Until We Bleed


C h a p t e r T w e n t y N i n e : C o n t r o l


Kagome sighed in relief as silence echoed around them. "Are we safe yet?" she asked quietly as Inuyasha slumped against a tree trunk, miles away from Naraku's castle. Her heart was still pounding with adrenaline and fear. Naraku could have pursued them easily in the state Inuyasha was in. Even now, Inuyasha was damp with cold sweat as his stomach wound opened. She had no medical ability to help with an injury that deep so she wasn't able to help him much. Thankfully, he didn't complain or writhe to make her feel as useless as she knew she was.

"We'll never be safe," Inuyasha replied as he put pressure on his midriff, where the caked, dry blood soaked his kimonos anew. "Hell, we'll be lucky if we live a couple days without running into Naraku."

Kagome closed her eyes. Breaking Inuyasha out and running away took so much courage, she couldn't believe they succeeded so easily. Her adrenaline was sapped and she found herself lowering to her knees, her whole body trembling.

"You alright, Kagome?" Inuyasha knelt by her side, placing a hand on her shoulder as the other turned her face up.

"I should be asking you that... Are you feeling alright?" she asked hesitantly, not knowing how a demon's body worked.

He snorted. "You're the human here, wench. And I asked you first."

Kagome smiled at his childish response. "I'm okay, Inuyasha." She saw him frown and clarified, "I'm just nervous."

Inuyasha's eyes narrowed with determination, "Don't be. I won't let him fucking touch you."

She nodded, assuming it was because of his regret in the past when he lost Kikyou to Naraku. He looked so fierce. He was still grieving. Being in Naraku's castle must have really pained him.

"We're going to go far away from here then, when I'm fully healed, I'm going to kill Naraku. Alone. Okay?" he stated as he helped her up.

Kagome understood and nodded again. It was his battle to face and she wasn't going to interfere with that. When the time came, she would only pray that he would return to her.

What he was about to say got caught in his throat. Instead, he cupped her cheeks and gave her a hard, chaste kiss. "Let's go before Naraku realizes we're both gone."

Kagome sighed and followed behind him stiffly, as if she expected to be jumped on at any moment. Her legs moved to catch up with him but slowly stopped. A weighty object materialized in one hand, a lighter one in the other. Inuyasha hadn't realized she had stopped. She nocked an arrow and pointed it at his back. In her mind, she duly wondered what she was doing as Inuyasha's footsteps came to a stop. She wanted to say something, anything to get his attention.

"I-Inu-..."

"Kill him."


A/N: Two more days until Halloween. Tomorrow and the next day are going to be hard to write because I'm hitting the halloween parties so cross your fingers and hope I make it on time.

3lue 3utterfly: I don't know... I like torturing my readers :)

mew mew 124: It is ending (which means I get to save my mind from having to conjure up chapters on a daily basis. Major respect to the writers who could do that.)