~Their Salvation~

~Chapter 14~

"Whoa, this place is so sad." Kaito muttered softly looking around the old abandoned homes going up to the place Inuyasha was born.

"Yeah, to think of all the people who died here." Aia whispered. Hana felt a chill dance through her body so she gently grabbed Inuyasha's sleeve. Usually, he would look down at her but he was far too busy taking in all the scents of burnt objects, corpses, and whatever else he could be smelling.

"So, when we get up those stairs we all split up or teams of two?" Shippō asked.

"Well, I and Kaito can be a team, you and Sesshomaru, A-Un are always a team, and Hana has her puppy to protect her." Aia pointed out looking over at Inuyasha.

"Sounds like a plan!~" Shippō said with a grin as they started walking up to the palace. Once they made it they all just stared at the old torn down and burnt building.

"To think, a life was taken and given here." Aia muttered softly.

"Let's get looking." Sesshomaru said before walking off, Shippō trailed behind him before he started lifting planks and such looking for whatever it was they wanted here.

"Ok boy, let's get looking!~" Hana said tugging a little at Inuyasha's sleeve making him snap out of his sniffing and look down at her. Hana then let go walking in a different direction than her friends knowing Inuyasha would follow close by. They looked for what felt like forever, it was a big palace after all and they had to be careful so they didn't get hurt. Hana was currently trying to lift up a large plank but was failing. She suddenly retracted her hands hissing in pain, she was holding one of her hands as crimson soon flooded in her palm. Inuyasha heard the hiss making him perk up from sniffing a burnt cloth looking over. When he caught a whiff of Hana's blood he shot up rushing her side. Hana felt him put his arms around her making her look up.

"I'm ok, just uh, cut my hand on that board." Inuyasha gently took her hand in his holding it up, the crimson dripping from her hand now. He pulled it closer to him and gently licked her hand making her tense and turn red.

"Oh, you two already- Hana are you ok?!" Aia rushed to Hana's side.

"U-Uh, yeah." Aia looked at the board to see a few drops of blood on it.

"So he's licking your wound?" She asked looking at Inuyasha who still kept his gentle licking.

"U-Uh, y-yeah?" Aia sighed reaching into her pouch pulling out a cloth.

"Inuyasha, can she have her hand back so I can stop the bleeding?" Aia asked in a slightly sarcastic tone. Inuyasha glanced over but soon ignored her making her glare.

"Inuyasha, let go please." He looked at Hana as his ears dropped.

"Thank you for helping Inu.~" Hana cooed making his ear perk up before he let go. Aia took Hana's hand pressing on the wound, once it finally stopped bleeding she tied the cloth around Hana's hand.

"Is she ok?" Kaito asked remembering how Inuyasha isn't to keen on other male touching her so he kept a distance from Hana.

"Yeah, it's not to bad." Aia said letting Hana's hand go.

"What were you trying to move this for?" Aia asked.

"It looks like there's a futon under it with blood, maybe there's something there?" Hana said.

"Sesshomaru, Shippō, A-Un we might have something here!" Kaito called out to the broken hall, soon they came over.

"This is huge though, how do we lift it?" Aia asked backing away from it seeing how large it was.