Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha… I seriously do…. Why do you peoples NOT believe me?!?!?!?!? (cries)
AN: Just so you readers know, before you all start a militia, and flame me to ashes, I did not kill Miroku. How can I kill such a cool priest? I would not be able to sleep at night if I did. Okay, on with the story!
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Miracle WorkerCh. 7: "Our Lives in Chaos"
Shippou was asleep by the time 9:52 pm came about. That was when the phone rang; Inuyasha heard it, and since Kagome was in the shower, he decided to answer it. It was then that he heard a shrill, panicked voice bursting through the phone before he could say hello.
"KAGOME!! IT'S MIROKU!!!! OH GOD!!!! PLEASE COME TO THE HOSPITAL!!! HE'S IN REALLY BAD CONDITION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO!! PLEASE HELP ME, KAGOME!!!!"
Inuyasha heard the other woman on the end of the phone line sniff, crying from emotional distress.
"Calm down, Ms. Sango, Kagome is in the shower right now." Inuyasha informed.
There was a pause from Sango while she coughed from crying so hard.
"Please get her now, Inuyasha. Please, I beg of you." Sango pleaded in a choked voice.
Inuyasha hesitated; going into Kagome's bathroom while she is naked is like committing suicide. However, Inuyasha felt as if he owed Sango at least that much for helping him. Therefore, he agreed, set the phone down, and went to the bathroom door.
Inside, he heard Kagome singing another song that he never heard before, nor could he understand it because it was in another language.
Inuyasha knocked his knuckles on the closed door, and Kagome stopped singing. The water could still be heard running through the shower faucet, and Kagome had to talk over the rushing water and through the closed door.
"Yes?"
"Kagome, Sango is on the phone, and it sounds very much like an emergency." Inuyasha informed through the closed door.
There was a sound of squeaking faucets and the sound of rushing water cut out. Kagome came out a moment later, dripping wet, and in a blue bathrobe. She automatically went over to the phone.
"Sango?"
"KAGOME!!! PLEASE COME TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!!! OH GOD, IT'S MIROKU—"
"What happened to Miroku?" Kagome asked, now getting worried about the desperate, panicked voice of Sango.
"JUST PLEASE COME TO TOKYO HOSPITAL!!! PLEASE!!!!" Sango cried and then hiccupped.
"Okay, I'll be right there, just wait."
Kagome hung up the phone, and quickly ran into her bedroom. She threw on some clothes, and she desperately tried to dry her hair. When she came out, the back of her shirt was soaked, and her hair still dripped.
Kagome almost ran out the apartment until she saw Inuyasha standing in the dinning room, looking clueless.
"Oh, Inuyasha…" Kagome paused to think about what to do with him.
"Am I going to?" he asked with his arms crossed, casually leaning against the wall.
"Inuyasha, you can't come into a public place—"
"I have a feeling that this involves me, too."
Kagome blinked at Inuyasha while grabbing her keys.
"Inuyasha, how does this involve you?"
"I just have that feeling. It involves you, too."
Kagome hesitated, trying to decide what to do.
"…Okay," Kagome finally agreed. "But we have to disguise you at least a little."
Kagome got out a baseball cap, twisted Inuyasha's hair, and pinned it up, then slipped the cap over his thick, silver hair, and dog-ears.
"Almost forgot my cell phone…" Kagome exclaimed as she reached for the phone.
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When both Inuyasha and Kagome got to the hospital, they automatically went up to the front desk.
"Miroku Hoshi, please." Kagome told the desk clerk.
"Room 317." The desk clerk answered without looking at the pair.
When they entered the room, Sango turned around in her chair, looking at her best friend with red, puffy eyes, and she was sitting next to a trash bin full of used Kleenexes. Sango jumped up from her chair and hugged Kagome tightly, crying all over again.
Kagome looked at Miroku over Sango's shoulder. He had breathing tubes in his throat, an I.V. in his hand, and he was on a heart monitor. He looked dreadfully pale, and every so often, the beep of the heart monitor sounded, and the sucking noise of the breathing machine went around the room.
"The doctors said he's in a coma." Sango sobbed, still on Kagome's shoulder. "It was caused by the severe wound in his right lung, and whatever caused it was not human. According to the doctors, Miroku also put up a good fight."
Kagome sighed in disbelief, allowing Sango to continue to sob on her shoulder. Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably while leaning against the closed door. He felt very out-of-place because he seemed to not belong with the other three; he will always be alone in his life.
"I'm going to go get some water." Sango announced, her tongue clicking against her dry mouth.
"I'll get for you if you want." Kagome offered, looking at Miroku.
Sango shook her head and looked at her fiancée.
"No, it's okay. I'm sure he won't wake up any time soon." She exclaimed, her eyes still on Miroku.
"Okay." Kagome agreed.
Sango looked at the door, and saw Inuyasha standing there.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing here?" she asked.
"I…" he began, then shook his head. "Bitsuni… nothing."
Sango nodded, and Inuyasha moved away from the door so she could get through.
Kagome kept staring at Miroku, one of her best friends, who looked like he would not last another hour. However, he is a fighter; he will fight to keep his life.
A helpless feeling is not something anyone wants to feel, especially a doctor; and Doctor Higurashi looked at her friend, feeling completely helpless. Kagome turned to Inuyasha, who moved away from the door when Sango left. Suddenly, she threw herself in his arms, and silently cried.
"Why is this happening to Sango?" Kagome sobbed to a helpless and uncomfortable Inuyasha. "What is going on?"
Inuyasha hesitantly held Kagome, and looked at the poor man, lying on the bed, fighting for his life. He let go of Kagome, and strolled over to the bed.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked when Inuyasha started to turn Miroku over.
"Trying to see what kind of creature caused his wound." Inuyasha explained, finally succeeding in getting Miroku's dead weight to turn on his side. "Unfortunately, I need help getting his bandages off." He said grudgingly.
"Maybe when Sango comes back she'll help you."
"Fat chance of that." Inuyasha retorted and Miroku went down on his back none-to-gently.
"Sango…" Miroku moaned in pain.
"Well, at least he still has memory…" Inuyasha mumbled.
"What is going on, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, walking up to him. "You said at my apartment that this could involve me and you. How is that possible?"
"Remember those test results you got, and you told me I was set up for the murder?" Inuyasha asked and continued when Kagome nodded. "Well, this is just a theory… but what if the same guy that… Kikyo… was having an affair with, is also making these things happen?"
Kagome briefly noticed how Inuyasha now said Kikyo's name through clinched teeth, instead of making her name sound like music like he use to say it. Through all the thoughts Kagome had, it came down to one question.
"Why would he want to make these things happen?"
"Because you and Sango are the only ones that believe that I am innocent." Inuyasha explained, walking a few paces toward Kagome until they were less than an inch apart. "You, the psychologist, could prove to be very useful in court when stating my mental status. Why? Because the jury trusts a professional's word; your professional word. Sango, my lawyer, is one of best in Japan. Everyone knows her name, and knows she is very useful."
"So… this guy… wants to scare Sango and me into giving up your case?" Kagome asked, finally understanding Inuyasha's point.
"Exactly." Inuyasha answered, and then continued in a lower voice. "You know, you can drop my case if you want. I won't hate you."
Kagome looked disbelievingly at Inuyasha.
"How dare you suggest that?" Kagome yelled, startling Inuyasha. "How could you even think that for one minute, I would turn my back on you?!"
"Everyone does eventually—"
"Well I am not 'everyone!' I am Higurashi, Kagome! I make my own decisions, and when I make them, gods help the assholes who get in my way!" in a lower voice she added, "I will never give up on you, Inuyasha. I promise you."
Inuyasha was silent for a while, shocked at Kagome's promise to him. Slowly, very slowly, a warm, understanding smile came upon his face.
"I'm sorry." He said.
"Eh?" Kagome asked in wonder.
"I'm sorry for even doubting you." Inuyasha sincerely said. "At first, when I first saw you, I thought you looked like Kikyo."
Kagome remembered Inuyasha's words from the very first day she met him. It felt like she was hearing an old tape recorder playing over again, stirring up memories.
"You look similar to her.... to Kikyo....."
"And because you look like her," Inuyasha continued. "I thought that you would be just like her. When you told me that I was set up for her murder, I thought you would betray me just the same."
Inuyasha gently took Kagome's small hand, and held it in his big hand. He looked at it as his rough thumb moved over her smooth, silky skin.
"But you held me, and told me that you would never turn your back on me. You said that you refuse to deem me as a lost cause. You kept faith in me. I'm sorry for doubting you."
Kagome felt lightheaded and dizzy as Inuyasha continued to hold her hand. How can he make her feel like that when no other person could?
"I—Inuyasha…" Kagome gasped.
"Do you forgive me?" Inuyasha asked hopefully, still looking at her hand, and rubbing his thumbs over her palm.
"There's nothing to forgive, Inuyasha, because I don't blame you. Most people in your position would feel the same—"
Kagome stopped talking when Inuyasha put their hands together, palm-to-palm. Her heart rate sped up, and her breathing increased. She heard someone breathing hard, and she vaguely wondered if it was Inuyasha. She looked up at him with her beautiful, gray-blue eyes.
Kagome drowned herself in Inuyasha's violet hues, both of them barely blinking. A thought of the morality of doctor-patient relationships did not come up in Kagome's mind for once. All she could think of was how slow his eyes closed and how soft his lips are.
'Wait a minute! Soft lips?!' Kagome thought to herself.
Yes, they were! Although their lips were barely touching, they were still touching just the same. How is this happening?! It cannot be happening to a proper, morally obeying psychiatrist! She was not kissing her own patient!
Despite all the thoughts that went through her mind, Kagome could not pull back for the life of her. She suddenly became aware of where his hands were place, which was on her waist; her hands were wrapped around his shoulders, and the steady beeping of the heart monitor became distant in their hearing.
Then, Inuyasha pulled away, their lips barely making a soft "pop" sound, because they barely touched. Their noses were still so very close, and they both held each other. Realization came into the hanyou's eyes, and he took a step back away from Kagome, causing her to loose her contact with him.
The psychiatrist turned around, her breathing hard, her face red, and she tried to push away the feelings of hurt, having just been rejected. Inuyasha was also breathing hard as he watched her shoulders move to her rapid breathing.
"I'm sorry…" Inuyasha mumbled.
Kagome shook her head.
"It's okay, I was kissing you back." Kagome responded, not even recognizing her own voice.
It was then that Sango came back into the room, holding several big jugs of water. She looked at Inuyasha, then at Kagome, and she smiled a little, knowingly.
"Sorry it took a while." She said to the tense room.
"Ms. Sango," Inuyasha started. "I can see what kind of creature made his wound, if I can unwrap the wrapping surrounding it."
Sango looked at Inuyasha with one eyebrow raised.
"He's asking for your help." Kagome stated as she shifted her weight from one foot to another.
Sango closed the room's door, locking it from inside, and carefully set the water jugs down. She then walked over to Miroku's bed, and turned to Inuyasha.
"Okay, tell me what to do." She stated.
"Take his hospital gown off."
Sango blushed.
"But he'll be naked!" she cried out.
(AN: Hospital gowns only cover you from the front, leaving your backside and rear end completely exposed. Patients are also not permitted to wear underwear. They are so very uncomfortable.)
"It's not as if you haven't seen him naked before." Kagome laughed as Sango grew even deeper in a red color, and scowled at her doctor/best friend.
Inuyasha lifted Miroku up as Sango took his hospital gown off. Kagome promptly blushed a tomato-red when Miroku's lower waist was exposed, along with certain body elements. She then tried to cover up Miroku's lower waist with the blankets, blushing more when Sango started to laugh.
"Don't tell me you've never seen the male anatomy, Kagome-chan!" Sango laughed, setting the gown on the chair.
"Okay, unwrap the wound." Said Inuyasha, holding Miroku up a little bit more, and ignoring the friend's quarreling.
Kagome made a face that looked like a cross between angry embarrassed, and like she just ate a lemon.
"I have to seen the male anatomy!" she cried out. "In text books… but still!"
"But not in real life?" Sango asked as she unwrapped the bandages.
"YES!"
Inuyasha looked at Kagome through hooded bangs.
"Oh really?" Sango pressed. "And whose anatomy did you see for the first time?"
"…. Miroku's just now…."
Sango doubled over, laughing, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Oh, thank you, Kagome-chan! You just made my night a whole lot better!"
Kagome scowled.
"Well, I'm sure you've seen Miroku MANY times!" she retorted, crossing her arms.
Sango blushed a bit.
"… Yes." She agreed, hesitantly.
"And how many times?" Kagome asked, smirking evilly now that the ball was in her court.
"None of your business!" Sango cried out, turning even deeper red as she pulled her hands back suddenly, causing Miroku to loose all his bandages in one rip.
"Oops…" said both Sango and Kagome in unit.
Inuyasha was quiet, however, as he observed the wound on Miroku's right side. From the looks of it, the wound was given to him from his back, and through his front. There were multiple bruises over his body, telling anyone who looked at them that he fought very hard.
One conclusion that Inuyasha could see was that the wound was undoubtedly made by a demon of some sort. But what kind of demon?
Sango looked at Inuyasha, and he nodded to her, silently telling her that the wound was actually caused by a demon.
Kagome looked at her watch; it was already twenty-six minutes to midnight.
"Are you going to stay here?" Kagome asked Sango in concern.
"Of course," Sango answered, and then turned back to Inuyasha. "But I will be working on your case because I have the files."
Inuyasha nodded, and with Sango's help, they got Miroku's bandages back on him, as well as his hospital gown, which caused more teasing between Kagome and Sango.
"Well, I guess we better be going, Inuyasha."
"Oh, Kagome-chan. Your court date is two days from now, so be sure that—" Sango looked at Inuyasha, pitying him. "—That Inuyasha goes back to…"
"I know what you mean…" said Inuyasha, turning his head away from the two women. "I'll be going back tomorrow."
Kagome felt extremely horrible for Inuyasha; who would want to go back to a place that kept one in extreme isolation? All she knew was that she needed to get Inuyasha back to her house before he went even more insane. The sound of a cell phone made everyone jump.
Kagome dug into her purse, pulled out her cell phone, and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Do want to die?"
Kagome paused, her eyes growing wide with horror.
"Who is this?" she demanded.
"Is the guy dead?"
The voice sounded like a male's voice.
"Who?" Kagome asked.
"The guy that is the lawyer's fiancée."
Kagome gulped inwardly; she was sure she was growing pale by the way Inuyasha and Sango looked at her.
"Yes, yes, he's dead." She lied, her hand trembling.
"Good." The man on the other end said in satisfaction. "Now, if you don't want the same thing to happen to you or anyone else, then I suggest that the lawyer lets the hanyou's case go, and you stop being his psychiatrist."
Kagome now seethed in anger; who the hell does this guy think he is?!
"You, mister, can't tell us what to do!"
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Yes! That is so!" Kagome yelled.
"Do you love your son?"
Kagome's heart suddenly started to pound at a rapid pace. Her breathing increased as she thought of her son, whom she left all alone in that apartment.
"What are you going to do to him?" Kagome asked in a shaky voice, only to get a cold laugh in reply.
"No what am I going to do… It's what DID I do…."
"W-What did you do to my son?!"
"How do you like to have your child eviscerated?" the man's cold voice asked.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" Kagome demanded, now shaking violently. "YOU SICK BASTARD!"
Kagome hung up the phone quickly before the other man could say something, and she fell to her knees, crying and shaking violently.
"Kagome-chan!!!" Sango cried out, rushing to her friend's side.
"Oh, gods, Sango! There's a mad man after us!" Kagome cried.
"What?!"
"Miroku is not here because of some freak accident, Sango!" Kagome continued to rant. "He was purposely wounded, and was meant to die! I told him Miroku died! Oh, gods! And he said that he eviscerated Shippou!"
Sango sucked in her breath through her teeth.
"Gods, no, please!" Kagome cried. "Not Shippou! Not my Shippou! I have to go, Sango, I'm sorry, I have to go!"
Kagome practically ran out of the hospital room, only to be stopped by Inuyasha. Kagome gulped; he had blood-red eyes, and ice-blue pupils. He transformed again.
Kagome was stunned when Inuyasha squatted with his back to Kagome; what was he doing?
"Piggy-back ride." Said Inuyasha as if reading Kagome's mind. "We can get there a lot faster than in your car."
Without thinking, Kagome climbed onto Inuyasha's back, and he supported her legs. He jumped out the open window, causing Kagome to scream, and grab his shoulders tighter. At that moment, she did not care what happened to her as long as they got to Shippou.
Thoughts of Shippou, her little son, looking so bloody and torn up, assaulted her mind. Tears came to her eyes as she buried her face in Inuyasha's thick, silver mane of hair. That seemed to cause Inuyasha to run faster, hopping over roofs and cars, as fast as he could take them all the way to Kagome's apartment.
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Kagome burst through the front door of her apartment while Inuyasha sniffed around to make sure the premises was clear. She automatically went to Shippou's room to see if he was still in his bed.
Kagome saw a small lump on the bed, covered up by his blankets. She gulped, held out a trembling hand, and pulled the blankets down from over his head.
She let out a sigh of relief; Shippou is okay, and is still breathing. Not one hair on his head had been harmed. Kagome was trying to get her breathing under control when Inuyasha came in the room.
"Everything is all clear." He announced, walking closer to his doctor.
Kagome let out another sigh of relief as Shippou shivered from the lack of covers. He opened his sleepy eyes, looking up at his mom.
"Mommy, why are you here? Is it time to get up already?"
Kagome sobbed, scooped up her son, and held him in her arms, rocking him back and forth. Shippou looked bewildered because of his mother's sudden strange behavior.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" he asked innocently.
Kagome kissed the top of his head, and headed to her room, still carrying him in her arms. She put him down in her king-size bed, and covered him up.
"You're going to sleep with me tonight, okay?"
Shippou nodded.
"Then… we're going somewhere tomorrow, so be sure to get some good sleep."
Shippou nodded again, turning over on his side, and closed his eyes. Kagome left her room, went into the living room, and sat down on the couch.
Inuyasha was already there, sitting on the one-person chair. Kagome noticed the irony of the situation; she was sitting on the "patient" couch, and he was sitting on the "doctor" chair. She sighed again, putting her face in her hands. Her whole life was being threatened and she could not do anything about it.
Inuyasha and Kagome sat in silence for a while longer, thinking over the events that just happened in a matter of minutes. How their lives are being spiraled downward and out of their control. Kagome needed her car, which was still at the hospital, in order to go where she needed to go tomorrow.
"Where do you need to go tomorrow?"
Kagome snapped her attention at Inuyasha, looking at him, bewildered, wondering if he could read her mind.
"I have to take Shippou to a place where he will be safe until this whole thing is over with."
"You know… you can back out of it—"
Kagome glared at Inuyasha.
"You DARE bring that up again?!" she yelled, standing up as if symbolically taking a stance. "I already told you that I will NOT let this whole thing go! How can you act so casually when you are going to court for murder soon, and you are innocent?!"
"How can you still stay in this whole mess when you, your best friend, and your son has been threatened?" Inuyasha asked, looking at Kagome as if SHE is the crazy one.
Kagome stomped over to Inuyasha, raised her hand to slap him, but when she moved her hand towards his cheek, he caught her wrist with his hand. He pulled her forward, causing her to stumble and fall into his lap. He pulled her up until she was in a comfortable position, and then wrapped his arms around her to comfort her.
"I'm not worth you loosing everything, Kagome." Inuyasha whispered in her ear.
"I won't loose everything, and I won't loose you."
Inuyasha shook his head, leaned in, and nibbled Kagome's earlobe. She groaned, her heart started pounding just as it did when he kissed her. He pulled away from her, still holding her.
"Ne, why did you kiss me?" Kagome whispered, burying her face in his chest.
"It felt like the natural thing to do."
"Eh?"
Kagome looked up at Inuyasha.
"I wanted to kiss you because I had an urge to." He explained.
This made Kagome even more confused, but she dropped the subject, burying her face in his chest again. Everything was so chaotic right now that neither one of them knew what to do.
"I have to go back to the asylum tomorrow." Announced Inuyasha as she held Kagome a bit tighter.
At this, Kagome tensed, knowing that he had to go in order for him to come back to live with her. She nodded in understanding, promising to bring him back with her. She did not know if Inuyasha believed her, and she did not ask.
Inuyasha took one of Kagome's hands, placing them palm-to-palm, fingers-to-fingers. The stayed like that until late at night, and early, early morning. Both of them wonder what other chaos awaited them when they were to be apart, even for just a little while.
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Dictionary:
Eviscerate: to tear apart; to slice open the skin, and let intestines, or guts, spill out everywhere.
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inuKgirl15: Well, the good news is, I did not kill poor Miroku off. You are welcome for the web site. I'm sure a fan fiction idea will come to you, and then I can go read and review it!!! Thank you for the review!!!
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CrimsonShadow: Hey, this time I didn't leave the readers in a cliffie!! I'm sorry about my whole "cliffies are SO cool!!!" trip right now… I think I like them a little TOO much. But I will keep what you said in mind, and I will not do a cliffie unless I absolutely need to do so. Yes, your review has made me happy, thank you. And thank you for your review!!!
Biyabo: No, you reviewed for chapter five. I can never remember if I reviewed for a fic either, so please don't feel bad about it. Someone deleted his membership because he thought you were something like a stalker? (gives the guy a weird look) Don't worry, it's not your fault. (cowers away from the mallet) I didn't kill Miroku! He's too cool to kill!!! How can I kill someone as cool as him? Thank you for your review!!
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