Ok, it's official. I'm the worst person on the planet. I haven't updated since December so if you all hate me then that's acceptable. –sigh–
Mind you I've only had 15 reviews for the 7 chapters I've written. Even though they were very short but I want to make them longer!!!
So, without further ado, I present you Chapter 8 of To Save a Soul.
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Inuyasha ran over to where Kagome had fainted. When he got there he noticed she had fallen unconscious. He sniffed her body looking for a reason for the sudden fainting spell. There it was. The faintest smell of Kikyo's Soul Stealers. Kikyo had done this to kagome. He left her alone to get her something nice and them she gets more of her souls stolen.
'I know.' he thought. 'I'll nurse her back to health to show her how much I care. Then I'll give her the necklace I bought.'
He carefully picked up her body and put her into her sleeping bag. He knew this plan would work.
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XxXxXx Now xXxXxX
After about half an hours time Kagome woke up and got out of her sleeping bag. Nobody but Inuyasha noticed that Kagome fell asleep because there were still helping Shippo and Sango get bandaged up.
Inuyasha left down from the tree he had been sitting, grabbed Kagome and jumped back into his tree again. Kagome, just waking up after having her soul stolen was slightly confused.
"Inu...yasha?" she asked. "Why am I in a tree?"
Inuyasha looked at her, but didn't answer her question. Instead he asked her one to see if she would tell him the truth.
"Did Kikyo come again?"
Kagome's mentally sighed. As much as she wanted Inuyasha all to herself that would be greedy and selfish, and the thought of one of her precious butterfly friends getting hurt made her heart tighten.
"No," she finally lied. "I guess the past few days just drained me!" she put on what she hoped was a cheerful smile.
"Liar," Inuyasha said, "Your lying to me to me Kagome. Now tell me the truth." Although Inuyasha said this with anger in his voice, his heart and soul ached because she didn't trust him with the truth. How could he ever make it up to her if she didn't even trust him with the truth.
Kagome looked up at him in shock. He had called her a liar. Well technically speaking she did lie to him, but she thought he would feel better if thought that Kikyo left her alone.
"Your...your right Inuyasha. I lied. Kikyo did come and," Kagome bowed her head down as she started to cry. "...and she took some more of my soul. A lot this time!" Kagome's walls caved. Her tears ran down her face in shame. In a broken voice she whispered "I'm...I'm sorry I'm not strong enough." Finally a combination of her soul being stolen and the headache brought on from crying knocked her out. She started to fall off the branch but Inuyasha quickly put a stop to that.
"Oi," Inuyasha called down at Sango and Miroku. "Me and Kagome will be back in a few days," then he leapt off into the trees.
"Do you think there going to..."
Slap. Thump.
Miroku was out before he finished his sentence.
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After about a half hours time of jumping Inuyasha came to a cave nestled in a small mountain. It had a waterfall and pond filled with plenty of fish twenty feet away. It would be easy to keep Kagome safe here; which would make helping her get better easier.
Inuyasha walked into the cave and noticed there were some forgotten furs there. Most of the furs on the bottom were rotten to a point of no return, but Inuyasha was able to make a small bed for Kagome out of some of the furs on the top of the pile. Using his houri as a blanket was the final touch to Kagome's makeshift bed.
Inuyasha went and caught himself some fish. He would get Kagome some when she returned to the land of the living, but right now sleep was the best thing for her.
Inuyasha thought back to the last time Kagome was sick and he made her feel better. That gave him an idea of something he could do to pass the time. He walked over to a tree and very carefully pulled off a long, wide piece of bark. He also snagged quite a few branches and a sharp rock. He then set to work.
After three painstaking hours, Inuyasha finally managed to get all forty-three bark-less and to perfects pointed tips. Next he set to work carefully cutting the bark into individual. He also made a small fire and put his bark in a stack. But there was one thing he knew he needed to do before he continued.
Picking up the stack of bark like a sandwich he bite three holes along the sides into it before setting it down again.
He picked up his first piece of wood out of the pile of fourteen and placed it in front of him. Then he picked up one of his forty-three sticks and set the tip of it on fire, only to quickly blow out the dancing flame. He brought it down on the bark and wrote down three words.
While Kagome slept for the next four hours Inuyasha worked diligently on his little project. Leaving now and then to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom.
As Inuyasha moved onto his fifth piece of bark he heard Kagome start to stir. He quickly packed up his things and put them off to the side. Moments later kagome awoke.
"How long was I asleep?" She asked rubbing the lingering sleep from her eyes.
"Eight hours," Inuyasha said.
Kagome shot up. Eight hours! Was she insane! Normal people don't take eight hour naps.
Inuyasha watched as the different emotions flashed on her face. Shock, disbelief, anger... ANGER?!?! What had made her so upset this time?
"Kagome, are you angry right now?" Inuyasha carefully asked.
"I'm not angry Inuyasha," Kagome said and Inuyasha visibly relaxed. "I'm livid! Why did you let me sleep for eight hours!?!? WHY???
"Well Kikyo took some of your soul again so I..." Inuyasha started to say but kagome broke him off.
"I'm perfectly capable of moving on my own thank you. I didn't need to sleep for eight hours," Kagome said.
"Then get up," Inuyasha said, because so far Kagome had been chewing him up and spitting him out from her homemade bed on the floor, instead of standing like she usually did.
"No" Kagome said crossing her arms.
"Why not?" Inuyasha asked.
"Cause I don't want to," was Kagome's response.
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
again, so sorry for the almost one year wait. I've been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off for a while and my sister has issues with me typing on the computer when she's in the room.
Cya later
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