InuYasha's Dilema Written by: Night Ryder Posted by:SlingShotRubberDucky

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SlingShot:Come on! Come on! What happens to Inu?!

Night Ryder: Well I guess you'll have to read to find out.

SS:ohhhh... But I wanna know NOW!!!(Beak goes flying across room)

Night Ryder:(looks skyward) Thank You!

Chappie 2 "Kagome, when did you learn to fly?"

Inu dizzily looked around, but the room was spinning and swirling. Wait, a room? Where was his cave? Where was his tree? He groaned in dissapointment. His mouth felt like sawdust, and he was hungry. His left shoulder was numb, but his arm still throbbed. Then someone grabbed his arm, he growled deep in his throat. With a sharp tug they broke his arm again, He shrieked in pain. Then the arm was reset and wrapped in plaster bandages. All he could do was whimper and cry. He felt someone's hand on his head. "Don't hurt me anymore, please don't." he whined, Kagome was startled."InuYasha? You're awake? Are you hungry? Do you want something to drink?" She asked. "My arm..." He whimpered. "Sorry, but it was healing in the wrong position. It would have left you with a crippled limb. It had to be reset correctly. We thought you were unconcious." said an unfamiliar voice."InuYasha, this is my cousin, Kurama." Kagome said (A/N No, not the Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho. Kurama is Japanese for Denis!) "He's a doctor, and he's here to help you, not hurt you." Inu stared blankly. "I'm hungry." He said flatly. Kagome started spoonfeeding him, Kurama laid his hand on Inu's forehead. "Well, your fever has gone down and you're not halucinating, but the fever hasn't broken." He said, dissapointed. Kurama smiled at InuYasha. "You'd better start getting well soon, you're ruining my reputation." He kidded. InuYasha was not in a joking mood. "Look, your cousin broke my arm, now you break my arm, What next, the family dog will bite my ear off?" Inu said, voice dripping with sarcasm. Kurama only smiled and walked out. Inu suddenly felt tired. He looked to Kagome, but her image was fading. He started to panic, when everything went black. Kagome laid her hand against his head. It was hot again. "Oh Inu....." Kagome grumbled in exasperation. He started his mumbling again. Kagome sat and watched him for hours.
Inu was having wierd dreams, but what made them scarey was that he knew they were wierd, and there was nothing he could do about it. For one, Kagome was flying, without wings. Kagome was not supposed to fly. But she swooped down on him, and with a banshee-like screech knocked him to the ground. He landed on his injured limb, which sent a new wave of pain washing over him. Then a gilded dragon began to hunt him, and he was weaponless.
Kagome's vigil was becoming half hearted. She was getting bored with her charge. All he did was eat, sleep, and halucinate, he wasn't all that exciting to be around. The next day she told Kurama that she was tired of Inu and left. Kurama took care of Inu, but they didn't exactly get along. Inu didn't appreciate Kurama's humor, and Kurama wasn't particularly fond of caring for what he considered to be an escaped circus freak. Kurama finally left Inu at a Vet's office. Where else do you leave a sick animal? It wasn't long before the Vet Techs came in to work and one of them claimed Inu first.
InuYasha was actually feeling better. His arm only hurt a little, not so much that it bothered him. He had beaten the infection, and now he wanted to go home. Laura, the vet tech, was taking good care of him, and he liked her a whole lot more than Kurama, but he missed his tree, his homeland, hey, he even missed Kaede and Sesshomaru. In spite of that, even he had to admit ne would miss Laura: Laura was beautiful, with dark brown eyes and long, wavy, almost black hair. InuYasha was not above feigning sleepiness if it got him closer to her. The dogs had him figured out though. Then one day Laura came to him with a syringe. Without a bit of ceremony, she jabbed it into him and injected its contents. He grabbed his arm and growled at her. She didn't recoil in fear. " That was for your own good InuYasha, it will help keep you safe in the future." He flashed his canines in annoyance. " Stop that, now." Laura said. He shut his mouth and his ears flopped back in submission.
She x-rayed his arm a week later. " Looks good. Another week and you can go home," she said, stroking his soft head. It had taken a tranquilizer to get him to stay still for the x-ray, so Inu was dazed, groggy, and disoriented. He could have cared less that she was petting him, but it felt so good. Seeing how much Inu enjoyed the extra attention, Laura rubbed his neck and shoulders too. His ears went limp as he relaxed. Kenneth, Laura's co-worker, lifted InuYasha and started to carry him out to Laura's car, Inu's eyes smouldered in anger, and he bared his teeth to bite. Laura pulled something tight around his neck, choking him. " You have to stop trying to bite people." she said, loosening her grip and letting him move. Eyes big as saucers and ears laid flat back, Inu gave her a terrified look. It had only been his hair that she'd choked him with, but it got the message across that she was not one to be messed with.