In One Moment
Summary: Cancer. This six letter word can change the lives of anyone. So what happens when Kagome is diagnosed with it? Then, when she tells InuYasha that she has a few days to live and they can't be with him?
Author's Note: Hello readers! Sigh I just love summer. I actually can sit down and write! No stupid English and history reports to do! Yeah! So yeah, please read and review! Much appreciated!
Disclaimer: No matter what I do, I will never own InuYasha.
"I'm afraid miss." The doctor started. He stood over the sink washing his hands like he always did after examining a patient. However, this time the patient was Kagome Higurashi and this was no ordinary check up, which she had been drastically due on. He turned around to face Kagome and her mother.
"I'm afraid miss, that you have cancer."
Kagome's heart plummeted. Those words struck her like a shower of cold daggers. 'What? How could this happen!' Were among the questions that raged thought her mind. True, over the last few months she had seemed to feel weaker, more tired and even came down with simple illness more like a cold or a flu more then she normally did. But still. She didn't smoke. Did no drugs. No drinking. What then. How could have caused this?
Kagome looked up at the doctor. She fidgeted a bit on the cold metal table and played with the white paper gown she was forced to wear, before she said, " Doctor, I- I don't understand. How could this happen to me?"
"There are a number of reasons, Ms. Higurashi. Hundreds, even thousands."
"I don't care how many reasons there are!" Kagome's mother shouted, interrupting the doctor. The usually calm mother was red in the face and filled with an intense rage. "Just tell me what the hell is happening to my daughter!"
"Mom…" Kagome whispered. She stared at her. Kagome never saw her mother like this. Her mother never raised her voice and was always calm. In fact, Mrs. Higurashi always broke up the arguments at home, solving them with a perfect solution. So to see her mother like this frightened Kagome.
The doctor pulled his glasses off his face and cleaned them with a handkerchief from his pocket. "Like I said before madam. It can be caused by a number of reasons. Smoking, drugs, drinking or even family history."
"But I did none of those things!" Kagome protested, sounding like she was being accused of being a liar. Kagome's mother squeezed her daughter's hand in comfort.
"Kagome, I never told you this, but your grandmother, my mother, had a tumor and…. died from it."
"What?"
"I should have of told you. We could have tested you sooner, but that stupid Inu-." Her mother broke off. She was about to say" If that stupid InuYasha hadn't taken you away so many times, making you miss your doctor appointments. Kagome's mom turned from Kagome and looked at the doctor hopefully. "We can treat it right? Surgery, kimo?"
The doctor lowered his head. "No. It spread too far, too fast. I am sorry to say, that you only have a few months to live." There was nothing else that doctor could say. He had already brought the messenger of death down to this family, what else could he say. Nothing. And that's what he did. He walked away from the crying couple and left.
The car ride home was nothing short of being bleak. Kagome stared out the window staring at the passing houses and children playing that they drove past.
"Mom, I have to go back to the Feudal era. Not long!" She added, when she saw the look on her mother's face.
"Why?" She spat in return. "What's so special about them?"
"They're my best friends. Besides, the jewel is completed. It's sitting in my room right now, in fact. I can give it to InuYasha and he can finally be a full demon." She broke off with a small sob. "He can finally be with Kikyo." More tears ran down her face.
The car stopped. They were home.
Kagome leapt from the car and ran up the stairs. She ignored Sota's greeting and locked herself in her room. Kagome could hear her mother tell her younger brother and grandfather their sad news. She could hear her grandfather's wails and her brother's muffled sobs.
It wasn't fair. First the Higurashi family lost their father. Now, they were about to lose a daughter. Did the world have it in for the Higurashi family, because it certainly seemed like it did.
Kagome had thrown herself upon her bed. She sobbed loudly into her pillow. Why couldn't she die right then? Why couldn't all this pain just go away? Kagome sat up and leaned against her wall. From there, she could see the finished Shikon Jewel gleaming on her desk. With a sad sigh, she stood up. She had to go. She had to tell Shippo, Sango, Miroku and InuYasha that she would not be returning to the past anymore.
"Where the hell is that damned Kagome." InuYasha muttered to himself. He sat on top of Keade's hut, looking over the forest path from which the well came from. It was about midday in the feudal era. The sun was high in the air, heating and baking the ground far below. No wind blew, so the air was stagnate.
"Calm down InuYasha." Said Miroku, stepping from inside Keade's hut. "It's hardly been a day. I expect Miss Kagome will return sometime tomorrow."
"Feh, that's what she thinks!" InuYasha stood up and jumped down, landing next to Miroku. "I'm going to go get her!"
"Don't have to." Sango appeared next to them, along with Shippo. Kiarra ran up behind him, chasing his tail. Sango pointed down the path where Kagome was walking up to them.
"She looks tired." Shippo noted.
"Maybe she had one of those exam things, she always tells us about." Suggested Sango, shrugging her shoulders.
"Hey, guys." Kagome half-heartedly smiled. She walked up to her friends, who made a small circle around her.
"What no food!" InuYasha exclaimed when he saw that she did not have her backpack with her. . "Fine, be that way! Worthless wench." He turned his back on her and took a few steps away from the group.
"InuYasha!" Sango, Miroku and Shippo yelled.
InuYasha braced himself. He was sure going to get sitted.
"Forgive him, Kagome." Said Sango.
"It's alright." Replied Kagome. She put her hand into her pocket and pulled out the scared jewel. Then much to everyone's surprise, she handed it to InuYasha, who turned back around when he realized she did not say the evil word. "Here, InuYasha. You're the one who really wanted it."
InuYasha took a good look at her. She did not look well. There were bags under her eyes, as if she hadn't slept for a week. Her skin was a pastly color and it seemed her hair had lost its sheen, seeing that it was a tangled mess on top her head. Her eyes changed from deep chocolate to a lifeless bark color.
"Kagome, what's wrong?" He asked. He had a deep feeling something was tearing her up inside.
Kagome shook her head. "Nothing." She lied.
"Really?"
"Well, there's no easy way of saying this, but after today, I can never come back any more." Kagome replied as if it was no big deal.
"WHAT!" Was the whole groups reply.
"Yeah, I mean, look. Naraku's dead. The jewel's complete. No use in me staying here."
"But Kagome?" Sango stepped closer to her. "We don't want you to go.
"Yeah, Kagome. We love you!" Shippo backed Sango up and jumped on Kagome's shoulder.
"Lady Kagome, you can't leave. After all who would keep InuYasha in line?" Miroku pointed out.
"No!" Kagome's face turned red. "Can't you see? I don't want to be here anymore! Just let me be and let me go back to my old life!"
Sango, Miroku and Shippo stared at her, deeply hurt. Shippo jumped off to Miroku's shoulder. "Fine then." The Fox demon said. "Go, see it we care!" The threesome turned and left, leaving Kagome and InuYasha alone.
Kagome stared at InuYasha for a minute, expecting him to leave and follow suit, but turned away in fear that she was about to burst into tears all over again. InuYasha, however, kept his amber eyes locked on her. He walked over to her and took her hand in his.
"You want to tell me what's really wrong."
"It true." She sobbed crystal tears formed on her eye lashes and then rolled down her cheeks. "I can't ever come back."
"I got that." InuYasha nodded. "But why?"
"I'm going to die."
That last word cut him in two. InuYasha looked like he was hit by a truck, then the truck backed up over him.
"What?" He breathed.
"That seems to be everyone's favorite word, today." Kagome quietly laughed, trying to lighten the situation up a bit.
"Kagome, how did this happen?"
"I have a brain tumor." She put her hand on her forehead and rubbed it in a small circle. "We went to the doctor and he told me that I have only a few months to live. InuYasha promise me, you'll apologize to Sango, Miroku and Shippo for me. I didn't mean to be so harsh. I'm just so stressed right now."
"I promise."
"Good." Kagome took his hand that held her's and placed the jewel in his palm. "There you go. Your wish will finally come true."
"Kagome, I can't take this, knowing that….Please is there nothing I can do?"
"No. InuYasha don't make this harder then it already is. Just take it."
InuYasha took the jewel and put it inside his kimono.
"Good. Now you can become a full demon, just like you always wanted." She sobbed. "With me out of the way, you and Kikyo can finally be together." Kagome looked down at her feet. "I should go now."
"No!" InuYasha pulled her into an embrace. "You can't go." He buried his head in her neck. He took a deep breathe inhaling as much of her scent as he could. The hanyou never wanted to let her go. He didn't want to lose his one true love.
"The sooner I leave, the sooner you can forget me." Kagome pushed him away from her. He was making this so hard for her. Did he know how much she wished she could stay with him? Or at least live for that matter?
"I could never forget you Kagome."
Kagome couldn't take it anymore. She stared at InuYasha for what she knew would be that last time. She soaked in even memory she ever had of him.
'A boy... with dog ears! Suddenly I want to touch them.'
'Sit BOY!'
'Shut up and let me protect you!'
'InuYasha, can I stay by your side?'
'Where ever she is, I hope she's okay.'
'
"Kagome, what were you thinking? You could have been hurt. I'm sorry. I should have protected you."
'I didn't realize how much I've fallen in love with him.
Kagome turned on the ball of her foot and ran as fast as she could toward the well. The plan was, she drop in and seal it for good.
She had open leg over the edge, when she saw that InuYasha had followed her and was standing less then ten feet away.
Taking a deep breathe, Kagome said her last words to InuYasha, "I just wanted you to know, that, I love you." Kagome didn't wait for a reply. With that she jumped into the well. Her body was surrounded in the blue light and the well transported her to modern Japan for the very last time.
InuYasha ran to the edge of the well and looked in. He knew that she would have sealed it to prevent him from coming after her.
"Kagome, I love you, too."
Yeah, The first chapter is done! Should I continue or not?
Next Chapter:
InuYasha saves Kagome.