A Journey in a Different Time
-Chapter 15-
Why Run Away from them?
"What? What was Natsuyo doing?" Naraku asked with a tone. Once again, he was at his castle in his room, sitting next to the window, staring at Kagura and Kanna.
"Natsuyo was flirting with the girl, Michelle. He's not doing his job. Why don't you just kill him now and revive the Shichinin-tai?" Kagura questioned him.
"What does he have to do again, Naraku?" Kanna asked quietly.
"Natsuyo needs to either kill the girl and get me those shards, or bring her here so I can kill her, or she can work for me," Naraku answered.
"Bring her here? You never said that!" Kagura exclaimed.
"I know, I never said that to you. But I have said that to Natsuyo, his choice. Since he's human, he would keep her alive longer, so he'll bring her here whenever he can."
"And if he doesn't?"
"I'll have you to bring her here…"
"Why always lay the dirty work on me? Fine, whatever. Call me whenever you need me, Naraku." Kagura turned around slowly and walked out of the room, leaving Kanna there by herself with Naraku.
"Kanna…show me Natsuyo…" said Naraku. Kanna nodded and slowly walked up to her, she placed the mirror in front of her chest and the mirror let out an aura, having the mirror glow a bright light and show an image of what Natsuyo was doing.
He was walking alone in a forest, with his sword resting on his shoulder, making sure it doesn't slice it. Naraku stared blankly into the mirror while he watches what Natsuyo was doing. Soon after, Natsuyo appeared a the village and started to rest there, going out and hunting some food and getting some fire wood for the place he's staying at now.
"His every day job? No…his home…I see…he's resting," said Naraku calmly. He smirked down into the mirror, then looking at Kanna. "Keep watch of him, and while you're at it, keep watch of what that girl is doing."
"Yes." Kanna said slowly, she slowly started to disappear in front of him, leaving Naraku by himself now.
Peace and quiet, but first, Naraku must do something.
'Kohaku…come back to the castle; don't revive the Shichinin-tai yet. We'll do it some other time. Once you get here…I have an assignment for you to do.'
Sending a message through his mind to Kohaku was what he had to do. All he has to do is wait until something happens.
(Kagome's group)
"Look! I'm tired of you asking questions!! Why can't you just but out of our business, you bitch!" Inuyasha was yelling in furry when he heard Michelle asked a question of why they were after Naraku. Michelle flinched when she heard Inuyasha yelling at her, she turned around and gave him a nasty look he did not want to see. Inuyasha had a sweat drop and gulped a bit, but his face got back to being really angry and pissed.
"Hey!! Don't I at least deserve to know why we're going after Naraku!! I need to go after him because I need to find my way home!! What about you!? What's your reason!! Huh!?" Michelle screamed at him.
"THAT is also none of your business!! Why can't you just leave us alone!?"
"Why can't you just keep your big mouth shut, stupid dog!?"
"Shut up, bitch!"
"Why are you always like this towards me!?"
"Like what?"
"Always so pissed and angry at me? You never give me a chance for you to try and like me! So what the hell is wrong with you!?"
"Nothing is wrong with me, something is wrong with you for being so damn nosy!"
"Aargh!"
"Inuyasha, osuwa-!"
"No, Kagome." Kagome turned to Michelle, looking at her quizzically, wondering why she was stopped by Michelle.
"Why, Michelle? He's not behaving himself right now," said Kagome.
"Because, I'm tired of hearing that dumb ass dog complaining about me."
'Dumb ass dog!?' Inuyasha shouted in his thoughts.
"Michelle, what are you…?" Kagome was thinking of what was going to happen next. She's hoping she doesn't…
"If Inuyasha doesn't want to see me, that's fine with me!" Kagome ran to Kagome's bag and took the bow and the quiver filled with arrows. Then she turned to Kagome and Inuyasha. "I'll leave for the time being!"
"Michelle!" Kagome stepped forward to try and calm Michelle down, but Michelle acted quickly. She took an arrow out of the quiver and aimed it at Kagome.
"I mean it, if any of you try to even follow me, I'll surrender myself to Naraku and give him the jewel shards."
Everybody gasped when they heard Michelle made that threat. It's something they cannot believe. So now…they have to do what she says and not follow her. Inuyasha's face, wasn't angry, his face was in the form of disappointment and…the face that shows he doesn't want to lose anything. Like doesn't want to loose Kagome or Kikyo.
Michelle put the bow and arrow down; she put the arrow back into the quiver, still holding onto the bow. She closed her eyes and sighed, making sure she doesn't make any mistake. Everyone knew she was making one of the biggest mistakes since she's been here. Hopefully if Michelle does come back, she doesn't make another big mistake.
Michelle was clutching up her fists. Then, her foot turned and she started to run away. Tears rolling down her cheeks while she was running. The tears rolled off her face, landing on the ground behind her, Inuyasha saw that. He at least thought she would stop and turn around and beg for forgiveness for what she did. But she didn't…she just kept running and didn't stop. Inuyasha was feeling guilty.
'Wait…why am I feeling guilty for her!? She's so annoying!' "Feh!" Inuyasha turned around, his back against the running girl. He was thinking of turning his head back to see her off, but he was too stubborn to, so he didn't bother at all. He folded his arms over his chest and walked off ahead, maybe to cool off somewhere or something.
"Inuyasha, where are you going?" Kagome asked calmly now that Michelle is gone. She doesn't want to piss Inuyasha off.
"To wash my face…it's dirty…" he answered.
"Inuyasha…since when did you care about your face?"
"I forgot, so don't bother me. I'm going to a nearby river."
"Alright…oh wait."
"What?"
"You want to take some soap? It'll be much better that way, much cleaner and less greasy."
Inuyasha glared at her. He was thinking of it, 'because lately his face has been greasy. He touched his felt, and it was really greasy. What has he been eating lately? Oh yeah, ramen noodles. Inuyasha turned to Kagome and saw she was holding a bottle of soap in her hands. He walked up to her and snatched that out of her hands and started to walk to a nearby river.
Kagome was stunned, wasn't he suppose to wait until she hands it to him or something? He can't just snatch things out of people's hands! That is like so rude!
"What a jerk…" Kagome whispered to herself. She folded her arms over her chest.
Sango, Miroku and Shippo were just staring at Kagome blankly. They just have no idea what's going on. They stared at each other and then they stared back at Kagome. What exactly is going on here? Michelle just went ballistic and ran away, Inuyasha took a bottle of soap to just wash his face at a river, and now Kagome is angry at Inuyasha. The rest of them should just keep quiet and low while it lasts.
(Where Michelle is…)
Michelle was leaning her back against a tree, catching her breath, so tired of running for awhile that she needs to rest for now. A few tears still on her cheeks, her eyes a little red from it. She slowly wiped her tears away with her sleeve, still trying to catch her breath and calm down a little so she can continue walking. Her eyes were still heated and she has a little headache, she needs to take a break. But it's strange, usually when she has headaches is when it's going to rain soon.
"I guess it might rain…" Michelle said quietly to herself.
Michelle reached her arm to her back to grab an arrow from her quiver. She looked at the arrow for a second, thinking, how can she get miko powers? Can she be like Kagome or Kikyo, who uses the Sacred Arrow? Will she be of any use with them at all? Besides sensing the danger that is coming towards them? She clutched onto the arrow real tight, making sure she doesn't break it in half, but she's so frustrated she can't do anything, she can't even please Inuyasha with the power of sensing things can help him.
She sighed. "Am I nothing to them?"
She put the arrow back in her quiver and sighed again. She looked on ahead; she should continue on before it rains, she can't go back to the others after what she did. She'll wait until she meets up with them again. She doesn't know when, but at least, she'll know she'll ran into them sometime soon. Who knows when.
"I should go before it rains." Before she took a step forward, she felt something landed on her cheek. She wiped it away and saw it on her finger tip, a rain drop. Then, it started to pour hard, getting her soaking wet already. She sighed once again. "Spoke too soon…"
She was shivering, but she didn't care. She needs to go find shelter. So once again, she started to run again, run to anywhere, wherever she can find somewhere to hid for awhile.
(Where Natsuyo is.)
Natsuyo was outside with that little hat on to protect himself from the rain. He was looking up at the gray sky, sighing. He hates the rain a lot, brings a lot depression. He started to walk along the road to cross a little river by using the bridge. Hearing his foot stomping on the wooden bridge, and stopping his steps half way there, because of him seeing someone just a head.
He saw a woman, facing a tree. A quiver was on her back and she had no protection from the rain at all, she was soaking wet and the back of her head looks so familiar…
He saw Michelle reaching her arm back and grabbed an arrow from her quiver. She took a few steps back, about a couple feet away from the tree. 'She's probably going to do some target practice. I haven't seen her use a bow and arrow before…' Natsuyo thought. Natsuyo watched Michelle aiming her arrow at the tree, her arm was shaking a little, he can tell. Was she afraid or is it because she's so cold from the hard, pouring rain?
After a few minutes, Natsuyo finally saw Michelle shoot the arrow at the tree. He watched the arrow carefully; watching where it was going to hit…it hit the ground. How did she miss the tree? And why is she alone with Inuyasha or anybody else around? This wasn't right…but then he thought about it for a second. What happened with her and Inuyasha again?
Natsuyo saw Michelle grab another arrow from her quiver, setting the bow, aiming at the tree, and then shooting it again, and misses it again.
"AARGH!! Why can't I hit the tree!?"
He heard Michelle shout out loud.
He chuckled and moved his feet to walk towards. While he was walking, he saw Michelle sighed and took out another arrow, setting up her bow again. She was shaking again. When he got to her, he put his hand over her hand that was holding the bow and the other hand over the other hand that was holding the arrow. He heard Michelle gasped and she quickly turned her head, so shocked that she realized her lips were so close to his.
"Shh…calm yourself down so you can focus and see clearly," said Natsuyo. "Turn your head back to the tree…" Michelle nodded slowly while looking at his blue eyes, her lips almost meeting hers but she slowly turned her head back to the tree, blushing beat red. He leaned in to speak in her eyes softly. "Now…relax your shoulders…" Michelle's spine shivered and she took in a deep breath. "Focus on the tree…" 'She really is soaking wet, how long has she been in the rain?'
Michelle was concentrating really hard, keeping one thing on her mind: To hit the tree with the arrow. Suddenly her mind was clearing up and all she can see was the tree, and nothing else. And then…she shot it…everything was going in slow motion, Michelle saw the arrow was heading straight for the tree, and she thought she saw a glimpse of something, pink aura, the Sacred Arrow? And then, everything went so fast that the arrow stabbed the tree.
Michelle couldn't believe it, she actually shot the tree. Natsuyo stepped back a little, giving Michelle some room. Suddenly, he saw her quickly grabbed another arrow from her quiver and shot another arrow at the tree, the arrow hit above the other one. Natsuyo has no idea why she did that again.
"Um…Michelle? Are you okay? You're soaking wet, you should come back to my place and dry off, I got some clothes that don't exactly fit me because it's for a miko," said Natsuyo. He walked over to the tree and picked up the arrows that were on the ground and on the tree. When he grabbed the arrows, he turned to Michelle and saw her shivering a lot. She's really cold. Natsuyo walked up to her and put the arrows back in her quiver and took her hand. "Come on, I went out to get some more fire wood, there's a little fire in my place, you'll warm up there."
He dragged her gently to his house; Michelle was a little warmer when she stepped in the room. Natsuyo handed her the miko clothes. "Here, change into these while I go and get some more fire wood and then we can have some dinner."
Michelle nodded slowly and gently took the clothes and watched Natsuyo leave.
(Thirty minutes later.)
When Natsuyo came back with the firewood, he saw Michelle sitting in front of the fire, the white top and the red pants looking so beautiful in it. Her hair was put back, using her scrunchy, making sure the fire doesn't start to burn her hair. Her clothes were hanging near the other fire place, the string holding them to dry off.
Natsuyo snapped out of it and threw some wood in both of the fire places.
"What's for dinner?" Michelle asked quietly, but it was loud enough for Natsuyo to hear.
"Dinner was already made, wild boar from the mountains," he answered her. He handed her a plate with some meat on it. "Here you go."
She took the plate. "Thank you…"
He nodded.
Later after the finished eating, Natsuyo put the plates away. It was still pouring hard, Michelle just watched the fire, watching the flames flicker, being drawn into it. Natsuyo sat next to Michelle, he turned to her.
"Why aren't you with Inuyasha and the others?" He asked her.
Michelle sighed and slowly turned her head to him slowly. "Inuyasha pissed me off again. I got so pissed that I grabbed the bow and the quiver and told them that I was leaving for awhile, I knew Inuyasha wanted that. Kagome tried to calm me down, but I pointed an arrow at her, and I warned all of them if they follow me, I'll surrender myself to Naraku and give him the jewel shards."
Natsuyo was shocked. "Are you crazy!? Do you really want to die that badly!?" 'Most important thing, why did you run away from them? Aren't they your friends?'
"What do you mean? It's not like you work for Naraku."
Natsuyo stared at her, hoping she doesn't know about him and Naraku, he gulped silently and tried to speak. "So! Naraku is one of the sickest and evil youkais out there. You do not want to join him, if you join him he'll get rid of you when he doesn't need you anymore."
"I didn't say I was going to join him, I said I'll surrender myself to Naraku."
"It sounds like you'll join him too."
"No…why would anyone need me? I'm nothing…"
Natsuyo sighed and frowned at her. He used his thumb and index finger to gently grab her chin and force her to look at him, Michelle couldn't believe this was happening. Her face was blushing beat red, she couldn't hide it. Natsuyo laughed a little.
"You are something…you're a great and wonderful girl…"
Michelle's eyes widen. 'Koya said that to me…' She thought.
He leaned in and kissed her lips, his eyes closed, Michelle couldn't move, she just breathed lightly through her nose and closed her eyes slowly. Natsuyo took his hand away from her chin and started to rub her arms.
Michelle opened her mouth a little, welcoming his tongue. Natsuyo slipped his tongue in, rubbing his against hers.
Natsuyo's hands found her shoulders and was slowly sliding the white top off, revealing her shoulders and parts of her chest. When the white shirt was taken off, Michelle wrapped her arms around his neck, they both laid down on the floor.
All kinds of thoughts when were coming through Michelle's head when Natsuyo started to kiss her neck. Things that didn't seem right anymore. She couldn't believe what she is about to do, is she really going to have sex with this guy? Her feelings for him became strong that she fell in love with him. Does he feel the same? She thought he said they were friends.
"Natsuyo…please stop…" said Michelle.
Natsuyo stopped and slowly got up, sitting up, giving back her white shirt. "I understand, I'm sorry, I went a little too fast," said Natsuyo. 'I had no idea what came over me. I love her so much that I have to protect her with all my life, even if I die, I'll risk my life for her.'
Michelle reached her hand to grab her shirt. "Can you turn around?"
"Sure." He turned around slowly.
'At least he respects me a little…except the time he rubbed my butt…he shouldn't have done that, but oh well. Forgive and forget.' She put the white shirt back on, warm now that it's on. She looked outside, it's still raining hard, and it's dark out. Hopefully it'll stop in the morning.
"It's late, you should get some rest."
Michelle turned to him, seeing that he's getting a blanket out. "Why?"
"You might catch a cold; I don't want you to get sick."
"I'll be fine." She spoke too soon once again; she started to cough, hard. Natsuyo got a little worried; he knelt down and felt her forehead.
"You have a little fever. Go to bed, you'll feel better tomorrow morning or so."
She sighed. "Alright, I will." Michelle took the blanket and put it over her body, facing the fire. Natsuyo came up behind her, his arm over her stomach from behind, putting the blanket over him as well. He kissed her head lightly.
"Go to sleep…"
"Alright…" Michelle slowly closed her eyes and she then drifted off to sleep. Natsuyo smiled at her as she slept quietly. He pulled her closer to him gently, her back against her chest, just like the time when they were in that forest while Inuyasha was getting some fish to eat while he was on guard duty. He wanted to go back to that moment again. He slowly closed his eyes as well, drifting off to sleep, the last things he was hearing was the fire flickering and the pouring rain.
(Kagome's group.)
Kagome was sleeping in her sleeping bag with Shippo in her arms while Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha keep watch for the night, the cold, rainy night.
"Inuyasha, do we really have to keep watch out for tonight? I don't think any youkais would be out in the rain," said Sango. Kirara was in her lap, Sango was petting her and scratching the back of her ear.
"It's not that," said Inuyasha.
"Then what is it?" Miroku asked.
"I'm just waiting for something."
"If you're thinking Michelle might pass by here and you might catch her scent, think again, Inuyasha. You can sniff her out in the rain," explained Sango.
"I know that!!"
"Then what are you doing?" Miroku asked quietly.
"I'm trying to listen…if she does pass by, I can catch her in a second."
"Inuyasha let her come to us. If you try and catch her, she'll think you've been following her and she'll surrender herself and the jewel shards to Naraku. Maybe she'll turn against us. So don't try anything." Inuyasha became silent, he gripped tighter onto his Tetsusaiga. "But what I'm trying to figure out is why you want to get Michelle back? I thought you hated her. What's with the sudden change?"
"Yeah, and what happened between you, Natsuyo and Michelle when we got separated? Whatever happened must've changed how you felt about her. Instead of her being an annoying pest, and a bitch and something else to you, she became something else to you, right?" Said Sango.
Inuyasha turned his head away from them. "It's none of your business. And I don't know what you're talking about Miroku. I didn't change, I don't want her back, and she's nothing to me. I don't need her."
"You sure about that, Inuyasha?" Asked Sango.
Inuyasha was about to answer but he stopped when he heard Kagome turned over to her side, her back facing them. He stared at her for a second and then stared at Sango.
"Yes…I'm sure."
When Kagome's back was turned, her eyes were a little bit opened. She heard parts of the conversation, the part when Inuyasha said he didn't need her. 'Was he talking about me? That he didn't need me? And that I'm nothing to him?' Kagome's eyes started to get watery and tiny tears rolled down her cheeks to the sleeping bag. ( As we all know, we know Inuyasha is not talking about Kagome, but Kagome thinks that.)
Inuyasha's sensitive nose picked up something salty. He looked at her Kagome for a second, thinking, is she crying? He didn't want to disturb her in her sleep if she is sleeping. Was she listening to the conversation? If she was, what is she crying about anyway? There's nothing to cry about in this conversation…
He'll find out in the morning.
(Morning, where Michelle and Natsuyo is.)
Michelle opened her eyes slowly, seeing bright light shining in her eyes. She got blinded and quickly covered the sunlight with her arm. She looked around and remembered she's at Natsuyo's house. She looked at the ground and saw that her clothes were folded up, next to her. Michelle was a little stunned, she couldn't believe Natsuyo did that for her.
She picked up her school uniform and started to dress out of the miko clothes. But she stopped before she took off her white shirt.
"Wait…maybe I should walk like this for awhile…stay in the miko clothes until I run into Inuyasha and the others," she said to herself. She put her shirt back on and put the her school uniform in her shirt, her hair still up. She smiled, because no one can notice and it doesn't make her look fat. She doesn't care if it doesn't match; she put her school shoes on. She then grabbed the bow and the quiver, she put the quiver over one shoulder and the bow over the other, then walking outside, getting ready to leave.
"Morning." Said Natsuyo when he saw her coming out of the house.
"Morning, Natsuyo," she said with a smile.
"You're leaving?"
"Yes, I need to travel on my own for awhile."
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"No, it's okay. I'll be fine."
Natsuyo smiled, he put his hands up and put them on both of her cheeks, his forehead against hers, closing his eyes, breathing lightly. "Don't worry…an hour after you leave, I'll be right behind you. I'll follow you, okay?"
"Natsuyo…what about here? Isn't this place your home?"
"It is, but it isn't going to be anymore."
"Why is that?"
Natsuyo sighed. 'All things must end some time, even life. I hate it when my life will have to end and never to see her again…' "Because…I'm going to be leaving soon."
"No you're not; you're not going to die now."
'Why do you say things that you don't know?' "Michelle…"
"Yes?"
"Never mind."
'His hands are shaking, is he going to be okay?'
"You should go on now. I'll catch up to you when I'm done with this place."
"Okay."
Natsuyo smiled and his lips met hers, Michelle didn't do anything except to close her eyes. After a few minutes, the lip contact became apart, Michelle was blushing too red, not know what to say. Natsuyo just gave her a good, long kiss. Natsuyo smiled at her, he put one hand down from her cheek and his other hand rubbing her cheek gently.
'I love her…' "Go right now…"
Michelle nodded, she put her hand on his cheek, taking it off, holding his hand before she started to walk away. Their hands let go when she was far away from hand holding, her head was still looking at him, she turned it around slowly and walked on ahead. To the forest she goes, disappearing in it, walking in the dark forest…
(The forest where Michelle is walking in.)
"Now what should I do?" Michelle asked herself.
"How about surrendering the jewel shards?"
Michelle gasped. "Kagura, where are you?" Michelle was looking around everywhere, she then saw a figure coming out of hiding from behind a tree. A woman with a fan and a kimono. "Kagura, what do you want?!"
"Simply, the jewel shards, of course."
"Never!"
"Naraku told me this before, he told me to make a deal with you."
Michelle was silent. "I'm listening."
"If you surrender the shards to us, we'll keep you alive and give you anything you want."
"Anything?"
"Anything…miko powers, Natsuyo…freedom…anything…"
'Anything?' Michelle smiled and she started to laughed a little, she pulled an arrow out from her quiver and set her bow up, aiming the arrow at Kagura.
"What…?"
"Listen, Kagura. You can tell Naraku to forget this stupid deal. I'm not giving up these jewel shards."
"Would it change your mind if you figured out that one of those shards is his?"
"Yeah, right Kagura! There's no way one of those shards is his…wait…" 'The first time I received a shard was when the first time I came here…and then…the second shard was from Kikyo…that's right…the one I received in the beginning was from Naraku…wait…is this shard to track me down wherever I go? Kagura seemed to find me easily.'
"You remembered, huh? How can you forget a thing like that?"
'Ow…not that pain again, why do I feel this pain? I keep feeling this pain every time when…that negative energy comes. Ow!!' Michelle dropped the arrow and she started to clutch onto her arm. 'What? The pain…it became stronger…and the negative energy, it also became stronger…' "Kagura…who else is here with you?"
"Why would you want to know?"
"Just answer the question!!"
"Heh, if you want to know, Naraku is here too…"
'Oh no…a cut just opened…blood is coming out now…'
"Kagura…get the jewel shards, she is wounded now," said Naraku, out of nowhere.
"Certainly…" Kagura started to walk slowly towards Michelle, Michelle's back was against the tree, she knew she was in trouble.
Michelle had to think fast and act quickly. She quickly grabbed the arrow that was on the ground and set it up, shooting the arrow. The arrow cut her sleeve, revealing some skin on Kagura's arm. Kagura stopped in her tracks and look at her arm, seeing there's a little cut on her kimono.
"I can't believe you actually had the strength to shot that arrow at me," said Kagura.
"What…do you mean?" Asked Michelle.
"You're wounded, and the bleeding won't stop right?" Kagura stared at Michelle's arm; she saw blood dripping to the ground, lots of it. "Just surrender the jewel shards now and we'll be on our way, and then you'll get some time to heal."
"Or…just join me completely…" Said Naraku.
'I can't do that…Natsuyo, where are you? I need you here…' "N-Never! I would rather die then give these shards to you!" said Michelle, she then fell to her knees. "Go…away…" 'I can't fight right now…someone, anyone…help me please!'
"Kagura, just take the shards from her now. She's too weak to defend herself."
"Sure…"
'No…it'll be my fault if Inuyasha found out Naraku took the jewel shards. I can't…I have to do something…' Michelle slowly grabbed another arrow from her quiver and aimed it at Kagura, her arms were shaking like crazy, and she could barely move her legs.
Kagura laughed. "You think you have enough strength for you to shoot that arrow…don't waste your time, you're just going to die quicker," said Kagura.
'I won't give up…but my body will give up…it can't handle all of this. My body is going to give up soon.' Michelle then suddenly dropped the bow and arrow, Kagura was too close, and Michelle lost quite a bit of blood, her arms fell to the ground and her vision started to get blurry. She couldn't move now, what should she do? 'I'm going to die…' Her eyes were starting to shut when Kagura's hand was reaching for the shards.
Kagura smirked when she was about to take the jewel shards from her shirt, when she saw something came by her hand fast, cutting wrist. She looked at the thing that hit her, it was an arrow. 'Could it be that Kagome girl?'
Kagura turned to her other side and saw someone with a bow in it's hand, the person put it's arms down and started to walk slowly towards. When it stepped in the light, it revealed a person with long black hair, and the miko clothing.
"Kikyo!?" Kagura was shocked.
"Leave now or I'll shoot the arrow at your heart next time, Kagura," said Kikyo. She turned her attention to Naraku. "I finally found you."
"I don't have time for now, Kikyo. I only came to see if Kagura succeeded on taking the shards. Come on, Kagura. We should leave right now," said Naraku.
"Right…" Kagura took a feather from her hair and had it transformed, jumping on it and flying away, Naraku using the miasma to escape.
"Aargh! Damn you, Naraku!"
After Naraku and Kagura disappeared, she looked at the tree, where Michelle was resting at. She slowly walked to her and went to her knee. She saw the blood on the ground from her arm and looked at her eyes, they were almost shut.
"Are you alright?" Kikyo asked her. Michelle slowly turned her head to Kikyo, so weak that she can barely see anything. She only saw a figure in front of her that looked so familiar.
"K…Kagome…?" With that last word, her eyes completely shut this time. She passed out…
"I need to stop the bleeding right here…"
Kikyo started to take some herbs out of her kimono, getting ready to put it on her arm. She gently grabbed her arm and lifts it up, rubbing the herb medicine on her open wound. It was a long cut down her upper arm. She gently put it down, and grabbed a white strip of bandage, where she got it from Kagome a while ago, she gently wrapped it around Michelle's upper arm, tightening a little.
'I hope she'll be alright now…I should take her with me in case Naraku and Kagura came back.'