Chapter 30: The Village Again

Inuyasha picked up Inu Heki and ran with him and Kagome to Kaede's hut.

'Kagome… Hurry… please…'

'We're almost there father. A little longer please.'

Kagome spotted Sango right off the back and she sped up.

"Sango! Get Kaede! Quick! Hurry!" She yelled from a distance. Sango turned and saw her. "Please Sango, Kaede!"

She nodded and ran to get her. Shippo heard Kagome's voice and ran to her. "Kagome!"

"Not now Shippo."

Sango returned with Kaede and she was wide eyed seeing a third person with them.

'Father, don't give up yet! Hold on a little longer, please!'

'I'll try…'

Kaede ushered them into her hut. Inuyasha laid Inu Heki on the floor by Kaede.

She gasped "The Lord of The Southern Lands. Why did you bring him here?"

"I told you he was my father. He was wounded in battle and-" She saw his eyes open and flash red. "-no father. Please! Hold on. Don't turn into a youkai!" She started to cry and latched onto her father. He calmed down a bit by her touch.

"He was wounded and came to us. He has a hole in his chest and his arm is wounded as well." Inuyasha finished for her.

'Father? Is it still your heart?'

'Yes, it is straining to pump. I've held on as long as I can… my time is almost up here-'

"NO it's not! You have 500 years to go before you die. His heart Kaede, please. Help him." Kagome told her and pulled his shirt down off of him. "Father, if you die, I'm going to hell to get you. I can't let you die; then I'll die! Please, a minute longer." Kaede walked out of the hut.

He gasped and his eyes shot open again. They were blood red. Kagome backed off and sat against Inuyasha, frightened.

"Kagome, hold me… please… it's the only thing sustaining me." He said and turned his head to look at her. He saw she was frightened. "Kagome, if you don't I know you will all die by my hand… please!"

She inched her way over to him and laid down beside him and touched his face. He calmed down and his eyes turned to normal. His breathing turned labored.

"Kaede, hurry!" Kagome yelled. Kaede came back in and as fast as she could ground up a herb then dripped some water on it.

"Remove his bandages."

She nodded and did as she was told. Kaede started to rub the paste on his chest.

Inu Heki yelled out in pain. His eyes flashed red again and Kagome pulled back but he grabbed her hand with his.

"Kagome, no… please…."

"Kagome-"Inuyasha said, she looked at him; he had a serious look on his face "I command you as alpha not to pull back, not matter what happens."

She had to oblige this time. Kagome put her other hand on her father's side. His breathing started to turn normal again.

"That will help his heart."

Shippo came into the hut with Miroku.

"Kagome, is this your father?" Miroku asked.

"Yes." She said and started to cry.

"Don't cry darling. I'll be ok." He said and wiped her tears from her face.

'I can't help it. Seeing you like this. I can't take it!'

"Yes you can. I know you can. You've told me all about your past. You've been so strong then. I know you can be strong now."

'Dad, its just that I've never known you. I want to protect you. I love you.'

"I know you do. You've shown it already. And even if you weren't my daughter I would still think of you as one."

'Thank you Dad…'

"Um, were you holding the telepathy open?" She asked after a while.

"No, I wasn't. You were. You've figured it out."

She smiled and hugged him being careful of his wounds.

"Thank you father."

"For what?"

"For giving me a happiness I never knew was there. I haven't felt this good since I mated with Inuyasha."

When Inuyasha heard this his ears drooped.

"I know what your thinking Inuyasha. I meant it like that… that I never had a feeling like this in my family. At least you got to know that your father was a great dog general. I never knew anything about my father. My mother never told me."

He still didn't perk up.

"Inuyasha, get over here." He did as he was told against his better judgment. "You know I still love you. Nothing can replace that love that we have between us. No one has ever told me that my scent is disgusting and then get poisoned and tell me that I smell nice. Or lie on my lap like you did that night. Or tell me I was weak and mate me and tell me I was strong. I would go to hell and back for you Inuyasha. I would die for you. If you died, I would defiantly not live more than a few months, if I did I would be mentally messed up now, more messed up than Miroku."

"Hey!"

"Well you are messed up! Can't you see I love you Inuyasha?"

"Yes but-"

"But nothing. And alpha won't work on this one. So you have to see I would choose to face your youkai again other than live alone. If the well sealed while I was on the other side I don't know what I would do."

Kagome's father gasped again, he tightened his grip on her.

"Are you ok father?" She asked.

'Yes. I know I can make it. The sound of your voice is holding me here. Please keep talking, I don't care what about.'

She smiled.

"Let me tell you the tale of the miko and the hanyou then. In 1512, Feudal Japan there was a story about a miko named Kagome and a hanyou named Inuyasha. Inuyasha was sealed to a tree in 1462 by the miko Kikyo. The legend says that Kagome came through a well called "The Bone Eaters Well". Kagome was supposedly the reincarnation of Kikyo. The jewel came out of Kagome.

The Shikon no Tama, The Jewel of Four Souls was broken into hundreds of shards. They looked for the shards for a year. During that time they met a monk, a demon slayer, and a kitsune. They fought many fierce demons.

In the last fight Inuyasha used his large sword, The Tetsusaiga to kill the fierce hanyou, named Naraku; who had tried to kill them many times. Then Inuyasha turned into a youkai and in order to protect the miko, defeated Naraku with one blow.

The miko got frightened of the youkai and he tried to calm her but she hurt him and he turned on her. He tried to kill her but she used the jewel to restore herself and him by turning themselves into inu-youkais. She was unharmed after this and he returned to his normal self, regretting what he had done, he tried to kill himself. Kagome stopped him. She told him what she had wished for and he stopped. In the end they had four children and ruled The Western Lands. They were hunted down, along with all the rest of the demons in the 18th century. The End."

'Where did you learn that?'

"In a book in my era. It told exactly what happened. I was scarred at first when I read it because it was a week before we battled Naraku. But now its just a memory."

He sat up.

"Dad, you should be resting!"

"Don't you know by now youkais take less time to heal."

"Yes, but that was serious, for all you know you could have had a heart attack!"

"No, I would of known. This was caused by my wounds."

"Kaede. Is there a way to open the well again?"

"Yes there is. But it will drain ye strength very quickly."

"I only want an hour. Just to let my mom know we're ok."

"I will come with ye to the well."

"Father, you're coming too. I want you to see my mother."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I want to know what happened to you. I might be able to help it from happening too much in the future."