A/N- Oh gosh, I'm soooo sorry that I haven't updated, it's just you know with school and all, then I'm writing this play for this contest I'm entering…. Seeing how I want to be a writer, and this is a great opportunity, if my play is chosen… I'm really into Theatre so I hope to win and go to the International Competition in the Summer.
Disclaimer- No time for this nonsense…. ;)
Ch. 13- Desperation…
He ran, not knowing where or when he'd stop… all he knew was the scent of his victim. The rain beat down hard that day, it was as if the sky felt Inuyasha's pain and wept openly for him. The buildings and trees blurred as he ran past, searching for the owner of the disgusting scent. "I'll find him… I'll kill him… just wait…' Inuyasha's anger heightened as he came closer and closer to his destination.
Miroku cradled Sango in his arms as the doctor spoke. The doctor's words seem to all run together and jumble in Sango's head, all that was clear was that Kagome was in critical condition and may not make it through the night.
"I'm sorry, but Miss Higurashi has sustained serious damage to her left air lung, and the impact penetrated her lower…" The doctor's words fell upon deaf ears, neither Miroku nor Sango cared to hear about all the medical details.
"May we see her?" Miroku managed to say through the quickly drying tears streaking his face.
"I'm sorry, but not now, maybe if she becomes stable."
"'If'? You mean to tell me she… won't survive?" Miroku held Sango closer and awaited the doctor's answer, but none came. The doctor simply shook his head and left the two to deal.
After sometime Sango fell asleep on the waiting room couch and Miroku went to go call Inuyasha's cell. "I hope he hasn't done anything stupid… but I need to tell him what the verdict is." Miroku paused for a moment, "Maybe I shouldn't… he may not take it to well, he may react violently…" Miroku closed his cell phone and walked back to the sleeping Sango, it was going to be a long night.
Inuyasha's muscles ached and his body was exhausted from running the whole time, but he could not feel anything. Finally Inuyasha came to his destination, a ramshackle little coffee shop. It looked to be closed indefinitely, the perfect place for youkai to meet and convene in privacy. Inuyasha's blood pulsated throughout his entire body… aching for the need to kill. He leapt up and landed straight through the roof of the building, his feet bleeding from landing on the broken rubble.
"Who the fuck are you?" A youkai yelled approaching Inuyasha.
Inuyasha said nothing, lifted his head and sniffed the air, shifted his gaze over toward a corner of the building, toward a crowd of assorted youkai. This place was obviously a bar of some sort, a refuge for the youkai, when they weren't out killing. Inuyasha began to walk in the direction of the crowd.
"Excuse me, asshole, you gonna pay for that?" The same youkai for before grabbed Inuyasha's shoulder before he could escape.
Inuyasha turned to look at him, his eyes were deep red, the color of blood. "Let go…" He growled in warning.
"Wow, calm down, fine." The youkai immediately let go and backed up, holding his hands up in surrender.
Inuyasha returned to his mission. As he approached his vision became cloudy and all he could see was one figure, the one on the left of the group, a wolf youkai… 'Wolf? WOLF!!!!????' Inuyasha's mind was racing with visions of Kouga, but this youkai was not him, his scent was different, but a wolf youkai nonetheless.
"Hey, buddy, what do you want, this is a private conversation." One of the larger youkai turned to confront the approaching hanyou.
"Are you stopping me?" Inuyasha questioned, never taking his gaze off of the wolf youkai.
"Yeah, got a problem, hanyou?" The burly youkai countered standing straight.
"No, none." Inuyasha answered simply. Then he turned quickly to meet the youkai's eyes. Inuyasha smiled devilishly as he reached up and grabbed the youkai's throat, and applied pressure.
"What the…" The youkai began, but was cut off as Inuyasha's fingers penetrated his vocal cords and continued until his hand was now immersed within the youkai's throat.
"Don't get in my way." Inuyasha ripped his hand out of the youkai and allowed the lifeless body to fall to the floor. Inuyasha switched his attention the quickly dispersing crowd of people. "Where are you?" Inuyasha sniffed the air and quickly tracked down the asshole again. He cornered his victim and quickly closed the gap between them.
Kagome's breathing was labored as she slowly opened her eyes, her senses were brought back by the shooting pains through her entire being. She tried to move her head, but all she received was an indescribable pain. She gazed at the blinding white light that illuminated her surroundings that still remained mysterious to her. 'What happened?' Kagome's voice failed her as she tried to call out. 'Where am I?' She could not feel her lower body. 'Paralyzed? Is that what I am?' Her memories of falling began to return to her, she could feel the pavement connect all over again. Tears welled in the corners of her eyes.
"You have regained consciousness e… that's good." A voice came, but Kagome could not move her head to meet the speaker. "How are you? Does it still hurt?" A face leaned over Kagome, she could see it was the doctor, or at least that's what she supposed, he wore a white coat and had a medical identification on his pocket. "Can you hear me?"
'Yes… yes… please hear me…' Kagome tried desperately to communicate with the doctor.
"Hmmm, well you seem responsive… I will run some tests to find some answers." The doctor smiled reassuringly, "Please get some rest, it is late… if you can hear me Miss Higurashi." He walked away and Kagome heard the door click, then the lights went out, she was left in the blackness.
'No! Please come back… turn on the lights… please not the dark…' Kagome thought desperately, trying to move any part of her body, but none would listen, she was completely alone, again. 'Inuyasha, why aren't you here? Where are you?' Kagome could feel the tears fall, but that was all she felt before drifting into a distressing sleep, where she found no comfort in her dreams. The same dream as before, that always plagued her, though when she woke she would never remember what she had seen that caused her so much turmoil, all she knew was it was dark there.
Inuyasha tried desperately to restrain his youkai half from taking over completely, but he was losing quickly. "Tell me… why…" Inuyasha strained his voice.
"Why what? What the fuck do you want from me? I have no idea who you are." The youkai tried to sound convincing, but his trembling body told otherwise.
"Why, the fuck did you try to kill Kagome?" Inuyasha was becoming even more enraged.
"Kagome? I don't know a Kagome…" Suddenly the youkai's eyes filled with realization. "Oh, you mean the miko… she did it herself, she threw herself out the window, I thought she was insane."
Inuyasha was about to fall completely into his youkai instincts. "LIAR!! Kagome would never try to kill herself! Tell me the truth now before I kill you, not that it matters now." Inuyasha flexed his claws in anticipation of the kill.
"N… no I swear, she threw herself over the edge. All I wanted was the jewel, I wasn't going to throw her out of the ride… but I wanted the jewel first, she mumbled something about her 'savior' and jumped." The youkai was trembling and stuttering.
Inuyasha relaxed a little. 'Her 'savior'?' Inuyasha searched the youkai's eyes for any thread of a lie… but found none. "She actually said that…"
The youkai eased a little, sensing that the danger was gone. "Yeah, she seemed really set on the fact that she wasn't going to get hurt. Man, stupid women nowadays, she even took the jewel with her when she jumped, then she caused a major scene and I couldn't get close to her."
"Shut-up…" Inuyasha gazed straight into the youkai again, this time his eyes were cloudy and unapproachable.
"Hey, hey man, come on, you wanted that jewel too? We can work togeth…" Inuyasha's claws shot out and pierced right through his lower abdomen.
"Still, she would not have jumped if you did not threaten her." Inuyasha twisted his arm, enjoying the screams of pain it invoked. "Bastard…"
"Why you… ugly… hanyou…" The youkai spit out through the blood that was spilling from his mouth and wound.
"You can still talk?" Inuyasha's fangs grew and his eyes became even darker and cloudier. He lounged his teeth into the base of the youkai's throat and began to rip and tear at the skin, bathing in the blood he was now drenched in. His youkai instincts were clouding his thoughts of reason, all he could see and think was the screams and the blood.
Miroku was rudely shaken from his sleep next to Sango in the hospital's waiting room. He looked to see who had awaken him, the doctor. "Has something happened?"
"I'm sorry to wake you like that, but you were not responding to my calls. I just thought I'd let you know that Miss Higurashi has regained consciousness, but she is not out of the woods yet. I ran some tests, and everything seems fine, for the moment. She can physically recover, with the exception of a broken leg and wrist, but most of her injuries seem to stem from her mind. She can not talk or move her body, but there is not physical condition preventing those actions, thus it must be psychological." By now Sango had come to stand next to Miroku, she was calm this time not in the emotional state as before.
"So, you're saying she has a chance?" Sango said finally.
"Yes, but it is up to her, there is nothing more we can do. The only thing I wanted to ask you was, how she hit the ground. From the height she fell, it is amazing she is even able to breath, let alone fully recover. I was just wondering if anything had hindered her fall in any way."
"Umm, yes, she hit the popcorn tent and rolled off it to the ground. Could that have reduced her injuries?" Miroku thought, trying to remember the event clearly.
"Hmmm, yes that would have reduced the injuries considerably. Thank-you for your help, that explains a lot. You may see Miss Higurashi in the morning, right now she needs her rest… maybe that will solve some issues she has within her." The doctor looked at Miroku and Sango one last time and said, "You are welcome to stay here tonight, they are cots in the closet over there, help yourselves." With that he turned and walked away.
"Sango, can you get the cots? I need to make a phone call." Miroku reached for his phone.
"Yeah, make sure to tell him… there's a cot waiting for him here, if he decides to join us." Sango smiled knowingly and went to retrieve the cots.
Miroku smiled and walked to the hallway. He dialed the numbers and waited as the phone rang.
The ringing phone in his pocket went almost unnoticed as Inuyasha finished off the last of the youkai in the underground bar. Having the time of his life, the reason why he came was forgotten. He hurried to the next youkai and began to bash him around, during the rumble, his phone fell from his pocket to the ground and opened as it fell. A familiar voice cam from the phone.
"Inuyasha? Hey, Inuyasha? Are you there?" Miroku's voice called from the discarded phone.
Inuyasha ignored the voice, it went unregistered in his thoughts, all he could see was his next victim, his next kill. He continued to destroy the youkai until something struck at his heart.
"…Kagome…"
Inuyasha stopped and turned to the voice. His eyes clearing a bit, flecks of gold could be seen. His fangs retracting back into his gums. He darted to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?" His voice still held a bit of a demonic tone.
"Inuyasha?" Miroku's voice sounded disbelieving.
"Yes… is she alive?" His voice started to sound normal again, but the blood still stained his shirt and skin.
"Please, come down here Inuyasha. The doctor says she has regained consciousness, but most of her injuries are psychological. I'm sure you'd be of great help to her right now."
"I'll be there soon." Inuyasha closed the phone and surveyed the scene in which he stood. "I did all of this?" He gapped at all the bodies and carnage he caused, it scared him. He recognized Kagome's attacker, barely, there was not much left of his body. Inuyasha felt no regret for his actions toward the youkai, but toward the other ones he had attacked, he felt some sorrow… they had done nothing, to his knowledge… but still, he lost control. He had a nagging thought in the back of his head, that somehow, in some way Kouga was involved in what had happened at the amusement park, but for the moment, his thoughts were else where… Kagome. Inuyasha jumped through the hole he had created when he first arrived and ran, despite his exhaustion, toward the hospital… toward his Kagome.
A/N- Okay. Another chapter done… I hope no one is too mad at me for not updating as fast as you would have liked… but you know, life happens. So this time I won't make any promises about my updating schedule, all I'll say is I will try as hard as I can to update soon. Bu I will say this, REVIEWS DO HELP A LOT!!!!! Actually it was a reviews from writerlover101 and Crystal Sapphire that inspired me to write this chapter, not so much inspired as made me feel guilty for not updating on time… so the more reviews I get, the more I update, this is not a way to get more review, it's just a fact.
So Review, and I will write faster, and post faster!!!! Thanx writerlover101 and Crystal Sapphire!!!!!
AND TO ALL MY OTHER REVIEWERS I LOVE YOU ALL THANK-YOU!!!!!
Disclaimer- No time for this nonsense…. ;)
Ch. 13- Desperation…
He ran, not knowing where or when he'd stop… all he knew was the scent of his victim. The rain beat down hard that day, it was as if the sky felt Inuyasha's pain and wept openly for him. The buildings and trees blurred as he ran past, searching for the owner of the disgusting scent. "I'll find him… I'll kill him… just wait…' Inuyasha's anger heightened as he came closer and closer to his destination.
Miroku cradled Sango in his arms as the doctor spoke. The doctor's words seem to all run together and jumble in Sango's head, all that was clear was that Kagome was in critical condition and may not make it through the night.
"I'm sorry, but Miss Higurashi has sustained serious damage to her left air lung, and the impact penetrated her lower…" The doctor's words fell upon deaf ears, neither Miroku nor Sango cared to hear about all the medical details.
"May we see her?" Miroku managed to say through the quickly drying tears streaking his face.
"I'm sorry, but not now, maybe if she becomes stable."
"'If'? You mean to tell me she… won't survive?" Miroku held Sango closer and awaited the doctor's answer, but none came. The doctor simply shook his head and left the two to deal.
After sometime Sango fell asleep on the waiting room couch and Miroku went to go call Inuyasha's cell. "I hope he hasn't done anything stupid… but I need to tell him what the verdict is." Miroku paused for a moment, "Maybe I shouldn't… he may not take it to well, he may react violently…" Miroku closed his cell phone and walked back to the sleeping Sango, it was going to be a long night.
Inuyasha's muscles ached and his body was exhausted from running the whole time, but he could not feel anything. Finally Inuyasha came to his destination, a ramshackle little coffee shop. It looked to be closed indefinitely, the perfect place for youkai to meet and convene in privacy. Inuyasha's blood pulsated throughout his entire body… aching for the need to kill. He leapt up and landed straight through the roof of the building, his feet bleeding from landing on the broken rubble.
"Who the fuck are you?" A youkai yelled approaching Inuyasha.
Inuyasha said nothing, lifted his head and sniffed the air, shifted his gaze over toward a corner of the building, toward a crowd of assorted youkai. This place was obviously a bar of some sort, a refuge for the youkai, when they weren't out killing. Inuyasha began to walk in the direction of the crowd.
"Excuse me, asshole, you gonna pay for that?" The same youkai for before grabbed Inuyasha's shoulder before he could escape.
Inuyasha turned to look at him, his eyes were deep red, the color of blood. "Let go…" He growled in warning.
"Wow, calm down, fine." The youkai immediately let go and backed up, holding his hands up in surrender.
Inuyasha returned to his mission. As he approached his vision became cloudy and all he could see was one figure, the one on the left of the group, a wolf youkai… 'Wolf? WOLF!!!!????' Inuyasha's mind was racing with visions of Kouga, but this youkai was not him, his scent was different, but a wolf youkai nonetheless.
"Hey, buddy, what do you want, this is a private conversation." One of the larger youkai turned to confront the approaching hanyou.
"Are you stopping me?" Inuyasha questioned, never taking his gaze off of the wolf youkai.
"Yeah, got a problem, hanyou?" The burly youkai countered standing straight.
"No, none." Inuyasha answered simply. Then he turned quickly to meet the youkai's eyes. Inuyasha smiled devilishly as he reached up and grabbed the youkai's throat, and applied pressure.
"What the…" The youkai began, but was cut off as Inuyasha's fingers penetrated his vocal cords and continued until his hand was now immersed within the youkai's throat.
"Don't get in my way." Inuyasha ripped his hand out of the youkai and allowed the lifeless body to fall to the floor. Inuyasha switched his attention the quickly dispersing crowd of people. "Where are you?" Inuyasha sniffed the air and quickly tracked down the asshole again. He cornered his victim and quickly closed the gap between them.
Kagome's breathing was labored as she slowly opened her eyes, her senses were brought back by the shooting pains through her entire being. She tried to move her head, but all she received was an indescribable pain. She gazed at the blinding white light that illuminated her surroundings that still remained mysterious to her. 'What happened?' Kagome's voice failed her as she tried to call out. 'Where am I?' She could not feel her lower body. 'Paralyzed? Is that what I am?' Her memories of falling began to return to her, she could feel the pavement connect all over again. Tears welled in the corners of her eyes.
"You have regained consciousness e… that's good." A voice came, but Kagome could not move her head to meet the speaker. "How are you? Does it still hurt?" A face leaned over Kagome, she could see it was the doctor, or at least that's what she supposed, he wore a white coat and had a medical identification on his pocket. "Can you hear me?"
'Yes… yes… please hear me…' Kagome tried desperately to communicate with the doctor.
"Hmmm, well you seem responsive… I will run some tests to find some answers." The doctor smiled reassuringly, "Please get some rest, it is late… if you can hear me Miss Higurashi." He walked away and Kagome heard the door click, then the lights went out, she was left in the blackness.
'No! Please come back… turn on the lights… please not the dark…' Kagome thought desperately, trying to move any part of her body, but none would listen, she was completely alone, again. 'Inuyasha, why aren't you here? Where are you?' Kagome could feel the tears fall, but that was all she felt before drifting into a distressing sleep, where she found no comfort in her dreams. The same dream as before, that always plagued her, though when she woke she would never remember what she had seen that caused her so much turmoil, all she knew was it was dark there.
Inuyasha tried desperately to restrain his youkai half from taking over completely, but he was losing quickly. "Tell me… why…" Inuyasha strained his voice.
"Why what? What the fuck do you want from me? I have no idea who you are." The youkai tried to sound convincing, but his trembling body told otherwise.
"Why, the fuck did you try to kill Kagome?" Inuyasha was becoming even more enraged.
"Kagome? I don't know a Kagome…" Suddenly the youkai's eyes filled with realization. "Oh, you mean the miko… she did it herself, she threw herself out the window, I thought she was insane."
Inuyasha was about to fall completely into his youkai instincts. "LIAR!! Kagome would never try to kill herself! Tell me the truth now before I kill you, not that it matters now." Inuyasha flexed his claws in anticipation of the kill.
"N… no I swear, she threw herself over the edge. All I wanted was the jewel, I wasn't going to throw her out of the ride… but I wanted the jewel first, she mumbled something about her 'savior' and jumped." The youkai was trembling and stuttering.
Inuyasha relaxed a little. 'Her 'savior'?' Inuyasha searched the youkai's eyes for any thread of a lie… but found none. "She actually said that…"
The youkai eased a little, sensing that the danger was gone. "Yeah, she seemed really set on the fact that she wasn't going to get hurt. Man, stupid women nowadays, she even took the jewel with her when she jumped, then she caused a major scene and I couldn't get close to her."
"Shut-up…" Inuyasha gazed straight into the youkai again, this time his eyes were cloudy and unapproachable.
"Hey, hey man, come on, you wanted that jewel too? We can work togeth…" Inuyasha's claws shot out and pierced right through his lower abdomen.
"Still, she would not have jumped if you did not threaten her." Inuyasha twisted his arm, enjoying the screams of pain it invoked. "Bastard…"
"Why you… ugly… hanyou…" The youkai spit out through the blood that was spilling from his mouth and wound.
"You can still talk?" Inuyasha's fangs grew and his eyes became even darker and cloudier. He lounged his teeth into the base of the youkai's throat and began to rip and tear at the skin, bathing in the blood he was now drenched in. His youkai instincts were clouding his thoughts of reason, all he could see and think was the screams and the blood.
Miroku was rudely shaken from his sleep next to Sango in the hospital's waiting room. He looked to see who had awaken him, the doctor. "Has something happened?"
"I'm sorry to wake you like that, but you were not responding to my calls. I just thought I'd let you know that Miss Higurashi has regained consciousness, but she is not out of the woods yet. I ran some tests, and everything seems fine, for the moment. She can physically recover, with the exception of a broken leg and wrist, but most of her injuries seem to stem from her mind. She can not talk or move her body, but there is not physical condition preventing those actions, thus it must be psychological." By now Sango had come to stand next to Miroku, she was calm this time not in the emotional state as before.
"So, you're saying she has a chance?" Sango said finally.
"Yes, but it is up to her, there is nothing more we can do. The only thing I wanted to ask you was, how she hit the ground. From the height she fell, it is amazing she is even able to breath, let alone fully recover. I was just wondering if anything had hindered her fall in any way."
"Umm, yes, she hit the popcorn tent and rolled off it to the ground. Could that have reduced her injuries?" Miroku thought, trying to remember the event clearly.
"Hmmm, yes that would have reduced the injuries considerably. Thank-you for your help, that explains a lot. You may see Miss Higurashi in the morning, right now she needs her rest… maybe that will solve some issues she has within her." The doctor looked at Miroku and Sango one last time and said, "You are welcome to stay here tonight, they are cots in the closet over there, help yourselves." With that he turned and walked away.
"Sango, can you get the cots? I need to make a phone call." Miroku reached for his phone.
"Yeah, make sure to tell him… there's a cot waiting for him here, if he decides to join us." Sango smiled knowingly and went to retrieve the cots.
Miroku smiled and walked to the hallway. He dialed the numbers and waited as the phone rang.
The ringing phone in his pocket went almost unnoticed as Inuyasha finished off the last of the youkai in the underground bar. Having the time of his life, the reason why he came was forgotten. He hurried to the next youkai and began to bash him around, during the rumble, his phone fell from his pocket to the ground and opened as it fell. A familiar voice cam from the phone.
"Inuyasha? Hey, Inuyasha? Are you there?" Miroku's voice called from the discarded phone.
Inuyasha ignored the voice, it went unregistered in his thoughts, all he could see was his next victim, his next kill. He continued to destroy the youkai until something struck at his heart.
"…Kagome…"
Inuyasha stopped and turned to the voice. His eyes clearing a bit, flecks of gold could be seen. His fangs retracting back into his gums. He darted to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?" His voice still held a bit of a demonic tone.
"Inuyasha?" Miroku's voice sounded disbelieving.
"Yes… is she alive?" His voice started to sound normal again, but the blood still stained his shirt and skin.
"Please, come down here Inuyasha. The doctor says she has regained consciousness, but most of her injuries are psychological. I'm sure you'd be of great help to her right now."
"I'll be there soon." Inuyasha closed the phone and surveyed the scene in which he stood. "I did all of this?" He gapped at all the bodies and carnage he caused, it scared him. He recognized Kagome's attacker, barely, there was not much left of his body. Inuyasha felt no regret for his actions toward the youkai, but toward the other ones he had attacked, he felt some sorrow… they had done nothing, to his knowledge… but still, he lost control. He had a nagging thought in the back of his head, that somehow, in some way Kouga was involved in what had happened at the amusement park, but for the moment, his thoughts were else where… Kagome. Inuyasha jumped through the hole he had created when he first arrived and ran, despite his exhaustion, toward the hospital… toward his Kagome.
A/N- Okay. Another chapter done… I hope no one is too mad at me for not updating as fast as you would have liked… but you know, life happens. So this time I won't make any promises about my updating schedule, all I'll say is I will try as hard as I can to update soon. Bu I will say this, REVIEWS DO HELP A LOT!!!!! Actually it was a reviews from writerlover101 and Crystal Sapphire that inspired me to write this chapter, not so much inspired as made me feel guilty for not updating on time… so the more reviews I get, the more I update, this is not a way to get more review, it's just a fact.
So Review, and I will write faster, and post faster!!!! Thanx writerlover101 and Crystal Sapphire!!!!!
AND TO ALL MY OTHER REVIEWERS I LOVE YOU ALL THANK-YOU!!!!!