Kagome sighed as she let her head fall back into the cool water of the shallow and slow part of the river, light played across it's surface and on her wet skin as she moved. The sun had been beating down relentlessly all week and had caused her to need to bathe more often than usual, even today there was not a cloud to be seen in the sky.
Kagome suddenly felt the need to scan the high cliffs around the waterside, this was her usual bathing place because the high ledges prevented anyone from getting close without her noticing from a mile away. As she rounded to the other side, bright red cloth and off white silver hair caught her attention. A deep divulging anger rose in her gut causing her to make fists and cover her breasts.
"InuYasha!" She screamed, falling deeper into the water so he couldn't see her naked body.
"What?" I called nonchalantly back from his perch.
"SIT!" She summoned the full invocation, forcing him not only to fall from the cliff but hit the ground hard enough to make a small crater.
Kagome hurried up and got out of the water, throwing on her cloths as fast as possible while InuYasha grumbled and whimpered to himself in detest as he stumbled out of the hole.
"How many times are you going to do that to me!" He griped, rubbing his face, red from impact.
"As many times as it takes for you to understand I don't like it when you watch me take a bath!" Her cheeks were flush, showing the anger she held. "You just don't get it!"
"No, you don't get it, I'm watching you to make sure no one hurts you." He'd stopped yelling, but somehow he was starting to sound even more irritated.
"I told you you can guard me if you want to but don't watch me when I'm naked!" Kagome tried to hold onto the anger, but it was beginning to deflate. Protect, he was only watching her because he wanted to protect her, somehow that was even more disappointing.
"And what's the difference between weather you're naked or dressed?" InuYasha wondered, scratching the back of one of his ears.
"You... you... Ugh!" Kagome stomped one foot and stormed off in the direction of the village, not wanting to look at InuYasha while she walked.
'What's the difference between weather you're naked or not?' He had sincerely not cared about it, how could he not care about it? Kagome continued to replay the entire infuriating moment en her mind the entire way back, not even noticing the little frog demon scurrying past her in the opposite direction.
It's been an entire month since Kagome had chosen to stay in the feudal era because she loved InuYasha, and it's true he finally admitted he loved her, but he hadn't done anything. It was beginning to make Kagome think that InuYasha thought kissing was the relationship. What the hell? How could he not know the difference between looking at her naked and looking at her clothed!
"Stupid InuYasha." She grumbled to herself.
Fast footsteps from behind her caught her attention and she turned to see InuYasha coming up fast, she wanted to be angry but the look on his face said there was something wrong.
"What's wrong?" Kagome asked without hesitating as he drew close enough for him to hear her.
"Large cannibalistic demon, northern woods." He said without stopping, picking her up into his arms and darting in the direction of the northernmost woods not far from the village.
As they approached, huge crashing and tearing sounds could be heard from a distance as something big and very fast lurched across the forest, tearing down trees in it's wake. Many demons were already fleeing the forest and running for their lives from whatever the thing was.
Suddenly, it reared it's ugly head above the trees where they could see it.
A bear demon, bearing a curse mark in it's right shoulder made it known that it had been cursed by a witch, it's glowing red eyes completely blind in rage as it picked up a fox demon and ate it whole, throwing it into it's massive jaws in one foul swoop.
"Do you want me to kill it, I could try to purify the curse but it might not work. He looks far gone." Kagome said grimly as InuYasha set her a safe distance away from the demon.
"Try to save it, it might not be bad," InuYasha looked in a scrutinized way at the curse mark. "Try aiming for the curse itself."
"Alright," she breathed, raising her bow and letting out a long breath, setting an arrow into the string and drawing it tight, her form completely erect.
InuYasha couldn't help the natural reaction he had when she took that form, moments before she shot an arrow, something in his body screamed take her take her every time she shot an arrow.
What was that feeling supposed to mean? He wondered to himself as he readjusted his member inside his pants so that it wouldn't be so noticeable.
There was a moment of silence as she let go of the arrow, it sailed through the air at blinding speed with a pale pink light emanating from it in a trail, her purifying arrow.
"Hit the mark." Kagome said quietly as it flew, and as she wished, it buried itself deep into the bear demon's shoulder, glowing brighter and brighter as the demon went berserk trying to remove it.
"Come on," InuYasha encouraged, grasping his sword as he watched the demon.
Suddenly, the arrow disappeared, and the mark was gone with it. Redness disappeared from it's eyes as it shrunk back to it's normal form, the grotesquely enlarged features going back down to size as it transformed back into a normal black bear.
"Well, I guess I didn't have to fight today," he said quietly, letting go of the hilt of his sword and lowering down so that Kagome could climb onto his back. "Hop on."
Kagome stared up at the ceiling as the candle in the corner of the room died, it's dim light slowly fading into darkness. InuYasha had fallen asleep by the door, sitting cross legged with his sword tucked to his chest as usual. His words from earlier replayed in her mind unwantingly.
'What's the difference?'
"InuYasha," she started, preparing to explain to him what she was trying to get him to understand before. Her heart started pounding in her chest at the thought of how he would react.
"Mmf," he grumbled, looking up once and staring blankly for a moment before closing his eyes and letting his head fall again.
"Never mind," she sighed, turning over in her blankets and covering herself more fully before falling into a sleep.