Chapter 4

Aki, Sesshoumaru, and the kids all walked around looking for a game they all could play. Aki wanted to go to the dunking booth to go dunk InuYasha, Sesshoumaru wanted to play the game where you shot blanks at targets, Shippo and Rin wanted to play the ducky game where you always won.
"How about we just let everyone play the games they want to as we go by them?" Aki asked.
"Alright." Sesshoumaru said, the first stop was the ducky game. Aki paid for it. Shippo got a lollipop and Rin got a stuffed animal. After that they went to the dunking booth and Aki dunked InuYasha...27 times. Sesshoumaru's game was the last one on the list. He hit the target every time and got the bigget prize there, he handed it to Aki, it was a big white dog.
"Thanks." Aki smiled and lead the kids over to the bake sale. Kit, Kouga, and Sango were all helping out at the bake sale. "They sure look busy." Aki said.
"Aki, can I go dunk InuYasha?" Shippo asked. Aki smiled.
"Of course! He'd think that you hate him if you don't!" Aki said, she was a bad influence on these kids. "Wanna come to?" Aki asked Rin, Rin nodded happily and they walked off. Sesshoumaru followed them and watched Shippo miss his target.
"I can't do it!" Shippo whined.
"I'll help. All you have to do is aim." Aki stood behind him and helped him aim, Shippo threw it and InuYasha got dunked. "There ya go!" Aki said.
"My turn!" Rin chirped happily. Aki handed the guy $1 and she got three balls. She helped Rin with the last one just like she had Shippo. Aki picked them up and carried them out of line or else they would never leave.
"It's gonna rain, we should go warn Kit." Sesshoumaru said. Aki sniffed the air, it was damp.
"Kit's not gonna be happy." Aki muttered, she and Sesshoumaru dashed off. "Hey! Kit!" Aki yelled. Kit looked up and noticed Aki and Sesshoumaru running towards them.
"Aki, Sesshoumaru!" Kit said, Kouga and Sango looked up. "What's up?" she asked.
"Sniff the air." Aki said. Kit sniffed, she smelled it to.
"Crap! We need to get the tent up." Kit said. They got to work and just as it started raining they finished putting the tent up. "Phew!" Kit said. "If all this stuff had gotten ruined I don't know what I would have done!" Kit said. Aki laughed.
"Well looks like you got lucky." Sesshoumaru said. Rin and Shippo were half-asleep, they were being held up by holding onto Aki's hands. "We should take them home." Sesshoumaru said. It was only noon but the kids got tired from doing a lot of walking.
"Later, Kit, Kouga, Sango." Aki said. Sesshoumaru took Rin and Aki picked up Shippo. "Don't scratch the paint." Aki warned. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes, she was as bad as a man with her car. Aki put Shippo in his car seat and Sesshoumaru put Rin in her booster seat. "I still can't believe they fell asleep." Aki muttered.
"They're little, what do you think they're going to do?" Sesshoumaru asked sarcasticlly.
"Stay up all night and play video games." Aki answered. Sesshoumaru laughed. Aki started the car and drove home, her windsheild wipers were on after Sesshoumaru reminded her. She still had to wrap Kit's present that she got her. Aki took Shippo out and put him in Rin's room, she had another bed in there for sleep overs, Sesshoumaru laid Rin down on her bed. "Be right back." Aki said as she grabbed the wrapping paper. She dashed up to her room and wrapped Kit's present. She didn't hear Sesshoumaru come in.
"Doing some last minute wrapping?" he asked. Aki jumped.
"Yeah, I always wait until the last minute to do everything." Aki said, she put the present away and sat down on her bed. Sesshoumaru sat down next to her. She had put the dog that Sesshoumaru won for her on her bed, it looked exactly like him.
"So what are we going to do while we're waiting for the other's to get back?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Hmmm." Aki said. "How about we watch a movie or something?" Aki asked. Sesshoumaru nodded. Aki got off her bed and walked to her door. "Well come on, we have to stay downstairs in case Rin and Shippo wake up." Sesshoumaru got up off of Aki's comfy bed and walked out of her room. They went downstairs and Aki sat down in her chair.
"Aren't you going to pick a movie?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"No, you pick one, you already know what I'm going to pick." Aki said.
"Fine." Sesshoumaru said. He looked through the shelves of movies they had, he pulled one out and popped it in the DVD player.
"What movie?" she asked.
"Resident Evil: Apacalypse." Sesshoumaru said.
"Oooh! Good movie." Aki said, Sesshoumaru sat down on the couch and Aki walked over. She sat down next to him and laid her head on his shoulder. He laid his head down on top of hers. They watched the movie and soon Aki started saying the lines, Sesshoumaru put his hand over her mouth.
"It's bad enough you do that with Lord of the Rings." Sesshoumaru said. Aki smiled underneath his hand, she stopped talking and watched the moive. It was about 3 when Shippo and Rin woke up. They came out of Rin's room and looked at Aki and Sesshoumaru. Aki's head was on Sesshoumaru's lap and her legs were hanging off the end. Sesshoumaru looked over. Aki felt Sesshoumaru move so she looked over.
"Hey look! It's Sleeping Beauty and her stuffed fox!" Aki said. Rin and Shippo laughed, then they ran over and jumped onto Aki. "Oof!" Aki said. "Cheaters!" Aki muttered.
"Well we can't watch this anymore." Sesshoumaru said, he hit the eject button on the DVD player, "Rin, go pick out a movie." Rin got off of Aki and skipped over to the movie case, she grabbed Beauty and the Beast. It was on DVD. Rin put it in and then sat back down on Aki.
"What am I? A chair?" Aki asked. Rin and Shippo nodded. Aki rolled her eyes. "Alright, funs over, everyone off." Aki said, Rin and Shippo slid to the ground and Aki got up. "That's better!" She sat down in her chair and let her legs hang off the arm. Right in the middle of the movie the phone rang. "I'll get it." Aki said. She walked over to the phone and answered it. "Hello?" she asked. "Oh, hey Kit. Jeez! Those people ate all the food! I was hoping to get some. Well see ya soon then." Aki hung up the phone.
"That was obviously Kit, she coming home?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Yeah, she ran out of baked goods." Aki said. "So in other words we're munching on candy!" Aki said, Rin and Shippo snapped to her when she said the word: candy. "You two can't have any. It's mine." Aki said. Rin laughed.
"We have our own anyway." Rin said. Aki nodded. She heard a car pull into the drive way behind her car so she walked to the door. Kit was getting out of the van. The others were still there. Luckily it had temporarily stopped raining.
"Hey." Aki said. Kouga noticed something was different about Aki, she smelled a little like Sesshoumaru. Kouga figured it was because she had been close to him.
"Hey, Aki. Gotten into the candy yet?" Kit asked.
"Not yet, but I was about to. So hurry up and get in here so we can celebrate!" Aki said, she disappeared back into the house, Kit grabbed a couple stuffed animals out of the car and walked inside. She had a brown wolf, it had a sun on its forehead. Kit put her stuffed animals in her room and walked back downstairs. Kouga was waiting for her.
"Come on, everyone's in the kitchen, waiting for you." Kouga said. Kit laughed and followed Kouga into the kitchen. "Oh before we actually go in there, don't eat the cake, I think Aki made it." Kouga said.
"I hope he knows he's going to die for that!" Aki growled. Kouga was about to open the door to the kitchen when Aki kicked it open, the door hit him right on the nose.
"Owww!" Kouga said.
"That's what you get for insulting my cooking." Aki growled. Kit touched Kouga's nose, it wasn't broken, it just felt that way.
"You'll be fine, c'mon Kouga." Kit said. Kouga wiggled his nose, and winced in pain. Kit walked in the kitchen, her cake was white, well at least the frosting was, on the top it said 'Happy Birthday Kit!'
"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Kiitt! Happy Birthday to you!" Everyone sang. Kit took a deep breath and blew out the candles. She grabbed a knife and cut the cake into pieces. She got the first. Then Kouga, Sesshoumaru, Rin, Shippo, and Aki. Sesshoumaru handed out the forks. Kit took a bite.
"This is actually good!" Kit said. Aki glared at her.
"Are you saying I can't cook?" she asked.
"No, you can, just you're not good at making cakes." Kit said. Everyone else took a bite of their cake and agreed. "Oh yeah! Presents!" Kit said. Aki walked to her room, Kouga and Sesshoumaru did the same. Rin and Shippo hadn't gotten her anything because they didn't know what she wanted.
"Here." Aki said as she handed Kit her gift. It was wrapped in blue paper, Kit opened it, she took out a red halter top and red pants. "I knew how much you wanted it so...happy birthday." Aki said. Aki was right, Kit had been wanting this for a while, ever since she saw it in a store window while they were driving back home.
"Thanks, Aki." Kit said, giving her friend a hug who smirked and lightly hugged Kit back.
"Mine next!" Kouga said. He handed her a meduim sized box. Kit opened it and a small wolf jumped out. "I found him and knew you'd like him." he said. The wolf was licking Kits face. She put the wolf pup down and kissed Kouga.
"Thanks. What should I name him?" Kit asked. "How about...Kouga jr?" Kit asked.
"Oh no! Having one Kouga's bad enough, but two? I think I'd die!" Aki said. Kouga glared at her.
"That's so funny I forgot to laugh." Kouga said.
"Yeah I know." Aki said as she grinned at him.
"Alright you two. I think I'll name him Hayate." Kit said.
"Cute name." Sesshoumaru said. Hayate ran around the kitchen smelling everything. "One more present." Sesshoumaru said. Kit took Sesshoumaru's present, it was the smallest. She opened it and found a locket. "Now you can put your picutres in there and you'll always be with Kouga." Sesshoumaru said.
"You guys are the best." Kit said as she gave Sesshoumaru a hug. Rin and Shippo laughed as Hayate licked their hands.
"Alright well, since that's all done and over with let's do something instead of standing here being stupid." Aki said. "How about we go for a walk while it's nice out?" Aki asked.
"Good idea, I'm bringing an umbrella, just in case though." Kit said. "Rin, Shippo, go watch a movie, we'll be right back ok? Don't answer the door or phone." Kit said. They nodded and walked out to the living room. Aki, Sesshoumaru, Kit and Kouga walked outside, after Kit had locked the front door, it wasn't cold.
"Where are we walking to?" Kouga asked. Aki shrugged.
"A walk is a walk, let it take you where it takes you." she said, she was the only one that didn't have an umbrella. With Aki's luck it was going to rain, and soon. Aki felt a rain drop fall on her nose. Then she felt more. "Looks like it's raining again." Aki said. Sesshoumaru put his umbrella up and walked over to Aki. Kit put hers up and shared with Kouga. "Curse you stupid rain...always have to ruin the day..." Aki growled.
"Well so much for our walk." Kouga said.
"Oh well, we can still walk." Aki said. "Plus water's good for us!" Kouga and Kit looked at her like she saw nuts. "What?" Aki asked.
"Nevermind, Aki." Sesshoumaru said. Aki shrugged and walked on back to the house, Rin and Shippo were watching Finding Nemo. Aki walked up to her room and looked at her figurines. She grabbed a peice of wood, it was tall and she could easily make someone out of it. She grabbed her carving knife from her desk drawer and slowly shaved what she didn't need away. Soon the person's body started to show the outline.
"Where's Aki?" Kit asked.
"Up in her room." Sesshoumaru answered. Kit nodded and walked to Aki's room. She knocked on Aki's door.
"Can I come in?" she asked.
"Yeah..." Aki said, she wasn't really paying attention. Kit walked over to Aki's bed. Kit sat down and made the bed move, Aki poked herself with the knife. "Ow." she said as she winced.
"Oh, sorry." Kit said worriedly.
"It's alright, I'm ok, so what's up?" Aki asked.
"Nothing, I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the store for me." Kit said. "Making all those cookies, brownies, cakes, and whatever else I made used up all the flour, and stuff like that."
"Fiine. Let me finish this..." Aki said. Kit nodded and watched Aki work, she had only seen Aki carve a couple times. "Do you mind?" Aki growled. Kit smiled. And it always ended like that. 20 minutes later Aki put her figurine of Sesshoumaru on her shelf, of figurines waiting to be painted. In this case, it was just Sesshy. "I'll need a list." Aki said. Kit took a folded peice of paper out of her pocket and handed it to Aki.
"Thanks." Kit said. Aki walked downstairs and she grabbed her keys.
"Why do I always have to do the shopping?" Aki growled. Kit smiled.
"Because if you didn't I'd scratch your car." she said. Aki glared at her and got in her car. She got to an intersection, she had already gotten multiple tickets for running red lights and all that she actually stopped. The light turned green and she pulled out to get to the store, suddenly her car was hit by a garbage truck, it was on her side.

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Aki had been gone for about an hour and they were starting to get worried. Kit was pacing, Sesshoumaru was biting a pencil and Kouga was trying to calm them down. Suddenly the phone rang. Sesshoumaru practically ran over and picked it up.
"Hello?" he asked.
"Is this were Ms. Aki Yoni lives?" a female's voice asked.
"Yes, but she's not here." Sesshoumaru said, Kit and Kouga were looking at Sesshoumaru.
"We know she's not there, she's in the hospital. Her car was hit by a garbage truck on the drivers side, the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel." they said. Sesshoumaru nearly dropped the phone. "I think it'd be best if you came down here." Sesshoumaru hung up the phone.
"What happened?" Kit asked seeing his face her heart skpped a beat as she thought of all horrible possibilities, accident at the top of the list.
"Aki got in an accident." Sesshoumaru said, he tried not to let his voice falter.
"You have to be kidding! Sure she drives like a complete maniac but she's not that bad as to get in an accident!" Kouga said.
"Her car was hit by a garbage truck on the drivers side, they fell asleep at the wheel." Sesshoumaru said. He grabbed Kit's keys and walked outside, he didn't care that it was raining. Kit and Kouga followed, Kit was near tears, she didn't know what she'd do with out her best friend, and Aki and Sesshoumaru had just been truley together. Then Kit remembered the kids.
"I'll stay here, someone has to look after the kids." Kit said. Kouga walked over.
"No, I'll stay, Aki needs you both right now." Kouga said.
"Are you sure?" Kit asked. Kouga nodded. Kit got in the front seat and Sesshoumaru started the car, he drove out of the drive way and to the hospital. With Sesshoumaru driving it didn't take long to get there. They walked in and up to the main desk.
"We're looking for the room our friend is in." Kit said. She was surprised at how calm her voice was.
"Name." the woman at the desk sad boredly.
"Aki Yoni." Sesshoumaru said.
"Down that hall, all the way at the end, she's in the room on the left." Kit and Sesshoumaru didn't even thank the lady, they just walked. Sesshoumaru opened the door and walked in. Kit gasped at the sight.
"Oh my god." Kit whispered.
"You must be her friends." the doctor said from behind. They turned around.
"Yes." Sesshoumaru said.
"As you can visibly see, she's not in good shape, we've lost her twice." Sesshoumaru clenched his hands. "She has a broken leg, arm, several ribs that are also broken, among other things. It's amazing she didn't die instantly, she's also suffering from blood loss."
"Aki's to stubborn to die." Sesshoumaru said.
"That's what I said. Though there's still a chance she'll die. Please come with me." he lead Sesshoumaru and Kit to a panel, it was bright, Sesshoumaru and Kit had to squint. The doctor put up several X-Rays. "This is of her left arm." Kit noticed that it was broken in several different places. "This one is of her leg, and this, her ribs." Sesshoumaru bit his tongue, he had just marked her, how could life be so cruel.
"I-is there anything we can do?" Kit asked.
"Hope, and pray she'll live." the doctor said. "I suppose you'll want to see her?" Sesshoumaru and Kit nodded. He lead them back to Aki's room. She had tubes in her nose to help her breathe and her face was black and blue.
"Tell me she's gonna live." Kit said, now shaking with the force of her silent sobs and her tears.
"She's going to live, Kit, she's not gonna die that easily." Sesshoumaru said as he put his hand on Kit's back to comfort her. His eyes welled with tears but he refused to shed them.

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Kouga and Kids

Kouga put in a movie for the kids and gave them candy. Then he walked into the kitchen, he looked at the driveway, he was hoping this was just some sick joke. Kouga sighed, he knew it wasn't, he walked back out to the living room and grabbed the phone. He dialed InuYasha's number.
"Hello?" InuYasha asked.
"Hey, InuYasha." Kouga said sadly.
"You don't sound to excited."
"Aki got in a car accident...she's been hospitalized." Kouga said. He heard InuYasha drop the phone.
"InuYasha? InuYasha?" he heard Kagome asked, Kagome picked up the phone. "Hello?" Kagome asked. "What did you say to make InuYasha drop the phone?"
"I said that Aki got into a car accident and has been hospitalized." Kouga said, once again the phone dropped.

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Authors Notes:

Aki: WHY ISN'T ANY ONE ON AIM?

Kit: Well it's better you be in the accident, than me.

Aki: Thaaanks!

Kit: Sure thing! thumbs up

Aki: We don't own InuYasha, or any movies that we mentioned or ahhh, you get the picture.

Kit: Ya, now hit the review button please!