Hmm...I'm doing what I can to make this not so similar to Kill Bill. I want some of it to be original, because the purpose of this story is to make me enthusiastic about writing my other fics. And besides, it would be terrible to copy the movies scene for scene. That wouldn't be being a true fan. But if this chapter seems very similar, well that's just because this part was essential to the movie, and while I want it to be original most of the time, I want it to seem reminiscent of Kill Bill as well, you know?
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Disclaimer: I don't own Kill Bill or Inuyasha or anything related to either of them.
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Lei non Deve Parlare
Chapter 8-My Baby Shot Me Down
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Kagome cried out suddenly. She arched her back. Her hair was damp with sweat, and her hospital clothes were drenched. Her whole body convulsed regularly, and there was nothing she could do to control it. Never in her life, not even with Sesshomaru, had she felt so much pain; it took all of her strength to keep herself from passing out.
Therefore, her thoughts resided no where else. Kagome was completely focused on her battle against the misery, and if she had a moment to catch her breath, she was worrying for the baby's safety. She didn't once consider the fact that unlike her original plan, she was in a regular hospital, for regular people.
With regular infants.
All of that, however, would be inconsequential. In a matter of moments, none of that would be worth anything at all.
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Amelia winced slightly when Kagome's body thrashed again. It was torture to have to watch her wrench herself around in agony. She squeezed her hand gently, and in return Kagome nearly crushed it.
Laura stood near, but not as close as Amelia. She looked frightened and confused, and was conveying more emotion on her face all together than she had in a long time. This was a time for her to be serious, it was not a time for jokes or sarcasm. Nor was it a time for cigarettes, even though she had a horrific craving for one.
Lilly was sitting on a stool by Kagome's bed, and eventually got up to pace around. Laura and Amelia could barely hear her voice over the young woman's howling cries, "Where the hell is the doctor?" She muttered coldly.
No one could answer her. Not even five minutes after they had been brought to the room they now occupied, after driving Kagome to the hospital themselves, had the doctor been present in the room. It was with much reluctance that he left them after a nurse had come by telling him that it was absolutely urgent and necessary that he should come with her on some unexplained business. There had been a few assistants, but they had also been taken away, one by one.
It was baffling, and scared everyone. It was also like a dream, or a nightmare, that they would be left to comfort the sick and writhing Kagome all by themselves. Lilly was the only one with any real experience, and she had not been in the position at that time to comprehend what was being done to help her. Thus she was of no real help. All anyone could do was stand over Kagome silently.
Laura finally cracked.
"This is ridiculous!" she squawked in a high and tight voice. "She might even die! Look at her!"
"Keep your voice down Laura!" Amelia snapped, holding Kagome's hand even tighter.
Laura fumed with quiet rage and fixed Amelia with a look of utter contempt. Lilly sat back down on her stool and sighed deeply. Her stare remained on Kagome's face, her dark brown eyes shut tight, everything about her features strained with pain.
"I'm going to go find someone," Laura said slowly. With that, she turned stiffly and made her way towards the door. She didn't make it very far.
Through the burden of her physical condition Kagome heard a conversation take place, a brief one. Between Laura, and someone she could not see.
"Who the fuck are you?!" She heard her friend say suddenly.
"Step aside now," the unknown voice was chilling, if a little taunting. Seemingly emotionless, it expressed a message that promised death.
Kagome wheezed a panted, and did her best to control her body. She brought herself under control gradually, but the slightest slip of her will-power would send her into violent fits again. As she did this, the conversation continued.
"No. Where the hell is the doctor?" Laura demanded.
There was a brief silence, and then someone else started speaking. "He's not coming," they said shortly.
"Not coming?! What the fuck does that mean? Who the fuck are you?!" Laura bellowed.
"It means just what you think it means. Get out of the way," that was another unknown speaker. What ensued from Kagome's assumption was a brief scuffle of some sort, then footsteps, and then Amelia began to speak from right next to her.
"Who are you?" she asked softly, "What do you want?"
"We've only come here to see Kagome."
Kagome gasped suddenly, and instead of kicking around in more bursts of misery, she began to shake. Shivers spread down her body like waves, and she felt herself go cold.
"Why?" Lilly asked.
Silence. Kagome opened her eyes.
Sesshomaru stood in front of her bed. To his left, a tall, graceful woman that Kagome recognized as the driver of the car Sesshomaru had used to escort her to his house that very first time. Next to her was another, slightly shorter woman with long dark brown hair and brown, cat-like eyes. On Sesshomaru's right was yet another female, this one with short hair she kept up behind her head in a spiky ponytail. One eye was an intense magenta color, the other was hidden behind a black eye patch, if there was another eye at all. And then, there was a man by the woman with the eyepatch, He had long, dark hair that fell around his shoulders and was partially tied up in the back. His eyes were red.
Kagome breathed faster, she felt uneasy, extremely uncomfortable in his presence.
Sesshomaru smiled. "So she's finally having a baby?"
"What do you want Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked unsteadily. There was still pain clawing her apart, and it was hard to ignore it. Even when he was standing over her with this unknown group.
"I want to see you have your child."
"My child." She said firmly. She glanced around quickly at the people flanking him on either side.
He caught the glance, "Do they make you uncomfortable?"
She swallowed and didn't answer. A bead of perspiration coursed down her face from her forehead.
Sesshomaru lowered his chin and his eyes suddenly flicked towards each of his surrounding group in turn. They seemed to comprehend his message without any real difficulty, and began filing out. The woman with the eyepatch paused momentarily and regarded Kagome with a very cold stare, then she left with the others, and closed the door as she went.
As soon as they had all withdrawn Sesshomaru brushed past the fuming Laura, and confused Amelia and Lilly without so much as a word of excuse. And they didn't stop him, they knew they couldn't if they tried.
When he reached her bedside he stooped down gracefully and looked Kagome straight in the eye. She flinched and scooted away from him, still panting. His eyes narrowed as he spoke, "You know better than to be afraid of me."
"What are you going to do?" she asked suddenly.
"Is it very painful?"
Kagome breathed cautiously, and gained control of her troubled body for a few seconds. "...Yes," she said quietly.
Sesshomaru's mouth became a straight line again, as it usually was, "I'm sorry."
"What are you going to do?"
He stared into her eyes for a long time, and she in turn stared into his. Sesshomaru could easily place her emotion: fear. After all of their years together, spent training her in combat, grooming her powers, strengthening her education...It had all been meant to keep her afraid of nothing, and here she was still afraid of just one thing: him. He hated it.
Kagome, however, was having a far harder time trying to figure Sesshomaru out. All she could do was focus on his eyes, and try to fight off the terror he inspired in her. The fact that he didn't answer her question made her possibly more frightened than if he had actually said something that hinted at a dangerous experience to come. She had seen his anger after burning for five hundred years, she knew what he would allow himself to do.
"Meyumi?" She snapped out of the trance she seemed to be sharing with Sesshomaru, and turned towards the owner of the voice. It was Lilly, looking more concerned for her than she had ever seen. It made her heart ache with grief. How could she have let such wonderful people become involved in such a threatening situation? "Who is he?"
Kagome's mind raced for a response, but Sesshomaru beat her to it. "I'm a friend. I came to see Meyumi." He stood up elegantly, "Had I known it would be such an inconvenient time to visit, I wouldn't have come." His eyes never left her. "I just had to see Meyumi again."
"Please don't," Kagome cried unexpectedly, in a tone that was delicate and vulnerable. It was barely above a whisper.
"I wouldn't worry," Sesshomaru said, "I'm not going to."
Before any of the women who were not informed had a chance to question the latest exchange of words, Sesshomaru bent down again suddenly and leaned in close to Kagome's face. His head was tilted to the side, so that he came in next to her ear. There he began whispering to her, so that no one else would be able to hear him. "I want you to know," he began, and she started to shiver again, "that I did not mean for things to end this way."
The sudden fear he caused her to experience made Kagome's strength falter, and her body gradually succumbed to the still-present pain that whipped through her every second. She whimpered softly as he continued to speak into her ear, "This was not my first choice."
Sesshomaru's hand drifted down and folded around Kagome's. Together their fingers rested over her stomach, over her baby. Then he drew back and stood up once more. "Will you allow me to stay?"
Kagome could barely see him now, and it took everything she had to prevent herself from screaming again. To her surprise, she noticed that her face was wet with something other than sweat, and she they were not tears of pain. She nodded to him briefly, and then turned away to hide her face in her pillow.
Lilly, Amelia, and even Laura made no objections as he leaned casually against the door; his gaze resting on the now moaning Kagome.
"Do you know where the doctor is?" Amelia asked him tentatively.
"No," he said to her, his voice was level and emotionless.
"It's going to come soon!" Kagome shouted, they all turned to her.
Lilly moved to Kagome's side and took the hand that Amelia wasn't holding tightly, "I don't understand, where are the doctors?"
"I'll go find someone," Laura said sternly, and again, like her other attempt, she moved to the door. This time she opened it, but in the tradition of last time, she was stopped by the same group.
Her response, however, was different.
"What the hell?" She breathed in a faint voice.
Kagome lifted her head, a bolt of fear gripping her instantly. It was more powerful at that moment than any other leading up to the scene. Her eyes were wide with terror.
Every one of Sesshomaru's killers was armed with a gun, and every gun was large and powerful. Had Kagome been well enough to see clearly, she would have been able to recognize the models, but she could still tell that they were as powerful as they came, one of the most deadly hand-held weapons someone could wield.
None of the hospital personnel in that particular building could hear the barrage of bullets that was fired, they were dead.
And no one really heard Kagome's scream of protest, as blood flew all around her.
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She lay beside her overturned hospital bed, Lilly had thrown it over to defend her from stray shots at the start of the violence. She was wheezing and trying hard to keep herself awake, when she heard the sound of footsteps coming near her. Her faint heartbeat accelerated then, and she would have clutched her swollen abdomen protectively had she had enough strength to move her reddened fingers.
He stopped by Kagome, and knelt down on one knee beside her on the ground. She tried as hard as she possibly could to move away from him, even a little, but he stopped her efforts with a hand on her face; it was enough to immobilize her limp body.
"Kagome," he said in his typical stoic tone, "I think you should know that your mother, grandfather, and brother have been killed."
She howled in agony, mourning the loss of her family in the single instant that he told her. On top of everything that had just happened, it was enough to crush her entirely. But the thought of her baby, possibly hurt, but possibly still alive, made her continue to live and breathe. Still Kagome turned away from him in a fit of grief; he caught her and made her turn back to him, but before he did she caught a glimpse of the Amelia, lying dead beside the bed.
Her eyes found his again. Sesshomaru smiled.
"You must hate me now."
Her breathing became even more rapid. His fingers began to brush over her face, softly rubbing away the blood that had gathered over her skin, reminiscent of the time he had dabbed at her with his kerchief so tenderly.
"You must try to understand that I'm not doing this to torture you."
He lifted up his hand, one that had previously been hidden from her view. It contained a loaded gun, smaller than what the others of his group had used, it resembled something a western cowboy might throw around; very debonaire, very dangerous.
Kagome struggled to overcome her fear as her eyes opened fully again. She couldn't find the strength to say even a word to him. There was nothing she could do to stop him as he started to aim towards her.
"I would not torture you Kagome," he continued. There seemed to be a note of something akin to grief in his eyes right at that second.
Kagome suddenly spoke to him, with a statement that was meant to remind him rather than tell him; to make him realize it, if only to save the child.
"You're the father, Sesshomaru."
He pulled the trigger hardly after she had finished saying her words.
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No, it's not over. And for those of you who have seen these movies...I know it was infinitely cheap to throw Elle's eyepatch in, but you've got to understand, Elle is quite possibly my favorite character, I love her to death. And you can't think of Elle without thinking of the eyepatch. It's so cool! Thank you and goodbye.
