*INUYUSHA is owned by Rumiko Takahashi yadda, yadda, yadda.

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Thank you all ya' reviewers:

USAGIPEGUSUS

-I'm glad you've gotten excited. ^_^

ARTEMISMOON

-You're probably right about my bout of temporary insanity. I hope you'll like this part. I'm glad you like that part about Miroku. Well, I also wanted to know what happen in the past that brought them all together. ^_^ You see, I know how to begin the story and I know how's it going to end, but I don't know what happen to them in the middle. I'm still figuring that out too. Hopefully it remains consistent. About the synopsis: Well, I don't want give the whole plot, but you're right I need to work on it. Any more tips on that?

MYNUET

-I'll take you up to your offer ^_^.

To the Readers: I edited chapters 1-4. Happy reading.

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JAPANESE TRANSLATION:

Sengeko Jidai- Warring States Period

Kitsune- a magical fox creature believe to be crafty and change its appearance on whims; Shippou's specie

Otou- Shippou's slang for father

Okaa-san- mother

Chikusho- damn it

Fuda- a spiritual paper a priest uses to keep, kill, and ward yokais

Gomen nasai- I'm sorry

Nani- What

Na- Wha.

Daijoubo desu ka- are you all right

Daijoubo- are you all right

Hai- yes

Iie- no

Sou ka- is that so

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Chapter 5: Sleep

SENGEKO JIDAI

"It has been three days and still there's no signs of him waking up." Shippou announced to the grim group. Kaede, Miroku, and Sango had all their heads down as if in mourning.

SILENCE.

"Hey, come on now." Shippou said, as he noticed everyone's unresponsive reaction from his announcement. "We should be celebrating since the Shikon no Tama is finally complete. There's no Naraku, no yokai to fight for the Shikon fragments, Miroku's hand is healed, Sango's family at peace, and. . . and. . . and. . .-" He could not go on anymore, so he ran out of the hut and started wailing.

Kagome walked in from the room. "What was that?" Asking the group.

Nobody answered her.

Kagome gave out a little smile and walked out the hut following the sound of the wailing kitsune.

"Shippou-chan."

The sobbing Shippou looked up at Kagome, who has been like her mother ever since he became an orphan when the Hiten brothers killed his Otou. He ran towards Kagome jumping into her open arms. She had always been so nice to him. Always smells so good. He likes her smell best of all.

"Shippou-chan." Kagome hugged him to her. "I have been neglecting you, haven't I?"

"Iie, Kagome," his answer was mumbled from her clothes. After some time when his sobbing had finally diminished, "I think-hic-- you should-hic-- go back to Inuyasha, he--- hic needs you - hic-mo -hic---more than I--hic."

Kagome rubbed his tail, which had him purring to her like a cat. 'He reminds me of my cat, Buyou,' she smiled. "Don't worry, Inuyasha had been healing pretty fast, I think in a given time he'll wake up soon. 'Yes, please soon. Onegai, Inuyasha.' "I should at least take care of you too, shouldn't I?"

'Kagome is nice. I wish she really is my Okaa-san.' "Iie, Kagome. I'll be- hic-- all right." He was still hiccupping from crying too hard.

Kagome smiled at her little friend. 'I think I'll give him something to do to take his mind off everything.' "How about this Shippou-chan, you can help me find some herbs to heal Inuyasha's wound."

Cheering at the prospect of being able to help, Shippou puffed his small chest and nodded. "Sure, Kagome. But you should go back to Inuyasha and leave the rest to me." He wiped his wet nose with the back of his hand.

"Why don't you bring Kirara with you, Shippou-chan?" It was a statement not a question coming from the yokai exterminator who walked up from behind them.

"All right." Shippou waited for Kirara to come to him before turning back and walking towards where the herbs are.

Kagome watched them leave.

"Kagome-chan."

"Yes, Sango." Turning to the yokai exterminator.

"Gomen nasai."

"Eh," Kagome approached her friend, "what for?"

"For getting Inuyasha poison."

"What are you talking about?" But she already knew what her friend meant yet she could not let Sango feel guilty either. She had done nothing wrong.

"He wouldn't have gotten wounded if. . . if. . . if. . ."

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FLASHBACK

"I, Inuyasha." Kagome gasped, "I think I know where his weakness is."

"Nani?"

"I think it's in his neck!" Kagome pointed at the symbol of a two-headed snake in the middle of the yokai's neck. "I noticed that every time you get near him- it tried to protect it. Plus, every time there's a new yokai born from his part that symbol glow."

"Nani?" Inuyasha looked at his companion and knew he could trust her instinct. She never had been wrong before. "Why didn't you tell me before?" Walking towards the yokai more confident than before. 'Sou ka.'

"Now, this is the end of you."

He hadn't even gotten ten steps nearer to the yokai when Sango was caught by two baby yokais. She was spread arms wide with a yokai on each of her sides while the mother-yokai's tentacles were getting ready to hit her on the chest.

He jumped towards the baby yokais. "Sankon Tetsusou!!!" (Soul Scattering Iron Claw) The baby yokais crumpled to the ground. He wrapped his arms around Sango upon released and jumped high to avoid the mother-youkai's sharp tentacles that were coming to end Sango's life.

"Ugh."

The sharp tentacles hit his back throwing him and Sango forward and crashing to the ground.

"INUYASHA!" "SANGO!"

"Chikusho." Inuyasha dragged himself up away from Sango who was currently beneath him. "Sango, daijoubo desu ka?"

"Ugh," Sango grimaced from the pain of her back, "hai."

"Sango."

Inuyasha glanced up and saw the monk looking worriedly over girl.

"I think she's all right." He assured the monk.

"Inuyasha, you're wounded!" Kagome cried out as she approached him.

"Feh!" Inuyasha stood up. "Miroku, take care of them." He said turning back to the yokais. The baby yokais had multiplied to eight from the two yokais he slashed down in attempt to save Sango.

"I, Inuyasha." Kagome whispered worriedly.

Inuyasha heard her, yet did not look at her.

"This is bad, this is bad, Kagome-sama." Myouga said.

"Eh," Kagome glanced at the flea on her shoulder.

"Now, he can't help but turn into a full yokai."

"Eh," Kagome looked back to Inuyasha. 'He needs his tetsusaiga. I need to help him. Where could the yokai hide his sword? I wished I have my bow and arrows with me.'

"Kagome-sama, stay here with Shippou, I'm going to help Inuyasha." Miroku said as he took out some fudas from his robe.

"How about your wounds?"

Miroku glanced at his arm. "This is nothing. Compare to Inuyasha, this is only a scratch." He smirked, "Besides, I can't let that hanyou have all the fun, can I?" Running towards the baby yokais.

"Houshi-sama, do not cut them!" Sango reminded the monk from the ground.

Kagome knelt down beside her friend. "Daijoubo desu ka?"

"Here, Kagome, your bag." Shippou gave the bag that he knew have full of magical stuffs to heal Sango.

"I'm all right." Sango smiled waving the medicines away. "I'm more worried about Inuyasha."

'Me too.'



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'Chikusho, I can feel my yokai blood starting to control me. Che, where the fuck is that symbol? I need to take this yokai out before I loses control.' "Miroku, keep those crappy little yokais away from me while I take this mother-fucker out!"

"Right!"

'Where's that fucking symbol?' Rushing towards the tentacles just barely dodging them. A tentacle that was protecting the symbol moved instinctively to hit Inuyasha. 'Ah, there it is! This is it!'

"Take this, Hijin Ketsusuo!!!" (Airborne Blade Blood Claw)



A bright white light flashes from the yokai. It crumpled down followed by the baby yokais whom Miroku was whacking with his staff.

'It's over.'

Upon the ogling green liquid that was before a yokai, the tetsusaiga prodded fort. 'It fucking ate my sword?!?'

"Iie, Inuyasha-sama." Myouga already in the hanyou's shoulder, he shook his head. "You should have used your scabbard to call your tetsusaiga, then you could have killed the yokai earlier."

"Myouga," glancing down at the flea smiling, "if you have nothing more to say," squishing the flea, "I WANT YOU TO DISAPPEAR RIGHT NOW!"

"Inuyasha," Kagome ran towards him, "daijoubo?"

"I'm all right, how about you?" Looking back at the worried girl. It never failed to amaze him that someone like her could care about him.

"Iie, nothing happen to me." Kagome glanced at his sword and the fragment that was beside the sword. "Your sword."

"Yeah," Inuyasha followed her gaze and went towards it.

Suddenly, the area became black and it started to consume him. He felt like he was falling. 'Na..'



"INUYASHA!"



END OF FLASHBACK

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"Kaede-sama said that the poison from the tentacles had entered his system that's why he collapse." Sango fisted her hands on her sides. "This is all my fault." 'I'm a warrior. I should be able to help. Not add to the burden.'

"Iie, Sango, it's not your fault." Kagome put her arms around the proud warrior, comforting her. "Things just happen, besides Kaede-sama said his body is already healed."

"Then why isn't he getting up?"

"I don't know," Kagome remembered how she panicked in the second day when Inuyasha still refuses to wake up. "Kaede said that it was exhaustion from all the traveling and relief that the Shikon no Tama is already complete." She remembered the time he went to her place not to drag her back, but had stayed and even slept on her bed. It was the only time she saw him really relaxed. Maybe, he was really just too tired, and though he has yokai blood in him- his other half is also human.

"Iie, Kagome, you should go back to Inuyasha." Sango pushed her friend back to the hut. 'I can't believe I took her away from him when he needed her to recover.'



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Kagome entered the room and saw that Kaede hovering over Inuyasha.

"Amazing," Kaede whispered, "the medicine from your country is really effective."

"He's really healing then?"

"Yes," the old woman turned to her young companion, "but I think you need to get in with him now." She added gesturing the fact Inuyasha was already thrashing and seemed to be having a bad dream.

Kagome instinctively went to Inuyasha who suddenly calm down.

Kaede saw this and smiled. "You are still his best medicine." She whispered walking out the room.

"I, Inuyasha," Kagome stared at the hanyou, when he move towards her seeking her scent, she then knew what to do. She had been doing this ever since Kaede realized how it calmed Inuyasha down. She got in beside him on top of the covers while he remained under that cover. Took the extra blanket and covered herself and turned to her hanyou. 'Her hanyou, eh.' She smiled and brushed the hair that artlessly fallen to his face. 'He looked so innocent like this.' She can't help putting a hand to his cheek. 'Inuyasha when will you wake up? What am I thinking? You need your rest, eh.' She took a strand of hair between her fingers playing with it. 'It's so soft.'

Inuyasha rubbed his face against the back of her hand.

Kagome smiled at how he continuously seeks for her warmth while inhaling deeply as if he needed assurance even in sleep that it was she that who was near him and not someone else.

'Sleep, Inuyasha. Just sleep.'

She continued to watch him, brushing his hair when it did not obey her and kept falling down on his face.

"Don't worry I won't leave you." She assured him when he whimpered at the lost of warmth when she moved her hand away from his face.

'Sleep.' Returning her hand to his cheek.

'He likes that.' Seeing that it soothe him.

She leaned over him propping her elbow up, so she could get a more direct look of him. Watching him very intimately. His lips were so near her. Tempting her. She leaned a little closer and felt his breath as he sucked the air in a rhythmic motion. It tickled her face and guaranteed her that he was alive. She leaned a little closer than before and stared at his face. Her gazed went from his close eyelids, his nose, and then to his beautiful lips. 'Kami-sama, he's so beautiful.'

Her heart beat faster. She leaned a little closer.

Beating faster.



Faster.



Faster.







Halfway to his lips she stopped. She looked at his sleeping face again. Then leaned up and placed a kiss on his forehead.

'Sleep. Sleep, Inuyasha.'





She tucked herself beneath his chin, wrapping an arm around his chest.

'Sleep.'



Inuyasha's rhythmic breathing was making her drowsy.

'Sleep.'



Her eyes then drifted down and finally sleep took over her too.



ON TO CHAPTER 7

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This is quite long.

If some words and situation is not consistent to the series, that's because I am following the manga. I figure that since I've only seen the episodes up to 53, I might as well use the manga where I get more information. However, there are some scenes that I used that came from the series also. So hopefully, nobody got confuse.

Kaede says 'Kagome's country' because this was during the Sengoku Jidai- and every village is considered to be another country. So, in a way, Kagome is considered to be a foreigner rather than a person who come from the future.

Kagome calls Shippou as Shippou-chan, Miroku sometimes as Miroku-sama, and Sango sometimes as Sango-chan.

Shipou calls everybody by names only. He's like Inuyasha at that area.

Miroku calls Kagome as Kagome-sama [I think because he was warned by Inuyasha to respect Kagome], Sango as Sango- basically, Miroku only gives the title to Kagome except probably when he's with beautiful women other than that he revert back to being rough like Inuyasha.

Sango calls Kagome as Kagome-chan, Shippou as Shippou-chan, Miroku as Miroku-sama or Houshi-sama [I think she's deliberately doing this to set some boundaries between them or probably she respected him- I'm not really sure].

Inuyasha- calls everyone by their names, and a couple of bad names when he's pissed off, he just gave title to Kaede but I think he's just calling her an old woman.

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