InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Wandering MInds ❯ Dreams and surprises(need a better title) ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter Four~*

Wandering-Minds

By: Demonchic_K

Flames encircled the trio of companions. Shippou was perched frightenedly on Miroku's shoulder, who was back-to-back with Sango. The two humans surveyed the inferno around them, searching for weak points.

Shrieks were heard around them but the world beyond the flamage was inky, unknown, black. Lost shadows fleeted across their vision.

Sango scanned the flames. A tickling sensation brushed against her neck. Swiveling head she saw the shivering Kisune. His tail was twitching antsily.

`Wait,' thought Sango looking back at the kit.

"I have a plan," She whispered softly to her companions.

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Kagome stood alone, surrounded by nothing. Darkness engulfed her but looking at the ground she saw that a spotlight of some kind was focused on her from above.

She yelled a broken "help!" Silence. Her voice made as much sound as the clouds, no noise emitted her mouth.

While the teenager began to freak out, trees began to be put together. Bit by bit, she became surrounded by them.

"Kagome," a cold male voice called. `Wait!' She knew that voice.

Kagome was frantic now. She stood and fled into the forest around her.

"Kill him."

As the voice echoed Kagome stumbled into something. Peering up, she saw that the something was a very pissed-off hanyou.

"What the hell are you doing, wench?" Inuyasha gripped her shoulders, "Why did you wander off from the village? You know it's dangerous at the night."

He sounded angry, yet Kagome could decipher a hint of concern burrowed deep in his voice. She began to cry in fear and wrapped her arms around his torso. The voice came back.

"Kill Inuyasha."

The hanyou embraced the sobbing girl, trying to keep her from crying. Just as his arms circled her he felt a sharp pain in her chest and back.

Inuyasha immediately pulled away. Only to see the tear-stained face of a frightened girl, and a glowing sacred arrow protruding from his chest.

"Ka-Kagome?" He choked out.

Kagome stood as though she had not heard him, or the silence around them, a cold expression replacing her tears. The black and silver kimono she now wore was heavily stained in his crimson blood.

But just as her gaze landed on the incredulous, dying, inuyoukai, the tears stained her eyes again. Her clothes reverted back to her school yukata and instantly she was trying to help him again. A sharp pain blossomed in her back and spread through the rest of her body so that she was immobile.

"INUYASHA!"

That's how she woke up; screaming and crying hysterically.

"Kagome! Kagome!" Opening her eyes, she was greeted by a frantic Inuyasha shaking her shoulders almost violently.

Immediately realizing that her experience was dream, Kagome took to squeezing the life out of Inuyasha. Since he was half demon it didn't affect him, but he could smell her fear drop as she clung to him.

Slowly, his arms circled around her small frame. He made the motion to pull her to him in a comforting hug, but stopped short. Pressing his hand to her back again.

There it was again.

"Kagome," he whispered gently. She looked up at him, her expression much calmer than before. Kagome's soft brown eyes seemed to seize his gaze, Inuyasha's wide eyes seemed to be stuck in them.

"Inuyasha?" The hanyou's head shook as he was pulled from the strange staring contest.

Inuyasha seemed reluctant to continue, "Can I look at your bandages for a minute?"

A blush appeared over her cheeks almost reflexively by now.

"Umm…well…"

"I only need to see your back," Inuyasha stated. This helped her stop stuttering but her blush flared even more since she could tell what had run through his mind. The reason her had restated the question…he knew what she had been thinking.

Not trusting her voice to not falter, she clumsily crawled to stand up, facing away from the curious inuyoukai.

Inuyasha carefully lifted Kagome's white blouse from her back only to see more white from her bandages. The bandages he had applied the other day were still crisp and white. Her skin bordering the strips was extremely pale. Yet as he laid a cool hand over a patch of pale skin, he felt it was warm. Too warm. Especially since her skin was normally much darker.

Trailing his hand down to her bandages. Inuyasha felt that her bandages were warmer. It felt as if a fir had been set and the hot coals placed under the wrappings.

Kagome, who had just started gaining control over her embarrassed state, wasn't doing too well. When Inuyasha's hand pressed against her back, her eyes widened and the blush returned in full.

She felt his hands trail down to the bandages and shivered at the lost warmth. But when his hand pressed again she became aware of something. A very bad (and creepy) something.

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