Sick Days

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Notes: Hey well what did I say, once I saw the reviews I told myself that I had an obligation to fulfill and got right on this. I am not feeling well lately but I can't stop moving or I might get really sick. I just got to keep on my feet and get things done. If I don't and leave it up to others then it will NEVER get done! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Kagome woke to sounds of movement. She looked around to see Inu Yasha sitting up.

"Inu Yasha! How are you?" she asked.

"My head hurts a little but other then that . . . well you know, okay I guess," he said with a toothy grin.

Kagome looked around; Sango and Miroku were sleeping back to back. Shippo was also sleeping it looked as if his fever had gone down a bit as well.

"Inu Yasha . . ." Kagome trailed off.

"Yes?" he asked.

"What do you think it was, I mean I know you, and something as little as how the air smelled couldn't be it," she said looking at the stars.

"I am not sure exactly but I do know that it is something big," he said. All of a sudden out of the blue Inu Yasha asked, "Kagome, why do you stay? I mean you could most likely use your priestess powers to seal the well. Plus even if you couldn't if you said the's' word enough you have complete power over me. Why do you come on these quests even though you know that they could be your last?"

He had been thinking about it for a while and knew that he was almost keeping her there against her will sometimes.

"Inu Yasha, I like it here. This place . . . it is very different from my time. It may not be as safe but it is quite, unlike Tokyo. I like being here, I like being with you, Sango, Shippo and sometimes Miroku. When he is not, well you know," she said with a smile.

"Yes but you know that you might not even see your mother, or your crazy grandfather again, yet you still come with me," he said. "I feel like I put you in danger."

"Inu Yasha listen to me, I love it here with all of you and I would not change it for the world," she said leaning on him closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep.

Inu Yasha smiled at her sleeping form and laid her down. He then went outside the cave and looked around.

Whatever had gotten to him and Shippo wasn't present anymore. But it worried him, if someone would have attacked just then, Kagome would not have him to protect her!

He often wondered if he could keep her here. With him . . . forever. He pushed the thought out of his head and went to sleep; he needed a bit more rest before he would be good as new.

Kagome opened her eyes; he had pretended to be sleeping. She looked over at Inu Yasha.

What had possessed him to ask her a question like that? Maybe it was the fever talking, she was not sure.

She left the cave and looked at the sky. It had cleared considerably. She walked over to a flower and picked it. She inhaled its sweet sent and sat down on the soft grass.

After a while of just sitting there she got up and preceded into the woods, she was going to the place that had brought Inu Yasha down to his knees. Maybe something using a shard was doing it, she had to know.

She came to the exact spot and felt out with her senses. All of a sudden she felt it, it was a shard. A shard and something else, but what, he couldn't pin point it. She continued her assault on the air until it came to her. It was an inhalant poison!

She took a deep breath ad felt nothing. I must have only affected demons. That made sense because Miroku, herself, and Sango were not affected.

She started to walk back to the cave when she felt something following her. She broke into a sprint. Maybe this was the same thing that was chasing Sango, she was not sure. The only thing she was sure of was that she had to get away from it.

She burst into the cave with great speed, hitting the other end to stop herself. Then she placed the Tetsuseiga up to protect them.

Her extremely loud entrance had woken Sango and Miroku but luckily not Inu Yasha.

"Lady Kagome, please tell me that you weren't just out there!" Miroku exclaimed.

"It is a shard, a shard is doing all of this," she said, still catching her breath.

"Are you sure?" Sango asked. She was more worried for Kagome then interested but figured it is good to be prepared for whatever they were going to face.

"Yes then something, what might have followed you came after me," Kagome said pointing to Sango.

"Are you sure that you are okay?" Miroku asked.

"Yes I am fine. Now I must insist that we keep our voices down. Let then sleep, I will inform Inu Yasha about this when he wakes. Do not worry we will defeat this. Oh and another thing, there is some kind of poison in the air that must effect only demons, we have to find away fro Inu Yasha to get close enough to fight without worrying about the poison," she said.

"We will tend to these new discoveries later, now let us get some sleep," Miroku said.

"Yea, come on Kagome, you know you are tired as much as you want to hide it.

"Okay I will," she said resting her head on the floor of the cave and instantly falling asleep.

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