Disclaimer: Inuyasha does not belong to me for starters. It belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
Author's Notes: I'd like to thank the only 2 people who cared enough to review my story. You have my thanks 'cause right now, I'm an amateur in creating Inuyasha fics. Arigatou!!
I Love You
By: Midnight Star24
Inuyasha ran faster then he ever did, the slowly dying girl making him determined that Sesshoumaru would never claim the love of his hanyou life.
"Kaede!!" he shouted, despair shredding his heart, slowly, but surely as he burst into Kaede's home.
Kaede's footsteps pounded lightly on the floor as she arrived only to be greeted by a heavily bleeding Kagome in Inuyasha's gentle, but firm arms.
"What happened?"
Inuyasha shook his head. "Later. Right now just please, save her." His eyes implored her, pleaded with her to save his love.
Kaede took Kagome out of Inuyasha's hands and gently placed her onto a spare futon. "I cannot promise ye anything. But I will do my best to save the girl." Her sister's reincarnation, she whispered silently.
The healing took long and held her immersed in Kagome's magic firmly until Kaede saw healing in the torn muscles as veins repaired themselves to Kaede's forceful will. Skin grew on the muscles and veins at last and Kaede relaxed, letting Kagome's magic take care of the rest. Four long scars were all that remained to remind Kaede about Kagome's hard ordeal.
Inuyasha grew anxious as Kaede withdrew from Kagome's powers. "Well, is she going to be okay?"
Kaede sighed. "It might be a few days before she starts to regain consciousness. Until she does, fluids must be constantly poured into her body to keep fevers that will rack her body away so that she doesn't suddenly die on us.
Inuyasha relaxed, barely.
After Inuyasha told her what he knew to the extent of Kagome's incident, Kaede left.
As Kaede left the room, Inuyasha knelt by Kagome, taking her small, pale hand into his.
His mind raced with all the questions unanswered as he tried thinking about why Kagome ran from him.
Unaware of anything except Kagome, Inuyasha didn't notice that Sango, Miroku and Shippou had returned. Nor did he notice the tears wept by Sango for her friend or by Shippou for his mother.
A week later, with a desperate Inuyasha by Kagome's side, he pleaded for Kaede to wake her.
"Why won't she wake?" cried Inuyasha desperately as he clung to Kagome's hand tightly, afraid that she'd leave him forever. Afraid that she'd let him wander the lands in darkness and despair without her.
Kaede fidgeted, not knowing how to start.
Inuyasha shook her desperately. "Please, tell me!"
Kaede sighed. "She does not want to. Her will enforced her powers to obey. I'm afraid she have eternal slumber lad. There's nothing I can do. Her powers are too strong combined with her will." With this said, she stood up and walked away.
Inuyasha stared at her in shock. Questions and facts echoed in his mind. Kagome won't wake. Kagome won't wake. The three words pressed heavily on his conscious.
"You bastard, my mother's never going to wake again and it's all your fault!!" screamed Shippou, who overheard the conversation between Kaede and Inuyasha. The flowers he'd brought everyday for his mother laid forgotten as he tackled Inuyasha, hoping fiercely that he'd wound him somehow.
Inuyasha sat in shock, letting the blows the little kitsune deal out thud dully against his body. Kagome was all that mattered to him. And now she was going to leave him.
He gathered up Kagome in his arms, barely aware that Shippou was screaming again for Inuyasha to put his mother down and to get his hands off his mother.
He was barely aware of Kaede pleading for him to stop and think about Kagome's health. All he cared about was to get Kagome back to the world of living. Back to him.
Running as fast as he could without harming Kagome, he reached the beach to watch sunsets. He remembered everything Kagome told him. She told him that she loved to watch sunsets on the beach. He would give anything to have her with him, banter with him, yelling at him, even screaming 'Osuwari' at him if it would make her come back to him.
"I promised you," he whispered hoarsely. " I promised that we would watch the sun set together. Wake for me love. See the promise I kept for you."
His voice broke down as the tears he tried to hold back burst out in a silent flood. He sat there, waiting for the sun to set while he cried his heart out. Inuyasha pulled Kagome all the closer as he realized that this might be the one of the last moment he would share with her. Forever leaving him alone and in the darkness as he realized that nobody would take her place ever again. Not Kikyou, not anyone. Only she could capture his heart.
It was there Kagome started to stir. Not any big movements or anything. Just the slight movement of her muscles tensing or her fingers twitching. But Inuyasha knew.
He raised his tear-stained face to stare at Kagome in growing hope. He tried to not let himself hope, telling himself that it was maybe just his imagination. But he couldn't. Not when his love was just starting to wake.
His voice was thick with hope. "Wake for me love. Come back to me, I love you."
Kagome groaned softly, her face etched with discomfort and pain. Inuyasha realized that he was probably cutting off her air supply and laid her gently on the soft, white sand.
"Can you hear me Kagome? Follow my voice. Wake for me love," he said gently.
Kagome moaned softly as her eyes slowly opened and adjusted to the light. Her beautiful eyes were blurred and her parched mouth whispered one word silently. "Water."
Water. The forest that lined the beach was pocketed with fresh water streams but he dare not leave her side for fear that she would slip back into the coma she had hid in a week ago.
Kagome's eyes focused and saw Inuyasha for the first time in 10 days. "Please Inuyasha. Water. I'll be okay. I promise," she croaked in a dry voice.
Just hearing her weak voice was enough to tell Inuyasha that she wouldn't leave him. Yet. His heart wilted at the thought that she would still leave him.
He stood up and left her side. Running as fast as he could, he found a fresh water brook and hollowed out a makeshift bowl to hold water in record time. He swiftly returned to where she laid.
Her eyes were closed.
Fear snaked through his heart as he quickly set down the bowl of water and shook her urgently. You won't take her!! his heart screamed. I'll die before I let you take her away from me Sesshoumaru!!
Kagome's eyes flew open. Inuyasha sighed a relief as he lifted Kagome in his arms and tilted water into her partially opened mouth.
She sighed as all the water ran into her body and rejuvenated her spirit a little. Her eyes cleared as she struggled for independence with Inuyasha.
Seeing what she wanted, Inuyasha reluctantly let her go to place her sitting upright on the sand.
"Why did you leave me?" He whispered.
To be Continued
Author's Notes: I hope you like this chapter. Comments are always appreciated.