Chapter 12
The next morning Ai woke up from her sleep in the guest bedroom. She would always make sure Kagome has a spare room for her to spend the night if something this were to happen. She quietly walks into the kitchen to make some coffee. As she decides to wait, she goes and checks up on Kagome. She slowly opens the door to see Kagome out cold. She can see the trash can full of discarded tissues. The nightstand has an empty bottle of cold medicine. She comes to her daughter's bed and places her hand onto her forehead. "Mom…" Kagome spoke weakly. "Hey sweetie, I just wanted to make sure you're going to be okay. You're still warm. Is there anything you need?" Ai asks nicely.
Kagome looks up to see that her glass of water is almost empty. "Just more water." She requested. Ai smiles as she takes the glass. "I'll be right back." She leaves the room. Kagome looks at her phone to see that it's Sunday and it's only 7:00 am. Not her time to wake up at this hour. Ai returns to the room with water and few ice cubes to keep it cold for her. "Anything else?" Ai asks her daughter. Kagome shakes her head after taking a gulp of the drink. "No. I'm good." She turns to her other side and goes back to sleep. Ai takes the trashcan and leaves the room.
Ai returns to the kitchen to get her mug of coffee. As soon as she sat down on the sofa to take her time her phone rings. She sees that it's her husband. She presses the answer. "Hello, dear." She greets him on her end. "Hello, Ai. How's Kagome doing?" Hige asks her immediately. "She's not out of the woods yet. She still has a fever." Ai replies back to him. "I see. Has there been anything else going on beside our daughter' illness?" He asks her curiously.
Ai had to be careful about answering that question. There's no way she'd tell him about the guy that came over yesterday to check up on Kagome. No way she's going to tell him. "Not much has happened other than Sango helping me out." Ai tells him over the cell phone. "Ok. I just want to make sure that Kagome is still safe from Koga." Hige tells her serious on that part. After learning the truth about what Koga did to Kagome was too much for her. Not to mention that one question that Inuyasha asked Kagome triggered her a painful memory of what she went through.
"According to Sango, Koga got here before Kagome got back from school." Ai said to him at risk. "Kagome's ex husband? How was it he managed to get here?" Hige asks as calmly as possible. AI sighs. "Sango went behind Kagome's back to tell me about the incident. However a guy arrived after Kagome and confronted him." Ai begins the story. Hige begins to fill up with mixed feelings about the topic. First is anger because of what Kagome told him about what happened. Next is protectiveness. True he's not around to make sure Kagome was unharmed but then comes in a new guy who confronted Koga. That got him curious. "But why would that guy confront Koga?" Hige asks his wife. Ai places the mug down onto the coffee table. "From what Sango told me was that Kagome resembled a person that the guy once knew." Ai answers to him.
"Ok, Ai. I just want to make sure that Kagome isn't getting into any kind of trouble. We don't know about this new guy who confronted Koga." Hige speaks to her sternly in a calm way. "He did so, and then Sango arrived to finished the task and warns Koga to stay away from Kagome because he's on a restraining order. So far he violated it within the first twenty-four hours of the court's case." Ai gives the information about the charge. That surprised him.
"A restraining order? Kagome didn't mention any of that to us when she came home." Hige spoke in disbelief. "I believe that Kagome wasn't ready to tell us because she's still recovering from the ordeal she went through. I know for sure Sango would tell me because Kagome is too embarrassed to tell us anything." Ai tells him over the phone. "So then where's Sango?" Hige asks her.
Ai didn't see this coming. "I believe she's at work. Kagome is dead asleep. Maybe you should come over. I bet she'd be glad that you came." She suggests to him. "Ok, I'll swing by noon. Let's just hope Kagome is well enough to talk. I really want to get to the bottom of this without scaring her." He agrees. "Okay, dear. I'll let you in when you arrive." Ai smiles as she then hangs up the phone. But then something else crossed her mind. 'What will Kagome do when she finds out that I wanted Hige to come over? Oh, I just hope it goes smoothly." She sits back on the couch.
By noon, Ai is still reading her book that she brought with her when she arrived to take care of Kagome. Her phone dings. She picks it up from the end table and sees that Hige is at the parking lot. She gets up and then unlocks the door to go out and let Hige in through the lobby of the apartment. She can see the Hige brought some things with him. "I see you have a few things." Ai comments to him as they come back in. Hige grins, "Nothing is better than using dad's homemade medicine." She raised her own thin eyebrow. "And you think that the medicine I've been using is not meant for our daughter?" She playfully asks him.
Hige places the bag onto the counter. "I didn't say that. I just think that mine could do the trick." He speaks back as he sorts out the ingredients that was inside the bag. Knowing her husband, Ai is aware of Hige's crazy ideas that he got from his dad whenever he was sick. And according to him, the Higurashi medicine is not to be messed with. "Alright let's get going." Hige cracks his knuckles as he remembers every single detail on how to make the medicine. 'Let's just hope he doesn't kill her.' Ai wonders in concern.