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Disclaimer- I don't Own Inuyasha
Chapter 2
He was…alive, plainly put……
And warmth spread through her body, greater even then from the warmth of the sun.
It had been ten minutes since the creature Inuyasha left and Kagome was staring at her brother. It seemed as though color was painted on his face because he looked like any other normal little boy, except he had a tube down his throat.
Kagome was happy and content.
And her mood seemed to spread through the ICU because all the nurses were chipper. Well…it could have just been some good coffee they had but who cares.
She looked back at her brother and noticed something.
His eyes were coming to life.
She could see his eyes moving around under his eyelids, something he hadn't been doing every since she arrived.
And then…
They opened just a smidge but that still got Kagome to stand up really fast pushing her chair into the wall with a 'clunk!'
Her heart was racing. Maybe she should get a nurse? No too late she had to be here when he opened them fully.
It was almost like a dog race. She was chanting under her breath, Go baby Go!'
They were almost fully open. He was almost to the finish line.
"Excuse me Miss?"
Ooh she looses on a count of interference.
Kagome looked to her right and replied, "Yeah, What?!"
A African American woman named Shelly who was chubby but carried her weight sensuously like most women cant said with and attitude that practically yelled "I'm not taking no shit from anybody, "You need to calm down or I will kick you out. You are not the only one here. Have respect for someone other than yourself."
Before Kagome could say anything Souta's heart monitor started beeping frantically.
She looked back and her brother's eyes were opened wide with terror.
How would you feel if you had just woken up and you couldn't breathe by yourself?
Shelly ran over to his side and said, "Calm down…" she looked at his chart, "Calm down Souta you're okay. I know this is frightening to you but you need to calm down. The reason your throat and chest feel funny is because the nice doctor's had to insert a tube to help you breathe."
When that didn't help him relax at all Shelly looked at Kagome and said, "Just who are you?"
Without even stopping to think Kagome replied, "I'm his sister."
Shelly's attention went back to Souta and she said, "Look Souta do you know who I have here? Just look it's your older sister."
He looked to the opposite of the nurse and saw Kagome.
She smiled a reassuring smile and took his hand and said timidly, "I'm here Souta, Mom and Grandpa too."
Slower…
Slower……
Almost there………
Slower……"beepbeepbeep…beepbeep…beep…beep…beep…beep."
It was back to normal.
"Stay here and comfort him, I need to get a doctor." And with that Shelly departed.
His mouth curved into a smile around the tube and she smiled back.
But something was amiss.
His arms used to be all red and covered in wounds but from what she could see around the bandages, his arms were fine in fact they looked normal.
To be brave she started unwrapping his arm cautiously.
What she saw surprised her.
They were absolutely fine.
Kagome was weirded out and the face she was giving kind of scared Souta a little bit.
She grabbed his other arm and found the same thing when she unwrapped that one.
Her head shot to his face and a determined look came over he features. Her hands went to his head and started uncovering it.
Right when she was done two male doctors and Nurse Shelly appeared
They came over to his side and were immediately given the shock of there lives. Besides the machine he was hooked up to, he looked completely normal.
His face was completely scratch less, there wasn't even scaring. No hint that he was attacked by a dog anywhere.
She smiled…
A smile that he had come to memorize…
She could see him before but not know…
He was not here in person…
It was his spirit…
Souta's bed neighbor was about to die…
He needed to come with Inuyasha…
He would give one sign to Kagome…
Telling her she was not dreaming before…
The soul arose from the old mans body. (Souta's bed neighbor)And it said, "So where we goin chief?"
The soul turned into a spirit and sprouted wings.
"So I'm going to heaven...I can't wait."
And as the monitor drew a line across the screen, and different doctors tried to save his life. This old man was headed to heaven.
The machine was heard in Souta's section.
And as she felt the doctor's check Souta over, and the other doctors try to save the old mans life, a shiver traveled from her head all the way down to her toes almost making her collapse against the wall.
She knew he was there now.
Kagome almost lost her composure but decided not to or they just might put her in the psyche ward if she said she saw the grim reaper.
Suddenly her mother came running toward them.
And so as not to let her mother disturb the doctor's she reached her before she could get to Souta.
Almost instantly when Kagome grabbed her hands she was overwhelmed the feeling that everything would be okay.
"K-kagome…what's going on? Is Souta…is he?"
Kagome smiled and said cheerfully, "No mom. As a matter of fact he just opened his eyes. The doctor's are looking him over now."
Tears of suppressed joy flowed from her mother's eyes.
Kagome moved out of the way and let her mother pass.
She looked to her grandpa and nodded happily to him.
Soon she followed behind them to see what the doctors had to say.
They both had baffled expressions along with Shelly. "It seems Mrs. Higurashi, that your boy has made a miraculous recovery. Even though he came here on the brink of death, he seems to be doing fine. And I'd like your permission to remove the tube."
Waisting no time she nodded up and down and said, "Only if you think he can breathe on his own."
The main doctor asking all the questions, who was wearing the normal doctor attire with brown hair and brown eyes tuned to Souta and prepared him.
"Now Souta I'm about to take this out so you can breathe on your own. Do you understand?" He nodded so the nice doctor continued, "Now when I do it your going to need to cough so your vocal chords relax. Are you ready?"
He nodded.
"Okaay…now."
The noise that Souta made was between a gag and a cough but finally the long tube was out and he was free, free at last! Thank god all mighty he was free at last but not quite.
"Now Souta," he started again "Do not talk for a day or so. If you do you will damage your voice." He turned to the three family members and said, "And you guys only ask him yes or no questions. It'll make it easier."
They checked over him one more time and then the lead doctor ended saying this, "He is breathing fine and nothing seems to be amiss, we will watch him for another 24 hours then we might even be able to move him out of here. And truly folks, what we have witnessed here today is a medical miracle. We will leave you alone now."
Kagome watched him and his comrade leave and she nodded goodbye to Shelly.
This family was on there way to being back to normal.
"Geese Souta when did you become such a chatter box?"
The Higurashi family was home. After only spending two days in the hospital they were back.
Kagome was in the kitchen sitting on a stool leaning against the island in the counter, wearing a red tank top with low cut blue jeans.
And her little brother? Well he was currently running a mile a minute and showed no sign of stopping. I guess not being able to talk for a day does something to a little boy.
Her mother was currently washing dishes, happily.
And her grandfather was sweeping the front porch talking to himself about all the cursed leaves falling from the tree.
"Kagome…Kagome…KAGOME!"
She gave an irritated glance at the oh so happy boy and uttered, "What is it?"
'You wanna know what Jimmie said today when I called him? Huh doyah?"
Her eye twitched and she almost didn't want to nod yes.
"Well Jimmie said, he said that uhh…Oh yeah he said that I was the coolest kid he knew!"
She was a little confused and annoyed, "Why don't you guys talk more mature? You are in eighth grade."
"Alright…Yo whazz up my sista, just chillin? For shizzle my niumph."
At that point she just covered his mouth.
She looked at her mom and said, "Well I'm going to my room. Maybe I'll take a nap."
Her mom said okay. So Kagome released her hand from her brother's mouth and headed upstairs to her room.
She got there and collapsed on her bed. Lying on her back she just starred at the ceiling.
'Is he alive because of me?' she thought.
Well either way it made her feel good to know she might of saved his life.
And maybe she could take into consideration what Inuyasha said. Plus she felt bad about how the Angel of Darkness was killing people that didn't need to die.
But could she really handle it all?
She decided to leave the question unanswered and fell asleep. It was only 4:00 p.m. She could wake up before dinner.
Kagome would have woken up, only if her mother did it for her. But Mrs. Higurashi decided to let her sleep and so she did till one o'clock in the morning.
She woke up startled. It was freezing in her room!
And remembering instantly what that meant she looked up and there he was at the foot of her bed, clouding her entire room with darkness. How annoying! Just like her brother. Wasn't there a way to stop all that?
"What do you want?" She asked irritated.
"You."
Boy he had no idea how weird and not right that sounded.
Kagome almost fell out of her bed but then he started to explain.
"I told you that I would be back when your heart decided."
"How did it decide I've been asleep?"
"You made the decision before you went to sleep."
She bowed her head, hair falling forward covering her eyes. There was just something she didn't understand about all this. Besides that it was her chosen to do all this, "I don't understand when you say that your spirit spreads out taking people to their final destination. If you can do that so can the angel of darkness. She could probably kill thousands of people while I only save one. So why even bother?" Kagome asked unsurely.
"Because if you save one it will be like you save a hundred because every time you do she is weakened. You will be stopping her from destroying a life in the future."
Standing up she made her way to her closet. Opening it she found what she wanted and took it out. She was about to change and noticed him still there.
"If I'm going to do this you need to cooperate with me. I need to know right now if we have to be up this early or late however you look at it."
He replied, "The sooner the better."
Kagome nodded already knowing the answer and looked back at him. "Could you leave for a minute? I have to change. I mean seriously just standing there like a lost puppy." As he left he heard her say, "Watch me, I'll probably buy you a leash next."
The warmer the better.
That's all she was thinking at the moment.
Especially if she had to be by him the whole day.
So she was currently wearing two under shirts and a black sweater over them.
Kagome thought of wearing mittens but people might look at her funny.
Along with the sweater she was wearing a pair of carpenter pants with regular black P.F Flyer's shoes. They look similar to converse but they promised to make a kid run faster and jump farther, but enough about that.
Opening her bedroom door she went downstairs and headed out. She took her house key out, unlocked the front door, opened it and stepped outside.
Closing and locking the door behind her she wondered when the 'King of Death,' would appear.
"Ding!" Right on time.
At least she was warm this time.
"So Inuyasha, how exactly do we stop her?"
The hooded head turned her way and said, "I don't know. I've never been able to do anything because I'm not able to touch people without killing them. It's not her we're going after. We are trying to help the victims. She is the cause of all suicides and the cause of all victims of murder. Right now we will be helping a young man age 26 who wants nothing more to do with this life. He thinks that killing himself will make his family happy. But in all truths his family loves him. But the Angel has caused him to think otherwise. Come, he is set to end his life at 4:00a.m. Where he'll be found on the corner on Sunset St. and 14th Ave by a little boy on his way to school. Yes it's an odd place to die but that's where his younger brother named Jesse died in a car accident two years ago."
He finished his speech and she only had one thing to say, "Can you tell me his name? You know if I want to address him right." She finished timidly.
"His name is Kurt, Kurt Cope. He likes to be called 'slim."
She nodded in understanding.
Inuyasha grasped his sai with both hands and stuck his arms straight out in front of him.
Kagome looked around as the surroundings were flying by. But they were just standing there. There must be some hidden powers with this guy she has yet to see. Besides making it freezing all the time.
They were slowing down.
12th street……
13th street……
And finally 14th street……
There he was, Kurt Cope sitting on the floor leaning against the light pole on the corner of the street.
And in his right hand was a gun.
Kagome just stood there. She didn't know what to do!
Hesitantly she stepped forward but stopped.
Inuyasha was still behind her! Maybe she could get out of this one!
When she was about to turn around an unfamiliar voice said, "Just what the hell are you staring at?"
Kagome glanced over at 'slim' and started to walk forward.
"I-I was just wondering why you have that gun in your hand?" she replied.
And as she knelt on the floor in front of him his eyes closed in mental pain and he went on about something Kagome never would have known about but she did.
"He……he should of never gone out. I s-should of stopped him." He said through his tears.
Wait a minute Kagome just realized something. There was a boy in her 10th grade year that died, coming home from a party. She later learned from one of her friends.
She and Jesse even did a project together in science class. They weren't ever truly friends but simple acquaintances. But now she wished she had been a friend of his and the family.
Kagome started to cry herself now.
"I'm sure Jesse doesn't think you're to blame."
He looked up at her confused but then said, "He probably doesn't but my family does and so do I."
Kurt Looked up at her angrily and said, "Why are you here?! Just who the hell are you?"
She scooted a little closer to him and said, "My name is Kagome. And I just want to help you. Tell me something Kurt, why are you thinking about all this now after two years?"
He looked straight into her eyes and said, "The other friend that was in the car with my brother just came out of a coma. And one more person blaming me is something I can't handle."
Kagome shook her head in disbelief and she told him, "You could not have prevented it. He was supposed to die. But you aren't. You need to live. Your brother died so you would stay here with your family! He knew they would need you if he left this earth."
It was his turn to shake his head. "They've been doing good without me so far. Me leaving shouldn't make a difference."
And with that said he took the safety off the gun, cocked it and laid the gun against his head.
She turned quickly to her right staring at Inuyasha for help. He could do no such thing though. And when she turned back Kurt had the gun pointed to his head.
"Please Kurt put the gun down. If not for me put it down for your brother. Don't make your family go through another person's death. Please!" She pleaded with her voice, mind, and heart.
"I have a little brother. Just like you did. And I watched him almost die in the hospital. I thought him being there was the worst thing in the world. But having him die would have been the worst. Any one dying in a family is bad. Especially at such a young age. Please I beg of you…please."
"At least your brother is still alive, mine isn't. I have already made up my mind. He looked sincerely back at her and said, "Tell my mother…That I'm sorry."
And the trigger went off.
Kagome screamed……
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
But Kurt was already dead…
Inuyasha watched as the tainted soul left the body and disappeared.
He looked down at where Kagome was hunched over crying.
'Why couldn't I stop him?' she thought. 'Now his family will…'
She caught a glimpse of her watch and it said 4:01 a.m.
He killed himself right on time.
Kagome stood up and just started walking in the opposite direction. Still crying, but silently to herself.
Around the fourth or fifth block she turned around at Inuyasha, who had been following her and she said, "I don't think I can do this. Not if that happens again. I'm sorry I couldn't help you but I…"
She bowed her head apologetically and started to leave when he spoke up.
"Kagome Higurashi…You are the only that has been able to see me besides the creator. Your purpose in life is now to help me. We need to the stop the angel. And I cannot do it alone. In every aspect of life you need to fail in order to succeed. I knew you would fail tonight. But I also know that you will succeed. I can see everything there is about death, the future, past and the present. And soon you will also be able to."
She finally spoke up and said, "But what if I don't want to?"
"Then you will not."
After a few moments of silence he put his sai out in front of him and was about to take her home when, "I just want to walk home Inuyasha."
His arms were dropped and she was on her way. With The Grim Reaper following close behind.
The sun was rising when she came home, and she was without Inuyasha.
Since it was a Saturday she went up to her room and fell asleep.
She would wait to visit the Cope family. To give them time. To let them rest.
Kagome would tell the mother what Kurt told her. And maybe then her heart could be calm.
Well that's the end of chapter two. I am deeply sorry for the wait. But now I'll just be waiting for the reviews I hope to get
Please no flames.