Ch. 7: Final Argument!

Kagome was right. Though he knew he would never do anything in front of her with Kikyou, how was Kagome supposed to know that when Kikyou was standing there sliding off her shirt.

It had been a complete shocker to Inuyasha himself as well.

"I still wouldn't have done anything in front of you!" He scolded her. "You should know that." He gently stated.

Kagome sat there staring into the fire, refusing to meet his gaze, because she really had no right to be ticked about Inuyasha and Kikyou.

Kagome and Inuyasha, afterall, were not in any kind of certain relationship.

But still, she was pretty miffed, and she was determined to keep on arguing with him.

and she still couldn't believe that he told her she 'should have known' that they weren't going to do anything!

"And tell me- Inuyasha." She countered. "How exactly should I ' have known?' She questioned him icily.

Inuyasha glared at her, just as icily as her voice had been. So they were back to just about where the argument had started from.

"Did you think that I wanted to see you get dragged down into hell? And I certainly didn't think that you would want me there invading your's and Kikyou's private moment!" She hissed.

Now she locked her eyes with Inuyasha's, trying to read his emotions.

"Well- I wouldn't have had any qualms about you running off by yourself if you didn't get hurt everytime you did it!"

Kagome gasped. "Inuyasha how could you say that!" He had gone too far.

In this area was where Kagome's emotions were very delicate.

This was because she felt like a weakling.

And she hated it.She hated having to depend on everyone constantly rescuing her from this danger, and that demon.

This was where everyone distinguished her from Kikyou.

Kikyou had been fiercely independant and self-reliable in any situation, and was perfect with her miko abbilites, whereas Kagome hadn't even learned to control her power yet, and was always having to be rescued by someone.

She hated for everyone to compare them in this way...especially Inuyasha. He always nagged her about having to rescue her constantly.

And she had come to believe that it was honestly a nuisance to him.

Everytime he pulled out this card, it cut her deep.

"Well it's the truth Kagome." He hpm'd and turned away.

Then he began to hear her sniffle. He looked back at her and saw that tears were falling down her face.

"Ka-Kagome!" He said shocked.

With all the stresses of the day combined with the pain in her ankle, she had just been barely able to hold back the increasing stress that she had kept bottled up inside her, but when Inuyasha had said that to her, all her emotions suddenly flooded together and she couldn't hold them in anymore.

Inuyasha jumped up and as quickly as he could he came to her side.

"Kagome! Why are you doing this!" He asked panicked as he crouched by her side. "Don't cry! Come on Kagome! What's wrong? I'm sorry I snapped at you!"

"It hurts...and I.. cough wanna... sob go home and see mama cough cough and...sob it hurts...cough I thought you were..sob dead..!" cough

"Kagome! It's gonna be ok...i'm right here-" He said loudly so that she could here him over her crying and coughing.

"Inuyasha...I was so scared of losing you!" And she ended up crying more.

Inuyasha could not stand it. His body was shaking unwillingly because of her crying. Her crying always made his blood rush and his heart pound painfuly against his chest.

He didn't know what to do, so he instinctively reacted to her and reached out and wrapped his arms around Kagome's soft little body.

Kagome was shocked and caught off-guard, her body tenced up in his arms. And then, as if for the first time she realized that he had not gone with Kikyou to hell, he had chosen to live, to stay with Kagome.

She immediately snuggled closer to him. It didn't matter to her if he was still soaking wet from the rain, she just wanted to feel that he was really there.

He held her tightly to him, his arms were enclosed all the way around her small body. She kept crying into his haori. Inuyasha reached up and unsurely stroked her hair with one of his hands.

"Kagome...it's ok! I'm here! It's ok!" He told her soothingly. After a few minutes she finaly began to calm down.

"I'm sorry.." She said to him, looking down. She began to push away from his embrace. "I shouldn't have cried like th-"

"Don't say that Kagome!" He held her arms tightly and made sure that she didn't pull out all the way.

"But I-" she started, trying to squirm out of his grip.

"It's okay to cry if your feeling upset, Kagome." He pulled her back against him, and held her tightly so she couldn't move away.

"Inuyasha...what are you doing?" She asked as she looked up into his face.

"Keh. I'm keepin' you warm. Your body is still cold." Kagome relaxed a little. She was still feeling slightly awkward, sitting in Inuyasha's lap like that.

"Are you okay now?" He asked her gently. He saw the uncomftorable look on Kagome's face. "I'm only tryin' to keep you from getting cold and sick Kagome. So just relax." He added.

"Yes, i'm okay.." She replied.

"Good. So now we can work on your foot, ne?"

Oh Kami! Kagome thought. She didn't want to have to do this. Just why did she have to be so clumsy?

"If we must.." She told him, even though it was obvious that putting the bone back into place was a must.

Inuyasha looked down at her foot. This was obviously more than a sprain. Kagome was an extremely tough human, she must have been in so much pain and she hardly complained this whole time! Her foot was pointed at an odd angle. And the entire foot was swollen up to her ankle, and around her ankle were dark purple and dark green bruises.

"Kagome, this is dethiantly broken. I'm going to have to snap the bone back into the right place. Are you ready?"

Inuyasha slowly turned to look her in the face.

"Yes...I can do this." She tried to force a smile to her lips, but it turned out looking like a nervous grimace. "Just be quick, would ya?" She asked.

OK GUYZ!

Well, I hope all of u had an awsome thanksgiving! ( I did! ) and I also hope that you enjoyed this chapter.

On the next chapter, well I don't wanna spoil it but--- Inuyasha tells Kagome about something very shocking that i'm sure you guyz won't enjoy----but it will be an awsome littletwist none the less! (hehe, i'm evil )

Neways...

I wanna see lots n lots of happy reviews from u guyz, otherwise I won't be very motivated to put up the next chapter that quickly. :P Seriously, (when I get lotsa reviews on a chapter it makes me want to get the next one out reaaly fast!)

Well neways...that's it 4 now.