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Chapter 6: Seals and Locks
Kagome bolted upright, no longer asleep in the middle of her class. She knew something was wrong. Knew InuYasha was hurt. And just like she knew those, she knew she had to find him.
She fidgeted through the rest of the school day. When the bell rang, she dashed home, and up to her room. Grabbing her pack, and stuffing it full of medical supplies, food, and water, she shouted to her mother that she was heading back to the feudal era. With a wish of luck from her mother, she ran out and jumped into the well.
Only to land with a splat. 'Stupid…' she thought 'forgot you sealed the well, huh?' She sighed and stood up. Focusing, she tried to unseal it, and failed. She simply couldn't reopen the well to the past. "Oh no!" she cried, and sank against the side of the well. She stayed against the side of the well for hours, tears slowly trickling down her face as she stared blankly at the wall. She was cut off from him, even thought her heart demanded that she find and help him. 'What am I to do?' She thought. 'I'll have to figure out a way to make it back…' She thought of InuYasha, then, wounded, lying on the floor of Kaede's hut, a wound leaking blood…she shuddered. If only she could get to him…he probably had gone after another shard…
The shards! She glanced at the small bottle hung around her neck, and focused on them. The Shikon no Tama had brought her through the well in the first place, so it stood to reason it could get her through now…
She pulled the necklace off over her head, and clutched it in her closed hands. Saying a silent prayer, she climbed a little ways up the rope ladder on the side of the well, closed her eyes, and jumped again…
That endless falling sensation started, reassuring her in its very familiarity. She smiled slightly, keeping her eyes closed, landing with a soft thump in the Sengoku Jidai. She sighed, and reached for the vines curling down the inside of the well. If InuYasha was as injured as she thought, he wouldn't be here to help.
She pulled herself over the edge of the well, and blinked in the bright sunlight that reached her eyes. She sat down with a thump in the grass. InuYasha wasn't there…so that meant…
She shouldered her pack, and took off towards Kaede's hut. She slowed as she neared it, and softly pulled back the woven door, and peeked in. Sango and Miroku where half asleep, watching over InuYasha, who was lying prone on the floor, blood slowly oozing from a shoulder wound. She stepped in, deliberately making noise to wake up the pair standing silent guard.
"Kagome!" both shouted. InuYasha's ears tilted forward a little, sign he was still alive enough to recognize her name…
She moved over and knelt by him, and dumped her backpack out on the floor. Grabbing the first aid kit, she peeled back the bandages on InuYasha's shoulder carefully.
The wound was black, and the skin around it dark gray, fading to light gray as it got farther away from the wound. She gasped. Sango looked at her, then said quietly "we fought a cat youkai. It must have had poison in it's claws, because he gets worse as time passes…"
Kagome glanced into the first aid kit, and picked out something for poison. She had long ago learned to pack all sorts of things. She poured a couple drops into InuYasha's wound, and wrapped a clean bandage around it.
Now all that was left was to wait.
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