Chapter Two
Kaede was at a loss as to what could be causing Kagome distress that she was trying desperately to hide. When she was not laughing or smiling with her friends, and was sure she was not being watched, her face fell back into misery and despair. She seemed to be in a lot of pain, but never mentioned it or let anyone see her wince with every step she took. Kaede was sure that something bad had to have happened to her for her to act like this, but without Kagome willing to talk, all she could do was assume, and what she assumed was not something she wanted to share with Inuyasha. However, the day after Kagome came back he approached her and asked. She decided to be discreet with him, as she had no clue if her hunch was correct. She simply told Inuyasha that it seemed something had happened to her the day before and she just did not want anyone to know about it. Inuyasha scowled, huffed and walked back to his tree as he lept into the branches all sorts of horrible thoughts invaded his brain. He was hurt that Kagome would keep something this serious from him. He vowed that he would find out one day what had happened to her, and he just hoped that it was not as horrible as he was imagining. A few weeks later the gang set out to search for more shikon jewel shards, Kagome in the back of the line, trying to keep up and not let them see how much she hurt. She tried to keep going, but she suddenly had a wave of nausea wash over her, causing her to run to the nearest bush and try to be discreet as she lost her breakfast all over the place. The others started to realize that someone had dropped back when they saw her bent over in the bush. Inuyasha did not say anything, just merely went up to her and helped her hold her hair back as she vomited. When she finally seemed to be done, he gave her a piece of cloth and let her ride on his back. She was so weak she could not even speak, she fell asleep on his back within five minutes. He was worried about her, but she seemed to be better at the moment, so he just concentrated on trying to figure out where they should go for another jewel shard. Around noon Kagome woke up, her stomach roaring on Inuyasha's back. He smirked at her, letting her know he felt her stomach rumbling, and let her down so they could make camp and eat. He went hunting and in almost no time at all, he had found and killed two fat rabbits. Kagome placed them on her portable fire, the smell almost making her vomit again, but she was so hungry she did not care. The rabbit was still bloody and not cooked all the way when she took it off the fire, started to cut it and ate the first piece as the others stared at her in shock. Shippo had not seen his adoptive mom eat like that before and was worried she would make herself sick again as she grabbed another piece before the other rabbit was fully cooked and the others got their first slice of meat. Inuyasha could not help but keep staring as she took another piece. 'Damn! Kagome is eating like a fucking dog! That meat is not even fully cooked! I hope she does not get sick from that, humans arent supposed to have raw meat!' After her fifth piece of rabbit, Kagome seemed to have eaten enough, and she crawled into her sleeping bag and immediately fell asleep. Inuyasha was definitely worried now, he had never known Kagome to eat like that, or fall asleep that quickly. He decided that if he could not get Kagome to talk to him tomorrow, that he would ask Kaede again for her opinion on this new information.
