I had stopped the bleeding on Koga’s arm, but he was still really weak. I placed his head on my lap. I looked up to watch InuYasha fight the bird. InuYasha pulled back his sword as the bird swooped towards him.

“Wind scar!” He yelled. The bird was ripped into a million pieces por the powerful attack. InuYasha landed lightly on his feet about ten feet away.

“Well,” he turned to face Koga. “Now that I’ve taken care of the giant pigeon, I can take care of the fleabag.” He pushed through the crowd of lobo men and stopped. He stared at Koga and me with a look of complete horror on his face. Koga opened his eyes and groaned.

“You trying to hit me while I’m down, mutt face?” He stood up.

I grabbed his arm. “Don’t, Koga. You’re hurt pretty badly.”

“No, I can take on this half breed any time, any place.”

“Fine then, lets finish this right now.” InuYasha started to walk towards Koga.

“InuYasha, I’m really sorry for this,” I said. “Sit” InuYasha slammed into the ground.

“What did you do that for?” he yelled.

I ignored him and turned to the lobo pack. “Take Koga and get out of here. Now!”

“Okay, we will,” They said as they ran back towards the cave.

InuYasha was in my face, glaring a me. “You let him get away! Why were you helping him?” he demanded.

“He protected me.” I said, staring calmly back at him.

“Protected you! He kidnapped you.”

I could feel myself starting to tear up. I turned away and started to look for the jewel shards from the Bird. I heard InuYasha stomp away. I glanced over my shoulder to see him sitting on the edge of the cliff, facing the sunrise.

I found the jewel shards and everyone but InuYasha gathered around me.

“Are you okay, Kyoko?” Sango asked.

“No,” I replied. “I don’t understand why InuYasha was yelling at me for helping Koga. Koga protected me from being eaten por his pack so I figured that I owed him for it.” I wiped a rogue tear as it fell down my cheek.

“You know,” Kagome said. “I think it was because he was REALLY worried about you and I think he got a little jealous. You should go talk to him.” I nodded and walked over to sit seguinte to InuYasha.

“Hey,” I said, sitting down. InuYasha turned his head away, ‘I’m sorry that I worried you so much and I want to thank you for saving me.”

“Whatever. I bet you would have liked it if I didn’t show up at all.”

“What?” I was confused.

“All Koga had to do was say a few sweet words and you were hooked.”

“Hooked? Are you jealous because you think that I like Koga?”

“No!” He stood up. “That’s stupid. Why would I be jealous? I don’t want to talk about this anymore.” I smiled.

“So,” InuYasha said. “What happened between you two?”

My mouth dropped. “Did you really just ask that?”

“Oh no,” Kagome said from behind us.

I stood up, my eyes was filled with pure rage. “What is wrong with you! Why would you even ask me that! I have so self respect you know!”

“I was just asking you don’t have to bite my head off for it.”

“You are such a jerk!”

“If I’m such a jerk,” he yelled. “Why do you keep coming along. We were fine before you got here and besides I’m getting tired of rescuing you all the time.”

My eyes changed from fury to a mixture of hurt and anger. “I see.” I said, calmly. I turned to Sango. “Sango, may I borrow Kirara?”

“Um, sure. What for?”

“She misses her lobo boyfriend already.” InuYasha mocked.

I turned towards him. “No! I’m going home, stupid! Are you happy now? You are such a jerk!”

I jumped on Kirara and headed towards the sun. I could hear Kagome calling my name, but I ignored her. As soon as we got out of sight I burst into tears.

“Why does he have to be so mean?” I asked Kirara, needing someone to talk too. I cried all the way back to the well.

“Thanks Kirara. Now go back to Sango.” I jumped into the well. When I climbed out on the other side, it was the middle of the night. I walked slowly towards the house. Mother opened the front door.

“Kyoko! Welcome back, dear,” she said, hugging me. I smiled slightly and walked straight to my bedroom. I plopped down on the bed, not bothering to change clothes. My eyes closed and I slowly drifted off to sleep.