InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Matter of Trust ❯ Found Again ( Chapter 2 )

A Matter of Trust

By: TuxedoUranus89/InitialA

Disclaimer: I claim no rights to InuYasha, conceding to the great Rumiko Takahashi.

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Author's Note: Again, things turn interesting. Will they get back together? Or will there be some hell to pay first? What kind of hell? Why am I asking you all these questions? Why aren't I writing it all down yet so you can read it, dammit?!

 

Beeping. Why was there beeping? She felt a lot better though, cooler… Something pleasantly cool was on her forehead, and all around her. Her breathing sounded funny, almost like that robot-man in an American sci-fi movie she'd seen once. She tried opening her eyes. Why were her eyelids so heavy? The room was fuzzy, but she blinked and it slowly came to focus. It was too bright. Dammit, why was everything so weird? She moved her head slightly, and saw a woman standing there. Her back was to her, and she was talking to someone else, someone with long, dark hair. Was it a man, or another woman? The woman's voice sounded far away, so and echoed slightly. It mixed in with the deeper voice of a man… that one sounded familiar, but she couldn't place where… Things started to go fuzzy again, and she blacked out.

When she came to again, things were clearer. She was in a different room, with dimmer lighting, thankfully. Her breathing sounded normal, but there was still that infernal beeping noise. She looked, and saw it was a heart monitor. Hers and the baby's. She sighed in relief; knowing that her child was fine made her feel better than knowing she was fine. There was a small oxygen mask under her nose, she realized. The funny breathing she'd heard earlier was probably a larger one, not like the small tube. She looked up at the IV, which was dripping water into her arm. More than anything else, she felt thoroughly confused as to how she'd arrived in a hospital.

A nurse walked in. “Ms. Higurashi! I'm pleased to see you're awake!” She exclaimed with a smile, and checked the monitor. “Both you and the baby appear to be fine; there was a little scare of distress when you were first brought in, but everything's back to normal now. How are you feeling?” She asked kindly.

Kagome blinked, trying to process the information. “I feel confused. Why am I here?”

The nurse was now checking the IV. “According to the man who brought you in, you fainted from heat exhaustion. And no wonder, twenty-eight weeks pregnant, wandering around in that heat?”

Kagome blushed. “I was going to stop in a café to rest once I'd crossed the street… My OB/GYN said I needed more exercise.”

The nurse shook her head with a smile. “Next time, I advise you to take shorter walks, and not in this kind of heat. We've had seventeen people admitted already today from it!” She started to walk out the door, then stopped. “Oh, the man who brought you here is waiting outside; shall I let him see you?” She inquired.

Kagome was confused again, what man would have saved her, and then waited all that time just to talk to her? Curious, she nodded, and the nurse left. Moments later, the man with long, dark hair entered, and strode up to her bedside. “Stupid as ever, Kagome.” He said roughly.

Kagome stared up at him in complete shock. “Excuse me, but who do you think you are, talking to me like that?” She snapped. “Thank you for saving me, but if you've just come to insult me, you can turn yourself around and leave. I don't need anyone barking at me for my mistakes. And how do you know my name?”

He smirked. She blinked. That smirk was familiar. “What, don't recognize me?”

The voice was familiar too. He grinned, vicious amusement showing in his eyes, a piercing, near-violet color. Those eyes, she should know those eyes. “I'm afraid I don't.” She remarked finally, still searching for something, anything, that might give her a clue.

The grin faded. “Who should I call to pick you up?” He said finally, in a defeated tone that Kagome almost could place. “Are you still living with your mother, or do you have a husband or a boyfriend that could pick you up?”

She fell back on her pillows in shock. How could he know all of this?! “My husband is dead.” She said flatly, refusing to show the hurt that she'd accepted that afternoon in the well house. “He died years ago… And I could never have a boyfriend, not after him…”

The man looked at her with confusion, and a little bit of hurt. “You're pregnant though…”

She waved a hand. “It's complicated. Don't worry yourself about me, whoever you are. Just go back to your life, and I can get myself out of here just fine.”

He bristled at her dismissal of him. “Listen, bitch, if you think you can boss me around after what—”

Kagome's eyes widened with shock. “I-Inu…Yasha?”

He started when she said his name, his rant cut off. He looked at her grimly. “So, you remember.”

He jumped a little when she started to sob. “W-what the?! Why the fuck are you crying?!”

She threw the pillow at him. “You BASTARD! Why didn't you try to FIND me?! All these months I thought you were DEAD, and I would have to raise your child ALONE, and here you are in MODERN-DAY TOKYO, PLAYING HERO TO EVERY PREGNANT WOMAN WHO COLLAPSES ON THE STREET!!” She yelled.

A nurse popped her head in the room concerned by all the noise, but InuYasha held up a hand, signaling her to close the door and leave them alone. “You want months, you stupid girl?? I'll give you months, try FIVE HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS of months, months wondering why the fuck my MATE left me when she was pregnant with MY PUP!! Wondering what the fuck I DID, that made her leave when I thought she'd been UTTERLY FUCKING HAPPY WITH ME.”

Kagome looked for something else to throw, but it was either too heavy or rooted into the wall. Finally she just settled for a metal bedpan, and whipped it at his head. “You IDIOT, why the hell would I want to leave you!? I WAS happy with you. I was DEVASTATED when I went to come home to YOU, and may I remind you that the only reason I was going back was for your INSAITABLE OBSESSION WITH RAMEN, and all I could do was fall twelve feet and twist my ankle when I discovered the WELL HAD CLOSED! I cried for WEEKS, knowing you were going to die HATING ME and there wasn't one blasted thing I could DO about it!!”

She was screaming herself hoarse, but oddly it was making her feel better. Her heart rate was up, she knew from the stupid machine sitting next to her beeping, and she would have heartily continued their argument if the warning beeps of distress didn't start from the baby's heart monitor. Panicked, Kagome tried the breathing she and her mother were going to classes for, lying back and rubbing the swell of her stomach soothingly. InuYasha had been about to say his piece, but has stopped when her scent had changed to fear, and the pup's was confused and stressed. His jaw was clenching, and his brain tried to figure out what was going on here. She had said months, not years, of thinking he had died long ago. That tied in with the comment about her husband being dead and having no boyfriends, though she was obviously pregnant. And then her rant about being a single parent… Which meant… Realization hit him like ice, cooling his heated temper faster than any `sit' ever had. “Fuck…” He muttered, burying his face in his hands, and then running his fingers through his hair. Kagome was still doing that weird breathing thing, but the pup's heart monitor was slowing back to normal. His pup's heartbeat.

He fought the urge to beat his head against the wall. She was panting, but slower, trying to relax herself, now that she'd relaxed their pup. Kagome closed her eyes, tears still leaking down her face. She had to be careful. She knew that, she knew her temper caused distress, and it was only worse with this uncontrollable flood of hormones flowing through her veins. That was something else the doctor had warned her about, not to get so angry, that it caused problems. Sniffing, she reached up to wipe her tears away, but his hand got there first. He was gentle, and she opened her eyes to see him staring at her with a sad, puzzled look on his face. “I'm sorry…” She said, sniffing again. “I forget about my temper… I'm not supposed to get so angry, it's bad for the pup.”

He smiled, just a little. “I noticed. Is the pup…”

She shrugged. “I didn't want to know. I still don't. There's only so many surprises left in the world, it feels like cheating to find out early. It's healthy though, giving me an appetite that rivals yours… Keeps me awake at night too, it hasn't figured out that nighttime is for sleeping, and Mama needs her rest. The pup likes to use my spine as a kickboard too.”

She could have gone on if she hadn't noticed the look on his face. Inside, his heart was tight with emotion. Hearing her call herself `Mama', listing off facts about his own child he hadn't cared to find out about… He was surprised at himself though, finding the walls he'd reconstructed around his heart staring to crumble in her presence again. “InuYasha…?” He shook his head, and walked away, sitting in a chair on the other side of the room, staring at the floor.

An hour or so passed, and Kagome was checked out by a doctor, declaring her fit to leave, but with a warning to stay in the house for the next few days. She nodded, thanking him, and wobbled herself to her feet. InuYasha was there in a flash to help her stand. He hadn't said anything since asking about the pup, and she wasn't quite sure why. She also noticed he was carrying her bags, things from the pup store. She marveled at his ability to remain silent yet help her into a limousine waiting outside. She also marveled at the touch of the limo. “InuYasha, why…?”

He `keh'd, and refused to look at her. She smiled at his unchanging vocabulary. “It's mine. I hate it, but my dear brother insists upon it. Another flashy show of money, in my opinion…”

Kagome stared. InuYasha… owns a limousine?! And what's this talk of flashing money? Don't tell me he's rich… She didn't want to bring it up, feeling it would make him uncomfortable.

The limo drove up to the shrine, and InuYasha helped her out. She wondered how long it took for him to retrain the driver not to open doors for him. She grimaced at the steps up to the house, but started the long process before he was even done getting the bags. He easily caught up to her though. “You're straining yourself too much.” He told her.

“I'm fine.” She retorted, huffing and panting. “I do this almost every day. So Sesshou-maru is still around?” She asked, trying to distract him from her.

InuYasha snorted. “That bastard will never die. And he's still loaded too, flaunts it everywhere, and he's still a jackass. The only decent thing he ever did was mate with that girl he had following him around. She's still here too, they did the blood-bonding.”

Kagome smiled. “That's wonderful to hear…”

He snorted again. “It'll be wonderful when he kicks the bucket and stops getting up my ass all the time about business…”

She sighed in relief when they reached the top of the stairs. Slowly making her way to the house, she decided their current conversation was safe. “You're in business together?” She asked.

He nodded. “I suppose you've heard of Mitsubishi? We own a large chunk of that, my brother invested a lot of Father's money in it when it started up back in 1917. There's a few others too, like Yamaha. Mostly car companies; the foreigners eat `em up.”

He looked back, worried a bit, when Kagome stopped. She was starting at him in amazement. “You… you actually own… Mitsubishi?” She asked.

He rolled his eyes. “Not fully, but practically… it hasn't always been a picnic, they nearly shut us down after the war, but you know how Sesshou-maru is. Come on, wench, you need to get inside.”

Meekly, she obeyed. She also listened when he told her to lie on the couch, he'd get water for her. She groaned when she lay down, however, when her child decided to do its other favorite activity: Irish step-dancing on her bladder. She struggled to get up, and staggered her way to the bathroom. She heard InuYasha cursing her to hell and back, but knew he would wisely not follow. Carefully walking back downstairs, (she'd missed a step and fallen two months ago, resulting in a trip to the hospital with false labor pains), Kagome `eep'ed in surprise as she was scooped up and carefully deposited on the couch again. “Oi, don't go running around, you need rest.” He scolded, handing her the glass.

She glared at him. “Right, because I'm going to fill up with more water while this kid does the cancan on my bladder.”

He flinched, and she was sure if he had his ears, they'd be pinned back. Speaking of which… “InuYasha, when did you become human?”

He sat down across from her. “It's a concealment spell. Hides my youki and my true appearance.” He held up his right hand, and an elaborate ring rested on his third finger. “That's why you could never sense any demons in this era. We've all gone into hiding, pretending to be normal humans.” His eyebrow twitched. “We just happen to be the more wealthy ones.”

Kagome longed to remove the ring. She loved him no matter what he looked like, but she had to admit, she missed his ears. He noted the look in her eyes. “Kagome… I can't. Not right now. Not with things so… confusing.”

She met his eyes. “You don't love me anymore.” She stated, her voice quavering. It had only been seven months for her, she couldn't imagine lasting five hundred years. He stood, and nuzzled the top of her head. “I never stopped loving you.” He said quietly. “But I don't know if I can trust you right now…”

Kagome watched him leave. She heard the door close, and set down the glass of water. Her hands trembled, and she lay down, staring at the ceiling until long after the sun went down.

 

((Eh, tried not to let everything away in this chapter. Still setting things up, but I'm happy with how the fight scene turned out. =) Pregnant women and their hormones make for great raging arguments, eh? Oh, and all facts about Mitsubishi are true, but I may have flubbed the part about the war a bit, I can't remember the details. (No, there isn't a handsome white-haired demon and his equally handsome half-brother helping run things, not as far as I can find anyway) Anyway, please leave a review, they add to the thrill of wanting to write!! =D See you next chapter!))