Chapter 4
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BTW: Sorry I haven't posted in soo long, but I have a good reason… I have been busy with school and such. Plus, ideas wouldn't pop into my pretty little mind. You can ask Gwynne, but yes, here it is. Chapter 4 of Trouble or Trouble!
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I would like to thank all the people who have reviewed my story so far and helped me keep it up for more readers to read! LOVE YOU ALL!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters off of the TV shows. I am not copying any of the information, yet only borrowing it for a simple story here! So enjoy!
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Everything went by so fast. The ambulance came and picked them up. "She's not breathing," one of the paramedics said. "This one's not either," the other said.
Kagome could hear everything. She saw everything from above herself. Maybe she really was dead.
She looked beside her, but didn't find Shiori. Dear God, what was going to happen to her? Things couldn't be this bad. It was deja-vu. First her father and sister, now her and Shiori. This really couldn't be happening. Why were things always going so bad for her?
She then turned and noticed that Shiori's EKG was slowly beginning to beep. "Hey Sal," one of the paramedics said. "This one is coming back to us. The big man upstairs must have something special planned for her."
What about me! Am I going to die or something? This can't happen to me! Kagome yelled, but no one seemed to hear her. She screamed, but nothing came out.
She started to cry, but no tears fell. She was dead, what was she gonna do? She never took her life seriously. If only she could be given another chance at life. She knew that she had already been given many chances before, but if He would only give her another chance. She turned around and saw her father and Kikyo standing there smiling at her.
Come on, honey, her father said. You can be with us again. You can always visit your mother. His smile seemed to stab her in the heart.
How could you think like that? she asked him. She couldn't believe that he was going to give up on her family like that. That he was going to take her from her mother and brother. And Inuyasha. She didn't want to leave from him, not now. Not that she had just met him. I don't want to leave, she said stiffly. I need to stay.
Her father sighed. With Inuyasha, I presume? When she nodded, he continued. His mother talks highly of him. Maybe you should, but I don't have any control over that, pumpkin.
She looked at him with a face of sadness. Please, Daddy. Talk to Him for me. I love Inuyasha, I don't know him that well, but I do. It feels like I belong with him, to him. She looked down and saw little Shiori coughed up blood and her eyes flew wide open.
Kagome put her hand to her mouth and seemed to cry. Shiori was alive, but she wasn't. She watched as Shiori looked over at her body.
"K… Ka… Kagome!" she screeched out. "No! Wake up, Kagome." Shiori began shaking Kagome's limp body and tears just fell down her face.
The paramedics tried to pull her away, but did not succeed. "Fix her!" she yelled at them. Shiori seemed to be okay, she seemed to have healed herself. "Fix her, you God forsaken jerks. She can't die!" she sobbed out at them.
"W… we can't," the one named Sal told her. "She may not make it, honey." They both looked at her apologetically.
"Don't honey me! Fix her NOW!" Shiori screamed at them. Her eyes changed to a dark purple, almost black. Her face began to turn purple, her skin as well. "Fix her or you'll pay!" she growled out.
Jeez, she has one hell of a temper, Kagome thought. She watched as little Shiori began to change into what she assumed was her demon form.
"O… ok," Sal stammered out. "I'll fix her, j… ju… just calm down." He began to work as best as possible on her body. Pumping air into her and such. Kagome could feel air coming into her lungs, then suddenly be taken away.
She looked behind her, a hand of light was grabbing for her. NO! she screamed. The hand took her shirt and began pulling her with it. She tried to grab frantically for something, but it all went through her hands. She could tell this would be the end. She was going to be dead, and no one could help her. Then everything suddenly went black.
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Sesshoumaru walked into Inuyasha's room. Inuyasha growled, "What do you want!" Usually people knocked, and they knew better than to just walk in, especially Sesshoumaru.
"Shiori has just been in an accident, she's in the hospital," Sesshoumaru got out slowly. He sighed and looked up at Inuyasha with sorry eyes, "Kagome got the worst of it."
Inuyasha looked upset. "You're kidding, right?" he asked. Inuyasha had the look of terror written all over his face, worry and grief were present on it also. She got in an accident and wasn't even here that long. "Just like her father and sister," Inuyasha murmured to himself.
"What?" Sesshoumaru asked, looking level to Inuyasha's upset form.
Inuyasha pushed past him and ran to the hospital. He couldn't let her die. This wasn't right, he just met her and he wanted, no needed, to know everything about her. He felt like she was his other half. "Please, let her be okay," he prayed silently to an unknown god.
No more than ten minutes later was he panting at the hospital's front desk.
"Uh, can I help you sir?" the receptionist asked him. Her eyebrow raised and he saw how she looked worried that he may be hurt.
"Yes," he panted out. "I… I need to see Kagome Higuarishi, please." He looked at her as she gave him a questioning look.
"Well, are you a family member?" she asked, giving him that hurry-up-I-have-better-things-to-do look.
He looked down at the lady and stared at her. "No, but I am ---."
He was cut off by her speaking firmly, "Sorry, not a relative, no seeing the patient. Great motto we go by here if you ask me." She had that smart-aleck voice down pat and he wasn't going to let her get in his way of letting him see his Kagome.
"Well, I really need to see her," he urged out her impatiently. He was getting mildly upset with this woman. He needed to see if things were alright with her.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you see her," she began. "She's in intensive care and they're not allowed anyone but their relatives. I'm sorry." She looked at him, giving him the look to leave and then gave him the shoo wave with her hand.
Inuyasha sighed and stomped out of the hospital. He went to his car and thought of a plan to get in to see her. He needed to see if she was okay, not just a she's fine was going to help him at this point.
As he sat in his car, Shiori came by, crying and getting into his car. She slammed the door and bawled on his shoulder. Inuyasha was puzzled at this point. "You okay, Shi?" he asked her.
She looked terrible, her face was a pale white and she seemed weak of some sort. "Shiori, honey, what's wrong?" he asked, branding the question into her head. He needed her to answer him; just a simple answer would do at this point.
She kept crying on his shoulder, squeezing him tighter and tighter; since he was running short of breath at this moment, he knew that something terrible was wrong. "Kagome," Shiori said, and that's all she had to say for Inuyasha.
"Which room is she in?" he asked urgently. He needed to see her now. He stared at his crying little sister. She never cried like this before, and she rarely cried over anyone. Kagome must mean something to her, must mean something to both of them.
"They said she may not make it," she said, not answering his question. He saw her eyes fill full of tears and instantly fall like a waterfall. He pulled her into a hard embrace, a loving embrace. "They told me that I should pray, but what would praying do at this point?" She looked up at him and looked like a sad little puppy who lost its mother, or worse a child who seemed to lose its best friend.
"Shi, I'm sure she'll make it through, but I need to see her," he probed at her. He really did need to see her; it would only make things better if he knew that she was really okay. But, it could make his life worse, if she wasn't doing well, then it wouldn't help him. "Now, which room is she in?"
He looked down into her purple eyes and a tear of his own fell from his cheek. He never cried before and never in front of Shiori. It was something he left inside of him, he cried on the inside, not the out. But now, he was crying, fully and squeezing poor Shiori to death.
"They told me a number but I think they moved her after they told me," she explained through sobs. "What are we going to do? She can't die, Inu. She's so nice and sweet. And she's like the only girl wanting to actually hang out with me," she paused and then continued, "I feel like I'm losing a sister." She looked up at him; her eyes were bloodshot from all the crying and probably from the accident as well.
"Shi, she'll be fine. I'll make sure she will be. Just tell me where she is staying or the room they told you, 'kay?" he asked, holding her in his lap.
Shiori sighed and slowly began to speak, "They told me Room 513, 5th floor." She looked up him and his face was stained with tears. She reached up and wiped them away. "Make sure they don't hurt her or let her die. We both need her."
She got out of the car and walked to the parking lot and went to their father's truck. He saw the feint flicker of his father's weak smile of "everything will be okay," but he wasn't sure of what he could do for Kagome.
He got out of his car and went to Room 513, just to see if she was in there. As he walked through the door he noticed that the receptionist was filing her nails and babbling on the phone to what he guessed was her boyfriend. He rolled his eyes and made it silently and quickly to the elevator. As he stepped in, he pressed the number for the 5th floor and the doors closed. The elevator music played and it bugged the shit out of him.
It slowly rose to the floor and each floor had a person or two come in and press another floor button. More stops on the way to see Kagome. It was too much delay for him, too much to handle right now.
As the 5th floor came around, the elevator opened and he could instantly smell her scent through the lobby there. The smell of honeysuckle hit him softly, it was fading quickly though. He followed it to the room Shiori told him and saw Kagome lying there on a bed, her raven black hair flowing around her head on the pillow. Her skin was pale from what it usually was. No one else was in the room, so he decided to walk right in.
Her scent was fading, and he knew he didn't have that much time to try and get her back. He had to at least try, right? He sat beside her bed and took her cold hand in his. The circulation in her hand was getting weaker and barely existent. He pressed his lips softly to it and a tear fell down his cheek and onto the bed.
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Kagome looked at her father, it had been so long since she saw him. He looked perfectly normal, but a bit faded out. Daddy, why am I not being able to go back? she asked him. She was upset that she couldn't go back to Inuyasha and get to know him better.
From what she heard from his mother, he was an okay kid. Just went bad at school after she died. She had been having conversation with the two of them for quite a while, since she awoke after the hand taking her.
Pumpkin, perhaps you will get to go back, but I can't promise anything, her father explained. She really did want to go back and she needed a promise that she might be able to, but to get that promise and not have it fulfilled would only bring her pain inside.
I understand, she said, pausing, I can wait, but hopefully not for too long. She stood there, looking down at what was her house. Her mother didn't seem that upset, she seemed to be talking with Inuyasha's dad and brother. They were deep in conversation, but she couldn't hear what they were saying.
They're talking about you and driving, pumpkin, her dad said, as if he were reading her mind.
She sighed and turned away. She walked until she was in Shiori's room, but she wasn't in there. Kagome seemed confused and decided to go to her room. As she got there, she saw Shiori there and sitting on her bed. Kagome smiled and sat beside the little girl. The bed didn't move, and it hurt her to see this. It only proved that she was dead, for the time being.
"How could you take her from us?" Shiori asked, looking up towards the heavens. She was crying and now punching Kagome's bed with her tiny fists. "Let her come back to us, PLEASE!" She screamed into the pillow and shook violently.
Kagome sat there upset herself and patted the girl as best as she could. She stopped for a mere second and felt someone holding onto her. She looked down, but saw that Shiori wasn't holding onto her. She thought of who else could be and hurried to the hospital.
She got to her room and saw Inuyasha there, holding her hand and crying into the bed. It looked pretty wet, so she figured he'd been crying for a while now. He does care, she said out loud. If she had tears, then they would be falling in joy. Things did seem to be looking better for her, or at least the caring part of things did.
Honey, I understand, her father said from beside her, but I don't know when you'll be able to go back to them or if you get to at all. He looked at her with a look of being sorry. He gave a look of love also.
He must be happy that she's there, maybe he doesn't want her to leave. She didn't know, and probably wouldn't know. She sighed and her father gave her a hug. He kissed on her forehead and told her to go and get some rest, even though they didn't need it.
She walked towards Inuyasha as her father left; she placed a hand on his shoulder, but knew that he couldn't feel it.
"Kagome, don't leave me. I just found you, you just can't," he said into her hand.
She looked at him and felt really terrible. She just met him and didn't want to lose him either. Was this love? She cried, tears actually falling this time, but disintegrating as soon as they fell from her face.
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Inuyasha's head shot up and looked around. Was that her? he asked himself. He thought he felt her presence, but maybe he was imagining things.
He looked down at her body and just couldn't believe that he lost her as soon as he found her. "Bring her back to me, Mom. That's the least you can do," he said, looking up to the ceiling.
His ears flicked at a noise and heard talking coming from the hallway. It was the doctors and Kagome's mother. He looked for a place to get out, but found none. "The window," he whispered to himself.
He walked to the window and looked back at his beauty. A tear fell and he went back to her, giving her a kiss on her forehead and then jumping out the window.
He landed on his feet and ran to his car. Inuyasha got in and started it up, then floored it to his job.
Minutes passed and he walked inside the little convenient store. He seemed out of it, but didn't really care.
"Yo, In," Z said, patting him on the back. "So, how's it going?" Zayd looked hyped up, maybe he just had some action or something, but Inuyasha didn't know and didn't want to know.
"Yea, fine I guess," he said, walking to clock in and getting behind the register. He sulked there until Z came back and punched him softly in the arm.
"Yea, I'm sure you are," Z said. "You don't seem yourself. Was it that girl you took home Friday? She was pretty hott man!" Z just seemed to zone out as he thought of Kagome.
"Yea, it was her," Inuyasha said. He pushed Zayd out form behind the counter and closed the little cabinet thing.
"Dude, she rejected you. It happens to the best of us," Z said, taking it as if that was what happened.
"That's not what happened. We actually had a good time, but she might not make it," Inuyasha hid back the tears and sadness. He didn't want to be seen as a "pussy" in front of his friend.
"What do you mean she ain't gonna make it?" Z said, letting his accent falter.
"She's in the hospital. A car accident, Shiori was with her, but is okay," he looked down and really needed to be by himself in his room. This was upsetting for him; he barely new the girl.
"In, it's okay to show your feelings. Maybe you just need a fuck or something? That always helps me," Z said, grinning like a little boy.
"Dude, get out of here. Get to work or something. I'm not gonna go and do that," Inuyasha said, punching Zayd to force him to work. "Now, 'cause I can get you fired." Inuyasha smirked as Zayd ran to get to work.
He went and got some money out of the safe behind the counter to put in the cash register. He couldn't help but think of Kagome. She seemed so different from the other girls at school. She had that appeal that just struck him, and most girls didn't draw his attention like the way she did. Now that he thought about it, he didn't really want to go through with that stupid plan of his. He just wanted to be with her as long as God would permit it.
He sighed and went back to work and quit his daydreaming. It wasn't what he needed right now; he didn't want to lose his job. He went to stocking the cigars, cigarettes, batteries, and any other stuff behind and with the counter.
No one was showing up, so he went to the fountain drinks and got him a hot chocolate and went back to the register. He paid for the drink and put in the money. He sat down on the stool and felt bored.
Inuyasha grabbed his cell phone and dialed the hospital.
"Tokyo Hospital, can I help you?" the receptionist spoke.
"Yeah, I need the number for Kagome Higuarishi, please," he said casually and calmly.
There was a pause on the other line and he thought that she might have hung up on him, but she soon spoke, "I'm sorry, but I can't do that. Can I help you with something else?"
He sighed and hung up the phone. He reopened it and dialed the flower shop. "Hello," the person said on the other line.
"Hey, Jay," Inuyasha said. "I need you to do a favor for me, will ya?" Inuyasha sat there and scribbled annoyingly on a piece of paper.
"Inuyasha, what do you want now?" Jay asked, sighing into the phone.
"Hey, it's not like I call you for anything. But this is important and needs to be done. I need you to get me some black and white roses, I know you have them, and send them to Tokyo Hospital to Kagome Higuarishi, Room 513. On the card put, "I want you to get better; I need you to stay with me. Love, Inuyasha." That's all I need on it," he explained.
"Okay, is that it? Why can't you get them and take them to her?" he asked, sounding curious.
"Because they won't let me in her room. I need someone else to send them to her, I can't really go there," he explained again. He growled inside and saw a customer walk through the door.
"Okay, well I'll do that, but you need to come over here as soon as you can a pay for it. Oh, it's twelve dollars and seventy-five cents. Later," Jay said and hung up.
Inuyasha hung his own phone up and went to paying attention to the customer, making sure nothing got taking that wasn't supposed to. As he came up to the counter, he placed down some candy. The man was a little shorter than Inuyasha and had jet black hair. He had dark purple eyes and wore black pants and a white t-shirt that said "That's not what she said last night" on it.
"That'll be eight, forty-six," Inuyasha said. The man looked familiar, but couldn't quite put a name to him. Did he know this man? It felt like he did.
The man squinted his eyes and studied Inuyasha. "Samikyo, is that you?" the man asked, looking happy to see him like he knew him.
"Do I know you?" Inuyasha asked, looking confused.
"Oh, don't tell me you forgot you childhood pal!" he said, crossing his arms across his chest.
Inuyasha looked at him and looked completely confused. "Sorry, I don't believe I do," he said, waiting for the man to give him the money for his stuff.
"Fine, I'll give you the answer. It's me Miroku Barkimo," he said, smiling as he saw Inuyasha's face light up with recognition.
"No, Miroku, is that really you?" he asked, then continuing after Miroku nodded. "Dude, you look completely different. So how've you been?"
"Hehe, fine. But I see you've changed, got a girlfriend that you truly love this time, that you really love?" he winked at him.
Inuyasha laughed, it felt like old times for him when he was with Miroku. He only really laughed with Miroku around, never with any of his girlfriends. "Nah, don't even have one. None of the girls interest me at school anymore. They're all the same," he sighed out.
"Yea, I guess I see what you mean. So, how's Sango doing?" Miroku asked with a big grin on his face.
Inuyasha laughed again. 'She's doing okay, I guess. I don't talk to her much anymore. She's busy being herself, like always," he told him.
"Ah, I see. I'll just have to see her on Monday then," he said, paying for his stuff.
"What do you mean Monday?" Inuyasha asked, confused once again. "Are you enrolling in high school here?"
Miroku nodded. "Yea, Mom moved back for some job they had held for her. So, I'm back and ready to try again with Sango. Hopefully she'll be my girlfriend and stop playing hard to get," Miroku explained. "Well, I'm gonna go anyway and get to unpacking some of my junk. Later, Yash." He left the store with drink and food in hand and got into his car.
"Great, now I have to put up with his shit again. Glad to have him back though," Inuyasha said to himself.
He went through the rest of the day thinking of Kagome now. And how Miroku would continue to fail at pursuing Sango, with that thought he laughed to himself. Things would be halfway back to normal. But Kagome still wouldn't be with him for the time being.
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She had followed him all the way to his work. Kagome didn't feel like sleeping. She was halfway dead and she didn't think it would help anyway.
She thought of Inuyasha kissing her, but the thoughts were thrown from her head and white clouded everywhere. She sighed and got the impression that you couldn't think impure thoughts in heaven. Gotcha, God, nothing more than pure thoughts here, she said to Him, whether he was listening or not.
Miroku must really mean something to him, his friend from way back. At least he'll be okay for the time being, but he still looks upset. She sighed and stood behind him the entire time. She felt his emotions flow off of him, he was hurt and upset. Kagome could tell that he wanted to cry and knew he didn't want to in front of anyone.
She heard a cough from beside her. She turned around and saw Inuyasha's mother. You scared me Mrs. Samikyo. What are you doing here? she asked her.
Watching over my son, of course. What are you doing here? She looked at Kagome with a glare, but a smile soon shown on her face. Its okay, you can watch him also. You must really like him. I'm glad he found you. Just now that you're here, you may not get to be with him anymore. We have to do something about that. She smiled at Kagome and looked back at her son.
"Mom, please let her come back to me," they heard him mumble under his breath. Kagome saw a tear slither its way down his cheek, which he quickly wiped away.
He really does like you dear, Inuyasha's mother said. She then smiled at Kagome and left, disappearing once getting to the door.
Kagome sighed and watched Inuyasha a bit more, before she was grabbed by some force and covered in darkness.
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Inuyasha clocked out and went home. He had one boring day at work and tomorrow was school. He really didn't need that right now. It just made him think of Kagome.
Come to think of it, Kagome was his Chemistry Lab partner and she wasn't going to be there. "Shit," he cursed as he did a u-turn in the middle of the road. He pushed the gas pedal as hard as he could and floored it to the hospital.
He parked his car in an empty parking lot next door and got out. He found the window to her room and went to look for a way to get in and see her. Inuyasha had only seen her this morning, but he needed to see her again, just for reassurance.
He looked for what seemed like hours and he kept trying to go through the front way, but his other half wouldn't let him. He didn't want to get caught and then never be able to see her; he wanted to do things the hard way.
Inuyasha finally found a way in and it wasn't the front entrance. There was a ladder on one of the sides on the hospital. He used it to climb up to the fifth floor and looked around from there to find another way to her room.
He noticed that hers was only, go figure, thirteen windows away. He thought to himself and thought of himself as stupid. It was farther down, where the lower numbers started. He was at the very end. He cursed softly and climbed completely up, the rest of the seven floors.
As he got to the roof, he went over to the other side of the hospital. It took him another fifteen to thirty minutes to get to that other side. Inuyasha sat down next to the ladder that was here and rested for a bit.
Fifteen minutes passed and he was completely rejuvenated, well he was ready ten minutes before but wanted more time to think. He got up and headed down the ladder, down the three floors to get to her room. He just hoped that her window would open for him.
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Kagome looked around and finding that she was in a white room. Bright white, at that. It hurt her to open her eyes and see. Her father stood there beside her and some white puff, a spirit maybe?
She had no clue, but didn't quite want to spend her time here of all places. She would rather spend it watching over Inuyasha and/or Shiori, preferably both.
I see we have a newcomer to our great promised land, the voice boomed out. It was so perfect, so pretty she felt like crying. Miss Higuarishi, we were expecting you, but not so soon. I'm sorry to say this, but---
The voice was cut off by her snapping awake. What just happened? She looked around and noticed that she was in a room that looked pretty much like her own when she was little.
Kagome, you're awake, her father said, walking over and bringing some food over to her. You don't really need it, but it helps sometimes for those who aren't accustomed to not eating. He smiled sweetly and handed her the food.
She smiled as well and thanked him. She didn't feel like speaking at the moment, her dream practically messed that up. Was God trying to tell her something? She didn't know, but tried over and over to figure it out.
Was something supposed to happen and that was why she was here? She needed to know, but how would she find out? Just wait and let things happen? She couldn't do that, it meant being farther apart from Inuyasha.
She sighed and got up, going to see what Inuyasha was doing. She walked past all the shops in her town, even the little convenient store that Inuyasha worked at. Once she got to his house, she noticed that he wasn't there. The last place she saw him was at the store, but now where could he be.
She heard a voice coming from someplace, and soon realized it was Inuyasha's voice. She hurried to the hospital and went to her room. He wasn't in there, though. She thought for a second and went outside. She stayed out in the open and saw him climbing down the ladder and cursing softly.
She smiled as she thought of him trying to see her, without anyone knowing about it. It was so sweet, he really cared for her. When he got to her floor, he stood and inched his way to her window.
It took a good thirty minutes or more just to get down the ladder, now it was taking longer. She sighed and wished that she could help him get to her room. But, luckily he was at her floor and scooting across the window sills to get to her room.
She decided to sit there on the sill to her room until he got there. Eventually he did, about ten minutes later, but he made it. She saw something slippery and hoped that he would see it also, but he didn't. She wanted to help him, she even reached out to him, but her hand went through hisand heslipped and fell.
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Well, that's it for my chapter on my story... hopefully you likes and will enjoy! I'm sorry it took me a while, a long while, but I guess that's what I get for trying to do school work! Anyway, don't hate me for anything. Love me for keeping you updated! I know, I know. But still. Read and enjoy! Becca!