Healing A Hollow Heart

Chapter Two: More Than You Can Chew

Revised.

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It was daylight when Kagome opened her eyes, although she was sure she had to be dreaming because she wasn't in Sengoku Jedai but her bed. She leaned forward and felt something constrict around her midsection.

'Bandages?'

What had happened yesterday?

"Kagome!" cried the Shippou as he tackled her midsection. "I was so worried. You wouldn't wake up, even when we cooked your favorite food."

"Kaa-san cooked oden?"

Shippou nodded and blinked as Kagome's eyes seemed to catch fire.

'If the Gods were merciful, they would kill Inuyasha right now,' he thought.

"Mew."

Kagome looked down, feeling the rough velvety lick of a cat's tongue on her palm.

Kirara looked up at her with her large rouge eyes then continued to lick her palm.

"I'm glad you're okay too, Kirara," she said, running her fingers through the nekomatta's fur. After a few strokes through the Kirara's fur, something dawned on her. "Hey, Shippou, how did we get through the well?"

The fox child blinked. "What do you mean, Kagome?"

"Older demons like Inuyasha and Kirira should be able to get through the well no problem, and I still have the Shikon Jewel but younger demons..."

The young fire fox's eyes narrowed with tears gradually gathering at the corner. "Kagome, you still think of me as a little kid, don't you? Well, I'm not! I have gotten stronger, strong enough to protect my new family now..."

"Shippou..."

"Stop treating me like a defenseless little kid!"

Kagome winced as she tried to sit up. "Shippou, wait!" But Shippou had taken off in the opposite direction, running past Kagome's mother in the process.

Kagome's mother craned her head in the door. "Oh my! Is everything alright, dear?"

Ignoring the pain, Kagome pushed out of bed and trudged over to her closet. "No, mom, it is not okay. I've got to find Shippou before he gets himself hurt! Or worse caught." Pulling on jeans and a sweatshirt, Kagome made her way downstairs. "Let's go, Kirara."

With Kirara on her heels, Kagome rushed down the stairs. "Shippou, please be okay."

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"Okay, toddler, what's so damn important? You had Kuwabarra pull me out of my date with Keiko!"

"Nice to see you too, Yusuke," replied Koenma. "Now that everyone's here, we can commence with the mission."

"You dragged me out of my date with Keiko for that?" Yusuke growled. "Boton, send me back!"

"What? You're not going to stay?"

"If I skip out on another restaurant date with Keiko, I'll be next on the menu."

Boton turned to Koenma, who in turn nodded his assent. He turned back to the other three detectives with a solemn look. "Now, this mission involves an extraordinary happening in the Living World. Just yesterday, an artifact that we assumed to be lost reappeared. We have found that the Shikon Jewel has found its way into the hands of seventeen-year-old Higurashi Kagome." Stopping in his tracks, Yusuke stared at the screen. "Spirit World reported that she was last seen on the streets of Tokyo this morning. Your mission is to find and bring her here."