Sango dashed right in with a cooler full of ice and said "here is the ice Kagome. How are we going to cool InuYasha down with this?" Kagome said "hand me the cooler." She reaches over to Miroku's towel and grabs the edge of it. Closing her eyes, she promptly ripped it off him. Miroku yelled "what the heck?" He grabbed the Hiraikotsu from Sango's hand and held it across his waist. Sango let out a scream, blushing in the process. She yelled "KAGOME WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?" Kagome responded "what did you want me to use Sango?" Then she saw Miroku covered with nothing more than the hiraikotsu and said "oh my." Shippo, closing his eyes, said "I do have a washcloth." Miroku asked "can I have my towel back, please?" Sango said "hopefully we won't mention this to InuYasha." Shippo thought "maybe you two won't." Kagome said "sorry" and tossed the towel onto the monk's shoulder. Then he said "can I have a little help here." Kagome said "sure. Sango, help him out." Sango asked "what?" Kagome said "it's your hiraikotsu; help him out." Sango replied "uhh, okay" and looked to her left as she turned towards him. She got the hiraikotsu and held it, clamping her eyes shut in the process. "Okay, okay, get the towel on, Miroku" she said, "get the towel on quickly, please."

Miroku got the towel and wrapped it around his waist. As he was getting the towel positioned correctly, he muttered "okay, here we go." Sango, misinterpreting the monk's remark, opened her eyes much too soon. She saw him and screamed. Kagome asked "what happened?" Miroku replied "Sango opened her eyes a little too soon." Kagome asked "you mean you saw him--?" "Yes" Sango squealed as she started to blush. She was looking away with intense effort. Miroku got the towel wrapped and secured. "Okay, Sango" he said. "Are you sure this time?" Sango asked. Miroku simply lifted the Hiraikotsu up and said "I'm positive." Sango looked and was relieved, though still embarrassed. Miroku started doing a sensual hip shake and said "I hope you got a good look." Sango said "you perverted dog." Kagome, meanwhile, had wrapped some ice cubes in Shippo's washcloth. She placed the frigid bundle on InuYasha's forehead. "InuYasha, pull through, please" Kagome said. Shippo, Sango, and Miroku looked on in utmost concern.

Some distance away in a field, Sesshomaru was contemplating tactics for another attempt on InuYasha. Rin asked "so how is this going again?" Sesshomaru replied "I'll demonstrate with the Tenseiga standing in." Drawing the tenseiga, he tossed a coconut to the ground in front of Rin. "This coconut will stand in for that fox tyke" Sesshomaru said, "I want you to pin it down." Rin said "okay" and turned to the coconut. Imagining it as Shippo, she then said "you want a piece of this?" She began bounding a little and asked "you want a piece of the Rin-ster? What's the matter, foxy? Just try it." "Rin, just pin it" Sesshomaru said. Rin said "okay" and hit her fist in her open palm. She cracked some knuckles, stared the coconut down and growled softly. "Would you pin it already?" Sesshomaru asked. Rin dove onto the coconut and held it to the ground. "You can't handle the Rin-ster" she said. Jaken shouted "WILL YOU SHUT UP WITH THE RIN-STER CRAP?" Sesshomaru, on the other hand, was a little amused at Rin's mock taunting. "Excellent, Rin" he said.

Back in the hut, Kagome had a constant-monitor thermometer in InuYasha's mouth. She saw the readout go from 105 to 106 despite the ice pack. Shippo said "Kagome, the washcloth isn't working." Kagome said "Sango, dump the whole cooler on him. I'll get the medicine in the car." Sango got the cooler and emptied the contents onto InuYasha. She took his wrist in her hand and muttered "good, he's still got a pulse." Kagome got back in. She had a pump-based medicine bottle and a funnel. Kagome stuck the funnel in InuYasha's mouth and shot a dose of medicine into it. She put the thermometer back in place and got InuYasha's wrist. Shippo was getting worried and was almost in tears. Sango said "InuYasha, can you hear us?"

Kagome felt something disturbing: his pulse seemed to be slowing down. Miroku looked at Kagome and asked "how is InuYasha's pulse now?" Kagome said "it's dwindling." Kagome felt the pulse slowing farther and farther. The thermometer hit 107. Alarmed by the reading, Kagome yelled "InuYasha, stay with us! Stay with us!" Miroku asked "what can we do to get his pulse back up Kagome?" Kagome then got very concerned. "His pulse stopped!" she screamed. The other three shouted "WHAT! What can we do?" Kagome said "Sango, push on his chest to pump his heart." The thermometer still read 107 as they began CPR.

In the field, Sesshomaru was waving tenseiga around. Looking at a tree, he said "now, brother, you will die." He made a back swing, only to have the sword slip out of his sweaty hand and go sailing across the way. Rin and Jaken witnessed this and starting to laugh. "Nice tactics" Rin said. Sesshomaru said "oh shut up."

In the hut, Kagome had finished another round of CPR. InuYasha had still not woken up. Kagome was getting tears in her eyes. "InuYasha" she moaned. Shippo noticed and started bawling "oh, InuYasha is gone forever!" Miroku said "don't cry, Shippo. We must--." Kagome said "yeah, it's my turn." She buried her face in InuYasha's shoulder and started crying. "InuYasha, why?" she moaned in despair. Miroku cleared his throat and said "as I was saying, we must pray for his repose. InuYasha left no regrets when he passed on." Kagome shouted "InuYasha, no! InuYa--!" Suddenly, a sword that had been flying through the air took out a window in the hut. Kagome, startled by this, jumped back as the sword landed on InuYasha. A blue glow enveloped the sword blade and (after a second or so) InuYasha. After the glow ended, Kagome tossed the sword aside and ran her hand down InuYasha's arm. "Why did you die on me now? I never got to say…that…I love you," she muttered. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were stunned by Kagome's remark. As her hand was moving past his wrist, she noticed something: his pulse seemed to have restarted.

Back in the field, Sesshomaru had heard the window shatter from the flying tenseiga. "Oh, shit" he said. Rin and Jaken gazed on for a moment and started laughing. "If you two think it's so funny, why don't one of you go and get it?" Sesshomaru asked. Rin said "sure thing, Sesshey" and bolted off. "RIN" he shouted…to no avail. "Dang it" he said, "whoever was owning that hut is going to kill me!" Jaken asked "what if it's abandoned, me lord?" Sesshomaru said "the neighbors will, then."

In the hut, Kagome gasped "InuYasha" and looked back on him. Sango said "I think something happened with that sword." Kagome said "I've got a pulse from him again. His pulse kind of restarted." Miroku felt on the InuYasha's other wrist and said "she's right, it has returned." Shippo shouts out with excitement "InuYasha is back!" Kagome tossed the sword out of the hut and read the thermometer. The readings declined with 107, 101, 99, and finally 98. "His temperature has gone down" she said, "his fever broke. He's drenched in sweat now." InuYasha then started coming around and waking up. Sango said "InuYasha, can you hear us?" InuYasha opened his eyes and said "Kagome, Sango, w-what happened?" Shippo shouts "You almost died, InuYasha!"

InuYasha said "Well I do remember seeing a white light in a tunnel. A long tunnel at that." Kagome had tears in her eyes and said "I'm glad you're okay, InuYasha." InuYasha said "thanks, Kagome." Shippo said "well something else happened, too. Sango saw Mir--." "SHIPPO!" Sango yelled. Shippo said "but I'll tell you when Sango and Miroku aren't around." Outside, Rin saw the tenseiga on the ground outside the hut. "I guess whoever owned this hut must've tossed the sword back outside" she thought. With that, she got the sword and started back to Sesshomaru's location.

Back inside, InuYasha asked "what else happened?" Sango said "well, Kagome said that she loves you." Kagome said "SANGO." Sango replied "well, you did." Kagome blushed and asked "really?" Sango replied "yes. You were saying 'why did you die on me now? I never got to say that I love you'." InuYasha was very surprised. "Did you really say that, Kagome?" he asked. Kagome blushed and said "yeah, I did." InuYasha looked puzzled for a moment and started laughing. "That's good material. You ought to go into comedy someday" he said. Kagome said "I'm serious, InuYasha." InuYasha stopped laughing and was startled by Kagome's remark. "You're serious?" he asked. Kagome replied with a major-league tongue-packed kiss.

Sango and Miroku were gawking in amazement. Shippo had his eyes covered by the hiraikotsu, much to his chagrin. "Sango, what's happening?" he asked. Kagome said "that's not really the best time to ask that." InuYasha hit Shippo in the head. "Kagome, InuYasha hit me!" Shippo yelled. Kagome turned and said "InuYasha…" InuYasha had a look of fear in his eyes. Kagome, forgetting that the necklace was still on Miroku, said "sit, boy." Miroku was flung down by the necklace. He landed right on top of Sango. Kagome saw Miroku on top of Sango and wearing the necklace. Sango yelled "get the hell off of me, you pervert!" Kagome said "that was my fault, Sango. I forgot Miroku still had the necklace."

At the field, Rin came to Sesshomaru with tenseiga. "Here's your sword, lord Sesshomaru" she said. Sesshomaru replied "Rin, when will you stop calling me 'Sesshey'? That's annoying." Rin simply rubbed Sesshomaru's head and said "good boy." Sesshomaru gawked oddly at her and said "please don't treat me like a dog, Rin." Jaken asked "what about the hut's occupants?" Rin replied "well, since I found the sword outside the hut, I figured--." Sesshomaru interrupted with "we need to go and check, Rin!" Before Rin could say anything, Sesshomaru jumped onto Ah-Un's back only to find both its heads asleep. Sesshomaru said "Ah-Un, wake up, please."

Back with Kagome, Sango said "didn't you notice what that sword did when it landed on InuYasha?" Kagome replied "yeah, it emitted a blue glow that spread throughout InuYasha after a second or so." InuYasha said "a sword? I don't recall getting Tetsusiga out." Miroku said "there was a different sword. This sword flew in through the window and landed on you." Sango asked "could that have been Sesshomaru's Tenseiga sword?" InuYasha replied "it has to be. No other sword can emit such a glow…unless it was electronic. Also, when I had that vision of the long tunnel, I do recall seeing a brighter blue glow that suddenly came up from behind me." Sango said "well, if Sesshomaru comes around asking about this, we tell him nothing. He must not know of his having inadvertently saved InuYasha." Kagome mentioned "well, InuYasha will be in my time for the rest of the day." InuYasha replied "oh, yeah, but before we do that, Kagome, how about we make dinner here if you are ok with that." Kagome said "well, my mom was planning on steak tonight." InuYasha's watering mouth was starting to get the better of him. "Steak…" he muttered. After a moment's thought, he said "okay, we'll have dinner here tomorrow night." They got out to the car and InuYasha noticed the car's ear fins. After gawking for a few seconds, he barked "What is this?" Kagome replied "they're little ear fins to look like your ears." InuYasha looked them over and said "wow, that's nifty." Kagome said "I thought they were cute." With that, they were off.

In the field, Sesshomaru was picking up a scent from Tenseiga. Jaken asked "what are you looking at, me lord?" Sesshomaru replied "this scent I'm picking up from Tenseiga." Rin asked "what about it?" Sesshomaru replied "Tenseiga has a hint of my brother's scent on it." Jaken asked "you mean that half-breed brother of yours?" Rin shot back "no, he means his sleep-around three-timing sister." Sesshomaru replied "calm down, you two. We need to look for either InuYasha or that hut's occupants." Rin immediately pulled out a gold coin of Sesshomaru's and said "let's have fate decide where we go first." Sesshomaru asked "how did you get that coin? How long have you had it?" Rin said "it's one of yours." "WHAT?" Sesshomaru asked. Rin replied "You dropped it earlier. Besides, we just toss this coin in the air and guess which side faces up when it lands: if heads is up, we go to the village; if tails is up, we go to InuYasha." Sesshomaru replied "very clever Rin, but why didn't you tell me I dropped it?" Rin said "you looked a little occupied, so I thought I'd wait." Sesshomaru said "okay. Toss away, Rin." She flipped the coin and it landed heads up. They all saw that and simultaneously said "hut." Sesshomaru then got a terrified look in his eyes and ducked as the car came screaming over him. "Holy freaking crap!" he yelled.