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Hello everyone. Thank you for being patient with me! Anyway, now that I'm back from camping, here's chapter 17! (heh heh, I wrote most of this BEFORE I went camping lmao.)

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Recap:

"I'm afraid that Miss Higurashi here is in a coma." he said sadly. Sango and Miroku paled. Inuyasha looked at Kagome. She looked as if she were sleeping. A thought that Inuyasha did not want to know the answer to came to his mind.

'What if she never wakes up?'

Trust

Chapter 17-The Mark

"What are the chances of her waking up doctor?" Miroku's mother asked the doctor out in the lobby, leaving Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha alone with Kagome. Miroku's father was standing beside his wife.

"To be honest, there are almost no chances of her waking up. She used up extreme amounts of energy recently, and used up too much of it. The coma she is in is not helping her regain that energy either, its just draining her of more. In short, there are no chances of her waking up. The coma is actually killing her faster." (Bear with me, I no NOTHING about the human body except what we learning in health class -shudder-)

Miroku's mother sighed. "So what would you recommend we do?"

"You have to options." the doctor told her, glancing back into the room. "One, you can keep her on life support, and she can die within a week. Two, you can take her off life support, which means she dies within six hours. Keep in mind, if you keep her on the life support, she suffers more."

Miroku's mother nodded. "We'll take her off the life support." she said finally.

.:.With Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku and Kagome.:.

Miroku turned white as a sheet. "Did you hear that?" he whispered to Sango and Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked at him, and nudged Sango, who hadn't heard anything.

"Hmm?" Sango asked.

"They're taking Kagome off of the life support! She'll die within six hours!"

"WHAT?" Inuyasha yelled just as Miroku's mother and father and the doctor came back into the room.

"Miss Sango, Mr Miroku and Mr Inuyasha, I must ask you to say your good-byes to Miss Higurashi, then please leave the room. We will be taking her off of the life support, and watching her die is not a pretty process." the doctor spoke calmly, as if he didn't care in the least that Kagome was going to die.

Inuyasha was furious. "Take her off the life support? She doesn't deserve to die! Kagome deserves to live! she's been through hell and your just going to kill her!" he yelled at Miroku's parents.

"She'll suffer more if we leave her on i--"

"Get out." Inuyasha told them.

"Excuse me?" Miroku's father asked, eyebrows raised.

"I said get out." Inuyasha said, his voice dangerous.

"No." Miroku's father made a move towards Inuyasha, but Inuyasha snarled and brandished his claws.

"Get out before I hack your body and that of your wife's to pieces. You do not care about Kagome at all, you just care about how much money you have to pay the hospital. I will say it one last time, Get Out." Miroku's parents fled.

Inuyasha slowly calmed down as Sango said a teary good-bye to her best friend. Sango talked about how much she would miss Kagome, and that maybe Kagome would be happier in heaven, she would get to see her mother, brother and grandfather again.

As soon as she was done, Sango left the room. Miroku said an awkward good-bye, then jokingly reminded her that she couldn't die, because she hadn't re-payed him for all the times he'd saved her ass. He then left to comfort Sango.

Inuyasha didn't say anything, just stood beside her bed as the doctor moved forward and started unplugging things. The only thing he left attached was the heart monitor, a steady beeping sound in the background. He too left as soon as he was done, leaving a sad hanyou and a dying Kagome together for one last, final good-bye.

(I'll be nice and NOT end it here...)

Inuyasha took Kagome's hand, and, feeling completely lost and helpless, he cried. Soft, silent tears slipped down his cheeks as Kagome's breathing became more difficult. He thought about all the times they had been together, and how he had never...

told her he loved her.

It was too late for that now. Nothing could bring her back. The same thought kept repeating in Inuyasha's mind, though.

'If she was mated to a demon, she would be all right.'

This thought made him look at the right side of her neck. Kouga's scars stood out as two dull, red lines going from her jaw to her collar bone. Kagome didn't deserve to die with those on her. She didn't deserve to die with someone who never truly loved her's marks on her body.

With this though in mind, Inuyasha leaned down to her neck as the heart monitor informed him that her heart beat was slowing down. Her hand was starting to turn cold, her realised, as he bared his fangs. Putting the tip of his canines at Kagome's jaw, where Kouga's marks started, he traced them down, putting just enough pressure to draw blood, then, finally, he reached the small indents at her collar bone. Thinking about how much he loved Kagome, and feeling her hand turn even more cold, he sank his teeth into the space above her collar bone, right over Kouga's mark.

He marked her as his mate.

The effect was immediate. Kagome's pulse sped up so fast that it sounded like the hear monitor was just making one long beeping sound. The lines on her neck vanished, and the mark above her collar bone turned into two red and silver spirals, one above each tooth mark.

Kagome's eyes flew open and the first thing her eyes focused on was a bunch of silver hair. She frowned, why did that seem so familiar?

Suddenly the hair was replaced by a worried and astonished face that she realised was Inuyasha. Smiling she stretched and yawned. Kagome felt Inuyasha take something off one of her fingers, then gently pick her up bridal style.

Kagome merely yawned again and snuggled into his chest, grabbed a fistful of his shirt in the process. She closed her eyes, but didn't sleep, merely listened to his heart beat slow down.

After a moment, Kagome realises that Inuyasha isn't walking anywhere, and looks up at him. Inuyasha leaned down, and gently brushed his chapped lips against her soft ones.

Kagome was surprised, but immediately kissed him back. After a few moments, Inuyasha broke apart and looked Kagome in the eye.

"I love you." he whispered.

"I love you too." she whispered back.

.:.Tokyo High Security Prison.:.

Kouga was lying on his bed in his prison cell, thinking about Kagome. How could she reject him? He had loved her for Christ's Sake!

Kouga was pissed, but still smiled in spite of himself. There was one thing that only a demon could take away from him, and he was pretty sure that Inuyasha didn't have the balls to do it anyway.

Kouga relaxed and felt the slight connection between himself and Kagome, a result of the almost marking of her. He frowned. He could the something was wrong with her through the connection. Then, suddenly, the connection snapped.

Kouga desperately tried to relax an find the connection again, but to no avail. He couldn't believe it. That mutt had done it. The mutt had marked Kagome!

Kouga let out a howl of anguish as the slight connection he had shared with Kagome for the past few months was severed for good.

THE END

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