Kagome's POV
I hadn't felt up to doing much the last couple of days. I was running a fever, I was seeing double, and I was constantly tired, and I didn't have the energy to read much less get out of bed. My family was there for me though. Mom made sure I was fed and comfortable, grandpa prayed for me, and Souta kept me entertained by playing board games with me. Right now we were playing scrabble and my little brother was winning. That's when you know things are really bad, when your little brother beats you at Scrabble.
I was having a hard time concentrating because I was so tired. I hurt everywhere. When I wasn't thinking about the pain then I was thinking about the past. I was constantly unhappy and uncomfortable, but here I would be safe, and I wouldn't be putting anyone in danger. It had seemed like such a good idea awhile ago, but now I just wanted to die so I could get it over with. I missed my friends and being away from Inuyasha was killing me. I missed the pain in the ass more than anyone.
Souta was in the middle of putting away the board game when I saw Inuyasha through the window. I was too do anything about it and for awhile I thought I was just seeing things, but when he didn't go away I asked Souta if he was really there. When he said yes I started to cry because I had missed Inuyasha so badly. I had thought that I would never see him again. Right now I didn't care if he was mad at me and wanted to yell at me. I didn't care if he knew that I was dying. I just wanted him to be with me. I didn't want to dye away from the people who understood me best.
I had locked the window the first night to keep Inuyasha out. He couldn't get in and he was surprising me by not breaking the window down. I told Souta to unlock the window on his way out and he did it for me. Inuyasha jumped in and for once I didn't feel like I was going to fall over and fall asleep. Inuyasha jumped into my room and sat on the floor by my bed and just looked at me. I couldn't tell what he was thinking. He just continued to look.
"Why wouldn't you tell anyone? No one had any idea what you were doing. Everyone was mad at you," Inuyasha said with a surprising amount of emotion in his voice.
I used a little energy to laugh, "I wanted to save everyone. I didn't want you to lose your focus. I didn't want anyone to worry. I just didn't want things to be put on hold because of me."
"You should have told us. Sango shouldn't have had to figure it out from her cat."
I knew that she would say something. "I didn't want to hurt anyone."
Inuyasha snorted at that and I saw his point, "It's not something that's easily understood Inuyasha. I'm really sick. There are some days that I feel really bad and some days that I'm okay. I don't know what to tell you. I can't explain it. I'm dying."
"Nobody can do anything in your time?"
"No," I lied.
Inuyasha got up and climbed on my bed and then he cuddled me to him. I was shocked as much as I was relieved that I cried. It felt so good to be in his arms. I had missed him so much. I had missed the smell of him, his attitude, his anger, I missed his face. I had missed everything about him and I never wanted to let go. Inuyasha sat on my bed and I cuddled his waste. When he stroked my hair I only cried harder.
"We all are worried about you. Shippo still doesn't know what's going on but we figured that he shouldn't know what was going on unless you wanted him to know. He's busy blaming me. I figured it was better than him crying."
I nodded, "I missed you all so much. I missed you so much. I didn't know what to do. It was so hard to lie to you all. I thought that this would be better but now it's like I'm sitting here waiting to die."
Inuyasha tensed in my arms, "If I weren't so worried about you, I would yell at you for the stunt you pulled. You should have never lied to us like that. You had us all thinking that you didn't care about us. We would have listened to you and maybe we can't understand why you're so sick, but we would have accepted it and worked with you. We would have been there for you. We're going to be there for you."
I was shocked speechless, "You've never been so open with me before."
"I don't have the time to act like I don't care. I know that I was so mad at you that I couldn't see straight. I would have never known if the monk didn't have such a big mouth. Sango isn't talking to him by the way. She's REALLY pissed that he said something to me."
I laughed, "I'm sorry I lied."
"Sorry doesn't even to begin to cover it. If any of us were sick you would want to know. We're your family and we'll do what we need to do to keep you safe. If you want us to leave you and go hunt Naraku… well figure something out."
I lifted my head and looked into Inuyasha's gold eyes, "I want to go home," I admitted and had never meant anything more.
"Well then I guess we take you back, and figure something out. You're going to cause me a lot of trouble you know. You can't defend yourself. Someone is always going to have to be with you."
I wanted to protest, but I wasn't stupid. I was too weak to stand much less lift my head. I didn't know what I would do if a demon attacked us.
"I'm going to slow us down."
I knew that had to drive Inuyasha nuts but he didn't say anything, "We'll figure it out. We always do. I can protect you better than anyone else."