*~*~*Chapter 5*~*~*

Koga and Kagome got into his car and drove off. After about 20 minutes of driving, Kagome spoke.

"Where are we going Koga? It's raining outside!"

"I heard you on the phone today." He stated. Her eyes went wide.

"I... I c..c.. can explain" she stuttered.

"I don't want to hear it," he said calmly.

"Just listen to me!" she pleaded. He smacked her across the face.

"No I told you I don't want to hear it! You wanted to swim right? Well Kagome, we are gonna swim." She took a deep breath as the car stopped at a lake.

He opened his door, and then went around to Kagome's side. He opened her door, grabbed her arm and dragged her out on to the dock, which was about two feet above the water. They walked to the very end.

"Take your shoes and socks off." He commanded. She did as he said. He took his shirt off and set it down on the dock that was already wet from the rain. "Now take your and sweatshirt off too, you wont be able to swim in that," she hesitated, but did as he said, scared of what he would do if she disobeyed. She was left in her tank top, and short shorts.

He went to the end of the dock where the ladder was. "Climb down." He said calmly. She backed away and shook her head. "Get over here and climb down!" He yelled.

"No!" she screamed and started to run to shore. He chased after her and tackled her onto the sand.

"You will do as I say and learn your place!" he yelled into her ear, she thought she would go deaf. "Is that clear?!" she nodded. "I said is that clear!"

"Yes!" she said trying not to let her voice crack, failing miserably.

"Good, now lets go." He said holding her wrist. They walked back to the ladder. "Now climb down." She did as he said, gasping when she felt how cold the water was, but she did not let go of the ladder, for she could not touch the ground. Next he came down. He jumped off into the water, and swam to the opposite side of the ladder. "Let go."

"But I can't swim! I will drown!" she protested, gripping the ladder better.

"Now!" he yelled, prying her hands off of it. She immediately sunk, so he grabbed onto her shirt, holding her down. After a little while her brought her back up, watching her gasp for air. "So how do you like swimming now?" he asked

"Please, lets go home." She begged.

"No I don't think so, not just yet" he shoved her head back under the water, longer this time. She was struggling to get back up for air. Finally he brought her up. This time she coughed up some water.

She was crying uncontrollably now. "Please Koga, stop this now." She said in between sobs.

"Ok," he said simply, "I am a little cold." He let go of her, and started up the ladder, she barely had time to grab the ladder.

She climbed up shakily. When she got to the car finally, she found Koga inside, with the doors locked. He rolled down the windows a little. "Here Kagome," he threw out about 2 dollars in quarters, "take the bus home, oh, and if you tell anyone, you don't even want to know what I am going to do." That said, he drove off, leaving the soaking wet Kagome there in the freezing rain.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" She screamed at the top of her lungs in frustation. "Well, I better start walking if I want to be home before dark." So she picked up the quarters she could find, and started walking.

After what seemed like hours of walking, (and probably was hours) and not finding a bus stop, she came across a payphone. Who could I call? She thought. She reached into her pocket to get the quarters, and pulled out a sheet of paper. Hey! This is Inuyasha's number! It's a little worn out, but I can still read it! But no, I can't call him, Koga would kill me if he found out I broke his rules again. *Sigh* what in the world am I going to do? She put two quarters in the slot and dialed Inuyasha's number.

"Hello?" she said, trying not to show her shivering through her words.

"Hello? Kagome? Is that you?" he sounded worried.

"Yeah, it's me."

"Is everything ok? You sound, I don't know, like you are shivering or something." Leave it to Inuyasha guess right.

"Umm, I guess I'm ok, I need to ask you a favor." It was starting to get dark, and she was getting a little freaked out.

"Yeah, what do you need?"

"Umm, I need you to come get me."

"Sure no problem, I'll be there in no time"

"Wait, I'm not at home."

"Ok, then where are you?"

"That is the problem, I don't know."

"Well, do you have any idea?"

"Yeah, I am near a lake, somewhere in between my house and a lake."

"Ok, I'll come looking for you, stay where you are."

"Oh, and Inuyasha?"

"Yeah?"

"Please hurry, it's starting to get dark, and I'm kind of..." he cut her off.

"I understand"

"Thank you." And with that she hung up the phone. "Please hurry," she said to herself, looking around at the scary forest that surrounded her and the dirt road she was on.

Kagome could not stop shivering; she tried as hard as she could to get warm. She ran in circles, but she ended up getting tired, since she had worked all morning and walked all afternoon. She even tried to make a fire. Which did not work at all. I am going to die right here, freeze to death before anyone can even find me. She thought. It had been an hour since she called Inuyasha, and she was starting to drift asleep. He isn't going to come for me, and even if is does try, he wont be able to find me.

~~~~~ Meanwhile with Inuyasha

"Kagome where are you!" he yelled. He had been driving for an hour now, and he was starting to freak out. That is when he saw something on the side of the road. He stopped his car and got out.

"Kagome!" he yelled when he saw it was her, "thank god I found you!"

She looked up at him with a huge smile on her face. Then fell over. But no worries, her caught her before she hit the ground. When he felt her skin, he flinched. "Kagome, you're freezing! What happened to you! I am expecting a complete explanation when we get you warmed up." he scooped her up into his arms and set her down in the back seat of the car. Then he got into the driver seat and pulled away, turning the heater on as he did so.

"Kagome?"

"Yeah" she said sleepily.

"Do you want to spend the night at my house, or do you want me to take you home?"

She thought for a while. "I don't want to go home, but I."

"You don't have to be scared of me Kagome."

"I know, but they will be mad."

"Who will be mad?"

"You know, Koga and Naraku." She said as she yawned.

"Its ok, we can get you home early tomorrow morning, before anyone wakes up, you can say you got home late."

"Ok." she shivered. "Inuyasha?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm cold"

"You can climb over the seats, I guess the heat hasn't reached the back yet."

"Thanks." she said climbing over the seats. "For driving all the way out here to get me."

"No problem, speaking of witch, why were you all the way up here?"

"Well." She didn't want to tell him about Koga, afraid that he would find out again.

"Well?" he could tell she was getting nervous. "Look, I know you were in the lake, you couldn't get that wet out in the rain. And I also know you can't swim, so I'm not sure why you were in the lake. And you don't have a car, so how could you get out here, and."

She cut him off, "Ok! I'll tell you," she took a big breath. "Well, do you remember when I called you this morning?" he nodded. "Well Koga was listening, and he was mad and. jealous. I guess. that you were helping me learn how to swim. So he decided to punish me for breaking his rules, and he took me out to the lake," she looked like she was on the verge of crying. "He told me to take off my sweatshirt and shoes, and to climb down the ladder. But I said no, and tried to run away, but he caught me and made me get into the water anyway. He held me down, and. And I thought I was gonna die again, and. And." By now she was crying her heart out.

"Wait, what do you mean again?"

"Oh, nothing," she said looking away."

"No, please tell me."

She looked over to him, and it looked like he actually wanted to know, like he cared.

"When I was little, me and my best friend were swimming in the river by my house. We weren't supposed to go the middle cause the current was too strong, but like idiots, we did anyway. In the end, she ended up drowning, and I was on a coma for 3 days."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"Don't be" they were silent the rest of the drive.

"Well, here we are" he said pulling into the garage that went with his apartment. They walked up to his apartment and Inuyasha unlocked the door. "Sess and Rin must still be on their little vacation."

"Who are they?"

"Oh, Sess is my older half brother, and Rin is his adopted child."

"Oh."

"So, lets see, I guess you can sleep in my bed."

"What?!"

"I don't mean with me, I'll sleep on the sofa chair in there, its pretty comfortable actually."

"Oh, ok," Inuyasha sat down on the chair in his room and shut his eyes.

"Inuyasha?"

"Sorry, here, come with me," she followed him into another room, "you are going to need some dry clothes. He pulled one of his shirts out of the dryer. Here you go, you can sleep in this, and I'll wash your clothes tonight. They will be ready for you in the morning."

"Thanks" they both stood there for a while, looking at each other.

"I guess I'll let you change." He said leaving the small laundry room. She took off all of her clothes and put them into the washing machine. She didn't mind that he only gave her a shirt because it went all the way down to her knees. She walked into Inuyasha's room to find him on the chair with his eyes shut. She walked over to him. It occurred to her that she never got to touch his ears. She was going to back of and go to sleep, but you know what they say. Curiosity killed to cat. She slowly reached over him, holding her breath as she did so. Just as she was about to touch them, he stirred. He opened his eyes to see her over him.

"Well. This is awkward." He stated.

"You know what, I am really tired suddenly, goodnight!"

"Hey, hey, slow down there, what were you doing?"

She turned to him, "I just wanted to touch your ears" she said quietly.

"Oh! Is that all! Ok then." And with that he went back to sleep.

"What a weird guy." She said to herself.

"I heard that!" and with that, they both drifted off to sleep.

*~*~*End chapter 5*~*~*

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