I'm being threatened by death to finish this fic. I kid you not. My best friend is holding a knife to my throat until i type.

So, before I get my head cut off, i'll write you another chapter. Sorry bout the delay, i lost the floppy, and then forgot about the fic. I have this thing about not remembering things that aren't in my face all the time. So if you guys want updates, then you have to gripe at me to update. You'll find i've always been like that, except when i'm trying to make someone mad by writing the story.

Okay, here's your chapter.

Sorry, again, about the wait.

Kagome howled with laughter as the hanyou woke from his sleep.

"What's soo funny?" Inuyasha grumped characteristically. All of their little traveling group were giggling.

Kagome tossed him her mirror before bursting into a coughing fit resulting from her fit of giggles.

He looked into the mirror and found he was wearing makeup.

He looked like a Gaesha!

Growling, he rubbed the white powder off of his face.

"Damn it." He growled, the powder wouldnt come off.

"Try this." Kagome said, tossing him a vial of somehting smelling like alchohol. He rubbed it over his face and was relived to find that the white stuff came off.

When he was satisfied, he tossed the mirror angrily back to Kagome, who caught it, still coughing. Sango patted her hard on the back. "I'm fine." She assured them. Brushing away Inuyasha's hand as he tried to feel her temperature.

"Let's go." He said, stomping off.

He waited out of sight for them to catch up. Grumbling something about stupid humans.

"Inuyasha!" Came a panicked yell from their camp.

His eyes flashed and he raced back to the camp. Tetsuaiga was drawn as his eyes settled on the spider demon, kagome was in a white coccoon against the nearest tree. Miroku and Sango were trying to keep the demon away from their friend as Shippou and Kirara tried to free her.

"Die!" He yelled, attacking the demon, distracting it from his friends. "Help Kagome!" He yelled, seeing the Kitsune and the cat demon already trying to get through the nearly impenetrable coccoon around the teen.

He sliced the demon's head off. But it regrew another one. This one uglier than the last. He tried to cut open it's torso, but it only regenerated that as well. "Damnit! He's got a jewel shard! Hurry, we need Kagome!" He said, atacking again and again.

The demon attacked him, leaving a long, jagged gash down his chest where his haori came together.

"Inuyasha, get out of the way!" Miroku yelled, releasing the verocious tunnel from it's bindings.

He sucked the demon into his arm, then quickly closed off the tunnel.

He choked, kneeling. "Miroku?" Inuyasha asked, patting the monk's back.

He ckoked again then spit out a little pink shard. "Like coughing up a hairball." he said, grimacing.

Inuyasha turned to the cocoon that still had yet to be opened. "Inuyasha, if we can't get it open, she'll suffocate. If she hasn't already."

He motinoned for them to move. Then, baring his claws, he tore through the steel-hard coccoon.

Kagome fell limply out of the cocoon. Inuyasha caught her before she hit the groud. Her form was motionless, unbreathing.

"Kagome." He turned her over in his arms, kneeling. Her hands were limp, her lips a pale blueish purple. "Kagome, wake up. You promised you wouldn't leave me! You have to wake up! I...I love you.." He felt hot tears streaming down his face.

Then he remembered what had happened when they had found a girl in the river. She wasn't breathing and she had looked like this too.

He lay her flat, mimicing her movememts from before.

He breathed into her mouth, Her lips were icy against his own. Chilling him to the bone.

She didn't move.

He repeated the procedure, breathing air into her lungs. "Come on." he cursed, pounding on her chest. "Breathe!" Tears stained everyone's faces, as the moment stopped and silence prevailed.

Her gasping breath caught attention from the whole encampment as she caughed into life. Her body shook with the coughs as her lungs took in fresh air.

Tears streamed down her face as she clung to Inuyasha, Gasping air.

"Yay! Kagome's safe!" Shippou half shouted to Kirara, who had been holding each other as the scene played out.

"Hey. It's okay. You're safe. Remember, i'll always protect you." His words came through to her.

She nodded into his fur haori, her eyes closed tightly as she held on to him, covering herself with is blood.

Suddenly, he felt sharp electrocuting pain wrench through his body from the cut. It was then that he realized. The spider demon had poisoned him.

"Kagome. I have to go. I promise i'll be right back." He said, trying to get her to let go.

"No." she shook her head as her tears bathed his wound.

"Kagome." He sighed, sliding his hand up her spine to the base of her skull. Pressing gently there, he knocked her unconsious, her limp form sliding to fall into his lap. Her face marred with his own blood.

He handed her to Miroku. "Take care of her." He said, before jumping high into the air.

He caught the scent of a river nearby and lept into it. The cool water burning the fresh wound. He reached under the gash, feeling painfully along it to find the barb left by the spider demon. "Damn." He cused as he tore the barb out to fresh spurts of blood.

Breathing hard, he pinched the wound closed with is fingers closing off the flow of blood. Then he sat there, letting the water cleanse him of the blood.

When he rose, the wound was already healing as he lept into the air, searching for their camp.

There's your chapter! Happy!

Anyways.

Feh. -Inu