Chapter 37: Resting

"Ok, ye get out. Kagome needs rest." Kaede said after a minute.

Inuyasha was the last to leave.

"Inu?" Kagome asked.

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

He smiled. "I love you too." He kissed her forehead and left.

'Father?'

'Yes?'

'Thank you. Thank you for everything.'

'You're welcome Kagome.'

"Inu Heki! Inu Heki wake up! Inu wake up! Please wake up!" She called.

His eyes shot open. They were deep blood red.

She gasped. "Inu?"

He growled deep and she backed off. He sat up and came towards her. "Inu?"

He clawed her back and she screamed and fell to the floor. He ran out of the room; she chased after him. "Inu came back! Inu Heki! Come back!"

He killed many others and the collapsed on the side walk.

"Inu! Inu Heki!" She gasped and fell over him. "Inu NO!"

"Inu! Inu Heki! Inu NO!" She screamed and was shaken awake.

"Kagome! Kagome wake up! Darling wake up!" In Heki said shaking his daughter.

Her eyes shot open. Her father and mate were next to her. Inuyasha had Muteki. They both had worried looks on their faces.

"Oh dad!" Kagome cried into his shoulder.

"What's wrong? I'm right here."

"I - I had a dream, I - I saw how - how you died! I - I was my mom. You clawed her and - and ran out. Your eyes! They - they were darker than I've ever seen a youkai's eyes! I - it was horrible… yo - you passed out and died! I couldn't take it!"

His eyes grew wide. "Oh Kagome." 'I'm sorry you had to see that. I can't even start to imagine how you felt.'

"I'm not going to let that happen to you. You weren't yourself. I'm not letting you go to the mountains, ever! I'll do anything, anything to prevent that from happening. I've already let history go it's course once. Not again, that was the last time." Her eyes turned red. "I'm going to save you. I'll purify myself before I let you die." She told him in a deep voice.

He sat her back and touched her cheek.

"I can change history. I will not let this happen father, no matter what." She said when she changed back.

"I'm happy you would do that darling but there is a reason I will die that day. I don't know what, but there is."

"No, you won't die. I won't let you. I'll protect you until you die."

He gave her a sad smile. "I love you Kagome. But I doubt you can change history."

"When you know ahead of time you can. I once heard that you don't know what the world has in store for you until you get there. But we know! We can change it! I know we can."

"Kagome, in human years I'm already 53. By the time your born I'll be almost 73. That's almost dead."

"I don't care. I want you alive as long as you can be."

Kagome was in the hot spring outside the village.

"Hey." Inuyasha said after coming out from behind a tree.

She freaked out.

"Sit!… And where's Muteki?"

"Sango has him. We thought we would check on you." He said after peeling himself off the ground.

"We?" She saw a white blur above her and looked up. Her father was perched in a tree above her. "Oh. I'm fine. Seriously."

"You sure? You were at it pretty good this morning darling." Her father said and jumped down next to Inuyasha.

"Yea… It was just horrible to see you like that dad. It was worse than seeing Inuyasha's youkai come after me."

Inu Heki pulled his haori off and got in the hot spring across from her. Inuyasha walked up behind her and sat down.

"You screamed my name a lot. What happened?"

"You clawed my mom and ran out then you passed out on the road and I cried because of it. You had a lot of blood on your haori too. I guess it couldn't clean it. And you must have been very badly wounded to have that dark of eyes, they were the color of dried blood. You only growled too, you didn't talk at all."

He sighed. "Such is the fate of a youkai who falls in love with a human."

Inuyasha ran his claws through Kagome's hair. When he hit her neck she shuttered. He moved to her mating mark and played with it with his claws.

"Inuyasha?" Inu Heki asked.

He looked up.

"Are you taking care of her?"

"Well of course but I don't think it's a matter of me taking care of her. She doesn't take care of me very well, sitting me so much again."

Inu Heki and Kagome both laughed.

"Hey Inuyasha, come here… closer." She said. He came close enough to see her face.

She smirked. "Sit."

He fell in the water.

"What did you do that for wench?" He asked when he got up.

"No reason, I just thought it would be funny."

He growled.

"You know growling doesn't work, why do you bother?"

Her father chuckled. Inuyasha took his haoris and Tetsusaiga off and put the behind him.

"Senmo Kengen Haburi Tenka… Ahh, that feels so much better."

"Why are you using your power? You know it'll drain you."

"Because I feel better as a human. I've been human since the day I was born, and then you came along."

"Well, what was I supposed to do? Go to hell with someone I didn't love? Or stay here and have no purpose in life?"

"No, but I liked being human. But I also like being a youkai."

"I can imagine the first day you two met. I bet you were bickering like you are now."

"Yea/Yep." they replied.

"What is your grandfather like Kagome?"

"Oh, don't even get me started. He claims he's a priest yet he can't make sutras, he's most always wrong, and he said Inuyasha was an evil hanyou. But he never is and never was. It was all Naraku's doing."

"Well if it wasn't I would be married to a priestess, in my late 60's, you probably never would have been born, I wouldn't be mated to such a wonderful youkai, or be the Lord of The Western Lands. My brother would detest me even more and I wouldn't be as happy as I am now." He told her; she laid her head on his shoulder.

"What are you three doing here?" Miroku said walking out from behind a tree.

Kagome's eyes widened. "Henjo Tenka Kengen." She took her right hand out of the water and said "Dad, move… golden Blessing Whip!"

Inu Heki ducked and the whip hit Miroku's side.

"Ah! Hey, that hurt!" He said rubbing where the whip hit.

"Serves you right! And I did it easy, next time I won't be so for giving."

"I was just coming to check on you all."

"More like coming to spy on me you pervert!"

"Would I do that now that I'm engaged?"

"Yes!" Inuyasha and Kagome both said.

"Fine, I'll leave."

"And if I find you hiding Miroku, you are dead! D - E - A - D, dead!"

"And, I'll kill you personally… I'll be right back." He whispered and got out. They heard screams and someone being beaten and then Inuyasha reappeared.

"You didn't kill him did you?" Kagome asked.

"No, but Sango may not have a honeymoon. Let's just put it that way."

Kagome's eyes widened. "You didn't!"

"No, but I almost did."

"You're almost as bad as he is!"

He got back in.

"I'm glad you don't understand Miroku, father. You would kill him if you knew."

"Knew what?"

"What he did the first day we met him."

"What did he do to you?" He asked concerned.

'He groped me and asked me to bear his child.'

His eyes narrowed. "And he's engaged?"

"Yes; he wasn't at the time though. He does that to pretty much every woman he sees. Sango keeps him in line though. Inuyasha almost killed him then too."

"You better of. I would of if I was there."

Inuyasha and Kagome's eyes widened.

"What?" Inu Heki asked.

"Dad! Get out now!"

Inuyasha grabbed the Tetsusaiga and unsheathed it. Her father got out and got behind Kagome.

"Stay here Kagome!" Inuyasha called. He ran into the woods; Kagome was dumbstruck.

"I - it can't be! No! No! He can't!"

"What was it Kagome?"

"Naraku."