Until he accidentally tripped over something (what exactly Inuyasha wasn't sure) and fell through the doorway. Embarrassed he jumped to his feet and dusted off his clothes, his cheeks reddening at Inuyasha's fitful laugh. "Well done Nurse Nobunaga!" He clapped.

"Hey Inuyasha... Did you need me?" He asked, still a little embarrassed.

"Yeah, I want my chair." He told him matter-of-factly.

"But Inuyasha, its 3AM in the morning, where do you want to go?"

"I want some fresh air I can't sleep." He snorted. Actually he didn't know why he wanted his chair, it just seemed like one of the many things he could rope this poor nurse into doing for him.

"Gomennasai Inuyasha but I can't let you outside at his time of the morning. Kagome will skin me alive."

"Then I want it so I can use the phone, unless I'm allowed a mobile in here?" Inuyasha smiled as Nobunaga sighed in defeat. He brought Inuyasha's chair over to him and unfolded. After he had helped him into it he asked,

"Is there anything else?"

"Yeah, I want breakfast early this morning."

"Inuyasha, with all due respect this isn't a hotel. You'll have to wait for you breakfast and get it when you get it." He was losing his temper slightly and Inuyasha had to resist the urge to laugh out loud.

"You can tell me that again, a hotel would never have such poor and clumsy service." He grumbled as he wheeled himself over towards the television, switching it on. "Alright, there is something else I want. See that on top of the television?" Inuyasha pointed and Nobunaga looked up at what looked like a box of chocolates. "Get them down for me, I can't reach." Inuyasha ordered. As Nobunaga reached up to grab them he gave the height a quizzical look.

"How'd they get up there?" He asked as he handed the box over.

"A colleague of mine visited earlier when I wasn't here and dropped off the chocolates for me. Miroku put them up there... Someone has been stealing my chocolates recently." He gave Nobunaga a threatening glare. "You better not try and take them, or I'll cause extreme pain to you."

"No, I'd never take anything without asking." He waved his hands in the air as he sweat-dropped.

"Or tell anyone where I'm hiding it. I've got money, money that I can send to get someone hurt. I trust you not to tell anyone since I need someone at night that knows where my stuff is so they can get it if I can't reach it. I want you to be that man." He said in a very serious mafia-style voice. He was cracking up inside, dieing to laugh but he could see the slight fear in Nobunaga's eyes, and so wanted to carry on the joke. After all he did have money but he was using it to pay for the hospital bills, besides he'd never pay someone to hurt someone for him, he'd do that himself.

"Hai, hai! You can trust me honest!" Nobunaga said nervously. Inuyasha chuckled to himself, now to ring Kagome and see how she was doing. After all it was four hours before she needed to be in work. Time for a wakeup call.

Thanks to Miroku who had given Inuyasha Kagome's number after he became convinced that some 'chemicals' were brewing between the two. Inuyasha had denied it, of course, and he had even hit and threw things at the annoying priest to try and get this point across his perverted friend. But at this moment he was thankful. After all prank phone calls to Doctor Kagome at this time in the morning would be fun!

Inuyasha had made sure he had enough change for the pay phone as he dialled Kagome's number. It rang for about ten minutes before a sleepy voice answered. "Yeah?" She grumbled.

"Good morning you lazy wench!" Inuyasha laughed.

"What- wait a minute! Who is this?" She almost yelled.

"Guess."

"Inuyasha?" Her voice almost sounded like a snarl. "I don't have to be in work for another four hours, why did you ring me?"

"How did you know it was me?" He demanded, ignoring the other question she had asked.

"You voice, I can hardly mistake it. Now why the hell you wake me up?" Her voice was sleepy and angry and Inuyasha just laughed. After he controlled himself he talked.

"Well I was going to go and get early breakfast but I'm not allowed. Then I realised that you probably need to put on A LOT of makeup, and drink coffee and brush your teeth a few times and wash your hair and get rid of your smell and all that before you get into work so I thought I'd give you a head start." Kagome just growled. "Oh! And did you steal my chocolates?" His voice was serious.

"I didn't steal them, I took them as your punishment. You were acting like a naughty schoolboy so I thought I'd treat you like one!" Kagome screamed down the phone.

"Well you're a morning person." Inuyasha chided, and could not hide the amusement in his voice. Quite suddenly he felt slight twinge of pain in his chest, but he ignored it, as it was kinda normal thing to happen recently.

"At this time of the morning I'm not!" She was about to hang up when...

"Arg! W-what the fuck?" Inuyasha's voice twisted in agony. He clutched his chest; it felt a lot like the pain before, except even though his heart felt as though it was in a tight fist, his legs felt as though they were being ripped from him. He dropped the phone, and clamped his eyes tight shut, trying his best to ignore the pain.

"Inuyasha?" There was no answer but she could hear him groaning. "Inuyasha stop fooling! I'm going to hang up now!" Without thinking she hung up.

~~**~~

He was only fooling with her, he must had been. What were the chances that something like that would happen during a prank phone call...but still she just didn't feel right about the whole situation. Angry with herself for being such a fool she began to get changed, it wouldn't hurt just to check up on the annoying patient.

~~**~~

Inuyasha's body wrenched in agony and nothing he could do would make it go away. He yelled out for assistance, hoping and praying to lose conscious soon, that way he would escape the pain but this time that sleep he craved never came. Nobunaga came running, and brought Inuyasha back in his room, at the same time he told another member of staff to get Doctor Hojo. "W-why wont it go?" Inuyasha pleaded out loud. As he gasped for breath he looked at the nurse by his side. Poor Nobunaga looked terrified, Inuyasha probably would have found amusement in that. Finally the darkness claimed him, and the relief from the pain came unto him like a wave of pure blackness.

~~**~~

A week had passed since that incident, Inuyasha had woken up on the fifth day although he lapsed in and out of conscious, and when he was awake he would hardly have the strength to talk. This worried Kagome immensely as his heart had also weakened, and his breathing was more often than not, uneven. Miroku could be found either in the chapel, praying or at Inuyasha's side. He spent most of his time at the hospital, and rarely went home to sleep. His eye's held heavy black bags and he didn't look too well himself. "Miroku..." Kagome sighed as she watched him by Inuyasha's bedside. The young priest was talking to Inuyasha although he was asleep.

"I forbid you from getting any sicker Inuyasha! Your mother is already sick with worry, I had to send her home, but don't worry I promised to look after you. Little Shippo has been in to see you a few times although you hadn't been awake. He told me that you got him to help you get my collection from the locker." Miroku laughed slightly. Kagome slowly walked in, at first the priest didn't notice the doctor but with a slight cough Miroku looked up.

"Has he woken up today?" It was the only thing she could think of to say.

"Hai, but it was only for five minutes...Kagome, do you think he's going to get worse? I don't like to ask his mum since it makes her more upset."

"Unless we find a treatment soon his health will continue to deteriorate." She pulled up a chair and sat beside Miroku, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. "I've discovered something strange although I need more to prove my theory so if I tell you, please don't say anything to anyone."

"I promise. What is it? Is it a cure?"

"Not exactly. The day before Inuyasha collapsed I took a box of his chocolates, as punishment for not telling me who helped him off the roof." Miroku shifted uncomfortably. "Anyway I took them home, and the cats, you've met them Buyo and Kirara. Buyo would eat anything and Kirara is one of the smartest animals I've ever seen, but for some reason both cats hissed at these chocolates. I had a proper look at them and found traces of the C-2desunibui drug. Now I doubt you've heard of it but-"

"-But it was banned in 1992 after the results were too unstable. It was meant to be a kind of steroid, to boost fitness and ability levels. It was a huge scandal, I remember seeing it on the news, my dad kept on talking about it. Some of the scientists involved refused to dispose of it. But what's that got to do with Inuyasha? We were only about fourteen then, it didn't involve him in any way."

"That's where I'm confused, I'm almost certain it's the same drug but why would they be in a box of chocolates? I seriously hope they're not being manufactured with a poison. And if this is the cause of Inuyasha's illness, he would had had more than one doze of it to become this bad, he hadn't even touched that box when I took it. Can you think of anything, any connection?"

"No I can't... Have you found traces of the drug in his blood tests?"

"Well we hadn't looked, most doctors more or less forgot that the drug ever existed. But I've sent of some more blood tests last night, I should get the results tomorrow."

"N-naraku!" Both looked at Inuyasha, they hadn't realised he was awake. His eyes were barely open though, and his voice was weak and barely understandable.

"What about that bastard?" Miroku asked, leaning closer so he might hear his friend's quiet voice easier.

"He...gave me the chocolates...B-but he used to g-give me..." He began to cough violently, and Miroku helped him sit up, gently rubbing his back to try and make the burden easier for him. Kagome looked at the two, there wasn't much more that could be done than what Miroku was already doing. Miroku looked angry when he looked at Kagome.

"Naraku is Inuyasha's coach. He gives his star runners protein shakes, or at least that what he called them. When he first gave it to Inuyasha, he was sick for about a week, but after he was feeling better he did seem to be able to run faster." He gave Inuyasha an 'I-told-you-so' look. "Inuyasha was too stubborn to accept that the shake wasn't good for him, he recognised it made him faster and carried on taking them. He wasn't sick again though."

"H-how the fuck could I know!" Inuyasha cursed, his coughing died slightly. Here leaned back and closed his eyes slightly.

"So this Naraku could have possibly been feeding Inuyasha this drug to make him a faster runner? If this is the case, then it could be good news at last Inuyasha." Kagome smiled broadly and put a hand over his. "Inuyasha, with information like this it will be a lot easier to find a treatment for you!"

"T-treatment? Not a cure then..." Inuyasha sulked.

"Well...That was something I had to talk to you about Inuyasha, but I was going to wait until you recovered your strength a little bit more before I said anything."

"I'm strong enough now!" He certainly sounded strong at the moment and Kagome sighed in defeat. This wasn't going to be easy.

"We may have to remove your left leg, although they are both weak the left one is cancerous..." She said sadly, Kagome's heart felted as though it was being ripped from her and all she had to do was to look at the broken expression on his face.

"But you said it wasn't cancer before! Fuck's sake, it was only a moment ago you were saying that it was that damn drug!" His face was flush red with anger and his fists clench tight. He had lost all tiredness from before but he was over-exciting himself, his temper soaring.

"Assuming that it is the C-2desunibui drug, one of the effects was that it began to forms cancer cells within its subjects. I believe it was this drug that you've been taking that clouded our results before, so we weren't certain then. You're lucky that it's only formed in your leg, your other symptoms such as the heart and lung pains is due to a kind of blood poisoning. By the looks of it the cancer is spreading, and any treatment such as chemotherapy may violently react to C-2desunibui drug, bringing more harm than good." She said calmly, putting on her bravest face. She had to stay strong for Inuyasha, losing his leg must had been one of his worse nightmares as a runner.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me before?!" Inuyasha growled, about ready to jump out and batter.

"Your mother asked us not to tell you unless we are certain. The results of the biopsy came yesterday, we're certain now. I'm sorry Inuyasha..." What else could she say? But she couldn't leave it at that; she wanted to comfort him so much more. It was unfair for him, anyone who had to go through this kind of torture.

"If the cancer is removed, and a treatment is found for whatever is left... What next?" Miroku asked bravely himself, she could tell by the painful look in his eyes that he was also hurting.

"If a treatment I found, and its only an 'if' then hopefully it will be able to fight back the virus. Then ideally the most we can ask for is for your life expectancy to increase by ten years, with a daily dosage of medication."

"And 'if' not?" Inuyasha spat bitterly.

"Then I'm afraid you wouldn't have long to live. A year at the most."

Inuyasha froze, unable to think. He didn't want to die, he didn't want to lose his leg! He didn't want any of this, it wasn't fair. He never deserved this, sure he was a little arrogant but he wasn't a bad person. He was going to kill Naraku, if it was (and probably would be) the last thing he ever did.

"Why me?" He sighed as he fell back into the dark sleep.
A/N = I'm a bitch but you love me anyway ^__^ Hope you're enjoying this as much as I am R&R!!!!!!