A/N: Well, I hope you like this chapter, it's…………. different. Just review and let me know what you think, suggestions are more than welcome!
Kagome's eyes fluttered open and slowly her surroundings came into focus. It was just barely morning and nobody was around. She glanced at the fire which looked like it had died down a few hours ago, there were only a few glowing embers left. She sat up slowly and looked around more, wondering where the guys had gone, but there was no trace of them anywhere.
She stood up and decided that they were probably at the hot spring, so she would just wait here and eat breakfast from her backpack. She pulled it out and ate quickly.
After twenty minutes had passed, Kagome began to get worried. She stood up and walked in the direction of the hot springs, knowing that she would hear them talking or moving around in the water if they were in there. That thought comforted her because she knew that she would most likely not happen upon them, naked in the water.
As she got closer to the spring, she strained her ears, listening for the slightest sound. There wasn't any. Slowly, she stepped into view of the spring and froze at what she saw. Miroku and Inuyasha were laying in the spring, the spring that was red with blood in the water. The houshi and hanyou were dead, floating in the water, huge gashes torn along their bodies. Her mouth opened and she screamed.
Kagome shot up in bed, a bloodcurdling scream erupting from her lips. Her eyes were wide as she continued to scream. Quickly, a form darted in front of her and grabbed onto her shoulders.
"Kagome!" it cried. "Kagome! It's okay! You're awake now! You're awake!" It yelled at her, shaking her shoulders in an attempt to snap her out of it.
The scream slowly died in her throat as the words sunk in. Her eyes focused on the form in front of her and she recognized it as Inuyasha. She flung her arms around his neck and cried, barely noticing as Miroku walked up behind them. Inuyasha froze, wondering if this was her perversion, but the thought quickly left his mind as he felt her tears soaking through to his shoulder. Carefully, he reached a hand up to her back and rubbed it soothingly.
Slowly, Kagome calmed down and pulled away from the hanyou, rubbing her eyes. "I'm sorry," she said quietly.
Inuyasha ignored her apology and looked her in the eye. "What was all that about?" he asked her.
Kagome looked away from him and began to relay her dream. "Well, I woke up and you guys weren't there," she paused, wondering if she should really tell them about her horrible nightmare.
"That's it?" Inuyasha asked, annoyed. "You screamed like that just because of that?!"
"No!" Kagome cried, looking down at her hands as though they were suddenly the most interesting thing in the world. "Like I was saying, I woke up and you guys weren't there, and so I went looking for you. I thought that maybe you were in the hot spring so I walked over there."
Kagome blushed at the look Miroku was giving her.
"Not to spy on you guys! I knew that I could hear you before I saw anything if you were actually in there! But when I got there I couldn't hear anything, so I looked and you were both there, but you were dead. The pool was full of blood, and you guys had deep gashes all over your body and-" she stopped as she choked back another sob.
Inuyasha looked at her but made no move to hug her. "Well, we're alive aren't we? So don't worry about it." He said. Anyone would have thought that he was being insensitive, but Kagome caught the slight softness in his tone. It was his own way of telling her that everything was okay and that she should calm down.
Kagome smiled at Inuyasha, adequately making him confused by the action. He backed away, wondering if the pervert was back. Holding up her hands in defense, she waved the dismissively.
"No, no, I'm not the pervert, yet."
Inuyasha blanched at that. Yet. She had said yet. Was she planning on becoming the pervert? As though she read his thoughts, she answered the question.
"I'm not planning on it, but I can't control it you know." They seemed to accept that answer as they all sat down for breakfast. Kagome had just relaxed when she heard a weird noise. Everyone tensed as they heard it. The noise was getting closer. Kagome got to her feet, ready for an attack.
"I sense a shikon shard," she said. "It's coming from that direction." She pointed to her right. Everyone tensed until Sango burst through the bushes on Kirara. Shippo thre himself at Kagome almost immediately.
She caught him and hugged him, raising her questioning look to Sango. "You got a shikon shard?" she asked. Sango looked confused for a moment.
"Well, not a shikon shard, but I did bring a present for you."
Kagome raised an eyebrow. "But I sensed…………" Just then they heard a weird noise, like the growling of a dog, only more………….. Human. Everyone's eyes were drawn to the large bundle of rope on the back of Kirara. Only, it turned out that it wasn't a large bundle of rope, but a person.
Kagome's eyes narrowed at the sight of Kwewe. The girl was chewing on the rope, thrashing around. The movement made her fall off Kirara's back with, what Kagome thought was a satisfying thud.
"Lemme go!" the girl cried, resuming her gnawing at the thick cord. Kagome walked slowly up to the girl and crouched down beside her, her mind taken completely off the shikon shard.
"Give me the cure to whatever the hell that you did to me." Kwewe seemed to consider this for a moment, but then stuck out her tongue.
"Why would I wanna give it to you, ugly old hag!" Kwewe wiggled around in the dirt, wrestling with the rope. Kagome closed her eyes and counted to ten before opening them.
"Give me the damn antidote!" she yelled, quickly losing her temper. Kwewe smiled.
"Why? Aren't you enjoying it? Isn't it fun to be with the pretty man?" Kwewe teased.
"Pretty man? Wha-" Kagome turned slowly to Inuyasha, nearly laughing out loud at him being called a 'pretty man'. Inuyasha's face turned a slight pink and he stormed up to Kwewe, crouching down beside her.
"Give us the cure!" he yelled, his faces inches away from hers. Kwewe jumped forward and kissed him firmly on the lips, pulling back after a moment. She laughed at the expression on his face.
"See, woman? Isn't it fun?" she asked Kagome.
"Quit calling me woman! My name is Kagome!"
"Whatever, woman. But my point is, who would want to get cured?" Kagome's face was turning red with anger. She shut her eyes and was about to count to ten when she was interrupted by a strange snapping sound. Her eyes flew open to see yards of rope ripped and laying on the ground, with Kwewe nowhere in sight.
The whole group looked around. She had disappeared so quickly. Kagome nearly slapped herself on the forehead. She should have paid more attention. The shikon shard, duh.
"She has a shikon shard!" she ground out, feeling around for it. Her head snapped to her left just in time to see the girl leaping at her. She hit Kagome hard, knocking her to the ground with her body. They wrestled in the dirt, sending up a huge dust cloud. Kagome searched blindly for any pockets that could hold the antidote.
Her hand fell upon a pouch and she tore it from the girl. Kwewe leapt off of her and bounded into the trees. Sango was just about to go after her when Kagome called out to her.
"It's okay, I think that I've got the antidote. Everyone sighed, but none were so relieved as Inuyasha. He didn't know how much longer he was going to be able to control himself with Kagome acting the way that she was. Kagome held the pouch out to Sango until she took it.
"What do you want me to do with it?" she asked curiously.
"Do what Kwewe did, throw it on me. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work."
Sango looked hesitant, but did as she bid. Opening the pouch carefully, she picked up some of the powder and threw it on the young miko. Kagome immediately felt her head go light. The trees around her seemed to be swirling. He knees gave out.
Inuyasha ran to catch her, stopping her from hitting the ground. Kagome looked up at him as things began to clear. Everything seemed to make sense now. Everything was clear. She felt so much better. She looked up into Inuyasha's eyes and smiled. Everyone sighed.
"I feel so much better!" she said enthusiastically. Then she wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's neck, her legs around his waist, and kissed him passionately. Inuyasha's eyes, as well as everyone else's, widened. He pulled away form her quickly and jumped back. Kagome smiled seductively, getting to her feet and stretching sinuously.
"K-Kagome," Inuyasha said, his voice full of surprise. Everyone turned as the heard laughter in the woods. Kwewe's head popped out of a bush.
"Silly people!" she cried, nearly rolling on the ground with laughter. "Yes, silly people you all are! If that was really the cure do you think that I would run away like that and let you take it so easily?" She burst into a new bout of laughter.
"What you gave her-" she couldn't continue as she broke down into snickers. "What you gave her was-" She pounded the ground with a fist, tears coming to her eyes as she held her sides from the pain of laughing so much.
"Ahahahahaha! What you gave her was the opposite!" she cried, finally falling to the ground.
Inuyasha's eyebrow twitched.
"AHAHAHAHAHA! I can't believe how absolutely wonderful this is! AHAHAHAHA!" It seemed that Kwewe could no longer control herself as she rolled around on the ground. "Oh MY GOD! AHAHAHAHA! What you gave her was something that would- AHAHAHA! That would make her- AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA! That would make her lose herself completely to the perversion! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hehehehehe…." Her laughter finally seemed to be subsiding as she let out all of her mirth.
"I couldn't have done this better myself!" she cried, wiping the tears from her eyes.
Inuyasha's hands were balled into fists at his sides. "Give us the antidote!" he yelled. This seemed to sober Kwewe up a bit from her laughter induced drunk-ness. She hopped to her feet, her laughter stopping abruptly, and ran into the forest on all fours. Sango hopped on Kirara's back, Shippo in tow, and followed the little mongrel.
Inuyasha and Miroku's head turned slowly, cautiously, towards Kagome. She was smiling at them in a very un-Kagome way. She began to walk up to them, allowing her hips to sway from side to side. This would be perfect. Just her and two men, all alone. For every step that she took forward, the men took two back.
'This is going to be hell,' Inuyasha thought. Kagome just laughed, thinking about all the different ways that she could ravish them.