Don't own InuYasha, and it's not like I'll actually own him when all I want is Sesshomaru.

Through the Well

By Miztikal-Dragon

Chapter Thirteen: I pushed her away.

Crumpled up on the grass once again, he walked up to her and stepped on her back. This caused for her to let out another agonizing scream as she heard more tiny cracks. Her body was sore and she could barely breathe, but there would be no way that she would give him the satisfaction of killing her.

With one last blow to her head, Kagome bit down on her tongue. Immense pain shot through her body followed by a wave of a cold sensation coming from her toes and soaring upwards. He stepped back from her, crossing his arms over his chest, watching her with a victorious smile played on his face.

"Yo-you…" she spat the blood that filled her mouth continuing to say using the last of what seemed to be her strength, "Y-You bas-bastard! A-as long as I live I will hate you-I will not rest until I see you d-dead!"

Angrily grabbing her hair, he hoisted her to a standing position, releasing his grasp. He watched as Kagome swayed back and forth trying to hold herself up.

"Stupid bitch when will you learn?" he growled backhanding her.

Her head jolted back as she fell limply to the ground. She had had no strength left in her, and he knew it. He could feel it deep within his icy-cold heart. Blood poured slowly and yet freely from the deep cuts, tiny scratches, and her lip and nose. Bruises could be seen forming on her pale flesh.

"I should have killed you the night I met your pathetic, weak, human ass." He spat walking away, "It would have made things a hell of a lot easier for me in the long run. You stupid, stupid bitch." Then he was gone.

Kagome gently touched the side of her face where he had practically slapped. Hot liquid ran down from the four long claw made cuts across her cheek, her left eye was swelled shut and she could feel that he had probably broken a few of her ribs that now pressed themselves just barely into her lungs. She wouldn't cry, for if she did she knew that she would surely die of suffocation or worse. Not like she wasn't already prey for the demons that would be led to her by the scent of blood and would gladly devour her for dinner.

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Inuyasha lay on top of Kagome, his wounds may have been healing, but the blow from Kagura surely had reopened them as well as causing a few others. His breathing was heavy as the blood from his body dripped onto Kagome's clothes, ruining them. He had noticed that Sango and Miroku had shown up, giving Inuyasha some time to think of an intelligent strategy to get them all out of this predicament alive.

"Inuyasha? Are you going to be alright?" He heard her ask worriedly.

'No!' he thought to himself, 'I'm practically bleeding to death on top of you! I don't know if I can move and there's no one protecting you from harm!' "…Yeah…." He whispered hoarsely as he tried to roll himself off of her and onto the wet grass next to her, he was successful, only to relive what maximum pain running through his body. "….Are…you hurt?" he had to know.

His eyes stared at her as she leaned over his body, shaking her head he faintly caught her whispering "no". He frowned seeing her eyes beginning to brim with unnecessary tears. He had a sharp pain in his chest, but he calmly ignored it so he showed her a very lopsided grin since it was the best that he was able to do at the moment.

"Come on Inuyasha, we have to get you out of here." She told him brushing the bangs away from eyes.

'Hey! We don't have to worry about me! You need some protection.' He tried to say that but what came out was completely different. "We don't need to get me out of her wench!" he growled batting her hand away from his face so he could look her straight in her eyes, "But I have to get you away from here."

At first he hadn't realized that he had snapped at her like he did, but he watched her climb to her feet frowning at him placing her hands on her hips. 'Oh fuck, I really did it this time.' He told himself gulping.

"Well I don't need you to protect me! I can protect myself!" she said angrily.

He couldn't control his anger, his blood boiled fiercely and he could feel his wounds beginning to heal themselves faster than ever before.

"If it wasn't for me you wouldn't be alive!" he growled getting to his knees quickly as humanly possible at the moment.

"Bull! We both know that if it weren't for you I wouldn't be in this mess!" Kagome yelled.

'If it weren't for me you would have been dead along time ago!' "Yeah right, you just keep telling yourself that princess." He snorted standing up completely erect, practically towering over Kagome.

The hanyou noticed Sango run to his and Kagome's side, a worried expression on her face. Out of the corner of his eye he spied the demon slayer quickly glance over at Miroku, and her face brightened up a bit.

"Let's go you two. You're both injured, and we need to get away!" Sango panted.

"NO!" he growled furiously, "I will not move until this bitch realized the world doesn't revolve around her!" 'And that everyone needs to be protected by somebody!' his mind whispered.

"I don't think the world revolves around me you jerk!" She shot back just as angry as he was, "If you hate me so much why don't you just go back to Kikyo!" that his him like a ton of bricks, and then she added dripping with sarcasm, "Oh wait, you can't! Because she's DEAD!"

A sudden feeling of hurt crept over his body and as well as his soul, 'How could she? WAIT! How does she know about Kikyo? I never told her shit!' he snapped, loosing all control of his very low capability of keeping calm. He took a step closer to Kagome, he was fuming and his hand clenched and unclenched, digging his claws into his palms.

"Take that back wench!" he growled gritting his teeth.

"NO!" she screamed at him loudly, "And my names not wench you jerk! It's Kagome! KA-GO-ME! Use it correctly or not at all!"

Inuyasha couldn't think straight, all he could do was yell at her, and become even more angered with what she could reply with. He felt no sorrow and his wounds were just about healed and most of his strength had returned, or so he assumed.

"I'll call you whatever the fuck I please bitch!" he yelled as his hand shot out grabbing her wrist tightly with his claws. Almost instantly trying to emphasize his point to her.

"Let go of me!" she yelled pulling her arm.

"Not until you take back what you said about Kikyo!" Inuyasha snarled tightening his claws around her tiny wrist, causing her to bleed under his grasp.

"Inuyasha let go of her!" Sango yelled with a scent of fear coming from off her body.

'I would never want to hurt you Kagome!' he thought, but nothing would respond to him as he tried to calm down. It was as if he wasn't in control of his actions, "TAKE IT BACK!" He growled venomously.

"FUCK YOU!" this cream was her last reply as she punched him powerfully in the face.

His grasp finally slipped as he tumbled backwards, loosing his footing and balance, he fell onto the ground. He could smell the salt from her tears and he felt numb as he lay on the ground, looking up at the clear blue sky. He noted the clouds quickly rolling in from an unknown source and way too quickly for it to be considered normal. He strained his eyes as he saw a feather flying into the non-existent wind and eventually disappearing from his view.

He closed his eyes and sighed, 'Great! I've just screwed up everything! Now she hates me!' he told himself

"Sango? What is going on? And why did Kagome strike Inuyasha so violently as she did?" Miroku asked walking over by the demon exterminator.

"Your guess is as good as mine." She sad confusedly, "I came in after they started biting each other's heads off."

Inuyasha reopened his eyes and slowly climbed to his feet. Miroku and Sango tired to help him up, but he just growled and they backed up.

"Who told her about Kikyo!" it was more of a demand than a question.

"I don't know." The both said in unison.

He glared at them for a moment before he looked down at himself, he was covered in blood. Inuyasha couldn't help but feel saddened by what he did, after all he had started the fight. By the time he pulled himself out of his stupor, Miroku and Sango were long gone, they had told him that they were leaving but he just ignored them.

Mumbling nonsense to himself he leaped up into the trees and headed towards the river. "I have to wash the blood off of myself." He said in a hushed tone as he glanced around he spotted what he thought to be Miroku and Sango, but he quickly dismissed it as he came to the river. Not wanting to waste must time, he plunged into the freezing cold water headfirst.

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