Chapter 2 –Midnight calling

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-MD

She forced her steps to be light and graceful keeping her head held high as a priestess should. Following the path down to the village her hues

remained forward as she came upon the first few huts, the bustling women who were preparing food or tending to clothes turned their gazes to

her and she gave a slight nod of acknowledgement. Smiles graced their lips as they bowed to her. Apparently they believe her being a miko,

sighing in relief she placed a smile on her lips. An elder man then came up to her his deep green eyes danced in merriment and mischief, Kagome

could only guess how charming he must have been in his younger days.

"Greetings to you priestess, we have not had a miko in our village in some time. It is a honor to have you here and we hope you stay for a

time?" Another smile came to the man's lips as she gave him a nod and replied. "I shall remain a couple nights I can offer healing serves and a

blessing spell over the village." She watched his smile widen and returned her nod. "That would be wonderful Lady…?" Kagome let the question

roll around in her thoughts and decide it would be alright to give her name. "Kagome." She said softly answering him. "Ah, lovely name priestess,

I will show you to the hut you may stay in, it belong to our late healer she passed away near year ago and have yet replace her, a good healer is

so hard to come by."

Kagome nodded in agreement as she followed the man down the path. "Pardon me but may I know your name?" She watched him glance to

her over his shoulder. "I am the village leader, I go by Ninsho. This is the hut Priestess." She gave him a curt nod and he returned it and walked

off. Kagome watched him a moment before pushing the small wooden door open, the small room was dusty and smelled of herbs. It had several

shelves lining the dark wooden brown walls. On the shelves small vials were placed and in a far corner two large carved chests sat collecting

dusts. A small makeshift bed lay in the opposite corner. Kagome took a deep breath and then released it into a sigh; she prayed she could pull

this off for the next two days. Her figure fell back to leaning on the rough wall, she was glad she had some training in this for this was the time

they were going to be put to the test.

Tugging her pack off, she placed it near the door, as her hands then came to her hips as she studied her surroundings. Rolling her sleeves

she picked up what looked like strips used to wrap wounds and began dusting the shelves and the other items in the room. Stumbling across a

small closet type area she found a makeshift broom which aided her cleaning frenzy a lot. By the time night fell which had only been a couple

hours away, the small hut looked twice as more homey as it had when she first encountered it. Standing at the doorway she admired her handy

cleaning job. "Well at least when they do find a healer it might not be filthy unless they waited another year."

A young boy had come by earlier and left her some fire wood and extra blankets since the nights were growing colder and winter was soon

to set it. Using her modern technology she easily had a small fire going within a couple minutes with her handy dandy lighter. Kagome had redone

the bed making it more comfortable and was pleased with the new blankets considering the older ones were in need of a good scrubbing. Settling

in for the night she pulled a book from her pack and began reading from the marked page.

She soon found herself slipping into a light slumber the book sliding from her hand and onto the padded bedding, her sleep didn't last long

however when a sudden knock came at her door and Kagome shot up , her vision swam for a few moments as she remembered were she was.

The banging came again as she heard a near hysterical voice on the other side. "Lady Kagome please help, my mother is very ill and she is with

child." Groaning mentally Kagome forced herself to her feet and grabbed the bag of fresh herbs that she spent a half hour collecting right before

dark. Stumbling to the door since there was hardly any light the embers of the fire dying low. Soon as opened the door the cold wind swept in

causing goosebumps to form over her skin.

Kagome studied the boy in the light of his candle which flickered violently.

"I am here I am coming, lead the way." Watching the boy spin on heel he was near running to return to his mother, Kagome jogged to keep with him as he lead her down the windy path. She was praying now to have the strength and knowledge to do this; she had only seen two birthings when in Inuyasha's village. They soon made an entrance into a hut closer to the woods, when entering Kagome's gaze went about the room studying her surroundings; her gaze then fell upon a woman whose stomach was heavy with child.

Sighing she made her way to the woman and felt of her head and then of the her stomach, she had fever which wasn't good. Glancing to the boy who just simply hovered twiddling his fingers. "Boil water, how far is she in her pregnancy?" The lad stuttered for a moment before she got a clear answer. "Around seven months, father died couple months ago…I will boil the water." Kagome worked pulling several herbs from her pouch like bag until she came across her desired one. Feverfew, known for breaking heavy fevers like this case. Kagome hoped that the woman's sickness wouldn't bring on labor. Soon a pot of boiling water was set beside her and Kagome grounded the Feverfew, Rosemary, and garlic, she soon mixed the herbs into a cup of water adding a bit of lemon balm to aid in the taste.

"Sit your mother up and help me make her drink this, this shall break the fever." She watched the boy nod and he sat pulling his mother's upper body into his lap. Kagome lifted her chin and squeezed slightly the woman's mouth parting. Blowing over the steaming herb potion Kagome placed it to the lady's lips and poured slowly. After a couple slight coughing fits the girl began to drink the substance and a sigh crossed Kagome's lips as she had the boy lower the lady back down into the blankets. This was going to be a long night…