Chapter 31

Inuyasha ran as fast as he could to his mate's side, as Shippou screamed out in horror. He pulled her into his arms, and sprinted as fast as he could for the well, vowing all the way there, that Kikyou would pay for this.

When he jumped inside the well, he felt great pain ripple across his chest, and knew that his own blood, was joining that of the unconscious women in his arms.

He jumped out of the well in her time, and ran inside the shrine, to find Mrs.Higurashi, (Mrs. Young) in the kitchen. He moved so she could see Kagome in his arms, before screaming out desperately, "Where do I take her?"

Mrs. Young screamed, seeing the arrow still protruding form her daughters chest. "U-um, down the street f-five blocks, and it's the large white building, go in the doors labeled emergency room, they'll help you, the rest of us will be there shortly, now GO!" She screamed, sounding a lot more strong then Inuyasha at the moment. The hanyou disappeared. But not before Noura could drop a hat over his head.

He ran as fast as hanyou-ly possible. Not caring that his own chest was on fire, and trying to ignore the faint scent of death that was radiating from his mate. 'She can't die! Not now! We're about to start a family Kagome! You can't leave me now!' He thought, as he spotted the building Noura described, and the right doors, he ran inside.

"I NEED HELP!" He yelled as loud as he could, not even caring that everything in his head told him that to do so, was a sign of weakness. Nothing mattered right now, except for Kagome getting help.

Three people came running up to him, rolling a tall-futon behind them. The only man tried to take Kagome from his arms, but he just growled, and laid her on the futon himself, being sure to hold her up on her side, as to not irritate the arrow, that was sticking out her back.

They started to wheel her away, and a women came up to him, as he made a move to follow. "I'm sorry Sir, but you can't go with them, she'll need surgery." She said.

Inuyasha's eyes went wide at that word, like hell they were gonna cut into his mate! Not when she was with pup! He started to struggle against them, Screaming out, "She's pregnant, you can't do that!" and trying to go after her, when suddenly, the pain in his chest became to much, and he fell to the floor, a puddle of blood slowly surrounding him.

Inuyasha twitched his nose. Very unpleasant scents were assaulting him. And he was aware he was lying flat on his back. Very sour smells surrounded him, his own dried blood for one, Kagome's dried blood, Kagome herself, Wait!

She sat upright abruptly, and hissed in pain as it irritated his wound. Then, one of those people from before ran into the room, and started telling him to lean back, or he'd reopen said wound. He realized he was not wearing his hat, and the women did not even seem to notice. In fact, she had a strange scent to her, almost like a youkai, but mixed with human. It was similar to his own scent, but just barely.

He looked franticly to his right, as the women hurried out of the room, and saw Kagome lying there, in a large 'bed' her eyes closed, and small little, white tubes were surrounding her, and even going into her! Three separate T.V. like things were around her bed too, one had a jumping line on it, and Inuyasha noticed, it jumped with her heart beat, that was beating quit satisfactorily. But worst of all, she wore a see through mask on her face, that had another tube sticking out of it, and she was wheezing when she breathed. But thankfully, she no longer smelled of death.

He rolled off his bed, ignoring the twinge of his chest, to crouch next to her bed, and take one of her hands in his. She was warm to the touch. Something that made him exceptionally happy. She would be alright. And the tanginess of her scent, that was there pup, was still present. They would both, be okay.

"You've both been sleeping since the accident." Inuyasha jumped and looked around, to see a man walk into there room, he was wearing a long white coat, and carrying a cup, and a yellow piece of paper, that was folded over, and had other pieces of paper inside. (manila folder) "Hi, I'm Dr. Young, Kagome's uncle, and both of your Dr.'s."

Inuyasha just looked confused. And Dr. Young just laughed. "You can call me Steve though. You're Inuyasha right? My nephew-in-law?"

"Yea, what's wrong with Kagome?" Inuyasha said quickly. He hadn't understood much of what the guy had said, but he really only cared about the women in the bed. "Is she alright?"

He smiled. "She's just fine, and so is the baby. Don't worry, they'll both be just fine. The arrow did puncture her lung, so she'll be staying here for a while so we can monitor it, but eventually, she should be as good as new."

Inuyasha sighed in relief. "Now maybe you should get back into-"

"Grrrrr."

The man looked astonished. "Did you just growl at me?"

"Got a problem?"

Steve held up both hands in defense, as he backed out of the room. "Kyle, Noura, and Sota will be here soon." he warned, a he closed the door behind him.

Inuyasha turned back to his mate. And brushed the hair back from her forehead, she stirred a little. "Mmmm, Inu-yasha." She mumbled. As she repositioned her head on the pillow. Inuyasha just grinned. Those moments when the arrow had been stuck in her chest, had been the scariest of his life.

The door opened again, and in swarmed Noura, Sota, and Kyle. The former two ran to Kagome's side immediately, with stricken looks on there faces. but Kyle moved slowly, and had the hardest set to his face Inuyasha had ever seen from him.

But he didn't have much time to spend looking at Kyle, for that moment, Kagome woke. And started squeezing his hand tightly. "Inuyasha? Wh-what happened?" She groaned through the mask, starting to sit up, only to hiss in pain. Inuyasha quickly pushed her back into a lying position.

"You were shot by an arrow, now lay down, and stay there." He said nonchalantly, but he squeezed her hand back in reassurance, as a grateful smile twisted her lips. "You're gonna be fine." He laughed.

Her eyes were closed lazily, when suddenly they snapped wide open, and a panicked expression came over her face, "The babies fine. She's perfectly fine." Inuyasha answered he unasked question.

She again, closed her eyes in relief. Noura looked disapproving still about the baby, and Kyle still had a cold look on his face. Souta seemed to be immersed in his game boy, now that he was sure his sister was alright.

Inuyasha caught Kyle's eye, and he just gave him a glare that plainly said, 'How could you let this happen?'

Inuyasha let go of Kagome's hand, and started to raise. "I'll be right back Kagome." and he, with Kyle in tow, stepped out into the corridor.

There was, luckily, no one in the hall to see Inuyasha's ears, so he started talking immediately. "Okay, I know you're mad at me-"

"How the hell did this happen? An arrow to the chest isn't exactly the kind of thing you get when in battle, and you just happened to leave yourself open. Plus there's no way you could have gotten her here so fast if you weren't in the vicinity when it happened, I've given this a lot of thought Inuyasha, it was a sneak attack, and you witnessed-" Kyle rambled in outrage.

"ALRIGHT!" Inuyasha interrupted, "That's ENOUGH! I get it! Yes, I was there, but there was nothing I could have fucking done alright? I didn't let it happen, but it did happen. And I got her help as fast as I could, so I made up for it. She's fine, our pup is fine, everything is FINE!" Inuyasha yelled, making several people stick there heads out of close by doors. Inuyasha failed to notice, that some of those heads, had dog ears, similar to his own.

Kyle had visibly calmed down during his son-in-law's speech. "I know Inuyasha. I know you'd never let anything so terrible happen to my daughter, I just was surprised that's all. Father never told me of this." Kyle commented.

Inuyasha scoffed. "He should have, the brat was right there when it happened."

Kyle contemplated for a few more moments, when suddenly, a solution seemed to come to him. For he nodded his head, before turning, and walking back into Kagome's room. Inuyasha followed, slowly, for his injuries were finally catching up to him.

They walked in to see Kagome smiling through her mask, to one of Souta's jokes, and Inuyasha knew that moment, that everything really would be okay.

There you go! She didn't die! And thank you so much, for all your reviews! I've hit 900! yea! Now, if only I could hit 1000! That would be the highlight of my time as a fan-fic writer! That would be so awesome! Anyways, I hope you liked it and I'll see you guys all later!
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Next time: Time spent in the hospital, and seeing a familiar face that doesn't belong! See you all then!

This chapter is also dedicated to those who lost there lives in Katrina's fury. And to those who lost there homes, there whole lives in fact, in a matter of days. God bless, and good luck to all those who did survive. (Note: All my chapters, and even this whole story, is dedicated to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. )

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