--Ah. I love this story. Okay. I'm getting, like, NO reviews. Do you all hate it that much? Is it really that boring? Or just that bad?

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Last Time…

"Perhaps, but first things first, we need to get InuYasha back to Kaede's hut. His old wounds have re-opened and he has a new wound in his chest."

"Hitana shot him with an arrow…" Kagome muttered, but no one heard.

InuYasha was lifted onto Miroku's back, while Kagome was put onto Kirara.

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Chapter 31: Seeing Isn't Always Believing

Kagome winced as a medicinal herb was placed on her wounded arm. Don't be a baby…She could hear InuYasha say.

She looked around the hut, wondering where he could be. She couldn't 'hear' him. He's not awake yet, Kagome thought sadly.

The second Kaede was done, she stood up with nothing but a glare on her face and picked up her daughter.

"Kagome!" Shippo called after her. She could feel his eyes on her back, but she held onto Hikari with one arm.

"Let her go," Miroku advised.

"She's been through so much lately," Sango agreed., beginning to tend to InuYasha's minor wounds.

He groaned when his cut stung at Sango's touch. "Ka…gome…" he groaned.

"Don't worry, InuYasha," Shippo muttered. "I don't think she went home."

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It was an hour or so before Hikari said anything. "Mommy look sad," Hikari climbed into her mother's lap and reached up to touch her face.

"Mommy is sad," Kagome mumbled, not meaning for her to hear.

"Tell me why mommy is sad. Hikari will make mommy better," she said perkily, mimicking how Kagome would act whenever Hikari would state that she was mad or sad. Kagome lifted the corner of her mouth unintentionally.

"Mommy was in a fight with a girl. The girl wanted to hurt mommy and daddy."

"That is not nice," Hikari noted.

"No," Kagome kissed the top of her head. "It's not. But she hurt daddy. And she did something to mommy…"

"What did she do to mommy?" Hikari started to growl, but it just sounded like a loud purr. (A/N: It so cute when Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies growl XD) Kagome chuckled.

"She did something, and I don't know what, but I can't see daddy anymore." Kagome could feel the tears coming, the familiar pinch behind her eyes.

"You not see daddy anymore?" Hikari asked sadly, not understanding.

"No, It's like, I know he's there, but all I see is everything else."

Hikari knew her mother. She was a smart girl. "Like, he standing in meadow over there, but you just see the trees?" She guesses, pointing across the clearing toward the well.

"Yeah," Kagome ducked down, hiding her face in Hikari's black hair.

Hikari looked up, watching him stumble toward them, and then fall to his knees.

"Kagome…" InuYasha said.

"Mommy can't see…" Hikari informed him.

"What?" InuYasha waved his hand in front of Kagome's face, as she looked right through him to the setting sun. "Kagome!" he yelled, shaking her shoulders.

Kagome's eyes darted to the space in front of her, unable to see anything. But she felt hands on her shoulders shaking her body.

"Who are you talking to, Hikari?" Kagome muttered hesitantly.

"Daddy," she replied sadly.

"Can you hear me?" InuYasha asked. But it was his thoughts that Kagome noticed.

"Not out loud," she replied softly. "Should you even be out here? Your wounds are pretty bad."

I'm fine. What happened to your arm? He thought.

She quickly covered her broken forearm with Hikari's back. "It's nothing," she muttered. "Compared to blindness. But you shouldn't be out here."

"Quit being stupid," he muttered, sitting down and crossing his legs in front of her. He hadn't meant for her to hear it, but as he said the words, they ran though his head and Hikari's head.

"I'm not being stupid," she snapped. InuYasha raised his eyebrows. No sit. Neat. "I would but you're too damaged already."

"So Hitana took your sight?" InuYasha asked sadly.

"No. Just my vision of you. I can't see or hear you. It's as if you're in a different dimension. But…" he mind flashed back to when her body shook. "I can feel you," she muttered in disbelief.

Before she knew it, his lips were against hers, the only sign being the warmth Kagome felt and the familiarity of having done it before.

"I love you…" InuYasha whispered to her when he pulled away, wincing at the sharp pain in his stomach, but glad Kagome couldn't see.

"Hikari, show me where daddy is."

That's exactly what Hikari did. She stared intently at InuYasha and sent the image to Kagome, who proceeded to ram her fist into the side of InuYasha's head.

"What the hell was that for?!" he screamed.

"You think I can't tell when you're in pain?" she asked calmly. "Ignore the fact I read minds, but I can smell the blood of the re-opened wound!"

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