A/N: ok I'm in school right now doing a final lol I need a break from it my partner is a FREAK and he smells bad and has bad breath and keeps hovering over me…lol…anyway, I'll try to type up the chapter without getting caught!

It was night time. Miroku had fallen asleep beside Sango, his hand over hers. Sango had not gotten better since the incident. She had also turned even paler than she already was. She had not moved an inch. Inuyasha was sitting on top of the hut, waiting for Nintai and Kagome to return from the hot springs. Shippou was fast asleep inside of the hut.

The whole day Nintai trained with Kagome and Kaede on how to shoot an arrow. She was surprised at how good she was, seeing that she had never done it before. The whole day Miroku was at Sango's side. Inuyasha watched their archery practice, but soon fled after a certain incident…

Flashback

Kagome and Nintai were using the Goshinboku as their target. Inuyasha was watching closely. Kagome aimed and shot. Suddenly everything went in slow motion to Inuyasha. He saw the arrow approaching the god tree. When it hit the tree, he saw himself pinned there. He looked at Kagome, who was in the same position Kikyou was in when she trapped him to the tree. His eyes opened wide with shock.

He closed his eyes and shook his head, and then opened his eyes again. He came back to reality and saw Nintai starring oddly at him.

"Inuyasha, are you all right?" she asked in concern. He turned his gaze towards her.

"Feh, I'm fine." He replied as he jumped off his tree and walked away in a daze.

'That was weird…' he thought as he walked back to the village. Inuyasha never really liked arrows too much, though he would never admit that to anyone.

"That was strange…" Nintai said to Kagome. Kagome lowered her arrow and looked over at the other tree where Inuyasha was before.

"What? Where did Inuyasha go?"

"I think back to the village. He was acting weird. He watched you're arrow go towards the Goshinboku and when it finally hit it, he just opened his eyes in shock. Then after a while he just shook his head. I asked him if he was okay, but then he just said 'feh' and left."

Kagome walked over to the arrow and looked at the spot that it hit. It had hit the exact spot that Kikyou hit when she pinned Inuyasha to the tree for 50 years. She took out her arrow and placed her hand over the spot.

'That must have scared him, seeing that I look so much like Kikyou. It must have triggered a flashback or something. Poor Inuyasha.'

"Yoo-hoo, Kagooooomeeeeeeeee…don't get all weird on me like Inuyasha did."

Kagome snapped out of her thoughts when she saw Nintai waving her hands in front of her face.

"It's my turn to shoot now!" Nintai pulled her arrow back and aimed at a branch. She shot it, and with a bright blue glow, it knocked a branch off of a tree. The two girls continued shooting arrows the rest of the day.

End Flashback

"What a day…" Kagome sighed as she sunk low into the hot springs.

"You said it. Archery takes some concentration, really wears me out mentally, as well as physically, because my shoulder is sore. How do you always put up with this?"

"I'm just used to it." There was a silence between the two when Kagome decided to speak up.

"I'm really worried about Sango, do you think she will be ok?"

"Kagome, I know she will be ok. Don't you have that same feeling, the one that tells you that she will be? I thought it might be some kind of miko power?"

"No, not really. You are Midoriko's daughter, you probably posses a higher level of miko power than I do. What exactly do you feel when you know she's going to be ok?"

"I don't know, I was thinking about Sango earlier today. Whenever I worried about her, there was a light and peaceful breeze in the wind. I don't know why, but that breeze for some reason assured me that she would be ok (A/N: remember this, it might be important in the sequel)."

"Oh. Well, we should start heading back to the village now. I assure you Inuyasha will not let his guard down until we return." Kagome stood up and wrapped a towel around her body, as did Nintai. For some reason, Kagome now worried less about Sango.

"Well, I wouldn't say he wouldn't let his guard down until 'we' return, I would just say it is until 'you' return." Kagome sent an evil glare in Nintai's direction.

"Just saying…" she quickly added. They both threw on their clothes and headed back to the village.

"Hey Kagome, you should talk to Inuyasha about that incident today, at the Goshinboku. I think it was troubling him."

"I will. I really hope he is all right. How do you think Miroku is holding up?"

"I would say that his health mentally is as bad as Sango's is physically."

"Poor guy, he really cares for Sango."

"Everything will turn out for the better. This will make Miroku realize that he really needs to pay more attention to Sango's feelings. I'm just curious how long it will take her to awaken."

"Hopefully it will be soon."

Kagome and Sango reached the village.

"What took ya guys so long?" questioned an annoyed Inuyasha.

"Oh pipe down Inuyasha. We were relaxing in the hot springs. We also needed to talk." Nintai defended herself and Kagome.

"About what? Talking about me behind my back? I did sneeze a few times now that you mention it!"

"GIRL TALK YOU BAKA ARE YOU A GIRL? NOPE? DIDN'T THINK SO! I'M TIRED, SO GOOD NIGHT!" Nintai started to walk back into the hut. She looked over her shoulder to Kagome and winked at her with a sly smile, then walked back into the hut to get some shuteye.

"What's her problem?" asked Inuyasha.

"She's tired." Kagome stood there, for a while.

"Why aren't you going back inside the hut?" Inuyasha now jumped down from the roof. Kagome blushed and soon found the ground very interesting…

"Well?" Inuyasha asked.

"Inuyasha, you were acting really weird earlier. Nintai told me what happened at the Goshinboku. Care to explain?"

Inuyasha crossed his arms and huffed.

"What, it's not like I didn't have the freedom to come and go as I please? I just felt like leaving, ok?" Kagome let out a heavy sigh and walked up to Inuyasha. She looked into his deep golden orbs.

"Inuyasha, you know that you don't have to hide anything from me. I know that the Goshinboku hold's memories (A/N: as told by Mrs. Higurashi in the 1st movie). Now tell me, what exactly happened over there?"

There was a silence for a second. Then Inuyasha spoke up.

"Kagome, when that arrow you shot hit the Goshinboku, I saw me pinned to it by the arrow. I also saw you; in the same position Kikyou was when she cast that spell on me. That's not exactly something I like to remember. And this time it was worse."

"Why was it worse?"

"Because you were the one with the arrow, Kagome. I…I was…scared. Even though I knew it wasn't real, it scared me to see you shoot at my heart."

Kagome couldn't believe it. This was the second time Inuyasha ever admitted his fear to her. Suddenly, she felt two strong arms wrap around her back.

"Kagome, please never leave me. Never let anyone trick you into what Naraku tricked me and Kikyou into believing 50 years ago. The vision seemed so real."

Kagome returned Inuyasha's embrace.

"Inuyasha, I will never leave your side. You have sworn to protect me and I owe you the favor. I will never leave you're side, mark my words."

Inuyasha and Kagome stayed in that embrace for a while.

"Inuyasha, it is getting late, I need to be getting to sleep now. I'm exhausted from all that archery practice." She regretfully released the embrace.

"Goodnight, Inuyasha." She went up on her tiptoes and….

kissed Inuyasha on the forehead (A/N: personally I think it's already out of character for them to be doing this, so I'm keeping the kiss on the forehead and the lips will come later. I like to give it time so the fic doesn't get boring…anyway….).

Kagome walked back into the hut and slept peacefully. Inuyasha, for once, went inside of the hut after Kagome, and sat against the wall beside Kagome to watch her sleep. And surprisingly, he fell asleep too.

Nintai opened her eyes and grinned. She had heard the whole thing with her hanyou ears.

"I'm starting to get used to bein' a hanyou…" she whispered to herself. She looked around the hut. Miroku and Sango were asleep in the hut next door. Inuyasha and Kagome were sleeping close to each other. She then realized something…

'I'm so lonely…Kakaru…'

She layed her head back down on the floor and dozed off to sleep. For some reason, her miko power told her that she would soon meet up with him again.

With Kakaru…

"Grrr damn demons, GET OUT OF MY WAY! EYES OF BLAZING FIRE!" Kakaru's eyes turned a flaming reddish orange color and a fire appeared around all of the demons in his way and burned them to a crisp.

"Dammit! I need to get to Nintai!"

OK so sorry it took me so long to update. I'm sick with a sinus infection and I've been coughing all day. My chest hurts like a mofo and my heart feels like it's gonna fall out. This chapter was kinda stupid…but oh well. I like fluff and hopefully you do too. I also hate doing things out of character, but oh well.

Kouga: picks me up bridal style I'll make you feel better winks

Me: o….k…..

Kouga: carries me off to his wolf den

Well guys I'm off on the road to recovery, I'll try to update C: IS soon!

Ja Ne!