Chapter 29
"Yes." Inuyasha quietly replies. "She never told anyone, even me about it." He tells her. Kagome doesn't know if she should go a bit further or just stop that topic. "How did you know about it?" She mouths her question silently. "It was by accident." Inuyasha answers her immediately. Kagome looks at him. "I didn't say anything." She claims to him. Inuyasha shakes his eyes. "Reading your lips was a big give away." He points out to her. Kagome sweat drops. "Oh sorry. I had no idea I did that." She apologizes to him. "I stumbled upon Kikyo's house one time and was able to hear her and someone else in the house. From the tone and scent, it was dangerous. I knew for sure that Kikyo was going out." Inuyasha continues on with his story. Kagome can tell that the further Inuyasha went on, the harder and more painful it gotten. "And so I made sure that I never fall in love again." He concludes to her.
And then at this point, Kagome has come to find out that dealing with something so hurtful is not easy for him. So it's not just her who's going through this. So is Inuyasha. "I'm going back home." She gets out of the swing and is about to walk until her wrist is being hold on. Kagome turns around to see that her wrist is being grasped by Inuyasha's hand. "Don't go." He murmurs to her. Ok a moment ago, Inuyasha was a completely different person. And now he's someone else. "I just don't want to lose you too." He murmurs a bit louder this time. 'Too? Is he talking about me as well?' Kagome tries to get her hand free, but the more she tries, the tighter the grasp gets. "Why are you doing this, Inuyasha? I'm not someone who would be a replacement to your wife." She explains to her as she still tries to get her hand out. "I'm not losing another woman. I lost my mother when she was in a car crash. And then I lost Kikyo to cancer. And now I'm going to lose you as well." He's grasp is shaking drastically. Kagome didn't see this coming. She sighs and embraces him.
A car comes into the area. Inside is Mr. Higurashi. As soon as he parks it into the parking spot, he sees his daughter embracing a person. "Who is she hugging?" He asks himself. He comes out to get a closer look at the scene. The person she's hugging is someone he never seen before. Before he walks down to them, Inuyasha falls onto the ground. "Inuyasha?" Mr. Higurashi finds out the name of the name of the person. "Kagome." He said. Kagome turns around to see her father coming up to them. "Dad, please, I can explain." She starts. But her father raised his hand to stop her. "No need to tell me. We have to get him to the hospital." He turns to Inuyasha's collapse body. Kagome is so worried about Inuyasha's wellbeing. While waiting for the ambulance, she couldn't forget about what Inuyasha to her before he passed out.
As soon as the ambulance arrives, the first responders managed to get Inuyasha onto a stretcher and have him transported to the closest hospital. All Kagome could do is watch helplessly. She has no idea on what to do at this moment. "Kagome." Mr. Higurashi speaks from behind. "I need you to take that man's car to our place and meet me at the hospital." He tells her. Kagome nods as she goes to Inuyasha's car. As she gets in, she only remembers the interior in the back seat of the car. But the front is a whole different story. Unlike her average car which was easy for her to use, this one is more advanced. "How do I start this thing?" She asks as she looks around the dashboard. Thinking the most obvious way to start it, Kagome looks on the steering wheel's side, and no keyslot. 'Ok so no key is required for this thing.'
Thinking back when her father got a new car it had one of those automatic starters. She looks down to see the button. She puts her foot onto the brake and presses the button to start the car. "Welcome, buckle your seatbelt." Kagome does what it says and drives the car to her. If there's one thing Kagome doesn't want to do is to get this thing wrecked. She'd never hear the end of it for the rest of her life. As soon as she gets to her house, she parks Inuyasha's car into the empty slot and gets into her car and heads off to the hospital.
As soon as Kagome arrives at the hospital, she spots her father in the waiting room. "Dad." She comes to him. "Oh god. You're here." He said in relief. "Who's that man you were hugging when I came looking for you?" He asks her. Kagome looks up to him. "I said his name when you first arrived so it shouldn't be that hard to remember it." Kagome crossed her arms. That made her father rub the back on his neck in embarrassment. "Sorry. Anyway, who is he?" He asks her. Kagome knew for sure that her old man is one to get to know the person. "Dad, did mom told you about him? He was the one who took care of me when I was sick. As well as saving me from Naraku."
Mr. Higurashi knows that much. "I know that. But how is it that you to know each other?" He asks it more basically to make it easier for Kagome understand what he's trying to ask her. "Let's just say, he's been through one of the hardest times of his life, and I'm part of it." That's all Kagome could tell him. She just couldn't tell him the entire story. That's Inuyasha's business and not her father's. If there's one thing Kagome doesn't do is to let someone else know about another's life. That's up to the person himself if he wants to tell her father.