Chapter 35
Kagome and Sango are about to head out Kagome's house. "Kagome, a word please." Hige calls out to her as he spots her about to open the back door. "I…" Kagome is about to protest. "Now." Hige sternly spoke. Kagome sighs, "Wait for me in the car." Kagome whispers to Sango. Sango nods and leaves the father and daughter alone. As Kagome comes into the den where her father is waiting patiently. "What is it, dad?" She asks as she sits into one of the couches. "I just want to say I'm sorry for earlier this morning." Hige begins. However, Kagome isn't convinced, even the sincerity in her father's voice. "Dad. Even if I were to accept your apology, I cannot guarantee that you're going to do it again." Kagome responds back to him.
Hige sighs, "I know how you feel about me doing this, but it's a habit that I simply cannot break." Kagome raised her one eyebrow. "Really? More like an addiction if you ask me." She crossed her arms. "Look Kagome, I'm trying everything I can to prevent myself from doing something that I shouldn't be doing." He reasons with her. At that point Kagome stood up. "If I were to know any better about you, you're acting like a child instead of a mature parent." She spoke pridefully as she leaves the den and leaves the house.
As soon as Kagome left the house, Ai comes into the den to see how Hige is looking. From the posture of holding his head while his elbows are resting on his knees. "I guess it didn't work?" She asks him. Hige shakes his head to give her the answer. "Honey. You should know that your pride is something you think is your best solution to any problem, but that's not it." Ai wisely said to him.
"I spoke in sincerity to prove that I'm truly sorry about what I did. I don't understand why she didn't accept my apology." Hige groans as he sits back up. Ai shakes her head. "Hige, Kagome is like you. She inherited your stubbornness. That's why she isn't easy to convince no matter how true the topic is. She just doesn't want to believe it." She explains their daughter's personality. "I had no idea that she'd get that from me to be honest. Her face shape is from my side of the family." Hige looks at his wife. Ai sits next to him. "But her eyes and hair are from me. And you can't change that." She adds her traits.
As Kagome casually drives to the hospital, Sango can see that something is troubling her. "You ok?" She risks her question. "It's nothing to be concerned about." Kagome nonchalantly replies as she has to stay focused on the road. "I know it has to do with your father." Sango keeps going. "Sango you getting into hot waters here. Kagome keeps the tone like last. "All he did was apologize for what he did this morning, and I didn't accept it." Kagome tells her as they pull up to the parking lot. "Oh." Sango got her real answer.
Kagome and Sango head up to Inuyasha's hospital room. As Kagome is about to knock, the door already opens up for them. "Miroku? What are you doing here?" Sango asks him surprised. "I'm here for you." He flirts with her as he grabs her hand obviously. Sango yanks her captured hand away. "Like hell you're here for me." She glares at him. "Fine, come on in. How did you know that we were at the door?" Sango asks him. Miroku points his thumb to Inuyasha. "Duh." Inuyasha mocks him. "And there's a strict rule where only one visitor per patient is permitted." Inuyasha reminds Miroku. "Absolutely. Sango. We need to leave them alone." He seriously said as he grabs her wrist and take her out the room. "See you later." Miroku farewells while closing the door behind him.
Once the room quickly became quiet, none of the two wanted to speak because they both believe for whatever they say would come out wrong. Kagome sees that the windows is shut off with the curtains closed. She decides to open them up. Soon the sunlight beams in the room to give it a natural glow. "You know you didn't need to do that." Inuyasha spoke first. Kagome turns around to see him in an awkward position. "I wanted to, not needed to." Kagome corrects his sentence. "So uh, when will you be discharged?" She asks him.
"Not until tomorrow actually. The doctor doesn't want me to go out to get into another episode." Inuyasha explains the reason. "Oh, I thought that you'd be out by now." Kagome spoke disappointedly. "Believe me, Kagome. I really wanted to get out of this place, but it's up the doctor to make the final decision." He said while crossing his arms. Kagome noticed that the IV is gone so Inuyasha wouldn't have to go through the painful moment. "I have your car back at my house." Kagome said a few minutes later.
"It's okay, right?" Inuyasha asks her immediately. "Yeah, not a single scratch, dent, anything to it. But there's one thing that bothers me though." Kagome frowns in the end. Inuyasha spots the look. "What happened?" He urgently asks her. "My dad is so noisy about cars that he couldn't help himself to check the engine and the other parts of the car. I had to get him away from because I know how much that car means to you." Inuyasha ahs silently. "I see. Well you're right about one thing. My car means a lot to me because me and Kikyo bought that car when we got married. That's the only thing she wanted. So far the loan is covered so there's no need to pay the company anymore. The insurance made sure of that." Inuyasha is relieved from the start. "I knew for sure your dad was too curious for his own good." He comments in the end.
"Tell me about it. When I got my car the first thing, he did was to check the engine and everything else was in tip top shape." Kagome groans. "But Kagome, that's what dads do. They want to make sure your safe with it. I know how embarrassing it because he's just looking out for you." Inuyasha explains to her about the duty of a parents. Even though Inuyasha has a good point about, Kagome just doesn't want to believe it. "I know, but I'm not a child anymore. Why can't he see that?" Kagome sits down in the chair next to the bed. As soon as she sat down, Inuyasha reaches out to grasps her wrist. "Kagome, I may not have my mom or dad with me at the moment, but I know for sure they still see us that way despite on how much time goes by and we grow older. They still treasure those moments that they don't want to want us to get to that point in time to prove them about our maturity. My mom made sure that Sesshomaru to look after me until the time I became independent, but he still make sure to check up on me from time to time." Inuyasha wisely spoke to her.
Just hearing that made Kagome weepy. She knows for sure that Inuyasha is absolutely right about it. She should have not snapped at her dad before coming over. The least she should do is to apologize on how rude she was to him that morning.