By: Patche
Disclaimer: Umm I do not own/am not in any way affiliated with… Inuyasha, the song "Stay" or any songs I think fit the story perfectly.
One Hell of a
Valentine's Day
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I stood there with Miroku as he said goodbye to the bakery. Sango stood next to him, an arm wrapped around his waist.
I looked up at him and saw he was smiling. Why would he be smiling? We just closed the one thing he would ever have to remind him of his father…
"Kagome…" Sango said to me as we walked away.
"Hmm?" I asked looking over at her.
"Well… did Miroku tell you what we're going to do?" She asked me. I looked over at him.
"No…"
Sango smiled and clasped her hands together as we walked across the street.
"We have room in our coffee shop for a bakery. If you'd still like a job at this little bakery… Miroku will be running it and you guys can name it whatever you want."
I looked over at Miroku, who was beaming. Sango must have cared about him a lot to do something so kind.
"I'd love to, thank you Sango."
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It was Valentine's Day. It was a little hard to believe how quickly January flew by. Inuyasha and I had already been together a whole month… it seemed more like two weeks.
But time flies when you're having fun, right?
Ayame and I were on our way out of the school when Taro ran into us. More like just me.
And for some reason, my impervious attitude had disappeared.
"Hey, Kags. Happy Valentine's Day." He said in a low raspy voice. To be honest, he looked horrible.
He was a very unhealthy skinny and had huge dark circles under his eyes.
I opened my mouth to say something, but I could only manage to get out a 'hi'.
"What do you want, Taro?!" I heard Ayame snap behind me. Taro looked beyond me directly at her.
"Hi, Ayame. I'm just here to talk to Kagome. You don't have to stick around, you know." I bit my lip, wishing I could do something to get him away from us.
It wasn't an unsure feeling like before. This time the butterflies in my stomach had morphed into wasps. I felt scared more than hopeful or nervous.
Ayame marched up next to me and grabbed my wrist, pulling me along with her.
"Kagome has to go meet Inuyasha, now… so bye!" She said, dragging me along. I felt another hand grab onto my free arm, however. I turned to see Taro sneering at me.
He was obviously still upset with what had happened back in December at the party. But, then again, I wasn't the one who beat him up… so I wasn't too sure about why he was mad at me.
"Why don't you let Kagome speak for herself?" He said in his raspy, malevolent tone.
Ayame stood silent for a moment, looking at me. I took a deep breath before looking up to face Taro.
"I have to go." I said glaring at Taro. It was almost like Inuyasha had just possessed me. I wasn't scared at that moment. I felt powerful... the way I always viewed Inuyasha. I had Ayame with me… and we had to go.
I felt his hand loosen its grip on my arm and walked away with Ayame.
Once we reached the parking lot, Ayame turned to me looking astonished. "Wow… Kagome… you stood up for yourself pretty nicely."
I beamed. "Yea… thanks."
"What are you two all smiley about?" I turned around to see Inuyasha walking towards us, a crooked smirk etched on his face.
I just smiled, remaining silent.
"Well, we just ran into Taro and little Kagome here stood up for herself…" Ayame said, bragging about my huge accomplishment. The fact that it was actually an accomplishment made it so much more pathetic.
I looked up at Inuyasha to see his smirk had faded away.
"You ran into Taro?" He asked me. Ayame made some strange noise before walking away from us.
I looked over to see her walking away, then back at Inuyasha. "It… it was nothing. He just said Happy Valentine's Day… and I told him I had to leave."
He was silent for a moment before nodding.
"Well… that's good then. I was worried he might have… tried to…" He trailed off, glancing away from me.
I sighed and grabbed his hand walking towards his car with him.
"You don't have to worry about me so much, you know? I'm a big girl…" I said, flexing my arm muscle to emphasize my point. Of course, the wimpy bulge didn't even rise a little in my doing so.
Inuyasha laughed at me, and pulled my arm down. "I know. I just can't really help it. You do get into trouble a lot."
I just shrugged. "I know… but maybe one day, Inuyasha you will he the damsel in distress and I will be the only person there to save you."
He rolled his eyes. "Then I'm doomed."
I elbowed him sharply in the ribcage. "Hey…" I said laughing. "Don't say that. You never know. There was this one lady who lifted a car to get her kids out from under it."
As we reached his car, Inuyasha pulled out his key unlocking the driver's door.
"Oh, and how does that pertain to me? Maybe she was a female body builder…" He said, unlocking my door from inside the car.
I pulled it open and slid into the passenger seat.
"Well… no… I mean that whenever some one you care a lot about is in danger… you gain courage and strength that you never knew you had. It's something in the brain that just… triggers." I said, hoping I sounded smart.
I looked over to see Inuyasha staring at me like I had two heads growing out of my neck.
I sighed and slumped my shoulders, looking at the dashboard in front of me.
"No, I know what you mean…" His voice was softer… more gentle than his usual tone.
I looked up to see him smiling slightly.
"I wouldn't have ever had the guts to punch Taro in the face…" He shrugged. "But, I kind of had to."
For some reason, bringing that topic up always made me feel a little weird. I wasn't glad that it happened… but whenever Inuyasha talked about it… and what happened… it made me kind of happy.
Inuyasha started the car and looked over at me. It was one of those moments when, even though I wasn't looking at him… I could just tell he was looking at me.
He sighed and backed the car out of the parking lot and we made our way to wherever our hearts told us to go.
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We had decided to go to a little romantic comedy that night. It wasn't really that good. It ended up being a huge disappointment, but I didn't mind since, at least, I had some one there to entertain me.
We were now on our way home… I told my mom I wanted to stay at Inuyasha's for the night. Not for any reason, really… I just didn't want to go home.
I hoped he hadn't thought anything of it.
"So, Kagome…" I heard him start. I turned to face him, waiting for him to continue. "Where's your dad?"
I cocked my head to the side. My dad? He had been mugged back when we lived in the city. I was just about nine, but I remember my mom coming home saying he had been shot.
She flew out to Kyoto for the funeral since that was where his family lived and they wanted him buried in his hometown. I wasn't allowed to go, because some one had to watch Souta.
"Oh…" I could tell my voice sounded pretty depressed. It was never a fun topic, but I always tried to just think past that. It was already done.
"He died when I was little…" I said nodding.
"Were you guys close?" Inuyasha asked me. He sounded pretty apathetic. I guess it was to be expected. He'd never even known his father, so he probably didn't understand that some people were pretty sensitive about it.
I paused a moment before speaking. What could I say? I was very close to my dad… but I didn't want to make Inuyasha feel bad for me. It was Valentine's Day.
"Well… you could say he was like my best friend." I gave a weak smile. "But, it's over with now…"
I felt his hand clasp mine.
"I'm sorry…" I head him say hoarsely.
My eyes shot open. "Oh! No, don't be… okay?" I sighed. "It's sad, yea… but it happened. I can't do too much to make it better…"
He nodded. "Well, I just wondered… you never spoke about him."
We drove in silence for what seemed to be an hour. There weren't many cars on the road at this time of night. It was a little creepy.
I glanced over at Inuyasha. He looked like he was getting tired. It was already one o'clock.
I sighed and looked out the windshield. I saw a car getting onto the freeway. He, quite recklessly got over three lanes until he was just in our blind spot.
I head Inuyasha mumble something about the car, but I couldn't really understand what he said. The car then got over into our lane, very close to us and then over into the next lane. I panicked… all the foreshadowing of today…
"Just… be careful, okay?" I asked. Inuyasha didn't respond, we just sped up enough to pass the car. However, just as we cleared him, I felt a loud bang against the car
"Inuyasha…" I said, my voice was shaky.
He didn't listen to me; instead, we just sped up even more, as did the, I assume, drunk driver as he began to swerve in and out of his lane.
I looked over at Inuyasha… something was wrong with him. His hands weren't on the wheel and his head was to the side. I could see the car outside his window and I felt ours lose control.
Was he asleep?
I tried to push him to wake him up, but he didn't respond. "Inuyasha!" I shouted. He still didn't budge. "INUYASHA!" I tried screaming it this time, but still no response
The car beside us, however, with one great shove, had pushed us off the road.
I felt our car spin out of control until it collided with the side rail.
Everything was a complete blur of black. I couldn't tell which way I was being pulled or where anything was. There were more bangs against the car; I assumed they were other cars bumping into ours.
When it all came to a stop, I felt a sharp pain in my side.
My head hurt as I opened my eyes to take in our surroundings.
My heart stopped. We were in the middle of the freeway… upside down.
I whimpered, feeling the sharp pain again in my side. It was my seatbelt lodged into my ribcage.
Wincing, I pulled it out and shakily exhaled. I had managed to pull myself out of my seat.
My leg wouldn't move.
I looked over to see Inuyasha was still passed out in the driver's seat.
"Inuyasha…" I strained, trying to make my way over to him.
He still wouldn't respond.
I heard a loud honking in the distance and turned around to see the 2 A.M. traffic heading for us.
I had to get him out of there. I reached up and managed to unclick his seatbelt. He felt limp to me.
I then grabbed a hold of his torso, and tried with all my might to pull him out of the car. I couldn't get him through a window, however.
I grimaced, moving back into a comfortable position. I dug into his coat pocket to grab his cell phone and dialed for an ambulance.
I had gotten the operator on the phone, but just after I'd managed to say 'I've been in an accident', another car zoomed by us, knocking our mangled mess of what used to be a car onto the shoulder.
I screamed and heard the operator say she'd send us an ambulance right away.
I was scared, really really scared. "Inuyasha, wake up!" I tried shaking him again. My face paled thinking of what could possibly be the problem.
I leaned into his chest, listening for a heartbeat…
I couldn't hear a thing.
But just as I was about to give up… and start to cry, hoping that some miracle would get me out of this mess, something in me clicked. I brought my elbow up to the half broken window and smashed all the glass that remained, managing to pull him out of the car, and crawling up to the side rail.
I breathed heavily , leaning into his chest again, hoping I could hear something from out here. It was faint and slow… but it was there.
"Inuyasha…" I whimpered, pushing myself into his chest while we waited for the ambulance. "Please don't go…"
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A/N: Longest chapter… ever.I got really into this one… and I'm sorry the car crash scene seems a little off. I don't know how to describe them. Ooh and the queen of cliffhangers returns. Dun dun dunn. By the way, thank you everyone for the reviews. I realized I haven't been thanking you guys in the past couple chapters… so here's a big one.
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