Chapter 3
It was the first light that awoke Kagome. She was very surprised to find Inuyasha right by her side. It seemed almost unreal. They had grown close over the past three years, but this was strange still, for him to continue to stay so close to her.
"Good morning Inuyasha."
"Morning."
"Feels like I've been sleeping for days. I really want to get up and move around." Before the words had escaped her mouth she had swung her legs over the cot and was standing up. But after she had, she realized that she probably should have taken it a little more slowly. Her knees started to give a little and she lost her balance quickly, the blood rushed from her head, as it does when you get up too quickly after you have been lying down, and her vision blurred.
Thankfully there was a certain hanyou there to steady her. It felt rather awkward to be supported in Inuyasha's arms. She had to turn her head to hide the sudden blush that crept into her face.
"Wench you should be more careful." He steadied her and then let her go slowly after he was sure that she was able to stand on her own.
"How long was I out?"
He gave her a dirty look, a look of accusation; she couldn't begin to understand why.
"We will talk about it at breakfast wench."
She was silent. He seemed to be angry with her. Her memory wasn't really that clear about what had happened, so she was somewhat confused as to why he would be angry with her.
"Inuyasha, are you upset with me?"
He gave her a low growl.
"You almost died Kagome!"
She didn't know what to say. You never knew when Inuyasah was overacting, because that sounded pretty bad. She remembered Naraku, no she didn't really remember anything. This was a little unnerving.
"I did?"
His face went blank. "You mean you don't remember?"
She shook her head. She did remember one thing, the dream, that creepy dream. Does that dream have something to do with the battle? She thought.
They went outside the hut together. Everyone was there to greet them. They all sat around a fire, where Sango was making them all breakfast.
"So tell us how you feel Kagome." Miroku asked.
"I am starving."
Everyone ate, but there was an uncomfortable silence.
"You guys are acting funny, is there something wrong?" Kagome decided that she couldn't take the silence any longer.
"Wrong? No wench, you just have been unconscious for sixteen days, that's all that is wrong!"
She was silent. Sixteen days. Wow. Tears started to well up in her eyes, but she didn't want to cry. So he really wasn't overreacting. It was scary to think about it though, scary to think that she could have died.
"I don't remember anything." She managed to say, managing to keep the tears back she took a deep breath and sipped her tea and wiped the corner of her eyes.
"Kagome, you defeated Naraku all on you own. He tried to suck you into him, take your power by taking your body into his own. We don't know how you killed him." Sango said.
She was silent. Naraku is gone. I killed him.
The group continued to talk well into the evening. Kagome learned the extent of everyone's injuries and all of the details of the battle. Inuyasha had been quiet most of the day rarely saying anything, except a few times complaining that she shouldn't have been in the battle in the first place.
"Yesterday wench, when you woke up, you smelled different." He barked in.
The thought about what he had said, but couldn't come up with any reason that she could think of why her smell could have changed to her. Maybe I should tell them about that dream.
"I know I had a strange dream, the only thing that I can remember is that dream. I hear a voice in the darkness, and then the darkness grabs me and engulfs me, in the same manner that you described that Naraku engulfed me, and then, when I open my eyes I am under the water, swimming to the surface, and then when I reached the surface I was awake in my bed."
She thought hard about the dream, and the voice, and then she asked them, "Where is the Jewel?"
The all looked at her strangely.
"You don't have it?" They all asked simultaneously.
End Chapter 3