It was the middle of the night, Inuyasha and Kagome had been sleeping peacefully in each other's embrace. Unfortunately, it was short lived when Inuyasha was woken up by the sound of Kagome's blood-curdling screams. Inuyasha shot up to the horrid sound and tried to look over her flailing body for any injuries, none of which he found. Kagome was flailing around the bed, screaming as if her entire body were on fire. Inuyasha grabbed kagome's shoulder in an attempt to hold her down, but when his hand made contact, he felt the apparent fever Kagome had currently had. This was bad, this kind of fever could kill a human in a day or two if it didn't break. He needed to cool her body down now! Inuyasha shot up out of bed only to fall to his knees. The room was spinning, and his head was extremely dizzy, he felt as if he had almost no strength left in his entire body. But Inuyasha had no choice; he must tend to Kagome's fever.

Forcing himself up on to his feet using whatever he could around him to help keep him propped up, he grabbed the bucket of water that had been by the door and a couple of cloths from the big yellow bag. Practically crawling, he made his way back to Kagome. She had gone completely still and silent while he was crawling over to her. His heart sunk in his chest with fear. Dunking the cloth in the water and ringing it out Inuyasha put it on Kagome's forehead. He dunked the other material, wrung it out and started patting down the rest of her body in hopes to cool her down. Once he had gotten everywhere he could reach without moving her he placed a light blanket on her naked form, replaced the cloth on her forehead and slunk back against the wall.

Inuyasha had dark spots clouding his eyes, a cold sweat breaking out over his body and his head boomed with ferocity, he felt nauseous due to the pain. His whole body throbbed, he felt like he took a thousand sit commands in one go then left to be finished off by a horde stampeding elephant demons. He also noticed his nose wasn't working as it had before, almost as if he had his nose underground. His hearing and sight were also not up to par. 'I Don't have time to worry about what's going on with me right now,' he said to himself. Looking at Kagome, her limp body seemed as pale as the dead, dark circles formed under her eyes and there was also that extremely dangerous fever. No matter how horrible he felt physically, mentally or emotionally, he had to ignore it as best as possible. If he fucked up hard enough to fall asleep and let Kagome die of a fever, he would never be able to love with himself.

~ A few hours later ~

Inuyasha was starting to feel a little better then he was before. He noticed his senses slowly but surely returning; he felt as if he had about half his strength back in his muscles and his head didn't hurt nearly as bad now. Inuyasha had stayed by Kagome's side since the episode she had in her sleep. She had not woken up once since then, her body still limp and seriously pale. Her fever still raged on Inuyasha was getting worried he might not be able to get her fever to break which would result in her death. The dark circles around her eyes had seemed to get darker, but there were a few other things that Inuyasha had slightly noticed had changed as well.

Kagome's hair had grown at least three inches through the night, her nails also grew a little bit, and her scent was starting to take a summer forest moss undertone to it, quite similar to Inuyasha's scent. While he worried about Kagome's fever, he also wondered if this was part of what happened when a human was taken as an Inu Yokai's mate. He had only heard stories from Myoga and couldn't tell how much of his information had been correct as this was not how Myoga's stories had gone. He also wondered if it was different because of her rekki. Inuyasha was full of questions that currently had no answers, and for now, he would just have to wait, that's all he could do.

~ Mid-Afternoon ~

Inuyasha was feeling almost entirely back to normal, but he still felt a little 'off.' He wasn't sure what exactly was off quite yet though. Inuyasha had just replaced Kagome's head cloth when he sat against the wall taking in Kagome's slow transformation. Her fever was still high, but he had kept up on wiping her down consistently, only leaving her side to fetch fresh water. He had dressed her in the light sleeping yukata he had brought along for her, as it was turning into a warm day and he wanted to keep Kagome as cool as possible.

Kagome's human ears had disappeared entirely from the sides of her head, but upon closer inspection, she had what looked like little nubs of fluff growing on top of her head that resembled the start of dog-like ears. Her hair had grown at least another three inches or so, and her nails and even her teeth were starting to resemble claws and fangs. Unfortunately, Inuyasha was still too worried about Kagome's health to appreciate the start of her new features.

~ Just after midnight ~

Kagome still hadn't woken up once after last night, her fever did seem to go down a little which had Inuyasha feeling a lot better, but they weren't in the clear yet. Inuyasha did start to seriously take in her new features now that he was able to calm down a little.

At the top of her head were ears, cute little ears the wilted like a pup's and now fully understood Kagome's desire to always touch his ears. He couldn't help but reach a hand out delicately and take the tip of the fuzzy appendage in between his fingertips and feel their softness. Her hair had grown considerably thicker and ran to the length of her knees, her waves looked a lot tamer then they had before, and he saw what looked like a white shimmer starting to peek through. Her new fangs and claws also resembled the size of a pup's, not quite threatening but could probably still deal some damage if needed. Her hips looked like they had widened out just slightly and her muscles were started to look more toned.

Inuyasha leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes; he had been feeling pretty tired since the sun went down and thought since Kagome's fever had gone down a little he could afford to take a small nap, just an hour or so. He hoped Kagome would wake up soon; he hated seeing her like this. It broke his heart and knowing that it was his fault she was like this was eating at his conscious.

~A little after sunrise ~

Inuyasha started to come out of his slumber; he blinked his eyes a few times before realizing it was morning. He shot up in a panic and looked towards the bed where Kagome should have been; she was gone. Panic and fear raced through Inuyasha's blood as he shot out the door following her scent.

Kagome was redressing her self beside the hot spring after taking a quick bath to rinse off the smell of sweat she awoke to. She woke up just as the sun was starting to rise, she seen Inuyasha leaning against the wall asleep. He looked exhausted so Kagome crept out of the cabin as quietly as she could, managing to get out of the cabin without waking him. She reached the hot spring and started undressing, noticing that her nails had grown considerably and resembled Inuyasha's claws. She let out a small gasp as she took in the features she could see.

Besides the claws, she noticed how long her hair got; it was thicker and heavier too. She pulled it from behind her to get a better look; silvery white streaks were scattered through her hair. It felt soft like Inuyasha's; she noticed her hair also was not the out of control, hard to tame waves it once had been. The waves now rolled off her scalp like gentle waves of water, this she could get used to. She ran her tongue along the back of her teeth to find fang-like canines now residing in her mouth. Looking down at the rest of her naked body she noticed she seemed more toned and lean, It looked like her hips had widened and... 'wait did my boobs get bigger too?!' She shook off the thought and washed up trying to be mindful of the new claws.

Inuyasha landed behind Kagome as she was tying her obi around her waist. "Kagome! Are you ok? Why are you out here? Your fever was still high last night! Did you go in the hot spring like that? What were you think-"

Inuyasha had lost the breath he had to continue his questioning when Kagome turned around to face him. He was met with the gaze from the most beautiful shade of liquid gold he had ever seen. He also noticed the prettiest combination of black and silver hair that hung from Kagome head and the cute little-pointed ears that stood on her head. She was.. just so... beautiful. It literally took his breath away.

"What is it Inuyasha? I felt sticky when I woke up and thought I'd rinse off. What's this about a fever? Sure I feel a little off today, also pretty tired, but I don't feel like I'm getting sick." Kagome said walking towards her stunned mate.

"Wow," Inuyasha breathed, "You look- wow." Inuyasha stared at his wife with a look in his eyes that resembled when Shippo saw candy from Kagome's era for the first time.

Kagome flushed prettily as his praise to her new look. "Thank you; you don't look too bad yourself you know." She smiled sweetly.

Inuyasha spun his head back and forth as if to look over his whole body. "Wait, what, did I change too?!"

Kagome giggled before planting a kiss on his cheek, "Not that I can see, but I just meant in general, I think you always look good." Saud said as she walked towards the cabin.

It was Inuyasha's turn to flush at her praise as he turned to follow her back into the cabin.

"Hungry?" Inuyasha asked

"Yeah, actually I'm starving!" She said wrapping her arms around her stomach.

"Yeah, well that's bound to happen when you sleep for two days straight," Inuyasha said matter of factly, crossing his arms into his sleeves.

Kagome was shocked by the news, stopping in her tracks. "I slept for two days! Why didn't you wake me up?!"

Inuyasha hung his head a little, drooping his ears as he walked a few steps ahead of her. "Kagome you were in so much pain, then your fever was out of this world, for a bit I wasn't sure if you were going to pull out of it. I thought I was going to lose you; you looked like you were going to die... I was so scared..."

Kagome embraced Inuyasha from behind squeezing tightly; softly she spoke, "I'm sorry I scared you Inuyasha. I'm not going anywhere; I refuse to leave your side ever again."

Inuyasha wrapped his arm around her arms and held them tighters to his body. "Let's get you fed, and then you need more rest. Ok?"

Kagome nodded in agreeance against his back and let go, following him into the cabin.