Disclaimer: I do NOT own Inuyasha, I forgot to put that last time :S

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Chapter 3

Inuyasha bursted through the hut.

"Kaede?" he asked, Kaede looked up from what ever she was doing and saw the bloody Kagome in his hands.

"Bring her here" she motioned towards a spot in the ground. Inuyasha gently put her down and moved out of the way for Kaede to fix her up. Inuyasha watched carefully as Kaede bandaged up Kagome's wound and washed up some of the blood.

"She'll be fine, give her a couple of days or so to heal." Inuyasha nodded and sat down beside Kagome with his hands in his sleeves and an expressionless face.

Miroku, Sango and Shippo arrived to the village a couple of hours later where Sango had her wound bandaged by Kaede.

"She'll be out for a couple of days" Inuyasha said quietly as Sango, Miroku and Shippo entered the hut. Shippo ran by Kagomes side, "KAGOME!" he yelled.

"Shutup and leave her alone" Inuyasha growled, "she needs her rest" he finished. Shippo backed away slowly and ran outside to find something to occupy himself with while Kagome got better. Miroku and Sango began to walk outside as well.

"Inuyasha would you like to come outside as well?" Sango asked.

"No." Inuyasha stayed sitting beside Kagome feeling guilty for what had happened to her, it was all his fault after all.

Next Day

Kagome slowly fluttered her eyes open seeing only a blurry vision, soon it cleared up and she saw that she was in a hut alone. She got up quickly but felt dizzy and felt pain in her head. That's not all she felt though, when she got up she felt a tight grip lay around her waist she looked to the right of her and saw Inuyasha laying beside her sleeping with his muscular arm around her. He growled and tightened his grip as she tried to get up, realizing she couldn't move because of the pounding headache and the fact that Inuyasha's arm was tight around her she layed back down facing Inuyasha. She couldn't help but smile a bit, she looked up at his ears and pulled her hands up over her head and began to rub his ears. Inuyasha ears twitched a bit which made Kagome giggle, all of a sudden she heard a what she thought was a soft growl from him, she soon realized what it was.

'Is he purring?' She giggled once again. She soon felt drowsy and the pain to her head got worse, she closed her eyes and slowly fell back alseep in Inuyasha's arms. Inuyasha silently woke up seeing Kagome's face peacefully sleeping infront of him. He slowly licked her nose and started to lick all around her face cleaning of the dirt and dry blood Kaede didn't get when she washed her up. Kagome felt a warm and moist feeling on her face, she slowly opened her eyes and realized what the feeling was.

'Oh my gosh! Inuyasha is licking me!' She gasped with a full blush on her face.

'Oh no, what am I doing? She's going to sit me to the ends of the earth now!' Inuyasha stopped afraid of what may come next.

"Inuyasha?" she spoke quietly.

'Here it comes' he closed his eyes tightly thinking it may be less painful if he didn't look. Kagome tried to get up but felt an extreme dizzy spell as she did this and groaned. Inuyasha heard her groan and slowly opened up one of his eyes seeing her attempt to get up. He quickly grabbed her and set her back down on the ground slowly.

"Don't get up wench, you'll hurt yourself!" He growled.

"Wha..what happened?" Kagome trembled.

Inuyasha sighed, "you fell off my back and hit your head on a rock and went unconscious." It wasn't the whole story, but Inuyasha didn't want to explain why he wasn't paying attention and he knew she would sit him till he told her.

"Oh" was all that came out of her mouth. There was an awkward silence that fell upon them.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome said finally breaking the silence.

"What?" he asked roughly.

"Why... why umm," she stuttered.

"Ask already dammit!" Inuyasha growled impatiently.

"Um why.. why were you licking me?" Kagome finally asked.

Inuyasha blushed, before he could answer Shippo ran in.

"KAGOME!" He yelled as he jumped into her arms. Kagome hugged him still laying down.

"How are you feeling? Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Shippo said rather quickly.

Inuyasha noticed Kagome's discomfort and spoke up. "Shut up Shippo, can't you see Kagome's trying to rest?" He growled.

"Sorry." Shippo said a little bit sad. Kagome glared at Inuyasha.

"No, no it's okay Shippo, I'm fine. Thankyou for caring." She smiled. Shippo gave a smile back and ran out of the hut to tell the others the news that Kagome was okay.

"Why do you always have to be so damn nice wench!" Kagome shot him another glare.

"Why do you have to be so rude? Shippo was just worried, thats all!" She asked him sharpely.

"I wasn't being rude!" Inuyasha yelled back frusterated.

"Then why did you yell at Shippo like that!"

"BECAUSE I COULD SENSE YOU DISCOMFORT, DAMMIT!"

Kagome blushed. "You.. you care about me, about my feelings?"

Kagome layed there waiting for an answer whilst Inuyasha sat there with an expressionless face. Before he could answer once again, Sango and Miroku walked in. They all greeted her and asked how she was while the stubborn hanyou watched alone from the corner. As soon as they all left Kagome felt tired and dizzy so she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.