Sorry bout the lateness!

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Kagome woke up to Inuyasha's singing. Well, it was more like humming, but she still thought it was beautiful. She slowly sat up and watched him for a while. That is, until he turned around and saw her.

He jumped back slightly, startled that she had been awake and watching him all this time.

"Good Morning." Miroku chirped as he walked in through the bathroom into her room. "Morning." Inuyasha said back. Kagome said nothing. 'He doesn't care about me anymore, he isn't even asking if I'm alright.'

"Hey Inuyasha, could you leave us alone for a while please?" Miroku whispered into his friend's ear. Inuyasha nodded at looked at Kagome one last time before leaving the room.

"Hey Kagome. You ok?" Miroku asked sounding concerned. Kagome perked up a bit. 'Maybe he does care about me.' She thought hopefully.

"I guess so." She was looking down at her hands, which Miroku noticed.

"Is something wrong?"

"No." she mumbled, still looking at her hands.

"Then why won't you look at me?" she looked up. He really did look concerned. 'Feh,' she thought, 'he knows me all too well, and by looking at me he can tell exactly what I'm feeling'

"Kagome, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for not really having time to talk to you yesterday, I really was worried."

"It's ok." She sounded relieved. "I knew you were busy." Miroku smirked. He heard that relief in her voice, he saw it in her eyes.

"Hey," he said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice, "you really did believe that I didn't care for you any more didn't you?" he said playfully punching her in the arm.

"No I didn't!" she paused as he stared at her. "Ok, so maybe a little....." she punched him back in the arm, a little harder than he punched her.

"*Sigh* I don't know what you would do without me." Miroku said, totally full of himself. Kagome rolled her eyes.

"Me either." She smiled and watched him as he smiled back. Then they heard a little voice coming from Miroku's room.

"Miroku! Is Kagome awake yet?" she walked into the room holding her right hand over stomach where she was cut, she winced with every step she took.

"Yes, I am awake." Kagome said with a smile. Sango looked at Kagome, then gave Miroku a look that clearly said leave-us-alone-for-a-minute-or-you- will-die. He nodded and walked out of the room after giving Kagome a kiss on the forehead.

"Hey Kag." Sango said as Miroku shut the door. "I'm so sorry about yesterday, it was all my fault!"

"No way! What are you talking about? It was all my fault! If I had just looked where I was sitting I never would have cut my hand!" Sango looked up at her and smiled as she sat down next to her on the bed.

"So your telling me that all this time we both thought that it was our own fault?" Kagome giggled at Sango's tone.

"Yep." She nodded.

"*Sigh* well, you hungry?" Sango asked like a mother would. Kagome nodded excitedly.

"Yeah, but there is a little problem." Kagome said slowly.

"And that is?..."

"I don't think I can walk down there." Sango giggled.

"Don't worry, I'll get Inuyasha or Miroku for you, I can't really help you when I can barely walk myself." Sango got up to go get them, but Kagome stopped her.

"Sango?" she turned around.

"What is it?" she sounded concerned.

"Um, I was wondering, are you.....scared....ya know, to go back to school?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, with those guys there and all." She sounded a little unsure of what she was saying.

"Oh," Sango sat back down. "I guess I am a little scared, but you and me both know that Inuyasha and Miroku will look out for us, weather we want them to or not." She said the last part sarcastically.

"Yea I guess your right....."

"Of course I am. Don't worry Kagome. Everything will be just fine." And on that lovely note (hee, hee, hee, I had to write that....) she walked out of the room to find someone to help Kagome get downstairs.

As soon as she was out of the room she saw Inuyasha leaning against the wall on the opposite side of the hall. (That rhymes....)

"Hey Inuyasha, could you......." Sango started.

"Help Kagome downstairs? Yes." He walked into Kag's room without a word. 'That was strange.' Sango thought as she limped downstairs. Only to find Miroku singing and dancing, while trying to make breakfast. It was a disaster. There was flour everywhere, and Miroku's clothes were so covered that you couldn't even tell what color they were supposed to be.

'I think he's gonna need help, hey, wait a minute, isn't his Mom and Souta coming back today?' (Souta magically disappeared to a friend's house in case you were wondering.) She walked into the room with a big sigh. 'I just had to put on clean clothes didn't I?' was her final thought before she slipped on the egg on the floor.....

***With Kagome and Inuyasha***

Inuyasha walked into the room to see Kagome sitting on the edge of her bed.

"Ready?" he asked her as he walked towards her.

"Yea." She said just before he picked her up bridal style. He started to walk towards the bathroom.

"Hey, I thought we were going downstairs." She said confused.

"We will go down there soon enough, right now we need to check your leg." Kagome nodded in understanding.

He set her down on the counter and looked away for a second.

"Your gonna have to slide those down a bit." He pointed to her pants.

"Oh yea," she blushed as she slid them off and kicked them away. Inuyasha slowly got closer to her and put his hands on the bandage. He looked up at her.

"Do you want me to pull it off fast or slow?" he asked, more serious than Kagome thought necessary.

"Umm," he ripped it off quickly. "Owww!!!! Hey! That hurt!" Inuyasha gave her a small smile.

"I would have hurt either way, but I will tell you this." Kagome looked confused.

"What?" she asked curiously.

"This is gonna sting." He put a little of that peroxide stuff on it. 'Gosh, I think I'm gonna have to take her to the doctors, weather she wants to go or not. It still hasn't stopped bleeding completely, and if it gets infected, well I don't even want to think about that. I should probably tell her..' he thought as he searched for more bandages. When he finally found some he finished patching her up.

"Hey Kagome." Inuyasha said while she was still sitting on the counter.

"What is it?"

"I was thinking, you really should go to the doctors. This cut is really deep, and you don't want to get it infected." He said looking at her.

She gasped a little.. (AN, I don't know how to explain it..)

"No! Inuyasha! You said that I didn't have to go!" she said in a whiney voice. 'No matter what I'm not going to the doctors' the stubborn girl thought.

He picked her up bridal style, being careful not to grip where she was hurt.

"Look, I know that you don't want to, but...*sigh* fine, you don't have to go, but if that cut of yours gets infected, I'm taking you there weather you want me to or not." Kagome's face lit up, and she hugged him.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

Then. They walked into the kitchen. Are you sure you want to know what they saw?

******************End Chapter Neueve***********

I know this chapter sucked, but the next one will be better, it may take me a while to write, no later than about 10 days. I AM SOOOOO SORRY! It was a short chapter, this I know, but the next one will be longer, I promise.. Review or I won't update! I need AT LEAST 20 REVIEWS! Thank you guys so much for all the reviews, I LOVE them. TOODLES!

Shanaka