Aaaaaaand she's back! applauds, cheering, roses thrown, wakes up Oh..heh. Sorry 'bout that. Anywho...I've gotten more focused on how I want it to end up now, so, I present you you, the DISCLAIMER!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, or any of the characters, but I do own this story. SO HA!

and now, I present, THE STORY!

After about a day, and a couple bowls of ramen, Inuyasha was feeling better. Miroku and Sango were whispering away about who knows what while Kagome and Kaede made a supper of stew. Shippou was licking on a lollipop that he found in Kagome's bag, without asking, and Inuyasha picked him up by the tail, "Shippou, did you ask Kagome for that?" He smirked and Shippou's eyes grew big.

"Um...Yea!" He glanced about, paranoid.

"No you didn't," The hanyou smirked and help Shippou up, and snatched the lollipop away.

"KAGOME!!" Shippou whined. "Inuyasha's being mean to me!"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome warned him, glancing up from helping Kaede.

Inuyasha groaned and put Shippou down and gave him the lollipop back while Sango and Miroku chuckled.

"And what's so funny over there?" Inuyasha gave them a sharp glance.

"Oh, nothing." Sango said, with a slight smirk, then her eyes went wide and a loud smack was heard. Miroku had a red hand mark on the left side of his face, and crossed his arms. "I can't even think about it and she doesn't smack me..."

All but Miroku and Sango burst out laughing, even Kaede, and Sango glared at Miroku, "How many times do I have to hit you to get it through your thick skull. DON'T TOUCH MY BUTT!" She fumed, making Miroku feel small, which also made the others laugh a bit harder.

Still laughing, Kagome said, "The foods," still laughing, "ready." And with that, they all calmed down a bit and ate, with the ocassional chuckle from Sango and Miroku as they whispered back and forth. 'What are they saying...' Kagome said, popping a piece of meat from the stew in her mouth, trying to read their lips, but couldn't. She finially gave up and they finished their dinner peacefully.

Later that night

"So, Inuyasha, think you're feeling well enough to leave tomarrow morning?" Kagome teased before they went to sleep.

"I was fine yesterday, and I'm fine today!" He growled and mumbled.

"You wern't looking all that well." Sango said, laying down beside the fire inside the hut. "You looked like you had been exausted for three days."

Inuyasha growled at them, louder. "I was FINE!" He glared, getting annoyed by the taunting.

"Inuyasha, don't get this angry before we sleep, it'll cause us to have nightmares about white-haired half-breeds wanting to kill us." Miroku chuckled and leaned up aginst the opposite wall of Sango.

"Monk, if I hear another word about this I swear I'll.."

Kagome cut him off, "If you do anything to him, you'll get s-i-t so much your head will spin."

Inuyasha's ears went flat and he growled, "Just get some sleep already, and quit bugging me!" He gave them all another glare and they soon fell asleep.

In a deep sleep, Kagome fell into a nightmare. Surrounded by flames, she coughed and searched, calling out for Inuyasha. The flames circled and danced around her, their orange and red patterns burned intensively at her, but never touched her skin. A low growl was heard through Kagome's coughing and the roar of the large flames. She tried to cover her mouth and nose with the sleeve of her shirt, but it wasn't working and she was on the verge of passing out when a familar pair of amber eyes struck through the smoke and flames. She tried to call out Inuyasha's name, but wound up coughing more as she crouched down in the circle of flames, trying to stay low from the smoke, and said hoarsly, "Inuyasha."

No answer from the pair of amber eyes, which had a very cold glare in them. 'Why isn't he helping me!' Kagome thought over and over, but his eyes just kept glaring as his body's form began showing in the smoke, and she sqinted, trying to see him. His hair and kimono blew in the wind the fire created, and a cold smirk spread across the hanyou's face and she could see Inuyasha with the completed Shikon no Tama in his claws as two blue stripes appeared on his face. The familar stripes that were only seen when Inuyasha was a demon. Kagome gasped as Inuyasha chuckled evilly as his fangs and claws grew and his blood ran cold to that of a true demon's. "Inuyasha..." she said weakly, the flames slightly dying down, "..Inuyasha..how could you use the jewel like that." She winced, almost passing out. "How could you break our promice like that?"

His cold voice struck through the roar of the flames, startling her so much, frightening her. She was in shock at what he said to her. "Kagome, you should know, I only used you to get all the jewel shards. Now that the jewel is complete, I don't need you around anymore!" His clawed hand, which the jewel hung from. Kagome was in shock, her eyes teared, making streaks down her cheeks which showed clearly through the ash and dirt from the fire that had covered her body.

"Inuyasha," she whispered, "don't do it. Please..." She looked up as Inuyasha's face became colder than that of Naraku's or Sesshoumaru's and his claws aimed at Kagome. With a scream from Kagome, Inuyasha brought down the razor-like claws over her body.

Kagome snapped out of her deep sleep and shoot up, panting from her dream, in a cold sweat. She glanced around the hut. The fire was out, and everybody was gone as sunlight shimmered into the hut. But she leaned back, still sweating and gasping for breath.

She could feel the heat of the flames, the pain in her chest from the smoke, the break in her heart from Inuyasha's cold glare. Still out of breath, breathing hard, she stood, and straitened herself out. She felt either tears or sweat around her eyes and quickly wiped it away.

She could hear the other's outside, talking and playing, as if nothing had happened. She looked in her bag for a washcloth of some kind and cleaned her face with the water Kaede stored in there. Inuyasha's words and actions ran through her mind, along with every other aspect of the horrible nightmare.

Just the thought of the look that Inuyasha gave her made her cry, once more. She sobbed lightly at the terror of the dream. Inuyasha actually betrayed her, and killed her. 'How...why...what if that really happened.' Kagome thought, tears running over her cheeks.

Outside

"C'mon Sango. Wake her up. We don't want to wait all day for her!" Inuyasha groaned.

Sango gave a flat look to Inuyasha. "I'm going to let her rest."

"Why?...Is Kagome sick like Inuyasha was?" Shippou said, cautiously.

"She migh very well be." Miroku said, calmly. "Whatever had made Inuyasha feel ill must have passed onto Kagome." He sighed, looking at the others.

"See, Inuyasha. If she's sick, we shouldn't leave. And whatever had you down for just a day could impact Kagome much worse." Sango looked down at Kirara, who was chasing a small catnip ball that Kagome had brought from her time.

"Awww...Kirara really likes that ball that Kagome gave her." Shippou said, quickly changing the subject, and he picked up the ball and held it over Kirara's head and she purred and mewed at Shippou, and he threw it. Kirara chased it quickly and trotted back to Shippou, like a dog, and passed it back to him as her two tails went crazy.

They all chuckled, and Sango bent down and petted Kirara. "Kirara, you're not the one who's supposed to fetch the ball, you silly cat." She laughed and threw the catnip ball a bit further, watching Kirara chase it.

A grunt was heard after the ball fell, and Sango blushed. "Kaede, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hit you!" But Kaede shook it off and chuckled, picking up the ball and throwing it to Kirara. Sango still blushed, and Kaede laughed a bit, still.

"Sango, I thought you had a good aim!" Inuyasha taunted, which caused Sango to grab her boomerang.

"Do you want to see how good my aim is?!" She glared at Inuyasha and smirked.

"Ooohh," Inuyasha taunted, "look at Sango, the great demon slayer."

"Don't mock me, Inuyasha." Her smirk widened.

Miroku backed away slowly. He didn't want to get involved when Sango and Inuyasha were going to...kind of fight. And while Inuyasha and Sango bickered and taunted eachother, and Shippou and Kirara played with the catnip ball, he heard the light cries of a very important, and close friend.

I'm sure you figured out what Miroku heard. Yea, that's right. Sorry to cut you off right now, but, I just LOVE being mean! It's a hobby of mine. o.O