Chapter 6

"C'mon, let's get you cleaned up."

He picked her up bridal style and carried her to the bathroom. "That's not necessary, I can walk." She had told him but he wasn't listening. He seemed almost in a daze, lost in his thoughts.

He set her down in the bathroom and pulled the stool from the corner for her to sit on. She sat down, slightly wincing in pain from the movement of her arms.

He kneeled down in front of her and carefully held one of her arms. The shirt she was wearing had sleeves that went down to her elbows and so he had cut right through them with his claws. The shirt was to tight to just pull up with out hurting her, "This shirt is ruined, right?" he asked.

She looked at the sleeves to see that it had 5 holes in each sleeve. "Yeah." she said quietly.

"Don't move." he told her. He reached for the bottom hem of her shirt and carefully ripped the shirt from bottom to top with one of his clawed fingers. She gasped. She hadn't expected that. With it now ripped in half he gently pulled the shirt off. He avoided looking at her exposed chest at fear he would loose control once again. He grabbed a pink towel from the bathroom cupboard and wrapped it around her torso.

He realized that he still had her blood on his claws so he quickly got up and washed them off then grabbed a face cloth and dampened it. He joined her once again and began to wipe the blood off of her with the cloth.

"Kagome... I am so sorry." she was just about to speak but he put one finger on her lips to silence her. "I don't care what you say, it was my fault." She didn't respond. She seemed to be loosing a fighting battle with him.

He cleaned off the bloody cloth and continued to clean off her wounds. He must have pressed a little too hard because she once again winced in pain, "Sorry." He muttered. When he went back to washing he asked, "Does this hurt?" she shook her head no.

With all the blood gone he looked at the damage. The wounds were fairly deep, maybe about half a centimeter in the skin. He didn't know how she had taken the pain so well. There were 10 wounds in all. One from each finger. He hoped they wouldn't get infected. That's all he would need, for Kagome to get amputated. He wrapped up her arms in one big strip of cloth after putting polysporn on each cut.

"I think you're good to go." He told her as he put the cloth into the hamper. He looked over at her to see her touching her lips.

She exclaimed, "Ow."

"What is it?" he asked and walked towards her. She had blood on her fingers…but where did it come from. Then he saw that she had a cut on her lip. One of his fangs must have nicked her. "Oh geeze, Kagome, I'm so sorry." He said and rushed over to look at what he had done there.

She smiled and said, "Kiss it better?" He smiled back and gently kissed her , careful of her cut. He tried not to get to into but she forced him to. She was the one who got her tongue in his mouth to probe. He moaned softly and then pulled away. "I don't want to hurt you." She looked slightly disappointed. "Sorry."

"It's fine." She said and hugged him.

"C'mon, time for bed." He said and picked her up and took her to bed.

Tonight he didn't wrap his arms around her body, not because he was afraid of loosing control but because he was afraid that he might hurt her or that she wouldn't want to be touched by him. So for the first time since they moved here he stayed on his side… but that wasn't going well with Kagome. She couldn't sleep without knowing he was there so she turned around and layed on his chest. He smiled as she snuggled her face into his body. He wrapped an arm around her back and fell fast asleep.

That mourning he crept out of bed as silently as can be. He wanted to leave the house before she could see he was going incase she wanted to come with. He had to pay a visit to his dear brother for the second time in 2 days. Sesshomaru must know what to do. He had been mating with Rin for some time now. He never complained about a problem like his before.

DING DONG He rung the doorbell. 5 seconds later the door was answered by a very tired looking Rin dressed in… an open housecoat with blue underwear and a bra.

"Do you have no self respect Rin?"

"What?" she asked.

"Look at what you're wearing! I'm practically your brother now and look at what you answer the door in. Do me a favour; never let me see that again." With that he walked off towards the scent of Sesshomaru leaving Rin behind. As soon as he began to leave she tied up her housecoat and went towards the bathroom.

"Sesshomaru?" he asked.

"Here Yash." Came a voice from the kitchen.

He found Sesshomaru reading a book on the art of fighting. "Why are you reading that?" he asked.

"Because I find it fascinating how people think they know what there doing in terms of fighting but all there doing is teaching things to hurt you more."

Inu-Yasha gave him an odd look before saying, "I need to talk to you about something."

Sess put his book down and looked straight at Inu-Yasha, "Sit." And so he did.

"Look, this is kinda hard to say so…" he blushed just a little before saying, " uhh, when you started to… mate… with Rin, did you ever loose control?"

Sesshomaru gave him the same cold stare he always had before saying, "What happened?"

Inu-Yasha awkwardly scratched the back of his head and said, "I… hurt Kagome… I lost control of everything I was doing… my demon side took over me."

"And you want me to tell you how to fix it?"

Inu-Yasha nodded dumbly.

"I'm not sure what to do, it sounds to me like your body may be rejecting Kagome as a mate because she is human but I doubt it. "He thought for a moment, "If your demon side rejected her you would have known already."

'Whew.' He thought. 'At least I don't have to leave Kagome or something.'

"What happened right before you started to turn?"

Inu-Yasha blushed, "I…uhhhh… came home and she was in the bedroom…dancing…with very little on…so I-I uhh passed out then when I came to I ran to the bathroom to… you know, and when I came out I kissed her and then lost control…"

Sesshomaru just about smiled when he said he passed out but kept his unreadable expression. "And what did you do when you turned?"

Home

Kagome woke up, stretched and reached out for her Inu-Yasha but he wasn't there. She opened her eyes and saw a note on the pillow, 'Went to Sesshomaru's.' was what it said.

She shifted her body and lent against her arm, "OW!" she yelled, tears welled into her eyes as she jumped off her arm from the pain.

She layed in bed on her back and stared at the sealing. 'He's going to Sesshomaru's house to talk about last night…' she thought. 'Why didn't he ask me to come?' well she wasn't going to stand for this. She wanted to be there to find out what happened to him. She changed into some black sweats and a blue t-shirt then ran out the door.

What she saw almost made her die. She had forgotten that she had left her car at a car shop to fix it and the only mode of transportation left…was Yash's motorcycle. He had taught her to ride it but she never felt very easy on it and he was always with her. Her body slightly trembled as she walked towards the open garage; the bike seemed to taunt her. She stopped walking, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Then ran towards the garage. She grabbed the helmet that he had bought for her around the time they met and then hopped on. She put the keys in the ignition, revved the car and sped out while pressing the button to close the garage on her key chain. She was a little off balance at first; she was used to someone holding her body in place. Not to mention that her arms were kind of stiff and they stung a little but from the position she had them in. 'Thank the Gods it's only a 10 minute drive,' she thought.

10 painful minutes later

She pulled in front of the house feeling relieved. She had survived the trip there. She had almost hit 2 other cars and almost hit a stop sign but she made it.

She rang the doorbell and like Inu-Yasha she was greeted by Rin, who now was just wearing a towel.

"Hey Rin…nice towel." She looked around, "Where are the boys?"

"Kitchen." She said and then walked off to go put on clothes. She seemed to be getting made fun of a lot.

"…I smell Kagome." Inu-Yasha said and Sesshomaru nodded. Inu-Yasha suddenly regretted that he didn't put 'don't come.' Or something like that on the note.

"Hi!" Came a voice from the doorway. It was defiantly Kagome. Inu-Yasha got up and hugged her. He looked at her arms, her shirt wasn't long enough to cover the bandage he had put on her. She didn't seem to care.

There was an awkward silence where no one seemed to know what to say.

"Hello Kagome, why don't you sit down, we were just discussing something." Sesshomaru said calmly so she did.

Sesshomaru eyed her carefully. He could see the nick on her lip that Inu-Yasha described that seemed to have swollen up over night and he could smell the blood on her. One of her wounds must have opened up. The smell wasn't strong enough for all of them to be opened. The maximum that could be open was a maximum of 3. Then he looked to Yash. He could tell by the uncomfortable face he was making that he could smell it to and it was driving him insane.

"So what were you guys talking about?" she asked, breaking the silence.

"Why Inu-Yasha turns demon."

"And??" she asked curiously.

"It seems to me that when he gets…aroused… he looses control. This wouldn't happen if you were demon or if he was full demon. "

'If I was demon.' The thought rang through her mind.

"I don't know how to fix your problem yet…so I advise that you don't do anything like this for a while." The couple nodded.

They had stayed there for 10 minutes more before deciding they should leave. "Inu-Yasha, I was wondering if I could have a word." He nodded and told Kagome to go wait in the car.

"It's about Kagome…dad never told you this but he had placed a spell on us that was and still is very popular for demons. What it did was allow us to age like a normal human so that we could be accepted normally in public. But the spell goes away when we turn 20… but while you stop aging…Kagome will continue to age while you live for probably over 300 years after her. I thought you might want to know." And then he left him there.

He stood there dumb struck, not knowing what to do or what to make of what he was just told. If what his brother said was true then he would stop aging as of this year. He had had his 20th Birthday last month. Now it seemed pointless to count the years anymore if he wouldn't change.

He could feel his heart start to race faster as he realized what this meant. Kagome would die long before he did.

I'm ending it here! So the problem was just revealed…well the 2 problems. Now you may be asking the following questions:

Will Inu-Yasha ever be able to control himself?

What will he do about Kagome?

What is in the secret compartment in the closet?

What happened with Sango and Miroku?

Personally I only know about 3 of them. One I'm still deciding. I have decided what is in the closet but now I gotta figure out if I want it to do what I was thinking. The Kagome thing keeps changing but I think I have decided. But I bet you guys thought this fic was going nowhere lol. The only thing that I made sound like the whole point of it was that Kagome's family would meet Yash but now I put some twists to it. Isn't it funny what you think up when you're sitting in school listening to math that you learned in grade 4?

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