In One Moment

Summary: Cancer. This six letter word can change the lives of anyone. So what happens when Kagome is diagnosed with it? Then, when she tells InuYasha that she has a few days to live and they can't be with him?

Author's comment: Ack! Sorry, it's been so long! I have been on vacation, if you can call it that. No internet or cell phone. It is a miracle that I even survived! Anyways:

Last week's poll was a landslide. 100 of you wanted Kagome to end up with InuYasha. Awe isn't that sweet, pity; I was going to hook up InuYasha back with Kikyo. Lol. Muh hah ha hah ha!

Thanks for all your reviews! I do appreciate them. I love the constructive criticism. Please continue reading and reviewing. If you stop, I fear I will cease living!

Disclaimer: Do I look like Rumiko Takahashi? That's what I thought! I don't not own InuYasha.

A day had passed, since Miroku gave Kagome that herbal concoction. She felt as good as new, like a new dawn had risen. She felt refreshed and was ready to do anything. By anything, Kagome meant finding away home. She still had no idea where she was. No one had answered her questions. This place did have a certain air of familiarity to it, but it all seemed like a dream. These people she had met the other day. Sango, Miroku and Keade, they all dressed up like those old reenactment towns. Kagome remembered when she was still in elementary school; her class visited an old Feudal era town. This placed reminded her of exactly that.

With much reluctance, Kagome sat up from her bed. She noticed that a red and white kimono lay next to her bed. Her old clothes had gotten dirty. Grabbing the clothes, she put them on and walked into the warm mid-day sunshine.

The heat from the sun felt amazing as it hit her cold skin. Kagome stood in the doorway of the hut for a few moments and let her face soak the rays in. Her eyes were closed.

'This feels wonderful.' Kagome blissfully thought. 'Now if only I could have a hot bath'

"Oh, Miss Kagome." She heard a girl say. Kagome opened her eyes to see Sango walking up to her.

"Hello." Kagome timidly replied.

"How are you feeling? You must be starving."

"Ravishing would be the better word."

Sango took Kagome's hand. "Well come with me, I'll find you something eat." Sango led Kagome away to the other side of the village, to another small hut. It was warm and welcoming. A small fire stood in front of it, burning lightly. Miroku stepped out of the hut. He smiled as he saw his wife and Kagome. A little baby could be heard crying from the inside of the hut.

"Sango, dearest." Miroku said. "Your son is calling you."

Sango put her hands on her hips. "Since when was he my son?" She laughed. She left Kagome with Miroku and entered her home to soothe her son's wails.

"It's nice to see you're up, Lady Kagome." Miroku said to her.

"Thank you, it's nice to be up." It was a little awkward talking to these people. After all, they knew nearly everything about her, but she knew nothing about them. She decided to take the straightforward approach. "Um, I don't mean to sound rude, but how do you know me?"

Miroku was a little taken back at her question. "We were close friends." He replied.

"We were?" Kagome sat down on a small log that served as a bench around the fire. She tilted her head in confusion. "If we were so close, then why don't I remember you?"

"We're not sure on that either. The last time we saw you, was about two years ago. You had come and told you would no longer be coming to our world."

"Your world. Where am I? On another planet or something?"

"No, you're in the Warring States Era."

"You mean I'm 500 years into the past!"

"Yes." Miroku sat down next to his old friend. 'She looks so confused.' he thought to himself. 'Why can't she remember?'

Kagome looked down at the ground. No wonder everything looked so old and dated. She was in the past! But how? How could she have gotten here? She vaguely remembered being in the well house. She was leaning over the edge and the wall of the well had given out and she fell in. That's it! Kagome hit her head! This was all just a weird dream. Any moment now she would be waking up in her warm bed. She would walk into the living room of her apartment and laugh. Kagome would call Hojo and tell him of this strange dream she had.

"Kagome?" Miroku said to her, interrupting her thoughts.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. I kind of spaced out."

Sango came out of the hut. "He's asleep now." She told her husband. Miroku replied by grinning at her.

"Just wait till the other is born."

"Don't remind me!" Sango looked at Kagome. "Oh that's right I was going to make you something to eat. How about some dumplings?"

Kagome looked up at and nodded. "That would be nice. Thank you."

Fifteen minutes passed and Sango and Kagome sat quietly eating the dumplings that Sango had made. Sango was unsure what to say to her old friend. It seemed Kagome was in a state of shock, seeing that she was no longer in the same century as she was born in.

"Do you like them?" Sango asked as Kagome bit into another dumpling.

"They're delicious!" Kagome said with her mouth still full. Sango laughed at look of her face as she said that. Kagome smiled and wiped her mouth. "Sorry about that. I really should have known better. My mother has always told me to never speak with my mouth full."

"That's a pretty ring." Sango told her. She eyed the silver ring that was on Kagome's ring finger. It was a simple piece of jewelry. A single diamond gleamed in the middle of the band. Kagome looked down at it and admired its simplistic beauty. It made her heart ache for all the love ones back at home.

Sango was worried. She saw the blank expression on her friend's face when she mentioned the ring. "Kagome? Kagome?" She waved her hand in front of her face. "Anyone home?"

"Huh! Oh, yeah. My fiancé gave me this ring as an engagement ring."

Sango nearly jumped out of her skin. 'She's engaged?' She thought. 'Does InuYasha know about this?' "Wow, that's wonderful. Congratulations. May I as the name of the man, who stole your heart?"

"His name is Hojo." Kagome sighed.

Sango frowned. She remembered Kagome mentioning him before. She had told her that he was just some pathetic lovesick puppy craving to get her attention. "What is he like?"

"He's just perfect! He's sweet, kind, loving, generous, and courteous. He brings me flowers and stuff like that so to surprise me!"

'So the opposite of InuYasha.' Sango tried to smile. "Well, I am really happy for you Kagome." Her smile turned out to be a scary looking grin.

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure? You don't look it."

"Of course I do." Sango replied under clenched teeth.

"Alright then." Kagome shrugged. "So, Miroku said you knew me."

"I thought of you as my best friend, even my sister at times."

"Oh." Kagome felt a little guilty. She must have caused her a great deal of pain.

"Kagome, there is something I have been wanting to ask you." Sango's expression changed. It was now, hard and serious, the complete opposite of her usual carefree attitude.

Kagome straightened up, preparing herself for the question. "What is it?"

"What happened?" Sango looked up from her feet to Kagome's face. "Two years ago, you left us. Why?"

Kagome bit her lip. 'What am I suppose to say? I didn't even know these people two years ago.' "Well." She began, pausing to think about what to say. "To years ago, I became terminally ill."

She heard a sharp intake of breath from Sango, before she continued on. "I had a brain tumor. There was nothing the doctors could do. What I can remember from back then, was that I always had an extremely bad headache and was stricken to my bed. I spent two months there, unable to do anything. The pain was that great." She stopped talking.

"Then what?" Sango urged for her to continue on.

"I woke up one day with out a headache. My first thought was, 'I'm dead.' but then my mother walking in and asked how I was feeling. I told her great and she was surprised. She took me to the doctors and he told me that the tumor had vanished!"

"That's wonderful!"

"Yeah, but no one can explain why that happened."

"A miracle maybe, or even magic."

"Ha! I don't believe in those fairy tale stories anymore. There is no such thing as magic!"

Sango was hurt. "What a horrible thing to say!"

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Magic never helped anyone."

Sango stared at her. "Sure it has."

Kagome stood up, brushed the crumbles off her kimono and handed her plate to Sango. She was sick of this silly conversation about magic and faeries. "Well, thank you for the food. I hope you don't mind, but I think I'll have a look around her."

Sango took the plate from Kagome's hands. "Ok, don't get lost!"

"I'll try not too!" With Kagome turned on her heel and walked away from Sango.

In short, Kagome got lost. She had no idea where she was let alone going. The girl had followed a path from the village and into the forest. The forest atmosphere calmed her. She felt at peace. This era was so different from that of modern Japan. Besides the fact that there were no buildings or cars, everyone here moved at a slower pace. There was no need to hurry or rush. People here, seemed to stop and smell the roses.

Then again, modern Japan had its perks too. The most important, was the fact that her family and friends were there and not to mention the love of her life.

"Hojo." Kagome muttered to herself. She found a rock and sat down on it. Her back rested against a tree. She stared at the ring on her finger.

'Do I really love him?' Kagome questioned herself. She questioned her whole judgment on the way she thought about him. Sure, he was a great guy, but he seemed to be….to be…too perfect. He always had that cocky smile on his face, like he knew he was the greatest thing that ever lived. He was always calling her, making plans with her. Heck, she could never be alone! Hojo was a little possessive. He wouldn't even let her hang out with her friends without him. His excuse was, "Well, there going to become my best friends soon." Whatever! He didn't even like them and what he didn't know; they didn't really like him either. They thought he was starting to become something of that of a prat.

Kagome sighed. 'He does it because he loves me.' She felt by being engaged to him, she had made the worst mistake of her life. Her family loved him, though. Sota looked up to him as a big brother and her mom saw him. Gramps was just gramps.

"I'm just having cold feet." Kagome assured herself. "Every bride goes through this, right?" She paused and sighed. "But, what about that one guy?" 'InuYasha.' Why couldn't she get him out of her mind? His face just kept popping up. "I don't even know him!" But then she remembered the day she met him. His eyes were so full of hope and happiness, but quickly change to devastation and hurt. She remembered how those eyes seemed to pierce her very conscious. Then when, he touched her. Her knees just melted. Hojo never had that affect on her. Her heart flip flop when she thought his name. A certain feeling rose up inside of her.

"InuYasha." She muttered. "I want to remember! I want to know you. I want to…be with you." She sobbed. Tears slid down her face and her hand jumped to cover her mouth. 'Oh my. I can't believe it. I'm in love with someone I don't even know.'

Chapter six is over! Yah! Don't you feel sorry for Kagome? I do. Oh well. I hope this chapter was better then the last filler chapter. Hey, why not tell me about it? See that little blue button on the left? Click it and tell me what you think!

New poll:

Sesshomaru or InuYasha.

Not for the story, I just want to know. I, myself am I major Sesshomaru fan. I love fluffy!