Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha or any other chars in this fic.

A/N: Sorry I had to keep you waiting. I had my camp and I'm going to leave to my summer cottage. Now I have a friend, who has consent to read my chaps first and mend them before I put them to fanfiction.net. I'll just start this chap.

Trust

Chapter seven: Thinking

Kagome woke up. She opened her eyes a little, but shut them again. The morning sun was too bright. Still, she wanted to open them again, because she didn't know where she was. She felt a cover on her and a hard floor underneath her.

"Where am I?" Then she heard something being moved and saw Sango come in.

"You're finally awake."

"Sango.?" If Sango was there. it meant only one thing. she was at the feudal age. 'Why am I here?' Kagome couldn't remember anything about the fight. "Why am I here?"

"I don't know." Sango came beside Kagome. "Kirara brought you here on her back. You were unconscious and badly wounded. Kirara was covered with blood." Kagome then took notice that her right side was hurting.

'That's why it hurts.'

"Can you remember anything from the day before yesterday?"

"Day. before yesterday? Have I been out for two days?" Sango nodded to Kagome.

"At least. I don't know how long you had been before Kirara found you." Kagome didn't know either. She couldn't remember anything from beforehand.

"I don't either."

Suddenly images started to come to her: Slipping in the well, being thrown out of it, being attacked by an insect, and being rescued by someone. Sango saw that Kagome's contemplative face meant she was starting to remember something.

"What happened?" Kagome looked at Sango.

"I can't really remember.I was attacked by a giant insect.I think."

"Well, that explains why your right side's cut. It looks like it was done by a sword or a knife."

"I came here to bring the Shikon shards to you."

"Why?"

"I couldn't stay in my time with them. Demons would attack there too if I had them, and they belong in this time and with you." That comment made Sango remember that Kagome had had a fight with Inu-Yasha and she had told them that they wouldn't see her anymore.

"Is everything okay?" Sango knew that Kagome would tell her when she was ready, but she wanted to know if the cut on her side or her arm was still hurting.

"My side hurts a little." Kagome answered after a little while. She didn't really want to talk about the fight with Inu-Yasha yet. She understood that Sango knew that and would only ask about him when she was ready. Sango gave her a quick nod.

"What about your arm?" First Kagome didn't know what Sango meant, but remembered then that her arm had been broken. "Umm." She tried to move her arm, but she only managed a little before she winced in pain.

"Hurts." Sango nodded again. "Wait here, so I can go get some herbs." This time, Kagome nodded to Sango before she left.

Kagome looked around and recognized the building--It was Kaede's cottage. 'If I'm here, and if what I understood from Sango is true, then they are here, too. Why didn't they notice my return? I mean, Inu-Yasha and Kirara could smell me. Especially Inu-Yasha. But wasn't it Inu-Yasha who saved me?' She didn't have time to think about it before Shippo jumped on her in excitement.

"Kagome!" He shouted while he hugged her tightly. "I was so worried!"

Miroku came in after Shippo and looked relieved. "I'm glad to see you're awake, Kagome." Kagome smiled to both of them. She felt happy. It was so nice that everyone was worried about her! Or was. Kagome looked around a little.

"What's wrong?" Miroku asked, but he figured he knew what was on Kagome's mind.

"Umm. Where's Inu-Yasha?" They all heard a small sound come from the roof-- like someone had jumped off of it. Miroku didn't even bother to answer. Kagome bowed her head in disappointment. 'He really doesn't care about me. I'm only here to sense the Shikon shards.' Sango came in with the herbs, interrupting Kagome's thoughts.

"Can you sit up?" She asked as she came beside Kagome. Kagome nodded and sat up, only using her right arm. Her left arm hurt too much to be used. Sango was about to take Kagome's shirt off when she remembered something.

"Shippo and MIROKU, could you go out for the time being while I change Kagome's bandages?" Shippo nodded and went out. Miroku looked a little disappointed that he couldn't stay and watch, but he nodded too and went out. Then Sango started to take Kagome's shirt off. She knew that Kagome couldn't really do it herself with her broken arm. With her arm free, she could now move it a little, but she preferred not to, since it caused too much pain. At the same time, Sango noticed a sad and absent look on Kagome's face.

"What's wrong?" She asked as she slowly took off the bandage that was wrapped around Kagome's chest and side. Kagome woke from her thoughts and looked at Sango.

"N.nothing. I was just caught up in my own thoughts."

"Like, 'Why, didn't Inu-Yasha smell me'?" Sango had hit the nail on the head. Kagome moved her gaze from Sango. She didn't want to be rude, so she nodded slightly in response. Sango noticed it and sighed.

"I have been wondering about that, too. He was at the village." Kagome nodded in agreement. She had had the same thoughts as Sango.

"A minute ago, I thought that was it Inu-Yasha or Kirara who saved me. Now that you said that.I know it wasn't Inu-Yasha."

"It wasn't me, Miroku or Shippo ether. Kirara did bring you back, so I think it was her who saved you." Kagome had come to the same conclusion in her mind, too.

"I think so too." Sango was done with Kagome's chest and went to the other side of Kagome. Now it was time to work on Kagome's broken arm. She started to take of the old bandage, causing Kagome to grimace in pain, but she didn't say anything. She knew that Sango was trying her best not to hurt her. When Sango put on the new bandage, Kagome did whimper a bit. Sango didn't mind apologizing. She was being as careful as she could, and she knew that Kagome knew that as well. Sango tucked the end of the bandage securely inbetween the layered wraps of the new bandage to finish it off.

"Okay, that should do it." Sango took Kagome's shirt and was going to put it on Kagome when she changed her mind.

"I think this shirt needs a good wash. It's so full of mud and blood. Wait here under some covers until I get some clothes from your backpack here." Sango stood up.

"Is my backpack here?"

"Yes, you left it when you were here last time. " With that Sango left the cottage. Kagome was wise enough to put on her cover to hide her 'naked' upper body. Miroku could step inside in any minute--especially if he saw that Sango was carrying Kagome's shirt.

It wasn't long before Sango had already returned with Kagome's backpack. She set it down beside Kagome, so that she could look inside it herself.

"I hope you have another shirt in that bag of yours." Kagome took a few things out of her backpack--like a math book, a blanket, and dog food-- before she finally found a clean shirt and gave it to Sango. Sango then began to carefully put it on Kagome.

"I'll go and wash this bloody shirt of yours, now." Sango helped Kagome to lay down and then went out.

Kagome almost expected Miroku or Shippo to come in, but neither one did. It was completely silent as she lay there. She could barely hear the distant voices of birds and humans from outside. She didn't recognize any of the voices that she heard.

'I wonder where he went. We just heard him jump from the roof. Why was he there in the first place? Why did he suddenly jump off?' Kagome didn't know what to think of Inu-Yasha anymore, and that was something that made her feel uncomfortable. She didn't know why, but it was just so.

'All the other times I've been hurt he had come, but why not now? Does he. does he really hate me that much? Does he want me to be killed?' Earlier Kagome had thought that Inu-Yasha liked her. He was always jealous of Kouga. 'But at that fight. he said he loves Kikyo and doesn't need me anymore. And in both of them.he agreed his heart. I.I want to go home.' Kagome put her right arm under her and sat up. A slight pain ran through her side when she did it.

"Now, to stand up." Kagome moved her right hand in front of her and used it to stand up. She didn't succeed to stand up all the way. After only a few seconds of standing on her feet, she lost her balance as soon as her right hand left the floor, and she fell to the ground. A big *thump* was heard. Kagome guessed that she wasn't only one who heard it, because only a second after, Sango, Miroku and Shippo ran in.

"What is it Kagome?" Sango asked and huffed a little. Kagome heard worry in the tone of her voice. She saw it in Miroku's and Shippo's eyes as well. Kagome didn't answer. She moved her gaze so that her friends couldn't see her face. Miroku, Shippo and Sango looked at her for a second. They saw that she was physically okay. At least, as okay as she could be in her condition. Sango sighed in relief. She went to Shippo and Miroku, and whispered something. The two of them immediately left the cottage.

"Were you trying to stand up?" Kagome didn't look at Sango, but nodded.

"Why?"

"I.I want to go home." Kagome answered to Sango.

"You know that you can't. Not in that condition."

"Why not? My mom would take care of me."

"How do you expect to make it there without tearing the cut on your side open again or making your broken arm worse?" Kagome saw the truth in Sango's words. Her side's cut would open when she jumped into the well. She couldn't even get out of the well with only one healthy arm.

"You're right." Sango placed her hand on Kagome's right shoulder and left.

'But I would rather try than stay here with Inu-Yasha.'

A/N: Hope you liked this. I had a hurry to write this. The next chap won't be updated until August. I'll arrive home the 10th of August or something like that. So don't wait before it!! I want to say thanks to Melissa, who mends my chaps!!! Thank you!!! I found some meanings that had changed, but I just mend a word or something. Still I owe you a lot!!