Chapter Eight: Bandages and story time
Duncan was very quiet as he sat very close to help the old woman with what ever she needed to mend his wife's wounds. He had laid her on a futon in the main room on her stomach, where all the supplies were readily available as needed. Keade the girls shirt off that was now laying on her floor to see her wounds. As the material fell away she saw four deep lacerations from left shoulder blade to right hip that had thankfully only grazed her spine somehow. She began to clean the wounds with the cloth and cool water that she had brought over with her. After cleaning them as well as she could she began to stitch all them closed quickly as she could to prevent infection. The work was tedious and slow going however fast she tired to go.
Inuyasha sat on the other side of the new miko with Kagome getting comfortable in his lap already very tired from the days activities. He knew she tired easily these days and did his best to keep her from exhausting herself. Sango, Mikuro, and the two kuma youkai went to sit by Inuyasha to get the news of what was happening. Shippo attempted to go sit in Kagome's lap but one look from Inuyasha sent him Sango's way to sit with her. As they sat and waited for Keade to do what she could Inuyasha filled them in on what Julianna had told him about other worlds and such and her having the power of the Shukuun no Gyokuei. Miroku let out a gasp. Apparently he was the only one who had heard of it.
"The Shukuun no Gyokuei! That was lost over a hundred years ago!" he gasped.
"What do you mean lost?" Keade asked as she worked.
"The miko that carried the Shukuun no Gyokuei drowned 100 years ago saving a child from a flood. It had rained for days and the swollen river caught several travelers in its current. She happened to be with them traveling to go home and she drowned when the child lived. Later they found her body with the Gyokuei was gone. They say because it wasn't her time and the magic left the stone with her soul when it departed her body and that the Gyokuei would eventually find it way back to her because it was her destiny to find the mate and the heir to that legacy. So she can not have the power of the Shukuun no Gyokuei because it was probably destroyed and they were just making a story to try and explain its disappearance." Everyone listened to the tale closely but Inuyasha knew better about the ending. Halfway thru his story Kagome had fallen asleep against her mate tucked against his chest soundly she had just been so tired she couldn't keep her eyes open no matter how much she wanted to.
"Idiot priest! She wears the Gyokuei about her neck now! On top of that that damned demon in the forest sought her out to gain the power of it! How in the hell do you think she got in the condition she's in!" he said in a low voice. Miroku face reddened. The hanyou held on to Kagome tightly as he wrapped his arms more securely around her. She shifted a little to get more comfortable but didn't wake up, and ended up with her head nestled in his chest searching for his warmth. Sango who had just been listening to the conversation reached over and grabbed a blanket and spread it over her friends sleeping form. Inuyasha thanks her softly and returned his eyes to watch his Kagome sleep. As Sango sat back down the kitsune repositioned it self in her lap.
"Wow," he chirped. "That was a cool story though!"
"Well then if it she does have it then she would be the reincarnation of that priestess. But how did she get the Shukuun no Gyokuei back?" Keade was half way thru her work when Duncan spoke up.
"I gave it to her after we were wed," he related in a low voice. "My ancestor found the Shukuun no Gyokuei and knew it was of magic origins. He took it to a wise youkai seer that told him to send it down thru his male offspring first born to first born and if there was no first born then the closest to first born son he could come to and thru that it would make it back to the priestess who would claim it again. When I married her I knew for some reason it was right for her to have it. Not a woman in over 5 hundred years has owned that crystal. And I just gave it to her it was destiny."
"Indeed," Keade said as she finished the last stitch and then started on her shoulder. "I can feel her power she is assuredly the Shukuun no miko. And now that she has the Gyokuei we must find a way to restore its power into the Gyokuei and out of her body." Duncan spoke again.
"The old youkai has said one more thing to my ancestor he thought was absolute nonsense at the time but now makes sense. "One century will pass and the dead miko will revisits her death, only there can the power be restored." He shrugged. "It has been a hundred years in this world from her death but how it could be in this dimension and not ours is beyond my understanding."
"Souls are not bound to only one plane. IT seems that when the miko died the Shukuun no Gyokuei chose its path toward another world. Her soul was drawn their by the it and so now the two are together again so we need to find where the miko drowned so she can go and give the power back to the stone. Otherwise she will spend her hole life drawing unwanted people seeking the power she has within," Keade informed them all. Duncan snorted attracting the attention of Keade and Inuyasha.
"I have had more youkai try to get my mate then I care to name. She has no idea I am part youkai or that she had the power. I let her live her life as she saw fit thinking if it was important it would surface. That is why I am never far from her or if I am I have a friend youkai watch her. She attracts trouble like flies to honey! Now I know why. We need to get her to put that power into the Shukuun no Gyokuei. Maybe it will lessen my load back home." He slightly chuckled as he finished. Inuyasha snorted this time in agreement. They suddenly felt a kinship to each other having dealt with constant threats to their mates for similar reasons.
"It will not take all her powers mind you hanyou. She is a miko and has powers of her own but they will be diminished some once the rightful power is back where it belongs. I do believe the will at least be after the Shukuun no Gyokuei instead of the miko once everything is as it should be though," Keade wisely instructed him. Duncan nodded and thought that this trip was gonna be rough on his wife now especially being hurt so bad. They would be here for at least a two weeks from what he could calculate in his head. He figured he would stay until she woke up and make better arrangements for their things and call family and tell them they would be back with in the month and he would have to call work with an excuse also. He sighed thinking about all the things he was going to have do to accommodate this excursion but it was necessary for her safety and he would deal with all the rest to make sure she would be alright on this trip. He was very worried about how she would pull out of this attack at the moment. She had not regained consciousness at all and he wondered if she would any time soon. He sighed his frustration out. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha watched as Keade finally finished bandaging all the miko's injuries. Silence stretch into the room as Duncan lifted his love in his arms as Keade got up to lead him into a backroom where he supposed they would be staying for the duration of their stay. Sango offered an extra to big kimono she had to clothe her in since her shirt was ruined. Duncan smiled at her with a thank you and proceeded to the back room as she brought it in.
It had taken a good hour to finish but Julianna was now in a back room with a cold cloth on her forehead to bring the swelling of the bump on her head above her right eye near her temple. Keade determined that she was badly injured as they thought and that she would most likely waken in a day or two. He left her in the room for a few minutes to go and talk to all of their new friends in the front room.
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My never ending thanks to Purple rose for letting me use her Fading scars as a starting point for my story. She is a talented writer and my story takes place between chapter's 19 after they defeated Naraku and chapter's 20 when the baby is born. My suggestion is read her wonderful works to mine might make more sense.
A few Japanese words I used:
Miko- Priestess
Shukuun no Gyokuei- crystal of destiny
Shukuun no miko- Priestess of destiny (don't know if they are right so bear with me)
neko- cat
Kuma- bear
youkai- demon
hanyou- half demon, or in this fanfic's case part demon. I couldn't find a word that meant part demon so i used it to mean a 1/4th too.
Koi- love
Kobito- lover
And I think that covers it. For give my spelling its not the best ^_^
I enjoyed writing it hope like reading it please Read and Review!
Thanks, LJ
Duncan was very quiet as he sat very close to help the old woman with what ever she needed to mend his wife's wounds. He had laid her on a futon in the main room on her stomach, where all the supplies were readily available as needed. Keade the girls shirt off that was now laying on her floor to see her wounds. As the material fell away she saw four deep lacerations from left shoulder blade to right hip that had thankfully only grazed her spine somehow. She began to clean the wounds with the cloth and cool water that she had brought over with her. After cleaning them as well as she could she began to stitch all them closed quickly as she could to prevent infection. The work was tedious and slow going however fast she tired to go.
Inuyasha sat on the other side of the new miko with Kagome getting comfortable in his lap already very tired from the days activities. He knew she tired easily these days and did his best to keep her from exhausting herself. Sango, Mikuro, and the two kuma youkai went to sit by Inuyasha to get the news of what was happening. Shippo attempted to go sit in Kagome's lap but one look from Inuyasha sent him Sango's way to sit with her. As they sat and waited for Keade to do what she could Inuyasha filled them in on what Julianna had told him about other worlds and such and her having the power of the Shukuun no Gyokuei. Miroku let out a gasp. Apparently he was the only one who had heard of it.
"The Shukuun no Gyokuei! That was lost over a hundred years ago!" he gasped.
"What do you mean lost?" Keade asked as she worked.
"The miko that carried the Shukuun no Gyokuei drowned 100 years ago saving a child from a flood. It had rained for days and the swollen river caught several travelers in its current. She happened to be with them traveling to go home and she drowned when the child lived. Later they found her body with the Gyokuei was gone. They say because it wasn't her time and the magic left the stone with her soul when it departed her body and that the Gyokuei would eventually find it way back to her because it was her destiny to find the mate and the heir to that legacy. So she can not have the power of the Shukuun no Gyokuei because it was probably destroyed and they were just making a story to try and explain its disappearance." Everyone listened to the tale closely but Inuyasha knew better about the ending. Halfway thru his story Kagome had fallen asleep against her mate tucked against his chest soundly she had just been so tired she couldn't keep her eyes open no matter how much she wanted to.
"Idiot priest! She wears the Gyokuei about her neck now! On top of that that damned demon in the forest sought her out to gain the power of it! How in the hell do you think she got in the condition she's in!" he said in a low voice. Miroku face reddened. The hanyou held on to Kagome tightly as he wrapped his arms more securely around her. She shifted a little to get more comfortable but didn't wake up, and ended up with her head nestled in his chest searching for his warmth. Sango who had just been listening to the conversation reached over and grabbed a blanket and spread it over her friends sleeping form. Inuyasha thanks her softly and returned his eyes to watch his Kagome sleep. As Sango sat back down the kitsune repositioned it self in her lap.
"Wow," he chirped. "That was a cool story though!"
"Well then if it she does have it then she would be the reincarnation of that priestess. But how did she get the Shukuun no Gyokuei back?" Keade was half way thru her work when Duncan spoke up.
"I gave it to her after we were wed," he related in a low voice. "My ancestor found the Shukuun no Gyokuei and knew it was of magic origins. He took it to a wise youkai seer that told him to send it down thru his male offspring first born to first born and if there was no first born then the closest to first born son he could come to and thru that it would make it back to the priestess who would claim it again. When I married her I knew for some reason it was right for her to have it. Not a woman in over 5 hundred years has owned that crystal. And I just gave it to her it was destiny."
"Indeed," Keade said as she finished the last stitch and then started on her shoulder. "I can feel her power she is assuredly the Shukuun no miko. And now that she has the Gyokuei we must find a way to restore its power into the Gyokuei and out of her body." Duncan spoke again.
"The old youkai has said one more thing to my ancestor he thought was absolute nonsense at the time but now makes sense. "One century will pass and the dead miko will revisits her death, only there can the power be restored." He shrugged. "It has been a hundred years in this world from her death but how it could be in this dimension and not ours is beyond my understanding."
"Souls are not bound to only one plane. IT seems that when the miko died the Shukuun no Gyokuei chose its path toward another world. Her soul was drawn their by the it and so now the two are together again so we need to find where the miko drowned so she can go and give the power back to the stone. Otherwise she will spend her hole life drawing unwanted people seeking the power she has within," Keade informed them all. Duncan snorted attracting the attention of Keade and Inuyasha.
"I have had more youkai try to get my mate then I care to name. She has no idea I am part youkai or that she had the power. I let her live her life as she saw fit thinking if it was important it would surface. That is why I am never far from her or if I am I have a friend youkai watch her. She attracts trouble like flies to honey! Now I know why. We need to get her to put that power into the Shukuun no Gyokuei. Maybe it will lessen my load back home." He slightly chuckled as he finished. Inuyasha snorted this time in agreement. They suddenly felt a kinship to each other having dealt with constant threats to their mates for similar reasons.
"It will not take all her powers mind you hanyou. She is a miko and has powers of her own but they will be diminished some once the rightful power is back where it belongs. I do believe the will at least be after the Shukuun no Gyokuei instead of the miko once everything is as it should be though," Keade wisely instructed him. Duncan nodded and thought that this trip was gonna be rough on his wife now especially being hurt so bad. They would be here for at least a two weeks from what he could calculate in his head. He figured he would stay until she woke up and make better arrangements for their things and call family and tell them they would be back with in the month and he would have to call work with an excuse also. He sighed thinking about all the things he was going to have do to accommodate this excursion but it was necessary for her safety and he would deal with all the rest to make sure she would be alright on this trip. He was very worried about how she would pull out of this attack at the moment. She had not regained consciousness at all and he wondered if she would any time soon. He sighed his frustration out. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha watched as Keade finally finished bandaging all the miko's injuries. Silence stretch into the room as Duncan lifted his love in his arms as Keade got up to lead him into a backroom where he supposed they would be staying for the duration of their stay. Sango offered an extra to big kimono she had to clothe her in since her shirt was ruined. Duncan smiled at her with a thank you and proceeded to the back room as she brought it in.
It had taken a good hour to finish but Julianna was now in a back room with a cold cloth on her forehead to bring the swelling of the bump on her head above her right eye near her temple. Keade determined that she was badly injured as they thought and that she would most likely waken in a day or two. He left her in the room for a few minutes to go and talk to all of their new friends in the front room.
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My never ending thanks to Purple rose for letting me use her Fading scars as a starting point for my story. She is a talented writer and my story takes place between chapter's 19 after they defeated Naraku and chapter's 20 when the baby is born. My suggestion is read her wonderful works to mine might make more sense.
A few Japanese words I used:
Miko- Priestess
Shukuun no Gyokuei- crystal of destiny
Shukuun no miko- Priestess of destiny (don't know if they are right so bear with me)
neko- cat
Kuma- bear
youkai- demon
hanyou- half demon, or in this fanfic's case part demon. I couldn't find a word that meant part demon so i used it to mean a 1/4th too.
Koi- love
Kobito- lover
And I think that covers it. For give my spelling its not the best ^_^
I enjoyed writing it hope like reading it please Read and Review!
Thanks, LJ
