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A/N: Welcome back! I haven't gotten a lot of reviews yet…but I'm optimistic that the reviews will come. These things just take a little time, right? To my loyal reviewers… I love you people and thank you for making me feel important. To those of my readers who do not have a fanfic account and you'd like to review (to let me know what you think or have suggestions on what you think might be cool to see in a future epic battle or anything…) you can I have anonymous reviews enabled so that way you can make your thoughts known…

Yes, I know that was a long A/N but I wanted to make sure people knew about being able to review if they couldn't before for whatever reason… now before I start babbling too much… here's chapter 3!!!

Chapter 3: Terrible Dream

Inuyasha walked through the forest searching for his companions. As he began to travel deeper into the forest, a faint, unusual scent hanging in the air.

It couldn't be, He thought to himself as he trudged on, walking deeper into the forest. He noticed that the deeper he went the hazier and the stronger the scent became. After a few more steps, he had to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve as the scent overwhelmed him, fog hanging in the air. As he reached the clearing he noticed something unusual about this fog, it was PURPLE! This wasn't fog at all! It was miasma!

He saw the silhouette of someone lying on their back. Poor soul, he thought to himself staring into the haze, must have gotten caught in the miasma.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed there was more than one figure in the purple mist, there were FIVE! Inuyasha eyes widened in horror as he stepped into the middle of the miasma Please let it not be them…He thought pleadingly.

He looked around him finding his companions, lying on their backs, eyes open and lifeless. Inuyasha stumbled in the fog, finding Kagome propped up against a tree, bow still in hand. He knelt beside her, praying that he wasn't too late.

He leaned his head closely to her chest, hearing a faint heartbeat and she was barely breathing and she had an enormous gash running along her ribcage. Kagome's eyes fluttered open, like she was waking up from sleep, but Inuyasha knew better.

"Kagome" he pulled his sleeve down to talk to her, "what happened here?" he asked cradling her head in his arms.

Kagome spoke barely audible "He came out of nowhere…we weren't strong enough to stop him…" Kagome held her arm against her wounded side, trying to breathe.

"Just hold on Kagome, I'm gonna get you outta here," Inuyasha said gently, cradling his arms around her.

"It's too late…" Kagome said with misty eyes.

"Don't say that," Inuyasha eyes starting to well up, he could see that Kagome was fading fast, hanging by a thread, "You'll be fine; we'll have Kaede heal you."

Kagome smiled weakly, "Inuyasha…" Kagome said breathing growing uneven, she winced at the pain in her side, "I love you..."

He kissed her, Kagome's lips cold as ice. He pulled her back slightly to see her face, her eyes were closed; face peaceful… she was gone. Inuyasha cradled her limp, lifeless body in his arms, tears brimming from his eyes, "I love you to Kagome," he whispered as he held her.

He sat there in his own anguish, cradling Kagome in his arms. His vision began to blur as the miasma began to take its slow and painful effect on his body. It's only a matter of time, he thought to himself. He didn't even care anymore, the one he loved the most was gone.

A deep voice came through the purple fog as he sat there, "Inuyasha, why do you weep for a poor pathetic mortal?" he knew the voice only too well.

Inuyasha snapped his head around in the direction of the voice. He lay Kagome's body down gently as the figure came forward, growl building in his chest. "What are you doing here Naraku!?" he spit venomously eyes darting around to find the source of the voice.

Naraku emerged from behind the tree Inuyasha was now standing in front of, miasma swirling around his body. Inuyasha glared at him fiercely, Naraku sneered at him in return. Naraku stepped closer to him, causing him to choke at the concentration of the miasma, the closer he got.

Naraku was now inches from him, forcing Inuyasha to collapse to his knees. Naraku knelt down beside Inuyasha, lifting his chin, forcing him to look at Naraku's sneering face. He spoke, "I know your greatest fears Inuyasha… You can't live without your precious companions; you become weak and vulnerable without them by your side, you can't live alone" Naraku smiled darkly and continued dark cloud of miasma beginning to swirl around his hand, "now that you have nothing more to live for, I'm going to kill you."

The miasma was too strong, paralyzing Inuyasha, body falling limp under Naraku's grip. Inuyasha stared up at Naraku, eyes void of all hope, "Goodbye Inuyasha, now you can see your precious Kagome, DIE!" Naraku said releasing a large cloud of miasma in front of his face—

Inuyasha gasped, waking with a start it was just an awful dream Inuyasha thought to himself sitting up, it felt so real though. A cold sweat ran down his face and the hair covering his forehead was soaking wet.

It was still dark outside and in the hut as he looked around to see that his companions were alright, still sleeping, blissfully unaware to anything outside of their own dreams. As he glanced around the room, his eye stopped on Kagome's sleeping form. Through the darkness he watched her chest rise and fall, listening to her gentle, even breathing.

He rose from his spot by Kagome to stand over the fire pit, dully glowing embers begging for life. He threw in some more wood and watched the fire come back to life. He watched the glowing embers coming off of the flames, rising and dying slowly as the fire crackled, the warm glow filling the sleeping room. Inuyasha watched the fire, hypnotized by the dancing flames as they licked along the dry wood.

He heard something stir behind him, snapping out of his trance he turned to see Kagome sit up and stretch yawning silently. She rubbed her eyes sleepily, "Inuyasha, what are you doing up so early?" she asked quietly as she stepped out of her sleeping bag and walked over to stand next to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha chuckled lightly as she stood next to him, interlacing her arm with his, "you know, I could probably ask you the same question" he whispered, then smiled but it didn't touch his eyes.

Taking notice of this Kagome asked, "Are you okay Inuyasha?" she smiled with genuine concern in her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm fine, why do you ask?" Inuyasha asked with a mask of surprise meticulously placed on his features.

He was good at masking his emotions and she knew that, she had to phrase things very carefully with him. If she didn't then there was a good chance he would reveal nothing.

Kagome thought for a second thinking of what to say, "When I got up you seemed a little shaken up" she answered with a skeptical expression.

"Oh," Inuyasha looked at her, his expression faltered but only for a fraction of a second, long enough for Kagome to tell that he was definitely hiding something, " You saw that?" he asked with genuine surprise, avoiding her gaze.

"Inuyasha, what is it that your hiding from me?" Kagome asked frustrated by Inuyasha's lack of answering, "You can tell me these things."

Inuyasha sighed defeated "Alright, I'll tell you; but you're gonna think that I'm really stupid for this."

"Okay…" Kagome said confused, "Just tell me."

"I had a nightmare that's all," He met Kagome's gaze eyes soft, with a hint of humiliation in his tone, "stupid, right?"

"No, I don't think it's stupid" she responded softly, "What was it about this dream that had you so shaken up?"

"I walked into this clearing, and there you were hanging by a thread and the rest of the group was dead, slaughtered by Naraku"

"How could you tell it was Naraku?" Kagome asked eyebrows arched with a worried expression.

"There was miasma hanging in the air, it was so thick that it was even choking me. You died and then he appeared behind the tree I was sitting by. He started talking to me telling me how he knew my greatest fears my true weaknesses…I felt so helpless and vulnerable, he was trying to kill me."

"Oh Inuyasha, that's terrible" Kagome said resting her head on his shoulder, I'm sorry that this thing with Naraku has gotten so out of hand, now you're having dreams about it…"

Inuyasha rested his hand on her head, "Thanks for being so understanding Kagome" Inuyasha said gently stroking her hair, his tone turned edgy as he spoke the next sentence, "I'll be so much happier when Naraku is dead."

Kagome looked up to study Inuyasha's emotionless expression, Inuyasha this must be so hard on you ,Kagome thought to herselfas she looked at him with gentle, understanding eyes, facing someone that made the one you love turn their back on you… It must be unnerving to know that he is the cause of all your misery... I wish that there was something I could do to help.

"You should probably get some more sleep," Inuyasha said roughly, face expressionless but eyes intense. His stare wasn't as gentle as it normally was, she knew that look all too well, it was the over-protective look that he got in his eyes whenever they were battling demons or one of Naraku's incarnations, the look that said I will die for you if it means that you're safe…

Kagome smiled standing on her tiptoes to lightly kiss him on the cheek, "Inuyasha, I love you but, you worry too much," she said giggling lightly, hanging on his neck slightly and looking into his eyes lovingly.

The fierceness in his eyes ebbed slightly, but not entirely as he smiled in response. It wasn't really his normal smile, it was a smile halfway between his normal smile and his face smile, as if his smile had a battle with itself and this was the result, because it didn't touch his eyes all the way.

"I have to worry" he said, eyes smoldering like the fire that roared in front of them; then he pulled Kagome close whispering into her ear, " I don't want anything to happen to you, or anyone else, that's why I'm always so over protective…" as he spoke his voice trailed off, as if his mind were a million miles away.

"Nothing's gonna happen to me," Kagome said looking into his eyes that still remained distant as he looked back at her.

He looked at her for a moment, mind coming back down to earth where it belonged as he spoke, tone slightly defensive, "Until Naraku's dead… I can't be so sure of that."

Kagome sighed frustrated, "I give up!" she groaned defeated, "Inuyasha, I love that you are concerned and everything, but honestly, do you really think that as long as you're with me that anything, even Naraku could harm me!" Kagome said exasperated.

"Well since you put it that way…" Inuyasha said thinking about it for a split second, "No, as long as you're with me then I know that you are safe."

"My thoughts exactly," Kagome said smiling him, so no more worrying, right?"

"No more worrying" Inuyasha agreed smiling having that little glint back in his eye that Kagome loved so much.

Kagome yawned saying, "now that we have that resolved, I'm going to see if I can get a little more sleep."

"Good idea," Inuyasha said leaning down to kiss her on the cheek, "you do that"

Kagome walked back over to her sleeping bag, taking notice that their conversation hadn't awoken any of their companions. Inuyasha walked over and sat down next to her as she climbed in to the sleeping bag. Inuyasha gently rubbed her back, humming the lullaby his mother sang to him as a child. Kagome's eyelids felt heavy as she curled up into her warm sleeping bag, listening to the soft humming and within minutes of her head hitting the pillow she was gently snoring, breathing even.

When he that she was absolutely asleep, Inuyasha snuck out of the sleeping hut to go sit in his favorite tree to watch the sun rise…

A/N: So what did you think? Did you honestly believe that I would that heartless and let everyone be killed off that easily and have Inuyasha killed off by Naraku!? Puh-lease! I'm not that evil… well maybe I am but if I did kill them off you would at least have the privilege seeing how they died that way… lol. So yeah, review with your thoughts, please and thank you!

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