Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.

Tokyo, government-owned hospital, VIP apartment, 1st November, early morning

The young couple awoke to the ringing of the phone. Kagome answered the call, and listened for a minute.

"InuYasha, it's time to wake up, use the toilet just as I taught you, and go to the shower. I'll join you and help you with the bath, but I have to pee too!"

"Feh, why can't we sleep any longer?"

"The surgeons are waiting for you to remove this ugly plug-in socket from your head!"

InuYasha went pale.

"Is it going to hurt … very much?" He stuttered.

"No, brain surgery is painless, and I'll be with you. Now go to the bathroom!" Kagome commanded.

After the shower Kagome dressed InuYasha in his pajama bottoms, and she dressed herself.

The pajama top was ruined, and there was no reason for InuYasha to wear his magical armor.

They heard knocking on the door.

"Please come in!" Kagome called.

The young doctor walked in.

"Prince InuYasha, lady Kagome, please follow me." He said.

Kagome put InuYasha's sword and his Fire Rat Robe into the wardrobe, and they followed the doctor to the preoperative room. Assistants asked Kagome to change her clothes to a surgical dress, to put a cap and a mask on and to wash her hands.

They shaved InuYasha's head around the plug-in socket, led him to the disinfecting shower and asked him to undress. InuYasha knew better than to make a fuss, it only caused more pain!

After the shower they dressed him in a disposable hospital gown, and then led him to the surgery room.

When InuYasha saw the operating table, he went very pale and began to shake with fear.

Nevertheless, he collected himself, because he saw Kagome near him, and he laid himself down upon the table. The anesthetist injected him with a normal dose of a sedative, which wasn't very effective because of his full Youkai physiology, but it helped him to curb his nerves.

The surgeons put his head in a head clamp and asked him to lay still for his own good.

They plugged the EEG cable in the plug-in socket on InuYasha's head, to record his brain waves for the last time and to check his neurological health.

After a few minutes they disconnected the EEG, and began to dismantle the plug-in socket.

When it was done, they cautiously pulled the electrodes out of InuYasha's brain.

At the end of the operation, surgeons sewed the skin on his head to close the wound and gave him an antibiotic shot.

They knew that the hole in InuYasha's skull would mend itself in a few days.

After releasing his head from the head clamp, they checked his reflexes.

Satisfied, the surgeons told him to return to his apartment and rest.

When InuYasha and Kagome returned to their room, they saw an abundant breakfast on the table, raw bloody meat and ramen for InuYasha, fried fishes with rice and vegetables for Kagome. This time it was Kagome who went pale.

"You … eat that?" She stuttered.

"Keh, I'm a dog demon, do you really think that I can live and fight only on ramen noodles and a few fried fishes? I need raw meat to recover my strength!" InuYasha answered.

"All right, if you need raw meat to heal yourself, then go on! But you'll have to dispose this gown afterwards and take another shower!" Kagome insisted.

"Keh, I know. You have got some of my abilities since we mated, better nose is one of them."

After a meal and a shower, InuYasha dressed himself in his magical kariginu and strapped Tessaiga to the belt of his hakama.

Then the phone rang. Kagome answered the call.

"Yes, of course. He seems to be fine. You can meet him now. But please come here alone and unarmed, he can smell the gunpowder and he will not react well to your bodyguards."