Special Moments in Time

Modern Medicine

"Iron reaver soul stealer!" yelled the annoyed half demon as his attack flew towards the demon they were battling. The attack hit it full force but it was still standing.

"Stupid overgrown bug" Inuyasha muttered under his breath as he faced the huge slug demon. It just HAD to get a shard of the sacred jewel didn't it. It was bad enough that it was roaring so loudly hurting his sensitive ears, but did it have to shoot poisonous acid at anything and everything?

In the few minutes that he had battled it, he had found out that it had absolutely terrible aim, or maybe it was blind. Why else would it attack a tree that wasn't even anywhere near them.

"ROAR!!"

"Aw shut up!" Inuyasha was getting seriously ticked off. He glanced back and was slightly relieved to find that Kagome was still safe and unharmed. But if this visually impaired demon kept attacking like that, she was bound to get hurt. That's why he had to take it out quick.

"Inuyasha, the shard is in its throat!" Kagome called out to him. His ears flicked back showing her that he had heard.

The demon sure wasn't deaf because the moment Kagome shouted; it turned its ugly head to look in her direction.

"Don't you dare hurt her!" Inuyasha shouted at it, but his face went pale. The slug was shooting its acid straight at her. NOW it decides to aim?

"Kagome!" he yelled. He ran towards her with lightning speed and shoved her out of the way at the last minute. The acid dissolved the grass where she was standing just moments before.

"Are you ok?" he asked her once they skidded to a stop some distance away. He started sniffing for any injuries and was alarmed to find she was bleeding.

"Yeah, I just scraped my knee" she said clutching her knee closer to her chest.

Inuyasha growled when he looked at it. The wound was pretty deep and there was dirt clinging to it. It looked painful. At this, his growl increased in volume.

"Stay here" he told her in a stern voice. He stood up in front of her, shielding her from view. He drew his sword Tetsusaiga and it immediately transformed into the majestic fang. He pointed it at the slug. That was the last straw.

"Wind Scar!" he shouted as he swung the sword through the place where the two demonic winds met. An incredible amount of energy was hurled at the unsuspecting demon and it was ripped to shreds in an instant.

Inuyasha crouched down next to the miko. He then proceeded to take a closer look at her wound.

Kagome smiled softly at how concerned he was over her injury, "It's nothing serious Inuyasha, I just need to bandage it up"

"It could be infected" he stated as he looked at how much dirt was sticking to the blood that was slowly starting to clot. He scooped her up bridal style and started running in the direction of Kaede's village.

"We'll be back soon!" he called out to their traveling companions. Sango and Miroku sighed and started to set up camp to wait for their friends.

It was a good thing they weren't that far from Kaede's village. Inuyasha was able to get there fairly quick, but the surprising thing was he didn't stop when they reached Kaede's hut. Instead he kept running.

"Where are we going?" Kagome asked him as she clutched the front of his fire rat robes to steady herself, he was going very fast.

"You have better medicine in your time right?" he asked back. Kagome widened her eyes in surprise. Was he taking her back to the future?

"Yeah" she answered after a pause, "But can't I just bandage it up right here?"

"I think it would be better if it was treated in your time, where the medicines are more advanced" he said making Kagome smile up at him, he blushed, "I don't want you limping around and slowing us down"

Kagome sighed, he just had to go and ruin the moment.

They reached the well and Inuyasha jumped in, holding her tightly, in a quick motion, they were engulfed by the blue light transporting them five hundred years in the future.

He jumped out of the well on the other side and went to her front door in a few fast strides and let Kagome ring the doorbell. Kagome's mother answered the door and was mildly surprised at seeing her daughter cradled in the arms of the hanyou.

"Hi honey, welcome back Inuyasha" her mother greeted them cheerfully as she invited them inside. Souta was off at school and her grandfather was taking a nap since it was the middle of the day, so the house was fairly quiet.

Mrs. Higurashi saw the blood on Kagome's knee and immediately went over to inspect it once Inuyasha placed her down gently on one of the dining room chairs. "What happened Kagome?"

"She got hurt when we were fighting a demon" Inuyasha stated in a low voice. His ears were clamped down against his head.

"Oh, it looks like it might be infected" Kagome's mother said after she had looked at it closely.

"I'm sorry" Inuyasha said in a voice that was very close to a whine. Both Kagome and her mother turned to look at him. Kagome gave him a reassuring smile, "It's ok Inuyasha, it wasn't your fault"

"That's right, I'm sure you did all you could to protect her" Kagome's mother said, trying to get him out of the guilt trip he was currently on, "and besides, it should be all better after it's disinfected and all bandaged up"

"But I think we should show it to a doctor first" Mrs. Higurashi said as she went to the coat closet to get out her coat and slipped into it. She took out the cap Inuyasha always wore when he went out in this time and handed it to him.

Doctor? Didn't Kagome say a doctor was a type of healer? Maybe he would be able to heal her wound faster. He took the cap and shoved it over his ears.

This was taking way too long. What the hell did that doctor think he was doing making Kagome wait for so long when she was in pain. He would have barged right in and dragged the stupid human out and made him heal Kagome's wound if she would only let him. Instead, she made him sit down next to her on one of the chairs in a room called the 'Waiting Room'.

Why did they have such a room in the first place? So that the people who were injured could just bleed to death while the doctor took his own sweet time to come and heal them?

Kagome held on to his arm and that prevented him from getting up, though that was probably her intention. She would wince every now and then because her knee was still stinging from that spray that incompetent 'Nurse' person sprayed on the wound. What was the point of that? He brought her here to rid her of the pain, not add to it. Her mother had said that it would help clean the wound and disinfect it. Inuyasha didn't try to stop the human from spraying it on her, but he had shown her, through a series of very loud growls and snarls, just how unhappy he was. She must have gotten the hint since she didn't come anywhere near them after that. Looks like she did have a brain.

There were other people in the room as well. Most of them were sick, Inuyasha scrunched up his nose, the smell of sickness made him nauseas. They were all either coughing or sneezing, spreading their human germs. If they got Kagome sick, there would be hell to pay. He'd kill the doctor first; after all, it was because of him they were waiting in this stupid place.

Kagome's grip on his arm tightened a fraction before loosening again. He knew she was in pain, and it made him angry. He growled in frustration, if that doctor person didn't heal Kagome's wound right now, he wouldn't be held responsible for his actions.

"Kagome Higurashi" one of the Nurses came into the waiting room to call them in to see the doctor.

"That's us" Kagome's mother said as she stood up.

Kagome started to get up but a strong hand gently pulled her up by the arm and helped her walk to the room where the doctor was.

"Thank you Inuyasha" she said with a soft smile.

"Keh"

"Aah, what seems to be the problem?" the man sitting behind a huge desk asked them as they entered. He was wearing a white coat over his regular clothes. He smiled at them and gestured for them to sit down.

Was the man blind too? Didn't he see Kagome limping inside? Maybe it was a mistake bringing her here, at least Kaede would be able to recognize when a person had been injured.

"My daughter has hurt her knee" Kagome's mother said showing the doctor the injury, "Is it anything serious?"

The doctor leaned over and took a closer look. Inuyasha started growling again, the man was too close to Kagome.

The doctor then gripped her leg with his hand and pulled it up.

BIG mistake.

Inuyasha shoved him away and snarled out, "You do NOT touch her"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome said, "he was just trying to see if anything was wrong"

"If he can't tell without touching you then maybe he's not a good healer, we should have gone to Kaede" he muttered angrily.

Kaede would have healed it by now with her herbs, SHE didn't have a 'Waiting Room' and plus, she was a woman. Why did this doctor have to be a man?

"It's alright, it happens all the time" the doctor said, but even Kagome could tell it was a lie. She gave him an embarrassed smile.

"It looks like it could be infected, I think you need a tetanus shot" the doctor said as he rummaged around in his drawer and took out a plastic cover. There was something inside but Inuyasha couldn't tell what it was.

What the hell was a tetanus shot? Wait, wasn't a shot something like an attack? Was this guy planning to ATTACK Kagome?

"I'll be right back" said the doctor before going into a back room.

"Where's he going?" Inuyasha asked looking suspiciously in the direction the doctor had left.

"To get the medicine" Kagome's mother answered him, just then the doctor returned.

He placed a bottle with some sort of liquid inside it on his table. He then tore open the plastic cover and took out some sort of thin cylindrical thing.

Inuyasha was watching his every move like a hawk. His eyes narrowed when he took out a thin pointy needle type of thing and fixed it on the cylinder.

Now what was he going to do with that?

He pushed the needle through a small opening in the bottle and sucked the liquid into the cylinder.

"Ok, hold out your arm" he said.

Before Kagome could comply, Inuyasha stood in front of her blocking her from the doctor's line of sight.

"And what the hell are you going to do with that?" he asked him in a threatening tone.

"Why inject it into her veins of course" he answered matter-of-factly. Inuyasha growled at him.

He really shouldn't have brought her here. This place wasn't safe. There were crazy men who injected long pieces of metal that pierce the skin and fill the blood stream with strange chemicals. They were Dangerous lunatics and must be stopped.

He cracked his knuckles with the intention of punching the jerk in front of him out cold but Kagome gently pushed him out of the way.

"It's alright Inuyasha, this medicine will prevent me from getting sick because of the wound" She explained to him, but he still wasn't convinced.

There was NO way he was letting some guy poke Kagome with a sharp needle. Even if it was to stop her from getting sick.

Kagome saw his unrelenting expression and sighed. Her hanyou could be so stubborn. She gave her mom a pleading look.

"Come Inuyasha" her mother stood up and pulled the hanyou away from Kagome and the doctor, "Lets wait over here"

Inuyasha tried to slip out of her grasp but her grip was firm. He couldn't make her let go of him without having to hurt her. He watched on in horror as the doctor pierced Kagome's fragile skin with the sharp piece of metal. She cringed slightly in pain. He closed his eyes not wanting to see her hurting and being unable to do anything about it.

When he opened his eyes a few seconds later, he saw the evil doctor rub the spot where he had poked her with the needle with a piece of cotton. He noticed Kagome's mother had let go of his hand.

He stalked over to them and helped Kagome get up while snarling at the doctor. He would have to come back and kill this man later.

"Why?" Inuyasha asked her as they made their way out of the hospital towards Mrs. Higurashi's car.

"What?" she asked him while slipping into the back seat, Inuyasha slipped in next to her.

"Why did you let him hurt you? Why didn't you let me protect you?" he asked her, his voice cracking slightly.

"Inuyasha, like I said, that medicine was to help me from getting sick"

"He could have given you some of those small pill things" Inuyasha snorted in argument.

"He could have, but injecting the medicine directly into the veins will make it work faster" Kagome explained, it was kind of sweet that he cared so much, albeit in his own way.

"That's stupid! Who ever came up with that crap must have been retarded!"

They stayed silent for some time after that, "We're not coming here again" he stated firmly, "From now on, it's only herbs for you"

Kagome giggled at that earning a glare from the hanyou sitting beside her, "I told you I could have bandaged it up back in the feudal era" she said, "It was you who brought me here"

"Well, I'm not making that mistake again" he said in a gruff voice.

He looked out the tinted window of the car, a scowl planted on his face. Kagome better not get sick because of that medicine, because if she did, he would destroy that evil 'hospital' building and all the crazy people inside it.

AN: - Just a little insight into how I think Inuyasha would react to modern medicine. I didn't mean to offend any doctors or hospital staff. I hope you liked it. I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed so far. Oh and one more thing, Miroku picked up the shard after the slug demon was blown to pieces, just in case anyone was wondering.

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