InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Little Girl ❯ What are they doing to my pup? ( Chapter 4 )

They arrived at Tokyo General Hospital quickly and within minutes Rin was seen by a doctor. The only trouble seemed to be when the doctors, put Rin on a strange rolling bed and took her away into another room. Sesshoumaru couldn't see what was going on and they wouldn't let him in to be near his pup. How dare they take his pup!

 

“Sesshoumaru please!” Kagome pleaded with him, “You need to calm down. They won't hurt her; they're only trying to help her.”

 

“Does the child have any allergies sir?” the nurse asked. When she was given a blank look by the uncomprehending youkai, Mrs. Higurashi rushed in to smooth things over.

 

“Has your daughter been exposed to anything that she's unused to? Has she eaten or gotten into anything different?”

 

“No not that I - pudding,” he said as his attention focused on Mrs. Higurashi then onto the nurse in front of him. “She had pudding earlier...she was excited because it had berries in it.”

 

“What kind of berries?”

 

“I don't know I'm not the one who prepared it!” he nearly yelled in desperation. His pup was sick, very sick and they weren't doing anything.

 

Sesshoumaru soon found himself in a twin embrace, and his head pulled down onto Kagome's shoulder as the Higurashi women wrapped him up in their arms. Had they been back in the Feudal Era, Kagome was sure that he would be destroying things and wouldn't have let himself whatever amount of comfort the embrace from she and her mother would give him.

 

He was proud yes, and taiyoukai most definitely, but in this moment, the only thing that mattered was that he was a father and a frightened one at that. Rin could very easily die here from the fever alone, if she didn't receive the proper treatment. Her fever was high, too high and no mater what was done she couldn't be woken.

 

 

Two hours later, a doctor came out and met with the trio sitting in the chairs.

 

“Doctor?” Mrs. Higurashi said as she stood, the other two moving to stand at her side.

 

Kagome hadn't relinquished her hold on Sesshoumaru once and for that he was grateful. He doubted he would've been able to stop himself from tearing things apart had it not been for Kagome acting as his rock while his world fell apart. Losing Rin would kill him. He'd never been so attached to anyone. Even when his own mother died as he watched it didn't hurt this much. Part of him wanted to cry, he could feel the stinging of the tears behind his eyes, but he would never allow himself such a great show of weakness and especially not with this great an audience.

 

“We pumped her stomach and were able to identify what it was that made her sick. The berries in her pudding were poisonous, add on top of that the pudding had been undercooked; she's a very lucky girl. You got her here just in time, a few moments later and there's no guarantee we would've been able to undo the damage done. She's resting now, and we've given her medicine to help clear the poison and residual food poisoning from her system. Her fever is still too high for me to be comfortable with releasing her just yet. I want to keep her here for awhile after her fever breaks, just to assess whatever damage has been done. I'll have a nurse come take you to her room, you can't stay too long, but you can see her.”

 

“Arigato.”

 

The doctor nodded and left the trio to tend to his other patients.

 

 

 

“Sesshoumaru, why didn't Tenseiga work to heal her?” Kagome asked once they were gathered in Rin's room.

 

Sesshoumaru, who sat next to the child on the strange bed, looked at Kagome for a moment before turning his attention back to his little girl.

 

“Tenseiga cannot cure illness, only heal injury.”

 

Unbeknownst to the taiyoukai, a single tear slipped down his stoic cheek as he thought of how close he came to loosing Rin that day. She looked so tiny and fragile against the stark white linens of the large bed. Her human body was so fragile and weak, but she was so full of life that he sometimes forgot just how fragile she was. How easily he could loose her.

 

He breathed deeply in an effort to reign in his worry and fear, and soon found a pair of warm arms wrapped around his shoulders, his face buried in a woman's bosom. She smelled much like Kagome, but he knew the scent to be her mother's. Of their own volition, his arms wrapped around the woman's waist and pulled her closer. The damn that held his emotions felt as though it would break.

 

“Kagome dear,” Mrs. Higurashi said softly. “Would you go call jii-san and make sure he knows to pick up Souta from school.”

 

Kagome nodded and left the room quietly, pulling the door closed behind her as she left. The older woman held the taiyoukai tightly to her and stroked his long silver hair and kissed the top of his head in a motherly manner.

 

“We're alone now dear, no one's here to see you cry and I won't tell a soul. It's ok, let it out,” she spoke barely above a whisper to him and held him tighter as she felt the tears he'd held in shake his frame. She cooed soft comforts to him and held him as mother would, never since his own mother had held him in her arms had he felt so safe. What was it about these two human women that could make him feel so…he didn't even know how to describe what it was that he felt around them. But he knew that given a chance, they would try and protect him from the world, he didn't know why or how he knew this just that he did.

 

After a few moments, Sesshoumaru pulled back from the woman, and scrubbed at his eyes looking for all the world like a lost child. Looking up at Mrs. Higurashi and she took his face in her hands, and brushed her thumbs over his cheeks, wiping away the remnants of his tears. Leaning down a bit, she kissed the crescent moon on his forehead and tucked his silver locks behind his pointed ears.

 

“Higurashi-san,” he stopped when she shook her head.

 

“Kashu…my name is Kashu.”

 

Beautiful pearl, how fitting. “It suits you,” he said softly. “Kashu-sama, please speak of this to no one. My weakness is unbecoming -”

 

“I told you that I won't speak of it and I won't,” she said softly assuring him of her word. “You may be the demon lord of the western lands, but you're still a father, and that outranks everything.”

 

“You know who I am?” he asked as she sat on the bed next to him and petted his long hair.

 

“It didn't take long for me to figure it out. Once my daughter said your name I knew who you were. My daughter speaks very highly of you; it was because of you that I was able to meet my grandson. She brought him home to see me the day after you healed him. She wouldn't go anywhere without Shippou for days, and refused to return through the well for two days just so that she could hold him in her arms and not worry about youkai and oni attacking them. She took him out and bought him all the pocky and candy she could. I'll be surprised if that child isn't two sizes larger the next time I see him.”

 

A soft smile lit his eyes and lips as he thought of the young kitsune he had healed with his father's fang.

 

“Her kits,” he said softly on a frown.

 

“What?”

 

“Rin. She has adopted a family of three fox kits, their mother was killed. They'll need to be fed, I must-”

 

“Shh, it's ok. Is anyone caring for them now?”

 

“Ah-Un, my dragon.”

 

The woman's eyes widened at the word dragon, but she soon gave a soft smile and a nod. “When Rin awakens and is released, my daughter and I will take you shopping. You'll need bottles for the kits, and perhaps some pocky for Rin. I know Kagome has said that she enjoys the treat whenever she stays her Inuyasha.”

 

Kashu sighed and the taiyoukai looked at her curiously, he found himself able to be more free around her with his emotions. There was no fear that she would see him as weak.

 

“Kashu-sama?”

 

“It's nothing, just a mother's worries.” She continued on as he looked to her for more explanation. “Kagome was walking through the forest a few days back and came upon Inuyasha and Kikyou. She didn't tell me what they were doing, but she cried herself to sleep that night in my arms. My little girl loves him so much, and I have to admit, I thought perhaps one day I'd get grandchildren with those cute ears of his, but he's broken her heart so many times. I think perhaps she's given up on him loving her back.”

 

She stopped her words as Kagome re-entered the room. The girl looked from her mother to the taiyoukai next to her, feeling as though she'd interrupted a private moment. As she made to step back out of the room to give them privacy, Sesshoumaru stood and moved to stand next to her. Enfolding Kagome in his arms, he whispered a thanks into her neck and he buried his face in her ebony locks. Her scent was so soothing and her warmth so comforting he imagined he could get lost in her.

 

Placing a chaste kiss on her rose coloured lips, he moved back to his daughter's side and curled up on the bed next to her, enfolding Rin in his arms and sleeping next to her.

 

Sesshoumaru slept by his daughter's side for a good two hours, before the nurse came in and shooed them all out telling them to go home for the night and return in the morning.