"Are you all right?" Her savior asked.
But all Kagome could see was a hazy plethora of silvery hair, and someone, someone she met today had the exact same hair color. She dazedly remembered some loudmouth who offended her…the asshole, the asshole guy! And of course, she never felt better in her life, what with a bullet in her body and lots of blood spilling out of her and all, yup, she sure felt swell. Her mouth opened to speak, but she thought better of insulting his intelligent question, after all, she didn't want him to dump her here.
"He, he has a gun" As soon as the words came out of her mouth, keeping awake was too hard, and Kagome slipped into unconsciousness. She was right however, the man in the back did indeed carry a gun, and he looked pretty angry.
"Hand the bitch over." The man commanded and his filthy hand jerked out, as a set of teeth marks gleamed red.
"Why should I?" He didn't like taking orders, never did in fact, and especially not from idiots. Scum like these always tried to kidnap young school girls to do who the hell knew what to them. He wasn't going to abandon her over just like that. This was his territory, and the asshole didn't even know it.
"It's none of your business what I do with her, she bit me and now she's gonna pay. Move out of the way or I'll shoot you too." Heh, maybe the little man was actually serious, he quickly reached into his coat pocket as the other gun came to meet him at eye point.
"So I guess you still don't know who I am, eh? I almost pity you." Grinning and revealing his unusually sharp teeth, he flung out his own weapon and shot the man in the leg.
The man howled in pathetic misery, "You bastard, you shot me! Now I'm really going to kill you!" But before the man could even aim a shot at him, he was right in front of his face, and had his gun pointed at his head.
"You bore me; do you want to die now?" His finger tightened on the trigger.
Realization dawned on the man's face as he looked closely at his captor.
"I I'm sorry, I didn't know, I didn't see you Mr. Sesshomaru, please let me go! I didn't mean what I said, forgive me!" The man sputtered and cried for mercy, it was actually amusing for half a second before it made him sick, but he wasn't fool enough to kill a guy in broad daylight. So he simply knocked the man out with the backside of his gun.
Kicking the dirty man in the side, he went over to check on the girl, turning her to her side, he noted that she had a pretty bad wound in her back. He dug through her backpack and found her wallet. However, there were only a few photographs and dollars in there, but nothing that revealed her identity. He gently picked her up, covering her with his own coat. He didn't know where she lived but he felt obligated to help her, she was, after all, in his territory, and he took care of the people in it. Well, usually…
Checking to see if the coast was clear, he ducked out of the dingy alleyway, and onto the streets.
The people they passed by never gave a thought to the unconscious girl; it was common enough in Shinjuku. He finally stopped to fumble for his keys, which were in his pant pockets, and opened the door to his car. He laid the girl down in the backseat, and as a second thought, spread his coat once more over her body.
He wanted that bullet out of her body fast; every passing second further endangered her life. So he stepped on the pedal and the car sped off leaving tire marks on the asphalt.
'Am I dead? I can't open my eyes.' Kagome was on her stomach and her face was flat on a sticky surface, which turned out to be the sofa.
'Funny', I don't remember dad buying a leather couch. But then again, maybe he was joking about the bankruptcy…She suddenly felt cold hands touch her shoulders, and was jerked wide awake.
Persian rug, chandelier, and a glass table, this was definitely not her home, they weren't even done moving in yet, but maybe she was still dreaming. But wait, her eyes were open, so that would mean that she just woke up in her dream. It was enough to baffle her mind if the stabbing pain in her back didn't distract her otherwise. She groaned.
"So, you're awake, but it would have been better if you were still unconscious" It took a while for Kagome to process the words, but when she did, she remembered what happened to her, and that was enough to finally jerk her to her senses.
"Who, who are you? Where's that guy, and where am I?" She desperately scanned the stranger for answers.
"I found you unconscious in that dark alleyway, remember? So I took you to my house, and now, I'm going to get the bullet out of you." He tried to smile reassuringly at her, but what probably resulted was a grimace, it had been too long since he last tried, perhaps he had forgotten…
"Well, thank you, but I think I'd rather be operated on by a doctor, or just go to the hospital for this sort of thing," She tried to move, but the splitting pain rendered her whimpering and gritting her teeth in agony.
"I can operate on you just as well as any doctor; I've already stopped the blood. Just trust me." He didn't know what else to say, so she would just have to believe him.
Incredible, she was supposed to leave her life to a complete stranger… She focused her eyes into those disturbingly cold pupils; he had no reason to lie to her, hell, what did she have to lose; besides her life, probably not much.
"Ok, fine, this wouldn't hurt, would it?" She asked tiredly, her eyes were failing her.
"Well…," Sesshomaru nearly chuckled; she was exactly like one of the patients at the hospital, a little girl named Rin. "This might hurt…a lot." He added finally, relishing her bewildered expression.
"Here, bite on this if the pain becomes unbearable" He handed her one of his handkerchiefs that were nearby. She took it, stuffed it in her mouth, and squeezed her eyes shut.
"Here comes the easy part," Sesshomaru murmured as the picked up his needle.
He faintly heard the girl mumble something through the cloth when he injected the anesthetic into her.
"I hate needles…"
She was faintly aware of someone tugging at her clothes, and the realization shocked her awake once more.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Kagome asked shrilly.
"Look, I can't operate on you with your shirt on." He promptly answered.
"Fine, but no peaking" As Kagome felt scissors cutting away the material of her tank top, she felt very uncomfortable, not just because a stranger was undressing her and about to perform surgery on her, but because she knew her parents would never have been able to pay off the medical bills. She always had insurance until her father's scandals destroyed the company. Despite her earlier promise to herself, she felt her throat tighten and tears leak from her eyes.
Sesshomaru mistook this reaction as shame, and felt slightly guilty, but there wasn't anything he could do, so he resolved to quickly finish the operation and get her home somehow, so he tested her wound.
"OW!" She winced, more tears streaming down her cheeks.
Sesshomaru arched his eyebrows, If she thought that was painful, he didn't want to know how she would react later.
After examining the wound for a minute or two, he knew what to do and took out his scalpel, and prayed the anesthesia would hurry up and kick in.
The girl screamed, searching for the pervert who groped her butt, only to see bewildered onlookers staring at her.
"Ha, Miroku, you really know how to get out of a situation like that. Did you see the look on her face?" Inu Yasha slapped his friend on the back, congratulating him on his "good" work.
"Well, when you've had as much experience as I, maybe you can get away with it too." Miroku grinned slyly; so it worked, Inu Yasha was finally out of his earlier funk.
"I don't need to stoop as low as you to feel a girl up, I've got Kikyo and she let's me do anything I want to her." They were walking home together since the bus around this hour was usually crowded with people.
"But she won't sleep with you, will she?"
"I don't want to sleep with her anyway, she's only dating me because she wants to be Queen Bitch of the school, I know she's using me, and she probably thinks that I'm an idiot anyway…." Inu Yasha quietly noted.
"If you know she's using you, then why are you still going out with her?" Miroku, like everyone else who knew of Inu Yasha's relationship with Kikyo, couldn't understand how such opposites could ever stand each other.
"Because…she's…," Inu Yasha trailed, his expression softened and his eyes glazed over.
Miroku was actually surprised that his friend was serious about that girl, often times Inu Yasha would joke about how he hated Kikyo, and then sometimes he would dramatically exclaim his love for her. But Miroku never doubted that Kikyo would leave his friend for a more powerful man one day. He was sure Inu Yasha knew too, but just didn't want to admit it.
"C'mon we're at your place already, quit daydreaming and open the door." Miroku said glancing over at his friend's old scratched up house, one window was cracked, and trash littered the street in front of the weeded front yard. A year ago Miroku would've been surprised to see that such a rat hole was habitable, but time changes everything.
Inu Yasha dug his hand into his pockets, and finally presented a jangle of keys and shoved one inside the keyhole, turned the knob and stepped right in to his home.
"Hey, I'm home" Inu Yasha yelled through the doorway just before taking off his shoes, as Miroku followed suit, carefully laying his shoes down in the hallway where many pictures were tacked to the wall.
The pictures of the once happy family were now memories of the past. Inu Yasha's once lively face and curious eyes had turned hard and tough. His older brother wasn't any different either, he almost never smiled now, and his expression had become distant and indifferent.
But something else caught his eye, actually someone else. When he saw the raven hair and lithe body on the couch, he immediately recognized who that person was.
This was not going to be good.
"C'mon, what are you staring at?" Inu Yasha rudely pushed past his friend and stalked into the living room, what he saw next stopped him speechless.
There was no mistaking it; she was the same person who humiliated him earlier today.
"Ka, Kagome?" Inu Yasha exclaimed in disbelief.