InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Sango's Anger ( Chapter 13 )

Disclaimer: Still don't own InuYasha, but it's not from a lack of trying.

 

Chapter 13: Sango's Anger

 

What did that youkai mean? They were after the jewel, sure, he knew that. But the youkai had said the jewel is only a part of it. “Miko's are created to defeat us, and she is thought to become one of the most powerful of our time. Do you really think we will allow her to live?” They were after Kagome. InuYasha thought that after the jewel was gone, the youkai wouldn't have reason to attack Kagome, but it wasn't like that at all.

 

They wanted her dead. Really dead. For a youkai to kill a miko was a big deal among themselves, and to kill the strongest? Every youkai in existence would try a hand at it! InuYasha shook his head, pulling himself out of his trance. He would have to come back to that thought, he and Kagome still had a good day's travel ahead of them before they would reach the village.

 

“InuYasha!” he turned quickly, just in time to watch as Kagome fell to the ground. She didn't get back up.

 

“Kagome!” InuYasha ran to her side, quickly surveying what could be the matter. It didn't take his hanyou nose long to sniff out what had happened. Poison… I don't know how to cure this poison on a human. The herbs I would use on myself would kill her! Black liquid seeped from the wound, making it apparent to InuYasha the poison was strong and Kagome wouldn't last long if the poison went untreated for too long. He thought quickly. Kaede. She's the only one, but its so far…

 

I've got to get her there! Without another thought he scooped Kagome in his arms and leaped away, making record speed towards the village. His body was quickly wearing from all the traveling, and then the battle, and now using all the energy he had left to get to Kaede in time. He looked down at the shivering body in his arms. Hold on Kagome!

 

Reaching the old miko's hut, InuYasha dashed inside. Kaede looked up from the fire.

 

“What is it, InuYasha?” Kaede looked over and spotted Kagome in the hanyou's arms. “What happened to ye two?”

 

“Att-attacked,…rat….K'gome poisoned!” InuYasha panted from the run.

 

“A rat-youkai?” she scribbled down some instructions on a piece of paper. “I've got most of the ingredients I need here, but ye will have to find the rest InuYasha.” She handed the paper to him. He looked over it for a second, then nodded and leaped out of the hut.

 

Kaede made quick work of preparing the herbs she already had, grinding, boiling, chopping. An hour later InuYasha returned with the rest of the ingredients needed. Kaede threw out instructions, and InuYasha made no argument in fulfilling them.

 

“Here, ye need to spread this on the wound, and make her drink this, all of it.”

 

InuYasha took the bowl of greenish-blue goop and spread it across the wound. Kagome winced under the touch, still shivering despite the fire. He then took the cup of steaming herbal drink. The smell irritated his hanyou sense of smell, but for the time being he ignored it, tilting Kagome's head so she could drink.

 

“Did it work? Will she be okay?” InuYasha gazed worryingly at Kaede, waiting for her answer.

 

“She needs rest, so do ye, InuYasha.”

 

“Keh! Answer the question old hag!” InuYasha's gaze turned to fire, afraid of what the answer might be.

 

“I do not know. We will have to wait till morning.” She made her way to the door of her hut. “Kagome has been infected with the poison for awhile now, InuYasha. The girl is strong, but she may not be able to pull through the night.” InuYasha closed his eyes. Stupid wench! Why do you have to be such a… He didn't even finish his thought.

 

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Kagome clinched her fists.

 

“Be still, wench!” InuYasha used the cloth covered with Kaede's herbal remedy to clean Kagome's wound for the third time today.

 

“I can't help it, it stings!”

 

“Keh, that means it's working.” InuYasha smiled inwardly. He was just happy she was talking, much less arguing with him. The night had been long for the both of them, but in the morning light it was apparent she would make it through.

 

“I know, but it still hurts.” InuYasha couldn't hide his amusement at the sight of Kagome's pouting face. “You think this is funny dog-boy?!”

 

“Now you know how this stuff feels. You've had no problems rubbing all over me.”

 

“You never said anything about it stinging!”

 

“It don't sting, not to me, anyway.”

 

“Well it does to me.” Her pout escalated.

 

“I'm done anyway. Lay back down and I'll go get something to eat.”

 

“I want to get up; I've been lying down in here all day.”

 

“I don't think so. The hag said you should stay in bed, at least for a few days.”

 

“Sit!” `THUMP!' InuYasha hit the floor.

 

“Ouch! What was that for?”

 

“She's not a hag,… and I don't want to lay here all day! Sit!” `THUMP!'

 

“Wench!”

 

“Sit!” `THUMP!'

 

“It looks like everything's normal here.” Miroku entered the hut, soon followed by Sango, holding a very worried kitsune.

 

“Sango! Shippou!” Ignoring the still brooding hanyou on the floor, Kagome leaped up and grabbed the kitsune.

 

“Kaede told us what happened. Oh, are you alright Kagome?” Sango put her arms around Kagome's neck, careful not to hurt her injuries.

 

“I'm fine Sango, and I'm glad all of you are back!” Sango smiled, then turned to the hanyou who was just peeling himself off the floor.

 

“And where were you!? We leave Kagome in your protection and we come back to this.”

 

“Keh, I was getting a stupid youkai's claws stuck in me, that's what!”

 

“Sango, it's alright. I just wasn't fast enough.”

 

“No, Kagome. InuYasha should have known to watch out better.”

 

“Sango, darling, I think we should go.” Sango glared at the monk. He backed off quick.

 

“I protected her as best I could!”

 

“And that wasn't good enough was it?!”

 

“Sango, please!” the two kept yelling back and forth. The kitsune in Kagome's arms squirmed deeper into her hold, Miroku grabbed Sango by her shoulder and pulled her out of the hut. InuYasha lowered his ears, also leaving the hut.

 

“InuYasha?” he stopped in the doorway, ears now flat on his head.

 

“I'll be back.” He left. On the edge of tears from her fighting friends, Kagome also stormed out, leaving Shippou with Kaede. She didn't stop until she reached the well, throwing her legs over the opening and letting her feet dangle at the side. It was her fault. Her fault she got hurt, her fault InuYasha felt bad, her fault Sango had yelled at him.

 

Maybe I should leave… never come back. She looked down the well. If she left now, she wouldn't be breaking her promise, she wouldn't be leaving InuYasha alone. She pushed herself into the well, being surrounded by the familiar glow.

 

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InuYasha jumped, landing on his branch in Goshinboku. He sighed, closing his eyes and crossing his arms in haori sleeves. His head hurt, his back ached, and his pride was cut in half. Although he didn't want to admit it, he thought that he had really messed things up. How could he mess up so much in so little time? Great, baka. Promise to protect and let her down time and again.

 

His ears perked up in the direction of the well. What?! No… she wouldn't. But his hanyou senses told him Kagome had already jumped through the well. Now he was mad. He took off to the well, jumping in himself. It wasn't hard to find Kagome, she was barley out of the well house when InuYasha landed on her side. He walked right up to her, pulling her around to face him.

 

“What do you think you're doing, wench?” she flinched under his touch. InuYasha sensed her upset.

 

“InuYasha, go… just go back.” She wrapped herself up in her arms. She started to walk off.

 

“Kagome, let me…”

 

“Sit.” `Thump!'

 

“Kagome!” He got up after the effects of the `sit' wore off and went after her once again. “Just talk to me, just for a second.” She turned and before he knew it, had her arms wrapped tightly around his waist.

 

“I'm sorry, InuYasha, I should have been faster, I should have been able to take care of myself. And Sango had no right to yell at you like that.”

 

“Kagome… all of that? It was my fault, not yours. Sango was right, I swore to protect you and I…” she put a finger to his lips to silence him.

 

“Maybe we're both to blame.” He gave a little nod, but Kagome could still tell he thought it was his fault. “You want to go back?”

 

“No, we can stay here, if you want.”

 

“It would be nice.” She smiled up at him.

 

“Keh. Worthless wench.”

 

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Kagome slowly woke up and took a look around. She didn't remember going to her room, or getting in her bed. She was still wearing the clothes she had come back in. Blinking away the fogginess of her sleep, she became more coherent. She and InuYasha were on the couch watching a movie. She must have fallen asleep and he carried her up to her bed. Kagome looked around for the missing hanyou. He was still asleep; on the floor at the foot of her bed.

 

“InuYasha?” Kagome shook his shoulder.

 

“Hmm?” he didn't open his eyes. Kagome smiled, then crawled on the floor to sit next to him. She reached up with one hand, toward her favorite spot; InuYasha's ears. She was about to grab one when a clawed hanyou hand grabbed both her wrists, twisting her around and pinning her to the floor with his body weight.

 

“What did I tell you, wench?” his amber eyes hovered right above her own. He's close, too close…

 

“InuYasha…” What… is he doing?

 

“What did I tell you?” his gaze didn't falter from her own. The heat radiating from his touch was almost too much for Kagome to take in at once. His long, silver hair flowed down upon her shoulders, tickling at her cheeks.

 

“But…”

 

“No.” he shook his head and released his hold. “You know, you have a very strange obsession with my ears.” He flicked them a few times.

 

“I can't help it, they're cute.”

 

“Keh! They're not cute.” Kagome let out a nervous laugh. They are to me. She thought silently. Still shaky from her close encounter with InuYasha, she stood up, brushing the wrinkles out of her clothes.

 

“I'm going to take a bath.” She ran over to her closet and picked out an outfit to change into.

 

“That doesn't surprise me.” He rolled his eyes.

 

“I won't be long, go fix yourself some ramen. You know where everything is.” She went into the bathroom and locked the door. She could still feel his touch, still see his amber eyes digging into her very heart, ripping her senses from her completely.

 

She turned the water on cold, very cold. Though she doubted that would make her cool down any time soon. Her thoughts kept coming back to that intense moment. He was going to kiss me. She smiled at the thought, then frowned at the realization that the kiss did not take place.

 

A/N: I know, Sango isn't usually like that, but she is a little emotional right now, you'll find out why in the next chapter, I think. I did add a bit of fluff, so I hope you enjoyed it. Don't worry, more is to come!!