A/N: Once again thank you so much for the feedback! I greatly appreciate it. What made me smile the most was how fast you guys are! Anyway it appears that people are getting confused on the whole Izayoi situation. I know I put her in the story alive, but in the previous chapter(s) she was dead. It seems like a mistake but it's not, trust me. This is AU and it features demons and anything magical and fictional, so anything is possible keep that in mind ;). All will be explained, have patience loved ones. I love my critical thinkers so please don't stop reviewing! Lots of love goes to my followers from the very beginning!

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His Touch

Chapter 11: That Idiot.

Hmm, not just yet. Before putting in all of her weight on the foot dangling off the building, she decided to make a sharp 90 degree angled turn to continue on it's edge. Taking about five mouthfuls of her beverage later she was once again belting her tune as hard as her voice could take her through the rough lubrication of the alcohol. "Oh, tiptoe from the garden, by the garden of the willow tree and tiptoe through the tulips with me," dizziness was taking over, but there was still half the song left, and less than a quarter of alcohol left too, a good two shots left to be exact. She drank it down like water then threw the glass bottle over the building, watching it disappear into the streets of Tokyo, what a sick way to foreshadow her own demise.

She didn't know the rest of the lyrics anyway, was it cause of the alcohol or did she just not know the song entirely by heart? The answer was beyond her, not that it mattered anyway. So she hummed the next verse with her shoulders all too rested, muscles far too relaxed, and her eyelids felt way too heavy. She started to stumble with a cheerless face, no energy to put up the hysterical smile she had earlier.

"And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight will you pardon me? And tiptoe through the tulips with me," there it was, her last song and her last breath as well when she once again made it to the very edge. She took that step that taunted her minutes earlier, knowing there would be nothing there for her to step on, but then she saw silver and then it went black.

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For a while Inuyasha just stared, wondering what the hell is Kagome doing up there? Well, duh. Awareness was there once again snapping him out of his daze. He was once again sprinting just as fast as he was before. To go through the doors? Definitely too slow. He ran up that building taking leaps off the slim windowsill at times. He looked like he was flying, as a matter of fact he probably was at the rate he was running at. Two more leaps and he'll be up there.

The acidic smell of alcohol mixed with Kagome's scent started to pinch at his nose. Weird, why didn't he notice that sooner? His thoughts disappeared as his eyes widened in horror. Kagome was falling back first. He didn't need to think at all before reacting, almost like instinct he caught her lifeless body in his arms mid-air, holding her close bridal style. The smell of alcohol was radiating off of her to the point where it started to make him feel drowsy too.

The wind shifted. What was going on again? Inuyasha caught Kagome while on his way up the tower so why was he… falling? That's right, he never made it to the top. Wide eyed once again he realized that gravity was working it's marvellous magic and pulling them towards a very unfriendly looking concreted sidewalk. Snap out of it. Instinct kicked in once again, just as sharp as before. Inuyasha leaned in closer towards the windowsill while the earth started to get uncomfortably close. Careful to not lose a limb on the building he gracefully made a quick stop on a windowsill around the 10th floor on the balls of his feet, he jumped off that right away. Repeated that step once more before officially reaching the ground safely.

"Holy shit…" Inuyasha muttered as he looked back at Kagome, her black hair all messed up due to the wind coming in from all directions during the past few seconds. Her features were sharp, beautiful. Her skin, pale. It was always that way though, so why is she taking the deathly tone of pale on her skin now. Her touch was also quite cold, but that must've been from the cool wind. It's summer though, and the wind was uncomfortably humid and moist. Are his ears working right? He could hear her heart pumping blood, though, even if it was very slow, it was still there. But where was the sounds of her breathing? Fuck. While distracted with the free fall, Inuyasha didn't notice that Kagome stopped breathing.

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Uhhhg. Kagome tried to open her eyes but she was quickly blinded by the bright fluorescent lights illuminating at every direction. Bad idea, bad idea. With a groan and her eyes still glued shut with all her might she got up into a sitting position, or tried to at least.

Bile started rising to her throat and the earth feel like it was spinning and teeter-tottering. Yet another bad idea, lay down again, slowly, slowly. She did as she thought, still not attempting to open her eyes knowing the effort would be futile. She reached her cold hand to touch her forehead to see if a physical stop to the turning would help. Midway through the action she felt something tugged at her forearm. Her eyes snapped open and she jackhammered herself up to a seated position. Nausea. Nausea, nausea, nausea. Nope, she can't hold this one down, she threw up all over the tiled floor, missing her bed. She relaxed after her eyes adjusted to the lights and she found herself on a plain white bed. The restraints she felt on her forearm was actually an IV — thank God — not cuffs. But the didn't make any sense. Why was she here? How did she get here? When? Trying to regain any possible memory prior to this situation, her mind was empty. All she could come up with was the thought of a tall building.

"Kagome?" called in a nurse as she walked into her room and made it by her bedside. She was quite old, but still friendly looking and wise. "My name is Kaede, I'm your nurse," she continued. "You gave us quite the scare child, you nearly died."

Died? What is she talking about. Oh, how Kagome's head hurt as it started to spin again.

"No need to trouble yourself, you may not remember much until later," Kagome remained silent. Kaede was about to continue when she saw a mess on the other side of Kagome's bed. "I'll call someone in to help clean up," she said with a smile as she started to walk away. She stopped at the door and turned back to the slightly confused girl on the bed behind her. "You can see your visitor now, if you wish." Kagome didn't say anything but she gave a slight nod. This was difficult to wrap her head around. She was in a hospital? Not her favourite place to be due to her experience. Her visitors are most likely her family anyway, her mom or gramps or someone, maybe they can shed some light on whats going on.

Mean while a very upset looking janitor came in to clean up Kagome's mess. Kagome would've said sorry if it wasn't for the fact that her mouth felt so dehydrated. If she tried to speak, sand would probably come out instead of words. A mop worked wonders because with a couple of strokes the mess was gone and soon after so was the janitor.

Much to Kagome's surprise, Inuyasha walked in in place of family. Did her mom even know that Kagome was here right now? Kagome stared at him, analyzing all his features but still not saying a word. Inuyasha, in silence, dragged a chair to the side of her bed the noise of the screech between tiles and the chair broke the deafening silence. But the silence loomed over like a heavy curtain once again soon after Inuyasha took a seat in said chair. Kagome continued to silently observe Inuyasha, like, his silver hair. Silver and then it went black.

Kagome gasped and blinked. Her memories were returning and so was the pounding in her head. Every time she feels like she just solved the mystery, the thought disappears and all is forgotten, her head feels like she's writing an exam she didn't study for.

"Well, are you going to speak or should I?" Inuyasha said interrupting her though. Damn him. Right when I thought I had it. She made a hand motion indicating she needs water. Inuyasha got up to get her that.

Silence welcomed her again letting Kagome drift into the matrix of her own mind once again, at least until Inuyasha makes an appearance again. There was a song. It was her voice. "Tiptoe…" Great now the song is stuck in her head, but why was she singing it? The dry aftertaste of alcohol started to take its torturous turn on Kagome now.

Building, wind, alcohol, depression, diary, tiptoe through the tulips with me.

Inuyasha walked in with a plastic cup of cold water, but Kagome's hot tears beat him to the water race. This idiot saved me. Kagome wasn't even sobbing but her tears kept streaming down the curves of her face as she clutched the bedsheets with everything she had.

"Kagome, here drink." Inuyasha insisted, worry seeped into his words as he put the cup on her hands and urged her to drink. Kagome didn't think she could, at first, even open her mouth. She parted her lips slightly however, and let the cool liquid grace her with its presence inside of her mouth. It was probably the best thing she has ever had in the history of shitty days she's been through. This water was her official drug of choice as of right now as she downed whatever was left in the cup and quickly begged for more. Inuyasha clenched his fists and swallowed words of rebuttal. Slowly, with a growl on the side, he got up and got another cup full of cool distilled water across the hall.

Flashback

"Help! I need help!" Shouted Inuyasha as he barged into the emergency room. It felt odd to Inuyasha to ask for help. This, however, wasn't something he could do alone. Kagome has stopped breathing a while ago and her heart. Where the fuck is her heart beat? Why can't he hear it? The doctors and patients all looked at him with confusion and fear written all over their face. After taking a look at the pale limp girl resting in his arms their faces were quickly replaced with realization and worry as the doctors scrambled into emergency procedure.

"Sir, what happened?" asked one of the doctors reaching out for Kagome.

"Shut the fuck up and help! She's not breathing, god damn it. I can't hear her heart beating and you're asking me what the fuck happened? Ask questions later, bastard. Fucking save her!" Scowled Inuyasha, however, still holding Kagome close to him.

"Sir, please!" The doctor pleaded. "If you wish us to save her you have to let her go! Leave her with us she'll be fine." The doctor explained as calmly as he could. Inuyasha's ears started to lower, he didn't want to leave her. He clenched his jaw tightly and lightly let go of Kagome and let her body fall into the doctors arms. She was quickly transferred into anther room with five doctors and three nurses following. Inuyasha had to be held back by the remaining doctors to calm him down and explain why he isn't allowed in said room.

"Sir, you'll have to calm yourself. You're in a hospital! Any more of this behaviour and we'll have no choice but to call security."

"Drop it, will you! I get it already just stop fucking touching me!" Yelled Inuyasha as he finally was released from their grasps. He grumbled and sat in the waiting area. He was relying on his hearing the whole time. It was the worst wait of his life. The sounds of doctors saying she won't make it due to the fact that her hearts stopped beating for a while. The line was flat, it's been like that for what felt like hours, but was actually only half a minute until… There it was, a pulse. A very small one, almost a pathetic beat. But it was there. Inuyasha heard it. He heard the sighs of relief coming from the doctors, now they can relax after vigorous works of CPR. Her heart beat became frantic, however. Like she was having a heart attack which kept the doctors on their toes but it instantly turned into a very slow almost inaudible rate again… Her body temperature, it was so low. She still didn't get any colour back to her face. She started to shake as well while unconscious. "Shit, nurse! It's alcohol poisoning! Get the pump." Yelled one of the doctors.

Inuyasha stood up immediately but was quickly shut down by the angry looks of the doctors in the halls, so he forced himself to remain seated once again. He could hear Kagome gag and throw up, moan, and black out again. At least she is breathing, at least she's alive.

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"Sir? Sir? Sir!"

"Hm?" Said Inuyasha confused.

"Sir your cup is overflowing…" Replied a nurse.

Oh, so it was. He didn't give the nurse a second glance, instead, he walked away with a humph and a very full cup of cold water. Not to mention cold, drenched hand.

Walking into Kagome's room to hand her some more water, her bed was empty.

Fuck, is this girl for real?

"What are you staring at?" chimed a familiar female voice.

Inuyasha jumped and looked behind. Kagome?

She was leaning against the door in a thin papered hospital gown.

Inuyasha loosened up and then got angry once again, "What the fuck are you doing out of bed?" He said throwing his hands in the air.

"Well, you were taking so long to get my water! I got up and found a fountain myself, geez."

"I got you water already, so get back in bed," Inuyasha protested handing Kagome an empty paper cup of water.

"I mean, it was a good thing I got my own water considering after your hissy fit you threw my water in the air." She said with a chuckle as she looked down on a very wet floor. She laughed until she was tucked back into bed. Inuyasha didn't say anything, he just let his throat rumble. She was laughing even though he's been such an ass still. Even though he let his anger get the best of him, and he ended up spilling her water. Woah, did he feel shitty. He turned back and sat down in his chair next to her bed, his guilty eyes not meeting her confused ones.

"So… Do you want to explain to me why I'm here?" Kagome said in an all too calm voice.

Inuyasha's head shot up so his eyes could finally meet hers, only to see she's staring into space, boredom written all over her features: uninterested eyes and her chin holding the weight of her head as it was sitting in the palm of her hand.

Kagome noticed his hesitating comment, so she added, "Let me rephrase that," ahem, "Why did you save me Inuyasha?"

Uh, where to start?

Closing his eyes, leaning back and letting out a huge exhale, he started to think about how he was going to word his confession. Maybe three minutes passed before Kagome sighed and said, "Forget it, I'm getting pizza cause pizza wouldn't deny me any comfort," she got out of bed and trotted towards the door hoping to head towards the caf. Inuyasha got out of his chair instantly and grabbed her hand. Startled, she whipped her head around to see Inuyasha's face, at first it was to yell at him for grabbing her like that, and then she tried to read anything from his face to see if it will give an explanation to his actions. His eyes, however, remained glued to the floor. He then pulled her into a strong embrace and Kagome had to fight her instincts to remain calm and not struggle. Inuyasha nuzzled his nose into the crook of her neck burying his face into her hair as he took a deep inhale that gave Kagome goosebumps. "I can't lose you again", he simply said.

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A/N: I've been catching up on some readings from my favourite authors list, check them out they literally have the BEST stories! Thanks so much for the feed back guys I really appreciate it. I'm going to start writing other stories now that I have a couple of ideas coming to mind :). Also going to start making the chapters longer. I'd say theres about 5 chapters left to this story.