InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Returning Home ❯ Sweet Dreams ( Chapter 9 )

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Why do I get the feeling that you didn't believe that I killed her?

Chapter 9: Sweet Dreams

Shippo woke up to the sounds of shouting, which confused him after his quiet dream. He stood up on wobbling legs and tottled to the door. InuYahsa was holding a up a strange young girl by the collar and yelling at her, while her father and mother yelled at him and pulled on his arms, trying to get him to let go. Sango was sitting on the futon crying and holding Kagome tightly and Miroku was trying to pry InuYashas' hands off the girls' clothes and calm him down.

The empty eyed girl shouted above them all "Choose Now! Two paths lay before you. Choose now before it's too late!"

"What the fuck are you talking about?" InuYahsa shook her again, "What did you do to Kagome?"

"Seek your kitsunes' sister! She will not see you!" and with that what light the girls face had possessed faded as her eyes closed.

"What the fuck does that mean?" InuYahsa yelled at the girl.

"Put her down InuYahsa," Miroku gave another tug at his hand, "She can't help us."

"Nothing can help her!" Sango wailed as she rocked Kagome's body, "She's dead!"

InuYahsa dropped the girl and turned to stare at Sango. The girls parents rushed to their daughter on the floor.

"She's not dead!" Shippo shouted at the group. He ran up to Sango and Kagome.

"She's cold." Sango said sadly, "Look, her lips are blue."

"She's not dead!" Shippo insisted. "The Ladies wouldn't let her die!"

"Shippo…" Sango reached one hand out to him sadly, but he jumped away.

"Shippo, what ladies are you talking about?" Miroku knelt to his level.

Shippo sighed, "I had a dream, I was in a glittering cave, three ladies, one young, one old and one sort of in the middle. The young one was pulling a thread off a spindle. The middle one took it and dyed it and made it thicker, and the old one weaved it in this huge tapestry! They were talking about Kagome, they said her thread was at its thinnest, it was about to break. They said that they would weave Kagome a new body! A stronger body. We just have to give it time."

Miroku moved over to Sango and convinced her to release Kagome back onto the futon. He looked into her dull eyes and felt her cold cheek. She seemed pretty dead to him, "Shippo, sometimes a dream is just a dream."

"No," InuYahsa whispered, "we'll wait."

InuYahsa crouched down next to Kagomes' head and stared at her face.

*

The morning sun found InuYahsa and Shippo in identical positions, with identical expressions, staring at Kagome's body.

"How goes the vigil?" Miroku entered the room.

"No change." InuYahsa said morosely.

"But she hasn't progressed!" Shippo chirped, "She hasn't gone all stiff."

InuYahsa resisted the urge to look at, or hit, the kit, "You're a morbid little runt."

"But it's true!" Shippo shifted his position excitedly, "If she was really dead that would have happened ages ago. Where have you been?"

"The family's oldest daughter has fallen ill." Miroku said, "She isn't likely to survive the day."

"She's better off than Kagome." InuYahsa scowled as Kagomes' body gave another twitch. It wasn't doing that as often or as violently as before though.

"Apparently her health has been failing for a few weeks." Miroku ignored InuYahsa, for now, "But she hadn't been well since she fell. The family considers it a blessing really. And it truly is a blessing that they don't blame you for her condition."

"I don't give a flying fuck what they think." InuYahsa growled, "That bitch killed Kagome."

"She's not dead yet." Shippo insisted. "What's a flying fuck?"

"Shippo," Miroku started only to pause in thought, "I… don't know."

"It's something you should never say again." Sango replied curtly.

"Good morning Sango." Shippo chirped without turning around, "Kagome isn't any more dead than she was last night."

"Um, that's… good."

"She hasn't got all stiff." InuYahsa clarified.

"As enlightening and uplifting as this conversation has been I-" Miroku tried to excuse himself.

"Shut up!" InuYahsa hissed and leaned forward. He put his ear to Kagome's mouth. It twitched convulsively when a weak stream of air ruffled the fur, "She's breathing!"

*

The family was happy that Kagome seemed to be recovering from her death. But their joy was tempered by the true death of their oldest daughter. They held a funeral that after noon with Miroku's help.

InuYahsa and Shippo never left Kagome's side.

"Um, InuYahsa?" Shippo asked quietly

"Shut up."

"Do you see what I see?" Shippo looked up at InuYahsa.

"I said shut up." InuYahsa growled. He saw it, but he wasn't going to think about what it meant until he was sure.

"I think we should roll her over." Shippo twitched his tail nervously.

"… In a minute." InuYahsa relented, "That girl said I should seek my kitsunes' sister. What did that mean?"

Shippo shrugged, "I don't have a sister… that I know of."

"Are you sure?" InuYahsa yawned, it had been a long night.

"Well…" Shippo thought hard, "I really don't think I have any living relatives. But if I did, they would be in, or around my fathers' territory."

Sango and Miroku returned from the funeral, "They have asked that we stay another night." Miroku said, "We agreed, in Kagome's interest."

"Look!" Shippo jumped up to Mirokus shoulder, "Kagome got her color back!"

"Yes! She looks… much…. Houshi-sama?" Sango turned to Miroku.

"I see it too Sango." Miroku replied evenly.

"Now Sangos' colors are gone." Shippo giggled in delight, "Come on InuYahsa, let's roll Kagome over!"

*

The next morning InuYahsa left the stuffy hut to sit in a tree near the nearby and think. He could no longer doubt what he had been seen, as disturbing at it was to him. But Kagome was alive, and that was all that mattered now. Wasn't it?

InuYahsa growled and decided to check on her again. Just to be sure. He avoided the family gathered outside and slipped into the hut.

"Where have you been?" Sango admonished him when he entered the room. She was wrapping Kagome up tightly in a blanket, "Kagome has a fever, it's getting bad and we have to get her to a healer. We can't leave Kagome here, the family is scared of her, and they don't know where we can find a miko. It appears we'll have to go back to village where we met Mary Jane and ask that miko you talked to for help." Sango finished tucking Kagome in and turned to InuYahsa, "What are you standing there for? You have to carry Kagome to Kirara."

"Where is everyone else?" As InuYahsa jumped forward to pick Kagome up, he took a quick look at her face. `From too little color to too much, can't she do anything right?' he thought darkly.

"Miroku, Shippo and Kirara are with the family, preparing for the journey outside. You didn't see them?" Sango fixed her hiraikotsu to her back.

"I wasn't paying-"

"Let's go!" Sango ran out ahead of him.

*

InuYahsa ran on the ground while the others rode on Kirara with Kagome. Moving at top speed it was still the next afternoon before they reached the village and found the unfriendly miko.

"What are you doing here." She frowned at them annoyed that the foolish hanyou had returned to her village, "Youkai aren't welcome here."

"Our friend is sick." Miroku approached the miko, holding Kagome, "You are the nearest miko we know of."

The girl looked at Kagome's face and frowned, "Strange. Put her down."

"She has a fever." Shippo stated from Sangos' shoulder.

"What… is she?"

"She's a… a miko." Sango answered, uncertainly.

The miko knelt over Kagome, feeling her out, "This fever is being caused by the conflicts of the two energys present within her."

"So?" InuYahsa spoke for the first time, impatient with the lack of progress, "Help her."

"I can only help her by neutralizing one of the energies." The miko stood and addressed InuYahsa, "but I'm not sure which one to neutralize. If she is a miko under a spell, she is changed, and I would help her. But if she is changed too much assisting the miko energy would harm her. I am unwilling to do that. I suggest letting things take their course. Now leave, you're upsetting the villagers."

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A/N: You realize that I KILLED Kagome and only got three reviews? I figured I'd get at least five. I was happy to get a new reviewer for this fic and of course I look forward to hearing from cursed jax and essie. But you think if you kill a major character you'd get more reviews. Sigh. Ok I'm over that.

For those who know about this stuff, about Kagome being cold and blue; Kagome hadn't exactly warmed up from being soaked in the last chapter and a little more time had passed between her death and the tray getting knocked over then it sounded like in the last chapter. The blue lips were actually because of the poison, as was the violent twitching., her heart stopping and her no longer breathing and getting cold, losing color were basicily the only signs of her death. I know that other stuff happens before rigor mortis but she didn't die all the way and Shippo just grabbed a hold of the biggest sign he could think of.

Still want feedback, do you like it, what do you think is happening, etc. review please.