InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Her Love was Wont to Hate Her ❯ The Hospital and The Twist Unseen ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Chapter 7: The Hospital and The Twist Unseen
Beep. Beep. Beep.
The constant tempo was anything but comforting. It was irking and... and she couldn’t find another word to describe it. Coming back to the waking world was a painful event. At least she thought so, but found only a dull throbbing sensation in her side. She hadn’t wanted to come back, to the real world, she had been content in her bleak gray world of no worries. But, something had pulled on her sub-conscious mind. Sighing she decided to find out ‘where the fuck’ that annoying beeping was coming from. When she opened her eyes she had to squint for a good ten seconds before she could see. Once she saw what it was that was beeping, she paled. ‘I hate hospitals’ she groaned in thought. This seemed to make the figure in the chair beside her move. She tensed. “Dariko, what are you doing here?” Secretly she was glad he was here. She never liked being alone in a hospital. Correction, She despised being alone in a hospital.
Shuffling slightly when he heard a groan. As he woke from a fitful, and frankly uncomfortable sleep he heard the words although not all that clear. ‘What are you doing here?’ He turned to the lump on the bed. “I’m not aloud to come visit my wife?” He smirked when she narrowed her eyes...
She stared at him through narrowed lids. “You have no wife, Dariko,” She hadn’t continued because she saw that awful smirk on his face. Awfully, sexy. His reply made her jaw drop. “You, were put under the name Dariko, Kagome. Here I get the best treatment, so it is only fair that my wife does to,” Her face turned red in anger. “You overbearing, arrogant, son of a...” She hadn’t noticed that he had come closer to the bed until he kissed her. Effectively ending her tirade. She saw his smirk. She sighed before settling a glare on his face. “Bastard.” She muttered. He chuckled and although she tried to hide it there was a small smile breaking its way onto her face. Deciding it was time to get serious, she turned to him and sighed before looking him in the face.
“Why?” it was a simple question really. Even he had to admit that. But as all one worded ‘simple’ questions seemingly the answers are to difficult or maybe emotionally impossible to answer. She seemed to be glaring at him in impatience. “Why?” She had repeated the question. “Why what?” deciding to play oblivious to the situation he looked at the wall behind her head. Thinking of how it seemed to be an off white, or was it eggshell? Any thought was welcomed except the answer to her question. Because he didn’t know the answer to it.
He’s deliberately going around my question, she thought. “Dariko, You don’t have the potential as an actor. I see through the dumb act.” Her eyes were blazing. He could have sworn that her eyes had turned red, for a second. “I don’t know.” was his stoic reply. It had been so low that she had nearly missed it. “What?” she asked clearly annoyed. “I said, I. Don’t. Know.” He had said it in clipped tones. “You mean to tell me, that you, Dariko Sesshoumaru, have no clue as to why you called me your wife, why you..” He interrupted her with a glare and a furious growl. “Sesshoumaru?” Her voice was uncertain. “I wanted you to get the best in this hospital and not be hounded by fans. In this place hardly anyone knows you, so you have nothing to worry about. It is one of my hospitals, and I have special surgeons here. So any person in a regular hospital who would have to leave in a month, here, would leave in a week. Completely healed.” She stared at him a dazed expression on her face. “Why?” She took a deep breath. “You shouldn’t have done this, you don’t care, I’ve come to terms with tha...” Once again the man found it appropriate to kiss away her words. Sighing this time before returning the kiss. Deepening it in the process. They were reluctant to pull apart as the nurse came in to check the wound on her side. “How are you doing today Mrs. Dariko?” Kagome smiled at the lady. “Fine. Thank you.” Hmm... this lady has that look in her eyes, thought Kagome warily. “You’ll only have to stay three more days,” Smiling she sighed. “Thanks,” She said. “yeah, but when you leave be sure to rest for a while,” She looked at the nurse for a moment before replying with a “hn.” Sesshoumaru noted that the nurse seemed irritated and he smirked, before replacing his impassive façade and glaring at the nurse.
When she relaxed against her pillow Sesshoumaru pulled out his cell phone which had begun ringing some time after the nurse left. Reluctantly, Sesshoumaru turned to her. “I have to go, I... Do you have any clue as to who did this to you?” She sighed. “Someone with the initial ‘D’, here” she said pulling her jacket from the chair that was beside her and pulling out the picture and note that was there. “So, I was going to confront you about the note. .. but that wasn’t necessary because you couldn’t have possibly been the one to send it.” Noticing how his eyes traced her form in the picture she smiled. “I look good, don’t I?” He didn’t even look at her as he replied with a “hn.” We look good together, he thought silently. Although, now he remembered the torture of the dreams he had been having. He couldn’t deny the feelings he had for the girl, but that didn’t mean he had to admit it to her. “I have to go talk to my half baka brother about something, I’ll be back later.” Her eyes widened as he kissed her on the cheek, then he left. She couldn’t resist the smile that came onto her face as she noted that he had tensed at the door before continuing. The man had been preoccupied obviously he hadn’t realized that he had kissed her on the cheek until he had reached the door. The goofy lopsided smile remained on her face as she slept. Even the next day when she saw him sitting on the chair just as he had done the night before. This time though, she walked over to him. Careful of the noise that she could make. Suddenly she felt eyes on her. Looking she noted that it wasn’t her golden eyed love. She tensed turning to the door. She held in a gasp of shock to see red eyes staring at her. No, correction, Those eyes were leering, at her. Was that lust? She shook slightly with unveiled disgust. “Who are you?” She asked quietly before noting that she didn’t want to wake Sesshoumaru up. He was a busy man... He had been tired. “My name is Dariko Naraku,” The mans eyes were still on her she noted. “What do you want?” His eyes were now calm. The calm before the storm. “I want you,” He sneered while looking past her. “But, he had you. You little slut. You couldn’t wait for me to gain his visage, you couldn’t keep your palms off of him and you didn’t stop dancing. All because of him. Because you didn’t see me.” She stare at him disbelievingly. “You had a Dariko, right in front of you but you were too blind... I told you that you shouldn’t have started dancing... You had your head in the clouds the moment my cousin came onto the stage of our gym...”
She recognized that voice from somewhere. She knew who this was.. this was... “You... You’re that son of a... you were the bastard that always called me yours, you and that wolfy dude... what was his name again... Dango Kougi... No Kouga, Dango Kouga you two were the bane of my existence in high school. But I was at a higher level than you two, I graduated early. You still aren’t over me...”. He sneered his red eyes glinting malevolently as he spoke. “No, one never gets over their first love... though Kouga is happily married, with two children, to some wench named Ayame,” Kagome stared at him for a moment. “You did this, you had me shot because you wanted me,” Her voice was low. Sesshoumaru had woken up some time ago, surprisingly he had been able to keep the guise of sleeping as long as she wasn’t getting hurt he decided that he could listen in to what was being said. He had to fight down the urge to slice his cousins throat. But at her last mention of how his cousin had ‘wanted her’ He held back no longer. “You won’t have her, dearest, cousin” With that he lunged at him. Going past the female that was quietly leaning on her bed. She didn’t bother to watch the fight between the two. This was because she had the sinking suspicion that the ‘cousin’ hadn’t done it. Not that she was going to stop Sesshoumaru from beating the shit out of him.
Sesshoumaru had the man by the neck before she decided enough was enough. “Sesshoumaru... let the man go, he’s near death and you don’t want to go to jail,” Sesshoumaru spared her a glance before making sure his cousin was unconscious. He dropped the man, then turned to her. “You ok?” How uncharacteristic of him.
“Yeah, I’m ok,” her voice was shaky. Sighing he grabbed her and sat her in his lap so that he could wrap her in his arms protectively. Just as he was about to say something a nurse came in. “How are...” the nurse was silent. Not because there was a man unconscious on the floor. But because of the scene before her eyes. The nurse was furious. That was what Kagome noticed any way. Sesshoumaru seemed to not be paying attention to the nurse at all. “Is there anything you need?” asked the nurse in mock politeness. “Yes, please have someone come to take this man to the infirmary I want to talk to him when he comes to,” The nurse nodded grimly before sending a glare to Kagome who ignored it and snuggled up to Sesshoumaru. She intentionally sent the nurse a smug look when Sesshoumaru held her tighter.
“I’m taking you to my place,” He was worried. There was a lot of tension in the air. He surmised that she was annoyed. “Ok,” Gaping he looked at the back of her head. “Close your mouth, hon, you’re gonna let flies in,” Chuckling she got off of his lap. Closing his mouth he smirked. “hn.” She growled in annoyance when he shrugged. “you always say hn. why? its annoying when you do it, because you sound to good doing it...” He smirked, but said nothing as they left the room together. Once they got to his home he led her to a guest room.
“Thank you, I wouldn’t want to be alone after all of that.” He nodded before leaving her to her own devices. After he entered his room she tip toed out of her room and down the hall, down some stairs and across another hall way. When she got to the end of the hall way she saw a dojo. “Curious are we?” gasping she turned around, only to come face to face with a woman who had blue eyes and brown hair. “Who are you?” She was curious about her. “The name is Kaiosuta,” Her voice was calm. “Why are you here?” asked Kagome. “I’m here because Sesshoumaru allows me to use his dojo,” Kagome narrowed her eyes. “sure,” She left the room quietly...
A few days later Dariko Naraku found himself at the mercy of a still very pissed off Sesshoumaru. “I didn’t have her shot, I’m just a masochist trying to find his way!” Sesshoumaru didn’t give a shit weather he had done it or not he had provoked him and payback was in order. Few minutes later, Sesshoumaru came out of the room practically glowing. Sure his cousin was innocent of this one crime, but it was just a hell of an annoyance when his cousin had just happened to be there when she was about to touch him. He liked her touch and hell if he’d let her know he had heard her get out of the hospital bed. A while after Sesshoumaru left a nurse came into a room and let out a shriek. Obviously, Sesshoumaru had left him badly injured, and in the process just left an nurse to be emotionally scarred for life. It was also apparent that his cousin wasn’t to be a suspect anymore, he would have to find others, but who could it be? He enjoyed beating his cousin he was slightly upset that he wasn’t the one who had done it. slightly. But he had a clue as to who it was.
In the next three weeks that she stayed there she had annoyed Sesshoumaru and found it amusing and fun how he reacted to some varieties of her forms of teasing, and she had him teach her how to defend herself. She hadn’t seen Kaiosuta for any of the three weeks. However her skills as a fighter improved, wonderfully. She had an inclination that it would help her dancing also. With a sigh she walked out of the room and down the hall towards the dining room. “Why couldn’t you have followed the note? Why do you constantly veer for his attention?” This was the voice of Kaiosuta who had been at the back of her mind for a week. Kagome sneered, “Why are you here,” in seconds she realized what the other girl had said. “What the hell do you mean? YOU! How dare you? It was you who sent the note, but why?” The other girl didn’t answer for a second which caused Kagome to get pissed. Within seconds she found that she had the other girls throat in her hands, “You,” was Kagomes’ stoic reply. The girl looked at her. “Yes me!” Kaiosuta glared. Kagome sighed but her grip on the other girls neck did not loosen. “Why?” she said. “Because he was mine first, I had him within my grasp then you go and dance beating him and catching his attention...” Kaiosuta never looked more idiotic to Kagome than in that moment. “You’re delusional,” was all Kagome said. “ I doubt it, besides Sesshoumaru had to leave for a while this morning,” With that the other girl pushed a cloth against Kagome’s nose and in milliseconds she was out like a light.
When she woke up Kagome blearily found herself tied to a chair that was on top of a desk. “Good, you are awake. I will tell you this once and once only, stay away from Sesshoumaru, for he belongs to I Damien Kaiosuta,” Kagomes’ tone immediately turned cold. “No” was her stoic reply. “Why?”, “Because I love him baka,” Kagome snorted ‘so that was where the ‘D’ initial came from’ this was thought in retrospect of the note she had received . “Now, why am I here, why couldn’t you have just approached me like any normal person... why did you have me shot?”
“I had to have you shot so that you would not have the man that I want...” that much was obvious, Kagome snorted. “But you got his attention anyway. I should just kill you now.” Kagome looked at the woman with a stoic countenance. “I got him, because he needs somebody to hate loving, You he loves to hate. You are really pathetic,” her voice was impassive as well as her face. The temperature seemed to drop with her statement. “Nonsense, you know nothing. I was close to being his woman. He was my man, and you stole him...” Kagomes’ eyes narrowed in anger before she replied with, “At least I know how to keep a man,”. Kaiosuta growled in anger. “Listen, bitch you know I could kill you right now,” To emphasize her point she stuck a gun in Kagomes’ face. “Whore you have no life. Or intelligence if you think that I am afraid of a gun. I have already been near death and I’d welcome it.” Kagomes’ voice was deadpan and serious. “You don’t want to die,” came the reply full of surety that what she said was true. “You know nothing, I’ll teach you a thing or two if you let me down. I’ll be blunt, if you don’t untie me and let me down from this desk, I’ll kick your ass, and/or Sesshoumaru will beat the shit out of you.” The other figure in the room laughed. “You are a baka, Sesshoumaru isn’t even going to...” She paused when someone broke the door down. “Come,” Kagome had finished the sentence for her with a smug look in her eyes. Sesshoumaru rushed forwards not paying any attention to Kaiosuta, as he untied Kagome and helped her down from the chair. As soon as she was down she dashed towards the other girl and sent a kick towards her gut that was quickly blocked by Kaiosuta. Then she punched the girl in the face, Kaiosuta hadn’t moved fast enough to side step the kick to her chin. But Kaiosuta stood back up just as quickly. “You are a pathetic excuse of a fighter, how is it that you can dance?” Kaiosuta said. “I have skill,” was the simple reply as Kagome delivered an upper cut which sent Kaiosuta flying into the wall where she slid to the ground. Unconscious.
Sesshoumaru walked towards her after the police had arrived and taken Kaiosuta in to the station. Although she was unconscious. “Are you alright, Kagome?” His voice held a worried note. Although he had hoped to deliver at least some form of beating to the whore who had kid knapped his woman he knew it was her battle to fight. That didn’t mean he had to like it or anything.
“Sure I’m fine.” her voice was calm and cool. “I want you to marry me...” She gaped at him in disbelief. “Are you serious?” He looked at her incredulously. “Yes,” He said. She smiled vibrantly. “Sesshoumaru, you have to do it right,” Her smile vanished. “What?” He growled. He had just put his heart on his sleeve and she was telling him he had to ‘do it right’. Sighing he bent onto one knee, and reached for her hand. Pulling out a ring he began placing it on her ring finger. “Will you, Higurashi Kagome, marry me Dariko Sesshoumaru?” She excepted the ring for a second deciding to piss him off, because it was oh so fun. She pulled the ring off of her finger and held it in her hand. She cocked her head to the side with a raised eyebrow. He glared at her, before growling out. “Marry me dam-” She had slipped the ring back on quickly before kissing him furiously. Once she pulled back she smirked up at him, he had a dazed look on his face. “All you had to do was ask,” that brought him out of his daze as he began to fume silently. “Don’t you ever pull a stunt like that again,” He was angry that was for sure. “I won’t, I promise,” She smiled. Of course she wouldn’t pull a stunt like that again, proposal was a one time thing. He smiled in return, “Ok, lets go home” and grabbed her hand. But that didn’t stop her from pulling any other ‘stunts’. She walked beside her fiance a smile on her face. The smile suddenly turned devious. She loved to taunt this man. This marriage was going to be fun.
Fin / End / Owari