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Chapter 11
He watched a tail move back and forth. "I just figured I would drop in for a visit and let you know the female in my care will not come to any harm. I thought I should at least lessen the worry even though you males have taken such poor care of her. To see her walking through the forest unprotected looking for her kit when she was already tired and wounded had me angrier than seeing the kit all alone chasing a butterfly through the forest. Youko Kurama should take care of his females much better when he is trying to enforce a claim on them. She fought well for only having these powers less than six days but she won't make it pass a month if she is constantly protecting herself and the kit. I felt all the auras and demons in the area this morning since high moon. If she fought all those battles and had to watch a kit while the rest of you are barely wounded then you're selfish and undeserving of her presence."
InuYasha had had enough of the speech and brought up a fist. "Kagome and I have known each other since she arrived here. I was the first she met, the one who travelled with her, the one who protected her up until she ran away from us when Naraku did this to her 4 days ago. We finally found her after the battle was done unconscious, she then woke up and wandered off by herself and got in trouble with Naraku again. Sorry if you don't have the full story asshole but she shouldn't have been awake till the next morning. Shippo was in the hut snuggled up with her the last we checked, no one knew he left to go chasing butterflies and us men were cleaning up from the attacks when she disappeared. No one knew they had left otherwise she would not have gotten far and it would not have been her fighting the demon. A demon your age should know how a woman's mind works. She sees someone in danger or that they have disappeared and she would gladly risk her life if it meant they would live. That woman has been trying to do everything on her own since she was turned kitsune and now I'm putting up with four of them." Kikyo stopped InuYasha.
"I was the last one to see my reincarnation so you can stop the blame on InuYasha. Kagome fled south to lure Naraku away from the village and to protect everyone in case she is unsuccessful with her powers or Naraku is able to provoke her. If you return her to us now you will have fewer problems from the other two. Lord Sesshoumaru I know is not very forgiving as I had seen in battle with the Band of Seven. The point your making has been made and we would like to get her back and re-treat her wounds."
He chuckled and shook his head. "Not till I see to it that she is fully healed and hopefully back to human form. I'm curious, as to why her shoulder was pulsing if she is immune to poison?"
InuYasha thought of something. "Wait; tell us what happened when she changed forms. She shouldn't be able to do that unless it was her shoulder wound..."
The kitsune jumped down and came in to the open. "Forgive me, my name is Daichi. As for what happened before the transformation she could give you a better description but the pulsing wound on her shoulder began to give her pain. It spread through her body till she could hardly support herself on her fore arms. She was then consumed by her auras and then she transformed into her animal form. She still had all the wounds but didn't pay them any heed like they didn't exist. Only the ones inflicted after the transformation had hurt her."
When they both looked down in thought he left. They raised their heads to see him gone. "Damn it he got away. We should find the other two then." Kikyo nodded and the left in the direction the other two had gone. Daichi returned back to Kagome to find her slightly whining not really awake but enough to feel the pain rushing through her. He began with putting fish on the fire to cook and then he started making a paste of herbs for the wounds. He didn't expect her to be awake already but it sounds like this had happened twice earlier that day. It was now night, well past sunset when he visited the miko and hanyou. He set the paste aside and gently lifted her on to his lap and began applying the paste to her wounds except the shoulder wound. Instead he scraped off some of the blood and then placed the paste on it. He tried to find something in the blood, discoloration, odor, anything but he came up with nothing.
She looked up at him like she is questioning who he is. He watched her fight the licking sensation she got from the blood on her paws. He chuckled, "It's alright, its normal to clean the blood off your fur. I'm Daichi, the kitsune from earlier; I saved you from the river." She gave him one last glance and then tested cleaning her paws off. She soon licked them clean and accepted the extra comfort from him. He stroked her tail and she drifted into a light nap until she could smell the fish had finished. She began sniffing the air and turned to look at the fish on the fire. Daichi watched her in amusement, it made him think of a pup just learning things for the first time, if it wasn't for her human age then she would be a pup at this age but he just shrugged it off.
She looked so at ease now that she had some extra sleep and didn't fight off her instincts as much. She got off his lap and whimpered lightly and he could see the busted rib on her right side from being slammed into that boulder. He watched as she kept trying to grab a stick holding the fish and kept flinching from the flames. He laughed and she gave him what he would guess was supposed to be a glare. He picked up all the fish and sat down handing one to her who now seemed to be wondering how to hold it. He watched as she tried to hold it with her paws and eat it. He couldn't help it; she is just so amusing to him with her going through the learning process of being in animal form. She finally held it like a dog chewing on a bone, one paw to keep it at an angle and the other to hold it still. Soon they ate all the fish and she began cleaning her paws and tried to clean off her face.
She settled back in his lap nudging his hand and he took the hint and massaged her ears, stroking her back and tail, she sure did like the pampered feeling. She was soon asleep again and he also drifted off while he massaged one of her ears. He woke up some time later, not knowing when it was. He got up and left, going in another direction to check on things making sure he covered his aura again. Sesshoumaru was among the cliffs while Youko was in some tunnels following his false trails. The hanyou and miko were closing in on the other two but still a ways away.
The sun was just starting to lighten the sky so he walked back into the tunnel and took other passages to go back to her. Youko meanwhile had been trying to find a way out of these tunnels and had been for who knows how long. He had gone down so many passages and would end up outside and now he couldn't find the exit. The kitsune behind all of this will pay dearly for all of this frustration. He found another passage and decided to take the left this time instead of the right like he did forever ago. He finally started to catch wind of the fresh air and found an opening that led to a drop off.