DISCLAIMER: Sadly, I do NOT own Inuyasha! But I do own the strange cheetah-dragon youkai I made up! =P

When the gang woke up they noticed Inuyasha next to Kagome looking at her with guilt in his eyes. Sango almost, and emphasize the almost, felt sorry for calling him a two-timing hanyou. Sadly, this was true...Inuyasha has snuck away again to go see his undead love Kikyo. Only because he has promised to protect her.

"Stupid hanyou, why can't you just stop going to see that shell of a woman and actually show Kagome how much you like her? And vice versa for Kagome." thought Shippou. "I wonder if Kagome will be okay." After realizing what he just thought he started to whimper and shed tiny tears of grief towards his mother figure. "Kagome...Please get better. You are just like my mom and I do not wish to lose a mother again." Shippou wiped away his tears and scampered over next to Kagome.

Inuyasha who was deep in his thoughts was jarred out of his thinking when he scented his brother. "Keh...What the hell is HE doing here? I can't just go and fight him, Kagome is still unconscious and I don't want to leave everyone here." Inuyasha growled under his breath. He scowled and looked back at Kagome. He just noticed something that wasn't there before, a glowing substance under her bandages on her arm. According to Miroku, that was where the youkai had bitten her. Inuyasha slowly unwrapped the bandages only to see a fully healed arm.

"Hey...uh...guys?" Inuyasha stuttered out. "What is it now, baka?" replied Sango. "Uh...you know how you said her arm had been bitten, Miroku? Well...it's completely healed...not even a scar." The group walked over and gasped in shock.

Inuyasha was about to say something else but a sudden whimper drew his attention. Kagome had just woken up. She panted and gasped for air while moaning and whimpering in pain. Inuyasha looked her straight in her vivid green eyes. "Hold on a second? When the hell did Kagome have green eyes? She always had a blue-gray colored eyes! And in the sun it was a light shade of brown...What happened to my Kagome?" He thought to himself.

Kagome looked around and scented something. A kind of woodsy smell and the smell of ...is that grass? She sniffed the air and verified where it was coming from. It was Shippou. He was right in her face crying his tiny tears and was hugging her. Since when could she scent things so well?

"Ship-pou" Kagome stuttered. "Kagome! Your okay!" cried the little kitsune.

"I'm so tired Shippou. What happened? Why does it hurt so much?" Kagome slurred out. She started to cough a little. Sango answered, "Kagome, you were attacked by the cheetah-dragon youkai...and there's a huge hole in your stomach." Sango didn't mention the bite mark that was on her arm that mysteriously disappeared. "What do you mean Sango? There's not a hole in my stomach...although...I think there is and opened wound. I can still smell the blood."

Inuyasha was shocked at hearing this. "Okay, first her bite mark disappears, then her eyes change color, and NOW she can smell blood? What the hell is going on here?" Inuyasha silently fumed inside his own head.
"Kagome, why are your eyes green? And why are your wounds mostly healed? They shouldn't have healed so quickly, even with your Miko powers..." Inuyasha said to Kagome.

Kagome was dumbfounded. "My-My eyes are g-green?" she stuttered. She then sat up and went over to her yellow bag. "Kagome! You shouldn't be up and moving after the wounds you recei-" Miroku was cut short when he realized that Kagome was already healed. She was not whimpering or staggering. Something is going on...and it's really weird.

Kagome yelped when she saw her green eyes. "Kami! My eyes are green!" She scented a stream nearby and decided to go and try to wake herself up to prove that her eyes truly weren't green and that she was just hallucinating or it was just the trick of the sunlight. She took of in the direction of the stream.

Inuyasha stared at the spot Kagome was a second ago. "What the hell?" he said as he bolted after her. He followed her scent and found her sitting at the streams edge, cleaning her face with the water. Her ears twitched at the sound of Inuyasha's foot snapping a twig. "HOLY SHIT! Kagome, you have inu ears!" Inuyasha stated loudly with surprise clearly etched in his voice.

Kagome felt the top of her head, and for sure, there were inu ears on her head. She then noticed something different about her hands and teeth. Oh Kami, she had claws and fangs. "Wha-what happened to me?" she barely got out as she fell to her knees her eyes wide and staring blankly into nothing. Inuyasha rushed over and pulled her up.

"Kagome, what exactly did this "cheetah-dragon" youkai look like?" Inuyasha asked. "Well it looked like a giant cheetah with dragon claws and a tail. Its scales were a blue-ish green color and it also had wings." Inuyasha gaped at her. That youkai was no ordinary youkai...it was a rare species of youkai that had a special chemical in a single attack that could transform you into a hanyou, and a youkai depending on if u were hanyou or human at first.

"Uh...this isn't exactly gonna help you very much, but I Know what's happening to you..." Inuyasha trailed off, not wanting to finish what he was saying.

"What is it Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.

"You're turning into...a…uh...how do I put this gently...an...inu-hanyou...like me?"

Kagome was too shocked...and passed out. "Kami, why is this happening to me?" was her last thought as she drifted off into the blackness of unconciousness.

AUTHORS NOTE: Yay! Another chappy done! Here are some more translations and definitions:

1) Miko- priestess - a very sacred woman who can shoot arrows surrounded in a purifying light to drastically harm any youkai or human

2) Kami- God

3) Inu- dog

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