough for now. It could wait, couldn't it? He hoped. With all his heart.
Kagome smiled through her tears. "Arigato Inuyasha…" she whispered. "Arigato." She ran up to him, and brought him into a bone-crunching hug. He returned it as best he could, trying to ignore the pain, just trying to savor the moment, trying to memorize her scent, the way her hair felt, the pattern of her breathing, and the sound of her heart beating.
"Kagome…" he said. "Thanks for bandaging me but…" he winced. "Could you get off me? It hurts." he said."
"Sorry." she said, smiling sheepishly. "But no." she finished. She did loosen her grip a little though.
"That's good enough for me." he said. They stayed that way until Kaede came to check on them, only to find them both asleep in each other's arms.
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End of Chapter 8
What can I say? I suck at writing waffy romantic moments. Why??? I love reading waffy romantic ass shit. But why can't I write it? *Sigh* whatever. Review and all that good stuff. But you know, don't expect anything better than 'you're my best friend' from Inuyasha yet. For him that's like saying 'I love you' for most people. Not the aishiteru kind but the daisuki kind. Well. That's good for you people. It means I'm going to have to write a hell of a lot more to get Inuyasha to the point where he _could_ say aishiteru.
Once again, sorry this chapter is so late. I got grounded and sick. Please don't kill me.
Thank you MikoGodess! God I suck mispelling concience so much. I put conscious and even consciousness for the love of god. Oh well, what can you expect. I fixed it I think.