She was hot and sticky and there was not a single part of her didn't ache. Ren sat up on the floor mat and winced as she looked at her swollen arm while attempting to force her eyes focused.
"What am I doing..."
Everything came rushing back.
The festival, the boys, the chase and the well. She began to cry and wondered where she was when the door opened and a boy walked in with a girl next to him.
"You're awake." He glared at her and she was so afraid that he was going to hurt her that just started screaming.
"It's alright. It's alright. No one is going to hurt you..." The girl ran forward and sat on the bed, hands wrapped around Ren. "He's not able to hurt you anyways..." The boy looked at Ren with strange and extremely intent eyes.
"Where am I and who are you?" The girl eyed the boy and they both looked at each other with the strangest look ever. What is he looking at?
"I'm Kagome and this is... InuYasha." His name made no sense what so ever.
"InuYasha...? As in dog..."
"Yup." Ren sat up better and thought about what Kagome said a little more and decided it hurt too much to think about it.
"Where am I?" Both the strangers exchanged the strange look and the boy left the room.
"Umm... Can I ask where you are from first?" Ren eyed Kagome a moment before answering about her home, school and even about the boys who had chased her.
"...They cornered me in the well... they..." Ren's voice choked off and the boy came back in and stopped right besides Ren's bed.
"I'm sorry, but... can I smell you?" He was serious. You have to be kidding.
"InuYasha!" Kagome sounded ready to kill him. Omg, he is serious!
"Y-you want to smell me? Really?" He nodded his head and Ren looked at Kagome for some kind of explanation. "I-I guess..."
InuYasha sniffed at the air around her and then super close as in, dude-i-can-see-into-your-pores-back-off kind of way.
"This can't be right...Kagome... I need to talk to you. Outside. Now." Ren looked like she had just opened Pandora's box or something. She was terrified. "Your fine, there is nothing wrong with you and I will never lay a hand on you because you are a human. Just relax and get better." InuYasha said everything she was thinking and everything she needed to calm down... pity it didn't calm her down though. If I'm human, what does that make you? She thought about the name some and more then ran her hands through her hair.
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From outside the hut InuYasha stood and told her about a woman he had met hundreds of years before... someone who Sesshomaru would have known.
"So what if she smells the same as someone from long ago... Sesshomaru obviously didn't think it was her... he..." She stopped talking and InuYasha spun around.
"Sesshomaru... You can smell it too, can't you?" Sesshomaru said nothing and passed the hut by for the one Rin stayed in.
"So who was the woman then?" Kagome was interested beyond normal girl-ish means. This involved Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru wasn't impressed by this change is attention though.
"InuYasha." Sesshomaru stopped at the door to Rin's hut. "Do not speak of things that have nothing to do with you." InuYasha growled and Kagome was unsure of what to do next. He didn't know how to explain that he'd seen the woman Sesshomaru had kept. Talked with her... even if she hadn't really liked him, she had been a great deal better than what Sesshomaru grown into.
"Umm... Kagome. She's escaping..." Kagome turned around to see the girl from her own world running at break neck speeds.
"InuYasha. Help me bring her back. She has no idea what it out there." He nodded his head and tore off after Ren. If she even knew what was out there she would never had left the safe confines of the hut.
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Don't let them find me. Don't let them get me. Don't let me die like this... I just want to go home... Ren was running so fast that even her thoughts were coming in breaths.
"Hey! Girl! Get back here!" Ren turned to look behind her and saw the boy, InuYasha actually running through the trees. Oh dear god, help me. There is something wrong with this boy! "It's not safe out here."
She ran harder until he suddenly dropped down before of her; she slid on her back when she tried to stop too quickly and instantly turned and ran back the other way. In the time it took her to look back at InuYasha she had already run into something else and fell backward save for the hand that stopped her from hitting the ground.
"Let go of me!" She was let go and fell the last bit to the ground.
"Sesshomaru-sama! InuYasha!" Kagome and another girl came running and didn't stop until they reached Ren. Ren was no longer home though. She stared up at Sesshomaru like she had never seen a man before. Then again, Sesshomaru was a demon and far from human looking.
"What are you?" Sesshomaru didn't answer. He turned his back and walked away. Even in a state of shock she could tell something wasn't right with InuYasha and something definitely wasn't right with this man. The very aura around him spoke volumes. They had white hair but looked barely older than her.
I have killed, destroyed and annihilated things out of existence. You are just a small spec on the great plot of life.
"That... I mean him? That is Sesshomaru. That is InuYasha's half-brother." Ren eyed InuYasha and the back of Sesshomaru. Kagome touched Ren's cheeks and shook her head. "We have to get you back. Your fever is sky-rocketing." The other girl settled in closer to Ren and smiled.
"I'm sorry. I have not seen you awake yet. I am Rin and I have been taking care of you with Kagome since Sesshomaru-sama brought you to us. How are you feeling...?" Ren realized that she knew everyone else's name, but she had yet to give them hers.
"I'm Kusabana Ren." InuYasha choked and Kagome slapped him in the back to help.
"What did you say your name was?" He was way too close again. He didn't have a personal bubble apparently.
"Ren. Kusabana Ren." InuYasha took his hand and ran a clawed finger beneath her hair line to see her forehead. She held her breathe as if moving was the difference between life and death.
She instantly blacked out as soon as his finger made contact.
