Summary: Kagome sees Inuyasha with Kikyo and runs off, only to be attacked by a demon and placed under a curse by the dark priestess herself. InuKag. Rated PG-13 for Inu's bad words.

Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha, not me.

AN: Ok, this took me a while to write so I hope its good. I'm sorry I couldn't get this chapter up sooner, my mind totally went blank for a while. Again, thank you Hannah and CherryBlossomLove for continuing to read and review, and Kagome Lover 2009, I'm flattered. I think the next chapter will probably be the last one. Please please please anyone who is reading my story out there review! I don't care what it says, I just want to know that people are reading. thank you. :D

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Evil Curse of the Dark Priestess, Kikyo Chapter 4

Inuyasha and the others rushed down to Kaede's, which wasn't very far, Inuyasha carrying the limp girl in his arms and being careful not to injure her further. Once there, Kaede had everyone wait outside while she bandaged up Kagome.

"So...?!?!?!" Inuyasha asked Kaede once she walked out of the hut. Kaede was looking at the ground and shaking her head.

"Kagome has indeed been bitten by a fairly large snake demon, judging by the size of its fang. Her wound is pretty deep, and that demon broke one of her ribs as well." Sango flinched at hearing this and Kaede paused for a moment. "Both should heal in about a week, thanks to her miko powers. Ye need not worry about that, but there is something else that concerns me." Kaede held out the bloodstained fang to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, can ye smell anything other than Kagome's blood on this fang?"

Inuyasha gave her a puzzled look, before slowly taking the fang and lifting it up to his nose. His ears drooped down, 'Oh man, I hate the smell of Kagome's blood.' (for some of you out there, he didn't mean that as an insult to her) He sniffed it a couple more times and had a look of deep concentration on. "Yeah, there is something else on here, but I can't really tell what."

"That can't be good," Sango had a worried look on her face. "Do you think that the demon was poisonous, Lady Kaede?"

"It's possible. There's no way of telling right now, since the demon was sucked into Miroku's wind tunnel."

Sango turned to the nappng Shippo, who had taken the liberty of sleeping on Kagome's sleeping bag. "Still, let's not tell Shippo, he is too young to be full of worries. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens." With that said, the young taijiya turned and left to take a walk through the village. Miroku followed suit, and in about only thirty seconds a loud slapping sound and Sango's screaming of "HENTAI!!!" could be heard all throughout the village.

Inuyasha immediatly got up and walked into the hut, followed by Kaede. Kagome lay on the floor, sleeping in a pair of Kaede's extra miko clothes and was halfway covered up by a thin blanket. Her bloodstained school uniform lay next to her, folded into a neat pile. She didn't look like she was sleeping very peacefully and a little sweat was beading down one side of her face. Inuyasha sat down on the floor next to her and gazed at her sadly.

Kaede slowly got up and left the hut saying she was going to go pick some herbs in the fields for a while and would be back later. Inuyasha didn't pay any attention to her. He was in deep thought about what else could possibly have been on that fang that bit Kagome.

"Maybe it was all a set-up. This whole thing could have been planned from the start. But who could possibly want to hurt Kagome that badly? Who?" Inuyasha muttered to himself. He could think of only two people. Naraku and... "Kikyo!" he said, barely above a whisper. 'No! It couldn't be her, it couldn't!.... But it could, Kikyo had tried to kill Kagome before and certainly would do it again, especially after our meeting the other night.' Inuyasha's ears fell against his head again. 'This is all my fault...'

Kagome shifted slightly in her sleep. "Inu...yasha... How could you?..." Inuyasha's ears perked up as he watched the sleeping girl in front of him.

'She's having nightmares... about me...' he thought as he turned to stare at the wall instead.

Night soon fell to the village and Sango and Miroku were back in the hut, both sipping tea around a small fire in the middle. They were sitting opposite of each other, because of a certain monk and his "possessed" hand, and talking about who could have sent the demon after Kagome and why.

Inuyasha still sat at Kagome's side changing the cold wet cloth on her forehead every once in a while. She had been asleep for three full days now and kept mumbling things that sounded like she was having bad dreams.

"Naraku has plenty of reasons to do it. Kagome has almost killed him numerous times and she's gotten in the way of many of his plans before," Sango told Miroku before taking another sip of her tea.

"Yes, but for some reason I just don't think it was Naraku... it's actually quite strange. Who else would want to kill Kagome as much as Naraku?..."

"I can think of one person," Shippo chirped in from where he sat, which was next to Kagome. "But I can't say her name because Inuyasha'll beat me."

Inuyasha growled at him before punching him upside the head and leaving one of those big anime bumps where his fist made contact with Shippo.

"WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! I didn't even say it!" Shippo cried as loud as he could. "You're such a jerk! No wonder Kagome was all alone crying in the forest!"

Inuyasha's ears perked up at this. 'She was all alone in the forest.... crying... this really is all my fault...'

"Well since you hit me already, I might as well say it! I bet Kikyo was behind all of this! She's always wanted Kagome dead and you know it! I could even smell that clay pot when I was with Kagome!" Shippo yelled at his face. Sango and Miroku exchanged worried glances and bit down on their bottom lips. They knew where this was going.

That was the last straw for Inuyasha. He got up and picked Shippo up by his tail and dangled him in the air. "AAHHHHHH!!! Help!!!"

Kagome stirred a little. "Sh-Shippo..."

"Kagome!" Inuyasha dropped Shippo, who landed on his butt, and knelt down next to her. "Kagome, wake up. Come on." Kagome was sweating again and whimpering. Shippo crawled over to Inuyasha and looked down at Kagome.

"What's wrong with her? What if she never wakes up? What if Kikyo had that demon do something to her?" Shippo's eyes welled up with tears. "What if... what if..."

"What if I put a curse on her?" came a familiar cold, emotionless voice from the doorway.

Japanese words used in this chapter:

Miko: priestess

Hentai: pervert

AN: Again everyone out there thats reading, I'm sorry I couldn't get this chapter up sooner. My mind totally went blank and I didn't know where I was going with this. Only one more chapter to go, probably. All my reviewers out there, I love you guys!!! Anyone whose reading, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave a review. thank you.

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