Okay! Now we're getting somewhere! I have now lost all control of genres. I think I'll say what the genre is for each chapter and its rating, stuff like that.

Rating: dark PG13

Genre(s): angst, mystery

Chapter 15: The Nine-Tailed Dog

Warnings: mental trauma, some bad language

(I promise things will get better. I mean really! Do I ever end my fics with sad endings??) -

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Kagome sat doing her homework. Inu Yasha wasn't eating his ramen, or drinking at all, so either he had turned anorexic, or-

"Does anyone want to play cards?" Shippou asked holding up the deck.

Inu Yasha gave a low moaning growl from over where he was. Shippou whimpered and jumped onto Kagome's math book. "Kagome! He's even scarier then usual!" he cried.

Kagome kissed his forehead and whispered, "Just leave him alone, Shippou. I'll play cards with you in a minute, okay?"

Inu Yasha sat with his back against a tree and his eyes shadowed by his hair. He felt like a jigsaw puzzle of pain. Parts of his body were numb, and some of his muscles would twitch on their own. He couldn't even feel his arm anymore from the hot pain. There was no denying it now, even though he had been told many times before that demons did not get rabies. And even though he was hot and in pain, he wasn't tired at all. He actually found himself flinching at any sudden movement of whatever was around him.

Then he tried to swallow and realized he couldn't!

Kagome looked into her backpack. The supplies were getting low. But could she really leave Inu Yasha alone right now? Who knows what would happen while she was gone! But food was needed, it's not like anyone else in the group had money to buy food. (AN: When you really think about it, everyone is sponging off of Kagome.)

She told Miroku and Sango.

"I don't know Kagome," Sango said. "He looks like he's liable to snap at any moment!"

"Maybe," Kagome thought out loud, "if I ask him really nicely to go back, or-"

"HEY!"

They all turned to look at the dog demon. He looked up at them with a small trail of drool coming from his mouth. "What are you whispering about?!"

They all just stared, either afraid to speak or too shocked.

Kagome gulped and summoned all of the courage she had to say, "Inu Yasha, I-kind of have to go back to my time, okay? It'll be just for a short while."

All of a sudden, he stood up and punched a hole through the tree he had been sitting in front of. Kagome took a few steps back and stared at him fearfully. His fist had gone all the way through it. Then he pulled it back out and growled at her. "What?! Damn it Kagome, you just got back a couple of days ago!!!"

"The food I brought is gone! I need to go back for more, okay?" she protested.

He growled and clentched his fists. "Damn!" he said in a low hiss.

Shippou who was messing with his cards accidentally made them pop up and scatter all over the ground.

Inu Yasha flinched then brought his claws down on the kitsune.

Shippou squealed and dodged aside, barely missing his talons. He ran over to Kagome and started crying into her shirt. She patted his back in comforting motherly way, then looked back up at Inu Yasha. He fell to his knees and coughed up his own saliva. Then he looked up at the worried frightened looks everyone was giving him. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT!!?" he shouted. He got back up and charged them with his claws raised. They were able to jump aside because he wasn't fast. He could hardly run, and if he tried, he staggered like he was going to fall over.

"Inu Yasha!" Kagome shouted. He turned around to glare and growl at her murderously. "OSUWARI!!"

WHAM!!

"Scatter!" Sango shouted. They all ran away in different directions. Kagome held onto Shippou as she ran, seconds after she left the campsight, she heard the screams of the rabid dog boy echo through the trees. All the more to make her run faster.

Shippou looked up at her and asked, "Where are we going?!"

Kagome just shook her head, as she didn't know. Saying she didn't know would slow her down. After a few moments she stopped to rest. She kneeled by a large boulder, almost completely out of breath. Then she started coughing hard.

"Are you okay, Kagome?" Shippou asked her.

She got out her inhaler and realized there was a shadow over the both of them. She slowly looked up and saw Inu Yasha looking down at her from on top of the boulder. She screamed and tried to crawl/back away a little.

He flinched when he heard her scream. "Damn it, you're annoying!" he shouted. He jumped high up into the air and pointed his claws at her as he was coming down. Kagome shielded herself with her arm and practically laid on Shippou to protect him.

Then some huge white mass jumped over her head and headbutted Inu Yasha in the stomach, sending him flying back into the boulder. The rabid dog boi stood up, growled then ran off into the forest.

Kagome sat up with Shippou and they looked at the two white dogs standing there. One of them was Inu-kun. He came over and licked their faces in greetings. He obviously didn't have rabies! ^_^

After the warm reunion they looked at the second dog that had driven Inu Yasha off. It was a large white dog about the size of a working horse. It had long silky white hair around its neck and feet with nine long tails that didn't wag like a normal dog's tail. It looked down at Kagome with large red eyes.

"Who are you?" Kagome asked. It was obviously a demon.

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