Okay now I never lost a child. Hell I never had one. So I had to use my imagination on this one, but I think it came out pretty damn realistically. I know nothing about brain cancer and all the info in this story is purely fictional so do not take it as medical advice!
It had been ten years since Naraku's defeat. After he was killed Inuyasha and Kagome moved to the modern era together so she could finish school. They lived with her parents while she finished and soon after her graduation they mated.
They had moved out of Kagome's house and gotten their own place before starting a small family. Yuna was now six years old. She was a hanyou, though no one could explain to them why.
The well had closed as soon as Kagome purified the jewel and that was just fine by her. They had made a very happy life for themselves.
That is, until today. The first sign of trouble.
Kagome was making dinner while Inuyasha helped Yuna with her homework.
"Daddy my head hurts." Yuna complained.
Inuyasha frowned and put a clawed hand to her head. "You don't have a fever."
"It still hurts."
Kagome turned around from the stove. "Maybe it's a stress headache from doing homework. Why don't you take a break?"
"Can I go lay down?" the small hanyou asked.
Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other. She never asked to sleep. In fact putting her to bed was next to impossible.
"Sure go ahead pup. I'll put your books away for you." Inuyasha told her.
Yuna nodded and headed up the stairs and to her room.
"You don't think she's getting sick do you?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha put the homework away.
"I don't know. She doesn't feel warm."
"You can be sick and not have a fever."
Inuyasha shrugged as he finished putting the rest of Yuna's books into her book bag.
"She never asks to go to bed Inuyasha." Kagome said worried.
"I know." he said as he looked up at the concern on her face. "Look you were probably right. It's just the work getting to her. If not a headache is hardly cause for alarm."
"I guess your right." She turned back to the stove and continued cooking. "Maybe you should make her some of your cold medicine."
"But the well closed years ago. There's no way I could get the herbs needed in this time."
Kagome's shoulders slumped in defeat. She hadn't thought of that. "What is in that stuff anyways."
"I'd never tell you that."
"Why?"
Cause you'll kill me?
"Because I promised someone I wouldn't."
Kagome was about to ask who. She figured it was his mother so she didn't say anything out of respect for Izyoai's wishes. Little did she know it was really Sota he had promised.
Inuyasha walked over to help her. He hoped Yuna wasn't getting sick. He didn't want to see her suffer if he could help it.
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Her headache didn't pass, but luckily the next day was a Saturday so she didn't have to worry about missing school. She stayed in bed the whole day.
"We should take her to the doctor." Kagome decided.
"On a weekend?" Inuyasha asked.
Inuyasha suddenly picked up a strange scent. He'd never smelled this scent before. It was coming from Yuna's room.
Kagome watched as he smelled the air. "What is it Inuyasha?"
"I don't know." he said practically mystified. "It's weird. It's coming from Yuna's room."
Kagome bolted past him and up the stairs. He followed her a just as quickly, but was somehow more calm.
She made it to her daughters room to see her sleeping peacefully. She looked around for anything out of the ordinary, but saw nothing.
Inuyasha finally came up behind her.
"I don't see anything."
"It's a strong smell. It's coming from Yuna."
Kagome spun around to face him. "From Yuna?! Inuyasha are you sure that thing isn't broken?"
Inuyasha was looking down at her when he suddenly heard the mattress start to move on it's springs. Kagome saw his eyes go wide and spun back around to face her daughter.
She was convulsing on the bed. Kagome ran over and started shaking her. "Yuna! Yuna!"
Inuyasha quickly walked over. "What's wrong with her?"
"It looks like a sezuire." Kagome said trying to hold Yuna down so she didn't hurt herself.
Inuyasha stood frozen not knowing what to do.
"We have to get her to the hospital." Kagome said.
"Do you think we should move her when she's like this?"
"Yes!"
Inuyasha picked up the still convulsing girl in his arms. "Do you think you can drive?" he asked her. The way she looked right now he wasn't sure she could do it. He watched Kagome as she put a bracelet on Yuna. She quickly transformed into her human form.
"I'll do it." Kagome said running out of the room.
Inuyasha looked down at the pup in his arms before following her as quickly as he could with a shaking pup in his arms.
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In the car Yuna came to. She saw she was in her fathers arms and saw her mother driving.
Inuyasha was looking down at her eyes full of worry. "It's okay." he told Yuna as he gently stroked her long hair. "Kagome she's stopped."
Kagome slammed the breaks so hard that if they weren't wearing their seatbelts they would have gone through the windshield. "Thank Kami!"
"My head hurts." Yuna complained weakly.
"Inuyasha you don't think it's related do you?"
He didn't want to say he thought so. Instead he said, "Kagome go."
She nodded and began to drive again. She didn't stop until she made it to the hospital.
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Inuyasha and Kagome waited rather impatiently for their turn. He picked up that strange scent again and soon she was having another sezuire in his arms.
Kagome jumped up and slammed on the desk at the nurses station. "We've been here for a fucken hour!"
"Sit down!" the nurse yelled at her.
Inuyasha got up and walked over. "You want to leave her like this?"
The people in the waiting room stared at the small family with wide eyes.
The nurses eyes went wide for a moment. "Alright. I'll be back with a bed for her."
Inuyasha nodded. It's about fucken time,
The nurse came back a minute later and Inuyasha put her down on the bed.
"Do you know what's wrong with her?" the nurse asked.
"No!" Kagome wailed.
"You two have to wait here." the nurse said.
"No!" Inuyasha and Kagome both yelled.
"They have to work on her! You can't be in there! This isn't open for discussion!" the nurse said rolling the still shaking girl away.
Kagome threw herself into Inuyasha's arms and buried her face into his chest crying. "She'll be okay right?"
"I hope so." Inuyasha said wrapping his arms around her.
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Kagome was sitting crying as Inuyasha held her trying to comfort her. "Why are you so calm?" she asked almost accusingly.
"I'm not." Inuyasha said. To be honest he was the furthest thing from calm. He could even smell his own fear.
"Yes you are! You're fine!" Kagome looked up for the first time since they'd taken Yuna away. Her eyes went wide when she saw how pale Inuyasha looked. His eyes were filled with worry and fear. He wouldn't even look at her. No, he didn't look fine. "Inuyasha?"
He still wouldn't look at her. Like he was lost in thought.
"Do you think she hurt herself? I don't remember her falling." Kagome said.
Inuyasha shook his head. "I don't either. She didn't have any marks on her, but she has seemed more unsteady on her feet lately."
"What's taking them so long?"
Inuyasha got up and began pacing. He didn't know what the hold up was either.
"You... You don't think she's dead do you?" Kagome finally asked nervously with tears in her eyes.
Inuyasha stopped pacing and seemed to become suddenly dazed as his body tensed. He sniffed the air a few times. "I don't think so. I can smell her. She doesn't smell dead."
Kagome heard her last name called and shot out of her chair. She ran to the nurse who had called them. Inuyasha wasn't far behind.
"We stopped the sezuire. She's awake and asking for you."
Kagome pushed her way past the nurse and ran into the emergency room. Inuyasha watched her a second before going after her. "Wait Kagome. You don't know where she is." he told her catching up to her. He took her hand and lead her towards Yuna's scent.
They finally saw her. She had her eyes closed weakly and an IV in her arm. Kagome gasped at how pale and small she looked.
"Inuyasha I can't look at her like that." Kagome whispered as she turned around and buried her face into his chest.
Inuyasha stroked her hair gently and let her whimper unable to bring himself to say anything.
Kagome finally pulled herself out of his arms and walked over to Yuna. She took her hand. "Why isn't she responding to me?"
"I think she's just asleep."
Kagome wiped away a tear with her free hand as Inuyasha put his arm around her. They soon heard someone behind them.
They both turned around. "I'm Dr. Yuji. I'd like to run some tests." he said matter of factly without any emotion.
Kagome let out a choked sob as she asked, "What kind of tests?"
MRI and CAT scans. She had a sezuire and doesn't have a fever. It's standard proceedure."
"Do you have any idea what's wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
"Maybe epilsepy?"
"You mean you don't know?!" he yelled at the doctor.
"If I knew I wouldn't need to run tests now would I?"
Inuyasha didn't like this doctor at all. He seemed like a nasty bastard.
Kagome nodded before saying, "Okay do the tests. Is she okay? She's not waking up."
"The we gave her medication to stop the sezuire and some sedatives. Let me tell you she has some resistance to them. We had to give her a massive dose before she even came close to sleeping. I expect her to be asleep for a while."
That's because she's a hanyou, Just because you see a human doesn't mean she is. Inuyasha thought.
Kagome watched as the doctor turned and walked away.
"I don't like him. I don't trust him." Inuyasha said.
"Well we don't have much of a choice." she told him.
Inuyasha sighed. Apparently not.
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As they took Yuna away for her tests Inuyasha realized Kagome looked very tired. He could hear her stomach growling too. He got up and got some potato chips and soda from a machine before handing them to her. She didn't even notice he was handing her food for a minute.
"Kagome you need to eat." Inuyasha said hoping she'd snap out of her daze.
She blinked before looking up and taking the items and placing them next to her. She made no move to eat them.
Inuyasha sat next to her again and looked around the room. He couldn't stand hospitals. The smell of sickness and death was too overwhelming.
It was then he realized a scent besides the one that had come from Yuna today. He didn't notice it because it started off so slow. It seemed to mix itself with her scent so slowly that it didn't make him think much about it.
He growled at himself for not realizing the change sooner. He'd smelled the scent before, but wasn't sure what it meant. How could Yuna have two new scents? One scent sometimes disappeared while the other didn't. In fact it seemed to get stronger over time.
One was the scent of a disease. Inuyasha was sure of it. The other scent only happened before she had a sezuire. He had a feeling that scent had to do with the convulsions.
He looked at Kagome again. She was beginning to shake with tears in his eyes. Inuyasha put his arm around her. He wanted to say Yuna would be okay, but he was convinced something was very wrong.
"Kagome you need to eat something." he tried.
"How can I even think about food?"
Inuyasha knew she'd never eat the food she he just kept his arm where it was. She was so stubborn. He couldn't blame her though, but she had to eat.
"I'm scared Inuyasha."
"I know. Me too."
She knew he didn't scare easily. She looked at his face. It looked almost angry. She knew that look. "Okay what is it? What are you hiding from me?"
"Nothing."
"Liar. I'm her mother now tell me!"
"Kagome I don't know what's wrong with her."
"But you know something! I can tell."
Inuyasha sighed. Should he really tell her? "Her scent has changed."
"You said that."
"But that scent goes away. This one doesn't. It's been getting slowly stronger. I didn't even notice it because it happened so slow."
"What kind of scent is it?"
Inuyasha was quiet. Too quiet.
Kagome grabbed his hair until she was at level with his ears which were hidden under his hat. "Tell me or I'll purify you here and now." she whispered into them.
Inuyasha blinked a few times. She could tell he thought she was crazy. She let a small amount of spiritual power out burning his skin.
He didn't even move away from the pain. "Kagome calm down. You would never."
"When it comes to Yuna I'll kill anyone who gets in my way. Including you. Now tell me!"
He knew she was just upset. He looked around and was relieved that no one seemed to see her display of power. "I don't know what kind of scent it is. It's one of disease though." he said not looking into her eyes.
Kagome dropped his hair and brought her hands to her face and let out a wail. "You could be wrong right?"
"I guess." he told her hoping to calm her down.
She could tell from his voice that he was just trying to soothe her. She wondered why these tests were taking so long.
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"Look at this." the technician said.
"Why is her brain so active? I've never seen a persons like that before." the doctor said.
"That can't be because of what we already found?"
"No. No way. It's almost inhuman."
The technician laughed. "Like that's even possible."
"Look see here? These are the areas of the brain where sight, sense of smell and hearing is. They are all overactive. Especially the sense of smell. It's almost like what a dogs brain would look like."
"I think you'd had a long day. That could be from the tumor."
"Not where it's located it can't. If it was the tumor it would be somewhere else. I guess it doesn't matter anyways. She's probably going to die."
The technician looked at the small girl in the machine. She was wearing a strange bracelet that they hadn't been able to remove. Luckily it didn't seem to be made of any metal so they were able to leave it on her.
What kind of person could have a brain like this? To be honest Dr. Yuki never seen one like it. Could there be something special about her?
The little girl started to wake up. She looked around the machine confused and began to try and get out. She saw the IV in her arm and pulled it out.
"How can that be?! I gave her so much sedation already!" the doctor cried and ran into the room with the machine.
Yuna got out of the machine finally and was afraid. She looked around sniffing the air for her parents, but couldn't smell them. She saw a man in a lab coat coming towards her and flecked her invisble claws.
"What did you do with my mommy and daddy!"
"They are waiting for you. You have to get back in the machine. We aren't done."
"No! I want my parents!"
"I promise you when we finish your test. We're almost done."
Yuna began to growl at the man in a mixture of confusion, anger and fear.
"We want to help you feel better." he tried.
She did feel weak and still had a headache. She was very tired too. She could tell from the smell of this place that she was at the hospital. She remembered vaugly being in the waiting room in her fathers arms.
"You're parents are waiting for you. The sooner you get back in the machine the sooner you can see them." the doctor said.
"You promise? I asked to see them before and didn't."
"You fell asleep. They saw you."
Yuna looked at the machine before nodding and climbing in. "Fine, but I want to see my parents for real this time."
The doctor nodded and put the IV back in her arm. "This has to stay in your arm."
"What is it?"
"It's special medicine so you don't get sick again."
"I'm sick? What's wrong with me?"
The doctor didn't answer her as he finished putting the IV back into her arm. As soon as he was done he turned away and left the room.
Yuna didn't know what had just happened. Was she really sick?" And if she was how sick?
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Inuyasha and Kagome stood before the doctor nervously. They didn't like the look on his face.
"First thing is first. Her brain is quite remarkable. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Her senses are so hightened they are inhuman."
Inuyasha and Kagome shared a look. They hadn't expected this. They didn't know whether to be concerned or afraid. Of course they'd deny everthing if he figured it out.
"I don't know what's causing it, but enough of that. It's not something I''m concerned about it's just very unsusal. However there was something we found." the doctor explained.
Kagome and Inuyasha immediately tensed up.
"She has a brain tumor and it's inoperable." he said gravely.
Kagome let out a wail as Inuyasha whimpered as if he were in pain. Her legs suddenly gave out under her. Inuyasha caught her and couched to the ground with her holding her in his arms. He held her as she began to cry. He cried too though he didn't make any noise.
"Is there anything you can do for her?" Inuyasha asked finally looking up.
"We can try chemotherapy and radiation, but this isn't going to simply go away. It's in a spot of the brain we can't reach through surgery. I'm sorry, but we can only prolong her life by a few months at the most."
"Please tell me this is a nightmare and I'm going to wake up." Kagome whispered. "This can't be happening!"
Inuyasha was hoping it was some terrible nightmare too. One he tried desperately to wake up from.
"If we give her chemotherapy and radiation treatments, but it will make her sick. It's somethng you both have to decide." Dr. Yuki said.
"When can we take her home?" was all Inuyasha was able to say.
"We'll keep her overnight for observation. She is responding well to the medication and her sezuires have stopped. She'll be able to go home tomorrow if she doesn't have another sezuire."
Kagome cried harder. Inuyasha was still in a state of shock himself, but tried to soothe her.
"She wants to see you, but visiting hours are almost over. So if I were you I'd take the time to see her before you have to leave."
"She's awake?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes. I was very surprised. With all the sedation she recieved she should be asleep."
"We want a second opinon." Kagome said.
The doctor nodded. "If that's what you wish I will have her records faxed to her pedicatrician, but I assure you I wasn't the only doctor to be consulted on this. We had a pediatirc nuerosurgeon and a oncologist look everything over."
"How long does she have?" Inuyasha asked with a quiver in his voice afraid of the answer.
"Six months with treatment tops. I'd say three without it."
Inuyasha felt his youkai trying to come out because he was so upset. He pushed it down as hard as he could for Kagome and Yuna's sakes.
"I want to see her right now!" she wailed out painfully.
"Kagome we have to both calm down. We can't see her like this. It will just upset her more." Inuyasha said gently.
Kagome nodded and pulled out of his arms as she wiped away her tears. "I'm okay." she finally said.
Inuyasha gave her the once over. He watched as tears continued to leak from her eyes. He wiped them away from her cheeks. "No you're not. Please Kagome. We have to stay strong for her. We can both cry about this later at home."
The doctor watched as the couple tried to pull themselves together. He didn't really know what to say, but to be honest it wasn't really his problem. After a moment longer it appeared they had no more questions so he shrugged and left.
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After they both pulled themselves together Inuyasha sniffed Yuna out holding Kagome's hand. They found their way to her easily. She seemed to be asleep again.
Kagome took her small hand into her own. Yuna opened her eyes with a tired smile.
"Hi mommy."
Kagome nearly lost it, but kept a brave face for her. She leaned down and gave Yuna a small kiss on the forehead. "Hi sweetie how do you feel?"
"Tired. My head hurts too. Daddy are you okay? Your scent is turning youkai."
Inuyasha flinched a little as Kagome looked him over. "Inuyasha is your youkai bothering you?"
"I'm fine. Don't worry about me." he told her.
Inuyasha smiled down at Yuna trying to put her at ease. He was standing to Kagome's left and gently rubbed behind where he knew her inu ears were gently. Just because they couldn't be seen didn't mean they still weren't there. They were just covered by the spell.
Yuna smiled and was soon purring happily with her eyes closed. All thoughts of her fathers scent went out the window as she leaned her head into his touch.
"Yuna you have to stay here overnight by yourself. Do you think you can do that for us?" Inuyasha asked.
The girl looked up at him. "Why can't I come home?"
"You can tomorrow." Kagome said.
"But I want to stay with you|! Why can't I come home?"
Inuyasha and Kagome were both silent a moment. They weren't about to tell her the truth here, Neither wanted to leave her in this state. They had both considered staying in the waiting room all night, but the nurses and doctors didn't seem to be very understanding. When Kagome had told the nurses station she wanted to wait in the waiting room they had refused with an attitude to boot.
"We'll come back tomorrow. We promise. We won't leave you Yuna." Inuyasha told her.
"What's wrong with me?" she asked her parents.
Kagome paled as Inuyasha continued to rub behind Yuna's ears. Besides not wanting to tell here here both of them knew they couldn't lie because she'd be able to sniff it out and neither was ready to tell her the truth.
"Don't worry about that. We'll talk about it at home." her father said.
"When do you have to leave?"
Kagome looked at her watch. "In a few minutes."
"Remember not to take off your bracelet Yuna." Inuyasha said gently. It was a bracelet Shippo had made for her after she was born to hide her hanyou form. He used his demonic magic on it to create the illusion of her in her human form. He made a living out of it. Both Shippo and Sesshomaru were still around. So was Myoga and Kirara.
"Please don't leave me! Don't leave me here! I'm scared!"
Inuyasha and Kagome shared a sad look. "How about if I help you fall asleep?" Inuyasha offered.
Yuna shook her head furiously even though she felt tired. She hated being put to sleep.
Inuyasha sighed and climbed in the bed with her. Kagome watched as he took their daughter in his arms and sat her on his lap with her back to his chest as he began to growl and purr at her hoping to lull her to sleep.
"No! I don't want to sleep! I want to stay with you!" she cried out. She knew if her father did that she wouldn't be able to resist falling asleep.
Inuyasha stroked her hair and began to rub behind her ears again. "The sooner you sleep the sooner tomorrow will come." he tried.
He continued to purr as her eyes drooped. Kagome still held her small hand.
"But I'm not tired." she lied as her eyes slowly closed.
Inuyasha wasn't fooled. Neither was Kagome. He didn't even have to pick up the scent of her lie. He kept up what he was doing as Kagome watched the girl try to fight falling asleep.
Try as she might she couldn't. Soon Inuyasha heard her heart slow with sleep. He stayed where he was quietly and kissed her head gently.
They were both quiet for a couple of minutes until they saw all the visitors in the emergency room start to leave. Inuyasha finally took Yuna out of his arms and gently laid her down on the bed next to him before climbing out.
Kagome put the blanket over her and tucked her in before giving her a last kiss. She couldn't hold back her tears anymore and not wanting to wake Yuna up quickly ran out of the room.
Inuyasha blinked a few times before looking at Yuna. He kissed his fingers and laid them on her cheek before putting his hands in his pockets following Kagome. He knew she was as upset as he was and didn't want her driving in this condition. Knowing her that's exactly where she was headed and that she had the keys he quickened his pace. He'd have to do the driving.
He didn't know what to do for Kagome or Yuna. He was hurting himself and still struggling with his youkai. He'd hoped that Yuna had been sick with something treatable. The fact that they were going to lose her didn't sit well with him. What were they going to do without her?
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Neither Kagome nor Inuyasha got any sleep that night. Nor did they even bother to eat dinner. Both were sitting at the kitchen table. Kagome was sobbing into her arms which rested on the table while Inuyasha stared down with tears in his eyes.
It was already two in the morning. After what seemed like an eternity Kagome finally cried out into her arms, "What are we going to do?"
Inuyasha wasn't sure what they could do. "What do you mean?" he asked wiping his eyes.
"Should we really make her take chemotherapy and raditation? It will make her so sick. Is it worth it to let her suffer?"
"I don't know."
Kagome cried harder. "We can't just let her die!"
Inuyasha had never felt such sadness before. He's never felt so much pain. "What do you suggest?" he asked.
"I can't lose her Inuyasha!"
"Kagome I hate to say it, but we are going to. I just know it."
"How can you give up on her so easily!" Kagome yelled as she snapped up and glared at him.
"Damn it! I'm not giving up on her! I'm just telling you what's going to happen! We can't run away from this!"
"You want her to die! You don't care!"
Inuyasha growled at her angrily. "How can you even say something like that!"
"Because you just want to give up!"
"I don't want to give up! I just don't think there's much we can do!"
"We'll I want to save her!"
"You think I don't?!"
"No!"
Inuyasha stared her down with tired eyes. It wasn't the lack of sleep making him tired, but the draining day and because of constantly fighting his youkai. Why was she acting like this? "Kagome why are you doing this?" he asked sadly.
Kagome's eyes seemed to soften. "I... I don't know." she said looking away.
Inuyasha took her hand into his. "Kagome we have to stick together. We can't fight like this."
"What should we do?"
"I guess we just let the doctors do what they can."
"What are we going to tell her?"
Inuyasha didn't really have an answer to that. He didn't want to tell Yuna what had happened, but they couldn't lie to her either. She'd know it. "We have no choice, but to tell her the truth."
"But she's too young!" she wailed out and began to cry again.
"She'll know if we lie to her Kagome."
Kagome looked at his hand that was still holding hers. "I guess. Will she be able to handle it?"
Inuyasha didn't know for sure. She was still so young. Could a six year old really comprehend it?
"What are we going to do without her Inuyasha?!" Kagome wailed out again and hit her head on the table over and over as hard as she could.
"Kagome stop it!" Inuyasha panicked and let go of her hand. He got up and ran to her side pulling her away from the table. He held her in his arms as tightly as she could as her body was wracked with sobs.
Inuyasha cried with her. He knew now what that change in Yuna's scent had been. It had been the cancer. The other scent that came before her sezuires must be a scent that came only when she was about to have one.
He didn't know what to say to her. He didn't even know what to say to himself so they both held each other as if their lives depended on it and cried together.
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The next day Inuyasha drove him and Kagome to the hospital in a daze. Both had gotten no sleep and spent the night in tears. Kagome seemed all cried out and stared out the window the whole time. Neither seemed to have the strength to say anything.
They made it to the hospital. Kagome ran into the emergency room to make sure Yuna was still okay as Inuyasha parked the car. She had a bag of clothes for Yuna in her hand.
She found Yuna eating breakfast. She ate her eggs with chopsticks until she smelled her mother walk in the room. "Mommy! You came back for me!"
Kagome put on a brave tired smile and walked over to her as she put the bag down. "Of course I came back."
"Where's daddy?"
"He's parking the car. He'll be here in a minute. Eat your breakfast."
Yuna went back to her food as Kagome sat down next to her watching her.
"You look tired mommy."
"I am." she said knowing she couldn't lie without being caught.
Inuyasha walked over and smiled at Yuna.
"Hi daddy."
"How do you feel?"
"Better, but my head still hurts. Can we go home today?"
"I think so." Inuyasha told her.
A few minutes later Dr. Yuki walked over. He looked at the small family. "She can go home whenever your ready."
Kagome nodded and got up. "You stay with her I'll go sign her out."
Inuyasha nodded and sat down next to Yuna. He watched her continue to eat and could smell confusion coming off her though she hid it well with her actions.
Well at least she has an appetite. I wonder how long that will last.
He knew she was confused about what was going on. He still had no idea how to tell her.
Not far away Kagome signed Yuna out. As she was going through the papers the doctor said, "I want her to see a pediatric oncologist as soon as possible. I already had an appointment made for her. The information is on her release papers."
Kagome nodded and handed the paperwork back to the nurse.
"Here's a perscription for her sezuires. I want her to take it twice a day. If she has another one bring her back. She'll be spending a lot of time here as things progress." he said handing her the perscription.
Kagome snatched it out of his hand and dug it into her purse.
"She had a dose already through her IV so she doesn't need another one until tonight. It might make her sleepy, but she seems to have a high tolerance to that."
Kagome finished what she was doing. She didn't like this doctor at all and made her displeasure known. "Where are her clothes?"
"We had to cut them off. They are in the trash."
"Was that really necissary?" Kagome asked annoyed turning to the doctor.
"We didn't have a choice."
Kagome sighed and thanked the doctor though she didn't want to before heading back to Inuyasha and Yuna.
Yuna was just finishing up her food. She looked up at her mother as she pushed the tray away from the table over her bed. The nurse who helped sign her out came over and took the IV out of her arm.
"I brought you some clothes. Do you need help getting dressed?" Kagome asked.
"No I can do it."
Kagome nodded and took the clothes out of the bag as Inuyasha got up and closed the curtian. He waited behind it while Kagome waited with Yuna in case she did need help getting out of her hospital gown.
When she was done changing Kagome opened the curtain. Inuyasha looked at Yuna and asked, "Do you think you can walk?"
"I'm fine."
Inuyasha nodded as Kagome helped her out of the bed. He wondered how long she'd be fine.
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When they got home from the hospital and pharmacy Yuna walked to the television and turned it on before sitting in front of it on the floor. Kagome and Inuyasha barely had walked in the room behind her when she turned to them. "Why did I have to go to the hospital?"
Inuyasha picked her up and sat her the couch with her on his lap as Kagome shut the television. She sat down next to Inuyasha looking at Yuna seriously.
They hadn't discussed exactly how to tell her, so they were just going to wing it.
"Yuna you're very sick." Kagome tried.
"Why? I don't remember much. Just a weird feeling."
"You have something in your brain. It's very serious." Kagome said.
Inuyasha watched as the girl became more confused. "I don't understand."
"I don't know if we can really explain it to you Yuna." Inuyasha told her.
"It's something called a brain tumor. We think it's cancerous."
Yuna had heard that word before though she didn't know what it was exactly. She did know however that it was something that killed people.
"Am I going to die?" She remembered when her great grandfather had died so she knew what it meant.
Inuyasha and Kagome shared a look, but didn't say anything. That was all the answer she needed as she burst into tears.
"But I want to stay here with you and daddy!" she wailed throwing herself into Inuyasha's arms.
Kagome started to cry with her wrapping her arms around the girl. She sobbed into her long silver hair. "We won't give up on you Yuna."
"But I won't be here anymore!"
Inuyasha hugged her and stroked her hair as he felt his own tears fall.
"I don't want to die! Please don't make me leave!"
Kagome cried harder into her hair. "We don't want you to go anywhere."
Yuna started thrashing to get away from them. She finally managed to pull herself out of their grip and zipped from the room with tears in her eyes.
Inuyasha and Kagome got up and went after her. They found her on her bed holding her favorite bear crying into her pillow.
Neither knew exactly what to say or do. Kagome sat down on her bed and rubbed her back as Inuyasha got down on his knee in front of them.
"You're both lying! I know it!" she said in denial. She knew she hadn't smelled a lie coming off them, but that didn't matter to her.
Inuyasha's heart broke into a million pieces as he watched her cry.
Kagome tried to lift Yuna up to hold her, but she started to kick and scream. "Get away from me!"
"But Yuna-" Kagome tried.
"GO AWAY! I'm dead remember?!"
"Yuna you're not dead." Inuyasha said gently as he stroked her hair.
"Why don't you just purify me and get it over with?!" she yelled into the pillow refering to her mother.
Inuyasha pulled his hand away from her shocked as Kagome let out a painful cry and threw herself onto Yuna's back.
"Don't you ever say that again!" Inuyasha said.
"Go away! I don't want anyone near me!"
"Why do you want us to go so badly?" he asked.
"I don't want anyone here! It's my room! Get out!"
Kagome pulled away from Yuna. She thought maybe she should just let her have it out. "Come on Inuyasha. Leave her alone if that's what she wants."
"But Kagome she's upset. She needs us."
"GO!" Yuna screamed.
Inuyasha's ears drooped sadly. Kagome got up and took his hand until he too got up and followed her out the door. Once they closed it they heard Yuna throw her bracelet at the door. It slammed against the wood before hitting the
Chapter End Notes:
Just a point worth mentioning. Why can Inuyasha smell when a sezuire is about to take place? Why can he smell the cancer? Dogs have been trained to do both. In fact sezuire patients can even get dogs like blind people only they are trained to warn them of an upcoming sezuire. Anyways that's why he can pick up those scents in case anyone is confused. Dogs can also smell cancer. Please leave a review and tell me what you think!