InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgiving Loss ❯ Chapter 3 Losing Grip ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3: Losing Grip

"Look, guys, she's waking up!"

Kagome slowly fluttered her eyes open, adjusting herself to the dim light of the room.

"Kagome, are you alright?" asked a young man, his emerald green eyes sparkling with tears.

"H-Huh? Wha- Where am I?"

"You're in the Mizato Hospital. Kagome, we were so worried," a girl with dark, long hair said, almost near tears.

"Worried? About what?"

"Kagome, you ran into the middle of a street and the car wasn't able to stop so you got hit."

"I was hit by a car?"

A girl with blonde hair nodded. "Yeah, you scared us all, you know. Please tell us you're okay."

"I guess, but could you please tell me …who are you all?"

Everyone in the room gasped.

One of the girls with golden yellow-brown eyes and dark hair with a tint of blue stepped to side of the bed. "Kagome, are you sure you're okay?"

"I'm guessing I'm Kagome, but yeah, I think. I just don't know who you are."

"I'm Rin, Rin. Don't you remember?"

"No, not that I can say."

"I'm Rin, and there's Sango and Shippou and Kirara. Please tell me you remember and this is all some sort of joke."

"I'm sorry, but I don't really know you, though I can say you look familiar. Should I know you people?"

"Oh, no, she has amnesia," said the blonde.

"You have to at least remember Inuyasha, right?" asked the girl with dark hair and eyes.

"Inuyasha? Who's he?"

Rin sighed, finally giving up. "The grief from the phone call and the car accident must have sent you into a state of shock, causing you to have amnesia. That's the only conclusion that I can come up with, unless the doctors can come up with another scenario."

The door to the small room opened and a nurse came in. "I see the patient has awakened. How are you feeling dear?"

"She's not doing well. We think she has amnesia. She doesn't remember us or anything," spoke the blonde, who was apparently Kirara.

"Oh dear, that just won't do. We'll have to do more examinations of her to make sure she doesn't have a concussion. Oh, and Ms. Aoikone?"

"Yes?" Rin answered.

"Could you please go to the waiting room for a moment? Ms. Zenya's doctor would like to ask you a few questions."

"Thank you. Excuse me guys."

Rin walked out of the room and shut the door quietly behind her. She walked down towards the data clerk's desk and across from there was the waiting room for the second floor. She walked in to see Dr. Mangetsu looking through some papers.

"Excuse me, Dr. Mangetsu, you wanted to see me?"

The young doctor looked up from his paperwork and smiled slightly at Rin. "Yes, Ms. Aoikone. I wanted to ask you a few questions about the accident. Please, follow me." He led Rin down another hall and to his office. He sat down his papers and gestured for her to sit down in one of the chairs facing his desk.

"You were there at the moment of the car accident, were you not?"

"Yes, I was. I wish I could have done something, but I guess I couldn't move myself to help my friend."

"Don't fret too much about it. It wasn't your fault; there is no one to blame here for what has been done. Now, you're the friend of Mrs. Zenya?"

"Yes. We've known each other since high school. We were going to be sister-in-laws since I'm marrying her husband's brother within the next two months."

"I see. And you talked with her just before the accident?"

"Yes. I was walking through the park when I saw her sitting in the grass while it was raining. She was pretty saddened."

"Tell me, what happened during the time that you were with her before the accident?"

"She told me that her husband had just called from Britain and said he wanted a divorce. She must have been distressed after that and ran to the park without knowing it; that's what I can guess she did seeing as she her car was still at the house. I wanted to take her home so that she could calm herself. You see, she was already in bad shape since she was worried about her husband being gone for two weeks and hadn't spoke to him since he left. She told me she didn't want to go back to the house, to him and took off running. She ran in the middle of the street without knowing it, and when I arrived it was too late." Rin was near tears again as she recollected the events from a few hours ago.

"Is there anything else?"

"Anything else?"

"Did you notice something strange about the incident or the past events?"

"Besides the fact that my friend's husband has decided that he wants a divorce?! No, there isn't anything strange! Kagome has been told that she wasn't worthy enough for a baka like Inuyasha when it seems like that if he truly wants a divorce, then he's been only using Kagome! My friend in there has lost her baby, her memory, and even the one person that mattered to her if nothing else mattered. She has done nothing to deserve this, and yet that baka Inuyasha wants to make her suffer! Seriously, the world is fine and dandy and nothing's out of place while my best friend suffers unknowingly. Why else do you think she has amnesia? Getting a shocking and most depressing phone call and being hit by a car is not something that you can get away without a scratch!"

"Ms. Aoikone, calm down. I know you're frustrated over Mrs. Zenya's condition, but please do not take it out on anyone that is just trying to help. I am simply asking if you remember Mrs. Zenya telling you about the phone conversation other than that her husband wanted a divorce."

"Other than what I've told you, no. She only managed to get out that Inuyasha wanted a divorce and she started to break down crying."

"Thank you, miss. That is all I request from you for today. You may leave if you please."

Dr. Mangetsu started going some more papers as Rin got up to leave. Then she turned back to him and asked, "Do you know if Kagome will recover her memory soon?"

"It's uncertain. All I can say is that we will be working for the next few days trying to figure out a way to help diagnose the problem and hope to solve it. Mrs. Zenya had to have experienced a very great amount of shock to have come down to this, so the only way to find out is to get in touch with Mr. Zenya."

`No friggin' duh!' "Thank you, doctor." Rin walked out of the office exasperated. `Is there not one competent doctor in this whole hospital that can point out more than just the obvious? Of course Kagome experienced a lot of shock. I was there! Oh, Kagome. What happened over the phone to have caused this to happen?'

Rin hadn't been looking where she was going and bumped into someone. She stumbled backwards but kept her balance. "Sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going and…Sesshoumaru?"

"Rin, I got your message. What happened?" Sesshoumaru looked down at Rin as tears welled up in her eyes once more for that day.

"Sesshoumaru-sama!" she inadvertently called him by her childhood name as she leaned in to his chest. She began bawling in arms, mumbling incoherent words.

Sesshoumaru placed his hands on her shoulders, pulling her back some so that he could make sense of her words. "Rin, what has happened to the miko?"

"She was…was hit by a car…Inuyasha told her…he wanted a divorce……Kagome's lost h-her…"

"Kagome's lost her what?"

"Memory. She's lost her memory and her baby. She doesn't remember anything."

"Come, Rin, let's sit down so you can calm yourself. I did not know my little brother to be this thick-headed as to do such a thing."

Rin showed him the way to Kagome's room as she tried to compose herself.

When they walked in, Kagome had a very shocked and saddened look on her face. "What has happened here?" Sesshoumaru asked as he sat Rin in a chair.

"I lost a baby. I did not know that I had been pregnant. I feel so reckless and ashamed."

"Do not blame yourself, miko. My worthless brother should be the one to blame."

"You called me miko. Why is that?"

"Because you…"

"That's enough for today. My patient needs her rest and I will not allow you to disrupt her anymore. It is way past visiting hours. You may come back at ten o'clock tomorrow if you must speak with her."

Rin stood up. "When will she be up for discharge?"

"Tomorrow evening at the earliest. We have to do some screenings in the morning before she can be released. Are you a relative?"

"Not exactly. This is her brother-in-law, and I'm his fiancée. We will be taking her to our house since no one else is at her home. Her mother and grandfather are out of town and her brother is just settling in college in Kyoto so we're her closest relatives in town."

"Well, she can go home with you tomorrow. You will have to fill out the discharge papers tomorrow afternoon, but for now, I must ask you to leave for the night. Good night."

Everyone got up and began exiting the room. Kagome waved back to them. "Goodbye everybody."

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"So I have a brother?"

Rin nodded as she turned out of the hospital the next evening. "Yes, his name's Souta. Do you remember Souta?"

"No, but his name sounds familiar. I can't remember much of anything right now. Did the doctors say anything about how long before I get my memory back?"

"No. They said that there are many different cases of amnesia and each takes its time, depending on what caused the problem. They say yours is the one of the most severe and to just keep reminding you gradually about your life and the things you know."

"That man, the one that you came in with."

"Sesshoumaru? What about him?"

"He called me `miko'. Why is that?"

"He was referring to you as a sort of priestess. You have immense spiritual power and can purify youkai and the like. You have extraordinary powers that most people could not even fathom."

"I'm a priestess? Wow. So, do I use my powers?"

"Yeah, when you're on a job for the agency."

"Agency?"

"Oh, sorry. You work for the Seikyo no Tenshi Agency with the rest of us. We do business with exterminating apparitions and youkai. Some of us also work as makeshift bodyguards or protectorates. You help us find where the youkai are or whatever is plaguing the client. We're known world-wide."

"That's pretty cool. So everybody that visited me last night, they all work for this agency?"

"Yeah, pretty much. Kirara and Sango are exterminators, Shippou is usually the illusionist that disguises himself as the target of the enemy or is just a decoy, and Sesshoumaru is one of the major protectors/bodyguards. I just dabble a little in everything, I guess. I don't like to be one thing for an extended amount of period."

"I don't know why, but some of you don't seem to be human. Why's that?"

"Ah, that's one of your powers. You can sense if a youkai is hiding as a human or other creature. Kirara is part fire neko youkai, part human, Shippou is a kitsune youkai, Sesshoumaru is a poison inu youkai, and I'm part ice neko youkai, well, more like a snow leopard, but yeah. You'll meet Ayame and Kouga later who are wolf youkai. We all wear special charms that keep us from looking apart from the humans. There's also Miroku who is a spiritualist like yourself."

"So you're basically killing your own kind?"

"Not exactly how I would put it. We hunt them, but we don't actually kill them. There are certain penitentiaries that house youkai. Only the most extreme cases are essentially killed, but that doesn't happen often. It's just like how the laws that humans put up to control their kind. This is just for youkai."

"Well that makes sense. This Sesshoumaru person, you said that you are my closest relatives in town. You said he's my brother-in-law, so that makes you my sister-in-law?"

Rin blushed slightly. "Yeah, kinda. It's not official yet. We're not getting married until next month."

Kagome smiled. "You must really love him. I'm happy for you."

"Thanks."

"So, his brother is my husband? Since you said that I had a baby, I am assuming that I have a husband, right?"

The content look on Rin's face disappeared. "Yeah, his name is Inuyasha."

"Why do you look mad when you say that?"

Rin blinked, trying to make her face indifferent to her emotions. "It's nothing. We're here at my house."

Kagome looked at the mansion that was about two miles from downtown Tokyo. The outside gave a majestic outlook as the front yard was bigger than two hospitals side by side. Kagome didn't even want to imagine how big the backyard was.

"This is your house? It's huge."

"It's really Sesshoumaru's house. His father gave it to him as his graduation present."

"Graduation from college?"

"More like high school." Kagome's jaw dropped. Rin smiled and tugged at her hand. "Come on, I'll show you around."

The girls laughed as Rin shared with Kagome some of her happier moments when they were in college. Sesshoumaru became an onlooker as he stared down at the two from his office on the third floor. His office phone rang along with his cell phone, which happened to be connected with the office. He looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Inuyasha's cell.

He picked up the phone and answered, "Hello, little brother."

"Finally, where the hell is everybody? I've been trying to reach someone for the day and a half!"

"Maybe they refuse to answer your calls because of you."

"What do you mean by that, Sesshoumaru?"

"The question should not be about what I mean. It should be why do you wish to hurt the miko."

"Damn it, Sesshoumaru! I ain't got time for your riddles. Have you talked or seen Kagome?"

"Perhaps. Why do you wish to know?"

"Because I can't get in touch with her since yesterday."

"And there is reason as to why she has not spoken with you. Why do you question of her? Should you really be concerned with her since you are the one that suffers her?"

"What the hell are you talking about?! Just tell me where she is and maybe I'll decide to not hack something off you for leaving me here in England with these dumb jackasses!"

"Should I? I have no reason to meddle in the affairs of one who scorns the one person that loves him. Should anyone be accused of the miko's mishap, shall it be you, little brother, the one that she held closest to her?"

"What are you talking about? You're not making any sense!"

"Am I? This Sesshoumaru has nothing more to say to you, little brother."

"Sesshouma-" The line was cut off as Sesshoumaru ended the call and turned off his cell phone.

Aoikone: blue kitten (aoi-blue, koneko-kitten)

Mangetsu: full moon

End of chapter three. Now to go rummage through my refrigerator to find food while I play .hack//QUARANTINE. Ja!

BA326's Final Thoughts:

Why would a person love to have a boyfriend named Savage? Is there like some hidden meaning behind this claim, because I am just confused. And the friend that said this, you know who you are! And Savage, if you are reading this, do not look at me weird because of my friend's perverted thoughts in which she won't tell me why. All that I know is that she thinks Savage would be a cool name for a boyfriend to have so that she could show him off to everybody. She has weird and wrong desires/fantasies that I don't think I want to know what they are.