Heyy! It is a new chapter and is probably my last for a week because I'm going to camp with no internet, computer or phone. I will be bringing my story with me in a printed version so I'm going to continue writing. Just thought you all ought to know! Please review kindly! I've gotten some wonderful constructive criticism and Hopefully my writing will get better as the story continues!
Hatori walked calmly up to the door and switched his briefcase into his left hand before knocking with his right. A beaming Shigure opened the door and welcomed his cousin warmly.
"Haa-kun! It's so great to see you! I was beginning to think you were avoiding me!"
"I was." Hatori said coldly. Crocodile tears streamed down Shigure's face as Hatori continued. "You called and said Yuki was having an attack so I drove here as fast as I could. Now is he sick or not?"
Shigure suddenly ceased his crying and smiled widely, gesturing for Shigure to enter before quickly swooping around him and locking the door. Then he stood in front of the door like a linebacker preparing to get hit as he said, "Weeeell, it isn't exactly Yuki that's having the problem."
Fury burst off of Hatori in waves but his face remained impassive and his voice was still icy cold as he simply said, "Explain."
"It's a friend Yuki and Kyo and Tohru invited over for the night. She's very special because something happened today at school at Yuki didn't transform. But after dinner we were talking and Kyo got all frustrated and ran off and the beautiful, young girl ran after him and alas, she was injured rather grievously! Kyo had to carry her bleeding body all the way back to the house by himself! Poor Kyon-Kyon!"
Hatori was trying very hard to stop himself from hitting the idiot dog in front of him and he only managed to succeed because of his curiosity of the enigma that currently resided upstairs. "Very well," he said in a clipped tone. "I will see to this girl. Lead me to her room."
Shigure giggled happily and ran up the steep staircase. "C'mon Haa-kun! Kagome-chan is this way!"
Hatori sighed heavily and took long, sure strides until he was directly in front of the door that lead to the injured girl. Sighing again, he opened the light shoji door and slipped into the room. His eyes immediately fell on the clump of messy orange hair that belonged to a certain ill-tempered cat. Apparently Kyo had been very tired after his trek through the woods that he had managed to fall asleep leaning against the guest bed right near the girl's head.
"Kyo, get up!" Hatori spat. Kyo shot up and leaped to his feet with his hands thrown up in a defensive position until he saw who was standing in front of him.
"Oh, Hatori. It's just you."
"What happened to her?" Hatori asked without bothering to waste time with pleasantries.
"I'm not quite sure," Kyo replied grumpily. He really needed more sleep. "She was fighting with some thing when I came across her. She was already bleeding pretty badly from her head by the time I showed up. Then I was stuck in a… thing until she destroyed whatever she was fighting against. I couldn't move until she fainted." Kyo explained oh so eloquently.
Hatori sighed again at the 'helpful' information Kyo had given him before he pulled out a handkerchief and instructed Kyo to wet it with warm water. When Kyo returned, Hatori dabbed it on the dried blood on the young priestess' face. The blood came off easily and Hatori followed the trail to her hairline, but he had to part her hair to continue following the trail. Where the blood stopped, Hatori couldn't see any mark or scar. There was nothing! He pulled out a stethoscope and checked Kagome's breathing, then checked her pulse.
"She seems to be fine." He finally diagnosed. "She's just exhausted. She'll be fine when she wakes up in the morning. Kyo, you might want to go change your shirt and bathe. You have blood stains on your clothes and you smell like B.O."
Kyo growled softly, but his eyes held hidden relief that Kagome was alright and confusion as to how she had gotten as healthy as she was so fast.
Hatori slowly trudged back down the stairs thoroughly confused. And that was an emotion he hated feeling. It made him feel weak and powerless when he couldn't understand something. "Let me know what happens," he said to Shigure who was sipping herbal tea as he left the house to head back to the main house.
Shigure smiled softly into his teacup. "I will Hatori," he said to no one in particular as said man had already left the house.
Kagome blinked open her eyes and all she saw was darkness and a faint, blurry orange light. She rubbed her sleep filled eyes and smiled at the oranges flames of a campfire. She glanced to her left and saw Miroku's cursed hand sleep-creeping toward Sango's backside but, in her sleep, Sango changed the side she was sleeping on and slapped Miroku in the face. He groaned then turned over in the other direction, so used to being slapped and hit that he didn't even notice it anymore.
When Kagome looked to her right she saw a familiar red haori and long silver hair. "InuYasha!" She exclaimed happily. He turned toward her and drew his tetsaiga as he did so. Iridescent purple eyes glared at her as her happy expression instantly changed to shock and horror. She shrieked and tried to leap to her feet but hands had grabbed hold of her legs and she couldn't move. She looked down and saw that Sango and Miroku had woken up and were holding her fast. They both had blank, dead looks in their eyes and blood trailed out of their mouths. Kagome screamed again and instinctively reached for her necklace. The first thing she grabbed hold of was the staff and she immediately enlarged it before swinging it at the oncoming 'InuYasha'.
"Oww!" A voice very unlike InuYasha's exclaimed. Kagome jerked upright and smacked her forehead into Kyo's chin.
"Ow!" she moaned as she fell back onto the pillow, shivering and holding back tears. It was still dark out and the only orange thing in the room was Kyo's hair. Then she realized she was holding a large silver staff and quickly reattached it to her necklace.
"All right, what was the big idea!" Kyo growled softly. His eyes widened when Kagome looked into his crimson eyes with her dull blue ones.
"Sorry. Bad dream. I didn't mean to wake you." Kagome untangled her legs from the sheets that were holding her hostage and stumbled out of the bed. Her shoes were still on and she was so disturbed by her dream that she hadn't even bothered to question why Kyo was in the same room as her. She still had all her clothes on so it wasn't important to her.
She stumbled over to the window with Kyo's curiously wary eyes following her every move. She clumsily unlatched the window and, with a speed Kyo didn't know she possessed, leaped out of the window and onto the roof. Kyo quickly followed after her and found her with her legs pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped protectively around them just staring at the sky. Her eyes were still blank.
No Cliffy :) Please REVIEW kindly now! Maybe I'll put up another chapter later tonight or in the morning if I get the chance. Reviews might change my mind though. Just an idea! Oh, and I hope my paragraphs arent overly long. I tried to fix it, but I'm still not quite sure when to cut them off and start a new one. I thought it was when you changed to a different topic or when someone else was talking, but please inform me if I'm wrong. I'll attempt to fix it.:D Thanks a lot!
