Resplendence Ressurected

(Disclaimer: I dont own any part of Inuyasha or its characters, except for my own original characters)

A/N: Short chapter, because I wanted the next one to be primarily composed of dialogue between Kaede and Kagome. But before I give it all away, I'm just gonna shut up : Once again thank you for the reviews and such, and yeah. So…on with the story!

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Chapter 10: Through the Well

Inuyasha ran under the purple, orange and pink shades of the horizon towards the well, he was starting to feel stronger as he felt the sun's warmth beating down upon his face. He slowly started changing back into his usual self, his onyx black locks, turning white as it whipped around his face. Looking at his hand he began to unravel the dressings Sango had placed on his wounds the night before and let them fly behind him flexing his once broken hand before his eyes. The crusted blood was now gone and the bones had mended, with no trace of a scar or even a bruise. His nose suddenly caught a scent, the one he had been looking for since the beginning of last night.

"Kagome! She's Back!" He thought running even faster towards the well.

He slowed his pace as he noticed Kagome climbing up and out of the well dusting her clothes off. He didn't want her to feel alarmed in any way.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha sadi as he approached her.

"Oh! Inuyasha!" She said smiling and ran up to meet him, her heavy yellow backpack slung around her shoulders.

"What the hell happened last night!?" He yelled as she neared him. "The well closed up."

"Yeah. It's a long story. But before I can say anything I needto speak with Kaede. It's important."

Inuyasha nodded and grabbed her backpack.

"No! I can carry it."

"Quit your whining and let me carry the damn thing."

Kagome rolled her eyes and gave it to him. She felt tired and wasn't in the mood to argue at the moment. But although she was tired, she could see the worried look on Inuyasha's face. He must have caught her looking, because he immediately turned his face in the opposite direction and started walking.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong?"

"Nothing." He grunted.

Kagome shrugged and walked faster to match his pace. She wasn't going to bother nagging him, she was still thinking about her conversation with Hishura. It was still confusing to her. But she knew Kaded could tell her a little bit that the voice couldn't. Still, she was bothered by one thing. Her promise, and the what the woman has said once she had made it.

"I'll take that as a Miko's promise and once a Miko is bound by a promise, she may never break it."

Kagome knew it was true, although she has never really thought of herself as a Miko or priestess. She just knew she had spiritual power, passed down to her from Kikyo and that she wasn't very good with it. But She had never broken a promise either. Kagome strictly only promised when she truly felt she could accomplish the task, and now she wasn't certain.

"I'm not sure I can do this…and how will the others feel when they hear about it? I won't make them come along if they don't want to. It's my burden…Ugh! How much more selfish could I have been? They're already tired from hunting down Naraku and the jewel fragments, now I add this…"

She sighed. A promise was a promise. Hopefully this woman had been telling her the truth, and there was only one way to tell for sure. She needed Kaede.

When they had finally reached the village Kagome saw her friends waiting outside the hut.

"Kagome!"

She heard a little voice shriek and a ball of fur jumped into her hands.

"Hey Shippou!"

He snuggled into her arms and looked up into her face.

"I was worried about you. Inuyasha had told us the well closed and…" He trailed off with tears in her eyes. "I didn't think I'd see you again!"

Kagome wiped his eyes trying to console him. He looked up at her with tear stained cheeks.

"Don't be silly Shippou. I'd never leave you guys. But while I was gone you were a good boy right?"

All Kagome could hear through his stifled sobs was 'Mmhm' , and she placed him gently back onto the ground. She grabbed her backpack from Inuyasha and rooted through it.

"Well, then I brought you back something. Remember our little agreement?"

She pulled out the jar of after dinner mints and handed them to him.

"I brought you back some candy..see?"

The little kitsune wiped his eyes and took the jar from her. His cries immediately stopped and turned into little sniffs.

"Thank you Kagome!" and he sat down trying to open the jar. His little finger's barely fit around the top, but he somehow managed to get it open. Faster than a lightning bolt, his hand was in the jar shoving handfuls of candy into his mouth.

"Well, at least he's happy for now" She thought as she started to walk towards Miroku and Sango.

"Are you feeling alright Kagome?" Sango said with her hands clasped tightly in front of her. "We were worried about you."

"I know. But there really was no reason to be. I'm fine. I told you guys not to worry." She said smiling and gave Sango a hug. "But I really need to see Kaede right now."

"Kaede wants to see you as well" Miroku added furrowing his brow. "But why do you need her? Is something wrong?"

"Er…no. But I need to check with her on some topics…in private."

"Private?" Inuyasha said, his ears perked up. "What have you got to say that we can't hear? You've scared everybody to death, and now you don't want us to know? Fine."

"Inuyasha it's not like that, I just—"

Inuyasha stormed off towards the woods leaving everybody behind. It was obvious he was angry for some reason.

Miroku shook his head. "Don't worry about him Kagome. He was more antsy than anybody else her. He's just upset is all. Just give him some time. Imagine how he feels."

Kaomge nodded and looked back towards the direction that he took. She sighed and looked at Sango.

"Is Kaede inside?"

"Yes, she just got back from collecting some herbs. Inuyasha hurt his hand last night and he was human, so we had to bandage it up."

"He was hurt?" Kagome asked, feeling a little hurt nobody had told her sooner.

"And here he was trying to take care of me, I didn't even ask him how he felt."

She felt a tug of guilt at her heart.

"Well, you know how Inuyasha does stupid things when he's angry" She heard Shippou say through his mouth, stuffed full of after dinner mints.

She laughed. "Yeah. I know all too well. But Shippou, don't eat too much of those candies. You'll get sick!"

He nodded, but soon took off with his candy jar to some place Kagome couldn't see.

"He's going to be very sick tonight. I can feel it" She thought.

She felt something rubbing up against her leg and realized it was Kirara. She had done this many times before but it was different this time. She bent down to pick her up and she noticed the little animal looking into her eyes. It was strange, as if she had knew something. She purred when Kagome picked her up and pressed herself against her chest. It looked up once more with that look in her eyes. Kagome looked up again, but could still feel Kirara looking, as if she was peering into her soul.

Sango broke the awkward silence by adding "Anyway, I'm going to go take Kirara to the stream, so she can get something to eat. Miroku you coming?"

Miroku understood the message she was trying to give him and nodded. Kagome handed Kirara back to Sango. She immediately stopped purring.

"Well, Kaede's inside waiting Kagome, we won't be back for awhile so you should have some privacy until Shippou finishes that jar."

She and Sango laughed. They knew how Shippou was when Kagome brought him food back from the future. He always hoarded it and ate until he was bloated.

"Alright, well have fun. I promise I'll tell you what's up later."

Miroku nodded and they headed off through hthe village. Kagome sighed and went inside the tiny wooden hut, searching for the old woman.

A/N: See? I told you guys it was short lol. Because, if I really tried to fit their conversation into this chapter, well, it'd be really long. Too long to be enjoyable. I'm almost finished with Chapter 11, whether I have it up today or tomorrow depends on when I'll be able to sit back down at my computer. My laptop just busted, and I have to use the crappy old family one. ::Sigh:: Anyway R&R if you liked it. Updates soon.