Ummmm... yeah...

Here's the next chappie...

I'll try to make it happier...

I'll try...

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Kagome shivered visibly under Inuyasha's haori. She had stopped sobbing against him, but tears leaked out of her eyes continuously. She clung onto him as much as she could, as if thinking that he could just float away. She wanted to be able to feel him, to know he was there.

It had all been too real...

He stroked her back to comfort her and whispered words that made no sense into her ear. She was still very frail, as if one wrong move and she would break.

Soon she seemed to have calmed down more, and he passed her clothes to her.

Thoughts about nudity and the bizarreness of the situation didn't bother him. It didn't matter that he had seen her and was helping her dress, he would do anything to make her feel better.

When she finished, she stretched out her hands to him. He helped her up and stood next to her as she leaned against him. "Inuyasha..."

Her legs felt wobbly and she could barely stand. He picked her up and put her in his arms as he leaded her towards a patch of grass that was far from the spring.

It would be best to keep her away from the water.

As he sat next to her, he put his arms around her. "Do you think you can tell me what happened?"

She nodded mutely and he gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze.

"I was at the spring, as you know. I was just passing the time when I suddenly fell asleep. When that happened, I had the most horrible dream. It was with my family, and it was just like those terrifying visions I had before the fight with Naraku."

She shuddered, and he looked at her, "So you mean that it's the same kind of thing as before? That means that we did nothing in that battle. Naraku is still out there. Trying to make us suffer."

"Yes, this time my dream was in the ocean and my entire family was there, not just Sota or mom; gramps was there too."

She looked him in the eyes, her own started to brim with crystal tears.

"I saw Sota die Inuyasha. He drowned! And I could do nothing to save him! They all thought it was my fault, but I tried! I tried to save him!"

She started pounding her fists against his chest as he hugged her tighter and tighter. He kept saying, "It's not your fault! It wasn't even real!"

He lowered his voice to a whisper.

"You did nothing wrong."

"But, he was so helpless..."

He brought one of his clawed hands up to her face and gently wiped away a tear that had escaped her eyes.

"Don't worry too much about it. You know that these visions are being sent by Naraku. Their only purpose is to make you worry. Don't give that bastard the satisfaction of seeing you suffer."

He went back to his previous position and held her, "What you really need to do is think about what happens in these dreams of yours. There's a possibility that he's sending out a message to you. Or at least there should be something that you hadn't noticed before."

Her eyes widened. I never thought about it that way...

She tried to relive the moment, as painful as it was, and searched for anything out of place.

A thought came into her mind.

"Well, all of the visions seemed to involve water. Rain, the sea; all of them water."

"Don't try to examine them all at once, try one by one."

"It's hard. I don't want to."

"You have to. Otherwise we don't have much of a clue of what's going on."

She looked at him angrily.

"Well you wouldn't be saying that if you actually had to see the visions. These are terrifying, even for you."

"Nothing scares me." Except for you to get hurt. But that won't happen again. Not ever.

"Really?"

"Yes. Really."

She looked away from him.

He is scared, but the only way he's ever known to deal with fear is by pretending that it doesn't phase him.

He's scared for all of us, not just me. Without us, he'd have to go back to the life of living without anyone to defend.

We're his burden. A burden that he can't live without.

Inuyasha moved from where he was and laid down on his stomach on top of the grass. "It's hard. I know. But if you don't try we won't get anywhere."

She smiled. He really does care. She went up on her knees and went over to where he was. With one swoop she went down and toppled over his frame. Before he could react, she was on top of him, hugging him from behind.

If Kagome could have seen him, she would have noticed a light blush spreading through his features. He was in shock for a moment, then he spoke, "What are you doing, wench? Who said you could go on top of me? Do I look like a bed to you? You should be working on trying to solve our little Naraku problem, not thinking of taking a nap on top of me!"

Once the words left his mouth he could feel her hands move. "So you want me to go away...?"

Her hands landed on the fluffy appendages on top of his head. "Are you sure about that Inuyasha?"

She massaged his ears until he was fully relaxed; a small moan was heard.

She blushed. Uh oh. Maybe I shouldn't do that so much.

She took her hands away and at once heard a small whimper from him. Awww, I can't leave him there like that...

She continued massaging his ears, rubbing them with her hands as gently as she could so as not to hurt him. She continued this until she heard a small snore from him. It was just the sound a puppy made when it was asleep.

She decided to let him rest, and he obviously wouldn't be able to with her on him. She lifted herself off and tried to stand.

In the middle of her task she felt his arms take hold of her and bring her down next to him. He spoke with his eyes closed.

"Don't leave. If I can't feel you I won't know you're safe."

She snuggled close to him, "Don't worry. I'll stay. I just thought that you would be more comfortable without me."

He pulled her even closer, "Wrong wench. You're the best pillow there is."

She laughed.

He actually remembered what a pillow was. Ha.

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"Saaannngooo..."

She ignored the voice behind her.

"Sangoooo..."

She continued to ignore.

"Sangoo..."

She felt a hand on her butt.

"Miroku, I give you three seconds to shut up. Otherwise, I'll have to start sharpening my weapons on you."

He moved away from her and gave her a huge grin, "But Sango, then who would be here to appease you when you get those ravenous cravings of doing whatever you want with me?"

She gave herself the satisfaction of punching him in the gut, "I never do that Miroku. Don't confuse my personality with yours."

She stood over him as he fell on the floor and put a foot on top of his stomach. He raised an eyebrow curiously, "Oh Sango, how you wound me so."

She took her foot off him and sat down next to him. Ignoring the puppy dog eyes he was making at her she turned away from him. "So, what were you bothering so much about anyway?"

"I was just thinking about what could be taking Inuyasha and Kagome so long? We haven't seen either the entire day. Do you think..."

"Shut it. I don't want to know."

"Yess yooouu doooo."

"No, I don't"

"Yes"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"Yes"

"Oh shut it. Now I'm really gonna use you as my weapon sharpener."

"REALLY?"

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"Shippo let them be!"

Kaede's voice stopped the little kitsune in his tracks as he was running towards the sleeping forms of Kagome and Inuyasha.

He looked back at the face of the old priestess, "But won't they be in danger? Sleeping out there in the open while anyone could attack them?"

A small meow of agreement came from Kirara, who was next to Kaede.

The priestess waved her hands at him, "Do not presume child that they are unaware of their surroundings. Inuyasha and Kagome both have the ability to sense evil, and as you can see they are both armed. Inuyasha there is probably able to feel our presence nearby."

As she turned back to look at them and spoke, "Look"

The kitsune turned and laughed. "Let's go Kaede"

From a distance they could feel the eyes of Inuyasha follow their departure. The way he had growled at them made it clear he wanted to be alone...

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Inu POV

It was time to go. The sun was setting and it was starting to get dark.

The others would be worried that they hadn't seen us they entire day.

There could be demons anywhere, still trying to get our part of the jewel.

We should go.

But I couldn't wake her up.

She was an angel.

Her arms wrapped around me tight, her hair filled with tiny bits of grass as it moved when a slight breeze hit us.

This was probably the first time since the battle that she had slept completely peacefully. She didn't even stir one bit.

When I tried to move, she would wrap her arms more tightly around me, almost making me unable to move.

Heh.

It was funny. Nothing had been said, but it was understood none the less.

I couldn't live without her. And she felt the same.

I felt her relax suddenly and took my chance.

I wriggled from her grasp and stood. I stretched my arms over my head and looked back down on Kagome's sleeping form.

Shippo was lucky that he left with only a warning.

I smirked at the thought and bent down to pick Kagome up. I started carrying her back to the hut in my arms. Now that we were going back there would questions to answer, especially from that lecher Miroku.

I could just imagine him now...

"Inuyasha you could have at least left us a note if you were going to take the whole day ravaging lady Kagome. My! My! I would have never thought it would take you the whole day..." (Hehe)

I'll kill him if he even TRIES to speak.

I quickened my pace. I hadn't had anything to eat since morning, and my stomach sounded like it was gonna eat me.

Then I remembered that the things that Kagome used to take a bath were still at the hot springs.

Fuck.

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We'll that's the end of this chappie.

I made it happier cuz I kinda have a few ideas of where to go from here, but I haven't really decided yet.

Oh, and thanks to :(me), LoLo-Koi, and Glykera oh yeah and Buyo... he's somewhere out there. In one of the chapter it says it. But I don't remember which one. Sorry!

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