"What were you thinking?!" Robin demanded, obviously angry with her. "You spelled all of us and then went off to fight on your own?!"
"I can fight on me own, Robin." Kagome said from her bed, still weak from the encounter. Her expression was defiant- she had done what she had been forced to do in order to protect those near to her. "The invading creatures have all retreated, have they not?"
She had a point there. The alien invaders had retreated, and things were a little more quiet now in the city. Reparations were still being made to some buildings, but the morale was definitely higher.
Raven appeared from the shadows behind the door. "You may be able to fight on your own, but that doesn't mean we weren't worried." she pointed out blandly.
Kagome frowned. "You were asleep. You shouldn't have been affected by it."
Robin almost growled, exasperated. "Agh! How do you think we felt when we found you gone when we woke up?" he demanded. "We already know they're after you, and then to find you gone? Without a trace? We were worried sick! Starfire spent so much of her energy searching that she could barely finish eating when she returned with you!"
Still, Kagome remained defiant. "I don't understand what you're trying to say!" she said, her chin jutted out. "I made an agreement with Inuyasha, and now your city is safe. Is that not more important than anything else?"
"Yes- no- AAAAGH!" Robin cried out in frustration, unable to make up his mind. "The point is you put us under a sleep, a false sleep, and left us behind to fight on your own."
"But it keeps you out of danger!" Kagome said, confused now. Things were starting to spin again, and what had once been black and white was starting to turn grey.
"Kagome, we're a team." Raven said, taking her own turn. She moved swiftly to Kagome's side, sitting opposite from Robin on the bed. "The point of a team is to do things together. You're not supposed to do things on your own. Does that make more sense?"
"But if I had taken you, the agreement wouldn't have been reached..." Kagome whispered, confused. Her head was starting to hurt. She lowered her gaze and brought a hand up to her temple.
"Okay, that's enough. I have questions for you, Kagome, and you have to answer them." Robin said, his expression set. He'd obviously moved on to another topic.
"Very well." she said, more than willing to answer questions. "Ask what you wish."
Robin was a little surprised at her willingness, and Raven hid a small smile. "Who's Inuyasha, for one thing, and you keep talking about an agreement. What do you mean by that?"
Kagome blinked slowly. She'd flinched at the mention of Inuyasha, but when she found they hadn't any idea of what an agreement was, she'd been shocked.
"You... Really don't know what a contract is?" she asked, a little slowly. When the two in the room nodded, she sighed. "Very well. But I will only explain this once. Starfire can explain to the others." Then she began to explain.
"An agreement is a form of a contract." she started off, trying to find the proper words to describe it. "It is an agreement of power that binds those involved to the terms. For example, my agreement with Inuyasha stated that we cannot include others. No innocents, and certainly no allies. Just him and me in a no magic fight. He has two chances to make me bleed, but he has to make me bleed twice. If he cannot do that in two turns, then he cannot have me, and I will be free."
She gasped, suddenly, surprising Robin and Raven.
"What is it? What's wrong?!" Robin asked her, worry plain on his face.
"I forgot to limit his time..." she said, feeling like a fool. The time was the most important part of any agreement. It set boundaries on those that were involved in it. She'd forgotten to limit the time, and now he would be able to come whenever he wished.
Then, overcome, she fainted back into her plush pillows, her worried expression quickly becoming soft, almost childish in her quick descent to sleep.
Quietly, Raven and Robin crept out of the room, not wanting to disrupt her any more.
In the hall, however, they spoke as they walked to the living room.
"We never got to hear about this Inuyasha figure." Robin frowned, frustrated.
"What, are you jealous?" Raven asked him, eyebrow raised.
Before Robin could answer, however, the alarms went off. The two looked at each other before running to the control room.
"Stop right there!" Robin warned the two newcomers. "I don't know what you're trying to do, but I can give you five good reasons not to."
Then, before the others could take their place, one of the two, a woman with long, tied up black hair and a bluish eyeshadow, disappeared before reappearing just in front of him. There was relief in her expression. She grasped his two hands between her own and smiled broadly.
"Miroku! He's had contact with Kagome! And recently, too!" she called back to the male. Instantly, the male was also at his side.
He and the woman wore garb similar to Kagome's and Starfire's, from when they had first appeared on Earth. The woman was well built, and her outfit was in pink and black, rather than the tones of purple Starfire had chosen and the longer green-type skirt and shirt type that Kagome had worn. The man, however, wore what looked to be robes. Blue and purple mixed in to match each other in the outfit. He carried a staff, and held himself the same way a priest or a pastor of some type of religion would.
Robin felt dwarfed now, seeing as both of them were taller than he was. They were probably taller than Kagome and Starfire, too, though he doubted they could top Cyborg.
And they knew Kagome.
"It seems they've run into Starfire, also." the man, Miroku said, his own expression of cheer rather refreshing.
Beast Boy and Cyborg were puzzled, as was Raven. Starfire, however, was pleased.
"Sister Sango! Brother Miroku!" she called out to them, absolutely delighted. "How pleased I am to see you!" She rushed forward to sweep the two into a strong hug.
The others had flinched at the motion, remembering their own painful experiences, but these two took it in stride.
"Starfire! Is Kagome near?" Sango asked, her expression serious now. "Inuyasha's coming after her, and Naraku's done something that doesn't follow with their plan."
"What do you mean?" Starfire asked, confused.
"There's no time to explain. Where's Kagome?" Miroku said urgently. Starfire knew that they were not the type to be so serious without reason.
"Star, can we trust them?" Beast Boy asked, a little nervous.
"Yes. They are old friends, and very honorable." she said. "I will take them back ahead of you." With that, she lifted off the ground, as did Sango. Each of them held out a hand to Miroku, and he, too, was lifted off the ground. Soon, all that could be seen of their strangely shaped figure was gone, disappearing behind the smog of some of the nearby factories.
AN: Thank you for reviewing, Tijiya, MidnightSuburbia, Firefox ShadowWolf, and AngelicThoughts. I'd especially like to thank Natsumi Tsuchi-Ookami and Mya Uzo for reviewing so constantly. I do have a pairing in mind, though it can bend and change easily, if the readers with is to. Therefore, I'm asking now.
What do you think the pairing should be?