A slow shuffling was heard around the place he was settled in, his eyes slowly began to open to his excitement that he was still alive, though there was mass amounts of pressure applied in all areas of his wounds and he couldn't move that well. Inuyasha silently cursed when he found his eyesight to be a little blurry so he slowly closed his eyes again. He felt warmth on his stomach and opened his eyes again to see a hand lying flat on his chest, slowly he looked upward to see a girl very familiar looking, softly stroking his stomach. She appeared to be looking out of a window with a worried look on her face as she unconsciously continued to stroke his chest. She let out a yelp of surprise when she felt a hand enclose on top of hers.

"Oh your awake, good!" The girl smiled sweetly at him and started to blush as she realized she still had her hand on his stomach, she quickly withdrew it and walked over to a small wooden table. She grabbed a small stone bowl and brought it over with a spoon.

"Eat this, its medicine, it will help keep your wounds from becoming infected and re-opening." She slowly handed him the bowl but he refused. "Keh. I don't need any medicine from a low life peasant like you, it was bad enough I was turned into this freak I am now" Inuyasha spoke with such sorrow and refused to look at his savoir, until he recognized her voice. It was the same woman he had bumped into in the town today outside the castle. To be honest he found her quite attractive and good looking, but that didn't really bother him at the moment. He slowly tried to sit up against the wall and leaned his head back wincing at the pain.

"Sorry for trying to help" she huffed off to grab a roll of gauze a second later and returned." I'm going to re-bandage your wounds so stay still while I remove the old bandaging from your arms and torso.

"Like hell, I don't need any help from a wimpy girl like you "Inuyasha said while slowly and carefully crossing his arms.

' I cant believe this guy, he has the same rotten attitude as that pigheaded prince I met the today...hey wait a minute, he sort of looks like him. Well if his hair was black and his eyes were violet and he didn't have dog ea........rs' the girl slowly dropped the roll of gauze and backed away, not caring as the gauze rolled away.

"what on earth, you have dog ears, and." She examined his body and her face slowly went to terror "c-claws and f-fangs" by now She was already at the opposite side of the room away from the strange 'beast' as possible'.

Kagome carefully chose her next words then spoke "what are you?" Inuyasha huffed and stuck his chest out "I don't want to talk about it just go away, leave me be." He said with such hurt as he looked across the room at the cowering female. He turned his face to the side deciding she wasn't anything but boring and closed his eyes. Kagome((since we know its Kagome ill start using her name . )) slowly made her way across the room remembering the gauze that so conveniently rolled over to Inuyasha's side and stopped. She picked the gauze up and slowly sat down beside him 'if he were anything dangerous he would have threatened to kill me by now, wouldn't he? He can't be that bad." She slowly grabbed his arm and he tensed at the feeling of her soft warm palms. She slowly started to unravel the bandaging on his biceps and let it fall lose to the ground, She gasped as she saw the wound was increasingly smaller than it was when she had found him yesterday on the streets. He was bleeding very badly and she pulled each of the arrows from his arms and back. He looked so frail and dead to the world she would have cried if it weren't for the sounds of an angry mob in the distance, thus signaling her to duck down as they passed by the building.

Kagome did not say anything and just applied a new clean layer of gauze to his upper arm. She sighed and sat back.

"would you turn around for a second." Inuyasha gave her a scowl and ignored the question "please?" he looked up to her pleading eyes and slowly shifted his position so his back was facing her. His eyes were closed and he sighed as he once again felt her soft hands on his back slowly remove the bandaging around his torso and back. She picked the gauze from the floor and softly started to bind his abdomen, going once over his shoulder and then finishing the roll as it laced around his stomach and chest. Inuyasha gave a slight smile that she couldn't see and twitched his right ear. She slowly shot back out of her place in surprise. Kagome blushed at being startled by just a small movement and moved back to see if anything else needed to be checked upon. She looked up to the fuzzy white appendages on his head and slowly brought her hand up to the left one and stroked it softly and soothingly. When she withdrew her hand, a bit of blood was noticeable on the plain white fur. Kagome grabbed a piece of handkerchief and dabbed at the blood on his ear.

After all wounds were taken care of she grabbed the roll of gauze and the untouched medicine and brought it towards the table it was on previously. Kagome walked back over to him and sighed as she plopped back down beside him.

"if it isn't to much may I ask who you are and what you are?" Inuyasha Blushed and looked away from her, clearly she had been so generous as to take care of the same person who threaten to remove her tongue and slit her ears, but then again she didn't know.

"........"

Kagome sighed once again "well I'm obviously not going to get any answers from you so ill just go into town and grab a few things.

Leaving the injured demon to be, she left the torn down old building and went along the streets in search for a good shop to buy food in. 'he's definitely not human, but then if not what is he? Vampire? Monster? Hmmmm' Kagome stumbled and nearly tripped over a stone but regained her thoughts as she continued walking. 'I wonder.....'

It was late in the evening that Kagome returned to a sleeping hanyou curled up on a pile of hay, he was apparently wearing a white lose haori and a pair of dark blue baggy pants at the time since she had taken off his top to but on something that would be easy to manage with while tending his wounds. Kagome looked over at the hanyou and gave him a weak smile as she trudged over to lean against the wall beside him, she whipped a bead of sweat from the side of her cheek, it had been a long day and she was exhausted. She leaned her head against the cold stonewall of the building and closed her eyes. Kagome took heavy breaths because of the chilly night air that was already starting to fill the room.

As the sun vanished completely beyond the land's horizon, Kagome pulled a small locket from her pocket and opened it to look at what memories she had left of her parents, a tear rolled down her cheek as she remembered the horrifying night they were both burned alive, they had the black plague and were very ill.

One day while she was out in the town she came back to find her house ablaze, burning in a raging hell fire that took out everything except the stone structure and some tables or desks that managed to survive. The towns people would not except the fact that her parents had the fatal disease so in fear that it would spread to the other towns people, they locked her parents into her house and lit it on fire. The memory of her parent's cries of agony never left her head. Burned into her memory. But now that was in the past and it was the present, she quietly clicked the locket shut and stuffed it back into her pocket and huddled into a tight ball to keep warm.

Inuyasha heard a sniff with one of his sensitive ears and looked up to see that Kagome was crying. 'she's.......crying...' he thought as he then noticed her unstoppable shivering.

"What's wrong" Inuyasha whispered very quietly taking the girl out of her trance or so he thought. Kagome looked over to Inuyasha who was sitting up looking at her with a concerned face. "Nothings wrong." That was obviously a lie because the salty smell of her tears was in the air. Inuyasha scrunched up his nose at what to say next, but instead just patted the spot next to him. He had no idea why but he sort of liked the girl, sort of would be putting it mildly though. He did like the girl, for her innocence and as well she was the first one to not scream at him for being a 'vicious' demon. He wanted to cheer her up.

"you're obviously cold, come her" Kagome ignored his offer and shifted to face the opposite way. 'oh boy...'Inuyasha rolled his eyes then grabbed Kagome around the waste yanking her down beside him. Inuyasha then took off his white haori and laid it on top of both of them. It was the least he could do to repay her for saving his life.

Kagome's face turned crimson at his actions and she inched away from him a little bit nervously. After all this was a complete stranger that had just pulled her down beside him and had just removed his top to use as a blanket for both of them. If she didn't know any better she would have thought well.............. 'maybe he's just being nice, why am I so paranoid' "thanks" Kagome whispered before loosening her tense muscles and falling asleep.

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