"Kikyou...I'v decided-" He stood up, with bangs in his eyes.
"I trust in you decision, Inuyasha." She said to him solemnly.
He clasped his fingers around the jewel and silently prayed, making his wish.
"I wish that Kikyou's sould could wrest in peace forever, and that also with Onigumo's. However, make it so that Kagome could please come back to us, and that I might have the power to protect her from anything."
He felt headt course through his whole body.
And it was over as soon as it started.
He opened his hand up, and dust from the jewel was whisped away by the wind.
He turned to look at Kikyou, but she was gone.
"Wrest in peace, Kikyou." He prayed.
"Mmmm..."
"Kagome?" he practically yelled. He crouched down and pulled her into his lap.
She opened her eyes, and immediately tensed up. Fear came over her, I looked at her onfused.
"Inuyasha---- is it really you?"
"What- of course it's me!" She reached up to touch his face with her hand.
"You a- a demon!" she gasped, pulling away her hand.
"What! I didn't-" and he got quiet.
"You're alive now! That's all that matters."
Kagome looked down at herself.
"I look horrible!" She squeeked. "Gross!"
Inuyasha only smiled down at her.
Kagome looked around. "So we won-?" she stated.
"Ah."
"And...what about Kikyou?" she asked quietly.
Inuyasha's eyes glazed over.
"I sent her back-" he stopped.
"Inuyasha."
He stood up, and looked down at his claws.
"Am I really a demon? I don't feel much different!"
He was changing the subject away from Kikyou.
Kagome stood up as well. She was looking very sad..
"I'm sorry...why don't I feel any pain-? I'm not...or am I-?"
"You were-" he couldn't seem to bring himself to say the word 'dead.'
Kagome, though, seemed to read his mind. She gasped and her eyes widened!
"I don't remember it at all..." Then there came an awkward silence around them.
"Let's go, Kagome." Inuyasha finally stated.
"Ok" she repeated quietly.
They began their treck back 'home' but as they did, Kagome noticed that Inuyasha was covered in blood, and still was bleeding.
"Your hurt-" she commented.
"Nothing that'll kill me." he said, but at the end of that sentence he sucked in air sharply, as though he were dnruing alot.
Kagome held her breath. She wanted badly to tell him not to move, but she knew he would anyways, he was not the type to just sit.
"Bit still.." she thought about what to say next.
"Your in pain-"
"I-" He began huffily. Kagome interrupted.
"Oh! Don't deny it! I can see ya know!" she snapped. "Let's just sit down awhile and wrest." she told him, changing her tone to very sweet in an instant.
"Keh."
Kagome stopped walking, and just stood there, watching him worriedly.
Inuyasha kept walking, forward, maybe if he acted like he didn't know she stopped, she'd start walking again...
Inuyasha didn't want to stop now, he was in a hurry to get on home, and he knew perfectly well he was able to walk.
Kagome had to keep nagging him on though!
"You know if you keep bleding the way you have been, soon you'll pass out on me before we even get a mile away from Kaede's and then i'll be the one dragging you back and taking care of both of us!"
She scolded him.
Inuyasha sighed. This girl always got her way with him! He was getting to soft!
'How does she do it...' he wondered.
Kagome expectantly watched him.
"All right- but just for a little while!"
She sighed with relief.
They sat down together by a small pond. Kagome watched contently the waterfall flow into it.
Then she began digging through her small yellow backpack, and pulled out some ramen.
Inuyasha pricked up his ears and looked questionally at her.
She giggled cutely.
"It's your favorite!"
Inuyasha relaxed against a tree, his tiredness was beginning to show now. Kagome noticed that he was taking very deep slow breaths, and seemedlike he was taking them in in pain.
"Inuyasha..." She said under her breath.
One of his ears swiveled her way.
"Keh, I'm all right Kagome." He replied gruffly, but with a soft, sort of sweet tone to him.
She smiled at him, and then pulled a box from her pack.
"What's that?"
"It's a medical kit." she opened it up and began taking things out.
"It has all kinds of medical things inside it."
"Hm " Inuyasha grunted and looked agitated.
She glanced up at him, and loked down again. He had his eyes closed.
'What is he thinking about...Kikyou?" Kagome sadened.
Inuyasha opened his eyes.
"So, are you gonna fix me up or what?"
"Eh- hi!" she sounded embarraased. He had caught her staring at him again.
He peeled of his top haori, and pulled off his undershirt.
He really was torn up! and badly!