*Disclaimer: I do not own Rumiko Takahashi's work, Inuyasha.

Naraku's Revenge and Kagome's Suffering

Chapter 4:

The New Arrival

Inuyasha stayed on the roof after his discussion with Sota about the shards. "I'll follow the 'ambulance' and stay by Kagome until she's well," he said to himself. I won't lose her too, like Kikyo.

When the red and white truck appeared in the driveway, Kagome's mother ran out to greet them and led them inside. After about five minutes, Kagome was on a bed with wheels and placed in the truck.

"I'll ride with Kagome," the old man said. "You two take the car and meet me there."

"What about Mom?" Sota asked.

"It's alright," Kagome's mother replied, "Grandpa can't drive, and only one family member can ride with Kagome."

"That's right! We all need to be there for her," the old man stated.

They nodded in agreement.

When the ambulance left, Inuyasha called down to Kagome's brother and mother, "I'll follow the truck on foot."

"Are you sure? We can drive you also," Kagome's mother offered.

Inuyasha didn't want to tell her that he could keep a better eye on her daughter, if he could see the truck with his own eyes and not follow her by her scent. He didn't want to even show his true feelings in this critical moment, and wasting their time talking about who's going with who. Kagome needs them and much as he needed her…Did he just think that? He swallowed his thoughts and said, "No. It's okay. I don't feel very comfortable in those contraptions."

"We'll see you later then," Sota replied as Inuyasha ran off with a nod, thanking the heavens that he or his mother didn't pry into the matter further.

Inuyasha leaped from building to building landing on their roofs, never keeping his eyes off the white and red truck. Kagome, please don't die on me, he said to himself.

Just then Inuyasha could smell the demon again just like when he was in the well. And it was coming toward him! I'll lose Kagome if I fight the demon now, he thought.

A purple and black mist swiftly plummeted in front of Inuyasha on the roof of a tall building. He could smell the poison from the mist as it began to take the form of a purple-skinned human with a head of black spikes as hair. He also wore criss-crossed belts across his chest. Attached to the belts were multi-colored canisters.

"Who are you, demon?!" asked Inuyasha angrily.

"My name is Marimu," the demon replied with a smoothness in his voice. Almost immediately reminding the half demon of his half brother. Cool, calm and in control. "I didn't expect to see you her, Inuyasha."

"So, you know who I am. Well, your memory of that will be short-lived. You poisoned Kagome, didn't you?!" he added with a growling anger on the question.

"I have a good memory mind you, but to answer your question…yes,…I did," Marimu responded with sarcastic pauses toward his statement.

The half dog demon began to ask why he didn't take the shards and leave Kagome out of his business, if that was his intention. If I mention the shards, he'll most likely go after them. I better not even consider mentioning them, Inuyasha thought to himself. Instead he said, "What do you have against her anyway?" he asked, "What has she ever done to you?"

"I'm just following orders," Marimu replied slyly, "In fact, if my poison doesn't kill her, I'm ordered to make sure she doesn't live through the next round."

"What?!" Inuyasha gasped, then thought…:

"Who ordered you?"

"I am not at liberty to say," Marimu said again with an evil glimmer in his eye, "All in all, you are in my way, and I have business to attend to. Just came thinking you would like to know who you were dealing with."

Once Marimu said this, he quickly pulled off of his belt a blue container the size of a soda can and threw it to the ground.

The can immediately burst like an egg and a blue mist began to cover the whole area of the roof.

Inuyasha tried to block the mist with his oversized sleeves, but to no avail.

"What is this shit?!" Inuyasha exclaimed to no one, for Marimu had already escaped to the hospital. Tears were running down his eyes, not because of his failure to stop the demon like he intended, but from the gas itself. He couldn't see, more or less smell. The fumes of the gas were to only cause his vision to become blurry, but with Inuyasha's sensitive smell, the gas was nauseating, and it made him sick to his stomach.

"Ka…gome," Inuyasha tried to speak out while crawling with the strength to will himself to reach for her at the same time.

Then everything went black.

To Be Continued…

A/N: I didn't realize this chapter was so short! Maybe one day, my techniques will improve more and I can redo this whole series. Anyway, I hoped you all liked it.