InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Returning Home ❯ The Second Sign ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3: The Second Sign

As Kagome pulled the life energy out of the dieing man's lips she could feel her body transform it into her own pure miko energy. Quickly she stood and pulled her arrow from the quiver on her back. She was just in time to see one of the shard bearing youkai float out of the billowing smoke. He reminded her a little of her run in with the thunder brothers, he was obviously a storm youkai of some sort. His searching eyes found her as she released a charged arrow.

He didn't even have a chance yell. The arrow pierced him and he dissolved.

The fight near by quieted, many of the youkai looking at the human that took out one of their leaders so easily, trying to decide what to do. Kagome's legs gave out under her and she collapsed to sit on the ground, this was it, she was finished. Tapped out, totally spent and about to be eaten.

Those youkai that were not busy with the human army moved to attack the vulnerable miko on the ground, when a blade of light arched over her head, destroying the entire level of flying youkai in the army.

The entire youkai army turned stilled, then ran in mass, back into the wilds surrounding the village. Even the two remaining shard bearers retreated.

Kagome looked at the ground directly in front of her in fear. She recognized that attack, she knew that InuYasha was behind her. How long had he been there? What had he seen? When she thought that about what she had done to gain the power and destroy the youkai, she hopped that he had seen it. She wanted him to yell at her and berate her, she should be punished for what she had done. She had promised herself that she would never do that to anyone under any circumstances and she had failed.

InuYasha watched the youkai horde retreat. Once he was certain that none were going to stick around he turned his eyes on Kagome. He had every intention of yelling at her for what she had done. Then he saw her sitting in the dirt next to the dead general, her legs were folded haphazardly under her and she was staring at the ground with such fear, and shame. InuYasha frowned, he saw her expression change, leading up to something almost like self loathing.

He had to stop this.

He walked up to her, "Get up."

"I'm sorry InuYasha," she said without looking up, "I thought that if I could just get one with a shard they might get scared and run, but they didn't. I took that mans energy and it didn't even do any good."

InuYasha crossed his arms over his chest, "What the hell are you talking about? You purified the bastard. That was good."

"But I kissed him." Kagome whispered. She was sure that that would bring down his wrath.

InuYasha frowned, "Shut up! You did what you had to do. Now stop talking about it!"

He couldn't escape the thought that if he had been here she wouldn't have needed to get power from another man. She wouldn't have kissed another man.

"InuYasha! Where's Kagome?" Miroku called through the smoke.

"Here." InuYasha called back.

"Kagome!" Shippo bolted through the chaos left in the battles wake to get to her, "Are you alright? I lost you for a while."

"I'm fine Shippo." Kagome hugged him close, "I'm just… tired. It's been a long day."

"It's a good thing InuYasha came back when he did." Shippo looked up at InuYasha crossly.

"Yes, we were very fortunate that your business didn't keep you longer." Miroku didn't even look at InuYasha as he said this, instead he chose to kneel next to Kagome, "Are you injured?"

"No," Kagome smiled weakly, "I'm just… I think I can stand."

"It's not what you think!" InuYasha shouted.

This earned him three dirty looks as Kagome stood on slightly wobbly legs.

"Where's Sango?" Kagome asked Miroku.

"She is among the wounded." He answered, "But she is not badly hurt. We left her helping the others to find more of the living. Which is what I should be getting back to, InuYasha would you help me? Shippo can accompany Kagome to the remains of the village.

"What?" InuYasha tried to protest but Kagome and Shippo were already disappearing in the dissipating smoke and dust.

"Come, InuYasha we must help the wounded." Miroku called InuYasha's attention back to him.

InuYasha scowled but complied.

On this side of the field there were very few survivors.

"It's not what you think." InuYasha started again as they picked their way through the dead.

"Kagome is in a very fragile state InuYasha." Miroku said as if he hadn't heard the hanyou, "She is still weak from the transformation that Sorrell was putting her through, and I doubt that she is feeling very good about her own part in that situation. We don't really know how the spell is effecting her and the last thing she needs is for you to run off at the first mention of Kikyou-"

"Shut up!" InuYasha roared, "I said it's not what you think! I," InuYasha thought about it for a moment. Ok, it was what they thought, but he had done it for all of them this time, especially Kagome. "I found out that Sorrell past by the next village after the battle with that Naraku doll. It looks like Kohaku was following her."

Miroku looked away from the man he was examining, "You're sure about this?"

"No," InuYasha frowned, "the Miko in that village didn't get their names but it sounds right, and it's the right direction."

Miroku nodded, "That does not change the reason you left, InuYasha. So don't think that because you found a different Miko will lighten the fact that you ran off again to find Kikyo. Kagome will still be wounded by this."

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Later that night, after the wounded were treated and the surviving had begun to rest, Kagome was poking around the edge of the forest where she, and the general, had made their stand. She was looking for the shard that had dropped from the storm youkai when she shot it.

"Hey," InuYasha jumped down from the tree he had been watching her from, "What are you doing?"

Kagome jumped, "InuYasha! Don't scare me like that!"

InuYasha folded his arms, "You wouldn't be scared if you had stayed in the tent with the others, idiot."

"I'm looking for the shard that youkai had." Kagome walked carefully around on the blood soaked ground.

"You can't sense it?"

Kagome rolled her eyes, "It's right over here, I just don't want to touch anything."

Once she was sure where the shard was she knocked the slimy scale off of it and picked it up. She watched as it slowly turned from deep purple to light pink in her palm.

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A/N: Ok, incredibly short chapter. I know, I know, but I wasn't going to get one out this week so I decided to post this because I hate that writer's block that shows up right after a cliff hanger. Also I think this is the worst written chapter I've done yet, in this story. But I rewrote it twice so it will have to stand for a while.

Cursed jax - thank you for reviewing the other chapters, seeing how you were the only one… Can't anyone else take time to give a review?

As long as I get at least one review I will keep updating here. But I like having varied imputs so please review and tell me what you think, But I know that this chapter sucks so you don't have to tell me that.

Oh by the way, there will be singing in chapter 4! *cackles evilly and wonders off to find coffee.*