Chapter 12
InuYasha burst through the door of the main Higurashi shrine. "Where do you take the injured in this era?"
Kagome's mother looked at the bundle of raven hair and red in InuYasha's arm and gasped. "The hospital! I'll give you a ride!" Mrs. Higurashi threw on her coat and ran out of her room and to her car. InuYasha and Mrs. Higurashi rushed off towards the hospital.
"What happened to my daughter?!" She asked frantically. InuYasha explained all that he had done, from how he followed her scent and found all of the clues leading to her location, to when he burst through the screen door of their shrine, not even 5 minutes ago.
"Oh my God! There has been a chain of rapes and murders, just like this one, in the past few months." Mrs. Higurashi burst into tears, "But, why Kagome?" InuYasha looked solemnly at Kagome, lying dead still in the back seat and felt a burst of tears coming on. If I hadn't been so obsessed with finding Kikyo, Kagome would've never come home early. And this would have never happened! InuYasha reached into the breast of his shirt and pulled out the small, wrapped gift that he had found given to him from Kagome.
Slowly, he untied the ribbon, and ripped off the paper. He opened the box and pulled out the gift. She had bought him a pork rind bone. The smallest tear dribbled down his cheek. She got into this mess, for me. She got kidnapped while buying a gift… for me! InuYasha put his head down in shame, for he didn't want to show his tears. In his opinion, it was a sign of weakness.
The car came to a screeching halt and Mrs. Higurashi announced, "We're here."
They jumped out of the car and InuYasha retrieved Kagome from the back seat. He picked her up again and rushed her inside.