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Okay well I'm writing now, I know I'm so sorry that I got lazy and know that school's started maybe I can find the time and get back on track. I don't know maybe if someone had yelled at me maybe then I would have started to write but anyway here you go with another chapter.

"InuYasha?" InuYasha was starting to wake up, the groggy feeling in his head still lingered and he still was having a hard time focusing his eyes. As he tried to sit up he moaned feeling his muscles stiff and ridged and now all he could feel was ice slowly filling his veins. But when he tried to sit up he felt a hand lightly touch his shoulder and it was enough to keep him laying down.

"Don't move, your still in a lot of pain, just relax and take it easy. You'll be fine, just go back to sleep for the time being." The voice was soothing to him and even though he couldn't tell who the owner was he didn't care as he drifted back into sleep.

Kagome and Kaede had brought InuYasha back home, well Kagome did. Kaede wanted to ask one of the strong young men in the village but Kagome said they couldn't wait that long. Besides Kagome was a strong young girl so she hosted InuYasha up on her back as Kaede cleared the way for them. He wasn't that heavy at all, Kagome figured that he didn't need to eat a lot and was fit seeing how he was a half demon. On the way back she walked as quickly as she could and carried him up the stairs into the third bedroom on the left side that Kaede called InuYasha's room.

Along the way they bumped into Sota who was looking for Kaede, as it turns out to be their luck the girl they had found decided now of all times to wake up. Kagome had no choice, she was left to take care of InuYasha as Kaede and her mom took care of the girl whose name turned out to be Sango.

It had been several hours now and InuYasha didn't seem to be getting any better, he was no longer warm, his fever had dropped but it continued to drop and now he was freezing cold to the touch. Kagome piled on a few blankets but if she where to put anymore on his body wouldn't be able to breath. He was still sweating and he looked like he was in pain. There was nothing she could do for him, Kaede was still with Sango and her mother didn't know anything more than Kagome did so they would have to wait.

InuYasha had woken up painfully a few times so Kagome hushed him back to sleep hoping that it would be more peaceful than staying awake, but she could only hope. This whole time there was no other sound but footsteps walking up and down the stairs as well as the sound of breathing. Kagome hated the sound of silence, the windows here blocked out all the sounds of life out doors so she decided to hum a tune. But then again Kagome was never a good singer and she didn't know any tunes, she would always forget them; some gypsy she turned out to be. But she decided to give it a shot, one song played back to her when they traveled a day with another caravan and decided to give it a try so she hummed it. It was a slow sad one that played high soft melodies.

The caravan she heard it from told stories that Kagome had never heard before and they would play instruments that angels where said to play. She was amazed and wished she had could play a tune on one of those beautiful wooden instruments, anything would be better then the sound of her voice cracking as she tried to reach the high notes. Even so the song she hummed seemed to help ease his worried expression and put him into a deeper sleep. She sat there and she hummed a bit softer until she came to a complete stop. She looked at InuYasha and his face; it was so peaceful, smooth, and… beautiful.

He was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, she never had the chance to realize it before but he was everything her father had told her. She knew very well what her fortune held before her, it was just she never thought how even though she had been searching this whole time for him that she would never want it to come true.

'I just wish that time would stay like this forever, calm and peaceful, having everything you could ever need without worrying about what tomorrow will bring.' She leaned over and brushed his bangs on his cool forehead with the tips of her fingers, almost as if she was petting him. His body relaxed further and his ears for the first time leaned comfortably back, but she couldn't help herself, she wanted to touch them, and so she did.

"Glade to get that out of my system." She sighed quietly to herself and leaned back placing her hands back on her lap. After she did the door open and turning around she saw Kaede beckon her. Kagome nodded and stood up walking out the door soundlessly as she could feel InuYasha tense up again.

On the other side of the door Kaede closed it and looked at Kagome.

"Well how is he?' She asked, on her arm was a basket that would normally be used to carry fruits.

"His fever has gone down, but now his skin is cold to the touch and yet he continues to sweat. He's woken up a few times, but he was in so much pain I helped him back to sleep." Kagome avoided looking at Kaede's eye, for some reason she found her folded hands more interesting and there was a small blush on her face.

"I see, well I need to check on him but I would like to ask a favor of you. Your mother is already tied up and I already have Sota and your grandfather running errands so that leaves you. I need you to go out and but something for dinner and could I trust you to cook us a good meal?" Kagome looked up at her, the blush on her face suddenly forgotten, as she nodded stupidly.

"Good, here you go child, and I would think this would be enough to cover the cost?" She asked taking out of her pocket a small deep red velvet bag and placed it in Kagome's hand. Kagome wasn't expecting it to be so heavy as her outstretched hand fell from the weight of the bag. She leaned forward and caught it, but just barely. She straightened up holding the bag in her both hands as if she was cupping water and looked as Kaede shook her head with as smirk on her face. Kagome smiled from embarrassment as her blush returned.

"So I'll take this and go shopping for food and cook us a nice warm meal okay." She said taking the basket and running down the stairs laughing nervously. Kaede smiled warmly and then headed into InuYasha's room.

Kagome walked out of the house slipping the coin bag into her pocket and rested the handle of the basket on the crock of her arm. She smiled at herself seeing how stupid she probably just looked as shook her head. But as she did she looked at all the people around her as they gave her glances and torn their stares away from her as if they where never looking at her to begin with. Kagome hated people like these, she knew they had ever right to feel like that but still, she wasn't going to bring them any harm and she wasn't staying at all, in fact they might leave tomorrow if she was lucky.

She walked around the stands and knew that she was getting ripped off from venders but it wasn't like she had a choice, there was no other place she could buy the vegetables anyway. After a while she figured she had all she would need to make a good warm meal so she was heading back to Kaede's place, but she figured to the best way to go about it was through side streets. After all the stares and evil hated glances she couldn't help but get tried of it so easily.

Kagome walked shifting her purchases around in the basket when she heard voices mumbling. Normally she wouldn't mind, in fact she was going to pass right by them when she heard his name. 'InuYasha?' She thought and stopped walking. She walked over to the edge of the building, the voices where coming from the open window, it sounded like a bar….

"Your kidding, you all went up to him and did that?" It sounded like the bartender, he was in complete surprise.

"Are you kidding, I said I wish I could have done that, but I value my life, I know that no good half breed would tear me to shreds in a matter of seconds." The second voice belonged to a man who sounds like he had knocked back a few too many. His words where slurred together and he seemed to be having trouble finding the right words to use.

"So then what did you really do to InuYasha?" The first voice sounded confused.

"We just did what we normally did, toss a few rotten fruits and sharp rocks, but this time he won't be leaving the old healers' house." There was a third voice, this one belonged to a woman, she seemed to be fine, unlike the second man, but she had an arrogant sound about her, as if she was better than anyone who happened to be in the same room as her.

"What do you mean by that? You couldn't have poisoned him, his demon blood wouldn't be affected by it."

"True as that may be, but if you give a human a Ginaga plant they will no doubt die, but if you give it to a demon they will live. Then again if you give a demon a Dralow herb he will perish in a matter of seconds yet it completely is harmless to humans." The woman spoke taking a few sips of something in between sentences. So the second drunken man finished her sentences.

"So if you mix them together and coat sharp rocks in them and have them come in contact with fluids you end up kill anything, human, demons, plants, animals…"

"Or half demons." Kagome whispered to herself. She covered her mouth but the three people continued to talk.

'InuYasha, he's in danger.' Kagome thought as she moved out of the wall's shadow and ran down the ally way to Kaede's home. It wasn't too much further from where she was but she didn't know how much longer he had to live, and if he died then there was no saving…

But Kagome never got to finish her thoughts as she was sent flying on her face and received a mouthful of dirt. As she spit out the dry foul tasting dust she sat up and looked behind her, she had tripped over… a small boy.

"Huh…" She couldn't believe it, he was covered in dirt and there was small cuts all over his body. Kagome couldn't help but start to freak out as she looked left and right.

"Who just abandons a child in the middle of no where?" Kagome walked over on her knees to the small figured and placed her basket down on the ground. The boy, he was so small, she could have mistaken him for a baby, in fact she was surprised that she didn't. Kagome slowly picked him up and cradled him in her arms.

"Hey there, are you alright? Come on now, wake up kid." She didn't know what to do, and the fact she was in a hurry wasn't helping.

"Listen kid you need to wake up because… um, there's a large monster coming to get us and if you don't wake up he's going to eat you." She continued to look around seeing if she could find the person responsible for this kid, but then again, what was she going to do if she did find the person, say don't leave your kid in the middle of an ally cause they could really get hurt and then run off? Besides, Kagome had the feeling that that's what they wanted.

But it worked, or at least she think it did, he slowly woke up groaning, she could see his tiny hands ball into fist and rub his eyes as they slowly opened. He looked into her face with his large green eyes and blinked a few times.

"Hey are you okay?" Kagome asked using a gentle voice so she wouldn't scare him.

"Where am I?" He had a small voice and it was still coated with sounds of waking up and wanting to return to sleep.

"It's okay, my name is Kagome, I'm here to help you. I'm going to take you back to a place that can help clean your cuts okay?" She spoke sweetly as she could to the boy. When she finished talking she could feel worry completely take over every thing in her body but she tried not to let it surface.

This small boy didn't need to know what was going on, there's already too many people involved in this already. InuYasha was in danger, he could die any minute and here she is holding a boy that was beat up and abandon in an ally.

"Okay, thank you Kagome." He nodded his head and rolled over into her, as if she was his mother and he was soaking up her body heat. The sun seemed to miss the ally leaving it cold and damp, the garbage piled up from the stores and restaurants. Kagome shifted his body weight to one arm as she stuck her arm under the basket handle and stood up. When she shifted his weight she looked down and almost dropped him, this boy had a tail. It was big and fluffy but she knew that demon or not she couldn't turn him away and leave him, she knew she wouldn't be any better than the rest of the townspeople. Kagome turned around and ran back to Kaede's praying it wasn't too late.

As she ran she didn't bother to acknowledge the townspeople staring at her run in bewilderment, she just ran. Tearing open the door she ran up the stairs and ran into her brother walking down the hallway.

"Sota, where's Kaede!" She was out of breath and she could feel the small boy whimper as he felt the quicken pace of her breathing and her heart.

"She's helping InuYasha still, sis what's in your arms?" The look on his was confused and he was on the verge of being scared as if whatever Kagome was holding would jump out and tear his face off then eat it.

"Well get her!" She yelled pushing past him and heading into on of the empty rooms.

"Right!" He yelled sounding still confused but jumped into action when hearing his sister yell at him so frantically.

Kagome entered the room and carefully placed the boy on the bed, he was no longer whimpering and he was starting to wake up fully giving Kagome his full attention.

"There, you see now all we need is Kaede to come and take care of you." Kagome's breath had started to calm down as she wiped her forehead from the sweat that was starting to bead it.

"You, you're the band of gypsies that came here because of the half demon right?" He asked clutching the sheets in his tiny clawed hands and pulling them up to his chin. Kagome looked at him with sadness filling her eyes. She knew this boy was afraid of her and that even he knew what was going on.

"Yes, but don't worry, hopefully we won't stay much longer. I know that we have already over stayed our welcome as soon as we stepped on your lands." She stood to go see if Kaede was ready but his small voice called to her.

"Wait, please don't leave." Kagome turned around and looked at him, she walked back to his bed side and kneeled next to it."

"Why do you want me to stay here with you? Aren't you afraid that I might try to hurt you and take any money that you have?" The small child just shook his head slightly.

"I can tell, you're not like the other gypsies that come by the towns, your eyes are so much kinder than theirs, just like my mom's were."

"Were, what do you mean by were?" Kagome asked softly, the small kid's eyes where starting to tear up when he mentioned his mom.

"Mother, father, they died." He closed his eyes and Kagome saw the small tears slip out from under his lids.

"It's okay now, you just rest and we'll take care of you." She readjusted the blanket under his chin as his small hands gripped it as he turned over in the bed that his small body seemed to get lost in the mass of materials.

The door now creaked open and Kaede poked her head in.

"Well child, you called for me and now I'm here. What was it that was so urgent for you to run into this house screaming my name and scaring your brother half way into the after life?

Kagome stood up and walked over to her to keep her voice low without scaring the boy out of his light slumber he so willingly slipped into.

"On my way back from shopping I ran over this boy, well tripped and he's in pretty bad shape."

"I see, what happened to him?" Kaede asked glancing around Kagome to see the child laying on the bed.

"I'm not to sure, but it might have something to do with him being a demon." Kagome looked back over her shoulder but then turned around remembering why she was in such a hurry to get back.
"Just how is Inuyasha doing?" Kaede shook her head and opened the door and the two stepped out.

"I'm afraid I don't know what's going on with him. I've tried everything I can think of but there's no way for me to find out what's wrong with him and he is getting colder by the minute." She shook her head again as if in defeat.

"Kaede I over heard so people talking and I think I might know what's wrong with him. They said that they used a mixture of poisons….it was…Dralow and…" Kagome trailed off trying to remember the other name.

"Ginaga." Kaede finished the sentence for her as a horrificed look came across her face.

"That was it. What does that mean Kaede?"

"It means more than we can handle my dear. Far more than we can."