Well here's the next chapter and for those of you who are reading my other fictions I'm sorry they're not really being updated often.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

Chapter 18: Depression

Fear clenched her soul and dread filled her body. She could feel her life force dying away. She wanted to run and hide and never be seen or see again. How could this have happened? What had happened? She needed to know. At the moment she only wanted to run and find her love's comforting arms. She wanted his comfort.

Her love... him. What would he say about this? How would he feel? She didn't know.

Kagome plopped down on the hospital chair. How? How? How? She repeated the question over and over in her head. She clasped her head in her hands and tears dropped. She couldn't stand the depression. How? WHY! Why her!

"Did I deserve this?" She asked herself.

What would you do if you found out you only had less than a month to live?

Dun.. dun... dun... (A/N: Now that's angst and suspense.)

Meanwhile

Inuyasha sat looking down into the well. He wondered what was taking her so long.

The two had only gotten back from Sesshomaru's earlier that day. Kagome wasn't doing to well. She looked sick, drained. So he took her to Kaede's. Since he was so worried he got there in half the time. A day. Kaede couldn't figure out what was wrong with her and suggested he bring Kagome to her own time and let her healers deal with it, since the modern ones were had more technology.

Inuyasha had ended up walking her to the hospital and avoided her aunt and uncle. She told him to go back to the feudal era until she got back. He had agreed and was starting to think it was a mistake. She told him she'd be only a little while and he had waited that little while, hell he had waited the long while and still no Kagome.

Inuyasha had a strange feeling in his gut like she was in danger, or hurt. He was a little freaked out, because for some reason he could feel her soul calling to him.

Inuyasha readied himself to jump into the well when a familiar voice came to him.

"Inuyasha!" Shippo jumped into his arms like he was Kagome.

"What the hell!" Inuyasha growled.

"I thought you and Kagome were never going to come back... oh.. where's Kagome?" He asked getting off Inuyasha.

"She went back to her time for a little while."

"Inuyasha what's wrong with Kagome? She was acting weird last time she was here. She seemed... sad." Shippo inferred.

"It's none of your business runt."

"Inuyasha!" Sango and Miroku came to him and started pulling on his haori. "Hurry." Sango pushed.

"What!" He struggled a little, but the two of them continued to pull him to the village.

When they got to the village and let go of Inuyasha, Inuyasha looked around at the boringness of the village.

"What the hell did you drag me here for?" He growled in annoyance.

"Kaede has some herbs she wants to give you for Kagome. She said it may help, but she isn't sure... by the way what is wrong with Kagome?" Sango asked concerned.

"I.. don't know." Inuyasha frowned and looked down. He made his way to Kaede's.

Meanwhile

Kagome hid her tears. She had to be brave for now. She walked down the streets towards the shrine. She had made a decision. She wouldn't tell Inuyasha... she couldn't. She would only tell Kaede to see if Kaede could help in anyway since the doctors could not.

She wouldn't tell her friends either she didn't want any of them to suffer and worry about her and she surely didn't favor being pitied. 'One month, huh? I wonder where I can hide." She tried to be sarcastic to cheer herself up, but no use. She was sad, but more than anything depressed.

She would also have to leave Inuyasha. She wouldn't let him suffer by watching her die again. She felt guilty to. She had told him to promise her he would live, but here she was dying...

"Kagome!" Kagome felt the familiar weight of a kitsune in her arms. She was shocked. She looked up and say the steps of the shrine. What was Shippo doing on the other side and how did he get there?

"Shippo?" Kagome questioned as she walked up the steps with him in her arms. "How did you get here?"

Meanwhile

Inuyasha walked down the river stream with a frown. When Kaede handed him the herbs he set them down and told her he would get them later when Kagome got back.

When Kagome got back they were supposed to be heading back to Sesshomaru's since Rin's teaching weren't finished and they left earlier than they were supposed to- at least that's what Sesshomaru had said.

Inuyasha stopped as a scent crossed his nose. It was familiar, yet it wasn't. Something wasn't right about it. It was sad and depressed. (A/N: Okay now Kagome had obviously made it back to the feudal era. FYI- She told Kaede already.)

He looked over and saw Kagome leaning against a tree looking over at the stream.

When he was only a few feet from her he noticed her glance change. She smiled, yet he could still sense sorrow, even more now. Kagome looked over at him with a smile.

"Hey Inuyasha." She said a little over enthusiastically trying to cover her sadness.

"What happened at the hospital?" He sat down next to her.

"Nothing. I'm fine. Just tired." She lied. 'Yeah tired and getting more tired by the second.' She thought.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"What do you mean? I.. said I was fine."

"Don't lie to me."

"I... I'm not.. Inuyasha?"

"Yeah?"

"You know the other night when I asked you to promise you would never die on me?"

"Yeah." He didn't like where this was going.

"Well... I just want you to know that I can't make that promise either."

"What do you mean?"

"It's just.." She wanted to jump into his arms and cry and confess, but stopped herself for his sake. "I'm human and you're a half demon. You'll out live me most likely..."

"Kagome." Inuyasha turned his head towards the sky. "That's impossible."

"What are you talking about?"

"Didn't I already tell you?"

"Tell me what?" She was getting cautious.

"I can't live without you." This statement made Kagome want to scream and the tears were about to become uncontrollable as she realized her dying would hurt him to. She couldn't help it, so she cried. She turned her head away from him and tried to muffle the sobs, but it was hard. She wasn't some kind of god that could just hold her feelings in forever.

Inuyasha was confused. What was going on? He had no idea. Why had his words hurt her so much?

"Kagome..." he reached his hand out and put it on her shoulder.

This one is sort of a cliffy.