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"Inuyasha", Kagome whispered as she turned around to see Inuyasha, slowly fall to the ground. "Inuyasha", again it came out as a whisper, she still not fully comprehending what was happening to him. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, shit, shit, she screamed as she realized what happened to him. "Shit, shit, shit." She ran, rather jogged, as fast as she could to get by his side.
*Inuyasha, what happened to you* , she wondered desperately. She knelt down next to his side, he had fallen onto his stomach, and gently she tried to turn the unconscious hanyou over.
It took a while before she finally was able to turn him onto his back, and look at his wounds. There was a gapping wound in his stomach where Kouga's claws had ripped out flesh, and injected the poison into him. His skin was starting to turn a deep dark bluish color. The poison in his system caused his body to become infected.
The rip in his stomach looked once to be the same color as the rest of his body, but now it was turning into a dark black color, looking like it was killing him, from the inside out. Kagome knew that she hadn't recovered enough to try and carry him back to camp, she could barely run. So she looked around, trying to find a safe area to clean his wounds. She spotted a small cave-like enclosure adjacent to the hot springs, it was only a few feet away from her.
She gently picked up Inuyasha's arms and started very slowly, to drag him over towards the lip of the cave. Trying her best not to hurt him anymore. She kept thinking * It's entirely my fault, he's hurt because of me* , her mind kept saying over and over. Tears started to roll down her cheeks.
* NO,* she told herself * I've got to be strong for Inuyasha's sake*. She got him over to the cave, and gently put him down for a moment, to check for anything living in there. There wasn't anything, so she pulled Inuyasha all the way to the very back of the cave. When she set him down she removed his haori and under kimono, to better examine and treat his wounds, the bluish color was spreading all over his body, and his entire stomach was black. "Oh, my god", she cried, "Umm. what was that herb Kaede told me would cure almost any type of poison, after being purified by a miko priestess. She prayed that she could find it and purify it.
She went as quickly as she could to find the herb and firewood, she didn't like leaving him alone while he's hurt, too many people want him dead. She quickly located the herb and pulled out about 10 of these little purple flower-like plants. * All right* she thought, * I've found the herbs, now for some firewood* .
She gathered up all her things and tried to run back to Inuyasha. She got back and he was still the same. She started the fire and began to create the cure to the poison.
All the while Inuyasha was getting worse. His breathing started to come in more rapid pulls, his heart was so slow, that he appeared to be dead. It was not looking good for him.
It only took her 15 minutes from finding the herbs to purifying them, so she could destroy the poison. In that amount of time Inuyasha was more blue- black, then pale anymore.
"Oh my god, what kind of poison is this?" She asked herself. She gently put her fingers into the herb concoction and slowly spread it across his stomach. His skin started to react to the concoction as soon as she put it on. Although, it seemed to have little effect on the blacken area, around his wound.
Lately Kagome had been working on controlling her miko powers. On being able to access them at will, and use them to her and her friend benefits. As she was spreading the herbal stuff on his stomach, she had an idea, * A brilliant idea, if I do say so myself* She was contently thinking. * If I control my powers I might be able to help Inuyasha destroy the black poison around his stomach wound.*
She concentrated all her powers on the task at hand. She was glowing a light pure pinkish color. She placed her hands on top of Inuyasha's wounds letting her miko power flow freely into him, helping him to slowly destroy the poison.
She continued her gentle healing for a few more moments until she heard his breathing start to regulate back again, and his heart to start pumping with renewed effort.
She almost collapsed from the strain on her mind and body, from using her miko powers to their maximum to try and to heal Inuyasha. She struggled to stand back up again. She swayed a little as she finally regained her feet. Using the cave walls as a type of crutch she carefully walked down to the mouth of the cave walls as a type of crutch she carefully walked down to the mouth of the cave. She needed to stop and catch her breath, more than once. *Come on Kagome, you need to find something eatable to renew your energy, and for Inuyasha when he wakes up.* She told herself, *I'm not weak, I won't let Inuyasha die because I was weak.* her mind was screaming.
She was gone only minutes and Inuyasha seemed to look a little pinker. She walked to the back of the cave and set the berries down next to him, with that she took up a watch at the entrance of the cave. She knew that with the smell of Inuyasha's blood in the air there was bound to be some demons, looking to finish him off.
So Kagome sat there using her almost exhaustive miko powers and tuned them towards any sign of impending danger. While she sat here watching for demon, Inuyasha was fighting his own demons in his dreams.
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Inuyasha's Dream
Darkness.................a never-ending darkness surrounding, suffocating him, and a voice could be heard, a voice so cold, it made the blood in your veins flow ice. There was no emotion held in that voice, * It's so familiar* , Inuyasha thought. "Inuyasha", the voice scratched out, "quit fighting, the poison has taken root, you will not last the day."
He looked out over in his dream realm, within the fog a white pink light lit up the area. He looked for the source, ;"Kikyo". He growled.
"Inuyasha that poison wasn't intended for you, know that I was going to kill my little reincarnation and take my soul back!" Kikyo paused, and looked as though she was deep in thought, struggling for an answer deep within the caverns of her mind.
Seeing that she was thinking Inuyasha tried to reason with her. "Kikyo, I'm never going to hell with you! I don't love you and I can tell that you never loved me. She looked up and stared into Inuyasha's eyes, she let out a horrible, evil laugh.
You're right Inuyasha," she spat the words out, "I guess I always wanted just your human side. But, since my poison was only to affect human blood, and your demon blood was busy repairing that hole in your stomach it left your human side open to my attack. And since you can't defend against my poison you WILL come to hell with me!"
"No, I will not die while"-
"Oh yes, not while my little, weak reincarnation is still alive, right Inuyasha", Kikyo sneered.
"Hum...foolish hanyou, you will die, you will come to hell with me, and you still love me, I know."
"Never", I will never go to hell with you, I will not die, and I hate you, don't you understand I don't love you anymore, I don't think I ever did, you were nothing more than a silly childhood crush. I'm in love with someone worth being loved."
"Ha, don't tell me you're in love with my pathetic reincarnation??!!.
Inuyasha looked her straight in the eye, he finally realized he had made his decision, it was the right one, "Yes Kikyo, I love Kagome, and she is much more than your reincarnation. She is a whole different person, and she look and acts nothing like you. She is kind and caring and she loves me for me. I would gladly give my life, my world to her."
"Hahaha, you believe she would ever love at weak little half-breed like you?"
At hearing this his ears dropped a bit, * What if she's right, what if...... wait, this is Kikyo the lying bitch who wants me to die, and then take me to hell, away from my true love.*
Kikyo watched close to see his reaction, his ears dropped, *Yes, I'm winning, he will be mine*
Just then Inuyasha looked up, "There is no way in seven hells, that I am ever going to listen to you again, BITCH
"What how dare you-" Kikyo started to say when she was cut off by a PURE pink light that flooded the darkness, driving it away.
"K-Kagome??" his golden eyes fell upon the light, feeling the love in it, he followed it back.
As he was coming back from the darkness that had held him prisoner, he felt it try to claim him again. "NO, I will not stay with you Kikyo, you fucking bitch! Kagome help me fight her, please". The light started to get brighter, stronger, she was helping him fight back the darkness that Kikyo was hoping to trap him into again. Then he was back...
He could feel pain, so much pain radiating from his body, but the light touched him and took the pain away. Finally after denouncing Kikyo, once and for all, he could finally sleep in peace.
He fell into a deep sleep, only to be woken by screams of fighting, some short while later.
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"Arg...stay away from him" Kagome screamed, after firing another arrow at the slobbering bear youkai, running straight for the cave entrance.
"No, you're not getting Inuyasha", with that another arrow embedded itself into the chest of the huge youkai.
It snarled as it turned around to face Kagome. "You pathetic human are even weaker than Kikyo originally described you. She right though, you don't stand a chance at protecting that weak hanyou. And I completely agree with her, you aren't strong enough to be her reincarnation, but that won't matter since I will kill you shortly and then it won't matter who's reincarnation you once were." He looked straight at her knowing that she had no arrows left for her defense. He was going kill her. *Just one claw through her little stomach, and she's as good as dead* , the bear youkai was thinking, until a bright light surrounded the girl. *What in the name of kami*
He had been VERY wrong to tell Kagome that Kikyo was behind this attack, and that she wanted this youkai to kill Inuyasha only fueled the inferno of her anger welling up in her. She drew on her powers and created a bow and arrow of soft pink light. The youkai saw this and laughed- "a pink arrow, this is supposed to hurt me-"
She aimed the magically formed arrow straight at his heart. "You will never have Inuyasha, nor will your mistress as long as I still have a breath within my body". With that she released the purified arrow and watched as it cleaved the evil youkai in two, his body then disintegrated. * HA* she thought *Guess that little pink arrow hurt him a lot more than he will ever admit to.*
While she was fighting she never felt the eyes on her watching and listening to her every move. But, Inuyasha watched her as she defeated the youkai, saving his life. *Fighting for me, for my very life, to make sure I wouldn't be hurt no matter the cost to her. Kagome........if you had gotten hurt trying to save me I would have...would have...arg I don't know what I'd do without you-*
Just then Kagome turned around, with her bow vanishing and the pink color leaving her, she was going to walk in and check on Inuyasha when she stopped dead in her tracks.
Inuyasha was standing at the mouth of the cave with one hand on his stomach and the other on the wall of the cave, trying to stand up straight without looking like he was hurt. The look on his face was a mix of surprise, respect, anger, pride, and could that gleam in his eyes be love???!!!!!
"Inu-Inuyasha, you're alright again" Kagome whispered * Is this a dream, or is he really all right? No, he has to be alright and he saw and heard me protecting him, does he finally understand how I feel?* **Oh, Kagome, the little voice in her head debated, you know he could never love you, you a little weak reincarnation of the person he once loved** *That's right, I am....................*
AT the sound of her voice he came out of his staring trance. He looked at her, "K-K-Kagome", he whispered in something like shock and awe, "hum...well I guess I was wrong, you saved me twice....I was very wrong, you aren't weak" He said with a little smirk, "Although it looks like I'm more trouble than I'm worth, with all these demons after me."
*Inuyasha doesn't think I'm weak?? And he's admitting that he was wrong!!! Oh my gosh, what do I say to that? She didn't really know how to reply. After turning about three or four different shades of red. "Inuyasha, you're not any trouble, but......" her brain finally clicked in the scene in front of her, "Why are you up, you're still injured!!!!" her tone becoming angry.
* She cares for me?.....*
Here he was standing outside in the cold without his haori or his under kimono on, since she had to remove them to apply the salve to his wounds. "Here let me help you Inuyasha, you need to lie back down", she helped him walk back to the makeshift bed. "Inuyasha, you need your sleep, please lie down." He looked into her eyes, there was so much worry, and fear for him in those eyes, he almost could believe, what he was seeing.
Kagome, will you please sit with me I have....something,,,, that I really...need..to.um...to tell you........................................."
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"Inuyasha", Kagome whispered as she turned around to see Inuyasha, slowly fall to the ground. "Inuyasha", again it came out as a whisper, she still not fully comprehending what was happening to him. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, shit, shit, she screamed as she realized what happened to him. "Shit, shit, shit." She ran, rather jogged, as fast as she could to get by his side.
*Inuyasha, what happened to you* , she wondered desperately. She knelt down next to his side, he had fallen onto his stomach, and gently she tried to turn the unconscious hanyou over.
It took a while before she finally was able to turn him onto his back, and look at his wounds. There was a gapping wound in his stomach where Kouga's claws had ripped out flesh, and injected the poison into him. His skin was starting to turn a deep dark bluish color. The poison in his system caused his body to become infected.
The rip in his stomach looked once to be the same color as the rest of his body, but now it was turning into a dark black color, looking like it was killing him, from the inside out. Kagome knew that she hadn't recovered enough to try and carry him back to camp, she could barely run. So she looked around, trying to find a safe area to clean his wounds. She spotted a small cave-like enclosure adjacent to the hot springs, it was only a few feet away from her.
She gently picked up Inuyasha's arms and started very slowly, to drag him over towards the lip of the cave. Trying her best not to hurt him anymore. She kept thinking * It's entirely my fault, he's hurt because of me* , her mind kept saying over and over. Tears started to roll down her cheeks.
* NO,* she told herself * I've got to be strong for Inuyasha's sake*. She got him over to the cave, and gently put him down for a moment, to check for anything living in there. There wasn't anything, so she pulled Inuyasha all the way to the very back of the cave. When she set him down she removed his haori and under kimono, to better examine and treat his wounds, the bluish color was spreading all over his body, and his entire stomach was black. "Oh, my god", she cried, "Umm. what was that herb Kaede told me would cure almost any type of poison, after being purified by a miko priestess. She prayed that she could find it and purify it.
She went as quickly as she could to find the herb and firewood, she didn't like leaving him alone while he's hurt, too many people want him dead. She quickly located the herb and pulled out about 10 of these little purple flower-like plants. * All right* she thought, * I've found the herbs, now for some firewood* .
She gathered up all her things and tried to run back to Inuyasha. She got back and he was still the same. She started the fire and began to create the cure to the poison.
All the while Inuyasha was getting worse. His breathing started to come in more rapid pulls, his heart was so slow, that he appeared to be dead. It was not looking good for him.
It only took her 15 minutes from finding the herbs to purifying them, so she could destroy the poison. In that amount of time Inuyasha was more blue- black, then pale anymore.
"Oh my god, what kind of poison is this?" She asked herself. She gently put her fingers into the herb concoction and slowly spread it across his stomach. His skin started to react to the concoction as soon as she put it on. Although, it seemed to have little effect on the blacken area, around his wound.
Lately Kagome had been working on controlling her miko powers. On being able to access them at will, and use them to her and her friend benefits. As she was spreading the herbal stuff on his stomach, she had an idea, * A brilliant idea, if I do say so myself* She was contently thinking. * If I control my powers I might be able to help Inuyasha destroy the black poison around his stomach wound.*
She concentrated all her powers on the task at hand. She was glowing a light pure pinkish color. She placed her hands on top of Inuyasha's wounds letting her miko power flow freely into him, helping him to slowly destroy the poison.
She continued her gentle healing for a few more moments until she heard his breathing start to regulate back again, and his heart to start pumping with renewed effort.
She almost collapsed from the strain on her mind and body, from using her miko powers to their maximum to try and to heal Inuyasha. She struggled to stand back up again. She swayed a little as she finally regained her feet. Using the cave walls as a type of crutch she carefully walked down to the mouth of the cave walls as a type of crutch she carefully walked down to the mouth of the cave. She needed to stop and catch her breath, more than once. *Come on Kagome, you need to find something eatable to renew your energy, and for Inuyasha when he wakes up.* She told herself, *I'm not weak, I won't let Inuyasha die because I was weak.* her mind was screaming.
She was gone only minutes and Inuyasha seemed to look a little pinker. She walked to the back of the cave and set the berries down next to him, with that she took up a watch at the entrance of the cave. She knew that with the smell of Inuyasha's blood in the air there was bound to be some demons, looking to finish him off.
So Kagome sat there using her almost exhaustive miko powers and tuned them towards any sign of impending danger. While she sat here watching for demon, Inuyasha was fighting his own demons in his dreams.
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Inuyasha's Dream
Darkness.................a never-ending darkness surrounding, suffocating him, and a voice could be heard, a voice so cold, it made the blood in your veins flow ice. There was no emotion held in that voice, * It's so familiar* , Inuyasha thought. "Inuyasha", the voice scratched out, "quit fighting, the poison has taken root, you will not last the day."
He looked out over in his dream realm, within the fog a white pink light lit up the area. He looked for the source, ;"Kikyo". He growled.
"Inuyasha that poison wasn't intended for you, know that I was going to kill my little reincarnation and take my soul back!" Kikyo paused, and looked as though she was deep in thought, struggling for an answer deep within the caverns of her mind.
Seeing that she was thinking Inuyasha tried to reason with her. "Kikyo, I'm never going to hell with you! I don't love you and I can tell that you never loved me. She looked up and stared into Inuyasha's eyes, she let out a horrible, evil laugh.
You're right Inuyasha," she spat the words out, "I guess I always wanted just your human side. But, since my poison was only to affect human blood, and your demon blood was busy repairing that hole in your stomach it left your human side open to my attack. And since you can't defend against my poison you WILL come to hell with me!"
"No, I will not die while"-
"Oh yes, not while my little, weak reincarnation is still alive, right Inuyasha", Kikyo sneered.
"Hum...foolish hanyou, you will die, you will come to hell with me, and you still love me, I know."
"Never", I will never go to hell with you, I will not die, and I hate you, don't you understand I don't love you anymore, I don't think I ever did, you were nothing more than a silly childhood crush. I'm in love with someone worth being loved."
"Ha, don't tell me you're in love with my pathetic reincarnation??!!.
Inuyasha looked her straight in the eye, he finally realized he had made his decision, it was the right one, "Yes Kikyo, I love Kagome, and she is much more than your reincarnation. She is a whole different person, and she look and acts nothing like you. She is kind and caring and she loves me for me. I would gladly give my life, my world to her."
"Hahaha, you believe she would ever love at weak little half-breed like you?"
At hearing this his ears dropped a bit, * What if she's right, what if...... wait, this is Kikyo the lying bitch who wants me to die, and then take me to hell, away from my true love.*
Kikyo watched close to see his reaction, his ears dropped, *Yes, I'm winning, he will be mine*
Just then Inuyasha looked up, "There is no way in seven hells, that I am ever going to listen to you again, BITCH
"What how dare you-" Kikyo started to say when she was cut off by a PURE pink light that flooded the darkness, driving it away.
"K-Kagome??" his golden eyes fell upon the light, feeling the love in it, he followed it back.
As he was coming back from the darkness that had held him prisoner, he felt it try to claim him again. "NO, I will not stay with you Kikyo, you fucking bitch! Kagome help me fight her, please". The light started to get brighter, stronger, she was helping him fight back the darkness that Kikyo was hoping to trap him into again. Then he was back...
He could feel pain, so much pain radiating from his body, but the light touched him and took the pain away. Finally after denouncing Kikyo, once and for all, he could finally sleep in peace.
He fell into a deep sleep, only to be woken by screams of fighting, some short while later.
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"Arg...stay away from him" Kagome screamed, after firing another arrow at the slobbering bear youkai, running straight for the cave entrance.
"No, you're not getting Inuyasha", with that another arrow embedded itself into the chest of the huge youkai.
It snarled as it turned around to face Kagome. "You pathetic human are even weaker than Kikyo originally described you. She right though, you don't stand a chance at protecting that weak hanyou. And I completely agree with her, you aren't strong enough to be her reincarnation, but that won't matter since I will kill you shortly and then it won't matter who's reincarnation you once were." He looked straight at her knowing that she had no arrows left for her defense. He was going kill her. *Just one claw through her little stomach, and she's as good as dead* , the bear youkai was thinking, until a bright light surrounded the girl. *What in the name of kami*
He had been VERY wrong to tell Kagome that Kikyo was behind this attack, and that she wanted this youkai to kill Inuyasha only fueled the inferno of her anger welling up in her. She drew on her powers and created a bow and arrow of soft pink light. The youkai saw this and laughed- "a pink arrow, this is supposed to hurt me-"
She aimed the magically formed arrow straight at his heart. "You will never have Inuyasha, nor will your mistress as long as I still have a breath within my body". With that she released the purified arrow and watched as it cleaved the evil youkai in two, his body then disintegrated. * HA* she thought *Guess that little pink arrow hurt him a lot more than he will ever admit to.*
While she was fighting she never felt the eyes on her watching and listening to her every move. But, Inuyasha watched her as she defeated the youkai, saving his life. *Fighting for me, for my very life, to make sure I wouldn't be hurt no matter the cost to her. Kagome........if you had gotten hurt trying to save me I would have...would have...arg I don't know what I'd do without you-*
Just then Kagome turned around, with her bow vanishing and the pink color leaving her, she was going to walk in and check on Inuyasha when she stopped dead in her tracks.
Inuyasha was standing at the mouth of the cave with one hand on his stomach and the other on the wall of the cave, trying to stand up straight without looking like he was hurt. The look on his face was a mix of surprise, respect, anger, pride, and could that gleam in his eyes be love???!!!!!
"Inu-Inuyasha, you're alright again" Kagome whispered * Is this a dream, or is he really all right? No, he has to be alright and he saw and heard me protecting him, does he finally understand how I feel?* **Oh, Kagome, the little voice in her head debated, you know he could never love you, you a little weak reincarnation of the person he once loved** *That's right, I am....................*
AT the sound of her voice he came out of his staring trance. He looked at her, "K-K-Kagome", he whispered in something like shock and awe, "hum...well I guess I was wrong, you saved me twice....I was very wrong, you aren't weak" He said with a little smirk, "Although it looks like I'm more trouble than I'm worth, with all these demons after me."
*Inuyasha doesn't think I'm weak?? And he's admitting that he was wrong!!! Oh my gosh, what do I say to that? She didn't really know how to reply. After turning about three or four different shades of red. "Inuyasha, you're not any trouble, but......" her brain finally clicked in the scene in front of her, "Why are you up, you're still injured!!!!" her tone becoming angry.
* She cares for me?.....*
Here he was standing outside in the cold without his haori or his under kimono on, since she had to remove them to apply the salve to his wounds. "Here let me help you Inuyasha, you need to lie back down", she helped him walk back to the makeshift bed. "Inuyasha, you need your sleep, please lie down." He looked into her eyes, there was so much worry, and fear for him in those eyes, he almost could believe, what he was seeing.
Kagome, will you please sit with me I have....something,,,, that I really...need..to.um...to tell you........................................."
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CLIFFIE!!!!!!!!!! Sorry but, I needed a little suspense!!!!! Please Review!!!!!!!!!! -----------------------------------------------------------------------