... Right. It is now catching up to her that Inuyasha can travel from present to future at will.

... Probably the safest place for him is by Kagome's side where she can keep an eye on him.

And what if he cuts her throat in her sleep he might do that when they're off looking for the other shards anyway, you have now gambled everything on that not happening, that gamble is already made.

Her back hurts.

"That will work," she says curtly. "You should come over tomorrow afternoon to start training."

"Yes, ma'am," she says, and sets off for the well. "Let's go, Inuyasha."

"See you there."

And he will do some tiny superjumps that look kind of small compared to what he did earlier carrying her but are still way faster than she can go.

...well, at least he's not in such bad shape that he won't be able to fight at all, if something else happens.

She takes her time, rifling through her bag and bandaging her hands as she walks. Is he at the well, when she gets to it?

Yup, hanging out grumpily there as if he hadn't tried to go down without her, failed, and ended up sitting around waiting for her to turn the dumb thing on so he could go.

That works.

" - almost forgot," she says, since she has her pack open anyway. She pulls out two little white tabs of aspirin. "I think they make these out of the stuff that's in willow bark. It's not, uh, really what you want, for stab wounds like that, but if you swallow them it might help with the pain a little. If you want them. Or you can just throw them away somewhere, if you don't want them. Up to you."

"'Thanks'," the quotes audible, "but I'm not as soft as you humans. Do what you like with them - I'll be fine on my own."

"Suit yourself." But she leaves them on the side of the well, and then jumps in.

Once she's disappeared he swipes and pockets them, and jumps in.

Kagome makes it to the other side! She's now pretty sure that she can actually go through this thing whenever she wants, which is... crazy? But she can think more about what that means tomorrow.

"We're down here again!"

Wait. Last time she got out of the well by climbing a rope, and now her hands are all cut up.

Is Inuyasha coming through, too?

Yup!

"Um, sorry to ask this, but - do you think you're still able to jump to the top if you're holding me? I'd climb, but..."

She shows him her bandaged hands.

Well he might not have been BEFORE but now she TAUNTED him.

"I told you I was fine!"

SUPERJUMP!

"Sorry! Thank you!"

And she can run off to her house, expecting that he'll follow.

Which he will!

Fortunately, some of the bloodstains are covered up by the fact that his robe is red (and, uh, over the area where he got three holes punched in his chest), and the shallower cuts are already starting to close. He's still kind of a mess, though.

"We're home!" she announces to the living room, which at present contains only Sota. "Is there any dinner left?"

" - sure. And your cake. Did you stop the demon?"

"We did! It was hard, though. Uh - Sota, Inuyasha, Inuyasha, Sota." She heads over to the fridge to look for leftovers without figuring out how to give a more complicated introduction than that.

"Kid."

" - did you really kill that giant centipede monster that came out of the well? Kagome said you did."

"Please, she wasn't that big."

"Was so." He tilts his head. "Kagome said then you tried to kill her, too, though."

SOTA WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT

She pulls out a plate of leftover stir fry and sets it almost violently on the table.

"Here we go! Dinner!"

"Eh, not very hard," he'll start to say before being interrupted. "Dinner!"