InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's A Wonderful Feudal Life ❯ Return to Normality ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and related characters are creation and copyright of R. Takahashi. The movie It's a Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, originally released in 1946. Since my name is not Frank Capra and I was not alive in 1946, you tell me if I own it.

Chapter Five

Blackness. His head was pounding like someone had hit it three hundred times with a metal baseball bat.

~Wait a second,~ he thought. ~If I was dead, my head wouldn't hurt this much. That means I'm still alive somehow. But that doesn't make any sense. Everything exploded around me. I should've been a goner! Well, I suppose I might as well open my eyes…~

Groggily, Inuyasha opened his eyes. It took a whole minute for his surroundings to come into focus. When they did, he jumped so high that he hit the ceiling of Kaede's hut.

"GAH! Miroku! But…but…you're dead!"

"Funny. I feel quite alive," the monk replied.

"But…but…the angel…and the barricade…and the demons…and the Shippou! And…"

Miroku slapped him.

"Thanks," Inuyasha panted. "I needed that. So you're alive?"

"Yes."

"And Sango's alive?"

"A few scars that won't heal, but otherwise I'm fine," Sango said, appearing at the door.

"And we have the Shikon no Tama?"

"You're holding it in your hand," Miroku pointed out.

"And Shippou's just annoying…not evil?"

Miroku and Sango looked at each other and shrugged.

"Shippou's the same as he's always been," Sango said. "Why so many questions?"

"I'll explain later. Is Kagome all right?"

"It was touch-and-go for a while," said Miroku, "but we think she'll pull through. That's about the time Sango dragged you in here. You had apparently fallen out of a tree."

"Luckily for you, you have an exceptionally thick skull," Sango joked.

"Talk later. Take me to Kagome!" Inuyasha snarled, leaping to his feet.

"Careful there!" Miroku warned. "You've been unconscious for over an hour!"

"No time!" Inuyasha yelled. "I need to see Kagome!"

He pushed past them and rushed into the next room, clutching the Shikon no Tama tightly in his hand.

~Please let her be all right,~ he begged.

Kagome was still unconscious when Inuyasha entered. He knelt by her bed and checked her breathing. A bit heavy and uneven…but at least she was breathing.

"Wake up," Inuyasha begged. "Come on, Kagome, wake up! You're fine. You have to be! Don't you dare die on me! Not now, not ever! I need you, Kagome; I don't think I could live without you. Kagome…I…I love you!" Tears were starting to form in the hanyou's eyes, so he did not, at first, notice Kagome's eyes flutter open.

"I-Inuyasha?" she rasped.

"Kagome?" The tears dried instantly, and he pounced on her, enveloping her in a massive hug. "You're alive! Thank Kami, you're alive! I was so worried!" He looked her straight in the eye.

"Kagome," he said slowly. "I should have told you this every day from the day I met you…I love you."

(A/N: I don't own pirates of the Caribbean…nor do I own Orlando Bloom.)

Kagome laughed. "You have no idea how long I've waited to hear you say that," she scolded. He cocked his head to one side, in a sort of `tell me' gesture. She kissed him, long and passionately. "Does that give you a clue?"

Shippou bounded away from the window to collect the his yen from Miroku. Along the way, however, he knocked into Kagome's bike, which fell over, causing the bell on it to ring.

"What the…that sounded like my bike!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Don't worry about it," Inuyasha advised. "We have more important things to do. Besides, don't you know that every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings?"

The End!