What Does Not Kill You Only Makes You Stronger

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Chapter four: Regrets

"We must stop somewhere to see some old friends before I decide to kill you," InuYasha said, as if he had read my every thought.

"Why are you going to kill me? I didn't do anything to you. I only removed the stupid arrow from your chest. If I was thinking clearly, I would have left it there!" I yelled as he drug me behind him.

"Stop nagging. You'll just bring more pain down upon yourself," he replied as he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder like a limp rag doll.

"OW! Put me down, you animal!" I screamed as I pounded on his back as sudden pain struck through my body.

"I'm a half-demon, stupid," he yelled back as he ran along the road I had been walking along.

"Don't call me stupid. My name isn't stupid! My name is Kagome. KA-GO-ME. Can you say that or do you only bark like the stupid dog you are?" I asked cruelly.

"Shut up, wench," he growled as he jumped into the air.

I didn't notice as his feet left the ground. I was too annoyed by him calling me a wench. "My name isn't wench either!" I snapped.

"And I don't bark," InuYasha said in a threatening growl that came out of the pits of his throat making me shudder in fear.

"R-Right. What do you think you're doing now?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're barking, idiot!"

"It's called yelling, wench, and don't call me an idiot."

"I can if I want. And it's called barking!"

"Shut up!"

"No! Make me!"

"I'm going to throw you off the nearest cliff if you don't shut your trap!"

"Good. At least I would get rid of you and the sacred jewel."

"Shut up!"

"No!" How many times do I have to repeat myself? I won't shut up and you can't make me!"

"I said shut up, wench!"

"Bite me!"

I shrieked when I felt his fangs sink into my calf. I drew my elbow back in reaction and hit his head. He yelped and fell forward with me, I ended up underneath him.

I coughed and waved my hand at the dust that surrounded us. Now my back hurts worse than my side does. I heard InuYasha groan and wiggle on top of me. I tried seeing where he was, but failed.

After the dust settled, I realized that his head was lying on my stomach. He groaned again and looked up at me. My heart skipped a beat as I recognized the anger boiling in his eyes. I honestly was afraid that he was going to bite me again.

"What the hell did you do that for?" he asked heatedly.

"You bit me!" I cried.

"You told me to!"

"I wasn't being serious!"

"Well, next time don't tell me to bite you and you won't get bitten!"

"Maybe next time I'll run into a more loving demon!"

I watched his expression change. His eyes seemed to be forgiving and sorrowful. I found myself wanting to apologize. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that," I said and looked deeply into his eyes.

"Why did you hit me?" he asked.

I looked up; expecting to see anger in his eyes, but was shocked to see a softer side start to take over. "It was a reaction. I really wasn't expecting you to bite me," I said with a blush creeping into my cheeks.

I glanced up and caught sight of a white ear as he moved it. I leaned forward and winced, but gently grabbed his left ear. His eyes suddenly changed from a soft looking texture to a hazy one. He suddenly leaned into my touch.

I smiled and watched his eyes flutter and close. He was like an over grown puppy. He was so cute. Feisty, but cute.

He abruptly opened his eyes and pulled away from my touch. He seemed mortified and annoyed with himself for giving into my touch.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" he yelled as he hastily stood up.

"I couldn't help myself. They looked so soft and they're the cutest things I've ever seen," I replied as I noticed that he was slightly blushing.

He opened his mouth then quickly shut it. "Get up! We don't have all day," he said and turned away from me.

"OK, ok. Don't rush me. Considering that you just bit the crap out of my leg, I have a good reason to be slow, that is compared to how fast you walk," I said as I felt my anger towards him start to pulse through my veins. He was such a pain.

"I didn't bite you that hard," he said in a smugly sarcastic way.

I had to hold back the urge of biting his leg and letting him get the taste of his own medicine.

The stupid hanyou or whatever he is has absolutely no manners. Not that I have any room to talk. He saved my life even though I was trying to bury my fist down his throat. I should be grateful, but I'm far from even being thankful.

"You drew blood and you act like its nothing! You didn't even say sorry," I said wrathfully. It was true. At least most men said sorry. He wasn't a man, though, was a stupid half demon.

"Dammit, Kagome, just get on my back," he muttered.

I realized then that he had said my name and that he had almost apologized. In a way that was sort of his apology. I smiled to myself and climbed onto InuYasha's back with his help.

I clung to his back for dear life as we soared over thousands of trees and as he effortlessly pushed off one branch to another. I looked at the sky and saw a bright star that seemed to wink at me in the distance. I sighed and leaned my head against InuYasha and thought of my home in Tokyo.

Mother must be worried sick. And poor grandpa must be bored out of his mind without me there to bug him. Poor Souta. No one there to lift up his spirits when he walks to school.

I blinked back the tears and looked around. InuYasha had stopped jumping through trees and was running on foot towards a small gloomy village. I leaned my head up and felt firewood in the air.

"Fire," InuYasha said like I was an alien with the intelligence of a rock.

"I know what it is," I grumbled forebodingly. I'm really starting to dislike InuYasha.

He came to a stop in front of a rather small, odd looking hut thing. He dropped me and walked into the hut. I hit the ground and coughed and groaned. I was going to murder that demon when I got my hands on him.

I looked up and stared into the eye of an elderly looking lady that was studying me hard. She looked ancient. Like she should have been dead.

"Kikyo, I thought ye were dead," she said rather in a statement then a question.

"I'm not Kikyo," I growled as kindly as I could. The name Kikyo was staring to get on my nerves.

"Then what are ye? Are ye a demon?" she asked and threw some powder stuff at my face.

"Hey! Stop that! I'm not a demon and I'm not that damn Kikyo woman. My name is Kagome!" I yelled. My patience was at its boundary lines. I was tired of this world. I wanted to go home.

"So this is the woman that ye brought to me? Ye not planning to destroy the village, are ye?" the old woman asked InuYasha.

"No. I brought her to ye so ye can heal her," InuYasha replied sarcastically.

InuYasha suddenly bent down and grabbed my arm and yanked me to my feet, more gently then he had the last time. "Ow! Careful, will you!" I yelped and covered the wound on my side.

"Careful, InuYasha. You'll make it worse," the old woman said and walked back into the hut.

InuYasha followed as he gently pulled me in the hut with him. I groaned and reluctantly followed. It was no use trying to fight him when I really couldn't.

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