Must read: to people who don't know chapter 20, is a chapter! It is no longer an author's note! SO read it and then continue on. Sorry for the lack in up- date's My mother was on. Damn. And sorry this one is so short.!
Inu-yasha opened his bleary eye's. Kagome's broken body was the first thing he saw. It took a few seconds to register what had happened. But when it did Inu-yasha was frantic. He reached out a shacking hand. Softly he placed it on Kagome's neck. He could feel a weak pulse. She had survived the night! Dear gods she had made it! Such joy that Inu-yasha had never felt before, welled up inside him. Kagome was alive!
His love had made it. She was alive! Inu-yasha could not hold the smile back. His love was alive! How could he get over the fact that she was alive! Never could he never forget this moment of pure love. Pure happiness. Kagome would live throw the days coming. Inu-yasha knew she was fighting. But that thought couldn't keep the fear of her death away.
Fear. It took over his heart, and cashed away the joy he felt a moment ago. In its wake a dread like none he had ever faced welled up in its place. He thought himself as good as dead. No. He had to be strong. Kagome would have a need for some one with her in her fight for survival. How he wished he could take her place. Why did it have to be his beautiful Kagome that struggled? Why was it Kagome who was in pain. Why couldn't it be him. He would gladly take her place. If only to spare her the pain. If only she would have a chance for life.
Inu-yasha sighed as he shook away his thoughts. It did no good to dwell on things he could never do. It would only make him go insane with the "if" s. He sighed and looked down at his injured angel. Kagome's head was resting on his shoulder, her raven locks were spread over his chest. Some of her hair curled around her face and neck. Kagome's skin was a deadly pail. The bruise on her face was still it's sick colors, but it look a little better then it had last night.
Kagome was wearing from what he could tell was a light green hospital gown. Kagome would be embarrassed when she woke up. Inu-yasha smiled at that thought. It was something the Kagome he remembered would do. He smiled at that the thought. Kagome was coming back to him. Inu-yasha blushed. Would she like him? Would she be different? What had happen to her that night her mother had been killed? The night she lost her sanity?
Inu-yasha sighed and looked down at Kagome's pail face. He wanted to know what had happen to her, and yet he dreaded it. What could have been so bad that she had gone insane? Rage made is blood burn. Inu-yasha wished he could ripe out the very hearts of the fuckers that thought that they could touch his Kagome. His eyes bleed red.
Inu-yasha buried his face in to her hair, and breathed in her sweet sent. Even with the hospital smell of disinfectant, he could smell her sent. Under the smell of her blood, the smell of rose made its presents known. It calmed him down like nothing else could. Except maybe when Kagome rubbed his ears, but if she rubbed long enough it got him aroused.
The light was dim in the white hospital room, some one had shut the blinds on the windows so that the sun light was almost blocked completely. It made the room have a dozy look to it. Inu-yasha looked down as Kagome stirred in his arms.
Inu-yasha's breath caught in his throat as Kagome opened her bleary eye. Her other eye was still to swollen to open. He looked in to her crystal blue eye. She gave him a weak smile that melted his heart, and brought tears to his eye's. It had been so long since he had seen her smile at him. He lowered his head to hide his tears from her, but Kagome caught them. Kagome raced her hand that did not have the cast to his face. Kagome wiped his tears away.
" Don't c- cry Inu-yasha. I- I'll get better." Kagome whispered to him in her soft voice. Inu-yasha heart beat against his rips so hard that he thought they would brake from it. He gathered Kagome close to his chest as hard as he dared. The emotional roller coaster he had just stepped of, left him tired. Inu-yasha slide partly under Kagome's upper body so that she could lay her hear on his chest. She moved slightly so that her head was under his jaw. One of her hands moved across his stomach, leaving his mussels twitching in it's wake. Her hand grasped his clawed hand.
" Inu I, I really w- want you t- to stay with me. I'm a- afraid. P-please don't leave m- me alone." Kagome whimpered softly. It broke his heart to hear her sounding so weak. Inu-yasha leaned down and kissed the top of her inky black hair, he couldn't stop him self.
" I will never leave you again Kagome. Not ever. I'm afraid your stuck with me. And to you being afraid. I dare any one to try and harm you. I will protected you with my life Kagome. I always have. Always will. Get some more sleep Kagome. You need to rest. Heal. I will be here when you wake." Inu-yasha told her. He pulled the crisp white sheet up to Kagome's chin.
" You should sleep to Inu-yasha." Kagome told him in a sleepy voice as she fell asleep. He looked down at her peace full face. She was so beautiful. Inu-yasha nuzzled the top of her silky hair. He fell asleep with her sent in his lungs and his arms around her.
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