InuYasha

A Gangsters Paradise

Chapter 11

The Hospital

November 26, 2017

Kagome slipped into Sesshomaru's hospital room which was one of the largest and nicest the hospital had to offer. She looked around sheepishly and spotted the curtain separating the bed from the view of the open door. She walked over to the end of the bed to see Sesshomaru topless but partially covered by the blankets. Both his shoulders were bandaged and he had an IV stuck in his left arm. She walked around to the right side of his bed, he looked so peaceful in his sleep but she knew that was deceptive.

Kagome touched the blanket then glanced back at Taisho who just nodded to her. She pulled it back to see the small bandage there on his arm. "There is one more." he said softly motioning to his left side.

Kagome lifted the blanket a little more and saw the bandage on his abdomen. Tears welling up in her eyes as she pulled the blanket back up and covered him again. "Oh Sesshomaru..." she said softly as she let the tears fall and cupped his face gently.

Taisho walked over to her and moved a chair over for her to sit down beside his son. "Here have a seat Kagome." he said softly as she sat down he noticed that she had grabbed his son's hand to hold it in her own cradling it like it would break. She watched him sleep taking no notice of Taisho or of Inuyasha who had just walked in and huffed throwing Kagome's stuff down on a small table.

"Father I must..." Inuyasha said as he continued to glare at Kagome but was cut off by his father.

"Be quiet." Taisho said as he leaned back in a different chair leaning against the window frame and closed his eyes to rest.

"Humph!" Inuyasha just leaned against the wall crossing his arms over his chest, never taking his eyes off of Kagome and his brother Sesshomaru.

Kagome spent the next three days sitting by Sesshomaru's side, never leaving his room since his room had a bathroom in it she was never more than ten feet from his side should he wake up. She had fallen asleep holding his hand with her head laying on the edge of his bed. Taisho had bought her food and made her eat several times but she just didn't have an apatite and she refused to leave Sesshomaru's side.

Sesshomaru groaned slightly as his eyes fluttered open. 'Where am I?' he thought as he looked around groggily.

Kagome woke up immediately and stood up to look at him. "Sesshomaru... I'll be right back." She said as tears welled up in her eyes again she placed her hand on his cheek softly making him look at her, then she walked away out of sight he heard a door open, soft spoken words he couldn't make out, then the door close again. She walked back just a few seconds later.

"Ka...Kagome... where am I?" Sesshomaru asked as he stared at her holding his hand noticing the bandage on his arm below his elbow.

"Sesshomaru you are in the hospital." Kagome said softly as she sat down on his bed pulling his hand into her lap.

Sesshomaru glanced out side and it was daylight and he groaned again. "I missed our date last night. I'm sorry." he said as he looked away from her.

"My love, that was four days ago." Kagome said softly as she put her hand on his cheek to bring his attention back to her. She was surprised to see shock and sorrow in his eyes. "Do not worry. But there are some things we must discuss... I am a Hig..." she said as she look lovingly at him but then was interrupted by Inuyasha.

"Higurashi! I won't be as easily fooled as the old man. Stay away from Sesshomaru." Inuyasha growled angrily as he yanked her off the bed.

"Inuyasha, stop it!" Sesshomaru said weakly as he sat up suddenly when his brother had thrown Kagome off his bed and into the floor instantly regretting it and fell back to the bed groaning.

"No Sesshomaru. This bitch dated you to get close to you so she could set you up and kill you! I will not let her fool you like she has father!" Inuyasha said angrily as he stood between Kagome and Sesshomaru who was now noticing his other wounds as they caused him pain with him trying to sit up again.

"Sesshomaru lay back down, you'll reopen your wounds." Kagome said as she watched him worriedly from the floor.

"Shut up bitch and leave him alone! Higurashi scum!" Inuyasha said angrily as he glared down at her.

"Higurashi? No you're wrong Inuyasha stop this." Sesshomaru said as he reached out to grab his brothers arm.

"No I saw her. She's the reason you were shot Sesshomaru, she came after us all once you turned 18 and she knew we would all be together. You told her we would be together for your birthday just family." Inuyasha said as he glanced back at his brother holding his arm.

Kagome saw the pain in Sesshomaru's eyes as he looked at her wondering if it was true. She stood up angrily and she took a few steps forward. "Inuyasha!" she said as she reached back as far as she could and with all of her might slapped him across the face, making him stagger stunned holding his face looking at her. Tears rolling down her face she glared at him. "I left my family for him! I attacked my own father for him! I've been here 3 days Inuyasha refusing to leave his side! I searched everywhere for him! I love Sesshomaru I would never hurt him. HOW DARE YOU!" Kagome screamed and raged at Inuyasha tears steaming down her face.

"Inuyasha out!" Taisho said angrily as he grabbed the young man by the back of the shirt and flung him towards the door. "I shall deal with you later boy." he said as he shut the door.

Kagome looked at Sesshomaru and it was killing her inside to see the pain in his eyes as he turned away from her and refused to look back at her.

'She has been my enemy all a long? Did she really do this to me? How could she have known I was me a Taisho?' Sesshomaru thought as he held his side gritting his teeth in pain.

"Sesshomaru..." Kagome said softly as she put her hand on his just to have him jerk it away causing him to grunt in pain. Her hand went to her chest and clenched her shirt above her heart, she cried as she took off running for the door.

Taisho stepped in front of the door and pulled the young woman into him, and he let her cry as he hugged her. "Sesshomaru. Kagome did not do this to you as your brother believes. I know this to be true. I also know that she has not left this room for 3 days, she has abandoned her family for you my son. She has nothing left but you." he said softly as he stared at his son to see if he understood.

"Father she's a Higurashi... I'm..." Sesshomaru choked out as he looked away from his father.

"A Taisho, yes son. Love is blind it doesn't see in enemy and ally it see's in passion, compassion, and faith. I would trust her with what is most precious to me... you. You my son would do well to ignore old family hatreds that stretch back generations, and remember what you know in your heart to be true. You love her just as much as she loves you." Taisho said as he rubbed this young woman's back gently as she sobbed into him.

Kagome glanced up at Taisho a new respect in her eyes as she wiped her cheeks dry. He was looking at Sesshomaru with what she could see was hope and love. She glanced back at Sesshomaru to see him staring at her a sadness there in his eyes and she saw him stretch out a hand to her. "Sesshomaru..." she said softly as new tears welled up in her eyes as she ran over to him. She leaned over carefully hugging him making sure to avoid hurting him while laying her head down on his chest.

Sesshomaru could feel her tears as he reached up and stroked her hair gently looking down at her with soft loving eyes, he couldn't deny he loved her. Kagome is his happiness, to loose her would break him.

"I thought I had lost you. When you woke I was going to tell you who I was that's what we needed to discuss. I only found out the day after your birthday who you were when I met your father here in the hospital after Inuyasha cornered me at School." Kagome said softly as she looked up at him sadly.

Sesshomaru lifted his hand to brush his thumb across her cheek to dry her tears. "Neither of us chose this life Kagome. I do not blame you, I was shocked is all." he said softly noticing how she leaned her face into his hand and he smiled.

"By the way Kagome..." Taisho said softly gaining their attention. "You have a visitor. Ifyou wish I shall send him away." he said curiously. He noticed that her eyes showed curiosity, then anger in them.

"My father... he found me..." Kagome said as she glared at the door still unwilling to see him.

"Kagome, you are safe here." Sesshomaru said softly as he squeezed the hand he was holding lightly.

"I'm not afraid of him. I'm disgusted and angry with him." Kagome said bitterly then closed her eyes and took a deep breath then released it slowly trying to regain her composer. "I'll see him, but will you stay as well Mr. Taisho?"

"As you wish my dear." Taisho said softly then turned and opened the door. "Bring in Higurashi." he said ruffly. Naturally the hall was deserted with two gang boss' meeting here in the hospital. The residents and employee's didn't need nor want to know what was going on the only information they required is if they needed to hit the floor. But this particular hallway had been almost completely empty all week other than the body guards Taisho had brought with him to stand guard over his son's room.

Mr. Higurashi walked into the room a few minutes later and glared at Taisho, then glanced at his daughter sitting on the bed of an injured young man while holding his hand in her own lacing her fingers with his. "Kagome, it's time for you to come home." he said simply now glaring at the boy on the bed.

"I refuse." Kagome said as she glared at her father who had snatched his attention to her.

"You can not refuse I am your father and you are 16." Higurashi said glancing over at Taisho wondering why he was still here, his unruly daughter was of no concern to him.

"I will not return home, I told you I would never forgive you for this." Kagome said with a hard and unyielding tone in her voice.

"Yes you will girl. You are a Higurashi and this trash is beneath you." Higurashi said motioning towards Taisho and Sesshomaru.

"Go to hell! You tried to kill Sesshomaru all be cause of a lie. Where did you hear such nonsense anyway?" Kagome said as she glared at her father.

"One of his men informed us not wanting to be aligned with such foul people as the Gumo. They have no honor and anyone who joins up with them is the same as dogs. And again girl there is no way you could know what they were doing." Higurashi said as he glared over at Taisho then over at his daughter.

"It was his birthday party! Can't you understand? That's all it was a birthday party!" Kagome said pleading with her father to understand something this important.

"Silly girl, you have no idea what they were up to. He told you it was a birthday party because you weren't of age." Higurashi said as he looked at his daughter like she had lost her mind.

"You...you don't understand... In... No I won't give you any information. You're unable to see the truth father and until you apologize and see the situation for what it is I never want to see you again." Kagome said as she turned from her father to look at Sesshomaru. He could see tears welling up in her eyes but also a strong resolve not to let the tears fall.

"Enough Higurashi you have your answer. Time for you to leave." Taisho said squaring his shoulders to Higurashi daring the man to make some kind of move.

"She is my daughter, she will be coming with me!" Higurashi said angrily as he crossed the room and grabbed Kagome's arm down by her wrist painfully causing her to whimper slightly. He jerked her up off the bed turned and started dragging her to the door.

Sesshomaru called out slightly unable to restrain the pain caused by him trying to keep a hold of Kagome as she was ripped from him. He looked at his father pleadingly as he held his side. "Father...Kagome..." he said weekly looking from his father to his girlfriend in an obvious plea to rescue her.

"Sesshomaru..." Kagome said as she tried prying her fathers hand off of her wrist while glancing back at him. "STOP!" she yelled as she lifted one of her legs up and kicked her father in the back of the knee as hard as she could causing him to let go of her and stumble.

"How dare you strike your own father." Higurashi said angrily as he turned and back handed her across the face causing her to cry out in pain stumble. She hit her head on the small nurses table then slid to the floor holding her head. She pulled back her hand to see a little bit of blood.

"Kagome..." Sesshomaru said worried when he saw the small cut over her eye with blood starting to drip down her face.

"ENOUGH!" Taisho yelled as he pinned Higurashi against the wall with his forearm against his throat and his other had holding a gun to his chest.

"I should have shot you three days ago instead of at the wall behind you." Kagome said angrily as she glared up at her father trying to press the point she was no longer wanting to be part of his life.

"Kagome is under the protection of the Taisho, you will leave, you will never try to contact her! She may contact you at any given time but that is her choice! You can agree to this or die I really don't care which!" he growled out as the door to the room banged open with several of his men barged in trying to aid their boss.

"This means war you know that right." Higurashi said narrowing his eyes at Taisho.

"You old fool so be it!" Taisho said angrily, it had been a very long time since he had been angry like this. He was barely keeping himself in check. He locked eyes with Higurashi glaring at him for several moments before he let him go and growled out at him "Get out!" he said nodding to the door.

Several of Taisho's men grabbed Higurashi and dragged him from the room and escorted him out of the hospital where they not so politely threw him into the parking lot and told him not to come back.

"Thank you Mr. Taisho." Kagome said softly on her knees and bowing to him.

"Nonsense young lady. Stand up and return to my son." Taisho said softly as he stood her up gently and lead her back to his sons bed. "I shall get a doctor." he said then left the room.

"Are you alright?" Sesshomaru asked softly as he brushed her bangs away from the cut on her head noticing that it had already stopped bleeding.

"It hurts, but I am fine. What about you?" Kagome asked worriedly as she checked his bandages to see if there was any fresh blood she could see, which there wasn't.

"I hurt, but like you I am fine." Sesshomaru said softly as he cupped her face gently rubbing her cheek with his thumb.

Kagome hummed slightly as she leaned into his touch. She put her hand up to his cheek as she leaned over close to his face she looked into his eyes lovingly for a moment before kissing him. His hand slid from her face lacing into the back of her hair pulling her closer as he leaned back slightly easing his hurting side while reveling in her presence. She rested her other hand gently on his check to keep herself from leaning on his side where he was wounded, she too was quite enjoying the moment biting his bottom lip softly causing him to nip back at her lightly.

"Huh hum..." Taisho coughed out loudly causing the two to separate quickly from each other embarrassed. "Kagome the doctor is here to check your forehead though I know it's not the attention of my son but I believe it will do for the moment." he said with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.

"Stop it father." Sesshomaru said as he looked away from his father with a slight pink tint on his cheeks, he noticed that Kagome was a bright red and knew where her mind had gone at that comment from his father.

"I was just making an observation son. I'm sure your embrace is more fulfilling than and alcohol wipe and possible stitches." Taisho said with another smirk, he shrugged and walked back over to his seat by the window which had been his bed over the past several days as he rested by his son's unconscious form.

The doctor cleaned up Kagome's wound and put a bandage on it, he knew none of his nurses were very inclined to come into this particular room unless absolutely necessary. This was a small thing nothing he couldn't handle with extreme ease so he just took care of it without the normal aid of a nurse. "Very well Miss if you need pain medication I can get some for you?" he asked as he stepped back and looked at her curiously.

"No thank you I'm fine." Kagome said and smiled softly.

"Very well if you change your mind the nurse's station is down the hall." the doctor said then left the room.

"I'm sorry Mr. Taisho for the trouble I've caused." Kagome said softly as she looked back at the tall hansom gang boss over by the window.

"Trouble you've caused?" Taisho asked curiously looking at her confused. "Please call me Toga or just Taisho the Mr. is giving me the willies." he said with a soft laugh.

"Do you think my father will truly start a war over me?" Kagome asked softly looking over at him, though she knew her father and knew he didn't make idle threats war was coming and it was all her fault. She had looked down at her hands playing with the blanket on Sesshomaru's bed that she was sitting on beside him, she noticed his hand had come over and laid down gently on her leg.

"Don't worry about that sour old man, he'll regret it if he does." Taisho said with a dismissive wave of his hand.

Kagome looked up worried she knew the Taisho gang was larger and more powerful if only by a small margin but that margin was against her family nor for them.

"Father..." Sesshomaru said gaining his fathers attention then he nodded over to Kagome who was worried for her family, her mother and brother had no part in any of this.

Taisho looked at Kagome with a sad smile on his face, realizing he had just informed his son's girlfriend and daughter of the enemy, that they would regret starting a war with his gang. "Kagome, I will protect you to the best of my ability without causing too much damage to your family." he said softly leaning forward in his chair and laying a hand on her nervous, busy ones.

Kagome smiled weakly at him and nodded her thanks. She may hate her father at the moment but she is a sixteen year old girl who's constantly changing emotions could give her whiplash if her family were to become truly hurt during her running away from home. "Thanks." said said softly.