Behind a Different Door
18
Intro of Idiots:
Fire: How about we just let them read the story this time without our endless chatting.
Raven: *Grabs vacuum. * You all shall die at my hands.
Fire: There you have it, a sleep deprived small person who was watching to much of Miroku's wind tunnel. *whistles* I don't even know her people.
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InuYasha rushed in a second later, and the first thing that he blurted out was "What the hell happened here?"
"I'll be back," Sesshoumaru said as he disappeared from the room. InuYasha knelt by her side and yelled at Shippou to shut up, and that she'd be fine.
But he wasn't ready for what Shippou told him.
His adopted sister had already stopped breathing.
Inu-Yasha wasn't exactly sure how to put the jumbled emotions he was feeling. Dread, mixed in with fear, worry, but none of the emotions seemed to be happiness. He knew he despised her, and he wouldn't mind if she just left, but he didn't want her to die. There was something about her cold, pale face that brought chills down his spine. There were two main questions racing in his mind 'Is she dying?' and 'Is this what Kikyou looked like when she died?'
He never got to see Kikyou's body, only the blood on the snow, and the stretcher they were going to take her away on. His heart shattered that day, and all the pieces were about to be stepped on again. (Fire: Wow, I wonder if I'm going to far with that....)
Sesshoumaru swung in a good minute later. "The phone lines been cut, and the only two cell phones service has been cancelled. We need to get her to the hospital." Before InuYasha could do anything, but watch Sesshoumaru picked her up, and started heading out of the room. InuYasha noticed the family doctor standing in the doorway.
"Look for any medication she might have taken. Something she could have eaten, or consumed." The doctor muttered waving his hand off as he quickly pursued Sesshoumaru down the steps.
InuYasha snapped out of shock getting on his feet. "Kid, do you know anything about-" He was about to question Shippou about the medication, but the child answered it before the question was even asked.
"Kagome took some, it was given to her at the hospital!"
Inu-Yasha arched an eyebrow, but grabbed Shippou heading down the steps. Sesshoumaru was out front laying Kagome out in the back of limo, and the doctor joined instantly.
"Here." Inu-Yasha stretched out the medication in his hand, as quick as his heart was beating. Sesshoumaru tossed it to the doctor who was desperately trying to get Kagome to breath again.
"Why aren't we taking your car?" InuYasha questioned about to hop in the front before Sesshoumaru stopped him.
"The tires were slashed. I know foul play hangs in the air, check it out, your just slow us down." And with that Sesshoumaru sped off in the car.
InuYasha stood stunned in the dust kicked up by the tires of the speeding car. Foul play? 'The phone line, the tires, the medication from the hospital- could it really be?' InuYasha stopped thinking abruptly when he heard a ruffle coming from the bushes.
He turned on his heel, and sped over to investigate. His attempts didn't matter thought, Kagura was already gone.
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From the moment Sesshoumaru drove off to the hospital, to the point of time Miroku pulled up in the driveway seemed like the longest stretch of time in Inu-Yasha's life. One the black car pulled up, Miroku didn't even have time to blink before InuYasha was inside yelling at him to head to the hospital.
"Now tell me, what exactly happened to Lady Kagome again?" Miroku questions as they headed through traffic. InuYasha grunted first before he started to speak.
"I'm not sure, Kagome just dropped. She stopped breathing and then we started to notice things Sesshoumaru says were foul play. The phone lines were cut, and someone cancelled our service on the cell phones. We couldn't call the ambulance. Then the tires were cut so we could hardly even drive to the hospital. The medication must have been tampered with in order to knock her out like that...."
"Do you think someone could really have a grudge against Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked hardly settling the tense mood in the car, and he turned left down another road.
"I don't know....maybe....." InuYasha said after a moment of silence deep in thought seconds before the car pulled up to the hospital.
InuYasha hopped up, darting to the front desk where Rumiko was waiting for him. She seemed in no hurry to bring him to Kagome. Her face was full of concern though.
InuYasha blurted out something that sounded like both 'Where is she?' and 'How is she?'
"Inu-Yasha you must calm down." She told him at first.
"Is she alright?" He hardly calmed down, and his mothers expression was the least bit calming.
Rumiko sighed, and lead him to the elevator. Once they were in, she clicked it to floor seven, and waited as the elevator lifted.
"Right now Kagome is in intensive care, apparently reacting to the medication. In a sense it was as if she swallowed poison." His mother gulped, but tried to keep her calm.
InuYasha bit his lips. He didn't want to tell her Sesshoumaru's theory, knowing it would upset her until she crumpled to the ground in tears. He didn't want that, nor did he want Kagome to die. At this moment he wasn't sure what to feel, and could never guess what Sesshoumaru was going through. Sesshoumaru seemed to care about her more than anyone else. Then again he hardly cared for anyone period. He wondered what was going thought Sesshoumaru's head. Did he like Kagome? Or did InuYasha himself like Kagome, or just hold onto her like she was the only piece of Kikyou he had left.
InuYasha nearly crumpled to the ground himself. The Shikon No Tama went missing after Kikyou's murder. They were probably thieves who were out for all they could steal. Rumiko had thanked God, at least they'd killed her before they did something horrible to her.
After Kikyou's death InuYasha felt like he was in hell, a fate worse then death knowing that it could be his fault. The fact that he was the one who let Kikyou go on her own, or gave her the jewel, and not see her protected.
Kikyou was dead, and now Kagome's life hung in the balance. He followed his mother off the elevator, and into a waiting room not allowed to go any further. Sesshoumaru stood by the wall, and Sango was sitting in one of the chairs. Miroku came in about a minute after. InuYasha took a seat next to his mother, as the painful silence stretched across the room.
It took a moment before InuYasha spoke.
"Do you think she's going to be alright?"
His mother answered in a soft voice.
"I can't answer that son. I just can't....."
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Conclusion of idiots:
Fire: Wow, Kagome's life hangs in the balance, and Raven isn't the least bit touched by it! She has no heart.
Raven: Hey, I'm just busy.
Fire: Doing what? You have no life------
Raven: And you have to much time on your hands!
Fire: Hey I'm not the one who dances in her sleep!
Raven: I'm not the one who cackles evilly in her sleep, and everyone knows I don't want to know what your cackling about.
Fire: To the point, leave your email if you want to get an email reminder thing that tells you it updated.
1286-unedited- un-proofread- typed with eyes closed...............