Authors note: Wow! That was an interesting 4th of July. Very Rainy. Sorry. It was storming like nuts where I live. Oh, well. Here are the people who reviewed. Thanks so much to:
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I need to cut, I need to cut. Whats wrong with me?! Kagome though rather angrily. Geez! She wasn't this stupid before. Why now? She waded through the chill waters in the spring. Usually it was pleasantly cool, comforting.
She shivered. Why had she gone for a predawn swim? Ah, well. The water was already seeming to get warmer, though she was actually just getting used to it. She swam, trying more to get warm than to get clean. Besides, she liked swimming.
She pulled herself to the surface, and found herself in her cave. She lit the fireplace she had made in the cave. "Ow!" She cried, scraping the scab off the fresh cut on her elbow. It had been made just yesterday by, of all things, a big fish.
The fire lit, she began to get warm, enjoying the solitary peace. She stopped shivering quickly. Something glittered. Kagome got up to investigate it. It was gold! Gold or something like in glittered in streaks on the wall.
It was beautiful. She picked up a flashlight she had brought here earlier, and shone it on the wall, the small beam tracing long lines of the precious metal.
She swung the beam over to the left, an area she had not yet investigated. There was another short tunnel. She followed it to a tiny pocket in the rock, just big enough for one person to be comfortable.
It was long enough and wide enough that she could lay in it any direction, and not have her head or feet touch the wall. The walls curved in a dome shape, an almost perfect globe, though the bottom was flat. There was room in here to light a fire, in another small fireplace of course.
Kagome decided that she had lingered long enough, when she noticed a glittering pink thing. It was a pink ball, beautiful whenever a shaft of light hit it. It was the Shikon No Tama! How was this possible?! Her mind was reeling. The Shikon No Tama is supposed to be gone!
She ran through the cave, dropping the flashlight, and dumping water on the fire. Her fist tightly clutched the Jewel. Who cares why its here. Its here! Deal with now, Kagome. The Shikon Jewel is back, and who knows why. Deal with that.
She leaped through the small hole in the rock. She flinched as the cold water washed over her. Jumping back through the hole, she gasped and sputtered. The cut on her arm was bleeding again, a fact which Kagome greeted with a volley of curses.
"Watch it, Kagome. Don't want you sounding like me." Came an arrogant voice behind her. She shrieked, and switched on the flashlight. It was just Inuyasha.
"S- sit." she panted. Inuyasha wasn't even fazed by the weak command.
"You smell like blood, Kagome. Weren't smart enough to stay away from that fish?" He stated. Kagome showed him her arm.
"What are you doing here, Inuyasha?" She asked. He rolled his eyes, and Kagome noticed that he fidgeted.
"You weren't there." he said evasively. She tapped her foot. "So I went to check out where you were. You weren't by the stream, so I figured you were here."
Thats sweet, Inuyasha." Kagome said. She leaned over and kissed the hanyou on the cheek.
"Yeah, well. Didn't want you to get gobbled by a fish." Inuyasha muttered. He was blushing like crazy, and Kagome almost felt sorry she had kissed him. But when she heard his answer, her only reply was:
"SIT!"