InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 13 ( Chapter 13 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Forgotten Memories
By. DemonGirl-Setsuna
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!
Sorry for my delay on updating, but ‘Ritalin-writer’ has been cruising on her typing; in other words hogging the computer again!
In the last Chapter: InuYasha turned human and was captured by the spider-demon they were running from.
Now Sakura has to save him…again…!
Can Sakura save him in time?
Find out in this Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!
Here is Chapter 13!
Please Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or anything belonging to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Ch. 13
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At the Temple…
“Huh…?”, InuYasha groans, opening his eyes, ‘Where am I?’, he thinks, looking around.
He finds himself wrapped up in a cocoon; his left arm free from the cocoon, his body hanging ten feet off the temple floor.
I’m back at the temple!’, he gasps in his head.
“You’re awake”, the spider chuckles.
“What in the seven hells?”, he shouts, straining against the cocoon.
“You have such a foul-mouth for bait”, the spider calmly says, “So you’re a hanyou…”, she coolly adds, standing on a rope of webs in front of InuYasha.
“Why have you taken me hostage?”
“To be bait to lure the girl with the Shikon jewel back here”, the spider replies, “Rumors told that the Shikon jewel had returned after 16 years since it’s disappearance, so I attacked the nearby village; devouring stray villagers, hoping the attacks would lead the jewel’s protector to investigate. But I never thought that a tasty hanyou like you would be traveling with the protector”, she says, grabbing him by the chin and licks her lips.
“Do you think I’ll let you use me as bait!”, InuYasha shouts, swinging his left fist at her.
She effortlessly catches his fist in her hand.
“Good bait should act like bait, and not fight their captor!”, she exclaims, thrusting her elbow into his upper arm.
“Nnh…!”, he painfully gasps, as he heard and felt the bone in his arm snap.
She releases her hold on his fist, letting his arm fall, and hang limp and lifeless at his side.
“That should teach you, hanyou”, the spider laughs.
“You bitch…!”, he painfully curses, squeezing his eyes shut.
“I wonder how long your body; that is now human, can survive my venom?”, the spider asks herself out-loud.
InuYasha could only watch in horror as she bringing her mouth to his neck, he could feel her fangs sinking into his flesh. His breathing breaks into pants as her venom slowly burns it’s way through his lungs, he begins coughing when the poison reaches his lungs; he coughs up a mouth-full of blood.
“I don’t get to taste hanyou flesh very often. So, I’ll finish cocooning you; as my venom liquefies your insides, and save you for later. As for the girl, I’ll devour her as soon as she gets here”, the spider laughs, licking her lips clean of his blood.
InuYasha’s vision begins to blur and slowly darken to black as the venom slowly ate away at the corners of his mind.
Sa…ku…ra…’, was the last thought to run through his head as he slips into the inky blackness of unconsciousness.
“Now to wait for the girl, she better get here soon or she’ll miss her companion’s final moments”.
Suddenly, a boomerang-shaped sword whizzes into the room; slicing the web-rope the spider demon stood on, and then it slices through the webs hanging InuYasha off the ground. He falls towards the floor; landing on a net of webs.
The spider demon watches the weapon be caught in mid-air; effortlessly with one hand, by Sakura.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, demon!”, she shouts.
“Ah, my meal has arrived”, the spider laughs.
“I’m nobody’s meal”, Sakura retorts, throwing the boomerang-sword at the demon.
The demon leaps out of the sword’s path, “HA! Was that aimed at me?”, she mocks, then notices Sakura was smirking with a dagger in her hand; posed to throw it.
“Nice dodge, but I’d like to see you dodge in mid-air”, Sakura remarks, throwing the dagger.
The dagger flies true to it’s mark; impaling the spider demon through the heart.
“Ghh…Curse you…wench…”, the demon gurgles, as she slowly turns to dust as with her
webs.
Sakura catches the sword when it flies back to her, then she walks over to retrieve her dagger.
“Now to check on InuYasha”, she sighs, sheathing her dagger and walking to his side.
“Hey! InuYasha, are you alright?’, she asks, crouching next to his motionless body, “InuYasha?” she reaches out to touch his cheek, ‘He’s so cold!’, she gasps in her head, when she touches his skin.
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Ten Minutes…
In the Temple’s Kitchen…
InuYasha laid on the floor, while Sakura tended to a small fire with a pot of water over it and begins to grind some leaves into a paste, some straight sticks and strips of cloth laid besides her.
She puts some of the paste into a tea cup and pours some boiling water into the cup; stirring it. She then tilts his head and brings the cup to his lips.
“InuYasha…drink this if you want to get rid of the poison in your body…”, she whispers, tilting the cup, pouring the liquid into his mouth; some of it spilling out the corners of his mouth, he slowly shallows.
I’m so glad mom taught me what each herb looks like and what it does’, she thinks, mopping up the spilled tea from his face.
“Now to tend to his broken arm”, she whispers to herself, grabbing the sticks and strips of cloth.
She unties the string on his haori, and carefully removes his haori and kimono.
The center of his upper, left arm was a deep purple and very swollen.
“To find the break…”, she whispers, reaching out to touch his arm.
A gasp catches in his throat in a silent scream when she touches his flesh.
He acts so tough, that someone can forget that he can feel pain’, she thinks, quickly pulling her hand back, “Where did I put that jar of numb-root?”, she quietly asks herself, looking around in her bag.
She pulls out a clay jar with a cork-stopper from her bag, ‘I’m so glad I have this’, she smiles, remembering the time she twisted her ankle.
She scoops a small amount with her fingers and smears it onto his upper arm, causing him to groan in pain as she applies the paste.
“I know it hurts, but this paste will numb the pain, so please bear the pain just a little bit longer”, she whispers to him, being as gently as she can, ‘Why am I expressing kindness to InuYasha? Why has he gotten past my shell?’, she wonders.
The painful look on his face slowly ebbs away, Sakura feels the break and realigns the bone, then ties the sticks to his arm to brace it, so it would heal properly.
She takes the remaining paste she has grinded up from the leaves, and smears it over the bite-mark at the base of his neck, then she bandages it with a spare strip of cloth.
“There!”, she sighs, ‘Now, only time will tell it he survives’, she thinks, sitting besides him.
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well? What did you think? Please review!
InuYasha has been poisoned!
And, Sakura is doing everything she can do!
Will he survive the night?
Or, will he be killed by the poison?
Find out in the next Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!
Catch you readers next time!