InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ THE WAR OF BLOODY *LOVE ❯ they are found ( Chapter 8 )

THE WAR OF BLOODY *LOVE

CHAPTER 8: THEY ARE FOUND

Kagome's POV

I woke with a start. I quickly looked around and found I was still in my bed. My book was draped across my chest, which was rising and falling quickly with every breath that I took. I must have fallen asleep while reading my book. But something in my mind was trying to tell me something. In the brief change from sleep to being awake, I quickly forgot it. What was it? What was that sound?

I swore I heard something from my dream. It was as if it was real. I literally stopped breathing for a second. It was real. I couldn't believe it. But who could it be? Sango and I were the only ones in this whole house. And the nearest neighbors were a couple miles away. This whole house was dead smack in the middle of nothingness. The only thing near the house was-the woods!

I quickly scrambled out of bed. What if someone was being hurt? Killed? Raped? Killed? Killing seemed to be the worst thing for me, so I had to think f it twice. Oh, holy shit. I went to the window in my room and looked out. I couldn't see anything. The moon was the only thing I could see. But that seemed to be enough; it seemed to slightly brighten the darkness. It must have started to rain while I was asleep because now it was pouring. About time for the summer rain. It was too fucking hot anyway.

The person in the woods?! I have to go help them. I ran to the phone in my room and picked it up and put it to my ear.i could hear the dial tone. And for a second, it felt like nothing at all; something that was empty. But what if it was still in my dreams? What if I called them for no reason? But I had to make sure, didn't I? I put the phone back down and sat on the bed, trying to catch my breath. I shouldn't call the police. I can't. I don't know, but it felt like this was out of the police stations league.

But they would be able to give better assistance to the person in trouble. That was true. But…something was nagging me. It felt like I was the only one who should help this person…like the talisman…I quickly brought me hands up to my neck to stroke it. I looked down at it when I felt that the talisman felt different….warm more like. But it never felt like that before…I rubbed it some more and it felt the same way…what the-!

My mind snapped back to the scream I heard. I had to find out what happened. Now I know I heard something out there. The woods was pretty big after all. I threw off my pajamas and pulled up some old jeans and a long sleeves shirt with a hood. I grabbed my sneakers out my closet and put them on too. Every moment seemed like that person out there was dying. Every second counted and I couldn't let whoever it was die. At the thought of that word, there was a pang in my chest and my hand quickly clutched where the pain was, like that would stop it.

I was ready. But I couldn't go out there alone. I wasn't scared. And I was surprised that I wasn't, but certain things that should scar me, didn't seem to at this moment. Sango. God. She was going to kill me for waking her up like this. We only went to bed a couple of hours ago. I opened my room door and crepted into the dark hallway. It was slightly cooler than my bedroom. I crept down the hallway towards Sango's door. Wait! Why the hell was I creeping when someone's life was in danger? Stupid me! Okay-so I started to jog to the door.

When I got to it, I didn't waste anytime. I banged the door open so hard, the door hit the wall behind it. I flinched. I hoped it didn't leave a mark on the wall.

"Sango! Sango! Wake up!" I yelled while groping the wall for the light switch. I found it and switched it on. Sango began to stir under her bed sheets. But soon she settled back down even though the light was still on. See? Sleeps like a ton of bricks. I ran over to her bed and shook her violently. "Sango! I need your help! An emergency!" Sango shot up straight in bed. Her hair was ruffled and her eyes were half closed. But she seemed to have heared what I yelled.

"Emergency?" she said. "What happened? Are you okay? O-my-god! Is the house on fire?!" she jumped out of bed so fast, she almost got whiplash.

"No! Sango calm down. There is no fire! It's something else." I reassured her.

"No fire! No fire! You come in my room my room in the middle of the night, screaming your head off and shaking me, and there's no fire!" Sango yelled.

"Sango. It still is an emergency."

"Then what, Kagome? I'm tired."

"I heard a scream." I said. Sango rolled her eyes.

"A scream? And when did you hear this?"

"Well…about 15 minutes ago…I think it came from the woods. I'm going to see. That's why I'm dressed."

"Oh, Kagome! Be reasonable. You just fell asleep and thought you heard something. Besides," she said, waving a hand in the air, "we are the only ones out here."

"Sango, please! I need to know for my self. What if someone really is out there in trouble? Are you just going to leave them so they could stay hurt?"

"No ones out there, Kagome."

"Fine!" I said. "I'll go out there by myself. I turned and started walking out the room. But then Sango grabbed my arm.

"Kagome," Sango said. "Are you crazy? You can't go out there by yourself. Its pouring rain! You'll get lost in the woods!"

I yankedmy arm free of Sango's grip and stood to face her. "I don't care. I need to go out there! Someone is in trouble. You can stay here and be a coward if you want to, but I'm going!" All in all, Sango was shocked at Kagome's outburst. She's never yelled before-at least not at her. It was a big surprised. Sango would have given Kagome a pat on the back, because she was always way to nice. But because of the situation, Sango didn't think Kagome would accept it if Sango touched her right now. So Sango did the next best thing.

Sango put her hands on her hips and glared at me. "You may think you heard something in there, but I don't think you did. And if you get lost, don't come crying to me about it. But I'm your best friend, and even though I don't believe that you've woken me up in the middle of the night because of what you've heard, I will still go. So get the hell out my room so I can change!"

I smiled.

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"Come on!" Kagome yelled to Sango behind her over the rain. They were already outside. They trudged through the thick and deep mud as they walked deeper and deeper into the woods. It was so hard to see with the pain coming down so hard and fast. It felt like hail more than rain; the impact of the rain went through Kagome's rain coat. Mud was already inside of her high rubber boots. The feeling was very uncomfortable.

She looked ahead and saw that she could see nothing but the dark shadows of the thick trees. Kagome looked up and saw that, even though the rain made everything blurry and hard to see, the moon shown bright as ever. As if it had no problem of being known. Kagome found herself gazing at it, like it was trying to tell her something. But what? And moons can't talk-can they?

Something bumped into her, and she realized it was Sango.

"I don't see anyting, Kagome!" she yelled over the rain. "It's too dark. And I don't even know where we are!" Kagome looked around and turned back to Sango.

"I do." She said simply. Sango looked at her astonished.

"You do? And how's that?"

"Trust me," Kagome said before turning her back on her and started walking. "Turn the flashlights on now. We're about in the center of the woods, and its going to be completely dark now." They continued to walk deeper into the forest. The rain caused it to not only be hard to see, but hard to hear. That's why Kagome didn't hear Sango scream, until she ran right into her, shrieking like a banshee.

Kagome fell into the mud, face first. She quickly sat up and found Sango hovering over her babbling something. Kagome tried to follow what she was saying, but the rain and she was going so fast. Kagome yelled for her to shut up, but she didn't. So Kagome shined the flashlight in her face, and saw that her eyes were wide with fear. Kagome got very worried.

"What is it Sango? Why did you knock me into the mud. Now I'm full of it."

"K-Kagome…! I s-saw something over there…" Sango said, her voice shaking like hell.

Kagome stood up now. She took the flashlight beam from out of Sango's face and flashed it around the area they were both standing in. They were in a clearing. It was big for the size, but, hey, the woods was huge, wasn't it, so this clearing didn't take up any space at all. They trees were thick here, and they were clumped together, making the space between them narrow.

Kagome turned to Sango and looked at her as if she was crazy. "Sango," she said, "I don't see anything, what did you see?"

Sango turned her wide eyes to the left and slowly lifted her hand to point to something. "A hand. I saw a hand. No. I see a hand!" Kagome whirled on her. She couldn't be serious. Was she? Where could the hand be? Kagome looked around in the darkness, trying to find what Sango was talking about. But she didn't see anything. Then, using her common sense, she turned the flashlight to where Sango pointed.

Her heart was pounding so loud, it matched the loudness of the pouring rain. Kagome lifted a hand and wiped the wet hair from her face to behind her ear. Her cloths were chilling her to the bone and she slightly shivered with the chilliness. Would she see the hand? At first, when the light beam was shined in that area, she saw nothing. But when she looked carefully…

She saw it.

The mud covered it, and with the pouring rain, it made it all more harder to see. But there was no question about it. It was a hand. It was laying lifeless beneath the mud. The rain continued to pour, giving the hand a pale looking color. [Does that make any sense at all?] Kagome turned to Sango and screamed. She dropped the flashlight.

"Holy shit. Holy shit! Oh-what do we do?! What do we do?!" she yelled at Sango who looked like she didn't have the answers at all.

Sango gripped her shoulders and spoke through tears. "We have to leave-now! We need to call the police! Let's go! Now!"

Kagome was-was...she didn't know what she was. This was all too much. She heard a scream-a terrible fatal scream. And now here she is-knowing that she was right all along. But to find this? Why did she have to actually come out here? Why did she have to be the one to hear the scream? And to really come out here, in the woods, in the dark while its raining?! Kagome was more brave than she thought. But this was when she needed the bravery. Because right now, all she wanted to do was crawl into a hole and never come back out.

How was she to go about this? And now, she was really pissed, because even though she was freezing cold, due to the rain, her neck was burning hot. For right now, she ignored it, thinking it was the fear finally coming up from her throat to swallow her up so she could forget all of this. God…

"I was right…" Kagome whispered.

"What? What did you say, Kagome?" Sango screamed. "We need to go!" Sango grabbed Kagome's arm hard and started to walk away. Sango stopped for a second and looked around like she was crazy. She turned to Kagome and asked, "You said you knew where we were. So which way is the house?" Kagome just looked at her for a second. Not answering. She didn't think her mouth could work. "Kagome! Where are we?!" Sango yelled again.

Kagome put up a shaky finger and pointed to the right where they came about the clearing they were in now. Kagome got one last glance at the hand before she was dragged away by Sango. Sango ran and ran, keeping her iron grip on Kagome. Their feet hit the ground so hard, that even over the rain, the faint sound of squishing mud could be heard. Kagome was lost.

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Kagome's Pov

What do I do? God. What do I do? Why can't my life be normal, like how it used to be?! Help! Someone help us! We're only teenagers. We can't do this by ourselves. We might have discovered a murder and I just saw some of the body. I don't want to see that. But if…what if the person isn't…dead. Could that be possible? But I saw it. I saw the hand.

But that doesn't mean the person's dead. They could still be alive. They could still be alive! They could just be badly hurt. And we're leaving the person all alone without help! We have to go back! We have to hel-! Damn it! Why does my neck keep burning like that? What is it? I ripped my coat open with my free hand and felt my neck. My hand came into contact with the talisman. The…talisman. It's even hotter than before. I remember before I came out here…it felt warm in my hands…what the hell…

I'm scared. My hands are shaking violently… Suddenly, I couldn't explain it. Even though it was dark (I dropped the flashlight and Sango has to use hers) I can see some light. And it's coming from the moon. It looked so…everything… (did that make any sense?) It was beautiful, vibrant-glowing with its brilliance. It held me captivated. I wanted to reach out and touch it. Everything.

The moon. It made me think. No. It made me make my decision, though I don't know why. Leaving that person behind-dead or not-was wrong. And I wasn't going to be a part of it. I wasn't! I have to go back. I need to go back. Its-its what I'm supposed to do…we've been running for a long time now. And my mind was made up. I would have to get away from Sango. I'll run fast enough to get back to the body without Sango catching me and dragging me back.

Without thinking about it, I tore away from Sango and ran like hell back to the clearing. I could hear Sango yell and start to run after me. That girl could run. So I had to run faster. The rain splashed against me face and I almost lost my shoe. But I didn't stop. My boots were probably up to me knee with water and mud, but I kept going. My chest heaved and my throat burned…

Keep going…keep going…run…run…keep…running…

When I reached the clearing, I didn't stop until I collapsed besides the hand. My knees and hands were already in the mud. My head snapped up with the sound of Sango's voice calling me. She was close. Again, with out thinking, I dug my hands into the clumpy mud and started to dig. I dug until I could see the whole arm…then a shoulder…neck…chin…

A face…

It was caked with mud and wet with rain. The rain drops were sliding off the person's face. It was a boy…I think. His hair was midnight black. The blackest I've ever seen before. His face was slightly paler in color. But the worst thing of all…was that his face was full of blood. I quickly pulled my hands back and put it to cover my mouth, ignoring the amount of mud that was on it. A horrible shudder went through my body.

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe he is dead after all. The amount of blood on his face…it was just so much. The talisman throbbed at my neck with its hotness. {That sentence sounded very weird. Don't you think?} I took that as a sign to keep going. But I still had to force myself to keep digging. I dug until I could see his chest, then his hips and legs. His whole body was covered with the mud. How did he get so deep under the mud so fast?

But that didn't matter now. It only mattered to get him out and to safety. I noticed that the rain wasn't coming down as hard as it was before. It was now drizzling and it was way easier to see. But I still couldn't take out the condition of the boy. I needed my flash light. But the moon…that helped enough. And thats how I was able to see the rest of blood all over his body-mainly on his chest. They were now black. They couldn't be mistaking for the mud.

And worst of all, I noticed a deep puncture wound in his shoulder…and his chest. It was very deep and still bleeding. Who would do something so awful? I felt hot tears in the back of my eyes, and let them come. In a fury, I began to dig more rapidly; until my fingers were sore from doing it. By the time his legs were out, I heard the splash of feet and then heavy breathing. I looked up and saw that it was Sango.

"Kagome! What the fuck! We have to-"Sango caught the sight of the boy lying in the mud. Her hand came up to cover her mouth; to seal her scream.

"He might still be alive, Sango," I said. "And if he is, and we leave him, he will die."

"K-Kagome. We have to call the police. They will know what to do…" Sango was still standing by the entrance of the clearing. She hadn't moved an inch, and guessing on what I just discovered, she wasn't going to move.

"We can't call the police," I said sternly.

Sango's eyes grew wide. "What do you mean? Of course we call the police!"

"No. We don't. The police will…they won't understand…"

"Understand what? He's hurt, and that's what the police is for. And what if who ever hurt him is still near by?" Sango looked around like a monster would pop out any second. "I don't care what you say. When we get home, I'm calling the police."

I looked down at the boy in the mud. I looked at his bleeding wounds "Sango, I need your help. We're going to bring him home so we can help him."

"No! He can stay there. If the police come and we move the body…"

"Listen. He's alive. And he needs help now. So I'm taking him home. I'm going to need your help Sango. Please. Please…" {Doesn't it sound like they are talking about a hurt little puppy?}

Sango nodded after a while and started to walk over to me. But then she tripped over something. She looked at what tripped her. Then she swung her wide eyes at me.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Kagome," she said, "it's another body."

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AN: Yes! Yes! I finished this chapter. Ooo. What will happen now? I don't know yet. But I'm starting it right away. You can be sure, that in this story, you will always get up dates like every couple of days. And if I take longer than that, I'm taking a break and I'm sure to let you know that. I hoped you liked this chapter. I hope that you please read and review. Thanks. Bye!