Sango and Keade had finally stopped most of the blood flow. They both began to wash the blood off of Kagome's body. Her wounds were horrible. She had three large claw marks slashed across her chest, those were the deepest. She had a couple of shallow cuts going across one side of her face. She had slash marks all down her arms as well.
"Look here" said Keade directing Sango's view to Kagome's side.
"What is it?" asked Sango looking at the wound.
"This is not a recent wound; in fact it's in the process of healing"
Sango scrunched her eyebrows together as she thought. From what she could remember Kagome hadn't been wounded recently. Something deemed to click. "You think Sesshomaru could have done it?" she asked.
"Aye he could have done it there is no doubt about that, but would he have done it, that my child is the question ye should be asking"
They returned to stitching up, and cleaning Kagome's wounds. When they had finished they gently dressed Kagome into a pair of Kikyo's old clothing, Sango helping as best she could with her good arm.
"You should let the others know she is o.k." said Keade.
"Right." Sango nodded and walked outside. To her surprise it was close to sundown.
"How is she?" asked Kouga jumping up and talking for the first time since the threat. Sesshomaru took a step forward and fixed his eyes on the demon slayer.
"She'll be o.k." she said. "It will be a while till she's back to normal, but she should be fine." she said.
A relieved Kouga walked past Sango and into the hut to watch over his woman. Sango had her eyes fixed on Sesshomaru as she thought about the wound on Kagome's side. HE seemed to care about her, but then how did she get the wound.
"Naraku"
She jumped when she realized Sesshomaru had talked. "Excuse me?" she asked at his strange remark.
"The wound on Kagome's side that is in the process of healing." he paused. "It was Naraku" he remarked at her confused expression. He got annoyed when her confused expression did not clear. "Before the battle he clawed her in the side" he paused as the girl nodded remembering. "At that time he poisoned her. We did not discover it until last evening." he said wrapping up his explanation.
Sango understood now. She remembered when Naraku clawed her and she wouldn't doubt he would poison her either. What disturbed her was how Sesshomaru knew what she had been thinking. "How did you know what I was thinking?" she asked taken aback at the thought that he could possibly read her mind.
"It is one thing all of you humans have in common" he said. "You show your thoughts and feelings on your face."
"But how did you know I was thinking about that certain wound on Kagome?" she asked understanding that they showed their feelings, but you couldn't read their thoughts.
"Because of the way you were glaring at me" he said.
Sango was shocked. She hadn't meant to glare at him.
"If you'll excuse me" said Sesshomaru walking past her to see Kagome for himself.