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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha's characters, I just borrowed them for a while to make up my story.

Summary: Sesshomaru, the Lord of the West, got a serious sickness that left him too weak to even stand on his own feet, his sickness news spread to another rival kingdom. The Lord of this kingdom started to prepare for attacking the West Kingdom, what will Sesshomaru do in this enormous problem?

A/N: This is my first time to write for this fandom so my name will be unfamiliar to most of you, I just wish to write even one story for Inuyasha because I always like his character and all the other characters of the manga minus Naraku, of course.

Warning: English isn't my mother tongue so you may find some grammatical errors or spilling errors, you are welcome to mention if I had written something wrong but please write the correction with it to teach me the right thing.

I wish you enjoy this story and I will appreciate your respectful reviews.

Chapter One

The Sickness Of The Lord

The green toad demon, Jaken, rushed to his master's room, he seemed socked and worried when he received some news that his lord had fallen unconscious on his study. At the beginning, he thought that the servant who told him that news was joking with him because he knew how strong his master is so it sound impossible that he lost his consciousness for no apparent reason but when the servant assured the news, he started to panic. He was sure that there would be something seriously wrong with his master to make him faint like this. He was running as fast as his small legs could, he pumped at many youkai's on his way but he never cared to apologize, he knew apology would waste his precious time and he had to see his master as fast as possible.

When he reached to his master's door, he knocked slightly lest he disturbed the owner of the room. He heard a voice calling him to enter but it wasn't his lord's voice and his made him panic even more. He pushed the door hurriedly and he examined with his eyes all the occupants of the room, most of them were the Palace's healers and some guards were accumulated around his lord's king size bed. He made his way between them and approached his master's bed and his eyes laid on the motionless body of his master. He scrutinized his lord and he noticed his very pale face and he saw how his master breathing heavily, his eyes started to became glassy as he tears formed on his eyes threatening to run freely down his cheeks. He tried hard to stop them but he couldn't, they ran down his cheeks profusely, he felt broken when he saw his mighty master looked so fragile, so weak and oblivious about every thing around him. Then he mustered all his courage and raised his head to ask one of the healers about his master's condition.

" What happened to Lord Sesshomaru? " asked the green imp with sad one.

" He was on his study then one of his guards who was standing outside the study heard a thud from inside, he knew that something fell there so he quickly knocked the door to make sure that every thing is okay but when he found no response, he opened the door and he was shocked when he saw Lord Sesshomaru laying unconscious on the ground. He called the other guards and they called us to check on him. " one of the healers told the toad all the story patiently.

" Do you think he is going to be okay? " asked the toad with high concern.

" I don't know, he seemed too weak and I guess he is suffering from one of the most dangerous sickness that endangered the youkoi's lives. " stated the head of the palace's healers with a sad tone.

" Oh, no! Lord Sesshomaru…..my master…..please…..don't leave me….master, " the green loyal servant started to whine and his shoulders started to tremble while he was sobbing non- stop.

" Jaken, Lord Sesshomarou, needs to rest and you are making noise so please, wait for us outside. " demanded the head of the healers with firm and serious tone and he poor devastated imp had to subdue to his demand, he pulled himself slowly out his master's room.

The healers started to provide their master with some healing herbs to help him resist the sickness although they weren't sure that those herbs would make him feel better. The next day, Sesshomaru gained his consciousness but he was feeling dizzy and he felt a terrible pain on his head and on his chest. He tried to stand up but a whirl of nausea hit him and he had to lay on his bed again. He was puzzled, he didn't know what was wrong with him? He also noticed a lot of herbs and some bottles contain colorful liquids were stuffed beside his bed on a small wooden table. In no time, after him getting up, he found himself surrounded with more than ten healers, all of their faces showed one thing, worry.

" What is wrong with me? " asked the Lord of the West with weak and tired tone.

" We are sorry, sir, but you are suffering from a serious disease and it may take a long time to be completely healed. All what we want you to do is to rest on your bed because exerting much effort may worsen your state. " explained the head of the healers with kind and soothing tone but Sesshomaru could sense her nervousness and worry while she was explaining his state. Then he realized that his life is on danger. Despite the fact of the seriousness of his disease, the Lord kept his cold and indifferent façade as if he heard nothing. He knew he had to be strong because he didn't want anybody sense his vulnerable state, he was able to fool any body but not his healers they seemed aware of his pain that squeezed his head and his chest. He knew that he had no choice other than resting on his bed as his healers told him.

Three months had passed and Sesshomaru showed no improvement on his health and he get bored from being confined in his bed room, he felt that he needed some fresh air so he gathered all his energy left on his body to stand on his own legs and opened the door of his room. He walked out on the corridors of his huge palace, he ignored the pleading of the doctors and the demanding of his green servant to stay on the bed. He walked steadily with big determination towards the palace garden. Once he stepped out into the garden, he plopped down on the green grass and he let the fresh cool breeze tickle his long silver hair, he contemplated the magnificent scenery in front of his eyes with admiration. Every thing around him seemed wonderful, the cool breeze, the chirping birds, the golden warm sun rays and the everlasting trees scattered all over the royal garden. He wondered why he wasn't enjoying himself with this splendid garden in the past, he squinted his eyes and his gaze suddenly fell on some colorful flowers then a soft smile appeared on his pale lips when he remembered Rin and how she likes the flowers. He sighed at his memory of her, he missed her so much but this cursed disease prevented him from visiting her for long three months and he couldn't bring her to his palace because it was full of demons and he couldn't keep her safe with his bad state of health.

The Lord of the West spent more than an hour crouching on the grass while watching the butterflies and the singing birds. After an hour he started to feel cold and he felt his body shivering so he decided to come back to his room, he stood up carefully and dusted his white outfit and before he could take one step, he was attacked with nausea and he felt his world spinning and the next second, he was sprawling on the green grass where he was sitting before. Some of his guards and the servants beside his loyal retainer, Jaken, rushed to his side and they checked his pulse when they found it they felt relieved then they took him to his room to rest and the summoned his healers to take care of him.

Another three months had passed and the news of Sesshomaru's sickness started to spread and one of the rival kingdoms knew about his serious disease and how he barely could stand on his own feet. The wild cat demons were greatly happy when they received those news from one of their spies, they knew that this is their chance to take their revenge from the kingdom of the West and from Sesshomaru after he had defeated them more than fifty years ago. The Lord of the cat demons' kingdom ordered all his army champions to meet him in the meeting hall to discuss the details of their ambush against the West Kingdom.

To be continued,

End of chapter one

I wish you enjoyed this chapter and wait for the next one. Oh, please forgive me for making any grammatical or structural errors.