Chapter 3

Inuyasha is getting frustrated and so was everyone else who cared about Kagome. Something wrong was going on, it has almost been two months since Kagome has been in a coma. She should be up and running around with Inuyasha… but no… for some strange reason… she is still in a coma; not moving for two months in the same gurney. Inuyasha and Mrs. Higurashi were next to her worriedly as the doctors were talking about… putting her to rest.

"I think it would be wise for us to cut her life short." A doctor said to another doctor and she nodded.
"Yes… we should tell them before we begin." The other doctor said as she walked towards the two who were watching over their close one.

"Mrs. Higurashi?" The female doctor started.
"Yes?" She replied.
"I and the other doctors think that since she was supposed to be awaken now. But she hasn't, so we think… that if it's okay with you… we… -how should I put it- cut her life span tonight? So she wouldn't be like this anymore." The doctor had a hard time asking. Inuyasha didn't quite understand.
"No… No! You can't end her life! She's my only daughter!" Mrs. Higurashi yelled out. Inuyasha snapped and was angry.
"There's no way in hell your going to kill her!" Inuyasha shouted angrily. "She will wake up you bastard!" He shouted again.
"Sir, it's been two months and she should've been up by last month. We're started to think that she's already dead." The doctor told them.
"She can wake up!" Inuyasha shouted at her and went to Kagome and started to shake her. "Come on Kagome! Wake up! Please!" He shouted still shaking her.

(Kagome's mind)

What's going on…? I remember sitting down on the stair case. It was hard for me to breathe… did I collapse again? Why is my head hurting; as if someone is shaking me? "Come on Kagome! Wake Up! Please!" A voice is saying to me… but who is it? I don't want to wake up yet. But, what if it's Inuyasha? What if he's calling me? Is he worried? I've only been asleep for maybe 2 hours? I guess I should get up so he won't get worried.

Mrs. Higurashi was tired and Inuyasha stopped shaking her and followed Kagome's mother as she followed the doctor out of the room. Kagome shift her eyes and groaned a little for waking up when she didn't want to.

Inuyasha started to close the door and looked at Kagome first. He saw her move and thrust the wide open. "Kagome!" He shouted and rushed to her gurney. She then started to open her eyes slowly.
"Hi… Inu… yasha…" She smiled lightly and finding her voice that she hasn't used for two months.
"Kagome, you're awake!" He shouted loudly and the doctor as well as Kagome's mother rushed to see if it was true or not.

They all looked at her amazed, she was actually awake. They all were thrilled and two other doctors came in the room. They saw that she was awake and were also thrilled. The doctors left and Inuyasha was helping Kagome sit up as Mrs. Higurashi smiled happily at her daughter as Kagome rubbed her eyes.

"Oh Kagome, you scared us this whole time." She hugged Kagome when Inuyasha let her go so she could.
"Hey mom… what's up?" She asked as she was hugging her mom back and then looked around. "Hey… where am I?" She asked.
"At the hospital dear." Her mother replied as she released her.
"Huh? Really?" She was confused.
"You've been here for 2 months, how you feeling?" Inuyasha told hold her.
"Oh wow, 2 months? I thought it was 2 hours, I'm sorry that I worried you guys." Kagome smiled at them both.
"It's okay dear; Inuyasha has been by your side the whole time." Mrs. Higurashi explained to her. Kagome looked at Inuyasha and he didn't look at her. She noticed that he was also in human form.
"Thank you Inuyasha, um… why are you in human form? Its past sunrise and I doubt it's the day of the new moon." She asked him.
"I stayed so I could get away from your kit. I'm only like this because your mom gave me a bracelet thing." He explained.

Kagome smiled at him then at his mom in the same way. "You guys are the best." She simply said.

"Dear I better go, you are supposed to stay here for one more month incase things happen. I'm going to go home and tell everyone the good news." She walked toward the door.
"Okay then… bye mom." Kagome waved to her.
"Bye dear." She waved back with a smile and closed the door.

Kagome laid back down rather roughly and winced from the chest pain. She still hasn't recovered from that surgery.

"You okay!" Inuyasha said instantly.
"I'm fine; my chest hurts from lying down so quick and roughly." She replied.
"Not surprised, the first day I came here they said something about how they did… surgery?" He tried to pronounce that word surgery.
"Heh, maybe now we can go back to the feudal era?" She asked.
"No!" He said instantly and scared Kagome by accident and he sighed trying to calm down and getting the right tone of voice. "Kagome… you scared us a while back when you stopped breathing. You made me thought you were going to die, you got everyone in my era afraid too." He said softly.
"I worried you?" She asked worriedly.
"Of course… I was terrified… I've almost lost you so many times, and I don't want to ever lose you." He turned his head away and blushed for actually telling her how he felt and his so-called 'pride' didn't take over.
"I'm sorry that I worried you Inuyasha, I won't do it anymore." She smiled warmly at him.
"I hope so; I don't need to get a heart attack." He said sarcastically and then Kagome yawned accidentally. "I can't believe I'm going to say this but… you should get some rest if you're tired." He told her.

"I'm not tired… if you said I was in a coma for two months, then I think that's enough." She smiled. "Um… Inuyasha?" She question.
"Yeah?" He turned and looked at her fragile face; still a little pale.
"What happened… when I was in a coma?" She asked. "For some strange reason it feels like Houjo was here… I'm so confused." She asked him and he seemed surprised and remembered what happened when Houjo came over.
"He did… the day after you came in. He got me angry and I was going to kill him, your voice told me to stop, so I did reluctantly." He said half-heartedly.
"I'm proud of you then." She hugged his arm lightly. "You didn't hurt him or any one." She nudged her head into his arm.
"Hey come on now… I can't kill anyone in your era." He snorted.

They had a minute or two of silence. "When we return to your era…" She started. "Can we go shard hunting?" She asked nicely.
"What? Why? We don't need them. I told you…" He was answering her but got cut off.
"But I like to travel with you guys, and besides, we can't let Naraku get all of the shards." She explained and he gave a stern look.
"But, are you even capable of doing that?" He asked. "You might be back in this place, and I can't stand all these humans." He told her and she frowned.
"I'm sure I'm capable when I'm out of here. I just want to have some fun like we use to." She started to cry slightly knowing that we'll making him saying yes.
"Gah… Why do you have to cry! Okay, okay! We'll go shard hunting, just stop crying." He said waving his arms around and she wiped her tears and smiled.
"Thanks Inuyasha." She replied.

All of a sudden they heard a knock at the door. When it opened they saw a doctor come in and wanted to talk to Kagome.

"Kagome Higurashi, we need you to come with us for some tests now, are you capable of walking yet or do you need a wheel chair?" He asked her.
"I don't know if I can walk yet but I'll try." She replied and sat back up with Inuyasha's help and got off the gurney. She stood for a moment but started to wobble and almost fell over but Inuyasha caught her.
"I'll bring a wheel chair." The doctor said as he could see that Kagome could barely walk.
"Okay sir." She said as she tried to get her own balance.

"What's a wheel chair?" Inuyasha asked.
"It's a chair with wheels." She giggled and he snorted.
"Makes sense, things here are confusing." He told her.
"I know, things in your era are much easier then mine, but I've learned to live with it." She explained.

The doctor came in and told Kagome to sit down, when she did the doctor was strolling her away and Inuyasha followed.

"Sorry sir, you can't come." The doctor stopped him.
"How come?" Kagome asked the doctor.
"You're going in the lab for blood samples; he can wait in here in the waiting room but not in the lab." He explained.
"Oh, I see, how long will it take?" She asked.
"About 5 to 10 minutes, after that you may go around the hospital in the wheel chair on a walk and get some air." He replied.
"That's sounds nice, is it okay with you Inuyasha?" She asked looking behind her.
"Feh, hurry up." He said with a cocky attitude.

The doctor took her in and Inuyasha was edgy about it. He could barely see in the lab room and it annoyed him. 7 minutes past by and a different doctor took her out and Inuyasha walked over.

"We will page Miss Higurashi when we have results." She told Kagome and Inuyasha and went back inside the lab.

"What do you want to do now Inuyasha?" Kagome asked him.
"Let's go outside, I'm tired of all these humans." He stated.
"Okay let's go." She started to push the wheel chair but the blood that was taken out of her arm made that hurt and she winced; he growled.
"Stop doing that, I can smell the blood they took from you so stop pushing yourself, I can handle it." He yelled at her in a soft way seeing how other people were in the room.
"Okay, I'm sorry." She rubbed her arm.

Inuyasha took a few seconds to figure out how to push the chair. An old man pushed the door open for the two. Kagome thanked him and the man said he was happy to help.

After 10 minutes of going through the hospital they made it outside. They went on the side of the hospital and found a nice small pond for ducks to swim in. Kagome smiled happily for being outside, Inuyasha seemed a bit happy also. The trees blossomed, birds chirped, and unfortunately… three high school girls running over to them. "Oh great, it's those three." Inuyasha said in a pissed off voice. "What's wrong with them Inuyasha? Do you not like them?" She asked. "Uh well… kind of." He muttered.

"Hi Kagome! We're glad you're awake! How are you feeling!" They asked all at once and giving her hugs…
"I'm fine; it's nice to see you guys." Kagome said happily.
"That's good." Ayumi said smiling.
"Um… Kagome? Who's he? He says that he was the cute little we saw a while back." Yuka asked.
"Well… he's one of my best friends." She smiled and he jumped into a tree to rest a little but was still on alert for Kagome. "Did he say he was the little boy?" Kagome asked them.
"I told them that I was a half demon already, they wouldn't leave me alone so I had no choice." Inuyasha snorted.
"Great… now I'll have to explain why I'm never at school smarty." She sighed "Sit boy." She mumbled and he fell off the tree and face planted into the ground.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" He shouted as he jumped in front of her growling.
"Why did you tell them?" Kagome asked.
"THEY WOULDN'T LEAVE ME ALONE!" He shouted in her face.
"You could've left the room you know." She replied in a bored tone.
"I'LL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHEN WE GO BACK, THIS IS STUPID!" He shouted and went back in the tree growling.

"Kagome… is he your two-timing, over possessed, hot-headed boyfriend?" Eri asked and Inuyasha fell out of the tree.
"Is that what you call me when you in this era!" Inuyasha again yelled at Kagome.
"That was before you re-killed Kikyou." She said. "I mean that was before you put her at peace!" She tried to say.
"I didn't kill Kikyou! Naraku did! Damn you piss me off!" He shouted and this time jumped over the pond into a tree away from them.

Kagome Higurashi, please come inside. Kagome Higurashi, please come inside. The speaker from the hospital announced.

Kagome glanced at Inuyasha seeing that he was still angry, she sighed and asked Eri to push her inside while Yuka and Ayumi follow. They did so and went inside to go to her room where a doctor would await for her. Inuyasha watched them go inside and he then felt a little guilty for yelling so much at Kagome. He should've been nicer, after all she did just get up today.

"Kagome, it seems that you should be good to go. But tell me, does this hurt." The doctor touched her lightly where the surgery was and she winced.
"A little, but not much." Kagome replied.
"In that case, I would like you to stay here till you get well. If you need anything just call us." The doctor said and left the four girls.

"Kagome, do you actually like that guy?" Eri said looking at Inuyasha from the window.
"He has his moments." Kagome sighed.
"How many, once a month?" Yuka joked.
"Stop picking on him." Kagome said with annoyance.
"We better go then, it's getting late." Ayami said as she looked at the sun trying to set.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Kagome said and tried to stand up. "Hah, I can stand with no help now." She said happily and they all laughed.

They hugged her good bye and they left as the night came to take its place. When they walked out the hospital doors Inuyasha jumped out of the tree and walked over and went in the hospital. He went into the room Kagome was in and saw her standing at the desk looking at something, for a moment he didn't know but then remember about the picture. Kagome heard a sigh at the door and knew that it was Inuyasha; she had a feeling that he might be mad though.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha; I didn't mean to make you mad like that." She said looked through the window.

"It wasn't your fault. I should've been easier on you; you just came out a coma today after all." He had a hard time pronouncing 'a coma' and she laughed lightly.

"Are you okay?" She walked to him and checked his forehead to see if he had a fever.

"Yes why? What are you doing?" He asked and started to blush slightly.

"You're trying to take blame for today, usually you never do that." She looked at him curiously and smiled. "You're blushing Inuyasha, sorry." She removed her hand from his forehead.

"Feh, I am not." He said in a cocky attitude and blushed slightly more.

"Alright then, I'm not going to argue." Kagome said nicely and sat on the gurney. "Go to sleep Inuyasha. You're tired, I can tell." Kagome stated.

"I'm not tired." He folded his arms and looked at Kagome. "Stop treating me like I'm a…" He then just growled and Kagome looked at him.

"Stop treating you like you're a what?" She asked curiously.

"Forget it." He snorted in an aggressive tone.

"I'm sorry." She said softly and he looked at her.

Her eyes were apologetic and her brown orbs reflected from the full moon out the window. Inuyasha again felt a pain of guilt; this was annoying to him a little.

"It was fun when you were actually young Inuyasha, but I do know why you care about me." She looked out to the full moon. "It's because of how close you've gotten to me when you were in your child stage, and also because…" She looked at him. "I understand you more than the others." She then looked back outside.

"Mom… er… damnit… Kagome…" He was starting to get flustered now for sure.

Inuyasha sighed and left the room for a few minutes and then returned. "Come on, I'm taking you home." He said calmly and picked her up bridal style.

"Inuyasha, I can't leave the hospital." Kagome was trying to object.

"I talked to the humans, they say its okay." He said and walked out of the room.

When Inuyasha got out of the hospital, he told Kagome to remove the bracelet that made him look human. She didn't want to get him mad or stressed even so she just listened to him.

"I'm going to go slowly to your house so how do you want to be held this time?" He asked her.

"Wow, I get to decide?" She smiled. "Which is easier for you?" She asked him.

"You being on my back but you look tired so I don't know if you'll have enough strength to hold on." Inuyasha stated.

"Then this is fine." She said and snuggled her head his haori and he purred lightly and watched her smile.

"Alright then…" He said and then started to jump from tree top to tree top pausing on each branch for about 5 seconds to keep a smooth balance.

"Perhaps we should stay at your house for a few nights?" He started a subject to keep her awake till they got to the house.

"The new moon isn't going to be around for a couple weeks or so, are you sure you want to stay a few nights?" Kagome questioned his suggestion.

"I know… but I want to make sure your better before we return." He said calmly.

"I get it… okay then." She hugged his neck. "When we get to my house, do you want some ramen?" She asked even though she assumed to know the answer.

"No… tomorrow morning though." He answered.

"That's the first you turned ramen away, are you sure you're feeling alright?" She asked him.

"Kagome I'm fine, I just don't want you to waste what energy you have left." He then landed on the rooftop of her house and slid her in through the window and followed in after.

Kagome yawned slightly and then heard a growl behind her. When she turned around she saw Inuyasha looking at his picture of when he was sleeping. Kagome smiled and placed the picture her mother left at the hospital for them to see. Kagome went to her wardrobe and changed into her pajamas while Inuyasha was poking at the one of Kagome and him sleeping with Keya next to her. When he looked at Kagome she was already dressed for bed. Inuyasha just watched and sat on her chair in his dog style while she turned off the light. When she crawled into bed she looked at Inuyasha and smiled.

"It's alright Inuyasha, it doesn't matter if you sleep with me or not." Kagome said and lifted the blankets for him to slide in.

"Are you sure, Kagome? I'm… not a little kid anymore, and you still trust me to sleep with you?" Inuyasha said confusedly as he removed his upper red haori and got into bed as well, but his back was toward Kagome.

"I know you aren't, but it wouldn't be right to just let you sleep on the ground. And yes, I trust you… Inuyasha." She brought her hands up to his ears and started to rub them gently with care.

"Thank you Kagome…" Inuyasha was purring up a storm and quickly fell into a deep slumber of sleep the he hadn't had for about 2 months.