With the help of both Sango and Inuyasha, Kikyou was able to sit up. She was still feeling weak, and lightheaded even. Kikyou could still feel where the bullet had pierced her. But the good thing was that Sango was alright. She wasn't sure what she would have done, if something happened to Sango.

"Where is he?" Kikyou asked them.

They all knew she was referring to the man who shot her. Truthfully they did not know where he was. Because he ran away before they could catch him. And he could be anywhere right now. No one said anything.

"Where is he?" she said again.

"Kikyou... I'm sorry but he ran off. But I'm glad your alright." Sango told her.

She did not respond. Instead she threw the hospital covers off her. And slowly got out of bed, her body in immense pain. But right now, she didn't seem to care. She had been in pain before, this was no different. It was a price to pay for the job she did so well.

"Kikyou, what are you doing?" came Inuyasha's question.

"I want out of here. I'm going to find that man who did this."

She did not get far, because now Inuyasha had his arm around her. Kikyou was still much to weak to go out there. Besides she had just woken up, there wasn't much she could do.

"I'm not letting you go out there. Your not strong enough."

"Let me go Inuyasha."

She shook her head no. She hated feeling weak like this. She wanted out of this hospital room, thats all she knew. Kikyou of course did not know how long she had been there. All she could remember was darkness, emptiness, and that unwelcome feeling of being alone.

"Kikyou he's gone. We might never see him again, Just please will you get back in bed." Sango pleaded with her.

Kikyou took one look at her sister and eventually laid back down. Sango would want her to take care of herself. And going out to track down some man, was not the right thing to do now.

"You just woke up. You need to rest before you go back to work."

"All I've been doing this whole time is nothing. I need to find the man who did this."

Just then two doctors had walked in. Both surprised to see that Kikyou was awake. Since both of them had not expected her to make a full recovery.

"Ms. Hikaru your awake?"

"You sound so surprised."

They were indeed surprised, the situation had looked hopeless for weeks. She looked to be well, obviously functioning normally. She could speak normal, she didn't appear to have any thing else wrong. Meaning her brain was functioning normally, no signs of brain damage. In fact she seemed sharper than ever.

"Well it did look pretty bad these past few weeks."

"Don't think for a minute that I didn't hear what you said. I was able to hear a lot of things while I was in that coma. Thankfully my sister wouldn't allow you to kill me."

She stared up at the doctors, and they stared back at her. Guilty expressions written all over their faces. They couldn't deny it even if they wanted too. Because taking Kikyou off life support had been an option One that they had put a lot of thought into. Sango was the only one who could make the choice. And she choose to keep her on life support.

"Ms...Hikaru."

"I want you to sign my release papers. I need to be out of here."

That was one thing they would not agree with. She was not physically ready to go anywhere yet. They knew it, Sango knew it, and on some level Kikyou knew it as well.

"Ms. Hikaru you are nowhere near ready to leave. You should remain here a little while longer, so we can run some tests. Make sure your 100 percent better.

She broke into laughter, were these doctors serious. They wanted to take her off life support, now all of a sudden they wanted to save her. But she was fine, and alive too.

"Oh, so now you care about my well being."

Kikyou did not care what the doctors had to say. All she wanted was some revenge. The stranger had tried to kill Sango. And that was unforgivable he was lucky that she couldn't leave the hospital. Because he would be somewhere, dead.

"We'll be back to check on you shortly."

Kikyou sat quietly, she was outnumbered. There was nothing she could do, they all wanted her to stay in the room. She felt almost as if she was in prison. Unable to get out, until she was declared healthy. She knew she was fine, why didn't they see it.

"I almost lost you Kikyou, I don't understand why you won't just rest." Sango whispered.

Kikyou looked at her sister, her facial expression softening. She could never deny her sister anything, she never wanted her to cry. Especially over her. So if Sango wanted her to remain here, she would. And it was obvious that Sango worried about her. And Kikyou did not wish for her to be worried.

"He tried to kill you Sango, thats reason enough for me to seek revenge. Because that could have easily been you lying in that coma."

All this time Kikyou had been worrying about Sango. And all Sango could do was worry about her. Neither one of them worried about themselves. Their only concerns were for each other.

"Kikyou I know. You saved my life, thank you. But please don't go out there until your better."

"Alright. But I don't want to sit around and do nothing. Sango could be bring me my laptop, I'm going to have to do a little research."

"Sure thing."

Sango had no idea what Kikyou had planned to do. But Kikyou was always on top of her game, she must have had some plan. Or some idea on who she thought that man was. And now that Sango thought about it, he did seem familiar. Like they all knew each other.

Kikyou asked Sesshomaru to go with Sango. Just in case that man was still in Russia. But Kikyou had gotten the feeling that it was all an act. That maybe his target wasn't really Sango. He must have known that she would have done anything to save her sister. Including taking a bullet for her.

"Hey Kikyou."

"Yes Inuyasha."

He couldn't think of anything except to wrap his arms around her. Inuyasha never wanted to let her go. He could have lost her, he didn't want to loose her.

"I'm never going to let you go again, you know that right."

"Of course, and you wont have to."

Kikyou heard what he said when she was in that coma. It was one of the many things that made her fight. Fight to stay alive, and come back to them.

(Flash Back)

Kikyou lied there in her chamber of darkness. Unable to open her eyes, and acknowledge that she was still very much alive. But she would often hear things, sometimes broken conversations. She was only able to piece certain things together. Someone was next to her, besides her holding her hand.

"Kikyou, your going to be alright. I've seen how strong you are. I... Kikyou I love you." Inuyasha said.

"It was because of you and Sango that I was able to come back. You both made me want to live, just to see you both again."

"I just didn't want to loose you. I love you so much."

She stared up at him and smiled. Kikyou loved him too, what she felt for him was so real, so strong. She had never wanted to be with someone this much before. But there was something, she had to do. One more criminal she needed to arrest.

Before to long Sango came back with her laptop. Kikyou went straight to work, not saying a word to anyone. The man the placed her in that coma, was a criminal. She and Sango had faced him before, she was sure of it.

"Kikyou we know that man don't we?" Sango questioned.

"Yes, we've captured him before. Which criminal escaped I don't know."

Hours had passed but no such luck. Kikyou researched, typing everything she could think off. But nothing seemed to work. Sango was slowly nodding off to sleep. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha went out to see what they could find out. Seeing as how they were both criminals. It wouldn't be to hard to find out some things.

Kikyou went threw her old files, cases she closed years ago. One of the recent cases came up, those eyes. Strikingly familiar eyes, just like the stranger. But that would have meant that he gotten some surgery. She ran an analysis on him, and what he would look like now. She paused as she realized who it was. Sango woke up, she closed her laptop.

"Did you find something?"

"No, why don't you go back to the hotel and rest. I'll call you tomorrow."

Sango really didn't want to leave her sister. But she was really tired. Once she left Kikyou was alone, it was night time. So the nurse would be coming soon to check on her.

"Ms. Hikaru, how are you feeling?"

"Better, thank you."

Once she was gone, Kikyou threw the covers off her. She was dressed and all ready to go, her bag by her bedside. She took her laptop with her, and using a rope she climbed out the window. Kikyou knew that she shouldn't be out there.

She didn't feel good, but she had to take care of this. Without Sango, she would not put her life in danger like that. Kikyou got to the bottom and looked up at the window.

"Forgive me Sango, Forgive me Inuyasha."

She started walking away, fading into the dark night. There was a chance that she might not come back. Especially when she wasn't fully capable of handling the situation. But this was something personal something she would take care of.

Later that night Inuyasha, Sango, and Sesshomaru returned. Having learned new evidence, they wanted to tell Kikyou. Once they got in the room, the lights were out. And Kikyou had created a stuffed pillow dummy to replace her.

"Kikyou we have something to tell you." Sesshomaru said.

There was of course no response. Because all that remained was two pillows stuffed under the blankets. Sango pulled them back to see that Kikyou was gone.

"She's gone!" they all said together.