"And I did all that without a SINGLE drop of rum!" - Captain Jack Sparrow
Chapter 14
Kagome's mind was slowly going blank.
Her world swayed and was loosing focus.
She moved her hand slightly, something brushed the side of it.
She grasped it, it felt long and thin.
Everything was focused for a split second, but it was enough.
She had grabbed her bow from where it had fallen.
With a shaking hand, she drew an arrow from her quiver, and slid it into place.
She could barely see Kanna any more, the world had gone blurry red.
Kagome aimed, and shot at what she hoped was the mirror.
It was a very odd spectical indeed.
Two people lay on the ground, both either unconsious or dead.
Two demons lay nearby, both small, cute, and in obvious pain.
A figure stood, sword drawn, still as a statue.
Another had fallen onto her back, a bow in her hand.
And a little girl was falling, as if in slow motion, towards the ground, the mirror she was holding clattering to the ground face down, cutting off a cloud-like connection with the girl on the ground.
Blood was spattering everywhere.
Silvery-white blood, coming from an arrow that had gone straight through her head.
She finally hit the ground, a blank look on her face.
The mirror cracked, and the connection restored, but it seemed to be pouring back into the girl, rather then sucking.
It stopped almost as soon as it had started.
Kagome sat up slowly, her head pounding, her energy sapped.
Leaning heavily on her bow, she pulled herself upright.
She staggered over to InuYasha, not seeing his purple markings, or his eyes.
She fired a sacred arrow, one that was more sacred then it had ever been, which landed between Sango and Miroku, purifying the red between all four of them, and another arrow at the centre of the barrier, taking it down.
Kagome grabbed hold of InuYasha's front, pulling herself close to the hanyou.
It was like someone had replaced him with a statue.
She pulled herself up, only staying conscious with sheer willpower, and forced her light blue to spread from her hands, through InuYasha's chest.
It was going very slowly.
Too slowly.
She couldn't keep it going, she needed to rest.
He was suddenly limp, InuYasha fell to the ground, and Kagome fell with him, Tessaiga clattering after them, transforming back to the rusty sword.
Unable to hold it off any more, Kagome slipped into the blackness.
Shippo sat up, rubbing his eyes.
'Whoa. What happened?' He said.
He looked around, to see Kirara stirring.
'Kirara?'
She opened one eye, then the other.
He stood up and surveyed the damage.
Which was worse then he could have thought.
'Miroku? Sango?'
They lay nearby, looking like they were dead.
Kirara got up, and went straight to Sango's side.
She mewed, and licked her face.
Sango was up and in a defensive position faster then Shippo thought possible.
'What the-' Sango said, realizing where she was.
She quickly spotted Miroku and almost ran over to him, landing on her knees.
'Miroku?' She said worridly, shaking his shoulders.
He opened his eyes blearily, and asked weakly; 'Sango?'
There was a small twitching at her rear, and her shoulders loosened in relief.
But she still slapped him anyway.
'Sango! Miroku!' Shippo called.
Sango looked around, quickly spotting Shippo kneeling over what looked like Kagome and InuYasha.
Miroku pulled himself to his feet.
The two ran over to Shippo.
'Are they, dead?' Shippo asked, poking InuYasha's foot with his big toe.
Sango got down on her knees, and leant in to Kagome.
She could hear the quiet, even breaths of the two.
She straightened up.
'No, but I think we should move them.' Sango said, and waved Kirara over.
The only warning was his ears twitching.
InuYasha sprang up and was a dozen feet away so quickly he was a blur, puling Kagome with him.
He landed snarling, Kagome behind him.
Sango and the others were still frozen where they were, still in shock that he could move so fast.
InuYasha blinked, obviously only just realizing where he was.
'What's, what happened?' He asked, pulling out of his stance, catching Kagome as she fell.
'We're not so sure ourselves.' Miroku said.
'I thought you knew.' Shippo accused.
InuYasha picked up Kagome's limp figure, and carried her back to where the others were standing.
Kagome's eyes fluttered, and she gasped.
She looked around, relief flooding through her as she saw everyone okay.
Quickly followed by a wave of fatigue.
She rested her head back on InuYasha's chest, glad that he hadn't put her down yet.
'Kagome?' He asked. 'Are you okay?'
'Yes,' she sighed, the way she said it suggested otherwise.
He slung her around into his back, and she snuggled into him.
Miroku looked around, down the long forgotton path.
'There shouldn't be a village much further up ahead...'
But his voice was getting turned down as sleep took Kagome.