Love and Responsibility

Love and Responsibility

I'll Always Protect You

Warning: Sexual Content; Offensive Language; Violence

Rating: M for Mature

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Couple: Inuyasha and Kagome (Based)

Miroku and Sango

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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters associated with the series.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter 1: I'll Always Protect You

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"This sucks!" Kagome hollered out her dismay. With a quick, rough toss her Geometry textbook went hauling through the air, landing with a rough thud beside the sorry. 'Darn, it missed.' Kagome exhaled slowly trying to forget the aggravations of teaching yourself mathematics. "I hate math!"

"Will you quiet down, woman?" Inuyasha glared at Kagome from his position adjacent to her. "You've been complaining all day!" Of course he knew why that was. Kagome was in heat. Women were always cranky when they went into heat.

The miko (priestess) stared at him for a long moment, anger thick in the air. The half demon (hanyou) gulped back in regret. He should not have raised his voice to her when she was being so damn cranky.

"You're right, Inuyasha." Kagome's stern and serious gaze dropped. For a moment the irritation in the air dropped. Inuyasha's ears perked up in bewilderment. 'I am?' "I have been complaining all day." Kagome pulled over her yellow bag from behind her. She opened the flap without a word and began to rummage through it. "Si-" With the beginning of the word Inuyasha's eyes were forced to widen. He knew it was to good to be true.

Before anyone knew what was happening, Kagome was cutting herself off with a sigh and standing up. She patted the back of school uniform's skirt to remove any dirt.

"Kagome?" Sango whispered in surprise.

"I'm going for a walk." Kagome ambled her way towards the woods.

"What do you mean? Where are you going?" Inuyasha feared how she would reply. This was not the time to twist her buttons.

"No where special. You can sniff me out if you want to find me." The miko didn't even stop her walking as she spoke. She disappeared into the shade of trees.

"What's with Kagome?" Shippo jumped away from Kirara and over to Inuyasha's side.

"Perhaps Lady Kagome has just been having a bad day." Miroku suggested, stirring the ramen noodles, which boiled in a pot over a hot fire.

Sango had to agree with the monk. Kagome was definitely having an off day. That morning she had been awoken by Shippo accidentally dropping his bowel of steaming soup. Only a short time after they began their days walk to find the jewel, a large frog had hopped in front of her uninvited. She was so taken aback that she had fallen back into a cold stream. After that she had hooked her finger while trying to cast a rod. She had then burned her finger while trying to cook the fish. She had tripped into a thorn bush after that. To make matters worse she couldn't understand any of her homework.

"Shouldn't you go after her Inuyasha?" Shipped quizzed the half demon who had yet to remove his gaze from the direction Kagome had headed off in. Inuyasha blinked back to reality, coming to look at the kitsune.

"Keh! She needs time to cool off." He crossed his arms, obviously unhappy with that notion.

"But-"

"Inuyasha's right, Shippo. It's best that we give Kagome some time on her own." Sango held out a bowl for soup.

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Kagome kicked the first large rock she came across, picturing Inuyasha's head. She immediately wished she had not done that. Moaning, she grabbed a hold on her bruising foot.

"Owe..." When the pain began to reside, she slowly let go of her sore limb. She had been acting foolish lately. 'Today is just not my day.' She frowned. 'I'm such a fool. I shouldn't be taking all of my anger out on Inuyasha... or a rock.'

She reluctantly began to walk again, heading past trees quickly. She wanted to get as far away from the campsite as possible. She need to clear her mind, or at least organize her thoughts. If she had been paying closer attention to the things around her none of those misfortunes would have taken place. Her mind was to warped by Inuyasha's body to think straight.

She had never thought of Inuyasha in the way that she was at the moment before. She was just getting older. She knew she wasn't thinking anything unnatural by wondering what Inuyasha looked like without that haori. She just didn't really like thinking that way. She wasn't a pervert like Miroku and she surely didn't want to become one. 'I just need time away from this era. I have to restock my supplies anyway. It's not like we've got any leads on Naraku.' She missed her family anyway. Inuyasha would understand. She hoped...