Chapter 2
Kagome regained consciousness to intense pain and darkness. After laying there for a while without moving in case it made the pain worse, she realized it was only dark because her eyes were still closed. As they opened, her eyes became accustomed to the bright, brownish light that surrounded her. She slowly sat up with a lot of effort and pain to see that she was laying in the middle of a cave tunnel. When she tried to push herself up into a standing, she realized that the ground around her was soaked. Looking up, she saw that only the section of the ceiling right above her was dripping with water. However, the ceiling looked like it has never moved, but it was clearly the part she had fallen through. Putting her fall out of her mind, Kagome slowly began to inch her way along the wall in the direction she heard water.
The walk felt much further to her than it really was. This was attributed to the bleeding scrape on her neck, bruises on her back, and the two cracked ribs she thought she might have. Eventually the tunnel opened up into a wide cavern with a beautiful waterfall cascading into a pool that filled two-thirds of the room. This room must have been closer to the surface, because it was much brighter than the part of the cave she had just left.
Keen on washing the blood off from multiple cuts of differing severity, Kagome began making her way toward the waterfall and tried to ignore the black hovering on the edges of her vision. However, before she could reach it, something moved underneath the water. Trying to focus past the black spots in her eyes, she finally began to make out the figure a couple meters away. Tall, much taller than her, bare chested and very much chiseled (at least from this distance), long silver hair clinging to his body, and what looked like gold eyes? The hair and eyes caused a thought and fear to shoot through her body.
Sesshoumaru! What is he doing here? Although I don't really know where here is right now. Anyway, I need to leave! Quickly!
Just as Kagome was turning around though, Sesshoumaru stopped moving and looked up at her. The eye contact sent one more flash of panic through Kagome when her attention was taken away. She could no longer focus on one thing as the entire room swayed. As something trickled down her arm, she reached a hand up to touch her neck. Looking at it, Kagome slowly realized just how much she had been bleeding.
Maybe I should patch that up.
But then she passed out, falling sideways into the pool with no way of staying above the water.