Chapter 7: The Demon Within

Kagome reached for the Tetsusaiga.

"Ka-go-me?" Inuyasha asked as he woke up, not feeling her presence. "Kagome? What's wrong?" He asked as he saw her reaching for the sword.

"Inu… I'm… I… I can't hold on much longer… Inu…yasha…help…me." She panted while she looked at him. Her voice was deeper. He saw her eyes that they were red and his eyes widened. He sat on the floor next to her and heard her heavy breathing.

"Get me… the Tetsusaiga… please… quickly… before I loose it!" She rasped out. Why didn't he see it before? Her youkai was trying to take over. He grabbed his sword and took her hand and placed it on it. She felt immense pain, like her body was being priced straight through with thousands of swords.

"Kagome?… What happened?" He asked in shock

"I tried to wake you up… But you wouldn't so I gave you my mate mark… I bit your neck." She whispered

"Dammit Kagome! You should of waited for me!" He yelled.

Kagome looked at him. She had sorrow in her eyes. But she still was half youkai, half hanyou; still gripping the Tetsusaiga.

"You should of waited for me Kagome! If I didn't wake up when I did, you would of given in and who knows what then!"

"I'm sorry… please… forgive… me." She was still fighting her demon blood. "How do… I… transform… back?"

"You'll calm down in a second. Just hold on to the sword." He said with and annoyed tone while slipping his hakamas back on.

"I'm sorry… I didn't… know… please… Inuyasha, forgive me. I didn't know."

"I forgive you." He told her; he hugged her and she returned to normal. "Next time we do something like that wait for me, ok?"

She nodded. "Next time I'll wait. But why did this happen?"

"You just got your hanyou strength and your demon blood tried to take over because you aren't used to having all of it. You weren't strong enough to hold it off. I need to get you a seal like the Tetsusaiga, TODAY. You need that protection. If you would of waited I would of made you hold the Tetsusaiga so that your demon blood couldn't surface so fast."

"Well excuse me for trying to wake up a sleeping brick. I couldn't even move you had such a tight hold on me! I think you pushed yourself too hard last night mister…That's why you wouldn't wake up!" Kagome told him

"Well, EXCUSE ME for TRYING to please my mate!"

Kagome started to sob.

"Oh, Kagome. I didn't mean to make you cry. I'm sorry." His ears drooped. "I didn't mean to say anything harmful to you. I… I just wish you would of waited so this didn't happen. I love you and I'm as happy as can be with you here with me."

Kagome ran into his chest. She was still naked but Inuyasha didn't care. He hugged her and tried to calm her down. He rubbed her ears; she calmed down a bit and stopped crying, but didn't purr.

"Will you ever leave me Inuyasha?" She asked him quietly.

"No, mate. Not until my last day here will I leave you. I love you too much to run off…" he said. "Do you want to finish mating now?" He asked her once she calmed down.

She nodded. He brought her into a hug and they felt the marks merge. They stood together for a while and the marks separated after some time.

"Lets get dressed. And no more mating here, I don't know exactly when my mom will come back and I don't want her walking in on us to find out she has a new son-in-law."

"Ya, ya, I hear you."

"Um… I wasn't… fertile when we mated… was I?" She asked when they finished getting dressed.

This made Inuyasha stop dead in his tracks and his eyes got wider than he thought they could go. 'Oh god. I hope not! But then again demons aren't that easy to impregnate since we mate like bunnies…'

"How am I supposed to know? I was human, remember?"

"But not the whole day you weren't!"

"No I don't think you were…" 'I can't tell… my senses were wined from the new moon.'

"Oh god, I hope he's not lying! I don't want kids running around while Naraku might be alive!" She thought out loud.

"I heard that wench! And I spoke the truth! I don't think you were."

"Ugh…stupid increased sense of hearing! GES!"