Chapter 4

Smell a wolf near by?

After Sango and Miroku jumped on Kirara's back and Inuyasha ran ahead and they all headed to the next village which would take about a day and a-half in their fast speed. They would not stop for anything, and if someone wanted to attack them they would go around them and kill them later when they know that Kagome would be okay.

Shippo went to go get some water for Kagome as Kaede requested. "Here Kaede, do you think we can do anything to help her?" he sounded worried "Ye should not be afraid, Kagome is a strong young women and strong priest" trying to cheer up the fox.

Shippo looked sad 'Now I know how Inuyasha felt when he couldn't help her when the poison affected her from that black priestess's snake' he thought while looking at Kagome noticing a light shining on her face and he looked towards the source and saw the moon and let out a heavy sigh "Please hurry back" saying aloud

Kaede noticed the little fox was getting sad and depressed "Ye should try to keep her warm for she is now turning to ice cold and I shall go fetch a blanket."

"Kaede, why is it that she is getting colder so quickly, this is exactly how cold she was when i went on her lap to keep her warm?"

"I'm not sure, poison usually makes the human body hot, but she is cold, this might be a different type of poison I have not encountered before, I shall make one in here to see if it'll help"

They finally made it to the village on the second day the left the hut.

"Myouga!!" they all shouted. "MYOUGA GET OVER HERE!" Inuyasha said as loud as he could, but there was nothing. So they kept looking around to try and find him quickly.

"What if we don't find him in time?" Sango thought aloud

"we ARE going to find him in time, you got that!" snapped Inuyasha, he scared Sango without meaning to, but he wasn't to blame. They were all scared about losing Kagome, she was the only thing that kept them all together.

"Don't start, now is not the time, lets just hurry up and find Myouga" Miroku strictly giving orders to them not to fight

"Fine by me" Inuyasha left them to look for Myouga; shouting his name loudly

Miroku thought it would be a perfect opportunity to grope Sango but the Kirara growled an scared the hell out of Miroku.

"Keep your distance you lecher, this isn't time!" Sango yelled

Kaede had been watching Kagome still trying to get her body heat back, it got worse each day no matter how much heat the flames gave and Shippo gave her his warmth, nothing was helping. All of a sudden something was outside. "That sounds like a whirl-wind not far from here does it not?"

Shippo was waking up from Kaede's voice a little bit sleepy "Huh, whirl-wind? Oh no! It's Kouga!" he said while getting up

"Who is Kouga?" Kaede asked

"Kouga is that wolf demon who fell in love Kagome, the one that Inuyasha doesn't like and get jealous of him." he simply explained "The one I drew a picture of when the birds of paradise came and beat him up and Inuyasha killed them. Then Kagome helped Kouga escape from Inuyasha and they started to fight."

"Ah yes, I remember now from your drawings not long ago"

Suddenly the whirl-wind stopped. Kouga started to enter the hut.

"Hey Kagome! I caught your scent and I..." he paused as he looked at her "KAGOME!"

He was startled because she looked pale, when he touch her face it was ice cold; his whole body got goose-bumps. He stood up immediately because of the chills.

"Ye do not need to yell" trying to make him lower his voice. He knelt back down to Kagome in shock "Kagome... what... what happened?" he kept looking at her, waiting for an answer. "Naraku put poison in her so the others went to get Myouga so he could get the poison out, you shouldn't be here, Inuyasha will get mad if he finds out" Shippo said while trying to make him leave. "Mutt-face let this happen to her!?" "Will ye calm down, this surprised us all." After hearing that Kouga tried to calm down. "Ye should leave, this is not the time for ye to be here, this is not even ye territory, and Inuyasha will be furious if you are here when he arrives." Kagome started to move her head when Kaede said Inuyasha.

"Kagome, you're awake" Kouga sounded happy a little. "Yes, but you should go, I don't want any fights to happen, okay?" and she was out cold after she spoke (literally). Kouga listened to his 'love' and nodded, and then he left quickly in a whirl-wind as she told him to. Shippo was very glad that he was gone now and was back to resting next to Kagome while Kaede was washing Kagome's face with a warm wash cloth, trying to get some color in her face. Kaede was getting more by the minute with each breath Kagome let out went slower and stay at that pace for three hours then get worse.

She was going to tell Shippo that she was afraid she wouldn't make it, but she didn't want him to be any more scared than he was... Not to mention that he was asleep

'The poor little guy acts like a son to Kagome, but if she dies, Shippo would lose another piece of his heart as he did for his real parents. Wait, why think this, I'm a priestess! I need to think positive!'

Kaede then looked at both Kagome and Shippo; seeing that Shippo usually slept with her and didn't mind.

'Now that I think of it. That act like mother and son. Kagome protects Shippo while Shippo tries hard to protect her like how he tried to get rid of Kouga. Oh my, if Inuyasha was here, he would throw a very big tantrum about it all knowing Kouga was here'

Kaede looked outside to see the stars around the moon and then lay down to go to sleep for the next day to come forth.

Sorry that it's shorter but I get really busy, not to mention so much to do XD;