A/N: ::slowly steps out of the shadows:: I know you guys probably hate me. Your probably thinking 'If I get my hands on her I'll strangle her!' I have a very good reason for not updating in awhile though. My comp had a very bad virus and I could not get on the net and I didn't have any other access to any other computer. But I'm back! Did ja miss me?

Readers: ::glares and throws knives and other sharp objects at me:: NO!

Me: ::sweatdrops and dodges the objects:: Uh, I'll answer the reviewers at the end of this chapter. Maybe then you won't be mad at me.

Readers: ::gives me dry looks:: That is doubtful.

Me: ::goes back into the shadows::

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Chapter 20

Sango had also noticed that her blind friend had awakened. "Oh great, just perfect!" She cried and jumped to her feet.

Inuyasha had also risen to his feet. "What are you worried about? Your not the one who turned into a dog and then changed back." He said, frustration laced in his voice.

Sango whirled around and glared at him. "Your not the one who has to explain to your best friend that her dog changed into a naked man on your kitchen floor!" She yelled, her voice slightly shrill.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to retort but another voice stopped him. "Sango? What's all the yelling about?" Kagome asked as she felt her way along the hallway wall and into the livingroom.

Inuyasha froze where he stood, his new ears pricked forward, catching any sound from the young blind woman standing in the moon light that was streaming from the livingroom window.

"Sango?" Kagome called again, her voice showing concern when her friend didn't answer the first time. She reached over and clutched at the corner of the wall.

Sango shook her head and quickly made her way to her friends side, placing her hand on her shoulder and causing Kagome to jump at the sudden pressure on her shoulder. "Everything's alright Kagome." Sango soothed.

Kagome's shoulders relaxed when she heard her friends voice. "Sango, I can't find Yasha anywhere. Do you know where he is?" She asked and tilted her head so that she could hear her friends voice more easily.

Sango gulped audibly and glanced nervously at Inuyasha. "Ya-Yasha? N-No, I haven't seen him." She said, her voice a high nervous squeak.

'Something's not right.' Kagome thought and tightened her grip on the wall. "Sango," She began, her voice shaking ever so slightly, trying to stay calm. "Your not telling me something." She stated simply.

Sango gulped again and glanced at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha gave her a 'Why are you looking at me?!' look.

Sango took a deep breath and let it out in a sigh and then turned back to face her blind friend. "Your right Kagome. I'm am keeping something from you." She said. "But you won't believe me when I tell you." She said, repeating the same words that Inuyasha had used on her earlier.

Kagome turned unseeing eyes on her friend. "Sango, just tell me, does it have something to do with Yasha?" She asked.

Sango sighed and took her friends hand and lead her to the couch. 'If she only knew how right she was.' She thought and took a seat on the couch next to her friend.

'How do I start?' Sango wondered. "You know how Yasha isn't like other dogs?" She began, not knowing how else to explain it.

Kagome slowly nodded her head. "Yeah, I know Yasha isn't like other dogs. He's special." She said and tilted her head to the side. "Sango, has something happened to Yasha?" She asked.

Inuyasha, who hadn't moved from his spot during the entire confrontation, swallowed silently. 'What a jam I'm in.' He thought.

Sango glanced at Inuyasha once more before turning back to Kagome. "Um, well, you could say that." She said nervously.

"Kagome, you see, well, I thought I heard something in the kitchen earlier," Sango decided to tell Kagome what had happened, from finding Inuyasha on the floor, to the very ending of when she had walked into the livingroom inquiring the where about's of her dog.

"So, I walked into the kitchen and saw a naked man, and well," Here she got a little tongue tied with her words. 'How am I supposed to say this? 'Kagome, your dog just turned into a dog eared man. That's not a problem is it?'' She scoffed in her mind.

"Well, uh, you see, uh, um," She tried again with much success.

Inuyasha was getting tired of waiting for Sango to tell Kagome. He cursed silently to himself before he spoke aloud. "Feh, what she's trying to say is that I turned into a human." He said with a tired sounding sigh as he plopped down on the floor and crossed his arms as well as his legs.

Kagome gave a soft squeak and jumped in surprise at the strange mans voice that suddenly spoke seemingly from no where.

She reached over and griped Sango's arm in a vice like grip. "Sango, wh-who's that?" She asked, her voice a high squeak.

Sango glared at Inuyasha and then took a deep, tired sounding breath. "Kagome, that was Yasha." She said and tried to pull her arm out of her friends death grip.

Kagome gulped. "That is not Yasha. Yasha is a dog, not a strange man, wait a minute, is this the guy that you found naked in the kitchen?" She asked, her voice still slightly squeaky.

Sango took her hand up and rubbed at her temples where she felt the beginnings of a very mad migraine. 'This is going to be a long night.' She thought with a sigh.

Inuyasha glanced at Kagome out of the corner of his eye. 'How am I gonna convince her that I was actually her mutt?' He thought, almost desperately.

Now that he realized what it was he was actually feeling for Kagome, he didn't want to lose her. He knew that the love that she had shown to him was for the dog and he also knew that he would have to work hard to earn her love again.

"Look Kagome, I know that this is gonna be hard to swallow, and its gonna be hard for me to explain. To make a long story short, you're dog was a human once and his ex-girlfriend, who had some sort of power, cast a spell and turned him into a dog and his brother told him the way to turn back to normal and he has. Well, sorta." She said and glanced at the two furry digits atop of Inuyasha mane of hair.

Kagome shook her head, her unseeing eyes wide. "That is not possible. Its just not possible." She muttered over and over.

One of Inuyasha's furry white ears twitched slightly at the sound of Kagome's soft voice. "Its possible alright. I'm living proof." He also muttered so that no one in the room could hear him.

Kagome's head jerked up and her scent changed from one of slight fear to anger. "You were not my dog!" She screeched, causing Inuyasha to flatten his ears flat against his skull.

"Not so loud woman!" He tried not to yell at her as he rubbed at his ringing ears. 'Stupid ears.' He thought darkly.

Sango was trying to reason with her friend. "Kagome, it's the truth!" She insisted to the blind girl.

Kagome shook her head. "It can't be!" She all but yelled. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself and the next words she spoke were spoken calmly. "Proof. If you give me some sort of proof then I'll consider believing you." She said, her voice holding a hint of triumph.

Sango's face went blank. 'Proof? How am I supposed to show her proof when she can't see?' She thought.

Inuyasha gave an irritated grunt. 'Damn, she's trying to outsmart us.' He thought with a flick of his ears. 'Wait a minute!' He flicked his ears again. 'Right here's my proof!' He thought.

He pushed himself up and walked over to Kagome. "Feh, you want proof?" He asked and plopped down on the floor in front of the blind woman. " Right here's your proof." He reached out and firmly grabbed Kagome's hands and brought them up to the top of his head.

Kagome jumped when the strange man suddenly reached out and grabbed her hands. She sighed when he let them go.

She flexed her fingers, feeling silky soft hair beneath them. 'His hair is so soft.' She thought as she gently ran her fingers through it, feeling how thick it was.

She suddenly stopped her exploring of his hair when her fingers came into contact with something that shouldn't have been there, two something's in fact. 'Wha- But this can't be.' She thought as she gently began to rub the two something's.

"It, it can't be." She whispered as she rubbed the two furry dog ears between her fingers. Dog ears that she knew very well. "Yasha?" She whispered in disbelief and the ears she was flicked slightly under her fingers.

"In the flesh." Inuyasha replied and watched as a look of utter disbelief crossed Kagome's face and then her face went blank as her fingers went limp and she fell forward and Inuyasha caught her in his arms.

"Kagome!" Sango cried and rushed to Kagome's said, her face showing how concerned she was for her friend.

"She's fine. She just fainted." Inuyasha grunted out as he pushed Kagome back against the couch.

Sango let out a sigh of relief. "I didn't think she would faint." Sango said and also sat back against the cushions of the couch.

Inuyasha didn't say anything, he just brought his hands up and rubbed at his eyes, the stress of the last three hours finally catching up with her. ":et's just sort this out in the morning." He muttered tiredly.

Sango nodded in agreement and smothered a yawn that had escaped her mouth. "Alright. How are we gonna get Kagome to her room with out waking her up?" She asked, feeling her lashes get heaver.

Inuyasha gave Sango a dry look then swiftly and gently scooped Kagome into his armd, blushing a bright red when the young, blind woman snuggled into his muscular chest.

"Well, that's one way." Sango said in a tired sounding voice, getting to her feet and walking down the hallway, with Inuyasha following suit.

Inuyasha walked down the hall towards Kagome's room, his bare feet padding on the hardwood floor.

Kagome's bedroom door was slightly ajar and Inuyasha pushed it the rest of the way open with his foot. He walked over to her bed and, with one hand still hold Kagome, he pulled the blankets down a little more before laying her down on her bed.

He reached down and pulled the blanket up around Kagome as she gently slept. After he did that he straightened and looked down at her, awed by what he saw.

Kagome's long ebony colored hair was fanned out on her pillow, framing her pale face, her chest was rising slightly as she breathed in and out.

He reached down and gently brushed away a few stray strands from her face and then gently caressed her cheek, letting his hand linger on her pale, soft skin. His heart sped up slightly when Kagome turned her head towards his caressing hand.

His nose twitched when Sango's scent came to his nose and he, regretfully, pulled his clawed hand away and began to walk out of the room, quietly closing Kagome's door behind him.

Sango was walking down the hallway from her room, carrying a blanket and pillow. She stopped and handed to the items to Inuyasha. "You can sleep on the couch tonight and we'll try to sort all of this out in the morning." She said tiredly and turned and headed back towards her room, closing the door when she entered it.

Inuyasha quietly made his way back towards the livingroom, putting the pillow on it and then himself.

He didn't fall asleep right away, his mind was buzzing from the events of earlier that night. His mind wandered back to Kagome's room, remembering how soft Kagome's skin had felt under his hand.

He lifted said hand up and looked at it. He took a deep breath and he could just barely make out Kagome's scent surrounding his hand and he felt his heart do an unfamiliar flip flop. 'I'll gave to gain her lone again.' He thought. He took another deep breath. 'But I'll wait. I'll wait an eternity for you, Kagome.' He thought and finally let sleep over take him.

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There ya go! Are you not mad at me now? I hope your not! See? ::holds out a plate of cookies:: I made apology cookies. Forgive me? ::gives puppy eyes.

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