Chapter 6: Visit in the Night

"Miroku, you traitor! You want Inuyasha to die?! That's the only way we had to save him!" Kagome cried as she stood up and started running after Sesshoumaru's monster.

"Kagome, stop! We have enough of the anque plants to cure Inuyasha!" Miroku yelled after her. Kagome stopped short and turned around to face him. She started crying again as Miroku walked over to her and explained. "I gave Sesshoumaru all of the plants except how many we needed. Shippou kept six of the flowers."

"Really, we still have some flowers?" Miroku nodded, and Kagome stopped crying and threw her arms around his neck. Then suddenly she released him and raced over to Sango, Shippou and Kilala. "We have to hurry! We don't have much time, I know we don't!" Kagome climbed onto Kilala and sat there, impatiently waiting for Miroku and Sango to climb up, too.

They finally clambered on, and Kilala slowly rose off the ground. Then, they were in the air again. "Inuyasha, I'm on my way!" Kagome said quietly.

"I wonder what that dream meant. Is Kagome maybe in danger? Hey, Kaede! Are they back yet?" Inuyasha called as loudly as he could, which wasn't very loud. Inuyasha suddenly was hardly able to keep his head up, and almost passed out again.

"What did ye say, Inuyasha?" Kaede walked into the hut and looked curiously at Inuyasha. He was sitting up on the mat with his head nearly touching the floor. It was quite a comical site. "Are ye alright, Inuyasha?" Kaede asked, hiding a stifled laugh.

"Is Kagome back yet?" Inuyasha replied into the floor. Kaede's face darkened slightly as she answered.

"Nay, they have not yet returned. I pray they arrive back soon, for Inuyasha does not have much time left." Kaede sat down by the fire and began poking at it to get it going again. "Inuyasha, it is getting late. Ye should rest, now."

"If I could lay down, I would. I can't move!" Inuyasha exclaimed trying to lift his head without success. Kaede stood up and walked over to him. She lifted up his head and he fell back down unto the mat in the same pose as when he was sitting. "You old hag, you did that on purpose." Inuyasha tried to shout as Kaede straightened out his legs.

"Goodnight, Inuyasha." Kaede said, walking back over to the fire.

Almost five minutes after Inuyasha fell asleep, Kaede heard one of the villagers yell. She ran out of the hut and dashed towards the place she heard the scream. When she got there one of the villagers, a young woman, was pointing up at the sky, and there, hovering fifty feet in the air, was Sesshoumaru.

"You, old one, is my brother Inuyasha here?" Sesshoumaru looked coldly down and addressed Kaede.

"Yes, he's here, but he is sleeping." Kaede answered, looking somewhat surprised.

"Are you sure he's not dead?" Sesshoumaru smiled. "Well, when he awakens, tell him that I had an encounter with some friends of his, and that their mission failed. Tell him that, old one." Kaede was shocked at his words. She watched absently as he flew off into the distance.

Kaede slowly walked back to her hut, thinking about what Sesshoumaru had said. "They failed to get the plant, or had Sesshoumaru... done something? Are they dead?" Many other thoughts ran through Kaede's mind as the dawn came upon her.

Inuyasha woke up to see Kaede still sitting by the fire. "Did you sleep at all?" he asked sitting up slightly.

"Ye are awake?" Kaede looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Well yeah, I'm awake! I don't usually sleep that long. I'm not used to it." Inuyasha looked closely at Kaede and noticed that she wasn't her normal self. She smelled slightly different and the air was heavy with depression and sadness. "Is something wrong?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

"Yes, Inuyasha; there is something wrong. Sesshoumaru was here in the village last night. He wanted to talk to ye and he gave me a message for ye. He said that had an encounter with some friends of yours and that their mission failed. I assumed he meant Kagome and the others." Kaede had walked over to Inuyasha as she explained about last night.

Inuyasha was silent for some time, with his mouth open in shock. "He didn't... did he?" Inuyasha asked after a few moments of silence between the two.

"I do not know, Inuyasha. He said nothing after that about the fate of your companions." Kaede looked sadly at the floor. Inuyasha sat the whole way up and would have gotten off the mat if Kaede hadn't stopped him. "Where are you going?" she asked him gently but firmly pushing him back onto the mat.

"Where do you think? I'm going to look for Kagome and the others." Inuyasha replied trying to push Kaede out of the way.

"Nay, in your condition? You would not get far." Inuyasha was still struggling with Kaede when she yelled. "Inuyasha, use your brain!" He stopped struggling to listen. "Ye will surely die by the time you find them, if ye even make it that far. And if they are alive, and they come back here to find ye gone, imagine how Kagome would react if ye were found dead!" Inuyasha looked kind of stunned.

Kaede thought that he was actually imagining Kagome standing over him and crying or yelling, calling him a jerk for leaving and the likes, for he cringed noticeably and shook his head. Inuyasha had ceased struggling long ago and it didn't start up again.

He was watching the door and had just sat down on the mat. Kaede let go of him and she too sat down on the floor. She suddenly started sobbing. Inuyasha turned his back to Kaede, and tears were falling down from Inuyasha's eyes. "Kagome, why did you go?! I told you not to, but your stubbornness got the best of you. Now... well, you're gone again." More tears streamed down his face, and he slowly put his head down 'til it almost touched the floor again.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled in grief.

"How much time do we have left?" Kagome asked as the group zoomed through the air on top of Kilala.

"Not much, I'm guessing." Sango answered. "We left yesterday around high noon. I'd say it's almost 10 or 11 in the morning by the way the sun is situated.

"That means we have about two hours to get to Inuyasha or he'll die!" Kagome yelled. "Can't we go any faster?"

"No, Kagome. That's what delayed us last time." Miroku piped up.

"No it wasn't, Sesshoumaru sent up that huge gust of wind that sent Kilala off balance." Kagome yelled back at Miroku, and then looked up to Sango again. "How far is the village?" she asked her.

"I'd say about 10 kilometers or so. It's not too far." Sango answered looking back at Kagome in concern.

Kagome sighed. "Ok." Suddenly Kagome noticed something. "Sango, I need you to land by the well! I have to do something. Fly to Kaede's hut and give her the anque plants. I'll be there shortly afterwards! Ok?"

"But why?" Sango asked looking confused. Kagome looked at Miroku behind her who looked equally confused.

"Just do it!" Kagome snapped.

"Alright, I'll let you off at the well." Sango was still confused but when the well came in site, she carefully lowered Kilala, and Kagome slid off. Kagome reached up on her shoulder and pulled Shippou off of her.

"Kagome, I wanna go with you!" Shippou objected.

"No, stay with Miroku and Sango." Kagome handed Shippou to Miroku and then she ran over to a flowery plant and picked a few of the flowers. She noticed that Kilala hadn't lifted off yet. "I told you to go! I'll be there then." Kagome yelled.

Oh, snappy snappy! That's what my friend Julie says to me when i mouth off to her. I'm usually in a bad mood when she says it, either that or i just woke up. I am NOT a morning person.

Well, back on topic, what did you think of numero seis? hehe, i'm proud of myself; 6 chapters in 2 days. Oh, and in case you didn't know, i had all this written long before i uploaded it onto Some ppl are prolly like "O.o, she got 6 chapters done in 2 days?!" so i decided to let ya know. Ok, that's it. Byes!