WOW!!! I am REALLY sorry that I haven't written in so long! I promise that I'll try 2 do better ____ gomen! I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THOSE REVIEWS!!! Thank u so MUCH!!! And although this is really late, please please please keep reading! And thanx 2 all the peoples who are right now! ^_____^ only… you'd kinda have 2 be reading this right now… NEVER MIND!!!
Anyways, I'm gonna try to add a little Japanese here and there form now on. The words will be italicized and the translation for the words will be at the end of the chapter. If I get the word or translation wrong PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!! It's bad enough that I can't write a proper sentence in the language and all I need is another reason to squish into my schedule Japanese lessons. (However much I'd like to take them, I simply don't have time!!!) If anyone has a problem with this please let me know. Don't worry! It's prolly only gonna be only words.
Anyways… here's chapter 7!
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CHAPTER 7: dreams… AGAIN?!
Inuyasha succeeded in calming Kagome down until she fell silently asleep in his arms. He put her back in a sleeping position and looked at her.
But just to reassure himself more than anyone, he said, "Kagome, I know you can fight it. Just promise me that you'll never give up, ok?"
Kagome was asleep so obviously she didn't answer.
Inuyasha got up, walked towards the door and freezed. Miroku, Sango and Shippo were standing at the door and were wearing extremely annoyingly grins on their faces.
"So…" said Miroku casually, "how'd it go?"
Sango stifled a snigger.
"WHAT?!" the way that they were smiling was pissing him off, "What the hell do you think you're doing here anyway?!
"Just checking in on how… uh… you were uh…*snigger* doing… yeah… *snigger*" said Sango.
Then realization hit Inuyasha.
"Aw… no… you didn't just… look in? Did you?"
All three looked very guilty.
Shippo piped up.
"You guys ruined everything! You're not supposed to look like you saw!!!"
"WHAT?!"
"Hehehe… erm… yea… we're guilty," said Sango.
Then Miroku burst out laughing.
"Inuyasha…" he laughed, "you should see your face! HAHAHA!!!"
"Erm Miroku…" said Sango.
Miroku fell down laughing.
"Miroku…"
"HAHAHA!!!"
"MIROKU!" and Sango slapped him. Hard.
"OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" he yelled.
Sango didn't say anything but inclined her head towards Inuyasha. He looked as if he was going to kill all three of them. Sango decided to try to steer the conversation a little bit.
"SO… is Kagome awake yet?" she said conversationally.
"What did you see?" said Inuyasha menacingly.
"See?" said Sango as if she had no idea what he was talking about.
"Yeah."
"I don't understand what you're getting at. Do you Shippo?" said Sango ignorantly.
"Uh well I…" Sango's grip on him tightened, "… no. I don't know. Do you Miroku?"
"Yeah I d— OW!!!" Sango had applied pressure on his wrist so hard that there were most certainly indents where her fingers had been. "I guess I don't then," he said glaring at Sango.
Miroku gave a sly grin.
"What were you doing? Eh? Were you—"
"That's enough Miroku!" snapped Sango.
"What the hell are you doing here anyway?" demanded Inuyasha.
All three looked at him, as it was blatantly obvious.
"Well?"
"Checking up on Kagome of course!" piped up Shippo, "I haven't seen her forever and I want to NOW!"
"Urusai, Shippo!" reprimanded Sango.
"Don't give me that crap!" yelled Inuyasha.
"Hey," said Sango in defense mode, "you're not the only one concerned for Kagome's safety so don't give us that crap."
"Fine then," said Inuyasha angrily, "sorry I kept you!"
He quickly left the hut as quickly as he had come and left Sango, Miroku and Shippo behind. The three watched him go.
"Daku!" complained Miroku, "Sango, you need to warn me before you do that again. I'm gonna have bruises on my wrist for weeks! And my face won't stop stinging! Ittai!!!"
"Oh come on!" said Sango, "You're such a wimp! And I didn't squeeze your wrist that hard!"
"Oh yes you did! Look," he pulled off his glove and there were certainly finger marks.
"Oh… sorry," said Sango, "guess I kinda didn't know how hard I was pressing."
Miroku looked as if it were greatly paining him.
"Kiss it and make it better?" he asked hopefully.
"Miroku…"
"Y-yes…" he answered not sure if she would inflict her wrist-crushing hands on him or not.
She took his other wrist.
Miroku grinned.
"Do you want me to make you a set of two broken wrists?" she asked menacingly.
Miroku gulped. Disappointed again. Dammit.
"Do you?"
Miroku stood still.
"You do know how freaky you look right now, don't you?" said Miroku.
Her grip tightened.
"EEP!" squealed Miroku, and ran into the hut.
Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Inuyasha were all crowded around the fire in Kaede's hut. Kaede was dressing Kagome's wounds and putting cloths on her feverish head.
"I still say that the poison in the arrow is driving Kagome mad," said Shippo.
"What?!" said Inuyasha a little too loudly.
Kaede shushed him.
"Well… it makes sense doesn't it?" he continued, "you say Kagome awoke saying things that didn't make any sense and we know that there was a poison in the arrow, just not what poison."
"Kagome's not going crazy!" said Inuyasha, "she's just not well."
"Well that's obvious," scoffed Shippo.
"Thank you, fox-midget, but I don't need you to tell me—"
"What did you call me?" said Shippo angrily.
"Cut it out both of you," said Miroku, "you guys are giving me a headache."
"Yeah," said Sango, "could you stop jumping down each other's throats? It gets annoying."
"But when Kagome woke up," said Shippo, "what was she exactly saying?"
Inuyasha paused as if he didn't want to tell them.
"She said… something like 'I killed you and I'm so sorry'."
"Huh?" said Miroku, "that's confusing."
"Yeah…" said Inuyasha lost in thought.
Kaede walked over to the group.
"So, how is she?" asked Inuyasha.
"Well, she's got a fever and it won't go down. I think I'll go get some new fresh water from the stream and see if it cools her down. Anyone care to join me?" she asked.
"I'll come," said Shippo and the two left.
"So, as I was saying…"
Inuyasha's ears picked up something.
"Did you hear that?" he asked the others.
"No… I don't think…"
Then it was clear that all three heard it. Someone was whispering.
"Spider… feather… mirror… dead… alive…"
Inuyasha looked behind the wall.
Kagome was whispering in her sleep.
"It's Kagome," he said aghast.
"What?!"
The two went over to see for themselves.
"Spider…dead…feather…dead…mirror…dead…alive…spider…alive…feather…alive….mirror…"
"What is she talking about?" asked Miroku bewildered.
Every time Kagome spoke, the words became clearer, the sound louder and the sentences more complete.
Kagome was speaking almost close to comprehendible.
Her body tensed up. Her eyes opened.
"The spider, feather and mirror were all dead, but now they aren't! Beware!"
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Okays, well… I hope that was long enough. My next post will prolly be around 10/3 on Friday b/c I have a lot of free time then. Until next time!
Translation-
Ittai- it hurts
Daku- man!
Urusai- annoying (a.k.a. you're annoying)