"Why is he bleeding so much?" Kagome asked her whole demeanor changing as they entered the room Kabu had been brought to, rolling up her sleeves as she went to him.
"We haven't been able to stop the bleeding." Nami explained before Temai gave her a furious glare. "It wasn't that we haven't been trying to stop the bleeding." She explained cowering from his look. "We just haven't been able to stop it." Kagome pulled the bandages off, taking a look at his wound. It looked like the arrow had barely missed any of his major arteries, going through muscle mostly.
"He got lucky, had the wound been any deeper the arrow any deeper that is, the poison would have spread much quicker than it has." Nami nibbled on her lip looking at Kagome.
"Do you think you'll be able to save him?" She asked cleaning up the fresh blood that appeared as Kagome was focused on the wound.
"I'm going to do my best." Kagome assured her looking up at Temai who was now talking in low tones with Yuko trying to figure out what had happened. "Where is Sesshomaru? Shouldn't he be informed of what is happening? What about Sakura?" Kagome asked Nami looked at her in surprise.
"Sakura is with Rin-chan. She didn't want the girl to come in and be worried." Nami explained, which made sense to Kagome.
"Alright what about Sesshomaru? I am sure that he'd want to know what has happened to one of his men." Kagome looked to one of the maids who had brought them in extra towels. "Will you go and find Sesshomaru-sama please?" She asked. The maid nodded hurrying to do as she asked.
"It's useless." Temai said stopping the maid. Kagome and Nami looked at Temai as he spoke. "He isn't here, Sesshomaru left early this morning, he said he wanted to go and speak with his Mother." Temai explained.
"He went to go see my daughter?" No one had noticed Kara slip into the room, then again she was a bit on the short side. Kara looked ready to help out and tossed Kagome a black haori. "I don't want any blood stains on that one." Kara added. Kagome grinned slipping off the haori much to everyone's surprise. Temai stopped talking Yuko in that moment staring at the red faced girl. He wanted to look at her forever, despite the contraption that held her breasts into place, some odd white lace thing, they looked amazing. In an instant though Kagome donned the haori Kara had brought.
"Now it would help if we knew what kind of poison was used in the arrow." Kagome said aware that Temai was still staring at her. Kara nodded getting down on her knees with Kagome.
"We can't do anything about that now though." Kara said placing her hands inches above Kabu, pushing her jaki out to give him a preliminary healing.
Kagome watched in wonder biting her lip as Kabu groaned in pain. Before Kara could say anything Kagome moved to hold the man down, she knew that healing could be just as painful as getting the wonds themselves.
"I don't think it's working." Kagome said softly. Whatever poison had been used was working against the yokai's healing powers. Kara dropped her hands pursing her lips into a severe line.
"You're right it's not working. We have to get the poison out of him before any healing can be done." Kara rubbed her chin, not liking the way this poison was working.
"How are we going to get the poison out of him? It's already entered his blood stream." Kagome pointed out. Kara nodded.
"The situation might seem difficult but it's not hopeless, between the two of our powers and all the minds we have here, I'm sure we will be able to come up with a solution." Kara seemed positive about it all.
"Difficult but not impossible." Kagome agreed furrowing her brow. "Whatever we do it was to be quick." Kabu had begun to sweat and a terrible smell wafted off of the wound, the skin around it took on a dingy yellow color, infection had begun to set in. "He might not make it much longer." Kagome added quietly.
"If there were only some way we could draw the poison out of him, I'm sure we could heal him." Nami chimed in. She had been thinking just as hard as Kagome and Kara were. Kagome's eyes widened at Nami's words. That was it! They could draw out the poison between the three of them, at least Kagome thought so.
"It would appear that you've had an idea." Kara said seeing the look on her face. "Now isn't exactly the time to keep quiet Kagome."
"I know, I know. I'm just trying to figure out how this is going to work." Kagome's said and narrowed her eyes. She and Kara couldn't work from the same wound. "Alright, Nami I need you to clean up the blood constantly. I'm going to be putting my hands directly on the wound." Nami nodded moving to the other side of Kabu and sitting down.
"Kara, I need you to make a small incision above the wound. If I am right you can draw out the poison with your jaki." Kara nodded she would be able to do that.
"Yes, I can do that but Kagome, it will be a slow process and I won't be able to stop from drawing out his blood with it." Kara warned her.
"I know. I thought about that, that's why I'm going to be healing him at the same time. If Nami keeps the blood cleaned up we should be able to see when the healing begins to work." Kara looked at Kagome surprised, the girl had come up with a good plan, she even though it might work.
"Let's do it." Kara said flexing her claws. In a flash she cut Kabu, short yet deep channelling her jaki into her hands. Kagome watched for a moment before thrusting her hands onto Kabu's wound. Having a sligthly better idea of how to control her miko energy a bubble formed around her hands. Kagome grimaced at the groan of pain Kabu gave as she touched the wound. Though he had passed out he still felt pain.
Temai stepped forward watching carefully. He didn't know how good Kagome was at healing but he had to put his faith in her. Looking at Kara he was surprised to see a lot of blood coming out of Kabu. Blood and a glowing lbue strip, she placed it all into a bowl. Temai could smell it now, the acidic bite of poison among the iron. He didn't want to break their concentration but he was curious, curious and worried about the life of his friend.
"What exactly are you going to do with the poison?" Temai asked scrunching his nose up at the sting the poison gave it.
"Hopefully once we get all of it out of him I will be able to seperate it from the blood. This poison is dangerous. We might need an atidote for it." Kara explained her bowl had begun to fill up quickly. Temai looked around grabbing a bigger bowl for her. Kara's eyes narrowed, she would have to refine her jaki and not pull out so much blood. Refining the pull of blood would take up more energy and Kara wasn't as young as she used to be.
As time passed Kagome felt sweat begin to form on her brow. They had been at it for over an hour. The poison had spread widely in his body. She swallowed hard stealing a look at Kara, the yokai was holding her own but Kagome had noticed the glow of her jaki had diminished slightly, wasn't as bright.
"He is beginning to heal slowly." Kagome said wiping the sweat off her face with her forearm, a small splatter of blood smearing on her cheek. "You're both doing great." Kagome added giving Kara a smal grin.
"That may be true." Kara agreed with a weary nod. "I'm not sure if I have enough energy to last for that though." Kagome looked at Kara. They couldn't stop now, even if Kabu had gotten a little pale from blood loss, he was looking better. Kagome was healing him as quickly as she could though without Kara there wasn't anything she could do for Kabu.
"We can't give up." Kagome insisted. She didn't want to see anyone die. Nami spoke up then her voice soft seeing Kagome's tears form.
"Perhaps we should give up Kagome-chan, leave it to fate. We've gotten a lot of poison out. He has lost a lot of blood, even if you heal him you can't heal blood loss." Kagome shook her head. "And no one else has the ability to do what Kara is doing." Nami added.
"If Kagome won't give up neither will I." Kara insisted despite the look on her face. "Nami is right about the blood loss though that doesn't mean we should give up." Kagome cursed under her breath, there was hope just knew there was. Pulling her hands away from the wound Kagome swore once more.
"I can stop the blood loss problem." Kagome said and to everyone's surprise Kagome slashed her wrists deeply and quickly. "I'll give my blood mixing with my energy it should flow right into his veins."
"I'll give my energy." Temai said putting his hands on Kara's back pushing his jaki into her. "That should help while you finish healing him." He winked at Kagome who smirked at him in thanks.
"I'll give blood too." Nami insisted eying Temai as he looked at Kagome. "Though, I'm not sure how." She had to clean up the blood how would she give it?
"Don't bother. Your healing powers would close the wound before you had the chance to give him any." Nami almost glared at Kara.
"It's that's true how is Kagome able to give him blood?" Nami asked her insolate tone making all three of them look at her.
"Kagome's energy, quite a bit of it, is being used so her healing power's aren't kicking in." Kara explained wondering why Nami was acting in such a fashion. Looking at Nami, noticing how she eyed Temai Kara wanted to scoff. Was she trying to impress him? At a time like this? No. No Kara didn't think that was it.
"He's healing. He's healing." Kagome exclaimed. Twenty minutes later tears began to pour from her eyes as she laughed with joy pushing out more energy despite how it drained her. His wound had begun to close rapidly. Kagome sat back in shock for a moment staring at the closed wound. Her own wrists began to heal slowly. Though her hands were covered in blood Kagome turned to Kara hugging her tightly.
"We did it." Kagome whispered softly to the woman who laughed.
"No, you did it Kagome. This was your plan after all." Kara reminded her pulling away from Kagome to look at Kabu. "He is breathing easier and color is returning to his face" Kara pointed out. Kagome looked at Kabu, pressing two fingers to his neck a smile spreading across her face. His heart beat was strong, strong and growing.
"His jaki is healing the interior wounds from the poison. I can feel it. He is going to recover of that I am sure." Kagome said with a sigh washing her hands off.
"Thank you." Temai's voice was quiet and thick with emotion. "We would have lost him without you." He pulled Kagome into a tight hug ignoring Kagome's wet hands and her blood covered shirt. "Thank you."
"I'm going to try and wash these out." Nami said though the only person that took notice was Kara who saw Nami's glare as Kagome melted hugging Temai back. She had a bad feeling of what the girl's jealousy might bring.
(Sesshomaru)
It took Sesshomaru no time to get to his Mother's as he road his cloud. The woman seemed to be expecting him before she greeted him at the door, an almost evil smile on her face.
"I see that you don't have the girl with you. I trust that all is well, I wouldn't want to have to bring her back from the beyond again." Though it wouldn't seem that way, the woman was actually curious about the little girl. There were even times when Yoshiko would come to visit the girl with a trinket, she always claimed it to be a trinket, though most of the time it turned out to be an heirloom or an expensive gift she'd received from a suitor.
"Rin is fine. She is at the manor with Misso-sama and Kagome." Yoshiko's evil smile turned into a sarcastic one, though Sesshomaru could see the hint of happiness in his mother's golden eyes.
"So the old bag of bones still prattles around does she? That's good, though I feel like she's never going to die." Though she didn't show it Sesshomaru knew that his Mother cared for Misso, it was her mother after all. Yoshiko had a good hear, even if she liked to play jokes occasionally.
"Her day will come though not until she has given death a stern talking to I'm sure." Sesshomaru agreed following Yoshiko into the manor. After the death of his Father Yoshiko had moved back into the house she had grown up in, the house of her Father's. Sesshomaru didn't like visiting her though, too often the older yokai seemed o have something she wished to give him advice about. Often chiding him about his lack of a love life.
Yoshiko lead him into her own personal study, a room he particularly hated, it was girly donned in pink and purple. Yoshiko seemed to enjoy his unease with the room though and smiled as she patted the seat next to her.
"Now you aren't one for social calls. Don't try and pretend otherwise. What is it that you want from me spawn?" Yoshiko asked snapping her fingers as a small toad yokai appeared. Her skin was a faded wrinkly yellow green. Sesshomaru had met her one more than one occasion, it was Suri, Jaken's aunt though not as outspoken as Jaken and much more obedient. "Suri, bring us both something to drink. Sake would be nice." Sesshomaru knew that sake wasn't a hint, that was what his mother wanted to drink.
"I actually have a question." Sesshomaru admitted as Suri returned with two cups and a bottle of sake. He wasn't a big drinker but his mother would have been offended had he not had at least one with her. "It involves my Father." Yoshiko stopped as the mention of Inu no Taisho. She arched a fine brow pouring them both a drink, knocking her back and pouring herself another one.
"So you want to talk about the great Dog General eh? Well what do you want to know?" Yoshiko asked almost spitting her sake out at his next words.
"Do you think that his attraction to ningen's stemmed from his inner beast." Yoshiko coughed swallowing her sake, setting the cup down to look at Sesshomaru. Her eyes narrowed, she never would have expected something like this from Sesshomaru. She also knew that if his Father were alive though he wouldn't have come to her.
"Why do you ask? Do you think that Inuyasha's want for mortal's doesn't come from his half mortal side?" Yoshiko asked innocently hoping that was what he was getting at. "I don't see why you are concerning yourself with your half-brother's love life in the first place though." Sesshomaru glared down at his hands, balling them into fists, being mindful not to smash the cup in his right hand. Yoshiko poured him another glass of sake. "Or are you not here about that?"
"This Sesshomaru cares not for the hanyou's mate choices. This was a mistake. I apologize mother." Sesshomaru stood up, tossing back the other drink of sake that his mother had poured him, setting the glass down. "I will be going. I am sorry to have bothered you." He moved swiftly wanting to get as far away from her as possible. He had no idea why he'd come to her in the first place. His mother had been left for a ningen, while she showed the woman no ill will it probably wasn't something she enjoyed talking about. Yoshiko didn't stop Sesshomaru until he was already out of the front door.
"Your father always said his beast called to him when the new moon began to rise, that when it called to him it had a particular like for ningen over yokai." Sesshomaru stopped looking back at his mother surprised. She smiled at him, though small it was genuine. "I hope that helps. Also, Sesshomaru I will be visiting soon, I heard you had a fun new visitor to the manor." She added as he floated up heading towards the manor. He didn't like the idea of his mother visiting with Kagome at the house. After all Yoshiko had a certain playfulness to her.