Please Don't Leave Me

Chapter 4: Hope

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The idea came on swift wings of a dream. Attempt to take Kagome to Jinenji. He would help her! He was remembering, through his dream, after Jinenji dealt with those flesh-eating demons and Kagome and he were on their way back to Kirara, Sango, Shippo, and Miroku with the antidote for Kirara. Kagome had asked what his childhood was like. He never really answered her. He just danced around the subject.

With the dream dancing around in his head, he called to Kagome quietly trying to wake her up. She moaned pathetically.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome's eyes fluttered open. "What's going on?"

"What if I take you to Jinenji? He's only a day's walk or so away from here. Maybe he can make an antidote for you. You'll feel better and we can meet up with Sango and Kirara and-"

She placed a hand over his lips. "You're babbling now, Inuyasha." Her voice was weak; his ears flattened to his skull. His eyes became pitifully sad. He stared at her and gave a muted whimper. "I'm not saying no. I think it's a great idea." His eyes became excited and his ears perked up. "You'll have to carry me though," she warned. He smiled a small smile at her.

"No problem," he agreed easily. Grabbing her monstrous yellow bag, he threw it on his back. "Ready?" She smiled at him.

"Help," she raised her arms to him. He chuckled at her childishness and lifted her up bridal style. Her arms wrapped themselves around his neck.

"What about the blankets?" she asked as they took off.

"We may need a spot to relax later so I left them. Who knows how long it'll take for Jinenji's antidote to work?"

She was quiet for a long moment. "Inuyasha…" she stopped until he glanced down at her to tell her she had his attention. "I don't want you to get your hopes up. Please don't be too disappointed if Jinenji can't come up with a way to cure this." He tried to interrupt her with an indignant look on his face. She stopped him. "If that is the case just do me one favor." Her eyes started to flutter sleepily. " Please bury me by the Goshinboku here, that way all of my family and my friends can come visit me." She was fighting to stay awake. "Promise?"

Inuyasha swallowed hard. "Promise. I promise, Kagome. I'll bury you by the Goshinboku when you do eventually leave this world. I – I won't let you die alone either! If Jinenji…" he swallowed hard enough for her to hear, "can't find an antidote, I'll take you to Keade and Sango and Shippo and Miroku and Kirara. But you won't die for a long time Kagome!"

She smiled closing her eyes. "Thank you, Inuyasha." With that, she went to sleep.

I know it's really short. I'm sorry! -.-; I'm just having issues, I guess! But, really I'm working on it. I'm going to try to crank out and finish at least two stories that I have posted now before I move on to post the others I've been working on... ^.^;

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Saki