Chibi Okami ~ Sorry this took so long, I was gone most of June and they wouldn't lemme bring my laptop *tear* So I haven't had a chance to write, but I AM BAAAAAAAACK! ^-^ Also, I only got a few reviews for chapter 18 and here I thought that you all might actually like the story . . . *tear*

Disclaimer ~ I do not own Inu-Yasha you stupid idiots who think that I do! And just how many of you are there that think I do anyways?

Huntress

Chapter nineteen ~ Sick

"ACHOO!" Kagome sneezed. She wiped her nose and pulled her covers back up under her chin. She sighed, but it ended up as a coughing fit. Her brother walked in and raised his eyebrows.

"You know it's your own fault for being sick. I don't know what you were doing up in the tree in the rain, that was just stupid."

"Shut up." She muttered and rolled over to her side.

"What were you doing in the tree anyways?" Souta asked, edging closer to the bed. Kagome just moaned and pulled the covers over her head. She couldn't answer why he had been in the tree, she just wanted to be there. It was like if she was where Inu-Yasha always had been, then maybe he was with her.

She couldn't believe she missed him this much. She had always wanted to be away from him. She had always wanted to go to her world and live the life of a normal teenager without having to worry about a dog demon and Shikon Shards. Now that she got her wish, she wanted it to be like it was before.

"Hey, maybe I should call mom on her cell phone and tell her to get some medicine for you, she's at the grocery store right now." He said, looking down at his sister.

"No, that's okay, I'll live." Kagome muttered, burrowing under her blankets.

"What ever you say." He said as he walked out of Kagome's room. She heard Souta's footsteps down to the kitchen, where she knew he took the phone off the hook and was going to call their mother to bring back medicine.

Kagome rolled over on her back and stared at the ceiling. No matter how much she tried, he just never left her mind. He had disappeared before, normally on the nights of the new moon, but it had never bugged her then. He hadn't ever been gone this long, she reminded herself.

Kagome stared out the window, wishing and praying with false hope that Inu-Yasha would jump through and pull her back to his era. She wished he would yell at her, call her a bitch or a wench and fall to the ground after she sat him. She missed all that, she really did.

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People crowded around the small girl crying on the ground. She kept calling one name over and over again 'Shippo'. No one knew who Shippo was, or where they could find him. Finnally a worker made it through the crowd to the small girl. She smiled and looked down at her.

"Hello, little girl, what's you name?"

"S-Stuka." She muttered through tears.

"Well, Stuka, I am going to take you up front -."

"No!" Stuka cried out. "I have to stay here and wait for Shippo!"

"Please come with me, up front we can call him over the intercom."

"What's an intercom?" She asked, wiping her wet eyes.

"It is the loud voice that is heard all over the store. That way we can call Shippo and have him come and get you."

"Oh." Stuka breathed.

"Will you come with me?" The lady looked at the girl, all the kindness she could muster in her eyes.

Stuka hesitated before she nodded and stood up. She took the lady's hand and was led up to a desk with a bench next to it. The lady motioned for her to sit down and she walked over to the desk and picked up a telephone, she pressed a button and when she talked into it her voice boomed across the building.

"Will Shippo please come to Customer Service to get Stuka?"

A soon as Shippo heard these words he shot up from the crouching position he had been in, he had been looking for Stuka under a pile of stuffed animals. One, well, two thoughts went through his head. One "What is Costumer Service?" and two - "They have Stuka, they are challenging me to a duel!"

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Midori was looking down at the limp body of the half demon she had caught. He was lying on a bed where she had been bandaging his wounds. She was amazed he was still alive. The chances of a half demon living through two battles were slim to none. He had not been put in a group where he should be winning, either. The Boss had put him in a higher ranked fighting than what he should be; he had been put in there to be easy bait for stronger demons. The boss had wanted him dead, and she did not know why.

She sighed as she tore another bandage and began to wrap it around his arm. The hanyou was not tied down to the bed, if he did wake up while she was bandaging him, he could do nothing. It seemed impossible that he lived through being a vampire, she knew what that blood could do to him. His dog half and his human half fighting each other, a demon just couldn't live with conflicting bloods, but Inu-Yasha had survived it.

She didn't understand it, he should have died so many times, but he didn't. How could a hanyou live through what he has? How could he take a fight and turn it around? What was giving him the will power to do so? She looked down at his unconscious face and saw him so peaceful. 'He must be dreaming of her.' She realized.

She sighed and wondered what kind of girl could cause him to be willing to live through everything he has been through. What kind of person could give someone that much strength?

She shook the thoughts out of her head and continued to bandage him. He would still be recovering from the vampire for a few days, until then he couldn't fight, no matter how much the boss wanted him too, she wouldn't let him. She shook her head, what was she thinking? Why would she care if he died? The she relized it, she envied him. He had someone to pull him through the toughest of times and she had no one.

The End of Chap 19

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