Chapter 5: Awakening of the Dead
Another night passed, and Kagome remained motionless, Inu-Yasha had fallen asleep at the edge of her bed. Then the sun peeked through her blinds and danced on her face. She sat up and stretched her muscles moving for the first time in five days. She yawned and tried to stand up, but fell back on the bed, she looked around and reached for her dresser and pulled herself down the stares. She walked into the kitchen to see rice balls and tea made up for her. A note rested against the cup:
hey sweetie, I know that you haven't eaten for a while so this would be a nice thing to start your stomach off on the tea will help give you back your strength, I love you, fell better soon, give a rice ball to your friend, he's been watching over you ever sense he brought you back.
Love,
Mom
Kagome smiled and set the card down, 'thanks mom' Kagome picked up a couple rice balls and slowly ate them, they were salty but not too salty, her mother always knew how to make them perfect. Kagome walked into the living room and looked outside, cherry blossoms fell to the ground gently, she ate the last of the second rice ball and looked at the three left on the table and felt sick, she couldn't eat anymore. Kagome started to hum a song she heard from a borrowed C.D. It was one of her friends; she had recently visited the U.S. and got a couple C.D.'s for Kagome to listen to while she recovered from what ever it was that her grandfather 'diagnosed' her with. A light humming filled Inu-Yasha's mind as he slept. She stood up and walked up the stairs and into her room, she looked at Inu-Yasha's sleeping face, 'he's so peaceful...' she turned and turned on the radio and slid the volume down. She listened as the English mix her friend made quietly played.
"You wake up to realize your only friends… " she changed the song,
"When this tight rope I travel starts to unravel and I feel like I'm falling apart, holding you, holds me together-" she clicked forward' once more
"Their all watching us now they think were falling in love… they'd never believe were just friends…" Kagome sighed and turned off the radio, as much as her friend loved these songs, she never had time to sit and actually translate them, so to her, it was nothing more then gibberish, there had only been one song that she could remember the words to and actually understood.
She looked to Inu-Yasha and then sat on the bed. She leaned across the bed and rested her head next to his. She yawned then touched his hand. "Inu-Yasha…" His eyes opened then focused on her. "Ya know… my bed is a lot comfier then the floor." He rolled his eyes "You need your sleep."
"No I need to go back, those shards aren't collecting themselves."
"No, you need to rest so your senses are back to normal…"
'However sensing that demon was pretty impressive.'
"Hey Kagome..."
"Yeah?"
"How did you sense that demon?"
"What demon?"
"The giant centipede that was over a mile away, you've never sensed anything like that before."
"What was so special about it?"
"This," Inu-Yasha pulled a sliver of the jewel out of his pocket, "look Kagome, this thing isn't even worth calling a sliver." She took the piece of the jewel investigating as well as taking in the actually size of it. It really was nothing more then a sliver. "Are you sure I sensed this."
"Yeah, you told us exactly where it was too."
She smiled, "I don't know, I…Just… did."