Chapter 3

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Kaede's hut

The gang surrounded Kaede as she dressed and examined Inuyasha's wound. When Kaede was done with it, she turned and faced the gang with a solemn expression.

" So how is he? " Kagome asked impatiently.

" He has suffered a head concussion and may take a long time to heal due to his crash against the tree." Kaede replied.

Kagome felt tears filling up her eyes and broke down on Sango's shoulder. Sango comforted Kagome and looked at Miroku. Miroku asked the old lady," So how long is he going to recover? "

" Depending on the situation." The old lady said.

Kagome raised her head and asked, " What do you meant by saying depending on the situation? "

" The concussion may lead to loss of memory." Kaede replied.

Kagome felt her legs went jelly and Sango had to support her from falling. Kagome felt as if her heart was pierced through many times by many arrows. Her tears were falling out of her eyes. Suddenly, she felt that there was no meaning to life anymore. She ran out of the hut, followed closely by Sango. She ran all the way to the river and cried under the moonlight.

Sango sat beside her and waited patiently for Kagome to finish crying. She too was shocked at what Kaede had said.

" Sango. I have a confession to make. " Kagome whimpered.

Sango perked up and looked at Kagome with surprising eyes.

" I have always loved Inuyasha all along." Kagome said.

That figured why she spoke of his name while dreaming.

" Oh Kagome." Sango held her in her arms. " It must have been quite a big blow for you."

Kagome sobbed into Sango's arms, finding comfort in her best friend. As it was getting late, the two friends walked back to Kaede's hut, hoping that this nightmare would end sooner.

Kagome woke up early next morning. She looked around the house and found that everyone was still sleeping except for Kaede who went to pluck herbs for Inuyasha. She prepared breakfast and walked over to Inuyasha. She knew he wouldn't be able to eat and the thought of that made her sob again. Shippo was awoken by Kagome's sobs and went to her side.

"Kagome nee-san, is Inuyasha going to be awake?" Shippo asked.

"I don't know," She said as she hugged Shippo into her embrace.

While Inuyasha was being oblivious to the world, he was dreaming of fighting Naraku over the Shikon Jewel. He knew that this was going to be a long fight and he was not waking up soon.

Inuyasha's dream

"Naraku!" yelled Inuyasha as he swung his Tetsusaiga at Naraku. Naraku however sent a colony of demons against his attack. Inuyasha knew that he was alone fighting Naraku and he had no other back-ups from his gang.

"Haha! You are so cute Inuyasha. You think that you could defeat me eh?" Naraku mocked at Inuyasha.

"Baka!" Inuyasha fought off the demons but just could not get to the end of it.

Naraku smirked at Inuyasha and decided to take off.

"Naraku! Stay there" Inuyasha yelled.

Still, Inuyasha was there battling against the demons.

End of Inuyasha's dream

Kagome saw Inuyasha began to tense up and broke into cold sweats. She panicked and used a towel to wipe his sweat away. "What's wrong?" Miroku asked Kagome. She could only shrugged and stayed by Inuyasha. Kaede came to Kagome's side and said that she needed to change Inuyasha's wound. Kagome stepped aside letting the old woman to change Inuyasha's wound.

"He is healing faster than I thought," Kaede said smiling, placing the herbs on Inuyasha's wound.

Kagome suddenly felt a burden just lifted from her, she was smiling for the first time after Inuyasha's incident.

"So is he going to wake up soon?" She asked hopefully.

"Yeah." Kaede replied.

Kagome ran out and yelled for Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara. She announced the good news to them.

"Really! Oh my god!" Sango squealed, hugging the elated Kagome. Miroku smiled while Shippo and Kirara danced around each other.

For the next 2 days and 2 nights, Kagome had been sitting beside Inuyasha, taking care of him. She wet his lips when it was dry, wiping his face and constantly attending to him.

One night, Miroku and Sango decided to go for a walk after dinner along the hill nearby. They sat down on a spot over looking the entire village. Sango felt so good with the moonlight soaking into her skin. After so many things had happened, this was the most peaceful time she had so far.

Miroku looked in Sango's direction and found that she looked very peaceful, very relaxed, and very pretty. He found himself asking a very stupid question.

"Sango, if you and I were in Kagome's and Inuyasha's situation, will you treat me the same way as how Kagome treat Inuyasha?"

Sango was stumped by that question. Much as she liked Miroku but she did not know how to answer that question. She very much wanted to say yes.

"Yeah. Maybe I will." She said lowering her head as she did not want Miroku to see her blushing.

Miroku was shocked by her reply, a positive reply. "Are you sure?" He asked.

Sango nodded her head. Miroku seized this chance to out his arm around her. Sango complied by leaning onto his shoulder. However, his hand began to work slowly down to her buttocks and started to grope it.

"Hentai" Sango screamed as she yanked her Hiraikotsu down on Miroku's head.

"He never gives up touching Sango nee-san. Right Kirara?" Shippo said to Kirara while they were peeping at Miroku and Sango.

Kirara mewed back to agree.

"Well, it seems that everybody is paired off. Kagome nee-san with Inuyasha and Sango with Miroku." Shippo said as they walked back to the village.

"But I still have a wonderful friend like you. So we will be happy together, right Kirara?"

"Meow"

Shippo smiled and they walked back.

"Kagome," Kaede approached Kagome. Kagome looked up from Inuyasha.

"You should get a bite since you have not eaten dinner." Kaede advised.

"I am not hungry."

"Foolish girl. You will not help Inuyasha in recovering fast by skipping meals."

Kagome thought about it and insisted on not eating. Kaede shrugged and went off.

Inuyasha. I am skipping meals because of you. I am also not feeling well now. Please wake up soon.

Inuyasha's dream

Finally, Inuyasha have killed all the demons and went after Naraku.

"Naraku!" He yelled.

Naraku was not in sight. Inuyasha cursed under his breath.

Suddenly he had a thought of Kagome was suffering. She was telling him to wake up soon so she will eat.

Sorry, Kagome. Until I killed Naraku, will I the energy to wake up.

End of Inuyasha's dream

Shippo and Kirara reached the hut at last and saw Kagome still stood by Inuyasha. Shippo did not want to disturb her so he went to a corner and fell asleep.

Sango came back, angrily followed by Miroku who had a quite a big bump on his head.

Kagome waited till Sango settled down and walked over to talk to her.

"He did it again, didn't he?" Kagome asked with a not surprise look on her face.

"He is an idiot." Sango almost screamed.

"I thought you liked him." Kagome snickered.

"Girl, I still have my dignity and pride." Sango shot back.

"Ok Ok." Kagome said.

Sango looked past Kagome to Inuyasha, stood up and patted Kagome's shoulders before going to bed.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha with a hopeful look on her face.

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Well, this is the end of it. I currently am suffering from writer's block so I would not be updating so fast yet. The next chapter I think that it is time for Kikyo's appearance. Till the next time. Thanks for the review you sent me. You know who you are. I will try to improve on it.