InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hearts in Denial ❯ A Shocking Discovery ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter 4: A Shocking Discovery

By Tainted InuShemeeko

InuYasha gasped as he looked down at Kagome's right hand. He then watched as her fingers twitched again. Could it be was Kagome really going to come around?

"Kagome, Kagome can you hear me? It's Inuyasha, move your finger again if you can hear me."

He pulled in a breath as he watched the fingers on her right hand to twitch. Crystalline tears slid down InuYasha's cheeks as his knees failed on him once more. He then reached out with a shaky hand and held one of Kagome's.

"Please Kagome, please come back to me. I can't lose you, not now; I need you, I always have."

Then all of his carefully build walls cracked and crumbled to the ground. So he cried, he cried out of sadness and guilt, and he cried out all the anger that was building up inside him. So into the moment he failed to sense the presence of someone else just outside Kagome's room.

Sesshomaru stood stock still as he watched the heart-wrenching scene before him. He had always seen his half brother as weak. Yet, out of everything he and InuYasha had been through, this was the first time he had ever seen InuYasha crying. Just as he was about to tell him that crying was for the weak, he felt Rin's gentle hand touch his.

"Sesshomaru, let's wait to tell him about us. I think he needs to be alone with his feelings right now. I'm sure in a little while he won't seem so weak to you."

His honey brown eyes widened as he then turned to the young woman who had managed to crack the ice on his frozen heart.

`How is it that Rin knows what I am thinking before I say it? Surly I am not that readable to a human?'

Giving Rin a slow nod he turned and left InuYasha to his sadness. She was right; they had plenty of time to tell him their news. However, now he felt ashamed for waiting so long to tell him.

"As you wish, Rin, I shall do as you ask. Let us go and leave InuYasha with his thoughts."

InuYasha hadn't even realized that Sesshomaru had been there; he was too focused on Kagome. That was when the voice of his best friend broke the silence in the room.

"InuYasha, let's go and get something to eat, okay?"

His voice was void of anymore emotion, his body felt numb he wasn't even sure if he was still alive anymore.

"No thanks, Miroku, why don't you, Sango, and Kikyo go without me. I'm not that hungry."

Miroku couldn't believe what he was hearing, most of the time he was a quiet person. However, he was starting to lose his patience with InuYasha.

"You've been in this room, in that spot for almost two days. You haven't spoken to any of us; you haven't even had anything to eat. Now come on and go with us, if I have to, I'll take you by force."

InuYasha turned his golden eyes toward Miroku, he couldn't believe it, was Miroku challenging him?

"You wouldn't dare."

Miroku continued to glare at InuYasha, he just couldn't believe how incredibly stupid he was being. He wanted so much to just yell at InuYasha, he knew, however, that it wouldn't be right. Kikyo then came to Miroku's aid.

"InuYasha, if you are that worried about Kagome waking up while you are gone; I will stay here with her."

InuYasha looked over at Kikyo for a few minutes, before he decided to speak.

"Thanks, Kikyo, but I couldn't do that to you."

At this point Miroku was about to give up, he then sighed as he walked away. Miroku then decided to speak; his words caused more pain to swirl within InuYasha's chest.

"You seem to forget InuYasha; you're not the only one that this happened too. You're also not the only one hurting here either. However, it would seem that your feelings are the only thing that you can think about. I understand the grief that you are feeling, I felt it too when I found her. Did you forget that Kagome and I grew up together?"

InuYasha's eyes widened as realization set in.

"Miroku, I…"

Miroku held a hand up to silence InuYasha.

"No, InuYasha, I blame myself the most. Kagome is like the little sister I never had. So please don't try to apologize right now, we all need time to think things through. I am sure of one thing; the images of her when I found her with haunt me forever."

Miroku then continued to walk out of Kagome's room. Sango reached a hand out toward him as he walked past her.

"Miroku?"

He didn't ever bother to look up at her as he replied to her.

"I'm a little tired, Sango; would it be alright if we went home for dinner?"

Tears pooled at the base of her eyes as she looked over at her fiancé, he looked like he was broken, not just tired.

"Of course, Miroku, if it's what you want to do, you know it doesn't matter to me."

Miroku looked up and looked over at her with his two sad slate eyes, a small smile brushed onto his lips.

"It is, Sango."

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InuYasha stared out the door as he watched Miroku and Sango leave. However could he have been so stupid? He should have thought about how his friends were feeling as well, but after seeing Kagome lying so still in the hospital bed, his whole body just went numb. Then a commanding yet strangely gentle voice spoke to him.

"Come, InuYasha, you will come home with Rin and I tonight. For if you refuse I will have to commit you to the hospital tonight, you will do the girl no good if you do not take care of yourself."

Without giving InuYasha time to react Sesshomaru attacked from behind. His claws pierced through the flesh on InuYasha's shoulders. Within two minutes he had slumped to the floor. Rin glared over at Sesshomaru as he picked his little brother up and threw him over his shoulder.

"Rin, let's go."

Sesshomaru smirked as he saw the fire that was now burning in Rin's cinnamon eyes. Yes, she was indeed someone very special.

"Sesshomaru, I can't believe you just did that to InuYasha."

Something playful flickered inside of his golden eyes as he looked over at Rin.

"You wanted him to come home with us did you not? Had I not done it the fool would still be in the room come tomorrow. We have what we came back for; I wish to leave here before he comes too. The poison I placed into his system will not last long."

He gave a simple nod to Kikyo and left the room with InuYasha over his shoulder and Rin following close behind him. That left Kikyo alone in the room Kagome. She had so many things that we wished to tell Kagome, and now it seemed like she would have sometime before she had to leave.

She walked slowly over to the side of the bed and looked down at her best friend. Kagome meant so many things to her, she wasn't unsure of where she should begin.

"Why, Kagome, why didn't you let InuYasha wait for you and take you home the other night? You knew your car was acting up, yet you decline him of his offer."

Kikyo then found herself becoming angry at her friend more and more.

"Was it because of me? Even when InuYasha and I called it quits, you told me that you were sure that we would get back together."

It wasn't long before Kikyo found herself crying, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop.

"I know you have feelings for InuYasha, it's the way you look at him; there is a sparkle in your eyes that was never there before. I guess the same thing could be said for InuYasha. He seems to become another person when he's around you. I think it's been good for him, you've been able to help him in ways I could not."

She then leaned over her sleeping friend and placed a gentle kiss to her forehead. In so many ways Kikyo had been hurt, yet at the same time the pain she felt was of her own making. She had always had a feeling that Kagome had hidden feelings for InuYasha, and at the same time she had ignored them.

"You must listen to me, you must. Do not give up, Kagome, you can't, you have to fight."

Without another word, Kikyo turned and walked out of the room. There wasn't much more she could do. So she walked back out into the waiting room. Kikyo decide that she would stay there for tonight, for all of their sakes.

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Three and a half blocks away in a two-bedroom apartment with soft beige curtains in the main bedroom; a couple lay in bed in each other's arms. The horrible happening of the week rushing through their minds, the man's fiancée remain quite as she laid her head into her lover's chest. She had something important to tell him but at the same time she was unsure if it was the right time.

The female then decided that no time was going to be the best time to tell him. So she had just decided to come out with it.

"Miroku, there's something I have to tell you. I was going to say something the other day during Kagome's birthday dinner. With everything that happened, I didn't get to tell you."

Miroku shifted in the bed so he could get a better look at Sango.

"Sango, what is it, you know you can tell me anything."

There was a slight uneasiness in Sango's brown eyes as she looked at Miroku.

"Well, I haven't got the test results back yet, but the doctor is pretty sure that…"

At hearing this news, Miroku didn't even give her a chance to finish.

"Test results, doctor? Sango, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Sango now felt like she was trapped as she stumbled over her words.

"Well, a few days ago, I just didn't feel like myself, so I figured I should go see the doctor. She did some blood tests, and all we have to do is wait for the results to come in."

Taking a deep calming breath Sango let her last sentence out is one big rush.

"I think I'm…I think I'm pregnant, Miroku. This really wasn't planned, I know, and with everything that has happened with Kagome, it's really not the best time, but…"

Miroku's heart seemed to fill with air and float away as he heard the news. Sango was pregnant, it was the greatest news that he could have heard right now. Well, besides the doctors calling them and telling him that Kagome had some how recovered over night; that would've been wonderful. He, however, knew that that was just a dream. With the biggest grin on his face, Miroku couldn't hold back his joy as he kissed Sango's forehead. He then brought her lips to his in a passionate kiss. Miroku then listened to Sango's gentle voice as she spoke.

"I wanted everyone special to me to know about it at the same time. I also wanted to hear Kagome's excited voice when she heard and I wanted to have her hug me so hard that I felt like I couldn't breathe. Now, after all that has happened, that wish of mine will never happen."

Miroku was all too aware of how Sango felt. He knew that the best way to help himself deal with his feelings, was to help Sango with hers.

"You know, even though Kagome isn't awake right now, she can still hear us. So when we go to the hospital tomorrow evening, you can tell her."

"I'm not going to the law firm tomorrow, so maybe I could go and see her tomorrow morning."

Miroku wrapped his arms around Sango as he spoke to her right before sleep claimed him.

"You can do that too, if that's what you want. Just as long as we don't give up, everything will work out in the end."

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InuYasha's shoulders still ached from yesterday; he couldn't believe that Sesshomaru had poisoned him in order to get him to leave with him. He had become completely embarrassed when he woke up this morning to find Rin placing a cool rag to his forehead. InuYasha's body was still a little numb from the poison, but at least he could move now.

He had seen Sango's car in the parking lot, which meant she had gotten out of work just like he had. They both worked at different law firms at the moment; however, the one was always aware of the other's movements.

`Sango must have decided to go see Kagome before I got here. Can't say I blame her, I've made it hard for anyone to see her.'

InuYasha stopped right outside of Kagome's room, his dog ears picking up on bits and pieces of what Sango was saying to Kagome.

"Sorry for the sucky birthday the other day. It wasn't supposed to be like that, you know. I had something that I had wanted to tell you guys that day. Miroku and the other doctors keep telling me that you can still hear me so here goes."

She pulled in a breath and then let it out slowly, before speaking again.

"Well, here goes, I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think I'm pregnant. The doctor said she should have the results back sometime today. So you know I know that you will pull out of this. You have to cause if you don't who's going to help me boss Miroku around? When I need him to go out to go get me what ever I'm craving at all hours of the day?"

A bittersweet smile appeared on her face as she then spoke again.

"You know, if you wanted to come in all you had to do is ask, InuYasha."

There was a loud thump as InuYasha fell to the ground, how was it she always knew where he was at? It was kind of scary if you thought about. InuYasha then slowly pulled himself off of the ground.

"Damn it, Sango, how the hell do you do that?"

Sango just shrugged her shoulders as she looked over at InuYasha.

"It's a skill, InuYasha, that's all. It comes in handy in the court room, you know."

InuYasha just rolled his eyes as he replied to Sango's words.

"Feh, whatever, Sango."

This caused Sango to giggle a little, the soft of InuYasha voice talking softly made her stop.

"Uh, congratulations Sango, I'm happy for you and Miroku both. The two of you will make great parents. Also, tell Miroku I'm sorry for being such baka yesterday."

Sango blushed lightly as she realized what he was talking about.

"So then you heard me talking to Kagome."

InuYasha folded his arms over one another as he leaned up against the wall. He then pointed to his ears.

"Dog ears, remember, kind of hard to not pick things up."

Sango then turned her chocolate eyes back to Kagome, when she noticed something shinnying in the corners of her eyes.

"InuYasha look, look at Kagome's eyes. I…I think she's crying."

InuYasha sniff the air, there was salt and moisture in the air. Sango was right; Kagome had to be crying. Both he and Sango rushed to her side as several of her fingers began to twitch. Sango then noticed movement under her eyelids.

"InuYasha, go get a doctor quick, I think she's coming too."

"Right."

Was all he said, as he sped out of the room. With only one thing on his mind, Kagome, they were going to get her back.

Sango's voice stuck in her throat as she watched the lips of her best friend move. She had forgotten that the doctor had said that she may never talk again.

"That's ok though, Kagome, we'll cross that bridge when you get there. The important thing is you're alive and you're coming back to us."

TBC

(A/N: To ice-2k4: I want to thank you from your kind criticism. It was very refreshing.

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