InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forever a Shadow ❯ Sanguine Tears ( Chapter 34 )

34. Sanguine Tears

 

 

 

 

“Leave my family out of this Onigumo! If you want me take me, just stay away from my family! What have they done to you?” Weakly Kikyo spoke with as much anger as she could muster through her quickly failing strength.

 

 

Naraku chuckled. “What have they done to me you say my beloved?” He took her roughly by the shoulders picking her up to eye level. “Those mongrels breath, took you from me, what more?”

 

 

“Why would I ever be with a deranged sociopath like you? The thought of sex with you makes me want to vomit, I'd slit my own throat.” Kikyo's eyes narrowed in anger and Naraku pitched her into the nurses' station. Kikyo half -lay half-sat laughing at him. “Still such a child Onigumo.”

 

 

Inuyashas inner demon was fighting to release itself once again, and the hanyou was having difficulty reigning it is as he arrived on the floor. The blood seemed not only to hang as a scent but it felt as if the blood were in the air floating as particles unseen to the naked eye, breathing them in collecting on his skin, touching his flesh, Inuyasha rubbed his thumb and forefinger together, both digits revealed blood. The slaughter must have been tremendous, Inuyasha fought back images of standing in the nursery when the twins were born, but now…no he would not think of the lives lost to an excruciating demise. Pausing before the final door onto the reeking maternity floor the scent of Kikyo was very strong, her two bare footprints stood in fresh blood before him.

 

 

His mind was nearly crazed, so much had come to a head in so few hours and he thought his brain may split as the threw the steel door open and off its hinges. The intensity of any one harming Kikyo made him angered to the core yet he hurt her first, cutting the most deeply with Kagome. What an idiot you have been, my life's meant nothing without Kikyo and the girls. Just please God let me live long enough to protect them then I will offer myself to you for your judgment.

 

 

The hallway was like all the others in the hospital, each floor with sheen of blood covering it almost like ice. Inuyasha could not help but growl as he found the stronger scent of Kikyo and her blood was suspended like a marker in the air for him to find. Sniffing out the scents he rushed to her around the nurses' station finding his wife fading in and out of consciousness. There was far too much blood being lost, the two gowns she wore were both blood soaked and now seeping through the fabric. Inuyasha always knew a Mother would do anything for her pups, and Kikyo was the best of them all, so her pushing herself meant nothing for the sake of Suki and Kari.

 

Gently lifting her head and upper shoulders into his lap she winced and opened her eyes to him and smiled, she placed a cool hand to his right cheek, weakly the hand fell leaving only a smear.

 

“Inu…Inu…yasha go, stay away, get out of here.” Kikyo fixed her eyes on the door across from the desk. “He's there. Get away from me you fool. Don't you dare die and leave our girls Inuyasha, I'm already gone.”

 

 

“Kikyo, you be still, I will deal with this thing from your past. We will both see the girls again, don't you dare give up.” Inuyasha turned looking directly into the red eyes of the monster, which had tormented his family for so long it seemed. “You had fun destroying my life all for your little fantasy with a woman who pitied you?” Inuyasha stood to his feet, Tetsusaiga at his side, his amber eyes fading to crimson.

 

 

“I didn't need to do much, I just threw my hot headed nephew into the mix, what did I care if the wolf clan turned in on itself, but it was fun to watch. However, you were a bit stronger than I would have thought, being a mutt and all and the one screwing the help. If it weren't for your indiscretion I never would have found my Kikyo. It was fate, always fate” Naraku's crimson gaze shifted to Kikyo lying prone and quickly becoming helpless it seemed. “she called me to catch you cheating what a auspicious twist, the bitch acted like she didn't even recognize me, but I knew…I knew, once I saw her again it was more than coincidence, it was fate. We are meant to be together, and once I put you down she will be mine once again.”

 

 

“You talk to much.” Inuyasha growled out. With a stroke of his wrist Tetsusaiga turned to the fang.

 

 

“What a large weapon are you overcompensating for something?” Naraku's fang toothed grin eyed the hanyou then to Kikyo. “Wait for me Kikyo this dog and all his blood will be gone from your life very soon.”

 

 

“Your nephew asked the same question, but he's still just as dead.” Inuyasha smirked.

 

 

Kikyo spat blood toward Naraku. “I would never be yours. All those years ago and now.” Her voice came at a seething whisper, yet she knew the bastard heard her very well.

 

 

Inuyasha charged removing tentacles as the marks of his clan began to appear on his cheeks. As quickly they were cut back new ones sprouted to take the damaged ones place. One wrapped around Inuyasha's neck out of reflex he swung at his adversaries chest slicing through flesh out of anger and pain Naraku flung the enraged hanyou down the hallway. Inuyasha tumbled, and skidded through blood, the slickness making it difficult to slow down until the stairwell door he had ripped off the hinges gave him a handhold.

 

 

“You insolent little half-breed, you injure me? Only once, never again.” Naraku's body began knitting around him plates of what looked to Kikyo as bone. “Try gnawing on me again puppy.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Unfortunately I know my brother far to well, he has Kikyo's blood scent, as do I and regrettably Inuyasha will run in being too headstrong and stubborn to think things through and formulate a plan. Undoubtedly he will go straight into the awaiting Onigumo Naraku.” Sesshomaru's grip tightened on Tokijin, his other hand adjusting the Tensaiga strapped to his back as he opened the hospital room door. “Throughout the years and still Inuyasha never could really control his temper, so we are going to outflank the bastard going up the other side of the building's stairs.”

 

 

Miroku was still in awe at the arsenal that his employer had hidden in such an unassuming case. “Remind me never to get on your bad side Sesshomaru.” The lawyer took two 9mm handguns loaded the full clips then stuffed his pockets with as many spares as he could fit.

 

 

Sango grinned fitting a gun into the small of her back. “Feel better now baby?” Sango could not help but stifle a laugh at the delight of her husband and the newfound weaponry their employer was hiding. “You look like a kid at Christmas.”

 

 

“Oh shut up.” Miroku looked directly at his wife with a wink and a smile. “Still can't believe you had all this just sitting here Sesshomaru.”

 

 

“Come on baby your just happy you got a big gun now.” Sango put a round into the chamber of the .38, which now lay held at her side.

 

 

“If you two are quite finished my moronic brother is up there trying to be some sort of champion. So if you please counselors.” Sesshomaru opened the door waving the two out into the hallway.

 

 

Sesshomaru led his group at a quickened pace up the other set of fire stairs, inwardly wishing they had the wolf nurse Ayame with them. The two humans and himself was not the type of backup that screamed out a successful mission. However the CEO knew Ayame was in her needed place guarding his niece, especially if the lunatic decided to go after Suki, the wolf could handle it. The InuTaisho placed his hand on the heavy, ice-cold fire door taking in a deep breath. The overpowering odor of blood attacked his olfactory response, yet one, as he would never forget it, after centuries of nonstop fighting. His proficiency in killing had been his greatest source of pride for a very long time now; his body began to burn with recognition of battle to come. Blood, so much blood in the air, unknown human, Kikyo's, hanyou's, youkai, Inuyasha's, and too many other scents of the departed on the floor.

 

 

There were dozens upon dozens of dead, what hurt him the most they were all purely innocent caught up in a hellish nightmare of which none of them would awaken. They were about to step onto a floor where normally happiness reined, now it was a morgue, no blue and pink balloons tonight. Turning to look at Miroku and Sango Sesshomaru wanted to tell them to go back up to Suki, but he also knew they were there to fight for there friends, no they were fighting for there family, just as he was. It had taken Sesshomaru over 300 years, and the love of Rin to teach him love of family and friends, and now he would be damned to have some psycho take any of them away from him after all they'd been through. If someone had told him 500 years ago he would be doing this now he would be showing him or her there heart.

 

 

He motioned for silence, as the fire door blessedly swung open without a sound. The remaining lights that flickered in the hallway were enough to illuminate the gore, which covered from floor to ceiling. Inuyasha and the monster Naraku were at the far end of the hall. Sesshomaru's keen eyes saw Kikyo lying across from the two; there was no movement from her body, yet she was breathing with shallow breath.

 

 

“There she is.” Sesshomaru softly spoke to Miroku and Sango then with a ripple of air currents he seemed to appear at Inuyasha's side attacking Naraku.

 

 

Naraku moved back halting his attacks. “Both brothers. I feel so honored, am I supposed to bow or something? I mean you are the great Taiyoukai clan leader of a clan that I will shortly wipe from existence. Yet the niceties you know…” Naraku laughed, licking blood from his fangs.

 

 

“You may kneel before me for your beheading monster.” Sesshomaru smoothly retorted; his voice was as calm as a morning lake and as smooth as the finest silk just as regal as the man had been nearly all of his life.

 

 

“Touché great mongrel leader.” Naraku grinned covering his mouth with a claw tipped finger. “Ooops that just slipped out, how droll of me. Never can get you fucking mutts and wolves' right, but you all have fleas. I mean god my nephew was such a whiney pain in the ass. I was truly hoping you would kill the little bastard Inuyasha, and you did not let me down.”

 

 

Inuyasha took his brothers arrival to get back to Kikyo's side; he could hear her heartbeat becoming erratic. Gently he pulled her up again as he knelt beside her. Kikyo's eyes opened, meeting her husbands with a pained smile on her bloodied lips and horribly bruised and puffy face, her left eye was black, and blood was slowly oozing from the tear duct. Inuyasha pulled her further back into the nurses' station and into the darker shadows as far from the fight as he could get her until he could somehow get her off the floor and away from the psychopath.

 

 

“I'm here baby.” Inuyasha took off his own bloodied shirt and rolled it into some sort of pillow leaning Kikyo upon it. “That son of a bitch isn't going to touch you again. You just stay awake okay?” Inuyasha whispered, and Kikyo nodded, she took Inuyasha's hand pulling him to her kissing his lips gently, she had a strong feeling she would never be able do it again, she was a doctor, and no fool she felt the effects of full on shock creeping over her body, she was not leaving this place alive, she just prayed for her Suki to be kept safe by Ayame.

 

 

“Come back Inuyasha, promise me.” Her voice was barely a murmur.

 

 

“I promise.” Inuyasha reluctantly left his injured wife it was agony for the hanyou, Kikyo needed every bit of him and he would give her everything, after all the terrible things he had done to her she still loved him and he her, but when knocking on deaths door it's best not to harbor hatred Inuyasha assumed.

 

 

Taking up Tetsusaiga with renewed vitality and promise Inuyasha came up behind Naraku as Sango and Miroku drew their guns on the monster. Inuyasha glanced over his shoulder at his friends nodding a "thanks".

 

 

The InuTaisho had his eyes locked on the prey of Tokijin as he made a decision for the family. “Sango I need you to go and check on the Higurashi woman in the emergency department. Then gather Suki and Ayame and get the hell out of here.” Sesshomaru spoke over his shoulder, his eyes locked on Naraku; he knew his family had to be removed from the hospital if they were going to kill the creature that wished the death of himself and his brother.

 

 

“But…” Sango wanted to protest but Miroku looked her dead in the face.

 

 

Sango began to silently cry, if she left and Miroku did not walk out of this with her, her life would be over; her heart ached to the point of physical pain, her breathing became fast in her tightening chest, her heart feeling as if it were a time bomb beating faster toward detonation. Miroku's knuckles were turning white as he clenched the grip of the 9mm in his hand, he did not want Sango leaving his sight, yet his mind told him Sesshomaru knew it was the right thing to do, he could not bare witness to any harm coming to the woman he loved more than life itself. Sango had to go. Each man there was making a decision for his family not themselves. Miroku could not fathom what must be going through Inuyashas mind at the moment. He had only caught a glimpse of Kikyo and she seemed at deaths feet, Inuyasha's heart must have been breaking, if Sango had to get out, Sesshomaru was right.

 

 

“Baby you must do what he says. Go please.” Miroku gave a great sigh of strained relief; Sesshomaru knew he didn't want his wife in danger any more than he wanted Rin to be in jeopardy.

 

 

“Have you forgotten I control this hospital gentlemen?” Naraku sent a tentacle flying at Sango only to have it shot and cut off by Miroku and Inuyasha, just as Sango sprinted to the stairwell, tears flying in her wake.

 

 

Sango looked back at her husband and friends who were now all attacking the monster with no restraint, that fiend who had infiltrated each of their lives corrupting everything, Miroku was ducking and firing as best he could, yet it seemed bullets did nothing but piss off the bastard even more. Sango's heart went cold as if this was the last time she would see her husband again, and her feet felt as heavy as blocks of cement for a moment. Then Miroku turned looking at her briefly giving her a smile, and Sango took off against the pull of her heart and the screaming of her mind. How could she leave her husband in the battle with such a creature, how could Inuyasha and Sesshomaru allow him to stay in a battle with such a being? Sango wanted to turn back, but knew it would get her nowhere. They wanted to know about Kagome and the baby, they wanted her to be the one to save the family because it seemed the men knew they would be unable, and as hard as that reality was to swallow it was the truth and Sango knew it. Miroku was giving his life to the fray as well to be martyred for the only family they both truly had. Sango wanted to slap Kagome at the moment, and shoot Inuyasha too, if her Miroku died… no, she wasn't going to think about that. Sesshomaru gave her the job to save his clan, her family, and she'd be dammed if she didn't do everything in her power to do just that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The decent down the stairwell to the ER reminded Sango of a Resident Evil video game her husband was addicted to at one time, body parts strewn about like a bad horror film, and far to much blood just dripping down the walls. It was a sight to great for her mind to process that the gore was all real, and Sango made her way carefully not to fall off the blood slick steps or catching a foot on a stray arm or finger. A great sigh of relief left her when Sango finally saw a sign with an arrow pointing to the ER department; however a mass of Naraku's arms were writhing around in the way so she opened fire. Thankful the appendages retreated without putting up a fight, at long last something was working to her advantage. Walking through the door out of the stairwell Sango came face to face with a dead doctor looking directly at her with milky eyes, a spike pinning him through the throat into the wall directly before her face, Sango could not hold back the scream which escaped her from sheer surprise, all she needed now was half a dozen zombies shambling down the hall toward her and the nightmare would be complete.

 

 

Carefully Sango avoided more tentacles following her into the ER hoping to find Kagome alive, but the more she looked the more it seemed nothing made it through the massacre alive. Sango turned to retreat back up the stairs to get Kikyo when she heard a muffled baby's cry.

 

 

“Hello…Kagome? Is that you? Anyone alive in here? Please someone be alive in here? Please answer me someone, anyone?” Sango followed the cry through the war torn ER, finding the locked medication room. Sango tapped on the glass window, suddenly the face of a red-haired teenager appeared scaring the hell out of Sango who screamed and fell backwards to her butt.

 

 

The door opened, and Shippo stepped out. “Sorry, so sorry. Are you okay?” The boy was apologetic and quickly helped Sango to her feet.

 

 

“I heard the baby crying, Kagome, where is Kagome? Is she in there with you?” Shippo glanced back into the room then began walking toward a dark corner of the ER, Sango got goose bumps as she followed, and in her gut she already knew where Kagome was and what her condition would be. “Oh god.” Sango shook her head with a sad realization that Kagome was gone.

 

“Kagome…Kagome is—“ Shippo pointed to a sheet covered body.

 

 

Sango felt tears streak her face as she went to the gurney pulling the sheet from the girls' head. Kagome's hair was matted in blood, but her face was serene, she looked like she was sleeping peacefully. Someone had cleaned up the blood from her face apparently and Sango guessed it had to be the boy.

 

 

“What happened?” Sango quietly spoke, as she smoothed back a stray strand of hair from her forehead.

 

 

Shippo had to choke back tears of his own as he looked at his friend. “It was the fight with that whacked out son of a bitch wolf. Kagome was thrown really violently across a roof and her head hit hard on a vent pipe from what Inuyasha said. Between her brain injury, and…and the baby getting hurt she went into spontaneous labor. But the doctors here, the doctors couldn't save her, they didn't have the right equipment or blood or… I'm so sorry.” Shippo cried out collapsing to his knees silently being racked by sobs on the other side of the gurney laying his head on Kagomes cold body.

 

 

Sango felt so sorry for the boy who obviously really cared for Kagome after there months together. “I couldn't save her, she bled to death right in front of me. Now Inumaru has no mother, and I lost my best friend.” The kitsune howled out. Sango reached over stroking the boys' head for comfort.

 

 

“No kiddo you were there for Kagome when no one else was. You were a great friend you must have been, it's Shippo right?” The boy nodded meeting Sango's large brown eyes. “You did all you could, be proud Inumaru right? Inumaru will someday need you to tell him about his Mother. But now we have to make it out of this hospital alive, and I am going to need your help. Can you help me? I don't think I can do this with out you.” Sango leaned over kissing Kagome on the forehead, saying her goodbyes, and replacing the sheet.

 

 

“What do you need me to do? Sitting in here is making me crazy, and watching the coops and firemen out there keep getting themselves ripped to shreds is kinda depressing, so hells yea I'll help.” Shippo stood to his feet wiping away his tears putting on a brave face as Sango handed him the gun from behind her back.

 

 

“We're going to go save Inumaru's sister and I guess who will be his new Mother.” Shippo's eyes widened. “Think you can handle it kid?”

 

 

“I can do it.” Shippo looked at the gun then up at Sango with a hesitant smile. “But lady you do know there is a monster controlling the hospital right?”

 

 

“Really? I thought John Carpenter was just remodeling for them?” Sango went back to the medication room with the doctors and the baby. “Stay hidden in here until I come back, we're going to be getting out of here real soon. The police and fire department outside are not just going to let this maniac have the place, they keep trying to get in, so we just have to be ready to help them to get us out, I'm sure it'll be soon, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha will weaken him enough so we can get out, I know that is what Sesshomaru is counting on. Right now though that baby is your number one priority. Whatever you do protect that baby with your life. Understand?”

 

 

Both doctors and the nurses nodded, they would protect the newborn. Sango just wished she could trust them. She'd leave the boy if she didn't need him so badly, but Sango needed the strength of a full-blooded youkai to save Suki and Kikyo. Sesshomaru had given her a job to do, and she had never failed him before and the strong willed lawyer was not about to start now.

 

 

Especially since this morning, in the hospital bathroom of Kikyo's room she took a pregnancy test for the hell of it, she wasn't even late, she'd just been feeling queasy in the morning, but low and behold she was pregnant and she wasn't going to let Naraku spoil her surprise for Miroku. Nothing in heaven or on earth was going to jeopardize her chance for a family, she and Miroku's, and her extended family with the Chinkara clan. Heaven help the bastard who got in her way of family.

 

 

Sango looked at the baby boy in wonder, he had the silver-hair of the Inu clan, but midnight forelocks of his mother, Sango could not help but smile, his eyes looking around were almost like pooled mercury; Sango had never seen anything like those eyes in her life. “He is beautiful.”

 

 

“Just like his Mom.” Shippo whispered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inuyasha could not get the blood scent of his wife out of his nose, however it was mixing with the overwhelming stench of Naraku making him nauseous. The clan markings had faded, as his anger was turning to fear for those he loved. Kikyo had gone face to face with a lunatic, and her blood was literally on his hands, his daughter lay upstairs being kept alive by the sheer will of a wolf who loved his family, and his heart ached in pity for the state of Kagome. When he left her she was holding onto life by a thin thread, as was his child. Were they even alive? The monster had to be destroyed, and Inuyasha knew it at the cost of his life to save the others, he was ready and willing.

 

 

Inuyasha continued his charge at Naraku with a purpose only to have Naraku spin around grabbing him by the back of the neck and hurling Inuyasha into the wall behind him. “Do you even have a brain in that head of yours half-breed? That tactic doesn't work.” Naraku's tentacle slithered through the rubble finding and taking hold of Kikyo by the waist holding her up before the brothers, squeezing until the woman passed out. “She was always so frail.” Naraku nonchalantly pitched her down the hallway, her body rolling like a lifeless rag doll.

 

 

“Kikyo is mine!” Inuyasha forced out through clinched fangs. Naraku slammed Inuyasha harder into the wall until the hanyou met the bite of an “I” beam, his head bouncing off of it, the crack to his skull blurring his vision as he saw Sesshomaru attack.

 

 

Naraku threw Inuyasha as well, yet he was able to regain his balance, his claws digging trenches into the floor to stop his skidding on the blood slick surface. “Kikyo is not yours! Kikyo will never be yours you bastard!” Inuyasha growled out as he leapt toward Naraku with his fathers' legacy glowing scarlet in his hands.

 

 

“Oh my. Are you angry pup? Come on sink your baby teeth into me. Then I can break your neck and take your woman for my own like it was supposed to have been.” Naraku's eyes sparkled, as did the fanged teeth stained with Kikyo's blood fueling the rage in Inuyasha's heart.

 

 

 

Inuyasha quickly dash attacked kicking Naraku with both feet and Tetsusaiga slashing across his chest, the plates actually cutting drawing blood. Inuyasha laughed, as he glared eye to eye with the man if the creature could be called that.

 

“She is not now or ever anything to you, you sick fuck! You took advantage of her kind nature and twisted it into something sick!” Inuyasha appeared at Kikyo's side, surprising Naraku at the sudden burst of speed from the hanyou. Her heartbeat was becoming erratic, and fear briefly flashed in Inuyasha's eyes, he just hoped Naraku didn't see it. “You don't love her you don't even know what love is!”

 

 

Naraku sent two appendages at the hanyou only to have Inuyasha dodge them, cutting them to ribbons before his eyes could catch up with the hanyou's movements. Inuyasha was briefly in his face slicing through the bone armor of his right fore arm taking it off at the elbow. Naraku howled in pain. Backing himself into the wall as Inuyasha returned back at Kikyo's side.

 

 

Naraku let out an insane chuckle as he held his bloodied arm to his chest. “Luck. You won't get a second chance boy.” Naraku snaked past the two dog demons, with lightning speed his tentacles looping around a semiconscious Kikyo yanking her body into the air, away from Inuyasha pulling the helpless woman before him as a shield stopping the brothers attacks instantly. “What lost your taste for fighting boys?”

 

 

He held Kikyo like a doll, her eyes shut, her body seemingly lifeless as her arms and legs hung limp in Narakus grasp. Both fingertips and toes pointing downward dripping ribbons of bright red blood adding to the fluidity of the tile they stood on. Inuyasha held back a quick strike out of emotion; he would only hurt Kikyo in the process if he followed his more basic instinct. The bastard was using Kikyo as a shield, just like the coward he truly was. Sesshomaru was gauging his distance if he could make a rapid attack of his own, the Taiyoukai saw an opening, but only if Naraku did not pull Kikyo any closer, and he was concerned about taking such a risk at such close range. Kikyo was fading from the blood loss, yet when she opened her eyes neither brother could contain an inward sigh of relief that Kikyo was still there. It was when she locked eyes with Inuyasha that the hanyou wished to panic, through the blood dripping down her right hand he become aware of a glint in his wife's grip. Kikyo had been holding onto a scalpel the entire time. Miroku was holding his ground further off down the hall, his gun aimed at Naraku waiting for something to happen, his bullets had been made pointless so he stayed as much the wallflower as he could so he could help when needed.

 

 

Kikyo suddenly flexed her torso up, slashing her right hand with the blade slicing through his neck muscles like there was nothing there, the skin and muscle peeling away from the thin blade. Naraku let out a surprised shriek, throwing Kikyo it stunned Inuyasha as he watched her fall in slow motion into a lake of her own blood, her pale face watching his, her eyes locked on his saffron, petrified gaze, it felt as if he was falling with her in such agony as she hit the floor and lay motionless.

 

 

Miroku let loose a barrage of bullets striking the beast in the head, neck, and shoulders. It gave Inuyasha the time needed to grab Kikyo, as his brother let loose his poisoned whip from his fingertips, affectively severing the already wounded arm and a huge mass of tentacles, the flayed muscles of his neck were pouring blood, Kikyo had indeed found a soft spot.

 

 

Naraku withdrew quickly backing into a darkened patient room; his glowing eyes steady on Sesshomaru as Inuyasha was whisking Kikyo away from the immediate area. Sesshomaru used Tokijin to tear open the doorway and wall to expose Naraku's hiding place further. In no way was Sesshomaru going to let up his attacking to the twisted youkai. His acid whip flew from his left hand as Tokijin in his right laid waste to each appendage Naraku threw at him, however the true number of limbs eluded the Inuyoukai. With a crack of breaking tiles from behind him, however he kept his eyes fixed on Naraku Sesshomaru felt a searing pain punch through his right chest, he briefly grimaced, yet no sound of pain came from him, glancing down one of the tentacles turned spear like and ran him through. Grabbing the bony point Sesshomaru broke it off and staggered back a step, blood began pouring from the wound and the pain was accompanied with fire running through his veins; he had been poisoned by his lack of vigilance, somehow Naraku gained an upper hand when he blinked.

 

 

Inuyasha lifted Kikyo into his arms running past Miroku, he heard the breaking tiles from behind him, and Sesshomaru cease attacking, which was a sign for all mortals to leave the area. Inuyasha need not even look back to know something had happened. Miroku followed his friend to the stairwell door.

 

 

“Take Kikyo and get the hell out of here now. Get down to emergency, I am counting on you Miroku.” Inuyasha gingerly placed Kikyo in his arms, somehow Kikyo stayed conscious she opened her eyes weakly putting a hand to the side of Inuyasha's face mouthing I Love You to her husband well knowing the odds of he and Sesshomaru leaving the building were slim to none, and she knew her odds were the same.

 

 

“Inuyasha what—“ Miroku saw a spray of blood come from Sesshomaru as he stumbled backwards.

 

 

“Protect her Miroku, keep my family safe.” Inuyasha kissed Kikyo lightly spun around on his heel and raced to his brothers' side.

 

 

Miroku entered the stairwell running as fast as he safely could with Kikyo who felt as if she were the weight of a feather, further below he heard another door slam, deep in the pit of his stomach he hoped it was friendly and not something of that monsters doing. When he heard the voice of his wife urging for a faster pace, Miroku himself really moved.

 

 

“Don't worry Kikyo we'll get you help and you and Suki out of here. SANGO!” The exhilarated lawyer was flying down the steps toward his wife's voice.

 

 

Two more floors down Sango heard her name echoed, her eyes instantly glazed over when she heard her husbands voice echo her name. Shippo and Ayame briefly paused as Sango turned around heading back up to her spouse.

 

 

“Be careful, we'll see you in emergency.” Ayame was still breathing for an unconscious Suki, who was cradled in Shippo's arms. “Hurry we have to get out of this place and fast.”

 

 

“I'll be right behind you, Miroku is—“

 

 

Kikyo and a panting Miroku came through the door just a Sango was opening it. “Oh thank God!” Miroku eagerly kissed his wife as he held onto Kikyo. “Ayame she's really cold and I can't get her to talk to me.”

 

 

“The ER, now, come on you two. She is in shock.” Ayame urged Shippo on.

 

 

They finally entered the ER to find the doctors and nurses out of hiding with the child and a group of refugees from other floors of the hospital gathering around the doors of the ER entrance. Whatever was going on upstairs was enough to draw away Naraku's attention from holding the hospital siege. The firemen were now mere feet away from getting them all out of the nightmare.

 

 

Kikyo was placed on a gurney and quickly covered in blankets and rehooked to IV's to save her life. Shippo brought her the baby, and Kikyo opened her eyes with a smile, especially when the baby ceased crying when laid upon Kikyo's chest.

 

 

“Wow. Guess he knows who his family really is.” Shippo sighed, as shattering glass caught everyone's attention, and the rush of firemen entering the room, carefully aiding each person out. “Time to leave this nightmare.”

 

 

Shippo aided a paramedic in maneuvering Kikyo's gurney into the raining early morning and straight into an awaiting ambulance. The battle was still raging upstairs; collective booms and pops could be felt through the hospital, almost as if the building was trying to breath. Something bad was going down and no one wanted to be inside the building when it came to its fruition. But for now at least the brothers could finish this without the heavy burden of their loved ones being caught between them and Naraku.