InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Nagataka ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 7 )

Nagataka

Chapter 6

Kagome woke up at seven the next morning, instantly awake. Figuring she'd call around ten or so, she found herself bored. She went downstairs and made herself a quick breakfast, her grandfather already at the table eating a breakfast of his own.

"Kagome, are you doing anything this morning?" Her mother asked, coming downstairs, Sota right behind her.

"Not really mama," she answered.

"Good, then you can take Sota to his club meeting and go grocery shopping for me," her mother told her.

"Why do you need me to do that?" Kagome asked.

"I have to meet with a client this morning and can't," her mother answered.

"Okay, Sota, what time do you have to be at your meeting?" Kagome asked.

"About nine," he answered.

"Be ready to go in an hour," Kagome told her brother looking at the clock, knowing it would take about half an hour to get to the meeting.

"'Kay sis," the boy said. In about an hour, they left, Mrs. Hiragashi handing her daughter a grocery list, telling her not to go to that cheap store that they went to last time, she didn't like the coloring in the store. Kagome rolled her eyes, knowing that the store had the best prices around. Sota popped in the front, next to Kagome, who drove off to the next town, which had Sota's meeting place deep within it.

"Sota, what time should I pick you up?" She asked, dropping her brother off.

"Umm, about one or so," the boy answered.

"'Kay," Kagome said, driving off. She pulled into the parking lot of the cheap store her mother hated. When she drove around looking for a parking spot, she spotted a car that she thought looked familiar. She drove up to it, curious, and gasped in horror at what she saw.

"Sir, are you okay?" A guy's voice asked Inu Yasha. He groaned slightly, pain coursing throughout his body. Something wasn't right with him, he knew that much.

"Inu Yasha! Are you okay? Please, say something," a girl's voice cried out. He knew that voice form somewhere, but couldn't place where at the moment, his head was fogged up and he couldn't think straight.

"Someone calm her down!" The guy's voice yelled. Inu Yasha felt himself lifted up onto something, and put into a moving vehicle.

"Miss, do you know that young man?" A medic asked Kagome.

"Yeah, he's an old friend," she answered, only lying slightly.

"Would you be willing to come with us and maybe contact his family for us?" Asked the medic.

"Yeah, I can do that," Kagome answered.

"Come on, you can ride in the ambulance," he told her. She nodded and climbed into the back, where she was directed to sit by his head.

"Miss, what's his name?" Asked another medic.

"Inu Yasha Akemi," she answered.

"Age?" The medic asked.

"16, 17 in three months," she answered, remembering that fact.

"Does he have any family?" Asked the medic from earlier.

"Yeah, his dad and half brother," she answered. "But don't bother trying to reach his father. His dad kicked him out of the house they lived in," she informed them.

"How old's his brother?" Asked the same medic.

"Umm, let's see, Sess is about six year's older than us, so he should be about 22," Kagome answered.

"About?" Asked the medic, raising a brow.

"Yeah, it's been awhile since I was around Sess, but I think his 22 birthday was a month ago," she answered, feeling nervous. They asked her other various questions and soon they arrived at the hospital, where Kagome was subjected to waiting nervously in the waiting room. She tried reading a magazine, but couldn't concentrate. It wasn't until she saw someone talking on their cell phone that she remembered Inu Yasha's friends. With hands shaking slightly, she called Kouga, his being the only number she knew.

"Hello?" She heard Kouga's voice say.

"Kouga, Inu Yasha's in the hospital," she blurted out.

"Okay, now can I go back to- WHAT!" Kouga yelled out, her words trickling into his head. "Why's he there?"

"Don't know, I found him in a parking lot adn called 911," she answered.

"I'll be there in a half an hour, can you call Miroku and Sango for me?" He asked, halfway out the door.

"I don't know their numbers," she admitted. He gave them to her and hung up. She called each of the other two teens and soon, Inu Yasha's three friends where at the hospital as well.

"What's wrong with Inu Yasha!" Sango yelled at her, shaking the other teen girl.

"They haven't said yet," Kagome said, head down.

"Does his family know?" Miroku asked, calm as ever.

"No, I don't know Sess's number and there's no way in hell I'm calling his good for nothing father," Kagome replied, tears forming in her eyes.

"Sess?" Miroku asked, looking at her oddly.

"What, that's what Inu Yasha and I always called him when we were kids. Sesshoumaru is pretty hard for kids to say, and it's kinda stuck over the years," she answered.

"Oh," was Miroku's reply. Just then a doctor came into the room.

The doctor cleared his throat and said, "Is anyone here for Mr. Akemi?" Almost instantly the four teens were next to the doctor.

"What's wrong with Inu Yasha?" Sango asked, tears in her eyes as well.

"He's got quite a bit of internal bleeding," the doctor answered. He left the teens who stared at each other in shock. It wasn't until Kagome's cell phone rang that they realized they'd been standing for over ten minutes.

"Yes?" Kagome asked.

"KAGOME HIRAGASHI! WHERE ARE YOU!" Her mother's voice screamed at her. "YOU FORGOT TO PICK UP YOUR LITTLE BROTHER! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME OVER AN HOUR AGO!" Screeched Kagome's mother. "YOU EVEN STOOD POOR HOJO UP FOR YOUR DATE! AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T SAID WHERE YOU'RE AT YET. I'M WAITING," her mother's voice continued.

"Mama, I'm sorry I wasn't able to pick up Sota, but I'm at the hospital. A friend of mine was hurt badly," she apologized.

"Yeah, you're sorry my ass," her mother answered coldly.

"Mama, you know what, you're a real bitch," Kagome told her mother, hanging up adn turning her phone off. The three teens looked at her shocked.

"I can't believe you actually said that to your own mother," Kouga finally said.

"It's the truth, and believe me, what just happened, that's little compared to what she's like most of the time," she shrugged.

"Hey, Kagome, why did you say earlier that you wouldn't call Inu Yasha's father?" Sango asked later that day. The guys had gone out to get some food for them.

"He didn't tell you guys?" She asked.

"Tell us what?" Sango asked, cocking her head and looking at Kagome oddly.

"His dad kicked him out of the house," Kagome told Sango.

"Wha... what?" Stuttered the teen girl.

"Yeah, I don't know when he did, but I'm guessing it was not that long ago," Kagome replied. They sat in silence and soon the two guys were back with food. Having nothing else to do, the four teens ate. They watched the sun go down and various people as they came and went.

"Kids, why don't you go home? We have your phone numbers and we'll call you if anything happens to your friend," a nurse said to them around ten that night.

"Kouga, can you take me to where I left my car?" Kagome asked.

"Sure," he replied. The four teens got into Kouga's car and he dropped Kagome off. She sat in her car and sighed, exhausted. 'Maybe I should just stay in my car and wait until tomorrow to go home,' she thought. She drove home, dreading her mother.

"Kagome, how dare you call me that," her mother said, slapping her daughter on the cheek. Kagome sighed and stood there, taking whatever her mother threw at her without a protest. She was to tired to care at the moment and blocked out most of what her mother said. "Go to bed you worthless little brat," her mother told her after a while. Kagome happily obliged, almost asleep already. 'Worrying really took a lot out a person,' she thought. She walked upstairs to her room and fell onto her bed, still fully dressed, shoes and all.

She woke when her phone rang. Lifting her head, she said groggily, "Hello?"

"Miss Hiragashi?" A female voice asked.

"Yes?" Kagome asked, still half asleep.

"I have called to inform you that Mr. Akemi is now awake and speaking," the voice said to her. Kagome snapped wide awake.

"Thank you!" She said, hanging up. She looked at her outfit, and changed her shirt, hoping that nobody would recognize that she was wearing the same pants as the ones she'd worn the day before. She drove to the hospital, the others coming just a few moments after she arrived. The four looked at each other and walked into the building, nervous.

"He would like to speak to each of you separately," the nurse told them. They nodded.

"I'll go first," Miroku volunteered. He followed the nurse.

"Hey buddy," Inu Yasha heard Miroku's voice say.

"Hey idiot," Inu Yasha said with a smile.

"What happened to you?" Miroku asked, noting all the bandages on his friend.

"You don't even wanna know," Inu Yasha said. The two talked for about twenty minutes.

"Well, I should let someone else come in, can't hog you all to myself," Miroku grinned.

"Yeah, that wouldn't be fair to the others," Inu Yasha answered. Miroku walked out of the room and Sango came in.

"Hey Sango," Inu Yasha greeted his friend.

"Hey," she said meekly. "What the hell happened to you?" She commented on seeing all the bandages.

"Not much, I was jumped by some freaks," he told her.

They sat in silence for a few moments, when Sango asked, "Inu Yasha, why didn't you tell me and the guys that your father kicked you out of the house?"

He paled, and stuttered out, "Ho.. how did yo.. you kno... know that?" She didn't answer, but got up and left. Kouga came in next.

"Hey, how you feeling?" he asked.

"Look at me and take a guess on how I'm feeling," Inu Yasha replied. They laughed for a few moments.

"Well, see you later pal," Kouga said when he left.

"Yeah," Inu Yasha replied. Just when he was expecting some peace after his friends left, the door opened and in came Kagome.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Visiting you," she answered. "Well, they cleaned you up quite a bit. You look better now."

"Huh?" He asked, confused.

"It was horrible seeing you in the parking lot. I can't believe what they did to you, it was sickening," she went on.

"Were you the one that found me?" He asked, his voice barely a whisper.

"Yeah," she said.

"Thank you," he replied. She felt her heart speed up to a million miles an hour.

"That's what friends are for," she whispered. "Bye," she said, getting up to leave. She stopped when she felt a warm hand on her arm. Her heart jumped up to her throat and she felt dizzy.

"Really, thank you, you saved my life," he said to her, letting go of her arm. When she was gone, he felt at ease, though his heart still was beating like crazy, and he wondered what these feelings he had for her were.

'Were they hate? Were they friendship and trust? Or were they something else? Could it be that he was falling for her?' He thought. He shook his head and went to sleep, not wanting to admit to himself the truth.

A/N: Hello! I would like to say good morning, seeing as I wrote this at 8 am in the morning. It really is hard waiting around at a hospital. Also, the story is getting fluffy. This story is gonna be fluffy, something I do not write well, yet in my reviews, you say that I do. Odd. Oh well, I better stop rambling tonight. Oh, and one more note. I know I said I'd have a schedule for this story and update every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but now I think I'll just whenever. Wow, five pages, that's a record for this story. Most chapters are about 3 maybe 4. Well, Ja!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha the anime, I'm just using it's characters names in my own original story, thus making my story an AU.