Chapter 13
Blood was all around her, but she couldn't feel anything.
Her body was numb and if her mind didn't keep telling her to run she would have just given up and died in peace.
Anything to stop the pain in her heart.
Anything to get away from the dreadful truth that inuyasha was lost.
He was lost to me before why do I care about it now?!
"But you did care! What you turned into to run away from the pain was no better than kikyou. You were cold and distant, afraid that if you got close to anyone again that the ice would melt and that the pain would start again. You did care!"
kagome had forgotten what she was running from.
Just that something was after her and even if she lay down to just die that even then there would be no peace.
Never peace.
And if kikyou's first death had anything to say about her situation she would know that there would be no peace in death either.
But what am I running from?!
"Ah... the answer to that question might determine weather you keep running or lay down and wait for him... if you knew who was after you, you might just lay down to wait. Wait to see his face once more."
Who is it?! Damn it kagome, remember!
"Weren't we just talking about him? Though in the state you are in I'm surprised you can even conjure simple questions, let alone put two and two together." (A/N: this is kagome's...um... subconscious ness...um... talking to her?... yea somethin' like that. ((whispers)) I don't like him very much, very negative)
inu...yasha? is that what...um...who I'm running from.
"hmmm it's about time."
Finally it all clicked and came back to her.
Oh yes.
She had met sesshomaru, i
nuyasha tried to protect her but ended up nearly killing her,
then sesshomaru did something with the jewel inside of inuyasha, and now inuyasha was under his control somehow.
Stop!!!!
Her brain finally commanded and her body stopped, and wavered while contemplating the damage that it had undergone, and after a minute's decision it decided to give way, shut down, and then unfortunately let the pain go all at once.
It was too late now might as well give in. thought kagome.
And slowly she drifted off.
"Both of her wrists are broken, her shoulder is shattered, and her left leg is also broken. That is all without including a raw back, and two cuts running down the sides of her legs." "How can someone survive that?!"
"By the look of things she is a miko, and so she probably had some help. I believe that she is from the town slightly north of ours, wasn't there a priestess riding through the other day?"
"Why yes there was, she didn't stay long though. And she was wearing the same garb as we found this young lady in, though you can barely recognize it there was so much blood. No flies though, I would expect more flies on a half dead corpse."
"Miko powers certainly."
"Let us send her back to her own village. Maybe she will be able to heal faster."
"Yes, let us not delay. Wrap her wounds tightly so that they don't break the cuts. It may be a harsh ride."
"Yes, I will."
"Well Kagome, ye has missed much in the last month that ye's been unconscious but I believe that the information you hold may be worth more."
Kagome's eyes opened slightly.
There was no more pain any more.
Just stiffness.
Kaede's voice flooded in once more.
"child, ye must tell sango, miroku, and I what has happened to ye and inuyasha."
Inuyasha the name brought back dreadful memories, and an ache that felt like it would never go away.
Kagome closed her eyes again and felt cold crystalline tears flow down her cheeks and land in her hair.
She wasn't ready to talk about it.
She didn't think she ever would.
And the next words out of the familiar voice of sango were enough to back that thought fully.
"two demons that look like brothers have been attacking our city for a month now. One we know is sesshomaru; the other we believe is inuyasha in his full demon form. The only one who may be able to bring him down is you kagome."
"we are sorry to say this lady kagome,"
miroku's voice stepped in,
"but you must purify him and retrieve the sacred jewel."
Miroku's voice died down and he looked to kaede to finish the surplus speech.
"Child, simply put, you must put aside your feelings for the half demon, he is no longer in your grasp. ...You must kill inuyasha."
Kaede sighed and moved away from kagome so that the young miko could process the information.
"I understand"
she said and awkwardly rose from her mat and leaned against the wall of the hut, her eyes not focusing on anything.
"I will be able to ride at daybreak."
She said and stumbled out the door.