Disclaimer: I do not own the Inuyasha characters, I'm just borrowing them.

The Crystal Wish

Chapter 3

By Inu Esca Fanatic

Just as they began to kiss again, something suddenly slammed into Kagome's stomach, forcing her back away from Inuyasha.

"Ahhh," yelled Inuyasha as he saw the reason they were forced apart, "SHIPPO!"

He jumped up and change at Shippo. Inuyasha, once again, intended to smash the hapless little Shippo's skull in, for interrupting them. But when he saw the look in Kagome's eyes he completely froze.

She had a kind and loving expression on her face. Even though she was severely ticked off for being interrupted as well, she acted as if she was happy to see Shippo.

'She reminds me so much of my mother,' Inuyasha thought.

"Shippo…what are you doing here, you know you're supposed to be in bed?" Kagome scolded.

"Well," Shippo started, "you woke me when you get up. When I saw you and Inuyasha leave you said you needed to talk, so I laid and waited for you, but when you didn't come back after a few minutes, I thought a demon got you, so I come to find you."

Kagome sat on the ground with the little kit in her arms and Inuyasha stand a little ways away from her.

"Shippo…sweetheart…you know you don't have to worry about me when I'm with Inuyasha, although it's very sweet of you, right?" Kagome said gently.

"Yeah, but you were gone for… (he looked up at the dark sky and counted his fingers)…ever, and I was worried that you had gotten hurt," Shippo said with a worried expression, hoping it was a good enough answer not to anger his adoptive mother. Although it is difficult to anger Kagome, but when someone manages it it's not pretty.

Just then Inuyasha decided to speak up, to remind them that he was, in fact, still there. "And you really think I wouldn't be able to protect her? I swear you people have no trust in me what so ever, do you?" Inuyasha said gruffly.

Shippo, of course, looked completely unconvinced. He leaned over toward Kagome and asked her if any monsters came by, and she replied, "Besides Inuyasha, no." Shippo and Kagome had a laughing fit, as Inuyasha was getting angrier. But before he could pound the runt's head in, Kagome suggested that they go back to camp and get some sleep.

When they got back to camp, they all went to their respectable places, Kagome and Shippo in the sleeping bag and Inuyasha keeping vigil over them, and fell asleep.

The next morning, when everyone got up Inuyasha was already gone. "Do you know where Inuyasha is?" Kagome asked the young kitsune.

"No," Shippo replied, "He just got up and said to me, 'Shippo, tell everyone to go back to the village and tell Kagome to go home and wait for me,' then he just left and don't say where he was going."

"Well I guess we go back to the village then," Kagome said as she got up began to make breakfast for everyone.

Soon they were finished eating and they began to pack up. After that, they started back home.

Inuyasha ran and ran in search of Myoga, hoping he would know of a way to save Kagome. Thanks to his enhanced sense of smell, it only took him a half an hour to find Myoga.

They sat on a high branch in a tall tree and speak.

"Why do you seek me Master Inuyasha?" Myoga inquired, noting how oddly frightened Inuyasha seemed.

"I need to ask you something important."

Suddenly Myoga turned serious, "What happened?"

"Kagome has this thing called heart cancer and she's going to die from it in a month," Inuyasha said in a pleading voice coupled with a desperate look, "I'm so scared and I don't know what to do, please help me, Myoga," he looked on the verge of tears, but he would not spill them.

Myoga thought for a moment then spoke, "I don't know what this 'cancer' is, but to heal her you must share your blood," he paused for a second and saw the hopeful look on Inuyasha's face so he spoke again, "but it won't work."

Inuyasha's face fell, "What do you mean 'it won't work'?"

"I'm sorry, but you are but a half demon. You do not have enough demon blood in you for the transformation to occur."

This time Inuyasha's ears fell along with his face, "Oh, is there anything that would work?"

"No, I'm afraid there isn't. I am truly sorry. The only thing we can do is make sure that Lady Kagome's last month memorable, something none of us will ever forget."

"Okay," Inuyasha said quietly.

Inuyasha was walking back to the village, thinking about what he was going to do. Suddenly he was smashed into a nearby tree. "What did you do to my woman, Mutt Face?" he heard someone say gruffly as he was punched in the solar plexus hard.

AN-I finally got chapter three up so I hope you like it. Please R and R.