Hey again. I hope this longer chapter will suffice for a few days, my weekends pretty busy, but the next couple chapters will be up soon. Also, reviews would be nice, even flames (go easy on me though it's my first fic). I gotta lota stuff to type up so it would be good to know it's not all in vain. Thanks for the reviews I have already received. You guys are what spur me on, so thanks J

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CHAPTER FOUR

Her whole body tingled with warmth. It was delicious heat. She cuddled closer to the source and was mildly shocked to find the source was solid. She moved her hand to touch it. A wave of pain ran through her arm and she grabbed onto the first thing her hand came in contact with. It moved.

He had been awake but was on the verge of sleep again when she grabbed him. A bit shocked from her touch he twitched and opened his eyes. He had been trying to figure out what he could say to her so she wouldn't be furious. 'Waking up naked next to an unknown naked man will be quite the shock. I hope she sees this for what it is a rescue, and not anything else.' He tried to swallow the lump forming in his throat. She groaned and slowly turned around to face him. Further surprised, he waited for her reaction.

Kagome painfully turned around. She needed to know what the heat was coming from. She tried to open her eyes. 'My eyes, I can't open them! They feel like they're glued shut!' she pushed at the object and tried to raise her hands to her face but the pain swept over her again causing her to cry out weakly. The object put his arms around her again and hugged her to him making soothing noises trying to calm her down.

She was terrified that she couldn't open her eyes, but felt too weak and was so confused that all she could do was cry. Soon the noises and heat began to calm her down. She felt safe and warm. 'I know this safe feeling from somewhere, but something feels different.' She moved her arms painfully around the object. It felt like the right thing to do.

Even more shocked at the reaction he watched her as she burrowed her face into his chest and fell back into unconsciousness with a small smile touching the corner of her lips. He relaxed feeling tired himself and began to follow the girl into unconsciousness.

She woke up again, about two hours later. 'That warm, safe feeling is still here.' She held on tighter and cringed. The pain was still there too. She tried to open her eyes again having the same effect as before. As panic struck her again and she pulled away, ignoring the pain and viciously rubbed her eyes. The object moved.

He had been ripped from sleep to wake up confused, but was thrown into reality when his naked form came into contact with another naked form. She was obviously scared and rubbing at her eyes. He figured he would at least let her wipe the sleep out of her eyes. 'So when she opens them her vision isn't blurred.' He wanted her to see him clearly. 'It might help with the realization of her situation.'

They finally cracked open and she blinked the sleep and what ever else was keeping them shut away, then wiped them a few more times to clear away the blur. What she saw in front of her was a chest, a man's chest. As she moved her eyes upward a man's face came into focus. She stared at him trying to figure out who he was. She studied his face then moved her eyes up further. She was looking for something but didn't quite know what. Then her gazed stopped when she saw two dog-like ears, and a wave of relief swept over her. She didn't really know why this particular attribute gave her so much comfort when nothing else seemed familiar. Still confused she looked back down at his face. 'Maybe I missed something?'

His eyes were amazing, they seemed to glow in the light, but couldn't figure out why it felt like there was a better way to describe them. All of a sudden another pair of glowing eyes flashed before her; scary eyes. She closed her own and thought 'GREEN. Green, what is that?' she wondered. She opened her eyes again to be staring into his. 'What ever this scary 'GREEN' is, it's not him.'

She looked up to his ears again and smiled, moving in closer to him. 'It just feels right, doesn't it?'

'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?' He moved the girl away from him and gawked at her incredulously. It was her turn to look surprised. Her mind raced with questions, most of which she couldn't understand. She looked at him questioningly and swallowed her throat suddenly very dry, and asked,

"What's wrong?" she was terrified of the answer. 'What if this isn't right?' Still completely dumbfounded, "Do you know me?" was all that came out.

She thought again, questions still buzzing in her ears. 'Do you really know him?' She looked away from his confused eyes to think. That's when she noticed that she was naked, and so was he. Even more confused she started looking around. 'Where am I?' she didn't recognize anything. She felt a small swell of panic. She looked back to him.

"Where are we?" For some reason she needed to say we and include him in the question, it was something else that felt right.

He had gained back some of his composure and when she asked him the question he felt some what relieved.

"We are in a cabin somewhere in the Akato forest." He was quite certain of that because that was the last area he remembered being in before the snow had started. 'I guess now is as good a time as any to explain this weird situation.'

"I found you at the bottom of a cliff covered in snow. You were unconscious and half-frozen so I brought you here to get your body heat back up. Uh, your clothes were soaked through so I had to remove them.

"Mine were too so I had to remove them as well, and use this blanket, and share the heat from our bodies to prevent us both from freezing to death." He added quickly his face already ablaze.

"Do you remember where you were heading?"

She was still processing the information he had already given her. 'A cliff? Snow? Where was I heading? I don't know.' She said the last out loud.

"Were you traveling with any companions?"

She went deep into thought at that and looked back to him; squinting her eyes, her gaze always returning to his ears.

"I…I don't know." She wasn't perturbed at the fact that she didn't know, just a bit confused.

He looked at her puzzled face.

"Do you know who you are?" He knew that sometimes when people hit their head they could lose their memories. 'They usually come back sooner or later.' She was still looking at him, her eyes growing wider as the realization dawned on her. 'I don't know who I am.'

The look in her eyes was strange, they had turned a deeper brown but there was no fear in them. He had thought that at the very least she would have done something indicating that she was in a state of panic or shock; something. Instead she blinked, tilted her head and smiled at him. If that wasn't shocking enough she pushed herself up, wincing as she did so, into an upright position. The blanket fell to her waist. The cold hit her and she wrapped her arms across her chest and rubbed her shoulders. Again she felt the pain and the wounds this time. Removing her hands she outstretched her right arm and studied the five puncture marks along with the bruises surrounding them. 'It looks like someone with claws grabbed me.' She looked at her left arm to find identical wounds. She looked down at the man.

"Where did I get these from." She asked curiously.

Taken quite aback, he was at a loss for words. 'Here sitting in front of me is a naked girl who doesn't even know who she is, and doesn't seemed to be too worried about that fact, is asking me where her wounds came from? What the hell is this?'

"Um, I don't really know." He replied baffled. He did have a good idea who gave them to her but didn't really think this was the best time to start discussing Masimo and Batabaka. 'She's naked for god's sake! I think maybe I'll wait until she has some clothes on to start talking about that.' His cheeks were on fire 'I hope they're dry!'

His face had turned darker, 'a bit more than his hair.' she thought. 'I wonder why? It's kind of cute.' She smiled again and pushed herself all the way up. Shivering from the cold she rubbed her arms again making sure to not hit the wounds this time.

The cabin looked completely different from this point of view. It was smaller than she thought and though it was dilapidated it seemed to do the trick. As she looked out the small window, which was almost completely covered in frost, she caught a blinding eyeful of snow. She turned away from the window and caught site of clothes spread out on the floor, and walked over to study them.

"What are those?" She picked up her pleated skirt, now dry for the most part, and held it up in front of her. "Is this mine?" she asked with disdain.

He had been watching her the whole time with his jaw almost touching the floor. "Yes," he stated.

She picked up the shirt with the ugly tie. "Is this must be mine as well; it's just as ugly as that other thing." She looked over the remaining garments and paused when she came upon the two very small articles of clothing. She picked them up, curiously turning them this way and that. She turned around to face the man holding up the two pieces of clothing. He shook his head and looked at the floor. She looked them over again, 'How do I get these on?' She dropped all of them to the floor except for the small triangular one. 'Well this must go on the bottom.' She lowered and stepped into them and pulled them up. Next she grabbed the garment with the folds certain that was for the bottom too. With that done she reached for the shirt, pulled in on and began buttoning it up when the man interjected.

"That doesn't go on first, uh, the other one does." She took the shirt off and picked up the smaller piece of clothing looking at it doubtfully. It had two things that looked like cups with two strings connecting to a wide piece of material, which in turn connected to the cups. Unable to figure out how to put it on she asked him. Reluctantly, he stood up, wrapped the blanket around his waist, and made his way over to her.

"Put your arms in between the strings. Uh. No. Not like that." He moved the garment, which she had put both arms into one hole. Slid one arm into one hole, circled around her and did the same to the other. He stopped when he reached the front, and brought his hands down to his sides and looked away. Kagome utterly confused as to how this piece of clothing was in anyway useful had to ask.

"Is that it? You just leave it like that?"

He looked at her and swallowed, hard. He reached for the cups, placed them over her breasts and clasped them together in the front. He looked up to make sure she wasn't furious and saw that she was blushing. Diverting her eyes from his she gave a nervous laugh. She bent down quickly picking up the top feeling more self-conscious now than she had when she was completely naked.

He reached down for his own clothes, gathered them up and moved to the other side of the cabin. He dropped the blanket exposing his tail. Kagome had just turned around after buttoning up her shirt to thank him, when she saw he had a tail. She stared at it until it was covered by the pants, then watched as it popped out of the hole made for it in the back. 'That doesn't seem right.' Still confused as to why some things seemed to fit while others didn't, she turned away and went to the window. 'How does anything seem to fit; you don't even know who you are!' Her mind raced with questions and thoughts until it ached, and she began rubbing her temples.

Now clothed, he walked over to her. She seemed to be in pain.

"Are you ok?" he reached out a tentative hand to her shoulder. Lost in thought and headache her eyes flew open at his words. Startled he took a step back.

"Sorry." She gave a short grin. "Um, actually my head hurts." She put her fingers back up to her temples and resumed massaging them.

"Of course it does." He said a bit embarrassed at his own stupidity. 'She fell on it.'

"You're going to need some treatment for your wounds. Would you come with me to the castle to receive treatment? The healer there is quite good. She may even be able to help you with your memory loss too." He waited a bit anxious for her answer. His family didn't really hate humans. Humans were annoying and bothersome at times but being demons, they always had the upper hand. 'We're not at war with the humans so bringing one to the castle shouldn't be too much of a conflict. I hope.'

She didn't want to leave him, she knew that much. He was the only thing that was remotely familiar to her. 'Besides, where else would I go?'

"Yes, argiato." She gave him a warm smile.

"We should get moving." She nodded and they went over to the door. Again he had to shove it open then stepped out into the snow, which proved to be knee deep. Thankfully it wasn't very cold with the sun shining. He judged by the suns' position that it was early afternoon.

"We've been here for a while. It should take the rest of the day to reach the castle but we may need to find shelter for the night if the snow proves to be too much of a problem." He stated, trudging through the snow. He turned around to the girl who was standing hesitantly at the door. 'No wonder, her legs are completely bare.'

"If you want I can carry you on my back." He went back, on the way removing one of his shirts, and wrapped it around her shoulders. "So you're not cold." He said giving her a slanted grin.

'This has happened before,' she tried to remember. 'I'm certain that this has happened before, except the smile doesn't fit.' She suddenly remembered something and ran back into the cabin returning with the blanket.

"This will help keep both of us warm on the way, and if we need to stop for the night than we'll already have some cover." She flashed a brilliant smile, quite proud of herself. He gave one in return then turned around so she could climb on. 'Maybe she'll recover sooner than I thought.'

She draped her arms loosely around his neck and gripped his waist with her thighs. "This definitely feels right," she whispered to herself. Low enough not to be audible to the regular human ear but almost clear as day to a demon ear. Unsure of what she meant by that he decided to forget about it for now and took off. Kagome was feeling so safe and comfortable that she began to dose off despite the chill of the wind. She was loosening her grip on him so he peered over his shoulder. 'Ah! She's falling asleep. I've got to stop.' When they landed he decided to stay grounded. 'The snow's not that bad in this area anyway.' Fortunately she had been roused when they stopped and didn't fall off. Suddenly her stomach let out a very loud growl. She blushed embarrassed but as if in reply her rides stomach growled louder. They both laughed.

"I guess we should find something to eat before we starve," he suggested, and Kagome's stomach grumbled in reply.

He didn't want to let her out of his sight in case she ended wandering off somewhere and didn't remember how to get back. So off they went in search of food. While foraging, Kagome came across a familiar looking plant. He noticed her studying it and went over to her. She was staring hard at it with what he would soon came to call her 'I know this' face.

"It's an herb that's… used for stopping the spread of poison." She said uncertainly.

"That's right." She looked up at him very proud of herself. 'She looks like a child who has just successfully completed a difficult maneuver with a sword,' he thought, marveling at how child like an innocent she looked.

"You never know, we might need them." She handed them over to him because she had no where to put them. 'That's strange, isn't it?' She pushed the thought away because everything was strange to her, plus she was too hungry to care about any of that stuff at the moment. Eventually they ended up at a river and stopped for a drink. He knew they were close to the castle because he used to fish in this pond as a child.

He waded out into the middle, waiting for some unlucky fish to be their meal. He made quick sport of the first group that swam by.

Kagome had gathered some sticks to use as firewood and made a pile. She reached behind her as if to grab something and was surprised when her hand came back empty. She tried to think of what was supposed to be there when her thoughts were interrupted.

"Sorry. I hope two is ok for now. The castle's near by so when we arrive I'll have an actual meal prepared for you." He gave her a lopsided smile and set the fish down.

She got that feeling again. 'He's not supposed to smile.'

After they spent about a half an hour trying to get the fire started it was decided that they'd stick it out until they reached the castle. Grabbing some berries they took off again, faster this time driven by the thought of food. They arrived at the castle after sundown tired and hungry.