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Slay The Music
Scene Twenty-Four: Live Me Dead
Sango rushed out of her room into the center of the plane where everyone was sitting. She was shaking and cold sweat was visible of her face.
"What's wrong?" Kagome asked immediately.
Sango ran over to Ayame and clung on to her as tears streamed down her face.
"What's wrong? Sango!"
"Hôshi-sama... Miroku's not breathing!" Sango breathed.
"Oh my God," Ayame gasped clasping her hand over her mouth. Quickly she placed Sango on a nearby couch and ran to Sango's room.
"I'll get Sesshômaru," Kagome said.
Jakotsu, Ginta, and Hakkaku followed Ayame's pursuit towards Sango's room.
"I didn't mean it..." Sango cried as she was left alone on the couch.
Kikyô and Sesshômaru walked out of the plane's office.
"What happened?" Kikyô asked as Miroku was brought out to the main room of the plane.
"I—he—he couldn't stand, he fell over..." Sango whispered as more tears flowed down her disheartened face.
"What happened before that?"
"He wouldn't go away," Sango muttered.
"And what did you do, Sango?"
"I—I hit him... and he wouldn't get up... You don't think I hit something bad do you?"
Sesshômaru examined the fallen rock star's unconscious body as Jakotsu gladly began CPR on him. "You may have," he concluded, "Myôga, I want you to take a look at him."
Myôga nodded and leaned onto his lower half of the body. "Sango, show me where he was hit."
Sango slowly stood and walked over to point at Miroku's upper abdomen.
"I see," Myôga said as he began to massage the area.
"What's wrong with him?" Inuyasha asked as he came out of his own room.
"He's unconscious," a teary-eyed Ayame said in a worried tone. "Where's Kôga?"
"Sleeping," Inuyasha said, "I'll go wake him up, he knows a few things maybe..."
Ayame nodded and went back to watching Miroku's still form.
"Find anything Myôga?"
"Something, but something I know not of."
"He's breathing again," Jakotsu said proudly.
Kagome let out a huge sigh of relief, "Thank God."
"No, thank me," Jakotsu corrected.
"Thank you so much, Jakotsu!" Ayame said.
Jakotsu beamed.
"When we land, we should cancel things for a few days or so, Miroku needs some attention," Myôga determined.
Kikyô nodded.
"Good, that gives us time for Bankotsu-oo-Aniki to get to China too!"
"What'd I miss?" Kôga asked as he and Inuyasha walked back in.
"Everything," Ayame answered.
"Great," Kôga said as he turned to leave.
"Wait," Myôga said, "Kôga, you have a year or two of medical school behind you, tell me what you feel here."
The sleepy wolf walked over to Myôga's side and sat down on the floor. "Where?"
"Here," Myôga said, taking Kôga's hand and placing it below Miroku's sternum. "What do you feel?"
Kôga's eyes were sleepy no longer as he sharply perked up and shot a horrified look at Myôga.
"You feel it too, huh?"
"What? What do you feel?" Kagome asked.
"More of what I lack to feel."
"What?" Inuyasha asked this time.
"Miroku's body is missing a section in the upper abdominal area next to his right lung," Kôga said.
"Oh my God," Sango gasped as she ran into her own room.
"We have to get him to a hospital quick," Kôga said, "Sesshômaru, do we have his medical records?"
"I'll search," Sesshômaru said stoically as he left the room.
"Wow, I didn't know you were so smart," Inuyasha admitted.
"I didn't always want to work for you, you know."
Inuyasha shrugged and sat down at Miroku's feet. "Is going to be ok?"
"If he's survived this long, I believe he can," Kôga nodded as Sesshômaru walked in with a manila folder.
"It's the basic things, and a treatment record from last month."
Kôga nodded as he opened the file. "It doesn't say anything."
"Not surprising, medical facilities these days are going to the cats," Inuyasha rolled his eyes.
Kôga nodded in agreement as he searched through the file more.
"Wait a minute..." Kôga stopped, "I hereby diagnose the patient with an atypical case of Healer's Curse in which a black hole is present in his body. Within two to four years, the whole will move to the outside of the body, I predict his right hand, in which case, a rosary of forty Buddhist sealing beads will be used to seal the hole, called a wind scar. Miroku should avoid excessive drink and activity, which causes him to use unnecessary upper body strength. Signed, Lady Kaede."
"So Sango hit this black hole?" Inuyasha asked.
"Most likely," Kôga nodded.
"And he went in to shock?"
"Probably."
"And he'll wake up—?"
"In a day or two," Kôga answered as he stood up.
"Wait! What happened to the immediate attention idea?" Kagome asked.
"If he's unconscious we have nothing else we can do for him without the proper equipment," Kôga said.
"So we just leave him?" Ayame asked hesitantly.
Kôga nodded, "Just keep a rag over his head and force water down his throat and he'll live."
The sky slowly turned dark. Sango and Ayame were the only ones still awake as they watched Miroku's unmoving form. Ayame glanced over at Sango who seemed unreachable at this point. Ayame sighed.
"I'll be right back," Ayame finally said, although no one was listening.
Robotically she made her way over to Kôga's room and let herself in. He was looking out of the window and listening to an mp3 player, tapping his foot to the music as he sat on a bed.
Ayame cautiously moved over towards him. She sat down and he instantly turned to face her.
"Ayame," he said as she won his attention. "What are you doing up?"
"I couldn't sleep, I was so scared for Miroku," she admitted.
"I said he'd be okay, didn't I?"
"Yeah but..." she said as her voice wavered.
"But nothing, you should sleep."
"I don't want to..." she cried as she clung on to his arm.
He hesitantly put his arm around her as she cried.
"Are you sure he'll be okay?"
"I said so didn't I?"
"Yeah... I just—I just don't want to loose anyone else."
"You won't," Kôga reassured her. "Just go to sleep and everything will be okay in the morning."
"No," Ayame refused.
"Okay then," Kôga said putting his music player away, "you can stay here tonight."
Ayame nodded slowly as she cried again into his shoulder.
Kôga looked down at her.
'It's going to be a very long night,' he thought to himself.
Finally I got this chapter done (Big sigh). So what do you guys think? Will Miroku be able to keep his career with the Kazaana? And how about Bankotsu? Hahaha... I love torturing these character's lives... I mean uh—yeah... Read and Review!