Chapter 2

Sickness

There was laughter in the air as it rained. Small feet splashed in the puddles as the little girl ran around, laughing. There was a squawk as water splashed on to a frog like demon and then Jaken's voice. "Rin!" He scolded. "You insufferable child! Stop that at once!" Rin just laughed more, smiling wider. "But it's FUN Jaken-Sama!"

Jaken's face expression showed just how miserable he was. "It's fithly is what it is!" Rin just kept smiling. "Aw! But I love the rain!" Rin turned around when she heard footsteps. "Sesshomaru-sama!" The little girl exclaimed, forgetting her childish argument with Jaken.

"Come play with us!" Rin opened her arms up wide, running in a circle. Sesshomaru stayed silent. "As if Sesshomaru-sama would lower himself to play in the rain!" Rin stopped running at Jaken's scolding voice. She pointed her finger in the air, towards the gray clouds. "Why not? I said before its FUN!"

Sesshomaru closed his eyes and frowned a little. 'The rain. How I hate the rain. It reminds me of that day... It reminds me... Of her.'

WITH KAGOME AND GANG

Inuyasha inhaled deeply. "Ah- Ah- CHOO!"

Kagome looked at him as he mumbled. "Stupid rain." She moved closer to him to get a closer look at his face, a light pink spread across his cheeks. "You know Inuyasha, you've been like this all day. Are you sure your okay?" Concern showed in her eyes.

Inuyasha's ear twitched. "Tch. It's a little sneeze. All this sittin' around is what's really bothering me. Where'd they have to go that was so imported anyways?" Inuyasha leaned to the side a little, resting his chin in his hand.

Shippo looked up from his coloring. "They said they were going to a nearby village. Remember?"

That's right. Miroku and Sango went to preform an exorcism on the Headman's daughter.

EARLIER WITH MIROKU AND SANGO

"Its my sworn duty as a monk!" Miroku said, holding up one hand in a prayer like position, trying to act innocent. And if you looked closely enough, there was a halo above his head. "And as a Lecher!" Sango accused, then proclaimed. "No way I'm letting you go by yourself!"

The trip was supposed to take two days at the most.

BACK TO THE PRESENT.

'With all this rain it'll probably slow them down a little...' Kagome scratched at her chin thoughtfully, 'hmmm'ing a little. 'Maybe I should have packed them an umbrella...'

Inuyasha started to hack and cough, Shippo worriedly said his name. Kagome turned around. She got close to him and place a hand on his forehead. "'JUST A SNEEZE' MY BUTT! YOUR BURNING UP!" Inuyasha's face turned more red then before. Kagome jumped up. "Stay right there, I think I got something that'll help."

Inuyasha put his face into his hand. Shippo looked at him curiously. "Inuyasha? your face got really red just now... Fever getting worse?"

Kagome rummaged through her bag. "I thought Demons don't get colds." Inuyasha huffed. "Well, excuse my for being HAlF-DEMON!" Kagome dug further into her bag. "Lucky for you I have some medi-" Kagome sentence was cut short. A dark shadow appeared over her eyes. 'There's no more!' Inuyasha questioningly said "Keh?"

"Oi! What's wrong?" Kagome put on a face smile and laughed nervously. "Heh, heh. Uh... I think we can forget that plan."

Kagome placed her chin in her hand in a thoughtful manner. 'I guess I can go home and get more medicine.' She then crossed her arms, closed her eyes and looked down a bit disappointedly. 'Oh. But we're to far from the well...' She then hit her open palm lightly with a fist. 'Ah! I know!'

She bent down a little and smiled at inuyasha. "There's some herbs i saw while ago in the woods. I'll just go get some." She turned to leave but Inuyasha grabbed her wrist, she looked behind her in surprise. "Kagome..." Inuyasha whispered her name. "Don't go." Kagome's eye widened, and she blushed. Inuyasha realized what he was doing and blushed even more. He snatched his hand back, almost like he was burned.

"S-STUPID! If you go now, then you'll get sick too! Then what?" Kagome blinked, then smiled. "Okay, I'll stay." Shippo started to snicker at Inuyasha. "Tee-hee, your face got all red again!" Inuyasha angrily turned towards Shippo. "SHUT UP YA LIL' TWERP!"

I'll Stay...

After a few minutes, Inuyasha was fast asleep, and Kagome decided to leave and go back home. She turned to Shippo. "Shhh. Try not to wake up Inuyasha, 'Kay?"

She got up and put on her shoes. In the door way Kagome turned to look over her shoulder. "I'll be right back! Take good care of him, Shippo." Shippo smiled. And replied. "Don't worry, you can count on me!" Kagome continued her way out.

On her way to the Bone Eaters Well, Kagome looked up at a tree branch that was dripping from the rain.

'Everything always looks so much prettier after a shower.' She thought, holding her hand out to catch a raindrop.

She closed her eyes as the wind began to blow, and lifted a hand up to the side of her face, holding her hand back. 'It's been a while since it rained. The last time...' Her train of trailed off as a memory flashed through her mind.

It was the time when Kagome had met, or accidentally bumped into, Sesshomaru while it was raining. 'Also the last time I say HIM.'

Kagome lifted her pointer finger to her chin. 'I wonder if Sesshomaru ever used that umbrella or not.' Kagome rubbed her head. 'Knowing him, probably not.' Then a mental image came to her mind. Sesshomaru standing there looking down his his nose at her, with sparkles in the background. And him saying, "I'm too sexy for your umbrella!".

Kagome sweat dropped.

To Be Continued...

Sorry I'm not able to do the full chapter but since I was taking so long I thought, 'Ah, what the hell, Im going to post this Afro my readers who are probably being turtored waiting for so long.'

SORRY, my mom decided I should do school all year round... Even though I'm a few days ahead with my school work, I still have a very short time for writing and editing.

Plus... My laptop crashed with all my files of the stories... I almost cried when it did... I wasn't able to save anything ),:

Ja Ne my readers!

Julia.