Chapter 4: The Cure
After the eventful night, Shicanto led InuYasha and Kagome back to the main house. He explained that Sangya always refused help and came back on her own. And the, only a few minutes later, after arriving back in Shicanto's living room, Sangya walked in.
"I'm sorry you had to see me last night," she said, smiling sadly.
She looks so normal, InuYasha thought.
"Oh really, Inu?" Sangya asked, reading his mind, "Normal am I?"
Shicanto shot InuYasha an oh-now-you've-done-it look as Sangya slipped out of the black and white kimono she was wearing as a robe. The robe revealed a long-sleeved blue top, black straight-legged jeans, and golden-brown hawk's wings, half-furled, but still reaching 8ft across.
"Still think I'm normal Inu?" she chuckled, brandishing razor-sharp claws, not much different from InuYasha's and Shicanto's.
"Shicanto," she said, suddenly serious, "don't even think about putting any of my demon blood into Kagome. I don't want to ruin anyone's life."
Kagome was about to ask was the demon girl meant, but Sangya answered the miko's question before it was asked.
"To 'cure' me, Shi-san would need to remove 1/3 of my demon blood, hawk or wolf, and transport it into another human. That's why he brought you here Kagome."
InuYasha opened his mouth to speak but Kagome cut him off.
"Why would I not want to?" she asked, "As a hanyou, I could live as long as InuYasha and truly be his mate."
InuYasha took advantage of Kagome's silence. He planted himself in front of Kagome, grasped her shoulders, and shook her, shouting, "Kagome! Are you crazy! I'll never let you do that! You are my mate as a human, I can't imagine you any other way,"
My heart may be yours but, my life is my own," Kagome whispered, removing InuYasha's hands and turning to face Shicanto and Sangya.
"Let's get this show on the road, I want to get home as soon as possible," Kagome sighed, not looking at the shocked and anguished face of InuYasha.