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"Get away from me!" Kagome screamed frantically pulling out her arrow and trying to shoot at it. The demon hissed at her sped towards her as she took an arrow and aimed it towards the beast.
"DIE!" It yelled.
'Why do I have a feeling this isn't just a random attack from a demon? It feels like this demon's only target is me!' She thought frantically.
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"Inuyasha, do you really think that I would harm the girl?" Kikyo asked, making sure she'd continue to distract him so the demon would have enough time to do its job.
Inuyasha looked at her sadly. 'I really don't know anymore...' He thought.
"Kikyo, it's hard for me to say." He answered truthfully.
'I....I care for you. But I care for Kagome too.' He thought.
"So the girl has changed you. You won't even listen to what I have to say now." Kikyo said calmly.
"Kikyo, I am listening." He sighed. "We're not the same as we used to be before...." He said sadly. "Although a part of me wishes we still were."
"We can still be. If we find a way to revive me, my soul with come out of the girl and I will exist once more." She said taking his hand.
(A/N Just a reminder..This is Inu/Kag Always and forever!)
"I won't." He responded sternly.
"Why not?"
"If the soul comes out of Kagome's body, it may hurt her. I don't want her hurt." He responded.
"But it won't hurt her." She lied.
"Miroku told me you've been trying to kill her."
'Yes I have. And my plans better work.' She thought.
"And you believe him?"
"He wouldn't lie about something like that." He answered sternly.
"Why would I want her dead?"
"Only you know that." He replied looking deep into her eyes.
"I told you, I'm not trying to hurt her."
"She hasn't done anything to you. Not one thing. Please don't hurt her."
'She's trying to rip you away from me.' She thought angrily.
"I need to talk to you about that." He continued.
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"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The demon shrieked as Kagome's arrow pieced threw its body.
'I was never told that girl had such awesome power...' It thought as it fell to the ground. 'I'll just try to trick her by making her think I'm dead. Then I'll attack once more.'
It lay on the ground, eyes closed and completely still. Kagome stood with her eyes wide, breathing heavily.
She held onto her arrow as tight as she could and approached the demon. She kneeled in front of it and stared.
But just when she thought the demon was dead, it grabbed her and cut open a wound in her arm.
"ACCCKK!" She shrieked in pain holding her arm as the demon persisted in attacking her.
It continued to slash at her as she tried to take aim at it and shoot. Once it came at her she shot it yet again with her arrow. This time it was pushed back and the demon retreated.
Kagome breathed heavily, cuts were all over her. She gulped and kneeled down in exhaustion never letting go of her arrows.
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'I wonder if the girl is dead.' Kikyo thought smirking almost forgetting that Inuyasha was standing there with her.
Inuyasha stared at Kikyo and sighed to himself. 'Kikyo, why do I have a feeling you're hiding something from me?' He thought watching the unreadable look on her face.
"Something wrong Inuyasha?" She asked quietly as a one of her demons brought another soul to her. Inuyasha shuddered.
"Nothing, Kikyo." He said closing his eyes. 'Those are souls of the dead. People who can't find peace now because Kikyo is using them to sustain her body.' He thought sadly.
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Kagome sighed and got up from where she stopped. 'I should go back.' She thought to herself. 'The others must be looking for me.'
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"Where is she? Where's Kagome? I miss her!" Shippo wailed running around the hut looking in every possible hiding place.
Everyone else in the hut looked around frantic as to where she was. They all knew about her run in with Kikyo the other day, they certainly didn't want anything else to happen to the poor girl.
Sango looked around. "Her bag is still here, that means she didn't go back to her world for sure."
"Than where can she be?" Kaede asked. They tried looking around the area and there was nothing. They had a really bad feeling.
"Maybe Kagome went off somewhere with Inuyasha. He's missing too!" Miroku said trying to calm the heated tension in the room. To tell the truth, they weren't really worrying about the hanyou, he could fight off any demon that came along. But Kagome was a different story.
"I seriously doubt that." Sango said, "Inuyasha and Kagome were barely even getting along yesterday. You saw the looks Inuyasha gave her, and you know how long it takes those two to make up, considering they're both extremely stubborn."
"WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA! I want Kagome! What if a demon attacked her? What if she's hurt?!" Shippo wailed not knowing how right he was.
Sango sat down and sighed. "We've looked everywhere. The only thing we can do is hope that nothing happened to her."
"M-Maybe she went off for a morning walk." Miroku suggested stuttering at the words. "A-And maybe she's still out there walking in the woods or something."
"I hope so."
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"There." Kagome whispered dragging herself towards the hut aching everywhere. "All these wounds...This has really been a tough few days for me.." She told herself.
She walked to the entrance way of the hut and walked in. No one noticed her yet.
"Kagome, where are you..." Sango stated pacing back and forth over and over again.
Miroku sat in deep concentration muttering something and saying things like 'I hope she's okay' and things like that.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" Shippo yelled running his hands through his hair. 'Wait..I smell something.'
"KAGOME!" He yelled turning around.
All of them looked up.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED?!" They yelled running to her. She looked at all of them for a second before falling hard onto the ground.
"KAGOME!"
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"I must be going." Kikyo said quietly looking towards a bush. She heard something and she wanted to see if that was the demon she set up to attack Kagome and trying to escape Inuyasha's chance of continuously asking her to leave the girl alone; though she insisted she wasn't doing anything.
"I need to be going too." Inuyasha muttered, "Kikyo, please if you are hurting Kagome. Stop."
Kikyo smirked a bit and raised a brow at him pretending to be confused as the demons carried her off yet again.
Inuyasha watched as she left and sighed to himself and headed back to the hut.
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"Is she okay?! Will she survive?" Sango asked watching Kaede put all types of medicines on Kagome.
"It's too early to tell. She's hurt badly." Kaede said trying to calm down a bit as she added more medicine onto the girls wounds. Kagome was drenched from head to toe and she was shaking continuously. This attack was MUCH* harder than the beating that Kikyo gave her.
Shippo continued to wail while Miroku looked on quietly with fear in his eyes.
"Grandma Kaede, is it serious?" Shippo sniffled burying his tearful face into his tiny hands.
Kaede sighed and nodded. "Aye."
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Inuyasha sped towards Kaede's hut. Something wasn't right. He caught the scent of Kagome's blood a few seconds ago. He ran as fast as he could afraid to see what happened.
'Kagome..please be okay. Please. Please.' He thought rushing towards the hut.
In a flash, he arrived at Kaede's village and sped to the hut. He ran towards the entrance and dashed in with a great amount of worry on his face.
...What he saw scared him. There was Kagome lying down, covered in her own blood. She had wounds all over her body while Kaede was trying to put medicine on her and patch up the wounds. Miroku sat his eyes filled with fear as Sango and Shippo cried in the corner of the room.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO HER?!" He yelled running to Kagome's unconscious body.
Kaede looked at Inuyasha and shook her head. "She came back like this and fainted once she got in."
Inuyasha wasn't paying attention; he was by Kagome's side quicker than lightning.
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"Did you kill her?"
"You never told me that the girl had powers like that!" The wounded demon yelled furiously.
"Did you kill her?"
"I wounded her badly. I have no idea whether it was enough to kill her."
Kikyo smirked. "If she isn't dead, you will try again."
"I won't* put my life on the line." It answered sternly.
"I'll give you the shard to make you more powerful."
The demon sighed. "Alright. I'll try again."
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"Where were you, Inuyasha?!" Shippo yelled trying to fight back the rest of his tears. Inuyasha ignored him and stared at Kagome.
"INUYASHA!"
"What do you want?!" He exclaimed angrily.
"Where were you? Why didn't you protect her?!!" The little fox yelled.
"I didn't even know she went out let alone got hurt like this!" He yelled back closing his eyes.
Sango sighed and looked down. "Inuyasha..what were you doing?"
"What does it matter?!"
"If it doesn't matter you shouldn't be putting up such a fight." Miroku replied.
Inuyasha sighed. "I was..with Kikyo."
"So WHAT?! Now KIKYO'S more important than KAGOME?!" Shippo exclaimed.
"KAGOME WAS GETTING BEATEN BY A DEMON AND ALL YOU WERE DOING WAS HAVING SOME QUALITY TIME WITH KIKYO?!"
"LOOK BRAT, IF I KNEW THAT KAGOME NEEDED ME THAN I WOULD OF LEFT AND SAVED HER!!!" He yelled angrily clenching his fists in fury.
Sango sighed. "Maybe now I understand why Kagome won't believe you."
"I didn't go* to spend quality time with her...She just showed up and we just started talking..I guess."
"About what?" Miroku asked.
"None of your business, monk."
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**Three Days Later.....
Inuyasha sat by Kagome's side his eyes tired because of the lack of sleep he had gotten the past few days. The others lay sleeping after three long days of anticipation and anxiety.
'Why do I get the feeling that the demon that attacked her wanted only her dead for some reason?' He thought at the back of his mind. He looked back at Kagome, who was peacefully sleeping.
He sighed. 'Please let her be alright. I'm so sorry I wasn't there.' He thought.
Suddenly, she shifted and his eyes watched in amazement.
"Inu..yasha...?" She whispered.
"Kagome! I'm right here. Are you alright? What happened?" He asked staring at her with anxiety filling his eyes.
"Hmmm...? Where...where am I?" She asked groggily.
"In Kaede's hut. You've been asleep for three days now."
"Three days?!" She said bolting out of bed, suddenly feeling a shot of pain race through her body. She moaned in pain and held on to her side.
"Lay down Kagome. You need rest." He said gently, having her lie back down on the bed.
"But I-----"
"KAGOME!" The little kitsune said running up to hug the girl.
"Ahhh Hello there Shippo!" She said, wincing when the little demon latched onto her.
"Get off her brat, can't you see she's in pain?!" Inuyasha said angrily prying the little fox off her.
Shippo looked up sadly. "Are you hurt Kagome? Are you still in pain?"
"Yes, but it's alright." She lied trying to ease the pain of almost losing her running through the cub's head.
"Feh, you're a bad liar Kagome." Inuyasha answered receiving nothing but a glare from her.
"Hmph!" She said turning away from him. Inuyasha chuckled and smiled for the first time in days.
Inuyasha smiled. "Kagome, I'm glad you're-----"
"KAGOME!" Sango yelled running up to her friend cutting off Inuyasha at his sentence.
"You're okay!" She said, her eyes filled with tears.
"KAGOME!" Miroku exclaimed doing the same. "I've been waiting for you to get back!"
"Aye, we all have." Kaede said circling her as well.
"Thank you all for worrying about me." She responded trying to smile a bit.
"You were asleep for three days!" Shippo said jumping onto the cushion next to her.
"Yea, Inuyasha told me." She said quietly.
"What happened?" They all said in unison.
"Uhm....I was attacked...again." She whispered.
"By who?" Inuyasha asked angrily. "I'll go and rip his guts open!"
'HOW DARE HE TRY TO HURT KAGOME. HOW DARE HE?!' He thought.
"A demon, that's all I know." Kagome answered.
"Do you remember what it looked like?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome shook her head. "No."
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"I'm gonna go and get some food!" Sango said happily, leaving the hut with Miroku, Shippo and Kirara following her.
Kagome nodded and watched them exit the hut. She was left alone..again...with Inuyasha.
"So Inuyasha, did I miss anything?" She asked trying to make a conversation with the half-demon.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Feh. Everything here was going mad because you were gone." He answered.
Kagome tried to laugh and looked at him. "It's alright. I'm sure it was just because everyone was excited to got and find more jewel shards."
"Kagome they care about you." He said sternly.
'And so do I.' He thought.
"I know that."
'But do you?' She thought. 'No, your only worry in this world is Kikyo.'
"I'm sorry I wasn't there...to protect you."
"It's alright I knew no one would come anyway." She said quietly.
"What does that mean?"
"It means just the way it sounds. I knew no one would come. No matter how much I screamed."
"If I had known you were hurt I would have came...You were too far for me to catch your scent or to hear you."
"I'm not blaming it on you, Inuyasha. I shouldn't have been out that morning."
"What were you doing that morning?"
"I..I was..." She stuttered not knowing what to say.
"What were you doing?" He repeated.
"I woke up and I was wondering.where you were so I tried to look for you..but I got attacked by that demon."
Inuyasha fell silent and he took a moment to stare at the girl in front of him.
Kagome sighed and tried to get up.
"Kagome lay back down."
"No."
"You'll get hurt."
"I'm fine."
"Kagome I don't want you hurt. Please." He begged.
"Where did you go?" She asked.
"I....." He had no idea what to say. 'I can't tell her I was with Kikyo. She'd be furious.'
"I was...I was taking a morning walk in the forest."
"Oh."
"Why were you looking for me?"
"I was just wondering where you ran off too." She answered trying her best not to fall back down onto the cushion.
"Kagome, get down."
"I told you I'm fine."
"Kagome do it. I'm serious."
"I'm serious too." She said taking her bow and arrows and looking at them. 'I need to keep these with me all the time.' She thought.
"You're lying aren't you?"
"What?"
"You never take morning walks Inuyasha."
"Maybe I felt like going for a walk." He answered.
"You were with....Kikyo weren't you?"
"I..."
Kagome sighed. "It's okay. I understand. To you its really important to be able to talk to her. Especially since you're still in love with her."
"Kagome if I knew you were hurt I would have left her in an instant."
She shook her head. "No, you wouldn't." She said, trying to get up wincing at her injuries.
"Kagome GET DOWN!" He said jumping up at the pained look on her face.
"I can walk!" She exclaimed. "I'll try! You go and find Kikyo!"
Inuyasha fell back.
'Kagome can't you see I care about you?' He thought.
"Why are you so mad that I just talked to her?" He asked trying to stay calm. "Kagome I was worried about yo-----"
"I'm not mad okay?! I'm just angry because of all the things I've gone through these past few days!" She said cutting him off.
"Well don't take it out on me!"
Kagome glared at him and tried to make her way to the door.
"You're not going anywhere." He said blocking the exit.
"Move."
"No."
"SIT!"
With that, he clashed down at the floor face first as the wounded girl walked right past him.
Kagome walked out and sighed. 'It hurts to walk...It hurts all over..But I had to get out of there. Inuyasha was really starting to bug me.'
She continued to walk until she reached a huge green field where she decided to stop for a while.
"Except for the fact that all this happened to me, today is still a beautiful day..." She said to herself looking out into the distance.
'Inuyasha must be off with Kikyo somewhere or.at least I bet he would.'
"KAGOME!"
She sighed and looked back at a fuming hanyou.
"Yes?"
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!" Inuyasha yelled running up to her.
"Well, I figured that was the only way you'd let me through." She mumbled.
"Aren't you going to meet up with someone today? Don't waste you're time with me." She said quietly.
"Meet with...Kagome will you stop saying that already?!"
"......"
Inuyasha sighed. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."
"I know you told me already now can you leave me be?" She asked turning around fighting back the tears that threatened to fall down her face at that moment.
"Kagome I didn't leave you on purpose. I ----"
"Okay!" She yelled trying to get him to leave.
"Kagome you know I would protect you---"
"YEA I KNOW. YOU'D PROTECT KIKYO JUST AS MUCH TOO! YESTERDAY YOU WERE A LITTLE TOO BUSY TO HELP!" She exclaimed.
Inuyasha jumped back, not expecting such a harsh response from the girl.
"Kagome-"
"LEAVE ME ALONE! GO AND FIND KIKYO!"
"FINE THEN I'M LEAVING WENCH!" He yelled getting out of the area.
'I shouldn't have accused him of that..' She thought. 'I'm sorry Inuyasha.' She thought tears pooling out of her eyes.
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"Inuyasha? Where's Kagome?" Sango asked walking back into the hut.
"Feh."
'Kagome...why does she always have to go and say things like that...' He thought.
"Don't tell me...you two got into a fight again." Miroku sighed.
"Hmmph."
'Kagome....Please listen to me I didn't mean to leave you.' He thought.
"Go and apologize." Sango said.
"No."
"Go and apologize."
"I said no. It'll look like I was the one who started all this."
Sango seethed and grabbed his ear and pulled it as hard as she could.
"OOOOOWWWWWWWWWW! LET GO OF MY EAR!!!!!!!!" He screamed.
"GO AND APOLOGIZE!" She said, squeezing it harder and pulling it even harder.
"OKAY OKAY I'M GOING!" He said running out the hut and holding on to his ear.
"Geez Sango." Shippo said looking at the demon exterminator.
"THOSE TWO ARE REALLY STARTING TO GET ON MY NERVES!" She exclaimed.
"Eheheheh..."
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Inuyasha ran out of the hut mumbling to himself and holding his now red ear. He walked over to the area where Kagome was and saw her facing the sun.
"Kagome..?"
Kagome turned, her eyes filled with tears shocking his very being.
'She's...she's crying.' He thought panicking.
"Kagome....I......"
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"Get away from me!" Kagome screamed frantically pulling out her arrow and trying to shoot at it. The demon hissed at her sped towards her as she took an arrow and aimed it towards the beast.
"DIE!" It yelled.
'Why do I have a feeling this isn't just a random attack from a demon? It feels like this demon's only target is me!' She thought frantically.
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"Inuyasha, do you really think that I would harm the girl?" Kikyo asked, making sure she'd continue to distract him so the demon would have enough time to do its job.
Inuyasha looked at her sadly. 'I really don't know anymore...' He thought.
"Kikyo, it's hard for me to say." He answered truthfully.
'I....I care for you. But I care for Kagome too.' He thought.
"So the girl has changed you. You won't even listen to what I have to say now." Kikyo said calmly.
"Kikyo, I am listening." He sighed. "We're not the same as we used to be before...." He said sadly. "Although a part of me wishes we still were."
"We can still be. If we find a way to revive me, my soul with come out of the girl and I will exist once more." She said taking his hand.
(A/N Just a reminder..This is Inu/Kag Always and forever!)
"I won't." He responded sternly.
"Why not?"
"If the soul comes out of Kagome's body, it may hurt her. I don't want her hurt." He responded.
"But it won't hurt her." She lied.
"Miroku told me you've been trying to kill her."
'Yes I have. And my plans better work.' She thought.
"And you believe him?"
"He wouldn't lie about something like that." He answered sternly.
"Why would I want her dead?"
"Only you know that." He replied looking deep into her eyes.
"I told you, I'm not trying to hurt her."
"She hasn't done anything to you. Not one thing. Please don't hurt her."
'She's trying to rip you away from me.' She thought angrily.
"I need to talk to you about that." He continued.
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"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The demon shrieked as Kagome's arrow pieced threw its body.
'I was never told that girl had such awesome power...' It thought as it fell to the ground. 'I'll just try to trick her by making her think I'm dead. Then I'll attack once more.'
It lay on the ground, eyes closed and completely still. Kagome stood with her eyes wide, breathing heavily.
She held onto her arrow as tight as she could and approached the demon. She kneeled in front of it and stared.
But just when she thought the demon was dead, it grabbed her and cut open a wound in her arm.
"ACCCKK!" She shrieked in pain holding her arm as the demon persisted in attacking her.
It continued to slash at her as she tried to take aim at it and shoot. Once it came at her she shot it yet again with her arrow. This time it was pushed back and the demon retreated.
Kagome breathed heavily, cuts were all over her. She gulped and kneeled down in exhaustion never letting go of her arrows.
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'I wonder if the girl is dead.' Kikyo thought smirking almost forgetting that Inuyasha was standing there with her.
Inuyasha stared at Kikyo and sighed to himself. 'Kikyo, why do I have a feeling you're hiding something from me?' He thought watching the unreadable look on her face.
"Something wrong Inuyasha?" She asked quietly as a one of her demons brought another soul to her. Inuyasha shuddered.
"Nothing, Kikyo." He said closing his eyes. 'Those are souls of the dead. People who can't find peace now because Kikyo is using them to sustain her body.' He thought sadly.
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Kagome sighed and got up from where she stopped. 'I should go back.' She thought to herself. 'The others must be looking for me.'
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"Where is she? Where's Kagome? I miss her!" Shippo wailed running around the hut looking in every possible hiding place.
Everyone else in the hut looked around frantic as to where she was. They all knew about her run in with Kikyo the other day, they certainly didn't want anything else to happen to the poor girl.
Sango looked around. "Her bag is still here, that means she didn't go back to her world for sure."
"Than where can she be?" Kaede asked. They tried looking around the area and there was nothing. They had a really bad feeling.
"Maybe Kagome went off somewhere with Inuyasha. He's missing too!" Miroku said trying to calm the heated tension in the room. To tell the truth, they weren't really worrying about the hanyou, he could fight off any demon that came along. But Kagome was a different story.
"I seriously doubt that." Sango said, "Inuyasha and Kagome were barely even getting along yesterday. You saw the looks Inuyasha gave her, and you know how long it takes those two to make up, considering they're both extremely stubborn."
"WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAA! I want Kagome! What if a demon attacked her? What if she's hurt?!" Shippo wailed not knowing how right he was.
Sango sat down and sighed. "We've looked everywhere. The only thing we can do is hope that nothing happened to her."
"M-Maybe she went off for a morning walk." Miroku suggested stuttering at the words. "A-And maybe she's still out there walking in the woods or something."
"I hope so."
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"There." Kagome whispered dragging herself towards the hut aching everywhere. "All these wounds...This has really been a tough few days for me.." She told herself.
She walked to the entrance way of the hut and walked in. No one noticed her yet.
"Kagome, where are you..." Sango stated pacing back and forth over and over again.
Miroku sat in deep concentration muttering something and saying things like 'I hope she's okay' and things like that.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" Shippo yelled running his hands through his hair. 'Wait..I smell something.'
"KAGOME!" He yelled turning around.
All of them looked up.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED?!" They yelled running to her. She looked at all of them for a second before falling hard onto the ground.
"KAGOME!"
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"I must be going." Kikyo said quietly looking towards a bush. She heard something and she wanted to see if that was the demon she set up to attack Kagome and trying to escape Inuyasha's chance of continuously asking her to leave the girl alone; though she insisted she wasn't doing anything.
"I need to be going too." Inuyasha muttered, "Kikyo, please if you are hurting Kagome. Stop."
Kikyo smirked a bit and raised a brow at him pretending to be confused as the demons carried her off yet again.
Inuyasha watched as she left and sighed to himself and headed back to the hut.
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"Is she okay?! Will she survive?" Sango asked watching Kaede put all types of medicines on Kagome.
"It's too early to tell. She's hurt badly." Kaede said trying to calm down a bit as she added more medicine onto the girls wounds. Kagome was drenched from head to toe and she was shaking continuously. This attack was MUCH* harder than the beating that Kikyo gave her.
Shippo continued to wail while Miroku looked on quietly with fear in his eyes.
"Grandma Kaede, is it serious?" Shippo sniffled burying his tearful face into his tiny hands.
Kaede sighed and nodded. "Aye."
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Inuyasha sped towards Kaede's hut. Something wasn't right. He caught the scent of Kagome's blood a few seconds ago. He ran as fast as he could afraid to see what happened.
'Kagome..please be okay. Please. Please.' He thought rushing towards the hut.
In a flash, he arrived at Kaede's village and sped to the hut. He ran towards the entrance and dashed in with a great amount of worry on his face.
...What he saw scared him. There was Kagome lying down, covered in her own blood. She had wounds all over her body while Kaede was trying to put medicine on her and patch up the wounds. Miroku sat his eyes filled with fear as Sango and Shippo cried in the corner of the room.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO HER?!" He yelled running to Kagome's unconscious body.
Kaede looked at Inuyasha and shook her head. "She came back like this and fainted once she got in."
Inuyasha wasn't paying attention; he was by Kagome's side quicker than lightning.
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"Did you kill her?"
"You never told me that the girl had powers like that!" The wounded demon yelled furiously.
"Did you kill her?"
"I wounded her badly. I have no idea whether it was enough to kill her."
Kikyo smirked. "If she isn't dead, you will try again."
"I won't* put my life on the line." It answered sternly.
"I'll give you the shard to make you more powerful."
The demon sighed. "Alright. I'll try again."
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"Where were you, Inuyasha?!" Shippo yelled trying to fight back the rest of his tears. Inuyasha ignored him and stared at Kagome.
"INUYASHA!"
"What do you want?!" He exclaimed angrily.
"Where were you? Why didn't you protect her?!!" The little fox yelled.
"I didn't even know she went out let alone got hurt like this!" He yelled back closing his eyes.
Sango sighed and looked down. "Inuyasha..what were you doing?"
"What does it matter?!"
"If it doesn't matter you shouldn't be putting up such a fight." Miroku replied.
Inuyasha sighed. "I was..with Kikyo."
"So WHAT?! Now KIKYO'S more important than KAGOME?!" Shippo exclaimed.
"KAGOME WAS GETTING BEATEN BY A DEMON AND ALL YOU WERE DOING WAS HAVING SOME QUALITY TIME WITH KIKYO?!"
"LOOK BRAT, IF I KNEW THAT KAGOME NEEDED ME THAN I WOULD OF LEFT AND SAVED HER!!!" He yelled angrily clenching his fists in fury.
Sango sighed. "Maybe now I understand why Kagome won't believe you."
"I didn't go* to spend quality time with her...She just showed up and we just started talking..I guess."
"About what?" Miroku asked.
"None of your business, monk."
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**Three Days Later.....
Inuyasha sat by Kagome's side his eyes tired because of the lack of sleep he had gotten the past few days. The others lay sleeping after three long days of anticipation and anxiety.
'Why do I get the feeling that the demon that attacked her wanted only her dead for some reason?' He thought at the back of his mind. He looked back at Kagome, who was peacefully sleeping.
He sighed. 'Please let her be alright. I'm so sorry I wasn't there.' He thought.
Suddenly, she shifted and his eyes watched in amazement.
"Inu..yasha...?" She whispered.
"Kagome! I'm right here. Are you alright? What happened?" He asked staring at her with anxiety filling his eyes.
"Hmmm...? Where...where am I?" She asked groggily.
"In Kaede's hut. You've been asleep for three days now."
"Three days?!" She said bolting out of bed, suddenly feeling a shot of pain race through her body. She moaned in pain and held on to her side.
"Lay down Kagome. You need rest." He said gently, having her lie back down on the bed.
"But I-----"
"KAGOME!" The little kitsune said running up to hug the girl.
"Ahhh Hello there Shippo!" She said, wincing when the little demon latched onto her.
"Get off her brat, can't you see she's in pain?!" Inuyasha said angrily prying the little fox off her.
Shippo looked up sadly. "Are you hurt Kagome? Are you still in pain?"
"Yes, but it's alright." She lied trying to ease the pain of almost losing her running through the cub's head.
"Feh, you're a bad liar Kagome." Inuyasha answered receiving nothing but a glare from her.
"Hmph!" She said turning away from him. Inuyasha chuckled and smiled for the first time in days.
Inuyasha smiled. "Kagome, I'm glad you're-----"
"KAGOME!" Sango yelled running up to her friend cutting off Inuyasha at his sentence.
"You're okay!" She said, her eyes filled with tears.
"KAGOME!" Miroku exclaimed doing the same. "I've been waiting for you to get back!"
"Aye, we all have." Kaede said circling her as well.
"Thank you all for worrying about me." She responded trying to smile a bit.
"You were asleep for three days!" Shippo said jumping onto the cushion next to her.
"Yea, Inuyasha told me." She said quietly.
"What happened?" They all said in unison.
"Uhm....I was attacked...again." She whispered.
"By who?" Inuyasha asked angrily. "I'll go and rip his guts open!"
'HOW DARE HE TRY TO HURT KAGOME. HOW DARE HE?!' He thought.
"A demon, that's all I know." Kagome answered.
"Do you remember what it looked like?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome shook her head. "No."
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"I'm gonna go and get some food!" Sango said happily, leaving the hut with Miroku, Shippo and Kirara following her.
Kagome nodded and watched them exit the hut. She was left alone..again...with Inuyasha.
"So Inuyasha, did I miss anything?" She asked trying to make a conversation with the half-demon.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Feh. Everything here was going mad because you were gone." He answered.
Kagome tried to laugh and looked at him. "It's alright. I'm sure it was just because everyone was excited to got and find more jewel shards."
"Kagome they care about you." He said sternly.
'And so do I.' He thought.
"I know that."
'But do you?' She thought. 'No, your only worry in this world is Kikyo.'
"I'm sorry I wasn't there...to protect you."
"It's alright I knew no one would come anyway." She said quietly.
"What does that mean?"
"It means just the way it sounds. I knew no one would come. No matter how much I screamed."
"If I had known you were hurt I would have came...You were too far for me to catch your scent or to hear you."
"I'm not blaming it on you, Inuyasha. I shouldn't have been out that morning."
"What were you doing that morning?"
"I..I was..." She stuttered not knowing what to say.
"What were you doing?" He repeated.
"I woke up and I was wondering.where you were so I tried to look for you..but I got attacked by that demon."
Inuyasha fell silent and he took a moment to stare at the girl in front of him.
Kagome sighed and tried to get up.
"Kagome lay back down."
"No."
"You'll get hurt."
"I'm fine."
"Kagome I don't want you hurt. Please." He begged.
"Where did you go?" She asked.
"I....." He had no idea what to say. 'I can't tell her I was with Kikyo. She'd be furious.'
"I was...I was taking a morning walk in the forest."
"Oh."
"Why were you looking for me?"
"I was just wondering where you ran off too." She answered trying her best not to fall back down onto the cushion.
"Kagome, get down."
"I told you I'm fine."
"Kagome do it. I'm serious."
"I'm serious too." She said taking her bow and arrows and looking at them. 'I need to keep these with me all the time.' She thought.
"You're lying aren't you?"
"What?"
"You never take morning walks Inuyasha."
"Maybe I felt like going for a walk." He answered.
"You were with....Kikyo weren't you?"
"I..."
Kagome sighed. "It's okay. I understand. To you its really important to be able to talk to her. Especially since you're still in love with her."
"Kagome if I knew you were hurt I would have left her in an instant."
She shook her head. "No, you wouldn't." She said, trying to get up wincing at her injuries.
"Kagome GET DOWN!" He said jumping up at the pained look on her face.
"I can walk!" She exclaimed. "I'll try! You go and find Kikyo!"
Inuyasha fell back.
'Kagome can't you see I care about you?' He thought.
"Why are you so mad that I just talked to her?" He asked trying to stay calm. "Kagome I was worried about yo-----"
"I'm not mad okay?! I'm just angry because of all the things I've gone through these past few days!" She said cutting him off.
"Well don't take it out on me!"
Kagome glared at him and tried to make her way to the door.
"You're not going anywhere." He said blocking the exit.
"Move."
"No."
"SIT!"
With that, he clashed down at the floor face first as the wounded girl walked right past him.
Kagome walked out and sighed. 'It hurts to walk...It hurts all over..But I had to get out of there. Inuyasha was really starting to bug me.'
She continued to walk until she reached a huge green field where she decided to stop for a while.
"Except for the fact that all this happened to me, today is still a beautiful day..." She said to herself looking out into the distance.
'Inuyasha must be off with Kikyo somewhere or.at least I bet he would.'
"KAGOME!"
She sighed and looked back at a fuming hanyou.
"Yes?"
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!" Inuyasha yelled running up to her.
"Well, I figured that was the only way you'd let me through." She mumbled.
"Aren't you going to meet up with someone today? Don't waste you're time with me." She said quietly.
"Meet with...Kagome will you stop saying that already?!"
"......"
Inuyasha sighed. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you."
"I know you told me already now can you leave me be?" She asked turning around fighting back the tears that threatened to fall down her face at that moment.
"Kagome I didn't leave you on purpose. I ----"
"Okay!" She yelled trying to get him to leave.
"Kagome you know I would protect you---"
"YEA I KNOW. YOU'D PROTECT KIKYO JUST AS MUCH TOO! YESTERDAY YOU WERE A LITTLE TOO BUSY TO HELP!" She exclaimed.
Inuyasha jumped back, not expecting such a harsh response from the girl.
"Kagome-"
"LEAVE ME ALONE! GO AND FIND KIKYO!"
"FINE THEN I'M LEAVING WENCH!" He yelled getting out of the area.
'I shouldn't have accused him of that..' She thought. 'I'm sorry Inuyasha.' She thought tears pooling out of her eyes.
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"Inuyasha? Where's Kagome?" Sango asked walking back into the hut.
"Feh."
'Kagome...why does she always have to go and say things like that...' He thought.
"Don't tell me...you two got into a fight again." Miroku sighed.
"Hmmph."
'Kagome....Please listen to me I didn't mean to leave you.' He thought.
"Go and apologize." Sango said.
"No."
"Go and apologize."
"I said no. It'll look like I was the one who started all this."
Sango seethed and grabbed his ear and pulled it as hard as she could.
"OOOOOWWWWWWWWWW! LET GO OF MY EAR!!!!!!!!" He screamed.
"GO AND APOLOGIZE!" She said, squeezing it harder and pulling it even harder.
"OKAY OKAY I'M GOING!" He said running out the hut and holding on to his ear.
"Geez Sango." Shippo said looking at the demon exterminator.
"THOSE TWO ARE REALLY STARTING TO GET ON MY NERVES!" She exclaimed.
"Eheheheh..."
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Inuyasha ran out of the hut mumbling to himself and holding his now red ear. He walked over to the area where Kagome was and saw her facing the sun.
"Kagome..?"
Kagome turned, her eyes filled with tears shocking his very being.
'She's...she's crying.' He thought panicking.
"Kagome....I......"
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