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AN: (authoress jumps back from all the flames she received) Wow! That was a bit hot! (realizes she is on fire so she drops to the ground and rolls around) Do you readers honestly think that I would kill Inuyasha when I could not even kill Miroku? Well, on with the fan fic.
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Miracle Worker
Chapter 12: "Do You Love Me?"
Kagome sat on the examining table in complete shock. She shivered from the lack of clothing; doctors' offices only gave the patients a thin piece of cloth for a poor excuse of clothing.
Kagome's eyes started to fill up with tears, and she knew why. She quickly wiped the liquid away and pushed the depressed feelings aside. She had to keep it together for her child. Then the door opened and a woman in a white coat came into the room.
"Hello, Dr. Higurashi." The other doctor greeted, looking at Kagome's red, puffy eyes. "Are you here for anti-depressants?"
"No, Doctor." Kagome sniffed, giving her company a smile. "I'm here to make sure my baby is alright. I've been under a large amount of stress, so…"
"Ah, I understand." The doctor nodded. "Aren't we all? Please lay down on the table."
Kagome did what she was asked, and she lay down on the hard table. The doctor gently examined Kagome's stomach, her gloved hands gently prodding Kagome's womb. When the doctor pressed her hands forward, Kagome felt something that felt like a knot in her uterus.
"Well, Higurashi, when did you find out you are pregnant?" the doctor asked, writing on her clipboard.
"Last week… on Friday the 13th."
"Oh dear! What a horrible day to find out such wonderful news! …Well, if one is suppositious."
Kagome nodded, her eyes downcast.
"Yes, it is. I'm beginning to hate that day."
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Rin vigorously scrubbed the table; the news about Inuyasha's trial had been going on since the verdict was announced. She tried to forget about the trial, and she scrubbed more furiously.
"Easy, Rin, the table might break, and you just got out of the hospital."
Rin's pace slowed down to a halt.
"I'm sorry about your brother, Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru sighed, coaxing Rin to sit down, and he sat down.
"Inuyasha has always had the worst luck." He explained, pulling Rin close to him. "His bad luck comes from opening up to the wrong people; hence, Kikyo. I told him she was bad company, but no one can tell that stubborn hanyou anything."
"Still, it's unfair for him to die for something he didn't do." Rin said, resting her head on his shoulder.
Sesshoumaru silently agreed by nodding.
"I pity Kagome, though." Sesshoumaru said. "And I never thought I could pity anyone."
Rin gave her lover a sharp look.
"What do you mean?"
"Kagome and Inuyasha had been doing some things, and never thought of the possibility of getting pregnant."
Rin's eyes widened, and her mouth opened a bit.
"Kagome's pregnant?"
Sesshoumaru nodded regretfully.
"Yes, she is; and here Inuyasha is about to have the ultimate injection put into his veins."
Rin fell silent, trying to comprehend the situation.
"Sesshoumaru… I think its time I did something about this, so your niece or nephew will not have to grow up fatherless."
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Sango slammed the documents down after reading them. The situation keeps getting worse and worse; Inuyasha's evidence file was taken, so now nothing can prove that he did not commit the crime.
Narku must have known that Sango and Kagome were going for an appeal. Sango sat down on a chair next to her fiancée's bed, pulling out the documents.
Sango was so intoned into her documents that the beeping sounds of the monitors were drowned out.
"So, you're still overworking yourself?"
Sango snapped out of her reading, looking around to find the sound of the man's voice. Her eyes then landed on Miroku; his eyes were opened, staring at her. She screamed, putting a hand over her mouth, and stood up, dropping the documents.
Sango abruptly hugged her fiancée tightly, and let go of him when he coughed. She looked lovingly down at him, not caring that he looked like hell ran over him with a dump truck.
"Oh, Miroku-anata, I've missed you so much!" Sango cried, hugging him more gently now.
Miroku wrapped his arms around Sango for as long as they would go. He placed a hand gently on the side of her face and brought his lips to her lips.
The couple practically made out for twenty minutes until a nurse came in, and when she saw them, she was startled.
"Oh, I'm sorry! Mr. Hoshi, I'm glad to see you're up."
Miroku looked like he was about to drool at the sight of the beautiful redhead. He must have died because this was Heaven! When Miroku looked back at Sango, she was flaring at the look he gave the nurse; flames were in her eyes, and she looked like a psycho ready to kill.
On second thought, this must be hell. Miroku thought, laughing to himself.
When the nurse left, Sango exploded.
"YOU LETCHER! YOU WERE OUT FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO GAVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU ENOUGH TO STAY BY YOUR SIDE FOR DAYS AND DAYS! THEN WHEN YOU COME BACK TO THE LIVING WORLD, THE FIRST GIRL YOU SEE MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE YOU WERE ABOUT TO SPRAY YOUR PANTS!"
"But, Sango-koiishi, I don't have to go to the bathroom—"
"YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF 'SPRAY' I MEAN!!!!!"
Miroku laughed breathily, slowly shaking his head.
"Oh, Sango, you always were very hilarious when you're jealous."
At that moment, a hot, young doctor came into the room to check on Miroku. At the sight of the god, Sango's eyes widened, her mouth fell open, and she almost drooled.
"Hello, Mr. Hoshi, and Mrs. Hoshi." The doctor greeted.
Sango gave a laugh.
"Oh, no doctor, we're not married."
Miroku shot Sango a dark look.
"We're not married yet!" he corrected.
"Oh, don't pay attention to him; he just came out of a fantasy land."
Both Sango and the doctor laughed; and the young man checked him, Miroku looked like he was about to strangle to poor guy just for looking at Sango.
"You seem like a nice lady." The doctor complemented.
"Oh, please, you haven't known me for that long." Sango laughed, blushed, and fluttered her eyelashes at the hot doctor.
The doctor got out a scrap sheet of paper and wrote something down, and he handed it to Sango.
"This is my phone number, my cell phone number, and my pager. Please call me any time."
Sango smiled, pocketing the number away.
"I will." She said, giving the doctor a flirtatious look.
The doctor left, and Miroku scowled at Sango with his arms crossed. When Sango looked at him, she laughed.
"What's so funny?" Miroku asked in a low voice. "Are you actually going to call the guy? I'm sure he has a better career than I do because he's rich and all, and he would give you a lot of children; and what do I have? I have a career as a priest, I only make what people at church give and that's not much, and I would probably be living off your income."
Sango laughed again, patting Miroku on the shoulder.
"You're so funny when you're jealous!" Sango laughed, repeating Miroku's words earlier.
"You know… I can't believe I'm saying this," Miroku began with a thoughtful look. "But we act just like Peter and Lois from The Family Guy."
"I've never watched it."
"Oh, you should! It's a great show!"
Sango snorted.
"Well, unlike you, I don't have a lot of free time."
Miroku suddenly turned serious.
"Did Inuyasha win the case?"
Sango looked wounded as she gathered her documents off the floor.
"No, he didn't, I'm afraid. The DNA lab doctor, Rin, was also put in the hospital after she was beaten and threatened. Kagome-chan was almost killed, and now, right when we're trying to get an appeal, Inuyasha's evidence files have disappeared."
Miroku sighed, shaking his head, not believing how much has happened in just a few weeks.
"Then, on top of everything else," Sango continued. "Kagome-chan is pregnant by Inuyasha, and I'm pregnant by you."
Miroku did a double take at Sango.
"What…?" he asked, looking beyond shocked.
"I'm pregnant with your child."
It took a long, long time for Miroku to register the difference between "pregnant" and "not pregnant" was, even with his perverted mind.
When he finally registered it, Miroku smiled a smile that could only be described as "goofy." If he could have gotten up, he would have picked Sango up in his arms and twirled her around until they were dizzy. But then that would have made Sango sick and she would have thrown up on him.
"Are you happy about it?" Sango asked, a bit afraid.
As an answer, Miroku pulled Sango down and he kissed her fiercely, never stopping for another good hour.
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Kagome sat on the floor of her living room, looking over photo albums. There were pictures of her when she was little, of Shippou, but none of Inuyasha. She should have taken some pictures of Inuyasha so that their child would know what their father looked like before he was murdered for something he did not do—
Kagome slammed the album shut and cried some more. It seemed like the only thing that she could do is cry her eyes out, and wait until Inuyasha is strapped to the chair and injected with poison.
"Gods, Inuyasha, I love you. Why did I not say it to you?"
Suddenly, Kagome's cell phone rang, causing her to jump. She reached over next to her and picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Kagome-chan, great news! Miroku is awake!"
"Hey Kagome-sama!" Miroku yelled, his voice distant.
"Sango-chan, that's great."
"You don't sound too enthusiastic."
"What? She's not happy? Kagome-sama, I'm hurt!"
Kagome laughed a little, but most of it was forced. She tried to make her sobs sound like laughter.
"Kagome-chan?" Sango said, now knowing the situation was serious.
"I'm so happy for you, Sango." Kagome said, hiccupping.
"Kagome… you're depressed."
"I am not!"
"Kagome, you're a psychiatrist, you figure it out."
Kagome hiccupped again, thinking over her symptoms. She was crying all the time, she hardly went anywhere, and she was feeling lousy all the time…
"I'm just pregnant, Sango."
"Kagome…" Sango began, sounding disbelieving. "When Inuyasha was convicted that day, and you ran to the window, trying to see him for as long as you could, you collapsed afterwards. Sesshoumaru had to carry you to my car so I can drive you home."
Kagome shook her head, although she knew her friend could not see the gesture through her phone.
"Are we going to get that appeal?" Kagome asked, changing subjects.
"Yes, but…" Sango was about to tell her friend about the evidence missing, but then she stopped herself; Kagome was under enough pressure as it was. "Yes, we are going for third and final appeal."
"Yet, Inuyasha is scheduled for execution tomorrow." Kagome sighed, about to cry again.
"But our last appeal is tomorrow." Sango countered. "If we can get the verdict repealed that day, he will not have to be executed."
"Sango…" Kagome sniffed. "You're such a good friend…"
Kagome could not help but start crying again and Sango felt very badly because she could not hold her friend as she cried.
"Kagome…"
"I'm okay, now." Kagome sniffed. "So what else has happened?"
"Um, Miroku said that the thing that attacked him was Narku."
"Narku… attacked him? But Inuyasha said that the creature that attacked him was a demon!"
"Yes, this forces us to conclude that Narku is, in fact, a demon."
Kagome paused; think over what she just heard.
"But why would Kikyo want a demon lover when she couldn't even stand to have a half demon lover?"
Sango shrugged, sighing.
"Maybe… I don't know why. Let's just settle with diagnostic 'at.'"
"Diagnostic 'at?'"
"The woman is a crazy bitch."
(Diagnostic "at" . )
"So, when is Inuyasha's appeal set for?" Kagome asked.
"It starts at 10:00 am, and Inuyasha's execution is set for 6:00 pm."
"Ah. I'll be there."
"Kagome-chan?"
"Hm?"
"Don't stress too much; that is how I almost lost my baby."
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Kagome sat in her bathtub, putting a hand on her stomach. Her baby had grown quite big in just a matter of weeks. She could tell already that her child will be at least ten pounds. The thought of giving birth to a ten pound baby scared Kagome, but she told herself that it is only a natural process.
Kagome wondered how many pounds Inuyasha was when he was born.
At the thought of Inuyasha, Kagome's eyes filled up with that ever-familiar liquid. She blinked it away, and sighed, but the liquid still came.
She could still feel his warm, loving hands all over her, and she could still hear every sweet word he said. Kagome sobbed, hugging herself. Would she be able to live without him? If she had not been pregnant, she knew she would have died when his verdict was read aloud.
Know what she had to do next, Kagome got out of the bathtub, got dressed, and drove off the her destination.
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Inuyasha walked down the hallway towards the visiting rooms, lead by a guard. Who would visit him at this moment? When he entered the room, and the guard closed the door behind him, the answer was right in front of his eyes.
"K-Kagome…"
"Inuyasha." Kagome greeted. "How… how have you been?"
"I've been okay; I have a prison cell all by myself so you don't have to worry about me getting raped."
Kagome could not decide if Inuyasha was being serious or was just joking.
"Um, that's good…" she said with a forced smile.
"Yea, it is; so how are you?"
"Pregnant…"
Inuyasha leaned towards Kagome, taking in her sent.
"You don't smell like Kagome…"
"Well of course I don't smell like myself! I'm pregnant!"
"No, I mean… you smell…." He took in another breath. "You smell depressed."
At his words, Kagome burst into tears and hugged him close to her.
"H-Hey! I didn't mean…" Inuyasha started, not knowing what made Kagome start crying. "I mean, wh-why are you crying?!"
"Because Sango was right; I'm depressed!" Kagome yelled, burying her face deeper into Inuyasha's chest.
"I'm the reason for that, aren't I?"
"No, I'm depressed because of all the wrong that was done to you!"
"Kagome…."
"I want our child to know who you are and I was looking at photo alums and I realized I don't have any pictures of you and I'm sad all the time because I can't bring Shippou home until this whole thing is over yet I don't want you to die and I have still yet to tell Shippou that I'm pregnant and I don't want you to die—"
"Kagome, breathe!"
Kagome hiccupped, and took a deep breath from the sentence she said in one long rush. Inuyasha held her as she cried for a few more minutes.
"Inuyasha, did you know that Naraku is a demon?"
"Hm, I sensed it; why?"
"Because he is the one that attacked Miroku. Speaking of the pervert, he woke up, and he is steadily getting better."
"Please send Sango my congratulations."
Kagome nodded.
"Inuyasha, how many pounds were you when you were born?" Kagome asked, placing a hand on his face.
"I think my mom said I was sixteen pounds."
Kagome's eyes widened with fear.
"S-Sixteen pounds?! Is that how much our baby will be when it's born?!"
"No, because its only one-fourth inu youkai. I think it will be somewhere around twelve."
"Oh, that makes me feel a whole lot better!"
Kagome sighed, allowing Inuyasha to nuzzle her neck; she grabbed him when he placed his lips on her sensitive skin.
"Inuyasha… touch me."
Inuyasha gulped, looking around the visiting cell.
"In here?!" he demanded in a high whisper.
"We're not going to do that in here! I just want you to touch me, hold me."
They kissed, touched, and held each other like the world was about to end. Kagome looked Inuyasha deep into his violet eyes, his silver hair contrasting in color with his eyes. She wanted to remember every inch of him; the color of his eyes, the color of his hair, the feel of his lips, and the feeling of his body under her hands.
Inuyasha kissed Kagome's neck again, and they sighed together, pressing their bodies together.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome sighed. "I love you."
Inuyasha stiffened a bit, loosening his hold on her.
"Dame (don't)." he said, shaking his head. "Don't say that."
"Why not? It's true!" Kagome yelped, feeling hurt at his rejection even after all they had done together.
"Because… I don't want you to be hurt even farther."
"What? Do you mean that you don't love me?" Kagome asked, her eyes filling up with tears.
"No, it's not that."
"Then what is it?!"
"I don't have anything to offer you."
"Yes you do; your love. You can give me your love."
"Kagome…"
"I love you."
"I-I can't; she won't let me."
Kagome paused, thinking about who 'she' is.
"Kikyo?"
Inuyasha nodded painfully.
"Before my trial began, when she leaned over and whispered something to me, she said, 'Your soul belongs to me.' I can't give myself to you because I already gave myself to her."
Kagome felt something inside her shatter and her depression got worse. How could he act like he only belonged to herself when he said he is bound to a past lover?!
Kagome's arms slackened from around him and fell to her side. She felt numb all over, her nerves jolted, and before she knew it, she was standing up, about to run to the door.
Inuyasha gently grabbed her, pulling her onto his lap, trying to hold her as she struggled for release. Kagome shoved her hands on his chest, yet he still held steady against her worthless struggle.
"Kagome, let me explain."
"There's nothing to explain!"
"I marked her! I marked her as my mate! That is why I can't give all of myself to you!"
Kagome stopped struggling, confusion setting in her.
"What are you talking about?"
"When a demon marks another as their mate, they can't just break off the connection and have another. I can't have you, Kagome."
Inuyasha looked miserable, like admitting it out loud made what he said even more realistic.
"But do you love me?" Kagome asked, not knowing why she was trying for an answer once again.
"Kagome…"
"Do you?!"
Inuyasha paused, holding her tighter to him.
"Yes, aishiteru. I love you."
"Then… that is enough for me."
Inuyasha shook his head, nuzzling her back. It was then that he finally broke and he cried like a storm he held inside himself.
"Inuyasha… I'm really sorry… I should have worked harder."
"It's alright. You did what you could do. I would never hate you for trying to do your best. I really don't want to live anymore anyway. You have given me so much, Kagome, and you have proven to me that this world does have good people in it, and you are one of them. I will be thinking of you the whole time when I am strapped to that chair, and my life is forced out of me. I will think of no one else but you, Kagome."
Not being able to stand it any more, Kagome burst into tears with Inuyasha, and they finally had to let go of each other when the guard came to take Kagome away from him. He watched until he could no longer see her.
"Kagome...."
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AN: The next chapter will be the last chapter… I think. So, please enjoy this chapter while you can before the ending comes. I hope everyone enjoyed this story… oh, wait, I'm supposed to save the 'good-byes' for next chapter. I will give you one hint/ spoiler: next chapter will be happy… I think.
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SilverCrystal Thorns: (jumps back, trying to avoid flaming) Uh, sorry? And I'm sorry for leaving you hanging again. Well, thank you for your review!
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Mini Nicka: The only reason O.J. Simpson got off is (if you look at the videos of his trial) when they had him try to put the glove on, he had his hand scrunched up so that it would not fit. The stupid people didn't see it then, and they won't see it now, although a lot of people were upset about it. But yes, Inuyasha's trial was not fair. Thank you for your review!
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