A/N: Here's a nice long chapter to make up for the evil cliffhangers. All I have to say is please read threw the end. You may get mad at me after while but you'll see…

Ch. 24: Too Late to Apologize

Kagome waited in the late hours for Sesshomaru to return. She just wanted to forget everything that happened before and tell him that she was sorry for not believing him. She should have known that Kagura was up to no good. I mean it's Kagura, there's no need for an explanation. She hoped for him to return soon so that she could hold him and be in his arms. A nice embrace would do wonders for the both of them from how bad Sesshomaru seems to be doing, she finally saw his room knowing how he usually liked to keep it neat and clean. She smiled a bit thinking about how much control she has over him but she could laugh about it later after the two of them gotten things strait.

She waited, and waited, and…waited some more. Just as she was drifting off to sleep on the couch, she heard the doorknob wiggle and turn. She sat up strait with a small smile on her lips only to see the other silver haired, golden eyed roommate.

"Oh, it's just you kitty ears." She said as her smile faded. "Have you seen Sess?"

Inuyasha perked up and looked at her as if she grew another head. "You…are looking for Sesshomaru? I thought you weren't talking to him."

Kagome sighed. "Well I will be now. I finally understand, happened it's not his fault. Kagura used some kind of demon dog whistle on him. It took complete control over him."

Inuyasha's eyes widened as he saw her take the whistle from her pocket and showed it to him.

"Damn, so such a thing does exist? He told me and Miroku about it but we didn't believe him." He handed the whistle back to her while saying, "Well I'm glad that you're finally going to talk to him. He's turned me into his own personal punching bag because you two broke up."

"Well, after tonight, you won't have to worry about that. I'll talk to him, we'll make up, and get back together." She said with a warm smile.

Inuyasha smiled back to her. He could finally get some rest from his emotional mess of a half-brother. He rather take the cocky, arrogant, stubborn, bike stealing brother to whatever he's been reduced to. He then left her alone to go to his room to sleep.

She waited and waited…and waited and…waited.

It was morning and she slowly sat up on the couch, she didn't even know that she fell asleep. She looked around and then stood up and walked over to Sesshomaru's room but she saw Ayame coming out of her room. Ayame looked startled and was about to go back in her room seeing Kagome but stopped when she heard,

"Ayame, is Sesshomaru here?"

Ayame hesitated, not wanting to answer. "He's uh…he…didn't come in last night." Ayame said softly she didn't know how her friend was going to cope with the news that they heard. "We got a call this morning."

"And, what did he say?"

"It wasn't him, it was my dad." Kagome stiffened hearing what Inuyasha said. She was afraid of what they might say next having a feeling that something bad has happened. "He's in the hospital, he was in a car accident."

Kagome felt dizzy hearing the words 'hospital' and 'car accident.' She felt her knees get weak and then everything went dark.

She sat up quickly on the couch, panting and shaking slightly while looking around before whispering, "Sesshomaru?"

"Kagome, are you alright." Ayame said running to her side.

"Yea, I just had the weirdest dream." Inuyasha came up to the couch where she lay as well. "I dreamt that you two told me that Sess was in the hospital for being in a car accident.

She laughed as she relaxed slightly. Both demons looked at each other before laughing a little two. "Heh heh, a dream." Inuyasha said while still chuckling.

Kagome looked at the two, they looked as if they were forcing the laughter to come out but it was no matter because it was just a dream.

"Ayame, where's Sesshomaru?" She asked rubbing her eyes.

Ayame backed up a little feeling unsure. Inuyasha ran his fingers threw his hair, which was something that Sesshomaru did whenever he was nervous or frustrated. The laughing stopped and the smiles faded away.

"Where is he?" Kagome asked again, feeling a bit panicked. She looked from one to another as they had serious looks on their faces.

Ayame looked at her with concerned eyes and said, "Kagome, it was no dream, he really was in a car accident."

'Sesshomaru? Car accident?' It echoed threw her mind.

Kagome went pale and her stomach churned making her feel sick. She didn't want to see another man that was important in her life die in a car accident. Both Ayame and Inuyasha felt bad for telling her like that but they both agreed that she needed to hear it, otherwise she would be pissed at them from keeping a secret from her.

"Is he alright?"

"Well, when we got the call, Mr. Taisho said it wasn't too pretty. He's over there now." Ayame said not wanting to give her the full details.

She couldn't tell her that he had crossed the railroad tracks just as a train was passing. Oh no, that would be bad. She knew how she felt about car accidents after her father was killed from one.

"I want to see him, take me to him now." She said when she got over some of her shock.

"Come on then, we'll take my car." Ayame said and then the three left the room and headed towards the most pristine hospital in the city. Kagome was feeling even more scared as they got closer to the building. She didn't know what lies ahead of her but all she could hope is that he's okay.

Both Ayame and Inuyasha had to keep their arms around her to keep her stable and to keep her from running all over searching for Sesshomaru. They came up to the information desk and asked for his room.

"He's in ICU." The receptionist said.

Kagome felt like she was about to faint again. "What room?" Ayame said helping Kagome stand.

"Room 7, take the elevator up to the fifth floor and make a right. It's not that far form the elevators, but follow the signs if you have to."

Ayame thanked the woman and they all went to the elevators that were next to the desk. The woman let her forced smile drop. She had seen Sesshomaru when he was bought in earlier. She knew he was a demon but he was in a really bad accident. Seeing the girl that was between the two demon's arms told her to keep her smile plastered on her face or else she was going to have to deal with a lot of tears and hollering.

The ride up on the elevator was the most unnerving ride Kagome has ever taken. She just wanted to hurry up and get out of it. She tried to think that he probably wasn't too bad off, trying to trick her mind that things aren't as bad as it sounds. The moment she saw Toga sitting in the waiting room, blank eyes glued on the intensive care rooms, all hope were gone.

"Dad, we're here." Inuyasha said as he stood next to his father. The man didn't seem to even notice that his other son, friend, and the girl who he thought of as a daughter was around him but when Inuyasha put a hand on his shoulder, he shook off his trance and looked at the three.

"Oh, when did you guys get here?" He said sounding tired. In truth he was. He's been there since the police called him, which was past two in the morning. Toga then looked at Kagome, he had concern and sorrow pass threw his eyes before he hardened them for her sake.

"How is he?" Kagome whispered, afraid to even ask.

Toga closed his eyes and said, "Well, he's alive but he's got a battle to fight. They say when they found him, he had lost a lot of blood. The doctors had been working on him for hours trying to fix any and every internal injury but…well it's up to him now and well, to be honest, they say that he's giving up."

"I want to see him now." Kagome said with tears her eyes.

"They only let in two at a time but I'm sure that they'll let all three of you see him."

Kagome, Inuyasha, and Ayame stood outside of the ICU rooms across from the waiting room. They each took in a deep breath before entering.

Sesshomaru was just floating in darkness it was silent and cold. He didn't care he welcomed the cold.

"Hey, hey you!" Sesshomaru knew that voice anywhere. It was his inner beast. "What the hell are you doing?"

Soon he stood face to face to a mirror image of himself except that the beast had red eyes instead of golden ones.

Sesshomaru didn't say anything to his beast, he had a dead look in his eyes.

"So that's it, you're just going to give up?"

Sesshomaru sighed and said while turning away from the beast "So what if I am?"

The beast growled and reached out to turn him back around. "You do know you will die, we will die if you give up."

"I know."

Sesshomaru was slapped at the back of his head by his beast.

"The Sesshomaru I know, doesn't give up. The Sesshomaru I know doesn't let something that is his go without a fight. You let Kagome go and look where it's gotten us, I will not allow you to give up life. I don't like the idea of dieing."

"Kagome is not mine, so why should I fight for something that is not mine."

Sesshomaru was backed slapped again

"If you let us die, think about who you'll be hurting. Father won't be the same again, he did say that our happiness comes first. I'm sure that the hanyou would grieve as well. We may not get along with him very well but we are still brothers by blood. Not to mention our female."

"Kagome will be grateful that I'm gone, I won't be there to hurt her anymore."

He was once again slapped upside his head.

"Will you stop that!" Sesshomaru growled while rubbing the back of his head.

The beast growled back, "Not until I knock some sense into you. You know as well as I do that it wasn't our fault, that crazy wench tricked us with that stupid whistle. You will hurt her more if you give up."

They then heard sobs, the beast smiles.

"You should know damn well to listen to me by now but if you won't listen to me then listen to that, it's her, I know it is. She's crying for us, for you. She want's us let's go to her. You could make her listen to us, get her to take us back and forgive. She is ours, she will have to take us back, no other male will have what's ours, it is not acceptable damn it!"

He then slapped the back of Sesshomaru's head again for good measure.

Sesshomaru just sighed as he rubbed the spot once more, should he really try, he felt as if he lost too much already if not everything.

When Kagome came inside of his room, she started crying automatically. This was exactly like how her father looked like after his accident only worse. There were machines all over, some beeping, while tubes lined his body along with bandages, stitches, and visible cuts and scrapes.

She went over to his side and resisted the urge to touch him afraid that if she did that he would break. He looked that fragile, so unlike how he really is. She let the tears fall as she leaned on Inuyasha and he put his arm around her while Ayame drew tiny circles on her back to sooth her.

After a while, they left her alone with him knowing that she would want some privacy. She was sitting in a chair next to his bed and reached out but hesitated then continued to trace a stripe on his paler than usual face. She then let her fingers go up to rub his ear. He didn't flinch one bit where he would have usually grab her hand before she even got a chance to touch it.

She felt the tears come once again. She should have never doubted him in the first place. He said he loved her, that's all the proof she needed but she couldn't help the way she acted against him. Any respectable woman who gave her guy more than one chance only to find them still doing wrong would have done what she did, so she was right to break-up. He was different though, she didn't feel anything to the guys she broke up with after they hurt her except anger. She felt heartache when she left him and now she knew why, he didn't really hurt her.

She wrapped her small hands around his good hand since the other one was bandaged up and laid her head on the bed as she let her emotions go and cried harder than she had before.

'You told me not to leave you and I'm sorry that I did, but please don't leave me.'

She had no idea how long she was crying but she soon felt exhausted and let sleep take her.

When she woke up, she was in the waiting room but she saw the sad faces around her, she didn't need any words to know what happened. It was a sad day on campus when she returned. Everyone in some form or another heard the news. Many girls mourned for the loss of their Sesshomaru. Even Inuyasha was greatly saddened losing his only brother. Kagome was greatly affected by it, she didn't want to talk to anyone or eat, and she couldn't even sleep. This went on for days. Her thoughts kept plaguing her and she could feel herself go insane.

It was too late to apologize, too late to start over, too late for happiness. She could hear the treacherous thoughts in her mind to teach the one responsible a lesson and that's exactly what she would do.

Me: What the hell is going on here?

Twisted sense of humor: What does it look like I'm doing, I'm making the story interesting.

Me: This is not interesting this is evil. Do you know how many people will be upset with me?

Twisted sense of humor: …Does it look like I care?

Me: That's it, it's my turn to take over.

Twisted sense of humor: Aw, come on it's just getting to the good part. I promise that things won't end too badly.

Me: I don't know, your method of going at this story is kinda risky…

Twisted sense of humor: Whatever, lets just keep going.

She found Kagura sitting at the food court trying to charm some unfortunate guy. She tapped her shoulder then waited for her to turn around, when she did, she let her fist fly and then… she woke up. It was just another dream…well nightmare except for the part of hitting Kagura.

Shaking, she looked around frantically and saw that she was lying down on a couch in the waiting room. Inuyasha lifted her up some time after she fell asleep and bought her there to sleep more comfortably. She looked around but no one was there. She then got up and went to Sesshomaru's room only to find that he wasn't there. Last time she fell asleep, she found out that he was in the hospital, she hoped that this time wasn't something worse.

Afraid that the worst has happened, she ran out and looked around to find Toga, Ayame, or Inuyasha. She saw Toga looking around in the waiting room for her.

"Dad, Sesshomaru, where is he? Don't tell me he…" She trailed off not wanting to say the rest.

Toga breathed out a long frustrating sigh. He put his hands on her shoulders before bringing her into a tight embrace.

"He's fine. The nurses moved him to another room."

Kagome relaxed fully and tears of joy flooded her eyes. She even had to pinch herself to make sure that this wasn't another dream. "Come dear, I'm sure you want to see him."

Kagome looked as if she was going to jump out of her skin. She started walking down the hall only to stop. She turned around with a blush and a smile. "Lead the way please."

Toga smiled at her eagerness thinking about how lucky in more than one way his eldest is and told her to follow him.

"Well this is where he…is." Before he could finish, Kagome was threw the door.

"Sesshomaru?"

Said person was in the bed sitting up with Inuyasha and Ayame at his side.

"Kago…"

"SESSHOMARU!" Kagome said cutting him off as she ran over to him with her arms open.

"Hey Kagome…wait, no don't hug me…AHH!" Sesshomaru said before Kagome practically threw herself on him.

All was quiet on the fifth floor of the hospital that was until there was a loud painful howl that ripped threw the silence.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Sesshomaru." Kagome said as she let him go.

Sesshomaru had his eyes closed tight as he waited for the pain in his ribs to pass. Painkillers can only do so much.

"I-it's okay Kagome." He hissed when some of the pain resided. Kagome blushed and took a step away.

"I'm surprised to see you awake. You looked as if you weren't going to wake up for a while." 'Or ever.' Kagome said before sitting down in the chair next to him.

"I couldn't stay sleep knowing that someone wanted me awake." He said indicating to her, which made her blush even more and turn away from him.

An old elderly man with weird bug eyes came in. "Ah Dr. Totosai Hinokami, great to meet you again." Toga said as he greeted the man with a smile and a handshake.

Totosai was just something of a stand in for Kaede since she's visiting family outside of the country. He's a great doctor but he's a bit senile sometimes.

"Toga, long time, no see." Totosai said returning the smile. "Hello Sesshomaru, never thought I would see you here like this."

"Yea well neither did I." Sesshomaru said laughing a bit.

"Well let me check your blood work here…" The doctor looked at the papers that he bought with him on a clipboard and all seemed well until he paused on one paper. "Uh-oh…this doesn't look good at all."

"What what is it?" Kagome said hoping that it wasn't life threatening.

"Well it appears that he has a sexually transmitted disease."

Everyone's eyes went wide, their jaws dropped strait threw the floor and went threw the floors under them.

"Yea, it seems like you've gotten HIV."

"WHAT!" Sesshomaru yelled out.

Toga came up to Totosai, worry written all over his face. "This can't be true can it?"

"Oh but it is…oh wait a minute, this isn't his papers. I'm so sorry for the mix up, I have a lot of patients to look after today." He said as he looked at another paper. Why would he keep all of his patients on one clipboard, no one will ever know.

Everyone sighed with relief then Toga said, "If you weren't such a great friend of mine then I would have you fired and forced you to leave the country and never work in this field again."

Totosai laughed nervously as he continued looking, he paused looking at a particular paper, looking it over and then said, "Ah, here's your paper." Everyone held their breath waiting to hear if he was okay.

"Well…you're okay. You can actually go home tomorrow. You had quite a few broken bones but with your demon blood, you should heal fully within two weeks but you should shouldn't go to class for the next three days or so. Also you might want to set up some appointments with the chiropractor."

Everyone relaxed and Sesshomaru laid back content that everything was alright.

"Well fluff, looks like you got a lucky break." Inuyasha said as he looked at Sesshomaru.

"After all of this crazy shit that happened it's beyond luck, it's a miracle, Kagura didn't give me anything." Sesshomaru said with a smile. "Also that's the last time I'm getting drunk again."

Kagome cleared her throat getting everyone's attention and said, "Well, now that it seems like you're alright…"

She trailed off and looked at Sesshomaru with a warm smile full of love…then in one second flat, the smile turned into a scowl and she slapped him then said, "That was very foolish of you. I don't care if you are a demon, you can still die. I swear some of the things that you do Sesshomaru, if it doesn't drive me insane, it worries me to death." With that, she stood up and left out the room.

Sesshomaru still felt the sting to the slap, not enough painkillers in the world would have numbed that blow. Ayame was about to go out there with her but Sesshomaru put a hand on her shoulder and made her stay. This was between him and her.

Kagome was looking out the window in the hall in front of the room, don't get her wrong, she's overjoyed that he's alive and well it's just that she was angry about everything else.

She sighed before feeling two arms did their best to come around her waist and pull her slowly into a hard body. She was startled to see Sesshomaru out of bed with crutches along his sides.

"Sesshomaru, get back into bed, you're not well."

"The doc said that I am, besides, it's boring in there."

Kagome sighed knowing that they could argue about this all day and get nowhere. He stood with her as he nuzzled his face in her hair, purring in content at being close and holding her.

"I'm sorry Kagome." He mumbled in her hair.

"No, it's not your fault. I found out about the whistle, Yura and Sara told me everything."

"How can you believe them but not me?"

She pulled out the whistle that she bought with her and showed it to him. "It was because they had proof. It's not your fault though. I'm sorry for not believing in you."

He took it and gave it a cold glare before snapping the thing in half like a twig. "You don't have to apologize, it really is my fault. I shouldn't have fallen for something like that so easily. I don't really deserve you."

"No but I must apologize I mean this wouldn't have happened to you if I did believe you."

"You were just doing what anyone would have done. It's not your fault, it's mine."

"No mine."

"No mine."

"No mine."

"No…"

They paused for a little while before they both started laughing at the little argument that they were just caught in. It was just like before with the exception of being in a hospital.

"You couldn't last one day without me, it's a shame." Kagome said still looking out of the window after the laughter died down.

He looked down at her with a frown and said arrogantly, "Hey, you should be grateful that I want you, there are just so many girls out there who wants me and you're the lucky one. You should feel honored."

Kagome rolled her eyes and said sarcastically while poking him in his chest, "Oh yea, I feel real honored." He winced feeling a slight pain where she poked him. "Get back in bed."

He slapped her hand away playfully before she could poke him again and said, "But it's cold, maybe you can warm it up for me."

She was able to move around his hand and poked him again. "No you perv plus we're not together anymore."

He looked at her in shock and said, "What, aw come on. It wasn't my fault."

"You didn't say that like three minutes ago."

Sesshomaru watched as she left his arms. She walked a short distance before she turned with a sly smile.

"But…if you want me, you have a lot of making up to do. I know it wasn't your fault but you still slept with the whore."

He smiled as he put his head down and shook it before saying said, "You really are more trouble than you're worth but tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it."

Her smile turned wicked and she walked up to him and said in an innocent tone, "You'll do…anything?"

He looked down at her and leaned further just to be centimeters away and said huskily, "Yes, anything."

"I want you…" She leaned in further and he closed his eyes prepared for a kiss but she quickly pulled away and said, "to get back in bed."

He reached out to try to pull her back in but she backed away before he could reach her, which wasn't far since his weight was supported by the crutches, causing him to have limited movement. He cursed almost losing his balance trying to get her. She giggled at him before going back in the room with him slowly following behind her.

In no time, he had healed fully and was sitting alone at the student union. Kagura was lurking around as usual. She was feeling a bit nervous about going up to him because she didn't have the whistle. It 'mysteriously' disappeared the day after being with Sesshomaru. She asked Sara and Yura have they seen it because she knew that they knew what it looked like, she showed it to them anyway. They both said no. She wouldn't go to Naraku knowing how angry that he would be if he found out that the main part of their plan was 'missing.' She was frustrated but she wouldn't give up on him yet after all, Kagome and Sesshomaru aren't together anymore, he was all hers for the taking.

She struts up to him with an innocent smile. "Hi Sesshy."

He tilted his head in her direction but other than that did nothing.

"Oh come on don't ignore me Sesshy." She said as she got closer to him.

He was still silent, he didn't move. All he did was just sit and look bored as if she wasn't there.

"Sesshy, why won't you look at me, after what we just shared, I know you can't possibly forget." Kagura said with a pout.

Finally, Sesshomaru smiled. Kagura relaxed seeing him smile.

"Oh yes, how can I not forget about that night? I still feel like sharpening my claws with you but be lucky that I won't have to do that." He said still not looking at her.

Kagura smiled even bigger. "Why is that, is it because you've finally decided to forget that girl?"

"No it's because your ass is mine."

Kagome stood right behind her with an expressionless face with her arms crossed.

Kagura rolled her eyes and turned to her. "Oh so you've come back to see what else I have in store for Sesshy freshman bitch?"

Kagome ran a hand threw her hair. "You know what, you keep calling me that. You know what, I think that I should be one for once."

Kagura rolled her eyes again about to ignore her but failed to do so due to the fact that Kagome punched her giving her a nice black eye. Angry, Kagura was about to use her demon strength to get rid of her once and for all and just as she was about to hit her, Sesshomaru stepped in and stop her hand just inches away from Kagome's face. He then threw her to the ground and stepped over to Kagome putting his arms around her waist and nuzzling the side of her face.

Once Kagura looked up from her spot on the ground, Kagome said, "Stay away from what's mine bitch don't you dare use that stupid whistle shit again, it will be his turn to beat your ass next time and he won't go easy. Also tell your brother to stop stalking me."

Kagura looked up at him with a puppy dog pout. "Sesshy?"

"It's Sesshomaru, say it right or don't say it at all…you know what, just don't say it at all." She said before letting him give her a long and slow affectionate kiss.

"Let's go roomie, we have a date to go on." He said taking her hand and walking away.

Kagura watched as they left then whispering and giggling came into her ears. She finally looked up to see students watching her. She growled at the small group of spectators that formed around causing them to disperse. She then touched the side of her face where Kagome hit her and winced at the tingle of pain she felt. It hurt. It really did hurt. No human that she knew of had that strength, there was just something extra in her hit. A thought also hit her, how did she know about the whistle. Sesshomaru couldn't have told her, I mean he did see it but he couldn't have known what it was. She growled again feeling the pain again then spotted her sister and Yura walking along.

"Perfect timing, with those two on my side, I should be able to get back at that bitch." She said to herself as she put on her best pathetic face to get them to fall into her plan.

She went over crying to them while showing her eye. "Sara, Yura, look at what that freshman bitch did to me."

The two girls looked at her then continued walking. Kagura ran after them and said, "Hey, aren't you going to say anything, I have a freakin black eye."

Yura then looked serious and said, "Oh that's nice, it looks great on you."

"What, Sara, help your sister out, come with me to teach that freshman a lesson."

Sara then turned her nose away from her and said, "Sorry, no can do. I'm busy."

"Busy doing what! You don't have anything else to do!"

"Unlike you sister we have dates tonight."

"Dates?"

The moment that Kagura said that two guys came walking around the corner, one with long black hair tied together in a low braid and a purple star on his forehead and the other with short spiky hair that sticks up and green stripes all on his face.

"Hey Bakotsu, Suikotsu we're over here!" Yura yelled. The two guys stopped walking and Sara went to Suikotsu while Yura went to Bakotsu, leaving Kagura alone without a second thought.

A/N: See, I'm not all too bad. I know Sesshomaru isn't one to be weak and get hurt especially in a car crash, that's why it's a train instead of cars...hey work with me here please, it's my story let me hurt the all powerful demon if I want...No please don't hunt me down! Well there's only a little bit left for me to do. I've got control from my twisted sense of humor for once but it may try to take over again.

Next update goes up…I don't know.