Chapter 5
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Well, I'm terribly sorry for the long delay my loyal fans. I haven't gotten very many reviews but I am still going to write my story until I finish anyway. It's only fair to those who love this story; I don't care what the others say. But please enjoy this and review.
And another reason that I haven't been writing and posting lately is that I've been working and I just recently moved; I haven't had much time to write or read any of the stories on here.
Author's note: I do NOT own Inuyasha or any of the other characters from the show or manga. I just happen to be using the people to write a story in order for others to read. Please keep that in mind…
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He slipped and fell, hands instantly grabbing the sill and holding on for dear life. "Jesus Christ Kagome, why am I doing this? I barely know you," he whispered to himself. Tears seemed to be slowly running down his face. He was upset and in love all at the same time. Love, he thought. Like that's ever possible. He sighed and slowly began his way back up onto the window sill.
He strained to get up the sill and managed to get up in less than five minutes. He grunted as he pushed himself up and into the window. As soon as he got in the room, he saw her lying there in the white bed. The coloring didn't help at all for her skin. She looked pale, ghostlike. Maybe He already took her, but the machine still showed that she had a pulse.
He walked over to her bedside and sat there in the chair. He softly brushed the hair out of her face and admired her beauty. She was so still and so far away. He thought back to her favorite song, the song sung between her and her father. Michael Buble's Home. He sat there and softly began to sing it to her.
"Another summer day, has come and gone away," he paused trying to remember those words she sang so perfectly. "I wanna go home, let me come home." He paused again and held her hand. "And I know just why you could not come along with me, but this was not your dream. But you always believed in me." He sat there quietly for a few minutes and cried there on her arm, holding her hand. Her skin felt so clammy and cold.
"Kagome, don't leave me here by myself, please don't," he muttered into her hand. "Life just won't be the same without you." He cried into the palm of her hand. He didn't wipe them off of her hand, but let the tears soak into her skin as if they could heal her.
A noise from the hall perked him up. He sniffed the air and the smell of dog with a bit of baby powder came to his senses. Inuyasha got up quickly and ran to the window. He opened it up and hung from the sill.
"Let's see how Miss Higuarishi is doing tonight," the male nurse said. It didn't look too much like one, but the smell made him sick. It seemed so familiar.
The bed squeak and Inuyasha pulled himself slightly up onto the window sill and saw the face of Kouga leaning over Kagome. He growled to himself as Kouga leaned farther down and licked Kagome's face.
"That little mongrel," Inuyasha growled softly toward him. He got up, completely standing on the sill, and slipped quietly into the room.
As he stood behind the dreaded dog that he hated, he couldn't help but feel love for Kagome even more. It was as if she was his soul mate, his life partner. He knew she was his. Not a possession, but a person worth living for, worth keeping. Throughout all of his days in history, he never found that one person to spend time forever with. He now knew that she was that one.
As Kouga continued to have his way with the now unconscious Kagome, Inuyasha quickly grabbed him by the neck and headed for the window.
Kouga struggled against the strength that Inuyasha recently developed, he was stronger than before and Kouga couldn't get away. His face was slowly turning purple and Inuyasha was turning red. His eyes were red; he had purple markings on his face. He was turning demon, full demon.
He couldn't do anything, couldn't get away from turning completely demon. It was taking over and all because he was being protective of her.
How could someone who didn't know the other be so protective over that person? He didn't know, but in a way it just seemed the right thing to do.
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Kagome screamed to herself. She couldn't let Inuyasha do something like this, even if this person was taking advantage of her. It just didn't seem right, but in a way it did. It warmed her heart and brought tears to her eyes.
He liked her, possibly even loved her. It was just too good to be true. No one had ever been like this, never took up for her. It was always pokes and laughs.
She wished to the heavens that someone would let her go back and stop him; if not then something terrible just might happen. She couldn't let something like that happen. It burns her to watch this viciousness that has overcome him, but in a way it made her completely happy.
Kagome watched as Inuyasha went to turning purple and red, choking this nurse until he turned purple as well. She smiled to herself, but deep down there was a frown in there.
She was soon pulled back and dropped right on her back. She cursed and was shot a glare from above her. She winced and quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry. I completely forgot…?"
She shrugged and smiled innocently up. She really didn't mean to, it had just slipped out and by God, He knew that that was probably true. Or at least she hoped that's what He knew.
"So," a deep voice began, "have you noticed something different about him?"
She sat there and winced as she thought that she did see something different about him. "Yes," she said ashamedly. "He's gone wild and completely out of control, but I still love him." She said it with such passion, such confidence that it made the Him smile and chuckle.
"My dear, I know you still love him and nothing I do will keep you from loving him," he sighed and paused, looking some what disappointed. "But, some things are meant to be left and some things are meant to be kept a close eye on." He smiled at her, which gave her the answer she needed from him.
"Thank you so much, so very much," she smiled and tears fell down her face. "Oh, God. How can I ever repay you?" She looked up at him with a purpose; she was going to do something in return no matter what.
He chuckled again. "Just keep him under control, my dear. That is all that I ask of you. But first, you must stay here for a while longer; it is not time for you to leave just yet."
With that she was sent back to her father's little house that he had. She sat there with no longer happiness in her eyes, but anger. She could leave, just not now. Why? Because her time wasn't finished! What did she do to deserve this? She didn't know, but wasn't going to push the matter further.
"Ah, Kagome, you're back," her father said immediately. "How was everything?" He grinned and put his paper down, looking down at her.
She got up and stomped to the couch and flopped down. His grin soon left his face. "I'll take that as it didn't go well then?"
"No! It didn't go well at all, father. He said that I could go, but I had to keep Inuyasha under control. I agreed, and then He told me that I still had to stay here though." She screamed into the cushions and then continued on. "I don't even know how much longer. He does, but He won't tell me. What did I do? All I did was head to the park or mall, whatever I did, with Shiori. What did I do wrong to be in this state?"
She looked up at him with sad eyes, and confusion was written all in them. "Honey, I really don't know what to tell you. He is as unpredictable as a little child." He walked over to her and held her in an embrace.
She fell instantly into his arms and cried her eyes out, or as close to tears as she could come to. Her father always knew what to do when it came to helping her, always knew what to say to make her feel better. He was always there, whether he was there personally or not.
She pulled away after a while smiled through her tears. Her father smiled as well, "You okay now, honey?" he asked her. When she smiled and nodded, she knew that he knew that she was okay for the time being.
"I guess I should stay here for a while, but Inuyasha is about to do something terrible if I don't do anything," she explained to him. She walked over to the recliner in the corner of the room by the fireplace and sat there thinking. She needed to be back in her body, but how? Things weren't how she wanted them to be. She wanted thing to be great for a new beginning.
Her father sighed and sat down in the opposite recliner from her. He picked up his newspaper and began to read it. It was the Heavenly News, so weird that it would be called that. But hey, they were in Heaven, or at least she thought so.
"Honey, life will go on for him. I promise you," he paused and sighed. "He will give you another chance; your time isn't for here yet. It's just for a little while, but remember that when you do you must never let any of this get out. I know He will tell you that, but I'm forewarning you dear." He got up, kissed her goodnight and went to his room to sleep, not like they needed sleep, but it was something that was normal for all the people there.
"Yeah, night to you too Daddy," she got up and went outside. If only she could convince Him to let her go back to Earth and calm Inuyasha down. In all reality she liked Inuyasha fierce and untamed, but she knew that he had to be his tamed self at all times.
She sighed and began to walk around. The neighborhood looked like the one she lived in before she moved. Everything was exactly the way she remembered it. "I guess Dad liked the house, I wouldn't blame him," she said to herself smiling.
Kagome walked past all of the familiar houses that she used to play by and annoy when she was younger. She could see herself there selling those Girl Scout cookies that no one ever liked, but bought to help you out.
She smiled of the memory. It was like walking down memory lane, but the memories didn't just end there. There she was getting picked on by some older kids. They were trying to get her to go with them. She was only in middle school, them in high school. "Hey little girl, how about a ride with us?" they had asked.
She shivered at the thought of those guys and their girlfriends were there also, laughing away. She had wanted so bad to punch them, but she knew her father would disapprove. And going with them would be another one of her father's disapprovals. So, she just started to walk away from them. It wasn't a good idea, but it wasn't a bad idea either.
"Hey, where do you think you're going missy?" one of them had asked her. Once she heard them walking after her, she had begun to run towards home. Things like this always happened to girls her age, why hadn't she listened to her father? It was something she hadn't liked doing, but she should have.
Soon enough, they had begun to run after her. Tears had fallen down her cheeks, but she tried to remain calm throughout the whole running away. "Hurry, Kagome. Run, run far away," she beckoned herself.
She looked behind her and ran faster than she had ever before. But she just wasn't fast enough. They had caught up to her and grabbed her by the waist, then throwing her in the vehicle that they were in. The guys were snickering to one another and eying her up and down.
"Let's take her one at a time," one had said, smiling at the others. He grabbed her and flipped her over, tying up her hands and legs. Then another ripped off her clothes.
They began to fondle and goggle all over her. One went for her breasts and the other went for her butt. They grabbed and squeezed, and it hurt her badly. Once they were through with that, the one who was at her top went straight for her, full on. He ripped off her panties and bra and pulled his own pants down.
He got over her and plunged full force into her. She yelled loudly and the other put his hands over her mouth. "Dude, I think that this is a bad idea," he suggested to his buddy. He looked scared in a way, but she couldn't be for sure.
She watched as her younger self was being raped and there was nothing that she could do. Why was she remembering all of this now? Wasn't this Heaven? Weren't there supposed to be happy memories here?
She reached out, but went through them all. There really wasn't anything that she could do but watch it happen all over again. Maybe it was from when that nurse was getting on top of her and fixing to have his way with her, but she wasn't for sure. It was a possibility though. She tried to get away from the memory, but something kept her there.
"Let me go!" she murmured/screamed out. They just seemed to ignore her, but she still tried to kick and scream.
The one doing everything to her wasn't letting up and went faster, rougher, and harder. It made her cry and soon she lost all force to get away from them. She hadn't wanted to, but it just seemed to happen.
Blood seemed to be everywhere and the first got off and told the other one that it as now his turn to have a ride. "Nah, I don't wanna. She's all dirty and shit," he told him.
"Fine, whatever you want," the first said. He dressed her back up and threw her out of the car, about a block from her house. "Thanks and maybe I'll see ya around," he said and winked. The car sped off and left tire marks on the road.
She quickly got up and ran all the way home, it was getting dark and her parents would be extremely worried about her. As soon as she had gotten home, she ran straight to the shower, but was caught by her father's strong arms.
"Honey, what's wrong? What happened to you?" he asked with concern, worry, and anger. He picked her up and headed to the bathroom. "Honey, answer me." His voice was calm and soothing.
"It was terrible Daddy," she began. But she didn't go on, she cried in his arms and her mother just sat there beside them, looking concerned for her youngest daughter.
"Is there anything that you can tell us sweetie?" her mother asked after the ten minute silence. She stared at her daughter in horror.
"First, the started to talk to me, provoking me to go with them. Then, they started to run after me as soon as I ran off towards here," she began the story.
Her parents seemed to just sit there, horror written all over there faces. A normal teenage girl would have never told her parents, but let it stay hidden from everyone. Not Kagome though, she thought her parents needed to know why she was the way she was at the moment.
After the story was told, her parents rushed her to the shower and called the police. They had told them that one of the parents should come and file the report then later bring Kagome up for questioning.
Kagome's father decided that he would go and take Kikyo with him, that way she got some practice at driving. Her mother smiled and let them go on their way.
The now Kagome was pulled and taken along with her dad and sister. "Why am I going with them?" she asked herself. She shrugged it off and went along the ride with them.
They passed through a green light and there it was a bright white light and a crashing sound. Kagome watched as her father and sister both got smashed and then trampled by the large SUV. It brought tears to her eyes, but it didn't stop there, no one seemed to stop and then it seemed like forever passed before someone actually stopped and called the police.
"W-w-we have a s-s-serious accident here. A hit and run, yes," the kind person said nervously into the phone. He went over and checked both of their pulses and stood there, making sure no one got any closer.
He seemed to be shaking, but knew exactly what he was doing. Kagome thanked God that he did.
About ten minutes later an ambulance and fire truck came speeding up. Kagome was sickened by what her family looked like. She heard the police talking on the phone and her mother screaming on the other end.
She didn't want to see any of this any longer, but she somehow couldn't leave the scene. When she tried, it just brought her right back. She was in the ambulance with them and then, her father was right beside her.
"Honey, I know it's terrible, but just hang in there. For the both of us," he said. He looked so sad and watched his and Kikyo's bodies.
"Dad, is everything gonna be okay?" Kagome asked him, but he seemed to not see her. She waved her hand in front of him and he didn't even flinch or move. "Guess this is part of the memory."
"Kikyo, stay in there," he said again and then his spirit was pulled back into his body.
Jesus, could this get anymore depressing? she asked herself. She just sat there on one of the machines and watched them come back and forth from death. Their spirits leaving and returning, it was getting boring now, but still sad in a way.
Soon enough they were at the hospital and put into a room as quickly as possible. The doctor told her mother that they were in a coma and should come out of it. She held a small Kagome and cried.
Her younger self went in the room and noticed her family full of IVs. She stood there in shock and didn't move, just stared. Kagome knew that it hadn't sunk in until she was much older, perhaps even when she saw Inuyasha's dad with her mother. She knew he had died, but she didn't want to believe it.
Maybe this was showing her how she was going to die. Be here for a while and then pass away, but that's not how she wanted it. She wanted to be there for those that she loved, she wanted to spend more time with the one she was beginning to love.
Love was something she never realized she had until the hard times hit.
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Inuyasha couldn't control himself any longer. The beast was coming out and killing someone who didn't need to be killed, maybe severely beaten to hell but not killed. He couldn't take it any longer; he threw Kouga across the room and jumped out the window.
There was no way that he could save Kagome, he wasn't even allowed in her room. He ran straight home after jumping out the window. Kagome would have her life given back to her, and he was sure of it. By the gods if she was taken from him, he needed her. She seemed to be the one that could control him, yet bring the beast out all at the same time.
He sighed and sped off home, jumping up the trees by his balcony and rushing inside. Going straight towards his bed, he flopped down with a resounding thud and begins to cry silently into his pillow of black silk.
He never cried, but this time it hurt him to just see himself like he was just then. Killing Kouga would have been a great—no excellent—idea, but it wouldn't have been how he wanted the guy to die.
An image of Kagome instantly came to his mind. It was the only thing that he could see, the only person he could think of. He felt like she was with him, her very presence looming over him and possibly even sitting right next to him.
Inuyasha instantly shook the image away and heading towards his bathroom. A steaming hot shower was exactly what he needed to get his mind off of Kagome.
As he switched on the water, his mind went straight to when he and Kagome had that close to hot-steamy sex in her shower. His body went instantly dead and he fell to the floor of the shower; it was the only thing keeping really there on this world. Images of nothing but Kagome and him popped into his mind. Images of them getting married, starting a family and dieing together, in each others' arms. Tears flooded down his face as he thought of this, it was something that he never thought of before with any other person.
Love, he thought. Like that was ever a possibility in his choice of words. But when he thought of Kagome, that very word came straight to his mind.
He shook his head to get those thoughts out of his mind. He couldn't be seen thinking about her, or at least the love part. He tried to set his thoughts elsewhere, but it wasn't quite working. He just thought non-stop about Kagome and what was to become of the rest of his life with her.
As he came back to reality from the scalding hot water pounding on him, he jumped out and quickly dressed. His thought kept going back to Shiori's words. He thought of how Kagome's mother would soon pull the plug on Kagome. But, she just couldn't do that. Kagome was going to be back with him and out of her coma, he was sure of it. He just had to make sure that her mother didn't do any such thing of killing Kagome for sure.
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Kagome watched as her mother spoke to the doctor. She was shocked that her mother would think of anything such as that. Killing her own daughter, that was absurd.
Kagome lay onto her own body, trying to pull herself back to life. Tears flooded her face. She had to return to her body; she just couldn't be left to wonder the world forever and watch her family be happy without her. She screamed and screamed. Her father came up, and he wrapped his arms around her.
"Shh. Shh," he whispered. "It's okay, honey." He rubbed her shoulders and began to weep; his chin resting on her head. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry she's thinking of not giving you a chance," he paused. "But, good news, you have until Christmas. Two months. Plan well." After his explanation, he faded away.
Kagome was glad that she was able to see her father again. Perhaps she would be able to return before Christmas; she highly doubted it. Perhaps she could reach out to someone. Souta. Shiori. Maybe even Inuyasha. She wasn't sure, but it was worth a try.
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As the days went by, time passed by rather slowly. Her tears were many, and things only seemed to get worse. Her father tried hard to get her into the things that the others where she was did. Watch the "Reality TV" shows, the ones about the humans on Earth and just watching all of their troubles and dramatic lives. But she didn't seem to keen on that. She stayed locked up in her room at her father's place or she stayed at the hospital with her body with Inuyasha or even with Inuyasha in his room.
She felt as if he could sense her, but then that quickly faded. Soon she began to feel numb to her senses from her other body. She could never feel Inuyasha's gentle touch or even the tears that fell on her arms and face.
Kagome was now at that time when her mother wanted to release her from life-support. She was shocked and still couldn't believe that her mother would do something like that; her father was shocked as well, but not as shocked. He explained that that was what her mother had done to him when he was in the hospital. Just let him die and not even have that chance to be alive again.
Those last two months that she had went by quickly also. She seemed to never have time to do anything. Her slow, quick life was one that one would never want to have. But she did. She talked to God several times, but he wouldn't extend the time beyond Christmas.
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Inuyasha was worried about the amount of time that had passed recently. Two whole months. And things didn't seem to improve with Kagome. He had one crazy, insane idea, and he hoped that it worked. But who was he to tell if it did or not.
He went the night before she was due to be "let off" as they called it. He dressed in one of those white nurses outfits—the men's mind you—and headed towards her room. She was looking so peaceful that he didn't know how to approach her with such hunger in his heart. But he knew what he had to do, and he had to do it fast or she would never be with him anymore.
All he could mostly remember was the fact that he just met her and he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. She just couldn't be gone from him forever.
As he bent down over her body, he placed his lips on hers. They were chilled from no life of moving and his flamed over hers, bringing them back to life somewhat. The time seemed to just stop still for that moment, the second time since he met her and all his want and need and love were needed for her to come back to him. But what if it didn't work and she never came back within the next few hours? He couldn't think like that; she was going to be back and that's all that he yearned for, all he could hope for.
He thought he felt her heart skip a beat, but noticed that it was only his own. Tears seemed to fall from nowhere and he couldn't stop them, no matter how much he tried at this point. The connection between the two of them, he thought was strong. He felt the pull slowly give each day, like she was leaving him, but that just wasn't true.
As his tears fell on her cheek, he felt her hand give the slightest of squeezes. He smiled and all hope and joy was restored, for that moment.
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Kagome watched as he kissed her. She felt the tingle on her own lips from where she was, like she could feel every single one of his other touches, his caresses. She smiled just as he cried. Tears of her own were falling and she could not stop them for anyone.
She knew that today was the last day that both He and her mother had set. It just wasn't possible that her own mother would want to destroy her life so soon. Sure she did the same thing to Kagome's father, but why? Was her mother really that cruel of a person? The answer appeared to be yes, she was.
Kagome seemed to love Inuyasha more than ever, but if she left then no one would be there with him to get through it. Her worse thoughts were coming to life, and she didn't want that to happen, but she knew it was going to whether she wanted it to or not.
Kagome stopped her thoughts as she felt a tingle go through her whole body as she put her hand in a fist and her hand on her body fisted as well. Her eyes grew wide; maybe this would be better than she thought after all!
She noticed Inuyasha stop in mid sob and hold his breath. She held her own as her hands slowly moved, then just quit just as quickly as they began to move. She saw her breathe quicken then return to normal. This just didn't seem right; it felt as if someone where playing some god awful game with her body.
She quickly rushed out of the room for some thoughts, but none came to mind. She heard a whistle come from the other end of the hall near the elevators. She quickly made it over to see Kouga dressed in his own little male nurse outfit and a gun no less being polished in his hands.
She gasped and a hand flew to her mouth. She ran as fast as her legs would let her to get back to her room to try and warn Inuyasha. She had to some way or another, but she had no time to do so and no possible way.
As soon as she made it to the room, the whistling was gradually getting closer. Each step she took, the closer it came, and the closer Kouga came. Kagome had tears streaking her face and she repeatedly pushed them away with her hand.
"You'll see how it feels to be hurt," she heard him say. "Both of you will." His laughter was soft, yet maniacal all in its own. His steps were quick, and he was in within a few seconds.
Inuyasha looked up; his eyes widened then slit to a glare. This was going to be another messy situation, and Kagome had no say over it… again.
She watched as Inuyasha stood up and his teary face turned to one of hatred. Kouga seemed to smile, knowing exactly where this was going.
"So, is the little puppy sad?" Kouga questioned. He didn't wait for an answer, he just spoke. "Aw, I thought so. You really are pathetic Inuyasha. Crying over a human, what would your ancestors think?" Kouga walked across the room in a nonmoving fashion. "So, how will we do this? I shoot you then her, or the opposite? Hmm… how about I shoot you, then I kill her and you last to die? I think the second one sounds the best myself." Kouga laughed maniacally, his eyes were hazy and he seemed to enjoy the torture he was inflicting upon Inuyasha.
Inuyasha let out a growl and Kagome herself flinched at it. The only time she has seen Inuyasha mad was with Kouga before. "I swear if you lay one hand on either of us, I will kill you myself," Inuyasha let out in a growl. He was already in Kouga's face and things didn't seem to be getting any better.
"Wow, you think you can hurt me now? I know you have in the past, but now it's my turn and you will die," Kouga said with a shake of his head, confidence written all in his eyes. He lifted his hand before Inuyasha had a chance to blink and shot him in the shoulder, sending Inuyasha falling to the floor and gripping his shoulder.
"You bastard!" Inuyasha growled out. He cringed in pain and scooted over to Kagome's bed. "Just leave her out of this, please." Love was evident in his voice as he spoke, or more likely begged, to Kouga.
"How sweet, trying to save the life of a mortal. And how cruel of you to call me the very thing that you are, Inuyasha," Kouga said, tutting at him all the while. "Come on Inuyasha, I know you better than that." A crooked smile came to his lips as he pointed the gun at Kagome.
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Well that's it for this story and i'm sorry that it's taken me about a year to post my chapter here.. sigh.. really sorry, but I hope that you all enjoyed it and will keep me on your favorites! Thank you soo much!