InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Business Venture ❯ Chapter 7

Business Venture
Chapter 5
By: Nekokyttin

I don’t own Inuyasha or the characters therein; all rights go to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Productions.

~Recap~
He landed on the balcony to his bedroom and opened the doors. He walked in and laid her beneath the covers and crawled in beside her. “I love you, too, Mate.” He whispered into her hair.

~Now on with the story~

He was almost jealous of the sailboat, she spent so much time on it, any time she had that she could get from the city to the countryside to sail she did. He couldn’t fathom a human going out in that cold weather to sail on a lake, but he was glad that she loved it. He’d called Shippo and told him he wanted the kit and Rin to come home for the holidays if not permanently. They’d agreed heartily, knowing that sometimes, even if he didn’t admit it, he needed them. She was going to be so happy, he almost laughed at how bundled up she was, her jacket was a light blue down feather jacket he’d bought, insisting that he didn’t want her to get sick, and she wore a couple of pairs of jeans with fur lined boots. She was cozy, he could tell, and the way she focused on her art was amazing.
There was snow beginning to fall, but the lake hadn’t started freezing yet, so she was adamant that she wouldn’t give up the last chance she had that year to go sailing before it did. He had missed the spark in her all of those years. He loved to watch her hair blow in the breeze while she painted. She looked beautiful, but she was likely to get frost bite if she stayed out too much longer. “Kagome!” he yelled as she turned her head suddenly, “It’s starting to snow. Maybe you should come in before you get stuck out there.” He yelled over the breeze.
She couldn’t believe the shock he’d sent through her by just calling her name. She smiled, put away the easel, canvas, and paint supplies in the waterproof compartment, turned the sail and caught the wind. She loved to fight the breeze to achieve forward motion and the mild splashing when the wind was choppy. She was so exhilarated by the breeze on the cold December air that she practically howled.
Sesshomaru watched as she whooped into the wind and smiled one of the first real smiles he’d made in centuries. He heard the phone ring and walked away from the phone for a moment, it was Shippo, telling him that their plane was late. As he went to ask to speak to Rin, he heard Kagome scream. “KAGOME!” he roared as he dropped the phone and leapt out of the window, searching for the colorful sail to her boat, he couldn’t see it, and worse, there was a thick fog rolling in. “KAGOME!” he shouted again. He took to the air, and darted back and forth over the lake, searching for the boat, and finally, he spotted the pontoons, “KAGOME!” he screamed as he dove for the pontoons and saw that she wasn’t on them, he adjusted his fall and dove into the icy water, using his powerful vision to guide himself around the lake. He spotted her, halfway to the bottom of the lake, unconscious. He darted over and grabbed her, propelling them to the surface of the lake and out of the water to the shore. He was shivering, so he knew that she had to be frozen. “Kagome, please, wake up.” He begged as he laid her on her back and pressed his lips to hers, forcing his breath into her lungs, he could hear her faint heart beat, thanking the gods for that before breathing for her again. “Breathe… Kagome, I waited 500 years for you, I’m not letting you go now!” he growled as he wiped water from his face, not sure if it was tears or just water from the lake, or both. He forced the water out of her lungs and breathed for her again, “Kagome, please, breathe!” he said as he breathed for her again, and she began spitting water from her lungs and coughing, but her eyes wouldn’t open. He pulled her into a hug and rocked back and forth with her as he begged her to wake up. He lifted her into his arms and raced to the garage. He grabbed the keys to his fastest car and placed her in the seat, fastening her seatbelt and climbing into the car himself, immediately turning on the heat to full blast to warm her up, and covered her with a blanket he kept in it and turned the key. The car fired immediately and he roared down the driveway, he should have known that something would happen and he’d have to get her to a hospital quickly, leave it to him to move two hours out of town. “Damn it!” he said, slamming his palm against the steering wheel and he wiped his face again, knowing that it couldn’t be water form his hair at this point. ‘I can’t lose her!’ he thought as he pushed the speed limit a little more and hitting the hazard lights, honking the horn if anyone got in his way. Once he got to the hospital, he was dry, but she was still dripping wet. He raced inside and yelled for a nurse. “Someone, help me!” he yelled after not getting an initial reaction. A nurse burst through the door to see what the ruckus was about and immediately turned back and yelled for a gurney.
“What’s her name?” she asked as they brought the gurney to them and laid Kagome’s limp body on it.
“Kagome.” He muttered as they wheeled her away.
“We have a few questions before you can go with her.” She said.
“Go ahead.” He answered.
“What happened?” she asked as she led him to the back to a desk.
“She was sailing, the boat capsized.” He replied.
“Do you know what caused it?” she asked.
“No, now can I see her?” he asked as he began to walk away.
“Yes.” She answered as she led him down the hallways to where they were working on her.
“You can’t go in while they’re working on her, but you can wait right outside of these doors and they’ll let you know when you can come in.” she said as she went in herself to let the doctors know he was there.
He watched as they moved around her and took blood and blood pressure readings, her pulse rate was beeping through the room, high pitched and loud, his ears were ringing but he didn't care, the woman he'd waited for, for half a millennia was unconscious. He wanted to rip that vessel to shreds. He should have gone with her. He–he didn’t know what to do. He watched the goings on in the trauma room distantly, waiting for any sign that she was all right. ‘Come on, wake up!’ he thought over and over again almost like a mantra. “Open your eyes.” He whispered.
The doctor was before him after about an hour, and he looked at the devastated man transfixed on the woman in the room before them. “I’m Dr. Samuels.” He said as he held out his hand to shake with Sesshomaru.
“Sesshomaru Taisho.” He replied, “How’s she doing?”
“She’s in a coma, she reacts to painful stimulation, but it’s uncertain. How long was she without oxygen?” Samuels asked.
“About three and a half minutes.” He said. “I got there as fast as I could.”
“You couldn’t have been far away.” The doctor commented.
“Not far at all, I was telling her that it was starting to snow, and telling her that she needed to come in to dock it for the winter. ‘One last boat ride before it gets too cold.’ That’s what she said to ” He sighed. “I wish I’d have been more stubborn and stored the boat for the winter before the trip to the lake house. I don’t want any kind of press over this either.” He said as he stared the doctor down, “If one reporter shows up, I’ll have your hide for it.” He demanded.
“I agree. I have one other question.” The doctor said as he looked up at the man in front of him.
“Ask your questions and let me see her.” Sesshomaru said as he looked through the glass.
“Did you know that she was pregnant?” the much shorter man asked.
“P–Pregnant?” he asked… and stumbled to the wall opposite of the window and slid down. “Was?”
“I’m sorry, I said that wrong… did you know that she is pregnant is what I meant to say.” The doctor corrected himself.
“No, I had no idea.” Sesshomaru whispered and cupped his face in his hands. “How far along is she?”
“We have to run some other tests before that can be determined.” The doctor said.
“Run them. Can I see her?” Sesshomaru asked as he lifted himself from the floor.
“I don’t see why not.” The doctor said.
“Thank you.” Sesshomaru said as he walked in the door.

~In Kagome’s Dream~
It was dark, she couldn’t see a thing, and she felt weightless. For a moment she thought that maybe Sesshomaru was flying with her at night again. ‘I swear he’s going to get hit by a plane sometime.’ She thought.
Her thoughts were cut off by the sudden urge to breathe. ‘What’s happening? Why can’t I breathe?’ she thought as she grasped her throat.
She just felt cold. She gasped as she felt arms around her waist and she was lifted but she still couldn’t breathe. She was… she was drowning. ‘The boat! It flipped… I’m dying! Sesshomaru, help me!’
All of a sudden, she could feel air being forced into her lungs and she could hear him, but she couldn’t make out what he was saying. Suddenly, the air in her lungs wasn’t being forced into them, she was breathing on her own. ‘Sesshomaru.’ She thought as she tried to open her eyes, but it was still dark. ‘Why can’t I wake up?’ she tried again, still nothing. ‘Am I dead? I can’t be dead, he needs me!’
Suddenly she was being rocked; she could hear him faintly, begging her to open her eyes. ‘I’m trying, Sesshomaru, just be patient.’
She fought to open her eyes, she guessed she was in the car after a while, ‘He’s taking me to the hospital, I can’t wake up… there’s something wrong, what if I won’t ever wake up? What if he’s left to live out eternity and no one will understand him and his heritage… he may think it won’t phase him but it’ll phase me having to watch.’ She thought, ‘I have to wake up.’
After a while, she could hear a lot of motion around her, and she heard doctors say something about a medication that could hurt the baby…. ‘Wait… BABY?! Oh God! I’m pregnant? Oh, Sesshomaru, I shouldn’t have been so stubborn, I’m so sorry.’ She felt the urge to curl into a ball and cry her eyes out.
She began to think about the boat, ‘What happened? I know it capsized, but what made it flip? The wind wasn’t blowing that hard… I was sailing along, having a great time, and all of a sudden… I saw something… what was it? It was around the pontoon, pulling me down… almost like… one of… Naraku’s tentacles… oh my god! Did we actually kill him? Oh, no! I didn’t actually see him die! God, help me! What if he survived all of this time? Sesshomaru! He’ll try to kill Sesshomaru!’ she could feel the cold sweat that suddenly covered her body, but she didn’t know if it actually did.

~With Sesshomaru~
She was sweating but she wasn’t moving. Something was bothering her. “What happened, Kagome? Why’d that boat capsize on you?’ He stared at her as if she would wake up any moment, and he wiped her hair from her face as he kissed her. “Kagome, you need to wake up. I need you here with me. I’ve waited so long; I couldn’t imagine not having you to look forward to everyday.” He sighed as he grabbed her hand and laid his forehead against her fingers.
She stayed like that, and after two days, in a coma that no one could explain, Sesshomaru was beginning to get antsy. The doctors were frantic, trying to figure out a way to bring her out of the coma, but in those two days, they found the she was eight weeks pregnant, and that her brain function was normal. He wanted to tear his hair out.
He’d left the room to call Shippo’s flat in to let them know where he was. And they were there as soon as traffic would allow. Shippo was immediately beside Kagome’s side when he entered the room, reeling from the fact that they’d managed to find Kagome in a city with over a million people in it. “Mama!” he sobbed and laid his head on her shoulder, his green eyes clouding heavily with the tears that he’d been holding back after the phone call where Sesshomaru had randomly screamed Kagome and then there was the thud of the phone hitting the floor and they didn’t hear from him again until two days later when they had arrived and he was at the hospital. Rin was in tears, too, trying to comfort her overwrought mate.
“Do you know what happened when the boat capsized?” Rin asked, knowing that Christmas was going to bring something to Shippo that he’d wanted for as long as she could remember, Kagome.
“I don’t know what happened, this fog rolled in and I couldn’t see anything for a couple of minutes and I spotted it, then I dove to find her. There’s something else you don’t know, she’s pupped.” Sesshomaru said as he laid his head in his hands. “She just wanted one more boat ride before the weather got too cold for it. I should’ve told her no. Now that decision may have cost us our pup. I’m such an idiot… I don’t know how I didn’t sense it.” He said as he counted the days… their first time together and she got pupped. That would explain the strange possessiveness over her. It was a protective instinct. “I should’ve listened to that voice in my head that said that something would go wrong.”

~Kagome~
‘I’ve been here for ages. I just want to get back to Sesshomaru.’ She thought as she searched the darkness for anything that could show her an exit.
“It’s been a while, Miko.” Said a voice from the darkness.
“Naraku.” She whispered, “You’re dead, go away!” she shouted.
“You’re wrong.”
“We killed you.” She gasped.
“You thought you did.” He said, “You wounded me badly enough that I had to hide in that like for 500 years. Who would have thought that you’d be there when I awoke?”
“No!” she screamed as she tried to run.
“Why do you think you’re in this coma?” he asked.
“I’m sure I hit my head when I went under.” She lied.
“You did, but other than a bump on the head you received no injury.”
“GO AWAY!” she screamed as she tried to lift her limp arms. “YOU’RE NOT HERE!”
“Believe what you want, but you won’t wake unless I decided that it’d be more fun to mess with you in the real world.”
“YOU’RE DEAD AND I KNOW IT!” she screamed, and suddenly the apprehensive feeling faded and there was no voice in the darkness.
“You’re dead.” She whispered to the silence. ‘Oh, God, he’s not dead!’ “I have to wake up!” she said as she searched frantically for a way to wake up. “SESSHOMARU!” she screamed.

~With Sesshomaru, Shippo, and Rin~
“Naraku.” Her voice was so faint his sharp hearing barely picked it up, and he immediately shushed the other two and sent them out, “You’re dead, go away!” His golden eyes widened. “We killed you!”
“What’s going on?” He whispered.
“No!” she whispered. After a moment continuing, “I’m sure I hit my head when I went under!” his eyes narrowed, she was having a dream of some sort, and she was being tormented by a long dead enemy whose name hadn’t been spoken more than a couple of times since his death. “Go away! You’re not here!”
He began to stroke her hair as she continued her internal struggle. “You’re dead and I know it!” she sounded distressed and he put his hands around her smaller ones. “You’re dead! I have to wake up! Sesshomaru!” he lifted her into his grasp into a loose hug as he wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
“I’m here. Come on, wake up! I have to know what happened.” He said as he kissed her face.
“I need you.” She whispered and fell back into her silent coma.
“I need you, too, Kagome.” He said as a feeling of helplessness overcame him and the tears came forth. “I really need you!”
~Kagome~
“I need you, too, Kagome.” She heard.
‘Sesshomaru.’ She thought, ‘He sounds like he’s about to cry… that can’t be it.’
“I really need you!” he said.
She actually was crying this time; she could actually feel the tears on her face.
‘I have got to show him that I’m okay. Now fingers, squeeze!’ she said as she focused on moving her fingers to squeeze the hand that rested around hers. ‘Squeeze dammit!’

~Sesshomaru~
The fingers moved around his large hand. Squeezing it, she was going to be all right! “Kagome! Can you hear me?” her hand twitched. “Can you wake up?” he asked stillness. “Do you know why you can’t?” stillness.
“I love you.” He said. Her hand twitched. He looked from her hand to her face and saw the tears sliding down her face. He leaned up and kissed them away before letting his lips rest on hers. “I know you’ll wake up.” He said. “I’ll be right back.” He said as he released her fingers and walked out of the room.

~Kagome~
‘I did it! My hand moved! If I can do that I can wake up! Come on eyes, open! Open I tell you!’ She was trying so hard to open her eyes that sweat broke out on her brow. ‘I am not tired and that bastard can’t hurt me! WAKE UP!’
The light was burning her eyes but she forced them to stay open, weakly lifting her arm to block the bright light and let her eyes adjust.

~Sesshomaru~
“I’m telling you she heard me, her hand twitched if I asked her a question! There is hope! I can’t believe you want to write her off so soon, you yourself said that her brain is functioning properly. She will wake up!” he said heatedly as he looked at the doctor.
“I’m not saying she won’t, comas are unpredictable, we don’t even know what causes them. We just know what we’ve told you so far. Now you could sit and wait, but I doubt that she’s going to wake up today.” Dr. Samuels said calmly.
Sesshomaru walked away and back to the room to find Kagome laying with her arm hovering above her face as if to block out a bright light. “K–Kagome?” he asked as she turned her head and smiled weakly.
“Hi.” She whispered hoarsely.
“Hold on! I have to get the doctor!” he said, scrambling out of the room quickly and dragging the doctor back. “I told you! She’s awake!” he said, pointing at her. “Take care of her now!” he said as he let go of the rather shocked doctor and racing over to her to take her into his arms and kiss her entire face. “I leave the room once in two days and you wake up when I leave.” He whispered as he held her tightly. “You scared ” He said as he stroked her hair.
“I’m sorry.” She whispered as she laid her head on his shoulder.
“Did you know–“
“That I’m pregnant? I heard.” She said.
“We have to let the doctor look you over.” He whispered.
“I know.” She sighed as she let him go reluctantly.

~Author’s notes! ~
Kagome is out of the coma now! Fwee! That was hard to write… now the big question, do I bring Naraku back from the dead? Ah screw it you’ll just have to find out. Chapter six out (hopefully) soon