p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She tightened her grip on the jewel, the energies in it almost seeming to fluctuate more than normal. Which was crazy. No way Kagome's nerves could have any impact on any eternal battle waged in part of a centuries old object./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Still. Better that than thinking it was caused by the emguilt/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Inuyasha…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""No damn way! Do you realize how fucking stupid that is?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She frowned. "I know I should have said something earlier—"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Damn straight."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""But now that you do know–"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Now that I emknow/em you're being fucking stupid, you're not doing it!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She could feel a headache coming on. "Excuse me, you can't just forbid me from doing things."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Yes I can!" she opened her mouth, but he kept talking. "When you're putting emeverything/em in danger just 'cause you wanna go play with a pretty fox. Everything, Kagome."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She frowned. "I didn't say he was pretty."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Oi, woman, that's not the point." He scoffed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Kagome sighed, casting her eyes to the ground. Her fingers twisted around the jewel, a useless attempt to soothe her nerves…and the part of her that told her Inuyasha was emso/em right. She couldn't just put everything on hold for this./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"A nudge at the edge of her senses drew her attention. The strangers' youki poked, prodded, and empushed./em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""What if," she said, thinking aloud, "I left the jewel with you?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Still. Better that than thinking it was caused by the emguilt/em./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Inuyasha…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""No damn way! Do you realize how fucking stupid that is?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She frowned. "I know I should have said something earlier—"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Damn straight."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""But now that you do know–"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Now that I emknow/em you're being fucking stupid, you're not doing it!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She could feel a headache coming on. "Excuse me, you can't just forbid me from doing things."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Yes I can!" she opened her mouth, but he kept talking. "When you're putting emeverything/em in danger just 'cause you wanna go play with a pretty fox. Everything, Kagome."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She frowned. "I didn't say he was pretty."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Oi, woman, that's not the point." He scoffed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Kagome sighed, casting her eyes to the ground. Her fingers twisted around the jewel, a useless attempt to soothe her nerves…and the part of her that told her Inuyasha was emso/em right. She couldn't just put everything on hold for this./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"A nudge at the edge of her senses drew her attention. The strangers' youki poked, prodded, and empushed./em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""What if," she said, thinking aloud, "I left the jewel with you?"/span/p