Shippo, upon hearing this, began beating the sh** out of the poor hanyou, or tried as hard as a cute little kitsune could. *hehe* And, for the first time, the hanyou didn't try to stop him. He was thinking, cursing himself for not finding the cure from Kikyo.

"Come on. Let's go, Inu-Yasha," Miroku said.

"To where?" he snapped back.

"Kaede's."

"If one person can heal someone who'd drank Kikyo's poison-it's her sister," Sango said, holding Kirara. Inu-Yasha nodded dumbly and complied.

***

Inu-Yasha hurried into Kaede's hut.

"Yo! Hag! You here?" Kaede sighed.

"What is it Inu-…" her voice trailed off when she saw Kagome. From the way she looked, Kaede was certain that Kagome had suffered from her sister's poison. She hurried up to Inu-Yasha and ordered him to lay her down.

"This is bad," Kaede informed everyone.

"Duh! We know THAT already," Inu-Yasha said irritably.

"But…don't you know of any cures, Lady Kaede?" Sango asked.

"My sister's poisons are the strongest in this world. Not even I can find a cure. I may find one in a month or so, from careful examinations of Kagome, but then…" Kaede looked wistfully at the young girl, "it'll be too late. This was the poison that Kikyo used to put on her arrow to kill demons and monsters who came after the Shikon no Tama." Kaede sighed. "She would've used her deadliest poison for that."

Inu-Yasha jerked up when he heard this. Taking hold of Kaede and shaking her.

"What did you just SAY?"

"T-That that's the deadliest poison."

"NO! BEFORE THAT!"

"Kikyo used this on her arrow tips when she aimed for the monsters after the Shikon no T-…" Inu-Yasha never heard the rest. He bounded out of the hut, straining his memory.

***

He arrived at a peaceful meadow. He remembered how it had been a coincidence that he met Kikyo here and her cures can ALL be found here. He screwed his eyes in concentration…

~Flashback~

"The purple group to your right and the golden one next to that," Kikyo told him, smiling.



"These? The red ones and blues ones and that center group?" he asked her dumbly.

"Yep." She smiled. "The cure's just missing a few more ingredients."

"Which?"

"Oh. Hyacinths I keep at home…and," at this point Kikyo nicked her finger. He hurried up to her to stop her bleeding for her, though she only smiled.

~End Flashback~

"OK. The purple ones to the right," he hurried over to get purple ones and the golden ones next to it.

"Then, the center group and the red and blue ones," he sighed and crouched over, working furiously.

"OK. Hyacinths…Kaede's hut," Inu-Yasha cried triumphantly, as if he'd just discovered how to make a time-machine. *not that he knows what THAT is. WHAM! Why!!!! OSUWARI!!!! Hehe.*

***

"Where'd Inu-Yasha hurry off to?" Sango asked. At a time like this, the monk had given up on being a pervert.

"There he is," Miroku pointed to the huffing and puffing *big bad wolf!* Inu-Yasha.

He cradled the ingredients like treasures and laid them on the ground before Kaede.

"Do you have any hyacinths?" he ignored all the questioning glances. Kaede said nothing and went to get some, ordering everyone else with work to do.

***

When Kaede returned, Inu-Yasha informed her that these were the ingredients. However, Kaede frowned.

"What?"

"We're missing an ingredient."

"WHAT?"

"Kikyo always have an odd number of ingredients in her antidote. Recount your memory what she did." Inu-Yasha fidgeted uncomfortably. Taking this sign, Sango and Miroku, who was dragging a crying Shippo, walked out of the hut.

Sighing, Inu-Yasha talked. When he came to the end, Kaede suddenly cried out in excitement.

"That's it! Get Sango!" Inu-Yasha obeyed.

***

"Sango, Kaede wants you." Sango looked up in surprise, then followed Inu-Yasha in.

"Sango. I need a little of your blood."

"'K." With that, Kaede nicked Sango's little finger and squeezed a few drops of blood into the boiling water along with all the other ingredients.

"Thanks. This should heal Kagome. Here are some bandages for your finger. You can leave now." Sango nodded, and walked out of the hut to bring the relieving news to her friends.

***

"Lady Kaede?" A village women came into the hut, with an anxious look on her face.

"Yes, Megumi?"

"My baby daughter. She's getting worse." Kaede nodded.

"I'll be there as soon as I get the necessary stuff." The young lady nodded and left.

"Inu-Yasha. Feed another cup to Kagome once it cools down. A second cup should be able to cure her." He nodded as he walked Kaede leave.

***

"Where am I? Last I remember, it was…Naraku's castle," Kagome thought, still not quite conscious. Then, she saw a dark figure looming over her.

"No! Stop it!" She fought furiously against Naraku.

***

Inu-Yasha was wrestling a kicking Kagome.

"Kagome. You have to drink this!"

"No! Get away from me!" Thinking of no other way to do this, Inu-Yasha grabbed hold of her shoulder, trying to force her to get up and drink the medicine. In her desperation, Kagome slapped him. He winced and brought back his hand.

"Stop it! DON'T TOUCH ME! I HATE YOU!" Inu-Yasha dropped the cup when he heard this. It smashed, spraying liquid all over him. Then, mechanically, he got up and got another one. After filling it. He sat down next to Kagome.

"Kagome. Wake up!" Kagome fidgeted.

"That was Inu-Yasha's voice!" she thought. Then, slowly becoming conscious, her eyes began to focus. She saw the familiar red cloth of Inu-Yasha's fire-rat coat. Looking over, she saw him holding out a cup to her. She noticed that the Tetsusaiga was lieing in the corner. As she accepted the cup of medicine, she looked around.

"This is Kaede's hut!" she thought.

"I'll go and tell the others you're awake."

***

Sango hurried towards Inu-Yasha.

"Is…Is she…"

"She just woke up," Inu-Yasha said, trying to be cheerful. Miroku and Shippo hurried in, but Sango stopped at the door. She turned around at Inu-Yasha's retreating back, sure that something happened in the hut. He didn't seem like his normal self.

"So sad…" she thought, wondering whether she should follow him. However, when Kagome called her name, she went inside instead.

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Hiya! OK. That would probably be my second or third to last chapter. I'm still typing. How do you reviewers like that? This story will end soon, but I've already started it's sequel! Actually, I started a while ago. The sequel is a big Rin and Fluffy/Sess, but it includes Kag X Inu here and there, and a hint of Sa... well, you'll see. If you want to read the sequel, since it's almost over, the title is:

Lord and Lady

Also, since I'm working on a LOT of new fanfics, I take a while to update. So, you can amuse yourself with my TOTAL HUMOR crossover of Inu-Yasha/Gundam Wing/Sailor Moon. HUMOR HUMOR HUMOR. The title is:

New Life, New School, New Problems, New Foes

(Exactly what the title says.)