AN: I was gonna update but then I got pneumonia.

Inu-chan: Puh-lease...

HnA: Its the truth!!

Inu-chan: That's another lame ass excuse, you had nine months to update

HnA: It would have been only seven months if I didn't get pnemonia sticks out tongue

Inu-chan: You were sick for a week and a half not two months, you lazy brat

HnA: Whateeeever

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Scars
by Hentai no Ai
Aura

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"I'm sorry." Kagome's eyes snapped away from the almost mute television to Inuyasha as she heard the words.

"What?"

"I said I'm sorry." Inuyasha wouldn't meet her gaze, choosing to stare down at the floor instead. He knew if he saw her blue eyes staring at him he would lose his nerve. Before she could ask what he was apologizing for he started again, "When your father came and we were in Sango's room, you said I would get killed if I fought Kouga-"

"And I was right since you almost did the day before."

She barely whispered it but he still heard what she said. He let out a sigh after playing with the white blanket that covered half her body, "I know but-"

"You were just trying to protect me." Her eyes were pasted to the screen again.

"Kagome-"

"I understand, Inuyasha. If it weren't for you I'd be dead, either in that alley or in the bathroom and you're still trying to help me by visiting everyday when you know I'm perfectly fine."

"I wouldn't consider two broken ribs fine." He frowned, annoyed that she brushed her injuries off so easily, he was ready to kill Kikyo and her pack of she-wolves when he'd learned of the damage. He would have if it weren't for Sango already teaching each girl seperate but equally painful lessons. His eyebrows rose as he felt a hand on his own, he looked up to see Kagome staring at him with a small smile.

"That's not what I mean. Since I came here you, Sango, and Miroku have been hellbent on becoming my friends, but you've become a lot more than a friend."

"What do you mean?"

"You're something like a-"

"Kagome!" Both turned to see Kagome's mother enter the room, a worried look pasted onto her face. She ran over to the other side of the bed and grabbed Kagome, pulling her out of Inuyasha's reach.

"Mother?" Kagome pulled away from her, this was the first time she'd seen her mother since she entered the hospital and was surprised she even came.

"Oh, my baby is alright!" She pulled her into the embrace again. Ignoring the slightly confused, angry look on her daughter's face.

"What took you so long to come?" Inuyasha watched the woman with a frown, he had been there almosy every day, all day. He was skipping school to stay by her side and the entire time he had seen neither hide nor hair of the woman that was Kagome's mother until now.

"Excuse me?" She looked away from Kagome to stare at Inuyasha with the eyes of a worried mother.

"There were problems at home, and we couldn't get here any sooner." Everyone turned to see Kagome's father in the doorway with a bright smile directed to his daughter. Kagome turned away to look back at Inuyasha, "I think you should come back later."

He looked from her to her mother and then back before rising from the chair and starting towards the door.

"I'll walk you out." Kagome's father smiled at him as he opened the door.

Kagome and her mother watched as they left, the pale yellow door swinging shut slowly.

As soon as it was completely closed her mother rounded on her with a piercing glare. "What did you tell him, you little shit?"

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"I notice you're awfully protective of Kagome." Inuyasha looked towards the man that had been absent in Kagome's life until a few weeks ago with a scowl.

"Why shouldn't I be?"

"Because she doesn't need you."

Inuyasaha stopped and looked at the older man in disbelief, "How would you know what she needs? You haven't been in her life long enough to figure that out."

"That's where you're wrong, hanyou. Stay away from my daughter or else..." Inuyasha found himself on the receiving end of a glare, something in the back of his head was telling him to back off but he was finding too much pleasure in ignoring it.

"Or else what, old man?" Inuyasha stepped closer, delivering a glare of his own. Then he felt it. There was something tickling at his demonic senses. Something that definitely shouldn't have been coming from a middle-aged human.

His eyes widened a fraction and he saw a sinister smile appear on his face.

"I'm sure you know what." With that, he turned and walked away, leaving Inuyasha to stare at him from his spot in front of the hospital's entrance.

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"Where the fuck is she?"

Sango and Miroku exchanged a look before turning towards the pacing hanyou before them once again, "Why are you so worried?"

Inuyasha stopped and sent a glare to his friend, "Her parents. I don't trust them."

Sango raised an eyebrow from her spot next to Miroku on the ground, "Why not? Just because they didn't get to the hospital right away doesn't mean that they're going to do away with her or something."

"I know. I just..." He let out a growl of frustration as he began pacing again. "Her dad threatened me and her mother is always acting so fake."

"What?" Miroku was staring at him with wide eyes, "Her dad threatened you?"

"That's what I just said." Inuyasha was getting a bit tired of their questioning and Kagome's absence.

"What did he say?" Sango asked him as she lent her against the lockers behind her to look up at him.

"He told me to stay away from her or else." He scoffed. "As if." He refused to tell them about the strange aura that surrounded the man, he could deal with it by himself.

"Maybe you should listen to him." Miroku stood as he noticed the crowd of students around them thinning out. The look Inuyasha would have made him take back his suggestion had he not been so used to be on the receiving end of it so often. "Think about, if they are really hurting her, there's nothing you can do about it. You're just a kid from school and they are her parents. If anything happens, it's your word against theirs."

Sango took Miroku's extended hand and felt herself being pulled up, "He's right, you know. If Kagome is in trouble there isn't too much that any of us, even you, can do."

Inuyasha would have followed the pair towards their first period class had he not seen Kagome arrive at her locker.

"Where were you?" He knew there was a frown evident on his face but he didn't care, Kagome rummaged through her locker and ignored him.

"Kagome?" He heard her take in a deep breath but she was still silent.

"Kagome."

The emotion in his voice was enough to garner her attention and when she finally looked his way, Inuyasha felt a new surge of emotions coursing through his body, "What the fuck happened to your face?"

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AN: I need to start updating more often because I'm seriously starting to forget what I've got planned for this story.

Inu-chan: Tsk tsk

But I do remember the major stuff so you know, the ending is still near

J-Boi: Que?!

Before I was thinking about this being like 10 chapters then around 30 or so but I'm pretty sure there's only going to be about 15. Maybe 20. Actually, I don't know.

Juicy: Stop talking dumbass

Anyway, I'm happy so many people like this story. The lowest amount of reviews I've gotten for one chapter so far is nine, that may not seem like a lot but it really is and I thank everyone who has continued to read, enjoy, and review Scars.

Juicy: Chill with the sentimental shit, no one wants to hear it

But yeah, review please. I know I haven't updated in forever but I think I will be updating this one again soon.