Change is Changing Troubles
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'She's so pale...' Inuyasha thought as he hurriedly followed Amiki down the Hospital corridor.
He was in pajamas that Kagome had lent him earlier and there were doctors and nurses surrounding kagome who was lying still as stone on the hospital rolling cot.
The only color on her was red. But it was too dark to be classified as red, more like a maroon. A maroon slick liquid that flowed from her body.
They turned into a small emergency room and the doctors pried Amiki's and Inuyasha's hands from the rolling cot's bars.
"Are you family?"
What kind of question is that? I'm so much more............ Or I will be.......
"Sir, Miss? Are you immediate family?"
"No but that doesn't matter I'm her friend- I..... Oh god! is she gonna be ok? Tell us please! Can you help her?" Amiki babbled with panick in her eyes..
Inuyasha had never seen so much emotion on her face. She was practically paler that Kagome.......
"No miss. You and this fellow must stay out. We will do our best and let you know as soon as possible."
Inuyasha hadn't processed what the nurse was saying until she started pulling him from Kagome and the doctors.
"Wha-? Stop!" he grappled.
"Sir your not family-"
Inuyasha growling broke her sentence.
Amiki grabbed his arm and pulled him outside.
"It's best if we're out here. We wont get in the way." Amiki said but never once looked at him. She kept her eyes fixed on Kagome just as Inuyasha did.
Inuyasha glared at the glass that stood between him and Kagome. He place his clawed hand on the hated window and let his head fall in desperation at the situation.
'Kagome.............' he thought.
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A day had passed since they had gone to the night club and Inuyasha and Kagome had been getting along rather well.
A part of that had been because Sonaki hadn't come around and because Inuyasha didn't drudge up their actual problems. He did it for her sake. He knew she wasn't ready to talk about, which doesn't mean he didn't try but............She just tangoed around the subject skillfully.
The days passed rather dully. Kagome would wake and dress then make them breakfast, and they would then talk.
"How is everyone?" Kagome asked as she stared into her tea, idly stirring the sugar cube around to help it dissolve.
"They're fine. They miss you. I was afraid they would hate me but I didn't talk to them all that much during the five months." He said staring at her intently as she dodged his glance.
"How's Shippo? Is he behaving? Is Sango taking care of him?" Kagome asked eagerly seriously looking Inuyasha in the eye for the first time in a while.
"He's fine. He gave me something to give to you but I'll have to find it again. He missed you the most of the three of them." He paused a moment then mimicked her actions by stirring his already-stirred tea.
"He cried himself to sleep for a while. For a few days he wouldn't speak to anyone but me." Inuyasha remembered it well. He wouldn't speak back to the kit but Shippo would lay by the well next to the hanyou and go on and on about Kagome.
It had helped Inuyasha through the pain of missing Kagome.
"Poor Shippo" Kagome said as she let her hand fall next to her cup on the table and looking at her hand.
Inuyasha placed his hand comfortingly over hers and stared as he intertwined his fingers into her unresponsive grasp.
"I missed you-"
She pulled her arm away as if he had burnt her.
"Inuyasha we can't go back to where we were. If Sonaki were to find out-" Kagome began as she stood up from the table and walked around the kitchen always avoiding his gaze.
"Where were we?" Inuyasha asked. It peeked his curiosity to think that she would think anything of their relationship before because he did but he wanted to know if she did as well.
"The past Inuyasha. A place that no one can stay forever." She said as she looked into his eyes.
Her grayish purple orbs had such loneliness in them that it hurt when she /really/ looked at him. Inuyasha could see her soul in her eyes and he knew she had changed not just her attitude and actions but the experiences she had while unable to come through the well, dented her soul. Her actual soul didn't change. It just was now wrinkled with a saddened twinge.
Her gaze flashed toward him again before she turned to go to her room.
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Inuyasha stared helplessly at the people rushing around Kagome, trying to put tubes on her and shine lights on her body.
'I don't care what they do. Just bring back Kagome!' Inuyasha gave a hard glare and fisted the hand on the glass so that he drew blood on his callused palm.
'I wasn't able to protect her, but I swear...................... If the Gods give restore her back to health, I will do everything and anything to keep her safe from now on!'
'I couldn't protect her' he thought as he reminisced on the events earlier that evening.
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Kagome looked around the room. Inuyasha was snoring slightly and............... was he purring?!
She giggled at the thought. Slowly walking over to him she looked down at his sleeping face.
"What I wouldn't give to go back 5 months and know that you did care about me."
'It doesn't matter now, though. I belong to Sonaki. He's my responsibility. I owe him my life.'
Kagome quietly changed into a loose fitting navy tank top and black jeans with sneakers and tied her hair up in a pony tail.
She tip- toed to her window and creaked it open as quietly as she could.
After throwing her right leg over the ledge she took one last glance at Inuyasha, who was still sleeping soundly.
She smiled at him slightly, ' This is something I have to go to. Don't think of me any different because of it.'
Then she jump out the rest of the way with the stealth and sleekness of a cat and ran down to the address Sonaki gave her.
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Inuyasha smiled as he rolled over on Kagome's mattress and took a deep breath of her scent.
Kagome's scent was the best in the world: Natural, clean, pure, and just Kagome..... he could get drunk on it's fresh tang for hours..........................
hours?
'Speaking of hours, her scent is old............... Where is she?' Suddenly Inuyasha was completely awake and running down the steps as quickly and quietly as he cared. She wasn't in the Kitchen or the living room.............. or the well house..................
Inuyasha took a deep breath........................
She wasn't in the house at all.
He followed her scent out the window, not caring that he was wearing only sagging gray sweat pants and an old worn cotton shirt.
Her scent went down a few blocks, past the town in her area, down lefts, and rights, and curves , and EVERYTHING!
Until finally he found her.
She was next to Sonaki across from six or seven guys. All of the guys smelled horrible, wreaking of sake and smoke. Some of the guys carried the stench of other peoples blood on them.
It was disgusting, especially to a hanyou with sensitive smelling.
Luckily Inuyasha hid his disgust and lurked in the dark. It wasn't a difficult thing to do considering that the place they were in was quite dark, with only one street light as a saving grace. It shined on Kagome and Sonaki whose back's faced the brick wall of the alley. They were cornered by seven guys.
'What is Kagome do-' Inuyasha was interrupted.
"We has a DEAL 'Naki. You give us what we want............. And we GRACIOUSLY give you what you want." The middle man said. He was obviously the leader of the group.
"I gave you my best supply, what more do you want." Sonaki protested. He sounded less confident than the last time he and Inuyasha conversed.
'Ofcourse then he was beating Kagome.' Inuyasha's fists clenched in anger.
"Ah, yes..... Your supply." The middle man walked to a black bag in the middle between Kagome and Sonaki and the seven dwarfs.
"Your supply seems to be a LITTLE low................." He said as he lifted- Inuyasha didn't know what they were. Some were silver and black, all were shiny but he had no idea what they did. Or what they were.
Kagome looked worriedly at Sonaki, but it was only a fleeting response as she turned hard wary eyes to members of the group who were checking her out.
"It's NOT low, you said 12 by Saturday. That's exactly what I gave you! Now I want you to fulfill your end of the deal." Sonaki countered walking closer to the middle man and earning death glares from the men surrounding them.
"If you throw in the girl.- he cast a quick glance at Kagome- I'll except your deal and pay you extra. For your-......... troubles." The middle man smiled, displaying his lack of dental hygiene.
"Now wait just a second-" Kagome started forward, eyes flashing, but received a glance from Sonaki that told her to hush up fast.
Inuyasha growled at her submission to Sonaki's glare.
'What happened to Kagome? 'Ka-Go-ME!' The strong willed, witty, kind, beautiful girl he always loved?'
"If you don't accept my supply than I'll just be going." Sonaki made to grab for the bag but the Middle man took it and hit him in the face with it.
Sonaki fell to the ground.
"Sonaki!" Kagome cried and ran to him.
She kneeled down beside him and smoothed away his hair to blow lightly on his swelling bruise.
She glared up at the middle man.
"That was UNCALLED FOR! He GAVE you his supplies, why couldn't you just take it and go?" She screamed at him.
The middle man grabbed her upper arms and drew her in close.
"I like my women feisty. It makes it more entertaining when we break them!" He whispered to her.
Kagome broke one arm free and slapped him across the face. Momentarily stunned, the middle man released her. She tried to pick up Sonaki and get him out. but before she could get very far the middle man pulled a silver "Supply" out and pointed it at Kagome. Inuyasha began to move towards the man, but it was too late.
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BANG
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There was a huge burst of light and then the after smell of smoke. Kagome collapsed to the ground with Sonaki's arm over her shoulder.
Inuyasha ran as fast as he could.
Sonaki looked around and then down at Kagome and snuck off.
By the time Inuyasha finally reached her everyone else was gone. The seven men fled as soon as the blast occurred.
Inuyasha carefully flipped Kagome over and was suddenly overwhelmed with the scent of Kagome's blood.
Nothing wrenched his heart more than the sight of Kagome bleeding.
Kagome's eyes were open and looking at him.
Inuyasha grabbed her face and looked into her dazed eyes.
"Inu- Yasha.......... Your here......................" she whispered.
"Yes Kagome! It's me! Oh, Gods, what do I do Kagome? Your losing too much blood!" Inuyasha babbled sounding absolutely frantic.
Kagome slowly lifted her hand to touch his cheek.
"I wanted you to be my last sight." She said and closed her eyes.
"Kagome?! Kagome! Tell me! What do I do?!" he screamed. 'Don't leave. Don't go away................'
She finally mumbled, "Amiki..........."
Carefully he gathered Kagome into his arms, "Amiki"
And that is exactly where Inuyasha went.
TBC
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'She's so pale...' Inuyasha thought as he hurriedly followed Amiki down the Hospital corridor.
He was in pajamas that Kagome had lent him earlier and there were doctors and nurses surrounding kagome who was lying still as stone on the hospital rolling cot.
The only color on her was red. But it was too dark to be classified as red, more like a maroon. A maroon slick liquid that flowed from her body.
They turned into a small emergency room and the doctors pried Amiki's and Inuyasha's hands from the rolling cot's bars.
"Are you family?"
What kind of question is that? I'm so much more............ Or I will be.......
"Sir, Miss? Are you immediate family?"
"No but that doesn't matter I'm her friend- I..... Oh god! is she gonna be ok? Tell us please! Can you help her?" Amiki babbled with panick in her eyes..
Inuyasha had never seen so much emotion on her face. She was practically paler that Kagome.......
"No miss. You and this fellow must stay out. We will do our best and let you know as soon as possible."
Inuyasha hadn't processed what the nurse was saying until she started pulling him from Kagome and the doctors.
"Wha-? Stop!" he grappled.
"Sir your not family-"
Inuyasha growling broke her sentence.
Amiki grabbed his arm and pulled him outside.
"It's best if we're out here. We wont get in the way." Amiki said but never once looked at him. She kept her eyes fixed on Kagome just as Inuyasha did.
Inuyasha glared at the glass that stood between him and Kagome. He place his clawed hand on the hated window and let his head fall in desperation at the situation.
'Kagome.............' he thought.
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A day had passed since they had gone to the night club and Inuyasha and Kagome had been getting along rather well.
A part of that had been because Sonaki hadn't come around and because Inuyasha didn't drudge up their actual problems. He did it for her sake. He knew she wasn't ready to talk about, which doesn't mean he didn't try but............She just tangoed around the subject skillfully.
The days passed rather dully. Kagome would wake and dress then make them breakfast, and they would then talk.
"How is everyone?" Kagome asked as she stared into her tea, idly stirring the sugar cube around to help it dissolve.
"They're fine. They miss you. I was afraid they would hate me but I didn't talk to them all that much during the five months." He said staring at her intently as she dodged his glance.
"How's Shippo? Is he behaving? Is Sango taking care of him?" Kagome asked eagerly seriously looking Inuyasha in the eye for the first time in a while.
"He's fine. He gave me something to give to you but I'll have to find it again. He missed you the most of the three of them." He paused a moment then mimicked her actions by stirring his already-stirred tea.
"He cried himself to sleep for a while. For a few days he wouldn't speak to anyone but me." Inuyasha remembered it well. He wouldn't speak back to the kit but Shippo would lay by the well next to the hanyou and go on and on about Kagome.
It had helped Inuyasha through the pain of missing Kagome.
"Poor Shippo" Kagome said as she let her hand fall next to her cup on the table and looking at her hand.
Inuyasha placed his hand comfortingly over hers and stared as he intertwined his fingers into her unresponsive grasp.
"I missed you-"
She pulled her arm away as if he had burnt her.
"Inuyasha we can't go back to where we were. If Sonaki were to find out-" Kagome began as she stood up from the table and walked around the kitchen always avoiding his gaze.
"Where were we?" Inuyasha asked. It peeked his curiosity to think that she would think anything of their relationship before because he did but he wanted to know if she did as well.
"The past Inuyasha. A place that no one can stay forever." She said as she looked into his eyes.
Her grayish purple orbs had such loneliness in them that it hurt when she /really/ looked at him. Inuyasha could see her soul in her eyes and he knew she had changed not just her attitude and actions but the experiences she had while unable to come through the well, dented her soul. Her actual soul didn't change. It just was now wrinkled with a saddened twinge.
Her gaze flashed toward him again before she turned to go to her room.
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Inuyasha stared helplessly at the people rushing around Kagome, trying to put tubes on her and shine lights on her body.
'I don't care what they do. Just bring back Kagome!' Inuyasha gave a hard glare and fisted the hand on the glass so that he drew blood on his callused palm.
'I wasn't able to protect her, but I swear...................... If the Gods give restore her back to health, I will do everything and anything to keep her safe from now on!'
'I couldn't protect her' he thought as he reminisced on the events earlier that evening.
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Kagome looked around the room. Inuyasha was snoring slightly and............... was he purring?!
She giggled at the thought. Slowly walking over to him she looked down at his sleeping face.
"What I wouldn't give to go back 5 months and know that you did care about me."
'It doesn't matter now, though. I belong to Sonaki. He's my responsibility. I owe him my life.'
Kagome quietly changed into a loose fitting navy tank top and black jeans with sneakers and tied her hair up in a pony tail.
She tip- toed to her window and creaked it open as quietly as she could.
After throwing her right leg over the ledge she took one last glance at Inuyasha, who was still sleeping soundly.
She smiled at him slightly, ' This is something I have to go to. Don't think of me any different because of it.'
Then she jump out the rest of the way with the stealth and sleekness of a cat and ran down to the address Sonaki gave her.
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Inuyasha smiled as he rolled over on Kagome's mattress and took a deep breath of her scent.
Kagome's scent was the best in the world: Natural, clean, pure, and just Kagome..... he could get drunk on it's fresh tang for hours..........................
hours?
'Speaking of hours, her scent is old............... Where is she?' Suddenly Inuyasha was completely awake and running down the steps as quickly and quietly as he cared. She wasn't in the Kitchen or the living room.............. or the well house..................
Inuyasha took a deep breath........................
She wasn't in the house at all.
He followed her scent out the window, not caring that he was wearing only sagging gray sweat pants and an old worn cotton shirt.
Her scent went down a few blocks, past the town in her area, down lefts, and rights, and curves , and EVERYTHING!
Until finally he found her.
She was next to Sonaki across from six or seven guys. All of the guys smelled horrible, wreaking of sake and smoke. Some of the guys carried the stench of other peoples blood on them.
It was disgusting, especially to a hanyou with sensitive smelling.
Luckily Inuyasha hid his disgust and lurked in the dark. It wasn't a difficult thing to do considering that the place they were in was quite dark, with only one street light as a saving grace. It shined on Kagome and Sonaki whose back's faced the brick wall of the alley. They were cornered by seven guys.
'What is Kagome do-' Inuyasha was interrupted.
"We has a DEAL 'Naki. You give us what we want............. And we GRACIOUSLY give you what you want." The middle man said. He was obviously the leader of the group.
"I gave you my best supply, what more do you want." Sonaki protested. He sounded less confident than the last time he and Inuyasha conversed.
'Ofcourse then he was beating Kagome.' Inuyasha's fists clenched in anger.
"Ah, yes..... Your supply." The middle man walked to a black bag in the middle between Kagome and Sonaki and the seven dwarfs.
"Your supply seems to be a LITTLE low................." He said as he lifted- Inuyasha didn't know what they were. Some were silver and black, all were shiny but he had no idea what they did. Or what they were.
Kagome looked worriedly at Sonaki, but it was only a fleeting response as she turned hard wary eyes to members of the group who were checking her out.
"It's NOT low, you said 12 by Saturday. That's exactly what I gave you! Now I want you to fulfill your end of the deal." Sonaki countered walking closer to the middle man and earning death glares from the men surrounding them.
"If you throw in the girl.- he cast a quick glance at Kagome- I'll except your deal and pay you extra. For your-......... troubles." The middle man smiled, displaying his lack of dental hygiene.
"Now wait just a second-" Kagome started forward, eyes flashing, but received a glance from Sonaki that told her to hush up fast.
Inuyasha growled at her submission to Sonaki's glare.
'What happened to Kagome? 'Ka-Go-ME!' The strong willed, witty, kind, beautiful girl he always loved?'
"If you don't accept my supply than I'll just be going." Sonaki made to grab for the bag but the Middle man took it and hit him in the face with it.
Sonaki fell to the ground.
"Sonaki!" Kagome cried and ran to him.
She kneeled down beside him and smoothed away his hair to blow lightly on his swelling bruise.
She glared up at the middle man.
"That was UNCALLED FOR! He GAVE you his supplies, why couldn't you just take it and go?" She screamed at him.
The middle man grabbed her upper arms and drew her in close.
"I like my women feisty. It makes it more entertaining when we break them!" He whispered to her.
Kagome broke one arm free and slapped him across the face. Momentarily stunned, the middle man released her. She tried to pick up Sonaki and get him out. but before she could get very far the middle man pulled a silver "Supply" out and pointed it at Kagome. Inuyasha began to move towards the man, but it was too late.
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BANG
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There was a huge burst of light and then the after smell of smoke. Kagome collapsed to the ground with Sonaki's arm over her shoulder.
Inuyasha ran as fast as he could.
Sonaki looked around and then down at Kagome and snuck off.
By the time Inuyasha finally reached her everyone else was gone. The seven men fled as soon as the blast occurred.
Inuyasha carefully flipped Kagome over and was suddenly overwhelmed with the scent of Kagome's blood.
Nothing wrenched his heart more than the sight of Kagome bleeding.
Kagome's eyes were open and looking at him.
Inuyasha grabbed her face and looked into her dazed eyes.
"Inu- Yasha.......... Your here......................" she whispered.
"Yes Kagome! It's me! Oh, Gods, what do I do Kagome? Your losing too much blood!" Inuyasha babbled sounding absolutely frantic.
Kagome slowly lifted her hand to touch his cheek.
"I wanted you to be my last sight." She said and closed her eyes.
"Kagome?! Kagome! Tell me! What do I do?!" he screamed. 'Don't leave. Don't go away................'
She finally mumbled, "Amiki..........."
Carefully he gathered Kagome into his arms, "Amiki"
And that is exactly where Inuyasha went.
TBC
