Hello again, sorry it took so long, I have been so busy buying gifts, working, buying more gifts, that I haven't updated. Well here is the next awaited chapter of Daycare for me:
Enjoy.
" Because what… because I didn't want my cousin to suffer any longer.
Because…"
Inuyasha shook his head, trying some way to reason with her.
"Because Why! Inuyasha! She demanded to know, her back still to him. What he said next made her open her eyes wide in surprise, hardly able to believe that she heard.
"Because I'm in love with you, Kagome."
It felt like the world had just stopped from what he said. Stunned, Kagome still didn't move, it was just impossible.
" No." she whispered. The man behind her echoed her respond.
"No?"
Kagome let a long breath, her eyes streaming with tears as she replied once again.
"NO.no.no."
"Kagome."
"No. Forgive me if I have ever implied or did anything else to make our relationship more than just friends." She could feel the hurt radiating off of him. She held her hands to her chest. Something ached, it was unbearable.
'This must be my heart breaking in front of me' she thought clutching a hand to her chest as the words still echoed in her mind.
"You're a liar, a lousy liar."
This made Kagome turned abruptly around, her face stained with tears and her eyes puffy and red.
"I am not a liar!" She yelled at him, this didn't faze Inuyasha as he stepped closer. He was with in her personal space by now and with a smile on his face replied.
"You are. You blink a lot when you lie." He replied a matter of fact.
Kagome started blinking rapidly with out noticing it, which only made Inuyasha smile even more.
"I am not a liar." She replied once again, although this time her voice was quiet and shaky. Inuyasha smiled and rubbed her eyes, to get rid of the left behind tears and told her once again that she was a liar. She was about to speak when he put his finger to silence her. Kagome could feel the heat of his finger burning her lips and shivered because of it.
"Yes you are. Why do you push me away? Is it because of Kikyo? If it's because of that, I've told you before that I am not in love with her. Give us a chance Kagome"
Kagome looked down in shame, but still her heart said one thing while her mind said another.
'I'm not about to betray my cousin, that I am not. Even if I do feel that way about him, my cousin comes first I can't betray her, I just can't and yet I want too, I want him to hold me, kiss me...
"It's not because of that..." She said drifting her eyes away from him, so he wouldn't see the love that was radiating off of them. He cupped her shin, making her face be inches away from his. Kagome could feel his breath; her heart skipped a beat as she met the deep, dark eyes.
"Because…" she managed to say as Inuyasha placed his other hand on her face cupping it.
"Shh…" He shushed as he brought his face closer to hers. Kagome as if in an instinct, closed her eyes and suddenly she felt soft lips pressed gently against her own. A sigh escaped her lips, her eyes slightly closed and hazy from the adraline of the kiss.
"…I love you."
Kagome finished the sentence she had started to say as there lips separated.
"I know." Inuyasha responded as once again leaned in for another kiss, but this one felt so full of passion, scalding their very being, their entire bodies burn as if they were on fire.
"Mmm…" Kagome moaned as his lips teased hers, his hot breath steamed with unbearable passion as if mixing with her own.
But just as their lips met once again, the sound of the door being thrown open was heard and in came Sango.
"Kagome I need you to fill out these papers..." Sango said looking at the scene in front of her, but quickly quieted down, her face turning as red as a cherry and quickly as she had come in closed the door. Kagome and Inuyasha exchanged glances, and chuckled of being caught in such in act.
"Come in Sango." Kagome said detaching herself from Inuyasha. Sango slowly opened the door, her face still slightly pink as she looked at both adults. Her hands nervously handed the paper work to Kagome as she looked at Inuyasha, who had a small blush on his face. Neither of them talked, Inuyasha feeling nervous and Sango feeling very embarrassed. Kagome smiled at both of them, but that smiled quickly faded into a serious one. She brought her hand to her heart, the pain was still unbearable.
'Why does my chest still ached. It's unbearable. Like if something is being turned away from me. What is it? What is this anxiety'
Kagome's face constricted in silent pain, as tears started to surface. Inuyasha looked at her alarmed and an instant was by her side.
"Kagome are you alright? He asked, her face becoming increasingly pale and tears still surfacing. He looked at Sango, who was as well worried and told her to go get water; but before Sango was out of the door, Kagome's voice stopped her.
" Sango please go check on all the children, see if any are missing, quickly." She pressed on, her chest still hurting. Sango nodded and quickly existed the door.
" We have to take you to the hospital come on Kagome." Inuyasha said grabbing her hand to pull her up. Kagome shook her head, no.
" I need to make sure all the children are alright, that's my biggest priority." She said standing up, the pain slightly decreased. Sango came in a few minutes later, been done counting all the children.
"I counted all of them, the ones inside and the ones out side, and there seems to be one missing…" Sango alleged as she looked at the list of children in the daycare.
Kagome hitched a breath, and became anxious to know who was missing.
"Who is it Sango, quickly tell me" Kagome said in all urgency. The sinking feeling coming back as well as the pain, making her heart burst from the anxiety build up.
Sango looked at both nervously as she looked at Kagome's worried face and at Inuyasha's curious and slightly confuse face.
"The person that is missing is …" Sango looked at Inuyasha as she said the name of the missing person.
"Takahashi, Kari"
Inuyasha's face stiffened, his whole complexion turning pale white. He couldn't move, there
was no way he could.
"Kar?" He echoed and suddenly out of his trance he went to Sango and desperately
asked where his daughter was.
"Where is she? Where's Kari?" He asked
" We don't know" Sango said unsure of what else to say to the worried man in front of her. Kagome who had called Koga and Ayumi in the phone told them what they had to do, and that is to find Kari Takahashi.
" You don't know"
"Inuyasha try to come down" Kagome said trying to hold the tears that kept spilling, she went towards Inuyasha and placed a hand on his shoulder, which he dismissed. Kagome
feigned an expression of hurt. Inuyasha didn't notice this and asked Sango once again where his little girl was .
" Inuyasha, we are trying our best to find her, so please come down"
That seemed to make him angry, because Inuyasha squeezed her arms tighter and forced her to meet his gaze by giving her slight form a firm shake. Kagome told him to calm down that Kari will be found.
" Where is she." He pressed on, his face angry at the fact that they didn't know where his little girl was .
"Inuyasha..." Kagome managed to say, but was cut off as Koga came in, and exhausted look on his face.
" I ran around the daycare and nothing, I can't find her." He said catching his breath.
Inuyasha bolted out to find his little girl, yelling her name in hope of Kari responding.
"Kari! Kari! Where are you?" He yelled out side, Kagome coming to his side and also yelling the name of the little girl.
" Sango pleases get all the children inside this instant." Kagome demanded, Sango nodded, and called out for all the children to go inside. The children were all dumbfounded and confuse of why playtime had been called off.
"Kari " Inuyasha whispered in despair as he and Kagome kept looking for the little girl. please
Three hours had passed by quickly and all the children had been dismissed by now only living, Sora and two other kids in the inside of the daycare to be picked up by thier parents. Kagome, Sango, Inuyasha and Koga kept looking for the missing little girl, while Ayumi took care of the children inside the daycare.
Inuyasha by this time was exhausted and miserable, despair took him as his worries over took him.
" Where are you." He whispered to himself, sitting on a stool next to a big tree in the courtyard. Kagome came to his side and place her hands over his, giving him her comfort.
" Don't worry Inuyasha,we will find her, I know it." She inhaled and smiled, the smell of the little flowers in the tree, making everything seem so peaceful.
" You know what." She said still staring up to the branches of the tree.
"What" Inuyasha grunted miserably at his misfortune.
" This use to be a shrine a long time ago, but something happen and the temple was burned... people say because it was possesed by demons..."
"Demons? Who would be stupid enough to believe that."
" I would."
Inuyasha looked up at her skeptically as if saying 'your kidding me'.
Kagome smiled and nodded.
" Yes, I believe in demons because when I was smaller, like four or five I fell down a well and I thought I was going to die... But I didn't because a young man in a red outfit saved me from falling down to the cold water inside the well. He had the most stunning amber eyes, and white hair."
" Your kidding me" Inuyasha said, clearly not believing such a bogous story. Kagome made a offended look.
" I am not kidding"
" Fine... continue" He gestured with his hand, Kagome nodded and started telling her story.
" Okay, lets see... oh okay, he had stunning amber eyes and silver white hair and most adorable doggy ears ever." She squilled as she remembered the demon. Kagome closed her eyes trying to invision her hero, and a smile coming to her face as the image appeared.
" He told me if I was okay, and I nodded before fainting. Once I woke up I was by this same tree." She said pointing to the tree behind her. Inuyasha looked at her confuse trying to regester what she had just said.
" Wait, you were place on this very tree. But how, don't tell that you..." He didn't finish as Kagome said.
" Use to live here a very long time ago, We moved when I was ten because the shrine was burned down. Grandpa kept yelling that it was due to demons, and I believed him."
" So you bought this land and made it into a daycare." He said, Kagome nodded.
" Yes..but when I came back I went to the well in hopes of seeing my hero once again."
Inuyasha looked away and 'kehd', but then a thought came to him, his eyes almost bulging out and turned his direction to Kagome.
" The well." He said
" The well?" Kagome responded, then it clicked what he was saying, they exchanged glances and both rushed towards the abondend well.
The grass covered the entrance into the old well as both adults tried to find the way around the grass.
" I never thought of looking in here... no one comes this way and the kids know that its forbidden to come this way as well." Kagome trying to find her around the grass, but her toe of her shoe collided with a large pebble and came stumbling down, she closed her eyes awaiting impact with a solid surface, but was rewarded with two strong arms preventing her fall. She looked up and was met by two dark brown eyes, a smiled came to her face as she saw her savior.
" Inuyasha..." She whispered, he pulled her up to her full height and told her to watch her step.
" There are a lot of rocks so becareful... here" He extended a hand, which Kagome gladly accepted. Hand in hand both made their way to the old well. They reached the front doors of the rusty shrine. Kagome looked down and saw that the lock that kept the doors close was missing.
" That's odd, the lock is missing." She pointed to the doors.
" Probably someone broke it or something." He said, his hands reaching to open the front doors of the well. He opened them and peeked inside.
"It's so damn dark; I can't see anything inside, Kagome." Inuyasha gestured, squinting his eyes.
"Be carefull Inuyasha" Kagome said following close behind him. Inuyasha entered first and looked everywhere, but nothing, only darkness. He found the rim of the welland looked down, squintting his eyes. He saw something small, a siloutte in the darkness. A little bit of rays of light hitting the bottom of the well.
" Kagome do you have a flash light" He asked, Kagome looked in her pockets and took out her keys that had a small flash light key chain attached and handed it to him.
" This is all I have, it's small but it can light very good."
She handed him the key chain. He turned on the little light and flashed it down the well. He gasped as he stared down the well. Kagome asked him what was wrong.
" Kari." He said as he stared down at the little unconcious girl at the bottom of the the well.
"Kari !" He yelled, but no response.
" Kagome get me a rope or something fast!" He yelled, Kagome told him that there was a rope at his left side.
" Grandpa always kept a rope on his left side of the well, see if its there." Inuyasha looked and tried to find it but no luck. He search blindly and found something rough and long.
" I think I found it!" He yelled as he pulled at it and in fact it was the rope.
He tied it around his waist and gestured Kagome to tie it somewhere, she did as she was told and carefully, Inuyasha descended down the well.
" Kari."
He landed at the bottom of the well, and shivered on how cold the water was. He pointed the little flash light at the little girl, and gasped.
" How is Kari!" Kagome yelled from the top of the well, not being able to see Inuyasha in the darkness.
" She is blue and ..." He touched the little girls' skin, it was cold. Worried he reached for her and laid her on his lap. He grabbed a hold of her hand and searched for a pulse.
" Come on pup." He said worried as he couldn't find a pulse, but then he felt something, and it was the little girls pulse, which ment that she was still alive.
" She's alive still." he sigh a sign of relief of her still being alive.
He looked at her, covered in a red yukata, which was wet as well but warm enough for the little girl.
" I wonder whose yukata this is?" he said as he took his jacket and pulled it around the little girl's form; told Kagome to call Koga or anyone else to help pull him up.
" Hurry Kagome and get someone to pull me out!" Kagome hurried outside and through the jungle of grass to find Koga and Ayumi and Sango.
" Pup, wake up come on." Inuyasha whispered to the unconscience little girl in his arms.
" Come on pup, don't do this to me." He pressed on, pinching the little girls cheeks to try to get some kind of reaction out of her.
"Mmn" was came from Kari, which made Inuyasha sigh in relief.
"Don't worry pup, everything is going to be alright." He said kissing the forehead of the little girl.
"Papa where are you?" Kari yelled as she sat in the cold water of the well. She shivered as the coldness reached her soaked socks and skirt.
" Papa!" She yelled again, she moved only to cry out in sudden pain. Her right arm dislocated. She tried to move again but was stopped by a voice.
" You shouldn't move, your leg is broken and your arm is too." Said the voice in the darkness. Kari looked up and was met by two startling amber eyes.
"Papa" she said again. The siloutte of the figure came to view. It was a man, dressed in a red outfit, white silver hair. Kari gasped at what was on top of his head.
"Doggy ears" she said as the figure inched his way to her, his face coming to view.
" Pup, what are you doing down here?" he questioned taking of his outer kimono top and wrapping it around her.
Kari began to weep and told him that she fell down the well.
" Why" He asked
" I wanted the genie to grant me my wish."
"Genie" he said in a confuse manner.
Kari shook her head and told him that her best friend Sora said that there was a genie in the well and that it can grant wishes.
"Keh" he grunted
"There is no such thing as a genie, pup. Your friend lied to you." He said smelling her, like a dog would.
" You are injured." He tried to pick her up put the beads around his neck glowed immensely and pulled him down.
"Damn" he grunted.
"What's the matter doggy." Kari said looking pale at the man.
" I can't take you out of here." He said, trying once again to carry her, but once again the beads pulled him down.
" I want to go to 'gome and papa" Kari said, tears streaming down her eyes as the pain in her leg and arm increased.
"Don't worry pup everything is going to be fine." Kari somehow believed him and stopped crying.
"Thank you, Mr. Doggy" She yawn as her eyes closed.
The figure smiled and again tried to carry her, but no such luck.
"Damn" he cursed as a light engulfed him almost immediately, desperately he tried again to carry the girl out of the well, but still no hope of his limbs moving past the point.
" I'm sorry pup." He said kissing the top of the sleeping girl's head.
" I'm sorry, hope someday you will forgive me." He said before his body materialized into the floor of the well, leaving the little girl still there.
"Inuyasha everything is going to be okay" Kagome reasured him.
Inuyasha nodded, but the idea of anything happening to his little girl happened, it would kill him inside.
" I know... Kari..." He said head bowed down,trying to calm his nerves.
" Inuyasha!" someone yelled, both Inuyasha and Kagome look up to see the person yelling.
"Kikyo." Both say at the same time.
" How is my daughter? Is she okay." She asked desperately more to Inuyasha then to Kagome.
" They haven't told us anything yet." Kagome said looking at her cousin.
Kikyo looked at her with an immense hate.
" It's your fault that my daughter is like that... its all your fault!" She yelled at Kagome
" You call yourself responsible" She added " If this is the responsibility that you show...
" That is enough" Inuyasha said breaking Kikyo's sentenced. Kikyo looked at him and starting whimpering closer to him. Inuyasha became stiff, and looked at Kagome for reasurance. Kagome looked away. He pulled her away from him and told her that his daughter is strong, she will make it.
" Your right." Kikyo said cleaning off her tears. She turned towards Kagome and apologized for what she had said.
" No, your right Kikyo. I'm responsible for the safety of all the children in the day care. Please for give me." She said, head bowed down in shame. To this Kikyo privately grinned. She looked at the clock it read five till eight.
" I have to go somewhere, so I'm taking my leave." She said to Inuyasha who was slightly confuse
" Your leaving now?" he said clearly no understanding his wife's sudden need to leave.
" Yes, I have to see my phychatrist."
" So your shrink is more important than your daughter." He mocked sarcastically, suddenly very angry.
" No, of course not , but I have to go." She said starting to leave.
" I will be back tomorrow morning." Kikyo said going up to Inuyasha and giving him a quick kiss on the lips. Caught of guard, Inuyasha just blinks stupidly.
" I will be back tomorrow." She said leaving the way she had arrived. Inuyasha snaps out of his trance and looks at Kagome.
" About that kiss, I..." He started
" There is nothing to explain, after all Kikyo is your wife." Inuyasha cringed a little at those words.
" She may still be my wife under the law, but my heart belongs to someone else." Kagome looked up only to meet warm brown eyes.
" I..." she starts, her heart beating rapidly of what he had just said.
" Excuse me are you the parents of Takahashi, Kari?" said the man in the white coat. Kagome and Inuyasha look
at him. The man raises his hand and Inuyasha shakes it.
" I'm Kari's doctor, call me Dr.Wasabi" Inuyasha would of laugh at the name, if were the situation different.
" Hello, how is my little girl? Is she alright? Inuyasha asked worriedly.
The doctor nodded and told them that it was good that they had brought the little girl as soon as possible, because a little later
and such would of not made it.
" She is alright... let me see." He said looking at the clipboard with papers.
" She broke her foot, and dislocated her arm, and a few scratches he finished.
" And you call that alright." Inuyasha responded angry.
" Inuyasha" She said, at the rude response from her him.
"Keh" he grunted. The doctor dismiss the rudeness of the man, knowing it was
" Can we see her now?" Kagome said impatiently. The doctor nodded and asked again if they were the parents of the little girl.
" He is her father" Kagome said pointing to Inuyasha
" And I'm her..." She was suddenly caught off by Inuyasha.
" And she is the mother." He grabbed a hold of her hand and gave it a small squeeze. Kagome looked at their joint hands and smiled at him.
" So can we see our daughter now? Inuyasha said, getting angry at the doctor.
" Of course you may... please follow me this way." He indicated to the number of doors of the hospital.
"Room 242" Kagome read as the doctor twist the knob of the door. Both adults looked at the little girl laying in a bed to large for her.
Kagome began to whimper silently as she went closer to the slumbering girl. Inuyasha sadly smiled as he layed next to the sleeping girl.
" Pup your okay." He whispered, fonding the little girl's hair.
"Mnnn" moaned the little girl as her eyes began to open. She hazily looked around, everythin blurry at first until her vision became normal again.
"Papa" she said in a husky voice, her gaze went up to Kagome's and a smile came up to her face.
"'gome" Kari said, she carefully tried to get up, but suddenly the pain in her right arm shot out.
"Owww" she whimpered
" Pup be carefull" Inuyasha whispered, carefully helping the little injure girl up to a sitting position.
" Papa" She said, enjoying the sound of the name of her father once again.
" I'm here pup." Inuyasha whispered as he patted the little girl's head
"Kari" Kagome said, unsure of what else to say to the little girl.
"'gome."
" Pup what where you doing in that well?" Inuaysha asked, clearly waiting for an answer. Kari looks down on her lap as if a shame.
" I wanted..."
" That was dangerous Kari, you could of been seriously injure even , possibly." He didn't want to even think about it.
" I'm sorry papa... I just wanted to make the genie of the well grant my wish." She said silently.
"Genie?" Inuyasha questioned.
" Kari there is no genie in that old well." Kagome said .
" But Sora said..." She begans as she continues telling them of how she fell into the well.
" So Sora was behind this... I will have a talk with her and her parents about this." Kagome said.
" Pup why in the first place did you want to see this genie so bad, even risking your life." Inuyasha asked
" I wanted the genie to grant me a wish papa." She said as she stared at her father and then at Kagome.
" I wanted the genie to make 'gome my new mommy..."
" Kari, you did that stupid stunt just to get that selfish wish." Kari looked down again in shame, tears starting to form.
" I'm sorry papa."
"Kari I can't be your mother, you know that." Kagome said as she looked at the little girl.
" I know."
" But" Kagome said, getting the little girl's attention
"But" Kari echoed
" But I can be your best friend and your father's. Kari smiled and nodded. Her father smiled at her too.
" Okay"
" Papa, when I'm all better can 'gome, papa and Kari go to Disney Tokyo. Please" She asked
Inuyasha looked dismal at first but then smiled, a true genuine smile.
" Alright, We will go. You" he pinched her nose. " Kagome" He looked up at Kagome's face
" And me"
"Okay"
"Okay papa" She said before stiffing a yawn. Inuyasha notice this and carefully pushed her back down to the pillow.
A/N woaw a long chapter , it took me forever but managed to write it. i will update as soon as possible for this story and Kagome's reflection. So see you soon