Disclaimer: No I do not own Inuyasha so there:P

Okay, you guys seem to be misunderstanding something that was implayed, but I never really typed. You see, someone was like 'well why doesn't she just fry their asses. I would. Strike them with lightning.' Okay good idea, would be funny as hell, but if ya'll remember in chapter I-don't-remember when Kagome had to kill Han's family, how she said their deaths would hurt her not them and how I keep saying how her spirit is always in touch with things around her. Those are the subtle signs. She can't cause pain with her voice, without feeling their pain as well, so she strikes and 'frys their asses' she feels it too k!!

Chapter 17: Is In The Dream

"Capitan! Land ahead!" Miun screamed at him from the crows nest.

Inuyasha watched the horizan anxiously. His leg had healed in the trip here and he was standing on it clenching and unclenching his fist in nerves.

"Look at that." Miroku said as people stopped to watch the island draw nearer. Even from this distance you could make out large stone buildings and monuments. Most had vines climbing up thier sides and one even had a tree bursting through it's roof. The rocks seemed to all be marble. White, black, gray, even green, blue, and pink.

"It's beautiful." Miroku said before their ship rocked a little.

"What was that?" Inuyasha asked looking around.

"Oh nothing. I'm just getting bashed by really small powerful waves."

"What?" Inuyasha walked over to the railing and looked down just in time to watch another wave crash into his ship.

"Must be the part that only living ships can pass." Miroku guessed looking too.

"You think?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"Unfortunatly, he's right. And these waves even hurt me a little. And uh, sorry capitan, but there's wrckage from a ship here. Some fairly new wreckage."

Inuyasha ordered everyone back to work as he looked for signs of the ship. And he found them, boards, a sail, rope, even a body laying face down in the water.

"The sea is tearing ships apart."

Inuyasha turned and saw Kikyo. "I thought I said stay under."

"I couldn't help but come up." She walked toward the city. "This place, it calls to me. Almost as if it wants to welcome me, but I can't hear it."

"Kind of like me. She hates it when I talk. She can't really hear me, more like a buzz in the back of her head."

Kikyo got this breif look of annouyence on her face before she shook her head and continued looking.

I like talking around her. Did it for two hours straight yesterday. My own personal payback for my lady."

Inuyasha tried not to laugh but he was secretly glad. He knew it was irrational but he still saw Kikyo partly at fault for what had happened.

"Look the beach!" Sango pointed as they got close enough to the island to start making out details.

"What is that?" Inuyasha pointed to a dot on the beach.

"I don't know." She took out her spy glass and peered through and gasped.

"Inuyasha It's...It's Kagome!"

"What?!" He grabbed the glass and looked and saw Kagome lieing on her stomach half way out of the water.

"Kagome!" he ran and jumped out of the ship and swam towards the shore.

"There he goes. Reckless as usual." Miroku said he didn't know if Kagome was dead or alive and didn't want to get too hopeful yet.

Inuyasha swam as fast as his arms and legs could go and ended up jumping the rest of the way the second his feet touched the bottom.

"Kagome! Kagome." he kneeled next to her and saw the whip marks on her back. Carefully he turned her over revealing her bruised face.

But she was breathing, slowly and not very evenly, but she was breathing.

Almost too happy he picked her up gently and started back to the ship.

Han let down his ladder when he got there and Inuyasha climbed up one-handed. Unlike Kikyo, the island didn't welcome him. In fact, it seemed to repel him.

Inuyasha put her down gently on his bed while her friends crowded around.

"Kagome." Inuyasha grabbed her hand and started to rub it to warm it up.

This action seemed to affect her because her eyes fluttered and she opened them very slowly.

"Inu...Inuyasha?"

He nodded. "Yeah, it's me. I'm here. Are you alright?"

"Water, please." she said but Miroku was already there with a glass. Gently Inuyasha lifted her head up and Miroku brought the glass to her lips.

When she was done he put ehr back down as if she was made of spun glass.

"Kagome, what happened?" Sango asked.

"His ship...it wasn't a ....a...lori-thingy..." she was groggy and her eyes wouldn't open all the way. "it...couldn...make the....the waves..."

"It's alright Kagome. You can go to sleep." Inuyasha said but she seemed determined to talk.

"I knew... I knew...he wouldn...make it....but...I old 'im...an,way." here words started to disconnect and she dropped letters. "'e...'e...whipp...whipped..m...."

"Kagome, it's fine. Just go to sleep." Inuyasha said and was happy when he got a nod.

"Tir...red." and she was sleeping.

When Kagome woke up, she was alone and in Inuyasha's room and for one second she thought it was back when he had first found out she was a Singer, then it all came back.

She reached around to feel her wounds and felt bandages, she had been taken out of her shredded cloths and put in new ones, no doubt Sango's doing, and a cup of water and bowl of soup next to her.

"food." she said falling onto it. There wasn't much there but she knew she couldn't each much or it would come right back up. The tiny pieces of meat and vegetables hit her stomach hard but oh, it was so good.

When she had licken the bowl clean and drank her water she finally looked around and noticed it was daytime and the crew was out.

"Hey my lady. Enjoy your meal?"

"Hello Han. It's good to be back."

"It's good to have you back. I'm telling you with only the koinu to talk to, I was missing an intelectual equal."

Kagome chuckled softly. "Where is Inuyasha?"

"His Royal Highness is outside worrying. He only left with the promise I would get him when you woke up, but I thought it would be kinder to let you eat first."

"Thank you, Han."

"I truly am sorry for what happened to you lady. Those scars on your back remind me of mine."

"You have no scars on your back, you don't even have a back." she tried to joke with him about it.

"I still wish you had never felt the sting of the whip."

It got quiet as niether knew quite what to say until Han broke the silence by saying, "Well I'll get the koinu. He'll be mad enough I didn't wake you the second you woke up."

And his presence vanished from the room. But Kagome was only alone for a second before Inuyasha came in his face full of worry.

"Kagome." He ran to her and knelt down in front of her as she sat on the side of the bed. "You okay?"

"I'm fine." Kagome promised. "Where are we?"

"We're still at Utopia." He stood and brushed some hair behind her ear. "Are you sure your okay?"

"Yes. When do we dock?" she asked trying to get his mind off of her, but it didn't really work.

"When your ready." He promised.

"Inuyasha we're here. We're finally where the Shikon no Tama is. Aren't you excited?"

"I just can't believe I almost lost you!" He picked her up and hugged her tight to his chest.

"It's okay. I'm alright now." She said hugging him back.

He leaned back and searched her face. "I'm sorry. I tried to get you, but you fell with that man onto his ship and Kikyo fell onto mine. I tried to come after you but..."

"Shh." Kagome said placing her hand on his lips. "It's alright." she smiled at him gently.

Slowly, almost cautiosly, he moved forward and pressed his lips against hers. It was an apology, and much more than that, it was a declaration of his feeling.

They toppled onto the bed together and.....

"Grandpa, don't make it gross." One of his grandsons complained.

The old man laughed as his wife threatened him with a cooking spoon. "He better not." she looked at him sternly. "Don't forget, your telling this story to children."

"Yes my darling wife." He smiled at her charmingly until she turned back to her cooking.

"Now, where was I..."

"You were a day after where you left off." His wife said.

He chuckled again. "Very well. The next day..."

"Hey, Inuyasha." Miroku said with a perverted smile as they left the room the next day. "Have fun last night?"

"Miroku if you know what's good for you, you'll shut up." Kagome, surprisingly, said making Inuyasha look at her with pride.

"Yeah, Miroku." Sango glared at him as Han lowered a small dingy into the water to take her, Miroku, Kagome, Shippo, Inuyasha, and Rikos to shore. They had tried to leave Shippo behind but he wouldn't hear of it.

"I went to the Dead Plains with you, I'm going to Utopia." and he couldn't be dissuaded.

Inuyasha grabbed up Kagome who held Shippo and jumped down into the dingy as Miroku and Sango took the ladder down.

"Let's go. We got a jewel to find." Inuyasha smiled up at them.

"Your happy today." Miroku said with another perverted grin as he stepped into the dingy. "Wonder why?"

But he never got to finish that thought because Sango's boot came down and knocked him upside the head.

"Oops." she said before sitting down.

"Let's go." Kagome said as Inuyasha grabbed the ores. "Onto Utopia."

Naraku picked himself up off of the sand, most of his body covered in seaweed. He had a trail of blood going down his forhead but he looked at where he had washed up and smiled.

"Shikon no Tama, you are mine."

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