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Sesshomaru-present
The procedure is simple. It's the after effects that are dangerous. His blood has become too degraded from transfusions from Taiyomaru and Tsukimaru to use any longer that he now takes donations from his pure-blooded son. The results are the same. The majority of Leukemic cells are overwhelmed by the demonic cells and after a period of intense fever and muscle pain the patient is cured. The donors from the specific family of course want to stay anonymous and an agreement is in place with his colleagues that protects him from them finding the vast components that make the blood so different.
He peruses the checklist as he sits on the white stretcher in the procedure room with one leg cocked. He leans over the computer table, no fever, low blood pressure which is expected because of the effect leukemia has on platelet function, no recent illnesses. It's the name that catches his eye. "Nina Hawthorne?" he questions his colleagues.
There are two other doctors in his office that assist during procedures. One is an attending the other is a resident. Yoshi is an upstart in his mid-twenties and Haruto Yamamoto has worked with him for ten years. "We're treating Americans now?" Most of their patients come from Japan and China and other Asian countries and very rarely does he approve cases farther than that because he needs to monitor them for at least six months afterwards.
Haruto glances up. "She was a charity case. She's from San Francisco. Her leukemia is terminal, she's blind and deaf. Besides publishing a book, her one wish is to be cured. The American Make a Wish foundation sent her here. You approved her case yourself? You don't remember? Her foster parents contacted you."
Things are getting foggy. He shakes his head. As he does, he realizes that it's not just under his own power that his head is shaking, the rest of his body is going into a series of tremors. His legs start first, then his fingers until he can no longer control the mouse and it bounces around the screen.
"Are you alright Rinata-sama?" Yoshi asks him, putting a hand on his shoulder.
He tries to speak but can't. The seizure has traveled to the nerves in his mouth making his teeth chatter. He tests his feet, they still work. He leaves the room and quickly alights back to his office. He makes for his desk, the gaudy big brown thing he bought for extra drawers that lock. His fingers fumble on the key, covered in sweat, struggling to turn the lock. In moments, he knows he will be on the ground seizing at the mercy of whoever finds him.
"I'll get them." Mayumi drops the files in her hands and dashes to his aid. She pulls open the drawer and removes the vial. Even she knows in emergencies how to administer the injections that maintain his health. Worry fills her eyes as she measures the liquid.
He raises two fingers, hoping she understands that it's bad this time and he needs a double dose.
"Rinata-sama?" Yoshi followed him and sees Mayumi with the needle.
The girl is mute as she finishes measuring it, guiltily holding up a needle near her uncle's neck as he leans over his desk unable to speak.
"What is this?" He tries to take the needle from Mayumi but the child backs away and Sesshomaru begs her mentally not to unleash her blades.
Izayoi runs in behind Yoshi. "He's epileptic," something else he trained his older niece to say. She grabs the needle from Mayumi's trembling fingers. "Can you sit down?"
It's spreading to his trunk, his back aches from the strength it takes to stop his muscles from convulsing. He grips the thick edges to steady himself. He shakes his head, if he moves the tremors will overtake him.
"I need a vein," Izayoi pulls the cuffs of his black pants up around the ankles. She curses the state of his veins. In this position, it won't be an easy stick.
He can't speak. His lips are paralyzed. The neck. He thinks desperately. Just go for the neck.
"Can you get a vein in the neck?" Izayoi begs Yoshi, her fingers are too soaked in sweat to do it herself.
Haruto comes in with his own look of concern. He's an older man with scruffy salt and pepper hair. Sesshomaru groans fighting back the tremors.
"Should I call Tsukimaru?" Mayumi asks trying to get around the people surrounding him.
"Not if this works," Izayoi calls her sister off.
"What's wrong Rinata-sama?" Haruto touches his hand.
"He's epileptic," Yoshi supplies.
"This doesn't look like seizure medicine," Haruto takes the needle from Izayoi.
"Just get it in one of his veins before he collapses!" Mayumi yells at them. Sesshomaru is grateful for her zest.
He is a slave to his body, the dastardly thing that wants to give out on him. He coughs up mucous, the first sign that soon he'll be bed-ridden and immobile like his son in law.
Haruto is much more experienced than his niece at finding veins. He pulls back the silver hair by Sesshomaru's ear, the strands slide along the pointed tip. Sesshomaru gags on the building mucous. His stomach roils, he knows this feeling. If it's not stopped he'll be hemorrhaging soon. Haruto pushes the needle into the vein in his neck. Relief comes quickly as the burning liquid enters his blood stream. He breaths easier, visibly catching his breath. He rubs his throat and spits out the rest of the yellow goo that accumulated in his throat choking as he does. He wipes his mouth on a sleeve and goes to the sink washing his hands and mouth.
"How long has he been sick?" Haruto asks the girls.
"A long time," Sesshomaru wipes his mouth and leaves the room. The procedure takes precedence. He doesn't have time for this.
"Are you sure you're up for this?" Haruto asks him as they enter the hallway, "you look paler than usual."
"Can the girl communicate?" Sesshomaru asks avoiding a reality he isn't ready for.
"She uses a computer program, she types and it speaks for her," Yoshi is following behind them like a lost puppy.
"How does she hear what we say? Fifteen is old enough to give consent and refuse," he stops before they exit the door to the waiting area. Izayoi squeezes past them to get to her desk at the front.
"She uses Tadoma," Yoshi explains. "It's really fascinating. I would recommend though that you speak to her. Your English is better than ours. We speak with an accent, she was having a hard time understanding the nurses. Her foster mother had to interpret for her."
"Okay," he says as he finally pushes the door to the waiting room open. He adjusts his stethoscope and takes a deep breath. His body can't handle much more of this. His nervous system is still on fire. He opens the door and nearly loses his lunch as he sees the girl sitting next to an obviously American, white, brown haired, blue eyed foster mother and then a scent that he hasn't smelled in three and a half centuries blasts into his senses. Morning dew…his breath catches, the way it used to when he would land at the entrance of their home and she would be waiting for him. He came laden with gifts for his children, but she was his first stop, and then he would drink in the taste of her lips, his claws ran through her hair and after the debacle with Touma he would take her back to their bedroom after greeting his children and he would make love to her. I would know your soul. Rin…
The teenager has short black hair that is tied into a pony tail. Her eyes are colorless, almost completely white. Scars surround her eyes. Her cheek bones are high, her face almond shaped. He scrubs his eyes, unable to breathe, wondering if hallucinating is a new symptom. Rin…Then by her feet, laying on the floor, he sees a white dog with thick fur. The eyes catch him as odd, he knows exactly who is sitting by her feet. He would know those red eyes and that nose anywhere. He closes the distance not sure who he is happier to see, his long lost lover or his daughter who has been missing for so long. The dog's face perks up. It gulps and licks its' lips radiating fear. He kneels down lifting her face.
"Please don't pet her, she's a service dog," the foster mother asks.
You are in so much trouble little one, he knows the dog understands him. She licks her lips and nods her head as he strokes her head. The dog nuzzles his hand. "Forgive me," he says in English, forcing the cramping in his stomach to stop as he looks at the girl in the seat. She looks every bit of what Rin did at fifteen, except the hair and the scarring around her eyes. "What happened to her eyes?" He's seen it before in rural patients when he was doing his residency.
"We don't know," the woman stands up and offers her hand. "She was like this when she came to us."
His hands are clammy as he shakes hers. He take out his pocket light and flashes it around the eyes, holding her head still. His fingers feel friction, electricity touching her. He licks his lips, pushing back the feeling. "She's of Japanese descent?"
"She doesn't have much of a history. She was found alone when she was they think around five years old in a firehouse in San Francisco. The dog was with her. She went through a few homes. You can imagine the kind of care a child like this takes. She's been with us since she was twelve. But when she was thirteen…" she covers her mouth obviously overcome with emotions. "I'm Hannah, you speak English very well."
He chuckles to himself, laughing at his own joke. That's because I lived there for nearly a century… "I've had a lot of practice. She will need to come back alone." He wants to speak to her without an audience. Does she know him? He flips through the chart. "Two years ago she suffered her first hemorrhage? APL typically is resistant to treatment and you've been unable to locate a bone marrow donor for her? ATRA and Arsenic both failed?"
"Yes," the brown haired woman answers.
You should have brought her to me sooner! He seethes at the dog cowering by the girl's feet. "She can come back now. You'll need to wait out here," he dismisses her casually.
"I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that," Hannah interjects quickly.
"The dog may come." He stares at the white haired pup who looks like she is on the verge of wetting herself.
"Her name is Lucy," Hannah says.
"Well then Lucy," he glares at her, "bring Nina into the procedure room." He touches the blind girl's shoulder. She takes his hand while holding the harness to the dog.
Hannah raises Nina's hands to her mouth and jaw, "they're going to take you back now. Do you want me to come?"
Nina shrugs her shoulders. She picks up her computer bag and follows them, one hand grips Sesshomaru's wrist as they walk together into the procedure room. It has one bed and multiple IV's ready on a tray table. They'll need to keep her hydrated, although he can already tell that the veins in her legs and arms are shot.
He leads her to the bed and helps her sit down. He notices a protrusion at the top of her pink blouse. He pulls her hands to his face the way he saw the mother do it. Tadoma is used in deaf-blind patients to help them communicate. It allows them to feel the movements of the jaws and lips to communicate. Rin, is all he can think when her fingers touch his face, the way she would trace his stripes, the days she would hold his face in her hands, kissing his moon, his nose and then his lips. Are you in there my heart?
The dog begins barking, shaking him out of his thoughts.
Sesshomaru can smell it before it begins. The girl's nose bleeds. The blood spills from her nostrils. He curses immediately compressing the damn organ. "Gauze," he yells at the nurse who stands nearby. "Get the treatment ready," he says to the other two doctor's. He helps the girl sit on the bed. Her hands shake against his wrist, becoming slippery along his skin. He pulls one of her hands to his the mouth, the other to his jaw line. "We're going to place an IV. The treatment will begin soon. Do you understand what I am saying?"
She nods her head and points to the protrusion on her shirt. His thumb and forefinger pull down the thin material over a gaunt shoulder. "She has a porta cath. We'll use it to deliver the medicine. She needs platelets."
"You have acute promyelocytic leukemia? A rarity," he says attempting a comforting voice as he takes the gauze from his nurses. He wads them into balls and stuffs them into her nostrils to staunch the flow. Her lap and his are now covered in a crimson tide.
She coughs trying to clear her throat. She slaps her hand against her thigh, her fingers move up and down as if she is playing a piano. The dog rummages in her bag and hits the computer with her muzzle.
He removes the computer opening it for her. There is something fascinating about watching a deaf and blind person navigate a computer system. She opens the program by pressing the corner of the screen. She types in quickly, I'm going to die. The voice is monotone not expressing the fear the child is feeling.
He takes her hands, moving them back to his mouth and jawline, "not today."
She shakes her head with tears. She turns back to the computer, will it hurt?
"It won't feel good," he tries to ignore the sensation her fingers are causing on his skin. "The nurses will place another IV line to make sure you stay hydrated. It takes six hours for the medicine to be administered. You'll experience a very high fever and some muscle pain. Eventually you'll lose consciousness and when you wake the leukemia will be gone."
She nods her head again then types, thank you.
"Thank me when…" not again…not again… he begs his body, he pleads with it, not now…but it doesn't listen. The dog is barking, his body is convulsing. He falls to the floor, slamming his head against the linoleum as blood pours from his mouth. Then the world goes dark.
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Ch. 21 Natsuki is annoying! I agree with you that her expectations are unfair considering how she introduced herself. Yuki and Harutoga definitely have anger towards the other two because of what was done to their parents, not particularly their mother because remember Yuki sided with her father. They're pissed because of what was done to their family like you said. The pure-blooded children is a bit complex to explain. If everyone is dead, he is attempting to bring back his kind which he can't do if he isn't with other pure-bloods and his children understand that. Yuki is definitely pissed that he went back to Natsuki so quickly, but she also needed him. Another concept we shall explore in this story is like it or not Natsuki is also one of Sess's wives and he does have a basic responsibility to her.
Ch. 2. Yeah I know Tsuki is a butthead like seriously? Rin helps him into this world and he runs off with her reincarnation?
Ch. 3 You are just gonna have to read to find out LOL...
Ch. 4. You basically nailed it. Their issues with their siblings isn't about who is pureblooded and who isn't, it's about what happened to their family.
Ch. 5. You nailed it again! How in the world could Sesshomaru love Natsuki after what she did? I mean there is a possibility had they met after Rin's death but she messed that up by approaching him when she did.
Ch. 6. Oh we shall see what will happen with Tsukimaru and I also love that Natsuki grew. Writing her was so much fun because she was so awful but then she helped save Rin.
Ch. 7. I think it explains it in this chapter what happened to her eyes and if not her eyes are explained in depth later on in the story. So glad I could suck you in. We'll see what happens with Taka/Yuki/Katsumoto. If anything did, it would not be for love. Katsumoto and Taka aren't fated to be together.
Ch. 8. Sess/Natsuki bond is not stronger, but different than the Sess/Rin bond. The main difference is time and there are things Natsuki can do for him that Rin can't, like heal him...or keep him alive.
Ch. 9. I know, I feel so pad for Kagome and Inuyasha because they miss their daughter's it's not fair.
Ch. 10. Taka is adorable. I freaking love her and Tsukimaru...I can't wait for them to find out what he did. Such an asshole.
Ch. 11. Inferiority is one of Mayumi's issues, but also that she misses her parents.
Ch. 12. Yuki and Katsumoto have children. Two girls and one boy.
Ch. 13. Definitely not Taka's fault what happened between all their parents.
Ch. 14. Kensaku wants access to Sesshomaru's barrier. It's made from Reiki so it shields the yoki emanating from the village.
Ch. 15. Sesshomaru is pragmatic and unemotional. That's why it's written the way that it is.
Ch. 16. Yuki is difficult! She is so fun to write!
Ch. 17. Definitely, Nina's illness was written to get her back to Sesshomaru and I guess we will see what happens as the story progresses.
Ch. 18. Yuki definitely needs a punishment for putting everyone in danger.
Ch. 19. OOO I want to know what you think now that he's seen her.
Ch. 20. OOOOO We shall see!
Luin-Fanel: I agree it makes no sense for Yuki to hate Taka or to treat her like that. Taka is innocent mostly. I had an awesome weekend! So glad you are enjoying...now for more drama!
Angel-wing 92: Her blood can't heal Nina because it's a specific mixture, administered over a six hour period and she doesn't know how to give it to Nina like that.
Guesswho: You bring out so many good points. I had fun making Taka grow up. Their conversation was so different than what I expected to and a big part of that was that Taka needs to help Nina not fight with Yuki and Yuki's detachment really does have to do with dealing with Katsumoto. Now whaddya think!
Mechine: Yes you were right! When I first wrote this it was without the interludes, but since people wanted them I added them in. So that's why they came so quickly, I needed to squeeze them in before this chapter. I haven't 100% developed the relationship between Izayoi/Mayumi and Natsuki but I think it's more cordial. Their initial closeness to Sess comes from who he was before. She called him a lovesick pathetic Jerk because he basically has a shrine to Rin in his home and spends nights in Lovers Park...he is lovesick.
Ivriel: You are right, all their characters change from who they were and she is still the upstart she was. Maybe a bit softer, hopefully a bit more responsible.
Guest from chapter 10: Yes! Like seriously Tsukimaru stop being an ass!