Here you are guys, sorry it took so freakin long. Anyone taking 17 hours, working two jobs, and having a fiancé in the service understands. I didn't think I was going to get this out until the end of the semester, but I needed a break from all the end of the semester projects. Anyway, here it is. There will be one final chapter after this. I hope you enjoy.

I don't own the awesomely hot hanyou

What have I done?

Kagome climbed out of the well with her yellow bag carefully slung onto her shoulder. It was dark when she emerged from the well house and prayed that her Mom was home, and not her Father. She entered the house, took off her shoes, and made her way to her bedroom to pack for the extended stay in Sengoku Jidai. She made sure she packed for any type of weather she could think of, and had plenty of clothes to cover her wounds. She grabbed more bandages and ointment and anything she could possibly need.

"Man, I need to rest. My chest hurts so much." She sat down on her bed and wiped the persperation that was now covering her face from her struggles. "I can't wait to go back and relax, and not worry about being hurt. I will write Mom a note so that she doesn't worry, then I am gone."

Kagome got off of her bed, carefully lifted her now heaving bag. With a sharp intake of breath she quickly dropped it back down. "It's just too heavy now. Maybe I can drag it." She wrapped a belt around the handle so she wouldn't have to stoop and drug it into the kitchen.

Sengoku Jidai

Inuyasha sat in his tree pondering Kagome's odd actions lately. "I wonder what is really going on. She has a secret and I need to know. If someone is hurting her though, why didn't she tell me? She knows that I would always help her and that she could tell me anything. Or does she? The other day she was talking about how I was right about her being weak. I hope she knows I don't really mean that. I wonder if she told Kaede anything."

Inuyasha leapt out of his tree and headed towards the hut. He swung the door back and stepped inside.

"Hey hag, I need to talk to you about Kagome." Kaede sat stirring a pot of stew.

"What is it that you need to talk about?"

"Whats going on with her, why did she smell like ointment when she left your hut?"

"Inuyasha, it is not my place to tell." Inuyasha was getting frustrated and demanded to know what was going on.

"You will tell me know, or I will force it out of her." Kaede released a sigh at his antics.

"Fine, I will tell ye." Kaede revealed to Inuyasha what had been told to her.

"And you didn't tell me sooner! Why didn't she tell me? I don't have time for this." He leapt to his feet and sped to the well.

'Kagome, please be ok, please.' He quickly jumped into the well to make sure his Kagome was safe.

Kagome's Time

Kagome stood at the kitchen table scribbling a note to her mother. She was almost done when a shadow fell over her.

"What the hell are you doing bitch?" The steel cold voice of her father demanded an answer.

"I am leaving." She knew that she shouldn't have said that the moment it came out of her mouth. She was already in so much pain and would not be able to handle any more beatings. She knew what was coming but it was too late now. He was going to kill her.

He didn't giver her any warning. He was on her within a blink of an eye. Before she knew it she was face down on the cool laminate floor that felt oddly good against her fevered skin. Some how amidst all this the thought that she had a fever made it's way into her mind. She was roughly pulled up off the floor by the arm and heard a sickening suction sound as it was disconnected from her shoulder.

She cried out in pain, which was a mistake. He grabbed the back or her head and threw her at the counter next to the sink. She felt the force of the counter edge connect with her severely damaged ribs. She was suddenly aware of herself coughing up blood into the sink, and it was then she knew she was not going to make it out alive. She morbidly wondered how he would hide her body. He could feel him right behind her and heard his cackling voice.

It was then that she saw it. With blurry eyes she caught the gleam of the metal in the sink. She knew it was the only way to make through this alive. But could she do it? What would her mother think? Would she understand that he had been hurting her all this time. Surely they would notice her blood on the floor too. Would it really matter if they didn't believe her? She still plans on going back to Sengoku Jidai. But what would Inuyasha say if she came back in this condition. She knew deep down that he would understand.

She felt him slowly edging up on her. She knew that he felt he had won. She would not think her to retaliate. She could hear the arrogance in his slow, sauntering steps. It was now or never. Him or her, one of them was going to die that night. She waited until he was right behind her.

She grabbed it by the handle. He roughly turned her around, and she did it. She embedded the butcher knife into his stomach all the way to the handle. She saw the look on his face, the look of disbelief. He looked at his stomach to see if there really was a knife sticking out of it. He lightly touched it as though it might just disappear and he could continue with her beating. He slumped to his knees, not saying a word. With one last look at the daughter who did this to him, he fell back to the floor dead. It seemed like it took eternity. Kagome stared at her hands.

"I really did it. I can't believe I did it." With that she passed out.

Inuyasha leapt out of the well and was into the house in no time. He was greeted with the sight of a bloody and beaten Kagome shoving a knife into a man that he assumed to be her father. He raced to her just in time to save her from hitting the floor again.

"Kagome, Kagome!" He got no response form her. The smell of her blood was making him nauseous.

"What did he do to you?." Hw whispered it more to himself than to her. He gently picked her up, took one last look at her father, and left. He raced out to the well and was back at Kaedes in mere moments.

He threw back the door and gently placed Kagome onto the futon. Kaede emerged from her room when she heard the noise and a gasp was caught in her throat.

"What happened child?"

"I don't know, but she needs help right now." Kaede quickly gathered her healing supplies and began tending her wounds. It just happened to be then that Sango, Miroku, and Shippo walked in.

"What happened?" Sango was on her way to her injured friend when Inuyasha released a fierce growl. Miroku pulled her back noticing the shifting colors in their friend's eyes.

"Sango, I believe that his instincts over his injured potential mate have emerged. It is a very big step that he is allowing Kaede to even touch her." They stepped outside to allow some privacy.

Inuyasha watched on as Kaede did what she could. "That is all that I can do for now. The rest is up to her. Keep a cool cloth on her forehead. We will change her bandages at sun up. She has severe internal damage, especially to her ribs and lungs. She also has a fever, and I know I need not say this, but be gentle Inuyasha." Kaede left Inuyasha to be with Kagome alone.

He calmed down when everyone had left, and now only thought about what happened. He knew it was her father by what Kaede had told him earlier. He decided that when she woke up he would ask her, then go tell her mother what happened. He laid down beside, with a protective arm draped over her stomach very carefully.

Well, there you are. I hope you guys like it. I am having a hard time with the ending, and don't expect the last chapter for about a month or so. Finals end the 16th of December. You should have it then! Please please please review!!

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