Chapter Two
"Mom! Dad! Haru! Hitomi! Anyone!" Kyo stumbled throw the woods, his hands out stretched, blood spread on his arms like vines, and his hair and face drenched with blood. He kept stumbling and hitting things he didn't know were there. "Anyone!"
He slipped and scrapped his legs, and he just stayed on the ground giving up. Putting his face in his hands, the blood trickling between his fingers, and cried. "Anyone, please." That's when he heard the footsteps coming toward him. He knew they didn't see him, at least not right away, and then when he heard the pause and the quickened steps he looked up and just saw black. Then the impact came, throwing him several feet from where he was crouched, and whatever hitting him followed. They rolled around for a few seconds, him swinging his arms and hitting nothing, then his arms were pinned.
"Kyo? What wrong? Why are you trying to hit me?" It was Hitomi
She lay at the base of the tree looking at her bruised foot. She had tried walking on it but it just made the injury worse. Her short cropped hair was tangled with leaves and dirt and she had a bad cut on her bicep.
"Is that you Tora?" Her head shot up and Hiroshi was looking down at her. A smile broke across her face, even thou he was banged up she was happy to see a similar face, and someone who was able to walk. He rushed over to her and raped his arms around her and she giggled at the intimacy and winced at the pain it shot threw her. He could sense the wince and let go. "Did it hurt you? I'm so sorry."
"No, no. it's just, I think I hurt my back." and gave a sad smirk.
He looked at her with sad eyes, " Do you know where Shippo is?" and by the way she tilted her head he could tell that she hadn't and was trying to hide her tears. He bend down to her eye level again and looking in her eyes, "Hey, don't worry, we'll find him." and gave a smile.
Taiki and Shippo met up again, out of breath. They had circled the perimeter to see if they could find anyone else. They've already found Chizu, Tomi, Yukio, Jiro, and Kichi. They had found them all slumped on the ground, all having injuries, but very minor ones.
" Come on I think we should find a lake or a river so we can wash them off and clean out their wounds." shippo said, beginning to lose hope of finding anyone else, they'd been out there for several hours looking for them. Shippo carried Chizu on his back in a makeshift sling, and Tomi and Yukio in his arms, Taiki carried Kichi and Ami. They walked for several hours, Shippo leading considering he was a fully-fledged demon and Taiki was only a quarter and still slightly disoriented.
They could smell it before they heard it. The water was to their right and they quickly traveled to it. The lake was crystal clear and a water fall lead into it, the land around it was well concealed but looking at it from above they saw everything in it. As they surveyed the grounds that several bodies in the grass and hurried and took caution to how they moved.
"Chika!" Taiki screamed and ran down the hill side, he felt bad that he hadn't noticed who it was earlier. She was his sister's best friend for Christ sake! She was hard to miss, I mean she even recognizable with her face and body covered in mud and her scent was still pronounced. He was almost to her when he felt pain shot up his arm and a force brought him back. He laid in the mud and grass and felt the wound; something was sticking out of it. An arrow.
The hit was slightly off mark, he ran faster than she anticipated. All she knew was that she was lame right now and she needed to protect her sister at all cost.
"Sango!" Kagome ran over to Sango and embraced her in a hug, tears running down both of their faces, relief washed over them.
"Kagome do you know what happened?" She pulled Kagome away from her to look her over. She had blood running down her face with a scrap providing the blood, her knees scraped and she saw blood stain on her own robe form where Kagome was holding her.
"No. I was sitting with the kids and Inuyasha and then the sky was gone then I woke up in the woods." Tears ran down her face, " Oh God! Sango what happened to the kids!"
Sango had the same fear, but she still had trouble expressing her emotions, even after being with everyone for 20 years she sometimes felt that showing her emotions was a way to be weak, so instead she always helped the others with what they were feeling. So even thou she was terrified for her children she could bring herself to be weak in front of Kagome. She held Kagome to her, "Honey, its okay. Your children have Inuyasha in them, and they have you! That's the strongest combination anyone could ever have!"
Kagome looked at Sango, and see saw that her lip was busted and that her clothes were stained with blood from her, and that she had dried mud in her hair and all on her clothes, and one of her fingers was twisted at an odd angle. She sometimes envied her.
Faces came into focus as the blackness faded from his eyes. He heard giggles, giggles from young ladies. As soon as that occurred to him he shot his eyes open to see what the source of the giggles looked like, and just like their giggles, they were as cute as rabbits. They wore a weird style of clothes and had a thousand layers of goop on their faces- thou it did seem to enhance their beauty. He hasn't hit on women lately; he just kind of lost the desire to, especially after Sango's boobs got bigger. He never thought it would have happened, that one woman could fulfill his hunger for women, and sex of course. Once Sango popped into his head he shot out of the bed he was in and then went right back down. He had a giant gash on his torso, it didn't hit any Vidal things and it only needed a couple stitches- which he just tore.
"Who are you? Where am I" he said gasping from the pain
The girl with oddly bright brown hair looked a little frightened and looked at the door wondering if she should go get her grandfather to look at the stitches, now that new blood was staining the bandages, "My names Jess. I'm in the 9th grade, me and my friend here, Taksuki, " she pointed to the other girl in the room, she had straight black hair and black marble eyes- she was also wearing strange attire, " we were walking by the forest edge a little outside of town and we found you there, unconscious, so we got someone to help you over here, and my grandpa cleaned and stitched your wounds." She looked at him and looked away quickly slightly blushing and giggling when she looked at Taksuki.
He was oblivious to his nudity- but then why should he notice, he's spent more than half his married life naked. They had to remove his clothes since they were ruined with holes and blood, they also had to clean and check for any other wounds.
"Was anyone else there? A women? About ye' high" indicating her high to the bottom of his chin, "with brown hair and brown eyes?"
The girls looked at each other a little worried and looked back at him shaking their heads "no".
"Any kids? 5 to 17?" he was getting worried now. Something wasn't right.
"No. We're so sorry, you were the only one." he stood up again, even though it was futile sense he could get far with his injuries, "No, sir, you have to stay down or you'll get worse. Taksuki, go get my grandfather!"
Shippo attacked the shooter and after a bit of wrestling and grunting, he had the persecutor pinned. Ami. She looked mad, then scared, the relived, then worried. "Ohmigod! I'm so sorry, I didn't realize who it was, I just knew they were after my sister!" she was about in tears. Shippo let her go.
He always found her weird, her and her twin sister Kichi, they were basically attached at the hip and gave off a weird vibe, he loved them none the less, he had watched them grow up.
Moments later Hitomi walked into the swamped lake, she held Kyo in her arms, he was fast asleep. She had heard familiar voices and smelled her brother's blood. Shippo, Taiki, Ami, and Jiro were sitting in a circle talking and getting an arrow out of Taiki's arm. Haru, Kichi, Yukio, Tomi, and Chizu were laying side by side, fresh faced and clean of any goop, the only thing on their skin were the bruises and cuts. A squeal jerked Hitomi's attention to her right; a half-naked Chika was running toward her, she was dripping wet, and jumped on Hitomi's back.
"Aw, you're already wet for me? I guess I don't have to work has hard this time, we can just get right down to business." she said with a little cat growl.
"You know it!" she giggled, winking at her. The she saw Kyo and became serious instantly. They both carried him over to the lake and undressed and washed him.
Hiroshi carried Tora in his arms, they both knew it made her very uncomfortable, but it was impossible to walk with her injured foot. Then they saw something familiar.
"MOM!" Hiroshi called out and Sango's faces snapped in their direction and as soon as she recognized them a bawd smile swiped across her face and she ran to them, Kagome right behind her. Hiroshi set Tora by a large tree so she could support herself while he was reunited with his mother.
Kagome instantly went over to Tora and hugged her. She was so relieved to see one of her children safe, but she knew instantly that Tora hasn't seen Shippo or anyone else.
Shippo caught her sent instantly and shot right up "I'll be right back. " and shot into the woods. Her sent kept getting stronger and stronger, then he saw them standing in a circle of trees, Sango and Hiroshi hugging the crap out of each other. He rushed over to Tora.
Tora saw him before anyone else and limply ran toward him, he scooped her up and hugged her tightly. Then walked over to Kagome and engulfed her in a hug as well. She had tears in her eyes
" Kagome? Everyone's at this lake down further that way. They're all okay," he gave a little winced smile," well I guess as okay as we can get at the moment."
"And Inuyasha?" she would have expect him to have found her already.
He looked at her sadly and shock is head, "I thought he would have been with you." She looked down holding back tears as he said it.
In moments they were back at the lake. They all stayed there for the night, the ones that were conscious would take turns staying awake and waited for the others to wake up, they caught fish and dug up onions and cooked them over a lame make shift fire, Every one bandaged and as good as they were going to get out her, they stayed like that for another day. The Inuyasha stumbled out of the woods. Kagome ran over to him and tackled him. She kissed him and he instantly blushed, he was still weirded out when Sango's kids watched them kiss, he didn't know why, but he was like that with everyone else to when him and Kagome first started showing public affection.
"Where the hell have you been?" she whispered jokingly in his ear.
"Oh you know, Just around, meeting up with all my girlfriends" she giggled and he kissed her. She then brought him over to the dyeing fire and explained that they still couldn't find Miroku. The next day he left and came back in a couple hours and told them where he was. And within a couple hours they were standing in front of a door.
A girl with oddly bright brown hair dressed in skimpy PJ bottoms and a tank top answered the door. Miroku's voiced echoed off the walls "That tickles! Stop it, don't be so naughty!"