Sorry I haven't updated before this. I have been extremely busy with school and work. I will try to update again soon. Thanks to those who reviewed me. I am happy to annouce that this story has gotten more reviews than my last two stories combined.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha or his friends. I wish, but Rumiko Takahashi won't give them to me. I'm not greedy. I would settle for just Inuyasha...

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(Kagome's Dream)

There was nothing but darkness around her. There were no sounds, no lights, no people, just pure unadulterated oblivion. "Ah, blessed darkness," Kagome sighed, "cuddle me to your breast." She floated weightlessly with no destination and no care. This was the realm of dreams. She was happy here.

Ahead of her, she saw a dim light approaching. She squinted her eyes as she got closer and the intensity of the light increased. She turned her head to look behind her and saw that the light was consuming the darkness. "No!" she cried out. "Don't leave me. I need you." She could feel herself start to tremble and a single tear leaked from her eyes. "Please keep me with you," she begged with all her heart, but oblivion receded and the world of light took over.

"Kagome, wake up please!" Shippou shouted for the third time, while shaking her sleeping body with all his might. The rest of the party was up and preparing to start their journey once again.

Inuyasha kept glancing concernedly at the still sleeping miko. He noticed her scent change slightly in the night, but couldn't lay his finger on what it meant. He heard her whimpering quietly while the little kitsune tried to wake her up. He walked over to them and knelt on the ground beside her. "Shippou, why don't you let me try." The boy's small green eyes took in the hanyou suspiciously for a moment. "I promise to be nice," Inuyasha assured him and the kit acquiesced.

When he was alone, or as close as he could get to it in a camp full of people, he took another whiff of the sleeping teen. The scent he smelled last night was still there and a little stronger now. However, he still couldn't place what it meant. "Something's not right," he whispered too quietly for the party to hear. "Kagome," he called as he shook her shoulder, "it's time to get up. We have to leave…Kagome! Open your eyes and look at me." He heard her moan softly as she buried her face in her sleeping bag. "Wake up already!" he called as he shook her again and moved the cover from her face.

Finally, her eyes began to flutter open. However, as soon as her eyes opened, she squeezed them shut again with a barely stifled groan. "I know you're awake. Now get up or we'll leave without you." He heard her sigh heavily before she slowly started to get up.

As soon as she was sitting, she felt a dull ache appear at the base of her skull. "Oh, not now," she whispered and gradually made her way over to her monstrous bag. She promptly unzipped one compartment and then another, methodically searching for relief, but she couldn't find the bottle anywhere. Soon she grew frantic in her search. She pulled articles out of her bag and tossed them carelessly beside her on the ground. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Crap! I can't believe it's not here!" She was still whispering, but more intensely. The rest of the party was trying to decide if she had completely lost her mind.

Finally with a huge sigh, which was almost a sob, the girl from the future stuffed everything back into her backpack and stood. She turned to Inuyasha and softly murmured, "I have to go home."

"WHAT!" the dog-eared young man screamed.

Kagome closed her eyes tightly and bowed her head humbly. "Gomen nasai," she begged, "I forgot something that I need." The party braced itself for an all out war between the two.

"How could you possibly have forgotten something when it took you almost a full day to pack?" Inuyasha growled out between clenched teeth.

"You were rushing me. That's how," Kagome answered meekly as she gradually raised her gaze to meet his. She stared him in the eyes willing him silently not to fight her on this.

Unfortunately for her, Inuyasha was being obstinate and missed her silent plea. "What do you mean, 'I rushed you'?" He bellowed. He watched as she clenched her teeth and her brow furrowed, prior to her shaking her head in despair.

Kagome pushed her way past him and hissed the command, "Oswari!" And she just kept on walking toward Kaede's village and the well. There were tears forming in the corners of her eyes, but she refused to let them fall because she knew that they would only make her feel worse at the moment.

"When he could finally get up, Inuyasha cursed, "Oh what the hell!" With great dejection, he told the others to choose, "Either stay here until we get back or go back to Kaede's hut and wait for us there." He turned in the direction of the well and swore pointedly before running off to catch her, "Damn it!"

The rest of the party stood there blinking after the two departed members. "Is it me, or was that really weird?" Sango inquired. Shippou shrugged his tiny shoulders showing just as much confusion as the taijiya felt.

The monk rounded on the other two and completely ignoring her question, asked "Should we stay here or return to the village?" No one answered him, but when Kirara transformed in a huge ball of flame and bought him Kagome's bag in his mouth, the monk commented, "I'll take that as the village is best." He made sure the campsite was clean and the fire out before they all mounted the large neko-youkai for the trip.

Kagome walked quickly down the path they had followed the day before. She was making good time until the sun came out from behind the cloud and dappled the forest floor with light. Even that wasn't bad at first, but slowly the dull ache at the base of her skill grew into a steady pounding. The soon realized that the pulse was keeping cadence with her footsteps. She decided to slow down in the hope that the rattling of her brain would do the same. Much to her joy, it worked. Thus she continued at her slower pace down the path.

"Maybe this one isn't as bad as the others," she thought hopefully. But just then, the path before her started changing. It was the strangest thing. She knew that the trail was flat and straight, but her eyes kept seeing the darn thing move. "Oh boy." She muttered and paused along the side of the dirt track where she saw a large rock on which she could sit. She sat down slowly praying that the world would stop tilting, and twisting…and, "uhg." Her poor stomach was revolting. She was glad that she hadn't eaten much, otherwise it would be revisiting her now. She counted her breaths trying to will herself not to get sick. As she did this she allowed herself to slip off the rock so that she was sitting on the ground while resting against it. She brought her knees up to her chest and rested her elbows on them while covering her face with her hands. The stone was cool against her back, and she was comforted by it.

She tried to block out the sight of the world around her by closing her eyes. Unfortunately, she started to fell it rocking instead. In that moment, the distressed lass vowed to never laugh when Shippou got seasick again.

Inuyasha followed Kagome's scent, but decided to take his time catching her. "I'll let her cool off before I approach," he thought. He noticed that her scent was leading him down the same path they had all followed the day before. "She'll be safe enough here until I reach her," he muttered under his breath as he scanned the area for danger.

The inu-tachi was still trying to figure out what had happened to his mike. He couldn't figure out what her scent change meant. It had been so subtle that he would have missed it had he not known her so well. He was pretty sure, though, that it was the cause of her sudden need to return home. He growled out his frustration as he followed Kagome's scent. "Was this also why she's been so mad at me?" he wondered. His ears drooped slightly just thinking about her mood since he went to her time to pick her up. He physically shook himself out of his funk. "She better explain this all to me, when I find her," he growled again.

He continued along the path for a short while, before noticing that his quarry's scent was becoming more potent. As he rounded a bend in the road, his heart fell. There, huddled against a rock, was the young miko. She was rocking slightly and holding her head in her hands.

Thinking that she was so mad at him that she was crying, he called out hesitantly, "Kagome?" She didn't respond to his inquiry so he quickly approached her side. Laying his hand on her shoulder he asked, "What's wrong?" He carefully pried her hands away from her face. Her breathing was funny, and her eyes were shut tightly against the sudden onslaught of light caused by her moved hands.

As the light stuck her beautiful face, she whimpered and tears made unbidden trails down her cheeks. The intense pain she felt throughout her head, made her want to curl up and die. When she felt the tears she started a mantra of "No, no, no, no, no, no…" So desperately did she yearn for darkness, the school girl actually fought the hanyou to get her hands back.

"Kagome, what happened? Were you attacked?" She barely moved her head indicating the negative. "What is the matter then?" He noticed that her hands were shaking as she pulled at them.

"Let go…of my hands," she whispered through gritted teeth. Inuyasha complied and she buried her face once again with her palms. She moaned at the small relief.

"Now can you tell me what's wrong?" He gently asked. "I can't help you if you don't tell me." He wiped away the tears from her chin since that was the only area not covered by her hands. He hated to see her cry.

"My head," she replied. Kagome paused for so long that Inuyasha didn't think she'd continue. "It feels like…an army is…marching on my head." She lowered her head between her knees and covered the back of her neck with her arms. Her small hands were scrunched up in fists and her body still trembled. "Light makes it worse," she confessed.

Inuyasha felt like a big shit. "You mean, I did this, by uncovering your eyes?" She didn't answer him. Becoming desperate – though he would never admit that to anyone – he begged, "What can I do?"

"Take me home," came the response barely loud enough for him to hear.

The inu-hanyou quickly stood up and removed his haori and placed it over her head to block out the light better. Having felt her lack of strength during the arm wrestling match earlier, he decided to cradle her in his arms to avoid her falling off his back. "Hang on, Kagome." He launched himself into the forest canopy to more quickly reach the well.

As soon as the man lifted Kagome in his arms, she buried her face in his chest seeking further relief. Her head was throbbing.

It hurt Inuyasha every time he heard her plaintive whimpers and he pushed for as much speed as his youkai blood could give him. "We'll be there soon Kagome. Just hang in there." Murmurs of comfort were falling constantly from his lips.

Finally, after what felt like hours to both of the tortured souls, they reached the well that would take them to Kagome's time. Inuyasha didn't hesitate before jumping in. he could tell that whatever was bothering the girl in his arms was getting worse. He was still perplexed as to the cause of this sudden and strange headache, but he was determined to find the remedy.

They landed safely on the future side of the well, and the hanyou whispered to his charge, "Where should I take you now?"

"Mama." The trembling woman's barely audible response reached the super sensitive ears perched delicately on top of his head. Without further delay, Inuyasha jumped out of the well and dashed to the house.