*Pokes arm* Ouch! *Eyes water*

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Chapter 17

Kat awoke to the sun gleaming through an open window. 'Was it all just a dream?'

She rubbed her eyes and stood up.

"You sleep longer than the dead," a voice drifted from a corner.

Kat groaned and Inuyasha stood up.

He sighed, "You ok?"

Kat looked at him suspiciously.

"You kinda scared me when you seemed to drop dead," Inuyasha said while staring at a spot on the floor.

Kat frowned.

"When I noticed you weren't dead I decided that it would be ok to stay here for the night. Unfortunately, I had no idea that you could sleep so long," Inuyasha huffed.

Kat glared but decided to let it slide.

She remembered what had happened the day before and started to walk toward the door.

"Wait, you'll freeze out there," Inuyasha said.

He grabbed a blanket from the bed that Kat had been sleeping on and threw it at her.

She wasn't expecting it and the blanket smacked her in the face.

"It snowed again last night," Inuyasha stated.

"Oh," came the muffled reply.

Kat took the blanket off her head and wrapped it around her. Inuyasha followed her outside.

She searched for the object again and was slightly surprised when her shoe connected with the metal.

She bent down and gripped the object loosely.

Kat pulled it up and Inuyasha cocked his head to get a better view.

It was a sword.

He snorted at the fact that the girl had feinted over something like that but paused when he caught the scent of blood.

Kat was holding a sword covered in blood.

Inuyasha knew that she had cut her hand the day before and could still smell the blood but this blood belonged to many people.

Inuyasha sniffed again.

The blood coating sword was from five or six people but Inuyasha could smell hundreds if not thousands more unique scents.

The sword had been used to kill.

Kat looked around more and discovered the sheath and the sword's twin.

Kat was about to speak when she spotted something blue.

Her eyes welled up with unshed tears.

She walked over and pulled the blue silk ribbon out of another drift.

The ribbon had been coated with blood and smelled terrible.

Inuyasha smelled the salt from Kat's tears and caught a whiff of something he hadn't smelled before.

The ribbon, the sword, and the surrounding land carried the scent of Kenshin's blood.