I know what some of you may be thinking, do I really need to start a new story when I've already got two still in progress. But this idea wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote it down. But this is just a side story, something to get my muse working for the main one. So, I hope you guys enjoy reading!

DISCLAIMER: - I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters, the complete copywrite belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Phew! Now that that's outta my system...

Broken

The Accident

"One, two, three, ten!" Shippou cried out as he happily bounded out of the hut. What? He was a kid…he didn't know how to count…

"Ready or not! Here I come!" he yelled out the warning before sticking his nose in the air and sniffing around.

It was a nice, warm summer day and the gang was playing a good relaxing game of combat hide and seek because normal hide and go seek was just too damn easy for the demons in the group.

The kitsune's eyes lit up when he caught the demon slayer's scent. She wasn't hiding too far off, he moved stealthily in the direction the scent was the strongest. Well as stealthily as he could in his current hyperactive state, "Sango I found you!"

Inuyasha sighed from his place on the highest branch of the tree he was hiding in, damn runt. How many times had Kagome told him not to tell people they'd been found. It defeated the whole purpose of the game; they could just find another place to hide.

Kagome had taught the game to them yesterday night when Shippou wanted something else to do because he was bored with his crayons. Inuyasha could see why, all Shippou ever drew were flowers and rainbows and Kagome. Drawing Kagome he could understand, but what was with the flowers and rainbows? He was supposed to be a male demon damnit!

"Kagome you're it!" the hanyou heard Shippou squeal excitedly.

"Ok Ok" he heard Kagome say good naturedly, "I'll count, you go and hide"

"Feh!" the wench probably let him find her, the soft hearted idiot.

He jumped down from his branch and scouted for a hiding place closer to where Kagome was counting. This game was too easy for him, no one ever found him. He was just too good. Kagome was the only one who ever got close enough to find him, but maybe that was because he was always somewhere nearby…

"Ready or not here I come!" he heard her shout as he settled for hiding behind a blueberry bush, all the while keeping his eyes and ears trained on her every move.

Kagome looked around, nothing but trees and bushes. No sign of movement, not even the sound of a twig snapping. Playing with her feudal era friends was so much more difficult than playing this game with her loud, giggly school friends back home. She walked deeper into the forest, being as careful and quiet as was possible, but the crunching sound when she stepped on dry leaves didn't help any. This could take a while…

A sudden rustling from the bushes caught her attention and she started walking toward the source of the noise.

"Shippou?" she called out tentatively, "Inuyasha?"

"Gah!!"

Inuyasha's ears perked up when he heard Kagome call out his name, but he wasn't expecting the scream that followed.

"Kagome?!" he asked, jumping out of his hiding place, his hand hovering over his sword. There was Kagome…with an overgrown demon spider on her chest…with acid spit leaking out of its mouth...

"Get it off me!!" She screamed, trying to dislodge it herself with her hands.

"Shh, calm down wench, stay still" Inuyasha coaxed, walking slowly toward her with his arm outstretched. He didn't want to startle it into spraying its acid on her.

"Calm down?!" she shouted incredulously, trying to pry the disgusting bug off of her with her nails, "Are you crazy?! I've got a huge, man eating spider on me in case you didn't notice!"

Inuyasha resisted the urge to roll his eyes, "I highly doubt it eats humans, now stop that before you hurt yourself"

As if right on cue, Kagome dug her nails into the spider and managed to rip it off her, flinging the bug away in the process. The action causing her to lose control of her arm from the amount of force she'd used, making it go hit against a tree…real hard.

"Oh shit!!" she cried, immediately cradling her injured arm to her chest and sinking down to the ground, her legs starting to give way.

"Kagome?" the hanyou crouched down next to her, trying to get her to let go of her arm so he could take a look at it, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing" she lied, screwing her eyes shut, waiting for the pain to subside, once it finally started to numb, her eyes fluttered open, blinking the tears, that had started to pool, away.

"Let me see" Inuyasha reached for her arm, he only so much as touched it when Kagome started screaming again.

"Ow! Ow! Ow!" Kagome scrunched up her eyes as the pain started all over again.

"Kagome are you alright?"

"Of course she's not alright you stupid runt, now shut up!"

"Inuyasha" Kagome warned, just because she was hurt didn't mean Inuyasha could shout at Shippou. Her arm was really starting to worry her. It was starting to turn red and swollen. The pain seemed go down when she kept it still but it flared up again with a vengeance whenever she tried moving it.

The others, even Kaede, were all afraid to come too close to her, for fear of making her injury worse and also because of the short tempered, on edge half demon sitting next to her giving all of them a 'Don't you dare' glare. How Inuyasha managed to get her to the old priestess's hut was a miracle. Too bad she couldn't remember, too caught up in the pain to notice.

"Maybe you should take her back to her time Inuyasha" Miroku suggested, the atmosphere in the hut was too tense and uncomfortable for his liking, "They have better medicines there, they could probably heal Kagome's injury better than we could" 'If you'd let us' he added silently.

Inuyasha looked from Miroku to Kagome's arm, "Don't do anything stupid while we're not here!" he warned gruffly before standing up and taking his fire rat haori off. He folded it up and rapped it around Kagome's arm as gently as he could, his mouth tightening every time she winced. He used the sleeves to tie the make shift sling around her neck, "Is that alright?" he asked her, stepping back a bit.

Kagome waited for the pain to subside before answering, "Yeah, its fine" she gave him one of her heart melting smiles, "Thank you Inuyasha"

"Keh" he blushed, "Let's get going"

"Oh my goodness! What happened to you two?" Mrs. Higurashi asked on opening her front door.

Standing before her was Kagome and Inuyasha, both covered with sweat, her daughter was looking very uncomfortable and Inuyasha seemed to be gritting his teeth, a look of pure guilt etched on his face. The only thing stopping her from jumping to the normal conclusion was the big red sling her daughter's arm was in.

"I hurt my arm mama" Kagome stated, going inside when her mother stepped aside to let them in.

"How did that happen?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"We were playing hide and seek mama and I was it…" Kagome started to say before Inuyasha interrupted.

"She was being clumsy and hit her arm against a tree"

Kagome glared at him, "I was telling the story"

"We don't have time for that damnit!" the hanyou snapped, "We need to get your injury healed before it gets worse"

Kagome sighed, how could she stay mad at him when he was so worried about her.

"We won't be able to defeat Naraku if you have just one arm"

Staying mad was pretty easy actually...

"Well Miss Higurashi, I've got your X-ray results" the doctor said, opening the big brown envelope.

Inuyasha growled at him, receiving another warning glare from Kagome. Honestly, she should never have brought Inuyasha to the hospital with her. In the span of the one hour they've been there, he'd managed to issue death threats to almost anyone who even looked at her, including the nurse at the reception, poor lady, the miko hoped she was out of shock by now, and he almost destroyed the X-ray machine with Tetsusaiga, and now he was sending the doctor death glares as well. Did he want to go to jail or something?

The doctor was oblivious to the hanyou currently wishing him dead, and clipped the X-Ray to the light board and switched it on.

"Ooh" he said, studying the X-ray, "Doesn't look too good"

Inuyasha actually snarled at the doctor, "Just tell us what's wrong damnit!"

The man turned to stare at him, not helping Inuyasha's agitated state of mind at all. For a doctor, this man had very little sense of self preservation.

"He's just worried about my daughter" Mrs. Higurashi cut in, successfully saving the puny man's life because the doctor stopped looking at him. Inuyasha grunted, weak human. "What seems to be the problem doctor?"

"It looks like your daughter has a broken arm" he said, taking the X-ray down and sliding it back into the envelope.

Both Inuyasha and Kagome and equally horrified looks on their faces, "A broken arm?!" they both cried out simultaneously.

"How can her arm be broken?!" the hanyou cried out in panic, "Does that mean she can't use it again?"

"How long will it take to heal?" Kagome asked at the same time.

"No no, don't worry Inuyasha, she'll be able to use it again, they'll just bind up her arm in a cast and fix the bones that are broken" Mrs. Higurashi assured him.

Inuyasha let out a relieved sigh, some of the color returning to his face.

"It'll take two months to heal" the doctor answered Kagome's question, while telling a nurse to bring him an arm cast over the intercom.

"Two months?!"

Mrs. Higurashi sighed. Her daughter and future son-in-law could be such drama queens…

AN: - Well, There you go my peeps, the first chapter's kinda like a prologue, so that's why it would have seemed a little rushed. The next chapter's where the real fun begins...

Oh and, for anyone who's still wondering, they were all sweaty and tensed because Kagome was in pain, Inuyasha hated to see her in pain and getting her through the well and out of it, was exhausting for both of them.

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Till next time...