A/N: Well here's the next chapter thank you everyone for your reviews, and to those of you who aren't…it will take you 5 seconds seriously and as a writer I like to know what others think of my work, so let me know….thanks…oh and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Wooo…..hey if you don't have a valentine just content yourself with the relationship of Inu and Kags…it makes us ALL happy!

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Chapter 7

"Oh man, how long have I been gone!" she wondered running full speed up the mountain. "Oh geez, I can't let Kouga know, it'll be a never ending fight!" She stopped at the edge of the cave catching her breath before walking in.

"Oh hey Kouga!" she flashed the wolf demon the biggest grin she could muster, "what's up? It was just such a warm bath I didn't want to get out!" she giggled nervously.

"Kagome…" he demanded, from his bed at the head of the cave, she stopped in her tracks and turned around to face the wrath she knew would be coming. "Come lay with me." He sighed motioning her to his bed.

"Oh!...I …uhhh" she stammered. "I uh can't…you see…I uh…" she looked around her in a panic hoping an excuse would just pop out of the sky. Her eyes landed on the girl lying on the floor.

"She might need me close by!" she jumped running to the injured girl, "I have to stay close by you know…just in case." She finished as she let out a sigh of relief.

Kagome looked at the girl still lying unconscious on the floor. She felt a wave of guilt wash over her as she looked at her face. "Using this girl's injuries as an excuse?" she thought to herself, "good, Kagome."

"It's quite all right Kagome, you can be by her side in a second if she should need you in the night." Kouga replied motioning once again to his bed.

"Urgh…now what" she thought to herself as she slowly made her way to his bed, giggling nervously.

"Come Kagome, don't be shy" he cooed moving over to make room for the fidgeting girl.

"Don't you try anything Kouga!" she warned him as she sat down next to him. He pulled a fur over her and lay down on the straw closing his eyes.

She sat there looking at him, and seeing only Inuyasha. She glanced toward the opening of the cave wondering if she was doing wrong by being with Kouga, let alone sleeping in the same bed with him.

She sank down slowly into the bed with Kouga, silently praying that he was already asleep. She turned on her side and stared at the girl in the center of the room. She kept her body tight and as far away from Kouga as she could be, never letting her body touch his.

She lay there for what seemed like hours, before Kouga whispered, "Kagome, you don't have to be afraid of me, I care for you and would never hurt you. I wasn't the one who hurt the girl." he slid closer to her, mistaking her rigid body as fear.

"I know" she turned around to find herself staring into his eyes.

"Go to sleep" he whispered, kissing her on the forehead. He slid his arm around her body and snuggled his nose into her neck.

He pulled away staring at her, "Even after a bath you still smell like that mutt." He glared at her, then softened, "well your still my woman Kagome, no matter what, but an extra long bath will be needed tomorrow to get rid of that mutt-smell." He finished, growling slightly.

She turned on her side again looking longingly at the cave entrance wondering when her hanyou would come bursting through and save her from this miserable night alone. She pulled her hair under her neck and played with the ends thinking of Inuyasha's touch through her hair.

She stopped and breathed in deeply, "I do smell like Inuyasha" she thought as she felt her heart ache for him. She closed her eyes, lying in her hair and fell asleep pretending she was wrapped in her love's arms.

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Inuyasha stood by the hot springs, heart racing and breath short and shallow. He watched Kagome run up the mountain to were the wolves were calling to her.

"Damn him." He growled. He started as if to run after her but stopped and stood, head to the ground. "Mine" he laughed to himself thinking of her last promise, "if you were mine you wouldn't run to him" he thought staring up at the mountain.

He fought the impulse to jump up the mountain and take Kouga out that very second.

"Run to him" he gritted his teeth in anguish, "run to the full-demon" he thought hating himself in that moment for being stupid enough to think that Kagome had accepted him as hers, half-demon and all. He had believed for a brief moment that she would be his, that being a half-demon didn't matter, that he was going to have something he knew he didn't deserve, but had wanted more than anything else in the world.

He walked into the forest cursing himself the whole way. He turned to look at the mountain one last time, hating her for playing with his heart and hating himself for not being worthy of her.

He looked away and ran back to his friends, the waning moon lighting his path.

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Kagome woke with a start as a wolf gently nudged her awake. "What is it" she whispered looking around. The wolf turned and looked sorrowfully at the girl in the middle of the floor.

"No…" she whispered jumping up and running to her side. She kneeled next to her and touched the girl's forehead. "She's cold and clammy" she whispered glancing around at the wolves crowded around her "build a fire now!" she yelled jumping up and running back to Kouga's bed, she pulled the heavy fur off the sleeping wolf demon and ran back to the girl.

"Wha-what?" Kouga rolled over.

Kagome threw the fur over the girl and ran to her bag. "She needs to eat something too" she whispered, fumbling through her bag. She pulled out a package of Ramen and looked at it sadly, "I'm sorry Inuyasha" she whispered sprinting back to the girl.

A fire roared next to her, basking the wolves and Kagome in a weary light. "Go" Kouga commanded the wolves as he stood next to Kagome.

Kagome made the ramen as the girl started to come around; she looked around the cave lazily as if in a dream.

"You need to eat something" Kagome whispered to the girl, "here" she offered bringing the food to the girl's lips. The girl slowly ate staring from Kagome to Kouga.

"My name is Kagome, and this is Kouga, he rescued you" she started waiting for the girl to speak.

"I'm Atsumi…" she whispered then passed out.

Kagome reached out a hand to the girl's wrist, "she's out. We need to let her sleep." She turned back to Kouga, "I need to stay with her…"

"Nonsense Kagome, you were able to get to her just fine this time, and you can still reach her" he whispered loudly, picking her up and carrying her back to the bed.

"Are you actually trying to help her or are you just trying to be with me?" she glared at him suspiciously.

"I just want to keep you safe and with me, Kagome" he answered blinking innocently.

He grabbed another fur and pulled it over the two of them. He wrapped an arm around her pulling her close to him. Her body went rigid at his touch and he took no notice.

She buried her face in her hair trying to find the light sent of Inuyasha on her body, but smelling only the scent of Kouga.

She closed her eyes and prayed for the freedom of the dream she had found so puzzling before.

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A/N: ok guys R&R let me know how it's going…the next chapter will have a ton more drama…hehehe, they're all my fav. people but I just love putting these guys in situations…ok review people. Thanks! Now I'm off to eat this big box of valentine's chocolate….