I'm baaaaack! The lawyers have not capture me yet! Have no fear! Haha, anywaaaay. Chapter four! No, Kagome is not dead yet. See how I put the yet in there? I guess that is the question. Does she live... or DIE? Duh duh duh! Ha, I love doing that. As you can see. Uh-oh, here come the lawyers. Read on, friends. :)
She paced.
At least, she thought she paced. She wasn't exactly sure.
But she did know she was focusing, concentrating. She concentrated on the memory of warmth, love, light, and life.
Because she wanted it back.
She couldn't stay in this darkness forever. It would destroy her, erase her.
She wasn't ready to be erased.
Not before we get our happy ending!
And that thought kept her going. She would get her happy ending, the life that she wanted.
She refused to go without it.
And as she focused on red and silver and gold, warmth, love, light, and life, something changed.
Darkness faded.
"Kaede! She's breathing!"
"Kami..."
"She's alive!"
"Yes, it seems that way. Hand me the bowl and cloth. I'm going to clean out her wound, rewrap it. And those herbs. It will numb some of the pain. We don't want her waking up to that, now do we?"
She could hear them, all the people she loved. She knew they were there.
Well, almost all of them.
Where was her red and silver and gold? Shouldn't he be here? Wasn't she dying? What is that about?
"I'm going to osuwari his ass to Cuba."
Those were the first words they heard come from her pale lips.
Kaede's eyes widened.
Shippo's jaw dropped.
Miroku just stared on in amazement.
And Sango laughed.
Slowly, chocolate brown eyes fluttered open and Kagome gazed up at the expressions of her dearest friends, her family, her reasons for fighting the darkness.
"Hey guys, what's up? You look like someone just came back from the dead," she joked weakly.
And the tension and grief just flew out the door.
Sango dropped to her knees at Kagome's side and held her hand tight.
"Don't you ever do that again, okay?" she ordered with a grin. Kagome nodded and Miroku chuckled.
Shippo was a blur of orange hair as he dived into Kagome's arms. He sobbed even harder than before and Kagome let him. She kissed the top of his head and turned to face Kaede.
"Where is he?"