Kagome woke up and looked around dazed, she could faintly hear a river running and it seemed to be getting louder, confused she tilted her head to the side, she couldn't remember hearing a river before, she was snapped out of her thoughts by a snap of a twig and a moving shadow, cat she thought, now that was a strange thought no cat was that big, well if it wasn't a demon that is. Then she remembered what had happen before she had passed out, shivering, she felt bitterness swell inside her. Where was Inuyasha when she needed him, she felt tears trickle down her face and her heart starting to crack, looking down at the ground she noticed the scorched marks again but this time instead of a brown they looked like a dirty red colour.
"The colour of dried blood" she whispered to herself. She shook her head, now she was just being ridicules. Getting up she looked up at the sky to distract herself from the ground, it was a half moon but it seemed a lot clearer tonight, Kagome frowned now that she thought of it she noticed a lot of things seemed sharper and more focused. She looked at her clothes and gasped when she saw there was a deep red mark flowing down the side of her left shoulder, she then had a flash of the hawk driving its claws into her flesh, pulling down the left side of the top she looked expecting to see a deep wound the probable cause of her blacking out, but there was nothing there, she placed her hand where the wound should have been and felt nothing. She was starting to get nervous and after the first attack it wouldn't be wise to stay hear any longer, but how was she going to explain the bloodstains to the rest. Turning to the sound of the river she thought it couldn't harm to get it off.
Walking to the river her thoughts started to wander, she noticed things like how easily she could move and how fast she was going when only walking, her footsteps not making a sound on the forest floor, also how though it was night and the forest was dark and dense she could see perfectly well.
Upon reaching the river she took off her top and placed it in the water scrubbing as hard as she could to get most of the stain off, when she lifted it out of the freezing water the stain was now a pinkish mark, knowing this was the best she was going to get she pulled it over her head wincing as the cold, soaked top touched her skin. Sensing eyes on her she spun around to see nothing cat said that insisting voice in her head again. She really was losing her mind, weird symbols, vanishing demons, wounds that never seemed to have happened even though her top had a stain, was she making it up because of her hurt feelings she needed a distraction so she had thought of demons attacking her, trying to keep her mind off her heart, or was it that they were attacking her physically like she had been attacked mentally by the images of Kikyo and Inuyasha together growling her frustration she started heading back to camp.
Back at camp with the rest of the group
Inuyasha had just got back to camp and he could feel the tension in the air, he turned to meet Sango's sub zero glare
"What?" he said confused
"Jerk" she muttered
"What's her problem" Inuyasha said turning to Miroku who just looked away, scratching his head he turned when he heard someone behind him, turning he saw Kagome
"Kagome, do you know what's gotten Sango and Miroku in a mood with me" Kagome just looked at him then looked away silently. Inuyasha frowns there something in the air faint, but still there, it smelled like blood. His head snapped around to where Kagome stood picking up her sleeping bag, he rushed over to her "Kagome why can I smell your blood" Sango gasps and runs to her friend
"Don't fuss, I'm fine" Kagome says giving a small, half-hearted smile.
"Well what's that" Sango says pointing at her stained shirt
"Oh that well I tripped over and caught myself on a branch" Sango frowned at Kagome
"That must have been a pretty weird branch for it to have ripped the material in three straight lines" Kagome looked away
"Can we just leave it, ok" she whispered spreading out her sleeping bag, Sango wanted to say more but thought it best to leave it, unfortunately Inuyasha decided he wasn't going to drop it
"What happened Kagome" he persisted
"I ask if you could just leave it" she said her voice getting louder and more frustrated
"No I'm not going to leave it" Inuyasha yelled, Kagome grabbed at her head as it started to throb and her vision began to cloud over
"Inuyasha sit" she said, the bang resounded throughout the forest making birds take to the sky. Miroku looked into the crater and whistled
"Wow, this is the first time you made a crater after one sit" all that could be heard was Inuyasha's muffled response.
"I'm going to sleep" Kagome said getting into her sleeping bag Shippo curled up beside her.
"I'm not done with you yet" Inuyasha said dragging himself out of the crater
"Sit" yawned Kagome, as Inuyasha was plunged back into the ground "Night everyone"
"Night Kagome" everyone chorused, except Inuyasha who was still pulling himself out of his latest crater, all the while mumbling to himself. Eventually when the spell had fully wore off he climbed into a tree looking down on Kagome's sleeping form, which was moving and sweating, incoherent words falling from her lips. He was very worried not just about the blood and torn shirt but her eyes when she had talked to them, they seemed distant, unfocused. Something wasn't quite right.
A/N: ok here's another chapter, I know I said it was going to be called Tessaiga transforms but my editor is just too lazy I need her otherwise it would suck, and thanks to everyone who review and put it on alert. Peace out (ok that was vampire-nightmare a.k.a my editor)
