a/n: Hey yall! So, due to all of my awesome reviewers I have decided to make this a full fledged story. Also, since I'm going back to school tomorrow I tried my hardest to get this chapter out cuz I don't know when I'll be able to update next but hopefully it won't be long. Anyways, here's chappy 2 I hope yall enjoy!!!

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

DISCLAIMER: I'm just a poor, poor, little writer so I obviously don't own any part of Inuyasha......sigh...

Chapter 2- Waking up to Trouble

The hazy gray-black state that she was currently in was not something she had never before experienced. In fact, in her profession it was something she'd become quite used to after a fight gone badly. Then again, could one ever become used to the strange vertigo and emptiness of unconsciousness? Because that's where she was; floating freely within the own onyx void within her mind.

There was no way of telling how long she'd been floating in the blackness. She assumed that most of the time she'd been trapped within the void she was swathed so thickly within its suffocating folds that she was entirely unaware of her own existence. Now, as she had experienced in the past, she was close to awakening and her mind was now awake and aware while her body was not.

She knew what was to come next; slowly she would begin to hear the voices of those around her, next feeling in her body would return meaning that the pain of her injuries would be pushed to the forefront of her mind, and then lastly the blackness would recede and she would be able to reclaim her body.

As it was, she was already beginning to hear the faint sound of voices around her. She could tell from the quite and lack of birdsong that she was no longer outdoors and assumed she back in Kaede's village since it had not been far from where she was wounded. Soon the voices became clear enough to confirm that she was indeed in Kaede's hut.

"When do you think she's going to wake up Kaede? It's already been a whole day since we brought her here."

That was indefinitely Kagome's voice. Her friend's concern for her was touching and she only wished she could speak to assure her that she was fine and that there was nothing to worry about. Then again, was that not what she had said before unexpectedly passing out and remaining unconscious for a day?

"There is no way of telling child. She had lost a significant amount of blood when ye brought her to me and her body needs time to replenish its' supply."

Inwardly smiling at Kaede's knowledge and understanding she knew that Kagome would not have to wait long as feeling in her body was already beginning to come back to her. Unfortunately the first feeling to assault her consciousness was throbbing pain from numerous areas along her body and specifically her left arm. The fingers on her left hand twitched slightly as pain shot through her arms and along the nerve receptors to her brain.

"Look Kaede I saw her hand move!"

Now that she had regained full feeling in her limbs she was no longer so sure that she could tell Kagome that she was fine. Her whole body ached and she felt exactly like Inuyasha had said she looked a day ago. Thinking of Inuyasha turned her thoughts toward the worried face of his brother that she had seen just before loosing consciousness.

'He seemed worried. I guess I looked worse than I thought I did. I bet he's just worried that he'll have to train another fighting partner if I get killed.'

Her thoughts on the matter were halted as she realized that Kagome was calling for her to wake up.

"Sango? Sango wake up, open your eyes."

Gathering the strength needed to perform such a menial task was more difficult that she would have liked but she managed none the less and forced her pained brown eyes to open and view her surroundings. She found herself lying on a futon in Kaede's hut with Kagome and Kaede both hovering over her in a slightly creepy way.

"Sango your awake! I'm so glad, I was so worried about you!"

Her emotional friend leaned forward and pulled her into a tender hug that despite it's gentleness left her aching in more than a few places. Managing to hide the fact from her sister figure she decided to try her voice for the first time in over a day.

"I-I'm fine Kagome. C-could I please have some water t-though?"

Not unexpectedly her throat was as dry as sandpaper and twice as rough. She watched as her friend nodded happily and grabbed one of the plastic water containers from her time before exiting the hut to head towards the river.

"Ye are not as fine as ye pretend to be child. Ye may have fooled young Kagome but it is plain to me that ye are still in pain. I shall fetch ye some medicinal herbs and return shortly so try to rest whilst I am gone."

Knowing that she could not answer in a voice above a shaky whisper she merely nodded and followed the old priestess out of the hut with her eyes before letting them fall to her wounds. She found herself once again swathed in almost a cocoon of bandages that covered her entire left arm and hand before moving across her chest and down her torso.

She was no longer in her slayer suit but instead a thin white sleeping yakuta that Kaede must have borrowed from one of the village women. Looking around she found her armor lying folded in a neat pile in the corner with her weapon leaning heavily against the wall beside it. She noticed, however, that her broken katana was not with her other weapons and she knew that she'd have to make a trip to her village to get another one and patch her suit.

"Here's your water Sango."

Looking up she realized that her friend had returned without her notice. Brushing aside the nervousness she felt at not noticing her friend's approach she donned a fake smile and took the water from her. To say that the cool spring water was thirst quenching would be an unforgivable understatement. Feeling it's coolness spread throughout her chest she allowed herself to savor the feeling a moment before responding.

"Thank you Kagome that helped a lot."

Voice no longer scratchy and halting, she was able to better convince her friend that she was ok. The happy look on her face told her that she'd believed the almost lie that she'd just told. She was no where near "fine" but she was not about to let Kagome know it and so she decided to change the subject before her friend asked her about her wounds.

"Where are the boys Kagome? Did you have to chase them out of the hut so that they wouldn't brake anything arguing over how Inuyasha should have protected me?"

Her friend gave her a very puzzled and confused expression before smiling widely and nodding.

"Ya actually, earlier today. How did you know that that's what they were arguing about?"

She smiled as her mind wandered back to the time that she'd run to Sesshomaru's aid in the middle of the night when the army of invaders attacked him. She'd wound up getting injured and Sesshomaru had carried her back to Kaede's village so that she could be treated. Upon their return Sesshomaru received the full wrath of Inuyasha's rant on protecting our friends and of course that led to an argument.

"It's not the first time Kagome. You were in your time the last time it happened though."

"Well I'm glad I missed it the first time then because things were getting pretty rough this morning. Sesshomaru seemed absolutely livid that Inuyasha allowed you to fight the leader of the ogre demons instead of him and you know how Inuyasha is whenever his temper flares up."

They were interrupted by a loud crash followed by a string of curses. Both girls looked up and towards the door before turning back to meet each other's eyes. They both knew what was happening but it was nearing dark and they figured that the two would have stopped by now. The sound of steel on steel halted their thoughts on the matter and prompted Kagome to get up and run to the door.

She watched as Kagome's face filled with worry before she ran out of the hut. Unable to follow, she instead decided to focus her hearing on trying to catch any details on what was going on outside the hut. However, the thick walls of the hut blocked out all but the loudest clashes of steel or yelled curses from Inuyasha and she knew she'd have to go to the door if she really wanted to see what was happening.

Bracing herself against the pain she gently pulled her left arm to her chest and pushed herself up from the futon with her right arm. Various wounds on her torso and legs stretched and pulled painfully but she ignored them and forced herself to an upright position before clumsily making her way to the door. Nearly tripping, she managed to catch herself with her right hand on the doorframe.

Raising her head she was now able to see that both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were cut and bleeding in various places and looked like they'd been going at it all day, which for all likelihood they probably had. She could see that Kagome was standing not far from the two with worried eyes watching her mate and brother in law go at it like they each meant to kill the other.

Turning her attention back to the battle she realized that they were indeed fighting rougher than they usually did. Deciding that she would have to put an end to this stupid fight she gritted her teeth and pushed herself off of the doorframe towards where Kagome was standing a good fifty yards away. However, before she had a chance to make it ten yards from the door she looked up to see Sesshomaru swinging Tokijin in a deadly arc that would surely leave a bloody gash across his brother's stomach.

"STOP IT!!!"

Her frantic yell echoed throughout the clearing as all movement seemed to stop as if by magic and all heads turned towards her. She would have sent them both icy glares worthy of Sesshomaru himself had a yell of that volume not drained from her the little energy she'd managed to regain over a day's time. Instead, her knees buckled beneath her and sent her crashing harshly towards the ground.

Expecting an impact with the hard ground, she was slightly thrown off as instead a strong pair of arms caught her gently and scooped her up against a strong chest. Weary brown eyes rose to meet blazing amber and she used this chance to attempt an icy glare. The snort she received from her rescuer told her that she had not succeeded in her attempt.

"Foolish wench. What were you trying to do, further injure yourself?"

Sesshomaru's cold tone once again hinted at worry as his eyes roved her form to see if she'd reopened any of her wounds. Pushing her weariness aside she scowled deeply at him and matched his annoyed expression with one of her own.

"What do you think I was doing you idiot? You two were trying to kill each other out here over something stupid! And how dare you call me wench you arrogant jerk!"

The fire in her town surprised even herself as she had not expected to have had the energy to put up a half decent verbal spar. The slight softening in her friend's eyes showed that he knew that she was right and could not stay mad at her for long.

"Come, I shall return you to the old woman's hut where you shall rest until you have fully recovered."

Wanting nothing more than to do just that she couldn't help the worry she felt over what might happen if she fell asleep again. Kagome said they'd been going at it since this morning so it was extremely lucky that they had not hurt each other before she woke up.

Looking back over Sesshomaru's shoulder she could see that Kagome had run to Inuyasha and examined his wounds before promptly sitting him and turning back towards the hut. A small smile graced her features before Sesshomaru entered the hut and her view was obscured. As he lay her gently back down on the futon she'd awoken on she caught a good view of the numerous bloody wounds that ran along his arms and chest. Many were now almost healed and were only obvious because of the bloody rips in his clothes but that was enough to make up her mind; she was not going to allow herself to sleep until she was sure the two idiots were not going to kill each other.

Sesshomaru moved to sit on the wall opposite her beside the door as Kagome entered followed by a grumbling and dirt covered Inuyasha. Neither brother looked at the other but she'd guess that they were both planning on continuing their fight the next chance they got. Instead, Inuyasha sat along the wall farthest from his brother and allowed Kagome to clean and bandage his minor injuries.

The urge to slap herself in the forehead was strong and only the knowledge that it would hurt more than it would help kept her from doing so. Was it not obvious that it was her own fault that she wound up injured? Apparently not since she looked up just in time to see Sesshomaru throw Inuyasha one of his famous icy glares. Decided that a topic change would be opportune she broke the silence that had fallen upon the hut.

"In a couple of days I'm going to head to my village to fix my slayer's suit and get another katana."

"What?!"

The simple statement did not seem to her to deserve such a strong reaction from both of the men in the hut. With slightly widened eyes she glanced back and forth between the half outraged, half disbelieving faces of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha who had both yelled the same word regarding her announcement.

"You idiot what makes you think I'm going to let you walk all the way to your village by yourself in the shape your in?!"

"Inuyasha is right, you have no business making a trip like that with your injuries still open and bleeding."

Mentally allowing her hand to bash repeatedly into her head she sighed as once again the brothers overcame their differences to team up against her. Why was it always her subjected to such cruel and unusual punishment? One pair of golden eyes glaring at you was bad enough but two was nearly enough to make you wish to fall upon your own sword.

"I'm fine you two! In a few days my wound will not be open and I'll be ok enough to travel. Plus, I'll take Kirara with me and ride her so that I won't have to walk or be alone."

This time Inuyasha scowled angrily while Sesshomaru outright growled at her.

"Do not lie Sango. You cannot hide the injury in your scent nor the pain in your eyes from me and I will not allow you to travel alone. Whenever you have fully healed I will accompany you to your village but only when I have deemed you fit for travel."

Sesshomaru's entire statement shocked her; not only was he going to allow her to travel to her village but he would accompany her as well. She knew he was very protective of her as his battle partner and the only person he'd ever even slightly opened up to, as she had opened up to him, but this was new and unusual.

"O-ok Sesshomaru, if your sure you want to come."

A curt nod was all she received from him so she turned her head towards Kagome and waited a few moments until her friend had finished binding the last of Inuyasha's wounds before speaking.

"Kagome, if you would not mind, could you accompany me to the hot springs? I am in desperate need of a relaxing bath."

"Ok Sango that'd be great. We haven't had any girl time for a while."

Smiling at the thought of their "girl time" and a nice relaxing bath she allowed Kagome to help her to her feet without too much difficulty. She winced as one of her knees gave out slightly and saw from the corner of her eyes that both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had moved forward to catch her but Kagome was there and steadied her slightly before shooting her a worried look.

"Are you sure you want to go now Sango? If your wounds are hurting you we should just wait and go later."

"No Kagome I'd really like to go and get the ogre blood off of me as well as whatever else I have on me after two days without bathing. I'm ok really my knee just gave out."

"But Sango the hot springs are a good ten minutes walk from here normally and…"

Kagome was cut off before she could continue speaking by Sesshomaru standing and sweeping Sango out of Kagome's hands and into his arms. Likewise, Inuyasha stood and grabbed Kagome off of her feet before she had a chance to question her brother in law.

"We shall accompany you to the hot springs and then you may call for us when you wish to return."

Before either girl had a chance to argue Inuyasha grabbed their "bath bag" that Kagome had prepared for the times that they went to the springs and both brothers flew out of the hut. The trip that usually took ten minutes took less than one with their demonic speed and both girls were gently deposited on the ground beside the springs before they knew what happened.

"Call us when you want us to come get you Kagome. We'll be close by to make sure you don't get into trouble."

Inuyasha called as he disappeared into the foliage along with his brother. Both had made a hasty exit before the girls could yell at them about man handling them or grabbing them without their permission. Sighing in defeat, knowing that it would be useless to yell after them, she set about carefully removing the white yakuta. Deciding to leave the bandages on in case she started bleeding again she slowly slid into the warm water and let it's heat soothe away her aches and pains. Feeling Kagome slide into the water next to her, she was just beginning to relax when a thought struck her.

"Kagome?"

"Yes Sango?"

"Where are our towels?"

a/n: Hehe... Not a cliffy unless you consider what Sango and Kagome are going to do to the guys as soon as they find them. Maybe that's why they ran away so quickly? lol... ^-^. So there you have it, chappy 2. Kinda a filler chappy but they are necessary sometimes to keep a good story going. Anyways, I'd once again like to thank my awesome reviewers that told me to continue this story and who did not review just to tell me that Sesshy was OOC(I appreciate it). Yall guys should know that I run off of your reviews and, after such a long time, its your reviews that have inspired me to continue writing again. Its all yall! So until next time...

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