Please tell me if this is getting a little too dramatic for you guys. I can calm it down if you want, but remember this is a Romance/Drama fiction. Oh just so you all know the 'die in a month' thing is supposed to be leading up to the plot.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters assocaited with the series.

Chapter 19: The Curse Of Doom

"Kagome..." Inuyasha put his hand on her shoulder trying to get her attention.

It wasn't that Kagome couldn't bring herself to tell him, it was that she was trying not to bring herself to tell him. She wanted to so bad, because whenever he knew he could help with his comfort and care, but this time he would suffer as well and that was the last thing she wanted.

Now all she had to do was try and find a way to hold back the tears and tell her she was going somewhere for a while. She of course didn't know where she would go, anywhere was better than here, the place where Inuyasha could watch her die.

Kagome wanted to live. She was so young and dying now... She didn't know what. She was afraid to die and leave them all behind. Her friends had lost so much already and now that Naraku was gone, losing more would be no fair. She couldn't help it though she had no idea what was going on with her body. She didn't know what the cause was and she didn't know what the cure was.

"Inuyasha... where would you rather be right now, instead of here?" She asked coming up with a way for him to go, so she could leave and die on her own.

She, of course, didn't want to die on her own, but it was for the good of her friends.

"Where would I rather be?" Inuyasha echoed the question. "What are you getting at?"

"I... just want to know is all."

"Truthfully..." Inuyasha leaned back against the tree and looked over past the stream and saw mountains, which were pretty far, but behind them was the setting sun. The sky blazed oranges and other colors. "I'm fine where I am now." He said.

"No, I mean where is the place you want to be most?"

"Here... with you." He finished with a blush. This warmed Kagome's heart, but it made things harder for her.

"Thank you, Inuyasha..." She said softly.

"Hmm? For what?"

"For everything. You are always there for me and you always risk your life for mine. I don't know what I'd do without you... but there's something I have to say."

"What?"

"I have to go somewhere."

"Where?"

"Ah.." Kagome never actually took that into perspective. "I can't say."

"What do you mean 'you can't say'?" Inuyasha raised an eye brow in suspicion. It was so hard for Kagome not to cry. She was growing slightly frustrated from his suspicion, yet it was unusually making her love him more, because... it meant... he cared. A tear drop fell.

Kagome could feel her heart crushing. She didn't want to leave him here all alone. He had suffered so much already.

"No.." She whispered. She wouldn't let him hurt. There had to be a way.

"Lets go."

"Where?"

"Back to Kaede's. We're going to Sesshomaru's in the morning and don't even think about going anywhere." He stood up and helped her to her feet, but as soon as his hand was released she fell hard on her bottom. She winced at the jolt, but it was nothing. She looked down at the ground depressed.

"You okay?" Inuyasha knelt in front of her. His face only inches from hers. He than saw it. Horror filled him. He could hear Kagome's slightly ragged breathing and depressed eyes. Why didn't she tell him?

Inuyasha ruffled grabbed her chinned and brought his eyes close to her looking into them, as if searching for something.

"He did this to you." Inuyasha growled in anger.

"Did what? Who?" Kagome questioned.

"Stop lying Kagome, you have the slits." He bit out. Kagome was surprised.

"What slits?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"What slits?"

"The one's above your pupils." Inuyasha growled bringing his face closer to hers. His heart was pounding. He knew the terror of the slits.

"What are you.." Kagome than reached over into her bag and pulled out a hand held mirror and closely examined her eyes. She gasped. Sure enough there were two tiny slits right above her pupils in the brown of her eye color. "What do they mean?"

"Don't play dumb. You know what they mean. So that's what's wrong." He stood up anger clenching his soul. That bastard was doing this to her. It was a curse.

"You mean.. my life line..."

"Has been shortened." He finished.

"Do you know how?" She asked.

"OF COURSE I DO!" Inuyasha glared daggers into her eyes. She gasped. He never seemed so angry. Was he angry at her? Inuyasha could help, but be angry. His Kagome was going to die and he couldn't do anything. He was mad.. so mad. She didn't tell him.

"How?" She asked in a very hushed voice. Inuyasha heard the slight fear in her voice. She was afraid of his anger. HE froze. He was scaring her when he was supposed to be protecting her. He calmed down for her sake.

"Akahito. He must know you're alive. It's a curse. They call it doom.

"They?"

"The demons from the hidden forest."

"What hidden forest?"

"It's a forest only a few demons know of. They are powerful and specialize in these curses. It's my guess that damn hate demon would reside there if he knows the curse."

"How does it work? The curse that is?"

"It's simple. First the daggers and the energy draining. Your life line is shortened to the point you only having a little while longer to live.."

"A month.." Kagome cut in.

"And than it's over." He said sadly. "Why didn't you tell me right away!"

"I didn't.."

"Didn't what! You didn't care!"

"NO!" Kagome cried. "I just didn't want to hurt you or the others."

"By running away and never coming back, dying somewhere alone. Leaving me alone and all of us to worry about where the hell you went. You'd never say good bye and we could never even chance finding a cure. Tell me Kagome... How smart would that possibly be?" He pulled her into his embrace. "Baka! Baka! Baka! You can't leave me again. We'll find away."

Hope you liked it as usual. I'll post the nest chapter as soon as I get around to it.

Also I would like to know if any of you watch other anime's besides Inuyasha that you would recommend to me that are not already on my list?