Thanks to all my reviewers, and I'm trying to keep up w/ this as well as my other story. I plan on making this a HAPPY ending, so don't worry about it being sad. Remember, I've only seen 2 episodes (see my profile). And, none of this will be lemon. See ya, iluvrockandreading; formerly inuandkag4ever51. P.S. how do u guys find my story anyway?

Inuyasha stepped into the empty hut, expecting to see Kagome lying on the table, but instead, nothing. As he turned to go back, he heard a voice say "Hey." He turned to the left and saw Kagome sitting at a table in the corner, her beautiful face illuminated by a single candle's light. She wasn't dead!

He didn't expect a miracle, it had only been a day, but hell, did she look good. There was no trace of a scar on her person. He didn't know how Kaede had done it, but the horrible reminder of the scuffle was gone. He walked over to her, and he hugged her. "I thought I was going to lose you." He whispered into her ear. "No, I'll always be with you. Even if I'm dead, I'll be here." She said as she touched his heart. He pulled away and looked her in the eye. "When I find who did this to you, I'm going to kill them." "Well, for once I'm actually backing that up."

Then Ish came bounding into the room and hugged Kagome as far as she could reach, which was her hip; for a 3 year old, she was tall. "Mommy! You're alright! I missed you." Kagome laughed as she picked up the toddler, but flinched as the weight on her bandaged ankle grew. "I'll ask Lady Kaede if I can go." She said to Inuyasha as she put Ish down and headed towards Kaede's room.

A little while later, she came out and shut the door quietly." She says I can go, but from now on I'll have to be careful going to the village." They headed back to their hut as fast as they could so they wouldn't be seen by the villagers because it was starting to get light outside. As they went inside, Kagome went to get Ish back to sleep, as it was only 10 p.m. according to her battery powered clock by her bedside. She headed back downstairs and lay on their large sofa with her head on Inuyasha's lap. "There's just one question I want to ask." He said. "Ask away." "What happened to the baby?" he hesitated as she looked at him. The moment of silence almost killed him. "It's still here." Inuyasha let out a sigh of relief. "I'm glad. I thought you would've lost it when…." "The drunk beat me up?" she finished." "Yeah." "Well that's the weird thing. He knew I was pregnant, but he never hit near the baby."

"Kagome, I've wanted to ask you about yesterday. You want to tell me what happened?" he asked; his soft side was showing. "Yeah, sure. You should know that I went with Ish to give the mail man Sango's letter." "Duh, I know that; Ish pestered me to death about the letter." "Well, we were coming back and then that guy came out of the hut and started rambling on about how I abandoned them for you, and I told him to back off. He didn't and tried to punch me, but I moved and told Ish to find you. Then that guy watched her leave and turned on me. He probably wanted me, not her, and then, when no one could see him, he hit me. He started to retch and I took that chance and kicked him in the stomach. He doubled over and I kicked him where it counts. Man, that got him mad. I saw him pull a dagger out of nowhere and he rushed towards me. I stepped out of the way and ducked, but he got my lip. He spun around and hit me on the side of my head with his fist and I fell to the ground. He picked me up and took me to the back of a hut. There, he hurled me on the ground and that's when my ankle got sprained. He kept hitting me and then I passed out. I think you came about 10 minutes later." She finished her story and looked at him. He wasn't looking at her with pity, he knew she hated that, but with rage at the person that did that to her. "I was so worried you were gonna die. That I would never get to hold you again and that Ish could never grow up remembering her mother. You almost gave me a heart attack This man obviously had a death wish. But you pulled through and hell, do you look great."

She smiled and he leaned down. He softly kissed her and she sat up and spun around to face him. Her hands locked around in the back of his neck and his hands hugged her around her hips. They broke apart to take a quick breath and then, whaddya know, back to kissing. He pushed her down onto the sofa, careful of the now growing bump, as she ran her fingers through his partly tangled dark hair.

Their kissing went on for a long time (think hours; I know, really long. And they didn't have sex for those pervs out there.), but when they broke apart, it had seemed like minutes. When they stopped, Inuyasha had picked up Kagome, and carried her up the stairs, but when they got to their room, she had already fallen asleep. He put her down on the bed and covered her with a light blanket. He took off his shirt(s?) and lay down, but stayed awake staring at the ceiling with his hands behind his head and his long ebony hair flowing down to his bare chest. He looked over at his sleeping wife and smiled to himself. "She doesn't look a day over 18." He thought. "But today we kinda switched places. She's got the demon part, the aging, and I'm the human. Is this how she used to feel when she was human? Like I was better than her? The way I look at it, she's way more better. She's smarter, more attractive, and way kinder. Although, I wouldn't say she's harmless. After I've seen her kill demons with those arrows, I know that. But yesterday, with the drunk, she must've done alright. Well, now his voice will be high, no doubt he'll be limping, and he's probably either drunk again or hung-over. He's gonna be easy to find." He looked at Kagome and reached over to brush some stray strands out of her face. He got out of the bed and stretched. For him, he wanted to walk those five feet to their window to watch the sun rise. His brown eyes were tinted a mix of purple and pink as they reflected the sun's light. He leaned his arm against the cold window and cleared the fog that his breath had made on it. His mind was made up. As soon as he was a hanyou again, he would find the man that did this to Kagome, and he was going to kill him.

He finally saw the sun peeking over a group of trees and tugged on a strand of hair to gladly see that it was a silvery white color again. He felt his claws growing back and reached up to his head to find two (though he wouldn't admit it) adorable dog ears. He slipped on his shirt (s?) and tucked Tetsusaiga into its sheath. Then, the hanyou went to Kagome's side of the bed and leaned down to her. "When I come back Kagome," he whispered "the man that did this to you will be dead." He quickly kissed her on the cheek and hurried down the stairs and out the door. Little did he know that if he had watched her closely, he would see that her breaths were not the deep and even ones of those that sleep. No, she was awake, and she had heard all that he had said. Her beautiful eyes filled with tears because there was something she hadn't told Inuyasha about the fight. The man that had beaten her up was a demon. She got up and changed, then carried Ish downstairs and to the door. She grabbed her bow and arrows, headed to Kaede's, and asked the miko to watch Ish. Once she left, she drew her bow and an arrow and tried to find her husband and help him.

Sry if it's so short. I'm really swamped with final exams and now it's summer and I've been REALLY lazy, watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S and House with my best friend. Well, all that's left is for you to click that very small, yet amazingly important, rectangle shaped button in the far left hand corner. Come on, you know you want to.