Chapter 5

"What happened to Kagome Sango?" Shippo ran towards them as did Kirara and Inuyasha.
"I don't know, I think she was thinking hard again." Sango sighed. "Shippo, go get some water or something for her."
"Kay, be right back!" He said as he ran off.

"Is she going to be okay?" Inuyasha slowly asked.
"Don't worry Inuyasha, she'll be fine. She's probably unconscious." She smiled
"When will she wake up?"
"I don't know but never more than 3 days, she's usually awake by then." She replied.

Sango laid Kagome on her against Kirara so she could be sitting up, Kirara didn't really mind because she was still transformed as a big cat and so Sango then went to go sit by Miroku on a log. Inuyasha was still looking at her from here she was moved from.

"Sango…?" Inuyasha made it sound questionable if it was her name.
"Yeah?"
"Um… What did I do… when she was like this?" He asked concernedly with moment of hesitation.
"You usually watch her from somewhere to make sure she's alright. You barely let her be alone or from your sight at least." She giggled a little at the curious hanyou.
"Why do I make sure she's alright?" Inuyasha asked again in confusion.
"Um… because, you care about her, well, we all do, but still." It was making it harder and harder to answer his curious question.

Shippo finally came back with some water. It's been around 20 minutes since he was gone.

"Sango, here's the water!" Shippo cried out.
"Okay Shippo." Sango answered "Thanks."

Sango poured some water into Kagome's mouth but nothing really happened.

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SMACK "You stupid pervert, now's not the time!" Sango hissed
"Sorry, it's the hand!" Miroku exclaimed.

Sango just glared at him and attended to Kagome. Kagome didn't seem to wake which was a little abnormal, she usually got up or at least opened her eyes. She never did, Sango started to worry. She told Miroku to cook dinner while she tried to get Kagome to wake up. He agreed to cook dinner, he didn't like to cook, but he had no choice right now. When he finished making dinner he told the boys to eat. Shippo didn't but Inuyasha didn't budge, he kept watching Kagome from his spot. Miroku brought some food to Sango and so she sat next to Shippo and ate. Miroku noticed Inuyasha still worried and decided to go bring him his food.

"Here Inuyasha, eat, she'll be okay I assure you." He smiled.
"I'm not hungry." He didn't bother to look at Miroku; Inuyasha didn't really have an appetite to eat. Most likely because he just want Kagome to wake up.
"Fine, I'll give you some later." He simply said
Miroku left him and sat next to Sango to eat. Sango just glared at him.
"Your bad with kids and yet you ask people to bear your child?" Sango said as she got up from her spot grabbed Inuyasha's food and went toward him.
"Inuyasha, you need to eat." She said
"I'm not hungry." He replied.
"You not eating won't help Kagome wake up. Besides I think she'd be happy to know you ate so you could get stronger." She smiled and handed him his food.
"Uh… erm…" He didn't really like Miroku or Sango much. Which it wasn't really a surprise, but he took the food and ate it slowly.

Miroku was stunned that she got Inuyasha to eat but he couldn't.
"How did you get him to eat Sango?" He asked
"Easy, he didn't want to eat because he was worried about Kagome." She replied
"How did you know that he was worried besides the 'adult fact' of him?"
"Because that's how my little brother was when our mother died. He wouldn't eat nor sleep." She responded with a low voice.
"I'm sorry Sango."
"It's alright, it's the past." She smiled.

Shippo was getting tired, that usually happened with him.
"Sango? Can I sleep next to Kagome even though she's unconscious?" He asked curiously.
Sango and Miroku looked at each other for a minute to think of what to say.
"Sure, I think both you and Inuyasha should sleep next to her, that way if she wakes up, one of you can tell us.
"Okay." Shippo jumped around happily and went next to Kagome's left side and went to sleep.

Inuyasha watched Shippo sleep by her and didn't like it so he growled a little. He accidentally caught Sango's attention when he did.

"Inuyasha, go to sleep next to her then." She teased.
"Huh?"
"You look tired, so go sleep next to Kagome. Shippo won't bug you if you're on the right side of Kagome." She smiled.
"Feh… fine." He walked toward Kagome and curled next to her.

Miroku and Sango just watched… The three looked so cute, Inuyasha and Shippo were both curled up next to Kagome, and Kirara was the admirer-able fluffy pillow for Kagome that was very warm.

About an hour or so Miroku and Sango went to sleep. Sango slept near Kagome, Shippo, Inuyasha, and Kirara. Miroku slept across from them under a tree.

Inuyasha looked like he was asleep but he was awake. Inuyasha was thinking about the day. How Kagome took care of him when he was asleep, she gave him the clothing, kept him warm as he was near her like now, saved him from a demon who wanted to eat him. Many things she did for him, he wanted to do something for her, but he didn't know exactly know what.

'I'll just have to keep her happy as long as I can' he thought as he went into a warm yet safe slumber.

After about an hour or so everyone was asleep and 5 minutes after that Kagome woke up quietly. She only opened her eyes and moved her head to look around. She saw Inuyasha sleeping on her right, and Shippo on her left rolling more into a ball on Kirara. She laughed inwardly, and then quickly heard a sound. It sounded like it was behind the bushes. Kagome felt something wrong; Miroku was a little tense in his sleep meaning something evil was near.

She gently removed Inuyasha's head from her stomach and put it on Kirara. She woke Kirara up but petted her head as her apology. Kagome point a finger towards her mouth telling Kirara to stay quiet and to stay. After a nod came from Kirara she left to find out the noise. The noise happened again quickly. It was creepy out Kagome but she stood her ground. She was a ways from the camp, but not too far.

She suddenly felt a tug on her skirt, she freaked out a little but realized it was only Inuyasha, and was now worried about him. She knelt down, eye to eye with him.

"Inuyasha, what are you doing? You should be asleep right now." Kagome sternly said but kept her voice down.
"You said never to stay far away from you." He said innocently
"Inuyasha, go back to sleep." She said looking around.
"But I promised!" He yelled

Kagome was about to say something to him but suddenly a weasel demon came out quickly. Kagome saw that and quickly covered Inuyasha so he wasn't attacked. It scratched her back and lost some blood. She winced at the pain but nothing else; she had two priorities on her mind. 1. Keep Inuyasha safe and 2. Kill the demon. Inuyasha smelt her blood and got scared.

"Kagome, are you okay?!" Inuyasha shouted trying to see what happened to her.
"I'm okay… are you?" She asked in a tone where she sounded like she was in pain.
"I am thanks to you Kagome." He smile and that made her happy.
"Good, now stay right behind me and don't move." She commanded and he obeyed.

She got up, ignoring the pain; she turned around to face the demon. Inuyasha saw the claw marks on Kagome's back and closed his eyes from thinking of the pain it was.

"You demon, why do you wish to act us?!" She shouted.
"The half breed looks delicious! Give him to me!" The demon weasel laughed, Inuyasha looked up to see what Kagome would say.
"NOT IN YOUR LIFE!!!" She grabbed the arrow from the ground and went to attack it. (She didn't have the bow, just the arrow) Suddenly the weasel jumped over her and went to attack Inuyasha. "NO, leave… him… ALONE!" Inuyasha was curled into a ball afraid to leave Kagome but was also afraid for himself. She quickly turned around and right when the demons claws were about to go through him… it went through something or someone else.

The weasel struck Kagome in her torso, making it hard for her to breathe. Inuyasha looked up and saw Kagome above him with four sharp talons in her stomach. It tried a few times to remove Kagome's body away from its claws. Kagome was alive, but only just. Kagome used what little strength and threw the arrow toward it's hard, making it no long exist.

Inuyasha was now terrified, not for himself; but for Kagome's wounds. Her blood was spreading quickly. He didn't know what to do. He stood there, till he could think. But was brought out of it.

"Inu…yasha" she painfully said, Inuyasha perked his ears up and ran to her.
"Kagome!" he said he finally reached to her.
"Hey, you okay? Sorry you were almost killed again." She fooled around but took it lightly.
"Why did you save me, again?" He asked as tears were about to appear from his eyes.
"I have to keep you safe; you always did that for me in my time of need." She smiled at him, trying to make him happy.
"Ka-Kagome, are you dieing…?" he shuttered at the word
"Don't know." She tried to laugh. "I feel numb, that's about it." She started to close her eye more and longer.
"Kagome, you can't die! You're all I know that I can trust now!" He shouted as he soon spread tears.

Kagome used her strength to remove the tears from his face. "Crying? Over a wench? That seems strange for the mighty Inuyasha, don't you think?" She teased as she put her hand next to his cheek. "You have Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and even Kirara to trust. What's the point in trusting just one person?" She asked
"Better to trust one then none!" He snapped in his fear. "Hm… Your right and I won't argue… I'm going… to sleep…" She dozed off and her hand came away from his face.
"Kagome…!" He started to cry.

Shippo soon came into the picture, half asleep and half awake for that matter.
"Inuyasha, why are you yelling so much? It hurts my ears." He said sleepily, but then he saw Kagome lying down in a puddle of her own blood. "Kagome!!!" Shippo ran towards her and Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, what happened?!" He asked

Inuyasha just looked at him; tears still falling. "I went out to follow Kagome because I promised I wouldn't be far away so I wouldn't get in trouble. Then a demon came out and wanted to kill me. But Kagome saved me, but risked her life!" He said all at once, shocking the little kit.

Soon... suddenly someone came out of the bushes... someone... or something?