Sorry for the wait guys, school just started this week and bombarded me with essays. I mean seriously, a one page essay answering the question "Who am I? How do I know?". Do you know how hard that was?! It sure made me think a lot though.
Ok, well, again sorry, I'll try to post the next chapter faster.
"Achoo!"
"Are you ever going to stop sneezing? It's driving me crazy!"
"Inuyasha, you're so cruel. Kameko is sick and you don't even care!" Sango scolded.
Kameko smiled at her. It had been less than a month since they had joined, yet it already felt as if the five of them had been traveling together from the start. "Thanks Sango, but I'm fi-achoo! I'm just sneezing a bit is all."
"See, she says she's fine, now let's get moving. I don't like this place one bit."
The group had been walking through the snow for hours now, and it didn't look like it would ever stop falling. Inches of snow turned into feet. The bottom of Kameko's Tai Quan Do uniform pants were soaked, and her feet felt frozen. With each step her feet would sink another foot into the snow.
"Achoo!" Kameko reached into her backpack and pulled out her sweatshirt. It had her school's name written on it in bold letters and was covered with the school colors. Pulling it on Kameko started to feel a little bit warmer. She pulled he hood tightly over her head and ducked her hands into the sleeves.
"Achoo achoo achoo!" Kameko gave a triple sneeze.
"That's it, we're stopping for the night. Kameko is in no condition to travel," Sango decided.
"No way! We need to keep moving! It's barely started getting dark, we could cover so much more ground!"
"Inuyasha, you're the one who wouldn't let us go back to where we came to get out of here. We have to stop or Kameko's condition might get worse, do you really want that?" Miroku asked.
Inuyasha stared at Kameko for a second, then crossed his arms and looked back at Miroku. "Fine, we'll stop for the night, but where do you plan on camping? On top of the snow?"
"Look over there, I think I see a small cabin," Sango pointed ahead, and indeed a small cabin did come into view.
It turned out to be uninhabited, so the gang started a fire and soon everybody was toasty warm. Kameko stretched out her legs and let her frozen feet and shoes thaw out in from of the fire. It felt so good. She had even stopped sneezing.
"Kameko you should go ahead and get some sleep, that way you'll be fully recovered for tomorrow," Miroku suggested.
"Fine," Kameko quickly finishing slurping up her instant ramen and slipped into her sleeping bag. Then she reached into her bag and pulled out a small black square with a black cord coming out of it. It later split into two smaller cords and led to two round things that Kameko stuck in her ear. Kameko glanced up to see everybody looking at her like she was crazy. "Guys, it's just an iPod. It plays music in my ears so that you guys can still talk and not worry about waking me up."
Kameko lay down with her back turned to them. The rest of the gang stared questioningly at each other for a few seconds, but then just excepted it as one of her future things. They whispered quietly at first, but after seeing that she didn't wake up they spoke to themselves normally until finally they too lay down and went to sleep.
I felt a cold whoosh go through my sleeping bag. Great, I thought, the fire must have gone out. I laid there for a few more minutes, not wanting to get out of my cozy sleeping bag, but eventually the cold got the best of me and I slipped out. The fire was indeed out so I reached blindly for some firewood in the corner. When my hands felt nothing I realized we were all out.
I sighed. "Inuyasha, could you come help me get some firewood?" Nothing. "Inuyasha?"
Nobody answered. I felt through the darkness for my backpack, unzipped it and pulled out my flashlight. I quickly flicked it on and scanned the tiny cabin(with really thin walls apparently, the wind went right through this thing). It was empty. I scanned it three more times, hoping my eyes were playing tricks on me. But they didn't appear.
They were gone.
"Inuyasha! Shippo! Sango! Miroku! Where are you?!" I shouted as I trudged through more than two feet of snow. I held my flashlight out before me, giving me some light. It would be morning soon, but the skies were so dense with clouds that I didn't think it would make much of a difference. Just enough for me to turn off my flashlight maybe.
Something red flashed in the woods ahead of me.
"Hello?" My hand grabbed the hilt of my sword, ready for an attack if it happened to be a demon. I took a few steps forward. "Inuyasha?"
I saw another flash of red. I started running towards it, not wanting to lose the only lead I had. "Inuyasha! Come out! This isn't funny anymore!"
I ran faster, slowly catching up, or so I thought. The red figure was actually slowing down. I did too when I noticed that the forest opened up to a small clearing. I saw the red figure slow down to a walk. It was Inuyasha!
"Inuyasha," I ran up to him, only to be harshly pushed down into the snow. I looked up at him questioningly. "Wha-?"
I gasped. Inuyasha's claws had grown longer, his canine teeth sharper, and his eyes were blood red. He growled menacingly down at me.
Oooh, what's wrong with Inuyasha? Where are Sango, Shippo, and Miroku? Find out next time!(god that sounds corny XD)
That's it for now, I wanted to leave you guys off with some suspense, that way some fo you guys might actually read the next chapter. I promise that a lot of action will happen in the next few chapters. Sesshoumaru might even pop up(though that's still being thought through, so i can't be sure). Any ideas are welcome!(though I can't promise to use them I still love hearing them anyway).