The Last One Standing.
"Kagome… Kagome wake up."
"Please momma (sniff) wake up."
"Kago… Kagome-chan, please."
"Lady Kagome, open your eyes."
Jumbled voices, that's all she could hear. Her head was pounding and her wrist felt like it was on fire; she blinked her eyes open to see her friends sitting around her, InuYasha's grip tight around her waist.
"Kagome!!!" The little kitsune kit cried latching on to her neck, InuYasha quickly detached him.
"Not now Shippo." the boy settled for snuggling under the arm that was not bandaged.
Kagome blinked slowly, she was with her friends again, that meant she was dead. She winced a little and lay back against InuYasha. Just then Kaede walked in,
"Kagome, thank Kami ye are alive. Ye've been a sleep for nearly a month, we thought ye had left us." the old woman said kneeling down beside InuYasha and starting to redress Kagome's wrist.
'Alive?' she thought, 'I can't be alive. I'm with them, I saw them all dead.' wile Kagome was arguing with herself Kaede finished wrapping her arm.
"Child, whatever made ye do such a thing?" she asked looking at Kagome's wrist, "Ye where half dead where InuYasha came running in here like a mad man."
"Naraku…"she managed softly, "He killed you…… you, and my family."
"Kagome," Sango said placing a hand on her friend's shoulder, "We're not dead, we're right here…see?" held Kagome's hand firmly in her own.
"But… I saw it. You where all dead. I was down there for months and had to watch you all die again and again."
"Months? Kagome, you've been gone two days. I would have gotten you out soon if that bastard didn't have so many fucking…"
"Watch ye language." Kaede said.
"Sorry, barriers."
"Two days? It was at lest three months."
"Kagome, Naraku plays with people's minds for his own sick enjoyment. Once he had a hold of it you where his." Miroku said, "He could have made it feel like years or seconds depending on his mood."
"That bastard." Kagome said, "That's how he knew where to find them, that's how he got to them. Wait, did he ever go down the well?"
"No he never got the chance to get out of his castle once I got a hold of him."
"So then they're alive?!" Kagome said trying to push herself up she had to see her family, she had to know.
"Umm… where do you think you're going?" InuYasha said pulling her back down, "I don't think so."
"I saw that he'd killed my family InuYasha, I have to see them."
"Fine, but I'm going with you." InuYasha said, "Don't give me that look; I'm not letting you out of my sight again."
As they made their way to the well Kagome was clinging tightly to InuYasha's hand.
"Kagome, that kind of hurts."
"Deal with it, last time I let go of you, you died."
"That was all in your hear, koi."
"You've obviously never herd the saying: 'Mind over matter' have you?"
Oh my gosh, I an SO sorry this took longer that I ever want to get posted. My brother thought (first sign of the end of the world right there) it would be funny to delet my sroty folder so this is not the end I wamted but I couldn't remember it. Please don't be too harsh, and please don't hate me I feel bad enough already. Thank you to any one who read this, you rock.
Peace and Love
Star-Filled-Night.