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Inuyasha quickly dashed into Kaede's hut with Kagome, who was slowly fading away in his arms.
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"Kagome, you can't leave me!" he exclaimed in a low whisper.
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"Inuyasha, what is wrong?" Kaede asked seeing the look of dread cross his face and the fear in his eyes.
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"Kagome...Kikyou tried to kill her." he said, almost crying in fear.
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"I will do what I can. Ye leave so I may strip her of her garments." she said, placing Kagome on the futon.
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"No. I won't leave her side."
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"Fine, do as ye please Inuyasha, just do not get in my way."
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Inuyasha grasped Kagome's growingly cold hand. "Kagome, please don't die....."
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Kaede walked over, carrying a potion she kept for fatal injuries, and sat it down beside her. She quickly rid Kagome of her school uniform, leaving her in only her underclothes.
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Inuyasha slightly blushed but still grasped her hand as Kaede poured some of the greyish liquid into her hands like Kagome would a lotion, and began to spread it over the wounded areas.
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Inuyasha held his nose tightly. "What is that stuff?" he said, begining to feel nausiated from it's above-normail scent.
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"It is a medicine made from the herbs found on the hillside, along with other ingredients." she said, not turnin her attention from Kagome.
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"Other ingrediants like what? Swamp water?!"
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Kaede gave him an angery glance, never once stopping the covering of Kagome's wounds.
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"There...." she said, wiping her hands clean, "Ye need to let her rest. I pray that it works.." she said, picking up the remainder of the potion and putting it back on the shelf.
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"NANI? You mean there is a chance that this may NOT work?!" he nearly screamed.
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"Everything earthly is fallible, and ye know that."
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Inuyasha nodded. "Maybe I should take her to her time, back to that 'hospital'." he sighed.
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Kaede looked at him in confusion, then shook her head. "She is in too bad of a condition to be moving anywhere."
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Inuyasha took off his haori and wrapped it to the best he could over the still Kagome and nodded in agreement. She would stay here, and they would hope she'd get better. Hope-that's all they could do.
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He gently lay down beside Kagome. Kaede had gone to collect some more herbs, leaving Inuyasha alone with Kagome to get some rest. He was tired and stressed out from everything that had happene. He feared because he knew Kikyou was persistant, and when led by Naraku, she was almost immortal.
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He gently lifted Kagome and slid beneath her to give her some support. His legs were her pillow. He lay there, arms laying on her chest as he doze off.