Chapter Nine

Three Words

Inuyasha groaned and rolled over, reaching for Kagome, but met air. He felt around some before sitting up, wide-awake, in a panic. Where was she? He looked around the room frantically and woke Rin up in the process. Rin rubbed her eyes, very unhappy "What's wrong with you?" He didn't even bother looking at her "Kagome's missing." She nodded sleepily "Ooooh, okay. Kagome's just missing. I'll be sleeping no- wait what do you mean she's missing!?" She turned to him with equally wide-eyes "What do you think it means!?"

She glared "That's no reason to be mean!" He dead-panned "Kagome's missing." She immediately went back into panic mode "Izzy, Kaede, Kagome's dead!" They both shot up "What!?" Inuyasha looked completely shocked "Rin, what the hell!? She's not dead, she's missing!" Rin turned to him with teary eyes "How do you know!? How do you know she's not dead!?" His eyes saddened when he realized she was right. Then he remembered, they were bound, if she was dead, he would know. He immediately rolled his eyes at his stupidity "We're mates, Rin. I'd know."

She blinked a few times before smiling "Right." Then she proceeded to lay back down "That doesn't mean you can sleep!" She pouted "Why not?" He looked at her oddly "She's still missing." She blinked "Who?" Now he looked completely taken-aback "Kagome!" She shot up again "Kagome's missing!?" He stared at her stupidity in amazement as tears developed in her eyes "Wah! Kagome's dead!" He groaned in frustration "For the love of- She's not dead you idiot!" She looked at him oddly "Who?" He nearly screamed "Ka- You know what, forget it. Just go back to sleep." She grinned at him "Okay!" And went back to sleep. "You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me."

Izayoi caught her sons attention "Honey, Kagome's still missing." He immediately sobered "Right. Any ideas?" Kaede closed her eyes and found a few images "Sesshoumaru had an interesting encounter with her early this morning, judging by the lighting. Also, a random girl saw her disappear. Do you know where she would go?" He looked thoughtful for a moment before frowing "That idiot! She probably went home." Izayoi looked worried "You better hurry, her family or strangers may be in danger." He nodded and focused on reaching her home.

He opened his eyes and saw Kagome on the floor and her mother and brother laying on the floor. He lifted her into his arms and saw the tear stains, instantly knowing there was no way to lie to her so she didn't know this happened. He took her back to Rin's room and left her with them and took her family to the infirmary where Kaede was waiting. He was hoping there was something she could do for them. If she couldn't help them, no one could.

They all sat around Kagome watching as she slept. Well more like intense staring. Rin broke the silence "What do we do with her?" They all looked each other and shrugged. Izayoi spoke up next "I could bathe her. Though it would be hard with her like this. Shoud I try?" They all looked at each other again before shrugging. Inuyasha spoke up next "Do you think she'd wake up if I poked her?" Izayoi and Rin stared at him like he was an idiot before caving and shrugging. "I'm gonna try." He then proceeded to continuously poke her cheek, but she didn't wake all knew this was a serious situation but couldn't help it. Inuyasha stopped with a sigh and they went back to watching- staring at- her. Then they fell back into the pattern of someone asking a question and the others shrugging.

Eventually, Inuyasha left his mate to see Kaede. He walked inside and saw Kagome's family covered in bandages, unconcious, on their beds. He looked to Kaede "Are they going to be okay?" She looked at them and back to him "Honestly....? I have no idea. Only time will tell." He nodded "I see..." Kaede noticed he seemed disappointed "What's wrong?" He turned to look at them again "I had been hoping I'd have some good news to tell her when she woke up..."

Kaede nodded "At least you can tell her that she didn't kill them." He turned his gaze to her "How can I tell her that when we aren't sure yet? They could still die, and then it would all crash down on her again. I can't- won't -let that happen to her." Kaede smiled "Okay. You better hurry back to her. Don't want her to wake up without you, do you?" He shook his head and left. Kaede's smile disappeared as she turned to her patients "I hope for the sake of those two, that you guys make it."

Inuyasha walked back into the room and saw the Izayoi and Rin had managed to sober and wash Kagome as well change her clothes. She was now on the bed in a blue tank top with purple and blue, fuzzy, polka-dot, pajama pants. Izayoi was smoothing her fingers through the girl's hair while Rin watched in silence. Something new for her. They heard a knock and Sesshoumaru came in. He had followed the scent of human blood to the infirmary and Kaede had briefed him on the newest developments.

He walked over to the bed and picked Rin up, taking her away from there. If he was right, Kagome wouldn't be in the best shape when she woke up. He didn't want Rin to see that. She stared at him before looking over his shoulder to watch Kagome. He immediately understood how close the girls were and how hurt Rin would be if something didn't turn out right. So for her sake, he hope they could fix whatever was wrong, and fast.

Inuyasha watched them walk away and understood Sesshoumaru's reasoning. No matter what others thought, he really did love Rin. That also meant he'd do anything to protect her, even if that meant taking her from her friend's side in their time of need. He looked back at Kagome and smoothed her bangs away from her closed eyes. He truly hoped that she'd wake up and everything would be fine. However, he knew that wasn't possible unless something good happened with her family before then. Even then, it wouldn't be okay since she still caused them leaned down and kissed her forehead and watched in amazement as her eyes slowly opened. Inuyasha and Izayoi were listening intently to hear her next words. However, these would be the words to break their hearts. Three simple words spoken by a young girl. A young girl that had captured all of their hearts and was now shattering them. Just three words. That's all it took.

"Who are you?"

AN:I hope you all enjoyed this update, i figured with all of the seriousness at the end of the last chapter, i HAD to add lots of humor in this one to even it out. guess the next one will have to be funny too, since i ended this one seriously too. i'm sorry about the shortness though, but it had a very important ending that even i hadn't seen coming. i just thought of it on the spot and thought, hmm, that fits really well, i can work with TA DA! anyways, sorry for waiting so long, but after that epic ending, i didn't know how to pick up till now , if you haven't noticed, i'm on an updating roll, so watch for more , i have to go now, ja ne!