The wonderful chapter three! Keep reading this part gets interesting, promise!

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Chapter 3- Powers of healing.

She put a hand on her lyre and played the same strings that human did before she swam home. A small smile played at the corner of her lips before she fell asleep. I have to see him again…

Miroku woke up with his head pounding. "Ouch" he groaned and sat up. He looked around to see that he was inside Inuyasha's villa. It wasn't very decorated, it said that there was an easy going style to the way Inuyasha lived.

Inuyasha was sitting outside on one of the rocks that littered the sea shore here, he was gently playing his guitar that his dad gave him before he drowned at sea. Miroku smiled sadly at him before hauling himself out of the guest bed and into the kitchen.

He drank a ginger ale and soon his head stopped pounding. "Hey, Inuyasha!" he called from he house.

His friend turned and grinned at him "Hey, you feeling better?"

Miroku laughed nervously "Yeah, Eri wasn't really my type anyway" he sat next to Inuyasha and saw the sheet music he had been writing. "What's this?"

Inuyasha looked at it and said "I heard a girl singing, I'm trying to write it down"

Miroku raised an eyebrow, Inuyasha with a girl? Yeah right, when Sango gropes me and girls live in the sea "So what happened?"

Inuyasha scoffed "Nothing, I don't even know what she looks like… you passed out in the woods and I heard her singing in that rocky cove, but when I got there it was empty. I picked up a lyre thing and she yelled at me to give it back and I did. That's it"

Miroku pouted "No kissing or anything?"

Inuyasha threw a pencil at him. "Nope, you are such a lecture"

Miroku laughed then said "And you're a liar! Your leather jacket isn't on the hook or on you… you gave her that expensive thing?"

Inuyasha looked away his ears burning. Miroku burst out laughing "Inuyasha hyped up over a girl! I never thought I'd see the day!" maybe I have hope in Sango after all! Inuyasha growled and picked up his stuff and stalked back to his house.

Miroku smirked at the guy who was so in denial that it was funny. Inuyasha changed into his swimming trunks then got his board and stalked off into the sea. It was going to be a long surfing trip as he was in such a bad mood.

The ocean always calmed him, whenever he was surfing all the cares of the world fell off his shoulders and were forgotten. He was a champion surfer and he was the best on the entire island. He stood up and was off skimming the water and it tunnelled around him putting him in his own little world of blue water and the golden sunlight that filtered through the water.

He came out of the tunnel and the wave died down.

Kagome watched in amazement. That was fantastic! Her head was just above the water and she was watching spellbound, she wore her green bikini top again as pretty dresses were too flimsy for the trouble she got into.

She had to sneak out as her sister was so determined to keep her from her new freedom of going to the surface world.

"Nice one Inuyasha, see you later, I'm going off to the shop!" Miroku called. Kagome ducked under not realising another human was there.

Inuyasha… Kagome thought and hugged herself. What a wonderful name!

"See ya Miroku, don't let Sango whip you again!" his friend laughed and left on his bike.

Kagome swam so close she could count the water droplets on his face, had a little dagger made from a sharpened shell to protect herself if need be. She swam alongside him the entire time he surfed and underneath when he was playing in the waves. How are humans scary? Kagome thought laughing as an even bigger wave came to be surfed on she giggled and dived under so she wouldn't be thrown around by it.

She watched as Inuyasha got ready then she saw fear in his eyes. Kagome saw that the wave was breaking too fast and that he was going to be crushed by it. She swam as fast as she could but she was too far away.

Inuyasha! Kagome thought. She saw him get thrown around by the water then smashed into the rocks. She screamed in horror when blood began to colour his hair red. She wrapped her arms around him and pulled him to the surface.

Her arms went around his chest and she swam strongly upwards to air. She broke the surface and looked at him in concern. His head was lolled back on her shoulder with blood in his hair and on his face. He wasn't awake and she was worried.

What do I do? She panicked. Then she felt a long buried instinct to take him below the waves. But he can't breathe water like I do! She screamed at herself. Then she felt her powers stir inside her and suddenly she could see an underwater cave, perfect to heal the boy in her arms…

In my arms… she thought blushing.

She slowly pulled him under again and quickly pulled him to an underground airlock cave where she could take care of him.

She pulled his head above the water and dragged him onto a platform like a mattress the same size as a king bed, it was surrounded by water and had lots of seaweed on it for blankets and there was a fresh water well the only just cleared the top of the sea water.

Kagome pulled herself up next to him and pressed on his chest several times to help get any water out. He coughed a few times but stayed asleep.

Kagome paused for a second her powers stirring inside her, she could feel the water in his lungs and her hand glowed as she took control of it. She hovered her hand over his chest then slowly pulled it up towards his mouth and then she pulled the water out of his mouth and he took a deep breath of the air he desperately needed.

Kagome looked at her hands, she had never used her powers like that before. Most of the time they jumped out of her mostly doing more damage than good, she had complete control over them that time. She dropped herself back into the water and scavenged the bottom of the cave for sea herbs and sea sponges.

She pulled a stubborn one out from some corral and then picked up a boulder and smashed some of the corral off. She picked up one of the splinters and put it in her mouth. "Yummy" she said as she sucked it, it was like rock candy but ten times as hard, then Kagome swam up and pulled herself and her medicines onto the rock that was a little like a bed. She turned Inuyasha's sleeping head to the side and looked at the wound.

She summoned her magic again and forced the flow of blood to stop bleeding outside his body. Keep in his veins! She commanded and then gently cleaned and bandaged it with the touch of an angel. Inuyasha sighed in his sleep and one corner of his mouth kinked up in a smile. Kagome smiled in response then brought up the paste.

She smeared his back with a paste that smelt and looked disgusting but would help with both pain and swelling. Finally she finished bandaging his torso and sighed in relief when his face relaxed in a painless sleep.

She ran her fingers through the wonderful silver hair that had dried out and it was as soft as sea flower petals that grew in the mermaids gardens. She cupped his face and slowly traced the hard male features she had never seen before. The boyish look he had was doing funny and unrecognisable things to her body, her cheeks burned red and her lips tingled while her eyes rested on his unmoving lips, she slowly leaned down towards his lips.

He groaned beneath her and she squeaked in surprise and fell back under the water.

Oh great Poseidon what am I doing? I saved a human! Used my powers on him! And nearly kissed him! Ah bloody Neptune! Kikyo will kill me! Kagome put her head in her hands.

She started to swim out but then she saw someone waiting for her.

Midoriko! The mermaid leader was waiting for her.

Kagome bowed and waited to get scolded. Midoriko swam up to her and embraced her lightly. Kagome stayed as still as she could, what?

"This isn't the first time mermaids and humans have interacted, it has happened many, many times before. We are all living proof of that. Trust your instincts and powers"

Kagome looked up at Midoriko's face "I'm not in trouble?"

Midoriko shook her head. "When the world was created we were given the gift of free will, so we can all choose what to do with our lives"

Kagome held herself and whispered. "But he killed my mother"

Midoriko shook her head "Not him, humans yes, but not that one in the cave. You let your sister's hatred for the human-race cloud your own judgement. Humans are not evil, we are responsible for a few human deaths under our sirens curse, are we not?"

Kagome knew that sirens could lure men to their deaths with songs and make them want to drown themselves. She knew that mermaids were part siren, sirens were extinct luckily, and so had a sirens nature to have dark emotions and a voice like an angels to be used in an evil way.

Kagome smiled at the leader "Thank you"

Midoriko touched her cheek before swimming off into the blue. Kagome took a deep breath and swam back to Inuyasha. She poked her head out of the water and saw him sitting up looking around and feeling his bandages.

She was suddenly shy of the human she had saved and stayed under the surface mostly. Then he tried to move and he cringed in pain and nearly fell into the water. Kagome swam up and caught his arm to steady him.

She was still mostly under the water, with only her head shoulders and a bit of her torso showing to the young mans eyes.

Inuyasha turned to look at his rescuer and gasped when he saw her, she was beautiful. Her pale skin like moonlight and hair darker than the sky at night, she had a perfect body (as far as he could see) but it was her eyes that held him, they were so open, innocent and sparkled with her silent thoughts and secrets, you could lose yourself in eyes like those. Inuyasha found himself staring at her lips, perfect and full, right now parted in concern for him and he had the strong desire to kiss her, but was held back when her eyes captured his again.

Kagome in turn was mesmerised by his eyes the colour of molten gold with an intense burning in them that was like the sun's rays, the silver bags that slightly covered his face annoyed her a little, hair like the moon goddesses stars, eyes like the sun, lips like- what?… when she was sure he had his balance back she let go and swam back a little bit. "Do you feel better?" she asked.

Inuyasha kept staring, her voice was so beautiful, singing when she spoke and not even realising how sweet it sounded. Then he realised he was making her uncomfortable when she allowed herself to sink up to her nose. "Um… I feel fantastic… what happened?"

Kagome smiled a little then said "You fell off that floaty thing of yours and hit your head on the rocks when a big wave came along. I brought you here to…" she sank into the water again. "To heal you" she mumbled at last.

Inuyasha wondered why she was being so shy. "What your name?"

Kagome looked up at him and said "Kagome… your Inuyasha" she said before he could tell her his name.

"How did you know that?"

Kagome shrugged "Your friend shouted it when he went away"

"Why were you hanging around my house?" he asked her, a little annoyed and intrigued that a girl this pretty would be watching him.

Kagome looked confused "I was in the sea" she said "I was swimming" she swam to the other side of the cave and sat on a rock just below the surface, her tail was still hidden. She picked up her lyre and Inuyasha gasped.

"Were you singing the other night?" he asked her. Kagome nodded and plucked a few strings of the lyre and hummed slightly to the music.

"Thank you for giving this back to me" she said hugging it closer to her. "My sister would have been really upset if a human took it- Oops" she said putting a hand over her mouth.

"Human?" Inuyasha picked up on the unused work quickly and she looked scared. "What's wrong?" he asked nicely and slid into the water to swim over to her.

She looked even more scared and ducked under the surface of the water and appeared on the other side. Man she was fast.

"You shouldn't be swimming around" Kagome said patting the seaweed bed. "The wounds haven't had enough time to fully heal yet" she pouted and hid under the water again when he tried to approach her.

Inuyasha pulled himself up onto the seaweed bed and she surfaced again right beside him. She smiled up at him and then said "Lay down"

He obeyed and she reached across to untie his bandages. She pulled them off and he wondered why she didn't just sit next to him and do that. She was stretching to reach the other side of him and then took the one off his neck.

He gasped as the bandage left his skin it was a little sore and sensitive but he could bare it. Kagome started to slide back into the sea but he caught her waist and whispered into her hair. "Will you sing for me?"

Kagome was blushing badly and only answered when he released her. "Of course" she picked up her lyre and began to sing.

"I'll tell you the tale of the vast open waves,

Where the ships all sink to the catacomb caves,

The mer maidens treasure each little gem,

But morn for the souls of drowning men,

Once the storms reached a impossible height,

The great ship Dauntless sailed into the night,

Below swam a maiden born of the sea,

Watching the ship for the man for she,

Down the ship sank to the graveyard of ships,

Yet the maiden saved one and still on he lives…"

Kagome smiled and sighed wistfully at the end of the song, it was a mermaid nursery rhyme really about one of the first mer-maidens and it was her favourite. Inuyasha smiled at her absent expression then she glanced up at him then away going red again.

"That was beautiful. It was you I heard singing before…"he smiled at her and she smiled back and then splashed his face with water. Inuyasha coughed and spluttered for a second then growled "Alright you asked for it!" he jumped off the rock and tackled her in the water.

She squealed with giggles as the bubbles rose around them when they landed on the cave floor. Inuyasha smiled, holding his breath and then noticed that she wasn't, and that she was still laughing clearly even though they were underwater.

When the bubbles cleared Inuyasha saw the girl beneath him and stared not believing what he was seeing. She had a bikini top on and beautiful pale skin but at her waist she had silvery green scales and a tail.

She held his upper arms at pulled him to the surface. He held her back instinctively as she had more buoyancy in the water than he did and he stared into her innocent face.

"You're a... mermaid"

dund dun duuuuuun! lol!

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