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A/N: Chapter 29. I think chapter 30 is going to be the last chapter to this story. Remember, I love even numbers even though my favorite number is 3... Any who, no tears! Let's all just be happy and proud that A Healed Heart made it this far.

THE SONG FOR THIS CHAPTER IS "OPEN YOUR EYES" by SNOW PATROL!!!


That night Kagome sat up in her room and pulled out the pictures she'd made when she was on the phone with Miroku. Kagome prayed he'd be alright.

"Hm, they're really okay." She said with a small smile. "Maybe I'll show them to the others tomorrow." She wanted to change some things in one of the pictures.

"Knock, knock." Sora was standing at the door. Kagome laughed quietly at her mother who had knocked and said the noise aloud. Who do you know that does that? (A/N: I do it... hehe)

"Hey mom." Kagome sighed and she was suddenly sad.

"Happy to be home?" Sora asked her and she shuddered. Kagome didn't really know if she was happy or whether it just reminded her of awful times. "Oh sweetie, I know." She said as she put her arms around her daughter.

"Mom, he's really dead isn't he?" She asked and Sora went in front of her.

"Yes, he's dead." She said. Then she smiled and tried to cheer her. "Which only means we're safe."

"I wish he never even existed." Kagome placed her drawings over to the side so she could move her hands around to express her hate. "I can't stand him and he's dead!"

"Sh, ya know if he never existed you wouldn't be here." Sora sighed and tapped her daughter's nose gently. "Kagome I never wished for your unhappiness and I never wished for your father to beat you." Kagome went to interrupt her but Sora stopped her with her hand. "I just wished for you." She looked into her daughters eyes and tears clouded her vision.

"Mom, what do you mean?" She asked and Sora shook her head with a small laugh.

"It was very hard for me to get pregnant. I wished and prayed and hoped that you'd come to me and you finally did. You were a miracle Kagome, my very own miracle. And despite what you may think," A tear slid down her scarred face and onto Kagome's mattress. "You're father did love you." Kagome began to cry and Sora went on. "He did. I remember the first time he held you, God was he happy." She laughed quietly. "Do you remember that time we went apple picking? You were only two so I would imagine you don't..."

"No," Kagome whispered as she cried on. "I do."

"He held you up and let the sun's rays touch you're sweet face." She pinched Kagome's cheek. She took in a quivering breath and sighed. "He laughed and twirled you around and you opened your arms and smelled the air. Mmm was that air yummy." She looked at her daughter and wiped her own tears then Kagome's. "So, he did love you he just couldn't show you how much."

"Mom, he beat us!" Kagome screamed. "Brutally, physically, terribly hurt us! How can you let that go?" She asked her. "How could you think that he loved us?"

"The man that died," Sora shook her head. "That was not your father."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kagome asked in an angry tone and Sora's eyes widened.

"Kagome you're father became an alcoholic and I know that's not a good excuse for what he did to us but it's something." She got up and walked to the door. "Kagome you don't have to forgive him but just so you know, I have. It's the only way I'm able to get up in the morning." Then she left, her words ringing in Kagome's ears. Kagome sat there with her angry tears and got up and walked over to her wall. She pressed her hands to a large hole that was in the wall. It was the size of her dead father's fist. She touched the outskirts of the hole gently as smooth tears continued to fall down her face.

"Oh I hate him!" She screamed at the top of his lungs. Then, with a loud scream she began to punch her wall over and over again. "Damn him," She punched harder and harder until her knuckles began to bleed. But the pain didn't matter; she was so mad that nothing mattered. Sango hating her didn't matter, Inuyasha loving her didn't matter, the possibility that Miroku might die didn't matter. "I HATE YOU... I HATED YOU!" She hollered and with each throw of her arm she screamed, not realizing it was out of pain. "I will always hate you... I can't forgive you. I won't!"

"Kagome!" Sango's alarmed voice came to Kagome's ear and she turned around, suddenly exhausted. "Oh Kagome," She cried out. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean what I said earlier."

"Get out." Kagome said in a raspy voice.

"Wha-"

"Get the hell out of here." Kagome pointed a bloody finger at her bedroom door.

"Kagome wait, let me explain." Sango said with fresh tears stinging her eyes.

"I don't want you to explain." Kagome said with that same exhausted, raspy voice. "Just leave." Sango walked further into Kagome's room and sat down on her bed. Kagome didn't really want her to leave and she knew that. "Fine," Kagome began to roughly hit the wall once more but it was painful and it hurt. Things mattered again.

"Come here," Sango opened her arms and Kagome ran toward her and cried into her chest. Sango cried with her, with the biggest regret for what she said earlier. It wasn't Kagome's fault. Nothing that had happened was Kagome's fault. "It's okay Kagome." She cried in a whisper. "It's okay. I'm sorry I blamed you it's not your fault."

"Oh Sango, I'm so messed up!" Kagome looked up at her friend and found confusion in Sango's eyes. "I don't know my left from my right. I'm so lost without you, Inuyasha, Miroku, Kouga, and Lexi." Sango took hold of Kagome's chin and smiled through her own salty tears.

"Oh yes you do, you're one of the brightest people I know." Sango said with a small laugh.

"What would happen if I lost you and everyone else?" Kagome asked quietly.

"You'd have your mom and Souta and you'd be just fine." Sango hugged her fiercely. "But Kagome, that's not gonna happen." Kagome stopped crying and wiped her eyes like a child.

"I know," She smiled at her. "Thank you Sango."

"No Kagome, thank you." They both grabbed onto one another and walked down the stairs and into Kagome's living room. Kagome's mother sat there on her couch with a worried look.

"Kagome, sit down sweetie. You too Sango, you'll want to hear this." She directed and Kagome and Sango both sat down in front of her mother. "I have some news," She said with caution.

"Wait, good or bad?" Sango joked with a small, terrified, smile. She knew what was coming.

"Miroku's taken a turn for the worse they say. I don't think..."

"Don't say it." Sango whispered harshly. Kagome glanced over at her friend. Sora stared directly into Sango's eyes.

"Then I won't. I don't have to." She said and they all turned around and faced the window. It was dark and cloudy out and the sun seemed like it wouldn't come out from hiding until Miroku got better. He would get better. He had to get better.

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Sora drove Kagome and Sango to the hospital a few hours later and it was far into the night before they got any news. They'd moved Miroku from the ICU to... somewhere. No one could really follow the hospital lingo. A few hours earlier Inuyasha, Kouga, and Lexi had shown up as well.

"So when's he gonna get better?" The others heard a furious Inuyasha ask as he interrupted the nurse for the seventh time. "I don't understand what the fuck you just said."

"Sit down." She said with a tude. Kagome put an arm around Inuyasha's neck to calm him and he sighed heavily.

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you

"It'll be okay, Miroku's a fighter and I know he'll pull through." She said in his ear and Inuyasha swallowed the large lump that seemed to grow with the second. He knew he wouldn't be able to talk because if he did he'd surely cry.

My bones ache, my skin feels cold
And I'm getting so tired and so old

"Okay," He breathed out and felt a tear fall onto his shoulder. 'Cry for me Kagome...' He thought and she did.

The anger swells in my guts
And I won't feel these slices and cuts

Sango walked over to them and hugged them both.

"We have to stay strong for him too..." She said through her heavy breathing.

I want so much to open your eyes
Cause I need you to look into mine

"Ya know we have to look presentable when we see him and he sees us." She laughed falsely.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"She loves him so much..." Alexis whispered to herself as her own tears began to spill over and Kouga put an arm around his sister.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"Yeah, she really does. He loves her too of course and when he wakes up he can tell her that himself." Kouga said, tightening his grip on her shoulder.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Kagome looked around her and thought how she never wanted to come to a hospital again unless it was because something happy had happened. Like a baby being born or something.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Inuyasha began to pace back and forth.

Get up, get out, get away from these liars
Cause they don't get your soul or your fire

Miroku was his best friend. What would he do if he died? It seemed so strange to think of life without Miroku. Sango needed her savior to wake up and walk out with her in his arms.

Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time

She imagined him taking her breath away with a single kiss.

Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere

"I love you," She let her words float along the air and hoped they reached him.

I want so much to open your eyes
Cause I need you to look into mine

She hunched over and cradled herself. He would wake up wouldn't he? He would survive right? He was Miroku, he could get through anything.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Suddenly a nurse was in front of them, clearly not prepared to tell them what she had to.

"I'm sorry..."

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"We lost him." She said with a crack in her voice. Sango fell over and began to sob. Kagome wouldn't take it, that wasn't right.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Her father was the only one that was allowed to die, not Miroku. Miroku didn't do anything. She ran to the room and saw the doctors just standing there, bloody gloves on their hands.

"NO!" She yelled at them.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"Get outta here young lady." A man told her but she just stood there and didn't move.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"I'm not leaving until you bring him back to life." One of them smiled sympathetically at her and she slapped them in the face. Sango would've been proud.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"Help him!" She screamed. They all looked around the room, he was already dead there was nothing they could do.

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

"Just amuse me then," She begged and they decided, why not?

Tell me that you'll open your eyes

They worked at a slow pace when suddenly there was a change. A small, small change but at least there was one.

"Oh my God," One of the doctors muttered and suddenly everyone was working to save him once more. Kagome felt her heart soar.

"Come on Miroku," Kagome said quietly. Outside the rain was beginning to let up and the sun was starting to rise. It was 6:45 A.M.

"I'm sorry miss but you're gonna have to leave." One of the nurses began to usher her out but she gave them her best death glare and they let her be.

"Come on Miroku! Sango's waiting for you..." Kagome said quietly. "Damn it." She began to cry when only that same, small change continued on. All of a sudden a pale Sango was beside her and smiling sadly at her Miroku.

"GET OUT!" That same nurse fumed. She had enough of this horsing around stuff. Sango ignored her and continued to stare down at him with love in her eyes and hope in her heart.

"I love you Miroku. Now wake up you asshole!" She said and the sun poked through the clouds and lit rays all across the town making the water glitter like gems against the concrete and buildings. Miroku's eyes fluttered opened.

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you

"Sango," He mouthed as he looked up at the ceiling and Kagome breathed a sigh of relief.


A/N: Unrealistic but you know you all loved it hehe. Please review!!!