Omg aren't you guy's lucky, I don't have homework, I don't have band so I'm gonna spoil ya'll and put up Two chapters. You guys made me feel so good. I was so moved by the amount of positive feed back I got. I've been working on this story for a while now, and to see that so many people love it, I was like ready to cry. I just want to also say that Kagome's veil does hide something, and its a big deal. It could really harm her if someone knew. But its not what you expect. Also I am no Kikyo lover by any means, but this fic does not bask Kikyo. And forgive me for any spelling errors in the first chps, I wrote this a long time ago. I'm just now puttin git u because I just now got an account cause I'm so lazy. Ok onto the story...

Inuyasha not mine...if he was...squeezes ears They squeaked!

Chapter 3: A Special Bond

Inuyasha's heart flipped over. Kagome had fallen into the ocean beneath him. Kagome could not swim. And Kagome was helpless without her arrows. Inuyasha saw the fear in her eyes, the same fear that were in Kikyo's when she tried to jump off the ship. But Kikyo was caught by a hand guard, Kagome fell into the crashing waves beneath him. Kagome was really the only person who treated him as someone more than a prince. She treated him like a normal person, not a half-breed, not a prince, and not a monster. Just as a person, a living being with feelings. Inuyasha clenched his fist til his knuckles turned white. Then he lifted his head to smell the air, Miko power.

Kagome was throwing bolts of miko power out of her hands(a/n: Like star fire on teen titans sorta, general picture.) and throwing them at the demon. She put up a small barrier around herself when the demon attacked her. She stuck her hands up in the air, and sent an enormous ball of energy towards the demon. The ball it's self was impressive, but the power it sent was unimaginable. The demon dissolved on the spot. Kagome grabbed onto a floating piece of flesh. She looked up at Inuyasha, and waved her arms. Inuyasha's dog ears picked up her voice.

"Help! I can't swim!"

Inuyasha dove into the water 50ft below him. By the time he descended into the murky water, Kagome had let go of the flesh she was staying buoyant on. She had sank deeper into the water. Inuyasha dove under water, frantically searching for her. Suddenly he saw a blue light, Kagome's miko bolts. She was trying to signal him. He swam to the lights, and picked up Kagome's limp body. He swam up to the surface, and held Kagome's head above water. She wasn't breathing, and shore wasn't exactly next door. Inuyasha jumped on a piece of flesh and jumped up to the cliff where she first fell off. He studied her body, which was turning blue from lack of air. Inuyasha pressed her chest, making sure that she didn't have anything blocking her air passage.

When Kagome started coughing up water, Inuyasha realized she was gonna be ok.(a/n Not yet, the kiss comes much later I'm sorry!) Finally she started turning back to her natural color. Kagome started to come back to consciousness, her eyes fluttered open. She looked up at Inuyasha, and behind that veil, Inuyasha was sure that she was smiling. She sat up, and wrapped her arms around Inuyasha. Inuyasha was hesitant to hug back, for she was still clad in only her undergarments. But Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her, Kagome brushed her cheek against him.

"Thank you Inuyasha-sama. You saved me."

"Don't scare me like that again. I was afraid I was gonna lose you."

"But I'm only a servant."

"Not to me, to me your a friend."

Kagome felt shocked at those words, but happy also. She felt a single tear flow down her cheek. Inuyasha gripped her tighter.

"No, your more than a friend."

Some people say love comes in a lot of packages. For the hanyou and the miko love was still unseen. But that day a special bond was created, one that would tie those two together for eternity. The bond would never be broken, but many would try to sever it. If Inuyasha had not let his guard down that day, he would have smelt a toxic smell coming from the woods. Someone plotting against them. So as the hanyou and the miko share a loving moment, all was forgotten in the mist of their love, while evil sought to destroy it.

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Inuyasha finally let Kagome break loose of the embrace. Kagome's eyes showed that she was happy. But her smell told a different story, she was bleeding. He side was split open from the fall. Her eyesight began to blur from lack of blood. She passed out just moments later, and fell into Inuyasha's lap.

"Kagome!"

Kagome would not wake up. Her eyes stayed tightly shut, and would not be coaxed out of their position. Inuyasha searched her body for wounds, and found one on her left side. Her entire side had been slashed by something, and it didn't look like it was done by a creature. The flesh wasn't ripped, but looked like it was sliced.

"It looks like a knife wound, but how could that be?"

Inuyasha ripped off a piece of his kimono and wrapped it around Kagome's waist. He dressed Kagome loosely in kimono, and carried her to the castle's doctor, Kaede.

"Lord Inuyasha, what brings you here?"

"Quick can you help Kagome?"

"Hm, I do believe I can try."

Inuyasha waited as Kaede inspected Kagome. She shook her head many times, as if to say no this can't be right. Inuyasha stared at his friend, his only friend besides Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. But they didn't mean so much to him, Kagome was different from any girl he had ever met. She wasn't afraid of him, and never had been. Even Kikyo had been scared of him at first, everyone was. They all assumed he was a sex driven, blood thirsty, monster. Kagome was never scared, she treated him like a normal person.

"Inuyasha-sama..."

Kaede looked up at Inuyasha with eyes that slightly reminded him of Kagome's, just not at intense.

"She's in grave pain. And there's nothing I can do, she will regain consciousness soon. After that, its up to her own body to live or die. Her injuries are not to serious, but yet something seems wrong. Like her subconscious was trying to remind her something."

Inuyasha didn't understand a thing the old hag said except it was up to Kagome to live or die. Inuyasha looked at Kagome's limp figure on the cot beneath him. Inuyasha's heart gave way to fear, his stomach did a triple flip. And his heart, for a split moment, stopped beating. And he quietly whispered out of pure shock...

"No..."

His heart of stone had softened, his spiteful ways wavered, his hatred towards everything had vanished. If it was only for a split second, which it might not have even been that, Inuyasha felt the compassion of another since Kikyo had been taken away.

"Inuyasha-sama, your bleeding."

Inuyasha looked down at his hands, which were bleeding from having dug his claws into them out of frustration. Blood dripped down his hand onto the floor, staining the dirt beneath him. His blood collected in a tiny pool, only to seep into the ground. Inuyasha steered his eyes to Kagome's pool of blood. It was dripping off the side of the mat she was on, collecting in a pool much larger than his own. Her eyes fluttered open at first, then shot open in intense pain. Her breathing was staggered, and her body shuddered in intense pain. Her hands clutched the sides of the mat, she bit her lip only to have blood streaming down her mouth. The hanyou prince looked at his servant, feeling deep remorse. She's just a servant, why do I even care? Why do I feel for her, she's the dirt underneath my feet compared to me, but yet I care about her.

"Inuyasha-sama..."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha with painful eyes. She needed compassion, she needed love, she needed him! But would it be right, for him to show her this. A mere servant to him, did she deserve his concern? A single tear escaped her eyes, it flowed down her cheek only to fall to her puddle of blood.

"Kagome..."

Kagome's pain was immense. She was on the verge of death, and Inuaysha was helpless to do anything about it. Her pain was his pain, her fears were his fears. As much as he wanted to deny it, there was a bond between him and his servant. He so desperately wanted to reach out and comfort her, to hold her and take away the pain, but that would not be right. It was unorthodox for a master to even know the servant's name. Let alone consider them a valued companion, which Inuyasha did. Her soft brown eyes searched him, watching his every move. Waiting for the answer to why he cared for her. Why was he waiting with her, why did he bother? Did he possibly care for her. Did the prince of Japan care about the lowly servant in front of him?

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Inuyasha sat on the top of Kaede's hut. It had been 2 weeks since Kagome's injury was inflicted. Her pain only seemed to grow as each day pasted by. But she fought on, and slowly but surely seemed to get well again. Her dull eyes seemed to have life again. Her pale face soon got color in it. And she was able to speak again. Her breathing was normal, and she could walk if nessecary. In fact she was out in the forest right now. She needed to regain her strength, and excersise her unworked muscles.

"Inuyasha-sama, come here please."

Inuyasha sighed,hopped off the hut and ran to the girl. Her laughs were audible from the hut, but they only seemed to get more joyful with each step towards her. When he arrived she showed him her treasure.

"Look, its a baby..."

In her hands she held a small rabbit. The tiny head was nuzzled into her cupped hands, and the soft ears were resting on her thumb. The soft brown fur tickled her palms, and she laughed as the bunny twitched in it's sleep.

"You want to hold him?"

She stretched her arms out as if to hand him the little bundle. He put out his hand and took the rabbit, surprised at how warm and fuzzy it's fur was. The little cotton tail was as soft as silk, and he could feel the rabbit's velvet soft breath blow on his palm. A smile crept onto his face.

"Do you want to keep it?"

"No, he has a family, see."

She point to the nearby rabbit hole. A tiny head poked out to searched for the baby.

"We should put him back."

She took the little brown rabbit and gently placed him in the entrance of the rabbit hole. The baby twitched from the sudden loss of warmth it had and rolled onto it's side.

"Come on Kagome, You've exerted yourself enough today."

"It's only been an hour!"

"Its an order, I want you by my side girl."

Kagome was taken aback by his outburst of friendliness. Her eyes showed a smile under her veil.

"Ok."

She grasped his hand and walked back with him to the hut. His hand slowly clasped hers in a tender embrace. He smiled, and under her veil, so did she. The walked back together to the hut where Kaede was waiting to tell them who shot the arrow that almost killed Kagome.

oOoOoO Who dun it? I dunno, read and find out. I'm making this up as I go. The only thing I know is whats behind the veil. Other than that, its written on spur of the moment. OK, like I said, I'll never know when I can update, Tomorrow is iffy because I have marching band practice, and I'm going to get Stewie the untold story(hahha). So ya, also if you have any good ideas for the story, let me know cause I'm open to any and all ideas. MMk I love you guys, keep reviewing and ill keep updating!