A/N = ^_^ NOT MUCH TO SAY REALLY, JUST ENJOY THE STORY!!! ^^
He had woken up three days ago and was already on the wonder. A few members of his family had showed up but there was no sign of his half-brother and for that Inuyasha was grateful. His legs, if possible, had gotten weaker and he had once even stated that it would just be as easy to chop them off, though he did not mean it. He had gotten that nurse Sango to help him in to his wheelchair, luckily Doctor Kagome had probably forgot to tell her that he wasn't allowed to go wondering about on his own just yet. "Stupid Kagome..." He mumbled as he travelled to Kikyou's ward, he had been expecting her to come see him but since he was well enough to go to her he thought he'd pay her a visit. He was looking forward to the visit.
Inuyasha wheeled himself into the ward and straight down to her room, like him she had been given a private room due to the risk of infection, although no proof had been found that neither of their illnesses were contagious nor did it really affect the immune system. But like he mentioned before, he couldn't complain about that, he liked having his own room and he was glad that Kikyou had hers. Inuyasha opened the door and was about to say 'hello' but instead he gasped in shock when he found an old warty woman on a breathing machine instead of his lovely Kikyou in that room. A nurse came up behind him and patted him on the shoulder. He didn't recognise this nurse but her flaming red hair was unlikely make it so he wouldn't recognise her again. "Are you a relative?" She asked sweetly and Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.
"No. Wasn't Kikyou in this room? Or did I get the wrong ward?" He hoped he had gotten it wrong, however he couldn't help this dreadful feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"She left the hospital this morning." Her voice was underlined with sympathy, and she felt for the young man as she saw the pain that filled his eyes. She now recognised this young man and was one of the nurses who saw Inuyasha and Kikyou talking that day, and she had even listen to Kikyou talk about him after he went back to his own ward. Kikyou must had left without saying goodbye.
"W-well did she say anything about me? Or like where she was going?" He tried to make his voice strong though he was about ready for a breakdown.
"No, I'm sorry. She left without telling any one, when I came in to check on her this morning she was gone. There was only a note and it didn't mention you" The nurse was about to place a comforting hand on his shoulder but he reversed and started to wheel himself away.
~~**~~
"Where's Inuyasha?" Shippo piped as Kagome tried to take his blood pressure.
"He should be in his room. Why do you want to talk to that ignorant man anyway? He's the one that keeps getting you to do troublesome stuff." Grumbled Kagome, she had been talking or rather arguing with Inuyasha earlier and it had left her in a foul mood.
"Why wasn't I allowed to see him the other day? I wanted to know how our plan went."
"Inuyasha wasn't very well and... Wait a second! What plan?"
"We got into the priest's locker and took all of his naughty magazines. And then Inuyasha said he was going to stick some of the pictures on his back just before his date with Nurse Sango, and if that didn't work then he was going to give them back to him in front of Sango. It would have been so funny." Shippo giggled childishly and Kagome couldn't help but smile. It would have been a very funny scene indeed. "What was wrong with Inuyasha? He's better now right?"
"Well Shippo, he had a turn for the worse but he's back to what he was before now. Anyway try not to worry, you should be concentrating on getting better yourself."
~~**~~
Inuyasha sat on top of the hospital roof and looked down on the metropolis below him. He was unable to cry despite the pain of loss her felt in his heart and he began to wonder was it really all wroth it? He had tried so hard to be with Kikyou but when she disappeared he had though he would never see her again, and then he meets up with her again. Like an angel she came to him in his hour of need but was quickly snatched away once more. He heard footsteps behind him and didn't need to turn around to know who it was. "What ya' doing up here?" Miroku asked causally.
"I could jump." Reasoned Inuyasha out loud. Miroku nodded slightly and walked to the edge and gave a low whistle.
"You could, it's a long way down. Your brains will go all over the place." He replied heartlessly.
"H-hey! Be careful, I don't want /you/ going over, you'll ruin the moment." Inuyasha was about to go up to him but Miroku walked over to him instead. "Besides I want you to help me. If you go over I'll have no one to send me off."
"Then do it in the wheelchair." He joked.
"Yeah right! And how glamorous would that be huh? Going over in a damn wheelchair!" He growled but Miroku just shrugged.
"Having your brains splattered isn't glamorous either y'know." Miroku took hold of Inuyasha's chair and lent forward slightly. "All you need is a little help from your friend." He then pushed the chair and then ran with speed to the edge of the roof. Inuyasha gritted his teeth as he waited for Miroku to tip him over the edge. He felt the rush inside him and was terrified but wasn't about to betray his pride, after all he had made his decision. Finally Miroku did the fateful tip and Inuyasha went falling.
Miroku laughed openly as he laid on his stomach looking over the edge and smiled down. "You stupid fuck!" Inuyasha screamed at him, although he saw the amusement in it, and felt the urge to laugh himself. The young athlete sat in a flowerbed that was solid concrete that sat solidly under a hospital window. It had only been a 5ft drop at the most.
"Well maybe it will get the stupid notion of suicide out of your thick skull." Miroku told him sternly. Inuyasha was about to reply when he heard a loud knocking at the window slightly above him and he looked at groaned.
"What the hell are you doing out there?" Screamed Kagome, Shippo was also bouncing in and out of sight. Inuyasha looked directly up at Miroku who had vanished. He sighed, he couldn't tell Kagome it was Miroku, after all the perverted priest was merely trying to get it out of his system and if the other nurses/doctors knew then it would probably result in him getting fired. Despite the momentarily dislike for his childhood friend he had no wish to see him without a job, besides this ordeal had been rather amusing.
"It was the masked fucking bandit! He just picked me up and threw me over the edge like a sack of potatoes." He replied defensively. Kagome just screamed in frustration and stalked off to get some help in getting Inuyasha out of the flowerbed.
~~**~~
Despite the amusement of earlier and the shock of being tossed off a building his thoughts wondered back onto Kikyou. She was no longer here, and just after he thought they may get together. Kagome had had Inuyasha taken back to his room, and his wheelchair retrieved from the roof, although she did not give it to him just yet. She needed to give him a check up but she also needed to finish her round so to prevent him from going wondering she had hid the chair until she came to him. Since his little 'turn' he had lost all of what little strength in his legs, and his chest was permanently a dull ache, as well as getting out of breath a lot easier. And it was because of these reasons that Inuyasha didn't bother to crawl out into the hall and grab a random person (not Kagome) and ask nicely for a wheelchair, which he would use to whisk himself away to the movies. He just lay in his bed, wanting to cry but could not; he let his hand fall to his side where it hit a small control pad. He looked at it and shrugged as he pressed one of the buttons with the arrow on it. The bed was then lowered, and with another push of a different button his head was raised. He randomly played with these buttons seeing that he could get it to do that thing you always see in cartoons where he could be sandwiched into the bed, but he found no solution. Although the bed was rapidly becoming a roller coaster. He then felt a cold shudder down his spine, and he quickly straightened his bed and looked towards the doorway. There stood a tallish man with long black tangled hair, he had a serious gaze that shot straight at the athlete. "N-Naraku? Is that you?" Inuyasha blurted out suddenly. The man gave a smile although it was a cold and empty one.
"Greetings Inuyasha, I apologise for not visiting earlier. I had to leave with Kouga for the races... I'm sorry you couldn't make it." He didn't sound sorry.
"Feh! Stupid wolf-freak, I could have beaten him easy if it wasn't for this damn illness. How did he do anyway?" He was only vaguely curious about Kouga but he needed a conversation booster, as always with Naraku, things always got too quiet and uncomfortable too quickly.
"He's made it to the finals." Naraku sat on the chair next to the bed and lent over to hand Inuyasha a box of chocolate. "Here. The team sends their regards."
"Thanks." He accepted the gift with a smile and a nod, and put the box on the side. They sat in silence, Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably whereas Naraku just sat there as if he was a statue, his expression was unreadable. Finally Naraku stood and began to walk to the door. "It was nice seeing you Inuyasha."
"Hey Naraku, about that contract I'd like to-" Naraku had walked off before he could even finished. "Strange freak." Inuyasha mumbled as he reached for one of his chocolates and went to put it into his mouth, but stopped and put it back at the last moment. Since yesterday he had only been able to stomach one pack of crisps, and a sandwich, everything else seemed to unsettle his stomach. He vowed not to tell anyone about this unless it got out of hand, after all he didn't want to be fed through a tube or anything. He did not want to risk the unpleasant feeling of being sick for the sake of one chocolate and so he would eat them later, once his stomach settled slightly. He shot the box of chocolates an evil yet longing look and closed his eyes. A little sleep would be good now.
Kagome was running late, but no matter how much she wanted to face the abuse of Inuyasha she would have to get Sango to check up on him, since she was already an hour later for her brother's birthday party, and she still had to get the boy a present. He grabbed her jacket from the staff room but as she ran past Inuyasha room she decided to just pop in and tell him to be nice to Sango. But he was asleep, she couldn't help but smile at him, he looked so innocent, so peaceful when he was asleep. Like a whole different man. She went to leave just a shiny box caught her eye and she saw the chocolates. She grinned evilly, not only would it save her time in getting her brother a birthday gift but also punish Inuyasha for not telling her what had happened on the roof. She quickly snatched the sweets from the table and shoved them under a coat; much in the same way a shoplifter would steal a video game or a pint of milk from the local shops. She quickly and guiltily scanned the room one more time before she left.
Kagome left the little treats in the kitchen of her apartment while she went to change her clothes, secretly praying that Souta would forgive her for being later to yet another family gathering, especially as important as his birthday. Meanwhile a certain fat but kawaii kitty padded into the kitchen searching for food. He meowed loudly to remind Kagome that he was there and waiting. When there was no reply he began to sniff around the room, he noticed an odd smell from on top of one of the kitchen cabinet and jumped up. At first he thought it was food and therefore he could eat it but upon closer inspection he discovered it wasn't in fact far from it! He hissed and pawed them off the side and unto the floor, and with a proud little smug he paced up and down the kitchen side claiming victory and glory over the box of chocolates. "Buyo!" Kagome snapped as soon as she saw the contents of the box emptied on the floor. "They was for Souta! Bad kitty!" She scolded the cat and went to give him a tap on the nose when Kirara came through the cat flap. She was a beautiful but unusual cat that Sango had found a while back in a cardboard box. Even both Kagome and Sango cared for the cats while they lived together as roommates, Kirara had seem to have a stronger bound with Sango, and also showed more intelligence than Buyo. She came up to the fallen sweets and sniffed, quickly she screwed up her nose and she gently pawed at one of the chocolates. Kagome watched her in fascination, even Buyo join in inspecting Souta's birthday present on the floor. Kirara finally hissed at them and Buyo followed her lead, together the both walked up to Kagome and stared at her questioningly. Kagome felt like she was missing something important. First Buyo had not eaten them, which was VERY strange and secondly Kirara was trying to warn her about them. "What are you two trying to tell me?" She mused out loud and she bent over to pick the chocolates up. She decided to have a look at these curious treats, and began to wonder what was so terrible about them that Kirara found the need to hiss at them. All thoughts of Souta's birthday flew out of her mind.
He had woken up three days ago and was already on the wonder. A few members of his family had showed up but there was no sign of his half-brother and for that Inuyasha was grateful. His legs, if possible, had gotten weaker and he had once even stated that it would just be as easy to chop them off, though he did not mean it. He had gotten that nurse Sango to help him in to his wheelchair, luckily Doctor Kagome had probably forgot to tell her that he wasn't allowed to go wondering about on his own just yet. "Stupid Kagome..." He mumbled as he travelled to Kikyou's ward, he had been expecting her to come see him but since he was well enough to go to her he thought he'd pay her a visit. He was looking forward to the visit.
Inuyasha wheeled himself into the ward and straight down to her room, like him she had been given a private room due to the risk of infection, although no proof had been found that neither of their illnesses were contagious nor did it really affect the immune system. But like he mentioned before, he couldn't complain about that, he liked having his own room and he was glad that Kikyou had hers. Inuyasha opened the door and was about to say 'hello' but instead he gasped in shock when he found an old warty woman on a breathing machine instead of his lovely Kikyou in that room. A nurse came up behind him and patted him on the shoulder. He didn't recognise this nurse but her flaming red hair was unlikely make it so he wouldn't recognise her again. "Are you a relative?" She asked sweetly and Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.
"No. Wasn't Kikyou in this room? Or did I get the wrong ward?" He hoped he had gotten it wrong, however he couldn't help this dreadful feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"She left the hospital this morning." Her voice was underlined with sympathy, and she felt for the young man as she saw the pain that filled his eyes. She now recognised this young man and was one of the nurses who saw Inuyasha and Kikyou talking that day, and she had even listen to Kikyou talk about him after he went back to his own ward. Kikyou must had left without saying goodbye.
"W-well did she say anything about me? Or like where she was going?" He tried to make his voice strong though he was about ready for a breakdown.
"No, I'm sorry. She left without telling any one, when I came in to check on her this morning she was gone. There was only a note and it didn't mention you" The nurse was about to place a comforting hand on his shoulder but he reversed and started to wheel himself away.
~~**~~
"Where's Inuyasha?" Shippo piped as Kagome tried to take his blood pressure.
"He should be in his room. Why do you want to talk to that ignorant man anyway? He's the one that keeps getting you to do troublesome stuff." Grumbled Kagome, she had been talking or rather arguing with Inuyasha earlier and it had left her in a foul mood.
"Why wasn't I allowed to see him the other day? I wanted to know how our plan went."
"Inuyasha wasn't very well and... Wait a second! What plan?"
"We got into the priest's locker and took all of his naughty magazines. And then Inuyasha said he was going to stick some of the pictures on his back just before his date with Nurse Sango, and if that didn't work then he was going to give them back to him in front of Sango. It would have been so funny." Shippo giggled childishly and Kagome couldn't help but smile. It would have been a very funny scene indeed. "What was wrong with Inuyasha? He's better now right?"
"Well Shippo, he had a turn for the worse but he's back to what he was before now. Anyway try not to worry, you should be concentrating on getting better yourself."
~~**~~
Inuyasha sat on top of the hospital roof and looked down on the metropolis below him. He was unable to cry despite the pain of loss her felt in his heart and he began to wonder was it really all wroth it? He had tried so hard to be with Kikyou but when she disappeared he had though he would never see her again, and then he meets up with her again. Like an angel she came to him in his hour of need but was quickly snatched away once more. He heard footsteps behind him and didn't need to turn around to know who it was. "What ya' doing up here?" Miroku asked causally.
"I could jump." Reasoned Inuyasha out loud. Miroku nodded slightly and walked to the edge and gave a low whistle.
"You could, it's a long way down. Your brains will go all over the place." He replied heartlessly.
"H-hey! Be careful, I don't want /you/ going over, you'll ruin the moment." Inuyasha was about to go up to him but Miroku walked over to him instead. "Besides I want you to help me. If you go over I'll have no one to send me off."
"Then do it in the wheelchair." He joked.
"Yeah right! And how glamorous would that be huh? Going over in a damn wheelchair!" He growled but Miroku just shrugged.
"Having your brains splattered isn't glamorous either y'know." Miroku took hold of Inuyasha's chair and lent forward slightly. "All you need is a little help from your friend." He then pushed the chair and then ran with speed to the edge of the roof. Inuyasha gritted his teeth as he waited for Miroku to tip him over the edge. He felt the rush inside him and was terrified but wasn't about to betray his pride, after all he had made his decision. Finally Miroku did the fateful tip and Inuyasha went falling.
Miroku laughed openly as he laid on his stomach looking over the edge and smiled down. "You stupid fuck!" Inuyasha screamed at him, although he saw the amusement in it, and felt the urge to laugh himself. The young athlete sat in a flowerbed that was solid concrete that sat solidly under a hospital window. It had only been a 5ft drop at the most.
"Well maybe it will get the stupid notion of suicide out of your thick skull." Miroku told him sternly. Inuyasha was about to reply when he heard a loud knocking at the window slightly above him and he looked at groaned.
"What the hell are you doing out there?" Screamed Kagome, Shippo was also bouncing in and out of sight. Inuyasha looked directly up at Miroku who had vanished. He sighed, he couldn't tell Kagome it was Miroku, after all the perverted priest was merely trying to get it out of his system and if the other nurses/doctors knew then it would probably result in him getting fired. Despite the momentarily dislike for his childhood friend he had no wish to see him without a job, besides this ordeal had been rather amusing.
"It was the masked fucking bandit! He just picked me up and threw me over the edge like a sack of potatoes." He replied defensively. Kagome just screamed in frustration and stalked off to get some help in getting Inuyasha out of the flowerbed.
~~**~~
Despite the amusement of earlier and the shock of being tossed off a building his thoughts wondered back onto Kikyou. She was no longer here, and just after he thought they may get together. Kagome had had Inuyasha taken back to his room, and his wheelchair retrieved from the roof, although she did not give it to him just yet. She needed to give him a check up but she also needed to finish her round so to prevent him from going wondering she had hid the chair until she came to him. Since his little 'turn' he had lost all of what little strength in his legs, and his chest was permanently a dull ache, as well as getting out of breath a lot easier. And it was because of these reasons that Inuyasha didn't bother to crawl out into the hall and grab a random person (not Kagome) and ask nicely for a wheelchair, which he would use to whisk himself away to the movies. He just lay in his bed, wanting to cry but could not; he let his hand fall to his side where it hit a small control pad. He looked at it and shrugged as he pressed one of the buttons with the arrow on it. The bed was then lowered, and with another push of a different button his head was raised. He randomly played with these buttons seeing that he could get it to do that thing you always see in cartoons where he could be sandwiched into the bed, but he found no solution. Although the bed was rapidly becoming a roller coaster. He then felt a cold shudder down his spine, and he quickly straightened his bed and looked towards the doorway. There stood a tallish man with long black tangled hair, he had a serious gaze that shot straight at the athlete. "N-Naraku? Is that you?" Inuyasha blurted out suddenly. The man gave a smile although it was a cold and empty one.
"Greetings Inuyasha, I apologise for not visiting earlier. I had to leave with Kouga for the races... I'm sorry you couldn't make it." He didn't sound sorry.
"Feh! Stupid wolf-freak, I could have beaten him easy if it wasn't for this damn illness. How did he do anyway?" He was only vaguely curious about Kouga but he needed a conversation booster, as always with Naraku, things always got too quiet and uncomfortable too quickly.
"He's made it to the finals." Naraku sat on the chair next to the bed and lent over to hand Inuyasha a box of chocolate. "Here. The team sends their regards."
"Thanks." He accepted the gift with a smile and a nod, and put the box on the side. They sat in silence, Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably whereas Naraku just sat there as if he was a statue, his expression was unreadable. Finally Naraku stood and began to walk to the door. "It was nice seeing you Inuyasha."
"Hey Naraku, about that contract I'd like to-" Naraku had walked off before he could even finished. "Strange freak." Inuyasha mumbled as he reached for one of his chocolates and went to put it into his mouth, but stopped and put it back at the last moment. Since yesterday he had only been able to stomach one pack of crisps, and a sandwich, everything else seemed to unsettle his stomach. He vowed not to tell anyone about this unless it got out of hand, after all he didn't want to be fed through a tube or anything. He did not want to risk the unpleasant feeling of being sick for the sake of one chocolate and so he would eat them later, once his stomach settled slightly. He shot the box of chocolates an evil yet longing look and closed his eyes. A little sleep would be good now.
Kagome was running late, but no matter how much she wanted to face the abuse of Inuyasha she would have to get Sango to check up on him, since she was already an hour later for her brother's birthday party, and she still had to get the boy a present. He grabbed her jacket from the staff room but as she ran past Inuyasha room she decided to just pop in and tell him to be nice to Sango. But he was asleep, she couldn't help but smile at him, he looked so innocent, so peaceful when he was asleep. Like a whole different man. She went to leave just a shiny box caught her eye and she saw the chocolates. She grinned evilly, not only would it save her time in getting her brother a birthday gift but also punish Inuyasha for not telling her what had happened on the roof. She quickly snatched the sweets from the table and shoved them under a coat; much in the same way a shoplifter would steal a video game or a pint of milk from the local shops. She quickly and guiltily scanned the room one more time before she left.
Kagome left the little treats in the kitchen of her apartment while she went to change her clothes, secretly praying that Souta would forgive her for being later to yet another family gathering, especially as important as his birthday. Meanwhile a certain fat but kawaii kitty padded into the kitchen searching for food. He meowed loudly to remind Kagome that he was there and waiting. When there was no reply he began to sniff around the room, he noticed an odd smell from on top of one of the kitchen cabinet and jumped up. At first he thought it was food and therefore he could eat it but upon closer inspection he discovered it wasn't in fact far from it! He hissed and pawed them off the side and unto the floor, and with a proud little smug he paced up and down the kitchen side claiming victory and glory over the box of chocolates. "Buyo!" Kagome snapped as soon as she saw the contents of the box emptied on the floor. "They was for Souta! Bad kitty!" She scolded the cat and went to give him a tap on the nose when Kirara came through the cat flap. She was a beautiful but unusual cat that Sango had found a while back in a cardboard box. Even both Kagome and Sango cared for the cats while they lived together as roommates, Kirara had seem to have a stronger bound with Sango, and also showed more intelligence than Buyo. She came up to the fallen sweets and sniffed, quickly she screwed up her nose and she gently pawed at one of the chocolates. Kagome watched her in fascination, even Buyo join in inspecting Souta's birthday present on the floor. Kirara finally hissed at them and Buyo followed her lead, together the both walked up to Kagome and stared at her questioningly. Kagome felt like she was missing something important. First Buyo had not eaten them, which was VERY strange and secondly Kirara was trying to warn her about them. "What are you two trying to tell me?" She mused out loud and she bent over to pick the chocolates up. She decided to have a look at these curious treats, and began to wonder what was so terrible about them that Kirara found the need to hiss at them. All thoughts of Souta's birthday flew out of her mind.
