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Chapter 14: Reunion and Explanations
(Final Chapter)
Tokyo Hospital: 'Land of Blood and Wheelchair Races' is what Yusuke had dubbed it. He had been there far too many times to count and every time he was there, it was on account of someone he was very close to. This time was definitely no exception.
Kagome was fine now, physically at least, but the doctors had diagnosed her with extreme exhaustion and had admitted her for the night for observation. Shows what they knew. But then again, human doctors probably wouldn't recognize when someone had recently had their soul torn from their body, so he could cut them some slack.
Yusuke looked up when Hiei had entered the room, absentmindedly dusting off his dark clothing. He had been taking care of the person who had called the police on them; the one who had ran through the Higurashi's neighborhood screaming that four ugly men had just raped and killed the love of his life. . . . damn that Hojo.
"Where is he?" Kurama asked in a light voice. Hiei grunted.
"Taken care of," the other demon replied. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, somehow instantly asleep.
Kurama glanced out the window and began chuckling lightly. Yusuke stared at him questioningly.
"Hojo is not dead, I assure you," Kurama explained, covering his mouth as his chuckles became louder and much more distinct.
So, Yusuke stood up and went to the window. And there, hanging from the hospital flagpole, was a dangling and frantic looking Hojo.
It was a hilarious sight indeed and lightened everyone's spirits.
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Kagome didn't remember much since she entered present times, but here she was now, lying in a hospital bed with monitors and machines beeping on either side of her. She sat up quickly, but Kagome suddenly noticed her disheveled looking mother, who gently pushed her shoulders back to get her to lie down.
"Kagome, dear! You lie right back down! You're in no condition to be moving right now," the woman scolded. Kagome did as she was told without any objection.
"What am I doing here?" Kagome asked her. She felt perfectly fine, albeit a little shaken after their latest ordeal.
"You collapsed in the yard, Kagome. Luckily, Hojo was out there and called an ambulance," Mrs. Higurashi informed her. Kagome inwardly cringed.
'That is definitely not good,' she thought to herself.
"Try and get some rest, dear. The doctors have given you some medication and they're positive you'll be as good in a few days."
Kagome nodded again and turned on her side before nodding off once more.
Mrs. Higurashi gasped when she realized that she had temporarily forgotten about all the people in the waiting room, waiting for Kagome. With one last glance at the sleeping girl, she exited the room and headed to the waiting area.
She was slightly surprised by the sight. Souta was winning a wheelchair race against Kuwabara, Hiei was asleep, standing up, I might add, Kurama and Grandpa were jovially discussing demons and myths, and lastly, Yusuke was asleep in a chair, mouth open, and clearly drooling.
Mrs. Higurashi couldn't help but laugh at the sight. This alerted everyone that she was in the room.
"Mom! How's Kagome?" Souta yelled, hopping down from the wheelchair and running to his mother. She smiled.
"She's doing much better. But it's really late. You need to go home and get some sleep," the woman stated.
"But Kagome-"
"You'll see her tomorrow, I promise."
Souta nodded solemnly as Mrs. Higurashi looked to the rest of the group.
"You should all go home too. It's been a long day."
Most agreed, but Hiei promptly ignored the talking woman, having every intention of staying in the hospital with Kagome.
So one by one, the visitors left the waiting area after bidding farewell and the only ones that remained were Mrs. Higurashi, a still asleep Yusuke, and a newly awakened Hiei.
"Hiei? Aren't you leaving as well?" she asked in a surprised tone. It was clear that she had no idea about Kagome and Hiei's relationship.
"No," he stated clearly, causing Mrs. Higurashi to shrug.
"Suit yourself. If you want to visit Kagome though, she's in room B147."
"Hn."
Mrs. Higurashi didn't seem the least bit phased by his lack of words but instead smiled and headed back to Kagome's room.
Hiei turned his attention back to Yusuke and his eyes wandered to the communication device sticking out of his breast pocket.
'Finally time to get some damn answers,' Hiei thought to himself. He retrieved the communication mirror from Yusuke with ease and leaned against the window.
As soon as he opened the mirror, Koenma's toddler face appeared and he looked pretty angry.
"Hiei! Do you have any idea what time it is?" the ruler yelled. Hiei's expression didn't change in the least.
"I really don't give a shit. You have answers, I want them, and I want them now," the fire apparition growled.
"No, not now. I'm tired, we'll wait till tomorrow," Koenma explained with a yawn. And without another word, Koenma closed to link.
Supremely pissed off, Hiei closed his mirror as well and threw it into Yusuke's lap. Again, he leaned against the wall and began pondering. He really wanted to see Kagome. But she was probably asleep; not to mention the fact that her mother was in there. It was an all-around bad idea. So, tomorrow. He'd find every damn detail about what happened in the Feudal Era, and if not from Kagome, Koenma would most likely be happy to oblige after a few threats.
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Koenma awoke from his night's rest earlier than usual, as he was having some very important visitors.
In fact, it seemed that his early awakening was completely pointless as his appointments were nearly an hour late. They would meet in his office, discuss things, and then they would send for Kagome and the gang for a happy and long awaited reunion.
As he began to lose his patience, there was a short, loud knock on his door.
"Come in!" he yelled irritably, his pacifier flying out of his mouth in the process. Embarrassed, he shoved it back into his nearly toothless mouth before his guests saw.
The door opened and in walked five people, all of them at least part demon. Two of them had long white hair, two of the women had long black hair, and the other woman was unbearably familiar-- his secretary Sakura, who happened to be in on the scheme the entire time.
"Here they are, sir, just as you requested," Sakura said, bowing slightly to her boss.
"Yes, only they're very late. Thank you, Sakura. As usual, your help is greatly appreciated," the toddler stated sarcastically.
Looking particularly pissed off, the woman gave him a nasty look before leaving the room and slamming the door behind her. Everyone in the room besides Koenma, who was used to it flinched.
"Charming, isn't she?" Koenma asked and received no reply. Clearing his throat, he continued. "Anyway, everything went smoothly after Kagome and the detectives returned to present time."
Inuyasha and a half-demon Rin gave a sigh of relief.
"Who knew that Kagome's coming to the feudal era could cause such a huge change in things," Rin commented, taking a seat by the door. Koenma nodded.
"At least everything and everyone is fine now. In fact, Kagome will probably be by later today. I imagine you all want to see her."
"Indeed. But I have far better things to do than sit and wait here for her. Will she arrive soon?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Yes, yes, don't get your panties in a bunch. I'll send for her now, okay?" the ruler spat. "BOTAN!" Every demon in the room had to protect their ears from the toddler's shriek.
Almost immediately after he called for her, Botan entered the room, out of breath.
"Yes, Koenma, sir?" she asked, grasping her knee-caps and gasping for air.
"Send for the Spirit Detectives and Kagome Higurashi immediately."
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When Kagome awoke again, light was pouring in from the uncovered windows. In front of it, her mother was asleep in what looked like an uncomfortable position in the sofa in front of it.
But she knew that someone else was there as well.
"Hiei?" she whispered. She received a 'hn' in response and Hiei sat down at the foot of her bed.
" . . . How did it turn out?" she asked.
"I don't know. But you, you nearly got yourself killed. You're in a ningen hospital. That has to be some indication."
Kagome remained silent
"The Shikon Jewel is no more. You will no longer be able to visit the Feudal Era," he explained. It was for the best.
Kagome remained silent. There was a strong possibility that she would never see her friends again.
In the middle of their irritating silence, Yusuke walked in, desperately trying to flatten down his messy black hair.
"We gotta go. The toddler wants to see us," the Spirit Detective explained. Kagome hopped from her bed, gathered up her normal clothes and made a mad dash from the bathroom, but on the way, her cousin's voice stopped her.
"You sure you're okay, Kagome?" Yusuke asked. She nodded and smiled.
"And I'll even feel ten times better once I know how Inuyasha and the others are doing. I need to speak to Koenma."
Minutes later, Kagome came back out, looking as innocent and beautiful as she ever did. So, placing a soft kiss on her mother's forehead, the three of them set off.
When they arrived in Spirit World, Kurama and Kuwabara were already there outside of Koenma's office. Kuwabara seemed positively giddy when their other three companions arrived.
"YES! We can go inside now, we can go inside now," Kuwabara began chanting unmercifully. Kurama sweatdropped and felt the need to explain.
"Koenma and Botan refused to let us enter until you arrive, Kagome. But we have heard an awful lot of arguing in there," Kurama said with a small smile.
'He knows something,' Kagome mentally decided.
"Well, okay, then. What the hell are we waiting for? That dumbass toddler owes us a fucking explanation!" Yusuke yelled, shaking his fist into the air for effect.
"Yusuke! Language!" Kagome scolded. Rolling his eyes at his goody-goody cousin, Yusuke pushed the double doors open to reveal a very familiar group.
"Inuyasha? And everyone else as well?" Kagome murmured, her eyes watering with disbelief.
There he was, looking exactly the same as he had 500 years previous with the exception of a half-demon Kikyo at his side, who merely nodded at her.
Thrilled to see one of her best friends alive, Kagome threw herself into Inuyasha's arms for a long-awaited hug.
Kurama's attention was amusingly focused on Hiei, who's jealous glare was focused on Inuyasha while the fire-apparition let out a long, angry growl.
After Kagome and Inuyasha's FRIENDLY hug ended, the teenage demon's attention was focused on Kikyo.
"So, it paid off after all," Kagome said with a grin, pulling Kikyo into a hug. The miko looked rather startled at the sudden affection, and reluctantly patted Kagome on the back.
"And for that, Kagome, I am eternally grateful," her soft voice said, so only she could hear.
Kagome also noticed Sesshomaru and a very grown up and demon looking Rin standing a few feet away. She shared a short moment with them as well, happy that everything had turned out exactly as she had planned.
"Hello, Kagome, Spirit Detectives," Koenma began before his gaze lingered on Hiei. He remembered the late night call from the demon and his eyes narrowed. "Dumbass."
Hiei's eyes narrowed as well, mentally sending the ruler a message for him to 'say it again', as he had put it. Wisely, Koenma chose not to.
He cleared his throat and continued. "Well, Kagome. Your travels were causing a lot more trouble than originally thought. So we had to send a reinforcement to set things right. But, she's a bitch, and I really don't feel like dealing with her right now, but I'm sure you'll recognize her name. Sakura."
Kagome's, as well as the other spirit detective's, eyes widened. "What! I'm confused! I thought Sakura was working for Naraku!" she yelled, her confidence boiling down to nearly nothing.
Koenma smiled. "That's what Naraku thought as well. But, obviously, that was not the case.
"We had some recorded documents about how everything turned out had you not traveled to the Feudal Era at all and we were able to turn everything in the right direction. Had Sakura not traveled to the Feudal Era as well, the present time would be in complete devastation. So, Sakura traveled there and was able to set mostly everything right, depite a few minor bumps in the road." The toddler's glare traveled to Kikyo, who looked away blushing.
"There were a few deaths that were not meant to occur, so Sakura's demonic power came into play. I'm sorry to say, that you, Kagome, were a pawn in this complicated game."
"Bummer," Kuwabara said rather loudly from the other side of the room.
"Indeed," Kurama whispered in response, trying to soak all of the information in. But then a question struck him. "Brake-"
"Had nothing to do with this. He was merely another of Naraku's minions," Koenma explained.
You could cut the tension in the room with a knife. It had turned from a happy reunion to a hard-to-believe explanation. Kagome was the first to speak, and her words were not what was expected.
"I think I'm gonna puke."
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She felt a lot better now, and since she thought about it, Kagome realized that everything turned out for the best. The only thing she regretted was never being able to see Sango and Miroku again. But in her heart, she knew that they lived long and happy lives, probably together.
And in her hand, was a business card with some unbelievable words on it: it was the company of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru in the demon world where they, apparently, were very upperclass in their species.
She laughed a little to herself. Had she really just thought 'their species'? Kagome couldn't say very much herself regarding that, considering she was a demon now as well; as easy as it was to forget.
She set the card down on the table and felt a draft blowing on her hair. Kagome figured she had left the window open, but it had in fact, been Hiei entering the room to sit next to her.
Before she could say a word, his lips were on hers in a passionate lock. His hands embraced her tightly, and his actions spoke louder than any words could. It had been far too long.
Kagome returned the kiss immediately and ran one hand through his black hair as the other became strung across his shoulder. There were only two words going through her mind at that moment: Pure Bliss.
Hiei's hand had just began to slide up Kagome's blouse when her bedroom door had been opened and her shocked mother stood there with her small hand over her mouth.
The two quickly broke apart and Kagome absentmindedly wiped her lips with her index finger.
"Hello, mother," she said with a small smile. Her mother chuckled slightly and winked at a dumbfounded Hiei before she closed the door quietly behind her and she retreated downstairs to the kitchen.
Kagome smiled at Hiei and sat down on her bed.
"Aren't you happy everything's overwith?" she asked as Hiei began kissing her neck softly. She shivered in response. But it wasn't a bad shiver by any means.
"Hn . . ." he muttered against her. "Your . . mother . . doesn't . . seem . . to be . . . too bad," he said while still kissing her. He had to pull away a few time to finish the sentence, however.
She continued smiling.
"Yes . . . she's great," Kagome replied. She suddenly stood up, and left a disappointed Hiei still sitting on her bed. "I never thanked Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama for all their help, Hiei."
Hiei scoffed at the names of his comrades. "Do you need to?"
She nodded. "Their downstairs. I'll talk to them and perhaps we'll go out for a coffee . . ." Hiei didn't seem too thrilled. "Pizza . . ." she tried again. Then she remembered. She knew his weakness. "Ice cream."
The corner of his lips twitched just the slightest bit and Kagome knew she had hit the mark. "Great! I'll go ask them. Why don't you come down too?"
Wordlessly, Hiei followed Kagome down the steps. He however, refused to put the certain bounce in his step that his 'girlfriend' had aquired.
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Not half an hour later, the gang was sitting in an ice cream parlor a couple of blocks away from the Higurashi Shrine. Hiei sat next to Kagome, Yusuke across from her, while Kuwabara and Kurama sat on either side.
"It's nice to be home again, huh?" Kuwabara began, seeming to start a semi-intelligent conversation. Everyone was impressed.
"It's great! I missed my bed sooo much. And Buyo, and Mama, and Grandpa . . ." she continued on when Yusuke spit out his milkshake onto the table and pointed to Kagome.
"Eww, Urameshi," Kuwabara grumbled, not touching his ice cream now.
"What the hell is on your goddamn neck?" he screamed, still pointing. Kurama seemed appalled at his language while Kagome played innocent.
"What?"
"That's a . . . holy shit!" his murderous gaze shifted over to Hiei, who couldn't keep the smirk from his lips.
"You gave my baby cousin a hickey!" Yusuke screamed louder than Kagome could ever think possible. He was causing a scene, and now people were looking.
"What of it, 'Oh Great Spirit Detective'?" Hiei mocked, putting a possessive arm around Kagome's waist, just to piss him off. And oh, did it.
"Bastard!" Yusuke launched himself across the table and tackled the fire apparition to the ground.
Beside the fighting pair, Kagome just continued sipping on her chocolate-marshmallow milkshake.
'Oh, how it's great to be home,' she thought to herself.
THE END
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A/N: There ya go, a freakin' long chapter that took me a really freakin' long time to write! 10 pages! 3013 words, longest chapter ever. I hope the ending was okay. This story was KILLING me. And I swear, if I received one more anonymous flame, I was gonna start tracking them down . . . (insert evil laugh). Okay, not really, but they were still annoying. Anyway, just to clear things up, no sequel, and definitely no more Hiei/Kagome stories for me. Too damn hard to write, and it's hard as hell to keep them in character.
Anyway, as I am writing this author's note, I have 196 reviews. GASP. Holy shit. Didn't by any means expect that many. So thanks for those, and thanks ahead of time reviewers! You kept me going!
And lastly, though I won't be writing any more Kagome/Hiei fics, I'm working up a plot for a Yusuke/Kagome and it may be rather interesting . . . anyhow stay tuned everyone!
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