InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Heart and Inuyasha's Feelings ❯ Chapter 5- Kagome and Inuyasha's Misunderstanding ( Chapter 5 )

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"He's not waking up, is he?" Kagome asked tearfully as she sat up from where she had been laying across his chest. The miko brought her gaze downward to Inuyasha's face. Her friends had closed around she and her hanyou, staring at the both of them worriedly. A agonized young woman stared up into the solemn faces of her comrades. "That poison is going to kill him before we can even get him back to the village in time," Kagome whispered through her continuous tears. Sango knelt down next to her and placed a hand on the side of Kagome's face in comfort.

"Kagome-chan," the demon slayer spoke softly. "You can't think like that. You have to have faith in Inuyasha. He's made it through tight spots like these before. He can make it again. Just have a little faith. He needs that right now," Sango added, trying to assure the girl that Inuyasha would be fine. However, Sango had her doubts as well. She wasn't sure what type of condition Inuyasha would be in once they arrived at the village. Even more so, she didn't know how Kagome would be either, for she had been injured as well by the youkai's venomous stinger.

"But Sango-chan what if he doesn't make it?" Kagome persisted. "If he doesn't, it'll be all my fault. If I had just stayed around long enough for him to explain what happened instead of running off the way I did, then this never would have happened to him. We wouldn't have been attacked, he wouldn't have gotten himself hurt while trying to protect me and we would been to the village by now, safe and sound," Kagome murmered as fresh, stinging tears filled her eyes. But what if he had been coming to give me a confession of wanting to be with Kikyou and not me? What if he had been coming to tell me he changed his mind about staying with me? How would I have handled that? And yet...

"Kagome-chan, you can't lay the blame all on yourself. Inuyasha wouldn't want you to put this all on just you. It's obvious he went searching for you and it was all his own doing to protect you from that scorpion demon," the slayer explained gently as she used a thumb to brush away Kagome's tears.

The miko welcomed the demon exterminator's touch and she leaned into the hand of the woman she considered a sister, allowing the hand to brush away her tears. This was so hard. Why did they have to be like this now? What was it Inuyasha had been coming to tell her? He had tried to protect her, hadn't he? So did Kagome overreact for nothing? The priestess didn't know how she would even cope if anything happened to her beloved hanyou, Kikyou or not. She continued to hold his hand tightly in hers, gazing down at his pale, perspiring face. Inuyasha's breath was becoming short and laboured. He was fighting for every ounce of strength he possibly had left in his body. The hanyou turned human arched his head back, taking in a sharp gasp and followed it with a grunt. "Ka-go-me," he panted, but still did not awaken. Kagome's eyes widened in shock at the sound of her name issuing from him as she watched Inuyasha struggling through the poison that she knew was filtering his veins. The hanyou turned human's dark eyes still remained shut, but Kagome could tell that Inuyasha was in pain.

"H-his hand is going so cold," the miko acknowledged as she brought her face to rest on it. "We've got to try and get back to the village before he gets any-," Kagome's words were cut off.

What was this? Kagome was struggling to keep herself remaining upright now, and her head felt like it was spinning. It slammed the girl with such a force that Kagome was sure she was going to pass out if she didn't lay down and quickly. Upon the hanyou's severely sustained injuries, Kagome had completely forgotten about what the scorpion youkai had done to her. It had grazed her hip and sliced her leg wide open, allowing the blood to flow freely. The priestess had to of lost too much blood and that was why she was feeling so weak and frail. The strength was quickly beginning to leave her body now. The wounds on her hip and leg cut deep and the poison that had been initiated from the youkai's stinger had touched her flesh. It was beginning to seep it's way into her bloodstream now, sending white hot pain through her limbs. Would this poison slowly deteriorate and kill the two?

"Kagome-chan!" cried out Sango as the girl's eyes slowly began to close. She gazed up at the demon slayer through half-lidded eyes. Sango's form was blurring and Kagome could feel she was about to lose conciousness soon. Her leg had been bleeding profusely as well. She hissed through her teeth as she felt the pain expanding through her body now. There was no stopping it. She and Inuyasha were going to die together. Atleast...atleast we're not alone...atleast we're going together... Kagome thought to herself before she fully lost conciousness. The girl's dark eyes closed shut and she fell limply onto Inuyasha's chest, never hearing the cries of her friends.

"Oh no, Kagome-sama!" Miroku's voice came from behind Sango as they watched the woman fall.

"NO KAGOME! PLEASE WAKE UP!" Shippou's small voice pierced the air as he ran over to Kagome, tears quickly filling his big, green eyes. The little kitsune whimpered as he darted towards her face, placing one of his small hands on her flesh. "She's starting to feel cold too!" he whimpered.

"KAGOME-CHAN!" cried out Sango in slight desperation as she lifted the unconcious woman in her arms. "Houshi-sama, check Kagome's bag! There's got to be some bandages in there. We need to somehow slow the bleeding down in her leg!"

The monk nodded in silence and as he flipped the top of Kagome's yellow backpack that she had left behind. He lifted out a first aid kit and gathered what little was left of the bandages inside. "There's not much left, Sango. Hopefully this will be enough. Kaede should have more back at the village for Inuyasha as well," Miroku hoped outloud.

"Master Inuyasha! Master Inuyasha!" came a small voice from just behind Sango and Miroku. The demon slayer and houshi gazed downward with a small 'huh?' and came to meet the bouncing form that was Myouga, the flea demon. "What has happened here! I knew tonight was Inuyasha-sama's period of vulnerability, so please tell me everything is-," Myouga stopped as his flea eyes widened as the sight before him. Inuyasha's body still continued to lay sprawled out lifelessly across the ground and Kagome was tucked in Sango's arms. "OH ME OH MY! WHAT ON EARTH HAS HAPPENED HERE!"

"They tried to fight a scorpion youkai, and judging by the looks of things, Tetsusaiga must have transformed in the middle of the fight," the monk answered as he picked up the sword from the ground, studying the cracked-looking fang weapon. He knelt down to the hanyou's side and slid the sword back into it's proper place. "He was poisoned by the demon's stinger. We were able to eliminate it, but we arrived just a bit too late," Miroku sighed as he hung his dark head, shaking it solemnly. "Inuyasha has been impaled with the scorpion's stinger and it looks as though Kagome has recieved some of it's poison as well." He pointed towards the unconcious miko in Sango's arms.

"OH NO! I shall draw the poison from their blood but that is the best that I can do!" the old flea youkai offered. He bounced over to Inuyasha and thrust his small stinger-like nose into the hanyou's neck. Myouga began sucking the poison from his body, his size ever growing while doing so. The youkai removed his sucker from Inuyasha's neck and the hanyou drew a ragged breath, his chest rising and falling with each abated breath. "Ka-go-me...get...down," Inuyasha mumbled, but he did not wake up.

The old flea made his way over to Kagome and retierated on her as he did with Inuyasha, only this time he thrust his sucking stinger into Kagome's leg where she was wounded most. By the time he had finished drawing the poison from both Inuyasha and Kagome's bodies, Myouga had roughly reached the size of Shippou. He rolled across the ground, groaning and holding his belly. "I think I drank too much," the flea demon moaned as he rolled straight into a patch of grass. "Just get 'em back to the village as fast as possible, uuuughhh," the nauseated youkai groaned weakly.

The demon slayer nodded fervently as she set to work on the wounded miko with what was left of the bandages. She wrapped the bandage around the injury as tight as it would go and secured it, hoping against hope that the pressure it was applying would help stem the flow of blood. "Kirara, can you please help?" Sango beckoned to the miniture cat demon who was sitting next to Shippou, trying to console him.

The firecat looked up at Sango and tilted her head slightly, releasing a small, squeaking mew in understanding. There was a burst of flame and the twin-tail youkai had transformed once more into the massive form that she could attain in any time of need. Sango lifted Kagome's limp figure up in her arms and placed the young woman on Kirara's fuzzy back. Miroku had taken the liberty to lift Inuyasha and place him at the front of Kirara's back. Sango leaned Kagome carefully up against Inuyasha's back, her limp arms draping on either sides of his waist. The demon slayer removed her Hiraikotsu and placed the strap around Kirara, hoping that the weapon would help protect the unconcious pair.

"Be careful with them Kirara," Sango told her youkai companion, giving her a small pat on the face. Kirara closed her eyes and let out a soft growl of acknowledgement. Shippou lept up onto the top of Kirara's head, laying in between her ears.

"I wanna ride with Inuyasha and Kagome! Please let me ride with them, Sango! Please please please!" Shippou exploded, tears were pouring down the little kit's face.

"If we don't hurry, we won't be able to catch up with them," the monk pointed out. "Sango climb on my back and I'll carry you. Shippou, you can ride with Kagome-sama and Inuyasha. We'll meet you back at Kaede's hut."

Kirara released another growl and lifted her body, taking to the skies. Sango climbed on Miroku's back, hoping that he wasn't planning on groping her rear-end on their way back to the village. She was greatly relieved when she felt his hands holding her legs and not her butt, but the monk wasn't concentrating on that right now. All he wanted to do was get the village as quickly as possible in hopes to save his friends.

Kagome's eyes fluttered opened as she felt the cool, night air hit her face. What on earth??? Where am I? the miko wondered and then she felt the familiar material of Inuyasha's fire rat haori against her cheek. Kagome forced open her heavy-feeling eyes and realized that she was in the air, riding on Kirara's back. Inuyasha was still in human form as well and the memories of what had just happened came flooding back to the young woman. Eyes brimming once more, the miko tried to force out the image of Inuyasha laying lifelessly before she had passed out. Inuyasha, please tell me you're alive...please tell me you're okay.

Kagome didn't feel the white-hot pain that had been coursing through her blood and veins anymore. It had been replaced with a tingling, aching sensation, not exactly the best feeling, it was better than feeling like her insides were on fire. If it had felt like that for her, just how intense had it been for Inuyasha? Considering he had been impaled and injected with venom, it had to of been nearly unbearable for him, especially with him being human.

The priestess pressed her face furthermore into his back and she could hear his faint heartbeat from somewhere within. The little miko breathed a sigh of relief as she realized her hanyou was still alive. Using what little strength she had left, Kagome wrapped her arms securely around Inuyasha's waist and buried her face into his back, eyes burning with unshed tears. If you don't make it...or even if you do and decide to go with Kikyou, then atleast I could hold you like this one more time... Kagome peered over Kirara's shoulder. She could see the village just ahead and caught a glimpse of Kaede's hut before extreme vertigo took her once more into a unconciousness.

The demon cat lowered herself down to the ground in front of Kaede's hut, growling loudly enough so the elderly miko would hear her. Miroku came running up from just behind the cat as fast he could. The houshi was panting as he made his stop next to Kirara and Sango lept off of his back as the two approached the youkai cat. There was a rustling as a heavy-set, elderly woman dressed in traditional miko clothing stepped out from behind the bamboo curtain securing the doorway. She wore a black eye patch over her eye and her grayed mane of hair was tied back in a ponytail with a white hairband.

"Sango! Miroku! I wondered where ye all had been," the elderly priestess stated as she advanced towards the group. Her good eye caught sight of the unconcious duo on Kirara's back and a gasp issued from the old woman's mouth. "What on earth happened here!?"

"It's a long story, Kaede-sama. May we bring Inuyasha and Kagome-sama into the hut? We need you to brew some medicinal herbs and an antidote for scorpion youkai poisoning," the houshi explained as he reached up to Kirara and placed Inuyasha's limp body over his shoulder.

"Oh my. I had forgotten tonight was the night of the new moon," Kaede exclaimed softly, placing her hands up to her mouth. "Tonight is the night where Inuyasha has become human. He must have been rendered completely helpess to be in the state such as he is."

Sango wasted no time in removing the Hiraikotsu and Kagome from the demon cat's back. The demon slayer carried the girl in a fireman's carry, stepping past the bamboo curtain and into the warm hut that was Kaede's. The elderly miko had quickly set to work, brewing up the medicinal herbs and the antidote for the hanyou and the little miko. She sat down next to Inuyasha and removed his clothing he wore over his upper body, to reveal the wound he had sustained from the demon. Kaede gasped softly as the wound came into appearance.

There was an intense hole in his stomach, atleast three inches deep and as round as a baseball. It had turned black, but was red-rimmed around the surface and bits of yellow, dried venom stuck to the injury. The old miko quickly set to work, pasting a healing salve over Inuyasha's wound, while Sango tended to Kagome's on her hip and leg. As the two women worked, nor Inuyasha or Kagome budged. Once the two were pasted and bandaged, Kaede tipped an antidote she had brewed into the mouths of the wounded couple. Inuyasha had bandages wrapped around his stomach, and the elderly miko took it upon herself to put the hanyou's haori back on, in case he became cold or developed a fever from the venomous attack. After that, Miroku helped move the two into the corner of the room, laying them side by side.

"So they were poisoned, ye say?" questioned the elderly priestess, breaking the silence that had befallen the room as the companions worked.

"Yes. Thankfully Myouga arrived and found us just in time to draw the poison from Inuyasha and Kagome's bodies," the monk remarked.
"How on earth did this happen? Can you please explain to me how Inuyasha and Kagome both came to be so gravely injured?" Kaede retierated.

"Well, to put it frankly, Inuyasha went off and met with Kikyou again!" piped up Shippou, folding his arms in childish way and glaring down at the wounded hanyou. An expression of guilt crossed his face from his outburst as he stared at the helpless being that was Inuyasha. Gosh he looks so bad...maybe I shouldn't be so mean that he saw Kikyou. Poor Inuyasha and Kagome. The little fox youkai curled up next to Inuyasha's arm and he too fell off into dreamland.

"I see, so Kikyou-onee-sama was in the area, was she?" Kaede questioned.

"Yes, but it wasn't like you think," Sango began. "When Inuyasha came back. He had told us that he smelled Kikyou. Not too long ago, Inuyasha had promised Kagome that now he knew Naraku was in persuit of her, since she's Kikyou's reincarnation, that he would protect her. Inuyasha doesn't want Kagome to die and he's also realized that he needed to let go of his...connection with Kikyou," the demon slayer explained.

"Yes, we were headed back to the village and decided to stop off for a bite to eat and something to drink. We knew tonight was the night of Inuyasha's transformation to human and so we wanted to have as much strength as possible in case anything were to persue us on our trip back here," Miroku stated.

There was a soft moan from the corner of the room where Inuyasha and Kagome lay side by side. Kagome had rolled over onto her side, undoubtedly trying to find a more comfortable position. The three adults inclined their heads to see that the wounded miko had rolled onto her side, laying on Inuyasha's outstretched arm. She snuggled her face into Inuyasha's black tresses, not knowing in the least of what she was doing. In his sleep Inuyasha rested his arm over the young woman's back and turned his head just a little closer toward hers, but the two were unware of what they were doing. It was a precious sight. They were completely asleep and breathing a lot easier now that they had their wounds treated and an antidote for the poison had been given.

"So, are you saying that Inuyasha's meeting with Kikyou-onee-sama was completely innocent?" Kaede questioned.

"Indeed we do believe it was," nodded Miroku."After the words Inuyasha had expressed to us, we believe that Inuyasha was letting go of his romantic bond with Lady Kikyou for Kagome-sama's sake, and we also think that Inuyasha has come to realize that his feelings for Kagome-sama run deeper than just a friendship."

"I see. Inuyasha has finally come to understand that my beloved sister is not of this world, that she is not the Kikyou she used to be. Therefore it would be difficult for him to continue anything with her. So then, what landed them in this position?" Kaede questioned, though she most likely knew the answer.

"Kagome-chan spotted Inuyasha with Kikyou," Sango began. "She's had her heart broken so many times by Inuyasha that of course she expected the worst. Kagome-chan probably figured that the things Inuyasha said to her was nothing but an empty promise, and that he would never be able to break his romantic bond with Kikyou."

"So Kagome acted out of heartache and she took off on her own," Miroku finished. "We tried to approach her, maybe even help her, but she would not allow us. The girl was in tears. I had never seen someone look so broken. After she had run off, Inuyasha came back in search of her. We made to confront him about his meeting with Lady Kikyou, but he explained what had happened. It all had been completely innocent. Inuyasha told us that he saw it as his opportunity to break the romantic connection with Kikyou. He told us that he promised Kagome-sama that he would protect her from Naraku and that he would not allow the girl to get into danger anymore. I saw the sincerity in Inuyasha's eyes. He was being truthful. He told us that he wasn't doing anything distrustful with Kikyou-sama and that he never planned to," the monk explained.

"The next thing we knew, Inuyasha was taking off after Kagome, and we decided to follow him and catch up with him as quickly as we could. We knew that the night was approaching and Inuyasha would be vulnerable to attack. When we finally reached the two it was too late. They had been nearly obliterated by the venomous youkai," the demon slayer continued as Kaede listened intently.

"Kagome-sama remained concious for a while, but she too had been hit with the scorpion's stinger. It took longer on her, but the poison eventually entered her body. Kagome-sama went unconcious from the poison and that's when Myouga appeared and was able to deplete the venom from their systems," the houshi told Kaede. "We're very lucky that they're still here with us now."

"Yes indeed we were. I'm glad ye were able to get them here before it was too late. This was especially dangerous for Inuyasha, considering he is human tonight," Kaede remarked. The old woman sat for a moment looking thoughtful before speaking up once more. "Sango, Miroku, why don't you two sleep in here tonight? There are a few villagers that I need to go and see about. Inuyasha and Kagome-sama have been given their antidote for the poison and their wounds have been treated properly. The two should rest easy through the night and will need atleast a few days to recover their strength. Kagome may need even more. I shall see to ye in the morning," the elderly miko told them as she stood up and bowed herself from the hut, leaving Sango and Miroku alone with the wounded couple.

Once the elderly woman was out of earshot, Miroku was the first to speak up as he watched the two snuggle without a care in the world. The two were lost in blissfull sleep, hopefully dreaming of being in one another's arms. "What do you think will become of them, Sango?" he asked softly, staring at his friends. The light from the fire that had been lit in the hut flickered off of their bodies, casting their pale forms in a warm, orange glow.

"If Kagome-chan listens to Inuyasha instead of running away from him, I would say they have a chance. Though I really don't blame Kagome-chan for feeling the way she did. Her heart had been wounded one too many times by Inuyasha meeting alone with Kikyou," the demon slayer acknowleged.

"Now that Inuyasha has promised himself to Kagome, I too feel that things will get better for them," Miroku agreed as he scooted closer to Sango. He placed an arm around the demon slayer's shoulders, causing a soft blush to spill over her cheeks. Sango waited, holding her breath for the monk to try and attempt anything lecherous but nothing came. She sighed softly when his voice sounded again. "Can you and I be so lucky?" the houshi spoke in tones that were barely audible.

"Houshi-sama...," Sango replied softly and snuggled into his hold, the two gazing down at their friends, hoping and praying that everything would be alright.