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Hiyas everyone! Sorry for being so late again. It's not my fault..it's my friend's fault. She's to blame! Ah!She says that it's not her fault...hmph! Yeah, right!lol. I'm just messin'. I'm not real sure what else to say at this moment. So...on with the Fanfic!

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It Started With A Prank Call

Chapter 12: The Scar

Kenshin placed her onto her bed and tucked her in. He started to walk away when she grabbed his hand. He turned to her.

"Kaoru?"

She shivered and tightened her grip.

Kenshin sighed and noticed that she was afraid to sleep alone. He crawled into the bed with her and slept throughout the entire night, not once letting go of her hand.

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Inuyasha awoke to find Kagome fast asleep beside him. He wondered how he got in her bed, so he looked to the other side and saw in bright red numerals: 2:37 am. He'd remembered now. I heard a scream and ran in here to protect Kagome. I guess I must've fallen asleep.

He struggled to get up and felt a slight pain in his arm. He looked at it and widened his eyes. It was covered in blood. He could feel the sore oozing it out. Inuyasha lifted the covers to check if Kagome was hurt and sighed in relief as she wasn't. Though she was up and staring at him. "Is something wrong Inuyasha?" He flinched and hid his arm. "Uh...no, nothing's wrong. Go back to sleep...uh I'm just gonna go to the bathroom."

She nodded and went back to sleep.

In the bathroom...He took at wet cloth and started wiping his arm. He still couldn't figure out what could of caused the bleeding to happen. Was it that he hit it on something? Or cut it by accident? There wasn't really too many explainations for it. He turned around to find Megumi looking at him.

"Megumi? What are you doing?"

I heard your moans and thought you were in pain. I guess I was right." "No, I'm fine...I just cut myself that's all." Megumi didn't believe him. She snatched his arm away from behind his back and gasped.

"Inuyasha! This isn't a mark you can get from cutting yourself." "SHHHHHH! Kagome is asleep!"

Megumi sat him down on the edge of the bathtub and got out some scary stuff in Inuyasha's opinion. He backed away from it. "There's no way your touching me with those things!"

"I'm in training to be a doctor. I know what I'm doing. Now hold still." Inuyasha bit his lip as she spread a burning cream across his arm. Megumi got out some bandages. That definately isn't a mark you get from cutting yourself. That cut trails along his entire for-arm. This long cut could only be done by a--.

"Well?" Megumi started to wrap the white cloth around his arm. Inuyasha looked down at her. "Megumi? What ya thinking about?" Megumi fliched alittle. "Uh...this mark was done on purpose by someone. And this person had a sword." Inuyasha widened his eyes. No way! Could it be Jine? No, it couldn't be...he'd have to have pretty soft feet to get through my ears. And I didn't see any slashes on the windows...so how could he get in and out so quickly? Man, this guy must be really good.

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Kaoru slowly opened her eyes. She glanced beside her and froze seeing Kenshin. His red hair almost appeared golden in the light. It was like an angel was lying next to her. Then she'd remembered the previous night. Kenshin had rocked her to sleep and stayed with her the entire night. This caused her cheeks to turned a slight red.

She froze again when she saw a movement in his eyes. They opened and stared at her. For some reason she felt naked when he smiled at her. To be sure she looked at his body and was reileved to find that he was fully clothed.

Kenshin put his hand on her cheek gently. "Are you okay now?"

Kaoru nodded. He sat up, and kissed her forhead. "That's what I need to hear." With that...Kenshin walked out of the room, leaving Kaoru in confusion.

Kenshin walked into the hallway to find Inuyasha running out in terrible pain. He laughed at first but then noticed the cut on his arm and followed him. "Inuyasha! Wait up!" He stopped and turned to him. Sanosuke came out not too long from that moment , rubbing his eyes. "What's going on here?"

"What's going on! I'll tell ya what's going on! Your damn girlfriend's tryin' to make this cut on my arm explode!" Sano glanced down at Inuyasha's arm. "Woah...what happened?" Inuyasha sat down on a near by cusion. "I don't know..I just woke up with it this morning." Sano glanced at Kenshin.

"Hey, Kenshin. You think it could be Jine?"

"Maybe. But how? None of us heard anything."

Inuyasha looked at Kenshin as well. "So what does this mean? If I hadn't of slept wit---fell asleep wit---I fell asleep in Kagome's be-room, then this wound would've been on Kagome's arm!" Sano smirked. "hmph...! You probably had a real good time didn't ya?"

Inuyasha turned bright red. "What! I--we didn't do anything! Unlike you and Ms. Doctor!" Sano smiled. " Well atleast I have the resources! HA!" Inuyasha rose from his cusion and ran towards Sanosuke, but Kenshin blocked the way. "Alright you two! That's enough!" Inuyasha backed away, seeing Kagome come from out of the room.

She stepped near to them. "Good morning Kagome.", Sanosuke said with a leery smile. "Hi...I think." Kenshin nudged at him to stop. Kaoru came out what seemed to be right after her. "Hey, guys." She opened her mouth to speak when she caught sight of Inuyahsa's arm. "Inuyasha! What happened?"

Kagome looked at him. He glared daggers at Kaoru for mentioning it. Now he'd have to explain all of this to Kagome. And boy did he not wanna. She anxiously stared at him. "Inuyasha?"

He turned to the side, showing his cut towards her. She gasped. "Inuyasha! What happened!" Kenshin walked over beside her. "He says that he woke up with it this morning." Kagome turned pale. "Well he's lying! Jine did it didin't he?"

Kaoru froze. She wasn't ready to hear that name again. Kenshin noticed this and walked over to her. "Kaoru...maybe you should go back to bed." She scaredly shook her head. "No. I need to hear this, Kenshin." He sighed and turned around to see Inuyasha getting yelled at.

"Ah...it seems that Ms. Megumi has returned."

"Damn right I have! And I'm gonna---!" Sano grabbed her arms and held her off of him. "Alright, now. Let's give Inuyasha a break." Megumi calmed down a bit. "I can't I told him if that cut doesn't get fully bandaged, it may get infected! And he won't sit still."

Inuyasha felt a cold stared coming from kagme's angle. He slowly turned his head in her direction. But before he could all the way, Kagome ran over to him and pushed him into a chair. He got up and she yelled out..."SIT BOY!" Instantly, Inuyasha flew to the floor causing it to shake a little. You could hear the people from downstairs getting into chaos.

Inuyasha sighed. "Alright! Alright! I'll get the stupid badages!" Sanosuke bursted into laughter. Megumi walked over and sat down beside him. He weakly sat up and stretched out his arm. She quickly bandaged him up. Kagome sat down beside him, tears begining to fall. He turned his head in her direction.

"Kagome? What's wrong?"

She wiped her eyes. "What do you mean?"

Sano bent down and gave her a tissue. She gasped when she realized what was going on. She was crying. Really crying. But she didn't know why.

Kaoru sat down next to Inuyasha. "It's alright, Kagome. He's okay, really. Jine won't hurt anyone else.", she lied. Kagome gave her a weak smile and rose, bumping into Yuuske. Everyone stared at him. He rubbed his eyes. "So...What's for breakfast?" Kenshin sighed and walked over to the kitchen.

Kaoru got up to follow him when there was a sudden thump. Everyone in the apartment froze. "What was that?", asked Kagome. "It sounds like it's coming from..." Everyone stared in the direction of Kayko's room. Yuuske got a striking feeling in his stomach.

He ran as fast as he could towards her room. When he got there, the door was already open. He couldn't see anyone in there. "Kayko?" He walked around the bed to find her laying on the floor. "Kayko!"

He dropped down to his knees and shook her. "Kayko wake up!" She didn't move. "He tried again. Kenshin and the others were now crowded around. Megumi pushed Sano aside and knelt down next to her. She felt her head and gasped. Yuuske glanced at Megumi. "What! What is it?" Megumi stared at him. "Kayko's...she's...I'm not sure..."

To be continued...

A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry, I was really busy. My friends over my house right now. But I'll try to update a lot quicker next time. Well talk to ya next time! Tell me how I did?

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