"You have done well child." The elderly lady smiled at the small child, closer inspection the child almost looked fox-like.
"Thank you for the lolly baba-sama." The small child smiled and devoured his sweet treat.
"Shippo, there is one more thing I need you to do." The elderly lady quietly sat down and got out her private box, taking an old letter out and handing to the boy. "I need you to deliver this to a man named Sesshomaru at Tokyo General."
"Yes ma'am." The boy named Shippo said while putting the letter into his pouch, transforming into a pink bubble and drifting off in the wind toward Tokyo General.
"Kaede-sama! Please come quickly, my mother has a very bad fever." A child of 7 ran into her quarters and rushed the old lady out, intent on saving the mother.
It is up to them now.
"Mommy look! There is a pretty pink balloon floating in the sky!" A young girl the age of 5 exclaimed to her hurried mother. Her mother merely looked toward the pink balloon and rushed her daughter on in the crowd.
The pretty pink balloon floated on top of the building known as Tokyo General, and quickly changed into the humanoid form of Shippo.
Shippo quietly found the stairs and went down into the hospital, following his senses to the man named Sesshomaru. He found him in his office talking on his phone to an employee, he quietly walked in without preamble and put the envelop on the desk and waited for instruction.
Sesshomaru efficiently got off the phone with his employee and looked at the envelop on his desk, completely ignoring the kit.
He silently picked it up and read through the contents several times before finally looking at the kit.
"Tell Kaede it will be done Shippo." He said, looking pointedly at the kit who just curtly nodded his head and walked out the door.
He blindly grabbed his phone and hit 1 for speed dial, soon there was a grunt as a hello on the other end of the phone.
"Wake up and get here immediately, you have a surgery scheduled within the hour." He said while putting a few things in order on his desk.
"What the fuck?! I was given today off, its your surgery day! I am not coming in, you deal with it." The disgruntled man yelled into the phone, Sesshomaru merely just rolled his eyes.
"I am busy with something else more important at the moment so get your ass down here. After this you may go back to that hole you call a home and go back to sleep. Right now, you are going to do this." He said, irritated with the man. He was trying to help him out and this was the thanks he got.
"Fine, but I better get paid double for this." The man grumbled, the sound of rustling sheets in the background indicating that he is getting up.
"Whatever Inuyasha, just get here." He said again.
"Feh" Inuyasha said, hanging up.
"Sesshomaru looked at the phone, annoyed that his brother had hung up on him yet again before he could brief him.
Why am I helping him again?
Sesshomaru looked through his top drawer for another envelop when he saw the photo he always kept in his desk for times like these.
That's why.
Inuyasha glared at the phone he just tossed on the bed, he had a late night last night and he wanted to sleep in. No his brother had to call him in on his day off and tell him he had to be there.
He just doesn't want to work today.
Inuyasha scoffed at this idea, his brother was always working.
He climbed in the shower but not before looking toward his bedside table, taking note of the time. He had enough time for a quick shower, his eyes lingered for a second on the picture that was resting beside the clock. Before he went down memory lane he calmly grabbed his things and went to the shower. He needed a nice cold shower.
Shortly after his shower he grabbed his keys and walked out the door, not really in that much of a hurry to get to the hospital.
Realizing he hadn't even ate he drove to the diner he always went to when he was on break at the hospital. He could spare a moment to grab something to eat on the way.
Walking into the diner he was greeted by the hostess Yumi.
"Hey Inuyasha, kinda early for you to be up. Do you want your usual table." Yumi asked while looking appreciatively at the man.
"No, I just need something to go. They called me in for a quick case or I wouldn't even be up right now." Inuyasha grumbled, looking at the girl. He knew she had a crush on him, but she was not his type. She was just too easy for him, he wanted a challenge.
Just like she had been.
His mind went briefly back to his early thoughts this morning before shaking his head. He did not need to think of her while he was about to do this surgery. He needed complete concentration, all she was was a mysterious distraction that haunted him for 7 years.
After some time he noticed Yumi trying to get his attention, he focused back on her and noticed that while he had dazed she had already left and came back with a meal for him to go. He thanked her and left, shaking all his previous thoughts out of his head.
Walking into Tokyo General for what seemed like the thousandth time, he rode the elevator to the appropriate floor to his brother's office, wishing this would be over soon. He did not like losing sleep on his days off, which were far and few in between.
When he walked into the office his brother was waiting there for him, doing last minute preparations.
"I see you finally decided to show up, we need to leave, the patient is already here waiting for us and you haven't even had the time to scrub up." Sesshomaru said while walking out the door and into another door, Inuyasha silently falling behind. He thought he was doing this surgery alone, not with his brother. They never needed both of the doctors at the same time. One was always enough, though he guessed there would be times they would both have to come in just to throw suspicion off of how Miroku was the only one with the cure.
Inuyasha continued to follow his brother, silently irritated that he had not been told anything about the case but he would know soon enough.
They stopped in front of Miroku's door and knocked, if it was up to Inuyasha he just would've barged in but Sesshomaru was with him, he did not need another lecture about proper procedure.
Once the door opened he stormed in and took a seat close to the 2 ladies then decided to ask the question that had been bugging him since he got here and found out they were both needed.
"Well Miroku, we are here. What was so important that both of us had to be here? You only need one of us." Inuyasha said with annoyance, he then took the time to look slightly at the girls and noticed one of them was in a sling.
He took in a breath after looking and the scent hit him like a ton of bricks.
She is here in this room right now!
His mind screamed and his eyes widened when he noticed the one in the sling was slightly frightened.
She should be! I looked everywhere for her, now she shows up looking like someone else and just waltzes back into my life?
"Kagome." One word was all it took and she was flying out of her chair and headed for the door.
Not this time!
AN: So what do you guys think of this chapter? I noticed I haven't gotten many reviews but I hope you guys still like this. A few things have happened yet again around here but when is that any different? Please review and tell me what ya'll think. The more reviews the better the updates!