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Before I start the next chapter, I've something to say to all who read my stories: I may not update as often as everyone would like, but I have a busy life, and I write fanfiction for my pleasure and to hone my writing skills. I'll update when I can, but it may be awhile, and I am sorry. For those who find me not updating on a weekly basis, well, they don't have to read the story now do they? To everyone who understands....thanks. A lot.
Last time: The white cat replied to the dog's threat by arching his back even more and letting all the fur on his body stand up on end. Suddenly all four of the dogs attacked the white cat. Sesshoumaru yowled in pain and the dog's jaw clamped down on his left paw. 'Why am I suddenly hungry for this disgusting looking piece of food?' Sesshoumaru fainted from loss of blood and blinding pain.
Chapter 3: The Wonderful Place Known as the Vet's
"Oh no." Kagome gasped, looking at the unconuous white cat. Kagome looked around for something to stop the bleeding from its wounds, only to find nothing. Sighing, Kagome picked the cat and bags of food up, then ran as fast as she could home.
'Please be alright little white cat.' Kagome thought to herself. While running, Kagome tried to focus some of her miko energy into the cat, in hopes that it might help heal the forepaw.
"Kagome? What's the matter?" Someone said from the top of the shrine stairs.
"Mom! Need...to get...to vet's!" Kagome gasped out while trying to breath at the same time.
"Why do-"Her mother was stopped short when she saw the white cat in her daughter's arms. Looking at the Kagome, then at the little cat, Kagome's mom said: "I'll get the car keys."
"Where did you find that cat?" Kagome's mother asked, they were in the car, with the cat carefully lying down in Kagome's lap.
"In an alleyway on the way home from the store. There was also a dead dog on the ground. I think they had been fighting." Kagome said, and then she yelped when her mother ran a red light.
"M...mom...you're driving-"Kagome was interrupted by her mother.
"You want to help that cat right?" Her mother asked, Kagome nodded. "Then some rules must be broken. By the way, Kagome?"
"Yeah Mom?"
"I don't ever want to see you driving like this." Kagome's mother said as she screeched into the vet's parking lot.
"O..Okay." Kagome said, getting out of the car and rushing into the door.
"Hello, how can I help you?" The lady at the desk asked, not looking up from the book she was reading.
"This cat needs to see a vet." Kagome's mother said, glaring at the lady behind the desk.
"Well, you'll have to take a form and fill it out first and-"
"NOW!" Kagome's mother snarled.
"Vat ist all ze yelling?" Someone said from behind a door. Kagome gasped as the vet came opened the door.
The vet looked extremely weird; he had shoulder length light blond hair and an odd looking doctor's vest. Probably the weirdest thing about the vet was his glasses, attached to the main two lenses were two more separate moving lenses. One above and one below each lense, not the mention the weird German accent. (I know...vets in Japan probably don't have German accents...you'll see later)
"Nothing's the matter Doc, just some people trying to cut to the front of the line." The woman behind the desk said, still not looking up from her book.
"Mein Gott! I zee vhy! Ze poor katze! Vhat happened?" The vet, apparently named Doc, asked.
"Dog attack." Kagome said.
"I zee. Fill out ze form quickly, und sigh zhis paper and ve vill get ve katze into surgery." Doc said, handing Kagome's mother a white piece of paper.
'My head.....' Sesshoumaru thought in the depths of his mind. Smells suddenly invaded his nose as he came out of uncouniouness. Smells of sick cats and dogs, blood and medicine.
"Kagome, what's the date?" Someone said, Sesshoumaru decided that that voice was Kagome's mother, and that meant that.....Inuyasha's wench was here.
"August 15, 2004." Kagome answered, looking at the calendar on the wall.
'2004! That can't be right! That's more than 500 years in the future!' Sesshoumaru thought. He tried opening his eyes but quickly shut them, the bright light around him flooding into his pupils.
"Oh...the cat's awake." Kagome said, startled by the movement of the white cat in her lap.
"Zhen I vill take ze katze und zee vhat ve can do." Doc said, reaching for the cat. Sesshoumaru finally opened his eyes, just in time to see some strange human in white reaching for him, Sesshoumaru hissed and swiped out with his claws.
Only to be stopped when the vet grabbed him by the scuff of his neck.
"I zee ve haf a vild one." Doc chuckled, he didn't seem to mind that the cat's left forepaw was hanging on by a little more than skin and some muscle. Nor did he seem to mind that the white cat was still trying to claw his eyes out.
"Umm....Mom?" Kagome asked, watching the weird looking vet take the white cat behind one of the doors.
"Yes Kagome?" Came the reply.
"Was it just me....or did that vet seem....kinda...odd." Kagome wondered.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'm sure he'll fix the little white cat. While we're waiting, would you like me to pick up some more cat food and another litter box for the new cat?" Her mother asked.
"You mean I can keep him?" Kagome asked.
"Well...I didn't break about ten traffic laws for nothing." Her mother replied, smiling.
"Well....he'll need a litter box, and some a bed, some toys and a-"Kagome was interrupted by her mother chuckling.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'll go pick the supplies up, you can stay here and wait for the cat." Kagome nodded and watched her mother leave the vet's office.
Kagome sighed, it had been more than an hour since the vet took the cat, her mother had come back and was currently looking at a magazine.
Suddenly the vet came out from a door and looked at Kagome.
"Ve vill haf to amputate ze leg. Ist vhat alvight?" Doc asked, his vest was blood and the top two lenses were moved down on the main pair of glasses.
"Of course! But it won't die will it?" Kagome said.
"Nein, nein, ze katze vill be alvight." Doc said, heading back into the surgery room.
"I hope Buyo likes his new friend." Kagome's mother said, looking up from the magazine she was reading.
"I hope that the little white cat can still walk and run and stuff....with only three legs." Kagome said worriedly, she also hoped that Inuyasha wouldn't bother the cat.
More than 2 hours later
'My head feels like I just drank four bottles of sake.....' Sesshoumaru thought. He tried to slowly opened his eyes and found that it wasn't as bright as before, which he was thankful for.
'Where am I?' He asked no one, smells invaded his nose and Sesshoumaru tried to sort them out. There were smells of more sick animals, medicine, food, water, and so many other smells he didn't know.
Then he noticed that he was in a small cage. Metal surrounded him on three sides, while in front of him was a metal wire. Sesshoumaru also noticed that the bottom of this enclosure was lined with paper; there was also a bowl of food and water, along with a towel to sleep on, not to mention a box full of dry clay and sand.
'Now then....I have to find a way out and find out what's happened to me.' Sesshoumaru thought, looking around the metal cage. He took a step forward to see what was outside, only to fall. Sesshoumaru growled and looked down, if he could gasp, he would have.
His left forepaw was gone.
'What's going on?' Sesshoumaru growled, he didn't like not being informed. Sesshoumaru tried to take a step forward, and fell again. Apart from his missing limb, Sesshoumaru noticed that he was mostly unhurt, minus a couple cuts here and there.
"Vell vell, you are avake." Someone said. Sesshoumaru looked at the strange man from before, his back arched up and his fur standing on end.
'This is the man that severed my leg...I know it was him.' Sesshoumaru growled to himself. Sesshoumaru stuck his right forepaw out from his cage in hopes to claw the man's eyes out.
"Vell...you are veeling better." Doc chuckled, walking away from Sesshoumaru's cage and moving on to a sick puppy in the next cage.
Awhile later, another human came by and put little bowls of disgusting looking food into Sesshoumaru's cage. He hissed at the person sticking their hands into his cage, but for some reason didn't try to claw the human's arm off.
Suddenly that girl, Inuyasha's wench, came and looked at him through the cage door.
"Oh...are you feeling better little cat?" Kagome asked the cat, Sesshoumaru's ears went back on their own. Kagome smiled and pet the white cat on the back. Sesshoumaru was surprised when his back arched by itself when Inuyasha's wench touched him.
"Ve vill haf to keep him overnight. Zhen you can take him home." The vet said, looking at Kagome and then to the white cat in the cage.
"Then I'll be back tomorrow morning to pick him up." Kagome said, giving the cat one last pet before closing the door and leaving the back room of the vet's office. Sesshoumaru watched her go and looked back at his food, suddenly, he was hungry.
Later that night Sesshoumaru woke up to the whining of the sick puppy next to him. The once Taiyoukai's ears went back as the pup continued to whine, weither in pain or loneliness Sesshoumaru wasn't sure, but he was sure of one thing, the pup was annoying.
Sesshoumaru growled in further annoyance as the pup continued to whine, this time it sounded like the animal was in pain. Sesshoumaru flattened his ears and tried to sleep, only to be woken up by the whining of the sick puppy.
Suddenly the dog in the cage next to the pup started barking, while the pup was still whining. Sesshoumaru grew more and more annoyed as the two dogs barked and whined, and it got worse when the cat in the cage below him started hacking up a hairball.
"Vhat iz wrong?" If Sesshoumaru's ears could have gone back farther, they would have as the vet came rushing in, odd glasses at an angle on his face. The dog stopped barking, the cat finally finished hacking up his hairball, and the puppy continued to whine.
"Ze poor junger Hund, he iz getting sicker." Doc said, reaching into the pup's cage and pulling the poor little animal out. The pup whimpered but relaxed in the vet's grip, and even drank some water. Sesshoumaru watched as the vet gave the pup a shot of medicine and put him back into his cage. The little pup whined for awhile, but finally fell asleep, much to Sesshoumaru's relief.
Sesshoumaru woke up to Inuyasha's wench looking at him through the cage. He flicked his ear in annoyance, but Kagome just smiled.
"Don't worry; you don't have to stay here for another night." Kagome said.
'Then at least I don't have to stay here with that pup.' Sesshoumaru thought.
"You vish to take him, ja?" The vet asked. Kagome nodded while her mother filled out the checkbook, then the vet grabbed Sesshoumaru by the scuff of the neck, much to the cat's displeasure, and put him in a purple carrier.
"Alright little kitty, time to go home and meet Grandpa and Souta." Kagome said, looking at the cat at the back of the carrier.
Sesshoumaru wasn't sure if it was the medicine that was making him drowsy, or the lack of sleep, but the tired Taiyoukai fell asleep very quickly.
End Chapter
WD: Yay! Another chapter done! Sorry if this one's a bit choppy in places. Kudos to anyone who gets what manga Doc is from. Hint: It starts with a H. If anyone gets it right, I'll post.....something, I'm not sure what yet....
German Translation:
Mein Gott: My God
Katze: Cat
junger Hund: Puppy/Pup
Nein: No. (I think this one's pretty easy to figure out....)
WD: Please tell me if any of those German words aren't right! I don't know ANY German and I'm just going by a manga that has the crazy Doc in it.
Reviews
UltaAnimeFangurl2004: Thanks, and I did have a very nice summer.
Bebe.wants.a.BBgun: Glad I gave you a bit of a shock. Glad you enjoyed it.
Mystic Hanyou: Heh....sorry to say but Sesshou-chan does lose his arm...poor Sesshou-chan.
LadyRainStarDragon: Heh....glad you like!
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InuyashaMoonBaby: That's okay, my computer had a nasty virus as well.
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Thesta: Fluffy it is. I like that name as well.
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