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Ch. V: His Dedication

"Kagome...where does it hurt the most?" Inuyasha asked her gently but seriously.

"Ano..." She opened her mouth to tell him, but at that moment, he began his transformation into a full human being.

Kagome watched as Inuyasha transformed.

His sharp, sould-shattering claws that could so easily rip apart any human flesh retracted into his fingers, and were replaced by more curved human finger-nails. She watched as the bones in his face went from being skinny and long to slightly more round and short...and his eyes, his gorgeous dog-like golden-colored eyes changed to a dark violet and the shape's of his eyes also shifted slightly, as a human they were more long and narrow.

And his ears...they shifted down into his head...

Kagome wondered for a moment, is transforming like that, painful? He always took it like there was nothin' to it...

Now, as a human he was just staring at her in the same serious way that he usually did. Kagome quickly glanced else-where before he could notice that she had been watching him so intently.

A loud clap of thunder boomed from out of nowhere suddenly. Kagome gasped loudly from it, and Inuyasha was startled by it and jumped.

"Shit!" He said aloud, and startled. He glanced over at Kagome and saw that she was shivering from the stinging cold rain. "Baka Inuyasha!" He said to himself as he shrugged out of his fire-rat kimono.

He held it out to Kagome.

"What's it gonna help if it's already wet?" She asked him.

"Only the outside's wet, the inside stays completely dry all the time." He told her.

Kagome reached out to take it, when she winced away in pain.

"Ah! My hands-"

"What's wrong with them?" At just a glance he noticed how swollen her one hand was, and he had seen the blood running down from the other hand earlier.

"Kagome, what exactly did you do to yourself!" He said more to himself.

He stood behind her and helped her slide on his robe, then he tied it for her. Kagome began blushing slightly.

She immediately felt Inuyasha's body heat, and she felt an immediate difference in temperature take place right off the bat.

"Thank you Inuyasha.." she said myserably, but sincere. She did not like it that she couldn't put on his haori herself, but she was thankful that she had it.

"Kagome, how in the hell did you get so caught up like this!" He was looking at her foot which was caught under the root.

"I don't really-" Kagome started.

"How bad does it hurt?" Inuyasha said interupting her.

"Huh?"

"Your foot, how bad does it hurt? Can you move it at all?"

"It hurts really bad...and I can't move it. I'v tried.."

Inuyasha looked at the root trying to figure out how he was gonna get her out of this... It was a big fat root, and it wasn't all old and stuff so that he could just snap it off, but it was more young and powerful and it was huge! He wasn't gonna be able to pull it up out of the ground..

Maaybe, he could dig her foot out?

"Hold on, i'v got an idea."

"Will it hurt?" Kagome asked him, worriedly.

"It shouldn't hurt much." He told her seriously. Human Inuyasha began digging in the mudd and began making a hole for her to be able to pull her foot out of.

Kagome sat there, watching him work so hard to get her foot out...

She shivered. It was freezing out here! Even in Inuyasha's haori! Kagome began coughing...

'I hope that I don't get sick from all this.." she thought.

And suddenly, Inuyasha called to her.

"Kagome, this is the part where it's gonna hurt alittle, are you ready?"

"As ready as ever!"

"Good. I'm gonna pull your leg outa there, got it?" She nodded at him.

Inuyasha took ahold of her leg, and tugged her foot out from the other side of the root. Kagome sucked in air sharply, and then began to cough.

"You okay?" He asked as he squatted beside her body.

"Yes, but...how are we getting back to Kaede's?"

Inuyasha looked out into the woods for a moment of thought.

He couldn't find his way back there like this, and they were far out enough in the woods that he didn't know this area, and he hadn't seen any village's coming up this way either..

Inuyasha stood up, and picked Kagome up into his arms bridal-style and held her tightly against him.

"We're just gonna have to find our own shelter."

"Out here!"

Inuyasha began to jog straight in a randome direction, looking for anything he could use for shelfter for them...The last thing he wanted was for Kagome to get really sick.

Or even himself, he was human tonight, after-all.

Kagome snuggled up closer to his chest and buried her face in it.

Despite the rain and the cold that they were fighting tonight, and all of the pain that she must have been in, as he looked down at her face, he saw that she looked so peaceful, and there was even a hint of a smile that graced her lips.