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A/N: I'm so happy people didn't hate Kagome's sister! Well, you won't see the end of her. Reincarnation time!! But of whom? I'll tell yall in the chapter…uh…I think it's chapter 6 or 7, not quite sure though. I'm happy this is getting good reviews! A lot too! Genki Genki! Sorry I didn't update yesterday. I was busy with problems at home…bad ones. Anyway, remember all of you! Genki authoress=genki reviewers=more reviews=Genki authoress=faster updates=etc!
So here we go!
Onto Through Winters Gates:
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Chapter 5: His Wound"Kaede-obachan how is he?" Kagome asked eagerly as the elderly woman stepped out with sad eyes…eye.
"Kagome…Inuyasha…the demons' claws were poison ness and…when we pulled out the arm, the claws scrapped across his inner organs and such." Kaede looked downward. "It all depends on his will to live now, to fight off the poison spreading across his internal body."
Kagome stood, clutching the wall as she stumbled forward. "I…think I have something that…can help it." She winced internally. "In my time, though."
"Then please, Kagome, get this something." Kaede turned. "Shall I redress your wounds before you leave?"
"Hai."
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Kagome stared down at the pale hanyou. His face, every once in a while, would surge up in a painful looking wince as he clutched the blanket that covered him. She held his hand tightly. Squeezing it once more, she stood and headed out of the hut, casting one more glance at the helpless hanyou.
Please stay a live, she thought softly as she blew a kiss to him before exiting into the cold winter night in the Sengoku Jidai.
She grabbed Souta's hand and walked with him back to the well.
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After placing Souta in his room, the door locked and barricaded Kagome headed down the stairs.
She walked quietly down the hall until she reached the bathroom. She pushed open the door quietly, so not to wake up her father or brother and opened the cabinet over the sink. She stared at her reflection in the mirror; she had a large gash across her cheek and a deep bruise forming around it. A white bandage covered her chin but she knew a very ugly cut was there.
She opened the cabinet until the mirror was completely out of sight before she searched the shelves until she came to a small bottle of something her mother had given her when she had accidentally drunk some Windex (Don't own it!). She pulled down some heartburn relievers and jumped as the door was thrown open. She looked toward the doorway where her father stood, swaying slightly. He was drunk once again.
"What are you doing?" his voice was deep as he slammed the bathroom door shut.
"I…I was just…getting some water. My throat hurts." Kagome whispered as loudly as she could. Her throat just wasn't listening to her. She wanted to yell at him, she wanted to scream and kick him in the shins and run to the police. She wanted to call out for her mother, anyone! Ji-chan even.
She dropped the bottle of Tums (I don't own them) and backed up as he reached out a hand. He clasped her chin and brought her face dangerously close to his own.
"Look at you, runnin' around in such whorish clothes. Maybe I should relieve you of such a revealing article." He reached down toward her legs.
Kagome blushed madly and bit down on his hand hard. He grabbed her by the neck and pulled at her skirt.
"Don't struggle."
"Ane-ue, what are you-AH!!!" Souta stared wide-eyed at the scene before him. "Poor…Ane-ue…"
"S-Souta…" Kagome stared wide-eyed back at her brother as her father latched onto her skirt and stared to pull.
She lifted up her knee, planting it in his groin before jumping backward into the bathtub.
He lied hunched over next to the bathtub.
"Souta! Get the knife, now!" Kagome yelled.
"I carry it with me." He pulled out the knife and threw it to his sister.
Kagome swallowed audibly and clutched the bottle of the poison medicine in her hand. I'll do anything for Inuyasha not to die, she thought with determination, so please hold on a little bit longer.
He stood and glared at her.
Kagome clutched the knife with shaking hands as she backed away. "St-stay away…" she whispered, her voice wavering under her courageous front.
He reached out but before he could touch her, a foot was planted in his groin once again.
"S-Souta…" Kagome dropped the knife and grabbed Souta. "Let's get outta here." She whispered, her voice slurring from fright.
"R-Right."
The miko and Souta walked quickly out of the bathroom. Kagome pulled him down the hallway, flicking on the light switches as they went.
She reached out for the doorknob to the front door when it turned. Her mother stepped out, patting down her jacket.
"It's so cold out, isn't it, Ji-chan? Ah-Kagome? What are you doing? And what happened to your face, dear?" her mother touched the gash and with that one show of emotion Kagome burst into tears, hugging her mother tightly as well as Souta.
"What happened Kagome?"
"He's…he's back!" Kagome sobbed.
"He?"
"Yep…he. Me." His harsh voice came from the kitchen.
The three looked up in fright. It was Ji-chan who stepped up.
"What are you doing here, you-."
"Shut up, gramps." He lifted his hand to slap the old man but Ji-chan had an ofuda on his hand, freezing it in suspended animation.
"Why you…stupid old grandpa…" he muttered as his eyes rolled backward, and he fell.
"Ji-chan, what'd you use?" Souta asked excitedly.
"An ofuda. It sealed him for a while."
"I didn't know they worked on humans." Kagome sniffed as she pulled away from her mother.
"That one did."
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After running through the snow, trying to get to the well house, and running through the Sengoku Jidai's amazing amount of snow, the wounded yet still able-bodied Kagome entered the quiet hut of Kaede.
"Kaede…how is he?" Kagome panted as she crossed the room and knelt next to the hanyou and the old miko.
"Not well, Kagome. Please…" Kaede trailed off and stared at the hanyou once more.
"I understand." Kagome opened the bottle of poison medicine. She opened his mouth softly and pushed him upward for him to drink without drowning. After he took the dose his face warmed considerably from the deathly pale white to his almost normal tan toned skin.
Kaede, after a few hours of watching the hanyou and young miko, had left on a house call somewhere on the outskirts of the village.
Kagome swallowed and tried not to recall what had recently happened at her home. Her mother was there now…alone but Ji-chan had those human repelling ofudas with him. She was safe with her father as was Souta, for now.
She sighed as she tightened her grip on Inuyasha's hand. He shivered slightly and she realized the blanket that had been covering him had been discarded while she redressed his wounds an hour before. She replaced the heavy blanket on tope of him and covered her own cold feet. A draft blew in through the flimsy flap over the door. It was a very cold night tonight, even colder then all the other winter nights in her time or the Sengoku Jidai. She shivered slightly and pulled her heavy jacket tighter around her. Her heavy hakama pants that she had borrowed by Ji-chan were tied at the bottom to keep any unwanted cold hair running up her legs and she also wore heavy snow boots up to the middle of her shins for the heavy amount of snow that had showered the lands.'
She looked down at Inuyasha once again. His cheeks were flushed and he still held his hand to his wound protectively. She watched his face thoughtfully and for a second she thought he twitched awake but he was obviously asleep.
When she settled down to sleep, still holding his hand for warmth, she felt a force on her hand. He squeezed back and smirked at her surprised expression.
"What? No 'Yippe!! He's alive!!'?" he said cockily as he pushed himself up.
Kagome stared with wide eyes. "No…" she whispered.
"That's not very-." He stopped as she flung herself against him, weeping into his bare chest. "O-Oi…" he reached up and stroked her hair lightly as he put a hesitant arm around her shoulders.
"Y-You know what?" she said into his chest. "O-Our w-wounds are in t-the s-same place." She said and pulled back, smiling.
"What?" he blinked and seemed to snap out of whatever land he was dancing in. "Who did that to you?!" he yelled suddenly, grasping her shoulders.
"I…I can't say…" she said quietly. "If I did…you might…kill…it." She whispered, between hiccups.
"Kill it? Why would I kill it? Because it's hurting the girl I'm supposed to protect, 'cause it's ripping apart my Tama dector, 'cause it's beating the girl I've known for a pretty long time sensless? Why would I try and kill it?" he said sarcastically.
"Yep, that's why." She muttered.
"I will, if you'd just tell me who?"
"That's why I'm not. I don't want you to kill it! If you do…damn would it be hell in my time."
Inuyasha stood back a bit to stare at her. She looked scared. She smelled scared. She sounded scared. At the moment she defined fear.
He stared harder at her. Whoever did this to you, Kagome, who ever hurt you mentally and physically, he declared mentally, I'll ripe them, and their sorry mental brain to shreds, I promise. It and it's family to!
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Sorry for the semi-long wait…I was busy with other things.
Anyway, was that a bad chapter? I don't know? Tell me!!
So…next chapter:
Chapter 6: Reincarnated Wind Sorceress