Pardon my delay. Last week was a very busy week so it took me a minute to get around to finishing up this chapter. I also had to take my laptop to work to iron out the details so if there are some errors I'm sorry. I'll try to do better next week =]


Inuyasha very slowly opened their bedroom door & closed it almost silently. He was glad he'd taken off his shoes before he came in the house because he was sure that the bottom of his dress shoes would've been quite noisy to a sick inuyoukai.

"Baby?" Inuyasha whispered very softly, laying his keys on the floor since putting them on his bedside table would've made a lot of noise.

There was no response but the hanyou could hear limbs moving under the heavy blankets.

Inuyasha set his shoes down, took off his blazer & tie then went over to their bed where Sesshomaru was resting on his side, facing Inuyasha. Sesshomaru's eyes were closed but it was obvious he was awake because he was frowning deeply & bunching his face up to tolerate the pain.

The hanyou slowly sat down on the bed, running the back of his fingers across his husband's cheek. "You need me to bring you anything'?"

Sesshomaru shook his head slowly.

"I gotchu some green tea. That'll help you a little if you just drink some"

Another head shake.

Inuyasha noticed the subtle shivering Sesshomaru was doing & his heart started thumping hard. It hurt him to see his husband sick like this, especially since he caught it from the half breed. He'd braced himself for a tongue lashing, thinking Sesshomaru was going to curse him out for passing along his germs but if he'd realized who'd gotten him sick he didn't say anything about it. Matter of fact he didn't say much at all. Whatever bug he'd caught drained him of pretty much all of his energy.

Inuyasha climbed under the blankets & held his mate close to him, wishing he could absorb the sickness back into his body. Sesshomaru's body was hot to the point of it being uncomfortable so Inuyasha just pushed the comforter off of him. He slowly stroked the inuyoukai's hair, kissing his forehead when he scooted closer to the touch. The dog demon's skin was riddled in goosebumps & a shade of pale that only sick people had. With every evidence of Sesshomaru being sick that Inuyasha found, he hated himself a little more.

"Have you taken anythin' for any of your symptoms?"

Sesshomaru made a "nu-uh" noise.

"Do you want some? I got some NyQuil on the way home"

"Later" the inuyoukai muttered, burrowing his face in his mate's shirt.

Inuyasha soaked up every last second he actually got to cuddle with Sesshomaru, the last time being when the inuyoukai had been freezing cold on a winter's night long ago. He wrapped one arm around the silver haired beauty, rubbing his back. These were the times when Inuyasha wished Sesshomaru was just a little more affectionate. He knew what he was getting himself into when he mated the highborn demon & he knew he could never change who he was but sometimes he had fantasies about coming home from work to a nice, warm meal with Sesshomaru smiling at him in an adoring way while the half breed talked about his day so that his husband could massage his shoulders sensuously & kiss away the day's stress. He loved the thought of being surprised by Sesshomaru in some sexy outfit, presenting his gorgeous body, ready & waiti-

Inuyasha's daydreaming came to an abrupt halt when Sesshomaru pushed him away roughly & shot up.

"Babe?" Inuyasha asked, alarmed but Sesshomaru had already taken off down the hall & into their bathroom where the sound of retching could be heard.

Inuyasha followed slowly & waited patiently against the doorframe of their bathroom. Sesshomaru flushed the toilet when he was done & leaned against the wall, panting as he pushed his bangs out of his eyes. Beads of sweat slowly trailed down his face & neck.

Inuyasha walked over to his husband & crouched down beside him. "If you're still sick next week I'm takin' you to the doctor"

"I don't need a doctor" Sesshomaru muttered, catching his breath.

"I was only sick for three days. This is the seventh day you've been sick. You need a doctor"

Sesshomaru gave him a look that said he thought otherwise but didn't say anything.

"C'mon, let's get you back in bed"

"The floor is comforting"

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "How?"

"It's cool to the touch"

The hanyou's mouth formed an O in understanding & he nodded. "Well at least let me get you a pillow so you can be comfortable"

He retrieved a pillow & a blanket then took it back to the bathroom where he cuddled with his stubborn, impassive husband on their bathroom floor.

.

..

"Put your shoes on"

"No"

"I ain't arguing witchu about this again. Put. Them. On"

"No"

Inuyasha sighed & rolled his eyes to the ceiling. "For fuck's sake, Sessh…."

The inuyoukai rolled over & pulled the blankets almost over his head. "Go away"

"It's been ten days, Sessh! Ten fuckin' days since you got sick! That ain't normal!"

"Stop….yelling"

"Oh, sorry, is my yelling still hurting your head?! Gee maybe you should take something for that headache…oh wait, you did three days ago & it didn't do shit!"

Sesshomaru flung a pillow at his mate's head which the hanyou easily dodged.

"If I have to haul your ass out to the car I will do it, Sessh, & you know I will. Save your dignity & walk out there before I-"

Sesshomaru pushed the blankets off of him & stood slowly, turning his head only slightly to glance at Inuyasha. His eyes & nose were slightly red & the dark circles under his eyes made his skin look even more pale. Inuyasha braced himself for a full fledged argument but was very surprised when Sesshomaru simply went to the closet where his shoes were neatly lined up & snatched up a pair of Nikes. He grabbed a pair of socks out of his top drawer then sat on the bed to put them on.

"I know how much you hate the smell & probably hate the needles & people fawning all over you & all of tha-" Inuyasha started.

"I simply do not want to go Inuyasha" Sesshomaru interrupted in a surprisingly calm voice.

"But why, baby? The nurses & doctors & shit are just there to help you"

By the look on the inuyoukai's face, he figured it'd be best to just leave the topic alone. For all he knew maybe Sesshomaru just didn't want to leave the house or something.

Inuyasha drove them to the nearest urgent care & parked right next to the handicap…which pissed Sesshomaru off.

"I can walk just fine!" he snapped.

"I never said you couldn't, I just don't want you exerting yourself!"

"You treat me as if I am with child!"

"For all we know you fuckin' could be!"

They glared at each other for a few moments before Sesshomaru kicked the door open & slamming it shut.

"Don't you slam my mother fuckin' door like you ain't got no sense!" Inuyasha hollered, getting out of the car himself.

They argued & yelled at each other all the way to the waiting room, paused long enough to tell the nurse why they were there & got a clipboard to fill out a form, then went right back to it, only quieter this time.

The waiting room was half full with mostly elderly people with racking coughs & productive sneezes. A mother in the corner had her enfant in her arms & what could be assumed as her toddler running around, waving a magazine & singing at the top of his lungs. The mother's eyes darted back & forth between her toddler & the coughing people before she shifted her enfant closer to her as if that was going to keep the germs away. A lady a few seats down from Inuyasha was in her pajamas & moaning about how bad her head was hurting. By the way her stomach buldged unnaturally & how swollen her feet were, she probably should go to the ER but Inuyasha kept that to himself. At the moment he had a stubborn ass mate to deal with.

"Give me your medical insurance card" Sesshomaru grumbled.

"Why don't you use your own?"

"Because I left my wallet at home!"

"Oh but when I accidently leave something I'm an idiot?!"

"Because you do it often!"

"My bad for making mistakes, Your Highness!"

"Just give me the fucking card, Inuyasha!"

The hanyou whipped out the little card & tossed it to the dog demon, who caught it easily enough & continued filling out the form before he took it back up to the receptionist. Inuyasha slouched in his seat a little more, hands stuffed in his pockets. He watched the toddler rip out pages in the magazine as his mother pretended she didn't see. He never did understand why parents did that. Like they thought if they pretended they didn't see what their child was doing the child would stop or disappear. When the toddler looked up at him he sneered, baring his fangs & scaring the kid enough that he stopped & went to sit beside his mommy.

"Is that how you'll disicpline our child?" Sesshomaru asked sarcastically.

"If it works, hell yeah"

The inuyoukai sighed. "You'll need to clean up your language when we have a child as well"

"Whatever"

"Mr. Taisho?"

Both silver haired males looked up at a nurse standing near the back of the waiting room, holding a door open. Since they were the only ones that looked up at her she extended a hand to them, silently asking them to follow her which they did after a moment.

"Alright, which one of you is Mr. Taisho?" she asked when she closed the door & led them into a room off to the left.

Inuyasha jerked his head in Sesshomaru's direction.

"I assume you two are brothers or…?"

"Unfortunately I am married to him" Sesshomaru answered.

"Hey fuck you" Inuyasha retorted & the nurse tried to cover up her giggle with a cough.

"Oh ok, sorry about that. Mr. Tai-, er, Mr. Sesshomaru, I need you to step on this weight scale here, if you would"

"I would prefer not to…" the inuyoukai said in a low voice but in an unkind way.

"I assure you, it is only to determine if you are at a healthy weight so that we can better prescribe medicine to you" the nurse said smiling.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at his mate & Inuyasha sighed in an exasperated way before he turned around & the silver haired beauty stepped onto the scale. The nurse pretended not to notice. She inched the scale to the left a few times….then right….then left….then right again….before moving the the smaler scale below it just a centimeter to the right & nodded when the scale was even.

"Well you are at a healthy weight, Mr. Sesshomaru. Would you like to know the numb-"

"No"

"Ok, moving on. Do you know how tall you are?"

"Six feet, three inches"

"You're six foot even" Inuyasha corrected.

"I was three years ago. Now I am six foot, three inches, Inuyasha"

"Sessh-"

"Alright, Mr. Sesshomaru if you would sit here, I'll just take your blood pressure"

Sesshomaru sat & the nurse wrapped a thick black band with Velcro around his left bicep & began squeezing the pump at the end of a tube that attached to the band.

"Now just relax & it'll be over fairly quickly" the nurse reminded him.

The band grew uncomfortably tight around his arm but just before he was about to protest she slowly started letting the air out & the constriction let up.

"Are you in any pain at all?" she asked.

"Only a minor headache"

"Have you taken any asprin?"

"Yes"

"Then that explains why your blood pressure is a little elevated. Nothing to worry about though. I'll take you to the examination room & I'll have a doctor come do a more thorough check up on you to see if he-"

"She" Inuyasha interrupted, narrowing his eyes in warning.

The nurse nodded slowly. "…To see if she can see what's our next course of action"

The nurse led them to a room with a one of those dentist looking chairs, a regular chair across from it, a counter with two large cabinets above it & a small table with a few tools that looked like they were so sharp even looking at them too long could cut you.

Sesshomaru sat in the elevated chair, trying to ignore the embarrassing way it made his feet swing. "Do you always have to be so difficult?"

"Whatchu mean?" Inuyasha asked, sitting in the normal chair & resting his chin in his hand.

"A male doctor would've been fine"

"So is a female doctor"

Sesshomaru let the subject drop for now. He didn't really want to admit that he'd rather have a male doctor checking him. It wasn't like he had some sexual fantasy about it, it was just a preferance. After a few minutes the doctor came in, a female of about five foot seven, maybe in her late twenties, early thirties & mid-back length black hair. She smiled cheerfully at both men as she set her clipboard down & grabbed a stethoscope & a few other tools out of the cabinet.

"How are you two gentlemen doing this morning?" she asked in a cheery voice.

"Fine" both men murmured.

"Great. Alright, Mr. Sesshomaru, I'm going to listen to your lungs so if you could just inhale & exhale slowly for me, that would be great"

She pressed the stethoscope to his back & instructed him when to breathe before doing the same to the other side.

"What symptoms have you been experiencing?"

"Nausea, fatigue, sickness-"

"Mood swings" Inuyasha interjected, smirking when Sesshomaru threw him a death glare.

The doctor blinked at the inuyoukai a few times before she caught herself & wrote down something. "Ok. Ok, well I think I may know what's going on but I have to be sure. When was the last time you had intercourse?"

"Four very long weeks ago" Inuyasha blurted.

The doctor smirked. "& I assume you were his last partner?"

"Damn right & I better be the only"

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes to the ceiling but turned his head so that the other two didn't notice.

The doctor rummaged in her cabinet for a bit before taking out a clear short cup & handing it to the inuyoukai. "I need you to urinate in this cup for me please"

She waited patiently as he slowly took the cup & directed him to the bathroom down the hall. She knew for demons of his nature this was kind of embarrassing but any good doctor knows you never jump to conclusions & give the patient or their family [or husband in this case] a definitive answer without checking to make sure their answer was right. She was just surprised they hadn't figured it out themselves.

After a few minutes Sesshomaru returned & handed the cup of piss to the doctor who took it to the lab.

"Maybe you got a UTI" Inuyasha murmured.

"Shut up"

"I mean you haven't been drinking as much water as you usually do"

"If I had a UTI my urine would've been dark, you idiot"

"Whatever it is it's making you grumpy & I just want it treated so we can fuck already"

Sesshomaru shook his head to himself & rubbed his temple.

The nurse returned & both men could tell she was trying [& failing] to resist a smile. "Well gentlemen I have some great news"

"Does he have a UTI?" the hanyou asked.

"How is that good news?" Sesshomaru directed at his husband with narrowed eyes.

"Well can we at least have sex?"

"If I have a UTI we are not having sex!"

"Ever? But it wasn't even my fault!"

"All you think about is yours-"

"Congratulations, you two are pregnant!"

The last thing Inuyasha remembered was Sesshomaru staring at the doctor as if she'd grown another head out of her neck.