DO NOT MENTION IT.

"Nobunaga!"

Wow okay that sure is an additional medical emergency! But a medical emergency is a lot better than a corpse! She can treat her fingers later, although unfortunately they might make it slightly harder to bandage him - aaaa that's a lot of blood -

"Don't move," she tells him, sternly, and sets to work bandaging him up AGAIN, now with extra pain on both sides.

Yeah, if everyone's safe now he's gonna be so willing to not move at all actually.

And Princess Tsuyu will embrace...

... Her lawfully wedded husband, now that he's been freed from the demon's curse. "My darling! It's so good to see your face again!"

"I'm so sorry to have given you such grief."

Yeah, yeah, everybody's happy and alive, that's very sweet, but she doesn't know enough about blood loss to know whether Nobunaga is still dying, and that means she's not really ready for a victory lap. This is probably not enough blood loss to kill someone, even if it looks like a lot when you, uh, have a very limited sample of serious injuries that you've personally observed, although it's a little hard to say because he came halfway across the castle and there might be a bunch of blood left over in all of those locations.

In a minute she'll have him taped up, at least, well enough that he isn't losing any more blood. Is he? Can she tell for sure? Are bandages enough for something like this, or are you supposed to use stitches? It's not a big wound, it's just really deep - this doesn't matter because she doesn't have the supplies for stitches and wouldn't be able to do them right anyway. The bandages are just going to have to hold. He shouldn't die of a shoulder wound, apart from blood loss and possible infection, right, it's not like it got his lung - or, at least, it probably didn't get his lung - 

But either way, there's very little else she can do for him (other than offer him her aspirin, although she's really wishing she had - what, morphine? But she wouldn't know how to use that even if she did have it). Eventually she'll be satisfied of that, and ask the lord whether there's a place where Nobunaga can rest and recover. She will also point out that there are, uh, a bunch of girls still in toad eggs, and someone should go free them immediately, which she will go do if they can look after her friend now.

Oh, of course! The castle has doctors and they're used to patching up injured samurai. They'll take a look at the retainer of the great Takeda clan to make sure he's all right.

And Inuyasha can go cut girls out of eggs, with or without Kagome's assistance.

She'll want to slather some stuff on her fingers in an attempt to treat the burns. After that, yeah, she'll help, social awkwardness of talking to people when it's not an emergency situation notwithstanding. At some point in here her body will realize that the emergency is over, and she will be able to notice how exhausted she is.

"I guess we can let the lord figure out what to do with the bodies."

Grump.

....man, there are a bunch of things she wants to say after all that, and she's not at all sure which ones will make things worse, if he's annoyed with her. She wants to thank him for trying to protect her; it's hard to say for sure, but she bets she wouldn't have made it if he hadn't appeared and distracted the toad. She wants to tell him that she doesn't think he was wrong, exactly, even though she doesn't think Nobunaga was wrong either. It really could have gone either way, whether it was possible to save the lord or not. You can't go around acting like one person was obviously in the wrong, when they wouldn't have been, if you were a little less quick and a little less lucky.

"I'm sorry I said the word."

" - You would have died if I hadn't been there!"

(He continues working, with claw and sword.)

"Yeah."

"Thank you."

" - Don't mention it."

"Okay."

"You weren't wrong, y'know. About it making more sense to kill him."

"Your way worked out, didn't it?"

"Yeah. I don't regret it, or anything. I just think it could've really easily gone the other way, too. So - I kinda don't think anyone was really wrong."

"Kagome, It was very stupid and almost got you killed. It just also saved someone's life."

" - yeah. I guess so."

It's too big a concept, somehow. She feels like a lot of her wants to let go of it, dismiss it as something that will never come up again, so it doesn't have to matter whether she wants to be someone cautious and practical or stupid and brave. But it will come up again, if she keeps doing this. She knows that.

That doesn't make it easier to think about. She goes back to cutting eggs for a bit.

"I need to, um. Ask a favor."

"What?"

"Sooo, you remember how I wanted to stay out for six days, and because of that we were on our way back to the well when we ran into Nobunaga, and then we went a day out of our way, which was totally my idea and my fault, but it was a pretty good idea because we did end up getting a jewel shard out of it, except now we're about two days away from the well by bicycle, and we only have one day to make it back for the thing I wanted to make it back for?"

"What are you scheming."

"Well, you're a lot faster than the bicycle, right? So I was wondering, uh, how long you could carry a person for. Do you think."

"Tsh, always making trouble."

He stands up, dusts his hands off. "No problem. Now?"

She beams.

"In a little bit! I wanna go get the bike and ask to leave my stuff in the castle with Nobunaga, so it's safe."