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Chapter 15
Kagome stood frozen to the spot. She couldn't understand it. Her eyes immediately scanned the area to see who had done it. But through out the rushing crowd of kids ducking for cover, she couldn't pinpoint the shooter.
She quickly changed her sight to Inuyasha. He had fallen to the ground, sitting back against the wall with a hand over his stomach – the wounded spot. Running over to him, she slid down next to him and pulled his hand away to reveal blood, not a river, but enough. "Are you gunna be okay?" she sobbed.
" eh-yea." The hanyou groaned. His eyes scrunched in pain. "Did you see – ah – who it was?"
Kagome let a tear go down. "No, I tried to find them, but I couldn't." Kids just scrambled all around, running outside, going to the bathroom for shelter – but no sign of a gun-shooter.
"Inuyasha!" a male's voice yelled. Miroku appeared from the crowd, breathing heavily. "I know who it was!"
Sango was right behind him. "We chased them all the way to the city - *air break* - but lost them once we got to the city.
"Well spit it out! Who was it!" Inuyasha screamed lurching forward, but now regretting it.
"You'll never believe this…" Miroku started. He knelt down by his friend. "It was … it was … your brother."
Everyone gasped. Kagome was the first to speak. "You have a brother?!"
"Heh, figured he'd come after me sooner or later… it was bound to happen…" Inuyasha moaned, rolling his head against the wall.
"What? What was bound to happen?" Kagome half shouted, trying to shake him out of his paralyzed trance. But Inuyasha was out of it. He was unconscious. "INUYASHA!"
"It's okay, Kagome, he's only unconscious." Miroku comforted the worried girl.
"Clear the way!" a man shouted. It was the boys' basketball coach. He quickly was kneeling beside the unconscious boy. "What happened?" He asked quickly, leaning the still form against him.
"Well, he was… and then …" Kagome started, but was quickly sobbing in Sango's shoulder.
"What she means to say is he was fighting with Koga, then his br-, I mean, rival apparently fired a gun, injuring him." Miroku answered. "Will he be okay?"
"Yea, he'll be fine. Get the ambulance."
"I'll be fine…" Inuyasha said so quietly, hardly anyone heard him. That was, until he started to sit up.
"Stay here! We have paramedics on the way." The coach said pushing the hanyou to lay on the ground.
The wound had definitely let some blood shed. The whole area around the wound on his shirt was bloodied. He periodically brought his hand from his stomach into the air to see the blood shed. Damn, he thought. I knew he was there…but…I couldn't stop myself…I couldn't react… Inuyasha looked up at Kagome's teary face. "Hey, no tears…" he whispered, putting his clean hand on her cheek. She immediately brought her hands to his one and held his hand to her cheek.
"It's gunna be okay… the paramedics are here, they're gunna help…" Kagome said calmly.
"Idiot, I know that…" he teased. "See you guys later…" the hanyou said pulling his hand from Kagome's grasp and was carried off by paramedics.
"Bye…" The concerned girl whispered, pulling herself to a standing position.
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That day went by slower than a snail with a jet pack on peanut butter… (don't ask…^_^)
But once that last bell rang, practice or not, Kagome was going to that hospital. But getting the ride there was the hard part. She searched frantically for either Sango or Miroku, but realized they were at practice…so who could she turn to?
Sighing, she pulled out her cell phone and called up… her brother. "Hi Sota, it's me. Listen, can you come get me at school and take me somewhere… no, just the hospital… a friend was, injured and I want to visit him… NO! He's not a boyfriend! Just come get me…" Now the waiting began…
*insert jeopardy theme song*
Finally, the young boy came tearing around the corner and stopped with a screech by Kagome. "Hurry up! I'm going somewhere!" he shouted.
Kagome quickly ran to the car. "Hospital and quick…" she said strapping her seat belt on – for obvious reasons.
Her wish was granted. In less than 5 minutes, they were there, despite the fact that the hospital was on the OTHER side of town…and they had to get through traffic….
"Thanks…" Kagome said as her brother sped off. " –For the ride." She finished. The girl shrugged and walked in and up to the receptionist desk. "Hello, I'm looking for Inuyasha Yomitsu?"
The young woman of no more than 22 chewed her gum very… cow-idly and flipped through some papers. "Well *smack* he's on the *bubble pop* 5th floooh (u know, that snotty way people talk? Like that…). Anythin' aelse?"
"Room number?" Kagome pointed out the obvious. This girl had probably gotten in for her looks… Kagome thought mentally slapping her self for seeing there were about 4 other women she could have picked from…on either side of this twit.
"591." She responded girlishly.
"Thank you…" Kagome said sarcastically. She meandered her way through the small crowds and up to the fifth floor to room 517. Well, this is the place… she told herself, knocking on the door.
"Come in…" a muffled voice said.
Kagome opened the door slowly to peeked her head around the corner. "Hi." She squeaked sneaking in and closing the door behind her.
"H-hi." Inuyasha stuttered. "What're you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at practice?"
"Naw. I couldn't stand to not know how you were doing…I had to come see you." She said sitting in the chair beside his bed. Inuyasha sat quietly, looking at the tv. He was resting on the bed, on top of the covers with nothing more than a simple pair of sport short – which meant he was topless…( 0_0 ….. ^_^_^_^_^) Kagome noticed this and blushed. "You… do realize that you're sitting on a bed…. Topless….. with *just* your shorts on? Don't you?"
Inuyasha smirked. "So what? If I'm forced to be in this nightmare of a place, I get some free will, don't I?" he glanced at the girl to his side, who was attempting to stare at the tv… but failing horribly. "Look if it bothers you…" he started, but once he attempted to sit up… the pain struck.
"You okay?" Kagome asked hurriedly when Inuyasha quickly laid back down.
"Yea." He moaned. Luckily, the bandages had stopped him from moving much, but it still hurt.
Kagome sat back down. Minutes passed with uncomfortable silence. Finally the tv went off. "What was that for?" Kagome asked after the long pause of nothingness.
Inuyasha rolled over on his side, as far as he could go without pain, that is. "Have you ever been… caught?"
Kagome was stumped by his question. "Caught?"
"In the middle of something. Like an argument, or fight?"
Thinking deeply, the girl shook her head. "No. I don't think I can say I have. I've been the *cause* of things, but never caught… Why do you ask?"
"No reason…" The hanyou said turning back on his back (irony…)
The two sat in silence again. Finally, Kagome started something that surprised even herself. "What is a friend?"
Inuyasha look at her suspiciously. "What?"
"It's by Aristotle. What is a friend?" she repeated. Glancing at the hanyou and seeing he was totally oblivious to the whole thing she finished her own question. "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Those words must have caused some sort of reaction in the air, because as soon as those words left Kagome's mouth, the room was filled with a mysterious feeling. An indescribable feeling.
But this special moment was short-lived when Inuyasha sat up and looked out the window. "He's back…" he said quietly.
"Who? Who's back?" Kagome asked standing up.
"Get down…" Inuyasha whispered getting off the bed despite the pain. He quickly grabbed his shirt and they slipped out of the room – amazingly, being spotted by no one.
No sooner had the turned the corner, a loud explosion could be heard from none other than the room they just came out of. "What was that?!" Nurses yelled scrambling around to the room.
"We gotta get outta here!" Inuyasha yelled pulling on the t-shirt. He looked around and saw the elevator had been shut down. He ran to the stairs, but he looked down and saw the entire stairwell was filled with smoke. This left them one option – windows. "Come here," the hanyou insisted. Kagome quickly walked over to him beside the window and looked out. She gulped.
"Can you do it?" the girl asked in a timid voice.
"Do what?" Inuyasha asked looking at the girl in a puzzled matter.
"Jump it… can you make it?"
"Yea… there's a ledge not far down. I can make it." He reassured. "Get on." The hanyou said bending down.
"What?! Me? Riding on your back? No way…"
"Just don't ask questions! We don't have time." Inuyasha grumbled standing up and grabbing her hand and pulling her closer. "Unless you want to die, get on." He threatened.
Kagome, now without hesitation, got on. With a firm hold on his shoulders, Inuyasha opened the window and quickly hopped on the ledge. A quick glance around, and Inuyasha fell to the small ledge about 2 floors down. Luckily, being demon helps in these cases. He easily used it as a makeshift lever and leapt with amazing height into the air. Soon they were soaring over the parking lot, coming to a landing just feet after the curb.
Kagome turned around quickly to see the hospital fade into the distance as they headed away from all the crowded city streets and headed away from it all. But she didn't know this was the way to his house.
Less than 5 minutes later, Inuyasha was walking alongside Kagome in bare feet to his home. Suddenly, Kagome spoke up. "Back in the hospital room who did you say was back?"
"Huh? Oh… the guy who shot me…" he said in a monotone voice. "My brother… half brother." He corrected himself.
"You have a brother?" Kagome asked.
"Yea. Sadly. He was father's first."
"Why is he half brother to you?"
"He's full blooded demon, while I had a human mother, making me half blooded demon."
"Oh," was all Kagome could think of saying to a response like that.
They came to stop at the front door. Luckily, a spare key was hidden (but not telling where!! Cause then it wouldn't be secret, ne?) and Inuyasha had the door open and inside. "Hey, runt, where'd you go to?"
"Inuyasha!" the little tike yelled running out to greet his guardian. He stopped when he saw a strange (well, to him strange ^_^ thought I'd save confusion) woman standing in front of him. "Who's she?" Shippo asked.
"I'm Kagome." The girl said bending down to a more level height with the kitsune.
"I'm Shippo. Inuyasha here is taking care of me."
"Well, I'm sure he is! He better be doing a good job too!" she threatened jokingly at Inuyasha.
"Feh, the runt's fine." Inuyasha said crossing his arms and heading towards the kitchen.
Kagome followed him. "You live all alone here?" she asked him after catching a good glimpse of half of the house.
"Yea." He said from inside the fridge (…he's not locked in…0_o)
"How do you manage? I mean, not to say you're poor or anything…" she asked quietly.
"Got a small side job working with Miroku at some old guys construction business."
That's where the great body comes in… I mean, come on… tanned and muscular… ooo-weee!! Stop it Kagome….. shame, shame…
"How do you work it out with school?" Kagome asked sitting at the table.
"It's only a summer job. Otherwise I go with Miroku to work at the gym."
Kagome's jaw dropped mentally. Goodness gracious!! No wonder this guys in such good shape!
Inuyasha had just sat down and saw Kagome staring at nothing. "You okay?"
She shook out of it and a slight tinge of pink appeared. "Yea."
The hanyou set his soda down and pulled off the shirt. "Can you go get the ointment from the bathroom, this wound is kinda painful. And some gauze?"
"Uh huh." Kagome left and meandered her way to the bathroom, quickly found the ointment and gauze, and was back to find the bandage completely off his stomach. And no wound. Odd. "Here." She said tossing it at him. If she had to put it on, she'd die of too much red from blushing.
He looked at the small bottle and bandage, then back to her. "Naw, you put it on." He said with a smirk on his face and tossed the cream back at her.
"But you don't even have a mark from the bullet, doofus!" she shouted pointing at him.
"…So?" he smirked again.
"You arrogant, insignificant, twisted-minded, demented, perverted –" she was cut off.
"Bastard?" he finished for her.
"Yes. How'd that wound leave so fast?" she asked walking back over to her chair.
"I'm half demon, remember? Is your brain broken or something?" she said pointing his finger at his head. Kagome "hmph-ed" and crossed her arms in her chair. Mumbling something incoherent, she made this funny little face. Inuyasha snorted. "What was that face?!" he laughed.
Kagome turned to him with flames the size of the Sears tower in her eyes. Her eyebrow was twitching. "There is nothing wrong with my face!" she growled.
"Oh, you mean besides the fact that it's pretty?" he said quickly.
Kagome looked at him sharply. "What'd you say?"
"Your face. It's pretty." He said putting his hand out in front of him, as if planning a picture.
Kagome blushed. "Y-you think so?"
"Yea it's pretty…. Ugly." He teased.
Kagome was on him (whoa… settle down, not ON him, just, not THAT way…. Ew…) faster than he could react. She had his hair in her fists and was pulling hard, for a girl. "OW OW OW! YOU LET GO!"
"YOU LITTLE - *evil grin… and its Evil with a capital E* So, you think my face is pretty? Do you?" she said with the most evil tone of voice. Her actions switched from torment to something completely opposite. She was now sitting in his lap with her arm around his neck. "Well, you know what?"
Inuyasha was really shocked by the whole action change. "Wh-what are you doing?! Get off!" he said pushing her away, but she held with a firm hold.
Her hands went for the ears next. As soon as she made contact – the room was silent. Oh…………….. goodness…………………. They're ssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooo soft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kagome screamed.
Inuyasha didn't know what to do. He wanted her off, but not to stop. What's she doing? It's making me………….. a complete softy……. Damn, does she have a way with guys……….
Kagome stopped about…. 5 minutes later. Her face was so red, it wasn't even able to be told apart from the tomato plant. What – was – I – just – DOING?! "I have to go." She said quickly.
"Wait!" Inuyasha said grabbing her wrist as she was about to walk out. She looked at him curiously. Quick, an excuse! He thought. "D-don't tell anyone about this, k? I mean, where I live. Cause, they don't know about the whole money thing…" he said softly.
"Course. This never happened." Kagome said giving a quick wink.
This whole time, Shippo watched from behind the wall separating the kitchen and the living room. When Kagome turned to leave, she was startled to see the kitsune with swirly eyes and almost fainted. "What happened?" she asked.
"Feh, little runt was spying on us! I mean, me! I mean! Feh…." Inuyasha stuttered.
Kagome just smiled. "See ya later!" she said walking out the front door, having no idea it was miles to her house.
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A/N: ok…..AAAAWWW!!! I had to throw something the other way. It was too – depressing. So things are started up… finally… and the shooter is made known…. But why his brother? Don't we all know… and still, is Koga really the one who put the human Inuyasha picture on the news? I hope I know soon too!!!
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