Kagome ran excitedly through the dark woods, searching for water and clutching the flowers firmly in her hand.
"Hm, I could have sworn there was a river around here…somewhere.." She slowed down to a walking pace and panted to catch her breath, all the while her expression grew more timid with each passing moment.
"Oh…Don't tell me…I've really done it now! I'm…I'm lost!"
She cast a worried glance at the unfamiliar forest around her. The branches from the tall trees above were so thickly covered with leaves that she could no longer see the stars or the pale silver light of the moon.
"I…can't see!" She jumped as a thick root snagged onto one of her loose socks, causing her to backtrack into a tree stump. "Oh!!!" She tripped and fell backwards, frantically trying to grab onto roots and vines as she fell, but to no avail. She continued to fall awkwardly until reaching the bottom.
"YIIIEEEEEE!!!"
SPLASH!
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Inu-Yasha stood bewildered from the affection he had received just moments before. He felt his face grow flustered again.
"Well…maybe that little runt knows more about women than I thought…" He thought to himself in disbelief. He then tried to dismiss these feelings and shook his head roughly, balling his clawed hands into fists.
"Gah! What am I getting so worked up over anyway?! It was just a hug!…Big deal!!"
His ears then twitched as something loud caught his attention.
"YIIIEEEEEE!!!"
SPLASH!
It was an all too familiar scream. "Why did I let you run off alone!" He sprinted into the dark , uninviting woods with in-human speed, leaping tree to tree, his hand at his tetsaiga.
"Kagome!!!"
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Kagome flailed blindly in the cold black water, frantically working her way up to the surface. "Gasp!! Oh!!! I must look like a complete….idiot!!!", she fumed as she gasped for air. She swam for shore and lifted one hand to wipe her soaked black bangs from her eyes.
"well, on the bright side….I found the river…"
Kagome stumbled out of the water and onto the sand, her soaked clothes dripping all over. Above her towered a high rocky cliff, casting a looming shadow over the dark river current. "I fell from there?….I'm lucky to be in one piece", she thought bitterly, shaking as an icy breeze brushed her wet skin.
She squinted her eyes in the pale moonlight as something caught her eye. A shadowy figure now sat on the cliff's edge, two golden eyes glowing almost animal like.
"Inu…Inu-Yasha?", she stuttered while shivering.
The shadow moved back from the cliff with alarming speed, moving back towards the woods. Whatever had perched on the cliff's edge was gone now.
"Oh…What was that?…"
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