How Nice

By Moose

Chapter 3:

It had been nearly a week since they had found him lying underneath an elderly tree. Miroku and Sango had tried their best to shroud Kagome and Shippo's view of Inu Yasha, but they would have none of it. In the end their help was needed in tending to his wounds. Inu Yasha would twitch, even moan, in his semi-coma and give them all false hope he would awake from his troubled slumber. Soon all visible scars and wounds had healed, but the poison had not yet been discovered.

One day, while Kagome was sitting with Inu Yasha, he began to stir. Kagome had instantly reached for his hand, hoping this time he would wake up.

"Inu Yasha...please wake up!" She caressed his face, hoping it would help to bring him back.

"...poison...hurts.." Inu Yasha mumbled.

"Poison?! What poison?? Inu Yasha, don't go back to sleep! You have to tell me what poison!" She briefly thought about tapping him on the face to bring him around. She called for the others to come.

Inu Yasha's eyes began to flutter open. Once again Kagome began to stroke his cheek.

"P-poison...from ..'okia..." He stumbled over his words. "..poison'sis clawsss..."

Inu Yasha was now as awake as he was gonna get. And with the poison still running through his body, he didn't know if he could even stay awake. A series of shudders swept through his frail body.

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo had arrived by now, and had heard him say something about poison from a youkia's claws.

"It's much worse then we thought, then. We have to take him to Kaede!" Miroku stated.

"Yes, but can he make the trip? We are a few days travel away from her village." Sango said.

"I don't know, but we can't risk not taking him." Kagome spoke her fears to the group.

Shippo's bottom lip started to quiver. "Is he going to make it?"

"Of course he's going to make it!" Kagome's words betrayed her heart. Would he really? The poison had been in his body for a week, who knows what it's already don to him.

"Ahhhhhrg!" Inu Yasha suddenly cried out in pain. His body began to twist and twitch violently on its own. He was having a seizure. His arms and legs jerked around wildly, hitting Miroku in the face in the process.

"Hold him down!" Sango's strong voice cut through the frantic air. She grabbed onto Inu Yasha's legs and did her best to follow her own order while Kagome and Miroku held onto his arms. Shippo did his best to keep Inu Yasha's head from connecting with the hard ground. Slowly, the jerking stopped and all that could be heard was Inu Yasha's harsh breathing and whimpers.

"Shhh..." Kagome whispered to him, trying not to let her voice crack. "..shhh..."