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Authors Beginning Note: Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I was busy I was at a temporary writers block. I started to write this chapter several times, but parts kept conflicting with what I want to happen later, and it wouldn't make sense otherwise. So without further ado.here is my next chapter!
Chapter 20
Will She Live?
Keade stood outside and looked up at the darkening sky.
"The wind is changing, as is the weather. Hmm. Something bad is going to happen. It does not bode with me well. Not one bit." She said before going back to mixing her potion before the wind could really pick up.
"Why is it taking so long!" Inuyasha said impatiently outside, watching Keade mix the herbs quickly. He kept looking from the sky, to Keade, to the strewn mess of herbs and liquids in bowl on the ground, to the healing potion in the pot, only to start all over again.
"I am working as fast as the potion can be rushed. If it isn't made exactly, it might not even work, or worse."
"Well, work faster! A storms coming, and I don't like it." He said, almost nervous. Keade didn't reply, but her calm face was crinkled with worry and her still hands shook ever so slightly. Lightning began to flash in the distance, and thunder rolled across the sky.
"Go inside and wake Miroku. See if he can come and help with the next task." Inuyasha grumbled but walked in. He looked at Kagome, lying in the corner, then walked over to Miroku and jabbed him in the arm with his foot. One of Miroku's eyes's opened to look at Inuyasha.
"Keade says she needs your help if you can come." Miroku nodded and looked down at the sleeping form in his arms. Sango did not look well. Her face, which had been colored with fever, now looked ashen gray. Her lips were a dull pink. Her body cold, and yet slicked with sweat. Miroku looked worried. Kirara mewed a sad mournful mew, which caused Kagome in her sleep, to twitch. Miroku nodded. He stood up, still holding Sango and placed her on a cot. Inuyasha went over to Shippo and woke him up, taking back his haori shirt. Sitting up groggily, he rubbed his eyes.
"Inuyasha, what." wham!
"Inuyasha! You Jerk! What did."? Wham!
"Will you shut up and be quiet!" Inuyasha hissed under his breath. Shippo rubbed the two lumps that he now sported on his head.
"You big jerk. You could have just told me so." Wham! Shippo fell back, slightly unconscious. Inuyasha picked him up by the tail and threw him over his shoulder.
After covering Sango with a pile of blankets Miroku followed Inuyasha out.
"How fares she?" Keade asked. Miroku shook his head.
"Not well. She's pale."
"Does she have a fever?"
"She's cold, but she's perspiring." Keade looked grim.
"I believe you requested my service?" Miroku said, trying to act enthusiastically, but greatly failing.
"You three must go and collect the Moon Glow Night Blossoms. I do not like leaving those two here alone in the condition they are in, so I must stay. What I need you three to do is to gather eighty purple flowers that have bright yellow stripes down each of the five petals. They should be a little distance away from the Bone Eaters Well growing in a large patch. Do ye understand?" Both of them nodded, Shippo still unconscious. Soon they were off and it wasn't long before they found the herbs.
"I found them!" Squealed Shippo, who was informed on what they had to look for when he had awoken earlier. Inuyasha and Miroku rushed over to where Shippo was, but it was hard to see in the darkened sky.
"This doesn't look good. We had better hurry." Miroku said getting to his knees and gathering the flowers. It wasn't long though, before rain started falling. The three gathered at an even faster pace. The rain soon began to poor down, not long after turning to ice.
"NO! NO!" Cried Miroku.
"We must hurry, before all of them are completely destroyed!"
"What do you think we're doing?" Yelled back Inuyasha, who was not in a good mood to say the least.
"I can't find anymore good ones. The rest are broken!" yelled Shippo above the incessant pounding of ice on the logs, tree's, and ground.
"How many do we have?" Inuyasha said, shielding his hoard of flowers.
"I have 15." Said Shippo.
"I have 25. Inuyasha?"
"I have 36." Inuyasha said sullenly. They did not have enough. Miroku looked horrified, then looked on the ground where broken and damaged flowers laid. Stems snapped, petals disarrayed on the ground, and wet.
"It's not enough." He said weakly.
"Snap out of it!" Inuyasha yelled slapping the monk across the face.
"Are you going to give up, just because you can't see anymore flowers?" Inuyasha said infuriated.
"What would you have me do?" He yelled back.
"Look under the brush and closer to the trees you idiot!"
"But we're running out of time!"
"Stop it you two, Sango is on her death bed and all the both of you can do is argue!" Miroku looked at Shippo and regained his calm.
"Shippo is right. Inuyasha, I want you to take the flowers we have now and bring them to Keade. Shippo and I will remain here and look for more." Inuyasha nodded and was handed two small baskets that Keade had given them to take and gather the herbs in.
Without another word, Inuyasha ran through the forest, leaving Shippo and Miroku to search on their hands on knees in the deep brush.
"Inuyasha! Where are Miroku and Shippo? What about the Moon Glow Blossoms?" Inuyasha handed the puzzled crone the three baskets as he stepped into the dry hut. He looked over at Sango and frowned. Her breathing was low and raspy. Her hair clung to her, as did the cotton dress. It looked to him as if she had been drenched in water. She was still as death. Her face pale as white ashes and tallow in some areas, producing a color of lard.
"It's only part of what is needed. We were only able to get 76 before it started to hail. Miroku and Shippo are still trying to get more." He said solemnly. Keade looked him in the eye.
"It's like a curse form Kame himself. This is not good. Without the other four flowers, I am not sure it will be strong enough. Sango is on the brink of death and needs the strongest of potions we can provide her." She said, worry making her voice almost raspy.
"So you're saying she will die?" Keade seemed to think about this, but her movement never stopped, as she plucked the petals of the flowers off quickly and put them in the pot filled with a green goopy liquid that smelt like mints.
"Inuyasha.this poison is rare, few catch it, and even fewer know how to cure it. Those few that were able to be given an antidote, and had as little as one flower less than needed, died within eight days of taking it."
"Feh. Those were common villagers I bet. Sango can beat it, she's tough, she."
"Inuyasha! BE still when I speak! Those who died, were not common villagers as you suppose, they were some of the strongest warriors known in their territory, and one was even a full demon!" Keade said harshly, not turning to look at Inuyasha, who had took a step back and a look of horror and worry splashed through his liquid gold eyes. Keade could feel his pain though, and turned to look at him, but all that stood there was a puddle of water where the soaked Hanyou and dripped.
"May speed be granted unto you three. Her life lays in your hands." She said working in a more rapid pace.
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"Shippo have you found any more?" Yelled Miroku to Shippo who was twenty paces away, and barely visible through the thick hail and rain that beat down on them bringing pain and numbness.
"I haven't seen a single one!" He cried in disbelief.
"Well keep looking!" Miroku yelled with a surprisingly steady voice. Miroku stood up to walk over to a tree he saw that had thick vines and plants that could cover.
"Wha.whoa!" He cried as he slid down a small hill and landed in front of a tree where he saw.
"The Moon Glow Blossoms! And they're untouched!" He cried out in his excitement. Dropping Shinjoku; his staff; he quickly picked an abundance of them.
"Hey Miroku! You down there!" came a familiar and welcome voice.
"Be careful, it's slippery!" He cried up and soon, covered in mud from head to toe and bad tempered Inuyasha was standing besides him. Shippo was next to call down, and slide to join them as well.
"I don't think I will be able to climb up very quickly in my present state." He said looking up the hill. Most of the mud sliding off of him from the wet rain, providing a feeling of cold slime dripping down his back, but the flowers were safely wrapped in a strip of cloth, from his old ropes which he had brought along for some odd reason, but a lucky one.
"Inuyasha, you are fastest, and most likely to reach Sango in time. Please take it and hurry he said shoving the tied cloth mess and Inuyasha. Inu looked at his friend and nodded, before jumping up the hill, nearly sliding down, but catching himself and disappearing into a blur.
"What about us Miroku? How will we get up?" Shippo said jumping onto Miroku's shoulder.
"Hmmm, do you think you could turn into a rope and tie yourself up on that tree branch at the top of this hill?" He said rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"Yah, but I would need to be up whoa.wait! What do you think! Ahh!" The poor sobbing wet Kitsune cried as Miroku pitched him high into the air. He landed nearly at the top and began sliding, until his wet hands grasped a tree root sticking out of the ground. He quickly began pulling himself up.
"Whew. That was hard work. Now to get Miroku up here." Shippo said sitting down for a second and catching his breath.
"Well here goes nothing." Shippo produced a leaf out of nowhere. Setting it on his head he skewed up his eyes and with a sad little puff of smoke turned into a long red, talking rope that slithered up the tree, and quickly tying itself.
"Are you ready Miroku?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." He yelled up.
"Okay, here it goes." The rope fell down to Miroku who quickly grasped it.
"I'm going to start up now." He said and began the slow agonizing assent upwards.
~~~
Keade was near done with the petals that she was adding to her pile when she turned and looked at Kagome, and odd feeling tingling inside of her.
"What is this odd feeling? I have never felt the likes of it." She watched Kagome as she breathed rhythmically, her body still. Nothing out of place. Except.
"No.it can't be!" She stood up and went to her.
"But I could have swore.Kikyo and Kagome.their images." She shook her head and touched Kagome's forehead, her eyes closing.
"No, I was but imagining it. Such a foolish thing." She said letting out a sigh and going back to her work. She did not see the corners of Kagome's mouth curl into a sly smile.
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****** Authors Ending Note: So what is it that Keade had suspected? What does it have to do with Kikyo? Is Kikyo even involved in this small twist of plots? Is there even a small twist of plots here for Kikyo to be in? Will Inuyasha make it in time with the flowers to help save Sango? Or is the Taijiya doomed to death?
I have one big question, I don't know if I asked it before, but if I did, I did not get a reply, so in which case I'll ask again.Should the one of the pairings be Seshoumaru/Rin (no, he wouldn't make her his mate at 10 yrs old! I would do some minor adjusting of course.) Or should I have a different, mysterious lady come to view, or maybe just let him be a bachelor, You decide!
Authors Beginning Note: Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I was busy I was at a temporary writers block. I started to write this chapter several times, but parts kept conflicting with what I want to happen later, and it wouldn't make sense otherwise. So without further ado.here is my next chapter!
Chapter 20
Will She Live?
Keade stood outside and looked up at the darkening sky.
"The wind is changing, as is the weather. Hmm. Something bad is going to happen. It does not bode with me well. Not one bit." She said before going back to mixing her potion before the wind could really pick up.
"Why is it taking so long!" Inuyasha said impatiently outside, watching Keade mix the herbs quickly. He kept looking from the sky, to Keade, to the strewn mess of herbs and liquids in bowl on the ground, to the healing potion in the pot, only to start all over again.
"I am working as fast as the potion can be rushed. If it isn't made exactly, it might not even work, or worse."
"Well, work faster! A storms coming, and I don't like it." He said, almost nervous. Keade didn't reply, but her calm face was crinkled with worry and her still hands shook ever so slightly. Lightning began to flash in the distance, and thunder rolled across the sky.
"Go inside and wake Miroku. See if he can come and help with the next task." Inuyasha grumbled but walked in. He looked at Kagome, lying in the corner, then walked over to Miroku and jabbed him in the arm with his foot. One of Miroku's eyes's opened to look at Inuyasha.
"Keade says she needs your help if you can come." Miroku nodded and looked down at the sleeping form in his arms. Sango did not look well. Her face, which had been colored with fever, now looked ashen gray. Her lips were a dull pink. Her body cold, and yet slicked with sweat. Miroku looked worried. Kirara mewed a sad mournful mew, which caused Kagome in her sleep, to twitch. Miroku nodded. He stood up, still holding Sango and placed her on a cot. Inuyasha went over to Shippo and woke him up, taking back his haori shirt. Sitting up groggily, he rubbed his eyes.
"Inuyasha, what." wham!
"Inuyasha! You Jerk! What did."? Wham!
"Will you shut up and be quiet!" Inuyasha hissed under his breath. Shippo rubbed the two lumps that he now sported on his head.
"You big jerk. You could have just told me so." Wham! Shippo fell back, slightly unconscious. Inuyasha picked him up by the tail and threw him over his shoulder.
After covering Sango with a pile of blankets Miroku followed Inuyasha out.
"How fares she?" Keade asked. Miroku shook his head.
"Not well. She's pale."
"Does she have a fever?"
"She's cold, but she's perspiring." Keade looked grim.
"I believe you requested my service?" Miroku said, trying to act enthusiastically, but greatly failing.
"You three must go and collect the Moon Glow Night Blossoms. I do not like leaving those two here alone in the condition they are in, so I must stay. What I need you three to do is to gather eighty purple flowers that have bright yellow stripes down each of the five petals. They should be a little distance away from the Bone Eaters Well growing in a large patch. Do ye understand?" Both of them nodded, Shippo still unconscious. Soon they were off and it wasn't long before they found the herbs.
"I found them!" Squealed Shippo, who was informed on what they had to look for when he had awoken earlier. Inuyasha and Miroku rushed over to where Shippo was, but it was hard to see in the darkened sky.
"This doesn't look good. We had better hurry." Miroku said getting to his knees and gathering the flowers. It wasn't long though, before rain started falling. The three gathered at an even faster pace. The rain soon began to poor down, not long after turning to ice.
"NO! NO!" Cried Miroku.
"We must hurry, before all of them are completely destroyed!"
"What do you think we're doing?" Yelled back Inuyasha, who was not in a good mood to say the least.
"I can't find anymore good ones. The rest are broken!" yelled Shippo above the incessant pounding of ice on the logs, tree's, and ground.
"How many do we have?" Inuyasha said, shielding his hoard of flowers.
"I have 15." Said Shippo.
"I have 25. Inuyasha?"
"I have 36." Inuyasha said sullenly. They did not have enough. Miroku looked horrified, then looked on the ground where broken and damaged flowers laid. Stems snapped, petals disarrayed on the ground, and wet.
"It's not enough." He said weakly.
"Snap out of it!" Inuyasha yelled slapping the monk across the face.
"Are you going to give up, just because you can't see anymore flowers?" Inuyasha said infuriated.
"What would you have me do?" He yelled back.
"Look under the brush and closer to the trees you idiot!"
"But we're running out of time!"
"Stop it you two, Sango is on her death bed and all the both of you can do is argue!" Miroku looked at Shippo and regained his calm.
"Shippo is right. Inuyasha, I want you to take the flowers we have now and bring them to Keade. Shippo and I will remain here and look for more." Inuyasha nodded and was handed two small baskets that Keade had given them to take and gather the herbs in.
Without another word, Inuyasha ran through the forest, leaving Shippo and Miroku to search on their hands on knees in the deep brush.
"Inuyasha! Where are Miroku and Shippo? What about the Moon Glow Blossoms?" Inuyasha handed the puzzled crone the three baskets as he stepped into the dry hut. He looked over at Sango and frowned. Her breathing was low and raspy. Her hair clung to her, as did the cotton dress. It looked to him as if she had been drenched in water. She was still as death. Her face pale as white ashes and tallow in some areas, producing a color of lard.
"It's only part of what is needed. We were only able to get 76 before it started to hail. Miroku and Shippo are still trying to get more." He said solemnly. Keade looked him in the eye.
"It's like a curse form Kame himself. This is not good. Without the other four flowers, I am not sure it will be strong enough. Sango is on the brink of death and needs the strongest of potions we can provide her." She said, worry making her voice almost raspy.
"So you're saying she will die?" Keade seemed to think about this, but her movement never stopped, as she plucked the petals of the flowers off quickly and put them in the pot filled with a green goopy liquid that smelt like mints.
"Inuyasha.this poison is rare, few catch it, and even fewer know how to cure it. Those few that were able to be given an antidote, and had as little as one flower less than needed, died within eight days of taking it."
"Feh. Those were common villagers I bet. Sango can beat it, she's tough, she."
"Inuyasha! BE still when I speak! Those who died, were not common villagers as you suppose, they were some of the strongest warriors known in their territory, and one was even a full demon!" Keade said harshly, not turning to look at Inuyasha, who had took a step back and a look of horror and worry splashed through his liquid gold eyes. Keade could feel his pain though, and turned to look at him, but all that stood there was a puddle of water where the soaked Hanyou and dripped.
"May speed be granted unto you three. Her life lays in your hands." She said working in a more rapid pace.
~~
"Shippo have you found any more?" Yelled Miroku to Shippo who was twenty paces away, and barely visible through the thick hail and rain that beat down on them bringing pain and numbness.
"I haven't seen a single one!" He cried in disbelief.
"Well keep looking!" Miroku yelled with a surprisingly steady voice. Miroku stood up to walk over to a tree he saw that had thick vines and plants that could cover.
"Wha.whoa!" He cried as he slid down a small hill and landed in front of a tree where he saw.
"The Moon Glow Blossoms! And they're untouched!" He cried out in his excitement. Dropping Shinjoku; his staff; he quickly picked an abundance of them.
"Hey Miroku! You down there!" came a familiar and welcome voice.
"Be careful, it's slippery!" He cried up and soon, covered in mud from head to toe and bad tempered Inuyasha was standing besides him. Shippo was next to call down, and slide to join them as well.
"I don't think I will be able to climb up very quickly in my present state." He said looking up the hill. Most of the mud sliding off of him from the wet rain, providing a feeling of cold slime dripping down his back, but the flowers were safely wrapped in a strip of cloth, from his old ropes which he had brought along for some odd reason, but a lucky one.
"Inuyasha, you are fastest, and most likely to reach Sango in time. Please take it and hurry he said shoving the tied cloth mess and Inuyasha. Inu looked at his friend and nodded, before jumping up the hill, nearly sliding down, but catching himself and disappearing into a blur.
"What about us Miroku? How will we get up?" Shippo said jumping onto Miroku's shoulder.
"Hmmm, do you think you could turn into a rope and tie yourself up on that tree branch at the top of this hill?" He said rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"Yah, but I would need to be up whoa.wait! What do you think! Ahh!" The poor sobbing wet Kitsune cried as Miroku pitched him high into the air. He landed nearly at the top and began sliding, until his wet hands grasped a tree root sticking out of the ground. He quickly began pulling himself up.
"Whew. That was hard work. Now to get Miroku up here." Shippo said sitting down for a second and catching his breath.
"Well here goes nothing." Shippo produced a leaf out of nowhere. Setting it on his head he skewed up his eyes and with a sad little puff of smoke turned into a long red, talking rope that slithered up the tree, and quickly tying itself.
"Are you ready Miroku?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." He yelled up.
"Okay, here it goes." The rope fell down to Miroku who quickly grasped it.
"I'm going to start up now." He said and began the slow agonizing assent upwards.
~~~
Keade was near done with the petals that she was adding to her pile when she turned and looked at Kagome, and odd feeling tingling inside of her.
"What is this odd feeling? I have never felt the likes of it." She watched Kagome as she breathed rhythmically, her body still. Nothing out of place. Except.
"No.it can't be!" She stood up and went to her.
"But I could have swore.Kikyo and Kagome.their images." She shook her head and touched Kagome's forehead, her eyes closing.
"No, I was but imagining it. Such a foolish thing." She said letting out a sigh and going back to her work. She did not see the corners of Kagome's mouth curl into a sly smile.
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****** Authors Ending Note: So what is it that Keade had suspected? What does it have to do with Kikyo? Is Kikyo even involved in this small twist of plots? Is there even a small twist of plots here for Kikyo to be in? Will Inuyasha make it in time with the flowers to help save Sango? Or is the Taijiya doomed to death?
I have one big question, I don't know if I asked it before, but if I did, I did not get a reply, so in which case I'll ask again.Should the one of the pairings be Seshoumaru/Rin (no, he wouldn't make her his mate at 10 yrs old! I would do some minor adjusting of course.) Or should I have a different, mysterious lady come to view, or maybe just let him be a bachelor, You decide!