I'm sorry for the hiatus...I just..Ehh, read.

Kagome fell down to her knees, eyes glazed over, and she wrenched the flaming arrow out of her chest.

Shippo, Sango and Inuyasha all ran to her, Miroku standing there as if to fight Winnie. Winnie smirked slightly, stuck her left arm to the side, and whirled in place. And as she did so, many blue tendrils of soul fire shot out. Sango was hit, Miroku had spun his staff quick enough so the fire would break and dissapear, Inuyasha was right behind him, and Shippo was too short.

"Follow my lead!" Miroku yelled. He jumped up at Winnie, staff aimed to jab Winnie with the top. Suddenly, the hiraikotsu was hurled, hitting Winnie's side, and a claw slashed at her back, not too hard. Her back arched, Miroku took a sutra and punched it down into Winnie's stomach.

Sabrine was sitting on the ground farther away, looking a bit horrified.

"W-winnie..." she said softly.

In Winnie's mind...

I heard my name. Such afamiliarvoice...Iknow I knowit...But from where?

All I saw was black.

All I heard was an echo, a fearful echo, of "W-winnie.."

All I felt was regret and pain.

Oh, utter pain..

This was strange, how I felt..

I also felt as if something in me was ripped out...

Being in this state, I couldn't really tell what it was.

Color faded back in...

Out

Winnifred sat up suddenly, and memories just poured in.

She started to cry, "Kagome, I'm so sorry!"

"Kagome's...not breathing." Sango said solemnly.

"W-what!"

"No heart beat...No pulse." Sango said in a low voice.

Sabrine had her head down, blonde hair obscuring her face. She turned away, and I heard crying.

Kagome had been layed down on a blue-and-white checked blanket, only wearing, that Winnie could see,her skirt, socks and shoes, but with bandages all around her chest. Inuyasha's hung head was over Kagome's, Miroku was praying, and Shippo was leaning on Kilala, a watchful eye upon Kagome.

"I-i...I can't..I.."

"We know..You didn't do it...Naraku did a pretty good job of hiding the aura in the soul mask he put over yours. And Sabrine."

"Sabrine has one?"

"Yes. But hers does something very different.." Sango said, shifting her weight and looking at the sky. It was that calm twilight time of day, when the stars are mere sparkles in the sky. The sky itself was pale blue, clouds being pink and stretched across the sky like cotton.

"What?"

"It exploits her fears."

Buh-nuh-NUUUUHHHHHHHH! You guys tell me if Kags should pull through or not! >3 Well, I know what'll happen...Just wait. And I apologize again for the hiatus. Meow 3