Kagome sneezed again as the rain poured heavily outside the hut. Sheumaru knelt before her, feeling Kagome's forehead and then her own.

"You have a dangerous fever." She warned.

"I know but I'll be fine. I'll just have to push through it." Kagome sniffled.

InuYasha stood by the door, his arms crossed. Anyone who would look at him at first glance would think he was mad at Kagome for getting sick, but the reality of the situation was that he was mad at himself. He was mad at himself because he couldn't think of any way to lessen her pain. That much was evident by his scent and how quiet he was.

Sango rushed back into the hut from being outside, the straw hat on her head barely protecting her from the rain. She had a towel in her hand and proceeded to wring it out before placing it on Kagome's head. The girl sneezed in response.

"What if it's something serious? Something more dangerous than a head cold?" Miroku voiced, looking at Kagome in worry.

Instantly both hayou growled at Miroku's notion, glaring at him as they did so.

"Don't say something like that!" InuYasha said furiously, leaving the hut in a huff, not once bothered by the rain.

Sheumaru sighed when Kagome reached for her arm, she looked down at her.

"I'm alright Sheumaru, and I will be fine, I just need a day or two to recuperate."

"No, Miroku's right. We wouldn't know if it's any worse than a head cold until it's too late. I think you need to go back home. If it's nothing serious than your modern medicine will still heal you faster than ours." The half demon girl admitted. Sango and Miroku nodded in agreement.

"Okay." Kagome said, getting up. "But what about..." She trailed off looking at the door InuYasha ran out of and into the storm.

"I'll tell him where you went, and I'll make him visit you, I promise." Sheumaru smiled lightly.

"Alright then." Kagome picked up her bag. Sango walked over with Kirara.

"Take her so you don't have to walk." The demon hunter motioned to her cat, Kagome nodded.

Kagome only managed to take a few steps towards the door before she was stopped by something wrapping itself around her knees, she looked down and saw Shippo. The small fox demon was crying into her knees.

"B-but I don't want you to go!" He wailed.

Kagome chuckled softly, she picked up the small child and hugged him.

"It's okay Shippo, I'll only be gone for a couple days at most, I promise. And I'll be sure to get you all sorts of ninja treats when I get back okay?"

"O-okay." Shippo sniffled as Kagome put him down. As the human girl left, Sheumaru got a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach, the feeling was something similar to regret. Regret that she had let Kagome go without telling InuYasha, she stared into the storm for another minute or so before shrugging it off.

It wasn't until InuYasha came back hours later, huffing and puffing as he dragged a sack load of demon meat and vegetables, that she realized why she had such regret the minute she saw her brother's face when she told him.

"SHE WHAT?!" InuYasha bellowed.

"We all thought it best that she leave to her own time in case it was anything worse than a head cold." Sheumaru explained calmly.

"BUT-BUT I DID ALL THIS FOR HER!" He motioned to the sack by his feet that was pratically bursting at the seems from strain. Nobody mentioned that they could see Shippo try and grab a few pieces while InuYasha was exasperated.

"I know. But no one is telling you you can't go see her." Sheumaru's tone was light and very suggestive, but her brother ceased to realize this even though everyone else did.

"Yeah, yeah you're right!" And with that InuYasha left the hut grumbling about ungrateful human girls. Sheumaru sniggered at her brother's behavior as Shippo passed around the scraps he managed to steal.

Kagome POV

By the time Kagome got to her own time she was aching and shivering, which were both signs that she just had a common cold, but she didn't want to make the others worry too much. Especially poor little Shippo, the look he gave her as she left still made her heart squeeze.

"Mom, Gramps, Sōta! I'm home!" She shouted from the door as she took her shoes off and dropped her bag by the door.

Her mom came first, coming from the kitchen, an apron was wrapped around her work clothes, she must have been in the middle of cooking.

"Oh honey! Are you sick? You're looking a little pale." Her mother's voice dripped with worry.

"Yeah, but it's just a cold, a nice bath and nap should cure it right up." She responded, yawning.

"Okay... Do you think you can eat something?"

"No, I'm not all that hungry, thanks though."

"Well I'll bring up some tea when you're done with your bath.. it'll help you sleep." Her mom said not sounding completely on board with her not eating anything. Kagome agreed, seeing no real need to argue with the woman, and she walked upstairs starting her bath.

The bath itself was calming but it didn't really do anything except make the aching feeling subside for a little while. She couldn't really be In the bathroom for too long though, the usually calming inscents now made her nose burn.

When she got to her room, her pajamas already on, she noticed something odd. There sitting on her bed was a very pissed off hanyou, and strapped on his back was a sack. With his white hair, red outfit, and brown sack Kagome got a disturbing image of InuYasha as who the American people call "Santa Claus" she fought the urge to giggle.

"Now is not the time to laugh Kagome! I did all of this for you just so you could up and leave back to your own time." He grumbled, gesturing to his sack.

"What is that exactly?" She asked, now getting nervous.

"Well it's not finished yet... but it's going to be medicine. So wait here and get comfortable, this stuff should make you feel great." He looked down rather sheepishly, his clawed hand going to the back of his neck as he refused to make eye contact.

"Oh, okay than." She was determined not to show him how terrified she actually was. Then he did something completely out of character, he smiled at her, a real genuine caring smile. Her heart swelled at the thought of being the reason for that smile.

She hoped to whoever was listening that he didn't pick up on her heart racing but from the look on his face he did. For a solid moment they stared at each other, InuYasha was the first one to break the silence.

"I should get down there and start making your medicine." He said softly.

"Huh? Oh y-yeah sure. Do you need any help?" She asked as he started to leave, he shook his head. Kagome sighed and she fell headfirst onto her bed. It smelt like InuYasha, and she wasn't planning on telling anyone this, but she took comfort in knowing he cared for her.

InuYasha's POV

InuYasha set to work to cutting up and dicing the ingredients. When Sōta had walked in the kitchen to ask him what he was making, InuYasha began listing off the things in his mother's homemade concoction, Sōta made him stop after the third liver that was mentioned.

InuYasha shrugged it off, thinking it must not be a common treatment in Kagome's time and started to boil the ingredients. When it was done it had the texture of a fine broth, that's how he knew he did it right. The smell barely bothered him, but apparently it bothered Kagome's family a lot, because they plugged their noses as he passed them to go up the stairs to Kagome's room.

When he got there the human girl looked like she was already on the verge of falling asleep. He knocked quietly to announce his entrance, something he never did, but he also didn't want to startle her as he knew sleep was important when dealing with sickness.

Look at me being all mature InuYasha laughed to himself.

Kagome looked up blearily from her spot on her bed, "come in." Her voice was quiet.

"Here's your medicine... I know it doesn't smell or taste the greatest but it does the job. It works best if you drink it quickly." She sat up at he handed it to her, one quick sniff and she cringed away. He could see nervousness in her eyes.

"Would I ever do anything to you that wouldn't help you?" He asked her. They made eye contact again and she cleared her throat.

"No, you wouldn't." And with that she pinched the bridge of her nose and drank the cup dry.

InuYasha smiled and pulled the cup away to put it on her bedside table.

"So how do you feel?"

"That stuff really works, I am feeling better, but-" She yawned causing her sentence to cut off.

InuYasha chuckled, "get some sleep I'll keep watch."

She looked at him strangely, but nodded anyway, curling up in her blankets, she fell asleep soundly knowing that InuYasha was there to protect her.

InuYasha was fine for the first couple hours into the night, but then as he started to drift off to sleep he held her in his arms tentatively at first, afraid of how she would react. When she snuggled closer into his embrace his heart plummeted to his feet and he fell into a blissful sleep smirking.

A: GUYS IM FINALLY BACK! I hope this 2k chapter makes up for my two month absence! As always please leave a review I love reading them!