Chapter 32(officailly my longest story, in both chaps, and words!)

"Umm... how bout Yuki?"

"Keh"

Kagome thought for a moment, while taking a deep, rasping breath. "Eri?"

"Keh" Inuyasha replied, as he laid in her bed, with her leaning into his back.

Kagome tried to think of another name that would fit there baby girl. "Do you want a Japanese name? Or is it alright if it's American?" She asked.

"I don't care." he replied shortly, his nose buried in her hair.

It was the middle of that night. And they were still in the hospital. Kagome's mask was gone, but she was still full of tubes, and breathing raspy. But she was breathing.

Inuyasha was fully healed, but he refused to leave till Kagome did. And seeing as this was the youkai ward of the hospital, they didn't argue.

Yes, this ward of the hospital was dedicated to treating youkai's. And there human mates. So naturally, they were transferred here. Inuyasha was allowed to stay, because they honored mating, like they did marriage.

They were currently discussing baby names, snuggled together in Kagome's small little hospital bed. Inuyasha was only slightly listening, too distracted by listening to the women's breathing, and making sure it stayed regular. He had to even remind her once to keep it even.

"I'm leaning towards this one my father suggested," Kagome said.

Inuyasha managed to pay enough attention to her, to be able to push out, "And what's that?"

She smiled, even though he couldn't see it, he could tell, "Emily"

Inuyasha stiffened. He didn't immediately object, which was good. "Emily?"

"Yea, isn't it beautiful?" Kagome commented.

"Yea..." he trailed off, he loved that name. He wasn't gonna openly say that, but not disagreeing was enough.

Kagome frowned. She had been making this chatter, just so the thoughts in her head wouldn't come to surface, she really didn't want to face them, but she knew, it had to be done.

"Inuyasha?" She asked.

"Hmm?" He mumbled.

She grew irritated, with his pre-occupied response. "Listen to me! This is important!"

He stiffened. "What is it?" He asked quickly.

The girl sighed. "About Kikyou, she-"

"She's as good as dead." He interrupted her.

A stunned silence followed these words. "Wh-what?" Kagome asked, totally blown away.

Inuyasha stayed still, tense. "She tried to kill my mate and my pup. I can't let her live after that, it's not even like she's alive in the first place." He said, not looking at her. "I don't know why I ever thought she was."

Kagome smiled, and turned her head to see him, he looked out the window to the left of her bed. "You don't have to kill her Inuyasha. Talk to her, get her to understand what's going on. Just, " He looked back at her, his stare intense, "don't get too close, and don't let her get too close. Okay?"

He looked at her in amazement. 'She must really trust me to be willing to let me do that.'

"And I'm coming too."

He smirked. 'I knew it!'. "Alright, I'll do it. You sure though? I could just kill her." He suggested, trying to make it sound like that's what he would rather do. In all honesty, he knew he couldn't really ever harm Kikyou. He still cared for her, he always would, but, not as much as he loved Kagome. That would never change.

She smiled, reading him like a book. "No, just talking."

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

Inuyasha instantly jumped out of Kagome's bed, and grabbed his Tetsusaiga off a nearby chair, laying his hand on the hilt.

A women in a white nurses outfit walked into the room, her high-heels clicking on the tile floor. "You two can't sleep in the same bed! Do you have any idea what kind of trouble this hospital would be in, if a human waltzed in here, and reported we let two, unmarried, teenagers sleep in the same bed!" She shrieked. She was radiating a steady Youkai aura. She was a full demon.

"Keh!" Inuyasha shot at the short women, with her mousy brown hair. "And who are you to stop us? We're mated!"

"I'm the head of the nurses staff in this ward. If you two don't obey my rules, you both will be thrown in with the humans, if your lucky." She snorted. "Now get back in your bed pup! And stay there!"

Inuyasha growled. "Just go to bed!" Kagome yelled out, her voice rasping because of her shortness of breath. He shot her an inscrutable look, before her got back in his bed, grumbling.

"That's better." The nurse said, before she turned, and left the room.

It took all of two minutes after her the sound of her high-heels vanished down the hall, when Inuyasha was back in Kagome's bed. "Keh! She can't tell me what to do!" he said, as he snuggled his face into her hair.

She smiled, she would have told him to go back and sleep in his bed, before he got in trouble again, but she really despised the thought of being away from him, after he'd been gone for so long fighting Naraku. "Just remember to go back to your bed before daybreak." She reminded.

"Keh" He said groggily, before he drifted off to sleep, followed shortly by a smiling miko.

It took about two weeks for Kagome to be released from the hospital, the hole in her lung fixed, and with an order to be back in a months time for a check-up for the pup.

She had spent her time there visiting with friends, getting X-rays, and breathing into this stupid thing, that made her chest hurt.

The day after the accident, Shippou had called, and asked for the whole explanation.

"It was her wasn't it Kagome? Tell Inuyasha I'll beat him within an inch of his life if it was her!" He had yelled. Kagome giggled as Inuyasha growled.

"Fuck you Shippou! You do know I can hear you right?" He said, full-blown annoyance evident in his voice. "And I did, offer to kill her, but Kagome won't let me!"

Shippou laughed. "Did you really expect her to?"

"Keh!" He said, folding his arms over his chest.

Shippou laughed again. "How's the kit?"

"Pup!" Inuyasha protested.

"Kit"

"Pup"

"Kit!"

"Pup!"

"Kagome, tell Baka It's a kit!" Shippou whined. It sounded hilarious coming from his adult, masculine voice.

"Kagome, tell the brat it's a pup!" Inuyasha whined also.

"Jerk"

"Runt"

"Ass"

"Fuck-"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome called out, "Will you stop it?" She asked. Before gasping for breath. He instantly grabbed her hand, looking concerned. As Shippou started panicking on the other end of the phone.

"Kagome? Are you alright?" He asked quickly. Kagome caught her breath, and started speaking again, but it was weaker then before, and broken between her breathing.

"I'm...fine...Shippou." She said, before Inuyasha grabbed the phone from her ear. He wasn't sure how these things worked, but Kagome had told him once that all you had to do, was talk into it, and listen to what the other person said back.

"Okay runt, you'll have to talk to her later, she's done for today." Kagome made a small noise of protest, and then gasped for air again. Inuyasha hung up the phone, on Shippou saying something about a 'plane'.

When they left the hospital, all the nurses said good-bye to them, as Inuyasha wheeled Kagome down the hall. They had got to the entrance way, in front of the glass doors, when suddenly, a women in scrubs walked hurriedly in there path, and Kagome caught a glimpse of her face, and there was no mistaking her. The long blonde hair, her stride, and the flash of brilliant blue eyes, all rolled together, and one name came to her mind, as the women walked over to Dr. Steve Young, she called out. "Kiesha!"

And another cliff hanger! I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long, but things are just so over-whelming right now! Anyways, I updated, and I'm also close to 1000! I can't believe I've actually gotten this far! I love you all! (Please review, and help me get there!)

Next time: Explanations, and a shocking discovery!

IMPORTANT: I desperately need your help. I have two different ways the story could go, and I can't decide which one. So What I need from you good people, is to simply say, A or B, in your review. And You won't know which one is which, or even what there about, you just have to go with your instinct. So please! Help me!

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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(Sry, had the urge)

Disclaimer:
Why aren't they mine?
I wish they were
But I'll settle for terrorizing them
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