Many hours later Moriko woke up; she looked around the room half wondering where she was then remembered being held down so Inunotaisho could put the herbal medication in. The pounding from her arm was still there but it was bearable.
Moriko turn her head to the side and found that Inuyasha was sleeping on the other side of the bed. Her rag was dry so he obviously fell asleep while taking care of her.
Inuyasha woke feeling the disturbance of Moriko trying to sit up in the bed.
"Are you okay?" He asked getting up and helping her, a worried look on his face.
"Yeah, I'm just a little sore that's all." It hurt Moriko to move her right arm, so it was hard for her to push herself up. Inuyasha quickly took notice and helped her to sit on the edge of the bed.
"Do you need anything? I can have my dad get you what you need." Inuyasha could smell that she didn't have a fever anymore but could also smell that the poison wasn't gone.
"I have to use the bathroom… And I really don't think you would want to watch me go." Moriko said joking a little. Inuyasha smiled and lifted her to the bathroom and left her there to do what see needed to do; he had also left a pair of night clothes her dad brought over on the counter for Moriko to change into.
"Inuyasha? Who's in the bathroom?" Inunotaisho asked, walking up to his son who was leaning against the bathroom door.
"Moriko is; she had to use the bathroom and I carried her over here." Inuyasha answered.
"Is she doing better?" Inunotaisho looked surprised to hear that Moriko was up already.
"A little, her fever is gone but the poison is still there. She is also having trouble moving her arm." A flush from the toilette and water running in the sink told them that Moriko was done. She opened the door and was a little confused to why Inunotaisho was waiting with Inuyasha.
"Do you want anything to eat?" Inunotaisho asked getting ready to leave.
"Sure! Anything right now would be great!" Moriko needed the energy so she knew that eating was the best thing to do even if she felt like puking.
"Alright, I will bring it to you in the bedroom. You go get some more rest." Inunotaisho left as Inuyasha picked Moriko up and took her back to the bedroom.
"Dimmit! The stupid wound hurts!" Moriko said holding her arm tight.
"Let me look at it." Inuyasha unwrapped the bandage and looked to see if there was an infection starting. To his relief the wound was healing up just fine.
"Do you want to play a game? I can bring my playstation and TV up if you want?" Inuyasha offered.
"That is exactly what I was hoping you would do!" Moriko gave Inuyasha a big tooth filled smile.
"Okay, hang on, I will be right back." Inuyasha took off down the hall to his bedroom.
Inunotaisho was coming up stairs with a bowl of Ramen as Inuyasha ran down to the living to get the other controller from his other playstation 2; nearly causing Inunotaisho to drop the bowl.
"INUYASHA! Watch where you're going next time!" Inunotaisho snapped.
"Sorry bout' that dad!" Inuyasha yelled as he grabbed the controller and some other games.
Inunotaisho got to the bedroom before Inuyasha did, since Inuyasha kept dropping every as he tried to hurry.
"Here you go, you get the special room service with the number one dish, Ramen!" Inunotaisho sat the bowl on a TV tray and brought it to Moriko for her to eat, which is just what she did. Moriko gulped the food down as fast as she could and drank the milk which at first tasted gross but she eventually got use to it.
"The food was great! What type of Milk was that though?" Moriko asked.
"It was 2 but I put some herbal medicine in it to fight off the poison in your body." Inunotaisho informed. Inuyasha got the room just as Moriko was getting ready for another nap. He smelt the Ramen and his stomach growled.
"Uh dad, do you have any extra ramen?" He asked a little embarrassed that his stomach was loud enough for both Inunotaisho and Moriko to hear.
"Of course I did. I know you better than that!" Inunotaisho ruffled Inuyasha's hair as he left the room. Inuyasha grumbled a little since he didn't like to be treated like a kid.
"So are you going to be too tired to play?" Inuyasha asked Moriko, who was lying down in bed relaxing with a full belly.
"Yeah, but I don't think I'll be able to get to sleep."
"Why not?" Inuyasha's eyebrow raised a little.
"Because it is REALLY hot and REALLY quite in here… I usually sleep with a fan next to me." Moriko sat up and looked around the room to see if there was a fan in there.
"Well… There is only one fan in the house, but…" Inuyasha started, looking a little indecisive about what he was going to say and do. "But, it is my fan, and I sleep with it every night too."
"Oh… Well you can go ahead and keep it, I know how important fans are to us fan lovers" Moriko said winking her eye.
"No, it's okay, you can use it." Inuyasha felt bad and wanted to make her feel as comfortable as possible since she was injured and sick.
"No I don't want it if you're going to have trouble sleeping to." Moriko declined the offer Inuyasha gave her.
"No you can use it I will be fine!" Inuyasha was getting a little annoyed at her stubbornness
"I don't want it!" Moriko snapped.
"Yes you do!" Inuyasha snapped back.
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Nooo!"
"Yeees!"
"Shut up!"
"No you shut up!"
Inuyasha and Moriko carried on like this until Inunotaisho entered the room and watched them for a bit, then decided to break the argument up with a loud, deep growl.
"What is going on here?" He asked with a stern voice.
"She needs a fan to go to sleep and wont take mine because I like to sleep with a fan too, but she said that she wont be able to get to sleep with out it!" Inuyasha tattled.
"Well I don't wanna be burden on every one!" Moriko was still snapping at Inuyasha.
"Fine if you don't want the fan then I will leave it outside!" Inuyasha threatened.
"No! That is a waste! One of us has to use it!" Moriko didn't like leaving fans where they could get ruined.
"Well then it will be YOU who uses it!" Inuyasha argued.
"If you two will shut up then I will give you my solution!" Inunotaisho snapped. Both Moriko and Inuyasha listened.
"You both can use it!" Inuyasha and Moriko looked confused then at the same time realized that Inunotaisho meant to sleep in the same bed and had shocked looks on their faces. "If you Moriko sleep under these blankets and then Inuyasha sleep on top of them with his blankets then you two will be just fine!" Inunotaisho was tired of hearing fighting and didn't give them a choice. Inuyasha went and got the fan and his blankets out of his bedroom and sat everything up grumbling as he did so. Moriko sat in bed with her arms crossed and a pissed off look on her face, neither of them liked this but didn't want to get into trouble. Moriko went to sleep as Inuyasha tried to enjoy his ramen; once Inuyasha was finished and had put his dish in the dishwasher he went to bed too.
The next morning Sesshoumaru and Kagura decided to check on Moriko, not knowing what Inunotaisho forced upon the two teenagers. They opened the door and almost wet themselves at the site of Inuyasha cuddled up to Moriko. Inuyasha had a bad habit of snuggling up to anything human sized in his bed and had no idea that he was holding onto Moriko, who just was use to her friends doing this to her at sleep-overs.
"I see that we have a couple of love birds?" Kagura teased saying her words loud enough to wake up Inuyasha. He opened his eyes and it took him about 15 seconds to realize that he was snuggled up to Moriko and then he jumped backwards and fell off the bed onto his head.
"It's not what you think!" He yelled with an embarrassed look on his face. "Dad made us sleep in the same bed because we were arguing about the fan!" He was trying to defend himself from Sesshoumaru's devilish smile.
"So you decided to take things a little further than needed?" Sesshoumaru teased, "Wow I guess father will soon be getting a grandchild." Just after he finished his sentence he was hit with a large pillow.
"Don't push my buttons today! I have morals and would NEVER do that out of marriage you sick pig!" Moriko was getting ready to pummel Sesshoumaru he eyes bulging out of her head.
Sesshoumaru was shocked at her strength and merely got up and left with a "Who cares?" look on his face. Inuyasha sat blinking and didn't dare say a word, for he knew that mad women are VERY dangerous.
"Humph! Next time he comes in here I'm gonna kick his ass!" Moriko growled to herself.
"I see that you're doing better?" Inuyasha asked, getting up onto the bed.
"Yeah! I feel like I could run a mile!" Moriko said enthusiastically, as she jumped off the bed. "Let's go see if your dad had breakfast read!" She took off towards the kitchen, not even worrying that she was wearing a pair of boxers as shorts and was in a spaghetti-string tank top.
"Hey where's Inunotaisho?" Moriko asked when she entered the kitchen.
"He sleeps during the day." Sesshoumaru answered, as he made eggs and toast.
"That's weird… Why does he do that?" Moriko asked to herself in a whisper, Sesshoumaru caught the whisper.
"You have to understand that spirits need to rest during the day since it is much harder to manifest and take a solid form." He said not knowing that Moriko had no idea that Inunotaisho was a spirit.
"Wha..? He's a, spirit?" Moriko asked, and got a nod from Kagura in return. "Wow this family is stranger than mine." Moriko said jokingly.
"What are you all talking about?" Inuyasha asked as he came in, dressed now in his fire rat, and red pants.
"So does that mean that he is dead and is a ghost?" Moriko asked, more curious than scared.
"Yes he died the night Inuyasha was born." Sesshoumaru said, his eyes turning to Inuyasha who was now sitting with a sad expression on his face.
"Inuyasha, are you okay?" Moriko asked, now seeing the drooping ears of the Hanyou.
"Yeah, I guess I'm still tired." Inuyasha said getting up and going to his bedroom.
"What's wrong with him?" Moriko asked as soon as Inuyasha was well gone.
"He feels everything is his fault." Kagura said a little sorry for Inuyasha.
"Why is that? I mean his dad is here now as a spirit and seems happy, so why should he feel guilty; plus it wasn't even his fault." Moriko was confused and wanted to know more.
"Well, when Inuyasha was about four or five years old, when his mother was beaten to death in front of him; he was also beaten and feels that if he had been stronger none of that would have happened. Though he doesn't understand that he was a child and nothing is ever a young child's fault." Kagura explained, as she sipped on her coffee.
"Oh my gosh! That's horrible! Who would do such a thing?" Moriko now had her hands over her mouth in disgust and in sorrow. She fought now to hold off tears, thinking how she would feel if she seen her father beaten to death in front of her and to feel useless.
"Heartless and cruel people; people who are far worse than any evil demon." Kagura's eyes closed in a slight glare as she thought of the torture Naraku made her suffer.
"I think I'm going to go talk to him, see if there is anything I can do." Moriko left the kitchen and headed to Inuyasha's room where she found him under his covers being very quite.
"Inuyasha, can I talk to you?" Moriko asked walking over to his bed. Inuyasha didn't answer; he was crying and didn't want her to know.
"I heard about what happened to you and your mom, and I hope you understand that none of it was your fault." Inuyasha didn't want to listen to her; he had heard this a million times from his dad and didn't want to hear more of it. "When I was young, about 6, I was playing with my dog, Nanimo. We were playing fetch in the road and I threw the ball a little too far, she went to get it and chased it all around the road before finally catching it. As she was walking back some speeding bastards hit her, and stopped to see if it was me, when they seen it was Nanimo they just sped off again not even caring about what they had just done. I was in shock and ran to her as she laid there bleeding from her mouth, just barely alive. I cried not knowing what to do and yelled at myself for throwing the ball; I wanted to die right then and there. My dad came outside when he seem me lying in the road in the large puddle of blood, he seen that I was alive and was holding onto my dying dog. He took me inside after putting a wheel barrel over her to keep from being hit again and then got his gun; the next thing I remember is a yelp and the gun shot. I never forgave myself for letting her die that day, but now that I'm older I realized that it wasn't my fault, I was too young to know any better and if I had tried to move her I would have been killed." Inuyasha listened intently; thoughts of the day his mother died filled his head. "Well, I know that too some people dogs don't seem that important but since I grew up never knowing my mom, I thought of the dog as an animal mother, since she took care of me and protected me like a mother should." Moriko's eyes were filled with tears now and Inuyasha could smell them. "Please stop feeling guilty!" Moriko fell upon Inuyasha in a hug as she cried; still under the blankets Inuyasha gasped and let go of his tears too. The two cried for an hour like that; Sesshoumaru and Kagura didn't dare to disturb them knowing that it is best for them to get out as much built up emotion as possible. Inuyasha came out from under the covers, his face red and his eyes bloodshot.
"Thank you Moriko." He said smiling with tears still in his eyes. Moriko looked up at him and buried her head into his shoulder; she was still crying and needed comfort. Inuyasha held her until she decided that she was done. Moriko didn't say anything and left for the bathroom where she washed her face and puked. All of that crying caused her to dry heave, which made her feel very sick. When she got out she felt better and went to go have whatever was left over from breakfast; Inuyasha was already at the table eating, his face now a light pink color. The rest of the day, was Farley quite and seemed to go by fast since every one was now depressed. Poor Inunotaisho was confused when he got up, seeing his children and Moriko depressed, but he had decided that it would be best to leave it alone and not ask.