Kagome rang out a rag and sighed. After dragging Edward into the house using Inuyasha's gi (she had hisHakama hakama on her arm) Hakama to smoothly drag him in and lifting him to the couch she was tired. Setting the cold rag to his head she looked over to Alphonse. He didn't seem to want to meet eyes with her after she had to remove Ed's shirt and pants (face was a tomato). When she removed the shirt she was surprised to see an arm of metal. And even more that his leg was also metal. She didn't freak out because she knew this must be very sensitive to them. Armor moving with no physical body and the things they can do! Kagome had seen strange things before like souls being ripped out, demons and holes in hands that soon devour the user so this was just chalked up as another strange event.

"Kagome-san…."

Kagome looked behind her at the armless armor. He was looking down at the floor.

"Yes?"

"Is Brother alright?"

"Yeah, he will be just fine. I used almost all of my power to heal that hole in his stomach. All that is left is minor scratches all over the body. He will be fine in a few days."

"I see."

A silence fell over the two once again. only the soft snores of Edward and the occasional dunk and ringing out of a cloth broke the silence. About half an hour Kagome stood up and took the cloth off of Ed's head and dropped it in the basket. Picking up the bucket she walked out of the room with a 'watch over him while I change the water' and received an 'ok'. She walked into the kitchen dumped the water out of the pot and replaced the water.

Seeing the water reminded her of something…. but what. When the pot what half way full she picked it up and is swashed. Then it hit here. The laundry! She forgot all about it! She hoped the blood didn't stain the cloak. She walked out of the kitchen set the pot down and dipped the cloth in clod water; then she put it on his head. Brushing his wet bangs out of the way she looked over to Al.

"I had forgotten about some laundry that I left unfinished. Will you watch for any changes in him while I'm away?"

"Hai." Kagome sent him a smile, grabbed Inuyasha's cloths and walked out.

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If there was ever anything Kagome hated it was laundry. After taking her blanket out of the washer she set it up on a cloths line to dry. She had looked at the red dry stain on the cloak and sighed. Now she was using one of those old fashion cloth grater things to scrub of the dry stain and as much blood as she could. A twitch of her eyebrows showed her irritation as she lifted the cloak out of the basin. The stain was mostly gone now (she let out a strained laugh) and she could finally wash it. Standing up her vision split into to and she gasped falling back to the ground on her knees.

"Too much energy…" was sighed out as she stood up again more slowly.

Opening the washer she dumped a liberal amount of stain remover and threw the coat, gi and hakama into the washer set the settings and smiled. Dumping the bad water and putting the basin and strainer she walked back into the house and to were the two were.

Edward was still asleep and Alphonse seemed to have this glum cloud over his head. It's been half an hour and he was still in the same spot. Looking down she noticed the folded cloths of Edward and remembered the holes. She was too tired to do major sowing but she thought that she could sow up a few of the holes….maybe. pulling out her sowing kit from a drawer she sat in a chair that was facing the two Elric's.

"Kagome-san?" Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin. Grasping her heart she looked over to Al. There eyes meet and she froze.

"You look pale maybe you should sleep some." It took a couple of seconds to click but when it did she smiled.

"I'm going to fix his pants then take a nap. Al-chan…can I ask a question?"

She watched as Al flinched. Kagome wanted to ask why they were like this and when she asked if she could ask a question she had to hyper think to make up a question.

"What's it like…I mean the place were you are from?"

Al just looked up confused that she isn't asking questions about them. But ended up answering her question and started to explain there world. Kagome, while sowing up Ed's pants tried to listen but Al's voice was getting more and more distant. Her hand slowed with the needle as she finished the last of the holes (there were only three). She didn't even have the strength to cut the sting and she let go of the needle. Alphonse's voice became so far distant she could barely hear it. The last thing she remembered was looking at the couch before she passed out.

Al stopped his talking mid-sentence as he looked over to Kagome. He head rolled to the side and she was breathing deep and even. Pants completely sown were sitting in her lap, needle lying askew. If he had his arms he would have moved her to her bed but well…yeah. Sitting back against the couch he sighed and waited for them to awaken. Buyo came into the room and sat on his lap with a loud purring sound. He hoped that Ed would wake soon he really missed his arms…