You guys all want longer chapters. I am sorry but I don't decide how long my chapters are, they decide for themselves and it doesn't sound right when I push the boundaries and drag on a chapter.

So plz enjoy chapter 5.

Concrete Rose

Chapter 5 The Golden Embroidery

But someone did get hurt. Someone took the miasma as a diversion to shoot an arrow.

Right into the man's chest.

Nice and deep.

Kagome was stunned.

She just stood there while the man she helped was there at her feet bleeding to death.

Sango, who just got away from the miasma, crawled panting to lie down beside her. She took a gasping breath, and said, "Kagome! Don't just stand there! You have your herbs, you have trained. Use your magic and save him before it's too late!"

That seemed to work. Kagome snapped out of her trance of horror and pulled out her herb pouch. Ginseng for health, and luck; jasmine for healing; cinnamon for protection; and finally, oil from orange peel to stop the bleeding. Kagome took out a blue cloth and tied everything in it.

Kagome pulled out the arrow form the man's chest; his breathing was shallow, and she could almost feel how hard it was for that poor man just to breathe. She went on her knees to pray to the Lord of the Skies like she did when she and Inuyasha were still little. Then, she took the little blue bag and placed it on the man's chest. She put her hand on his chest right above the blue bag and watched as it took awhile for her medicine to sink in, but it eventually did stopped bleeding, and the wound started to close until there was nothing but a scar.

Sango looked at her in disbelief. Wow, she thought, that girl has some power. Then she realized that people started to look and form a circle around the black - haired man, she agreed that it was the time to go.

Sango grabbed Kagome by her forearm and started to drag her along. But Kagome protested.

"Sango, we can't just leave the guy like that! He is so helpless! We have to go back and at lest bring him to the medical tent. Sango!"

"Kagome, stop it will you? That man will be fine! And yes we can leave him like that. Can't you see that crowed of onlookers? I thought you weren't supposed to be performing magic like that. I thought your mother said that you're supposed to be Lilly! Lilly doesn't have magical powers of a priestess!"

"OK! Sango I get it ok? Stop yelling at me! We'll just go home. Happy?"

Inuyasha jolted awake and found himself in the medical tent.

Medical tent? How the hell did he end up in the medical tent? He tried to sit up, but he was forced back down.

"Inuyasha, you impatient young master! Lie back down." Inuyasha saw the ugly, wrinkled face of his faithful servant, Myouga, peering back at him, half-impatient and half-worried.

"Don't tell me what to do!" he snapped back. He racked his brain into bits trying to figure out what exactly happened that got him here. Here out of all places. But he just couldn't figure out what happed after the arrow hit him, except for the pain in his chest. He put his hand in the place where the arrow should be. But instead he found a little bag, stiff with blood. His blood. He opened it. Surprisingly the content inside was not soaked in his blood. He sniffed it… ginseng… jasmine… cinnamon… and a bitter smell of orange…

Why are these in there? That question really stumped him. Who put those in there? That was a better and more confusing question.

"Myouga was there some sort of… herbal priestess here? Yesterday?" Myouga looked confused at the question.

"No… why would you ask?"

"I don't know… I think someone use some sort of… um… herbs here to… I don't know heal me from yesterday when I was human."

"I don't think there are any priestesses here that I know of…"

"I think I cracked my head after I feel yesterday… Myouga? I think I'll go out for a walk… ok with you?"

"Yes, yes I think you should take a walk, too." But Inuyasha knew Myouga wasn't paying attention at all. He was too busy examining a piece herb from the blue cloth.

"Inuyasha, this is cinnamon… did you know that cinnamon gives you a little bit of physical protection on wounds? Few know this… I think the only one in this village who really knows their herbs and medicines is Lady Keade."

"Kagome's grandma?"

"Yup."

Just then Inuyasha caught sight of something in the inner, dry part of the cloth. A golden embodied lion. Suddenly something fluttered across his memory, like a little shadow of a doubt. Someone's delicate and small fingers made this same golden lion on blue silk cloth, years and years ago. Maybe a little more then a decade ago.

Inuyasha had been small back then. 8. He had been 8 back then when he watched this happen over her slim shoulders. He had been impatient back then when he watched it happen. He had wanted to show her some nasty bugs he had found close to the stream. And then at long last, he watched as she finished the finishing touches and sewed in her name. Left corner. Her name was on the left corner.

Inuyasha snatched the cloth away from the old man's hands and ran to the water pail in the corner. He put the cloth into the pail and washed furiously until all his blood had been washed way.

And it was still there. Her name. K-A-G-O-M-E. The name was there in gold thread. It shocked him though. Inuyasha couldn't believe it. Kagome was here and he didn't even know. He flattened the wet silk cloth on the palm of his hand, and just stared at it. Then he sighed and decided to take a walk under a certain tree that held so much memories of her.

Inuyasha got to the giant tree in less then 5 minutes. He paid a yen for a prayer paper and an orange. He tied the yellow paper to the orange and on it he wrote: Kagome I hope you'll come out of hiding and tell me where you are. I missed you come back to me.

Then he threw it up onto a branch and he prayed to the Lord of the skies that the message would be answered and granted. And, as if a response, his orange hit a branch and the branch swayed. It brought down several oranges tied to prayer paper. And one of them accidentally whacked him on the head! It bounced off and onto his hand.

"Kagome! You did WHAT? I don't believe you! First you worry me to the seven hells and then you tell me you used you magic? Kagome, Kagome, what am I going to do with you? You landed us this hut by hanging with that half- blood Inuyasha then are you trying to Endanger us by using your magic? Lord, what have I done to get this curse of a daughter?" Kagome's mom has been at it for about last 24 hours. Not literally, but you get what I mean.

"Miss, Kagome couldn't have just left him… he would've died."

"Sango, can you stay out of this?"

"Yes, miss. But…"

"I said stay out" Sango bowed her head and didn't say anymore.

"Now Kagome - "

Kagome almost knew what her mother was going to say and she had just about enough.

"I know, mother, I should've left him to die! ' Cause you would'vedone it! You know what? I think you are shellfish and unkind! Mother. But just cause you wouldn't have saved him even if you could doesn't mean I have to do the same. I believe that I have powers to help. Or else -"

"Kagome, I'm not saying you should leave him to die, I was just - " she looked taken- aback.

"Just what?" the younger girl shot back.

Kohaku looked on the shouting match, moving back and forth like tennis. Mother vs. daughter. It was too ugly to watch he ran out of the house and away from the shouting until the only sound was the rushing waterfall and rapids. Where, in the midst was a silver- haired man with red marking on his cheeks. And he was looking straight at him.

Oh Lord, help me deliver the message to him! I wish the world would forgive

the incident with Hiromi! I wish Inuyasha and I can live a life where demons

and mere mortals can get along. I hope I see Inuyasha soon. Oh Lord, help me!

Please answer my prayer Kagome

Inuyasha's eyes widened. As he read and re- read the words, he saw that a tear had fallen from his cheeks and to the yellow paper. Suddenly he felt the same as he did 11 years ago when he had chased Kagome's carriage (and failed to catch it) in the pouring rain. He felt lost. Abandoned. Torn apart as the carriage rode farther and farther into the mountain, away from him, from the village. Closer to the Temple of Midoriko, the Miko school.

Now that she had returned, probably here for more than a year, she had made no attempt to see him. But she comes to save him. Why hadn't she stayed until he had resumed half- demon form? Why did she just leave? If she had saved him, then why hadn't she stayed to make sure he was ok?

Why did she just leave?

Is it because she didn't want to see him? Is it because she doesn't like him anymore? Come to think of it, she wasn't at the field of fireworks when she promised. Why?

Could it be that she wants nothing to do with him?

I know this is short. Sorry.

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