(You've done enough)
Everything happened so quickly. Kagome looked on and opened her eyes after what seemed like the longest silence ever. Ever. The only sound that she could hear was the sound of thunder and lightening in the background, booming in all its deadly glory. She gasped and brought her hand up to her chest.
Inu Yasha was on his knees, sweating a great deal and clutched his wounded wrist and chest. His Tetsusaiga was knocked out and back to its old, rusty figure and lay about three feet behind him.
Hiten was on his back huffing as he struggled to get back up. He couldn't use his right arm apparently, and tried to sustain himself so desperately with his left arm. Blood trickled down his mouth and the side of his forehead where Inu Yasha had pummeled into him. The Raigekijin was sliced neatly in half and yet splinters and wood chips lay everywhere. The blade was covered in Inu Yasha's blood, so slick and blood red.
Sakura…she was merely smirking on her knees despite the fact the ground below her was sprayed in her own redness. She was shaking hard and seemed to be losing a lot of blood. Kagome gasped and looked towards Inu Yasha. He was pulling a dagger out of his wrist, wincing as he did so. He then turned to complain. Finding that the schoolgirl and Shippo were both alive and hopefully safe, he sighed out of relief but grimaced in pain.
"Who the hell threw this?!" he yelled towards Kagome. His eyes then landed on the smirking girl who was on her knees. He stood up weakly and wobbled over to Sakura. "Who the hell are you?" he asked demandingly, upset that this girl had taken away his only chance of victory.
"Get…away…" Inu Yasha heard Hiten groan weakly behind him. He turned and looked down to see that Hiten was grasping onto his ankle so tightly with a hint of threatening in his voice. "Don't you touch her, you filthy half breed…"
"Keh, you sounded just like me a while ago, Hiten." Inu Yasha spat. "But I guess you didn't listen to me…why should I listen to you?"
"Sit boy!!" Kagome screamed out of anger as the half demon fell face flat onto the ground. "How could you, Inu Yasha? I'm safe, and you're alive! Why are you trying to kill this girl?"
After a while, Inu Yasha got up tiredly and said, "I'm not trying to kill her, stupid! I'm trying to question her motives!"
"But she's hurt, Inu Yasha!"
"So what?" Sakura heard the half demon sneer. "The better to get the jewel shards!"
"How can you be so cold?"
"But if we don't take the shards from them now, then we'll never get the completed jewel!" he complained. "We'll have to remove every obstacle, Kagome. Of course I feel sorry for this girl, but I can't let anyone get in my way and you know that! We'll run into them again one day anyway! It's now or then, and I chose now!"
Hiten breathed heavily, clutching his shoulder wound. The bickering noises were merely a series of low monotone buzzing sounds to his ear. He stared at Sakura for a moment, watching her hang onto her life by the passing time.
"You…bitch…" Hiten muttered and dragged his body over to hers. "Sakura…you bitch…I thought I told you to stay back at the lair."
"I couldn't, Hiten…" she said. "I had a bad feeling…if I hadn't done that, then you'd probably have died by now…"
By this time, Kagome knew that they had to depart. She wanted to help them, but looking at the situation that they were in she knew that was out of the question. Looking at the two with a sympathetic look, then up at the grey sky, she nudged Inu Yasha to come with her back to Kaede's village.
"But Kagome…" he whined.
"Inu Yasha…" Kagome said sternly yet softly, picking up a very tired Shippo into her arms. "Is this really the way you want it to be?"
Inu Yasha said nothing. He sighed and took Shippo from Kagome's arms.
"What are you waiting for?" he muttered. "Let's go."
It took him about forever to carry her back to the lair. Even though Sakura was a very light person, with his injuries on top of it all it seemed almost impossible to carry her up back to the house. But somehow, he managed; but not while wincing at his own injuries once in a while. Hiten felt the raindrops pattering upon him the whole trip and he mourned at the fact that his fire wheels had been destroyed.
It was raining.
Today of all days. Great, he thought. Just perfect.
In the crook of his arm laid the Raigekijin, the proud demon blade. He doubted that he wouldn't be able to fix it. All he probably had to do was bring it to a demon blacksmith. But the problem was Sakura right now. She seemed to be in great pain, and even if she didn't say it herself Hiten could see the pain in her eyes. Blood gushed out from her lower stomach slowly as she moaned in burning agony, but through all that she managed to pull a smile at him.
"Was…I being stupid, Hiten?" Sakura questioned. "You may think so…but I don't think what I did was dumb."
"I could have done him off myself." Hiten muttered, knowing that he was wrong. If she hadn't done anything, if she hadn't come, then Hiten knew that he would have died by now.
"Heh…and you thought that making me stay at the lair was a bad idea." Sakura said. She closed her eyes and let her head rest against his shoulder. After what seemed like an eternity, Hiten put Sakura down upon the floorbed and let her rest for awhile. He tried hard to stand up, but his injuries wouldn't let him do so easily. He gazed at his wasted Raigekijin and sighed deeply before trying to stand up, only to find himself fall back down again.
"Shit…" he hissed and removed his bloodstained shirt.His tatteredarmour lay in a heap in the corner of the room, and Hiten threw his shirt by the pile also. Reaching into the small medicine drawer, Hiten pulled out a handful of spices and bandages. Helping Sakura to sit up, he silently shed a tear.
"Are you crying?" Sakura whispered as she lifted her shirt halfway up to reveal a deep wound. Hiten stared at it in great sadness. The wound was too deep, the blood loss too quick. Knowing he had no time to lose, he applied the spices with great care and started to wrap the linens around Sakura's stomach. He still tried to deny that he was shedding a tear.
"I'm not crying…" Hiten muttered, wiping away yet another drop of the salty substance.
"I know." Sakura said, and sat back against the wall as he cut off a loose piece of the cloth and pulled her shirt back down. "I remember you did this for me once a few months ago."
"I remember." Hiten said and looked at the Raigekijin. "That wooden handle idea turned out to be bad, eh?"
"I'm sure you'll be able to fix it. Don't worry." Sakura then looked outside the small window. How softly the rain pattered against the strong structure, and how soothing the sound was. Music to the ears was what it seemed to be.
"Hiten?" Sakura whispered weakly.
"Yes?" Hiten said, pushing the medicine box away and sitting close to her.
"…dead…"
"What?"
"Manten's dead..." Sakura whispered on the verge of tears. "He promised me he'd be back. He promised me he'd be back. Stupid…liar…" she whispered, leaning her head weakly against Hiten's bare shoulder. She raised a hand and put it on his ghastly wound. Taken aback by the sudden chill from Sakura's ice cold hand, Hiten jerked back into the wall, wincing in unbearable pain.
"I'm cold, aren't I…?" Sakura smirked. "I'm getting colder."
"No you're not." Hiten said, trying not to give away the fact that he was panicking. "You can't be getting cold. It's…just…I'll bring some more blankets…"
Sakura grasped his wrist as he was about to get up and gave him a small smile.
"Hiten…you know." She said. "Don't try so hard to hide it."
"But…"
"I'm dying, Hiten." Sakura said and gave a small sniffle. "And I don't want you leaving my side, even if it is for one moment…the last thing I want to see when I die is you, and the last person's arms I want to be in is you."
"I'll always be there…" Hiten whispered and hugged Sakura close to his warm body. He clenched his teeth and tried hard not to react at how quickly her body was losing heat. But for now, he did what she wished for him to do. To just stay by her side.
....I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this chapter....because I was trying to upload the Ayame poem I got kinda delayed....then my computer went woohoo, so I had to delay this chapter a bit. But alas, I know you guys will be patient (hopefully) and kind enough to understand....I have this huge geo project and I had to work on that too. LOL....ah well. R&R!