Chapter two
Inuyasha got into his car and he was home in half the time it took to get there. He rushed into the house and ran upstairs, she wasn't home. He mentally cursed and ran to the phone. Three messages, he pushed the button to listen to them.
The first message was from Sango.
"Kagome are you there? Answer your phone! Are you coming to work? Come on Kagome pick up the damn phone, alright I'm going to call Inuyasha and you know how pleasant that's going to be."
BEEP
The second message was from Rin.
"Hey Kagome Sango is trying to get a hold of you, um when you get this message please call me back, we're worried."
BEEP
The third message was from a number he didn't recognize.
"Hello this is Doctor Shin from the New York Hospital and I'm trying to reach a Mr. Takanashi, we have a Kagome Takanashi here in our care and we would appreciate it if you got back to us as soon as possible."
As soon as he heard New York Hospital he was out the door. He raced over to the hospital he had been to many time before when his mother was ill. When he got there, he saw ambulances and police cars, and a fire truck lined outside of the emergency room. He ran inside and pushed passed sick and old people to get to the front desk.
"Hello sir you have to wait your turn," the women at the front desk said.
"I don't have any time, they called me and told me my wife had been brought here I need to see her," the look in his eyes told the women that he was not playing around.
"Name?" she got out a chart.
"Kagome Takanashi," she looked down the chart and frowned.
"What is it?" everything possible went through his mind in that exact second. What had she done?
"I'm sorry but-," his eyes were about to burst into tears. She couldn't be dead he had to make things right, this couldn't be it. "She's in ICU."
He sighed a breath of relief, she wasn't gone yet.
"She's still alive but it says they put her on life support and a blood transfusion," she looked at his confused expression. "She was in an accident; she lost a lot of blood."
"Where is she?"
"Room…" she flipped a few pages. "B197."
Inuyasha ran towards the elevator, forget the elevator he took the stairs. He couldn't stand still. He went up about three stories and walked to the desk.
"Room B197?" he asked a nurse standing by.
"Next floor," she said without looking up from her paperwork.
Inuyasha ran to the stairs again and flew up to the next flight. He went up to a nurse at a computer out of breath.
"B…1….9….7," he said taking in deep breaths and the nurse looked scared.
"Are you Mr. Takanashi?" she asked getting out a chart.
"Yes."
"May I see some I.D?" she watched him get out his license and she looked at the chart. "Alright your wife is still alive, but she's in a deep coma and there's a lot of machine hooked up to her, it's not going to be easy to see."
"I just need to see my wife," he panted.
"Alright follow me," she led him down a hall and stopped at a room with a blue door. He looked at the metal numbers. It read B197, this was it. She opened the door and let him in. "I'll give you some time alone." She shut the door and sat in a chair outside the door.
Inuyasha walked fully into the room and stopped frozen at what he saw. There was his Kagome lying in a hospital bed, there were tubes and wires from every direction hooked to her nose, mouth, arms, and hand. There was a cylinder with a vacume like thing in it going up and down, helping her breath. There was an I.V with blood flowing into her arm and she had tubes in her nose supplying her with oxygen also. Her status was read on a big computer like device which he couldn't tell heads or tails of, so he just pulled up a chair and sat by her side. He noticed she had a big bandage around her head, and bruises and cuts all over her body.
He didn't know what to say, should he say anything? Could she hear him? He felt so ashamed of everything he had said or done to hurt her, he couldn't believe he was going to leave.
After a few minutes a doctor walked in.
"Hello Mr. Takanashi," the doctor set down the charts and sat across from them.
"It's Inuyasha," the doctor nodded and looked at Kagome.
"She's lucky she made it, she ran a stop sign and got hit by a 24 wheeler turck, we had to do an emergency surgery on her scull, she had pieces of glass threatening to go through her scull to her brain, it was successful and she's recovering."
"When will she wake up?" he asked.
"It's impossible to say but her vitals are fine and her heart rate is better then we expected, so it's really just her will to wake up that's stopping her, she could wake up anytime she wants from this coma, but her soul seems to be weak," Inuyasha felt a whole new wave of guilt come over him as he heard the doctors words. It was his entire fault; he put his head in his hands.
"If you talk to her she might hear you," the doctor told him and went out of the room.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome's poor body, what to say?
"Kagome-," he started out slow. "I know I haven't been the greatest…well let's face it I've been the worst husband for a long time, I should have been there for you, I should have cared for you, I shouldn't have gotten so power hungry, Kagome you are more then just my wife you're my best friend and you have been that for as long as I can remember, I don't know what came over me to do such stupid things, and to think you wouldn't notice." He shook his head, now was the time to say it.
"I know you've known I had an affair, and I'm killing myself for it," he noticed a peak in her heart rate. "But that's over now and I realized what a great thing I have and that I almost ruined, I'm so sorry Kagome I love you so much and I'm going to change from now on, I'm going to be the best husband I've ever been."
He sighed and held her hand in his, tired from running around he put his head down by her side and fell asleep.
Inuyasha woke up to the sun coming through the window, and a massive headache. Here was the hang over. He then realized that Kagome was squeezing his hand back.
"Kagome?" he looked at her face. Her eyes fluttered open a little and went towards him.
"Hi," she said in a very weak voice.
"Hey," he said tears brimmed his eyes. "How are you?"
"My head hurts," she brought her hand to her bandage and winced. "What happened?"
"You got in a car accident," he saw her face fall. "You missed a stop sign and got blindsided by a 24 wheeler."
"The Porche?" she asked worriedly.
"That doesn't matter now Kagome," he smiled.
"It- it doesn't?" she was confused. What had gotten into him?
"Kagome I'm so sorry I've been such a jerk to you," he started ranting on about what he had almost done and Kagome listened with the utmost attention. He stopped when he felt her old hand go to his cheek.
"Inuyasha it's ok," she smiled just glad that he was here.
"No Kagome its not look at you," he went from her bandaged head to her poor cut up feet. "It's my entire fault."
"Inuyasha I wasn't paying attention and I ran a red light," she explained.
"If I wasn't such a prick you wouldn't have left," he put his head down in shame hiding his eyes in his bangs.
"Inuyasha," she rubbed his cheek with her hand and he leaned into it. "I forgive you; I heard what you said while I was sleeping."
He put his head up. "You did?"
"I don't know how I did but when I woke up I remembered everything you said, and I forgive you, if you come back home to stay."
"I promise I'll never leave you again," he kissed her hand and put it to his chest. "This beats for you again like it always has, I just had to wake up and see that."
Tears came to Kagome's eyes and he put up his hand.
"You can't cry now you have to get your strength up to go home," he told her.
She nodded her head and went back to sleep.
Inuyasha sat back and closed his eyes, everything was going to be ok, it wasn't going to be easy but he vowed to himself with god as his witness that he would never hurt Kagome like he had ever again, or to ever touch another women other then her ever again. He decided to walk out and tell the doctor that she had woken up.
A week later the doctor came in to change Kagome's bandage. When he took off the wrapping he smiled.
"Kagome it looks like you can get ready to go home soon, probably later today," he smiled at her.
"Really?" she asked excitingly.
"Yes but you'll have a little trouble walking, that accident took a number to your head and legs but it should be no hassle getting around, just be careful for the next few weeks," he wrote some things down on his clip board. "I'm going to get you some prescription pain medicine and once it's here you can go on your way, you had a very fast recovery."
Kagome looked up at the doctor with a smile. "If it weren't for Inuyasha I would have never woken up."
The doctor smiled and gave Inuyasha a pat on the back. "Good job son." And with that he walked out of the room.
Inuyasha gave Kagome a hug, she had much less tubes and wires hooked up to her and it was much easer for her to move around.
"Were going home," Inuyasha told her.
Kagome was rolled out in a wheel chair to Inuyasha's other and now only car. Once outside Inuyasha lifted her up and placed her in the front seat, he was going to help her get around whenever she needed it. He had called ahead and told Sango to get her friends and everyone from their work to go to their condo and surprise Kagome with a party.
They pulled up and every light was out.
"I'm coming home," Kagome smiled.
"You're already there," he kissed her forehead and ran around to help her get out. He picked her up bridal stile and carried her up the drive way.
"Inuyasha the doctor said I can walk it's just going to be a little tougher," she laughed.
"Nope you're getting carried and you're going to like it," he smiled at her as she pulled him into the first kiss they had shared in a long time. It was so powerful in stopped him in his tracks. That one little kiss was filled with love that they had thought they lost. When they separated he smiled at her and opened the door to walk in.
"Why is it so dark in here," Kagome asked.
"I have no idea," he flicked on the light and people from every spot in the condo jumped up with a big "SURPRISE!"
Kagome screamed in surprise and held onto Inuyasha in a death grip. "What is this?" she asked smiling when she realized it was all her best friends and co workers.
"I thought you would enjoy a good welcome home party," he kissed her temple.
"I wasn't gone for long," she explained.
"Kagome shut up and enjoy it," Sango yelled from besides her.
Inuyasha put her down gently and everyone cheered. Kagome held onto Inuyasha's arm as everyone helped her to the couch where the floor was lined with presents.
"You all shouldn't have," Kagome gasped but they were already passing her the first one. She looked over to Inuyasha who was standing right outside the crowd. She smiled at him and he smiled back, he turned away and walked upstairs. Kagome knew he was still feeling guilty so she opened every ones gifts as quickly as she could without making it look like she was rushing.
After all of the gift wrapping paper was ripped to shreds and all over the floor Kagome stood up to say:
"Thank you all for coming here and bringing all this nice stuff, but I'm feeling quite tired from being in the hospital all week so I think I'll head to bed now," of course she wasn't tired, she had slept in that hospital bed all week, but she needed some time alone with her husband.
"Do you want me to stay and help clean up?" Sango asked but Kagome shook her head and she understood.
All of her guest hugged Kagome and said goodbye and made their way out the door. When all of them were gone she lifted herself up and holding on to the wooden stair railing for dear life she made her way up the stairs.
She got up stairs and saw Inuyasha laying in bed but as soon as he saw her he jumped up and went to her aid.
"It's ok I got it," she gave him a reassuring smile and made her way slowly over to the bed.
"Does it hurt?" he asked seeing her distorted face.
"No it's just weird having the feeling that it's hard to walk, when I've been doing it for so long," she smiled and lye down next to him. She held his hand in hers and smoothly ran her thumb up and down the top of his hand.
"How can you forgive me so easily?" he asked the ceiling. "It doesn't make any sense."
"Of course it does," she turned on her side.
"Because I've been your husband so long and you feel like you have to love me?" he asked what he thought the case was.
"No because your Inuyasha the love of my life and I want to make this work," she scooted closer to him and put her head on his chest. "And I'm always going to love you."
"I'm always going to love you too, I always have, I just was so stupid for a while," he looked over at her.
"You were lost," she looked into his eyes, and saw that look that she had missed so much.
"Now I'm coming home," he smiled.
"Your already there," she pulled him closer and he held her in his arms as he took her lips in his, it was the best night they spent together in a long time, and it wasn't because they had to break in a new bed. They had found the love they thought they lost.
Kagome got the hang of walking after a few weeks of walking around her condo while Inuyasha went to work, she hadn't been to work in three weeks, and it was driving her insane. It was Friday and she was to return to her job on Monday. She looked at the clock, 5:47. Inuyasha should be getting home anytime now. Things had been so much better between them, everything seemed like it had before all this happened, no, things weren't the same, they were more mature and older then they were when hey made those dumb mistakes.
Just then she heard the door opened and she rushed over to see her love walking in the door.
"Hey slow down don't hurt yourself," Inuyasha held her in his arms.
"It's been three weeks, I can walk and run just fine," she did a little turn. "See?"
He laughed at her and gathered her up in his arms for a kiss.
"I love you," she whispered.
"I love you too," he told her back.
The phone rang and she went to go answer it.
"Hello?" Kagome answered.
"Hey Kagome want to go out tonight to celebrate you coming back to work?" Sango asked on the other side.
"I don't know," she looked over to Inuyasha, he had never really liked her going out before.
"I thought you said things were different," Sango questioned.
"They are but-," she was interrupted by her friend.
"Kagome come on just get dressed and come on out, we'll be there to pick you up in a few," Sango told her and didn't give her a chance to respond as she hung up the phone.
"But-," Kagome was answered by a dial tone and she put the phone down. She sighed and went to go sit on the couch.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked sitting next to her.
"That was Sango, she wants me to-," she looked over at him.
"To do what?" he held her hand raising an eyebrow.
"To go out tonight," she saw his jaw muscles clench. She knew he didn't like her out, and she could see him telling her no way and going up to the bedroom. He wasn't drinking anymore; they had gotten rid of all the alcohol in the house until it could be regulated.
"Well why don't you want to go?" well that was different.
"It's not that I don't want to I just thought…," she stopped; maybe she shouldn't go there yet.
"That I wouldn't let you?" she nodded her head. "Kagome it's ok, I realize I have to make a lot of changes and I'm trying to have a whole new attitude towards anything, I don't want you to feel like you have to hide anything from me."
She gave him a hug and looked up at him.
"Do you want to come along?" she asked.
"No go have fun with you friends," just then there was a honk of a horn outside.
"You sure?" she asked one last time.
"Positive," he winked at her and watched her run up to change real fast.
As she went out the door he gave her a quick kiss and an 'I love you'. Kagome was smiling the whole way there. No, things were definitely not the same, it wasn't going to be perfect, and they were still going to have difficult times, and even argue, but they were going to go through it together. Things were definitely looking up.
She got in the car with the knowledge that when she got home later that night, her loving husband would be waiting for her to cozy into bed. She would have to find the driver of that diesel truck and thank him.
Ok so Originally this was supposed to be a oneshot but when I finished I realized It was 21 pages long…..thats pretty freakin long if you ask me. So I spilt it up into two chapters, I tried to get it as even as possible between the two without cutting right into a connected part. So I hope I did a good job. Tell me what you think.