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Chapter 8- Bedtime

Over dinner there was nothing more then an awkward silence. Kagome kept glancing at InuYasha while she ate her piece of cake. She ate it slowly and kept looking at her hands. 'No break in the skin. Their should be one. A very small one but still...'she thought. She remembered when she first burnt it there was a small droplet of blood that grew with each passing second. She continued to eat and so did InuYasha, until he had finally had enough. He had felt her eyes on him for the longest time. Or at least since she started glancing at him between bites of her cake. Sometimes he would sneak glances at her when he thought she was looking at her hand and sometimes she caught him and averted her gaze, slightly pink faced. He also turned pink faced and turned away also. Then he felt her looking again and he snapped.

"What?!" she snapped venomously. She flinched and turned away. She hadn't expected that.

'What's up with him?'

'What's up with her?'

"Why did you do it?" she finally had the guts to ask him. She had been worried about asking him for awhile. What would he say? But she needed to know.

"Do what?" he asked purposely playing the 'stupid' act. He really was hoping she wouldn't ask. This was one of those things you don't explain easily.

"You know exactly what im talking about. And just in case im wrong, why did you lick my burns, and how did they heal so fast like that? Was it some sort of magic or something?"

He finally looked at her with sad eyes. He so totally in for it. 'Oh Kami knew it was just a matter of time before she killed me...' he looke her stright in the eyes and prepared himslef to awnser her questions.

"No, it wasn't exactly magic..." he began. "How exactly do I explain it? Dog demons possess some kind of special saliva (eww) that help heal injuries and it also prevents it from scarring." he said bluntly. 'Now please don't sit me to hell kagome.' he mentally pleaded with her. He closed his eyes as if expecting a sit from her. He flinched when warmth engulfed him. He opened his eyes wide. And saw kagome was embracing him. He hesitated for a brief moment and unsure of what to do, wrapped his arms shyly around her, as if he was afraid she would bite him. Kagome could tell he was tense and whispered in his ear,

"Im not mad InuYasha, I appreciate what you did for me. Thank you." this took InuYasha completely by surprise, although he relaxed a bit and held her tighter.

"You sure your not mad?" he asked suspiciously. "I'd hate to be woken up in the middle of the night by being sat to hell" he visibly cringed at the thought and kagome laughed.

"No, no ,no InuYasha. Im not mad. Not at all." she giggled at the confused and surprised look on his innocent face. He looked like an innocent puppy who thought he did something wrong. His ears were half dropped which added to the to the appearance. 'He looks so cute!' she thought mentally giggling. Then she got an idea. "Hey InuYasha? Wanna play a game?"

"What kind of game?"

"I fun game. I used to play this all the time. It's called hide and seek. one person counts to say, 30 while the other one hides. The one who was counting has to find the one hiding. When they're found, then they have to be it and count."

"Okay fine wench. Your on. Who's it?" kagome giggled and poked him.

"Tag your it." (In know that a different game but it's what we do when there's only two people playing!)

"Hey! kagome!" he shouted as kagome began running.

"Start counting InuYasha!" she called over her shoulder, trying to get as far away as possible in 30 seconds. Thing is that he may have scent and hearing on his side, but she knew where everything was. She rushed into the janitor's office and pushed aside a ceiling tile and got a ladder just as she mentally counted to 30. She hastily climbed up the ladder and pushed it away, knowing full well that InuYasha heard it. She then closed the ceiling tile leaving a small crack so she could see and made herself comfortable in a way she could see him, but not the other way around. She didn't move or make a sound as she heard him enter the room and come to the back. She barley breathed. He looked like he was going to give up and leave but then he looked up and smirked. He was pretty much making eyes contact with her. And she mentally gasped. He jumped up powerfully and ripped down the ceiling tile revealing kagome. She gasped and nearly fell but she caught herself. "How did you know and how long have you known?"

"I followed your scent and I knew since you left. You really underestimate my demonic senses kagome" te teased. She stuck her tongue out at him then she realized something. How was she going to get down.

"Err, InuYasha? How about helping me down?" she asked innocently while giving him the puppy dog eyes. She knew she had him if she used the puppy eyes. He sighed and jumped up. He wrapped an arm around her waist and brought her down safely to the ground. As soon as she was back on her feet kagome yawned, a tired yan that told InuYasha that it was bedtime for her.

"Alright wench bedtime. Let's go." she didn't even have the energy to ask where she was going to sleep. She just followed behind, very slowly. InuYasha grunted with impatience and turned around, catching Kagome by surprise. He gently picked her up bridal style and carried into the nurses office again and placed her on the bed. And told her to lie down. She complied and then felt herself being wheeled out of the room, down the hallway and into the cafeteria by the time he stopped she was fast asleep. InuYasha sat on the edge of the bed, listening to her deep breathing. Her breaths were long and soft. Her hair flew over the pillow with a few locks hanging over her shoulder, and her bangs were nearly covering her loosely closed eyes. Her lips were sightly parted and she had shifted onto her side. One hand was up by her head and the other was on the side of the mattress, as if she were holding on to something, like shippo. She looked like shippo was cuddling with her and she was holding him in her sleep. In her sound slumber, she sighed in content and InuYasha also eventually fell asllep at the foot of the bed.

A/N– well there's chapter eight. I hope you all liked it. Thank you to all reviewers u to now. You guys rock. And I'll update soon, hopfully.