I do not own Inuyasha...to my dismay.

"I'm guessing you have some lame excuse for leaving without telling anyone don't you!" Inuyasha huffed as Kagome returned.

"I told your brother and it's none of your business, Inuyasha! If you were so mad at me you could have come and get me yourself!" She yelled back.

" Oh and that was real efficient wasn't it?! A wall could have done a better job of communicating than that bastard!" He growled and turned away from her. "I'm gettin pretty damn tired of waiting and doing nothing and not hearing anything about Naraku's whereabouts!"

Kagome leaned against a tree and massaged the throbbing pain behind her eyes. " I know…we're…we are all tired, Inuyasha. I know I'm not much help but…"

Inuyasha turned back to look at her, his eyes ridden with guilt. "That's why I asked Kikyo…she says she knows villagers who said they've seen strange things up North. I want her to join us…"

Kagome winced and tried to blink away the tears gathering in her eyes but it felt as though someone was taking a hammer to her skull. She clutched the tree for support, her knees almost buckling in pain.

"Are you even listening Kagome…" his voice trailed off as he saw her condition.

Soon Kagome slipped and she saw the ground rushing towards her, the pain was too much for her to stand. Inuyasha rushed to her and caught her, hugging her to his chest and calling out her name.

"Kagome!"

Before he realized it, her eyes rolled back into her head and her body shook uncontrollably in his arms.

A/N:

Suprisingly I actually really like this chapter, besides the fact that Inuyasha is a total jerk...

Oh my goodness thank you BallerinaKat7! I have been waiting for someone to ask that question!

Well Life On Mars is a David Bowie masterpiece( one of my favorites) and in a quote he describes the meaning of the song as...

"I think she finds herself disappointed with reality ... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told th at there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it."

This gave me the inspiration for Rin, who knows that a mother is something so easily given but so easily taken away, can't reach the "far greater life" that she desperately seeks.

So even though the story mainly focuses on the viewpoint of Sesshomaru and Kagome and I originally got the idea about Rin , that this reflects on everyone in the entire group.

Hugs,disappearcompletely!