Blood's Broth

By: CagedRaven

Summary-

(A vampire story)What name he went by this time she didn't know, nor how he looked. The beating of her forgotten heart telling her body her beloved was of age again. Now all she would have to do was find him…

Chapter 21

The house was eerily silent when he entered but so bright it seemed as though all the lights were on. The television wasn't too loud but his sensitive ears could pick up all the words being spoken along with the background music. There was no point in calling out, it was evident his father was in the next room along with his mother. Inutaisho would know it was him. He kicked off his shoes and started up the stairs when the phone began to ring. There was something off about it, like the air in the house had begun to grow heavier. He wondered if he was the only one who felt it.

Izayoi reached for the cordless phone beside her, "Hello?"

His hearing wasn't enough; he needed his eyes to see her face. Why was her breathing becoming labored and her heart beating faster? He walked back to the living room and watched the worry and curiosity fill his father's eyes.

"What; when?" she cried out, covering her mouth as if to hold back sobs.

"I'll be right there." Izayoi hung up and looked at Inutaisho, "A cop found Inuyasha in the middle of the street, passed out and they thought he was on drugs or some kind of hate crime. His at the hospital now, he hasn't woken up yet."

They got to there feet, told him a few things as they through on shoes and jackets and left out the door.

'Oh, it was just him again…' Sesshoumaru thought. He climb up the stairs, passed Rin's closed bedroom door and walked into his own.

'It's this heat again, this fire burning my body. I want to scream out, I want to cruse the seven hells – it hurts so badly, but past knowledge of this feeling tells me my voice will do no help. I bottle it up, the pain, the burning fire, the tears I felt brimming my eyes so I won't cause her more pain … Kagome.'

--

It was like fighting through all the tough forces in the world just to see her son. By the time she set foot on the floor he was on Izayoi was exhausted. Having demons, half or whole, in a hospital is a one out of ten chance simply because they tend to heal fast or very rarely become sick. Because of that fact doctors have little to no knowledge on how a sick demon would react to others, with these simple facts Izayoi thought it would be easy to find Inuyasha. No, it was not. Everyone knew he was in the building but his location seemed to be an unknown. Each person they asked pointed them in a different direction until; finally, they ran into his doctor.

He was on the fifth floor, in his own room, cut off from the rest of the human patients. The bright, colorless room and cool and the only noise that could be heard, even by her human ears, was the IV dripping and Inuyasha's breathing.

Izayoi looked at him carefully while taking in the male doctor's words. He didn't look sick, his cheeks still held there color, the half demon only seemed to be trapped within a deep, well deserved dream. But, it was that one thought that had worried. He was too still; Inuyasha would move around in his slumber, even if it was just a flick of his ears.

"… I must first inform you that I am only allowed to tell you his health details because you are his parents and he is unconscious. His age is eighteen, am I right? So if he wake up and doesn't want you to hear the rest during his stay I can not do anything about it."

Both Izayoi and Inutaisho nodded, with that understood the doctor continued.

"He has a high fever and hasn't woken up yet. Were giving him just fluids for now and a little later we'll try and get some blood work on him." The man looked back and forth between Inutaisho and Izayoi before closing the hanyo's chart and placing it back on the bottom bed post. "If you have any questions just like me know. I'll be back in a little while."

Izayoi thanked him and waited for the heavy door to close behind them before looking at her husband. His face was grave, in deep thought of things she would not know if he wouldn't speak them aloud. He would not have to wonder what was going through her mind, she voiced it all.

"What do you think it could be?"

Inutaisho sighed and looked out the window into the dark sky. He didn't know, there was no point in trying to answer.

After a long moment of silence Izayoi walked over to the faded chair beside the hanyo's bed. She moved his clothes to her lap before sitting down into its green fabric. They had dressed him in a white hospital grown, making him match the pale walls and sheets in the room. If he had opened his eyes and provided the room with their golden hue she was sure it would have made a difference. For now all she had to look at were his closed lids and his long lashes brushing his cheeks.

"I guess we'll have to wait for the blood work." Inutaisho nodded.

It was another moment of silence, the only noise coming from his IV machine and his lungs pulling in air and letting it go. Izayoi broke it once more,

"Do you think we should call his… girlfriend?" the word 'mate' didn't seem to want to roll off her tongue too easily tonight.

"No, we should wait till we know what it is." Inutaisho looked at his wife, his own mate. "There's nothing worst than the fear of losing someone you love. Believe me, that will be the first thought in her head."

Izayoi nodded but hoped it wouldn't come to that. Maybe it was just like the common cold for a human, just that it was attacking her half demon baby. But she also knew that he was right. Every time she had gotten sick Inutaisho had acted like it was her final hours and wouldn't leave her side; and when she was having Inuyasha in the hospital he was more worried about her well being than the child's (almost). She nodded again, her brown eyes half covered. "I understand."

A soft knock on the heavy door caught their attention, in entered a tall fox demon with long golden brown hair and smoldering brown eyes. As soon as he spoke Izayoi recognized him as the officer on the phone.

"Hello, my name is officer Higa. I'm the one who found your son." He shook Inutaisho's hand firmly and smiled over to Izayoi. "The doctor doesn't suspect drugs but if he changes his mind I'll be back. Also, the idea of a half-demon hate crime may still be true, though his body has no bruises or broken bones." He summed up all his thoughts.

"I hope everything turns out alright." And just as quickly he was gone.

Izayoi ran a hand over the hanyo's forehead; his skin was so warm it was no wonder the room he's in was chilled. "Oh Inuyasha, what have you gotten yourself into?"

--

'I mustn't think about it, if I can will my mind elsewhere maybe than the fire I feel burning my body wont feel as harsh. Maybe soon the flame licking my bones will be extinguished. Maybe I'll be able to see my dear love again… before my time is up…'

Who was this invading his thoughts? Why were their words mixing with his voice? Was it another past life he heard speaking to him, to her, or to themselves without knowing he could hear? Was is… ? A name; that was what was on the tip of his tongue. But for reasons unknown he could not remember it himself, he needed Kagome.

--

Hours had passed and it was early morning, she would not have known she was sleeping if the door hadn't opened. A female demon doctor came in holding test tubes and needles in hand along with a slip of paper telling her what needed. Before the bat demon started drawing the hanyo's blood she informed both Inutaisho and Izayoi what she was doing and tried to answer questions she wasn't sure the answers to. Once Inutaisho sensed this he stopped, muttering under his breath.

The phlebotomist got a vein quickly and took the right amount of blood the laboratory would need for the tests and left the room in silence.

"I wish you would have woken me up." Izayoi whispered, pulling up the newly acquired through blanket. She suspected Inutaisho had got it for her.

"Time will move no faster even if you were awake."

She closed her eyes, "I guess your right." Thinking for a moment, she peeked at him. He was still standing near the window. "Were standing there all night?"

"No, you just keep catching me here." He grinned.

Izayoi smiled back.

His blood, it has been split. It was so far away but Kagome knew it was his that fill her senses. Normal questions resurfaced in her mind whenever she smelt his blood and it wasn't by her own doing. Was he hurt? Should she follow after it, and maybe in the process give herself away somehow?

Without a moments hesitation Kagome slipped on shoes and grabbed the black cloak Tsukuyomaru had made for her to bloke out the sun's hurtful rays. As she gripped the front door's handle she stopped. Realization dawned on her, Inuyasha was fine. He had last remembered Tokahara next in line was Folhd.

She let a stray tear run down her cheek in remembrance of Folhd's last day, hour.

After that there was only two more past lives he would have to remember, for Kagome the thought was bittersweet.

Shippo stared at his father in awe. "Dad, you said Takahashi?"

"Well, that's what his school identification said. Why, do you know him?" his father asked, drinking down his coffee.

"Um, yeah. His in my class…" Shippo couldn't believe his luck! The very one he suspected was in contact with vampires was now within his reach. All he had to do was play the role of a caring classmate, sooner or later the vampire would resurface.

"Can I go see him later?"

Higa eyed his son over the rim of his cup. He wondered what the kid was premeditating. "No, I think you should leave the family be." His wife nodded, silently voicing her opinion.

"But-"

"Drop it, Shippo." Higa said sternly, Shippo closed his mouth as soon as his father spoke. Inside his mind he cursed his father to hell, the little demon eyed his mother, and he cursed her too. They were just like everyone else but soon they would know the truth.

Izayoi pulled her red comb through her washed hair, trying her best to remove the hospital scent from it. She knew all three demons hated it and poor Inuyasha would want nothing more than to sit in the tub once he woke up.

She and Inutaisho had gone home for a short while to eat, bathe and inform Sesshoumaru and Rin of the news. She would want to return back soon, just in case he did wake up.

Izayoi plugged in the black cored for her drier and slowly pulled it through her hair. She barely contained a sigh of annoyance through the whole ordeal, for if she had her way her hair wouldn't be so long. But because Inutaisho loved it she felt compelled to leave it be and continue to grow.

A half hour later, also her arms in pain, Izayoi's hair was dry and she was rushing out the door. Inutaisho shadowed her, along with Rin and (unwillingly) Sesshoumaru.

They drove back to the hospital as fast as they could with traffic, Izayoi was a little unhappy to find out his condition remained the same. She spoke with the doctor fist before proceeding into his private room. She was more shocked to find a woman already sitting there.

"Kagome," Inutaisho greeted her, there was no uncertainty in his voice.

"Hello again, I'm sorry to have seen you again on such circumstances." Kagome smiled sadly, hiding her eyes behind their lids.

"Have you just arrived?" Rin asked in a whispered voice.

Immediately Kagome picked up the depression leaking off the girl's words, judging from her three family members body language, they weren't as fooled as she believed.

"No," Kagome answered. "I've been here for an hour so far." She unconsciously toyed with the fabric of the cloak sitting in her lap. If it hadn't been for Tsukuyomaru she wouldn't have been able to make it outside her door this morning, and, by the grace of god, it had started to rain. The dark clouds flooded the sky and blocked all the sun's rays from the world, making it look like twilight.

Izayoi sat next to her in another empty chair, "How did you find out that he was in here, honey?"

"A friend told me."

Inutaisho assumed the blood drawer from that morning had told the rest of the clan of bat demons, maybe they were part of the same family?

"I see; has he woken up?"

Kagome shook her head. She was tempted to run her hands over his face again, through his hair even, like she was doing before. But now with his family in the room it could get occurred. From the past she has learned to deal with family members feeling toward her. Their natural reaction was to stay as far as possible and with two of Inuyasha's family members being demons, Kagome was more than sure they felt the sin rolling off herself. It was better, in front of them, that she put some distance between her beloved and her. Though the few feet between felt like miles, she knew the space would close soon enough.

A knock on the door pulled Kagome out of her thoughts, Izayoi's little jump told the vampire it had the same effect on her.

"Hello; oh! New faces. Are you all family?" He asked; pulling open the hanyo's chart Kagome had helped herself to earlier.

"Yes." Inutaisho answered without thought.

"Good, good. I have some good news and bad news regarding his blood work." Once more the doctor paused, his bedside manners kicking in and waiting to see if someone didn't need to now the results. When no one moved he continued.

"First the good, all the test were excellent. His organs are running good and his blood has the right amount of iron in it. Then the bad news, we have no idea what it is he has. Its odd enough that a half demon is here to begin with."

Kagome nodded sarcastically while Izayoi and Rin soaked in the information. Inutaisho still had his arms crossed over his chest and Sesshoumaru looked absently out the window at the rain clouds.

The room was silent for a minute before Kagome spoke, "And you call yourself a doctor."

'And here it comes…' Inutaisho thought. Once a mate's life was put into the hands of the unknown their lover fought till the very end for them.

"You're so lucky, incredibly lucky, that I know what pains him." Kagome pointed at Inuyasha and spoke through clutch teeth, "Because if I didn't, God wouldn't have been enough to save you."

That surprised everyone, how did she know when she only had seen him for an hour? From her pissed-off threat Inutaisho believed she had nothing to do with his present situation.

Kagome stood up and pull the sheets back slightly. There on the hanyo's lower neck were the beginnings of a rush as fine as sandpaper. She opened his mouth and revealed his tongue; it was as pink as a strawberry.

"This along with the increasing fever tells me it's Scarlet Fever."

TBC…

--

Wow, I can't believe it that only took me a couple of hours. I was on a role! Then I had to stop, damn life…

Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed it – even with Inuyasha being in a coma – like stake throughout the whole chapter. I will try and start the next chapter immediately, also.

Once more I must inform you that the chapter is not beta-ed. Please let me know if you see anything I should fix whether its spelling, grammar, or you just don't under a sentence. Also, I may start looking for a new beta soon. If you would like to help me continue my story (I believe, starting with chapter 18) please let me know. O- Mega Lead is a great beta, its just school that got in the way. The main problem here is me. If my writing was better I wouldn't have to worry about a beta.

Thank you for reading and please leave a review to tell me what you thought. I love seeing them in my mailbox, they really make me want to drop everything and please my readers with another chapter.

Thanks again,

CagedRaven