Alright, so here is the deal, i am really feeling down in the dumps right now, seriously, i got 50 some odd hits and yet i only recieved 2 reviews, only 2!! now, i really don't understand how that many people can read the story and not give me a review, honestly it's not really that hard! i am just get frustrated a guess, so i'm sorry i'm taking it out on you. I'm getting mad because i thought that i would have at least gotten more than 2 reviews, i was only asking for 3! That wasn't that hard, all i am getting out of the situation is that i suck so entirely bad! I mean, am i really that bad? No offense or anything but i have seen a few stories that aren't all that great and they got more reviews than i did! I guess i am posting this chapter because i hope that maybe if you read more of the story then it will become more entertaining i guess, but if it doesn't, then i guess i will quite posting because this is seriously so sad. So please just leave me 3 reviews, just to help boost up my confidence, if you don't then i will take the hint, and maybe post one more chapter, just to hope, but if that doesn't go well, then i'll just stop, fellow authors know how depressing it is when you get absolutly no reviews, i mean thanks to the two people who did! But, geeze, i am not really feeling to great right about now.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha

Chapter 2 Speculation

Inuyasha had been walking back to camp, he was still seething at the fact that someone had actually tried to tell him, him of all people what to do! The nerve! He was growling low in his throat while his mind was traveling from one place to another.

'I can't believe her, she has some nerve stupid wench, tryin' to tell me what to do. Feh! She didn't even stay long enough for me to deny her and tell her that I chose Kagome.' Inuyasha immediately calmed down. Just the thought of the young miko brought butterflies to his stomach. He loves being around her, he would all the time if he could. Late at night, every night, he would wait till they were all asleep and then jump down from his tree, or where ever he was, and just watch her sleep. She looks so peaceful when she sleeps. She is so perfect in every aspect. It is so easy to just drown in her scent too, she is the most radiant creature he has ever seen. He hates it that he is so rude to her, in fact he can't stand it at all! But he can't let her know that he thinks of her that way. At least not until Naraku is gone; if his enemies ever found out that he had feelings for Kagome that would be the end of it. They would try and use her as bait or something of the sort, she would be in danger constantly. Not saying that she isn't already now, for she carries the jewel shards, but she would be in even more danger. And just could stand if she got hurt because of him. He instantly turned protective. 'I won't let anyone ever hurt her, I will die first!'

When he arrived back at the village they were staying in he knew something was wrong the moment he stepped there. There was the smell of demon and a few huts had been burnt down. He sniffed the air and recognized that he smelled the faint scent of Kagome's and the others' blood. He immediately became very worried as his stomach started rolling with anxiety, what had happened? He picked up his pace and started running to where their group was staying. When he saw Kagome waiting outside for him he felt two feelings at once. The most important thing he felt was relief. Relief to know that she was okay, relief at knowing that she wasn't hurt; however, he also knew that he was in for it because he hadn't been there to protect them, and it was getting pretty late. It was the same old thing every time, demon or no demon. She would yell, get mad and go home while he was eating dirt. In fact he braced himself for the onslaught the second she caught site of him. However just in case he sniffed her scent and realized that the reason he smelled blood was only from minor cuts and bruises. He had been worried, but he would die before anyone knew that. Although, he inwardly smiled because another thought came into his head, no matter how many times he left she would always be up waiting for him. And then he got an extra benefit because she would always be mad, and she was cute when she is mad. Inuyasha smirked, but it immediately vanished when she started walking up to him. Something was different about her. She was walking slower…and it looked like there was a looming shadow over her left cheek and above her left eye. That was odd, there aren't any trees so how come it looks like…it clicked in his mind. 'oh no…'

"Kagome! What happened?" His relief he had only felt a few minutes ago vanished just like that. He rushed over to her and turned her face with his hand so that he could see her eye better. She wasn't looking at him, most likely waiting for him to be done with his examination. He was mentally kicking himself. 'How could I have been so stupid to leave her here unprotected!? We knew there was a demon with a jewel shard and I still ran off to Kikyo anyway!' He felt really guilty. In fact, guilty was an understatement. He was hating himself for it. Her beautiful face had been beat up.

"You're not hurt anywhere else are you?" He asked this with a hint of desperation, most likely hoping that she wasn't so he wouldn't feel even guiltier, however that would be almost impossible considering that he couldn't possibly feel anymore guiltier then he already did.

"You're not answering me wench!" He looked over her arms, her legs, any place that wasn't covered in clothing. He had to hold himself back from actually removing her clothing to see if she was injured any place else. He knew he would defiantly get sat if he did that.

"Good to see you are finally back."

Inuyasha almost fell over! Noticing first that she hadn't answered his question, which he realized that he was probably better off not knowing, and he would just find out later anyway because he would eventually become curious enough to check for himself. And the second thing he noticed was that just didn't sound like Kagome at all! She would usually yell, "Where have you been?!" or "Do you have any idea what time it is?!" or in this case something to the extent of "A demon was here and you weren't!" Sometimes it was actually pretty scary. But this was just so wrong on so many different levels. She was completely avoiding eye contact with him, something that Kagome never does and she just did sound like herself either. That wasn't Kagome's normal cheery voice, that wasn't her fiery temper, that wasn't her normal worried look…it was just all wrong! Inuyasha was getting worried because the worst thing about all of this, was that he had never seen her look so much like Kikyo in his life.

"Yeah…Were you hurt anywhere else? Is everyone else okay? Did you kill the demon? Did it have a shard?" Inuyasha was just listing off questions one by one. Trying to get some sort of "Kagomeish" response from her. When she didn't answer right away, his worry nearly doubled ten fold. 'Have I gone too far this time? Is it because there was a demon? Is she finally tired of me going off to Kikyo? What have I done?

'For someone who doesn't care about us, he sure seems to take an interest.' Kagome thought dryly. 'Why would he care if anything happened to me? He shouldn't. Oh, that's right, how could I have forgotten that if I get hurt, are shard hunting slows down. Silly me.' She was feeling emotionally jumbled up inside, not exactly knowing what all of the feelings were. There were tons of emotions roaring inside of her that she just wanted to get out, anger taking the lead. But she refused to show anything in front of him. He doesn't deserve it, so she stayed calm and decided that if he wanted her to be like Kikyo, then she would be.

"No one else is hurt. Everyone is okay, none of the villagers were harmed except for their houses. Yes I killed the demon and yes it had a shard." She lifted the bottle from where it hung around her neck and brought it close to his face for emphasis. She let the bottle drop back down to her chest and before he could ask anything else, she walked stiffly (because her back was hurting) back into the hut without another word. She never answered the first question Inuyasha asked her either, and he noticed.

Inuyasha just stood there for about another twenty minutes…he was so confused! What in the world was going on?! He wanted to charge in there and demand an answer, but he knew that it probably wouldn't be for the best right now. Apparently something was wrong with Kagome and no matter how much he wanted to find out, he decided that she should probably be left alone. She would be better by morning anyways and he would just ask her then. But, what if she wasn't? What if she stayed like this? 'No way.' But he just had to ask… What was going on these days! Kikyo is becoming a stalker and is obsessed, and then it's like Kagome is actually trying to act more like Kikyo!

His mind immediately froze, his mind just stopped. 'No, no, no, no. she can't be trying to act like Kikyo is she. The wench isn't that stupid, is she? No way. But the way she looked, she had looked like Kikyo...' She had no emotion, no sparkle in her eyes, she wasjust…there. 'This is too weird; I'll worry about it later. It's too late tonight and it's been a stressful day.' Inuyasha ran his clawed hand over his face and sighed before he went into the hut to try and at least get some sleep tonight. The thoughts however still plagued his poor mind and he knew that it probably wasn't going to get to sleep as easily as he would have hoped. His thoughts went back to the fact that a demon was here and something even worse could have happened to Kagome then what already did. Her poor, adorable face. He noticed as she walking back into the hut that she was walking a bit stiffly, 'her back must have been hurt to' He growled at himself. No wonder Kagome is mad at me, I would be too! But then his mind slowed to a hault, yet again. Even though, she had every right to be, Kagome wasn't acting mad, which confused him even more. How could she not be mad? How could she not hate him for leaving her unprotected? He had promised to protect her and he completely left her unguarded! How could she not be mad!? He had to calm down. He took a deep breath, something that Kagome showed him how to do lately when he got mad, and then he let it out. There were so many questions! And most if not all of them would probably never get answered. He would just have to figure out for himself later on what the cause for her sudden mood swings were and if it was because of the demon or not. He tried not to be worried; he tried to reassure himself that she should be over it in the morning, because that was just how Kagome was. Until then however, he didn't feel like he would be getting much sleep.

In the morning Kagome had awoken to the sound of an angry dog demon.

"Oi! Wench get up! We don't have all day, it's not free time here, we have jewel shards to get! So get off your lazy a and get a move on! And make me some Ramen too, if you weak humans insist on eating in the morning then at least make me something that I like!" Inuyasha really hadn't wanted to be that rude to her, but he wanted to see if she was her old self. Just thinking about how she was last night drew shivers up his spine.

Plus the fact that he himself had gotten almost minimal to no sleep, he should make the others suffer as well.

"Baka Yasha! Don't talk to Kagome like that!" Shippo yelled his protest at the half demon, however Inuyasha didn't even spare him a look, his focus being entirely on Kagome.

"Inuyasha! Don't be so rude to Kagome! She was up all night waiting for you to get back and that is all you have to say to her! You should be ashamed!" Sango had been listening since Inuyasha's little tirade and she had finally had enough of it. She didn't care who he was he was not going to talk to her best friend/sister like that. She could tell Kagome was hurting, it was a sisterly feeling, kind of like ESP, she just knew when something was wrong with her. As did Kagome to Sango, the two would always share whatever feeling they were having, they would always talk when they just needed a break from the guys or whatever matters that needed attending to, but it was mostly the guys…yeah the guys. Anyway, from the minute she woke up and saw Kagome's face while she slept she knew something had gone on last night. She knew because whenever Kagome slept and not in a good mood, she would always toss and turn. Sure her face looked peaceful, for it always looked peaceful when she slept. But her body would jerk around and she just didn't seem to get comfortable. I guess this is why they have the saying don't go to sleep angry, because if you do you won't get any sleep at all!

"Shut up Sango this is none of your business! Go find the monk so we can leave!" He did apparently notice Sango however. Sango got up in a huff, grabbed Shippo, ignoring his protests and decided that she better go find the monk so she doesn't strangle the hanyou over there. She walked out of the camp all the while fuming and hoped that Kagome gave that guy a good beating!

"Get up Kagome, now! Before I yank off the covers!" 'Maybe this will get a reaction!' He was still too worried about not having been here to protect her in the first place, he wanted to see the old Kagome that he loved so much, not this one. He wanted her angry, anger he could deal with, not this emotional crap!

"Ok Inuyasha." After Kagome's curt reply she started to get up and grabbed her clothes and left to get changed. She had decided not to take her school uniform anymore because as she was getting taller, not a lot, but still a little taller she was showing a lot more leg than wanted. So instead she had brought some more comfortable clothes. Today she was wearing a white T-shirt, that wasn't baggy but wasn't too tight either, and a pair of grey bell-bottom sweatpants with two light blue stripes going down the left and right sides them. (one on each side, which makes two, haha there's my math lesson today) On her way to change she sighed and sat down on a log. She didn't know what was wrong with her. She just felt like she didn't care anymore, about anything. Usually when Inuyasha would yell at her in the morning or something like that she would sit him to kingdom come. But she just couldn't do it today. 'Why am I acting like this. I just feel so empty inside and this feeling won't go away. Usually I would be furious with Inuyasha…but I just don't care anymore. That's it…I could care less. I could care less about him yelling at me, swearing at me, calling me names…that just doesn't matter any more. I'm never going to be good enough and with me calling him names and sitting him he will just end up hating me more than he does already.' Kagome took on a look of determination, which is odd considering right now she doesn't feel any emotion. 'I'm not going to sit him or yell at him or do anything mean to him no matter what it takes. I don't want him to hate me anymore, maybe if I act nicer and maybe submissive then he will start to like me more.' After some much needed "me time" Kagome got up and changed swiftly knowing that if Inuyasha came to look for her he wouldn't be too happy.

Inuyasha now knew something was defiantly wrong, she would usually chew him out and they would start yelling at each other, especially after a rough comment like that. But he couldn't help it, he just loved arguing with her, it was so much fun. Not when he got sat, but she looked gorgeous when she got infuriated. Her hair would kind of spread out like a cat (lol) and her eyes would take this darker hue of brown to them. It was just a sight for sore eyes. And besides it was kind of like his way of flirting with her, so he just couldn't resist.

But right now, all Inuyasha could think about was what had happened to his Kagome. She was just so…off it was strange. She was the happiest person he knew and it hurt him to think that maybe he was the cause of her sudden change in personality. 'But I didn't do anything!' "…except leave her unprotected!" His mind added the last part and he mentally cursed. He did leave her unprotected, but that couldn't be it, Miroku and Sango didn't say anything, and Kagome hadn't said anything. So that couldn't be it right? They hadn't acted like it bothered them. So if they didn't say anything, he wasn't going to bring it up either. He wasn't going to bring up something that would just get everyone yelling at him. He noticed that she was taking a while but before he could go off to see if anything had happened Kagome had already come back into camp and had started on the Ramen.

"Oi! Kagome hurry it up will ya!" He yelled, trying to get some sort of reaction. He couldn't take this. It was grating on his nerves. He absolutely despised the silence, it was deafening. She had to be sick or something because Inuyasha knew for a fact that Kagome was not one to be bossed around, and that is all he had done to her today, so she was bound to explode at any time. And he was getting antsy waiting for it to happen because then things would go back to normal. Inuyasha never was one who liked the thought of change.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha I'll go faster." Now that was it. The way her voice just sounded so hollow, the way she didn't look at him, no emotion in her eyes that stared blankly at the task at hand. He had had it, enough was enough, Inuyasha was on a mission. He was going to get his Kagome back from whatever trance she was in, even if it killed him. He would do whatever it took to get some sort of reaction out of him. He didn't care how many times she yelled or he got sat, all he cared about was getting something or some kind of reaction out of her…if it was the last thing he would do.

Please review guys, to the people who actually liked my story i guess it's not as good as you or I thought, thanks though, if i don't get reviews then i guess i will stop writing and quite making you suffer