Eyes of a Whisperer
Summary: Kagome has been able to see them since she was a child. Her eyes could see, for each person, a different Angel...an Angel of Death. She is now a Doctor, a Personal Doctor for Touta Matsuda. This ends up tying her to the Kira case, the second she is called in for an emergency. How will her role play out?
Anime: InuYasha/Death Note
Couple: Matsuda/Kagome/L
Genre: Romance/Adventure/Mystery
Rated: M
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Kitten's Angel
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Matsuda sat on the medical bed, blushing at the contact of his doctor's finger tips; a stethoscope pressed above his heart. Matsuda sighed in relief when his doctor pulled the stethoscope away. He pulled his white button up dress shirt down and tucked it into his black pants. He watched his doctor grab an orange bottle of pills.
"Alright, take two of these a day; one in the morning and the other before bed."
Matsuda smiled, "Thanks Kagome."
"Doctor Higurashi, Matsuda."
"Ah, right, sorry."
"It's fine." Kagome smiled, "I have no problem with it really, but I believe it's only proper for you to call me by title while I am working."
"Yes, I understand." He pulled his black suit jacket on and pocketed the pills.
"Matsuda; I worry for your health. I shouldn't, since...strenuous activity rarely ensues, but still, the hyperventilation leads to a drop in carbon dioxide levels in the lungs and then in the blood. I don't want you taking on any hard cases and such."
Matsuda blushed. "Don't worry, I'm only a secretary, I don't do anything like that."
Kagome smiled, "Well, that's lightening, just be careful. I'll see you on our weekly check-ups." She walked him to the door with her clipboard in hand. "If you need anything, or if something happens, please call." Matsuda nodded and bowed before leaving. Kagome walked out of her medical room and towards the desk, grabbing her customer sheet, she frowned. 'She's here...' Kagome walked to the door that separated the waiting room and the doctor rooms. "Kitty Killington." A little girl with black hair in lightly curled pigtails and big brown eyes stood up. Her mother stood right beside her and the girl stopped her mother.
Kagome smiled at the mother, who nodded. Kagome took the little girls hand and walked her to her room.
"Hey, Doc. Guess what!"
Kagome turned to face the girl, helping her onto the medical bed. "Hmm?"
"I met a new friend this morning, while waiting for mama to come outside!" Kagome glanced at the door and sighed. "She was nice. She looked different then the girls at school though."
"Oh? How so?" Kagome put a blood pressure cuff on the girls arm, squeezing the black pressure bobble multiple times before letting it settle.
"She had really pretty yellow hair and no dots on her eyes."
"Dots?" Kagome removed the cuff.
"Mm," She pointed to her eye.
"Oh, pupils."
"Yeah, and they were all cloudy and such, but she still had a really pretty smile."
Again, Kagome glanced at the door.
"Say, Doc?"
"Yes Kitty?"
"...Mama said I was really sick and Daddy cries a lot since we got home from our last visit with you; am...am I going to die?"
Kagome paused at the scale and clenched her fist. "...Kitty, take off your shoes and climb up here."
"Kay!"
"Tell me Kitty, what did this new friend of yours say to you?"
"...hehe, I don't know. I think she was from another place. I didn't really understand her."
"But you could hear her?" Kagome asked, moving the weights on the scale, little by little.
"Yeah, of course I could. I'm not deaf you know."
Kagome smiled sadly, "Yes, that's true." She wrote the weight down onto the paper. 'So soon...' Looking at the little girl, she frowned. "You've seen her before, haven't you?"
"Ah! How did you know?"
"...call it a guess."
"Yeah, I said hi, but she only smiled and ran away."
"I see. The next time you see this girl...call me."
"Huh? Uh...okay."
"Now, here is a refill of your medication, sit in here and I'll be right back, I need to have a word with your mother."
"Is it about me?"
"Uh...yes, just some reminders."
"Okay."
Kagome left the room, calling a nurse over to stay with the girl as she spoke with her mother. Kagome walked up to the older woman and smiled sadly. "Mrs. Killington, I implore that you take your daughter and family on a vacation somewhere this week...you haven't much time...and I think rather than school or work, you should use your last week with your daughter, having fun." She said softly, so not to be overheard.
"What!? But she's fine!"
"Ma'am, these things sneak up on people. I am considered the best Doctor in the Asian Provinces because I know things that many other doctors cannot comprehend. More to the point, I've studied the ways of our previous Shaman's, Medicine Men and Holistic Users. I've seen things that you can't even fathom. I think it's time you start listening to me."
"...Y-yes, but at this time, we can't pay for a vacation at such short notice."
"I'll fix you up; the tickets will be sent to your home later this evening. Anywhere she has wanted to go?"
"She has seen the commercials to that Disney World."
"It will be done then."
"You're a saint, Doctor."
"Sometimes I wonder about that. I'll go get Kitty for you."
"Thank you."
Kagome hated this kind of moment, the moment that you feel as if something is missing.
"Like someone or something took a part of your soul..."
"Yeah...ah, huh?" She looked, and there stood a blonde haired girl with cloudy eyes and no pupils. "You are..."
"I am..."
"How long does she have?"
"She has...little less than a week and a half."
"...I see."
"You are very kind, you do these human's good. I must depart for now, until a-new sunlight."
"Until...a-new sunlight..." Kagome sighed and entered her ward room. "Come on Kitty, your mom is waiting, and I think she is planning a surprise for you, don't tell her I told you so."
Kitty laughed and took her hand.
'Once more I am forced into the belief that life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. So what then are those not given the choice of life or death to do, when life is so abruptly taken from them, and death so brutally thrust upon them.' Kagome watched Kitty and her mother as the two left the hospital. "Hey, old man," She called to the man behind the counter. He raised a brow at her.
"I'm not old, Kagome."
"You say that, but you have white hair."
"I was born with it."
"Right Sessh, look, I'm taking my break."
"Right. Make it fast, you have an appointment at...four, four-thirty, six and seven."
"...joy."
"Humph, that girl. She―"
"Bye Sessh!" She interrupted, heading back to her home.
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Kagome looked at her watch, it was three-ten, and she stood in front of the Killington Manor. Walking up to a guard, she handed him a letter.
"Hi, could you have this sent immediately to Mrs. Killington?"
"Will do, ma'am,"
Kagome nodded and left the area, climbing into her car and driving back to the hospital, a Natural Valley Oats `N Honey bar was in her hand as she had a quick snack on her way back to the hospital.
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(Eight Days Later)
Kagome laid on her bed; her head dazed and eyes blurry with sleep. It was four in the morning and someone had decided that now was a grand time to call her. She grabbed her cell phone and in a tired but intelligible voice, she said hello.
"It's Kitty."
Kagome sat up, now fully away. "Kitty, what's wrong?"
"She's here, right now...she's here. Doc, who is she, why is she in my room?"
"Kitty, you need to trust her. She...she's there to take you somewhere very beautiful. Don't tell your mom, go and...go tell your mom and dad that you want to sleep with them, stay with them tonight. Tell them you love them, okay, your little brother two."
"I'm going to die, aren't I?"
"Kitty, what you need to understand, is that everyone dies. It's natural, but don't be afraid."
"I...I'm not...I don't know why, but, I'm not afraid. Thank you, Kagome, for everything."
"It was all that I could do...Take care, Kitty." Kagome hung up and let gravity take its course. Falling back onto the bed, she pulled a pillow over her head and let sleep take her.
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The next day at work, Kagome sat watching the news; the face of Kitty Killington took up the left hand corner and the anchor went on about how the seven year old died peacefully in her sleep in her mother and fathers bed.
"Kagome?" Sesshoumaru looked at her from over the stack of papers he was filling out.
"I'm fine Sesshoumaru." She said, turning the TV off, she faced him with a bright smile before walking back out to the waiting room in order to call upon her next patient.
'Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Even if you try to fight it; you'll still die, get hurt, and so on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you; no one ever does.'
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Me: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, the pairing has been decided. Matsuda/Kagome/L pairing, please Regard me kindly, Read and Review! ^_^''