The 5th Son
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Chapter 16: Arising Problems
But… Kagome lifted her hand that felt wet into the moonlight and stared in horror. It was covered on blood. Inuyasha's blood!
Kagome took in a shuddered breath. "No…" She whispered backing away. "No no no!" She demanded as she scrambled off the bed. "This isn't happening, I'm still dreaming! NO!" She screamed ear piercingly.
"What is it!" Sesshoumaru demanded as he burst through the door after hearing the scream, soon followed by Miroku, Sango, and his 3 brothers.
Kagome didn't say anything, she just stood and pointed. Everyone's eyes followed to where Kagome's finger was pointing. And there they saw Inuyasha, blood staining the sheets around him, coming from a wound in his left side.
"Go get Matamishu!" Sesshoumaru ordered to no one imparticular as he made his way over to the bed. Keita nodded and took off out of the room to get Matamishu .
Now at the bed Sesshoumaru shook Inuyasha "Inuyasha! Wake up!" he yelled. But no matter how hard he shook him, Inuyasha just laid there.
"What's going on?" Matamishu asked in a concerned face as he and Keita entered the room. "Something is wrong with Inuyasha. He's got a wound in his side that should have already healed by now, and he won't wake up." Sango explained to Matamishu as Sesshoumaru continued futile effort to bring Inuyasha back to the conscious world.
"Oh my. Well, he IS still alive isn't he?" Matamishu asked. Sango nodded. "Well, I'm afraid, during the period of time the Oshima had charge of my Manor, he foolishly wasted the majority of our medical resources. We don't have much besides bandages and what not."
Then we'll just have to take him home." Sesshoumaru responded as he picked up Inuyasha and headed for the door. "Now?" Ryohei asked. Sesshoumaru stopped and looked at him "Yes, now. Get Kagome and let's go." He said bluntly and then walked out of the room.
Kagome was still standing in the same place she had been when all of them first entered the room. She was just standing there, staring at the bed.
"Eh, Kagome? Are you alright?" Ryuichi questioned. Sango brushed past Ryuichi and walked up to Kagome. "Hey, we've got to go, come on, ok?". Kagome shook her head as if being woken up from a daze. "Um, ya, sure." She responded quietly following the others out of the room.
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Exiting the Manor everyone just barely caught a glance of Sesshoumaru as he ran of. "Kagome, you ride with Sango, and Miroku on Kirara, that way you'll be able to keep up with us." Keita Instructed.
Kagome nodded and climbed up on Kirara, Sango in the front, her in the middle, and Miroku in the back. "Miroku, if you even try anything" Sango scolded. "I know, I know. I won't, trust me." Miroku answered back waving his hands in innocence. "Easier said then done" Sango replied under her breath as Kirara took off, following the Inu Youkai.
Sesshoumaru jumped over a log and dodged a tree branch as he picked up his pace. He was going too fast for the others to keep up, he knew this. But the longer he took to get Inuyasha to their home, the more of a chance that Inuyasha wouldn't make it. And with that thought Sesshoumaru sped up his pace even more so.
Kagome sat on Kirara hanging onto Sango, deep in thought. 'Inuyasha, what happened to you? I know you got hit by one of Izumo's daggers, but shouldn't you have healed already!?'
Kagome shifted a bit on Kirara and Sango looked back and gave her a comforting smile. Kagome gave a weak smile in return and Sango turned to face forward again.
Kagome sighed 'Inuyasha, you better be ok. I can't take the heart break of losing another…' Kagome's thoughts were cut off as a few tears trickled down her cheek. "It's not fair." She whispered as she buried her face in Sango's back.
Sango looked over her shoulder for a second. 'Poor Kagome, she doesn't deserve to feel so down all the time' Sango thought as she turned back looking in front of her.
Cool air rushed past her face as she looked over the horizon. The sun was setting, and it was actually very beautiful. Sango smiled a little.
"Hey, Kagome" Sango said still looking into the horizon. Kagome pulled her head away from Sango's back and sniffed "Ya?"
Sango pointed "Look at that sunset, isn't it beautiful?" she asked. Kagome turned and looked. Sango was right, it really was a sight to see, and a little relaxing in it's own way.
"You know, Kagome, a soothing sunset predicts luck to come in the future." Miroku said calmly from behind her. "Ya, so don't worry, I'm sure Inuyasha will be fine." Sango added in from the front. "Thanks guys." Kagome responded smiling a little
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Keita looked ahead of him as far as he could see. And he couldn't see Sesshoumaru anywhere. 'Good, at least that means he's getting Inuyasha home quickly.' He thought and then looked over his shoulder "Hey guys, we need to pick up the pace, ok?" Everyone behind him nodded.
Sesshoumaru look up, and just barely, he could see the Western Manor from where he was. 'Good, almost there' he thought to himself as he looked down at Inuyasha. The bleeding was getting worse, by now a large portion of Sesshoumaru's own cloths were soaked in Inuyasha's blood. "Just hang on" he said as he strained himself to go faster.
Leaping over a small brook Sesshoumaru finally reached the Manor front. Dashing through the front gates he leapt up the steps and banged on the door.
By now it was nightfall, and most of the manors occupants were asleep. Sesshoumaru banged on the door again as it began raining "open up!" he yelled.
Then the knob twisted and the door opened to reveal a rather disheveled looking InuTaisho in the doorway. Looking at the Sesshoumaru and then down at Inuyasha his eyes widened.
"What happened!?" InuTaisho demanded as he stepped aside and let Sesshoumaru in. "I'm not sure what's wrong with him." Sesshoumaru replied ass he set Inuyasha down on a futon.
Right then Lady Mio walked in "Oh my god! My Inuyasha! What happened to him!?" she demanded as she rushed to Inuyasha's side.
"We're not sure. Go get Saori and tell her to come here, I'm sure she'll be able to figure out what's wrong" InuTaisho replied in the calmest voice he could manage at the moment.
Mio looked at him like he was insane telling her to leave her injured son, but then nodded and jogged off to get Saori.
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InuTaisho now turned to look at his youngest son 'God what'd you get yourself into Inuyasha?' he asked mentally before turning to Sesshoumaru. "Where are the others?" He asked. And as if on queue Miroku, Sango, Kagome, the twins, and Keita came through the doorway.
InuTaisho let out a sigh of relief, at least all of them were ok. About then Saori and Mio entered the room, making their way hastily to Inuyasha.
Mio pulled off Inuyasha's shirt and began cleaning the gash in his side and putting healing herbs on it. Saori turned to everyone else.
"Ok, I need to know exactly what happened, that way I might be able to figure out what's wrong with him." She said calmly as she took a seat. They nodded. Everyone knew that Saori had a vast amount of knowledge, and had a good chance of knowing what happened if she could put the pieces of the puzzle together.
"Firstly, how did he get the wound in his left side?" Saori questioned. "Well when he was fighting Izumo" Keita paused to make sure Saori knew who Izumo was, she nodded. "Izumo through two daggers at Inuyasha and one of them hit." Keita finished gesturing to the gash in Inuyasha's side.
"Dagger" Saori said, more to herself than the others. "Tell me, what did this dagger look like?" she asked in concern. "Um, I'm not sure." Keita replied.
"It was about 12 inches long, with a leather handle that had emeralds embedded in it, and a golden blade with a ruby at the base." Came a labored voice from behind them.
They all turned to see Inuyasha, one of his eyelids cracked open half way. "that's what it looks like" he gasped out.
"Inuyasha, you're alive!!!" Mio hollered as she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly. "ah.. mrfgh…can't, breath…" Inuyasha managed to squeak out.
"Oh, sorry." Mio replied letting him go. Inuyasha cringed in pain and then looked at Saori "Do you have any idea why I haven't healed yet?" he asked in a strained voice.
Saori hung her head down "Well, yes…" she responded quietly. "What is it?" InuTaisho asked, urging her on.
Saori sighed "It's called the blade eternal torture. It's laced with a poison only found at the center of the region, between North, South, West, and East. The poison is one that only works on those with demon blood in them. It makes it to where the wound is impossible to heal, and slowly drains the life out of the victim making things even worse, since usually the victim is also losing a lot of blood in the process." She replied choking a bit on her words.
Everyone just kinda stood/sat there in silence for a few moments, none daring to ask the question that all of them had on their minds.
"How long do I have to live?" Inuyasha dared to ask the question no one else would. Saori looked over to him " judging by your wound, about 4 hours." She replied.
"Is there a cure." Kagome asked out of the blue. "I mean, it IS a poison? All poisons have cures don't they?" she finished. "Well yes, there is but-" . Saori was cut off "There are no buts about Saori, if there is a cure we're going to get it." Kagome replied.
"You don't understand, the only cure can be found at the same place as the poison, and the center of the region is a very dangerous place!" Saori replied stressing the word 'dangerous'.
"She's right you know" Sango said "the center of the region is a very dangerous place, I've been there once". Saori nodded "see, she agrees with me."
"And if you're going to go get the cure, you'll need someone who knows their way around there won't you" Sango finished crossing her arms. Saori looked at Sango like she was insane "you're supposed to stop her from going there, not encourage her!
"I agree" Miroku said. Saori smiled a smile of relief, finally some one was thinking in their right mind. "You shouldn't encourage her to go unless I go also." Miroku finished as he walked over and stood next to Sango and Kagome.
Saori slapped her forehead, oh well. "Come on lets go, We've only got about 4 hours left, and it already takes and hour and 45 minutes either way to get there, that'll leave us 15 minutes to get the antidote." Sango said as her Miroku and Kagome headed for the door.
"Wait you Baka's, you're going to get yourselves killed" Inuyasha yelled after them as loud as he could in his weak state. "Don't worry, we'll be back, just don't go dying on us while we're gone ok?" Kagome called back behind her as they exited the Manor.
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A/N-You know what I was thinking…. I'm on the Fav authors list for 32 people. Now, if I'm really one of their favorite authors, don't you think that each one of them would be nice and review for me. And if that were the case I'd have at least 32 reviews per chapter, times that by 16 and, I would have 512 reviews! 0.0!!! lol. Oh well ;-;
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This chapter was inspired by FieryDemonFox because she hadn't noticed it had been a long time since I last updated : )
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