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Chapter 9

"Wow how touching..." Then the arrow flew....

All heads turned to the tree as a purify arrow flew straight at Kagome. "Ahh!" Kagome leaned back and it barly grazed her cheek. "Oww.." Kagome put her hand up to her wound and looked at her blood covered hand. She was sliced fairly deep. "Kikyo! Can't you come out here and fight me with honor? Or are you too insecure about it and must hide since I shot you once before....?" Kagome looked back to the shadow that lurked overhead.

"Kagome..." Sesshomaru whispered as he strode to her. "She is still hurt from the shot you took out of her or the arrow wouldn't have missed even if you did lean out of the way." He whispered to her ear and stood straight again. "Kikyo...No one cares for you now... is that what you think? But yet you find the courage to face your enemy but yet hide from sight. That my preistess is called cowardice, and that breaks the code of what a preistess must honor. Demote yourself now and save us the pity party..." Sesshomaru wipped out his Wip of Light and wrapped it around Kikyo's ankle and ripped her to the ground.

"Ahh! Inuyasha, how could you let your brother try to rip my leg off?"

"Because he understands that I don't care for you anymore..." Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and walked away from the fight towards Lady Keade's hut.

"Inuyasha...did you mean that?" Kagome looked up at Inuyasha as they walked into Lady Keade's hut.

"Mean what?" He looked down at her and tried not to smile at her concern. For goodness sake he had just told her last night he wanted her and not Kikyo and yet she still questioned it. It must be that he was human and is nicer that way.

"What you said to Kikyo..." Kagome squeezed his hand waiting for the answer.

"Yes, Kagome..." Inuyasha stopped and turned to face her. "Kagome it was pity I had for Kikyo and somehow she hypnotized me to thinking of her in an affectionate way. I only had feelings for her when she was alive. Not anymore, she is trying to take away the most cherished thing in my life...you." Inuyasha leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"Oh Inuyasha..." Kagome leaned up and kissed Inuyasha on the cheek. They both sat down and Kagome curled into Inuyasha's side, as he wrapped his arm around her. "When are we going to find more jewel shards?"

"Whenever you want to." Inuyasha squeezed her for a second and then loosened his grip.

"How about now, just one for me and you like old times." Kagome snuggled closer and leaned her head on his shoulder.

"If thats what you want to do." Inuyasha kissed the top of her head. "We better get a move on then." Inuyasha moved to stand and Kagome got up slowly.

"Ahh!" Kagome's legs were asleep and she fell right into Inuyasha's waiting arms. "Thanks." She looked up from a waterfall of her hair and in that instant Inuyasha wanted her.

"No problem."

Kagome tried to stand again and it worked. "Okay I think I can walk now." Kagome took a step and fell again and Inuyasha caught her around the waist and lifted her back up. "Or maybe not." Kagome giggled and Inuyasha was about to go crazy with passion for her. "Okay let me try again."

"Okay..." Inuyasha kept right behind her incase of another fall. Which did not come.

"Yeah! I can walk now." Kagome kept walking and her legs finally got out of their sleep. "Lady Keade, can I borrow your bow and arrows?"

"Sure child, would ye like to stay and rest a while?" Lady Keade walked into the room and handed Kagome a bow and her arrows.

"No me and Inuyasha are going to go after some shards."

"What about Miroku?"

"He can stay here with you, he needs to find Sango..." Inuyasha looked around and noticed that they were still in the clothes they wore to hospital. Thank goodness that Kagome's kimono wasn't ripped. "Hey Lady Keade, can Kagome change here?"

"Sure, and child Sango is here but she is asleep in the other room."

"Okay thanks." Kagome looked at Inuyasha wondering how he knew she was gonna ask that on the way there or was it just because he didn't want her to rip it. Oh well. Kagome walked over to the corner where she kept her clothes and grabbed one of them. "Be right back." She turned on her heal and went to another room.

"So child, ye finally swollowed your pride."

"I did just because I was human. If I was Hanyou I wouldn't have been able to." Inuyasha looked down at these so called shoes and almost immediatly took them off and about to rip them to shreds when Kagome came back out.

"I'm ready." Kagome strapped the arrows to her back and grabbed the bow and Inuyasha's hand. "Lets go."

"Ka-gome! Wait, Stop!" Inuyasha dug his heals into the ground.

"What is it?" Kagome almost fell but Inuyasha caught her.

"I need to change."

"Oh. Here." Kagome reached into her backpack and took out his clothes.

"Thanks." He walked past her and changed behind a tree. "OKay back." Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and tossed her on his back. "Let' s go."

A shadow jumped down infront of them."You are not going anywhere..."