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Released into the darkening sky, they called for their Loftwings to take them back to the Academy.

Landing in front of the Sparring Hall, Kagome turned to Link.

"I'll go to the bazaar and stock up while you go put the tablet in the altar."

Link nods.

"Where should we meet back up?"

"Your room."

He blinks in shock.

"My room?! Why?"

She fixed him with a stare that made him fidget.

"So I can check over those wounds you got from that crazy guy in the temple."

He sighed in defeat.

"All right, all right. I'll go wait in my room like a good little boy."

She pats him on the head as he scowls at her.

"There you go, now get moving. We need to get to that spring before that freak does."

Link waved her off as he made his way to the statue.

"Yeah, yeah. Go have fun shopping or whatever."

As soon as he was out of earshot, she smirked and began bouncing his wallet in her hand.

"Don't worry, I will."

Whistling a merry tune, she walked into the bazaar.

After about an hour of haggling and conversing, she was finally able to make her way back to the Academy.

Walking into her room, she changed into her regular clothes before gathering her healing supplies and walking downstairs to Link's room.

*KNOCK KNOCK*

A muffled voice sounded from within.

"Come in."

Walking into the room, she shut the door behind her.

Link was in the process of taking off his white under shirt.

His boots already off, leaving him only in his pants.

A faint blush dusted her cheeks as she took in his form.

He wasn't overly built like Groose, but he was no Strich either.

Taking notice of the red lines across the exposed part of his body, she went into full healer mode.

"Ok," she said. "Sit on the bed while I get some warm water."

Link obeyed without a word.

She returned shortly after and set the bowl of water on the desk.

Submerging a cloth into the water, she wrung it out before carefully cleaning the deepest of his cuts.

"Ouch."

She came to a particularly bad on across his left shoulder blade.

"Yeah," he agreed. "You say that just seeing it, I'm the one feeling it."

She gave a small wince.

"You're about to feel it a bit more."

He turned his head with a curious expression.

"What do you…SHIT!"

He tried to move away from her, but she kept a firm hold.

"This is a pretty deep cut, it looks like an infection is already trying to set."

She turns to look at him.

"I'm going to have to dig a bit to make sure this gets clean," she pauses in thought. "You might want to lie on the bed while I do this."

Moving away, she waits for him to lie down.

"On your stomach, genius."

Link grumbles as he moves into position.

Placing his head on his crossed arms, he starts as he feels her climb on top of him.

Turning his head to look back, he questions her.

"What are you doing?"

Leaning over to reach her supplies, she answers.

"Making it easier for me to clean that cut, lay back down."

Link stays as still as possible as she prods and cleans the wound.

The pressure on his back finally let up.

"I just need to bandage you up, and that will be it."

"Not as bad as you thought."

"Considering how many times you got thrown around, not nearly as much as I thought."

Sitting up, Link put his regular shirt back on as Kagome cleaned up.

"I was lucky he was just toying with me."

Kagome wordlessly nods.

Walking towards the door, she gives him some instructions.

"Sleep on your stomach tonight, without a shirt, and I'll change the bandages before we head out in the morning."

"Will do. Goodnight Kagome."

"Goodnight Link."

~* The Next Morning *~

"Ow, ow ow, ow, ow."

"This is why I told you to sleep on your stomach and without a shirt."

"You didn't mention why!"

Kagome was currently peeling the bandages from his wounds.

The blood from his wounds, along with the added pressure of sleeping on them, caused the bandages to stick to the wound.

"Are you going to listen next time I bandage you up?"

"If it will keep this from happening again, yes!"

Kagome smirks at him.

Finally removing the bloodied bandages, she places a salve on the wounds before placing another bandage.

"All done."

"Yes!"

Link eagerly jumps up and puts his shirts and chainmail back on.

He turns to Kagome as he fastens his sword and shield to his back.

"Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, I have everything packed and ready to go."

He nods.

"It looks like the quickest way to get to the new rift is to take off near the waterfall."

"Sounds like fun," she gets up from the bed. "Let's get to it."

Walking over the waterfall, they look out to the rift.

"Looks pretty close," says Kagome.

"Closer than the other one, anyway."

Diving off the platform, they call their Loftwings and fly to the rift in the barrier.