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I don't even know what happened.

Sango is on the floor, clutching her arm, breathing heavily. Blood sprayed, and it's on her arms. Inuyasha's holding her shoulders while gazing up at me.

I'm standing over the slain zombie, panting, my eyes wide with tears. The zombie's mouth is still open, and its teeth are covered in blood.

But not Sango's blood.

If I had attacked and killed the zombie half a second later, Sango would've been bitten.

But she wasn't.

I take one last breath and then collapse as I exhale, my knees giving out. Tears of fear and relief stream down my face, knowing that Sango was almost killed but she is alive and unhurt.

Inuyasha leaves Sango's side to catch me, and I can feel his breath against my neck. I shiver involuntarily.

"You okay?" he whispers, and I nod, wiping the tears from my face, my arms and shoulders shaking.

Funny, I was doing the same thing not three hours ago, but now it's for a different reason. The thought makes me cry a little more.

Inuyasha holds me silently, his body spreading warmth throughout mine. He holds me tighter as I try to control my tears and end up hiccuping.

"Don't try to stop them," he says softly in my ear. "Just let it out. It's okay."

But it's not okay.

It's not fair.

Everyone else is so strong. Sango's the one who was almost killed, not me.

Why am I so fucking weak?

"The only reason why we're still alive right now is because of you, Kagome," Inuyasha says firmly. "You're anything but weak. You're the bravest, strongest, most amazing person I know."

Did I say that out loud?

"Yes, you did," Sango says, chuckling, her voice still shaking slightly.

There's a moment of silence, and despite the circumstances, Miroku begins chuckling. Then Inuyasha joins in, then Sango, then me.

We're not laughing hard. It's more nervous laughter than anything else, but somehow I find comfort in that and stand up.

"Come on," I say, the last of my tears dried. "We've got lives to save."

"That's the spirit," Inuyasha says, smirking.

After around five minutes of more zombie killing, we manage to burst into the science room and save the girls from a small cluster of zombies who were threatening to smash the window.

"Let's go," I say to them sharply.

"Listen," Inuyasha says as we exit the school once more, "this is important. You must not leave the group, and do not make decisions without consoling with us first. Have you ever watched a horror movie before that includes zombies?"

They shake their heads, no.

"Do you know how to survive a zombie apocalypse?"

Another shake of the head.

"Then I recommend you listen to us."

I can't help but have a bad feeling about these girls. They seem like the type who will use others to their advantage and then leave them to die when they get the chance. But they wouldn't. Not in this case. This is life or death.

Right?

Judging from the critical look Inuyasha is giving them, I doubt he's thinking any different.

"Well," one of the girls, a redhead, says, "it looks like we're gonna be spending a lot of time together. Might as well get to know each other."

Everyone nods in agreement, so she continues, "I'm Ayame. That's Kikyo."

Kikyo?

Kikyo Hinata?

As in, airheaded, popular-rich-girl Kikyo?

Doesn't-know-how-to-do-shit Kikyo?

"Hi friends!" Kikyo giggles, batting her eyelashes flirtatiously at Inuyasha. He rolls his eyes in response, but that doesn't make my anger flare any less.

Everyone excluding Ayame and Kikyo share an eerily similar oh hell, we're fucked look.

a/n: do you get the title? Saving Three? because they saved three lives? Sango, Ayame, and Kikyo?

yeah okay.

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shadow