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Shades Of Red

Chapter 2…Breaking

…Unable to stay in a place so full of memories …and among the dead once so brimming with life…she ran.

Blindly running through the dark cold night…she fell to ground for the countless time…pushing her exhausted body off from the ground…Kagome continued on

Constantly pursued by the memories threatening to overwhelm her…she did the only thing she knew to survive…

She ran for a incalculable amount of time through places that bore no more identity than a blur through tear corrupted eyes…

…pushing her athletic body to its breaking point …the burning of her oxygen deprived muscles a friendly reminder of her pitiful existence within this unforgiving time…

Finally her body gave up its last forward motion…Kagome collapsed to the waiting earth…her blood tears and sweat adding salt to the moist earth

She lay there silently… the day had come but just a minute before…the sun's rays washed her body …as the flickering leaves shadows dances upon her skin…

Her body stung as the sweat seeped into the many cuts that marred her creamy white skin…Kagome could feel a familiar heat radiating towards her …a little more further to her path westwards..

Gathering her bit of renewed energy she propelled her self towards the waiting Hot Spring…she painstakingly peeled off her torn cloths and evaluated the damage…her shirt was ruined beyond repair and her pants were torn in rather revealing gashes…the only spared items were her two undergarments…

Kagome slowly eased her exposed body into the hot pool…and waded over to a protruding rock…leaning against this rock she tipped her head back exposing her fair neck and the top of her chest…a thin pale scar ran from midway up her neck to the tip of her left…her other one had small silver piercing

Closing her eyes she began to run facts through her head logically…trying to stay calm and access her situation…she couldn't make her self return to the well to go back home …it would tear back open the barley healed scar that desperately needed to seal…

She didn't believe she would ever gather enough strength to go back there and home…she was stranded here with out her friends...her companions…her life…Kagome grimaced as hot tears ran from her eyes leaving trails of salt…a

Her own time held no future for her there…she had long given up on school…and she barely knew her own family any more after her mother had remarried…

And her yellow bag with her necessary possessions had also been left back at the well…a many days journey away…she would need clothes and food…and money

She now came to the realization that she had become different person…some how ripped out of the old her and dead...numb from the real world…seeing out of new eyes…her current state now only contained the will to survive…and raw emotion…no more would she let herself get close to another…it would hurt to much for her bare alive

She climbed out of the steaming spring and lay on the moss beside it…letting the wind dry her skin…Little did she know that her intoxicating scent was attracting some unwanted visitors…