"InuYasha?" Kagome said looking at the ground noticing that her shoes were off. The hanyou leaned in at the question relaxing his lids toward the comforting girl. Kagome put her hand on top of his as she spoke. "I'm sorry I couldn't help... Something could of happened to you guys..." She said with a sigh. The hanyou chuckled into her hair as he responded. "Dun give yourself so much credit."

The girl looked up with a bit of anger. "What's that suppose to mean?" She asked with gritted teeth.

"Miroku and I were just fine, we didn't even need Sango... she stayed behind to look after you." The hanyou said rubbing the back of his head. The girl turned her head away from him with a blush and angered eyes.

"Hey, Kagome?" He asked with a bit of worry and annoyance.

"Is that it, InuYasha... that I really am worthless except for tracking shards... am I not tough enough to fight in battles along with you guys?" She said now with eyes close.

"Hey! I didn't say that!" The hanyou protests with a bit of anger in his tone. "Alls I'm saying is that we were fine without you." He said trying to reassure her.

"Just to let you know, InuYasha. That sounds incredibly mean. Probably not to you, but it sure is to me..." She said crossing her arms to her breast.

"Kagome! I didn't mean to upset you!" He said ticked off.

"Well... you did!" She said with a gruff.

"I didn know you were gunna take it so hard! I'm SORRY!" He said in a sarcastic tone.

"You hurt my feelings when all I wanted to say is that I was worried for you." The girl said twitching her nose.

"Well, your worry was wasted cuz nothings gunna kill me!" He said leaning in placing a bent arm on his knee and taking his other hand and pointing to himself with his thumb.

"What about your fat ego?" The girl hissed beneath her breath

"What was that!!??" The hanyou roared.

Kagome rolls her eyes and crosses her arms once again.

"That's right... nothing can kill me!" The hanyou said with a smirk and a cloud of vain above his head.

"Oh really? Well then maybe I should just go home so you can really see what it's like to battle. ALL. BY. YOUR. SELF!!" The girl barked as she glared at him face to face. She then proceeded to rise off her futon and exit the hut, but suddenly her hand was grasped with a nail digging into her wrist. She didn't look back as she tried to pry her hand out of the holed. She struggled as she brought a foot, placed in front of her trying to move forward.

"Kagome..." She heard from behind her in a voice she could barely hear. She gave up in the struggle and loosened her pull. She looked over her shoulder at the curled hanyou with his bangs shading his eyes as a trickle of pink laced his cheeks. A tear slipped down to the indent separating his cheek from his nose. "Don't leave..." He whispered again taking his other hand and roughly wiping the tear with his Hinezumi sleeve.

"InuYasha?" Kagome softly issued from her mouth. She rarely sees the hanyou shed even a tear especially in his hanyou form. She knelt down and brushed his bangs from his eyes, which looked straight into hers, glazed with tears and sparkled in his amber orbs.

"Stay..." He uttered suddenly pulling her into him.

"Inu--Yasha..." She gently spoke into his neck.

"Kagome... don't let that fear become reality..." InuYasha said after awhile.

"Fear?" She asked herself.

"Don't let the nightmares come true... Please!" He squeezed her tightly to his form.

"InuYasha..." She softly whispered pulling back a bit to place a hand on his cheek catching a few new tears against her thumb. " Tell me... InuYasha... what is the fear?" She said trying to open him up.

"Kagome..." He began.

"Ever since... Well ever since the thought dawned on me... I've had these dreams that you'd leave me and I'd be all alone..."He said, tears flowing down his burnt red cheeks.

"Inu--Yasha..." Kagome spoke softly.

"What happened with us? One second "love" another "anger"... what pushed InuYasha to such a mood swing?" The girl thought to herself. She pressed her forehead against his hot forehead. "Is he sick?" She thought. "Then again... youkai don't get sick..." She gently nuzzled his nose with hers as she sighed on his lips. "InuYasha..." She said softly then letting out a lovely giggle continued. "I'd never leave you." She said smiling and tears beginning to fall down her own cheeks.

"Eh..." The hanyou let out, speechless. The girl leaned in pressing her lips to his as she sighed. When they pulled away InuYasha softly purred and rubbed his bangs against hers as he smiled wrapping his arms around her and pulling her head to the crook of his neck.

"Maybe... my nightmares will be at ease...?" He said smiling and inhaling her scent from her hair. Silence wrapped around the room until InuYasha broke it. "Kagome..." He started causing the girl to look up. "I'm sorry... for upsetting you..." He said closing his eyes.

"Oh-- InuYasha..." The girl inaugurated. "I know you weren't trying to..." She whispered with a smile.

"Forgive me?" The boy asked with a whiff of regret mixed with guilt and sullen tone. He then let the girl fall back a way and catching her between his wrists causing her to arch her back and look him straight in the eyes. He was smiling as the last salty drop clung to his chin then falling to splash on the fur of the Hinezumi and a partial on his rosary.

"InuYasha..." She whispered in a cooing tone. Leaning into him, wrapping her arms till her hands rested on his shoulder blades. She could feel the beads from the rosary dig into her head, but she didn't mind it at all as she squeezed him in her arms. "I forgive you..." She gently exhaled into his Hinezumi causing the hanyou's arms to rise, but before he could fully embrace her, he pulled the beads from between them, for they had begun to irritate his chest with Kagome's head digging into his collarbone. He hadn't meant the action in the way to look at it, but for more of a relief from the sticking pain. He did find himself staring at them. The shine from the doorway permeating from the sun glistened the purple glow to a pink pale hue. Kagome dug dipper into his chest, inhaling his scent, which impressed her with how well his odor has changed from the rugged forest to more civilized when he began to use soap that she had brought him from her time. "He must be bathing more lately..." She thought to herself.