Kagome woke up and found that she couldn't move due to the pain and she groaned inwardly and closed her eyes. "Damn weights…kill me." Kagome mumbled into the stuffy white pillow. Last night she was so tired and thought the pillow was the comfiest thing in the world but now she realized it was the exact opposite, scratchy and smelly. She frowned and lifted her head to look around her to see her surrounding and couldn't help but smile at her friends.
Rin was curled up in a ball with her arms and legs wrapped around her pillow which actually belonged to Sango who was latching onto it. Sango was all sprawled out with the pillow in a death grip and her leg slung over Ayame's head which was laying on the tent floor. Ayame's butt was stuck up in the air with her sleeping bag twisted around her middle and arms.
She then saw Ayame's butt start to tilt and laughed when she fell over and continued sleeping soundly. Rin shifted and gripped her pillow harder and Sango growled in her sleep trying to get her pillow back. Kagome turned over with some difficulty and sat up and sighed while trying to ignore the pain in her muscles. She pulled her weights out of her bag and grudgingly strapped them on while frowning. Her frown lightened up when she remembered that Kaede had said it would be difficult so she thought 'If it makes me stronger and have more stamina I guess I shouldn't complain.' 'But it's so hard.' she whined inwardly as she stood up and about fell over from pain.
After adjusting to the pain she pulled out a pair of gray jogging shorts and a dark green tee that hugged her curves and a pair of white socks. She then pulled on her shoes and saw a piece of paper in it. She frowned curiously and opened it before reading silently to herself.
Kagome, I have written down the direction for you to make a barrier from your spiritual energy. If you can master this by yourself then you are truly capable of my training. First you will need to clear your mind and reach deep with in yourself to grasp onto the power inside your soul. Once you feel it you just concentrate on a barrier around yourself along with the happiest thought you have. I believe you'll be able to do this easily. Good luck. ~Kaede
'Well I guess she wasn't lying when she said everyday and that it was going to be hard.' Kagome mused while putting the letter in her bag and tying her shoe laces.
She walked outside to see who else was awake. She was expecting to walk out and see the morning rays of the sun but was instead greeted by dark rolling clouds that seemed to stretch out forever. 'I hope it doesn't storm.' Kagome thought worriedly knowing if it started to she would freak out.
She looked around her and saw that only a few people were awake and they were Ayano, Naraku, two guys she didn't recognize and she then saw Bankotsu sitting off to the side on a rock looking at something in his hands with all of his concentration.
Kagome then felt that she was being watched and looked over her shoulder to see the two guys she didn't recognize and Naraku staring at her. The first guy she didn't recognize was huge at least over six and a half feet tall and had a huge foot ball player structure. Not fat but all muscle and scariness and had short greenish blue hair and blue tattoos underlining his eyes.. The other one was around six feet tall and had all of his hair shaved off and what looked to be waxed considering it was shining even on the cloudy day. He looked normal minus the fact he was sitting next to Naraku and the scary football guy and was looking at her with a glare on his face.
'Maybe his face is just like that cuz I don't remember doing anything to him.' Kagome thought while sweat dropping and walking away from them. She was walking past Ayano and saw that the camp counselor was having some problems with cooking all of the food by herself. 'I didn't think she would be cooking food for all of the campers all by herself.' Kagome thought. She didn't have long to think and before she knew it she had caught the spatula that came flying at her when Ayano hit it out of the egg pan on accident.
"Oh thank you…" Ayano said while pausing for Kagome to tell her name. "Kagome." Kagome said while kneeling down next to Ayano and stirring the scrambled eggs that were starting to stick to the bottom of the pan.
"I'm glad there is at least one descent kid out here in the middle of nowhere." Ayano said while running to the skillet of bacon and placing some bread on a skillet also. "Did you know that you can make toast in a skillet too Kagome." Ayano said while turning more bacon. Kagome shook her head no and continued stirring the eggs until they were done and she then dumped them onto a plate that Ayano was holding out for her.
"Can you go and get Bankotsu for me please I need him to go get something for me. Thank you." Ayano asked and then continued the cooking. Kagome stood up and walked over to Bankotsu who was sitting on a rock and seemed completely oblivious due to the object he was tossing around with a bored expression. Kagome made it to him and realized that he had a knife in his hands and was carving a piece of wood with it.
"Umm your aunt wants you to help her with something." Kagome said while poking his shoulder slightly. "Okay be there in a minute." Bankotsu said and then looked at Kagome when she didn't leave. "What are you carving?" Kagome asked being bored out of her mind and needing someone or something to talk to and since he was the only one that wasn't creeping her out it was his lucky day.
"A fox." Bankotsu said while shaving a piece of wood off and putting the knife in a black holster and shoving it into his back pocket of his jeans and tucking his black wife beater over it. "It really does look like a fox." Kagome said. "Thanks." Bankotsu said while grabbing his black leather jacket and slipping it on while jumping off the rock with the grace that would rival that of a demon. 'I'm pretty sure he's human." Kagome thought while walking next to him to his aunt who had a fire burning in one of the skillets.
Kagome saw this and ran over to her and took a towel and batted it out and sighed "Thank god the toast is alive." Kagome said while taking it off and onto a plate full of toast. "Thanks again Kagome." Ayano said. Bankotsu tensed at the name Kagome and looked at Kagome and then at Naraku and the two guys with him who were looking in the direction of the raven haired girl helping his aunt. 'So this is Kagome." Bankotsu thought when he saw Naraku look at him and nod with a sadistic smirk on his face. Naraku had called up Bankotsu and threatened him into coming up to this camp with his group of friends, who specialized in killing, to get rid of a girl named Kagome.
Bankotsu however had stopped being a specialized killer for the sake of his aunt who was his only family left. He hated killing but he wouldn't let his band know that. The only one who knew that he stopped was his closest friend who was also in his band and his greatest friend no matter how weird Jakotsu was. Jakotsu had stopped killing long before Bankotsu. Bankotsu didn't want to kill this girl who seemed to be innocent and he had no reason to kill her. She was beautiful and descent so why did Naraku want her dead.
On cue Kikyo walked over to Naraku and sat down next to him and glared at Kagome. "That explains it." Bankotsu muttered.
"Is everything alright Bankotsu?" Kagome asked when she heard him mutter something. She had noticed how he had tensed up when his aunt said her name. It was strange how he seemed to glance at her then Naraku but she just shrugged it off as nothing.
"You needed me for something Aunt Ayano?" Bankotsu asked while holding a plate for his aunt who placed bacon on it. "Yeah I'm gonna need you two to go down to the river and get some water and hurry back." Ayano said while handing them each one big orange water cooler and pointing down a hill.
"That's a mile away." Kagome and Bankotsu said at the same time. "Well then you better get going then." Ayano said in a matter of fact way.
The two teens started down the hill and made it part way when Bankotsu heard a voice in his head that sounded familiar. 'Who are you?' Bankotsu thought. 'My name is Moryomaru and I am one of Naraku's brothers or incarnations whatever you want to call me.' said Moryomaru. 'I specialize in telepathy as you can tell and I have been ordered by Naraku to tell you what to do.' continued the telepathic demon. Bankotsu grimaced knowing that Naraku didn't just want the girl out of the way after all when Moryomaru said 'Naraku needs you to kill the bitch that gets in the way called Kagome and make sure no one ever finds her body.' Bankotsu then frowned while thinking "Just what did Kagome do to deserve to get killed.' 'That's none of your business after all you kill for a job so just do it and don't ask questions.' Moryomaru said sounding peeved.
'Don't even think about disobey-' Moryomaru was cut off when Bankotsu put a barrier around his mind which took years of practice. "Are you sure you're okay?" Kagome asked while looking at him worriedly. She had just watched his facial expression change from confusion to a grimace and then to a frown right in front of her. As if he were having a conversation with a stranger that was pissing him off. "Yeah hey look it's the river." Bankotsu said speeding up the pace.
When they made it to the bank of the river Kagome and Bankotsu took the lids of the coolers off and dipped water out and put the lids back on and decided to take a break. Kagome sat down and leaned against a tree and closed her eyes and relaxing.
Both started for the hill but stopped when Kagome froze and started to breathe slowly. Bankotsu felt a strong demonic aura and realized that's what Kagome was feeling.
All of a sudden Kagome felt a strong demonic aura and it became hard to breathe and she could feel it getting closer to them. It felt similar to Naraku but different and it was strange how similar it felt. She looked at Bankotsu and saw him staring at something behind her. She turned her head and saw a man that looked normal but soon realized he was the source of the aura. Kagome couldn't move even when she saw the strange purple haired man come towards her slowly with his black emotionless eyes staring at her with evil.
Finding her voice she whispered "Bankotsu you have to get away he's evil I don't know how I know but it's just a feeling." Kagome looked over at Bankotsu and saw him glaring at the demon. Kagome then heard a chilling voice say "Well Bankotsu you're not gonna betray us are you?" Kagome looked back at Bankotsu with a look mixed with terror and confusion. Bankotsu looked at her with a look that made her stomach clench. This demon was asking if for Bankotsu to kill her!
"B-Bankotsu…what is he saying, who is he?" Kagome asked while getting her ability to move back as she adjusted to the demonic aura. "Moryomaru what has she done to need killed?" Bankotsu asked not listening to Kagome. At the mention of killed the full meaning finally sunk in after the initial shock. She spun around and ran as fast as she could with the weights on it was difficult and she was wearing out fast. She never looked behind her since that would slow her down and she felt the demonic aura fade and couldn't hear anyone following her so she slowed and hid behind a tree.
Out of breath and scared she listened for any footsteps and heard none. Just as she was about to slip her weights off Bankotsu appeared next to her and put his hand over her mouth to silence her scream. "Kagome be quiet I'm not going to kill you. Trust me…please." Bankotsu whispered while looking all around. Bankotsu released Kagome and stood pulling her up from her sitting position.
After a few minutes of silence they heard foot steps approaching them slowly. As if to throw it in their faces that they couldn't hide from the ruthless demon. Trembling slightly Kagome looked at Bankotsu silently waiting to see what they were going to do.
Kagome watched as Bankotsu turned and grinned sinisterly at her and her heart fell somewhere down into her gut and she was engulfed in fear. She took a step backwards only to loose her hiding spot and to see Moryomaru smiling at her with a chilling smile and chuckling with giddiness. She turned and started to run as fast as she could and felt her leg muscles burn painfully from over-exertion. Seeing a thick area of trees and brush Kagome darted into it ignoring the branches that reached out and sliced through her skin painfully.
Stopping only when she could no longer run she ducked behind a tree and in a dense bush that covered her completely. She felt a pain on her leg and looked down to see blood oozing from a deep gash caused from some sharp object, most likely a stick. Wincing when she stood shakily and limped forward, the pain growing the less her adrenaline pumped. "Kagome just play along okay." Kagome heard Bankotsu whisper in her ear and then all of a sudden feeling a sharp object placed to her throat. Panic surged through her as she realized he had his knife to her throat.
Then the words Bankotsu had whispered to her finally sunk in and she realized he was going to help her after all. Before letting all of her fear slip away she grasped onto it and made it increase, knowing that she had to act convincingly because Moryomaru was watching. She just had to find out how he planned to help and make a convincing kill with a slit throat without actually sinking the sharp blade into her flesh.
Out of nowhere Bankotsu's blade suddenly had bright red blood staining it and Kagome felt warm sticky liquid dripping down her neck. Unexpectedly, Kagome felt dizzy and started to fall forward into a puddle of red with a distant stinging in her neck.
Hardly able to see with her vision starting to blacken around the edges Kagome sees Naraku and Moryomaru walk up to Bankotsu who was looking down at her with sad, eyes and an emotionless face. "Enjoy death's welcoming grip, Kagome, it will greet you soon." Naraku said while smirking. "Damn you almost severed her head." Moryomaru laughed while looking down at Kagome who life was draining.
Kagome's eyes snapped open and she grabbed her neck and looked around her. 'I-I-I fell a-asleep…" Kagome stuttered while looking around and seeing the orange water cooler sitting next to her and Bankotsu sitting on a rock staring at her with a questioning glance. Standing up Kagome looked around and suddenly felt nervous. 'That seemed so real.' Kagome thought while looking around while shivering. "Hey, Bankotsu, let's get going." Kagome said picking up the water cooler and starting back up the hill to the campsite.
Both had made it to the top of the hill and could see the tents and people who had started to wake up.
Sighing in relief when she saw signs of life, Kagome felt a little more at ease with the memory of her nightmare. She took a step forward but stopped when she heard his voice. The voice of the demon from her dream. Frozen in place Kagome watched as Moryomaru walked out of the trees and towards them with a smirk on his face. The dream flashed across her mind repeatedly, over and over again as he closed the distance between them.
"Long time no see, Bankotsu." Moryomaru said in an amused voice while stopping in front of Kagome and Bankotsu. Kagome tensed and kept herself from the urge to step back. Noticing Kagome's tensed up posture made Moryomaru smirk and glance at her with cruel eyes. "Seems you have an interesting acquaintance with you." Moryomaru said chuckling slightly. 'Missed the perfect opportunity to kill her.' Moryomaru suddenly appeared in Bankotsu's mind after Bankotsu lowered his barrier. 'I'll have to do it myself since Naraku doesn't seem to pleased with you.' Moryomaru added which earned a glare from Bankotsu's half.
Kagome was starting to relive her nightmare as Moryomaru said, "Naraku hates people who turn against others."
Kagome started to feel dizzy as déjà vu took over and about had a heart attach when out of nowhere a hand appeared on her shoulder and arms wrapped around her waist. "Eep!" Kagome squealed while slapping the owner of the arms in the face and elbowing their stomach. She even managed to kick them where it counts earning a loud groan and a silver haired cutie rolling on the ground in agony. "Inuyasha? Thank god its just you. You scared me." Kagome said while putting her hand over her pounding heart.
"S-sorry…" Inuyasha managed to whisper while standing painfully. "Who's this freak?" Inuyasha asked while glaring at the demon who was in front of them. 'What a weird tattoo. It doesn't even look like anything but a stupid half mask covering his eye.' Inuyasha thought. Moryomaru who could read minds glared at Inuyasha at this comment and then looked at Bankotsu. "I'll be seeing you later Bankotsu." Moryomaru said while lifting in his hand in a half wave before walking over into the trees then disappering. Kagome felt her stomach flip-flop once more before she realized how heavy the water jug was becoming. Looking over at Inuyasha who had his hands empty Kagome walked over to Inuyasha and said "Here do me a huge favor please." Inuyasha tried to refuse. "Hey why do I have to carry-" he was cut of however when the water jug landed on his foot with a thud and a barely audible 'crack'. "Ow! God damnit that fucking hurt!" he yelled while picking up the jug and glaring at Kagome who was skipping off towards her tent where Sango was just emerging. "Thanks a lot Inuyasha! I appreciate it!" Kagome yelled while stopping in front of Sango and saying "You guys are hilarious when you're asleep."
"No I'm not." Sango said while looking at Kagome with a confused look.
"Yeah you are it was priceless. Kagome said poking Sango's stomach.
Sango just rolled her eyes and said "Oh yeah I bet you're no different."
Kagome laughed at Sango's comeback knowing that she did indeed do some strange stuff in her sleep. "Yeah you are right about that I do some messed up shit." Kagome said while smiling and walking with Sango into the tent to pack their belongings before the group started back down the mountain before the storm hit.
Kagome and Rin were the first to finish and they were waiting for Sango and Ayame to finish but their patience was running short considering they could smell the delicious food cooking right outside their tent.
"Hey Rin do you want to go and get food with me?" Kagome asked Rin and smiled hopefully.
"Of course by the time these two finish packing I'd be dead from starvation." Rin said while jumping up and unzipping the tent.
Kagome got up and followed after Rin and smiled when she saw Sesshomaru and Inuyasha walking over to them. Rin immediately walked up to Sesshomaru and huggged him while looking up and smiling at him.
'Aww they're the cutest couple ever.' Kagome thought and smiled when Inuyasha wrapped his arm around her waste and squeezed her lovingly.
The two couples walked over to Ayano who was helping two staff members who had finally decided to get their asses out of bed and help Ayano who looked pooped and ready to go to her nice cabin just for herself. Kagome grabbed two flat pancakes, two sausages and a large helping of scrambled eggs, an orange and walked over to Inuyasha and the guys who were already woofing down their food.
"No one gonna take your food, geez." Ayame said while sitting next to Kouga.
'Boys.' Kagome thought before tucking into her pancakes and eggs. "This is so good I'm starved." Kagome said while taking a bite of her sausage before spotting a shiny object in Inuyasha's bag that was unzipped slightly.
"What's that?" Kagome asked before she finally realized that it was indeed a miracle in this place devoid of goodness… Soda. Her eyes widened and she looked at him with shining eyes like a puppy begging for food.
"Pwease Inuyasha." Kagome said while inching for the soda which was a Pepsi Throwback.
"Yeah, sure, just don't drink it all, kay?" Inuyasha said while handing it to her and watching as she took a sip and almost physically brightened.
"Thanks." Kagome said handing him the soda and hugging him lightly.
"Mhm." was his simple reply before his attention was turned back on his food. Kagome shivered slightly as she felt eyes on her and when she turned she saw Naraku watching her with calculating eyes and Kikyo smirking lightly.
She couldn't help it but she was really getting pissed off at that bitches behavior so she glared back and flipped her off. Probably not the most mature thing to do but who gives a damn, it wasn't her fault, Kikyo started it.
This earned a scowl from the girl who was once all smirky. However, it earned a smirk from Naraku which was even worse than Kikyo's smirk. 'Damn it.' Kagome thought.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud clap of thunder that caused her to jump and give out a small shutter. She looked at the sky and saw black, angry clouds swirling above them. When did they get so bad? Oh well, everybody stood up as Ayano and Bankotsu stood up at the head of the trail before all the kids followed Bankotsu down the mountain. Kagome's group all stuck together and started down the trail towards the back just as it started to poor down in torrents of rain soaking them immediately.
Kagome shivered but not from cold, because it was nowhere near cold. The heavy air was thick with the summer heat and the rain was warm also. Another sound of thunder rang through the sky as a bolt of lightning stretched its way across the sky.
Kagome had never seen a storm bubble up so quickly and she stuck close to Inuyasha and kept herself from whimpering every time thunder rolled or lightning flashed. Finally they made it to the hill and slid down it to the best attempt they could and ended up getting mud on their butts, legs, back and arms. Basically they weren't to pretty or clean looking.
They started walking and Kagome was jumping down from a rock when a huge bolt of lightning struck a tree causing the tree to splinter and fall with a crash right in front of Kagome before it became a blaze of hot flames.
"Holy shit." Kagome whispered as she backed up. The fire spread quickly and seemed to completely sever her from her friends. This was to weird, fire didn't intentionally do this. She then realized someone was with her and turned to see six men, er- five and one that was questionably dressed like a girl. She then noticed that she recognized two of them as Q-tip head and scary foot ball guy. That wasn't good considering they hung around with Naraku who seemed to hate her. Something caught her attention and she looked at Q-tip and saw that he had a thermos. Only thing weird was that the thermos had fire spilling out of it slightly.
"Kagome! Are you alright!" she heard her friends panicked voices shout from the other side of the flames. She then heard Inuyasha growl and say "Damn it the flames are to hot and I can't jump over them."
"Yeah. I'm okay!" Kagome said while stepping away from the fire that was growing hotter and hotter. She looked all around to see if there was anyway to her friends but found none. She then looked back at the guys in front of her and saw them smirking sinisterly.
Her heart clenched as Q-tip took a swig of the liquid fire before spitting it at her. She yelped and dodged it and bolted into the forest that was yet to be burned. Her legs pumped and she flinched when lightning and thunder simultaneously crashed above her head. The rain pelted her face and she looked back to see the group following her at an incredible speed.
The stinging of the rain in her eyes made it hard for her to see and all of a sudden she fell. She jumped to her feet but felt a hand grab her roughly by her hair. She screamed in pain and managed to get free of the grip before she continued to run. She was terrified by the storm enough as it was and then these guys just made it one-hundred time worse if possible. She kept running, ignoring the branches that sliced through her arms, legs, and face.
She wouldn't dare turn her head to look if they were still following so she turned towards where she knew camp was and continued running. However, she was tiring out quickly. She had to get these weights off of her or she was sure to get caught. She spared a glance behind her and saw nobody there. She took this opportunity and stripped off the weights and tossed them on the ground before taking off again.
Feeling a small gleam of hope that she still didn't hear anyone following her she sighed the best she could. Her relief was shattered however when she heard a voice say "Damn this bitch is pretty fast." She looked to her side and was face to face with a man that had red hair and also a metal arm and leg. Her eyes widened when another guy that looked normal, minus the green tattoos on his face, with black hair, appeared on the other side of her.
"Yeah she almost as fast as us." he said before punching her in the face. Kagome cried out a little and cradled her jaw while trying to stand and run again. However she heard a silent pop ring out in the thunder filled forest and felt a searing pain in her shoulder that she had never experienced before in her entire life. She screamed and clutched her shoulder before hunching forwards and crying out. She felt warmth cover her hand and pulled back to see that it was covered in blood. She pulled her eyes from her blood and looked to see the guy with red hair holding a gun with a silencer on it.
It wouldn't have mattered if it had a silencer on it in the first place considering the shot would have been drowned out by the thunder and rain. But the fact was that she had just been fucking shot and he they were smiling. Well all but the cross dresser. She felt helpless and in agony but she couldn't do anything about it. Or could she?
'Think Kagome, think.' Kagome tried to think but it was proving difficult because of the pain in her shoulder.
Suddenly Kaede popped into her mind and with Kaede came priestess powers, which came barriers! But she didn't know how to make a barrier. 'First clear your mind, reach into myself and find my power then think of a barrier and happy thoughts.' Kagome went through the list.
'Kind of hard to clear your mind when you're bleeding and surrounded by killers in the woods.' Kagome thought sarcastically. Well if she could still be sarcastic she could clear her mind. So closed her eyes and hoped it looked like she was trying to bare the pain which she was.
She cleared her mind and then imagined herself searching through a black place and finding a glowing power inside her and then she imagined a blue orb surrounding her and separating her from this guys. Then she added her happy thought. The thought about her and Inuyasha laying in the meadow of wildflowers flitted into her mind and she smiled inwardly at the warm feeling.
"What the fuck is that?" she heard one of the guys ask. She opened her eyes and saw that she was indeed inside of her blue orb. She felt so happy, it was her first time making a barrier and she was also safe as far as she knew.
(With Inuyasha)
"Inuyasha calm down, I'm sure she's fine." Sango tried to reason with the half-demon but he wouldn't listen.
"No, I heard her scream something's wrong. Those flames weren't normal." Inuyasha said while raking a hand though his hair. The hikers had continued on with Sesshomaru, Rin, Ayame, and Kouga leading them back to camp and Bankotsu had stayed behind.
All of a sudden Inuyasha and Bankotsu looked up. "What was that?" Miroku asked while frowning. "It wasn't thunder was it?"
"It almost sounded like… a gunshot." Sango said while frowning also.
"Inuyasha let's go." Bankotsu said while taking off for the direction he had heard the gunshot from with Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango following behind him.
(Back with Kagome)
The group of six kept on doing everything in their power to break through Kagome's barrier but they couldn't. However, Kagome was growing tired from losing blood and from the use of her spiritual powers that were untrained.
She had been holding it for at least ten minutes now and she was exhausted. Her eyes were heavy and she was holding on by shear will power to live. 'Please Inuyasha, anyone come save me.' she thought helplessly as she whimpered from pain and fear.
"Girly, you won't be able to hold a barrier that strong forever." The football guy said in a gruff voice that sent shivers down her spine. She knew he was right and she suddenly felt very weak.
She started to fall forward and out of her closing eyes she saw her barrier break and shatter, falling like blue crystals around her. "Kagome!"
She was snapped back awake by Inuyasha's voice and saw him suddenly appear next to football dude and start fighting him. She then felt arms wrap around the bottom of her knees and behind her back before she was lifted up. She glanced up and was met with cobalt eyes that were glaring at the men that did this. "Inuyasha, Bankotsu…thank god." Kagome murmured against his chest while she watched Inuyasha distract the group. She then saw the cross dresser walk over to Bankotsu and her. She tensed the best she could but gave up when her shoulder protested angrily.
"Jakotsu take Kagome and get her back to the camp to get doctored up." Bankotsu said while gently handing Kagome over to the man known as Jakotsu.
"Good luck Bankotsu, these guys are completely brainwashed." Jakotsu said in a slightly feminine voice. Kagome didn't feel to safe in the arms of one of the men that did this but then again Jakotsu hadn't done anything to her. So she gave up on worrying and watched as Inuyasha and Bankotsu faded from her vision and she felt Jakotsu start running through the forest and rain.
She stared up at Jakatsu's face as he ran as if she weighed nothing. The rain pelted down on her face and stung her eyes but it was nothing compared to her shoulder. Jakotsu looked down at her and gave a short nod with a smile before he said "Just hang on and we'll be back at the camp." Kagome nodded and closed her eyes when she felt a wave of nausea pass over her. She felt like she just got done spinning in circles while looking up at the clouds.
"Jakotsu…let me…down." Kagome managed out. He did so and she crumpled down and vomited into a bush. Jakotsu held her hair back much to her relief although it wouldn't have mattered considering it was pouring down rain. "Thanks." she whispered, completely drained after heaving up her breakfast.
She was then lifted back up and felt Jakotsu continue his jog through the rain. She didn't know how much time had passed and the next thing she knew she was in a cabin located in the boys side of camp. She was laid down on a bed and left alone while Jakotsu hurried to the bathroom area. He returned holding a first aid kit with a bottle of alcohol and extra bandages.
"Kagome I'm gonna need you to take of your shirt for me alright." Jakotsu said while noticing her discomfort but she did as she was told. "Don't worry I'm one hundred percent gay and I'm proud of it." Jakotsu added while telling Kagome to lay down on her stomach.
"The bullet didn't go all the way through so I'm going to have to remove it. It's gonna hurt a 'lot'." Jakotsu said before pouring some of the alcohol on the wound and dabbing it with a towel. Kagome hissed in pain but didn't move. Jakotsu didn't waste any time in taking the needle nosed tweezers and quickly grabbing the bullet and ripping it out.
Kagome yelled out in pain into the pillow and felt tears leak out of her closed eyes and seep into the pillow. Her body shook as he poured more alcohol on it and sewed it up before dabbing it with a towel to dry it and then helping her sit up. He then went through the process of wrapping her shoulder in a way that made him seem like an expert at this stuff.
"Do you do this often?" Kagome said while taking the painkillers and gulping the water that he had given her.
"Yeah that's what I do since I stopped doing what they were doing. I hate it really. The hurting people, not the bandaging them up." Jakotsu said while cleaning up the stuff. He then walked over to a dresser and pulled out a black t-shirt and tossing it to Kagome.
"Do you need help with that cuz it must be hard and painful?" Jakotsu asked while walking out of the bathroom.
"No I've got it." Kagome said while putting the shirt on efficiently. Just then Inuyasha burst through the door with Jakotsu not far behind.
"Kagome are you alright?" Inuyasha asked worriedly as he rushed over to her and gently hugged her before kissing her forehead and checking her for injuries.
"Yeah I'm fine just tired and a little sore. What about you?" she asked while gently touching a scratch on his forehead.
"I'm fine it'll be healed by morning." Inuyasha said while dismissing the scratch before turning his fury on Jakotsu. "Who the hell are you and why did you do this to Kagome?" Inuyasha asked while grabbing Jakotsu by the collar and glaring at him.
"Inuyasha! He didn't do anything to me!" Kagome yelled. "Let him go he helped me."
Bankotsu took that moment to step in and walked over to Jakotsu and said "We need to talk. All of us but not right now. Kagome needs to rest and we all need to clean up. Inuyasha you should stay with Kagome here and make sure she gets to sleep and stays safe. Don't ask questions right now, I know you have every right to know but we need to be thinking rationally."
Inuyasha started to retaliate but was stopped by Kagome's finger at his lips and her reassuring words. "He's right. I'm so tired that I can hardly think strait and you should get some dry clothes on so you're all comfortable."
Inuyasha growled slightly, not being one to just sit around but Bankotsu was right. Kagome didn't look so good and looked to be on the verge of passing out. She was pale and had bloodshot eyes that were barely open. "Okay, get some sleep." He said while leaning down and helping her get under the covers.
"You should go get some dry clothes and come back here while we get the things we need." Bankotsu said.
Inuyasha nodded and quickly left to retrieve dry clothes. Thankfully the rain had pulled off into a light mist.
This was going to be a long day.
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