"INUYASHA!"
It was all too fast. I felt something pierce my stomach, a desperate scream of agony... did that come from me?
Warm hands holding me, oh so warm, please don't let me go
"KAGOMEEEEEE!"
Warm droplets falling on my face, is someone crying? Gosh everything hurts.
"Kagome! Come on! Open your eyes! Please!" That's Inuyasha's voice, he sounds so heartbroken and desperate, is he the one holding me?
"Inu..." I grunt and moan in pain, slowly opening my eyes
"Kagome! Oh, thank kami, don't scare me like that. *Small sniffing sounds* Why the hell did you do that? For fucks sake are you trying to get yourself fucking killed?"
I groan as he picks me up, I wrap my arms around his neck. I try to look over his shoulder and spot the field, where we just defeated 3 of Naraku's demons, one of them had a poison sword, and now it was laying with a pool of blood, my blood. He was going to stab Inuyasha, yet I got in the way stabbing me thru my upper abdomen.
"Kagome? Don't you dare black out on me, you hear? Why did you get in the way? I wouldn't have been this hurt, damn it"
If I wasn't in so much pain, I might just flick his ear. I groan in pain again, the poison, even though it is demon slayer poison, is producing a burning sensation.
"I'm sorry... Inuyasha"
"You better be, stupid"
I groan and hold on to him tighter, I can feel the blood flowing out of my wounds. I whimper softly and feel his hold on me tighten.
"Hold on, okay? I'll patch you up, I need to take you somewhere safe first."
I can feel him rushing his steps, sniffing the air, looking for somewhere safe or maybe, taking us back to the cave we slept last night in. Can't he smell the poison in my wound?
"Inu... the sword...was..." I groan again, coughing up some blood "Kagome, keep your energy, and don't speak"
God, I can't form a single coherent sentence. Breathe kagome, breath...
"I saw... that the sword had demon Slayer poison... I couldn't let it touch you..." I let out a groan"...I would die if something happened to you..." I whisper into his neck, and I know he heard me because he stops, leaning against a tree as his hold on me tightens and breaths into my hair. We stand there for a couple of second and then he moves faster than before, I can feel him moving but my body starts feeling limp. It hurts to breath, and I can taste blood in my mouth...
"Inu...yasha..." everything started turning black, I can't even hold my head up.
"Hey, hey, don't black out on me!" He shakes me softly. I hold him tighter, if that is even possible, and he does the same.
Some seconds later I feel him slow down and I can smell the burnt wood from last night's wood fire. Now that I think about it, when Inuyasha felt the demons, we ran over to them, leaving everything as it was.
He set me down in my sleeping bag and went to get my yellow backpack, he must be looking for the first aid kit.
"Inu...it's the big white box with the red cross on the front" I groan softly, as I see Inuyasha looking for the box. Some seconds later he has the kit in his hands and a water bottle.
"I need to make you sit up, this might hurt..." he pulls me up and makes me lean against the wall. His eyes look in so much pain, and his ears are bent on his head, he looks like a sad puppy. "I'm alright Inuyasha..." I reach out and caress his face, and he leans into my hand. Some seconds later, he moves closer to me and starts looking at my wound, his nose is twitching, and I think he can smell the poison now. "I can't see the wound well." my shirt is in the way; I move forward and grunt. "Hey! W-What the hell are you doing?" I groan in pain while I take my shirt off. "You need to see my wound; the shirt is in the way." I lean back and look down, my skin color bra is soaked in blood, and when I look at his face, his cute face is beat red. "Inuyasha? Are you alright?" He looks at my face and shakes his head, nods at the same time he takes out the alcohol. "This might hurt..." he gets close to me and gets ready to pour the liquid on top of the wound. "It's going to hurt a lot" I take the shirt and bite it; I don't want to hurt his ears with my screams, he grabs my hand, and with the other he poured the alcohol in my chest and belly, I scream but the shirt muffles my voice, and Inuyasha holds my hand as tightly as I hold his, soft sobs escape me, this really does hurt.
"I'm sorry, I am so sorry Kagome..." he lets go of my hand and starts cleaning my wound with a wet rag, I sigh and take the shirt off my mouth, he is trying to clean the wound as softly as possible, I can see the strain and the tension on his shoulders, oh Inu...
"I don't know how to stitch, but I don't know if you have any internal bleeding..." I look at him and nod, I must guide him on how to search for internal bleeding and how to stitch me. "It's okay, I'll tell you how to, but I might have to do the inspection for internal bleeding myself, your nails are too long I'll have to..." he was already biting his nails off, I looked at him horrified, he smiled at me. "Don't worry, they'll grow back in a few hours" I sigh in relief, those nails are his main weapon, he is doing this for me...
"Alright, you need to stick your hand inside my wound and pat around to feel any type of opening..." wow he looks as pale as his hair. "I have to what?!" Poor thing, his eyes are about to pop out. "Inside the wound, the opening must feel rough and you might feel the blood rushing out, like a small current of water..." I grunt and lay back, he looks scared, he is hesitating, I can't blame him thou. "Are you sure about this?" I nod my head and he reach to hold my hand; the wound is maybe some 7 inches big, his hand will fit, but it will hurt like a bitch. "If you feel too much pain, tell me and I'll stop" I nod my head and smile at him, reassuring him I'll be alright, and I hold his hand firmly. He sticks his right hand slowly, I can feel his trembling, and when he starts moving, I hold his left hand tightly and groan softly, he stops and looks at me. "I feel something, I think that this is your lung, it's small. What am I supposed to do?" Damn, just my luck. "Burn it" and if his eyes didn't pop out now, I don't know what might make them pop. "WHAT?!"
I groan "Don't scream please, take that blue ballpoint utensils" he looks besides him and let's go of my hand to grab it. "Make sure to put the ball head of it against the puncture, and Inuyasha, you will drag it down, from the top to the bottom, slowly. It will hurt like hell, but don't stop until it's finished." He looks at me and then at the tool "I don't want to hurt you anymore..." I reach with my hand his face, and he leans against it again, he is trembling, his jaw is set tight, and his eyes look like he might start crying. "I know you don't want to hurt me, Inu. But if you don't do this, I might bleed out, and well... I know you don't want to hurt me, but you are saving me, I can bear some pain if it means I'll be able to walk tomorrow with you..."
He leans his forehead against mine and breaths shakily, while I caress his face, and whisper to him that I will be fine. Some seconds later, he seats backup and looks at me.
"Okay, let's do this." He starts putting his hand inside the wound, with the tool. "When you think you have it in position, press the black button." I take the shirt and put it in my mouth again, he looks at me, like begging me to say this is all a joke. I nod at him and breathes deeply, he turns on the tool, and I groan and sob in pain, I feel his hand grab mine and hold it tightly, I close my eyes while he works and try to breath slowly, groaning and whimpering in pain.
Some minutes later I feel the tool turn off inside me, I gasp and groan in pain, and when I open my eyes, Inuyasha has tears in his, and I take the shirt off my mouth. He looks into my eye and those soft and pure tears of his fall. "Oh Inuyasha, it's okay. You did so well..." I open my arms and he lean on me, putting his head right on top of my breast and sobs softly, I kiss his head and pet his hair. 'Oh Inuyasha, you don't know how much it hurts me to see you like this, you only cried once like this in front of me...'
"Thank you Inuyasha..."
"Now I know why you cry when you patch me, yet I would give everything in my power to never see you in pain like this." He breaths into my chest, as he slowly seats up.
He starts cleaning the exterior wound, and I tell him and show him how to stitch. As he is stitching me, my eyes start dropping.
"Kags...Kagome... hey don't fall asleep on me now, please." I open my eyes again, and he is almost finishing. I hum in approval and when he is finished, he pours water on my belly and dries my chest and belly. I seat up and feel the pain from the strain in my belly, this was more painful than I thought. I was about to ask him if he could pass me some water when he puts it right beside me. With a quick thank you, I take a sip of water and groan. I hear a quiet, low growl and I look at Inuyasha. "Drink more water, you lost too much blood..." and he looks at his hands, they are still coated in my blood, and his nails are back to normal. I put the water bottle down, take his hands in mine, and with my shirt and water bottle I clean his hands. He is stunned by my movement, and when I am finished, I lean against the wall and look at him.
"Thank you Inuyasha, you did an incredible job." he sighs and gets up, removing his haori, it's covered in my blood as well. "I wasn't going to let you die, I won't let that happen... now let me take you somewhere to clean you up" he picks me up, and I groan and can't help but blush, with the little blood I still have left. "Pull my haori over your...ummmm...chest, please" I look down at myself and pull the haori from his shoulder and over my chest, and as he walks us out of the cave, I close my eyes and lean against his shoulder, gods he is so warm. I feel him hold me tighter and breath into my hair, walking slowly, I think we are headed towards the hot spring we bathed in last night. I can still remember how he waited for me to finish, right outside my eyesight, so he could still hear if there were demons around me, protecting me once again, and we talked all night, just like we used to.
Once we arrive, he lets me down and hold me up so I can stand. "I know you might not be comfortable with this, but you might feel better after bathing. I won't look if you don't..." I smile at him and lean on him, god I love it when he is this considerate. "Inuyasha, I trust you." he smiles and turns around, letting me put one of my hands on his shoulder to hold myself up. I take the remains of my clothes off and wrap his haori around me. "I'm covered Inuyasha..." he turns around, and my heart almost leaps out of my chest, those puppy eyes are going to be my undoing. He takes off his under shirt, and picks me up gracefully by the waist, as if I weighed nothing. ´I love it when he picks me up´ he gets inside the water, until the water reaches our waist and he set me down gently. I start floating and dip down under, to get my hair wet and scrub the dried blood off my skin. When I get back up, Inuyasha has done the same and was cleaning on the side of the hot spring his pants. I turn around and take off his haori to wash it, and while I am doing this, I can barely hear a faint gasp. I turn around, making sure the haori covers my breast and there is Inuyasha, staring at me with his mouth hanging open and his face red like a tomato, it is a funny sight. "Are you ok? Inuyasha?" he shakes his head and then nods; I think I broke him...
After we both have bathed, I wrap the haori around me again, we should have bought some clothes but honestly, we are freaking tired. I lean against the edge of the hot spring, closing my eyes for a second since I know Inuyasha is still washing his hair, I mean could you blame him? That's a lot of hair. I groan a little when I pass my hand over the wound, he did an excellent job at stitching me, but it still hurt, thou with the amount of blood I have lost I am surprised I haven't fainted. I lean my head back and suddenly hear the water splashing. "Kagome! Hey! Don't black out on me!" a desperate Inuyasha comes running (/swimming/splashing) towards me as I open my eyes. "It's okay Inu, I was just resting my eyes don't worry" once again he pulls me into his arms and holds me tightly, I wrap my arms around his neck and hold him. 'I've put you thru too much, Inuyasha, I am so sorry...' I caress his hair and then kiss his forehead. "I am alright Inu, just really tired" he hums, and pulls me closer, I can feel the haori slip slightly yet he stays right where he is. 'He must be exhausted' I close my eyes and lean my head on top of his chest.
Some minutes later, I start feeling the remaining of the adrenaline in my veins disappear. I start feeling drained, well I am, and I close my eyes and breathe slowly. I feel Inuyasha tense up and look down at me. "What's wrong?!" I look at him and smile, I don't want him to panic. "I'm just drained Inuyasha, it's okay." he frowns and picks me up, bridal style. "Let's head back, you need to rest." he starts walking us to the cave again, and when we get inside, he lays me down on his under shirt. "Inu?" I quietly question as I see him digging a big human size hole and starts laying the blankets I had in my backpack, making a type of nest big enough for both of us.
I pull the now dry haori closer to me, I need to find some clothes. I reach for my yellow bag and pull it towards me. I look inside it for anything and find one of my dresses, a soft peach colored short summer dress. I don't have any bras, just some panties. I put my clothes on slowly, don't want to strain my wound and when I am finished, I spot Inuyasha grinning from ear to ear, staring at his masterpiece. When he turns around and sees me dressed, he smiles softly, and holds his hand out for me. I take his hand and lean on him to get to the "nest". "I hope you feel comfortable..." he helps me lay down and when he is sure I am safe; he goes to search on my bag for something.
I can't help but sigh, he made me a bed, he healed me, he helped me get to the hots spring to bathe... I didn't want him to have to go thru this. He comes over to me, his cute ears are bend and he looks like a small puppy, he shakes himself and seats besides me. I smile at him, he is adorable, and he has a roll of gauze in his hand and looks at me. "May I?" I look at him and sit up slowly, lifting my dress up until it only covered my breast, my face heats up as he gets closer to me and starts wrapping the gauze around my waist up to the base of my breast. I notice that he stops, and I look up at his beat red face. "um, I need to go a little higher..." oh my, I start blushing and move my dress up, but I cover my breast, so he can reach but not see, entirely at least. He starts blushing more but wraps the gauze and when he is finished, I let my dress down, and he gets up to put away the roll. I exhale and move my head, Inuyasha comes back and seats beside me. "Inuyasha, I don't know how many times I've said it but thank you" I take his hand and hold it tight, while laying down and getting comfortable. "You protected me... it's the least I could do kagome." he seats besides me, putting tessaiga besides him and holding my hand tightly.
I smile at him and pull on his hand to drag him down to lay besides me. He seems hesitant at first but after some seconds he relaxes and pulls me to lay my head on his chest.
Gods, he is so warm. I close my eyes and relax.
After some minutes, I think he believes I'm already asleep because he wraps his arms around me, and I feel his quiet sobs. I can't take this; I can't let him cry like this. I move to wrap my arms around him and look at his face. "Inuyasha?" he opens his eyes and moves to hide his face on my hair. "Oh Inu... it's okay,"
"No! It's not okay! You are hurt because you protected me! I am the one who should've protected you..." I sit up enough to make him look at me "Inuyasha, if I had let you get hurt, I wouldn't see you again. My body will purify the poison yours won't." he closes his eyes and I take his hand putting it right on my chest, just above my heart. He looks at his hand and breathes sharply. "I am alive, thanks to you, Inuyasha." I look at him and smile. "Oh Inuyasha" he caresses my face and exhales "when I saw that sword pierce you, your scream, I almost went berserk. Your body felt so sickly still I thought..." so I had fainted for a longer time then I thought. "I took him out with my own hands, I tore him apart for touching you, harming you. When I finally got to you, you were so still, so pale. I thought I would never see your eyes again, or your smile..." I have tears on my eyes, he was scared for my life. I hold him as he cries softly, and as he does this, he mumbles something so softly, I almost didn't understand, almost. "I thought I would never be able to say it..."
That shocked me, did I hear that correctly? I softly move his head, so he looks at me. "What is that you want to tell me?" His eyes got large and his mouth wide open, I think I wasn't meant to hear that. He blushes and looks away, yet he stays quiet. Was he going to...? say he likes me...?
I smile and kiss his forehead. "Inuyasha, you can say it, whatever it is, I'll still be besides you..." he looks at me and starts stuttering "um, I um. I don't. I didn't... um..." I giggle softly and caress his face. "Inu, you can trust me" he leans to my touch and breathes deeply then looks me in the eyes. "I... I'm in love with you..." 'I can hear the angels sing!' My face hurts from the smile I have, and tears reach my eyes. 'Finally,' He starts getting up, and holds my face. "I'm sorry, I know, you are not int-hm!" I pull him towards me and kiss him. 'Oh Inu, you really think that after all we've been thru, I wouldn't feel the same?' He didn't kiss me back at first, but after a few seconds he pulled me closer and kissed me back with as much intensity as I was kissing him. He moved, changing our position so I was laying down and he was almost on top of me, kissing my lips softly. After a few seconds he pulled back, resting his forehead against mine, and I couldn't resist, I started to rub his ears. He moaned and leaned his head towards my hand, growling so softly it was almost a purr. I stopped and he looked at me, with a shine on his golden eyes that made me melt. "I thought you wouldn't feel the same..." he said softly. "Inu, you really think that after all we've been thru, I wouldn't feel the same?" He smiles and kisses my forehead.
Suddenly, we hear a soft shuffling, and he was up with tessaiga in his hand in a second. "Stay here" he was up faster than I thought, and I strained to get up and look over the hole/bed. When I look outside, he is right on the opening of the cave, fighting stance ready to kill whatever was on sight. 'Holy kami, he looks like a Greek god from the movies' "Please be careful, Inuyasha!" His ears turned my way, and he nods. Inuyasha sniffs around, yet nothing turns out, maybe nothing is there. I get up, grunting from the strain in my wound, and take one of the scrolls Miroku gave me from my bag, and walk slowly over to the entrance, sticking the scroll to the wall besides the opening. "Kagome, you shouldn't be up. You need rest." Inuyasha says getting closer to me, still looking outside. I take his hand and with his nail I make a small gash in my finger. "Wh-what the hell, kagome?" I look at him. "This is one of the barriers scrolls Miroku gave me. We need both our blood prints." He seemed to get it, he does the same to his finger and we both press them on the scroll, activating it immediately. I sigh and take my finger in my mouth and look at him. He relaxes and puts away tessaiga and pulls me into his arms picking me up. "You never listen to what I say, huh?" I giggle at him and shake my head "Nah, but you'll still love me." "Damn straight" He laughed and put me back on the bed, stands up to take his haori and laid back besides me draping the haori over both of us. I pulled him close and closed my eyes, cuddling my head in his chest and he held me tight and kissed the top of my head as I fell asleep.
Inuyasha POV
I pull kagome closer, burying my face on her hair, I can't believe I almost lost her today. She moves, tangling her legs with mine and I smile, how can I be so lucky?
Before I know it, I am fast asleep.
########next morning##########
I groan and hug whatever is on my arms tightly, best sleep ever, I don't recall ever sleeping so heavenly in my life, except when I was small with my mother. I hear a soft groan and when I open my eyes, kagome is on top of me looking into my eyes with a lazy smile, and I can't help but do the same.
"Good morning Inuyasha"
I hum softly and bring her face closer to mine, kissing softly her rose petal lips, I will never get tired of her. "Good morning beautiful"
When I opened my eyes, her pale skin had a beautiful tint of red, she looks like those tomatoes she loves so much.
"B-beautiful?" I nod at her and she grins, OH how adorable...did I just said that?
"Yep, now, you need to eat" I start getting up and she does the same, but when she tries to stretch, she groans loudly, painfully and doubles over holding her sides. I rush besides her and put my hand on her waist, looking at her for more signs of distress
"What's wrong? Where does it hurt?" she holds onto my shoulders and exhales shakily.
"I'm alright, it just hurts to move too much"
I frown and bring her closer, hugging her softly, and she hugs me back sighinginto my naked chest.
"Don't worry, we are heading out to Kaede-baba, she'll be able to tell us if you'll be okay..."
She snuggles into my chest, wrapping her arms around my neck, and I can't help but pull her waist towards me and inhaled her scent. Flowers, waterfalls and most importantly kagome.
"Alright, let's make something for breakfast and then we can start moving, kay?" she says calmly, resting her chin on my chest, and looking at me with those sweet, and glorious blue eyes. I smile at her and kiss the tip of her nose. "Yeah, I'll look for water by the creek, and maybe some fish. Pack what you can, but please be careful" the barrier was still standing tall, so I could go out knowing she would be safe. I grabbed the kettle and a fishnet bag kagome made for when we fish. It's quite better than chasing fish all over the ponds or rivers...
"Alright Inuyasha, I'll just start the fire for when you come back" I look back and she is leaning against the wall, sliding down slowly to sit down with her knees bent under her. I take my undershirt and put it on, winking at her when she starts blushing, I grab my sword and run over to the river near the hot spring we went yesterday. And as I start pulling the fishnet to catch our breakfast, I start thinking of Kagome...
Kagome's Pov
When Inuyasha leaves, I crawl over to the fireplace, and start it, moving slowly due to the pain I'm feeling in my belly. It hurt to move, or to breath. Once I start the fire, I wait some minutes and get up, and notice my dress is completely dirty, so I take it off and pull Inuyasha haori on, tying it up securely around me. I take out 3 packs of ramen with a pack of veggies I always have with me and leave it on the side. When I try to stand up, I quickly fall on my knees, holding onto my belly which hurts tremendously, and I start coughing harshly. 'Damn it, way to max up the pain augh' I groan loudly, and I feel something run down my chin. I touch it with my hand, my eyes widen, blood. I have blood in my lungs or there is something still open inside me. I lay my hand on the floor and breath slowly, hissing each time the pain spikes up. Suddenly, I feel the pull of a jewel shard, making its way fast towards the cave, and I look up. A huge, tiger looking demon, rams its head right to the barrier, shaking the cave, and the only thing I can do is tremble. I can't fight like this! "Just my fucking luck". I try to reach for my bow and arrows when I get dizzy, my whole body going limp. I fall, wrapping my arms around my belly so I don't hit the wound and the demon outside hit the barrier again and again. I can't move, my body is in a level of pain outside of this world, so I do the only thing I can do, I scream. "INUYASHA!" I scream as loud as I can my shugosha's name, 'please Inu' I hear a howl, so loud and menacing not so far from me, and I can't stay up. The barrier breaks, the demon pounces towards me, and everything goes black. 'Inuyasha'
