Hi! I'M SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG! I'M SO SORRY THE OTHER ONE WAS SHORT, BUT AS PROMISED, THIS CHAPTER WILL BE THE LONGEST CHAPTER FOR NOW(maybe)!
THIS IS DEDICATED TO: survive the worst, I AM SUPER SORRY FOR CAUSING YOU TWO HEART ATTACKS! And also to: deep abyss, MyInuYasha17, fmafan014, Laken, DelSan 13, De Aunna and avatarnaytiri. And to you readers!
The sound of an annoying beep hit the sensitive ears of a poor half-demon, InuYasha. He slowly opened his eyes, which adjusted to the light, but all he saw was a blur, he blink a few times to clear it, but everything was still just a little hazy, "InuYasha, your awake!" said a familiar voice. He looked around the white room and noticed his best friend looking like he hadn't slept in days.
"Miroku?" he asked grogilly, man did he feel like a 4000-pound truck hit him, "where the hell am I?"
"Don't you remember? You got in a car accident."
InuYasha thought for a minute, "I did?" he asked trying to ignore his heads constant pounding.
"You don't remember?"
"No… all I remember was the party and dancing with Kagome…Kagome! Is she here? Was she worried? Where is she?" he asked trying to get out of bed, Miroku rushed over to him and tried to calm him.
"InuYasha! You are not well to move about, please stop, you are going to hurt yourself."
"But Kagome must be worried! I have to tell her I'm alright, tell her to come in Miroku!" he yelled desperately.
"Do you really not remember InuYasha?" Miroku said worriedly.
"Remember what? Geez would you call Kagome already?" he tried to pull the tubes that were in his arm and Miroku stopped him just in time, "she's gone InuYasha!" he blurted out.
"What? Was she in the car with me? I don't remember? What do you mean she's gone? What happened to her?"
"No, InuYasha you were in the car alone… Kagome… she left for the states…" he admitted sadly.
"Stop fucking around Miroku, why the hell would Kagome go to the states?"
Miroku shook his head, he knew InuYasha probably wouldn't believe him, but he had to try.
"InuYasha, she found out about Sesshoumaru's plan… she left."
"How? Did you tell her? Who the fuck told her? I swear Miroku if you told her—"
"You fucking told her you idiot! She overheard you talking about it to Sesshoumaru at the banquet! Do you honestly think I would tell her? Plus I didn't even know your Kagome was my Sango's Kagome!"
"No stop lying Miroku! Why would she—"InuYasha felt like he was loosing his air, he tried to breath, but it was like his lungs wouldn't accept it, everything started to get blurry again and everything soon began to fade black. Miroku watched him close his eyes and saw him body twitch mercilessly, "Oh fuck, InuYasha!" He ran out the door, "someone get me a doctor quickly! Someone get me a fuckin' doctor!" he yelled frantically, the doctor rushed in right away and checked his heart rate which was exponentially increasing, so he grabbed the mask so it could help him breath and injected him which stopped his seizure. His heartbeat slowly began to decrease back to normal and as far as they could tell he fell asleep.
"He'll be fine now, but I really hope this doesn't happen again, because of his concussion, another attack might kill him. You may want to refrain from telling him about things he says he doesn't remember, his brain may be in shock, in due time he will remember, but we can not risk it at this point." Said the doctor. Miroku nodded and sat back down on his seat shaking.
"Fuck InuYasha, look at the mess you've gotten yourself into." Miroku looked at his watch, 'four days. Four days passed since, Kagome left and InuYasha slipped into a temporary coma…' he thought. He covered his eyes and couldn't help but feel at ease when he got tapped on the shoulders and met eyes with Sango.
"How is he?" she sitting next to him then laying her head on his shoulders.
"He just had a seizure," he explained.
Sango frowned, "I know, I saw the nurses and doctors run frantically in here, is he gonna be alright?"
"Yeah, just don't bring up Kagome, or anything about her. If he asks tell him she'll come here soon…"
"But Kagome left already, how—"
"We have to lie to him in order to save his life, he'll remember eventually, but as of now, the only way to help him is to lie." He grabbed her head reminiscing on the day they got back together.
4 DAYS EARLIER, 2:25 AM
Kagome packed everything she needed into her suitcases and asked one of the butlers to bring it down. She entered Kaede's office surprisingly she was still up, "Kagome, to what do I owe this visit to?"
"I want to go to the states."
Kaede looked at her and dropped her pen, "I beg your pardon?" not believing Kagome actually wants to go to the states.
"I want to go to the states," she repeated herself.
"Well… then I shall get you the first flight next week…" she said baffled.
"No, I want the first flight for this morning, I am planning to attend the summer program, and I am already 3 weeks late, so if I want to catch up I lave now."
Kaede nodded, "The earliest fight we can book leaves at 5:00 AM."
"Perfect, call me when we leave for the airport." And with that said and done Kagome headed up to her room and opened the brand new laptop that had been sitting on her table, used since she moved in. For the next 3 hours Kagome began researching and practicing her English.
After about 2 hours Kagome was called by a maid and they headed too the car. Kagome looked at Sango who seemed depressed, she looked up from her computer as she put on her seat belt, "It's not his fault." Sango looked at her best friend with wide eyes, "the whole house could hear you Sango, your break-up wasn't very discreet."
"Oh…" she said embarrassed.
"He really didn't know Sango, I'm sure if he did, he would tell you. Give him another chance."
"No." she said stubbornly, "He has no right to—"
"To what? Not know I'm the same Kagome his best friend was dating? Sango, I'm the one who got hurt, I don't want you to base your decision out of something that happened between that guy and I. I don't want to feel responsible for your break up with Miroku, so please just say you're sorry and live happily ever after." Sango looked unsure and Kagome sighed, "Breaking up with him won't do me any good. Breaking up with him isn't going to stop the pain. So please, as my best friend, at least accept the fact that you were wrong that way at least one of us is happy." Sango nodded and Kagome could've sworn her best friend, who had never shed a single tear for any guy that had ever broken her heart, let one tear drop escape her sad eyes. "Get some rest, I'll wake you when we've arrived at the airport.
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Kagome shook Sango awake and got out of the car to get her suitcase and bags, Kaede, Sango, Kagome and the driver walked inside and Kagome turned to them, "Thank you for seeing me off, I promise when I come back I'll make you all proud." The 3 pairs of eyes watched her disappearing back. Everyone had one thought in their mind.
'Things were going to be different from now on.'
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Sango sat on her bed starting at her phone as if expected it to ring. She looked at the name that was written on her phone: Houshi Miroku. She took a deep breath and pressed the call button. It rang and rang until it reached his voicemail; she gave a little laugh, "Hey you've reached Miroku Houshi, (Mai put that down, its dirty!) Please a message! (Come here Mai, give it to me)" then the tone. She called again, but all she got his voicemail. 'What if I really hurt him? What if he doesn't want to be with me anymore?' she thought worriedly, 'Was he ignoring me? What should I do? I wamt to see him!' Sango's tears that she had been holding back finally fell. She cried as she heard the ringing once more and was about to hang up, she had called him at 10 times!
"Hello?"
Sango gasped "Miroku?" she hiccupped.
"Yeah, it's me… what's wrong Sango?" he asked noticing her stuffy voice and her sniffling.
"Nothing… I just… I needed to talk to you."
"About?"
She tried to hold it in but her tears fell and cried loudly, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called."
"Sango please, I wasn't ignoring your calls… InuYasha got in a terrible car accident and I've been here about an hour or more trying to figure out if he's okay or not, I'm sorry."
Sango cried more, "Why are apologizing? If anyone needs to apologize, its me. Miroku I'm so sorry, can we please work this out?"
She heard Miroku sigh and prepared for rejection, "Sango…"
"It's okay to say no, I'm not gonna force you!" she interrupted hurriedly.
"Sango, let me talk," be paused then continued, "I'll be over in about 30 minutes, give or take a few minutes, this conversation needs to be done in person." He explained.
Sango couldn't help the feeling of relief and happiness in the pit of her stomach, "thank you Miroku… for giving me another chance."
"Don't worry about it dearest Sango."
"Miroku?"
"Yes?"
"I've fallen in love you." She finally admitted.
Miroku's heart skipped a beat, but he smiled nonetheless, how long had he been waiting to say those same words to her, and here she was beating him to it, "I love you, Sango."
Sango smiled her tears being replaced by happy ones, "I'll wait for you."
"Okay… I love you, bye."
"I love you too. See you in a bit."
Sango pressed the end button and looked at the clock, which read 6:15, she hadn't slept all day, but she was more energized than she ever felt. However she did pray that she doesn't fall asleep waiting for Miroku.
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After about 15 hours or so, and landing at exactly 8:25, (she took the shortest flight duration) she arrived at Boston Logan International Airport; she felt refreshed because of new air she breathed in. She got out of the airplane and walked onto the airport and was glad she decided to doabout 3 hours of researching on the plane and the rest of the 12 hours was naptime. She walked until she found a man maybe late 40's early 50's hold up Kagome Higurashi and she walked up to him, "Hello, are you my Mr. Collins?" she asked.
He smiled kindly, "Yes, I am little lady, now let's get you to Cambrigde yes?" Kagome nodded knowing that's where Harvard was. They walked to the car outside and waited to exit the airport completely as cars came in and out.
"So are you following your grandfather's footsteps and studying Business?" he asked curiously.
Kagome gave him a small smile, "Yes sir, I'm transferring in their upcoming Fall semester. I actually convince somehow to let me in their summer program even though I'm 3 weeks late."
"Well that's no surprise, you know Toma, your grandfather, used to work at Harvard way back in the day, Harvard owes very much to him."
Kagome nodded, 'guess that's why they let me do it. I'm sure I'll catch up though, I really need to get used to how their school works.' She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard the man speak.
"Your English is very good, did you take classes?"
"Oh no, my father taught me… when I was very young…"
"Oh how is little Kiyoshi anyway?"
"He died when I was only a few years old, my mother remarried a man named Daisuke, who taught me how to speak English and many other languages."
"Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that, I see now it makes sense that you are studying here…"
"Yes, I wish to become a worthy business woman who can take care of Higurashi Corp."
The man chuckled lightly, "You sound just like your grandfather when he was young, always talking about how he wants to be a worthy business man once he graduates."
Kagome smiled thinking about it. Then something, out of nowhere, really random, she remembered a certain hanyou that she really didn't want to remember. Daisuke…that bastard, I didn't realize he had used my father's name… probably looked through my personal things and figured he could use that name against me.' Kagome thought bitterly. 'I'll show him to use my father's name in vain.'
"Were here."
Kagome looked up, realizing she had been starting into her lap as if she wanted to burn a hole in it, "Wow already?"
"Yes, well Cambridge is very close to Boston, I have a niece waiting for you inside, she doesn't have classes and offered to show you around. If you want, you can tell her no when you meet her."
"Oh, no. That would be wonderful, I would love a tour."
"Perfect, she'll be wearing I believe she said was going to be wearing a red cardigan… whatever that is, but I'm sure you'll know."
Kagome nodded and thanked him, said their goodbyes and entered Harvard University. She looked around and found a very pretty girl with very light brown hair and brown eyes wearing a red cardigan, a blue with pink floral skirt, a plane white v-neck shirt and an owl necklace, then some black flats. "Hi, are you Mr. Collin's niece?"
The girl looked up from her the game she was playing on her iPod Touch and smiled, "Oh yes, my name's Clarissa, you must be, Ka-go-may?" she asked, not really sure how to pronounce her name.
Kagome gave a little giggle, "Yes, that's me." She felt a little weird letting her call her by her first name, I mean yeah she asked the maids and butlers at the mansion to call her Kagome, but that's cause she didn't want to be called Higurashi-sama, but then again this is America so she would have to learn to deal with it.
"Would you like to get a tour now or shall we eat breakfast? I'm sure your tired from your flight. We can grab something to eat, then I can show you to your dorm."
"Yeah, that would be great."
"Cool! I have my keys right here." They walked to her 2010 white Lexus IS250 and as they got in Clarissa asked what she wanted to eat, "My treat since you're new."
"Oh thank you, anything is fine really,"
She smiled, "I'm craving McDonald fries, is that cool with you?"
"Yeah, that would be great." She nodded and started the car and they drove off the campus and to the closest McDonalds. Kagome smiled, she was going to like this girl. Although Kagome was still a little cold and just acting to be happy and polite, deep inside, she knew being away from the Japan was letting her be happy again. In time, she'll be… well not the same exact Kagome, but definitely close. She'll just be more confident and not let anyone in so easily like she used to before.
PRESENT, 4:52 PM
Sesshoumaru sighed at the paperwork in front of him, not that he would ever admit anything, but he actually could use InuYasha's opinion on this, plus it'll be good for his training. His phone rang and he pressed the speaker button, "Yes Kitomi?"
"The event coordinator for the welcome home party is here would you like me to send her in?"
He rubbed his temples, he really didn't want to see anyone at the moment, especially too talk about a welcome home party that he didn't even want to plan, but no, his parents forced him into it, however she or he, he didn't know and didn't care, was here already so what could he do? "Sure, bring her in."
A light knock came at the door and Sesshoumaru told the person to come in. A girl about 5'7, wearing about a 2 inch cream colored heel, so she stood at 5'9 now. She wore a plain beige pencil skirt and jacket and she wore a nice royal blue silk shirt. Her black/brown hair layered, and reaching the middle of her back, she had a cute small bundle of hair that she tied in a side ponytail. "Hello, my name is Watanabe Rin, I'm the event coordinator your parents hired, but I'm sure you knew that." Sesshoumaru looked up from the papers he was looking at and a small part of his cold, locked heart had melted. The girl looked confused, "Takashi-sama?" she asked.
He blinked then cleared his throat trying to gain control over his body, "I'm sorry, I'm just a little bewildered."
She smiled gently, "That's alright, I know how that feels, would you like to tell me what ideas you had for his 'Welcome Home' party?"
"To be honest I don't even want to do this party—uh, I mean…" what the hell was wrong with him? He never stuttered or lost his cool over a girl, what the hell?
She giggled and it felt like his body wanted to hug her and inhale her rose petal sent all day long, but he restrained him, of course. "Well, I only know it is for your brother Takashi InuYasha, I have some ideas, if you don't mind I would love to swing the ideas by to you."
"That's completely fine. I don't mind."
She smiled once more, amused, "It would be simpler if we could sit here and discuss this." She said patting the big fat black briefcase she had that was lying on the 6 person chair table that was at the left corner of the room, Sesshoumaru got up from his desk and sat at the head while Rin sat to the right of him.
"Okay, let's get started." She said enthusiastically as she opened the briefcase and revealed the pictures and lists and a notebook and whatever else.
Sesshoumaru half-listened to the black haired beauty next to him as he stared at her, glancing at the paper when necessary. 'What the hell is happening to you Sesshoumaru?' he asked himself just a little frustrated.
InuYasha woke up once more feeling like he got hit by a 4000 pound truck and yet again found himself in the white room, but now there was one new presence in the room.
"H-Hey… your Kagome's friend right? Sango?"
Sango shot her head up from Miroku's shoulder and looked at Miroku panicked, he nodded her to answer, "Y-Yeah… I am, glad you remembered."
"Yeah, Miroku told me she left…she didn't right?"
Sango bit her lower lip and forced a smile, "Oh no, of course not…she's just very busy with some things and said she won't be able to see you for a while, she's very worried though," she lied.
"Miroku you stupid ass, don't joke around like that! You almost gave me a heart attack!" he yelled jokingly.
'Actually you had a seizure…' was what Miroku wanted to say, but he didn't think it would be appropriate, "Sorry, I just uhm…wanted to see your reaction… and boy did I get it," he said the last part silently.
"What?"
"Nothing, hey you should eat now, I'm sure your hungry right? You've been in a coma for 4 days for goodness sakes!"
"Yeah you're right, I could use some food. And Sango, about Kagome…"
"Alright, I'll go get the nurse and I'll leave you two to talk," Sango said hurriedly volunteering then booking it out of the room to go find a nurse and to avoid any conversation that had to do with Kagome.
"What's wrong with her?"
Miroku smiled, "She just wants you to get your food and be healthy again,"
"Right, so I can see Kagome sooner."
Miroku's face grimaced, but he quickly covered it with a funny animated smile, "Haha, right, so you can see Kagome sooner. Of course."
InuYasha looked at Miroku a little cautiously, "you and Sango are so weird…"
"Haha, well were a weird couple." They continued talking, with Miroku trying (but failing) to avoid any subject about Kagome.
'God Kagome, I hope you come back soon.' Were Miroku's last thoughts.
I hope this is long enough for you guys! And dang it, InuYasha doesn't seem to remember what happened between him and Kagome! Will he get his memory back and have his heart broken twice? I DON'T KNOW! Wait a minute yes I do… WELLLLLLLL… if you want another chapter review! PRETTY PLEASE WITH AN INUYASHA PLUSHDOLL ON TOP?
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