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Wufei – Weak.

#6 – Touch

She frowned. "Why do you do that?"

He paused, turning to her with a slight frown of his own. "What?"

"That."

His frown deepened. "Do what?"

Kagome placed her hand on his shoulder and he tensed again. Her expression turned thoughtful; did he have an injury that he hadn't told her about? "You do that every time I touch you." He scoffed and to prove her point she touched him again. Sure enough, he tensed, his whole body going rigid. "Did I hurt you or something?

"Keh, don't be stupid." He turned away from her, redirecting his gaze to the kettle boiling over the fireplace in front of them. "Like you could hurt me." She paused, studying him. He blinked at her "What?"

"Inu Yasha… why do you…" She trailed off, letting out a sad sigh briefly. Gathering the few meager possessions surrounding her, she rose out of her seat. Without another word she retreated back into the small hut in which they were currently staying.

He let out a small 'keh', frowning when he felt the eyes of his companions upon him.

"You know, Inu Yasha," Shippo replied, glancing up from his coloring book and crayons to fix him with a look of disdain. "You can be such a creep."

The hanyou fixed him with a look that sent him back down into his coloring book. "Whaddya mean by that?"

"You were being rude." Sango admonished him. "Every time Kagome tries to show you a little bit of kindness, you push her away."

Pushing her away? What did she expect? She was always touching him, whether it be on the arm or the shoulder – how did she expect him to act when the only kind of contact he was used to was violent?

"I don't see what the big deal is…"

"Neither do I," this came from Miroku who had been busy writing up new sutras. "I don't see any harm in Kagome being affectionate with you…" They all frowned at the glint in his eye. "Like you said, it's not like she'd hurt you…"

Inu Yasha scowled in effort to ward off the blush that was threatening to appear at the meaning behind the monk's statement. Damned pervert… He was right though, loathe as he was to admit it. Kagome wouldn't hurt him – couldn't even if she wanted to – it just wasn't in her nature. Besides, even if he wasn't used to that sort of thing, he had to admit it felt kind of nice to have her doting on him so…

No, he couldn't let his thoughts go in that direction. Kagome was a nice girl, but he couldn't let himself get too close to her. He'd been down that road before and he didn't want to walk it again.

It didn't matter what she felt, what he felt, what anybody felt. The only thing that mattered was the mission.

Because, after all, even though she couldn't hurt him physically…

"I have to go home now, Inu Yasha…"

Witha few words from she could utterly destroy him.

End