Hey! I don't really have anything to say, so I'll just go on with the story.

Bed Ridden

Chapter Three

Can You Brush My Hair?

He groggily woke up and rubbed his eyes, still exhausted. He pulled his blanket further up and realized one of his hands wasn't there, but up her shirt. Blushing, he realized the position it was in and quickly pulled his hand out, trying to not get more embarrassed.

She turned towards him, missing the lack of warmth that his hand was providing. Grabbing the lock of hair in front of his face, she pulled his face towards her own and collapsed on top of him, mumbling incoherent words.

He blinked and heard the words, "Inuyasha, watch out. There's a demon."

She was tightened into a ball and was tightly grasping the fabric of his haori with her hand. Shivering, she started to shake, grasping the fabric tighter and tighter. He ran his claws down her back into a relaxing motion and she started to calm down, uncurling out of the ball she was in.

He sighed, and looked at the alarm clock on her side table. It read: 5:00. He knew it was in the afternoon, because the sky was still a little light. It was still snowing, and all of Tokyo was covered in a thick blanket of snow.

He crossed his arms above his head and rested it on them, closing his eyes. He let her lay on sprawled on his body, not having any difficulty breathing at all.

Inuyasha's POV ************

I wonder what I should do. Kikyou, Kagome, they are not the same. Ever since that incident in the forest.. Things have changed. But Kagome doesn't understand.. I don't want to be with Kikyou. She is merely a corpse. The living dead. She is not alive. But Kagome is. I don't want to go to hell with her. I want to live my life. Kikyou's life is over, she doesn't have a second chance. I don't want to spend my life with her.

End

He sighed again, more deeply, like he heard Miroku do a few times after Sango had slapped him. He stroked a lock of hair coming loose from Kagome's ponytail. He decided to wake her up, for he was bored of thinking about the conflict between Kikyou and himself.

He shook her gently, careful not to hurt her. She mumbled and turned over to her back, shifting. He rolled his eyes and smirked, shaking her again. Rubbing her eyes, she groaned a "What?"

"Wake up. It's already five." He said, clearly stating the wake up. She moaned and sighed deeply, twisting the other way. "No.. Ten more minutes."

"C'mon Kagome. Wake up." He insisted.

Pouting, she opened her eyes and got up, taking her hair out of the ponytail. She coughed a little, and then sniffed, her nose stuffed. She got up and plopped down on her dresser chair. She combed her hair and tied it back into a ponytail.

He just sat on her bed, watching her comb her hair. He had never brushed his hair before, so it had always been in tangles. The first time his hair had been brushed was when he was just a pup, when his mother combed his hair.

"Uh, Kagome. Can you comb my hair?" He asked shyly, blushing in the process. He admitted to himself that he wanted to feel her hands run through his hair. She smiled widely, squealing.

"Sit below me." She said, motioning the floor. But instead, he slammed to the floor, his face planted into the floor. "Oh! Inuyasha! I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" She ran over to him, lifting his face up.

"I'm fine." He waved a hand like it was no big deal. So he sat below her and grabbed her comb and tried to brush his hair. But there were too many tangles. She sighed and clicked her tongue impatiently but got up to get the tangle-away spray. (Rhyming. AGH!)

She sprayed it on like a maniac and then capped it again. Taking the comb again, she ran it through his rather wet locks. She placed a gentle hand on his ears to avoid them getting hurt. His ears twitched at her touch and she giggled but he relaxed and stopped twitching them.

She brushed his bangs with her fingers and continued down his back. Then when she finished, she ran her hands through his hair, savoring the silky touch of it.

"Okay, what do you want to do now?" She asked cheerfully, smiling. But then she started to cough, and giggled.

He sweat-dropped at this, and raised an eyebrow. "E-hehe. Um so, some TV sounds good. Is that okay?" She asked, pointing to the TV in her room. (A/N: I know she doesn't really have a TV in her room but just pretend she does.)

"Uh. It's that weird black box thingy that shows all that crap about food right?" He asked.

"Umm, well Mama was watching the food channel, so technically on that channel there is that so called "crap" you say, but on different channels there are different kinds of shows, like action, reality, and all sorts! They even have the local news." She explained.

He nodded his head and she turned it on, pulling the extra blanket around her body. The TV was on a small table right across the bed, near the door. She was lying on the bed face down. Inuyasha was right next to her, holding his head in his hands.

"Ooh! Furi Kuri!" She clapped, and smiled brightly. Honestly she thought it was kind of weird, and it had replaced her favorite show, Chibi-Maruko Chan, but she had grown to like it.

She liked how the boy had cat ears, and they looked a LOT like Inuyasha's. Except his were dog-ears, and the guy in Furi Kuri had CAT ears.

He just raised an eyebrow and kept watching while Kagome bounced to the beginning song. **************************************************************************** ****************

I'm sorry for the shortness, but I'm trying to get a lot done. So, expect a short update after this too. Gomen ne!

Miyuki-Chan