Chapter Ten: Departure
(Why do I associate the word "departure" with the airport? Ugh.) This is going to be a short chapter, but I didn't really want to skip parts of the story…so anyway, I'll try to bring the next chapter out soon.
I reread my first few chapters and noticed a few problems with the info Kagome's grandfather gives on the ointment. Since I'm not going back to it, I just thought that I would clear it up now. Her grandfather switched bottles on accident, as is said in chapter…three was it? Anyway, for the first two chapters he is talking about the substance that he thought he was using in the beginning. Sorry if there was confusion about this, I didn't explain it very clearly.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Inu-Yasha.
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Kagome yawned. She had gotten carried away with the abundance of schoolwork, and had not realized how late it was, or how tired she was getting, until just now. She closed her math workbook, and went across the room to retrieve the calculator that she had thrown.
Once everything was packed up, she got into a pair of blue pajamas, and climbed into the bed. She was asleep almost instantaneously…
…And it felt like she was woken up even sooner by a series of loud bangs that were issuing from her door.
"Whatsit," Kagome asked sleepily. "Scoingon?"
"Human, get up. It's time to leave," was the reply she received.
"Mmmf," she groaned. "Sesshomaru. I'm coming, give me a minute!" She slowly crawled out of the warm bed and started squinting around the dark room for her clothes. She finally located them and proceeded to change.
"I'm aging, human."
"Yeah, yeah," Kagome muttered, pulling on a white sweatshirt. "I'm almost there."
She picked up her backpack and slung it over one shoulder before turning to look around the room. She didn't want to have to come back because she had forgotten anything. Once she was sure that she had everything, she went to the door and pulled it open to see the demon that was waiting impatiently for her on the other side.
"G'morning," she greeted him groggily, suppressing another yawn.
"Quite," he responded disdainfully. "Let us go."
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"Are you sure that Kaede said that the village was close by," Miroku asked. They had been traveling since the previous afternoon, and there was still no sign of the village.
"All she said was that it was a 'neighboring' village," Sango replied, somewhat put out at the length of time it was taking them to reach their destination. The demon could have slaughtered everyone by the time they finally got there.
"Feh," Inu-Yasha scoffed. "Maybe you heard her wrong."
Sango glared at him, and he quickly closed his mouth. "I think that Kirara can carry us a ways further now that she has rested for a while. What do you say, Kirara," she asked the tiny kitten quietly.
"Mew," Kirara replied, and in a great burst of flames, she reverted back to her ferocious true form.
"Okay," Sango called out. "Let's go Miroku, Shippo." With that, she grabbed a bit of Kirara's fur and flung herself onto the great cat.
Shippo and Miroku quickly followed suite, and Inu-Yasha began to switch from a fast walk to an easy lope. Soon, Kirara was high above the treetops, and they could see everything around them for miles.
"What's that," Miroku asked loudly, pointing into the distance.
"That must be the village," Sango yelled back at him, the wind whipping her hair around as she did so. "See that brown block? I think it's a house!"
"Do you see it, Inu-Yasha," Miroku called, turning his head around to look at the half-demon.
There was only one problem with this; Inu-Yasha wasn't there.
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Well, what did you think? Sorry I left it like that, but at least I have part of the next chapter written, so I'll post again as soon as I get a little feedback. (That's pretty evil, huh? I know – I hate cliffhangers too, and yet I make you suffer… Mwahahahaha…)
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