Yay! Another chapter by moi! Hah, well, as you know I don't own any characters here (except Hebi Otoko and Hebi Hisu). InuYasha characters belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, as it always will.
Oh, before I forget: thanks for review last time ^^

Sesshomaru lifted his gaze and saw a shape advancing quickly. Red blended with the same silver mane as the lords own hair. Soon a young hanyou stood before him, panting and glaring hatefully at him.

"Little brother" the lord said. Now this might be enjoyable.

"You bastard, what are you doing her? I could smell your stench miles away!" InuYasha growled. "And it isn't just your stench; there's something else lurking around he- what the hell have you done!"

InuYasha stared with open horror at the girl; his gaze shifting to Sesshomaru's bloodied claws.

"You damned BASTARD!" he roared, leaping for Sesshomaru.

But he simply stepped out of the way, which made InuYasha come up spitting dirt.

"I have not hurt your human little brother" he said coolly.

"Right, and I'm a thirty feet high demon with fifteen arms!" the hanyou growled, wiping his face from grass and mud. He stared wildly at his brother, at the girl, looking like a cornered wild animal.

"I did not expect you to notice, but do you not sense the serpents blood by my claws?"

"What shit are you now dra-" InuYasha started, but stopped as he took a sniff. "Oi, what the hell have happened here then? Why is Kagome hurt?"

"That," Sesshomaru said walking away from the clearing,"is what you can ask the human."

"Don't turn me your back, bastard! Come back here!"

Damn that Sesshomaru! InuYasha growled low, as he sniffed his surroundings. Yes, it had definitely been something fishy around here, and when he thought about it, he hadn't really smelled that it were Kagome's blood on Sesshomaru. But that didn't justify that the bastard had tried to snap her head of her neck like if it was just a weed.

InuYasha saw her lie on the ground, he saw that she was hurt; but he couldn't go to her. Not after what he had done.

That look she had given him in the forest had scared him. Nowadays not much scared him as much as seeing her face painted in pure hurt and terror, very much alike that of a little child. InuYasha had never seen that face before; not when he tried to kill her when they first meet, not when they met Sesshomaru the first time – hell, not even when Naraku tried to assassinate them!

That look had scared him of. How could he go to her now, where she lay hurt in both body and soul?

"… hurts!"

He winced at the unexpected cry and took an uncertain steep. Then froze. Was she really awake? Or where she dreaming something – about him?

"Don't go..!"

So it was about him then? Of course it was; he must have hurt her really badly since he didn't do as she had asked.

InuYasha stood there, rooted in the ground as his other friends came running.

"InuYasha! What happened to Kagome?" Sango cried, dashing by to get to Kagome.

"… I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know? You were here, weren't you?" Shippo asked furiously.

"No, I wasn't."

Miroku stood thoughtful by his comrade, examining InuYasha to head and toe.

"I see," Miroku said, looking a little closer at his face. "Except that I see you are worried, I also see that you must have done something fishy to have that look of delightment . It's all glitter and shiny all around you."

Sango shot an angry look at the men. "Could you please stop that? Can't you see Kagome is bleeding to death over here?"

Miroku rush to help her rip a cloth to stop the bleeding, while Shippo has run of to get Kaede. Only InuYasha stands still, not making an effort to help.
When Miroku turns to look at his friend, he discovers the hanyou to be gone.

"InuYasha!" he shouted after him, only to be answered by a low whimper.

Was he there? She was sure she had heard his name being shouted, but by whom? The voice sounded somehow muffled, as if spoken through a pillow. But it was male; definitely a male, that low rumble couldn't be anything else. But in this era, who know how other women sounded like?

Was she still in her era? Or had she made it home before she collapsed?

"..ome."

Huh? What was that?

"…gome?"

Someone, speaking to her? She felt her eyelids flutter.

"Look, I think she's waking up!"

This was an enthusiastic voice, with high-pitched tones. A child? Was that Sota?

"Kagome, please wake up."

She knew this voice, but she was sure it wasn't from her real time. It sounded too… polite.

"What… have I missed?" Her voice sounded raspy.

"Kagome!" a chorus of voices greeted her and suddenly she felt herself being crushed into a lump.

"Ow, ow, ow! Sickling here, take it easy!" she laugh-coughed as she opened her eyes.

At first, she didn't see a thing. Everything was a ghostly white mass, with dots of black – as a paper with ink dripped at it. But then the white faded and the dots turned out to be three heads looking warily at her. Shippo, still hugging her throat tightly looked up at her with tear-filled eyes.

"I thought you were going to die, Kagome!" he sniffed.

"Oh, you don't get rid of me that easily. That I can assure you." She smiled weakly at him.

"But still, lady Kagome, you had lost a great amount of blood. You were on the very surge of death when we found you." Miroku weighed her eyes with his, asking a question.

Kagome sighed.

"You want to know what happened, right?"

"Well, we do know why… you went home so suddenly," Sango said gently as she saw Kagome flinch, "but we don't know how you got those huge punctures all over your stomach."

'Punctures?' she thought confused, but then it all rushed over here as a tsunami of pictures; the beautiful man, the serpent, the pain and then the savior.

"What happened to you, Kagome?" Shippo asked, wiping his eyes.

"A demon attacked me. I wasn't ready for him, so he got to me."

"What kind of demon?" Sango asked, the knowledge of the different types of demons flashing through her eyes.

"Umm, a sort of snake-demon I think. At least he called himself Hebi Otoko, and he…"

"Hebi Otoko?" a granny-like lady said as she walked into the hut with newly-picked herbs.

"Yeah," Kagome nodded toward Kaede, "he said that was his name. What do you know about him?"

Old Kaede watched Kagome carefully as she put the herbs down. Her only eye were filled with worry as she scanned the girl. 'For what though?' Kagome thought ancious.

"Hebi Otoko," Kaede started, "is a snake demon indeed, but he is also the most powerful of his entire clan. Not very surprising since he's the son of Hebi Hisu, the giant snake demon. These snakes are famous for both their speed and their strange poison, with which the victim can feel absolute heaven or hell. That solely depends on how they think of their opponent."

As Kaede talked Kagome felt her whole body go stiff. So that was why she had felt as if she were on clouds. But…

"But what happens to the victim if this demon just bite her and then leave?" she asked.

"That I hope no one will ever suffer from." The old miko said. "If the tales are true, the victim will get addicted to this poison and if the small amount of this is left in her body, she will feel like all the fires of Hell are eating her up. That is, if not the poison is taken out, she gets more poison or she gets to feed from a demon's blood."

Miroku had sat quietly through the whole conversation, but know he lifted his head and looked deep into Kagome's brown eyes.

"Lady Kagome, is there anything at all that we need to know? It seems that you were bitten so with no doubt you were suffering under this hideous poison. Yet, you don't seem to be suffering at all. How can that be?"

Kagome stared dumbfounded at him for a minute. He was right, she should be crawling around the floor screaming for mercy right now. Then how..?
Then she remembered. Those eyes that were looking down at her before she passed out. Eyes made of pure gold.

"I think," she started, "that InuYasha saved me somehow."

Yeah I know. It was pretty difficult to figure out how to go on this time. 'Should I let Sesshomaru take her away, should I let Kouga come running, blah blah blah.' Well, at least I had a lot of ideas .
Seems to me like every chapter gets longer and longer. This one has at least 100 more words than the last. But that is because I wanted to end it somehow good. Hmm, not the best this time, but please do read more ^^