InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Redemption ❯ redemption3 ( Chapter 3 )

Kagome walked and walked through the forest, until she came to a quiet and calm clearing. There she seated herself upon a rock and just thought.

She thought about all the pain she'd had to go through, each time she knew that her beloved Inuyasha was with Kikyo. Even though it was killing her inside, she knew that they would always be together, no matter if Kikyo was alive or dead.

She sighed as a bird landed beside her, then flew away into the blue sky. "Lucky bird, you can fly away whenever you want to, your not held down by anything or anyone...you are so lucky."

Kagome sat there for a bit longer then decided to go a bit further and see if there was a hot spring nearby, she'd decided that she really needed to get rid of the stress she had heeped upon her shoulders.

She walked far, until she spotted the steamy mist of the spring and smiled to herself as she scanned the surrounding area, then proceeded to remove her clothes.

Just as she was nearly stripped of all her clothes, and had been about to remove her bra and underware, she heard a rustle in the bushes not far from where she stood.

"Who is there!" She called, then scolded herself for possibly letting her exsistance known to whoever it was that had made the bushes move. Kagome bent down and slid her skirt back on, then her blouse. She felt much better now that she was fully dressed, but she did wish that she'd turned around and headed back to her friends.

She waited for sometime, arrow fastened to her bow, ready to defend herself the best she could, but no one came out of the bushes. "Hm? Could it have just been an animal? A squirrel maybe?" Kagome decided that it had just been a squirrel, and once again stripped out of her clothes, all of them this time.

She slipped into the hot steamy water and smiled as she relaxed and began to let all the tension flow away with the water. She began to swim a little and smiled as she dunked her head under the water.

It was then that she heard a noise from the other side of a large rock that sort of cut the sring in half. "Hm?" Then there was the sound of light splashing.

Kagome became somewhat curious and slipped silently to the rock and peeked around the corner and twisted her ankel as she'd swam and run onto the grass, tearing her clothes on quickly. She knew now that she had to get back to Inuyasha and the others, there was no staying to think, Naraku was right on the other side of the spring, not a good thing for her.

She hurried off through the forest and thought she'd gotten out of there without being noticed, that is until she was grabbed from behind.