I AM SO SORRY for the long wait…I've been busy with it being summer and all. But I am still alive to those of you wondering…if you're wondering. Here is the next chapter. Ciao!

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Quit Fighting!

'Great…just what I need.' Kagome heaved a heavy sigh and rolled her eyes. Inuyasha and Kouga were having another petty fistfight while Kagome was flying through the air in the clutches of a large, disgusting, hairy demon that definitely smelled like rotting cabbage. The demon had her clutched tightly in its fist with no intention to release his prey. 'Well if neither one of them will save me…guess I'll have to get out of this mess myself. Here I go…' "SANGO!!! MIROKU!!! HELP ME!!!!!!"

"Hold on Kagome!" Sango shouted as she hopped onto Kiara who took off through the air.

'Right, like I have any place to go.'

Sango was on Kiara circling the demon's head, with its eyes following after the fiery, airborne cat. The spider demon was getting dizzy and was heavily swaying back and forth. Kagome screamed at the top of her lungs, getting quite dizzy herself.

Suddenly, Inuyasha jumped through the air to slash the spider in half. He was almost successful until Kouga interfered and caught Inuyasha off guard.

"You can't kill him you weakling! I'll do it!" Kouga yelled and clawed at the hairy monster. A loud shrill escaped from the demon. "No problem," and he jumped toward Kagome.

Inuyasha blocked him and they both went flailing to the ground, cussing and kicking each other.

Meanwhile, the demon was still angry and decided to have Kagome for lunch. It was pulling the girl near its mouth. Kagome grimaced from the horrible breath and almost passed out from the poison and green drool dripping from its fangs. The creature growled, and more globs of vomit green slosh escaped from its jaws.

"Kagome!" Miroku yelled. "Try to hit it with your bow!"

"Oh yeah! I have that don't I?"

It started to squeeze tighter and drew her in.

"Oh no you don't!" and she reached for her bow and arrows and fired a shot into the demon's neck. "Yes!"

Another screech and the spider threw her towards the forest in an angry rage, disappearing amongst the brush.

"KAGOME!!!!" Miroku and Sango screamed. Inuyasha and Kouga looked up from their fight just in time to see the girl crash to the ground, suddenly both running at their top speed towards her.

"If anything happened to my woman I will never forgive myself," Kouga worriedly stated.

"She ain't your woman!" 'But I hope you're okay. Please, please don't be hurt. I can't bear to see that.'

Sango sliced the demon up with her boomerang and Miroku sucked the green globs of spider mush into his wind tunnel. When both were finished with the monster, they took off running towards Kagome's landing spot. They found her with Inuyasha and Kouga protectively bent over her, Inuyasha cradling her head and Kouga stroking her hand.

Kagome opened her eyes, squinting at the world around her. For an instant both Inuyasha and Kouga were relieved to see that she was awake and breathing, until her face saddened and tears came spilling forth. Her head was still spinning and she could feel a gigantic headache. Crying made it worse. There was a pang of pain on her knee and saw that a gash was bleeding. Then she rubbed her sore shoulders, hoping to release some of the tension. She looked at Inuyasha and Kouga and jerked away from them, standing up feebly on her own. She balanced herself on a nearby tree, turned away from them.

"Kagome! Don't stand up! Are you okay?" both of the canines said at once.

Kagome straightened out and glared at them over her shoulder. "Am I okay???" Then she turned fully around and towered over them, her left eye twitching. "AM I OKAY???? HOW DARE YOU ASK ME THAT!!!! I AM NOT OK THANKS TO YOU TWO!!!"

"Well he started it!"

"ME?? You got in my way!"

"I was trying to save Kago"

A rock flew to the back of Kouga's head and caused him to fall forward onto his face, getting a mouth full of dirt. Inuyasha stared blank faced, turned towards Kagome and started to run to her.

"SIT!!!!!!!!!"

Smack. Inuyasha was embedded into the ground with his leg twitching. Kouga was getting up on his hands, rubbing his neck and looked up at Kagome.

"Go home!" Kagome pointed a finger towards the mountains.

"But"

"NO! GO HOME! NOW!!!"

Kouga slouched his head in defeat and headed off towards his pack saying he was sorry.

Kagome exhaled. She was exhausted and her knees gave in. Before she collapsed, Inuyasha was by her side, gently placing her on the ground. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder carefully, not wanting to hurt her in her fragile state. She closed her eyes and tears squeezed through pouring onto her cheeks. He wiped away a tear and whispered her name.

Kagome looked up at him. She was angry, in a rage, but most of all, hurt. She cried more.

"You always save me Inuyasha! Your opponents always distract you, but you still come for me to make sure that I was safe. You did that with Hiten, Mantan, even Sesshomaru…" She sniffed, her voice quivering and quieter. "Why didn't you do it this time?"

Inuyasha stared at her wide-eyed mentally smacking himself, then averted his eyes somewhere else. 'God I'm an IDIOT!' "I…just can't stand it when he tries to take you away from me."

She shook her head. "No. He won't because I won't let him. But you have to trust me. And you have to stop fighting like this. I can't take much more of it. I keep getting hurt." 'And not just physically.'

Inuyasha looked into her eyes and felt guilty. He had all of his attention to his enemy and forgot to keep an eye on the one person that he should protect, the one person who could heal his heart. He wanted to hold her, make sure that she knows that it was never his intention to let her get hurt. Then Inuyasha scooped her into his lap and rested his cheek on top of her hair. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I got caught up in fighting over you that I didn't come by your side when you needed me. It's all my fault!"

"Damn straight it is!"

"Wha?"

"If you hadn't been such a jerk, you would have noticed that I needed help instead of fighting with that half-wit nimrod!"

"Wait a minute! You were just crying a minute ago!"

She jumped out of his lap and leaned against the tree again. "Yeah, well I'm over it!"

"Damn females! I'll never understand them!" He jumped to his feet.

'Yeah well join the club.' "You egotistical, frantic, idiotic, impudent, infantile moron!"

"Feh," Inuyasha exhaled. "Well…you…it takes one to know one!"

"What are you? Six?? What was that? You can't even insult right!"

"Shut up!" He jumped in the nearby tree crossing his arms over his chest, pouting.

Shippo jumped onto Kagome's shoulder. "He's more childish than I am!"

'Exactly my thoughts.'

*********Well there you go. What do you think? The next chapter will have more Miroku/Sango stuff in it. Review please! And again I'm sorry that I haven't written in a LONG ASS time. I've been having fun doing stuff and swimming. Can you believe that I haven't gotten sunburned yet! I can't! I ALWAYS burn, never tan…I got myself a nice lil white girl tan though…whatever. I'm sure your bored of the blabbing. Or totally amused that I can type a lot for no apparent reason. Well, that's not a lot…hmmm. Yeah, so thanx for reading my story and REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!!