X Chapter 5 X

"Kagome! Why did you do that for!"Inuyasha grimaced.

Kagome ignored him. "Let's go and find the others, Kouga! We'll just leave him here!"
Kouga was about to speak when Miroku and the others arrived on Kirara.

"Kagome!" Shippo cried out. "Are you okay?"
"Yep, thanks for your concern!"

"Seems like a major fight occurred here," Miroku said, looking around.

"And anyone can see why," Sango said, still glowering. Miroku gulped in fear.

"Kagome," Inuyasha said, sitting up, "I need to talk with you."

"No! I won't allow that!" Kouga protested.

"You can't control her, alright?" Inuyasha snarled.

"Shut up!"

"You shut up!"

"Quit it, you two!" Sango snapped. "Give Kagome a break!"

She looked at Miroku.

He nodded.

Shippo and Kirara also nodded.

"HEYYYYAHHH!"

The team pinned Kouga to the ground and dragged him away.

"Hey—where are you taking me!"

"Have a nice chat, Kagome!" Shippo yelled.

"Same to you, Inuyasha!" Miroku added.

"Good luck!" Sango called.

And off they went…

Kagome sat on a log, looking bored. "What do you want to tell me?" She asked, trying to sound uninterested, but she was anxious and sad inside.

Inuyasha didn't say anything. He sat down next to Kagome.

This went on for about a minute.

Kagome grew irritated.

"If you're not going to say anything, I'm leaving." She said, and stood up.

"Wait!" Inuyasha said, and grabbed her hand.

Kagome turned and looked at him. She was crying again.

"Kagome—do-don't—c-cry!" Inuyasha spluttered.

"Cry? You don't want me to cry?" Kagome asked through tears. "What do you think I am, a robot?"

"A robot? No!" Inuyasha stammered, although he had no clue what a robot was.

"Listen—Kikyo—she and I—just talked! Nothing happened!"

"Sure! You call hugging each other as nothing happened? So when you go out with Kikyo, you expect me to sit here and wait? No, I can't! If you can go out with Kikyo, I can go out with Kouga!"

She said the wrong words. Inuyasha got fired up.

"So you and Kouga huh? I knew there was something wrong with two!" Inuyasha spat.

"I'm feeling what you feel right now!" Kagome snapped. "You and Kikyo had something going on! You are in no position to talk to me like this!"

"So you're standing up for that wolf!"

"Yeah! So what! You are defending Kikyo!"

"No, I am NOT! Stop talking about her!"

"You two-timer! I WANT to talk about her!"

"I told you, nothing happened!"

"Sure, I believe you!"

"Then you and Kouga must have done something!"

"No, we did NOT!"

"Me and Kikyo didn't either!"

Inuyasha and Kikyo stopped, glowering at each other.

"Can't… we don't argue for once?" Kagome thought.

She took a deep breath. Okay, okay. Calm down. Nothing is going to come out of this if you keep getting fired up.

Inuyasha was scratching the log furiously, not saying anything.

"Do you trust me?" Inuyasha said quietly.

Kagome was taken aback by his words.

"I…"

"I…I…doubted you."

Inuyasha looked up, his eyes filled with sadness. "I understand…" Then, he continued,

"The same thing happened with me and Kikyo. If we'd trusted each other, we… we wouldn't have been… played around by Naraku."

"Inuyasha…" Kagome could feel extreme sadness radiating from him.

"I… doubted you and Kouga too… You're right; I am in no position to talk to you like that…"