ok, this starts from Inuyasha's viewpoint a little before where I left off last chapter. Inuyasha is dreaming that this is happening, and for my story Inuyasha came back to life from being sealed to the tree after Kagome touched his ears that first time she saw him. (you know what im talking about!). Also, to those people who offered to help me translate my story into french better-THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'd be so overjoyed if someone who knew real french helped me, I've only been in french class for three months so I'm kind of really bad at it... my email is if you're still interested in helping me.

Inuyasha didn't want to wake up again. At first he had fought the sedatives, spent every ounce of his strength fighting to keep his eyes open, but he had never won. Every time he had woken up recently something horrible came to be known to him, last time he had learned that his hair was just about gone. He had decided to save his strength and willpower for when an opportunity for escape arose.

The pressure in his ears was becoming unbearably painful, despite his unconscious state he still felt the pain. The metal rods didn't allow any of the fluids which built up in his ears to escape, so the pressure just grew and grew. Every time Inuyasha went into a gagging fit from the rod down his throat the pain pierced through his skull like a white hot dagger.

Unknown to Inuyasha one of the recently applied plugs to his head stimulated brain activity by firing electrical signals through his brain. In other words this meant that it made him go through an extremely rapid and intense dream.

This time he was reliving the moment fifty years prior when Kikyo had shot him to the tree. It was exceptionally real.

Inuyasha was flitting through the forest with the Shikon no Tama, he finally had it, he would finally be a full demon! Then it happened, it seemed as if it happened ridiculously slowly and during the time it would take for one to blink an eye.

He turned his head and saw Kikyo, arrow aimed straight at him, looking at him with unconditional hate in her eyes. She had betrayed him, used him and then tried to kill him like he was some kind of bug. The look sent icy daggers of through Inuyasha's heart. He thought:

'I never had any reason to doubt you... So how could you?'

She yelled "Inuyasha!", her rancor evident in her voice, and the arrow hit him, straight through the chest and against the tree. That was when it was as if time slowed to a crawl, all he seemed to be able to look at was the Shikon no Tama falling from his claw unbearably slowly. It fell so slowly, but he just couldn't reach it. He was frozen, but not by the arrow through his chest, it was the pain of having the woman he had grown to love killing him. He had loved and believed in her and she had turned and killed him anyway.

With rapidly blurring eyes he looked back at Kikyo, hate burning in her eyes, and whispered:

"Kikyo... I believed.. How could you?"

Just before everything ended he had time to think 'and I still do believe in you.I guess it's ok... Kikyo, this proves that you're not the woman I thought you were.. But I accept it, and I love......'

And then Inuyasha died by the hand of the only person he had ever fully trusted. He remained on the tree for what seemed an eternity. Then, something happened, he was... aware. Something had brought him out of death, he had felt a slight caress on his ears.

Inuyasha began to awake from his dream upon feeling another touch to his ear, much like the time Kagome had revived him from his death on the tree. He felt the effects of the sedatives start to recede, and again felt the warm soft fingers on his skin. He struggled to wake up, willing his eyes to open so he could see her.

She was here, she had come for him. Despite the state of being he was in he felt happiness welling in his heart, he could finally tell her.

He whispered as loudly as he could muster;

"Kagome..." (A/N: I was thinkin bout ending it here, but I'm not that evil. Now we switch to Kagome's viewpoint)

Kagome felt her jaw start to tremble as Inuyasha's eyes slowly opened. She did her best to look brave for him, but it was hard.

After first opening his eyes he blinked maybe three times, and then fixed his golden eyes on hers. At that moment Kagome wanted so badly to cry, throughout all he had been through he was still beautiful.

"Kagome, I..... I-" Inuyasha had started to say something but was cut off when he started shivering uncontrollably. At the same time he started breathing very quickly in short strained gasps, it was as if he just couldn't get enough air.

"don't try to talk yet Inuyasha.... Everything is going to be ok.. I'm here now" Kagome said to him, assuring herself as well as him.

Kagome then climbed onto the cold steel table Inuyasha was on and lay next to him, wrapping her arms around him and resting her head on his shoulder.

This was terrifying for Kagome, Inuyasha had never been like this before. It hurt her to know that it was her fault, if she had been more agreeable then none of this would have happened. That it had happened in her own era and by her own society made it hurt all the worse. Also Kagome was scared for Inuyasha, she knew that he would normally be fine in the temperature of the room they were in. She guessed that it was because of the sedatives they had used on him, she remembered seeing multitudes of I.V.s being removed from him. They must have been using far too much.

Kagome then realized that tears were falling from her eyes, she blinked hard to hide them from Inuyasha. She had to be brave for him.

After a while Inuyasha seemed to get a little better, his breathing became more regular and the shivering subsided a bit. He even started to move, though was not really able yet.

"Inuyasha... I'm so sorry. This is all my fault, I don't know how you could ever forgive me, I don't deserve it. It's all my fault"

Kagome started sobbing again, she couldn't help it. It was just too much for her. She hated herself for doing this to him.

She squeezed her arms around him tighter and just cried, she couldn't stop. It was her fault that the one she loved more than anyone was in such a horrible state, je would never be the same after this. Kagome didn't think that she would either.

She opened her eyes when she felt him put his hand to her head. His eyes were open and he had an odd look of happiness on his face.

"Kagome, its not your fault" he said, his voice still weak.

"It was my fault because I followed you, I followed you because...."

Inuyasha turned his head and looked at her with a look of contentment in his luminous golden eyes, a rare expression for him under normal circumstances.

"because I love you"

Kagome immediatly quieted upon hearing those words, and was then attacked by a fresh stab of pain.

'he loves me.... Oh god... Why is he telling me this now? what have I done? He loves me and It's my fault that he's here. I'll never forgive myself."

Inuyasha continued to look at her while she contemplated his words. By now he was able to move and began stroking her hair. He had said it. (A/N: okays, now we switch back to inuyasha's viewpoint)

As he lay shivering on the steel table next to Kagome Inuyasha had held no regrets, only that he had realized it sooner that he loved her and needed to tell her. Despite being almost paralyzed and colder than he ever remembered being in his life, Inuyasha was happy.

He knew she was upset, he had felt the hot tears fall onto his shoulder. She blamed herself, and Inuyasha knew she would until he did something. Inuyasha felt that he could move pretty well now, feeling had returned to his skin and the cold had subsided a bit.

Inuyasha looked back at Kagome. Though tears still fell from her eyes and onto his shoulder she had stopped sobbing and seemed a bit better.

"can you help me sit up?"

Kagome looked at him with concerned eyes and asked:

"are you sure you can? I don't want you to get hurt..."

At that he couldn't help but smirk. He replied:

"feh, I'm not that fragile. Now help me get up!"

Kagome put his arm over her shoulders and grabbed his wrist with hands that seemed to be so warm to the chilled Inuyasha. She then pulled him up into a sitting position, where he stayed.

Her jacket was still around his neck so he resituated it so that it covered him more for better warmth. After moving he felt alot better, He decided that it was because of increased circulation.

Kagome was looking at the floor in an ashamed way. Inuyasha leaned against her, worried that she was still berating herself for what happened.

"Kagome, I love you. I mean it. This isn't your fault, if anyone's it's mine for being stupid enough to walk into the middle of a street and getting ran over by... they're called cars right?"

Kagome looked at him and nodded, still oddly silent. Inuyasha continued:

"I've loved you for a really long time now, I just hadn't admitted it myself. But it's ok now, now that we both know it we'll be ok. I'm sure I can escape from this place. We're going to be ok."

Kagome still didn't say anything, but put her arm around Inuyasha and leaned her head against him. She believed him, or at least tricked herself into doing so. He was going to get out of this horrible place no matter what she had to do.

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sorry this chapter ended kind of abruptly, I just couldn't think of a good ending. And sorry for bringing Kikyo into the story, but I thought that a sort of a flashback thing like that would be cool. I must have spen an hour and a half writing and editing that part, and it's still not how I want it to be. I watched that scene from episode 148 like 100 times to get it just right, but perfection evades me. That's one of my favorite scenes from the whole series, even though it has Kikyo in it. Why do I write such long author's notes at the end of my chapters?(rhetorical) Please review.