Chapter Seven: A Disturbance In The Night

"Kagome, hold still," said Kaede. They were in the Infirmary, healing after the battle with Yura.

"Ouch…" Kagome's arm was full of slits due to Yura's hair.

"There." Kaede wrapped a bandage around Kagome's arm.

It was about midday. Kagome walked outside to find Inu-Yasha gazing at his forest of ash. She walked up to him.

"Hey," she greeted.

Inu-Yasha ignored her. "Naraku will pay. He stole away a Shikon shard, and now I must gain it back."

"And I will help you."

"Since when do you want to help me, Kagome?"

"I…" said Kagome. "Never mind…you better be grateful I'm helping you. You need me, so stop complaining."

Inu-Yasha chuckled. "I don't need you. I don't need anyone."

"I can't believe you. You think you can do this all by yourself. But you're wrong." Kagome walked away.

"That foolish girl. She belongs in her own world, as we belong in this world. Why did she have to come here in the first place?"

That night, everyone slept peacefully…except for Kagome. She heard a rustling noise outside her tent.

"What was that?" Kagome got out of her bed, and peered outside of her hut.

"Hello, Kagome," said a voice.

Kagome squinted her eyes in the darkness to try to make out the figure before her. "Sess-houmaru?"

Sess-houmaru showed his claws to Kagome. "Give me the Shikon jewel, or else."

Kagome backed up into her hut. Soon, she ran out of room to run, and Sesshoumaru came in for the final kill. "Get away!" Kagome screamed. Just as he raised his claws into the air, Kagome was taken away by a swift, demon-like figure. Kagome tried to make out her savior.

"Inu-Yasha?" He flew across the village and put her down in front of a tent on the other side of the village.

"You'll be safe here, Kagome. Now back to Sess-houmaru…"

"Inu-Yasha, wait. I just have one question…why did you save me?"

Inu-Yasha looked at Kagome in her eyes. "Would you rather me have let you die?" At this point, Inu-Yasha flew back to settle things with his half-brother.

Kaede and Miroku appeared behind Kagome. "What happened here?"

Kagome turned to them. She had a traumatic look on her face. "Sess-houmaru attacked me in my hut. Inu-Yasha…he saved me. Now he's gone back to settle things with Sess-houmaru. I hope he's okay."