Calling Doctor Takahashi

A/N: So as always, Trash it is: Please forgive me.

-IK-

It was near five-forty at night when Higurashi, Kagome stepped over her threshold.

"That was the longest shift I have had in a lonnnnnnggggg time." Kagome groaned as she slammed her front door.

The raven-haired beauty kicked off her shoes and tossed her bag over the back of her recliner. A shower and a hot meal was exactly what the doctor ordered, no pun intended. Keade, the Chief of surgery at Tokyo Medical, pretty much demanded she rest for the next couple of days, thus doctor's order. She wasted no time in diving head first in a soothing lavender bubble bath and how long she lay there, well- she couldn't even say.

Kagome sighed as she reached for the stopper. "That was amazinnnnng!" Flinging her head over and wrapping a towel around her soaking hair, Kagome noticed the flashing red light emitting from her answering machine. Her heart sank a little. Please don't be Keade. Please don't call me in. She hesitated to press the button.

You have one unheard message: Message one, sent today at 12:45PM

"Kagome, it's your mother. I was just going to let you know that your grandfather has been readmitted at Metropolitan Matsuzawa. It's nothing serious, he just has the flu, but you know how he is when he gets sick. He thought he had pneumonia. Anyways dear, call me when you get a chance. The doctor said he'll be here for a couple of days on observation. I love you, sweety."

End of messages.

Kagome let loose a breath she didn't realize she was holding. Not Keade at least. She made a mental note to call her mother in the morning. Looking at the time, she decided to make her a nice meal and binge on some Netflix, after all Keade had ordered her to rest. Nearly skipping with joy to the kitchen, Kagome hummed a little tune as she rummaged through her fridge. When a small sound erupted through her kitchen, Kagome froze. What was that? It sounded again and a frigid shiver ran down her spine. Maybe not- She turned slowly and when she caught not one, but TWO mice, eating out of a cracker box she had left opened, Kagome lost her shit.

She screeched and made a hasty attempt to run for her door, but her sock caught on the corner of her cabinet and she careened forward. When her head cracked against the side of her granite counter-top, all Kagome could remember was black.

-IK-

Groaning, Kagome sat up, but winced when a throbbing pain stretched from her frontal lobe to the back of her skull. "What the he-" Reaching a hand up to press against her aching skull, she noticed a wet sensation and jerked her hand back. Blood and a decent amount of it too. She looked down, the towel she had wrapped around her hair earlier, caught the blood that had ran down her face and in her freshly washed hair. Kagome stood on shaky legs and made her way to the bathroom. Low and behold, there above her right eye was a gash, deep too, and she groaned. "I do not want to go back to the hospital." Moaning, Kagome grabbed a sea-foam, green wash cloth and applied as much pressure as she could to the wound.

The raven-haired woman made her way back to the living room to pick up her phone when it dawned on her that her neighbor was a doctor, -Ash something or another- but a doctor non the less. Not taking noticed to her state of dress, a red tank top and a pair of black shorts, she made her way across the hall. Kagome's- having tugged off her ripped socks- now bare feet were cold against the bare floor of the hallway as she stood in front of apartment 7B.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Kagome waited patiently for someone to answer. "Oh please come on, answer." Her right hand was holding the wash cloth in place as her left raised to knock once more. She heard movement come from within and she sighed. As the occupant got closer to the door, she heard a growl and then a string of curses. It almost made her turn around and hide in her apartment, but the intense throbbing stopped all movement. The door flung open causing her to gasp. The occupant was nothing short of gorgeous.

"You better be dead or bleeding because I-" He stopped when he noticed Kagome holding a now brown cloth to her eye, dried blood caked in her hair and on her face. "Shit, come in." It took her a moment to move because hot damn this man. "Wench? Come in, now." He grabbed her left arm and pulled her inside. He ushered her to sit on a black leather sofa.

Kagome blushed when he sat directly in front of her on his coffee table, -chest bare for her hungry eyes to see mind you- to assess her wound. As he looked her over, she took the time to take in all his features. He had a chiseled jaw, sharp cheek bones, and his eyes, oh his eyes a deep molten-gold. Kagome felt her face heat up once again. When he glanced at her, she adverted her eyes, ashamed she was caught looking at him. He retracted his clawed hand along with the cloth and Kagome winced.

"Sorry." He mumbled. That was when she noticed the two appendages on his head of short silver hair. The fuzzy white ears had drooped against his skull when she had winced in pain. Adorable ears. Kagome mused as she fought the urge to grasp them between her fingers. "Are they really as soft as they look?" She gasped once more when they shot up and rotated in her direction. Kagome could have fainted when she realized she had said that aloud.

"Excuse me?" He grinned.

"Nothing."

He laughed. "Well, Mrs-?"

"It's Miss, and call me Kagome." Lifting her left hand to shake his right one, Kagome smiled when a rather sharp taloned hand grasped hers firmly.

"Inuyasha." She blushed. So not Ash, eh close enough. "Now, wench-" Her deep, blue eyes narrowed at the word and he sat back slightly, "I mean Ka-go-me, you'll need stitches."

"No!" She blurted. "I don't want to go to the ER."

"Why? You afraid of hospitals or somethin'?

She frowned. "I'll have you know I am a Registered Nurse at Tokyo Medical. Thank you very much." He grinned at her flushed face. "I just came off a sixteen hour shift and I really don't want to go back if I can help it."

He nodded in understanding. "Same. I work at Metropolitan Matsuzawa, and I just came off a 30 hour shift." She gave him a blank stare. "ER was rushed due to a fire downtown. I'm exhausted and you come knocking on my door at six-thirty-five at night with a wound that needs stitches." His larger hand patted her knee. "Let me get dressed and I'll take you myself." He made to stand.

"Ugh. You're a doctor, can't you just stitch it up yourself?" She pleaded.

He stopped standing and locked his molten orbs on her deep ocean colored ones. It took a moment, but soon he was laughing. "Inuyasha, please?" She gave him the big eyes and pouty lip. He inwardly groaned. She was hot and he couldn't deny it, no matter how hard he tried. Kagome had been his neighbor for the past three years and during that time they worked opposite shifts and days and he hardly ever saw her, but when he did, damn was it not a sight for sore eyes. "I feel faint."

Inuyasha sighed. "Let me see if I have the stuff to stitch it up." He made his way to the back of his apartment, emerging shortly after with a black bag. "I have the suture packs, but I don't have anything to numb the pain."

She gulped. "Oh uh- okay then. Let's do this."

Inuyasha nodded and sat on the coffee table in front of her. "So, an RN huh?" She nodded. "How long?"

"Four years."

"Let me guess, twenty-five?"

She giggled. "Close enough. I'm twenty-seven. You?"

"Twenty-eight." She gave him a look that said she definitely approved of what she was looking at and he chuckled. "I'm sorry, but like I said, I don't have anything to numb you, so do I need to give you something to put in your mouth-" Her eyes widened as a dirty thought passed over her mind. "-to quiet the screaming you're about to do?"

I can think of something to put in my mou- "Uh, sorry." She shook her head. "No. I think I can handle it."

He rolled his eyes. "Sure." Inuyasha took a seat next to her on the couch and gestured for her to lay her head in his lap. Kagome gulped and did as commanded, her tank top riding low and her shorts a little too high. Oh god of all the things to be wearing right now. If Inuyasha gave her a once over and smirked, well she didn't see it. He took his time cleaning the wound with a warm rag before he set to closing it. He opened a pack of sutures, placing them next to him. Threading one in a knot before he leaned down and smiled. "This is going to hurt." He repeated.

"Okay." She took a deep breath, the needle closing in on her wound. It pierced her flesh causing a gasp to escape her. Shitshitshitshit. Kagome closed her eyes in pain and took another deep breath. "Fuuuuuck" She exhaled.

Inuyasha was caught up in what he was doing, but he still heard her and he still smirked as he continued to work. Twenty-six stitches, a few cuss words, and a grunt later, he was done. "Good as new." He applied a wound cream to her fresh stitches.

Tears fell from her eyes while he had worked and Kagome exhaled once more with relief as she lifted off his lap to go examine his work. "Wow, for an ER doctor, you are good at stitching. Usually they call the plastic surgeon to handle things such as this at our facility." Turning from the mirror over his mantel, she smiled. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." He made his way to the kitchen and came back with two pills and a glass of water. "This is a pain killer, to ease the ache." Nodding gratefully, Kagome downed them. He grinned when she sighed. "Actually, I'm a surgeon. Neurosurgeon to be exact." He never realized he was standing so close to her as he spoke.

Neurosurgeon? Holy hell, that's ho- "Hot." She breathed. He smirked at her, but she shook her head. "I mean, you put in more hours than I ever thought possible." Impressed with his work ethic, she continued. "You know, I thought your name was Ash." She admitted.

He laughed. "Yeah, I'm called that by my best friend, Miroku. He's a plastic surgeon. He actually taught me how to do perfect stitches." He sat back down on the couch and Kagome followed suit. "I think the only reason he went into such a profession was so he could give women bigger breasts and asses." Kagome laughed. "He's here on my off days or whenever I am available. His wife Sango is a Paramedic and does most of the transports for our facility."

"Sango Tanaka?"

"Uh, yeah. Ya know her?" He packed up his supplies and set then under the coffee table.

"Yeah. She and I go way back. I haven't seen her since last year, but she's a good friend of mine. I actually went to her wedding. And now that you mention it, Miroku's pervertedness is actually a perfect match for a plastic surgeon. I need to ask Sango." She laughed as the realization finally hit her. Her smile was bright and Inuyasha found himself wanting to reach out to her. It wasn't until she looked away from his deep golden gaze, did she notice he was still shirtless. "Have you been bare this whole time?"

Looking down he grinned. "Suppose so." He didn't miss the way her eyes lingered a little longer and he definitely didn't miss how short her shorts rode up and how her breasts look wonderful in that red top. How he loved red, and how he loved the way her cheeks flushed.

"So, thank you, Inuyasha. You saved me tonight and to repay you, how about dinner? I was in the middle of deciding on what to make, but you could come by in about an hour and eat with me?" She fiddled with the cushion nestled next to her. "I-If you want, that is."

He grinned. "Got any ramen?"

Kagome giggled. "Beef, chicken or both?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened. Holy fuck, could she be any more perfect? "Both?"

"Of course." She stood up and he went to walk her out. "I'll shower and head over in an hour." She nodded and walked back to her apartment, missing the satisfied smirk on the hanyou's face.

Kagome stopped and looked back at him, "Um, this will sound pathetic, but the whole reason this happened-" she pointed to her eye, "- was because I had two mice in my kitchen." He grinned and crossed his arms. "Could you, um, well- could you ge-" He was already striding into her apartment, shirtless and all.

-IK-

It was three till eight when she set two pots of homemade ramen on the counter. Inuyasha had ended up showering in her bathroom as she cooked dinner, in case the mice came back, and she found it nice to have someone in the apartment with her. Moving to grab a set of bowls and two beers, she noticed the flashing, red light from her answering machine again. "Huh? I thought I listened already." Kagome never heard the shower turn off or the sexy hanyou in the doorway when she pressed the button.

You have one unheard message: Message one, sent today at 6:15PM

"Kagome, it's Hojou. I know it's been awhile, but I'd really like to see you again. I miss you. I made one mistake. Everyone is entitled a second chance. Please Kagome? Call me back. I love you."

End of messages.

Inuyasha's heart sank a little, all hopes of asking Kagome out was shot to hell. She had a boyfriend already. Well, shit. He tossed the towel he was drying his hair with in the hamper.

She sneered and deleted the message. "Screw you." She mumbled. When movement behind her caught her attention, Kagome turned, and then wished she didn't. Inuyasha stood there with water dripping from the ends of his silver forelocks down his toned chest. His arms were crossed and his lips formed a tight line. What really got her attention was the sea-foam colored towel hanging from his slender waist. What is he, some kind of hanyou adonis? She crossed her legs and leaned against the counter. "I didn't hear you come in."

"Feh. So, I guess I'll be going no-" Inuyasha held his shorts and underwear in one hand as he reached for the doorknob with his other.

"Wait!" She blurted. "Why are you leaving? I made ramen."

"I'm not the type of guy to hone in on another guys woman." His voice was deep and a little dark. I have no right to feel this way. I mean I only just met her.

"I'm not dating him." She whispered. Inuyasha released the doorknob and turned slowly. "He's my ex-boyfriend. He cheated on me with a girl from college who I thought was my best friend and well- I know cheating is so cliche, but it was just the last straw." She took a breath and crossed her arms. "I keep forgetting he thinks we're something that we're not anymore."

Inwardly, Inuyasha did a giddy dance, but schooled his features and stepped towards her. Kagome blushed, placing her arms down at her sides again. "I didn't mean to-"

"It's okay. It doesn't get to me anymore." Kagome smiled through teary eyes. "This is kinda crazy, but I kinda been crushing on someone a lot since I moved here, but I never had the time or chance to say anything."

Inuyasha tensed. "Oh really?"

Kagome nodded. "I mean I've only been living here for three years and I've been to coward to say anything. Isn't that pathetic?"

No. He wanted to say, but instead his mouth took a different course. "Kinda is wench."

She snapped her mouth closed and narrowed her eyes. "What was that dog-boy?"

"I said it's pathetic."

Kagome walked up to him and he caught the sent of anger flare from her and when she went to slap him, he caught her wrist in his hand. "Let go you insensitive jerk."

He grinned and leaned in close to her face. "So if you were too coward to say anything, is that why you dated that asshole, Hobo?"

Kagome's faced flushed. "Let. Go. Inuyasha." Her voice was venomous.

"Not until you answer me. Who is your crush?"

She jerked her arm from his grasp. "I don't have to answer you."

"Oh but you do, you owe me for my services tonight." Her mouth agape as he continued. "The stitches, wench."

"Get out. Forget that, you're an asshole and I never would have guessed it. I wasted three years on thoughts about you-" She snapped her mouth closed. Oh shit.

His eyes widened as his brows lifted beneath his wet bangs. "Me?" He took her blushing face as a yes. "Is that right?"

Kagome scoffed. "Well, now I'm over the whole thing."

"Are ya really?" He growled.

Blue eyes widened. "Yes." Her voice was hesitant to answer, because she felt as if his golden gaze was piercing her very soul.

He couldn't take it anymore, Inuyasha grabbed her upper arms and pulled her flush against his bare chest and crashed his lips against her plump ones. Kagome gasped in the kiss, inviting Inuyasha's delicious organ into her moist cavern. In his assault against her tongue, Kagome took the opportunity to explore his mouth as well. Her tongue dueled with his skilled one, matching his ferocity with her own, and grazed his fangs with the tip. Inuyasha growled deep in his chest causing Kagome to moan against him.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and hauled her up and into his lap as he sat on her couch. Kagome's legs straddled his narrow hips, her hands tangled into his soft hair and she bucked against him. When air became too much, she pulled back, resting her forehead against his.

"You can't imagine how long I have dreamed of that." She panted.

"Same here." He admitted. "I have been crushing on you since I saw ya walk outta your door in green scrubs, three years ago."

Kagome's eyes widened and a blush crossed her nose. "Excuse me?" She whispered.

He chuckled and pulled her back, closer to him. "Yeah." He nipped her bottom lip and Kagome lost herself in his mouth. Kissing him again and again, deeper than she had before. Soon she found her tank top gone and his clawed fingers inching up the ends of her shorts, leaving goosebumps on her thighs. Moaning she looked into his darkened gaze. "But the fo-"

Inuyasha groaned, bucking up slightly, the fluffy towel doing nothing for the bulge Kagome had created. "Not now." His voice husky.

"Then how about we move to the bedroom." Kagome leaned her bare breast against his toned chest and smiled seductively. He nodded, but when she nipped his ear and ran her tongue against the soft pink flesh, Inuyasha lost his shit and stood holding her by her ass, letting her legs wrap around his waist.

"Fucking tease." He nipped the top of her breast, the towel falling away as he made his way to her room.

Kagome's only answer was moaning his name as he slammed her bedroom door.

The ramen sat forgotten on the counter.

-IK-

Kagome groaned was she shifted in her bed, the sunlight seeping through her blinds. Sitting up, the cream colored sheet fell and pooled at her bare waist. Wait, bare- Looking down at her exposed flesh, she squealed when the previous nightly activities came flooding back.

"Inuyasha." She moaned as her fingers twirled the ends of his short hair at the nape of his neck.

"That's right, baby." His tongue was doing delicious things to her neck. His fangs nipping her pulse point. "Say it."

"I- ugh!" Kagome arched her back as she tightened her legs around his waist. Inuyasha dove his hands into her raven hair and pulled hard to gaze into her alluring eyes. "Inu- please."

He groaned and kissed her, hard. His hips snapped forward causing Kagome to scream in pure delight. "Oh god! Inuyasha, more!"

He grinned against her chest as he picked her hips up and piston in an almost aching speed.

"I won't be able to hold out much lon- ah!" Kagome gasped as Inuyasha lifted her with ease onto him, leaning back against her head board.

"Ride it out, Kagome." He growled lustfully, watching her breasts bounce in pure bliss.

She nodded her answer as she did as commanded. He was just too damn hot to decline, no matter how bad she wanted him to pound her mercilessly into her mattress. When he groaned and leaned his head back, she grinned. "You want it? Then you got it." What she did next, had him screaming her name.

Kagome blushed and covered her face with a pillow. "Oh my god, how did I-" she paused and looked beside her, to an empty spot. "What the hell?" She stood up and made her way to the bathroom, again it was empty. Her face grew red as she thought he had made a hasty attempt to get away this morning. Tears gathered in her eyes, recalling how gentle he was after they settled down and he ran a finger over her eye, caressing her stitches and kissing her sweetly. "That asshole." The tears were hot when they fell.

It was eight-thirty in the morning when Kagome decided to drown her misery in the shower.

When she emerged an hour later, fully clothed and hair pulled back, she was shocked at the plate of food wrapped in plastic wrap sitting on the counter, the ramen pots had been removed and a small note sat in their place.

K,

I had no intention of leaving you this morning, trust me, I have waited years to be with you like that. Dammit it was worth every moment, but I got called in today for a emergency surgery. Made you some breakfast before I was called. Come see me today around noon. I want to double check your wound, you know, outside of our apartments. ;)

-I

The grin on her face, must of looked like a fool who might just be falling in love.

-IK-

"Kagome dear! What happened?!" Her mother rushed to her side to examine the black bruise that had formed around her right eye and the angry red stitches that glared from her creamy skin.

"I'm fine mom. I fell last night and had a doctor stitch me up. It's fine." She lied, she wasn't fine. Her head hurt like hell.

"My poor baby. Sit, sit. Your grandfather is asleep, but you can visit a moment can't you?"

Kagome nodded. She was an hour early to see Inuyasha, which was ironic that her grandfather was admitted to Metropolitan Matsuzawa instead of where she was employed.

Twenty minutes later, as the women sat talking about Souta, her younger brother, and holiday plans, they were interrupted. "Kagome?"

She turned and the smile fell from her face when Hojou stood in the doorway. "It is you!" He ran to her and enveloped her in a hug. "I've missed you." He whispered into her hair, pulling back only to frown when he noticed her wound. "What happened?"

"Nothing. Let me go." She seethed. Pulling back out of his arms, she glared. "What are you doing here?"

"My father's a doctor Kagome." She rolled her eyes, saying she knew that, but why was he in her grandfather's room. "I heard he was here and wanted to check on him."

"Well, you have now leave." Her mother gasped at her rude behavior, but didn't comment on it. Hojou reached for her once more but paused when a growl erupted in the room.

Kagome paled. She knew that sound, after hearing it over and over the night before. "Uh, Inuyasha."

"Kagome."

"Whose he?"

"None of your business." Inuyasha snapped, careful not to loose his cool in front of a patient.

"Inuyasha, it's not what it looks like. He came to see grandpa." Kagome maneuvered away from Hojou to Inuyasha's side.

"Kagome who is he?" Hojou asked once more.

"This is Dr. Takahashi." Mama Higurashi answered. Inuyasha's arm wrapped around Kagome's waist.

Hojou glared. "Mind taking your arm away from my girlfriend?"

Kagome snapped her mouth closed when Inuyasha hauled her against him. "She ain't your girlfriend, she's mine, Hobo." The growling grew more intense.

"Excuse me?"

"Ya heard me, now fuck off." He hissed. Kagome blushed, but she leaned into him and nodded. "He's right."

"Kagome?" Hojou was taken back. "But, we- I- what the hell?!" He stomped over to them in attempt to grab her away, but Inuyasha was faster. "Get off!"

Inuyasha had him pinned to the wall. "Come near her again, and I won't hold back." He released him and ushered Kagome out of the room and to his office. Once the door was closed, he pushed her against it and kissed her. Kagome wasted no time in returning the raging passion as she dove her hands in his hair to play with his ears. He groaned and released her lips to kiss her neck. "I thought I was going to fucking lose it."

She pulled his head closer and sighed. "Don't worry about him. I'm not going back." Kagome felt him smile against her skin.

"Good." He pulled back, despite both of their displeasure. "First, I want to check out the stitches and prescribe you some pain meds. You got a nice goose-egg and a pretty, decent shiner." He chuckled as she blew her cheeks out in a pout. "Still adorable." He whispered as he kissed her.

"Hurry up, Inuyasha." Her voice dripping in sexy.

Inuyasha had never written a prescription or assessed a wound so fast in all his career.

Thirty minutes later, the couple emerged from the heated office and made their way back to Kagome's family, Hojou long gone by then. Mama Higurashi smiled and hugged Inuyasha as she noticed the wide grin edged across both of their faces, knowing her daughter was far happier now than she had been in years. "Hojou was never worth her time, if you ask me." She winked at Inuyasha and it was nice to know the big-bad hanyou could blush.

"Thanks mama." She whispered as Inuyasha leaned down and checked on her grandpa.

"I'm just glad to see you smile again over a young man. He seems like a man worth waiting on."

Kagome's heart swelled with joy as she watched the man before her pat her grandfather on the shoulder before he turned his gorgeous eyes on her. Yes, he was well worth the wait.

-IK-

A year later, as Inuyasha moved the last of Kagome's boxes into his- no their apartment- he grinned, watching the love of his life swipe her hand across her brow. "What?" She asked, moving closer to wrap her arms around his neck.

Inuyasha kissed her forehead. "Just admiring my beautiful woman." He grinned cheekily.

She smirked. "Oh really?" Kagome kissed his nose before nuzzling it.

"Yeah." Inuyasha's thumb caressed the scar over her right eye, recalling the very moment he met his damsel in distress, or his wench as he like to call her. "And, now that I think about it, how about-"

Before he could whisper his desire in her ear, Kagome cut him off. "How about we play a little game? Hmmm?" She walked back slowly, disappearing in their room- how she would never tire of saying that- only to emerge moments later in a sexy nurse outfit. An outfit he had bought for his eyes only, the almost transparent material that was way to short and too low cut giving her already sizable breasts an even bigger appearance. "Calling Doctor Takahashi."

When her lustful gaze landed on his and her seductive voice filled his ears, he could only think one thing. Fuck, marry me. However, that was a question he had planned for later and right now, his beautiful girlfriend- soon to be fiancee- was oozing sex appeal in the doorway to their bedroom in a dress that was showing off way too much skin.

It took two point five seconds for his brain to catch up before he had scooped her up into his arms and pressed firmly against the mattress. "The doctor is in." He whispered.

Kagome lay there for a moment, processing his last words before she erupted in a fit of giggles. When she looked up at the confusion on his face, Kagome was afraid she had ruined the moment and pulled Inuyasha down pressing her forehead to his. "Sorry, you looked so hot I couldn't resist. I'm such a lucky nurse to have such a sexy doctor all to herself."

He grinned. "Right back at cha, baby."

When he leaned down to kiss her lips softly and lovingly, he realized he was the lucky one. Despite the fact that they finally had time to meet was because she had cracked her head open, he was damn glad she had called on him for help.

Calling Doctor Takahashi, indeed.

You couldn't wipe the smug grin off his face, not even if you tried.