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Last time: Sango was weasing hard and coughing up blood. Miroku took off part of his wardrobe and placed it gentally over her shoulders. "At least she's still breathing..." Miroku stated.
Chapter 3
The whole group needed a plan for traveling. No one had a compass or any way of finding where they were. 'This is all my fault. I should have listened to Inu Yasha. We wouldn't be lost and I wouldn't look like this.' Kagome thought as they all continued to walk the way Miroku said he came from.
"It's this way...I'm sure of it!" Miroku said confidently, but with a vague hint of uncertianty in his voice.
"You haven't been around here and you know it. I can't smell any sign of you being here." Kagome muttered calmly as not to make the situation worse with screaming. Inu Yasha was in total awe when she said this. 'Kagome has already adapted to everyone's scent...this is amazing. It's like she took my knowledge of being a hanyou and sucked it into her body. She's learned faster about being a hanyou then I have in my lifetime.' Inu Yasha thought while scouting the trail.
"She's right you know. We can both smell it. You've been leading us in circles for about three hours." He said backing up Kagome's statement. 'He had never done that before in his life.... why now? He's acting like...like I'm his equal. No better than him.' Kagome pondered. They were both wearing the same face, a calm, blank stare.
"You guys are creepin' me out! First you start looking like eachother then start agreeing with eachother? What's next? Soon you two are gonna start kissing!" Shippou said with a childish shiver. Kagome looked up at Inu Yasha and saw that he was thinking about something. He didn't shif his gaze from the path ahead. Then he just stopped in his tracks.
"Inu Yasha?" Kagome questioned. She knew that he was thinking of something serious. She just wondered what he ould be up to. Out of nowhere he jumped up off the ground, above the canopy, and out of sight. Kagome instictivly followed. Miroku just gazed up and awaited until they would come out of the towering trees above. ******
Kagome searched for Inu Yasha everywhere. Then he saw his body come flying downward and land on the top of the tree just above the canopy. She landed beside him and looked at him for some answers. "What excactly are you doing Inu Yasha? You've been acting very strangely lately. Is it because of me?" she asked calmly and discouraged.
" I don't know what to think Kagome. On one hand this is wonderful...but on the other, it's aweful . Do you know what it's like to be a hanyou? Nothing but hatred and pain follows you wherever you will go now Kagome. I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want you hurt like I am now. Do you know what it's like being hated by nearly everyone? For how someone's appearance is? I'm not all bad Kagome. I'm not." Inu Yasha whispered. 'Wow...Mr. Tough is finally letting his guts out.' Kagome thought.
"I know that you wanted to tell me this for my own good. Thank you for caring and everything...but I really want to know how this happened. I look just like you! It's not like our blood was mixed in any way and even if it was we would need the power of a shard or something to fuse our dna together..." Kagome paused..."That's excactly what happened! The demon had a jewel shard and he was the one who was holding you! His hand must have been bloody with your blood! But his hand was bloody too..so that means-" "...his blood was with it. But how could we reverse it?" Inu Yasha questioned himself while rubbing his chin in deep thought. Kagome looked at him in wonder. 'He has NEVER been this nice to me before...I wonder what has gotten into him. Is it that I'm hanyou now?' she pondered. Inu Yasha peered up at her in shock because she was staring at him with tears again. "You'd better not be crying for me! And I thought you'd cried yourself dry in the bushes! How much more water do you have in there? It's like you have a never ending supply!" Inu Yasha growled, obviously aggravated at the pity she had for him. "That's more like it! You were starting to creep me out with all of your kindness toward me! It was like you were possessed or something! Which I guess is normal for a demon!" She snarled back.
Before they could say anything else, they got lost in eachothers eyes. They didn't feel like acting childish like they normally do. They were actually acting mature like they should....they knew it too. Before anything could happen between them, Kagome hopped out of the tree and to the ground with the rest of them. Miroku was standing beside Sango with Shippou on his shoulder when Inu Yasha joined them and landed with a thud beside Kagome. "It took you two long enough." Miroku said with a faint grin, which they hadn't seen on him since Sango's demise. "Nothing the frick happened Miroku." Kagome snapped before wacking him hard across the back with a kick. 'I'm getting more impressed with her each minute...and she's beginning to smell good...what's the matter with me?!' he questioned himself. Kagome say the farmiliar look of deep thought in Inu Yasha's eyes. 'He's thinking of me. I know he is...he looks so amazing in that light...whoah there...what am I thinking?!' she thought nearly hitting herself. "Miroku...the path is too dangerous ahead...you need to take Sango and Shippou in a different direction. Kagome and I will go and look for the demon who did this to her. If we all go, Sango won't have a chance. Hell, we'll probably both get killed defending you four.You need to go in a different direction." Inu Yasha stated. Kagome was shocked at what he was saying. 'Both of us? Like I'm his partner and not just a detector? Can he really be saying this?' Fearing for Sango's life, Miroku agreed and they went their seperate ways. "We will find you two later and pray for your safty as well. Good luck in changing back Kagome." Miroku said before disappearing behind the fork in the road with Shippou, Kirara and Sango by his side.
The odd couple had been walking a lon time before they said anything. Nothing was there to be said...they both knew that there was two reasons that Inu Yasha spoke up back there. For one he was serious about getting Kagome back to her normal state. But they wanted to be alone too. "So...Inu Yasha...do you have a tail?" Kagome asked quizzically while itching at her butt. Inu Yasha looked own at her in astonishment. "Uh...no..not really... no." He answered with a strange look upon his face. "AAAHHHHH!!!!! WELL THEN THAT FUCKING DEMON MUST HAVE ONE!" she screamed in pain and bent over holding her back. Out of nowhere a tail sprouted from her lower back. Even though it was covered in blood, he could tell it was the color of her silky silver hair. "When you sprouted your ears ...did they bleed too? Mine don't...I mean...when I become a demon after I was human for a night." he asked in innocence. "Yeah...I had to....ehh... *wince in pain*...wash my hair and my mouth was....eeerr *another wince*...full of blood when my fangs grew in..." she replied. He blankly starred at her pondering why she was bleeding so fluently. He never had problems form changing for mortal to hanyou... so why should she?
The sun was setting and the pair decided to make camp. Soon there was a roaring fire as the pair set up the campsite. The sun finally set beyond the horizon. Kagome and Inu Yasha were sitting across the fire from eachother eatting the rice cakes Miroku gave to them. They were avoiding eye contact as much as posible...even thought they would occationally glance up to see if the other was looking back. Finally, conversation took place of the silence that had lasted for what seemed like forever.
"So...what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? Do you think that we will find the youkai?" Kagome questioned with a hint worry in her voice. Inu Yasha thought about this remark.
"I'm not sure, but we should gt a good nights rest...just in case. You never know when or where the fuckers could be. Hell, they could be watching us right now."
"Stop that! I don't want to think that they could be watching us..." she said as a chill ran down her spine. "And I don't know how to use my abilities to their fl advantages yet! And you couldn't even take care of yourself with those youkai in the first place-"
"Hey! I was just protecting the old woman's village!" He was aggravated at the lack of curdisy and gratitued to him. Especially since he saved her sorry ass, but he bit his tongue and didn't say anything.
Out of nowhere she let out a shrill cry of pain. Inu Yasha ran over to her to see what was wrong. He didn't see what was going on, but he sure as hell smelt it. Somehow, she had reopened her wounds. Still whimpering, she took off Inu Yasha's fire rat kimono revealing her bandgages...and everything else. Inu Yasha blushed but couldn't help but stare at the overflowing amounts of blood trickling out of her wounds. While crying, Kagome looked up at him and became furious.
"Well OBVIOUSLY you haven't seen a topless woman before! Or at least a CONCIOUS one!" she shouted at him in raged. Inu Yasha quickly went over to get gause from the supplies Miroku gave to them while Kagome continued to say painful words to him. To his surprise, Miroku hadn't packed anything. "- and ANOTHER thing...why haven't my wounds healed? I AM hanyou now and I should have healed by now! You would have been healed by now from this fucking thing!" she screamed while pointing to her bloody wounds. "There is no point in yelling at me! I didn't give them to you! And you brought it upon yourself by shooting the fricken youkai in the hand remember?!" he shouted back then calmly spoke again. "There are no new bandages. You will have to apply pressure to the wounds to stop the bleeding." Kagome looked at him in shock at the amount of patience he had with her. "...and yes...unfortunatly the wounds are very large so i would have to...ugh...help you..." he said while rolling his eyes in unhappiness. He knew he would probably get "sat" a million times for saying that so he winced ready to get it. To his surprise, he didn't recieve any sort of pain from the remark except a blushing Kagome.
"Fine...just don't push too hard..." she said and wincing, layed down with her head on his lap. Inu Yasha was definatly uneasy about this...especially since she was awake and not unconcious. "It's fine dogboy... just do it. The faster you do the faster its over." she spoke, uneasy as well. She grabbed his hands and placed them over her wounds, then covered what she could with her own. She was so nervous she could barely move...the same went with Inu Yasha. Kagome's eyes began to water as they both began to apply pressure. The hair stood on the back of Inu Yasha's neck. Kagome looked up at Inu Yasha and he looked down. They were lost in eachother's eyes again. The uneasiness subsided when the blood began to stop flowing out of her wounds. They remained in the same positions though. They didn't seem to want to move. Kagome sat up after a while and put on the kimono. She looked back at Inu Yasha's disappointed face. 'Yes he does seem disappointed...that's not like him...' she thought.
She sat down next to him and began to rub his back. He slowly closed his eyes and began to purr deeply. She loved it when he did that. It was the most beautiful noise he ever made. He turned around and opened his handsome amber eyes. He slowly leaned forward and kissed her cheek. She looked at him in astonishment, but she liked it. Neither of them ever wanted to admit to eachother that they loved eachother, but there was the first sign. Kagome leaned to him and kissed him back. Inu Yasha knew that at that moment she was the most beautiful creature in the world. Not only the face or bady, but the sole as well. They sat by the fire and the sparks began to fly. Not from the fire, but from the two hanyous. Kagome had never kissed someone before this time and she was glad Inu Yasha was her first. She enjoyed every part of it. He wasn't demanding at all. In fact she was almost controlling him in a much desired kiss. '...God he even tastes good...' she thought silently. And at that moment everything was right in the world.
Teaser: "AHHHH!!!" Kagome screamed. "Leave it to Myouga to ruin a good moment..." Inu Yasha grumbled just loudly enough that only Kagome could hear.
Last time: Sango was weasing hard and coughing up blood. Miroku took off part of his wardrobe and placed it gentally over her shoulders. "At least she's still breathing..." Miroku stated.
Chapter 3
The whole group needed a plan for traveling. No one had a compass or any way of finding where they were. 'This is all my fault. I should have listened to Inu Yasha. We wouldn't be lost and I wouldn't look like this.' Kagome thought as they all continued to walk the way Miroku said he came from.
"It's this way...I'm sure of it!" Miroku said confidently, but with a vague hint of uncertianty in his voice.
"You haven't been around here and you know it. I can't smell any sign of you being here." Kagome muttered calmly as not to make the situation worse with screaming. Inu Yasha was in total awe when she said this. 'Kagome has already adapted to everyone's scent...this is amazing. It's like she took my knowledge of being a hanyou and sucked it into her body. She's learned faster about being a hanyou then I have in my lifetime.' Inu Yasha thought while scouting the trail.
"She's right you know. We can both smell it. You've been leading us in circles for about three hours." He said backing up Kagome's statement. 'He had never done that before in his life.... why now? He's acting like...like I'm his equal. No better than him.' Kagome pondered. They were both wearing the same face, a calm, blank stare.
"You guys are creepin' me out! First you start looking like eachother then start agreeing with eachother? What's next? Soon you two are gonna start kissing!" Shippou said with a childish shiver. Kagome looked up at Inu Yasha and saw that he was thinking about something. He didn't shif his gaze from the path ahead. Then he just stopped in his tracks.
"Inu Yasha?" Kagome questioned. She knew that he was thinking of something serious. She just wondered what he ould be up to. Out of nowhere he jumped up off the ground, above the canopy, and out of sight. Kagome instictivly followed. Miroku just gazed up and awaited until they would come out of the towering trees above. ******
Kagome searched for Inu Yasha everywhere. Then he saw his body come flying downward and land on the top of the tree just above the canopy. She landed beside him and looked at him for some answers. "What excactly are you doing Inu Yasha? You've been acting very strangely lately. Is it because of me?" she asked calmly and discouraged.
" I don't know what to think Kagome. On one hand this is wonderful...but on the other, it's aweful . Do you know what it's like to be a hanyou? Nothing but hatred and pain follows you wherever you will go now Kagome. I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want you hurt like I am now. Do you know what it's like being hated by nearly everyone? For how someone's appearance is? I'm not all bad Kagome. I'm not." Inu Yasha whispered. 'Wow...Mr. Tough is finally letting his guts out.' Kagome thought.
"I know that you wanted to tell me this for my own good. Thank you for caring and everything...but I really want to know how this happened. I look just like you! It's not like our blood was mixed in any way and even if it was we would need the power of a shard or something to fuse our dna together..." Kagome paused..."That's excactly what happened! The demon had a jewel shard and he was the one who was holding you! His hand must have been bloody with your blood! But his hand was bloody too..so that means-" "...his blood was with it. But how could we reverse it?" Inu Yasha questioned himself while rubbing his chin in deep thought. Kagome looked at him in wonder. 'He has NEVER been this nice to me before...I wonder what has gotten into him. Is it that I'm hanyou now?' she pondered. Inu Yasha peered up at her in shock because she was staring at him with tears again. "You'd better not be crying for me! And I thought you'd cried yourself dry in the bushes! How much more water do you have in there? It's like you have a never ending supply!" Inu Yasha growled, obviously aggravated at the pity she had for him. "That's more like it! You were starting to creep me out with all of your kindness toward me! It was like you were possessed or something! Which I guess is normal for a demon!" She snarled back.
Before they could say anything else, they got lost in eachothers eyes. They didn't feel like acting childish like they normally do. They were actually acting mature like they should....they knew it too. Before anything could happen between them, Kagome hopped out of the tree and to the ground with the rest of them. Miroku was standing beside Sango with Shippou on his shoulder when Inu Yasha joined them and landed with a thud beside Kagome. "It took you two long enough." Miroku said with a faint grin, which they hadn't seen on him since Sango's demise. "Nothing the frick happened Miroku." Kagome snapped before wacking him hard across the back with a kick. 'I'm getting more impressed with her each minute...and she's beginning to smell good...what's the matter with me?!' he questioned himself. Kagome say the farmiliar look of deep thought in Inu Yasha's eyes. 'He's thinking of me. I know he is...he looks so amazing in that light...whoah there...what am I thinking?!' she thought nearly hitting herself. "Miroku...the path is too dangerous ahead...you need to take Sango and Shippou in a different direction. Kagome and I will go and look for the demon who did this to her. If we all go, Sango won't have a chance. Hell, we'll probably both get killed defending you four.You need to go in a different direction." Inu Yasha stated. Kagome was shocked at what he was saying. 'Both of us? Like I'm his partner and not just a detector? Can he really be saying this?' Fearing for Sango's life, Miroku agreed and they went their seperate ways. "We will find you two later and pray for your safty as well. Good luck in changing back Kagome." Miroku said before disappearing behind the fork in the road with Shippou, Kirara and Sango by his side.
The odd couple had been walking a lon time before they said anything. Nothing was there to be said...they both knew that there was two reasons that Inu Yasha spoke up back there. For one he was serious about getting Kagome back to her normal state. But they wanted to be alone too. "So...Inu Yasha...do you have a tail?" Kagome asked quizzically while itching at her butt. Inu Yasha looked own at her in astonishment. "Uh...no..not really... no." He answered with a strange look upon his face. "AAAHHHHH!!!!! WELL THEN THAT FUCKING DEMON MUST HAVE ONE!" she screamed in pain and bent over holding her back. Out of nowhere a tail sprouted from her lower back. Even though it was covered in blood, he could tell it was the color of her silky silver hair. "When you sprouted your ears ...did they bleed too? Mine don't...I mean...when I become a demon after I was human for a night." he asked in innocence. "Yeah...I had to....ehh... *wince in pain*...wash my hair and my mouth was....eeerr *another wince*...full of blood when my fangs grew in..." she replied. He blankly starred at her pondering why she was bleeding so fluently. He never had problems form changing for mortal to hanyou... so why should she?
The sun was setting and the pair decided to make camp. Soon there was a roaring fire as the pair set up the campsite. The sun finally set beyond the horizon. Kagome and Inu Yasha were sitting across the fire from eachother eatting the rice cakes Miroku gave to them. They were avoiding eye contact as much as posible...even thought they would occationally glance up to see if the other was looking back. Finally, conversation took place of the silence that had lasted for what seemed like forever.
"So...what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? Do you think that we will find the youkai?" Kagome questioned with a hint worry in her voice. Inu Yasha thought about this remark.
"I'm not sure, but we should gt a good nights rest...just in case. You never know when or where the fuckers could be. Hell, they could be watching us right now."
"Stop that! I don't want to think that they could be watching us..." she said as a chill ran down her spine. "And I don't know how to use my abilities to their fl advantages yet! And you couldn't even take care of yourself with those youkai in the first place-"
"Hey! I was just protecting the old woman's village!" He was aggravated at the lack of curdisy and gratitued to him. Especially since he saved her sorry ass, but he bit his tongue and didn't say anything.
Out of nowhere she let out a shrill cry of pain. Inu Yasha ran over to her to see what was wrong. He didn't see what was going on, but he sure as hell smelt it. Somehow, she had reopened her wounds. Still whimpering, she took off Inu Yasha's fire rat kimono revealing her bandgages...and everything else. Inu Yasha blushed but couldn't help but stare at the overflowing amounts of blood trickling out of her wounds. While crying, Kagome looked up at him and became furious.
"Well OBVIOUSLY you haven't seen a topless woman before! Or at least a CONCIOUS one!" she shouted at him in raged. Inu Yasha quickly went over to get gause from the supplies Miroku gave to them while Kagome continued to say painful words to him. To his surprise, Miroku hadn't packed anything. "- and ANOTHER thing...why haven't my wounds healed? I AM hanyou now and I should have healed by now! You would have been healed by now from this fucking thing!" she screamed while pointing to her bloody wounds. "There is no point in yelling at me! I didn't give them to you! And you brought it upon yourself by shooting the fricken youkai in the hand remember?!" he shouted back then calmly spoke again. "There are no new bandages. You will have to apply pressure to the wounds to stop the bleeding." Kagome looked at him in shock at the amount of patience he had with her. "...and yes...unfortunatly the wounds are very large so i would have to...ugh...help you..." he said while rolling his eyes in unhappiness. He knew he would probably get "sat" a million times for saying that so he winced ready to get it. To his surprise, he didn't recieve any sort of pain from the remark except a blushing Kagome.
"Fine...just don't push too hard..." she said and wincing, layed down with her head on his lap. Inu Yasha was definatly uneasy about this...especially since she was awake and not unconcious. "It's fine dogboy... just do it. The faster you do the faster its over." she spoke, uneasy as well. She grabbed his hands and placed them over her wounds, then covered what she could with her own. She was so nervous she could barely move...the same went with Inu Yasha. Kagome's eyes began to water as they both began to apply pressure. The hair stood on the back of Inu Yasha's neck. Kagome looked up at Inu Yasha and he looked down. They were lost in eachother's eyes again. The uneasiness subsided when the blood began to stop flowing out of her wounds. They remained in the same positions though. They didn't seem to want to move. Kagome sat up after a while and put on the kimono. She looked back at Inu Yasha's disappointed face. 'Yes he does seem disappointed...that's not like him...' she thought.
She sat down next to him and began to rub his back. He slowly closed his eyes and began to purr deeply. She loved it when he did that. It was the most beautiful noise he ever made. He turned around and opened his handsome amber eyes. He slowly leaned forward and kissed her cheek. She looked at him in astonishment, but she liked it. Neither of them ever wanted to admit to eachother that they loved eachother, but there was the first sign. Kagome leaned to him and kissed him back. Inu Yasha knew that at that moment she was the most beautiful creature in the world. Not only the face or bady, but the sole as well. They sat by the fire and the sparks began to fly. Not from the fire, but from the two hanyous. Kagome had never kissed someone before this time and she was glad Inu Yasha was her first. She enjoyed every part of it. He wasn't demanding at all. In fact she was almost controlling him in a much desired kiss. '...God he even tastes good...' she thought silently. And at that moment everything was right in the world.
Teaser: "AHHHH!!!" Kagome screamed. "Leave it to Myouga to ruin a good moment..." Inu Yasha grumbled just loudly enough that only Kagome could hear.