Hey! Welcome back for chapter 22! I hope that you liked the last chapter. Sorry that I haven't updated in a while because my family went on an unexpected vacation and I didn't have time to finish and put up this chapter! Also, I am finally out of school for the summer, and can read and write as much as I want. I have also written a Harry Potter x Yu Yu Hakusho x My Character story under YYH, called 'The Year of the Time Turner'. I hope that if you read it that you like it! Also, this chapter is based on a little bit of a story that I read, and it is only going to be an InuxKag chapter, without any others, okay? Well, with a little bit of the other characters, but not a lot. I hope that you like it!
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Some Dreams Can Come True, Ya Know!
Chapter 22: I Don't Get Sick!
Inuyasha sneezed, and Kagome looked back at him. He wiped his nose, looking annoyed.
"Someone must be talking behind my back." He said. They were out walking in the Forest of Inuyasha, at about six o'clock, bored out of their sculls. Inuyasha sneezed again, this time Kagome looked at him with concern.
"Inuyasha, are you feeling okay?" Kagome asked, walking over to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I just…woah." He said as he swayed dangerously. Kagome reached out and held him steady, putting a hand up to his forehead, then putting it to hers.
"Inuyasha, you have a fever. Let's get back to the village." Kagome said as she held him steady on their way back to the village. About half way there, Inuyasha had to put a hand up to his head, who was becoming suddenly dizzy.
"I don't get sick Kagome! I haven't been sick since I was ten!" Inuyasha protested as she made him lay down and sit still.
"I don't care how long it's been, because you have a cold NOW." Kagome argued as she dug in her backpack.
"Here, drink this, and try to go to sleep." Kagome said, passing Inuyasha a purple liquid in a small cup. Inuyasha sniffed it, then pulled it away from his face.
"Yuck! What is that?" Inuyasha said as he looked at it.
"It's cold medicine from my time. Just drink it and go to sleep." Kagome said. Inuyasha drank it, and almost threw up because of the taste. It was awful! (Poor Inuyasha! I hate, no, loathe taking cold medicine!)
"Now go to sleep." Kagome said.
"I'm not tired!" Inuyasha protested. Kagome rezipped her backpack and turned around to tell Inuyasha to go to sleep, but was surprised to find out that he was already. Kagome smiled and walked out of the room silently. She went outside to the river and got some cool water, and went back to her room. She got a cloth out of her backpack and dunked it in the water, then wrung it out. She put it over Inuyasha's forehead, who muttered a quiet 'thanks', then drifted back to sleep. She laid down on a pallet next to Inuyasha, and fell asleep.
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Inuyasha woke up about three hours later in a quiet coughing fit. He sat up quickly, dislodging the cloth that was on his forehead, and his head started to spin. He waited for his dizziness to stop before he looked around. They were in his and Kagome's room, and he was lying on a pallet next to Kagome, who was sleeping peacefully. He started to cough again, and he muffled the coughing with his hands, though his attempts quiet the sounds were in vain because Kagome started to stirred. She sat up, yawned, and looked over at him. She looked into his gray eyes, and smiled. She blinked, and yawned again.
"Hey, how long have you been up?" She said. Then she blinked again.
"Wait a sec, his eyes were gray!" Kagome thought as she looked at Inuyasha's face again. His eyes were amber, but Kagome still eyed him suspiciously.
"What?" Inuyasha asked, a bit more irritable than he meant it to sound. His voice was harsh and raspy, and he decided to use telepathy to talk to her, since it hurt his throat to talk.
"What are you looking at me for?" Inuyasha asked her.
"It's just…its nothing." Kagome said.
"In answer to your question, I've been up for about five minutes, and if anything, I feel worse than I did earlier." Inuyasha said.
"Let me check your temperature." Kagome said as she crawled over to him. She held her hand up to her forehead, then up to Inuyasha's, but pulled it back almost immediately.
"You're burning up!" Kagome said.
"Yeah, I guessed as much." He said.
"How do you feel?" Kagome asked him.
"Dizzy, sick, my throat hurts, and I feel weaker than I ever felt before in my entire life." Inuyasha said.
"I'll give you some more medicine." Kagome said as she stood up and went over to her backpack. She got out the medicine, and went over to Inuyasha, who was already asleep again. She shook him gently, and handed him the medicine. He drank it, then laid back down, and was back asleep immediately.
She got a book out of her backpack and started to read. Inuyasha sneezed in his sleep, and Kagome looked over at him to see his hair turn black. She blinked, and his hair was silver again. She rubbed her eyes, and went back to her book, but she couldn't read. She had to watch over Inuyasha. She had to.
She watched Inuyasha sneeze again, and watched his hair turn black, then almost immediately turn back silver. Kagome sighed. She decided to go back to sleep, because there was nothing that she could do for Inuyasha. She sat down in a chair next to Inuyasha's pallet, and she slowly drifted back to sleep with a book in her lap.
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Inuyasha woke up about five hours after he had gone to sleep again. Kagome was sitting in a chair next to his pallet on the floor, asleep with a book in her lap, fast asleep. He smiled, but soon was sneezing in his hand, trying to muffle the sound as much as possible. Fortunately, he didn't wake her up. She looked like she had been up ever since he had fallen asleep. He thought of how she was acting like his mom did back when he was ten.
Flashback
"Mom? You don't have to stay up the entire night with me." Inuyasha said weakly when he was ten years old.
"Yes I do Inuyasha. You're really sick. I should have known that this would happen." Izayoi said.
"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked weakly.
"Your father said that once you got sick, you would get very sick every five hundred years, oddly enough. Now, try and get some rest, I'll go get some medicine from the man in town. Sesshomaru will watch over you and Kimi. I'll see you when I get back!" Izayoi said as she gave Inuyasha a kiss on his forehead, and walked out the door closing it gently behind her.
End of Flashback
"So that's why I'm so sick! My mom said that every five hundred years I would get sick! I'm now five hundred and ten years old…so I will get sick in another five hundred years. I want to tell Kagome, but it looks like she just got to sleep, I'll tell her the next time she wakes up." Inuyasha thought. He fell back asleep within a minute of laying his head down back on his pillow.
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Inuyasha woke up to the smell of ramen cooking somewhere near his room. He was careful to get up and walk slowly, so he didn't get dizzy, but it didn't help. He walked over to the door, and walked into the hallway. He walked down the hallway, and through an open doorway that lead to the kitchen. He walked in and leaned against the wall so that he wouldn't fall, and held his head steady.
He felt worse than he had the night before, if that was possible. He looked over at the fire to see Kagome cooking ramen. Inuyasha tried to stay quiet, but he broke up into a coughing fit, and Kagome turned around to see him. She almost dropped the spoon that she was holding.
"Inuyasha, your…" Kagome said.
"What?" Inuyasha asked, his voice barely a whisper, because his throat was hurting so much.
"Come with me." Kagome said. She led him, careful not to go to fast, into their room and sat him down. She dug in her backpack and pulled out her mirror.
"Take a look." Kagome told him as she handed him the mirror. He looked in it, and almost dropped it. His dog ears were gone, he had grown his human ears, he still had his silver hair, but his fangs and claws were gone, and his eyes were gray, instead of amber. He sneezed, and watched his hair turn black, and then slowly fade back to silver, but he noticed that his silver hair was a bit darker (closer to black) than it had been before he had sneezed. They both heard a squeal come from the kitchen, and Kagome jumped up.
"Your ramen!" She shrieked as she ran out of the kitchen. Inuyasha smiled slightly, but he still felt sick. He felt that ramen would help him feel a little bit better. He decided that it would be good for him to just stay put and wait for Kagome to bring him his food. He laid down on the pallet, and was almost asleep when Kagome walked in with a bowl and a pair of chopsticks.
"Inuyasha?" She asked, afraid that he was asleep.
"I'm up." Inuyasha said, sitting up carefully. Kagome smiled and handed him the bowl of ramen and the chopsticks, and he thanked her before he ate it.
"Careful not to eat the bowl to!" Kagome joked. He handed her the bowl after he finished, and Kagome went over to her backpack before Inuyasha fell asleep again. She got out the medicine and gave it to Inuyasha. He drank it, and laid back down. Kagome brought the bowl back to the kitchen, and came back to the already asleep Inuyasha. He sat bolt up right when she walked in.
"Kagome, go get Kia and Koinu, and hand me Tetsusaiga." He said. Kagome looked at him in confusion.
"Why?" Kagome asked him, handing him his sword.
"There's a demon coming!" He said. Kagome didn't sense a demon around anywhere, so she was confused as to why he was doing this.
"Inuyasha, there is not a demon. Go back to sleep." Kagome told him gently. He laid back down, and was asleep in a matter of seconds. Kagome took the sword from Inuyasha and put it back up against the wall.
"He must be delirious." Kagome thought as she picked up a book and laid back down next to Inuyasha. She read the book for a little while, before Inuyasha stirred slightly.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah?" Inuyasha asked in a quiet whisper.
"Don't ever leave me. You promise?" Kagome said. Inuyasha was a bit surprised by the question.
"Sure. I promise." Inuyasha said, then he slowly drifted off to sleep, while Kagome read her book, but soon fell asleep herself, because she had been up half of the night watching over Inuyasha. After she fell asleep, Inuyasha's breathing slowed to his sleep, but so did his heartbeat.
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Sango was walking around looking for Kagome. She hadn't seen her since the night before, and was worried about her. She had looked everywhere except for her room, and that was where she was headed. She walked into the room in silence, and she looked at the two on their pallets. Kagome was sleeping next to him with a book on her chest. Inuyasha had a cloth on his forehead, and he looked sick.
She then did a brilliant double take with Inuyasha. She noticed that his hair wasn't fully silver, but much closer to black. His dog ears were gone, and so were his claws and fangs. She looked at him shocked, then looked at Kagome when she started to stir. Kagome looked at her and smiled. She held a finger up to her lips and stood up and led Sango outside of the room, where Kagome closed the door quietly, leaving a small crack.
"Before you say anything, Kaede, Kimi, and Kiala are taking care of Koinu and Kia." Sango told her. Kagome nodded before she started to talk.
"Inuyasha is very sick. I don't know how, but he's also turning human because of it and the new moon isn't for another three weeks." Kagome told Sango with a worried look on her face. She then turned and looked at Inuyasha. She looked in a bit of horror at him.
"Sango, his breathing is off pattern…" Kagome said as she ran over to him. She knelt down next to him and took his pulse.
"His heartbeat is going really slow to…" Kagome said as tears filled her eyes.
"Kagome, it'll be okay! Inuyasha is going to be okay…" Sango managed out before Kagome started to shake Inuyasha, tears now falling down her face freely.
"Inuyasha…wake up! Wake up Inuyasha! Please!" Kagome said as she shook him.
No response.
"Inuyasha! Wake up! Please!" Kagome said. She leaned on Inuyasha and cried into his kimono.
"Inuyasha, you promised me! You promised! You…promised…me…" Kagome said as she cried. Her breath came in small, shuddering gasps as she cried. Inuyasha's breathing soon changed to short breaths, as though his breath was being cut off.
"Kagome, move off of Inuyasha. I have an idea. It may work, it may not. Please, move." Sango told Kagome gently. Kagome had forgotten that Sango was there, so her speaking made Kagome jump. Kagome moved off of him obediently, but stayed only two feet away from Inuyasha.
Sango went over to him, and took off the top part of his kimono. She opened the white shirt underneath, and put her hands over his chest. Her hands started to glow blue, and Sango closed her eyes. Kagome watched Inuyasha, his breathing returned to the speed it was at when he was asleep, but his dog ears, claws, and fangs didn't return, and his hair was still darker than it usually was. Sango sat back, opened her eyes, and wiped sweat from her face.
"Well, it helped some." Sango said, sounding a bit exhausted as she closed Inuyasha's shirts.
"Yeah…" Kagome said, still crying, and she went back over to Inuyasha. Sango decided that there was nothing else that she could do, so she left. After Sango left, Kagome laid down next to Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, you promised me. You promised…now don't you give up now. I can't live without you." Kagome said, still crying. She closed her eyes, and went to sleep very slowly, wishing that Inuyasha would be okay.
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Kagome woke up three hours later to find that Inuyasha's breathing had gone back to the short breaths. She tearfully sighed, and opened a mental link with Sango.
"Sango? I need you to come and heal Inuyasha again. Hurry please!" Kagome told her.
"I'll be right there." Sango said. She ran to the room as fast as she could. She ran into the room, not bothering to close the door in her haste. She ran over to Inuyasha, and opened his shirt, and started to heal him. When she opened her eyes, Inuyasha's condition hadn't changed at all.
"Oh, no..." Sango said. Inuyasha's breathing slowed even more, along with his heartbeat, where it was barely noticeable.
"Inuyasha! Please, don't die! I love you too much! Please! You promised!" Kagome almost screamed. She fell down on him, and started crying openly.
"I LOVE YOU! YOU PROMISED ME! DON'T DIE!" Kagome screamed. Her words echoed through the house. Tears fell on Inuyasha's kimono, and on his face. Kagome cried for what seemed like an eternity, but it was really only about two or three minutes. Inuyasha then stopped breathing all together.
"No…INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed. She held his hand in hers; it was cold.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome all but whispered before looking away from him. His heartbeat and breathing started again, but only barely, and not enough to catch Kagome's attention. Then, Inuyasha's breathing slowly returned to his normal sleeping patterns, and his heartbeat picked up a small bit. Kagome turned around in shock, and surprise.
"Inuyasha, you kept your promise!" Kagome told him telepathically, even though he couldn't hear her. She cried tears of happiness, and Sango sat there, crying as well, because she had thought that Inuyasha had died to. She left the room silently, and Kagome felt Inuyasha's forehead. He still had a fever, but it was a minor one. She lay down next to him, and fell asleep once more.
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Inuyasha opened his eyes to see Kagome looking down at him with relief on her face.
"Inuyasha!" She said, before throwing herself on him. He moved his arms so he could sit up, and they felt like he hadn't used them in days. He smelled salt in the air, and looked down to see Kagome crying.
"Kagome…" Inuyasha said softly, rubbing her back to comfort her. He still felt a bit stiff, and just a little bit dizzy, but other than that, he was okay.
"What happened?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well, after I brought you back here, you and I slept on and off. I do hope you remember making the promise?" Kagome asked him.
"Yes, but barely." Inuyasha said.
"Well, then you went delusional. You fell asleep, and your breathing and heartbeat slowed until they stopped all together, so basically, you died. ("What? I died? AGAIN?" Inuyasha said.) You then recovered from that, amazingly enough. You've been delusional for the past two days because of your fever. Then you just woke up." Kagome explained, more tears coming to her eyes at the painful memory of him dying again.
"Don't cry again Kagome! All that matters now is that you're safe, along with me." Inuyasha said, patting her back as she started to cry into his chest again.
"I know, but…I was so worried about you!" Kagome said with a shuddering breath.
"I'm all right now! I'm fine!" Inuyasha said as he hugged Kagome, then kissed her. They stayed in that position until Kimi and Sesshomaru walked in to do their annual two-hour check-up on their brother. They sighed with relief as they realized that he was finally okay. They all talked, Inuyasha just laying down and commenting every once in a while, and then Inuyasha brought up an interesting point that made everyone in the room laugh.
"That medicine that you gave me tasted awful!"
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Chapter 23: Life Long Spells and Promises