Chapter 9: Just for Him

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A/N: Well, I must admit that I've gotten more reviews than usual. Thanks, and sorry that I haven't updated for so long! Well, there's nothing more to say but for you to enjoy the story…so enjoy!

Hmph, I can't believe that Kikyo and Sango think that I like nice-chest man…wait; did I say 'nice-chest'? Oh gosh, what's WRONG with me? Kagome thought angrily to herself as she half stormed out into the streets and half attracted looks from other people at the same time. I think I need a cup of coffee and some time in my bedroom to cool down and relax.

But even when Kagome gave herself a bonk on the head in a nearby coffee shop, she couldn't help thinking of InuYasha, Kikyo and Sango. Why were Sango and Kikyo thinking of making that awful idiot and her be a couple, and why did InuYasha have a thing against her? Koga seemed to be the only one who wasn't acting unusual now.

And also, every time she glanced at…well…cap-mutt-head, she could almost feel a fluttering in her stomach, so that meant that she wasn't sane anymore, either. Ever since she'd met InuYasha Taisho, her life had been turned upside-down. She didn't know what to do anymore.

Almost scared half to death by the song that suddenly burst out of the jukebox, Kagome hurriedly finished the rest of her coffee, paid the bill and left, not wanting to hear the song again. Heavy metal, Kagome thought tentatively. Yuck.

With the others

"Argh, why does there have to be so much standing in between Kagome and InuYasha?" Kikyo yelled. "If only life was that simple." She seemed to have forgotten that they were in a ward.

And why couldn't Sesshomaru come along as well? I want to start getting Kikyo and him together. Sango thought grumpily. Kikyo's mood had turned her sour, and she was now bored of this Kagome and InuYasha thing. And she hadn't even gathered a secret society for Kikyo and Sesshomaru yet.

InuYasha, on the other hand, wasn't grumpy; in fact, he was VERY grumpy. Why did that wench have to walk out on him? It wasn't like he'd done anything wrong…had Kikyo and Sango said something about him that made her feel even more disgusted at him?

Of course, a little voice in his mind objected, "What do you care about what she thinks of you? Get real; this is your arch-enemy we're talking about right now."

Agreeing, the hanyou soon fell asleep, dreaming dreams of being the governor of London and having Kagome, the bad guy, hanged, drawn and quartered. Ah, dreaming was when you were welcomed into a land where they made all things you wished were true come true (like torturing Kagome and Kikyo senseless).

Koga felt his eyelids droop as he watched InuYasha fall asleep. Even though he didn't know Kagome very well, she certainly had a positive air around her. If only InuYasha would let her show the nice side of her...and how attractive she was! Koga couldn't help but think these thoughts as he imagined him being married to Kagome. But then again, he had joined up in the plot to pair Kagome up with InuYasha, so that event could only happen in fairy tales or possibly dreams. Sighing in a defeated manner, Koga fell into a deep slumber as he heard Kikyo's shoes clatter back into the room.

Back to InuYasha

Ah yes, I'm finally healed, but the nurses will never believe me, as they don't think that hanyous exist…InuYasha thought, crackling his knuckles before feeling a sharp pain shoot through his leg. Okay, so maybe my leg isn't…

Ignoring the throbbing pain, the hanyou leapt out of bed and looked around the ward. Kikyo and Sango had gone out for the second time, and Koga had fallen asleep in his chair. Things were quiet enough for InuYasha to slip easily out of the hospital. Putting on a coat and jacket, InuYasha half crept half limped out the open door and put his normal cap on his head, hiding his secret. Hopefully Kagome wouldn't catch him now.

With Kagome

"Ah, home-" Kagome frowned as she entered hers and InuYasha's room. "Hotel sweet hotel. Gods, I miss Tokyo." A hotel room was nothing like home. Feeling a wave of homesickness wash over her, Kagome picked up the hotel telephone and dialled her home number with the ones that helped call out of the place.

'Ring ring…' the phone went on ringing for what seemed like hours before Kagome got impatient and put the phone down. Maybe her family wasn't at home at the time. Checking the clock, Kagome then gulped guiltily. It was 12:00am in Tokyo. Whoops.

Unable to think of what to do, Kagome flopped down on the bed and sighed. What were Kikyo, Sango and Koga doing now? Had they decided to leave that horrid acrobat in the ward and go shopping together or something? She hoped that she wasn't missing out on anything big. Kagome's thoughts then turned to injured InuYasha with a shower cap in his hospital bed. Why did that jerk always wear a cap in public? Was there something wrong with his hair? But it was such a nice silver colour, and almost every boy would want to look as good as him.

Half-demon, the word unexpectedly popped into Kagome's mind faster than a bullet shot at a person, and the girl elaborated on that idea. She was certain that hanyous and youkais did not exist, yet her grandfather had always been a superstitious person. For all she knew, InuYasha could be a hanyou, as she had read in a 'non-fiction' book written by her own grandfather that half-demons had ears on the tops of their heads and full-demons had elf-like ears.

"Oh get real, Kagome, you silly girl," Kagome muttered angrily to herself. As if there was such a thing as a hanyou or a youkai. "There's no such thing. Right now you're dwelling in a world of fairy tales. Get real." As if her mind wanted the subject to be dropped, Kagome's eyelids began to droop.

Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this IS a world full of hanyous and youkais, Kagome couldn't help thinking before she fell into a deep slumber. If only she'd seen the sneaking figure lurking around in the bathroom…

With InuYasha

Ho hum, I feel so pleased that I've gotten away from that hellhole, and I don't care about how people feel about the missing me, InuYasha thought triumphantly as he leapt lightly from one skyscraper onto the next. But the last thing I need is to have somebody spot me from up here.

Almost as if fate had suddenly turned against InuYasha, a loud helicopter whirred past as the hanyou was right in mid-air between buildings, and InuYasha on instinct plummeted down into the depths below. Trying to ignore his throbbing and still injured leg as he regained his footing on the ground below, InuYasha limped slightly along a street and into a shoe shop, intending to sit down on one of the few seats shoe stores always had. Quickly finding a seat, the acrobat gratefully sat down and nursed his injured foot, which had suddenly began throbbing after that little 'fall'.

Gods, if only that cursed helicopter hadn't come along, then he wouldn't have been in this state right now. Looking out the door, InuYasha wondered briefly where Kagome was. Had she gone shopping to get his accident off her mind? Had she gone back to the hotel to take a shower?

Stop thinking about that (A/N: swear word right here), InuYasha thought, rubbing his sore foot. She's so annoying and bossy; she doesn't even DESERVE to be thought about.

With Koga, Kikyo and Sango

"What! You let that injured moron escape?" Kikyo screamed for the second time at Koga. "How could you fall asleep? And what do you mean 'a light doze'? If it were a light doze, then you would have woken up to find InuYasha creeping out the door!"

"Well, according to me, InuYasha probably jumped out the window. It is open, after all," Koga mumbled.

"How could anyone POSSIBLY jump out the window? Sure, that jerk may be wounded, but he's not insane; and he isn't careless and stupid, unlike someone we ALL know," the high-school girl retorted.

"Oh, you don't know what half-demons can do," Koga snorted before realizing his mistake.

"What? Did I just hear you say 'half-demons'?" Kikyo's once angry face took on a puzzled look.

"Uh, no, o-of course n-not!" Koga wished that he were better in awkward situations.

Sango, who immediately smelt danger, watched nervously as Kikyo thought for a moment. What if she pressured Koga so much that he ended up giving away InuYasha's secret? That wouldn't be good.

After a few moments' thought, Kikyo frowned and turned to Koga.

"You're lying," the smart girl accused. "Tell me what's going on now."

Sango and Koga glanced at each other. InuYasha and Kikyo were both their friends; who should they side with?

With InuYasha

Ever since his 'intrepid' escape out the window, InuYasha couldn't get his rival out of his mind. Was she in the hotel room? Was she thinking about him? Was she…you get the idea.

"Stop thinking about Kagome, moron!" InuYasha yelled angrily before stopping abruptly. He was amazed that he had actually called Kagome out by her first name and called himself a moron. Wonderful, not only would he have to limp around, he would also suffer from madness. Sango would call the boys in the white coats, and before you could say 'sane', he'd be wandering around the dark, gloomy rooms of the asylum calling himself all sorts of weird names.

Finally, with a last desperate attempt to stop thinking about Kagome, InuYasha visited his hotel room. Glad that his card key was still with him, the hanyou slipped the card into the slot and waited rather patiently for the button to turn green. Flinging the door open, the acrobat reeled back in disgust. The room smelt of alcohol, smoke and…not Kagome. Why hadn't he detected the scent before? Someone had obviously captured Kagome, as InuYasha saw the high-school girl's handbag in the room. Now one thing a girl never forgot when going out was her handbag.

At first, the acrobat's first thought was, I'll go find that wench and bring her back, but then his tough half simply replied with a 'No'. How many people rescued their archenemies from someone? InuYasha struggled desperately within himself, listening to both halves. Finally the 'weak' side triumphantly pointed something out that the tough half couldn't object to, and the hanyou's body walked out of the building. Time for some superman action.

With Kikyo, Sango and Koga

"So that's the story?" Kikyo muttered. They had been, out of pure boredom, telling each other stories for the past hour. Koga had wanted to go and look for InuYasha, but Sango had persuaded them to stay back. She was absolutely sure that Kagome would attract InuYasha and that he was safe, and they should therefore stay around in the ward and wait for the two to return. So far nothing of interest had happened, and Kikyo was losing patience. After Sango's story she was going to search for the missing hanyou.

Finally, after Sango's and Koga's laughing at the supposedly funny story, the high-school girl stood up. "Look, story-telling is getting boring. Why don't we…play hide and seek. We're all the seekers and InuYasha is the hider."

"He'll come back, so don't worry, you worry-wart!" Sango laughed, but she was immediately silenced with Kikyo's all-too-famous death glare. The high-school girl could make a sumo-wrestler cower in a corned with just one death glare. But that's a different story.

"Um, er…I mean…yeah! Let's go find InuYasha!" Sango chuckled nervously before turning to Koga. "R-right?"

"Yeah," Koga replied calmly. "Let's go." Inwardly the demon sighed. He was glad to be rid of Sango's terrible tales of her childhood. If there was an award in the Olympics with the topic 'boring', Sango would've gotten all the trophies.

With Kagome

"Uggh, I feel terrible…" Kagome muttered, rubbing her aching head. Her back was aching and her limbs felt as if they were being weighed down. What was going on? Opening her eyes, the girl suddenly saw a huge black creature. It had fourteen legs, was the size of a sumo wrestler and had long fangs. On each leg was a long claw, and it had a tail fifteen yards long. Was this a dream?

Kagome tried rubbing her eyes, but her arms wouldn't move. Looking down, Kagome realized that there was a small wound on each of her arms. So this whole creature thing wasn't a dream.

"Die, woman. You are not worthy of your life," the demon snarled, punching a leg claw down at the unfortunate girl's heart. Kagome, however, was lucky enough to have seen the claw just in time. She was about to lose hope for herself when she saw InuYasha burst in from nowhere and cut right through the currently offending leg. Growling with fury, the hanyou set about attacking the demon, adjusting his cap every now and then (yes he still has it on). Just before the demon was dead, however, it shot out one last leg and slashed InuYasha right across his left uninjured leg before kicking the bucket. And, how ironical, Koga, Kikyo and Sango rushed into the scene.

"Oh my gosh, InuYasha, Kagome, are you alright?" Kikyo asked, rushing over to where her injured friend lay.

Kagome cringed in pain. "Can you just help me get up? I think that demon paralysed me…"

"Demon? Nonsense, there's no such things as demons. But whatever, let's get you two to the hospital. You're both in serious need of medication."

InuYasha, who was staggering around a few feet away, heard Kikyo's statement before blurting out, "What do you mean, no such thing as demons? Demons and half-demons were always around even before you humans came around!"

Kagome and Kikyo froze. So demons did exist? So did that mean…

Forgetting that she was paralysed and hurt, Kagome jumped up, suddenly angry. "So you didn't trust us all along? We would never have yelled at you for what you are! I feel like going home now!"

"Kagome, calm down, we can't worry about such things now. Even though you're going to come out of this situation alive, InuYasha might not. He's dying…" Kikyo said feebly. "Please stay around and see him through this." She did not feel like going back to Tokyo with Kagome, but she didn't feel like enduring the rest of the trip without her friend.

Kagome paused for a moment to catch her breath. Should she just be a heartless, hateful person and go home, or should she stay in Hawaii with Kikyo and endure the rest of InuYasha's torture? The first option seemed almost too tempting. It would teach InuYasha a lesson.

"Come on Kagome, you can't just leave him like this!" Sango pleaded, giving Kagome her famous sad puppy-eye look. Later Kagome would learn this: what Kikyo lacked, Sango had.

Unmoved by Sango's facial expression, Kagome crossed over to the unconscious hanyou and took a look at him. Those amber-golden eyes of his stared monotonously back at the high-school girl, but they had some kind of message in them. Kagome easily received the message and looked back at her anxiously waiting friends.

"Alright, I'll stay, just for him," Kagome decided before a sudden wave of weariness washed over her. Dropping to the ground Kagome joined InuYasha in an unconscious state. Koga and Sango glanced at each other. This mess wasn't going to be a good one…

A/N: Whew! I'm sorry that I hadn't updated for so long, but I had writer's block. And yes, if you believe that this chapter was emotional crap, I don't blame you. Please review!