AN: Here's part two, finally...

Though, honestly, I actually completely forgot about this when I was updating all of my other stories, but then I got a random review this recently that reminded me that I needed to update it. So, sorry about that; and thanks for the reminder. :)

And, I'm thinking of making this into an all-out story like you suggested, I feel like two chapters isn't going to cover anything too well... But, we'll see.

Beeping noise... it was irritating... but there wasn't anything that she could do. As she tried to remember what had happened, her eyes screwed shut even tighter as her heart seemed to race even faster. Unfortunately, though, the memories came back to her in a rush as she had called for them to come to her.

A sob almost broke through the mask that was covering her face; she was guessing it was a breathing mask as she heard wheezing noises come from somewhere beside her as a cough emitted instead of the attempted cry. She remembered everything, though, but the captain of the squad of ninja's that had decided to attack her. She remembered that they had took their time to get her to give them what they wanted, slowly dragging their pikes down the spine of her back, and stabbing her repeatedly near her heart; not to kill her, but to deepen her darkest tortures. She remembered it all.

She was lucky the wound near her heart wasn't vital enough to kill her.

That it was weak enough to let her travel from her home to the nearest gate opening of Konoha... that she could see her ex lover again.

A face flashed through her mind as she whined at the sting that she felt traveling down her spine - a renewed liquidy feeling gathering around the injury that was wrapped in tight boundings around her torso as her blood calmed the stinging on it's own by lathering the nearly fresh wound. Her body tensed in the remnants of her pain.

As the pain slowly ebbed away, she chanced opening her eyes to see that she was in a hospital, as she had expected whenever she'd heard the damned beeping noise. She didn't bother trying to get up, or move for that matter. So, she just looked up to the ceiling with a grimace on her breathing-mask covered face, she really didn't want to feel the tiny pinches of the IV's tugging as she moved anyways.

"Ah..." a female voice spoke from somehwere in the room. "She seems to be awaking."

Kagome didn't speak for a moment, and just blinked a few times.

She heard the woman getting up from a seat a few paces away from the hospital bed that she was lying in before heading her way. The woman certainly was doing her best not to scare Kagome as she walked with loud-enough footsteps, and a gentle smile on her face whenever she reached for the clipboard that had Kagome's health facts from past problems, and her current condition.

"You took quite the beating," she hummed quietly with a small frown.

Kagome finally found her voice, though it was rough with sleep from being out for some time, she knew. "Where - Who brought me here?"

The woman looked curiously at Kagome with raised eyebrows. She was a basic brunette, hair pulled back into a low ponytail, glittering black eyes, with red triangular markings on her face, an Inuzuka; Kagome remembered seeing her around... though she didn't really know her name... "Kamizuki Izumo; you're lucky you made it to the gates of Konoha in time, otherwise I think you would have died... he seemed pretty torn up about this too."

Kagome winced as another flash of pain went down her spine; it appeared they healed the most life threatening wounds first; she knew her body was working over time to heal every single slash that was embedded in her skin, hence why her voice was dry and her muscles were stiff, she must have been out for a while since she got injured in the first place, and she couldn't help but ask the lady a few more questions.

"How long have I been unconcious?"

"Three days."

She sighed. And Izumo... he brought me here, huh?, she thought to herself as another face flashed through her memories, it was one of her ex's best friend whom she's only met a handful of times before he suddenly stopped being around the couple for reasons Kagome didn't know. It wasn't like she minded his presence... actually she liked having him around... quite a lot... which is possibly why Kotetsu ended their pitiful 'relationship' which was almost non-existant... but she felt like she owed him, so she came to see him before she died...

She really hadn't counted on Izumo being the one to find her and bring her to the hospital. That he'd be the one to see her dying instead of her past lover... And she couldn't help but wonder what he told him. Knowing him, he probably told Kotetsu that she came back... dressed in red, not really mentioning that she might even be on her deathbed, dying right this second.

"Is my savior going to arrive back anytime soon?" she questioned once more, a little bit of hope had making itself known to her. She really did miss the germaphobic man when she had left, honestly. She thought of the times that she, Kotetsu and Izumo had spent together. The times that Izumo would stop by her house whenever Kotetsu was out doing work... the time that she locked herself away after Kotetsu broke it off between himself and her and Izumo had came to hold her as she held back broken sobs. And the last time she saw them as she moved away with a sad smile on her face...

It wouldn't matter if he came back to see me in here..., she thought. I have to see the Hokage, as soon as I get my wraps changed.

"You know," the medic thought aloud. "I'm not really sure... he kept visiting while you were still out to sit by your bedside... My guess is that he might show up again sooner or later."

Kagome would have smiled at the small sentimentality he'd shown, had she been in any other condition; him showing up just to sit by her bedside and wait until she woke up, but she wasn't she's still in pain and she needs to speak to the Hokage for more important matters than this. A smile tried to appear anyways, but Kagome fought back against it, forcing her lips into a tight line.

Izumo was in the Hokage's office. Why was he here? He needed to be at the hospital, visiting Kagome; he made it his responsibility to see it through that she leaves that hospital healed and with a chipper look on her face. But, the Hokage had called both he and Kotetsu in to turn in the paperwork that had arrived at the gates earlier that day. It appeared that Kotetsu didn't really care as much to see Kagome, as he stared indifferently, holding the papers knocking at the Sandaime's door.

Well, there was actually a reason why he didn't seem to be as anxious as Izumo.

Izumo coudln't bring himself to tell his friend that Kagome's back, and in the hospital... He didn't even know how he'd react, and he still didn't know why he broke up with her. So he'd tried his best to keep it to himself even in the past three days that Kotetsu kept offering him to go out and have a drink, or even when he asked to train... Izumo just calmly refused, telling him that he had a lot on his mind, had to help out Asuma with training his genin, and had promised to help Genma rearrange his furniture.

"Alright, you two are dismissed," the Hokage's voice cut him short of his thoughts, as a relieved expression came upon Izumo's face.

Kotetsu looked at his friend oddly, with a single brow raised as they began to walk out the door. "In a hurry to move some furniture?"

"No, that was yesterday, Tetsu," Izumo replied absentmindedly, picking up his pace slightly. "Hey, look; I'll catch up with you later, I need to go to the hosp-" his voice cut off, which made Kotetsu stare even more attentively at him. "Nevermind, I need to go... pick up some bandages from the store instead; the hospital won't give them to me willingly, anyways. They have customers in need..." Izumo caught himself quickly, covering up the traces that shown he had been lying by speaking smoothly.

A little too smoothly.

"What do you need bandages for?" Kotetsu frowned. "We restocked two days ago, and there's no way that we used all of our first aid equipment."

"It's for a friend," Izumo answered truthfully, finally meeting Kotetsu's eyes, making said male's frown disappear slightly.

"Oh," he murmured. "I could come with you... we haven't hung out in a while - ever since you got that solo patrolling mission, actually."

Izumo just shrugged in response, as he tried to think of a way to lose Kotetsu... But maybe it would be right if he saw her again... Kagome obviously had a reason for coming all the way out there, and murmuring Kotetsu's name. Just the thought of that made Izumo's heart throb a little painfully, knowing it wasn't him that she came to see, but he ignored it, swallowing quietly.

That didn't matter... whatever he did, he's going to have to warn his friend before he sees the gruesome sight that he himself was granted with three days ago.

"There's a reason why, actually," he said quietly.

Kotetsu stopped walking as they were outside the Hokage's tower now, and were a few feet down the street from the shops. He turned slowly to his friend his his eyebrows raised in question. "Oh?"

"Kagome's back, Kotetsu," Izumo mumbled, not being able to find his voice effectively, but he looked his friend in the eyes none the less, watching as hurt flashed in his eyes, and understanding as well.

"You're seeing her," it wasn't a question. Izumo answered it anyways.

"I kind of had to..." he trailed off at seeing his friend turn abruptly going in another direction, walking off. "Kotetsu - wait! Don't you want to know why I was going to the hospital in the first place?"

He was a few feet away from Izumo now as he looked expectantly at him. "Not really. But, you can go ahead and tell me since I'm already stopped."

Izumo stayed where he was before speaking a little louder than he had before. "Kagome was attacked... she was actually dying, and she came here with the intent of seeing you."

Kotetsu showed no sign of caring as he just stared, knowing that Izumo was going to tell him more.

"The only name she whispered whenever I found her lying in the grass covered in her own blood was your name... And look, I don't know why you broke up with her. But, I really don't think that matters right now, does it? She obviously wanted to see you; and it must have been important if she dragged herself all the way here despite being nearly torn apart..."

His speech seemed to have the desired effect as a troubled look came over his friend's face... and it took him a minute, but he ended up walking back to his friend slowly, with a frown even more serious than Izumo had ever seen it.

"What happened to her? How is she now?"

"I don't know... she had a few deep cuts near her vital organs, and she lost a lot of blood... but yesterday whenever I saw her, she was breathing better than she had been. They gave her a blood transfusion and told me that she should be waking up today."

Kotetsu winced, his eyebrows drawing together in an expression of pain, though he was a bit relieved that she'd be waking up today. "But you just told me today? Even though she's been here for three days?"

"You know exactly why I did what I did," Izumo almost bit out, but instead his voice was empty with the hurt that he had to go through, watching his best friend be with, and eventually break away from Kagome; causing her to leave him as well. His eyes glittered as he stared ahead with his emotions being held at bay. "You were acting as if she didn't exist ever since she left. You never did tell either of us why you broke up with her... And, I know it's not really my business, but; don't you think that was a little unfair?"

His friend didn't speak to him after that, keeping to himself as Izumo walked on straight to the hospital with him by his side before he let out a sigh. He didn't really know why he broke up with her, either... to be honest. But, the way he saw it back then; she wasn't really with him... she seemed to be more into his best friend, more happier with him. Kotetsu was hurt by that, and he only saw it fit to break it off with her, just the same. But, he didn't think that she'd even care; he just didn't want to watch her go off with Izumo as he watched from a tree near her house. He knew her well enough to know that she wasn't very happy with him...

"She didn't want me as much as I wanted her," he spoke softly.

Izumo stopped in his tracks with a look of confusion on his face as he eyed his bestfriend with yet another emotion change.

Her doctor, Hana, she learned was her name, had left the room a while ago and now her nurse was checking over her condition with the same clipboard that Hana had used. Kagome was getting upset with the way that they were taking their time when there was obviously something that she needed to do right now, more important than her healing. Of course she was grateful that they took her in to the hospital; her reiki wouldn't have been able to heal her properly had she stayed out there, which would have eventually led to her dying. But, the issue prior to any importance as of now was getting to the Hokage to warn him of the Sound Shinobi that had attacked her; he needed to know what all she scraped up.

She'd only remembered that one of the men had said that their leader was after her for her power; and her being a miko that had grown up in Konoha; they essentially needed it for something that she didn't even remember.

Kagome was cut out of her thoughts as Hana came back into the room looking a little pleased and surprised, her nurse must have left... Kagome thought over when she could have gone, though.

"Um... Kagome-san, you have visitors..." Hana spoke with a small smile.

Kagome nearly gasped in shock, happy that Hana had removed the air tubes and mask, though she kept the infernal IVs in her arms. "I do?"

"Yes," Hana nodded, but then frowned. "But, first I need to change your bandages, I just realized that your wounds had reopened whenever you woke up. They can wait a few more moments."

Kagome gingerly sat up in her bed, she wasn't really wearing anything besides the wraps that were wrapped, now loosely, around the top half of her abdomen, and some hospital pants that one of the medics had dressed her in - I hope it was a girl, she thought distractedly.

Hana made her way to Kagome with a large bounty of bandages before she set them off on the operation table beside her. She went around to the back of Kagome, seeing that the blood stain was much larger than she'd thought. But luckily it stopped a while ago, seeing as the blood was starting to darken as a sign of Kagome's fast healing, and there was no bloodstains on the bed since the bandages had soaked up what they could and dried seemingly immediately after.

She removed the dirty bandages, tossing them into a nearby trashcan before leaning over to get the new bandages. She had Kagome lift her arms to where it didn't hurt her too badly and she wrapped the first set around her middle and chest. Then she wrapped the second set diagonally across the wound near her heart to her side, and once she was finished wrapping her up, Kagome looked as if she had a new bandage shirt.

"Your wounds seem to have healed quickly enough," Hana murmured as she marked the stats on the board in her hands. "You should be able to leave by noon; but I advise that you don't do anything that strains your wounds, you hear?"

Kagome nodded simply, and slowly put her arms back down, hissing when the pain came back.

Hana, satisfied with her answer went away to fetch her a clean yukata - knowing that no girl would want anyone to visit when they weren't even properly dressed, and besides; Kagome's white haori that she came in there in was history, bloodied and shredded to bits. She came back shortly after, seeing Kagome still sitting up, looking out the window as she stood near her bed.

"Here, Kagome-san," she handed her the yukata.

Kagome took it and slid her arms in the sleeves before tying the obi tightly. "Can you tell my visitors that they can come in, now?"

"Of course," Hana nodded.

...

Hana came back with two very familiar men, as Kagome stared in shock. Her heart started beating loudly whenever she caught sight of them both staring at her intensely. And though the heart monitor was beeping sporadically was hinting enough that she was either happy to see them, or hella nervous, she still tried in vain to slow her heart down.

"Kagome," they spoke in sync, relieved that she was awake. Though, neither one of them were paying attention to the erratic beating of the machine, or the sudden coloring of Kagome's cheeks as her eyes grew wide.

"H-hey," she answered, finally finding her voice though it was small. "I get to leave here today..."

What she wasn't expecting was for her ex - Kotetsu to come running to her, gently wrapping his strong arms around her waist, though careful not to interfere with her newly wrapped injuries, making the embrace sweet, though awkward because of the way that she was still in her hospital bed. But, she didn't mind that, she instantly responded by wrapping her arms around him as well; holding him as tight as she could as he whispered in her ear.

"I love you, so much, Kagome-chan," he murmrued. "You have no idea how happy I am that you're still alive..."

I love you, too, she thought. But she didn't have the gall to say it out loud. Not when Izumo was still standing there. Her bright eyes moved to his form to watch him staring brokenly at the two of them, and she felt a small gathering of tears making their way to the rims of her eyes, and a frown form from her already pouty lips.

Izumo watched on as his heart seemed to take a deadly blow, though he watched anyways, with a renewed feeling of betrayal.

AN: Woah.. that wasn't supposed to turn out like that, but I liked it... and I'm still considering making this into an all out fic. There are some things that I could do for it, I realized.

Anywho, I hoped you enjoyed it.

This might or might not be the last chapter.