Author's Notes: Hey everyone and welcome to the new chapter of TAC! Thank you for the all the lovely reviews, and Sailor-Saturn Star, thank you for pointing out the dividers problem. Of course, in all the newer chapters, the INUYASHA will be bolded. (Incidentally, the dividers are bolding in AF, but I guess I just didn't notice on here XD)
Kagome heard the flea, but she was not about to give up.
Did Inuyasha give up on us, when we needed him? No! I won't quit on him, either!
Think, Kagome, think! She told herself. Inuyasha wasn't breathing...what were you supposed to do when someone wasn't breathing...? She thought as her limited medical knowledge that she had learned from her own time began to kick in.
Kagome's mind answered her back almost instantaneously, quick thinking as she was. CPR! Kagome could have face-palmed...but that was the only solution she could think of in her panicked state. Surely it would work, would it?
Well, it was worth a shot and she had to try. For Inuyasha.
Swiftly, Kagome tilted Inuyasha's head back and took a deep breath, as she had learned in school.
She ignored Miroku's and Myoga's gasp, ignored the bulge to their eyes, which she barely noticed from her position, when she pressed her lips to his, only hesitating for a second, forcing Inuyasha to breathe. Time seemed to have stopped.
Finally, Kagome pulled back. Inuyasha still looked as pale and still as before, although he was acquiring a strange purple tinge to his skin.
She repeated her actions, refusing to believe that Inuyasha could be d-dead.
'No effect' was all that registered in her mind. "Again," she thought, re-doing the process. This time, when she pulled back, she pounded on Inuyasha's chest.
No. Effect. Again.
NO. EFFECT. Perhaps one more time...
Inuyasha gave a gasp, his chest beginning to rise and fall in a steady motion, indicating that he was breathing again.
Kagome smiled in relief as she felt a faint pulse in his neck, getting stronger with every beat of his now working heart.
Her smile became even bigger when she noticed Miroku's gleefully impressed, if not a little stunned, expression and saw Myoga's cheerful jumps of joy upon the monk's head. "You did it, Kagome, you saved the master's life! Oh, I never doubted you for a second!" the flea called out.
Miroku gave Kagome a look that caused her to redden.
"What?" she said, wondering why the monk was staring at her like that, in wonder and in awe.
"Kagome...you saved Inuyasha with a magic kiss!" he called out, looking even more awed. Vaguely, he wondered if Sango could perform such an act...he would have to find out when he saw her again...
"What?" she screamed again at Miroku, this time mortifyingly embarrassed. Of course, she should have known Miroku would see this event that way, because he certainly would never have heard of "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" before.
"Miroku, in my time, that is a very standard and appropriate medical practice!" she all but choked out at him, trying to sound affronted.
Ignoring her, Miroku crouched won to examine the now steadily breathing hanyou, whose head was lying in Kagome's lap, shrugged, and said, "He's still unconscious..." His voice was colored with worry for his best friend.
"He'll be a while," explained Myoga,"Most hanyou do not survive transforming into a pure youkai form...it puts too much stress on the human side, it's very painful."
The flea looked down on Inuyasha's peacefully sleeping face. "He's extremely lucky."
Kagome held Inuyasha up to her, buried her head in his chest, and let a few more tears fall. Miroku and Myoga looked away, pointedly giving her some space.
"Inuyasha, I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm so glad your okay," she whispered in his chest, near where she imagined his heart should be. Minutes passed and she just continued to lean into him, enjoying the sensation of rising and falling that his breathing created.
Miroku coughed, looking back towards Kagome and Inuyasha, still on the ground, and said, "If we plan on having Kaede look at him, we must be going, she'll be back soon, she told me she was only going to fetch Rin from another village before we left..."
Kagome nodded. "Of course." She said, trying to pull Inuyasha up.
After a few minutes of effort in vain, she sighed, calling to Miroku. "Can you help me pull him onto Kilala's back?"
Together, Miroku and Kagome heaved Inuyasha onto the cat, Myoga jumped onto Kilala as well, and as Kagome and Miroku hopped on, Kilala rose into the air.
"Hurry, Kilala," Kagome practically begged her, causing the cat to quicken her pace. They headed off towards the village.
Author's Notes: Well, that is it for chapter seven...sorry it was such a short one. I promise the next chappie will be much longer! And it's going to have some more Sesshomaru, too, just because he reminds me of another anime character I'm rather fond of, Seto Kaiba. Anyways, that review tab down there is just begging you to press it... :D
