Le Livre d'Amour Chapter 4- Recovery

By Miyu6

"Eight thirty...it's eight thirty. I think I've been stood up."

Kagome felt like crying. For once in her life she had just wanted to go out and have a good time with a guy. But after waiting and hour and a half, dressed in a constricting glue satin evening gown with thing spaghetti straps, her makeup beginning to wear off, she decided she must be the stupidest person on the planet Earth.

After confirming that mentally, a thud was heard outside the house on the porch. Kagome's curiosity got the best of her as she wiped a small tear out of her eyes and went to open the door. She stepped out onto the porch slowly and nothing...nothing could have prepared her for what she saw.

"I-Inuyasha..." she gasped breathlessly.

He was beaten and bleeding with blood seeping out the corner of his mouth and a gash by his black eye as well as on the back of his head. Kagome sank down to her knees beside him and gently touched his face. She couldn't find the strength to say anything at the moment but she knew she had to get him inside...somehow.

"I...I don't know what happened to you...but you tried to find me...didn't you...?"

Kagome's voice caught in her throat as she thought of the obnoxious person she had first met after that talk show; the one she had talked to just hours ago, who now lay unconscious on her front porch. It was a chore but she eventually got him inside though she wasn't sure how. The adrenaline rush she was feeling must have helped. She moved him onto her bed and after some careful thinking decided she needed to remove his soiled clothes. It wasn't healthy for him to remain in filthiness.

'Besides,' she reminded herself, 'I have some extra T-shirts that I got from the thrift shop a while ago.'

But first he needed to be washed off.

Bouyo jumped on the bed and mewed as Kagome came back with a porcelain bowl filled with warm water and a washcloth in her other hand. She set the bowl on the bed stand as she spent a moment to look at Inuyasha while he slept.

He was beautiful. It was the only word that could describe his chiseled chest muscles and pale skin. His peculiar silver hair surrounded his sleeping form and cascaded part was down his chest.

Kagome sat down in a chair beside the bed and wiped his face gently with the warm washcloth.

"How could...someone do this? I don't understand..."

It was getting late, and though Kagome promised herself she wouldn't sleep until she was sure he would be alright, her body eventually gave in and she found herself asleep, her head resting gently on Inuyasha's chest with her arms around him. She had forgotten to put a clean T-shirt on him. And outside, the sky turned black.


'This light...it's so comforting...and yet...and yet it's presence is foreboding...I must follow it...'

'But...'


"How's seven?"

"I'll be there."

'Something stops me...something that I can't remember...it sounds...like a woman's voice...but who is it? It's coming from the other side...'

'If I walk that way...I will be walking blindly into the darkness. But the voice...the voice is even more comforting than the light. It seems...to be calling me home. Maybe...maybe where I want to be is on the other side...of that darkness.'


Slowly his golden orbs opened and all he could se was the textured ceiling.

'Where am I?' he wondered, his mind clouded.

There was a weight on his chest he realized right before he looked to see the rest of his surroundings.

"Where am I?" he stuttered aloud.

When his eyes finally wandered to the bed, the first thing he noticed was the woman sleeping on top of him.

'Is she...drooling?'

But after his mind cleared, everything made sense.

'I remember now...I went searching for Kagome...after the fight...she...took care of me.'

He didn't know why, but the thought of someone actually taking care of him created a strange tingly feeling within him. It felt...warm and...fuzzy? He could almost imagine pink fluffy bunnies, hopping around him as they sang songs of--

'What the--Am I...NAKED?!'

He almost felt the need to cover up before realizing Kagome had, fortunately for him, left his undergarments on. He breathed in a sigh of relief before turning his attention back to Kagome as he watched her sleep. Her arms were still partially around his waist and she was still partially seated in the chair beside the bed.

"Meow?"

Inuyasha looked down to the floor to see who or what had made the noise. He blinked at the chubby calico cat that sat twitching his tail and staring up at the bed wishfully.

"Mrrow?"

Inuyasha smiled genuinely as he patted a small patch of the bed allowing the cat to sleep near him.

"I don't know your name...but you sure seem nice enough." Bouyo rubbed against Inuyasha's cheek before laying down beside his head in a compact little ball, curling his swishy tail up around him.

Inuyasha sighed deeply and looked up at the ceiling once again.

'How did I ever get myself into this...? What happened to me and Kikyo?'

"I-Inuyasha?"

Kagome had stirred only slightly and had taken a firmer hold on Inuyasha's waist. Inuyasha could feel the blood rushing to his cheeks. He was almost NAKED for gods' sake.!

"I-Inuyasha..."

Kagome sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes as she yawned. She gasped when she saw Inuyasha staring at her with big eyes.

"You...you're alive..."

"Well...yeah." He said uneasily.

Inuyasha breathed in quickly as Kagome threw her arms around him in a heart wrenching embrace.

"I thought....I thought you--"

"Kagome..."

Inuyasha's first instinct was to push her off of him. How come his damn body just wouldn't listen?

'Why does she care about me so much? When she cries like this...my heart feels strange...like it's being ripped in two. I...I never felt like this...at least not around Kikyo.'

Inuyasha was quickly getting wet. Who knew women could cry so much?

"Kagome...please..."

"I-I'm sorry...it just scared me."

'Scared her? I didn't mean to--'

Kagome held on to Inuyasha like he was her last chance. As if, something bad would happen.

"It feels like...if I let go..."

"Then what?" Inuyasha wondered.

"Then I'll loose you."

Inuyasha's eyes widened considerably, though Kagome didn't see it. Did she really mean what she said? She couldn't have. Maybe she was just saying that because she was glad she was alive. Yeah...that was all.

"I don't quite understand what I'm feeling right now..." Kagome continued. "but...what ever it is...it feels nice..."

Inuyasha set his hand on Kagome's head, which in itself was a chore considering how weak he was still feeling.

"My only hope now...is that you'll get better soon. When I wake up..." Kagome said yawning, "...you'll have to tell me what happened. But right now..." she yawned again, "I sleep."

And with that, Kagome drifted away into a peaceful and dreamless sleep, knowing that Inuyasha would make it through the night just fine.
'What's that...smell?'

Inuyasha woke up wearily only to find that the light hurt his eyes and that he now had a throbbing headache as well as sore muscles, bruises and cuts. His eyes was still red but at least the swelling around it had gone down, and the gash beside it and on his head had stopped bleeding for the most part.

"What a night." He said briskly, letting out and exasperated sigh as he tucked some of his hair behind his ear.

"Good morning." Kagome said cheerily as Inuyasha watched her walk into the room.

She was carrying a tray with a plate of two eggs, sausage and a glass of orange juice. Beside the glass were about 7 pills in all different shapes and sizes. Kagome handed him the pills and orange juice first.

"Here, take um. It'll help with the pain...at least a little."

Inuyasha nodded.

"Thanks."

"No problem." She said smiling as she set the tray on the bed stand beside the lamp.

"You know...I always did want to be a nurse when I was little. I just couldn't stand school though. I don't know why. My memories from back then just seem like a blur."

Inuyasha swallowed the pills in one gulp.

"I guess I never really thought about what I wanted to do, not before I got out of school anyway."

"Do you have a job?"

"Well...not really. I did...but I have a feeling I wont be welcome there any more." Inuyasha told her, a solemn look on his face as he stared at the wall.

"Hm...I see."

Inuyasha put his hands behind his head and lay back against the headboard.

"Yeah, ya know...life's pretty damn unpredictable."

'And I know this all too well.' Kagome's mind responded as she nodded.

She sat down in the chair beside his bed and handed Inuyasha his tray so he could eat.

"Um...do you mind?" Inuyasha asked.

"No, not at all." Kagome responded, not paying any attention to what he meant.

"Well...it's a little awkward having you watch me eat like this...especially when I'm still half naked."

Blush creeped onto Kagome's face as she realized what she was doing. Even the stupidest person could tell she hadn't been looking at his food.

"Oh...gosh...I'm sorry."

"Nothin of it."

Kagome hurried out of the room, mortified.

'I can't believe myself...what's happening to me?! Did I suddenly morph into a pervert over NIGHT?!'

Kagome wanted SO hard, more than ANYTHING to whack her head on the wall at that moment.

'Calm down Kagome...he's just a guy who will be leaving soon anyway. No sense loosing brain cells over it.'
Okay guys. Big huge apology coming. I'm really really really really insert about a gazillion more reallys here sorry that I haven't updated 'Love me as I am' like...at all this month or last month. The thing is...I kinda lost my notebook. I'm not sure if it's lost somewhere in my house or if it's at school or something. I don't see how it would be there but it could be. I don't start school again till somewhere around September 4th or something. Until I find it, I guess I'll just have to work on this story. (I have a separate notebook for it) I hope all of you guys can forgive me and it was really mean not to at least tell you.

Truth is, I've been on vacation a lot. I stayed with family up in Rochester, NY then we went to Niagra Falls yesterday and went on 'Maid of the Mist.' And visited some of our friends from Texas who were up for a wedding in Niagra. It was really cool. Two weeks ago we went to Upper Canada Village (which oddly enough isn't even in upper Canada) so I've been busy. I only live an hour away from Canada (4 hours from Niagra Falls) so we've been going there a lot lately. I've also had some of my cousins graduation parties and birthday parties to go to. I've still been writing though so I hope that you'll at least forgive me for not posting. I hope this will tithe you over for at least a little while and I apologize (once again) for those of you who are LMAIA fans who are eagerly awaiting the next installment. I could just rewrite it but because my notebook has been gone so long I fear it wouldn't be as good and I would just have to wing it. I hope that those of you who like my other story will read this one as well so it will at least keep you busy. Sorry for any inconvenience. (Gomen nasai minna-san!!!! Gomen nasai!)


Miyu