Ch. 14:

"Well then." Inuyasha started menacingly. "For your sake, you better enjoy it because as of right now i'm kickin' this up a few notches." He popped his claws and kept staring at her, hiding any facts that he was even a little afraid. "Kagome." He whispered her name quickly and quietly, so that only she would hear. "Maybe you should get lost for awhile.."

He knew that this fight would quickly turn to be really dangerous, and he was making it her choice to leave or stay.

"Inuyasha! I won't leave you!" She answered him defiantly. Inuyasha was grateful for her staying, but it scared the fuck out of him. Then, without a word he charged towards Kurishuna with his Tetsaiga, ready to kill.

Kurishuna dissipated just as he reached where she had been standing and had swung his deadly sword at her.

"Damnit!" He clenched his teeth together and looked around. "Where the hell is she?"

"How does she do that?" Kagome wondered out loud in amazement. She too looked around trying to help Inuyasha find where this demon had gone when Inuyasha suddenly yelled out her name. She had enough time to see that his eyes were looking not at her, but behind her.

"Huh?" She instinctively turned her head around, knowing that something was there. She saw a sword being held over her head and she had no time to do anything. Her life flashed before her own eyes as she stood, waiting, for death... The last thought that ran through her head was 'Inuyasha!'

He shoved Kagome down to the ground hard and covered her with his just in time for the sword to pierce deeply into his shoulder and the point actually made it out of the other side. Inuyasha sucked in sharply as immense pain hit him.

He heard Kurishuna agonizingly scream out something, he couldn't understand what as the wind around them suddenly picked up, shaking the trees and everything around them blowing leaves and such things quickly away, and then there was that blinding white light suddenly appeared, making him hide his eyes from it in Kagome's hair...

He felt Kurishuna yank her sword out of his shoulder. A thick stream of his blood ran down from his shoulder-wound and soaked through his robe, staining it a dark crimson red.

(Kagome's POV)

She had seen her life flash completely and fully before her, she waited, her eyes wide as she stared into death's face, hoping it wouldn't come.

'I can't get away from her! Mama...home...Inuyasha will rescue me...Inuyasha...'

She felt something crash into her body and as she hit something hard with her back she felt sudden pain all over as her breath escaped painfuly from her lungs so that she couldn't get it back and everything around her went black...

As she was sinking into unconsciousness something was nagging unrelentingly at her to stay focused...stay awake...what was it? All her thoughts were jumbled up and she was having a hard time concentrating...When she heard what sounded to her like someone gasping out in pain.

"Is it me?" She asked herself quietly out loud, still in a daze. She tried to look around with her unfocused brown eyes, still not quite remembering what was happening...but something was on top of her keeping her pinned down...she couldn't really see, the colors around her were blurred and mixing together, and her body wouldn't move...

She felt something warm and sticky pooring down onto her chest. This made her think of blood and then...she swore she could hear someone yelling her name...then something clicked inside of her head.

All of her thoughts came flooding back to her as she took many deep breaths trying to get her focus back... 'Inuyasha!'

Her vision cleared and the first thing she noticed was Inuyasha above squishing her painfuly into the ground...She tried to squirm out from beneath him.

"Your okay!" He said exasperated. He came up off of her and moved over to crouch beside her and helped her to sit up. His concerned eyes never left hers, as he tried to make sure that everything was fine with her, besides her abnormally fast beating heart. She seemed like she was ok...

Kagome sucked down air as she tried to talk to him...

"Inuyasha! I thought I was----" She began to cough, and couldn't stop. Inuyasha patted her on the back to try and help her get her breaths back.

"Kagome, don't try to talk. Just sit here and stay calm while I take care of y-- this."

"Inuyasha!" She coughed out as he left her side, she didn't want him to leave her. 'Take care of what? What is he talking about?' She thought panicking. "Your bleeding really badly!" She called worriedly after him.

"Fuck! Where did that bitch go!" He growled, ignoring Kagome's plea to stay. 'That fucking cowardly whore...She's dissapeared again...how in the hell is she doing that!'

"Kurishuna! I remember now!" She raised her hand to her head to smack herself, how could she forget about her? As her hand collided with her head she winced as a burning fiery sensation ran through it. "Oww!" She whined. She pulled her hand quickly away from her head and taking a glance down at it she saw blood...her head was bleeding!

As she was looking down at her hand, she noticed the crimson covering her white school shirt...her heart missed a beat as she saw it.

'I don't feel any pain at all...so how am I---" She gasped out loud. 'Inuyasha! He's the one this is from, not me! Oh no, please be careful Inuyasha, he's hurt really badly!'

(Inuyasha's P.O.V.)

As he left Kagome, he realized that he could not move his right arm, which he used to hold Tetsaiga as he fought, at all. He couldn't even hold his sword in it, he had to switch to holding it with his left hand.

When Kurishuna had impaled him through the shoulder, he realized, she tore through the muscles in his shoulder and now he was inable to move his entire arm and hand at all.

This was not good...

'But what was with all that wind and light and shit?' He thought to himself. It took him a minute to realize that he could no longer sense her demonic aura, he couldn't smell her at all and the thickness of the air that she had brought when she came was gone. Everything felt almost normal again...

'When all that wind and shit came, does it mean that I have defeated her?' He visibly relaxed and looked around. The forest was relaxed once again...

He reluctantly sheathed his sword and began to walk back to Kagome.

He saw Kagome stand up and she closed the small gap between them by running to him.

"Is she gone?" She stared up at him, her eyes shimmered with fear and innocense.

"For now...I think. Are you all right?" He saw the deep cut on her head and he felt so bad for letting her get hurt like that. He wanted so badly to make it go away...to him, it symbolized that he had hurt her. He had let her down.

He hated seeing her hurt in any form and/or fashion and so he reached out to her head with his left hand and gently stroked next to the place on her head where a deep cut was, subconsciously trying to make the hurt go away. She winced, and he drew his hand back regretfuly. "Sorry Kagome."

She grabbed his hand in hers, squeezed it and smiled forgivingly at him.

"Inuyasha, i'm all right." She told him knowingly.

His heart stopped. How did she always seem to read him and his actions so well? "But your bleeding really badly.." Her voice shook and she looked up at him with concerned eyes, brimming with tears. "Because of me again..."

"Keh, Kagome. This is nothin'...I can hardly feel it."

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Hey guyz!

I'm so sorry for making u peeple wait so long for this chapter! (I hope u luved it) thanx for all ur reviews too, i'm really luvin' them!

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I didn't update on the weekend because sunday was my beloved 17th b-day. And i'v been partying all weekend (since friday) with my buddies and so yah...i'v been hyped up on cokes and cookies and pizza and ice-cream and chips and cake and candy and whatever the hell else we ate...so yah, i'll probably have a new chapter for ya tomarrow!

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