Chapter Three
Inuyasha heard a moan. He woke up, tightening his grip on tetseiaga. He searched the room for any type of disturbance, seeing none he relaxed again. Moan this time Inuyasha looked over to Kagome, she was moving slightly. Inuyasha looked to her face, she had some color in her face again, and he touched her cheek to check if she had a fever. 'She doesn't have a temperature.' Inuyasha resumed to wiping her face.
"Inu-yasha?" Croaked Kagome, her lids began to flicker. Inuyasha stopped, watching to see what she'd do next. Her lips moved wordlessly.
"Kagome?" He whispered.
"Inu-yasha?" Kagome's eyes fluttered all the way open; they where unfocused for a moment, shutting them again for a second, they opened again and Kagome turned to look at him. She winced as her neck protested.
"Yes, Kagome." He leaned over her, so that he was inches in front of her face, so that she wouldn't have to strain to see him.
"Inuyasha, you are here." She whispered- croaked. Inuyasha brought a cup of water to her cracked lips, putting his arm under her head to support her, and brought her up to the cup's edge. Kagome moved her head away, when she'd had enough, he lowered her back to the pallet, and Kagome let out a low moan of pain as she straightened out on the pallet.
"Kagome,…" He started, then stopped not sure what to say. Kagome's eyes suddenly filled with tears. She didn't care, she was back and Inuyasha was here, and being so nice to her. Inuyasha reached out and wiped away the tear from her face as it ran down her cheek. "Why are you crying?" Kagome tried to shrug her shoulders, but yelped when pain swept through her. Letting out a loud moan. Inuyasha immediately put his hands on her shoulders, keeping her from moving at all. "Idiot, don't move you're hurt." Kagome's anger rose a bit, but the look on his face made her bite down her retort.
Instead she said, "No, the pains just a funny reminder is it?" This got Inuyasha to smirk.
"Well your mouth doesn't seem to be damaged."
"Neither is yours." Kagome muttered.
"I heard that." He said.
"Nor are your ears. Well aren't you in just perfect health." She said sarcastically.
"What do you mea…? Kagome!" Inuyasha leaned over and brought her into a sitting position, she had begun to cough, and it was just getting worse.
"What's wrong?" Keida came rushing in.
"She woke up, now she's coughing." Inuyasha answered, Kagome grabbed the rag that was still in Inuyasha's hand, bringing it to her mouth. She heaved a few more coughs and then spit out a clot of blood that soaked through the rag in seconds. Kieda took the rag out of Kagome's now weak grasp, replacing it with another, handing it to Inuyasha. He helped Kagome lean back down to the pallet, then wiped the rest of the blood from her mouth. She had lost all the color that had been in her face a few moments before.
"I don't feel so good." Kagome said. She needn't have bothered, because Kieda was already mixing a small sleeping mixture, adding water to it, she and Inuyasha administered the concoction, and Kagome fall into a dreamless sleep.