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busy wit da Xmas stuff....WAAAAA. Plz dun tell me dat dis fic is TOO angsty
for you!!! OMG, I'm tryin, I'm trying !!!! Jeez...... -_-. LOL, but as long
as you ppl keep reading, I'm happy!!! Newayz, here's an Xmas present, this
chapter will PROBABLY have no angst, it also HAS action scenes. It's a
packaged present; hardly no angst, and has action. BE HAPPY, cuz this will
be rare where there is no angst. I'M AN ANGST WRITER! But since I just
started to write, I guess I have to learn how to balance things off as I
kept telling you guys~~**
NOTE: I forgot to mention in my last chapter that InuYasha had taken the jewel from the wolf Youkai. Sorry, forgot about that part.
============= Chapter Forty-Five =============
It was early in the morning, Kagome could feel her body burning with a fever, though she tried not to act like it. She didn't want to worry the others.
She bundled herself up with a sweater and a jacket, but she still felt sick.
She looked around, everyone had moved into the room she had been in. Sango had come from before as did InuYasha. Miroku had noticed that Sango was missing (I wonder why) and had heard a lot of talking outside in the other room. Shippo had woken up from a bad dream and had gone screaming in search of the rest, and Kilala had followed.
Kagome saw InuYasha sleeping against the wall, as usual, to stay on guard. She could feel her whole body shivering from the fever, ~I have to go back to my own world for proper medication.....~
Kagome knew that it would be faster to go to her world and get better than making Sango stress over taking care of her.
She crawled over to InuYasha, the floor was freezing cold.
"InuYasha" Kagome whispered, tugging at the two locks of silver hair.
He slowly opened one eyes, "Huh....Kagome?" he muttered sleepily.
"I...I have to go back to my world to....study for a coming exam" Kagome whispered a lie.
"It's just a friggin test"
Kagome looked at him in her big teary eye look.
".....Ok OK! How long are you going to be away for?" he muttered.
"Um.....let me think" Kagome muttered, ~how long would it take for me to get better? Jeez...um, my cold can't be that bad~
"Two days maybe?" Kagome answered, trying very hard to keep from coughing.
"..Hai" InuYasha muttered in disappointment, ~so long....~
"ONLY two days. And if you're not back by then, I'll....."
"Hai! Ja "
Kagome stood up and picked up her yellow bag and ran out with Kilala by her side, she didn't want him to know she was sick and couldn't hold it in much longer.
"Kilala! Fly me to the well!" Kagome asked.
"I'll go and DRAG you all the way back!" InuYasha finished.
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Kagome sat on the floor of the well in her world, clutching her neck. She had coughed so hard that her neck felt very sore.
She could feel the fever burning her skin.
"Mother?" Kagome coughed as she entered her house, "I'm home!"
Her mother peeked out of the kitchen,
"Oh hi honey....." she said, but then frowned, seeing her daughter look unwell.
"I got a little cold..."
"It doesn't look that little to me...."her mother scolded, "go up to your room and rest, I'll get all the medication"
"Hai"
Kagome fell back on the bed with a sigh, ~So comfortable.....man, I don't know how I was able to sleep on the cold hard floor.......~
She curled up in her blanket.
~I feel so tired and dizzy....my eyes feel so heavy......~
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Everyone stared at InuYasha who was sitting on the floor, tapping his fingers in boredom, while Tsubaki flirted around with her master (who looked very annoyed), and Tomo was squeezing Shippo and Kilala in her arms.
Shippo jumped out of Tomo's arms and screamed towards InuYasha and his behind his back.
Miroku looked jealously at Shippo, ~Why is he getting all the attention....not that I want attention from that pig...But it would be relieving to know that I haven't lost my touch with the ladies.....~
"InuYasha! Will you stop that!" Sango yelled in annoyance.
"Keh, stop what?!" InuYasha asked in his usual rude tone.
"That- THAT TAPPING!"
"Wha? Tapping my fingers? When did I ever listen to you?"
"If you're so bored without Kagome, why don't you just go hang out with her there instead of annoying us?!!" Sango asked.
InuYasha gripped his hands into a fist, Shippo looked up at InuYasha who's face was red.
"Ergggggg! Shut up! " InuYasha yelled.
"I know you like her" Sango teased.
InuYasha hit Shippo across the head.
"What was that for?!!!" Shippo cried in pain.
"Keh, shut up" InuYasha muttered.
"Just because Sango's a girl and you don't want to hit her because of that, it doesn't meant that you have to hit ME!!!" Shippo cried.
"You're the closest and I needed to hit someone" he answered.
Shippo pouted, "I don't like you!"
"You told me that once before. I'm not deaf, you don't have to tell me a million more times" InuYasha said in annoyance.
"Well....!!! You're mean!!!"
InuYasha sighed, crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall,
"Told me that before...."
"Well I'm reminding you again!!"
"Do you really have to remind me 24-7 ? It gets kinda annoying" InuYasha pointed out.
"WAAAAAA...I wish Kagome was here. When she does come, I'm gunu make her SIT you!!!!!!" Shippo yelled.
"Sure, sure"
Sango was twitching in annoyance. Shippo and InuYasha both looked up at Sango who's backround was turning dark.
"SHUT UP!!!!!"
Everyone froze in fright and shock.
*Silence*
Sango sighed,
"Much better..."
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"Doctor....How is my daughter?" Kagome's mother asked.
The doctor moved away from Kagome's bed, "She's fine, it's not as if her life is at risk or anything....But she's been in some really cold place, and has an extremely bad fever. Jus keep her warm, feed her this medicine, and......the proper food...Hmmmm.....I think that would be about it"
Kagome's mother looked down at her daughter who was sweating from the fever, and shaking.
"Are you sure it's not life threatening?"
"Yes ma'am, I'm very sure, as long as you treat her fever PROPERLY as I told you to. I believe you should take her to the hospital for closer examinations. Well...you'd have to. I found her throat very swollen, it'll make it hard for her to breath. The hospital will give her oxygen and all...."
Kagome's mother bit her lips, ~I don't want to take any chances with my daughter's life though.....~
"Um....Do you think it would be better if she went and stayed in the hospital until she recovers?"
"Yes...I believe that would be a wiser idea"
Kagome's mother bowed at the doctor, "arigato"
The doctor nodded his head.
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InuYasha looked our at the night sky, as he sat on a tree branch. He looked down at his hands, with two fingers out.
"Two days until she said she'd come back...today would count as one day....she never said it'd count as one day from tomorrow. So....one more day left before she comes"
InuYasha sighed and leaned back against the tree trunk, ~One day seems more like one year....~
He closed his eyes and Kikyo flashed through his mind.
***** Flashback *****
"I can feel it, the end is nearing. The shikon jewel will soon be restored. Naraku is getting stronger..........."
*****End of Flashback *****
InuYasha frowned, ~What did Kikyo mean by that? Naraku....getting stronger? How...strong exactly? The end is nearing.....did she mean the end when the Shikon jewel is a whole.....and the last battle happens between us and Naraku? What did Kikyo mean.....~
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Naraku evilly smiled as he could feel power from all the Shikon jewel gave him.
~Just a little bit more to find.....With all the Shikon jewels I have gathered, I can create youkais that are stronger......and get ready for the day....when I defeat InuYasha~
Naraku glanced at Seiyamie who sat in the corner, his red eyes glowing in the dark.
"Must kill, must kill, must kill" Seiyamie kept hissing as he dug his claws into the wooden floor.
Kanna and Kagura watched Seiyamie.
~He is stronger than us......~ Kagura thought, ~He is one of Naraku's creations made stronger by the Shikon jewel...... the youkais he will use to kill InuYasha~
Kagura looked out the window, ~What will Naraku do with me and Kanna....we are weak compared to the youkais he will create.....All I wanted was to be free like the wind.....~
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InuYasha stared down the well, ~It's the second day and Kagome hasn't come yet....~
Miroku, Sango, Kilala, and Shippo watched InuYasha from behind a bush.
"Wow..he's really infatuated with Kagome, isn't he?" Shippo asked.
"Yes....I believe so. It is kind of obvious now, all the two days Kagome had been gone for, all he's been doing was acting all bored, all depressed and all that....." Miroku muttered, stopping to think of the word he wanted to use.
"Crap?" Shippo added.
"EH?! Where did you learn that word from?!!!" Sango scolded loudly.
Shippo proudly crossed his arm, "I heard InuYasha use it many times in a sentence like this, so, I guessed it would fit in with the sentence Miroku had said"
Sango and Miroku both sweat cropped.
Sango nudged Miroku, "I think InuYasha is a bad influence to Shippo...."
"Yah...he is just a kid after all. Still innocent" Miroku agreed, "HOW TERRIBLE! Corrupting a little CHILD!!! That is truly SAD!!"
"But we can't really do anything about it...can we..." Sango muttered, and suddenly started to backing away.
Miroku and Shippo looked at Sango, "why are you backing away?"
Sango had a big nervous grin on her face.
"Ah hah hah hah" Sango choked out a laugh as she pointed at something.
Shippo looked at Miroku, "I think your girlfriend's getting a little....out of there"
"Yah, I believe she's going mad...." Miroku agreed with a nod.
Sango kept smilling nervously and pointing at something.
"What are you guys doing?" asked a voice behind them.
"It sounds very familiar....."Miroku muttered. They slowly turned their heads to see......a very pissed looking InuYasha.
Shippo and Miroku began to smile nervously.
"Ah hah hah hah..." Miroku laughed, putting his hands in front of him in protection. "N- nothing!"
"Ha hah hah...really, we were doing nothing! How...how did you know we were here?" Shippo cried.
"Um....maybe it's because you guys are really loud" InuYasha growled.
"What the hell were you assholes doing?!!!!" InuYasha asked. He picked Shippo up by the legs, "we're you spying on me?"
"No!!!! You see...um.....I had to go to the washroom, and the hut was too far away.....so I did it behind this bush!" Shippo cried.
Everyone sweat dropped.
"With all of them around you?" InuYasha asked.
Shippo cringed his face and started to hit his head, "baka baka baka baka baka baka!!!" Shippo cried, "AHHHH, I could have thought of a better excuse!!!"
"If I had been in the mood to hit you, I would have, VERY hard...but I'm not in the mood! You guys are so screwed, acting as if I was an alien and all that crap"
"SEE!" Shippo cried, " he said that word!"
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Everyone sat around the well, sighing in wait for Kagome.
"What's taking her so long?" Miroku muttered.
Sango frowned, "and it's already long past morning..."
Shippo screamed, causing Kilala to spike up her fur.
"What if Kagome was kidnapped! Or what if she screwed up on traveling here and ended up in another dimension!!!!!!!!!" Shippo cried.
InuYasha hit him hard on the head, "don't make it sound worse than it already is!!!"
"Gomen, gomen!"
InuYasha sighed and sat back against the well, ~what's happened to Kagome? Is she alright?~
"Why don't you just go to her time and get her?" Miroku asked.
"Oh! He should have done that hours ago!" Sango muttered looking up at the dark sky.
~I would have if you guys hadn't been around me like that~ InuYasha thought in annoyance.
"Fine" InuYasha muttered as he stood up and jumped down the well disappearing in a blue flash.
Souta had been sitting under the God tree playing with his robot toys, when he saw black streaks of light jumping towards his house.
"Huh....Oh, InuYasha's here!" Souta cried in excitement as he ran towards the house.
InuYasha crouched on the branch and looked into Kagome's window.
"No one's there......." InuYasha muttered, ~Where could she be?~
InuYasha jumped off and walked towards the front door. He stood in front of the door, but found it locked.
"Damn"
He suddenly felt someone tugging his Haori. He turned to see Souta who smiled widely at him,
"You're gunu need this to get in" he said, dangling the key in front of InuYasha.
InuYasha grabbed it out of his hands and tried to figure out how to open the door with it.
"How do you open this damn door?!" InuYasha asked, trying to open the door with the key, but not knowing how to.
Souta laughed, but stopped as InuYasha glared at him.
"Why are you out at night alone anyway?" InuYasha asked.
"Mother went to the hospital and I wanted to wait for her outside, but I got bored so I got my robots to play with"
"The..hospital? Why?" InuYasha asked, "which hospital?"
"You know, the one you saw last time....just down the road"
"Is...."but InuYasha stopped seeing a car stopping at the house, and saw Kagome's mother stepping out. She looked up to see InuYasha.
InuYasha walked over to her, and felt kind of aquard.
"Where's Kagome? She was supposed to be in our world hours ago....." InuYasha said, ~was I supposed to bow to her or something? Or maybe I should have said hi....damn, I suck when it comes to manners....~
"Oh....Kagome...she....."
InuYasha frowned, "she...what?"
"She's in...the hospital..." Kagome's mother said and was about to say something more but InuYasha backed away and ran to the hospital.
"Oh dear..." Kagome's mother muttered, "he looks really worried...."
Only red streaks of light could be seen jumping high into the air. InuYasha could feel his heart pounding fast.
"Hospital....." InuYasha muttered, ~aren't they for people who are hurt..... The people I saw in the hospital last time were practically already dead....~
InuYasha was high in the air when he spotted the hospital, he could hear the cars speeding far down under him, and the sound of his Haori rustling in the wind.
InuYasha landed on the ground, the dead grass brushing under his feet as he ran towards Kagome's scent. He found it, it came from the room on the second room. He jumped up and perched on the window edge and peered through. The curtains were closed, leaving only a slit to see her. He saw Kagome lying on the bed with something over her mouth and a string thing connected to it, which was attached to a clear bag that said oxygen and was hanging on a stand.
"Kagome...." InuYasha whispered, his eyes wide open.
"Huh...." Kagome slowly opened her eyes, she could feel cold wind entering her room. She looked at the window to see it open, the curtains blowing in the cool wind.
She slowly turned her head to see a dark figure standing beside the wall. For some reason she didn't feel afraid.
"Who are you?" Kagome quietly asked.
"Kagome! You're alive!" the voice said in relief.
".......InuYasha?" Kagome cried in surprise.
The figure walked closer, showing that it was InuYasha as he stood next to the window where the moon reflected on him.
Kagome sweat dropped, "Did you think I was dead?"
"Keh...no" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome smiled. InuYasha walked over and crouched down next to her,
"You were supposed to come back today.....What's this?" he asked, pointing at the thing over her mouth.
"It's an oxygen mask"
"An....oxygen mask? Why do you need it?"
"To...breath more easily"
InuYasha frowned, "why...can't you breath properly?"
"......My neck's swollen from a cold"
InuYasha dropped his hands down, ~you got it from my world.....from being frozen instead of me~
InuYasha looked away, "why didn't you tell me.....that you were sick....."
"Because......I didn't want to.....worry you" Kagome replied.
"Man.....you made us worry more. We all thought you were in trouble or something" InuYasha muttered.
"Gomen..." Kagome said with a smile.
"How bad is it?"
"Not bad"
InuYasha sighed and rested his chin on the edge of the bed, far away from Kagome.
"I'm gunu have to wait here until you're better......Sango will kill me if I don't return with you"
"Sure, just don't let anyone see you, and don't annoy me" Kagome said.
"Keh, I wouldn't annoy you, you're the one who always annoys me"
Kagome smiled, "I'm glad you're here. It was so lonely all by myself when mother left"
".....I wont be much of a company anyway"
"No, you're a great company"
"Keh"
Kagome closed her eyes, ~he always acts so passive and as if he doesn't care.....but now I know that he just acts like that. He listens to every word I say, he just doesn't want to express his emotion....because.....he told me once that emotions makes you vulnerable.....I love InuYasha~
InuYasha glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eyes. He moved closer to her, as he again rested his head on the edge of the bed, his face right in front of Kagome's.
~What's she thinking about.....~ he wondered.
Kagome opened her eyes to see the golden cat like eyes looking at her. She felt her heart pounding fast.
"Go sleep, you need to rest" InuYasha said, as he turned and leaned against the bed and looked out the window. The moon brightly shining in the night sky.
Kagome reached out her hands, as she hesitated to get closer. She took a strand of his silver hair and played with it until she fell asleep from the drug the nurse had gave her not long ago.
InuYasha glanced around at her after a while and saw her hands loosely holding a strand of his hair.
~she's asleep.....~ InuYasha thought as he turned around and looked at her. He looked down at her hands and placed his hands in hers, resting his head on the bed as he gazed at her.
~I feel so at peace....~
InuYasha closed his eyes....
*****Flashback*****
They sat at the edge of the river bank, gazing at the pink cherry blossoms drifting away. The blossoms softly brushing against their faces, as it blew away.
InuYasha glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eyes.
~Ever since that one moment when I thought that I would loose you, but then you came back to me, something in my heart......felt as if a mist was disappearing. It felt as if my heart wanted me to know something....to tell you something......but my mind kept telling me to avoid it......What is it, that my heart is hiding so deeply....every time I look at you.....my heart.....wants to tell you something......~
Kagome glanced up at InuYasha to see him gazing down at her. He slowly turned his gaze away.
~I wish.....I wish that I could tell you.....how I felt. But it won't matter whether I tell or not. You wont return my feelings, so what's the point of telling....and being rejected. Kikyo hates me enough.....I don't want to make her hate me more.....for no reason.......~Kagome thought, as she glanced at InuYasha's hand that were still holding hers.
InuYasha looked back down at Kagome, and slightly frowned seeing Kagome's sad face, but she looked up and warmly smiled back.
"I like it when you smile" he said, "It makes me happy....when you are happy.....I keep thinking...of what my life would have been like.....if you had left me....." InuYasha confessed.
"What....would have......it been like"
"I'm....too scared to even imagine it...it would probably be like living hell"
InuYasha held her hands tighter,
"You wont leave me....will you" he asked in a distant voice.
"No...." Kagome quietly answered, InuYasha didn't catch the flash of sadness across her face.
"Kagome.....I...." InuYasha frowned, "never mind"
Silence
"I....I....."Kagome wanted to confess something, and tightly shut her eyes, "Sorry....nothing...."
InuYasha looked down at his hands that were holding hers....he looked down at it as if he never wanted to let go of her hands.....
"Kagome....remember that...I care for you a lot" InuYasha said.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha could feel Kagome's hands in his.
"When......has caring turned into love like this....." InuYasha asked himself, ~Or....has it always been love......a love that I always seemed to want to avoid. But now that I found it......Even though it makes choosing harder, I'm glad that I know I love her and that she loves me......But I wonder how long I've loved her for. Now that I think of it.....I very slowly began to love her from the beginning~
He could hear the wind whistling against the window pane.
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Naraku looked down at the ripped piece of InuYasha's Haori Seiyamie had given to him.
~I know I can use this for something......to use against him.....But what?~
He stared at the material that was covered in dry blood. Naraku leaned back against the wall and closed his mind in thought.
"Hmm...."
Flashes of InuYasha fighting flashed through his mind. Then a scene of InuYasha and Kikyo sitting on a hill together flashed through his mind.
He gritted his teeth and slammed his fist into the wooden floor making it creak from the force.
"Think......"
~The Haori protects him......I can use this to strengthen Seiyamie's shield...and it will also....~
"Seiyamie, come here" Naraku coolly ordered.
Seiyamie flashed over, Naraku opened the hand that held the bit of Haori as it flew over to Seiyamie and attached itself to his shoulder, as skin started to grow over the material..
"What is it.." it asked in a dead voice.
"It will protect you more and will also get a little sense of what InuYasha's moves will be, but not very well. That is all I think it can do......"
"Hai"
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Two days had passed. It seemed as if Kagome was healing faster with InuYasha around. Every single minuet InuYasha would carefully watch over Kagome.
"Say ahhhhh" InuYasha said holding a spoon of medicine to her mouth.
"I'm NOT a baby! I can do it myself!!!" Kagome protested.
"Keh, open, or I'm gunu have to force it open! And you're mother asked me to" InuYasha muttered.
*****Flashback*****
"Oh InuYaha!" Kagome's mother cried, "thank you so much for being here with my daughter and caring for her. I've been feeling sick myself lately and couldn't make it over to the hospital"
Kagome looked at her mother who looked dead tired.
"You haven't been sleeping much" Kagome scolded.
Her mother smiled, " I had been too worried about you. I called the hospital many times but they said you were the same. But you look much better!"
She turned and looked at InuYasha, "May I ask how long you shall be staying here for?"
"As long as it takes for this girl to get better. I'm not aloud back without her" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome's mother smiled, "then....would it be that terrible Kagome dear....."
"Yes, yes, mother you don't have to come and visit and worry anymore. I'm perfectly fine..."
"Or in the slow process of getting fine" InuYasha added.
"Thank you dear" the mother said, ~They need to spend some more time together~
Kagome's grandfather walked in, "Hello"
"Hi!"
He walked up to InuYasha and looked closely at him.
"I don't know how you can trust the likes him" the grandfather muttered to Kagome's mom. "He's a demon after all, have you ever heard of a demon taking care of someone? And how do you know if he will act decent when they're all alone?!"
Kagome turned red and hit him hard on the head, "AH HAH HAH, Grandpa, don't worry about THAT. His mind is completely and ALWAYS decent!! But....maybe it would be different if there was that other girl Kikyo in my place"
InuYasha glared at Kagome, "I heard that" he hissed.
*****End of Flashback*****
~Man, her family's weird~ InuYasha thought.
"What's up with that look?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha stuck the spoon into her mouth. Her face had an expression of disgust as she forced it down her neck.
"WATER!" Kagome cried.
"Keh, they just told me to give you this medicine every seven hours. They never told me to act like your servant" InuYasha muttered as he still went and got her a cup of water.
They both sat together on the bed, as the hospital TV was on in front of them. InuYasha watched in amazement. He never had gotten used to the moving pictures in the box.
They watched until they were bored. They sat leaning against each other. Kagome held his hands.
InuYasha looked down and saw his hands, the hands that were meant for killing, the hand that had so many times been smeared in blood, holding her pure hands. He felt his hands sink, ~With the Shikon no Tama....I had always wished....to become a full youkai.....to kill more....to get more blood on my hands. But now....It feels so wrong~
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Sanngo, Miroku, Shippo and Kilala sat boredly in the hut while Tomo and Tsubaki danced for them.
Miroku glanced over at Sango, "what is the one thing you want?"
"Hm...It would have to be Kohuku"
~I can't giver her that~ Miroku asked again, "anything else?"
~You....~ "No, the other thing I want....is.....kind of stupid. It's just as if I'm trying to catch the wind, me wishing for something I can't have"
Miroku looked as if he was confused, "Sure...if you try, you can get anything"
"No, no. You don't understand. It's like...Looking up at the night sky and seeing stars, and you try to get it, you wish for it, but whatever you do, you will never get it" Sango muttered, ~Even if I wish that I could be with you, for you to love me. How can I have you when your heart belongs to so many other woman~
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Kouga sighed in disappointment seeing that the woman he had been about to choose, Miyame, was not Kagome.
She ran around the cave commanding all his people.
~I want Kagome.....~
*****Flashback*****
"You will be my woman" Kouga said proudly.
All of his tribes' jaw dropped low.
"Eh...." Kagome's cheeks turned pink, "what?!"
"You will become my woman"
"I...I....I already have a boyfriend!" Kagome choked out.
"That dog eared guy?!"
"Don't call him that!!! His name is InuYasha!"
*****End of Flashback*****
~But.....She wasn't his woman then, or isn't now. I just found out that he had another woman, that dead miko lady. Kagome's free.......But from the start, she wanted to belong to him~
"I am Kouga...Leader of the mighty wolf tribe....I will change that. She will love me" Kouga muttered stubbornly.
"KOUGA! How can I have you as MY man when you do nothing but sit there sighing all the time!!!!" Miyame yelled at him.
"Ah, why don't you just shut up for just a minuet a day" Kouga hissed.
"Well maybe if you helped out for a minuet a day I would shut up for a minuet a day!!"
"Whatever!"
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InuYasha landed next to the hut as Kagome jumped off his back. She ran towards the hut,
"GUYS! I'm BACK!!!!" Kagome called cheerfully.
"YAY!" Shippo cried as he ran out waving his hands in the air.
"Prrrrrrr" Kilala walked after Shippo.
"We heard YOU coming, we thought you were alone, so Sango and I were getting our weapons sharpened to kill you" Miroku said.
"Kagome-chan!" Sango said happily as she hugged her.
"Wait, wait!" Tomo cried after Shippo, "don't leave me!"
"You guys are still hanging out with these....people?" InuYasha asked.
Miroku nudged him on the side, "we get free food, free everything!" Miroku whispered.
"So.....we thought we should just take advantage of it"
"I wonder how you ever got passed as a priest" InuYasha muttered.
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It was getting dark.
Miroku entered the hut holding something in his back, he walked over to Sango .
"What's that?" Sango asked.
"Hold out you hands" he told her. She did and he put something in her hands.
Sango looked down to see a firefly glowing in her hands. Sango gasped, "wow..."
She looked up at Miroku and warmly smiled.
"I've caught one of the stars for you" Miroku smiled.
*****Flashback*****
"No, no. You don't understand. It's like...Looking up at the night sky and seeing stars, and you try to get it, you wish for it, but whatever you do, you will never get it"
*****End of Flashback*****
Sango blushed, her heart felt as if it would melt. No...It had melted.
~Are you saying....that I should keep....wishing.....hoping that you would love me, wholly?~
"See.....nothing's impossible" Miroku smiled.
"Tha.....Thanks"
Kagome smiled at what she saw and reached into her bag to get out a text book to study, but found it missing.
Kagome scratched her head, ~I'm sure I brought it before we left here......I must have missed this one by the well when all my stuff had fell out of my bag~
She looked around to look for InuYasha to tell him that she had to go out to look for her missing text book, but he wasn't there.
"Oh ya..." Kagome muttered, "he said that he was going out to look around if there was any Youkais around"
She looked over at Sango and Miroku who were smiling at each other, ~I know I should tell them where I'm going and why.....but....AWWWW, who would want to interrupt that perfect moment?~
Kagome quietly left the hut with her arrows and bow in hand, whispering at Kilala to follow. Not even Tsubaki and Tomo noticed. They were too busy sighing at the scene they were seeing.
"How romantic" Tomo sighed.
"Naw, I've been in romanticer scenes" Tsubaki bragged.
"Oh my, you're so lucky!"
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Kagome stepped outside with Kilala,
"Fly me to the well" Kagome asked.
"Prrrrr" she nodded her head as she transformed.
Kagome closed her eyes as she felt the cold wind blowing against her face.
She landed back on the ground, "Wait here while I go look for my text book" Kagome asked.
Kagome squinted her eyes, not able to see through in the darkness.
~Where's that damn book?!~
As she walked she felt herself bump into something tall. She looked up to see that it was someone.
"Huh......who are you?" Kagome asked, feeling frightened. ~InuYasha? No, I hadn't I felt frightened when it had been InuYasha last time and I hadn't known~
"Don't you know me?" the person asked.
~The voice....so familiar....~
"It's me.....Kouga!"
"Kouga-kun?! Oh! It's so hard to see in the dark! Sorry" Kagome apologiesed, "How'd you know it was me?"
"I have better eyes than yours"
Kagome gasped when she felt herself being held in his arms.
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InuYasha frowned as he sniffed the air,
~I smell a faint sent...of that damn guy~ InuYasha thought as he sped towards that direction, ~Why is he around here?!~
InuYasha slowed down and followed the scent through the forest. Each step he took, the scent got stronger.
Suddenly, he caught a scent of Kagome. His heart pounded fast, fear started arise in him. ~Shit.....Is Kagome in trouble?~
He finally saw half of Kouga past a tree holding something....or someone.
He moved down a bit, to see what it was. He saw Kagome....
~WHAT?! What...what the hell is she doing...there.....in his arms?!~
"I tried Kagome......" he heard Kouga whisper, "I tried to find someone that was similar to you. But I couldn't!"
"Kouga....." Kagome muttered, not knowing what to say.
"Kagome....you're the only person I love. The only woman I want! I promise to make you happy, to take care of you!" he said.
InuYasha had a flashback of Kikyo shooting an arrow at him. InuYasha stared at the arrow speeding up to him in shock. It hit his heart, feeling as if his heart would rip apart. InuYasha tried to catch the Shikon no Tama that fell out of his hands and to the ground. He looked up at Kikyo's cold and hateful eyes, "How.....could you" he asked painfully. ~You betrayed me~
He stared at Kagome in Kouga's arms, InuYasha touched his heart, he could feel the feeling of the arrow as if he had just been shot again.
"Kikyo.....Kagome" InuYasha whispered.
"Kouga..." Kagome said, "I....I...will never be able to...return those feelings. They belong to another"
Kagome's eyes slowly started to adjust in the dark. She saw a figure standing behind Kouga. The moonlight slowly reflected on the person.
"I....InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she broke away from Kouga and ran towards InuYasha.
She stood right in front of InuYasha, as Kouga looked hurt and looked at Kagome.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered, her heart pounding hard, ~It's not what you think.....it's not what you think~
She could see his eyes glimmering in the moonlight.
He looked away from her,
"Sorry....I didn't mean to interrupt...." he whispered as he turned around to leave.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she grabbed him and turned him around.
InuYasha gently pulled her hands away and jumped out of sight.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried.
InuYasha landed not far away on the ground.
~She had...said that her heart belonged to another to Kouga. Supposidly me....~
InuYasha held his hands into a tight fist, ~Why do I feel so...hurt when I saw her with Kouga...I feel like a child....that is slowly learning how to feel true emotions~
"Kouga.....would make her more happy" InuYasha muttered.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she dropped to his side, exhausted from running, "don't...say that!!! I told you!!! You're the only one that can make me happy!"
"Ya...sure" InuYasha muttered as he stood up and walked away.
"You don't trust me....do you? You never did! But......what is love without it? I love you.....So why can't you trust me? " Kagome cried.
"It's.....not that.....Just feeling...as if I had been betrayed....made me remember .....the time when Kikyo had betrayed me. I know your heart....doesn't belong to Kouga. Just feeling as if I was betrayed.....reminded me....of my past. The burden I have for Kikyo. My heads all confused again. Sorry. It's not your fault" InuYasha whispered .
Kagome looked down at her hands as a tear fell onto it.
InuYasha felt bad just leaving Kagome there and walked back over to her. He crouched down next to her and wiped her tear away.
"I just...didn't want to think of Kikyo....i hadn't for the past few days when I was with you. But....I guess I'm living back in reality. Don't cry.....I'm not mad at you or anything" InuYasha told her.
"I know....but.....it just...hurts" Kagome tried to explain, but couldn't.
"Come on, we'd better get going" InuYasha said as she got on his back nad jumped into the air with Kilala flying beside them.
InuYasha frowned,
"I sense an evil aurora....." InuYasha muttered.
They landed on the ground next to a rocky mountain, with the forest behind them.
Kilala hissed as her fur spiked up.
"Even Kilala senses it...." InuYasha muttered.
Out of the dark woods came a dark figure that was all dressed in black, making it hard for them to see. It jumped into the air and landed not far in front of them under the moon.
InuYasha looked at the Youkai. It's red eyes glowed in the dark as a shield and a whip formed in its hand. The whip turned into a samurai's sword.
"Seiyamie..." InuYasha muttered.
The moon light shone on Seiyamie as a grumbling sound was heard. Out of Seiyamie's head came two horns, and was wearing an armor of a samurai.
"What the hell are you now?!" InuYasha asked.
"I was a dying Samurai, and I sold my soul to Naraku who created me into this. I am more stronger now.....As I told you before, I am stronger at night"
"Jeez, you probably would look better dead. Now you look like a friggin screw up" InuYasha muttered as he took out his Tetsusaiga. Kagome took out a bow and arrow.
"I just wish to fight with you, InuYasha. Do you need help with from theses people?" Seiaymaie hissed in a dead, weak tone.
"Keh, no!"
"Then follow me"
"It's not a trap is it?!" Kagome asked, "we have to come with you!"
"NO!" InuYasha said, "stay here!"
Seiyamie flew up the tall rocky mountain, while InuYasha ran up it. They ended up in a dark place, the only light was the moonlight and the stars. The place was surrounded in tall rocky mountains, with many deep cracks in the ground.
"Prepare to meet your death.....InuYasha" it hissed.
"In you friggin dreams" InuYasha muttered.
**~~ Ok..I said there would be action scenes, I guess you guys are gunu have to wait till the next chapter ^^ Wow....I wrote long this time, there's another present! It was very long. Well, hope you guys review!!!!! No one has reviewed my chapter on Christmas and hardly any on Xmas eve. ?_? so sad....~~**
NOTE: I forgot to mention in my last chapter that InuYasha had taken the jewel from the wolf Youkai. Sorry, forgot about that part.
============= Chapter Forty-Five =============
It was early in the morning, Kagome could feel her body burning with a fever, though she tried not to act like it. She didn't want to worry the others.
She bundled herself up with a sweater and a jacket, but she still felt sick.
She looked around, everyone had moved into the room she had been in. Sango had come from before as did InuYasha. Miroku had noticed that Sango was missing (I wonder why) and had heard a lot of talking outside in the other room. Shippo had woken up from a bad dream and had gone screaming in search of the rest, and Kilala had followed.
Kagome saw InuYasha sleeping against the wall, as usual, to stay on guard. She could feel her whole body shivering from the fever, ~I have to go back to my own world for proper medication.....~
Kagome knew that it would be faster to go to her world and get better than making Sango stress over taking care of her.
She crawled over to InuYasha, the floor was freezing cold.
"InuYasha" Kagome whispered, tugging at the two locks of silver hair.
He slowly opened one eyes, "Huh....Kagome?" he muttered sleepily.
"I...I have to go back to my world to....study for a coming exam" Kagome whispered a lie.
"It's just a friggin test"
Kagome looked at him in her big teary eye look.
".....Ok OK! How long are you going to be away for?" he muttered.
"Um.....let me think" Kagome muttered, ~how long would it take for me to get better? Jeez...um, my cold can't be that bad~
"Two days maybe?" Kagome answered, trying very hard to keep from coughing.
"..Hai" InuYasha muttered in disappointment, ~so long....~
"ONLY two days. And if you're not back by then, I'll....."
"Hai! Ja "
Kagome stood up and picked up her yellow bag and ran out with Kilala by her side, she didn't want him to know she was sick and couldn't hold it in much longer.
"Kilala! Fly me to the well!" Kagome asked.
"I'll go and DRAG you all the way back!" InuYasha finished.
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Kagome sat on the floor of the well in her world, clutching her neck. She had coughed so hard that her neck felt very sore.
She could feel the fever burning her skin.
"Mother?" Kagome coughed as she entered her house, "I'm home!"
Her mother peeked out of the kitchen,
"Oh hi honey....." she said, but then frowned, seeing her daughter look unwell.
"I got a little cold..."
"It doesn't look that little to me...."her mother scolded, "go up to your room and rest, I'll get all the medication"
"Hai"
Kagome fell back on the bed with a sigh, ~So comfortable.....man, I don't know how I was able to sleep on the cold hard floor.......~
She curled up in her blanket.
~I feel so tired and dizzy....my eyes feel so heavy......~
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Everyone stared at InuYasha who was sitting on the floor, tapping his fingers in boredom, while Tsubaki flirted around with her master (who looked very annoyed), and Tomo was squeezing Shippo and Kilala in her arms.
Shippo jumped out of Tomo's arms and screamed towards InuYasha and his behind his back.
Miroku looked jealously at Shippo, ~Why is he getting all the attention....not that I want attention from that pig...But it would be relieving to know that I haven't lost my touch with the ladies.....~
"InuYasha! Will you stop that!" Sango yelled in annoyance.
"Keh, stop what?!" InuYasha asked in his usual rude tone.
"That- THAT TAPPING!"
"Wha? Tapping my fingers? When did I ever listen to you?"
"If you're so bored without Kagome, why don't you just go hang out with her there instead of annoying us?!!" Sango asked.
InuYasha gripped his hands into a fist, Shippo looked up at InuYasha who's face was red.
"Ergggggg! Shut up! " InuYasha yelled.
"I know you like her" Sango teased.
InuYasha hit Shippo across the head.
"What was that for?!!!" Shippo cried in pain.
"Keh, shut up" InuYasha muttered.
"Just because Sango's a girl and you don't want to hit her because of that, it doesn't meant that you have to hit ME!!!" Shippo cried.
"You're the closest and I needed to hit someone" he answered.
Shippo pouted, "I don't like you!"
"You told me that once before. I'm not deaf, you don't have to tell me a million more times" InuYasha said in annoyance.
"Well....!!! You're mean!!!"
InuYasha sighed, crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall,
"Told me that before...."
"Well I'm reminding you again!!"
"Do you really have to remind me 24-7 ? It gets kinda annoying" InuYasha pointed out.
"WAAAAAA...I wish Kagome was here. When she does come, I'm gunu make her SIT you!!!!!!" Shippo yelled.
"Sure, sure"
Sango was twitching in annoyance. Shippo and InuYasha both looked up at Sango who's backround was turning dark.
"SHUT UP!!!!!"
Everyone froze in fright and shock.
*Silence*
Sango sighed,
"Much better..."
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"Doctor....How is my daughter?" Kagome's mother asked.
The doctor moved away from Kagome's bed, "She's fine, it's not as if her life is at risk or anything....But she's been in some really cold place, and has an extremely bad fever. Jus keep her warm, feed her this medicine, and......the proper food...Hmmmm.....I think that would be about it"
Kagome's mother looked down at her daughter who was sweating from the fever, and shaking.
"Are you sure it's not life threatening?"
"Yes ma'am, I'm very sure, as long as you treat her fever PROPERLY as I told you to. I believe you should take her to the hospital for closer examinations. Well...you'd have to. I found her throat very swollen, it'll make it hard for her to breath. The hospital will give her oxygen and all...."
Kagome's mother bit her lips, ~I don't want to take any chances with my daughter's life though.....~
"Um....Do you think it would be better if she went and stayed in the hospital until she recovers?"
"Yes...I believe that would be a wiser idea"
Kagome's mother bowed at the doctor, "arigato"
The doctor nodded his head.
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InuYasha looked our at the night sky, as he sat on a tree branch. He looked down at his hands, with two fingers out.
"Two days until she said she'd come back...today would count as one day....she never said it'd count as one day from tomorrow. So....one more day left before she comes"
InuYasha sighed and leaned back against the tree trunk, ~One day seems more like one year....~
He closed his eyes and Kikyo flashed through his mind.
***** Flashback *****
"I can feel it, the end is nearing. The shikon jewel will soon be restored. Naraku is getting stronger..........."
*****End of Flashback *****
InuYasha frowned, ~What did Kikyo mean by that? Naraku....getting stronger? How...strong exactly? The end is nearing.....did she mean the end when the Shikon jewel is a whole.....and the last battle happens between us and Naraku? What did Kikyo mean.....~
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Naraku evilly smiled as he could feel power from all the Shikon jewel gave him.
~Just a little bit more to find.....With all the Shikon jewels I have gathered, I can create youkais that are stronger......and get ready for the day....when I defeat InuYasha~
Naraku glanced at Seiyamie who sat in the corner, his red eyes glowing in the dark.
"Must kill, must kill, must kill" Seiyamie kept hissing as he dug his claws into the wooden floor.
Kanna and Kagura watched Seiyamie.
~He is stronger than us......~ Kagura thought, ~He is one of Naraku's creations made stronger by the Shikon jewel...... the youkais he will use to kill InuYasha~
Kagura looked out the window, ~What will Naraku do with me and Kanna....we are weak compared to the youkais he will create.....All I wanted was to be free like the wind.....~
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InuYasha stared down the well, ~It's the second day and Kagome hasn't come yet....~
Miroku, Sango, Kilala, and Shippo watched InuYasha from behind a bush.
"Wow..he's really infatuated with Kagome, isn't he?" Shippo asked.
"Yes....I believe so. It is kind of obvious now, all the two days Kagome had been gone for, all he's been doing was acting all bored, all depressed and all that....." Miroku muttered, stopping to think of the word he wanted to use.
"Crap?" Shippo added.
"EH?! Where did you learn that word from?!!!" Sango scolded loudly.
Shippo proudly crossed his arm, "I heard InuYasha use it many times in a sentence like this, so, I guessed it would fit in with the sentence Miroku had said"
Sango and Miroku both sweat cropped.
Sango nudged Miroku, "I think InuYasha is a bad influence to Shippo...."
"Yah...he is just a kid after all. Still innocent" Miroku agreed, "HOW TERRIBLE! Corrupting a little CHILD!!! That is truly SAD!!"
"But we can't really do anything about it...can we..." Sango muttered, and suddenly started to backing away.
Miroku and Shippo looked at Sango, "why are you backing away?"
Sango had a big nervous grin on her face.
"Ah hah hah hah" Sango choked out a laugh as she pointed at something.
Shippo looked at Miroku, "I think your girlfriend's getting a little....out of there"
"Yah, I believe she's going mad...." Miroku agreed with a nod.
Sango kept smilling nervously and pointing at something.
"What are you guys doing?" asked a voice behind them.
"It sounds very familiar....."Miroku muttered. They slowly turned their heads to see......a very pissed looking InuYasha.
Shippo and Miroku began to smile nervously.
"Ah hah hah hah..." Miroku laughed, putting his hands in front of him in protection. "N- nothing!"
"Ha hah hah...really, we were doing nothing! How...how did you know we were here?" Shippo cried.
"Um....maybe it's because you guys are really loud" InuYasha growled.
"What the hell were you assholes doing?!!!!" InuYasha asked. He picked Shippo up by the legs, "we're you spying on me?"
"No!!!! You see...um.....I had to go to the washroom, and the hut was too far away.....so I did it behind this bush!" Shippo cried.
Everyone sweat dropped.
"With all of them around you?" InuYasha asked.
Shippo cringed his face and started to hit his head, "baka baka baka baka baka baka!!!" Shippo cried, "AHHHH, I could have thought of a better excuse!!!"
"If I had been in the mood to hit you, I would have, VERY hard...but I'm not in the mood! You guys are so screwed, acting as if I was an alien and all that crap"
"SEE!" Shippo cried, " he said that word!"
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Everyone sat around the well, sighing in wait for Kagome.
"What's taking her so long?" Miroku muttered.
Sango frowned, "and it's already long past morning..."
Shippo screamed, causing Kilala to spike up her fur.
"What if Kagome was kidnapped! Or what if she screwed up on traveling here and ended up in another dimension!!!!!!!!!" Shippo cried.
InuYasha hit him hard on the head, "don't make it sound worse than it already is!!!"
"Gomen, gomen!"
InuYasha sighed and sat back against the well, ~what's happened to Kagome? Is she alright?~
"Why don't you just go to her time and get her?" Miroku asked.
"Oh! He should have done that hours ago!" Sango muttered looking up at the dark sky.
~I would have if you guys hadn't been around me like that~ InuYasha thought in annoyance.
"Fine" InuYasha muttered as he stood up and jumped down the well disappearing in a blue flash.
Souta had been sitting under the God tree playing with his robot toys, when he saw black streaks of light jumping towards his house.
"Huh....Oh, InuYasha's here!" Souta cried in excitement as he ran towards the house.
InuYasha crouched on the branch and looked into Kagome's window.
"No one's there......." InuYasha muttered, ~Where could she be?~
InuYasha jumped off and walked towards the front door. He stood in front of the door, but found it locked.
"Damn"
He suddenly felt someone tugging his Haori. He turned to see Souta who smiled widely at him,
"You're gunu need this to get in" he said, dangling the key in front of InuYasha.
InuYasha grabbed it out of his hands and tried to figure out how to open the door with it.
"How do you open this damn door?!" InuYasha asked, trying to open the door with the key, but not knowing how to.
Souta laughed, but stopped as InuYasha glared at him.
"Why are you out at night alone anyway?" InuYasha asked.
"Mother went to the hospital and I wanted to wait for her outside, but I got bored so I got my robots to play with"
"The..hospital? Why?" InuYasha asked, "which hospital?"
"You know, the one you saw last time....just down the road"
"Is...."but InuYasha stopped seeing a car stopping at the house, and saw Kagome's mother stepping out. She looked up to see InuYasha.
InuYasha walked over to her, and felt kind of aquard.
"Where's Kagome? She was supposed to be in our world hours ago....." InuYasha said, ~was I supposed to bow to her or something? Or maybe I should have said hi....damn, I suck when it comes to manners....~
"Oh....Kagome...she....."
InuYasha frowned, "she...what?"
"She's in...the hospital..." Kagome's mother said and was about to say something more but InuYasha backed away and ran to the hospital.
"Oh dear..." Kagome's mother muttered, "he looks really worried...."
Only red streaks of light could be seen jumping high into the air. InuYasha could feel his heart pounding fast.
"Hospital....." InuYasha muttered, ~aren't they for people who are hurt..... The people I saw in the hospital last time were practically already dead....~
InuYasha was high in the air when he spotted the hospital, he could hear the cars speeding far down under him, and the sound of his Haori rustling in the wind.
InuYasha landed on the ground, the dead grass brushing under his feet as he ran towards Kagome's scent. He found it, it came from the room on the second room. He jumped up and perched on the window edge and peered through. The curtains were closed, leaving only a slit to see her. He saw Kagome lying on the bed with something over her mouth and a string thing connected to it, which was attached to a clear bag that said oxygen and was hanging on a stand.
"Kagome...." InuYasha whispered, his eyes wide open.
"Huh...." Kagome slowly opened her eyes, she could feel cold wind entering her room. She looked at the window to see it open, the curtains blowing in the cool wind.
She slowly turned her head to see a dark figure standing beside the wall. For some reason she didn't feel afraid.
"Who are you?" Kagome quietly asked.
"Kagome! You're alive!" the voice said in relief.
".......InuYasha?" Kagome cried in surprise.
The figure walked closer, showing that it was InuYasha as he stood next to the window where the moon reflected on him.
Kagome sweat dropped, "Did you think I was dead?"
"Keh...no" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome smiled. InuYasha walked over and crouched down next to her,
"You were supposed to come back today.....What's this?" he asked, pointing at the thing over her mouth.
"It's an oxygen mask"
"An....oxygen mask? Why do you need it?"
"To...breath more easily"
InuYasha frowned, "why...can't you breath properly?"
"......My neck's swollen from a cold"
InuYasha dropped his hands down, ~you got it from my world.....from being frozen instead of me~
InuYasha looked away, "why didn't you tell me.....that you were sick....."
"Because......I didn't want to.....worry you" Kagome replied.
"Man.....you made us worry more. We all thought you were in trouble or something" InuYasha muttered.
"Gomen..." Kagome said with a smile.
"How bad is it?"
"Not bad"
InuYasha sighed and rested his chin on the edge of the bed, far away from Kagome.
"I'm gunu have to wait here until you're better......Sango will kill me if I don't return with you"
"Sure, just don't let anyone see you, and don't annoy me" Kagome said.
"Keh, I wouldn't annoy you, you're the one who always annoys me"
Kagome smiled, "I'm glad you're here. It was so lonely all by myself when mother left"
".....I wont be much of a company anyway"
"No, you're a great company"
"Keh"
Kagome closed her eyes, ~he always acts so passive and as if he doesn't care.....but now I know that he just acts like that. He listens to every word I say, he just doesn't want to express his emotion....because.....he told me once that emotions makes you vulnerable.....I love InuYasha~
InuYasha glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eyes. He moved closer to her, as he again rested his head on the edge of the bed, his face right in front of Kagome's.
~What's she thinking about.....~ he wondered.
Kagome opened her eyes to see the golden cat like eyes looking at her. She felt her heart pounding fast.
"Go sleep, you need to rest" InuYasha said, as he turned and leaned against the bed and looked out the window. The moon brightly shining in the night sky.
Kagome reached out her hands, as she hesitated to get closer. She took a strand of his silver hair and played with it until she fell asleep from the drug the nurse had gave her not long ago.
InuYasha glanced around at her after a while and saw her hands loosely holding a strand of his hair.
~she's asleep.....~ InuYasha thought as he turned around and looked at her. He looked down at her hands and placed his hands in hers, resting his head on the bed as he gazed at her.
~I feel so at peace....~
InuYasha closed his eyes....
*****Flashback*****
They sat at the edge of the river bank, gazing at the pink cherry blossoms drifting away. The blossoms softly brushing against their faces, as it blew away.
InuYasha glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eyes.
~Ever since that one moment when I thought that I would loose you, but then you came back to me, something in my heart......felt as if a mist was disappearing. It felt as if my heart wanted me to know something....to tell you something......but my mind kept telling me to avoid it......What is it, that my heart is hiding so deeply....every time I look at you.....my heart.....wants to tell you something......~
Kagome glanced up at InuYasha to see him gazing down at her. He slowly turned his gaze away.
~I wish.....I wish that I could tell you.....how I felt. But it won't matter whether I tell or not. You wont return my feelings, so what's the point of telling....and being rejected. Kikyo hates me enough.....I don't want to make her hate me more.....for no reason.......~Kagome thought, as she glanced at InuYasha's hand that were still holding hers.
InuYasha looked back down at Kagome, and slightly frowned seeing Kagome's sad face, but she looked up and warmly smiled back.
"I like it when you smile" he said, "It makes me happy....when you are happy.....I keep thinking...of what my life would have been like.....if you had left me....." InuYasha confessed.
"What....would have......it been like"
"I'm....too scared to even imagine it...it would probably be like living hell"
InuYasha held her hands tighter,
"You wont leave me....will you" he asked in a distant voice.
"No...." Kagome quietly answered, InuYasha didn't catch the flash of sadness across her face.
"Kagome.....I...." InuYasha frowned, "never mind"
Silence
"I....I....."Kagome wanted to confess something, and tightly shut her eyes, "Sorry....nothing...."
InuYasha looked down at his hands that were holding hers....he looked down at it as if he never wanted to let go of her hands.....
"Kagome....remember that...I care for you a lot" InuYasha said.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha could feel Kagome's hands in his.
"When......has caring turned into love like this....." InuYasha asked himself, ~Or....has it always been love......a love that I always seemed to want to avoid. But now that I found it......Even though it makes choosing harder, I'm glad that I know I love her and that she loves me......But I wonder how long I've loved her for. Now that I think of it.....I very slowly began to love her from the beginning~
He could hear the wind whistling against the window pane.
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Naraku looked down at the ripped piece of InuYasha's Haori Seiyamie had given to him.
~I know I can use this for something......to use against him.....But what?~
He stared at the material that was covered in dry blood. Naraku leaned back against the wall and closed his mind in thought.
"Hmm...."
Flashes of InuYasha fighting flashed through his mind. Then a scene of InuYasha and Kikyo sitting on a hill together flashed through his mind.
He gritted his teeth and slammed his fist into the wooden floor making it creak from the force.
"Think......"
~The Haori protects him......I can use this to strengthen Seiyamie's shield...and it will also....~
"Seiyamie, come here" Naraku coolly ordered.
Seiyamie flashed over, Naraku opened the hand that held the bit of Haori as it flew over to Seiyamie and attached itself to his shoulder, as skin started to grow over the material..
"What is it.." it asked in a dead voice.
"It will protect you more and will also get a little sense of what InuYasha's moves will be, but not very well. That is all I think it can do......"
"Hai"
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Two days had passed. It seemed as if Kagome was healing faster with InuYasha around. Every single minuet InuYasha would carefully watch over Kagome.
"Say ahhhhh" InuYasha said holding a spoon of medicine to her mouth.
"I'm NOT a baby! I can do it myself!!!" Kagome protested.
"Keh, open, or I'm gunu have to force it open! And you're mother asked me to" InuYasha muttered.
*****Flashback*****
"Oh InuYaha!" Kagome's mother cried, "thank you so much for being here with my daughter and caring for her. I've been feeling sick myself lately and couldn't make it over to the hospital"
Kagome looked at her mother who looked dead tired.
"You haven't been sleeping much" Kagome scolded.
Her mother smiled, " I had been too worried about you. I called the hospital many times but they said you were the same. But you look much better!"
She turned and looked at InuYasha, "May I ask how long you shall be staying here for?"
"As long as it takes for this girl to get better. I'm not aloud back without her" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome's mother smiled, "then....would it be that terrible Kagome dear....."
"Yes, yes, mother you don't have to come and visit and worry anymore. I'm perfectly fine..."
"Or in the slow process of getting fine" InuYasha added.
"Thank you dear" the mother said, ~They need to spend some more time together~
Kagome's grandfather walked in, "Hello"
"Hi!"
He walked up to InuYasha and looked closely at him.
"I don't know how you can trust the likes him" the grandfather muttered to Kagome's mom. "He's a demon after all, have you ever heard of a demon taking care of someone? And how do you know if he will act decent when they're all alone?!"
Kagome turned red and hit him hard on the head, "AH HAH HAH, Grandpa, don't worry about THAT. His mind is completely and ALWAYS decent!! But....maybe it would be different if there was that other girl Kikyo in my place"
InuYasha glared at Kagome, "I heard that" he hissed.
*****End of Flashback*****
~Man, her family's weird~ InuYasha thought.
"What's up with that look?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha stuck the spoon into her mouth. Her face had an expression of disgust as she forced it down her neck.
"WATER!" Kagome cried.
"Keh, they just told me to give you this medicine every seven hours. They never told me to act like your servant" InuYasha muttered as he still went and got her a cup of water.
They both sat together on the bed, as the hospital TV was on in front of them. InuYasha watched in amazement. He never had gotten used to the moving pictures in the box.
They watched until they were bored. They sat leaning against each other. Kagome held his hands.
InuYasha looked down and saw his hands, the hands that were meant for killing, the hand that had so many times been smeared in blood, holding her pure hands. He felt his hands sink, ~With the Shikon no Tama....I had always wished....to become a full youkai.....to kill more....to get more blood on my hands. But now....It feels so wrong~
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Sanngo, Miroku, Shippo and Kilala sat boredly in the hut while Tomo and Tsubaki danced for them.
Miroku glanced over at Sango, "what is the one thing you want?"
"Hm...It would have to be Kohuku"
~I can't giver her that~ Miroku asked again, "anything else?"
~You....~ "No, the other thing I want....is.....kind of stupid. It's just as if I'm trying to catch the wind, me wishing for something I can't have"
Miroku looked as if he was confused, "Sure...if you try, you can get anything"
"No, no. You don't understand. It's like...Looking up at the night sky and seeing stars, and you try to get it, you wish for it, but whatever you do, you will never get it" Sango muttered, ~Even if I wish that I could be with you, for you to love me. How can I have you when your heart belongs to so many other woman~
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Kouga sighed in disappointment seeing that the woman he had been about to choose, Miyame, was not Kagome.
She ran around the cave commanding all his people.
~I want Kagome.....~
*****Flashback*****
"You will be my woman" Kouga said proudly.
All of his tribes' jaw dropped low.
"Eh...." Kagome's cheeks turned pink, "what?!"
"You will become my woman"
"I...I....I already have a boyfriend!" Kagome choked out.
"That dog eared guy?!"
"Don't call him that!!! His name is InuYasha!"
*****End of Flashback*****
~But.....She wasn't his woman then, or isn't now. I just found out that he had another woman, that dead miko lady. Kagome's free.......But from the start, she wanted to belong to him~
"I am Kouga...Leader of the mighty wolf tribe....I will change that. She will love me" Kouga muttered stubbornly.
"KOUGA! How can I have you as MY man when you do nothing but sit there sighing all the time!!!!" Miyame yelled at him.
"Ah, why don't you just shut up for just a minuet a day" Kouga hissed.
"Well maybe if you helped out for a minuet a day I would shut up for a minuet a day!!"
"Whatever!"
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InuYasha landed next to the hut as Kagome jumped off his back. She ran towards the hut,
"GUYS! I'm BACK!!!!" Kagome called cheerfully.
"YAY!" Shippo cried as he ran out waving his hands in the air.
"Prrrrrrr" Kilala walked after Shippo.
"We heard YOU coming, we thought you were alone, so Sango and I were getting our weapons sharpened to kill you" Miroku said.
"Kagome-chan!" Sango said happily as she hugged her.
"Wait, wait!" Tomo cried after Shippo, "don't leave me!"
"You guys are still hanging out with these....people?" InuYasha asked.
Miroku nudged him on the side, "we get free food, free everything!" Miroku whispered.
"So.....we thought we should just take advantage of it"
"I wonder how you ever got passed as a priest" InuYasha muttered.
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It was getting dark.
Miroku entered the hut holding something in his back, he walked over to Sango .
"What's that?" Sango asked.
"Hold out you hands" he told her. She did and he put something in her hands.
Sango looked down to see a firefly glowing in her hands. Sango gasped, "wow..."
She looked up at Miroku and warmly smiled.
"I've caught one of the stars for you" Miroku smiled.
*****Flashback*****
"No, no. You don't understand. It's like...Looking up at the night sky and seeing stars, and you try to get it, you wish for it, but whatever you do, you will never get it"
*****End of Flashback*****
Sango blushed, her heart felt as if it would melt. No...It had melted.
~Are you saying....that I should keep....wishing.....hoping that you would love me, wholly?~
"See.....nothing's impossible" Miroku smiled.
"Tha.....Thanks"
Kagome smiled at what she saw and reached into her bag to get out a text book to study, but found it missing.
Kagome scratched her head, ~I'm sure I brought it before we left here......I must have missed this one by the well when all my stuff had fell out of my bag~
She looked around to look for InuYasha to tell him that she had to go out to look for her missing text book, but he wasn't there.
"Oh ya..." Kagome muttered, "he said that he was going out to look around if there was any Youkais around"
She looked over at Sango and Miroku who were smiling at each other, ~I know I should tell them where I'm going and why.....but....AWWWW, who would want to interrupt that perfect moment?~
Kagome quietly left the hut with her arrows and bow in hand, whispering at Kilala to follow. Not even Tsubaki and Tomo noticed. They were too busy sighing at the scene they were seeing.
"How romantic" Tomo sighed.
"Naw, I've been in romanticer scenes" Tsubaki bragged.
"Oh my, you're so lucky!"
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Kagome stepped outside with Kilala,
"Fly me to the well" Kagome asked.
"Prrrrr" she nodded her head as she transformed.
Kagome closed her eyes as she felt the cold wind blowing against her face.
She landed back on the ground, "Wait here while I go look for my text book" Kagome asked.
Kagome squinted her eyes, not able to see through in the darkness.
~Where's that damn book?!~
As she walked she felt herself bump into something tall. She looked up to see that it was someone.
"Huh......who are you?" Kagome asked, feeling frightened. ~InuYasha? No, I hadn't I felt frightened when it had been InuYasha last time and I hadn't known~
"Don't you know me?" the person asked.
~The voice....so familiar....~
"It's me.....Kouga!"
"Kouga-kun?! Oh! It's so hard to see in the dark! Sorry" Kagome apologiesed, "How'd you know it was me?"
"I have better eyes than yours"
Kagome gasped when she felt herself being held in his arms.
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InuYasha frowned as he sniffed the air,
~I smell a faint sent...of that damn guy~ InuYasha thought as he sped towards that direction, ~Why is he around here?!~
InuYasha slowed down and followed the scent through the forest. Each step he took, the scent got stronger.
Suddenly, he caught a scent of Kagome. His heart pounded fast, fear started arise in him. ~Shit.....Is Kagome in trouble?~
He finally saw half of Kouga past a tree holding something....or someone.
He moved down a bit, to see what it was. He saw Kagome....
~WHAT?! What...what the hell is she doing...there.....in his arms?!~
"I tried Kagome......" he heard Kouga whisper, "I tried to find someone that was similar to you. But I couldn't!"
"Kouga....." Kagome muttered, not knowing what to say.
"Kagome....you're the only person I love. The only woman I want! I promise to make you happy, to take care of you!" he said.
InuYasha had a flashback of Kikyo shooting an arrow at him. InuYasha stared at the arrow speeding up to him in shock. It hit his heart, feeling as if his heart would rip apart. InuYasha tried to catch the Shikon no Tama that fell out of his hands and to the ground. He looked up at Kikyo's cold and hateful eyes, "How.....could you" he asked painfully. ~You betrayed me~
He stared at Kagome in Kouga's arms, InuYasha touched his heart, he could feel the feeling of the arrow as if he had just been shot again.
"Kikyo.....Kagome" InuYasha whispered.
"Kouga..." Kagome said, "I....I...will never be able to...return those feelings. They belong to another"
Kagome's eyes slowly started to adjust in the dark. She saw a figure standing behind Kouga. The moonlight slowly reflected on the person.
"I....InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she broke away from Kouga and ran towards InuYasha.
She stood right in front of InuYasha, as Kouga looked hurt and looked at Kagome.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered, her heart pounding hard, ~It's not what you think.....it's not what you think~
She could see his eyes glimmering in the moonlight.
He looked away from her,
"Sorry....I didn't mean to interrupt...." he whispered as he turned around to leave.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she grabbed him and turned him around.
InuYasha gently pulled her hands away and jumped out of sight.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried.
InuYasha landed not far away on the ground.
~She had...said that her heart belonged to another to Kouga. Supposidly me....~
InuYasha held his hands into a tight fist, ~Why do I feel so...hurt when I saw her with Kouga...I feel like a child....that is slowly learning how to feel true emotions~
"Kouga.....would make her more happy" InuYasha muttered.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as she dropped to his side, exhausted from running, "don't...say that!!! I told you!!! You're the only one that can make me happy!"
"Ya...sure" InuYasha muttered as he stood up and walked away.
"You don't trust me....do you? You never did! But......what is love without it? I love you.....So why can't you trust me? " Kagome cried.
"It's.....not that.....Just feeling...as if I had been betrayed....made me remember .....the time when Kikyo had betrayed me. I know your heart....doesn't belong to Kouga. Just feeling as if I was betrayed.....reminded me....of my past. The burden I have for Kikyo. My heads all confused again. Sorry. It's not your fault" InuYasha whispered .
Kagome looked down at her hands as a tear fell onto it.
InuYasha felt bad just leaving Kagome there and walked back over to her. He crouched down next to her and wiped her tear away.
"I just...didn't want to think of Kikyo....i hadn't for the past few days when I was with you. But....I guess I'm living back in reality. Don't cry.....I'm not mad at you or anything" InuYasha told her.
"I know....but.....it just...hurts" Kagome tried to explain, but couldn't.
"Come on, we'd better get going" InuYasha said as she got on his back nad jumped into the air with Kilala flying beside them.
InuYasha frowned,
"I sense an evil aurora....." InuYasha muttered.
They landed on the ground next to a rocky mountain, with the forest behind them.
Kilala hissed as her fur spiked up.
"Even Kilala senses it...." InuYasha muttered.
Out of the dark woods came a dark figure that was all dressed in black, making it hard for them to see. It jumped into the air and landed not far in front of them under the moon.
InuYasha looked at the Youkai. It's red eyes glowed in the dark as a shield and a whip formed in its hand. The whip turned into a samurai's sword.
"Seiyamie..." InuYasha muttered.
The moon light shone on Seiyamie as a grumbling sound was heard. Out of Seiyamie's head came two horns, and was wearing an armor of a samurai.
"What the hell are you now?!" InuYasha asked.
"I was a dying Samurai, and I sold my soul to Naraku who created me into this. I am more stronger now.....As I told you before, I am stronger at night"
"Jeez, you probably would look better dead. Now you look like a friggin screw up" InuYasha muttered as he took out his Tetsusaiga. Kagome took out a bow and arrow.
"I just wish to fight with you, InuYasha. Do you need help with from theses people?" Seiaymaie hissed in a dead, weak tone.
"Keh, no!"
"Then follow me"
"It's not a trap is it?!" Kagome asked, "we have to come with you!"
"NO!" InuYasha said, "stay here!"
Seiyamie flew up the tall rocky mountain, while InuYasha ran up it. They ended up in a dark place, the only light was the moonlight and the stars. The place was surrounded in tall rocky mountains, with many deep cracks in the ground.
"Prepare to meet your death.....InuYasha" it hissed.
"In you friggin dreams" InuYasha muttered.
**~~ Ok..I said there would be action scenes, I guess you guys are gunu have to wait till the next chapter ^^ Wow....I wrote long this time, there's another present! It was very long. Well, hope you guys review!!!!! No one has reviewed my chapter on Christmas and hardly any on Xmas eve. ?_? so sad....~~**