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Dream of MeChapter Twelve
"I won't hear it." Growled Inuyasha. "I can't let her die again, Sesshoumaru. I've come so close to losing her so many times lately that it scares me…"
"Her wounds have been bandaged, Inuyasha, but she is not getting any better." Kaede sighed. "I don't know what else to do."
"There is nothing else you can do…" whispered Sango. "I have seen strong men die of less severe injuries…" she frowned. "And Kagome…she…" But Sango stopped. She looked as if she was going to cry.
Miroku patted her on the shoulder. Kagome's family had yet to come out from Kaede's hut, and Inuyasha doubted that they would any time soon. He frowned deeply. The scent of Kagome's blood was so strong that it was sickening. She really was dying on him, and this time, Sesshoumaru said there would be no coming back. But what could he do? How could he save her if Sesshoumaru's tenseiga couldn't even accomplish the task.
Sesshoumaru's words echoed through Inuyasha's head like a broken record.
"The only way the girl would survive was if she was a hanyou or a demon. Even Kagura died of her injuries. No human could survive…"
Inuyasha thought about this.
"The only way the girl would survive was if she was a hanyou or a demon. Even Kagura died of her injuries. No human could survive…"
Over and over again Sesshoumaru's words played out inside Inuyasha's head. Kagome couldn't survive. Her wounds were too great. No human could survive. Kagura had died…so how was Kagome supposed to survive? He began to pace.
"Inuyasha…" stammered Shippo, his bottom lip quivering slightly. "You need to go see Kagome. She's hurt bad. You have to help her like you always do…" The little kit's voice was almost pleading. "Please, Inuyasha. Please. I don't want to lose my mommy like I lost my dad…" a single tear slid down his cheek.
Inuyasha stopped. "Your…mommy?" he repeated, his eyes filling with an expression that was a mixture of guilt and understanding. He nodded to the little fox demon in front of him. "I can't promise anything to you right now, Shippo…but I understand…really, I do." He smiled weakly.
"Are you going to help her?" Shippo stammered.
Inuyasha looked to his brother or Kaede for guidance about what to say to the kit next, but neither of them offered any help. He sighed deeply, and walked into the old woman's hut.
Inside, Kagome's mother was holding Kagome's hand and staring at her daughter's pained face. The old man, Kagome's grandfather, was praying silently in the corner of the hut. Next to him sat Kagome's brother Souta, who looked very ill.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome's mother said hoarsely. "How did it happen this time?"
Inuyasha frowned. "Naraku has been stalking us inside our dreams," he explained.
"He hurt Kagome like this from inside her dream?"
"Yes." It was Sesshoumaru who answered them. He stood leaning up against the side of the hut, peering in. Rin was holding tightly to his pants leg, and paled considerably when she saw Kagome.
"Lord Sesshoumaru…" Rin yelped.
"Jacken, take Rin outside to play." Sesshoumaru commanded.
Inuyasha stared down at Kagome. He could hear her breathing, which was very shallow, and even more labored. Her heartbeat, as it had been earlier, was very weak, but it was still there. He leaned down, taking Kagome's free hand in his own.
"What do I do this time, Kagome?" He whispered to her. "What do you want me to do? How am I supposed to help you?"
Kagome's mother looked up. "Inuyasha?" she sighed.
Inuyasha seemingly ignored her, and continued to talk to Kagome as if she would start talking back to him. "I need you to be with me, Kagome. I need you to wake up and talk to me again, and tell me what I am supposed to do…"
Kagome's mother blinked, and her eyes widened. She smiled in understanding at her daughter's hanyou friend. The two of them loved one another. She knew this. Yet every day in the feudal era they both risked their lives. It was a very perplexing situation to her.
"The only way the girl would survive was if she was a hanyou or a demon. Even Kagura died of her injuries. No human could survive…" It was probably the hundredth time that these words had played through Inuyasha's head. He squeezed Kagome's hand, trying to think…hoping that something would come to him…
Sesshoumaru cleared his throat. "Naraku will die for what he has done, Inuyasha. He is nothing but a weak excuse for a hanyou, and I will make sure that he pays for everything he has done to us…"
Suddenly, a light popped on inside Inuyasha's head. "That's it!" he yelped, jumping up as if something had bitten him.
"What is it, Inuyasha?" gasped Kagome's grandfather. He had been interrupted from his praying ritual, and looked slightly annoyed at the loud-mouthed hanyou.
Inuyasha took a deep breath. "Sesshoumaru, what you said earlier…" he began.
"Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" gasped Sesshoumaru, looking, if possible, shocked at his brother. "Do you think that would work? It honestly sounds like a bit of a long shot…"
"What sounds like a long shot?" demanded Kagome's grandfather. "He didn't say anything!"
"She would still probably not wake up for a while, even if it worked, Inuyasha. She would still need several days to rest." Sesshoumaru continued as if he had not heard Kagome's grandfather.
"Inuyasha…" It was once again Kagome's mother.
Inuyasha blinked and looked at her.
She smiled lightly. "What are the two of you talking about?" she asked when she had gotten his attention.
Inuyasha cleared his throat. "If Kagome was a demon like my brother or a hanyou like me, then her body would heal a lot quicker. As it stands now, Kagome can not survive with such wounds…" he frowned moodily. "But, if we were to transfer some of our power into her, she might have a chance."
Kagome's mother blinked in confusion. "Transfer some of your power?" she repeated.
Inuyasha nodded. "Yes, that's what I said."
"How would you do that?" questioned Kagome's grandfather. He looked slightly more interested in the conversation now than he did before.
Inuyasha gulped. "Well, we would have to transfer some of my blood into Kagome, and hopefully, when we did that, it would cause the change. Then, if Kagome is hanyou, she is stronger, which gives her a better chance at surviving this whole thing.."
"What?" gasped Kagome's grandfather. "Some of your blood?"
Inuyasha nodded. "The process would be similar to the mating ritual…"
"Mating ritual?" It was Souta's turn to look confused.
Inuyasha blushed slightly. "When an inu-hanyou decides he is going to take a mate, he bites the female of his choice. This is called a mating mark, which is a way of telling other demons the girl is taken. However, when an inu-hanyou bites his female, it also forms a special sort of bond between the two of them. Say he decides to mate a human…his human girl will grow and age at the same rate that he will…"
"So why not just do that? You love each other, don't you? You told me yourself…" Kagome's mother looked worried.
Inuyasha blushed even worse. "No…you can't just do something like that. You have to have the female's permission. It has to be agreed upon."
"Oh." She nodded. "So this whole blood transfusion..?"
"May turn her into a hanyou, yes…" Sesshoumaru was the one to speak.
"But wouldn't that mean that you and Kagome would be…?" began Souta.
Inuyasha blinked. "Related? No. Kagome is a human. Her parents are human. What I would do would be like nothing more than how Naraku managed to go from human to hanyou…"
"You think Kagome's body will willingly absorb your youkai blood?" asked Sango from behind Sesshoumaru.
Inuyasha seemed to think about this a moment, and finally nodded. "Yes, I think she will. We won't know until we actually try, though." He admitted.
"And how would you do this?" Kagome's grandfather studied Inuyasha.
"Well, I would have to feed it to her…" Inuyasha told them.
Kagome's family looked slightly shocked for a moment, but her mother smiled when she glanced from Kagome's limp form to Inuyasha. "It would make her stronger?" she asked, and Inuyasha nodded. "Then do it."
"Hold on!" It was Kaede.
Everyone looked up curiously.
"What is it?" asked Inuyasha.
"Would Kagome be treated properly in her own time if she was a hanyou?" Kaede asked the group. "Have we thought about that?"
"There aren't any demons in Kagome's time, you old hag." Inuyasha told her.
Kaede nodded, and looked to Kagome's family. She smiled at them. "Do what you think is best…but please make your decision quickly, as Kagome does not have much time for us to be sitting here debating."
"Do it." Kagome's mother commanded quickly.
"You're sure?" asked Inuyasha, studying the woman's gaze with intensity, and searching for any doubt.
She nodded slowly. "Yes, of course I'm sure!" she nearly yelled. "Do it…"
Inuyasha smiled, and leaned over Kagome. "Sango?" he whispered, and the demon slayer poked her head into the hut. "I need you to hold her head up a little so that we can make sure that she drinks it…"
"Drinks it?" Kagome's grandfather still looked slightly horrified.
Kagome's grandfather paled at what happened next.
Inuyasha leaned over his granddaughter, using his clawed hand to slice open his own arm. Kagome's grandfather watched as the demon slayer Sango tilted up Kagome's head, and Inuyasha began to feed his granddaughter his youkai blood. The whole time, Kagome's mother kept a strong hold on her daughter's hand, and watched Inuyasha and Sango.
Kagome's body suddenly seemed to pulse with power, and Inuyasha nodded, a smile of accomplishment on his face.
Inuyasha bandaged his arm, and took his seat on the floor next to Kagome, where he had been earlier. Kagome's mother nodded to him.
"She isn't any different." She said sadly.
Inuyasha shook his head. "Oh, yes she is. Like Sesshoumaru said earlier, she still may not wake up for days, but her breathing is going to settle, and her heartbeat is already stronger than it was before…"
"Really?" her mother smiled.
Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah. I can hear it."
"Thank you, Inuyasha!" Kagome's mother launched herself over her daughter's body to wrap the hanyou in a tight hug. "Thank you for not letting her die…" she whispered.
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A/N: There you are! Hope you liked this one! Come on, guys! I couldn't kill Kagome! Please review and let me know what you think! Thanks!