I decided to launch right in. I have a stomach ache so I figured I won't be asleep anytime soon. Please give me your thoughts if you have any. I haven't abandoned any stories; I just haven't had any ideas for them so I decided to focus on this one first. Any new stories I'm writing I will not upload until they are nearly finished. Not that I will put all the chapters up immediately. I'm aiming to be a better author. I enjoy creating stories but I also do it for the practice. Any pointers I want them. My Spellcheck/grammar check on here seems a bit off so any bad mistakes please tell me. Honestly, some of the changes it made didn't always make sense and I might not have caught them all.

Unfinished Conquests Ch. 14

A messenger arrived in the early afternoon with a couple servants with orders for them to be ready shortly after daybreak the next day for departure. Touga went with Miroku, Kaede, the servants, and messenger to gather herbs that are more abundant in these parts than the area of the Western Palace. The sun had made a small descent in the sky when they were finished.

Sango and a few mothers were outside with the kids, letting them stretch their legs more than they had been able to since coming to the fortress. Just as Kaede thought, everyone except Kagome was prepared to make the trip. The trip wouldn't be so much of a challenge if it didn't contain so many people and livestock.

Miroku received a mouthful from Sango about the situation. No one could be spared to stay behind even with Touga's offer to do so. His cloud and battle prowess would be needed and so would Sesshomaru's. Miroku and Kaede wouldn't be enough to hold a barrier for so long and Inuyasha couldn't make a barrier and would be overwhelmed by the opposing force.

The situation around Kagome was still sticky and no one was sure how they would even attempt to transport her. Her wounds could open at any sudden jerk and anyone with the ability to fight needed their arms open. They hoped Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had prepared or the trip could put her life back on the line.

Sango made her way over to her best friend's side as the day finally came to a close. Miroku took over watching the kids so she took her allowed space to seek out her friend. She wished she would wake up and laugh or use one of her futuristic phrases but all she did now was sleep. It reminded her of some of the fairytales she had heard, most of them coming from Kagome herself. She knew most of them now word from word and enjoyed telling them to the kids.

She never could have asked for a better friend than the one she has right here. She just wished she could do anything to help her. Her thoughts drifted to a song Kagome liked to hum, it was a calming tune for the kids and she hummed it to the kids for bedtime and naps. Surprisingly Kagome said the name is "Edo Lullaby" causing her to wonder if Kagome's time travelling had brought it back in time to whoever made it popular.

All of the thoughts about her time travelling made her head spin. Kagome was quite good about not bringing too much from the future and usually just showing them some of the things and returning it home within the same day. They knew she didn't lie but it was still hard to really imagine her world. The camera she brought back with her with the pictures and those videos. It was so fascinating.

Kagome ended up buying a new camera to keep here for a while but took it home. Instead she had many of the pictures developed, along with ones of her home and a few around Tokyo. They were fun to look at but after the well closed they didn't ask to see them anymore, afraid to bring up her permanent separation from her family on the other side, the life she had once led their and tried to keep intact.

Wounds can only heal with time and that wound was deep. Life didn't stop for them and she was glad they could keep Kagome happy and busy. She was afraid she would either wake up one day and find her missing or she would become distant in her loneliness, never finding her own love. She knew Kagome deeply wanted a family of her own, especially kids. Shippo had grown quite independent as the days went by and that must have hit Kagome like a dip in the frigid water of the river.

Her curiosity and fearful thoughts had her pulling back the cover and loosening up some of her bandages just enough that she can take a peek at the damage. She wanted to see if her friend was recovering fast enough, hopefully douse her fears that they will be separated. She was torn between her need to be with her kids, especially her newborn son and being torn from this woman that had long since become a sister to her. She couldn't abandon her children but she also refused to leave Kagome behind.

The damage was still bad and it caused hot tears to form in her eyes. No one would speak with her about Kagome's condition so she was left with no answers as to why her healing is taking so long. She didn't even know how bad her wounds had been but if they were this bad after a few days had passed then she could only imagine what they had been.

Poison crossed her mind, it would explain a delay but her powers should have taken care of that as they replenished. She should have demanded Kagome to stay at the fortress but she knew her friend was trying to protect all of them from her duty, a duty that should have left with Naraku's destruction.

She carefully wrapped the wounds back up. Her heart was thumping painfully in her chest and her throat burned as she fought back a sob. She couldn't even begin to imagine what could happen if her friend doesn't heal fast enough to travel in the morning. If only they had the modern technology Kagome had explained and showed them. They had carriages, horses and the likes, not paved roads for ambulances to go speeding down smoothly. The wind could even cause her discomfort enough to reopen a wound should she move wrong and if they were attacked, she would be helpless.

Most likely if they were attacked in travel, Kagome wouldn't even know it due to the broth that keeps her sleeping peacefully. She wouldn't even be conscious of the attack, just pass away in her sleep and that caused Sango to feel bitter. She couldn't think of such negativity when they had so many around to protect them.

It still nagged at her mind, how helpless her friend will be until she is healed and rested. Having been pregnant until just a few days ago she knew she would barely be able to protect herself, much less her children and sister figure. It would be a month before she got even halfway back to battle ready so she knew without a doubt that she would be mostly helpless as well.

Hearing a mew and feeling a gentle brush against her thigh she looked down into Kirara's ruby orbs. Her longtime friend and battle partner was here to give her some comfort from her thoughts. Her soft fluffy coat eased her worries as she stroked the fur and felt her arch into her hand. Her companion lent silent support as they watch over their friend for several more minutes before walking back into the murky darkness and back to their own hut.

She walked in her room and looked upon the cute scene before her. Her husband was passed out with his left arm wrapped around their son who was cradled into his side, one of their daughters sprawled on top of him as the other was curled into his right side, clinging to the sleeve of his robe. Mushin was nowhere to be seen so she scooped up their son and went to sleep next to Miroku as Kirara curled up by her head.