Chapter 5: O Bother. . .I mean Brother! Hey! This is chapter 5! Thank you for readin this far! I hope you like this chapter. Sorry Sesshoumaru fans! Gomen nasai! I personally do not like him, but thx to sum of the reviewers that like him, I'm not gonna kill him. . . hehehe. . .

~Jen
Both heads turned, but only Sesshoumaru was able to see his despised sibling. Kagome was about to look around the tree she had been tied to when a hand knocked her out and she flopped to the earth.
"Don't think I'm goin to go easy on you, you bastard." Inu Yasha stated.

"I wouldn't allow it any other way." Sesshoumaru jumped towards his brother with and outstretched hand. Our hero blocked the move and punched his brother. Sesshoumaru paid him back with a blow in the stomach. (You know, the place that makes it so you can barely breath? I don't know if you know what im talkin about, maybe you don't have a big brother. . . ) Gasping for air, Inu Yasha gave an icy stare to his brother before landing a hit behind the knees. Sesshoumaru fell to the ground as Inu Yasha raised his sword. Sesshoumaru made a desperate kick-which flung their father's blade out of Inu Yasha's hands. As the full demon got up he received a knee in his chest. Inu Yasha was hit on his side and made a frantic dodge from Sesshoumaru's attacks. Kagome slowly fluttered her eyes open and saw the two brothers fighting. It had always hurt a bit when they regularly fought, because the are family, but now they were fighting because of her. She remembered her brother. 'He's probably worried sick. . .' More tears flowed down her smudged face. Inu Yasha lunged and created slashes across his brother's arm. As Sesshoumaru glanced towards his injury, the half demon landed a punch straight on his brother's face. As Sesshoumaru fell to the ground, Inu Yasha caught his breath. As the half-breed went in for the kill, grabbing the demons collar and lifting him from the ground. He lifted his hand, ready to slit his brother's throat. " You Bast-"

"Inu Yasha, don't!" Heads whizzed around, not believing what they heard.

'O my God. . .' Inu Yasha stared at the new lines across her face. Tears strung on her face, she looked poor and helpless. Sesshoumaru looked at her like she was insane. 'Why would this girl stand up for me after what I did?' The demon thought as he came out of the wince he was in. Inu Yasha dropped Sesshoumaru's collar and he fell.

"Ouch. . ." Sesshoumaru said calmly.
"Don't kill him Inu Yasha!" Kagome said, not noticing Inu Yasha staring at her face with a weird look upon his face. "Please! Let's just go, ok? Lets get out of here. . . "

Inu Yasha stuttered for a moment, unsure of how to react to this insanity and disbelieving her words. "What???? Why??? After what he did you, how can you say that??!!" He yelled.
"Because he is your brother! Brothers are MADE to be annoying! I have to take care of my brother a lot! Souta gets in the way all the time, but I still love him!"

Inu Yasha thought about how Souta had come up from the well, with red eyes, obviously worried to death about his sister. 'I hate to admit it, but she's right. . .' He walked over to his brother and picked him up by the collar again and whispered, "You are so lucky Kagome is here. Or you wouldn't be. Come near her again and I'll kill you." With that he dropped his brother.

Sesshoumaru just kept staring at the girl in awe. 'My God. . . how can she. . .why did she. . .' He mouthed the words' arigato' and she mouthed back 'you owe me, big time.'

Inu Yasha ran over to Kagome and untied the ropes. He grabbed her and pulled her close, her head to his heart, in a tight embrace. "Never be late again." He whispered in her ears. She silently cried into his shirt. He picked her up and gave a final look at his brother, and left.

*

When the two had gotten back to Kagome's house, they spilled the whole story of her getting kidnapped. Her mother had been worried sick about her daughter, then her son disappeared, and she had been going out of her mind. She inspected Kagome's cuts, "These were made by fingernails? I'm making a doctor's appointment, we need those cleaned thoroughly." Kagome groaned. She hated doctor appointments. "Kagome? Maybe I should go get your brother back from my time." "Yeah, that would be great Inu Yasha. Arigato." 'He's being so nice. How weird. . . ' Her thoughts were interrupted by her mother's voice. Kagome's mother walked Inu Yasha toward the door.

" Inu Yasha, I think it would be best if she stayed here for a few days." "Alright. I'll send your son home." Inu Yasha walked off in the direction of the well. *Later* "Honey? Do you feel alright?" "Just a little queasy, that's all." With that, the young girl threw up into the pail her mother had given her. Souta sat across the room staring at his sister. He was worried. First of all, the marks on her face. Second, she was throwing up. "Your doctors appointment is in half and hour. Are you ready to leave?" "Hai. . . " Kagome said gloomily. She did go to the doctor, and he said he needed to run more tests. She stayed overnight. As she lay awake, she thought of Inu Yasha. ' He looked like he really cared. If only. . .' She lay awake for quite a time before drifting of into a deep sleep, in dream where everything is rainbows and cuddly bunnies. The next morning she woke up and was fed the hospital food, which she was not particularly fond of. Around ten in the morning, her family came in and she talked with them. When the doctor entered the room her grandfather and Souta left to go to the boy's baseball practice.

"Well doctor? Do you know what's wrong?"

"I'm sorry. But we believe your daughter has a new type of blood disease we call fuji no yamai. I'm sorry, but it is fatal. . ."

"What caused it???" Her teary-eyed mother demanded.

"We don't know." The doctor replied.

"How long do I have?" Kagome quietly said.

"I don't know. Maybe a day, maybe a week. At the most a month."

"I understand." Kagome whispered.

Hey! Gomen its sooooooooo short but its hard to write long chapters! Thx for readin this far and please review! I don't want to write anymore if nobody is readin it. Tell me im not wasting my time!

~Jen