I felt like crap and I didn't know why.

Inuyasha was holding my hair back for the tenth time this month. The first few weeks I thought that maybe it was just something I had eaten, but now it was getting serious. It was like the flu that just wouldn't go away. I was vomiting from left to right, and sometimes when I hadn't eaten I'd still puke.

But when was there a time I never ate? I was starting to feel subconscious about how much I wanted some food. I ate a whole fish and wanted more. More berries, more bread, more fish, and more rice. Even as I was gagging I wanted something to eat. My stomach was like a black hole, and I was starving right now.

"Kagome, we have to get you to Kaede, this has gone way too far." Inuyasha said in his usual irritated tone.

I came back up and wiped my mouth on a towel he had handed me. "I know," I said with a sigh. "But I honestly don't want to have any attention on me…it's just a bug…I'll be fine."

"No, no you won't. And if it's just some 'bug' why can't you just let Kaede get it out?" He frowned.

I sighed and looked up with a look of covet. I sniffed the air. "Do you smell that?" I asked suddenly. My stomach was yearning for anything to fill it, when suddenly this scent hit my nose…the scent of fire…smoke…chicken…

Inuyasha stared at me like I looked like something from outer space or something. "I don't smell anything." He sniffed the air and looked back at me, a look of concern covering his features.

He couldn't smell that? That wonderful smell? How could he not smell the scent of the meat of a chicken roasting over a fire with the smoke carrying over to the village? I looked around and there it was. There was a vague sight of the smoke just rising over the trees in the forest across the river.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. I looked behind me and he was a long distance away. I hadn't realized it, but I was running at a speed I had never thought was possible for me to run at. The river was only a few yards in front of me and I was running at 30 mph. I kept running, having a feeling I could maybe...

My feet left the ground and I looked back, mid-air, snickering at the fact that apparently I was no longer a "weak human" anymore. That's when I looked down and my feet were engulfed into the water and my body followed.

The current wrapped around me and carried me down the river. I tried clawing my way to the surface, I gasped when I felt the frigid air hit my face, but the water carried me back down. The rocks on the bottom scraped my legs and I pushed my feet against the floor of the river and thrust my hands and head through the surface and felt for anything to grab onto. I gasped and choked on water and grabbed a branch close to me and clutched it close.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha called out.

"Inu‒" I was cut off by water blocking off my wind pipe. I coughed and coughed until I blacked out.

When I woke up I was in Inuyasha's arms. His hair and clothes were soaked and I was cradle against his chest. I looked up at his expression and closed my eyes to hide from him. His expression was furious; His eyes were weary, but his lips were turned downward in a tight frown.

"I know you're awake." He said quietly.

"How?" I looked reluctantly back up at him.

"You're heart rate went up. I could feel it beating at a faster pace."

"Oh…"

"We're going to Kaede's. Right now." Said, not looking at me.

"What?"

"I said," He said, pausing a moment to contain the growl he had let slip off his tongue. "We're going…To Kaede's."

"I don't think I'm that sick, Inuyasha…" I said quietly.

"Well, there's something wrong with you. Something very wrong." He narrowed his eyes at me, giving an alien look.

I looked at him, sighed, and waited for my arrival at Kaede's. When we got there, Inuyasha explained about all the weird symptoms. Vomiting, cravings, super speed, and the river incident…She looked at me as Inuyasha was saying about how stupid my actions were and had a look of an idea.

"Bring her in here, Inuyasha, but then ye must stay outside." She said to him.

"No way in HELL I'm staying outside while Kagome's sick!" Inuyasha shouted at her, placing me gently on the bed.

"Inuyasha…do what she says…" I said.

He looked back and forth between me and Kaede and left the hut, grumbling about something.

"Cravings, eh?" Kaede looked over at me when Inuyasha was gone.

"Yeah, it's been really strange…I'm just always hungry…it doesn't matter that I just up chucked in front of him, I was still feeling famished...Kaede, I smelled out some fish that was miles and miles away, even Inuyasha couldn't smell it." I told her. As I explained, her eyes grew wider.

"That's strange indeed…maybe a parasite has taken your body for their own...or maybe…" Her eyes grew distant from me, her thoughts running. When she hit an idea her eyes widened and she looked back at my face with the look of shock.

"What is it, Kaede?..." I asked with my voice small.

She smiled widely. "My dear…I may have some very good news for you and Inuyasha."

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