01-12-10: Blek honestly I really dislike chapter 22-25.. :l This is where I started getting my plan together but it makes things kinda stupid.. anyways I hope you enjoy it anyways!

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You're Kinda, Sorta, Basically, Pretty Much, Always On My Mind.

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I Do Not Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

22. The Ill and the Uninformed

I sneezed into my Kleenex that I seemed to have been holding to my nose all day. That stupid Souta! He jinxed me! I probably would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned me getting sick. My nose was runny, and I felt dizzy and hot. I was trying my best to hide it from everyone.. If I was sick then we would have to post-pone the search for the jewel shards, but I wasn't sick.. Just a little under the weather.. nothing huge.. I'll be better by tomorrow.. I know it.

"Kaori, are you sure you're okay? You've been sneezing a lot." Shippo asked, jumping onto my shoulder.

"Mm! I'm okay, really. It's just a little cold, nothing I can't handle!" I shooed him off my shoulder, and ran ahead of them, trying to sniff out any new scents. I still hadn't gotten over the fact that I could smell so many things at once.. Although since I was currently ill, half of those scents were cut off, it was like being a human again. Ugh.

I felt someone's hand grasp around my tail and I was pulled back. My back was brought up against someone, and they let go of my tail and placed their hand on my forehead. Shivers, inappropriateness, blushing. Inuyasha...really needed to stop touching my tail.. it's.. kinda.. a personal area I've noticed. I felt the sudden urge to sneeze and I pulled away as that urge became unbearable.

"Achoo!!!" I stared groggily at the ground, I hated being sick. I noticed Inuyasha staring at me out of the corner of my eye. "What?"

"You're sick."

"NO!" I shouted. I flinched from the sound of my own voice. I was too loud.. My ears hurt, too.. I rubbed them trying to make them feel better, and groaned. I felt awful.

"Yes, you are." He replied calmly.

"No.." I felt weak.. and tired. It's too hot.. Suddenly my legs gave away, and I was sent crashing toward the ground. Inuyasha caught me before I hit the dirt, but then I was sent into a violent coughing fit. "I.. I thought you.. said hanyous couldn't.. co-couldn't get sick.."

"Everyone can get ill, Kaori-sama." Meoga said, from Inuyasha's shoulder. "But youkai and part youkai have better immune systems, but-"

"But I'm a freak so I got left out!" I hissed, sneezing again. "It's not fair."

"Doesn't matter what's fair." Inuyasha hissed back, feeling my forehead again. "You have a fever, so you're sick."

I pushed him again and got up. "It's nothing! It'll go away..soon.." Then everything was dark.

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Inuyasha stared at the sleeping girl. Once she had fainted they'd taken her to a near by village, who weren't to happy to have taken in a group of youkai, but a suspicious monk had calmed down the villagers and let them stay. Kaori's face was pale and her cheeks flushed. Her hair clung to her face, and she seemed to be in pain. But there was nothing he could do.. She was sick and they had to wait until she was awake to give her any medicine.

She opened her eyes weakly, and sat up. "So.. Hot.." She whispered, loosening her kimono. Sweat trickled down her face, and she pushed the blankets off her. She wiped the sweat from her brow and looked around. "Where..?" Her eyes landed on him. "Inuyasha..?"

"You're in a village." He said, answering her questioning gaze.

"A village.. I told you I was fine!" She yelled.

"How can you say that after you fainted!?"

Kaori flinched, and looked away. "I don't want to be sick.. You want to find the jewel shards and over the past while I've slowed us down. If I'm sick then that's more problems I'm causing."

Inuyasha didn't no how to respond. What she'd pointed out was only partially true. It wasn't as much as a problem as it was unavoidable. There was really nothing they could do about it but help her get better.

"But.. Then it's my fault then, isn't it?" She forced a laugh, and looked back at him. "If I had listened to my little brother then I wouldn't be sick." A small childish smile formed on her lips, and he felt the heat rush to his cheeks. What was his problem!? Why was he blushing!!?

"Maybe.." She murmured, crawling over to her backpack. "Maybe this would be a good time.. to study?" She pulled out a large green book, and started flipping through the pages. She stopped on one of the pages, and her eyes quickly scanned down the paper. Her eyes grew wide with fear and she suddenly closed the book and whipped it across the room.

Inuyasha jumped to his feet, and staring suspiciously at the book. Second sticked by, and nothing happened. He looked at the feverish girl, who was huddled up in the corner. "What the hell was that!?" He shouted.

"The book was talking about how dogs became inugami.. it said that the owner would chop their heads off.." She made a sound that half between a cough and a forced sob, and he sat back down sighing.

"That's not true you know." He mumbled never taking his eyes off her.

"How would you know!?" She shouted accusingly, jumping to her feet. They stared at each other for a minute, and he could have sworn he seen everything click in her head as she figured it out.

"Oh.." Kaori mumbled sitting back down. She held up her head with her hand and stared at the wall. "But you're a inugami Daiyhanyō, a half dog demon. Not a inugami inugami."

Inuyasha growled and stared past her at the southern wall. Who was she? Trying to tell him the specifics of being a dog demon when he was practically one himself. Well, she was one too, but she'd spend most of her life as a human and in a whole different world where people like him were myths and legends, so she really had no say in anything about anything.

The hut was suddenly filled with silence as Kaori lapsed into a dreamless sleep once again. It was better for her to sleep, but Inuyasha wished that she could just stay awake long enough for them to be able to give her some kind of medicine to make everything go by faster. Being sick was something he didn't know of, for he'd never been sick before, but the way she coughed and how her face twisted into expressions of pain and discomfort every now and then, he could only want it to be over sooner for her.

Soft footsteps echoed outside the door getting closer and closer with each humanly pace. Inuyasha looked away form the girl and toward the door, catching the scent of the young monk that had persuade the villagers to let them stay here. The sliding door opened silently seconds later, and the figure of a Buddhist monk was silhouetted against the moon.

"What do you want, monk?" Inuyasha growled. He was a stranger and he didn't want her near the sickly girl. Inuyasha suspected that this could be a trick from the very start to get the group of them killed, but Kaori's condition was so bad that he'd take anything. But he was also ready for anything too.

The monk inspected the hut with his midnight blue eyes throughly, until resting on the edgy hanyou, and smiled. "I was just coming to see if your friend was awake yet, I thought I heard talking but I guess I was wrong."

The monk didn't leave and instead walked further into the hut and stopped near the sleeping girl. He bent down to get a closer look, and brushed the back of his hand against her forehead. Inuyasha suddenly felt hatred and fury toward this guy. How dare he touch her! A low growl escaped his lips, and the monk turned his gaze back to him, an amused expression on his face.

"Do not worry." The monk assured him. "I will not harm her in anyway."

Inuyasha didn't buy it and growled at him again. The monk stood up and raised his hands palms facing toward the angry hanyou. His expression was nervous, only the slightly amount of amusement stayed with his handsome features. He chuckled nervously. "My name is Miroku, I'm.. the monk around here."

"Don't care." Inuyasha growled. "Get out."

"I'm sorry but I'm afraid I can't do that."

"And why not-!" Inuyasha was ready to get violent and was already on his feet, but Kaori's sudden gasps for air and her heart beat increasing rapidly interrupted and forced his anger else where. She was getting worse.

Inuyasha was at her side in an instant. He lifted her shoulders and tried to wake her up, to at least give her something to help but she would wake. He'd been wrong before. She wasn't sleeping, she was totally unconscious. Her gasps became laboured and her heart was beating was to fast.

Shippo was up. He looked around groggily and confused for a moment, until his emerald eyes latched onto the gasping girl. He yelped was also at her side instantly. "Oh no!" He chocked, hold back tears.

"Get lost Shippo!" Inuyasha demanded. "You being here isn't going to help! You'll just be in the way!"

"But I know this!" Shippo shouted as a single tear rolled down his cheek. "I know what's happening!"

"What is it then!?" Inuyasha shouted, he didn't believe anything this child could say would help at all, but he was to desperate. Kaori was burning under his hands, and she couldn't breath.

"I knew someone who had this-"

"Spit it out already!"

"Inuyasha-sama, calm down please!" Meoga insisted. "Kaori is not in any real danger, yet."

"What..?" Inuyasha gasped, suddenly frozen.

"Kaori has a disease that effects only hanyou. It is not contagious by being near someone so you are okay." Meoga explained. He looked at Inuyasha's panicked face, and continued. "It's rare to catch this illness, and usually only hanyou's with weak immune systems catch it."

"What is it!? And where did she get it from!!!?" Inuyasha shouted, making the flea cower in fear.

"They do not have a name for it." Miroku said, catching everyone off guard. Everyone had either forgotten he was there or they hadn't known in the first place. "By she could have gotten it anywhere."

"And how you know anything about this, monk?" Inuyasha hissed through clench teeth. This madding. This stranger and everyone around him knew so much more about this thing that was killing Kaori than he did.

"I am just well informed." Miroku replied.

"Are you informed enough to know you are not welcome here!?" Inuyasha spat.

"Inuyasha-sama control your temper. He could be useful in saving Kaori-sama's life." Meoga informed him, shutting the boy up.

"Yes, I do know the cure for this." said the monk.

"Well hand it over!" Inuyasha demanded.

"I know how to make it but I do not have it. You need special plant for this and sadly I do not know where to find it."

"Well that's not very helpful!"

"I know where to find it." Shippo shouted, trying to catch their attention. Inuyasha was suddenly on it. He grabbed the fox by the tail and started shaking him violently.

"What do you mean you know where to find it!? You shoulda said something earlier!!"

"Inuyasha that not anyway to treat a child." Miroku said, surprised by his violence.

"Shut up, monk." Inuyasha snapped and dropped the kitsune to the floor.

Shippo rubbed his head where it hit the floor, but quickly got to business. "The flower is on a mountain. High up around the place I used to live with my father. It's a long journey but I know the flower will cure Kaori instantly.."

End Of Chapter 22

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