Part 6: You Can Run

          "Eat something!" Inuyasha demanded, shoving a hunk of raw meat at Kagome irritably. For three days, she'd eaten nothing, and no matter what he tried, she wouldn't try any food he'd hunted for her.
          Kagome glared at him. She'd refused to say anything to him since he'd first carted her off into the woods. She'd finally lost her patience. "You idiot! What in your tiny little brain tells you that I'll eat raw meat? I mean, really!" she said furiously, and refused to say any more.
          Sesshomaru laughed. "Little brother, just kill her. I'm sick of you fussing with her all the time. Besides, she's human, and youkai from miles around will be curious. This is boring!"
          Inuyasha glared at him, "I am not going to kill her. How am I supposed to make her eat?" he demanded, "Sesshomaru, I know you know!"
          His brother yawned disinterestedly, "Fine! You have to cook it. . . "he said clearly bored.
          Inuyasha lay his ears down, "Cook. . ."
          Sesshomaru snorted, "Build a fire and stick it on a stick in the fire until it turns brown."
          "Thank you!" Inuyasha said irritably and immediately began piling up sticks. "You are more trouble than you're worth!" he informed Kagome.
          She glared at him defiantly, "If you'd let me go home, I wouldn't be any trouble!"
          "Are you going to talk to me now?" Inuyasha asked skeptically.
          Kagome refused to look at him, "If I talk to you, then will you let me go?"
          Inuyasha got his fire started in no time and stuck the meat on a little spit over the fire. "Hey Sess, see I did learn something useful from the village." He smiled at his work and turned back to where Kagome had been sitting.
          She was gone.
          "Sesshomaru! Where is she?" He demanded, glaring at his brother angrily.
          "Maybe I ate her." he said dryly.
          "Sesshomaru!"
          Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. "Fine. She ran off while you were messing with the little fire."
          Inuyasha stared at him furiously, "And you didn't stop her?"
          "No, I was glad to see her go!" he said lazily and yawned as he stretched.
          Suddenly, Inuyasha's ears perked up. He heard a scream. Very faint and far away, but he knew immediately that it belonged to Kagome. "You idiot, she's going to get hurt!" he yelled at his brother and tore off in the direction of the scream, following her scent.
          Kagome dodged another lunge from the huge monster. It's long black tentacles stretched out pounding the ground where she'd been less than a second ago. Kagome screamed again.
          "I smell the jewel! I feel it's power!" the massive octopus-like creature hissed.
          "You can't have it! Let me alone!" Kagome wailed, running around the back of the creature.
          "Hold still, girl! I must have the jewel!" It screeched whipping it's tentacles around it, catching Kagome's foot and tripping her. She hit the ground, twisting her shoulder and crying out in pain. The monster lunged toward her, black tentacles ready to tear her to pieces.
          Suddenly there was a brilliant yellow light, and she saw Inuyasha soaring over her, with a massive sword. He swung it at the monster, and it wailed in fear and pain. Twice more, Inuyasha swung the sword, and it began raining black blood and severed monster parts.
          Inuyasha landed beside her, and picked her up. Her twisted shoulder throbbed painfully, and she knew she'd be surprised if she could move it in the morning. "Stupid girl!" he said irritably. He could tell by the way she moved that she had been injured, either in the arm or in the shoulder. "Don't you know it's dangerous out here?"
          Kagome stared up at him. Suddenly she felt bad. It wasn't as if he'd hurt her. First he'd rescued her from the well, and then he'd taken her back to he and his brother's "territory". Then he'd tried to give her food, but she'd been to difficult to tell him why she wouldn't eat it. Then she'd run away when he was trying to prepare food for her and nearly gotten herself killed. "I'm sorry." She said.
          Inuyasha snorted. "Why do you want to run from me? I'm not going to hurt you."
          She grimaced, she knew deep down that he wouldn't hurt her, but still she didn't trust him very much, and she definitely didn't trust his cold older brother who kept insisting that they kill her. "I'm sorry." She repeated.
          Inuyasha didn't reply, but he understood. She didn't know what was going on and he had forced her to come with him. "You need to eat, and then in the morning, we talk."