Chapter 20: Inner Love
Inuyasha and Miroku make it back to the mansion. As the drive into the garage, Ai and Izayoi stand at the door into the house. As soon as Inuyasha brings out Kagome, still passed out from her imprisonment in the school's basement. "Kagome! Inuyasha what happened to her?" Ai runs to him, and puts her hand onto Kagome's forehead. "She's burning up, Inuyasha." She tells him with a worried tone. Inuyasha nods, "I'll explain later, let's get her into her bedroom." He said as they went inside. Miroku comes in with Sango who is still hanging on to be conscious. "I know a few things as well. But it's best to give me and Kagome some rest." Sango managess to speak before passing out on Miroku's grasp.
About an hour later, Kagome wakes up from her passed out state. She feels something cool on her forehead. She places her hand on it to feel it's an ice pack. "Kagome?" A voice gets her attention. She turns her head to see Inuyasha with a worry smile on his face. "Inuyasha?" Her reaches out weakly to him. Inuyasha quickens his pace and grabs her hand. "How are you?" He asks her first as he grabs a chair and sits by her side. Kagome chuckles, "I've through worst." She answers. Inuyasha smiles more into an amusing one. "I'm glad. I've got some explaining to tell you." He caress her face. She nods, urging him to go on. "My dad invented a device that let me read other people's minds." He answers her as he keeps on caresseing her face and cupping on side. Feeling the warmth from his touch, Kagomeleans on it. "Is that how you found me and Sango?" She asks him, obvious she knows the answer to that. Inuyasha can tell by the look on her eyes that she knew it as well as he did. "Yes I did. And I know who the figure is who captured you." He tells her with interest. She nods with a tired expression. Seeing that, Inuyasha helps her into her bed, with a heavy blanket. "This used to be my mom's first blanket that she made by hand." He wraps her in it like a baby. Feeling the warm from it, and yet it has Inuyasha's scent on it instead of Izayoi's. "I feel so safe in this. I feel you're keeping me warm." Inuyasha blushes a little. "Uh yeah, I had it as well, but I prefer that you use it instead." He adds and helps her lie down. "Sleep well." He said after Kagome falls asleep. He narrows his eyes lovingly. "Mate her." A voice from deep within said to him, but instead he ksses her forehead, and stays by her side.
In another bedroom, Sango is in a slightly better condition than Kagome, since she was locked in the janitor closer shoter than Kagome. She is in the bathroom taking a shower to wash out the smells from the closer. "Sango, do you know who abducted you at school?" Miroku asks he from the other side of the shower door. "I can't remember who. But I bet you or Inuyasha might know who was behind all this." She replies to him. Miroku sighs. "I don't know who myseif either. The only one who can answer your question is Inuyasha. But I think it's best that we leave him and Kagome alone." He suggests as Sango comes out of the room with her robe on and a towel wrapping her hair to dry. She nods, understanding what he meant to let Inuyasha to solve the case. "I told you that he invented a device to read people's minds. That's how he and I managed to find you girls." Miroku said as Sango goes into the closet where her clothes have been put away (She and Miroku spend the night so they stash their clothes here.) A few minutes later Sango comes out in a pair of black pj pants and a pink shirt on, and heads back to the bathroom to blowdry her hair. "We can wait until Kagome and Inuyasha are ready to talk to us about. For now let's let them get some must needed rest." Sango said before she turns the device. Miroku nods and waits out in the room. While waiting for her to finish her thing, He sees the clock saying it's close to middnight, and luckily it's Friday as well. The device turns off and Sango comes out the bathroom and got into the bed. Miroku gets into the futon that was set up on the other side of the room. "We should get rest as well Sango." Miroku said before he gets under the covers. Before he closes his eyes, He sees Sango already asleep before he did. "Must've been through a hard time. From now on I'm looking out for you.' He thought to himself before he goes to sleep.
Kagome tosses and turns in her sleep. Inuyasha twitches his ears, getting alerting him something is wrong. He looks towards her to find sweat appearing on her face. Hearing her whimper in fear is getting him even more worry. "Kagome get up." He shakes her shoulder. But she's not. Inuyasha maybe in a panic state but remains calm. He came up with an idea. He puts on his mind reading contacts in and then places his two fingers onto her forehead. He closes his eyes and consentrates his connection to her mind.
Kagome's Nightmare
Kagome is running with fear flowing within herself. "Get back here Higurashi." A voice chases her in the hallway. Kagome sees the exit up ahead and pushes it open. Right before she steps out, she finds the building up in the stormclouds as lightning bolt strikes down towards Kagome. She scream, luckily the bolt didn't struck her. "Nowhere to go Higurashi." The voice said to her with anger in it. Kagome slowly turns around to see where the voice came from. "I warned you to stay away from him, but you didn't listened to me, and now you're going to pay the price." The figure comes to the unexpected light, "Kikyo, you just don't when to quit do you?" Kagome asks her with a glared look. "You think you can just come into this school as a newbie, and manipulate Inuyasha to follow you wherever you go? Nice try." Kikyo glared back to her. "For your information, Inuyasha followed on his own accord. Don't blame me or him on that." Kagome narrows her eyes. Unexpectedly Kikyo pulls out a gun. "Blame him? Blame you? Oh I have every right to blame the both of you. And I will not hesitate to kill you." Kikyo cocks the gun's trigger. Kagome's glare immediately turns to fear. A gunshot fires. Kagome feels infinite pain from her chest, her heart. She drops down to her knee and face first onto the floor. "I told you over and over again and you don't listen to reason." A voice said to her from behind. Kikyo turns around to find it's Inuyasha. "Oh Inuyasha." Kikyo happily said as she embraces him. "You're not even to be my mate to begin with." Inuyasha said in a rhaspy voice. Kikyo stiffen, she never heard that before. Just when she looked up to him, She sees demon fangs overlapping his lower lip, purple ragged stripe markings,one on each cheek, but the most horrifying scene she never seen are a pair bloody red eyes with teal irises. Without another move, she feels long claws slashing her chest. "But why?" She asks before she passed on. "Because you're too selfish to even think about others. Kagome is the exact opposite of you, and she is going to be my mate. But I guess you didn't know the potentials of what dog demons are capable of, even if their own kin is killed." Inuyasha tells her, even though she can't hear him. Inuyasha goes to Kagome's dead body. He kneels down by her side, turns her over. He can see the eyes shut closed, and it won't open. Having her in his arms isn't soothing his sorrow. Then he realized something. He remembered that when you found a mate, that mate will transform into the being where the mark comes from, even if that individual is dead, but shortly after being killed. Not waiting another second, Inuyasha moves some of Kagome's hair out of the way of her shoulder and neck. He bites down hard. He releases the bite, and licks blood seeping out. Kagome begins to pulses. Inuyasha looks down on her. The first thing he sees are her fingernails being replaced by dog claws like his own. Her human ears are replaces by black triangular dog ears on top of her head. She groans as she opens her eyes, surprisinglyy still the chocolate brown eyes. She looks to Inuyasha, scared from the look of his bloody eyes. She tries to get out of his grasp, but he didn't loosen his grip. "Kagome relax." He said cups her chin to make her look at him. Kagome sighs and looks to him. "Inuyasha? What happened to you?" She reaches up to him tracing her fingers on his markings. Then she spots the claws on them. She quickly pulls back and looks at them. "I saved your life with the mated mark." Inuyasha responds as he reverses his transformation. "What do you mean?" She asks him with some quivering in her voice. "I saved your life by making you my mate." He answers her question as he places his hand on the mark on where her shoulder and neck join. Kagome follows his touch and places her hand onto his.
End Kagome's Nightmare
Kagome wakes up and finds Inuyasha with a tired look on his face. "Inuyasha?" She manages to speak as she cups his hand that grasps her other one. Inuyasha smiles reliefly and pulls her into his arms. "Kagome you have no idea what got me so worried." He said to her, not bold enough to show her his tears. Kagome didn't need to say anything. All she does is wrap her arms around him, "Thank you for saving me." She thanks him. Inuyasha pulls back and did something unexpected. He strokes something on her head. Kagome purrs in pleasure. But then opens her eyes quickly, and places her hand on her head, feeling ears on top of her head instead on humans one. "I marked you, and now you're a half-demon like me." He tells her. Kagome giggles, "So it's true. The mark of the Dog demons transforms their mate. So I'm one of them now." She states before she presses her lips onto his own. Inuyasha didn't need to comment on it, and kisses her more.