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Chapter 6
Your last thought before drifting away is of Inuyasha.
You wake up to the feeling of something wet sliding across your face. Startled you jump into a sitting position on your futon. You rub your eyes and turn to see the fox Tetsu staring at you. If you didn't know any better you could swear the saint -Bernard-size fox was smirking at you. You frown and wipe drool from you're the side of your face.
"Good morning to you too, Tetsu" You say dryly to the fox and slowly get up and put on your clothes and also the necklace which holds the shikon no tama.
You then walk out of your room with Tetsu following you from behind. You head to the kitchen and to the sink to give your face an extra scrub with hot water to remove fox germs. Then you start to work on breakfast and soon Shippou comes in stretching and yawning. You both eat and Shippou gets to pig out on the ramen because Inuyasha isn't here. Then you remember you have an anonymous, wounded guest in your guest room and you decide to make her a plate of breakfast and tea.
Shippou helps and he takes the plate of food and carries it to the guest room down the hall with you following behind. He stops in front of the door and so do you.
"Um, miss are you awake?" You ask and wait for a reply, but find none.
You and Shippou shrug and you open the sliding door for Shippou, he walks in and you walk in after him. When you walk in and walk closer to the girl you see that she seems paler than she was last night. Shippou sits the food tray beside the girl and kneels beside you. You take the blanket off the girl to check the bandages on her side and see that the girl has bled through it and is making a stain on the futon.
"Shippou get some more bandages! Hurry!" You say to Shippou and he hurries to retrieve some bandages. You then check the girls' temperature by forehead to find it very hot and you silently curse your luck. Shippou then comes back running into the room.
"I can't find any!" He says.
"Did you check the kitchen and storage room?" You ask and Shippou nods vigorously. "I guess we might be out then..." You whisper and figure you must have used the rest of the bandages you had left on the bleeding girl last night.
You then rise from your position and head to the kitchen. While going a vain search to look for a roll of bandages you make some special tea, another thing that Kaede taught you, to keep down the girls' temperature. Like said your search for bandages is useless so you take a mug of the special tea to the girl so she can drink it. You carefully lift the girls' head up and let her drink down the tea. Then Shippou walks into the room giving up on finding any bandages.
"What are we going to do without bandages?" He asks kneeling down next to you.
"Improvise" You say and place the tea on the floor and gently place the girls' head back on the futon. You then walk over to the closet and pull out a sheet. {Not a sheet of paper a futon sheet, er bed sheet.} You walk back to the girl and take off the old bandages, clean the wound again, rip the sheet in medium strips and bandage it again. You then rise and walk over to the door.
"Shippou stay here with her until I get back, I'm going to get some more bandages in town." You say and open the door.
"Why can't I come?" Shippou asks.
"...Because you have to stay here with her and feed her the tea in the next 20 minutes." You say and Shippou frowns. "But, I'll bring you back some candy and besides your not here all alone because Tetsu will keep you company." You say and Shippous' grins at the word candy.
"Ok!" Shippou replies.
You then leave the room and head to the front and grab your backpack and sword, attaching it to your hakama. You then walk out the entrance locking it behind you and start on your quest, by foot, to get to village.
20 Minutes Later...
Since the house/temple isn't very close to the village it took some time to get there. You are now there after passing over river. You enter the town looking for the nearest shop or booth that sells what you're looking for. The village is kind of crowded today, so you have to weave your way through people with the push and shove qualities. You finally find booth and head to it. An old woman stands behind it and you tell him what you want, which is some bandages, tea, sake and candy, you pay for it and he gives it to you.
"Thank you, ma'am" You mutter and you put the items into your backpack.
Going back in the traffic of people, while trying not to loose your temper with the shoving and curse someone out, you head back into the forest. You tread your way back on a path the same way you took before. You then reach the river and since there isn't a bridge you have to skip across the rocks like you did before. You jump to the first stone, then to the next. Over the year you've been training a bit, taking control over your power, so now you have better balance.
You jump to the next stone, and then you sense something advancing you to your right at a very high-speed. You slightly turn your head and look out the side of your eye to see something black and pointy heading your way, something dagger like. You jump backwards off the stone, watching the dagger pass in front of you and wondering who the hell through it at you. You try to land back on one of the stones and you do, but you loose your balance and slip.
"Yaaaahhhh!!!!!" Flailing your arms, trying to grab on to something, which is useless you fall backwards into the river.
Your body meets the icy goodness of the river and you continue to flail your arms. {Wait! Does anyone know how to swim?!}.... Remember you know how to swim you swim upward and catch onto a rock. Now the only thing you have to do now is get back on land. You hold on tighter to the stone, so you won't slip and go with the flow downstream.
"Here!! Grab on!!" You hear and turn to see the end of a staff pointing at you.
You do as you're told and grab the staff; you are then being slowly pulled to land. After what feels like forever you finally feel the ground beneath you and let go of the staff. You slowly crawl the rest of the way out of the river and onto the surface and fall flat on your back, catching your breath. You then remember you have unusable when wet items in your backpack and take your backpack off and open it up. Sure enough, the roll of bandages is wet soggy with the tea.
"Damn it!" You mutter to yourself squeezing the soaking bandages in your fist watching water wring out.
"Is something wrong?" You hear behind you and turn to see your savior behind you.
A girl kind of taller and older than you with pointy ears laying on top of her head. Wearing all white, a white hakama and a white yukata with a silver sash tied around her waist. Long, black hair laying down to her waist and a staff with a clear crystal on the top in her hand. Pale skin and a sweet smile on her face, but you can see a deep sadness in her eyes.
You stand and brush yourself off.
"Um, nothing's wrong it's just that when I fell into the river it soaked these bandages." You say holding the bandages up. "And someone really needs them."
"Oh..." The girl takes off her pack and rummages through it and pulls out some bandages. "Take these" She says handing them to you and you hesitate.
"Are you sure?" You ask and the girl nods.
"If someone really needs them I'm willing to help." She says smiling.
"Um, thanks." You say and slightly smile at the girls' act of kindness and take the bandages from her. You then pull out the driest bag of candy you have. "Here, it's not much, but it tastes good." You say holding out the bag of candy.
"Your welcome" She says and takes the bag from you.
"Well, I have to go." You say and start to walk away a bit and stop then remember. "Um, if we ever meet up again I'll repay you for this, ok? But before I go what's your name?" You say and turn around.
"My name is Naomi, but you don't have to repay me, this'll do!" She says holding up the bag of slightly moist candy.
"My names ! And I will pay you back!" You say walking away backwards.
"But it's fine-"Naomi continues, but you cut her off.
"I have to go, Naomi! But, I'm sure we'll meet again! See ya'!" You say not very sure you two will meet again and wave breaking into a run going backwards. You see Naomi wave and then you turn, so you won't accidentally run into a tree.
You continue to run with the fresh bandages in hand back toward the house/temple. You then enter the clearing and that must mean you're not too far away.
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Alright!! I am so sorry I got this up so late!!! I hope there weren't too many grammar mistakes. I also received Naomi today, so I did a last minute turn and added her in. But, you shouldn't be too mad because you got to go for a small swim in a nice steady river where you had no chance of drowning....
Ja!