Chapter 74

[FLASHBACK CONTINUED]

Kagome caught the girl around her tiny waist. "No, Rin! It isn't safe!"

Thunder heightened in pitch, giving way to screeching, as the whirlwinds propelled a force of berserk youkai over the tree line, and sent debris flying—obscuring their vision.

Raising her voice to be heard over the maelstrom, Rin advised, "Lord Sesshoumaru would never let anything bad happen to Rin, but Rin wonders if he might be tired. Someone should be with him!"

Without pausing to reconsider Kagome firmly ordered the girl to stay, forming a barrier around her, grabbed her bow and dashed toward the fallen Inu-youkai.


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