Author's Note: Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, I UPDATED! YAY!

Chapter 6: A Bitter Sweet Revelation

Kagome raced into her house, past her mom, grandfather, and little brother, and into her room. Throwing the door closed she flung herself onto her bed to have a good cry. How could he do that? She thought miserably as she sobbed into her pillow how am I ever going to live this down? I won't be able to show my face at school tomorrow! No wonder everyone was giving me encouraging looks, they all thought I was going to admit something to Inu Yasha! FAT CHANCE!

Kagome then sat up and rubbed the remains of her tears from her face. As usual, her hurt had quickly turned into anger and a feeling of deep loathing. She grabbed a few pieces of paper and began ripping them to shreds. "This is for betraying me three years ago!" she shouted, ripping a paper in half "And this is for pretending we were still friends."

She ripped the paper until it was almost like confetti "this is for putting on that dumb 'I would never try to hurt you' act!" she gathered the pieces of confetti that was once a paper and balled it into her fist "And this? This symbolizes our friendship you insolent jerk!"

With that, she flung the confetti all over the room. The pieces of the torn up paper almost looked like small cherry blossoms falling from the tree. Kagome stood and let them fall all around her. Closing her eyes, she soon found herself remembering something she had almost forgotten.

Flashback

Kagome, five years old, ran out the door of her house "I'm going to the park mommy!" she yelled happily as she sped off, her raven ponytail fanning out behind her in the wind.

Kagome ran straight to the park but ran right past the swings, the monkey bars, even the slide. Instead she ran to the field of cherry blossom trees, her favourite spot in the whole city. It was here that she felt the most calm and tranquil, as though her miseries were carried away by the wind just as the falling petals did.

She sat down and leaned against the thick trunk of one of the trees and closed her eyes, just listening to the sounds of nature. But suddenly, she heard someone cry for help. Kagome opened her eyes and looked around to see who was making the pleading cry.

"No! Please! Don't!" called the voice again.

Kagome stood and looked around the field, before long, she saw the origin of the noise, a little boy with silver hair and inu ears. Ducking behind a tree, she waited to see why he was in need of assistance.

Suddenly, she saw two other, bigger boys, Koga and Naraku, come stampeding after him. They had cruel smirks on their faces and she could see Inu Yasha shrink back in fear as they drew nearer. He tried to run from them but was stopped by a swift hit to the back of his head.

He lay there on the ground, paralyzed and sobbing. Kagome's heart broke, it pained her to see anyone in such pain, and it wasn't as though she didn't know why. It was obvious, the silver haired boy was a hanyou. To most youkai and humans he was nothing more than dirty blood, but Kagome and her family weren't that kind of people. They believed that no matter what kind of person you are or where you're from, you are still a living being with rights and feelings.

The two boys had cornered the young hanyou now and were towering over him, fists clenched and raised for attack. Kagome then did something she never thought she could do, she ran in between the two boys and the hanyou, letting herself be hit by Koga instead of the hanyou boy.

"Leave him alone!" Kagome shouted as she clenched her fists.

"Oh look it's a girl" said Naraku in a teasing voice.

"I'm so scared! What are you going to do? Play dolls with us?" Koga laughed, playing along.

Kagome growled in anger "you don't want to know what I'm going to do if you don't leave him alone!"

"Look little girl" Naraku said, almost impressed "you are a human, we are youkai, so stay away from the half-breed!"

"Half-breed or not he's still a person!" Kagome argued, standing her ground "and you've got no right to hurt him!"

"Step aside!" Koga said through clenched teeth, growing annoyed with the meddlesome girl.

"No!" Kagome persisted.

Koga and Naraku then shoved Kagome aside and readied their fists "Stay out of this!" cried the hanyou boy as Kagome tried to stand between them again "You'll just get hurt!"

"Better me than you!" she cried, lunging for the two boys and knocking them aside.

The three of them hit the ground a few centimetres away from the hanyou, who was watching the brave young girl in amazement. "That's it" Naraku seethed "now you're going to get it!"

"I don't think so!" Kagome said, kicking him in the stomach hard!

Koga tried to come at Kagome as Naraku keeled over, clutching his now throbbing stomach. Kagome merely kicked Koga in both shins (a/n: um….just in case having the shards in his legs would make it not hurt let's just pretend there not there.)

Now both Koga and Naraku were on the ground. Kagome stood over them triumphantly with a huge grin spread across her face. "Are you okay?" she said, curling a piece of hair behind her ear, as she ran over to the boy. She kneeled beside him and tried to check the back of his head to see if he had been cut.

"Don't" the boy said, putting his arms around his head in protection. As he did this, the sleeve of his shirt slid down and Kagome saw that his arms were covered in cuts and flesh wounds that were still bleeding.

"How did this happen?" Kagome said in a worried tone as she took his arm in hers "Did they do this to you?"

"Please, don't interfere anymore!" the boy said suddenly through newly found tears "they'll only hurt you too!"

"Don't worry about me" Kagome said "even if I get hurt, it'll be worth it as long as you are saved."

"You're…not going to hurt me?" said the boy in utter shock and awe.

"Of course not!" Kagome said "why would I do that?"

"Because that's what everyone does to me" the boy replied "humans and youkai."

"Well, I'm not like most humans" Kagome said.

"No, you're not" the boy agreed "you're a miko aren't you?"

"Huh?" Kagome said in confusion "what's that?"

But Inu Yasha had no time to answer, for in the time it had taken to have that small conversation, both Koga and Naraku had recovered from Kagome's attacks and were towering over her from behind "MOVE!" he shouted to the girl.

"What kind of answer is that?" Kagome laughed.

Inu Yasha could only watch in horror as Koga raised his sharp claws and brought them down upon her. Kagome let out a gasp as Koga's claws broke through her skin all down her back. That was the first time she had a WPW attack. Her heart started to race and she felt her face grow red with heat and her breath becoming shorter. Finally, after much dizziness and nausea, she fell to the ground, unconscious and bleeding continuously.

Inu Yasha ran to Kagome and cradled her in his arms "Miko!" he shouted to the girl as he shook her in attempt to awaken her "Are you okay?"

But Kagome didn't respond. She lay almost limply in his arms. Koga and Naraku stood idly in shock and fear. Not wanting to get into trouble, they sprinted off. "Hey!" Inu Yasha shouted as they ran away as fast as they could.

With the almost dead girl growing fainter and no one around, Inu Yasha had no choice but to carry her on his back and race her to the hospital. After all, she had tried to save him once before, now it was his turn.

Kagome was soon at the hospital in intensive care. Doctors were huddled around the unconscious child trying desperately to revive her. Inu Yasha tried to stay with her as long as he could but was soon rushed out of the room. He waited in the lonely waiting room, the only child there. People cast him disgusted glares but Inu Yasha paid no mind, he was used to this now. In fact, he didn't even think of them, right now his mind was completely engulfed in thoughts of the young miko.

Suddenly, the girl's mother and grandfather rushed into the hospital screaming "KAGOME!"

So that's her name? Inu Yasha thought as he rushed over to them "She's in intensive care right now! I don't think anyone can see her."

Kagome's mother stopped and turned to look at him "who are you?" she asked, not recognizing the young hanyou that stood before her.

"I was there when she was attacked" Inu Yasha explained "she was trying to save me when she was clawed by a wolf youkai that was terrorizing me."

"Do you know where the doctor is?" Kagome's jii-chan (grandfather) asked.

"Or even what room Kagome is in?" added Kagome's oka-san.

Inu Yasha merely pointed to a room across the hall. The door was closed tightly and there was a sign hanging on the door that said "do not disturb"

Kagome's oka-san ran to the room and banged on the door "Onegai!" she shouted "Let me see her!"

Kagome's jii-chan and Inu Yasha went over to the door as well and tried to calm down Kagome's oka-san.

The doctors suddenly opened the door "we're done" he said in a calm but grim tone.

Kagome's oka-san rushed into the room followed by Kagome's jii-chan and Inu Yasha. They rushed to the still sleeping girl. She was drenched in a cold sweat and was breathing heavily and uneasily. There was an I.V. attached to a huge heart monitoring machine and Inu Yasha could see the many electrode stickers covering her body.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes about an hour later. The first person she saw was the hanyou she had saved gazing at her with eyes full of concern. "Hi" she said, wanting to wave. She winced as she felt the I.V. in her left hand "I hate needles" she said with a pout.

Inu Yasha giggled "are you always this optimistic?" he asked sarcastically.

"What happened to me?" Kagome asked in reply "why am I at the hospital?"

"Kagome!" her mother called as she rushed over to her daughter's bed "are you okay?"

"I'm okay" Kagome answered "I still don't get why everyone's making such a big fuss for, nothing that serious happened did it?"

Inu Yasha looked away as one of the doctors interrupted "Mrs. Higurashi, jii-chan, if you wouldn't mind the cardiology team and I would like a word."

Kagome's oka-san and jii-chan nodded and followed the doctor out of the room, leaving Inu Yasha and Kagome to themselves. "I never did get your name" Kagome said to the hanyou "what is it?"

"You almost died because of me" Inu Yasha said in confusion "and you still care who I am?"

"Well, I do want to know the name of the person who brought me here" Kagome said with a laugh.

"How did you know I brought you here?" Inu Yasha asked.

"I was unconscious but I could feel you taking me here" Kagome explained "and I could here you calling me."

"Oh" Inu Yasha said "well, to answer your first question, I'm Inu Yasha."

"I'm Kagome" Kagome replied "I'd shake your hand, but it's got a needle stuck in it and it's taped straight."

Inu Yasha laughed along with Kagome. "I never got to thank you" Inu Yasha pointed out "you know, for saving me from those guys."

"Who were they?" Kagome asked.

"Koga and Naraku" Inu Yasha explained "they've been after me for as long as I can remember."

"You should stand up to them!" Kagome exploded.

"I would if I wasn't so weak!" Inu Yasha explained "I'd give anything to be as strong as they are, or even as brave as you were today! If I was, believe me, I would pulverize them all!"

"Well I'm a human, at least you're a hanyou, so you'd have more power than me…" Kagome paused before saying "Inu-chan."

Inu Yasha looked surprised "What?" Kagome said in reply to his confused expression "you're kind of weak, but you're a good person and I like you."

"You do?" Inu Yasha said in even more shock.

"Don't be so surprised" Kagome said, clicking her tongue in annoyance.

"Mrs. Higurashi, we understand how upset you must be" the doctor said slowly "and this I'm afraid isn't great news."

Mrs. Higurashi looked up at the doctor "that's okay, I'm ready."

"We worked on your husband many years ago before he died as you well know" he said as Kagome's mother nodded "well, when we worked on him, we found that he had WPW or Wolfe Parkinson White Syndrome. It was inoperable and he couldn't be saved. Even if it had, there's no way to make certain that it would not kill him in the end."

"What are you saying?" Kagome's mother said in concern.

"When we worked on your daughter today, we found that the multiple pathway in the heart, the key factor in the WPW syndrome, had been activated when she went into shock because of something that occurred earlier today." The doctor said.

Kagome's mother could only gasp as he continued "we questioned the boy, of course, and he told us that today, she tried to save him from being attacked by another youkai and was almost fatally wounded by him unexpectedly. Our theory is that the shock of being attacked activated the multiple pathway."

"Is it like my husband's?" Kagome's mother said, looking away.

"I'm afraid so" the doctor nodded "there's only one different, it's in a position that isn't plainly visible through ultra-sound or x-ray, meaning it could kill at any point in her life, there's no way to be certain. I'm so sorry; there was nothing we could do."

Kagome knelt down to the ground, absorbed in her emotions and crying buckets "no" she said softly "how? How can this be happening to me?"

End-of-Flashback

Kagome sat on her bed with her head in her hands. That was the first time she had ever seen Inu Yasha, the beginning of their friendship that was supposed to be lifelong. "Gomene oka-san" she said through her tears, remembering the constant tears she had seen in her mother's eyes when she had explained to Kagome about her disease and the unexpected death.

"Why?" she said, wiping her eyes "why did he betray me? For Koga and Naraku and all their friends too! I thought he hated them."

Kagome was confused, it was because of Koga and Naraku that she was dying and he still blew her off for them. Although, Kagome had to admit, she had never told Inu Yasha about her disease so it didn't surprise her that he didn't feel guilty, why would he? The selfish jerk!

Author's Note: my heart broke when I was writing this! I hope this answers your questions. By the way, this disease is real, I would know, I have it the same way. I just hope I get to be a writer or a singer before it kills me. So I'd appreciate it if you'd review this! thanks for reading! 'til next time! Arigato tou Ja Ne