Hey there! I'm SOOO sorry that this took so long! omg you have no idea how sorryI am! (really really really really x infinity) I've had this writen for a LONG time, i just forgot that i didn't post it! so I'm posting like 3 chapters today... as long as my computer co operates... so I'll try REALLY hard not to forget this time! (sorry again) so I'll let you get reading here because I bet you're all a little bit angry at being left hanging. lol here goes!
Disclaimer: I STILL don't own Inuyasha… will someone buy him for me? lol
"Mushin, ye get them out immediately!" Kaede said sharply as she walked into the main room of her hut. Both Inuyasha and Kagome were covered in blood and Miroku looked like he was an inch from death, although he was not bleeding.
"But Lady Kaede, what if they have not finished yet? What if Tyronos is still alive?" Mushin asked, praying that he was indeed dead because he didn't want Miroku to house so many spirits at once anymore, it was taking a toll on his body.
"Ye get them out NOW!" Kaede ordered she was seriously concerned for the welfare of the young travellers. Mushin jumped at her tone of voice and immediately started the ending part of the ritual.
"Kagome? Inuyasha? Are you all right?" Sango asked as she bent over her best friends. Both Inuyasha and Kagome were still bleeding from their wounds, but Inuyasha was coming to.
"Inuyasha?" She asked quietly, so as not to disturb him any more than necessary
"Kagome?" He whispered as he opened his eyes just enough so he could see the fuzzy outline of Sango's face above him.
"She's right beside you Inuyasha…" Sango said quietly, grabbing his hand and placing it on Kagome's. Inuyasha could smell her blood. It was everywhere.
"Is she ok?" He asked, already knowing the answer, but needing to hear what had happened.
"Tyronos… he got her…" Sango explained with her head hung. Inuyasha tensed up, and even though it was killing him to do so, he started to sit up.
"Inuyasha! Don't! Miroku is trying to fix up your wounds!" Sango exclaimed, attempting to push him back down.
"Let me see her…" Inuyasha demanded quietly, and Miroku and Sango pulledhim the rest of the way off of the ground. He saw Kagome lying there, unconscious, and with blood seeping into the bandage that was wrapped around her stomach.
"Kagome?" He asked, tightening his grip on her hand, trying to wake her up.
"I want to get out of here… now." Inuyasha said as loudly as he could, turning to Miroku and Sango for an answer on how to manage such a task.
"You would need to get into a medative state, or wait until Mushin performs the ending ritual." Miroku explained
"Then why isn't she gone yet? She's asleep… well unconscious, but shouldn't she be gone now?" Inuyasha asked in confusion.
"No, she needs to voluntarily go into a medative state, which she is not. So unless we can wake her up and get her to meditate, we're stuck waiting for Mushin to get us out." Miroku said. Inuyasha growled at the thought of Kagome not getting proper medical attention right away.
"Help me wake her up…" Inuyasha said quietly, regretting that he had to do it. Suddenly, the group found themselves swimming in darkness… all except Miroku that is. He watched as his friends disappeared right in front of his eyes. He heaved a sigh of relief and began to meditate, so he could get out of that god-forsaken field!
"Master Miroku, are you all right?" A chubby face asked from above the monk. Miroku groaned as he realised how much his head hurt.
"What did you do to me Mushin?" Miroku joked as he sat us and rubbed his head. He found himself sitting in Kaede's hut once more, only now Kagome's white robes were soaked in blood, and Inuyasha's red haori was a dark crimson. Sango was just starting to wake up and she groaned and complained of a headache as well.
"Oww." She said simply, drawing a chuckle from the monk. She then remembered the state of her best friends and rushed to their sides. She sat in between them and watched in amazement as Inuyasha's hand reached over to grab Kagome's. She let out a sigh of relief, knowing he would be fine. Kagome on the other hand was another story all together. She was unbelievably pale, and was still bleeding profusely, Sango wondered why no one had done anything about that and decided that Mushin was too drunk to notice. She then spotted Kaede, bustling about, searching for herbs and bandages to treat the two wounded companions.
"Kaede? Will they be ok?" Sango asked, not wanting to lose her best friend again.
"Yes child. I shall make it so, by any means necessary…" Kaede said quietly as she made her way to Kagome, who was obviously the worse for wear at the moment. She pealed back the bloodstained robe and began to clean the wound.
An hour later, Kagome appeared to be in better shape, although she still wasn't moving or waking up. Miroku was assisting by cleaning Inuyasha's wounds while the women tended to Kagome. Mushin was sent away because he was drunk again and no one wanted him near the wounded couple at the time. Since he appeared to be unwanted, Mushin went on a search for Shippo, who was hiding as best he could from the drunken old man. It seemed that no one aside from Miroku could stand this man.
"Is Kagome all right?" Inuyasha suddenly said as he opened his eyes, cursing the immense pain in his chest where Miroku was cleaning out his wounds.
"She's doing better…" Miroku said calmly, he seemed to always be calm in dire situations.
"Better? She doesn't look better!" Inuyasha exclaimed hoarsely. Gripping Miroku's shoulder for support as he sat up to examine his wounded love.
"She is though…" Miroku explained, shaking his head at the memory of how horrible Kagome looked when he first awoke. He was glad Inuyasha had not seen that.
"She will be better though right?" Inuyasha asked frantically with worried eyes portraying every emotion going through him at that moment. Terror, worry, love, pain, anger… he was a big jigsaw puzzle of emotion. Miroku forced him to lie back down so his wounds could be treated, but Inuyasha resisted as much as his body would allow. Eventually when he had been wrestled to the ground again, Miroku continued to treat his wounds. Nearly 10 minutes later he was all patched up and was pulling his haori back on. He winced as he stretched his arm too far for his chest to allow. Miroku sighed and went to assist the hanyou in tying the haori back together.
"I feel like a child! Don't do that I can do it myself!" Inuyasha insisted as Miroku continued to help him back into his shirts.
"Yes, that explains why you were wincing in pain only a moment ago." Miroku said lightly, chuckling at Inuyasha's misfortune. Inuyasha glared at him and shuffled over to Kagome's other side, to see how she was doing.
"You better fix her up damn good old bag or I swear to god I'll kill you!" Inuyasha threatened with a snarl.
"Stop…it… Inuyasha…"
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted as he realised he had just been reprimanded by the one girl he had been hoping to hear.
"Are you all right?" He asked more quietly, knowing that she was probably suffering from a migraine, just as he had.
"Yes…" She whispered.
"Did I get him?" She asked in a voice so quiet that only Inuyasha could hear her.
"You got him, he's dead." He said quietly, gripping her hand in his again, silently celebrating the fact that she squeezed back this time.
"I did… I killed him… oh my god! Are you all right?" Kagome suddenly asked, a look of fear sweeping over her face.
"I'm fine, it's you we're all worried about!" Inuyasha said as he looked down at the bandage that was covering from just below her shoulders down to her waist. He then realised that Miroku was thoroughly examining the bandage as well, and growled low in his throat. Miroku immediately backed off and Inuyasha tossed a blanket over top of Kagome's small form.
"I'll be ok… See? I'm talking and everything!" Kagome said quietly, with a small giggle which endedquickly since it hurt so much to do anything but breathe and say a couple of words.
"You better because I don't much feel like going on a mad search-and-find mission for Sesshomaru for him to bring you back to life again…" Inuyasha mumbled, seriously not wanting to do that.
"I won't die Inuyasha… I promise." Kagome assured him
"You said that last time didn't you?" Inuyasha asked, knowing that he'd won their argument… or so he thought.
"Yes I did say that, and I'm here aren't I?" Kagome said with a smile, she won again.
"How do you always do that? Let me win for once!" Inuyasha pouted, earning a half giggle from the petite girl lying before him.
"Oww… stop making me laugh! Do you like seeing me in pain?" Kagome asked as her eyelids started to droop.
"Of course not! Why the hell do you think I've been risking my life all this time you baka!" Inuyasha exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. Kagome giggled half heartedly at his reaction, and was soon in a deep slumber. Inuyasha had half a mind to wake her because he wasn't sure if she was all right or not, but decided that he'd really rather not face her wrath when she awoke. He kissed her forehead and brushed some of her hair away from her face, giving her sleeping form a smile. Then he struggled to his feet to go check on everyone else, even though he was the one who was hurt.
"Inuyasha! Get ye wounded body back in bed!" Kaede bellowed from the field she was in, picking herbs. Inuyasha sighed, and cursed his red fire rat haori for being so noticeable.
"Shut up old woman!!" Inuyasha shouted back, deciding that he could ignore her for now, but he would have to go back inside soon.
"INUYASHA!" she screamed, scaring him back into the hut, and smiling smugly to herself, glad that he had learned who was the elder one here.
lol what did you think? INUCHICK! WHERE ARE YOU??????? lol I haven't got a review from her yet ok? I'm not going insane! I already WAS thank you! lol in case you haven't noticed I'm a little bit hyper! Dude… you know what… I haven't eaten all day... lol maybe I should do that… lol well I'm going to go find me some sort of food like substance and I'll see you in the next chapter! TTFN!!!
