To Love an Enemy - Chapter 3
I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters so...yeah
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The man fighting Sango looked up with a triumphant smile only to see her eyes suddenly go sad, with the knowledge that she would never win. Then much to his dismay she dropped her sword just as he came in for his attack.
Sango closed her eyes waiting for death to come. She took a deep breath and waited for the moment which would take her out of the enemy's grasp for ever. "Bloody Hell" the man swore viciously just managing pull back on his attack which was meant to chop her arm off. But he was not able to pull back enough not to wound the girl, he could tell already the wound on her arm would be deep. "DAMN IT GIRL! I said I didn't want to hurt you!" he said dropping to his knees.
Blood was gushing freely down the girl's arm, with a sigh he ripped his deep purple cape into a long strip which he used to bind the girl's arm. Sango felt the painful wound to her left arm and put her right hand over it in a reflex action as she sank to the ground. She sensed rather than saw the man drop to the ground beside her. She gasped in pain as he bound her arm, she looked up in shock her eyesight already blackening as unconsciousness claimed her. She managed a single whispered word "why?" before she fainted to the ground.
"Stubborn woman, no wonder men can never understand them," the man said shaking his head in exasperation. Realizing that all eyes were on him, he regained his composure and authority. "Lady Kagome," he called.
"Here my lord," said a girl with long black hair breaking through the crowds.
"Please see to it that girl is taken care of. She will be in your charge. Notify me immediately when she awakens, for I will wish to speak with her. That is all, thank you."
The girl bowed her head slightly, but as he turned away she coughed slightly and said, "pardon me my lord but I am not strong enough to lift the girl my self."
The man sighed and then said, "well I'm covered in blood as it is might as well carry her myself." Then with what looked like no effort at all the man hoisted Sango into his arms and carried her to Kagome's tent.
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Sango awoke to a splitting headache. Groaning she opened her eyes, something wasn't right. As she tried to sit up there was a flaring pain from her left arm and instantly all the memories of the previous days flashed back to her. Running away from the castle, meeting the enemy in the woods, and the duel with that- that- that man.
"So you're finally up," a feminine voice said. Sango glanced around the tent. There sitting in a chair was a girl her age with raven black hair and she fletching arrows.
"Who are you?" Sango asked groggily.
"I'm Kagome. I've been taking care of you," the girl said putting the arrow she had been working on aside.
"How long have I been out?" Sango asked hesitantly, almost afraid to know the answer.
"Oh, you've been out cold for almost 2 days now, it's about two hours until supper now. Are you feeling hungry? thirsty? cold?" the girl asked.
"No," Sango said. "What I really want are some answers. Number one what am I doing here, in this tent, alive?"
"Oh, well Prince Miroku wanted me to take care of you and now that you're awake he wishes for you to dine with him if you feel up to it," Kagome said. "But as for the alive part, I can't answer that you will have to ask the Prince yourself. Now whatever other large questions like that you have I suggest you ask the Prince those as well, because I know very little about anything that goes on. I'm not very high on the seniority scale."
"Yes that's another thing, you're not Entonet. I can tell by your accent that you're a Larovellian like me. So what are you doing here?" Sango asked.
"Oh," the girl said blushing. "Well a few months ago my village was raided by a few Etonet warriors, everyone else was killed. But Inuyasha – that's the man that you fought with a tree branch and he ended up beating you and holding you by the throat, the white haired one – he found me, and was about to strike me down by the village well when he saw my face and found he couldn't kill me. He explained later that I apparently look a lot like the last girl he loved, her name was Kikyo, but she somehow died. He didn't go into that, it's still a touchy subject. Anyways he couldn't kill me because of that and he also wouldn't let anyone else hurt me either. Ever since then I've been living with the troops I now do all the cooking and the mending of clothes and such stuff. It's so boring but I'm glad that I'll have a friend now, you will be my friend won't you. Us girl's will have to stick together."
Sango looked up in shock, she had never had a friend before. "S- Sure," she stuttered at last.
"Yay!" the girl exclaimed. "I'm so glad, I've been so lonely."
Just then the white hair warrior, Inuyasha, entered the tent.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome schreeched. "What do you think you're doing, just waltzing right into my tent without knocking or anything! How dare you I might have been changing!"
"I thought I heard voices and I was right the wench is up, I'll go and inform Prince Miroku she'll be joining him for supper," Inuyasha said turning to go.
"Inuyasha! Apologize at once!" Kagome exclaimed indignant.
"Feh! Whatever!" he said and walked out of the tent.
"Well, I guess you don't have a choice about joining the prince for supper. Well come on...oh I'm sorry I forgot to ask your name." "
OIt's Sango."
"Okay, Sango, let's get you all beautied up for dinner!" Kagome said happily.
"But I don't want to look pretty," Sango said hastily.
"Nonsense, you need to feel confident when dealing with royalty. The best way to do that is to know that you look good. Now which color of dress do you want to wear red, green or blue?"
Sango sighed realizing she was not getting out of this. "The red I guess," she said weakly.
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Author's Note: fletching means putting feathers on the end of arrows I know this chapter was a bit boring but once again necessary, it wills start to pick up next chapter. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!