Chapter 11: Mysterious Jewel

Kagome woke up much later on. Her eyes slid open slowly, and memories of what had happened just a few hours ago flooded into her mind, causing her to blush slightly.

'Inuyasha want's me to stay with him!' She thought happily. She didn't move from Inuyasha's warm embrace, instead Kagome just sat there and relaxed in it...

She looked up into Inuyasha's face...it too was so relaxed, she couldn't believe how peaceful his face looked. It was so natural, being close to him like this felt so natural as well...

Kagome subconsciously reached up with her bad hand to stroke his face when she realized which hand it was she had moved, she winced automaticaly as she waited for the pain, then there was none that shot through it, when there should have been pain.

"Huh?" She looked down at it and blinked, surprised. That was funny...it didn't look broken either...she checked her other hand which her nails had been broken off on, and they were back!

She opened and closed her hands just to test them.

"What's going on here...am I dreaming?" She asked herself. She looked down at her foot, and it wasn't swollen at all! She could move her toes now!

'Did Inuyasha somehow heal me, or...?' "Inuyasha?" She said gently. She saw one of his ears flicker at the sound of her voice. She really didn't want to wake him up because he had gotten even less sleep than she had. 'Should I wake him or not?' She thought both confused and excited. "Hey Inuyasha!" She whispered loudly, hoping that he'd wake up on his own.

He slowly opened his eyes, and he stared down at her sleepily.

"Hey." He responded to her lightly.

"Inuyasha look! I'm healed!" She moved her hands around of in front of his face so that he could see. Inuyasha's eyes widened as he was now fully awake.

"No way! But how did you...?"

"I don't know, honestly I thought you did something to me! My foot is healed also!" Inuyasha stood up and looked around the place that they were in.

"I knew it! I knew I senced magic in this place!"

"What magic-?"

"When we first came here I noticed that this place was glowing, but where was the light coming from? I thought it was a little strange...obviously this is a magical hot spring."

"A magical hot spring?"

"Yes, i'v never seen one because they are very rare but i'v heard of them. Their supposed to heal your body and grant one who's pure of heart's true wish, but like I believe that shit. I can't believe we actually found a real one though!"

"I guess since i'm all healed now, it really is magical..." She stared at her reflexion in the water when something shining up ahead caught her attention. She looked across the spring to see something glinting in the wall...

"Hey Inuyasha, do you see that?" She asked him curiously as she pointed to the shining place in the wall. He glanced over to it and saw the shining thing too.

"Yah... i'll go check it out."

"Be careful!" She told him warily.

"Keh." He snorted as he jumped across the river. He glanced down at the water and his eyes widened in shock. He saw his reflection looking back at him as a demon!

He shook it off, knowing that he wasn't a demon. He quickly forced it out of his head. Inuyasha looked closely at the wall and it was sparkly in that one area... He used one claw and experimentaly scratched lightly at the sparkling spot. Little pieces of it crumbled off just like an ordinary rock would...

'I know how to take care of this.' He wanted to know what the hell was making this wall sparkle!

Inuyasha drew his arm back, popped it a few times getting it ready, and then he swung his fist with great force into the rock wall with a loud "CRACK"

"Shit!" He cursed as his hand bounced off the cave. Blood began running down his knuckles but he had gotten to where he wanted to be...he watched pieces of rock tumble away to reveal a compartment, and silver light was pouring out of it.

Inuyasha, automaticaly drawn to the light, reached his hand into it...

"Inuyasha, are you sure you should be touching that!" Kagome stated worried.

"Keh." He spat. "Kagome I can handle it.." His hand grasped something solid and cold...he pulled it out and hopped back to Kagome. She walked over to him and they both looked at his fist, and as he opened it up, they saw the most beautiful jewel...it was multi-colored and super-shiny.

"Wow!" Kagome said amazed. Inuyasha peered at it with curiousity. "It's beautiful!"

"But what is it?"

"...a jewel of some-sort?" Kagome replied.

"Well duh! Of course it's a jewel!" He repeated sarcasticaly, staring her down. Kagome, instantly angered at his sarcasm, stared him down right back. They were battling a silent battle now with their eyes when all of the sudden...

"OU!" He yelled, as he dropped the jewel.

"Inuyasha-?"

"Damnit! It burned me!" He grouched while looking down at his scorched hands.

"Burned you-? Is it evil then?" She looked at the jewel which was lying on the ground. She crouched down and reached out to touch pick it back up when all the sudden she heard a loud "B-dmp. B-dmp." She glanced back up at Inuyasha who's bang's had fallen into his face, blocking out his golden eyes.

"Inu-yasha?" She asked slowly. His body was pulsing like the times when he changed his form from a hanyou, and it was scaring her. "Inuyasha!" She called out loudly.

She watched fearfuly as he turned all white, which was the last stage of his transformation and she could not take her eyes from him.

She saw the white fade away and her heart stopped beating and she stopped breathing. She took a fearful step back and held her hand over her heart as she tightly gripped her shirt. She was so afraid of what was happening to him, what he was becoming, then...