She backed up a couple steps when she saw Koga walking toward her, then she was rooted to the ground and she begged her feet to run. Koga looked guilty and ashamed as he felt the fear radiate off of her—because of him. Stopping a foot away from her, he brought his hand up to her cheek to caress. She tensed as soon as he raised his hand and she watched him carefully.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen," Koga said softly with regret.

"No, you're not," she said quietly.

"Yes, I am. I don't know what came over me. I didn't mean to hurt you," he said, gently while rubbing her cheek with his thumb.

"Just leave me alone," she said. Her voice shook.

He took his hand away from her cheek and grabbed her wrist. He dragged her behind the school. She tried to get him off of her, but he had a strong grip on her and wouldn't let go. She tried to yell for help but he put his hand over her mouth. When they got behind the school, where no one would hear her scream, she bit down on his hand.

"You bitch. You will pay for that," he said as he took out his knife.

She backed away from him, not wanting to turn around. For each step she took backward, he took one toward her. She tripped on something and fell down, her back to the wall. She looked everywhere to find something or someone to help her.

She found nothing as Koga brought his knife toward her. He slowly dragged the blade over her arm. He applied pressure to it so that it left a trail of blood going down her arm. She bit back a scream and held the tears back. Her body trembled as she felt him grab her to pull her up.

He then wrapped one arm around her, holding both her arms at her side while his other hand held the knife that was now moving toward her neck. Her mind raced as she prayed that somehow she could escape. She didn't want to die, especially like this. When the knife was inches away from her neck, she stomped down hard on his foot.

He let go of her as he grabbed his foot. An angry growl came from him as he put his foot down and started toward her again. She hadn't gotten that far from him and as she backed up, she knew that she wasn't going to get much farther from him with out help. She knew running would be useless because he could catch her before she took the first step.

"Bitch, you're more trouble than you're worth," he said angrily, getting ready to attack.

Just as he was about to stab her with the knife, something hit him. She fell backward and flinched as she watched something silver hit Koga. She was surprised to see Inuyasha standing in front of her when she opened her eyes. Koga recovered quickly and then went after Inuyasha. Koga threw punch after punch while Inuyasha blocked them all and threw some of his own.

The fight didn't last long as Inuyasha made the final blow that knocked Koga into the wall, hard, and to the ground, unconscious. Inuyasha stood there without a scratch, whereas Koga was badly beaten. Giving Koga one more kick for good measure, Inuyasha turned toward Kagome.

He slowly made his way over to her. She looked between Koga and Inuyasha. She kept looking back and forth between the two until Inuyasha was a few feet away, that's when she focused on Inuyasha. She wasn't sure what Inuyasha was planning on doing and she wasn't sure she wanted to know.

Gold met chocolate as they looked into each other eyes. Kagome's held fear in them, as Inuyasha's held hurt. It hurt him that she was afraid of him, but she couldn't help it. Inuyasha stopped a foot away and held out his hand toward her. He waited for her to take his hand, but she just sat there looking at him.

"Kagome!"

They both looked to where the voice was coming from to see Miroku running toward them. Kagome got up without the help from Inuyasha and ran to Miroku with tears in her eyes. Miroku wrapped his arms around her as soon as she was close enough to him. She cried on his shoulder as he stroked her hair, whispering words of comfort to her.

Inuyasha's hand dropped to his side as he watched, envious as Miroku comforted her. He was jealous because he thought that it should be him that comforted her, not Miroku. He was pulled away from the scene and his thoughts when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking to his right, he saw Sango standing there, her expression anxious as she looked at the scene before them.

"What happened?" Sango asked.

"Koga tried to kill Kagome. But I got here in time to stop him," Inuyasha said as he looked back over at Kagome.

"Do you think she's alright?" Sango asked, worried.

He never looked away from Kagome's shaking form. "I hope so," Inuyasha answered.

After a few moments, Kagome pulled away from Miroku. She smiled a small smile at him. Her eyes were red and puffy with dried tear stains on her cheeks. Miroku smiled back at her. He was glad that she hadn't gotten hurt badly. Using his thumb, Miroku wiped the tears away.

"Better?" he asked.

"Yeah, thanks," Kagome said.

Kagome turned around when she heard talking to find Inuyasha and Sango standing a little away from where she and Miroku stood. She had to look away from Inuyasha because he wore such a hurt and angry expression that she wasn't sure how she should take. That's when her eyes landed on Sango's worried expression.

Kagome walked over to Sango and linked their arms together. Kagome started to drag Sango away backward before Sango unhooked their arms and turned around. They hooked arms again and continued on their way with little giggles. Once they were out of ear shot of the guys, Sango looked at Kagome.

"Are you alright?" Sango asked seriously.

"Yeah," Kagome tried to smile.

"Do you still want to do something?" Sango asked. "'Cause if not, I understand."

"No, I still want to go. Why let one bad thing happen ruin what can be tons of fun? Unless you don't want to go," Kagome added as she looked at Sango questionably.

"No, it's just that I thought…" Sango trailed off.

"Don't worry about it, Sango. I'm fine now. But let me freshen up first before we get back to the boys," Kagome said as entered the bathroom.

Kagome splashed some cold water on her face to get rid of her red and puffy eyes and to clear the dried tears that were still on her face. She grabbed a towel and patted down her face, so as to not make it red by wiping her face. Sango let out a gasp and Kagome stopped mid-pat as she looked at Sango curiously.

"Oh my god, Kagome what happen?" Sango asked as she grabbed Kagome's arm.

Kagome looked at Sango questioningly. She followed Sango's gaze to Kagome's arm in her hand. She looked down on her arm to find it was still bleeding. Drops of blood fell from her elbow. She took some paper towels and got them wet with water before putting it on her cut. She was able to stop the bleeding in a few minutes. She looked at Sango who was awaiting an explanation, her face impatient.

"Koga did it," Kagome said, and Sango didn't need further details.

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After the girls left, Miroku stomped over to Inuyasha and looked him dead in the eye.

"What the hell happened?" Miroku asked angrily.

Inuyasha explained what happen and then pointed to the unconscious wolf demon. Miroku went over to nudge Koga with his foot. When Koga didn't move, Miroku looked around until his eyes came across a bottle that was half full of water.

Miroku walked over to the bottle and picked it up. He walked back over, taking off the cap. Once he was by Koga, he dumped the water onto Koga's face. Koga woke with a start as he looked around to remember what happen.

Miroku had him in a head lock before either of the other two knew what had happened. To everyone's surprise, Koga couldn't get out of Miroku's hold. Miroku tightened his hold on Koga as he started talk.

"This is your only warning," Miroku said dangerously. "Leave Kagome alone or you won't live to see another day."

"What's it to you what happens to her?" Koga asked.

"That's none of your concern. But it would be wise to heed my warning," Miroku said.

"Yeah, right." Koga said.

With that, Miroku was off of Koga and in a blink of an eye punched Koga in the head. Koga was knocked unconscious again. Miroku than turned toward Inuyasha, the look in his eyes was dead serious.

"That goes for you too," Miroku said.

Inuyasha stood there, kind of shocked at what had just happened. Inuyasha snapped out of it when he saw Miroku walking the way that the girls had gone. Inuyasha followed quietly behind him. The boys met the girls in the hallway. Miroku looked over Kagome with a worried expression, which she returned with a smile. Miroku walked in between the girls and wrapped his arms around their shoulders.

"Are you two ready to go?" Miroku questioned with a smile.

"Yes," they both said at the same time.

Inuyasha was going to walk next to Kagome, but he caught Miroku's eye and realized that seemed to promise a painful death. So he decided it was wise to walk next to Sango. Sango gave him a tentative look and he motioned to Miroku.

Sango looked over at Miroku who was too busy giving Inuyasha a death glare to notice her staring at him. She looked over toward Kagome, who looked like she was too in her own little world to notice anything else going on.

Sango gave a small sigh at this, which earned her an odd look from Miroku. She smiled nervously at him as they continued on their way. At the theater, Inuyasha was in line with Kagome to get some snacks for the movie as Sango and Miroku went to get the tickets.

Inuyasha was about to pay for the food when Miroku came out of no where, standing in between Inuyasha and Kagome, and paid for the snacks. Kagome grabbed the snacks and passed them out to the other three. With snacks in hand, they went to find their seats.

Inuyasha was once again walking by Sango as Miroku kept shooting death glares at him. Inuyasha gave a small sigh as he tried to think of a way to get close to Kagome with out having Miroku breathing down his neck.

They found seats in the middle. They sat in this order: first Inuyasha, then Sango, next Miroku, and last Kagome. Sango had a problem with the seating arrangement because how was she going to be hook up Inuyasha with Kagome when he couldn't even be near her. She had to think of a good plan to get the boys to switch places. She was glad that they had chose a horror since the movie that they wanted to see was all sold out, though Sango didn't like bloody movies.

"Miroku," Sango whispered to him.

"Yes, Sango?" he whispered back.

"Can you switch with Inuyasha?" Sango asked sweetly.

"Why would I do that?" Miroku asked, eyeing the hanyou.

"'Cause I don't like scary movies and if I get scared I want to use you as my safeguard," she said.

"You can. I'm sitting next to you," he said with a brow raised.

"No, I can't. Because I go to my right and you are on my left. But if you want me to use Inuyasha…," she said with a shrug.

Miroku thought this over. It seemed that either way he lost. Because if he switched seats, Inuyasha will be close to Kagome without him there to protect her. But if he didn't switch seats then Sango would be on Inuyasha for most of the movie.

It seemed to him that the problem lay with the hanyou. If Inuyasha wasn't there then he wouldn't be put into this predicament. That's when Miroku got an idea.

"Why don't you switch seats with me?" he asked her with a grin.

"I can't because I got all the food on me. It would be easier if you and Inuyasha just switched seats," she said, thinking up an excuse on the spot.

With a sigh of defeat, Miroku agreed. He knew that he wasn't going to win this one. When he got up he noticed the big smile on Sango's face. With another sigh he told Inuyasha to switch seats with him. Inuyasha rose at brow at him which earned him a glare from Miroku. Inuyasha quickly got up and took the seat that Miroku had previously been in.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha oddly but he just shrugged his shoulder with a look of confusion. Kagome giggled when she looked over at the couple. Miroku was pouting as Sango had on a triumphant smile on her face. She knew that both of them where up to no good.

Halfway through the movie, both girls were clinging to the guys' arms. Sango was basically in Miroku's lap with her head buried into his chest, trying to hide from all the blood that was on the screen. Kagome was leaning over the armrest as she hid her face with Inuyasha's arm.

Inuyasha looked over to Miroku to find that he had found another way to keep Sango from being scared. Inuyasha smirked as he looked back down at the girl hiding behind his arm. Now would be the best time to ask her out while Miroku was busy.

"Hey, Kagome?" Inuyasha whisper in her ear.

He got a muffled "what."

"Would you like to have dinner at my house tomorrow?" he asked.

"Sure," was Kagome's muffled answer after a few minutes in silence.

Just then, they heard a girl on the screen yell and heard the sickening sound of her falling to the floor, dead. That was all it took for Kagome to hide her face again.

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After the movies, they stood up to stretch before leaving. But while stretching, Miroku's hand wandered over to Sango's butt, which resulted with Miroku getting slapped by his girlfriend. Inuyasha had a big smile on his face while Kagome giggled at the couple.

Once they were out of the theater, Kagome linked her arm with Miroku and stopped walking. Miroku looked at her with his head tilted to the side. It took a little while before Inuyasha and Sango stopped to look behind them. Kagome motioned for them to continue and she waited till they were a little farther away. At a good distance, she turned to Miroku with a sly smirk.

"Hey, why don't you do something with Sango tomorrow?" Kagome asked.

"Well, I thought that we could hang out again," Miroku answered carefully as he studied her.

"No, I mean just you and Sango," Kagome said.

"What? Why?" Miroku asked, looking at Kagome as if she was crazy.

"Well, I think that maybe Sango would like to spend time with you alone," Kagome replied.

"But are you going to be alright? Because I'm sure she'll understand," Miroku said seriously.

"Miroku, I will be fine. And I know that she wouldn't mind. But that doesn't mean she likes it," Kagome said, leaving out of the part about going to Inuyasha's.

"Okay, but if anything happens, you call me," Miroku said with no room to question.

"You know I will. I will be fine," Kagome reassured again.

She hooked Miroku's arm with hers as they went to catch up with the others. When they caught up, Miroku hooked his arm with Sango's and Kagome linked arms with Inuyasha, much to Miroku's irritation. The four walked home like that.

On the way to their houses, Miroku asked Sango out for tomorrow. Miroku had asked Kagome what she was doing tomorrow and she had told him that she didn't know yet. But they all knew that Kagome was going to be with Inuyasha…well, all but Miroku, and no one was willing to tell him that.

Sango's house was the first to come up. Miroku walked Sango to the door as Inuyasha and Kagome waited on the sidewalk. Miroku kissed Sango goodnight and then walked back to the others. It was silence as they walked toward Miroku's house. When they were standing outside of Miroku's house, Miroku was torn between going home and continuing with them. Kagome made the choice easier for him as she pushed him through the door.

"Call me when you get home or if something happens," Miroku yelled after her.

"Yes, Mommy," she called back with a short laugh.

"I'm serious," Miroku yelled.

"I know," she shouted back.

With that, she met Inuyasha on the sidewalk and they continued on their way. It was silent for a little while, as they were both lost in thought. Inuyasha was happy that he was able to spend some time with her alone. While Kagome was thinking of how Miroku going to kill her if he found out that she was planning to spend time with Inuyasha without him there…

She shuddered at the thought. But then her thoughts brought her to Inuyasha. She figured he couldn't be that bad if Sango was trying to hook her up with him. Yes, she knew what Sango did at the movies. She just couldn't believe that Miroku fell for it. She was a little happy, though, that Sango did do that. She wanted to get to know Inuyasha better. Just then they walked by Inuyasha's house.

"So what's up with Miroku?" Inuyasha questioned.

"What do you mean?" she asked confused.

"I've never seen him act this protective before. Not even with Sango," he said.

"Oh, that. It's just what big brothers do, I guess," she said with a shrug.

"Are you telling me that Miroku is your brother?" Inuyasha asked, shocked.

"Well, not really. See, Miroku and I used to be best friends when we were little. And Miroku always took the part of the big brother towards me," she explained.

"Are you sure he doesn't want more?" he asked.

"Yup, he's totally in love with Sango," she said with a smile.

"Then why is he more protective of you than Sango?" he asked, trying to understand.

"I think it's because Miroku knows that Sango can take care of herself and if she has a problem, she goes straight to him for help. Whereas me, he thinks that I can't protect myself and I am known for do things with out thinking them through…," she said, thoughtful.

"Alright. That makes sense," he said.

She shrugged and they continued walking. They came to her house and Inuyasha walked her to the door.

"Did you want to come over to my house after school?" Inuyasha asked.

"Sure," she said.

"Okay, but I have to apologize for my brother," he said with a smirk.

"Do I want to know?" she questioned.

"You'll see tomorrow. 'Night," he said as he turned to leave.

"Goodnight," she called after him, and went into the house.

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Isabella the White Tiger