Once again. I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!!!!!!! huggles plushie However the plushie still is so NYAH!

When Kimi finally came to, her face had been stitched up and her ear and arm were wrapped in gauze. She wore a backless hospital gown and she felt like she had just been hit by a truck.

The young hanyou placed her hand on her forehead and looked around the room and saw her father and neighbor, parting her lips to say "Oi Outou."

"Oi Kimi." The inu youkai replied.

She sat up in the bed. "Otou, what happened?"

"Those older youkai in school chased you home again and you got a little cut up, but you're alright now." He explained.

The inu youkai jerked his head in the direction of the older female. "Sango brought us here."

"Arigato, Sango-san." The silver-haired hanyou said.

The woman raised her hands to her face. "It's no problem Kimi, you're a good kid and I was worried about you."

Then she suddenly became upset. "Otou, where's Kuma?"

Almost instantly, a black blur pounced on top of the confused girl and licked her until her father thought she'd remove his daughter's skin. Kuma was never far from her mistress. The dog's tail wagged happily at the sight of Kimi conscious.

"Hurry up; we need to get her into E.R.!" Somebody shouted in the hall.

Sesshoumaru and Kimi both jerked their heads to the door. They became tense and the scent of familiar blood filled their sensitive noses. Kimi laid down her ears, sprang to the door and bolted down the hall with her father in tow.

"Kimi!" He said to his daughter. "Kimi hold on!"

The young hanyou girl was caught around the waist by her father's swinging arm. As Kimi collided into Sesshoumaru's chest, the two of them stood stock still. Silence. It was eerily quiet, even for a hospital. Something was wrong. Then the quiet atmosphere was broken as they overheard a member of the staff's conversation with one of the doctors:

"We were too late."

"That young hanyou girl that came in will need to be sedated."

"Yes I agree. That was her mother that was killed in the crash and if she finds out, who knows what will happen."

A lump had formed in Kimi's throat and she had gone limp. A single tear slid down the adult youkai's cheek. It seemed as if time itself had stopped completely. Sesshoumaru had never felt lonelier in his entire life than he did right then and it seemed as though he became engulfed in a flurry of snow.

"This…isn't fair."

A low animal-like noise escaped the hanyou's lips in a throaty growl. She clutched her father's arms and dug into his flesh. She flicked her ears and growled again. And the only thing the youkai could say was "Shit."

A black aura had formed around Kimi and her scent had changed. Crimson blood ran down Sesshoumaru's arms and dripped onto the floor. If her claws dug in any deeper, she'd be hitting his bone.

The youkai would have to do something soon or else his daughter would snap and destroy the place. In one swift motion, he'd had her slammed up against the wall. The hanyou's eyes were burning red and she was spitting in fury.

When he saw that she wasn't showing any signs of regaining control over her own body he did what he had to. He extended the index finger of his free hand and moved it toward her face. He yowled in pain as the hanyou sank her razor sharp puppy teeth into his finger.

He sucked the gash until the bleeding stopped and tried again. Once he got close enough to her, the adult youkai flicked her on the nose. She blinked and then sneezed. Her eyes returned to their normal color and her claws shrank to their original length.

"Okaa-san…" She choked.

The youkai quickly released his daughter and she dropped onto her knees. Tears streamed down the hanyou's face as her father bent beside her and pulled her into an embrace. Kimi's shoulders shook and Sesshoumaru's shirt was now soaked. He stroked his daughter's silver hair soothingly in an effort to calm her down.

"Okaa-san!" She sobbed.

"Hush, Kimi." Sesshoumaru whispered softly. "It's alright, I'm here. It's alright."

"I don't know what I'm going to do."

It was recess and Kimi was sitting on the blacktop with a kitsune called Shippou. Tears rolled down the hanyou's face and splattered onto the blacktop. Shippou tried to console his friend but nothing seemed to make her feel better.

"Please don't cry. Kimi." He said softly. "It hurts seeing you so upset."

"I'm sorry Shippou." She replied tearfully. "But I can't help it."

Sighing, the kitsune laid on his back, watching the clouds pass overhead.

"Don't worry about it. I shouldn't make you try to stop crying. I should be the one apologizing to you."

"Well why?" The girl asked. "It isn't your fault she's gone."

"I know." Shippou replied. "But I shouldn't make you try to lock up your pain. That only makes things worse."

Kimi sniffed and lay with her friend. There they sat, pointing to kitties and other miscellaneous things floating above their heads in the clouds. For the next fifteen minutes all they did was giggle and stare up at the sky. A long silence had come over the children until Kimi broke the silence.

"Hey Shippou?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think Okaa-san is watching over me from Heaven right now?"

The kitsune sat up and glanced at her before lying back down.

"Sure I do Kimi." He replied. "I'm sure she is."