Last chapter: Koga saves Michelle, but leaves Kay behind because he claims he loves Michelle. Where is Kay, and who will save her?

Chapter 10: Unexpected Rescuers

Kay groaned and opened her eyes. She was still in the woods, but a much different place than before. She looked around, and seeing that she was still tied up and still being affected by the miasma, she sighed. Kay didn't see Naraku, but didn't let her hopes get too high.

"Is Naraku here?" Kay asked herself, looking around once more.

As if on cue, Naraku came into view and walked over to her.

"Speak of the devil," Kay said, glaring. She glared at him and coughed a little bit from the miasma. She was kinda wishing it was still night, but the morning sun was warming her up quite a bit. She felt as cold as ice, and wanted to get the blood circulating a little bit.

Naraku growled and walked over to her, looking as menacing as ever. She glared at him, and coughed again, before being hoisted up and held by one of his hands, being choked by his hand around her neck. She could hardly get any air, and started to choke even more. Her breathing was wheezy and short, and because she was still tied up, she couldn't move anything to help herself get out.

"You wench! How dare you lie to Naraku!" said the half-demon in front of her.

She gathered up saliva in her mouth and spit at his face. "Shut up, half-breed!" Kay yelled as best she could.

Naraku wiped the spit from his face and growled. He threw Kay from his grasp and made her hit another tree and fall to the ground. She gasped in pain and felt a couple hot tears fall down her cheek. "You aren't that strong. You just hide behind your plans and schemes, using other people to do your dirty work for you. Like you did with Sango," Kay said before she was hoisted up by her neck again, losing a lot of oxygen.

Her forehead and arm bled as she gasped for air. A few more tears went down her face, but she kept her angry look and ignored her pain. Blood fell down to her nose and ran down her face from her forehead.

Just then, she saw something move quickly and cut Naraku's arm off. The arm holding her instantly fell to the ground, but it his arm regenerated and he growled. He looked over to his left and sent a tentacle towards whatever it was.

Just before Kay blacked out, she saw a flash of white and Naraku fleeing.

- - -

When Kay woke up she groaned at the pain she was in, seeing as her back and forehead hurt. She noticed that she was not bound by rope anymore, and she could concentrate enough to use her telepathy. She slowly got up and looked around, seeing that her room was mainly blue, and had a wardrobe and she was sleeping in a real bed. She had a balcony, and she could see that the sun was still shining, though now it was around noon instead of early in the morning.

She turned slightly as the door to her room opened, revealing a young girl that Kay recognized as Rin.

Rin smiled and walked over to Kay, carrying a tray with food on it. She set the tray of food on the table next to the bed and waved. "Hello. I'm Rin. I remember you when you came here before! Rin didn't tell Sesshoumaru that you stole that chest... Actually, Rin doesn't know if he even noticed."

"I'm glad for that," Kay said with a small smile. "I'm Kay... Did Sesshoumaru bring me here?"

"Yes, he did. He didn't say anything but to watch over you. You've only been sleeping for a couple hours," Rin said, smiling. "Rin brought you some food. You look kinda hurt. What happened to you?"

"It was Naraku. He had kidnapped me and my friend, but somehow Michelle got away, which is good. Sesshoumaru must have been the one who saved me from being killed from Naraku.

Rin nodded and smiled. "Well, Rin is glad you're here, Kay," said the young girl as she sat on the bed.

Kay took some rice that was in a bowl and then started to eat it with the chopsticks, though she wasn't very good at it... still... Rin laughed and said, "Kay-chan isn't very good at eating with chopsticks, is she?"

"I come from another country, so we don't eat with chopsticks," Kay said, smiling.

"Really? What do you use?" Rin asked, exited.

"We use forks. They're like chopsticks with a very, very small pointed bowl on it," Kay said, smiling. "You don't have any brothers or sisters, right?"

"How did you know?" Rin asked.

"I don't have siblings either," Kay said, rubbing the top of Rin's hair affectionately.

Rin laughed and asked, "Will Kay-chan be my sister?" Rin crawled up the bed and sat next to Kay.

"Sure. I'll be your foster sister as long as I'm here, OK?" Kay said, smiling. The girls talked for a while, bonding and learning more and more about each other.

Sesshoumaru was standing in the doorway soon enough, and watched Kay with interest. "You're awake..." Sesshoumaru said, stating the obvious.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am awake," Kay said in a light tone.

Sesshoumaru didn't react to her comment, but just stood there.

"Do you want anything, Sesshoumaru?" Kay asked.

"How do you know my name?" he asked, ignoring the fact that he wasn't addressed as 'Lord Sesshoumaru.'

"I know much more than you think," Kay said, smirking, "even though I'm human."

Sesshoumaru said nothing and looked at her. "What is your name, human?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"I am Kay, and I can use telekinesis. Meaning I can make things move with my mind," Kay said, smirking. "Rin, is there any place where I can wash the blood off of me?"

"Yes. There is some hot-springs nearby. Want me to take you to them?" Rin asked. "Rin will wash your clothes if you like."

"Sure, let's go," Kay said, getting out of the bed slowly. She put down her rice and chopsticks and then stood up, but had to grasp onto the table to stay up.

"Is anything wrong, Kay-chan?" Rin asked.

Kay shook her head, though her eyes showed obvious pain. "Naraku just must have hurt my leg. I'll be fine," Kay told her, and then smiled. Rin smiled back and walked out into the hall and turned left.

Kay walked with a slight limp to the door and held onto the frame, getting a little bit of air. She looked at Sesshoumaru, who was standing at the door and looking at her. Her face showed a look of confusion, but he showed no emotion at all.

What is he thinking? It's like he's blocking his thoughts... Kay thought as she took a step forward.

She tripped and started to fall, but Sesshoumaru grabbed her and pulled her back up.

Now very, very confused, Kay gave a small smile and said, "Thank you." Her voice was quiet, but she started to walk after Rin, looking like nothing just happened.

Kay asked herself as she walked after Rin.

- - -

Michelle growled at Koga and glared at him. He shuffled his feet a little bit and smiled. "I am not your woman!" she yelled for the twelfth time. She clenched her fist and glared at Koga even more intensely and picked up a nearby rock with her mind. "I'll hit you with this rock if you don't get that through your thick head!" she yelled, pointing at the rock next to her.

"You're in denial, you just need a little bit of rest," Koga said. He had hoped that saving her from Naraku would have made her fall in love with him.

"I'm thankful that you saved me, but I don't love you!" Michelle yelled at Koga. Most of the other wolf demons were petrified of Michelle and hiding behind rocks, each other, Koga, or went outside.

"Can you at least say you're my friend?" Koga asked.

"Fine! I'm your friend. Now bring me to InuYasha!" Michelle yelled.

"You love that stupid mutt!" Koga yelled.

"No! I don't love anyone! In fact, I hate everyone! Happy?" Michelle said.

Koga looked heartbroken.

"Koga?" Michelle asked in a soft voice. She didn't know what to do. Michelle felt like she should apologize, but she didn't remember one time where she had said 'sorry' to anyone in her life. Not even to Kay, her best friend. "I didn't mean that, OK? I just said it. Sometimes I don't think of the consequences of what I say," Michelle said.

"Does that mean you love me?" Koga asked, lightening up a little bit.

"NO! I'm only 13, dammit!" Michelle said, stomping her foot on the floor.

- - -

Kay was outside, and a little ways from the castle. Rin stood in front of the hot springs with a towel in her hands and smiled.

"Kay-chan, Rin has a towel for you," Rin said as she handed Kay her towel. "Rin will wait for you to get into the hot springs before Rin washes your clothes."

Rin walked away, into the forest and behind a tree. Kay stripped of her clothing and went into the hot springs, not being able to hide the fact that she felt kinda silly taking a bath, but she went into the water anyway. The warm water made Kay feel nice, and she put her head under the water, rubbing her face with her hands. She got the dried blood on her face washed off, and then she started to enjoy just relaxing in the hot springs. Her hair floated around the water and she watched it, amazed on how hair reacted with water. She dipped her head in the water, keeping her nose above it so she could breathe.

She could hear something in the bushes... She turned and looked, waiting for something to pop out and attack her. Kay blushed at the thought. That would be so embarrassing...

Just then someone popped through the bushes. It was Miroku!

"AHHHHH! YOU PERVERT! GET OUT OF HERE, ASSHOLE!" Kay yelled. She wasn't aware that she was accidentally pelting him with rocks.

Miroku ran out of there and then Sango poked her head out from behind a tree to see a red-faced Kay. "Is it OK that I come out?" Sango asked.

"I guess..." Kay said, blushing even more. It wasn't very often that people in her era were naked in public... She put her arms in front of her and held onto her own shoulders.

"InuYasha, Shippo and Kagome are looking for Michelle with Charlie, and Miroku and I came with Kirara to look for you. InuYasha wanted to look for you because he thought that Naraku would probably be with you, but Kagome persuaded him otherwise," Sango said, laughing. "How did you get here?"

"Sesshoumaru saved me," Kay said, looking over towards where his castle was.

"What! Sesshoumaru! Why would he save you?" Sango asked.

"I don't know..." Kay answered as she looked at the water she was in.

"Kay-chan? Are you all right?" Rin asked coming out from behind the trees, carrying Kay's clean clothes.

"I'm fine Rin. Don't worry," Kay said, turning her head towards Rin.

Rin nodded and set Kay's clothes down, not asking who Sango was or why she was here.

Rin walked away and Kay stood up. She got her towel next to her and wrapped it around herself, wiping the water off of her face.

"You look different with your hair down," Sango said, looking at Kay's hair, which was down because of her bath. Kay picked up the scrunchie on the ground and put it around her wrist.

"Yeah. I know," Kay said, smirking. She put on her clothes and then walked into the forest, followed by Sango. Miroku caught up to them and he smiled.

"That was a beautiful view," Miroku said. Kay growled and punched him in the face. She stormed off, leaving the two behind.

"You deserved it," Sango said to Miroku, following Kay.

Kay reached the edge of the forest and saw Kirara waiting for them.

Hello. I missed you, Kirara said to Kay.

"I missed you too," Kay said to the cat. "I have to say goodbye to Rin, OK?"

Kirara nodded and Kay walked into the castle quietly, looking for Rin.

She found Rin in the same room as she had found her last time. The room with a bed like Kaede's and a bunch of pillows. "Is this your room?" Kay asked Rin.

She shook her head. "Rin just comes in here for comfort. This is Jaken's room," Rin said, smiling.

Kay laughed and said, "I am going to leave now. I hope I see you soon..."

"Is that why those people were there?" Rin asked.

"Yes... They have helped me so much..."

Then, Kay unexpectedly ran towards Rin and gave her a huge hug. She could feel Rin crying in her shoulder.

"I know we just met, but I'll miss you. Don't cry... I'll always be with you," Kay said, smiling.

"Rin will miss you, Kay-chan," Rin said into her shoulder.

Kay let go and took off the scrunchie on her wrist. "Here, Rin. Keep this. You tie your hair up with it," Kay said, smiling. "I'll show you how," Kay said, showing her that the scrunchie would go over and over to get it tight enough.

Rin took the scrunchie and smiled. "Wait here," she said, before rushing out of the room to get something. She came back a few minutes later with a piece of cloth used to tie hair. "This is what I usually use to tie my hair with. Please take it."

Kay took the white hair tie and tied up her hair, which was now dry. It actually worked better than Kay had expected. She tied it tight and smiled, making her look good with little strands of fabric falling down from the back of her head. Kay hugged Rin one last time and walked to the door. Before she left she stopped to look back at Rin, a smile on her face and tears ready to fall down her cheeks. She waved and ran off, heading to the exit to the castle.

- - -

"I'M NOT YOUR WOMAN, DAMMIT!" Michelle said for the fifty-seventh time. She growled at Koga as she sat on a rock next to a fire. "And don't you have any meat that you could cook? To eat? Or something?"

"Koga, I got some rabbit over here!" a random wolf demon said, holding up a dead and skinned rabbit.

"EW! Don't show it to me!" Michelle said covering her eyes. "I don't exactly like looking at dead things!" She laughed inside her head at the thought of Kay, though, who liked to watch her grandpa clean fish. She can even remember that the fish egg sacks were orange! How gross...

"I'll cook it for you, if you like," Koga said, taking the rabbit from the wolf demon's hand.

"Sure. I just don't want to look at it," Michelle said.

After a while, the rabbit meat was done and Michelle was able to look at it, and she started to eat off of the bones.

"Want some, wolf boy?" Michelle said, holding out a leg to Koga.

"Sure!" Koga said, as he grabbed the meat.

Just then a familiar scent, to Koga anyway, came into the cave and he growled.

Koga turned around to see InuYasha standing in the cave entrance, Kagome and Shippo next to him, and Charlie next to her.

"Hey, Kagome... I'm sorry, but I've realized you aren't for me. I've got a new woman now," Koga said.

"I AM NOT YOUR DAMN WOMAN!" Michelle yelled for the fifty-eighth time.

InuYasha whispered to Kagome, "Well, at least he's not after you anymore."

Shippo nodded and said, "Too bad he went for another friend of ours..."

Koga turned to Michelle and put his arms on her shoulders. "Try not to deny your love," Koga said.

"If you don't let go, I'll shove a stick up your ass," Michelle said, clenching her fist. Koga let go, smiling. Michelle stomped over to Kagome and InuYasha.

"Let's get out of here, now!" Michelle said as she mounted Charlie, who was already transformed. Charlie ran off, and then InuYasha with Kagome on his back ran up next to Charlie.

Now we have to find Kay! Charlie thought, heading in the direction that Sango and Miroku went.

Next time: Kay and Michelle leave the places where they were brought after being saved; soon they have strange dreams. They are brought to a lake, but for what purpose?

Kay: What a beautiful lake! It is so smooth!

Michelle: I like the waterfall.

Koga: You are my woman!

Michelle: You aren't even in the next chapter! Get away from here!

Kay: That is such a pretty lake... Be ready to read the next chapter, The Lake of Glass .