Tesse: Okay hero convinced me to at least finish the story. So here it goes! No matter how many reviews I don't get I well at least finish! As you all know I don't own inuyasha.

Inuyasha: Heritage

Chapter13: Road to Recovery

"Kayori!"

"I'm down here!" Kayori answered as she sat next to the unconscious boy. She glanced back at his familiar face. She couldn't quite put her finger on who he was but all she knew was that she had to save him. Unfortunately her legs wouldn't lift her body off of the ground. She was just as immobile as he was.

Ryku burst through the trees closely followed but Shippo who had Taimiko riding on his back.

All three of them stared at her and the boy like they were completely dumbstruck.

RYKU'S P.O.V-

I saw the fear in Kayori's eyes.

"Kayori! What happened?" I said wide-eyed.

"Help me! He's hurt!" she demanded! I quickly hurried to her side to help her up. She had trouble standing up; her legs must have tensed up due to the shock. Shippo set Taimiko down and hurried to help us get the boy off the ground and back to camp. Shippo and I carried the boy leaving a trail of blood, as Taimiko tried with all her might to help Kayori who was stumbling with grief and shock.

We made it back to camp quickly. We laid the boy on a futon and went to treating his wounds. By then Kayori had gathered herself together and was cleaning his cuts with a warm damp washcloth.

"Ryku grab my pack for me!" she said her voice held fear. I did so as quickly as I could. As soon as she had it she dug through it pulling out a strange bundle. She unwrapped it revealing a batch of herbs. She went to work making a paste out of the odd flowers and applied it to the boy's wounds.

As soon as she was done she wrapped them up as best as she could. She covered him in a thick blanket.

END P.O.V-

"I'm going to go wash some of the blood off, please watch him," that was all Kayori said as she went back into the woods. After coming upon a hot spring. She scrubbed her arms and face. As soon as she was done she looked through her sack t find something to wear seeing as how her only kimono was covered in blood. The only thing that she could find was her white sleeping gi.

She sighed, she would just have to walk around in her pajamas until they came to the next village where she can buy a new set of clothes to wear.

She sat down next to a tree and looked up at the darkening sky, "Koji," she softly. Her own voice made her jump. Koji was the boy they had found, but how had she known his name without him telling her. Then she remembered her parents telling her something.

Flashback…

"Kayori, we have to talk to you," her mother said her father was there too.

"What is it mommy?" a five year old Kayori asked setting down the old doll that she had been playing with.

Her mother gave her a kind smile and sat down next to her. "Well, do you remember Koji?" Kayori shook her head innocently.

"He's your brother, but he went away a long time ago," Kagome said as tears collected in her eyes. Inuyasha had to look away for a moment to keep from seeing the pain in his wife's eyes.

"Why did he go away?" Kayori said wiping away her mother's tears. Inuyasha looked down at his daughter, and he gave a weak smile.

"Kayori, it's a very long story, but right before you and Koji were born, an old man told us that he was going to take you both away from us, but he didn't get you, he did take Koji though. We don't know where he took him but we do know that where ever he is Koji isn't with the old man anymore," Inuyasha said and Kagome nodded drying her eyes on the sleeve of her gi.

"Daddy, are you mad that Koji was taken away and I wasn't?" Kayori asked feeling tears flood her own eyes.

"Of course not, little one, your mother and I love you very much," Inuyasha said softly.

"We are so happy that you came into our lives, you are our little joy," Kagome said pulled Kayori in to her arms and rocking her like she was still a baby.

End Flashback…

Kayori jumped up with tears in her eyes, it had been almost nine years since her parents had had that painful conversation. She had promised to find Koji and now he was right in front of her. She ran back to camp as fast as she could.

"Where am I?" a raspy voice asked. Ryku jumped realizing that it was the boy.

"I'm not quite sure where we are, but you're at our camp! Lucky Kayori found you or you would have bleed to death," Ryku said happily, leaning over the wounded boy.

The boy said nothing, and Ryku went back to the fire. Koji watched as the fish roasted.

Suddenly something clicked in his head. "Kayori?" "You know, you're leaving one important person out of this." "Who?" "The person you share a birth with, Kayori. She was really small when you disappeared, but I know that she would gladly welcome you into her heart again. And she knows your parents better than anyone else."

Koji tried to sit up but the pain from his wounds kept him down.

"Don't try to move! You'll open up your wounds again!" Ryku said from the fire.

Suddenly Kayori arrived huffing and puffing, she had a few small scratches from the tree branches catching her skin.

"Kayori! There you are!" Ryku stood up.

"Koji?" Kayori yelled tears now flowing freely down her face.

Koji remain quiet, but he sat up as best as he could, shoving his raven locks out of his face. He looked up at the girl, she had long silver hair with black tips, and gold eyes that matched his.

Before he knew what was happening Kayori had him in a tight and somewhat painful embrace.

"I can't believe it's you!" she cried. "That old man took you away and then daddy went looking for you but when he came back he said that the old man no longer had you and he was really upset and so was mommy! And no you're here, but when I found you all wounded I kind of lost myself, but now you're okay!" Kayori knew that she probably was acting like a foolish little four year old but she couldn't stop it. She pulled away from Koji wiping her eyes on her sleeve.

"Well I've been looking for you, too," Koji said, and for the first time in a long time he smile a true smile.

Tesse: well, that's all.

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