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

A/N: I know everyone's been waiting for the next chapter and here it is! I haven't sent anything in cause of being sickly, but I'm back. On a minor note, I have a paper due soon, so it won't be but another week before chapter 6 joins the rest of the chapters. Enjoy for now!

Naraku's Revenge and Kagome's Suffering

Chapter 5: Break Into the Hospital

Marimu, in his misty form, flew swiftly toward the hospital. "Naraku will be pleased with me," he said to himself, "That gas will make Inuyasha so sick, he'll arrive at the hospital too late to save the girl."

After a few minutes flying over building over another of the hospital, he came across an easy entry of slitted metal that he could travel faster in his present form, on the highest roof. "Now to search for her."

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Inuyasha woke up with a pounding headache. "What the hell did that bastard do to me?!" he yelled out while holding on to his head.

As he tried to stand up, he fell back to one knee and held his stomach. What the hell is making me feel queasy inside, he thought, then began to think of only one person—or demon rather. "He's gonna pay!" Inuyasha moaned. After recollecting on what just occurred, he began to remember his last thought. I've got to get to Kagome before it's too late, he desperately pondered.

Despite the internal aches and pains, he leaped from building to building until he arrived at the hospital—and nearly collapsed from exhaustion and nausea.

He recovered quickly, despite that, and saw that the "hospital" was made up of several building connected by mere tubed, windowed bridges. Where the hell do I even begin! He yelled in his head. "If I were a demon looking for…prey…I would try to cover as much ground as I could," he said thinking out loud. He leaped to the highest building and finally found the only entry to the indoors. When he opened the door and walked in he found stairs only leading down. Must have picked the right place to start. Before walking down, he placed his nose to the ground to find Kagome's scent.

"There are way too many smells in here," he said to himself, but continued until he could pinpoint her location. After a few moments, a deep growl rippled his throat.

"Marimu's been here too," Inuyasha concluded, "And his scent is coming from…up there." He was staring at the ceiling where the ventilation tubes were. He followed them with his eyes and discovered, "He can move through the whole building as fast as I can run in the forest at home! I've got to go. There's no tellin' how long I've been out cold. He could be in Kagome's room by now!"

Inuyasha returned to the ground and quickly tried to sniff Kagome out. After a few moments, "There she is!" Then realized, "I won't be able to get to her through the building though." He remembered when he was in her era the last time—fighting the Noh Mask. There was no sign of other demon scents besides the possessed woodcarving. But that doesn't mean there are no demon's in her era.

Inuyasha ran out the door to the roof again, and keeping Kagome's scent in his mind and nose, jumped off the building to the concrete below.

Once Inuyasha was close enough to be right next to her by scent, he grabbed the side of the building with his claws.

He never realized the hospital was made of bricks, and lost his grip, but recovered with both hands on the rock solid surface of the building's one windowsill (with screaming pain from his claws almost being ripped off his fingers!) He slid from rock windowsill to rock windowsill until he would come to his destination.

When he finally stopped, he looked through the nearest window with his upper body strength to hold him up. About two beds away, Inuyasha saw Kagome's face among two men in white coats.

The window was open a little, and Inuyasha could smell a hint of the demon's poison still on Kagome. Without warning the smell was getting stronger!

"He's coming!" Inuyasha said aloud. His outspoken remark alarmed the doctors, and they were scared stiff when they followed the voice.

Then Marimu's black-and-purple mist form came through the ventilation! Inuyasha quickly opened the window all the way with one hand and dove inside.

The doctors ran toward the door, but right into Marimu's mist! They gasped for air and, then, collapsed on the floor.

While this was occurring, Inuyasha thought how he would save Kagome. His stomach and head pains reminded him again of his last encounter with the poisonous demon. "I can't beat him on my own," he said to himself regretfully as he covered his sensitive nose with his oversized sleeve.

Inuyasha began to draw his Tetsusaiga when he realized, "Of course." He took the sword, sheath and all, off his kimono and placed it underneath Kagome's pillow.

As Marimu finished poisoning the doctors, his mist got closer to Kagome and was shocked by the Tetsusaiga's electrical power. Marimu reflected back and growled at Inuyasha, for he couldn't figure out how he, not only wake up from the tear gas, but also how the half demon could protect the girl without lifting a finger, never witnessing what Inuyasha did with the magical sword.

"You may have won this time, Inuyasha," Marimu snarled, "but I will return and finish the job." And with that Marimu, still in his misty form, floated up through the ventilation.

Inuyasha hobbled to Kagome's bed and just stared at her. "Don't worry, Kagome. I won't let him endanger you again." He, then, without realizing it touched her cheek with the palm of his hand. He felt her soft skin, still damp with sweat and slightly chilly. He pulled his hand back with shock, wondering why she was not well yet. "Don't worry, Kagome," he said again, "I'll be back—with reinforcements."

Before he leaped out of the window, he yelled, "I need some help in here!" Then, jumped, landing on a nearby building roof, so not to be seen by others when they came to help the two poisoned doctors and Kagome.

He headed back to the well. When he arrived at Kagome's property, he thought, Maybe I should take the jewel too.

As he got closer to the house, he jumped to Kagome's windowsill, opened it, and grabbed the string of shards. "It's a good thing Marimu's not after these," he said to himself, "otherwise I don't think the others can pass through the well…and I won't be able to stop him."

To Be Continued…