"My feet hurt!" Whined Shippo as the gang traveled along the country road. Kagome smiled and scooped him up, setting him down in the basket of her bicycle. "It's okay, Shippo. We'll be at the next rest stop soon." Kagome cooed gently as the others walked along. "Stop babying him, he doesn't deserve it!" Inuyasha persisted, walking along beside the bike.

"He's just a kid, Inuyasha." Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yeah, still. He's just a kid, don't baby him." Inuyasha persisted. Kagome rolled her eyes once more and patted Shippo on the back. "Inuyasha, SIT!" Kagome yelled.

Inuyasha fell to his knees and grumbled. "I said to stop doing that, Kagome!" He yelled. Kagome peddled on, while Shippo stuck out his tongue for a brief moment. "Hey, stop! Don't leave with out me. Traitors!" Inuyasha followed behind. Inuyasha passed by Kagome's bicycle.

The two shared a loving glance, but Kagome blushed and looked away. Miroku looked back, frowning. "Stop dilly dallying. We'll never get to the rest area if we keep up this nonsense." Miroku stated. Kagome nodded. "You're right, let's get where we need to go, guys." She sighed.

The rest of the way to the rest stop was rode in silence. But, Kagome's head was pounding and her stomach was growling. Maybe I'm just hungry, she thought. But that was impossible. Just about 10 miles back, she and Shippo had shared a bag of potato chips, a tuna fish sandwich and they each had drank a can of Coca-Cola.

"Kagome, watch out!" Sango shrieked as Kagome veered off the path and fell to the ground. Shippo stood up instantly, wiping the dust from his blue jumper. Kagome on the other hand shivered, her face turned pale. InuYasha and Miroku were farther ahead, arguing over how much money they should spend at the next rest stop.

Kagome was shivering, goosebumps on her arms and legs and her skin turning pale white. "Miroku, Inuyasha!" Shippo ran onto the path waving his arms and jumping up and down. "Come back here! Kagome's in trouble!" Shippo screeched as loud as he could in his little voice. Miroku and Inuyasha turned around and raced back to Kagome. "Is she okay?" Inuyasha insisted.

Kagome's lips and face drained of it's usual rosiness. "I'm scared!" Shippo whined as he hid behind Kirara. "It's okay, everyone stay calm." Sango said, dropping to her knees and feeling Kagome's fore head. "I don't understand. She is shivering, and yet her temperature is sky rocketing." Sango shook her in frusturation. "We could go see Lady Kadea?" InuYasha offered.

Sango shook her head. "We can not waste time, we must bring Kagome back to her time. Where she can get proper help, yeah?" Sango nodded and the rest solemnly agreed. "Dammit!" Inuyasha stomped his foot. "What are we waiting for? Let's go." The others agreed.

"Let's leave Kagome's bicycle here," Miroku advised. "None of us know how to ride it, and we can bury it under some brush until she comes back." The others nodded and Sango and him carried Kagome's bicycle and set it down in the forest, covering it with leaves and branches.

Not wanting to waste time, Inuyasha scooped an unconcious and weary Kagome up on his back and began to jump his way back to the Bone Eater's Well. In about an hour's time, they were all standing, gathered around the bone eater's well. "What do we do now?" Shippo inquired. Silence. They knew what they had to do, but were all frightened at the thought of doing it.

"Well, maybe one of us can go, right?" Sango asked. Inuyasha shook his head. "If just one of us goes, then we won't know what we're doing. I'm the only one that has ever really spent time in the future, and I still couldn't figure things out for ourselves." Inuyasha spoke.

Miroku breathed and sighed deeply. "We'll just all go, then. It won't be for long, but we have to have some rules, yeah?" The group nodded. "Kagome's family knows about us, right?" Shippo asked. Inuyasha nodded. "Yes." They went over the rules. No wandering off, no using powers.

"Alright. Ready?" Sango asked when they were done. She swung herself over the well. "No, Sango!" Miroku grabbed her by the hips and pulled her off. "I know the term is Lady's first, but let Inuyasha and I go first. If anything bad happens, then we'll be back. If we're not back in 15 minutes, follow us. Alright?"

Sango struggled free. "No! I'm fine. I can do this by myself." She replied. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and got into the well. "I'll go first." He replied and took Kagome in his arms, jumping in. Miroku and the others waited, before jumping in as well.

Little did they know what the future had in store for them…