Ch. 8: Breaking into place

Inuyasha had his back to Kagome so that she couldn't see what he was doing to her foot. He hoped that if she couldn't see it, it might ease her pain just a little bit.

Kagome felt pain like no other in her foot, and felt something in it snap as Inuyasha pushed the bone back into place. There was so much pain.. Kagome sucked in sharply, and held her breath. It was immense.

She wanted her yellow bag that was at Kaede's hut so much! It had some pain killers in it, and she needed them badly!

Kagome tried to focus on Inuyasha so that she could take her mind away from thinking about the anguish that her body was going through.

'He's so sweet. Helping me like this so that it doesn't get worse.. it'll only get worse if I stop him...'

"I guess a little pain now is better than a lifetime of it, ne Inuyasha?" She gasped out-loud right after she said that. "Inuyasha!" She breathed.

There was even more pain. Kagome clamped her teeth down and ground them together, trying to take it.

She couldn't tell what the hell Inuyasha was doing to her foot now! She felt heat all inside of it, and it shot up her leg, and she cried out in anguish.

"Kagome i'v almost got it, it's almost done." He told her, trying to alleviate some of the pain and stress from her.

(Inuyasha's Point of View)

There was more than just one bone broken, from what he could tell. He placed his hands on her swollen foot, and twisted it, he heard her bone crunch back together, and the worst part was done. He could feel her tenceness radiating off of her, she was astence as a rock, and wasn't moving at all. He absolutely hated hurting her like this. The only thing he could do for her would be to get the job done as quickly as possible.

Inuyasha heard Kagome begin to talk about how alittle pain now was better than having an entire lifetime of it.

He ignored her and concentrated on her big toe which was also badly crooked. That toe came back into place with a sickening snap.

He rubbed his hands over her foot, and prodded it in places to make sure that there were no more disaranged bones.

"Kagome i'v almost got it, it's almost done." He told her in hopes that maybe she would relax alittle knowing that it was almost finished.

And it looked and felt like all of her bones were again in place, how she had managed to mess her foot up that bad was beyond him.

(Back to normal)

Inuyasha got up and walked back to Kagome's side and sat down beside it. He didn't know what to say to her because he knew she was in immence pain.

"Thank you, Inuyasha." She breathed out. She was visibly trembling, and her eyes were glazed with unshed tears. Inuyasha wrapped one muscular arm around her and pulled her to him.

Kagome laid her head down on his shoulder and she let it wrest there. She was exhausted, and she was being both physicaly and mentaly tormented.

Inuyasha with his hand began to gently rub it up and down her arm, hoping it to be a relaxing gesture. He had learned this soothing technique from his mom many years ago.

Kagome whimpered slightly from the pain in her foot, and tensed up. Inuyasha immediately thought that he had somehow hurt her while he was rubbing her arm and he stopped doing it.

When he stopped, the horrible pain in her arms and leg came back.

"Inuyasha.." Kagome whined. "Don't stop..."

It really was helping to take her mind off of the pain. Inuyasha gently rubbing his hands up and down her tence arms felt good to her, and it brought the tension from them and she was able to relax alittle.

"Kagome, you know i'm going to have to take care of your wrist, too."

"I know." She said agitated that he reminded her of it.

"We should do it now.."

"Can't it be tomarrow morning or something? Inuyasha, i'm really worn out." She whined to him.

He gave in extremely easily Mainly because he was still stressed out about making her go through all of that pain. His nerves were sill shot from all of that.

"You should get some wrest, Kagome."

"Kay." She told him sweetly. Kagome closed her eyes for sleep but her body was still in anguish. Inuyasha kept rubbing her arms gently, and didn't stop...but the pain was gradually becoming amune to that.

After a few minutes of trying to go to sleep, she figured that it wasn't gonna happen tonight.

"Why arn't you asleep yet?" His voice was deep and filled with sleepiness.

"I..." She didn't want to worry him by telling him that she was in pain. "I just have alot on my mind."

Human Inuyasha grunted.

"Inuyasha...?"

"What."

"Does it hurt when you transform into a human?" She asked inocently.

Inuyasha pulled his eyebrows down in annoyance as he thought about whether to admit that it or not.

"It's painful but i'v been dealing with it for years and now my body's just kinda grown used to the change."

Kagome slid down from Inuyasha's shoulder and moved her head to his chest. There she could hear his heartbeat...

"Why didn't you become a demon when you had the shikon-no-tama?"

Inuyasha was silent for a little while...Kagome watched the fire...it was very small now and almost had burnt itself up. It was fine though, they had dried off by now. The only noise that Kagome could hear was the sound of Inuyasha's heartbeat and the rain outside.

She was so content for that moment, and then...

"I thought about doing that but then..."

Kagome laid still against his chest, her brown eyes gazing straight ahead into the dying fire. She waited patiently for him to continue.

"If I had done that then I couldn't see you again.."

"What do you mean?" She asked gently.

"If I had become a full youkai...then Kikyou's soul would not have been put to wrest..and she probably would have drug me down into hell.."

"Isn't that what you'v wanted?" Kagome asked in a quiet voice. "To go to hell with her?"

"No! Well, yes and no.."

"Ok, so now i'm confused.."

"Kagome...i'm going to try to straighten this out for you tonight and so we can both move on from this. he said sadly. "I'll tell you everything."

"Inuyasha! You don't need to-" He began to talk over her.

"I really and truly loved Kikyou back then, and I still do. We had made plans for me to turn into a complete human and then we would get married, and have...children...

On the night before we were going to meet to change me into a human forever, we slept together. Neither of us had any idea whatsoever that anything would go wrong..." Inuyasha's bangs covered his eyes. "So we didn't see anything really wrong with it."

"Inuyasha..." Kagome stared up at him sadly. "I-"

"It wasn't until the second time Kikyou and I had talked after she was resurected that I found out that she had been with child when she died."

Kagome had no idea of what to say to him. She was so shocked. Inuyasha had conceived a baby with Kikyou?

"Inuyasha..."

"I swore that I would protect her from anything...that she would never be alone again...but then Kagome, you stepped into my life and I couldn't ignore you. Even though I tried to stop it, I developed strong feelings for you, too. And over time I realized that I had people who really cared for me, and I felt like I wanted to live, not die. I never lost my feelings for Kikyou, ever. But this new resurected Kikyou, is not her, I finaly realized. It's nowhere near what she was. And so I had a revelation...that the best thing I could do for Kikyou would be to free her real soul...and in whishing that I purified the jewel."

She had been listening to him, but was at a loss for words to say. "I'm so sorry that it had to happen like that..." Kagome looked down at the ground, trying to avoid his gaze.

"No, Kagome. Don't be sorry..." He grabbed her chin with his thumb and forefinger and made her look up into his eyes. "How many times have you been possesed to kill me, Kagome?" He asked her seriously.

"A few..." She started.

"And we always came through,didn't we? We always ended up back together, ne?"

"Yes.."

"It took only one time to pit me and Kikyou completely against eachother. I realize, that what we had wasn't true love. Because true love is all about trust...Kagome...I trust you way more than I ever trusted her I just had never met another girl before her, even though I don't deny that I had, and still have very deep feelings for her. I stayed alive for you."

He stared her seriously in the eyes, searching her face for her feelings.

"Inuyasha...you did this for youself, and not just because of me? I mean, you made this choice because you wanted it, not because you felt badly?"

"Kagome, I did it because I couldn't stand to never see your face again. To never again hear your voice.. I- I realized that you are the one that I want to protect." He then let go of her chin and she continued to stare at him.

"Inuyasha...I don't know what..."

"Just shh, Kagome. You need to wrest up, your probably exhausted from today, aren't ya?"

"Yes...just a little."

"Are you still in pain?"

"Not as much as before...again, thank you for doing that for me."

"Keh. Tomarrow is gonna be your wrist, think you can handle it?"

"After you did my ankle, I think I could handle anything." She countered as she pointed a sleepy finger at him. Inuyasha hugged her tightly, and then wrested his chin on top of her head.

"Inuyasha?" She said, her voice was raspy with sleep.

"Go to sleep Kagome. We'll talk tomarrow."

Kagome squirmed around alittle, and then got to a comftorable spot on his chest, and closed her eyes.

He listened to Kagome's breathing even out as she drifted off into sleep.

He smiled to himself...yes, he would definitely enjoy protecting this girl for the wrest of their lives...he lightly kissed the top of her head and he stayed up, keeping vigilence over his Kagome.

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Ok! So that wuz an uber-long chappy! I hope you enjoyed it! Don't bash me too hard for Inuyasha and Kikyou having almost had a baby! I just thought it wud add a cool little twist n' sum nice drama...

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