Chapter 3: Meeting the Family.
"I-Inuyasha, is...are you really awake?" The man said as he stepped into the room. His violet eyes were starting to water with tears when he looked at us. His short black hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the tape of his neck. The jean jacket he was holding had made it's way to the floor near the young woman. He was tall, taller than the woman he came in with. The jeans pants were loose on him, but not baggy, the black over shirt was untucked, swaying as he walked towards us.
"Miroku, it's...been awhile." Inuyasha said slowly, his voice craking as he spoke. I stared from Inuyasha and this Miroku man, I was guessing that Miroku was Inuyasha's best friend. I tried to slip off the bed, but Inuyasha kept his arm around my waist, his eyes steady on mine. "Are you leaving?" Inuyasha asked, his voice slow and low. I blushed and looked down at the hospital blanket.
"I'd be to much of a bother to you, and I was going to check on Twilight." I said as I looked up into his eyes. Inuyasha smiled at the mention of Twilight.
"Ok, when the doctor releases me, will you live with me?" He asked, I heard a few gaspes and looked behind me, at Miroku and the young woman.
"Do you still have an appartment? You've been sleeping for three years." I said as a smile came over his face, one that said 'don't worry, it's all ok.'
"My brother, Sesshomaru and I both have houses, our father is the owner of Sakura Software Company and founder Computers Technition Collage." Inuyasha said, his voice held a proud tone as he spoke of his father's achievements. I smiled, at least he had a father. "Will I see Twilight?" Inuyasha asked as he held me tighter. I looked up into his eyes, his eyes showered me with acceptance and love.
"I'll bring her by with my mom. Momma would love to meet you." I said softly, resting my head over his heart to hear it beating. I felt Inuyasha's hand lift my chin, my eyes met with his as he smiled and kissed me, a soft sweet kiss. When he broke away I smiled and slipped off the bed, my night gowne swayed around my ankles as I grabed my Ivy stand and walked to the door, passing by Miroku and his friend. "N-Nice to meet you." I whispered as I felt my face heat up. I quickly walked back to the elevator and pressed the up arrow button a thousand times before the doors dinged and the darken arrown at the top of the doors lit up. As I walked on to the suspended floor I heart nurse call for a Doctor Martain and ran in the direction of Inuyasha's room. Guess they found out that he's awake. Now all the tests and questions would begin, and when they found him to be ready enough to leave they'd keep him for a little longer then release him into the world.
I rested the back of my head against the walls of the elevator and smiled. I had closed my eyes and felt the lift of the cables pulling the elevator and myself up the shaft . The pouning rythim of my heart slowed down as I relaxed, I hadn't even noticed that it was beating so wildly. Laying my hand, palm down over my heart I took many deep breathes, the evelator seemed to slow down as my heart slowed with it. The doors didn't seem to open for the longest time. When the doors finally opened I stepped onto the 6th floor and walked towards my room, I could see my mother standing in the front of the window, Twilight in her arms as she talked to the baby. I smiled, mom always did have away with babies. I walked to my room door, but something didn't feel right, my body felt like it was slowing down.
"M-mom." I whispered softly before I fell to the ground, it didn't hurt like I thought it would. Everything seemed to slow down as I felt a cold darkness creep over my body. I heard Mom screamed something, making Twilight to cry, I wanted to get up, to hold Twilight in my arms, but I couldn't move. My eyes slowly closed as the dark cold feeling over came my body and I was left floating in a sea of nothing; dark, cold, empty, nothingness...
When I woke up, I remembered nothing of what I might have dreamt about. It was all blanke and i didn't really like the feeling it left in my stomach. The lights again were too bright for my eyes so I rested my arm over the my forehead and closed my eyes again, I knew someone was in the room, I just was being to lazy to ask who it was. I laid there, with the presence of another person in my room for a good five minutes or so, until my eyes adjusted back to normal. I slowly sat myself up, the world felt as if it were in the laudry, just going around and around, and around. My hand gripped the side of my bed tightly as I fought to steady my spinning world.
"Kagome, are you ok? Should I call the nurse?" A femalian voice asked from the spot my mom usually was. I looked at the woman, it was the same girl from Inuyasha's room, the one with Miroku.
"I'm fine, but shouldn't you be with Inuyasha?" I asked without censoring my words. I saw a small hurt flash through her eyes as she looked at the ground, maybe she didn't do this kinda thing often. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I meant to say is; is there something I can do for you? It just seemed odd that you'd come to see me instead of stay with Inuyasha and Miroku." I closed my eyes and hit my head with my palm. My words were sounding harsh to me, that was a bad sign. "Oh, I can't speak right, I'm sorry." I knew I was appologizing one to many times but my brain wasnt' making the connections right that minute. I looked at her with innocent eyes, it was the only way I could appologize right. "I'm sorry you must thing I'm a complete idiot!"
"Its ok, your Mom said that you had fainted just before entering the room yesterday." the young woman with long black hair, and chocolate brown eyes said as she smiled brifely at me. Wait! I was a sleep for a full day? How did that happen, I felt like I had sleep for an hour or so.
"What? I've been sleeping for a full day?" I shouled with my thoughts. I slapped a hand over my mouth, I didn't mean to sound to rude and disbelievent. I sighed and hung my head in shame. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell like that." I appologized again as I hear the girl chuckle. I glanced up at her with curiousity. "If you don't mind my asking; what's your name? I know Miroku's, but I don't know your name."
The young woman looked at my oddly then smiled as she pointed to her chest. "I'm Sango Aki. Miroku is my boyfriend." Sango said as she let her hand drop to her lap again. "Inuyasha wasn't able to come to you, so he sent me to come make sure you're ok." Sango said as she looked to the window, I turned to look with her. Outside the window I could see nurses trying to convince someone to go back to his or her room. I looked at Sango with a questionable look. "You don't think..." she stared as we both thought of the same person.
Inuyasha.
"No he wouldn't be stupid enough to get out of bed this early! He just woke up, he needs to go through rehab." I said more to convince myself than Sango, but she muttered a 'yeah' as we continued to watch the nurses try to keep the stern person to go back to his or her room. When a noise came from the door or my room Sango and I both looked to the door to see Momma standing there looking at my.
"Oh, Kagome, you're awake. I thought you'd be out for a while longer." Mom said as she came and sat on my bed around my knees. I tucked my knees beside my butt and pointed to the crowed of people.
"What's going on? Who is it?" I asked as Momma sighed as she looked at all the people getting closer and closer to my room.
"You're boyfriend." Momma said as I stared wide-eyed at the group.
"You mean Inuyasha is causing all this mayhem?" I asked as I watched Momma nod her head yes. I groaned as I closed my eyes and let my head fall back. When I opened my eyes I was staring right into the ceiling lights. Damn they're really bright, and unhelpful. Looking back to the window I saw a tall, long black haired man with startling violet eyes walking Inuyasha through the crowd of people. The tall man had an annoyed look on his face as did Inuyasha.
"Sesshomaru." Sango whispered as I looked over at her.
"What? Who's that?" I asked as Sango looked from Inuyasha and the man to me and Mom.
"That's Inuyasha's older brother Sesshomaru Takashi. He doesn't really like Inuyasha, but he's been taking care of all the medical bills, house bill and keeping everything ready for when Inuyasha woke up. He may not admit it but he really does love Inuyasha." Sango said as she looked back to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. Miroku appeared a few seconds later, his cheek red as he followed after the two brothers. Sango sighed when we saw Miroku rubbing his cheek. "I got the lechurous boy friend." she said softly to herself as Inuyasha shook his brother's hand off his arm. The two exchanged words before Miroku said something, his face brightened when he saw Sango through my window.
"I'm guessing he doesn't think you saw the red mark?" I asked as I looked over at a mad Sango. She glared at Miroku as he skipped towards my room.
"I think so." Sango said as she stood up and walked to my bed, she looked at me and smiled. "I'm sorry for what will happen in a few seconds." Sango said as she walked back to the door and stood next to the chair she was siting in. I knew something bad was going to happen. Mom kissed my forehead when I turned from the window again to stare at the door.
"Huh? What was that for Momma?" I asked as she smiled, I could see tears in her eyes as she smiled kindly at my like she had a thousand times before. "Momma?"
"You grew up so fast, now you have a baby and a boyfriend that wants you and Twilight to live with him." Momma said as her eyes scanned over my face, she wasn't seeing me now, she was seeing me when I was little. Her eyes were glazed over with memories as she kissed my forehead and wiped away her tears. I smiled at her, still same Momma.
"Momma, I'll always be your little girl. I'm just playing grown up." I said softly as she laughed, sending a tear to roll down her face. I caught the tear and threw it way. "I love you momma." I said as Momma smiled.
"I know. Now let's meet this Inuyasha and his family, if he's not right for you then you are not living with him!" Momma said going back into Mother mode. I wanted to laugh, but if I did I'd start to cry. For the whole time Mom and I had talked Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had been arguing as they came to my door, their voices getting louder and louder.
"Hey!" Sango shouted getting everyones attention. "Kagome-chan just woke up, so be quiet or I'm gonna throw you out, go it?" Sango asked as the two sibling stayed quiet and entered my room. Inuyasha was first followed by Sesshomaru then Miroku, whojumped to Sango, only to meet a slap on the same cheek he'd been slapped on. Everyone whinched at the sickening sound, their eyes following Miroku as he crouched down to the floor, I was guessing that, that was the only way to save himself from Sango's anger. "Dirty Pervert." Sango said as she turned on her heel and walked to my bed. I motioned her to sit down and she did, her arms crossed as she looked out the side window to the outside world. I turned my attention back to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, they looked alike, but only when they both held the same expression. Both their eyes were violet, but Sesshomaru's eyes were cold, hard, as if he'd seen to much when younger. Inuyasha's eyes were kind, child-like, as if he was sheltered most his life, but they held anger and hate for his brother, I could see that clearly when he looked at Sesshomaru, but I also saw respect when he looked to his brother. Both had long black hair with tints of purple, in Sesshomaru's hair, and tints of blue in Inuyasha's. Both were tall, and handsome, and looked very strong without being over muscular. Neither looked like the body builder type, or ones to be in love with themself, though both had a 'back off' attituted around their bodies. I saw Inuyasha raise his eyebrow when he caught my glancing between the two.
"Kagome, are you feeling better?" Inuyasha asked. His voice was full of consern for my well being. I smiled as I nodded.
"Yes, much better, but you should be in bed, if you walked around too much you could get ill. Strain your body or fall, or faint." I said stopping at 'faint' and thought back to yesterday. Oh yeah, I fainted, silly me. I looked at Inuyasha's eyes, they were sternly staring at me. "What?" I asked innocently.
"I know you fainted yesterday after seeing me." Inuyasha said coldly with a small hint of worry as I blushed and looked to momma. I could see she was compairing the two brothers together.
"Mom?" I asked as she looked to me and winked. I smiled nervously as she stood from the bed and walked to the two brothers. She circled them before poking their arms. I stared horrified at my mother's actions. "Mom!" I shouted as she glance back at me then went back to what she was doing.
"How old are you?" she asked Sesshomaru, I could see his eyes soften when he looked at my mother, I guess he has a soft spot for moms? Who knows.
"I'm 26 years old." Sesshomaru said, I never expected his voice to be to calm and I donno, chocolatie. Is that even a word? If it isn't, it is now. his voice was so creamy and warm, and sweet. I think it surprised Inuyasha and the others because I saw them all exchange looks of disbeliefe. Mom hummed and looked to Inuyasha.
"You age sweetie?" Mom asked.
"I'm 22 yeas old." Inuyasha said, his voice still slightly coarse, but sounded next to normal. Mom nodded then went back to looking Sesshomaru over.
"Where were you born?" Mom asked.
"Kyoto." Sesshomaru said in the yummie chocolate voice. Mom turned to Inuyasha.
"And you honey?"
"Here, in this hospital." Inuyasha said as Mom nodded and looked back to me.
"Kagome was born here too." she said as she winked at me again. I thought only two things, what is this? 21 questions?! "Sesshomaru, what's your favorite color?" Mom asked as she looked up at Sesshomaru. I saw the question took him by surprise as he looked at me with his eyebrow raised, I shrugged; what could I do? It was mom who was asking all the questions.
"It's red." Sesshomaru answered after thinking about the question.
"And you dear?"
"Red also." Inuyasha said in an unhappy tone. Guess they share the same color.
"Are you two sturdy young men?" Mom asked as Sesshomaru and Inuyasha both looked to me in question.
"In what way?" Inuyasha asked when he saw I couldn't help him.
"Business, finances, personality, relationships, families, and in values." Mom said as she listed the six things on her fingers, I was guessing to make sure she didn't miss any.
"Our father owns Sakura Software Company, and I teach computers tech at our father's school, Computers Technition Collage up in the northern part of Tokyo." Sesshomaru said as he stared with business and finances. "I'm not an out going person, my family are my friends, I do not have a girlfriend, but I do have a duaghter, and I am a man of values that were taught to me by my father." Sesshomaru finished. I stared at him, he has a daughter?
"What's your daughter's name and age?" Mom asked as Sesshomaru pulled his wallet from his pocket and flipped to a photo, handing it to mom. I couldn't see the photo, but I wanted too.
"She's turning 8 in a week, her name is Rin." Sesshomaru said as he smiled at the photo. I could see he really loved and cared about his daughter. I knew the feeling, being a new mom and all, I didn't have all the memories that Sesshomaru had. I never really though that he'd be so kind and caring about another person, it was surprising.
"Kagome." Mom's voice cut into my thoughts, scarring me. I never saw her move to me. "Are you ok honey?" Mom asked as I nodded, my hand over my fast beating heart. She gave the wallet to me and I saw Rin. She's so cute. Her hair was long, family thing I guess, it was back as well. She pulled a large lock of hair into a ponytail at the side of her head, but only the one ponytail, there were no others, and she left the rest of her hair down, it was and odd look, but she made the odd look normal. Her bright brown eyes were laughing as she held such a kind and loving smile. She was with Sesshomaru, he was holding her high in the air, her arms wide like an airplane as the picture kept her and her father still in time. She was waving to the person holding the camera, her smile was for that person, I guess it might of been her mom? I looked up to Sesshomar and smiled.
"She beautiful." I said as I leaned forward to give him back his wallet. He took it and nodded a thank you. I saw Mom smiled out of the corner of my eye before rolling them at her. "Mom, enough questions, ok? I'm sorry Mom did that to you." I said as Mom smiled and walked to Inuyasha. "Mom."
"Your turn Inuyasha." Mom said as Inuyasha looked at me then to my mom.
"I do not have a job yet, I was the Co-President of my father's comany before I was in m coma, I have some saving," Inuyasha was inturped by Miroku as he snorted.
"Some? Dude you have close to 5 million 'saved' up!" Miroku said. I saw something fly and smack him in the head. I didn't see what it was, it fell to the floor along with Miroku. I looked over to Sango and saw that her shoe was gone from her socked foot. I hung my head before looking back up at the blushing Inuyasha, he looked so cute!
"I have queit a bit saved up," Inuyasha bit as he looked back at the fallen Miroku. His eyes traveled to me then to mom as he continued. "My personality is an outgoing one, Miroku and Sango are my bestfriends, they stayed by me durring my coma," Inuyasha paused as he looked at Sango, then to Miroku, then to Sesshomaru. he was fitting the pieces together. "My brother and father are my only living family, and my friends as well, I have a new born daughter, Twilight, and I hope to marry Kagome." Inuyasha finished as he strained to think of the last requierment. "And I am a man of my word." He said after a few seconds. I sat still in my bed, I could feel everyone's eyes on my skin like the sun's rays. My eyes were to my blanket, my face was burning, and my heart was beating way to fast as I counted the seconds, not sure if time had stoppe or was just going by really slow.