HANYOU KAGOME!

Writer: Ark Angel HFB

A/N: You know this type of fic hasn't been done right in a long time. Hell I'm not sure I'm going to do it right either but I'll give it a shot. Story is set after Naraku's defeat. I'm going to try to have a more fast paced style so this story doesn't spend four chapters on back story. XD

PROLOGUE: What I Really Wish?

"I won't make fun of you." Kagome sneezed. "Great, now I'm sick." Kagome sighed, watching as Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned his head. "You know, if you would talk to me about it, maybe you'd feel better, I would understand."

"Feh, like hell you would. Kagome, a human wouldn't get it." Inuyasha turned walking towards the forest.

"You know for all that talk about mates being connected you sure seem to be fighting connecting!" Kagome yelled, turning away and stomping towards the well. "I'm going back to my time."

Inuyasha spun around watching her walk. "Why?"

"YOU won't talk to me, so I'm NOT talking to you!" Kagome stormed off. "I'll be back tomorrow... around midday."

"Whatever." Inuyasha turned his back to the woman as she left, but looked out of the corner of his eye to see her pick up her yellow backpack and bow.

She placed one hand on the well before looking back at Inuyasha who snapped his eyes away as if he hadn't been watching. "You know, I don't know about youkai, but humans talk to the ones they love about what is bothering THEM!" Kagome's face was flush with anger. "And when they won't talk, it makes others feel like they DON'T LOVE THEM!"

"Damn it Kagome! I love you moron! But a human just wouldn't get it!" Inuyasha exploded as he yelled back at her.

"I know it was bad, I just wish you would talk to me. I want you to tell me how you feel!" Kagome yelled back.

"No you don't!" Inuyasha pointed at her. "You really want to know how I feel, you'd have to wish you were a hanyou!"

Kagome blinked a few times reaching up to hold the jewel that hung from her neck. "Wish..." she whispered softly. "I really wish..."

"Don't!" Inuyasha yelled, his eyes wide, a hand already reaching out.

"You would SIT!" Kagome watched Inuyasha slam into the ground. "BAKA! I've never not accepted you, so how about you take a day and think about accepting me for me! Kagome let herself fall over the well's edge, pulling her backpack and bow with her. "Baka!"

"WERCH!" Inuyasha's muffled yell barely reached Kagome's ears before the flash of light engulfed her.

"SIT!"

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Kagome sighed as she slipped into the tub. "This feels great..." She closed her eyes as the hot steam floated from the water. The low drone of the ceiling vent fan hummed along in the small bathroom as Her mind drifted to the events of the last two days. Tears began running down her face into the water.

Her and Inuyasha had gone east to help deliver herbs and medication to a village. Kaede had received a message saying an illness was sweeping through a nearby village and no one knew how to stop it. Sango and Miroku were now often busy dealing with villagers who wished to be trained to fight youkai and almost without intending, they had gathered enough able fighters to begin rebuilding Sango's old village traditions. Shippo stayed behind to, as he put it, "protect Rin and the village".

This had left Kagome and Inuyasha to deliver the bundle of herbs. Kagome had thought it would be nice to go on a trip alone with Inuyasha, but it had all gone wrong once they reached the village. The village was in such bad shape that they had become desperate to blame anything they could for the sickness.

The scapegoats for the village leaders had been two young neko hanyou's who had lived near the edge of the village. It was all too easy for the leaders to simply say they had poisoned and cursed the water and food. The village hadn't taken much convincing since the hanyou had been the only ones who had not become ill. They had tortured them, finally binding them to poles in the middle of town and taken whips to them demanding they give them the cure.

Kagome pulled her knees to her chest, hugging her legs in the bath. "If we had only gotten there sooner..."

The younger neko hanyou, a boy, had not been strong enough to endure it all. His older sister had barely survived. In a sick twist, the village's eldest healer had died just before the outbreak and the female hanyou had been her apprentice. The female hanyou had been the one to send word to Kaede and was the only one who knew how to correctly mix the herbs.

She had been hurt so badly that by the time Inuyasha and Kagome had rescued her from the villagers, she wasn't even able to guide Kagome in how to make the medicine for three days. Inuyasha said they should just leave with her but Kagome refused, not wanting the whole village to suffer for what the leaders had done.

For three tense days, Kagome had tended the neko hanyou back to health, while Inuyasha stood guard over the two. Insults about his mixed blood never far from the belligerent and desperate village elders' mouths.

When it had taken longer than expected, the village leader had started accusing Kagome of stalling to harm the village. It had only taken a few choice insults before Inuyasha had struck the man, breaking his jaw and very nearly killing him.

The other elders used the assault as proof of Inuyasha's and Kagome's 'ill intent' and began surrounding the hut with what able bodied men could lift weapons. Not long after Kagome had managed to finish the first batch of medicine.

Kagome shifted in the bath watching water drip from her hands into the mostly still water.

The worst had been a mother who wouldn't even let her children take the medication until Inuyasha was outside the hut for fear he would somehow corrupt the cure.

The neko explained the illness was due to spores of a mold that sometimes drifted in from a nearby forest. By the time Kagome was able to make enough medication over half the village had died or gone mad and tried to kill others and then themselves.

Inuyasha had helped the neko set up a small hut, much farther away from the village near a good stream and he and Kagome had wished her luck as they left.

Kagome couldn't help but to sob as she rubbed shampoo into her hair trying to sift through her thoughts. "I wish I was a hanyou, at least then I could have gone through it with him instead of just watching them look at him like he was a monster. Maybe if I was he wouldn't feel like there is this wall between us I'll never be able to climb."

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The next day Kagome went shopping, smiling as she bought Inuyasha's favorite noodles and a few special rare flavors she knew he hadn't tried before. She stopped off at a candy store for a few treats for Shippo and Rin. Her last stop was at a drug store where she stocked up on meds that were normal for her time but could be life savers 500 years in the past. "I think I'm going to need concealing after that village..."

When she got home, she packed it all into her oversized yellow bag and started for the well. "Maybe I can at least make Inuyasha feel a little better with some new kinds of noodles."

Kagome placed her hand on the rim of the well and sneezed. She felt dizzy and for a moment she held the side of the well to keep from falling. "Maybe I should just stay here until I'm over this cold."

Kagome waited a moment until her head cleared, I'll get Kaede to make me something. She lifted herself over the edge of the well and dropped.

A/N: Thank you for taking the time to read... if you can take another moment to tell me how you feel about this chapter I'd be very grateful!