InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Nagataka ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 12 )

Nagataka

Chapter 11

Kagome and the others rushed out to her car. Sango taking the front seat next to Kagome, while the guys piled into her small backseat. Kagome handed Sango her cell phone and ordered the other girl to call Sesshoumaru.

"Yes?" Sesshoumaru's voice asked.

"Sessy, it's Kagome," Kagome hurriedly told the guy.

"What's wrong?" He asked, catching the tone of voice she was using. It was a mix of fear, hurry, and command.

"It's Inu Yasha. He's going to try to do what he did when his mom died," she replied. He didn't reply, but instead Kagome heard the phone drop and Sesshoumaru yelling in the background. Someone hung up the phone and Kagome drove on.

"Kagome, what's going on?" Miroku asked from the backseat. She stared straight ahead at the road. Sango thought they were going to fast, and when she checked the speedometer, she was right. They were going 70 in a 50 mph.

"Kagome, you might want to slow down," Sango suggested.

"No. This is a matter of life or death," Kagome replied. "You guys know how Inu Yasha's mom died when he was twelve, right?" She asked.

"Well, we knew that she was dead, but he never told us how old he was when she died," Sango replied.

"Do you know how she died?" Kagome asked.

"He told us that it was a car crash," Kouga answered him.

"He lied. She didn't die in a car crash. That's how Sesshoumaru's mom died. Inu Yasha's mother died from AIDS. Or actually it was pneumonia that caused her death, but if she hadn't had the AIDS, she would have lived," Kagome told them.

"What?" Sango questioned her.

"Oh, don't worry, Inu Yasha's in the clear. They did all sorts of tests on him at the time and found him free of the disease," Kagome assured them. "But you will never believe how close they were. The only person he was closer with was me," she went on to say.

The others gasped, they hadn't know that their Inu Yasha and Kagome had been friends.

"You didn't know that? I thought everyone knew we were best friends when we were younger. Wow, I'm surprised. Well, no wonder you don't know this story," Kagome told them.

"We all moved to this town in the eighth grade," Sango replied.

"That explains it. This all happened at the end of sixth," Kagome said almost instantly.

"So what happened to Inu Yasha?" Kouga asked.

"He, he tried to commit suicide after his mother died. It didn't help that right before then, I'd told him that I had other friends and that we couldn't be friends anymore," She admitted, letting the burden she'd carried the last four years lift away. "It really got to him, and he was depressed. If it weren't for Sesshoumaru, there would be no Inu Yasha."

She stopped the car, they'd arrived at the lake.

"Why are we here?" Miroku asked. At that moment, it started to rain. While Kagome had been driving, there'd been a brief interlude in the day's somber rain.

"Follow me!" She called out, running into the woods. The others looked at each other and shrugged, hurrying off to follow Kagome.

"What the! There's a path here!" She heard Miroku exclaim. She just hurried. Finally, she was out of the woods and at the spot where Inu Yasha was. He was sitting on the rock, face down. He hadn't noticed Kagome's presence yet, but when the others came trampling out, he jerked his head up. Kagome ran over to the rock, climbing it expertly. Inu Yasha took on look at them and his eyes flared in anger.

"You fucking asshole!" He yelled, pointing at Kouga.

"Inu Yasha, what are you doing?" Sango asked.

"He's an asshole. I can't believe that I called him my best friend!" Inu Yasha yelled. They looked at Kouga, and he looked down at the ground.

"I'm sorry! I didn't think that would happen!" Kouga yelled back.

"I can never forgive you!" Inu Yasha yelled back. The wind started blowing hard, the rain poured on them, soaking the group to the bone. Sango and the others stood around the base of the rock, there was barely enough room for Inu Yasha and Kagome, so there'd never be enough room for the five of them.

"What's going on Inu Yasha?" Kagome asked.

"The fucking asshole over there is the father of Kikyo's kid. Do you know how much it hurts to know that while I was still with her, she cheated on my with my best friend?" Inu Yasha asked Kagome. Sango and Miroku turned to glare at Kouga. "I was ready to give up my life for her and that baby. And what's worse is that she knew it was Kouga's! She knew! That whore!" He yelled. "And my father. He's a fucking asshole too! He kicked me out of the house MY mother bought. It's not his house. It's mine when I turn 18, and he kicks me out of it like he owns the place. Oh, and then he moves this new family of his into the house, complete with a little girl who calls him daddy! God, you should have seen him and that girl. He never once looked at me like he looked at the girl. Not once! Oh, and here's the good part. He remembers that Sesshoumaru's his son, but he doesn't remember me at all. He thought I was one of Sesshoumaru's friends! What an asshole!" He screamed for teh whole world to hear. By this time, the wind was blowing with all it's might. "Kagome, you are to blame to! Don't you know what you've done to me! You've left alone to die, you've left when I needed you most! You took my heart and destroyed it. You've scared me, and I can't take all teh pain! I can't! If I stay here any longer, I'll self destruct!" He yelled. Kagome couldn't tell if he was crying or not, but she thought he was. It was impossible to tell in the rain.

"Nagataka!" She yelled. He whipped his head towards Kagome and stared at her. "Nagataka! Nagataka! Nagataka!" She yelled repeatedly. "You helped me and it's my turn to help you! We promised that each other years ago! Nagataka!" She yelled. She could feel the tears on her face. He took a step towards Kagome, but slipped on teh rock, falling into the churning lake below. It was then that the pills he had taken to end his pain kicked in, slowly taking away is consciousness.

"Inu Yasha!" Kagome screamed, sobs coming up.

"Mr. Akemi, we are sorry to say, that your wife has passed away," Inu Yasha heard the doctor tell his father. Sesshoumaru was sitting next to his little half brother. They watched as their father broke down crying right in front of them. They went home after each of them asked to have a word with her lifeless body, to say their final good byes before she was cremated. Sesshoumaru drove them home, and he stood strong while the two others went through their grief.

"Mrs. Hiragashi, do you think you could send Kagome over here?" Sesshoumaru called Kagome's house. Mrs. Hiragashi said something and Sesshoumaru replied, "She died." Within a few minutes, Kagome was ringing the front door bell. Sesshoumaru opened the door, and without a word, Kagome walked into teh house, heading for Inu Yasha's basement bedroom.

Kagome rushed into his room, sitting next to her friend as he cried through the grief he felt over his mother's death. She joined him, for his mother had been a second mother to her. After a few hours, a knock came on Inu Yasha's door. It was Sesshoumaru, who had brought the two some chicken noodle soup.

Kagome sat in the waiting room with the others, hoping that he was okay. It had been three hours since Miroku had jumped in the lake, saving Inu Yasha. Kouga and Miroku had carried the lifeless body of Inu Yasha to Kagome's car. They all piled in, with Inu Yasha stretched out across Miroku adn Sango, Kouga sitting in teh front this time. She raced to the hospital, making Sango sure she was going at least twice the speed she went last time. The four raced inside, bringing their unconscious friend with them, where he was immediately sent to the emergency room. Sesshoumaru raced into the hospital.

Just then, a doctor came into the waiting room. "Anyone here family to Mr. Inu Yasha Akemi?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm his brother," Sesshoumaru replied.

"Follow me," ordered the doctor. Sesshoumaru nodded to the others, following the good doctor. "We are sorry to say that his chances of living are slim. He's in recovery at the moment, but if you wish to speak a word to him, you may do so. He's in this room."

Sesshoumaru walked into the room, sitting by his little brother's body. He began to speak.

Inu Yasha woke to someone speaking, tearfully sobs mixed in with the talking.

"Where am I?" He asked.

"Inu Yasha!" His brother yelled. He felt someone hug him. Later, after the doctors saw Inu Yasha again, amazed at what had happened, he was left alone with his brother.

"Why were you crying?" Inu Yasha asked.

"I didn't want to lose you. I've lost to many people in my life," Sesshoumaru admitted. "I lost my mother when I was nine, your mother when I was eighteen, Kagome's dad who was like an uncle to me when I was sixteen, a little sister when I was six, and I've almost lost you now. But your the only one I've cried for."

"Wait a minute, did you say a sister when you were six?" Inu Yasha asked.

"Yes, you were born a twin," Sesshoumaru told his brother.

"How come nobody told me?" Inu Yasha asked.

"I don't know," Sesshoumaru replied. "I always thought you knew."

"No, I never knew," Inu Yasha replied. "What was her name?"

"Yumemaru."

"What's that mean?"

"Dream girl. She's buried in the cemetery."

"I'd like to go there some time, to say hello."

"I think we can do that. But right now, you've got to get better. And I want you to promise me something."

"What?"

"Don't try to kill yourself again. You've got so many people that care about you. And, you've got a girl in love with you."

"Who?"

"You know who," Sesshoumaru said, winking at his brother before he left to join the others.

"How is he?" Kagome and Sango asked.

"Up, awake, and even carrying on a conversation well. He's recovering fine," Sesshoumaru told them. They sighed in relief at the same time. Later, each of them went in, and Inu Yasha spoke to them all but Kouga.

"Sango, can I speak with you fro a moment?" Sesshoumaru asked while Kagome was speaking with Inu Yasha. She shrugged, but went over to the brother of her crush.

"What is it?" She asked.

"It's about Inu Yasha," he replied.

"What about him?" She asked.

"He'll never return your affections. He thinks of you as a sister, or a cousin. He'll never love you the way you love him," Sesshoumaru told her.

"What? Why do you say that?" She asked, barely able to keep the stutters out of her voice.

"Because, he loves someone else," Sesshoumaru replied, just as Kagome walked into the room. Sango followed his eyes, and found them looking at Kagome. It clicked in her head then what she'd been trying to block out for months. He'd never loved Kikyo, and he'd never love Sango more than a sister or a cousin because he was in love with Kagome. Tears welled in her eyes and she ran out of the room, and out of the hospital, out into the rain which had yet to stop it's seemingly endless downpour. Sango walked along the highway, hoping and wishing someone would take her away form all of his. The cars drove by, splashing her. Soaked and shivering, she collapsed on the side of the highway. Just then one car went by her and stopped. The window rolled down and she saw that it was Naraku. He glanced at her, then nodded to the seat next to him.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"I'm just admitting to myself what I've known all along," she replied. She looked in the backseat, adn saw boxes upon boxes of pizzas. "What's with all the pizzas?" She asked.

"I deliver pizzas. It's how I get my money," Naraku told her. "But please, don't tell anyone."

His twin smiled and said, "Okay, your secrets safe with me."

Back at the hospital, Inu Yasha slept in his bed while his friends and family waited for him to wake. It was then that some of Inu Yasha's words hit Kagome.

"Hello, Akemi residence," a woman's voice said.

"Can I speak to Mr. Akemi?" Kagome asked.

"Sure, let me get him," the voice replied. Kagome could hear yelling in the background and soon, Mr. Akemi's familiar voice said, " Hello?"

"Mr. Akemi, your son's in the hospital. He tried to commit suicide," Kagome told him. The phone on the other side clicked off, and she sat with her cell phone in her hand.

Mr. Akemi rushed to his car when something caught his eye. It was the basement door. For some reason, he never went down there, and he had told Danny not to either. Of course, she probably had. That would be just like his wife. He opened the door, and walked into the room. It looked like someone had lived in here once, and had left in a hurry. He sat on the bed and felt something hard beneath it. Getting up, he looked under the mattress only to find a photo album. Taking it with him, he left the basement room. Getting in his car, he yelled to his wife that he was going to the hospital. He drove through the rain, hoping to reach the hospital in time.

"I need to know what floor my son is on," he told the nurse.

"Last name of your son?" She asked.

"Akemi," he replied. She put the name through a search and said, "Third floor." He nodded his thanks and headed towards the elevator, pushing the third floor button. He got out and found the waiting room full of teenagers.

"What's going on here?" He asked, seeing Sesshoumaru.

"Mr. Akemi, don't you remember me? I'm Kagome, Kagome Hiragashi," Kagome told him.

"I think I've seen you around the neighborhood before, but I don't see why your here, and why someone told me my son tried to kill himself when he' standing in front of me," Mr. Akemi told her irritably.

"You don't remember me or Inu Yasha, do you?" Kagome asked.

"Who's Inu Yasha?" Asked Mr.. Akemi.

"Your son," Sesshoumaru told his father. "Your youngest son."

"Hey, what's that in your hands?" Kagome asked, pointing to the photo album.

"Something I found in the basement. And Sesshoumaru, you are my only son," Mr. Akemi told the two.

"Can I see it?" Kagome asked. Mr. Akemi shrugged and handed the album to the teen girl. "Wow, I haven't seen these photos in ages," she exclaimed. Miroku and Kouga looked over her shoulders to look at the photos with her. She kept exclaiming over the pictures, which were of her and Inu Yasha's childhood. Suddenly she got quiet.

"What's wrong? You find a picture you don't like or something?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Come here, you need to see this," Kagome ordered. The two Akemi men walked over to Kagome to se the picture she wanted them to see. It was the two families together. There was Kagome's dad, Yasuo Hiragashi holding his young two year old son Sota, laughing at something with Mr. Akemi. Inu Yasha and Kagome's mothers were laughing about something with Sesshoumaru's mother. Sesshoumaru was off by himself, reading a book, while three kids a little younger than him laughing and playing in the pool. There were some other people present who were eating. But right up in the front were two little kids, one was Inu Yasha, the other was Kagome. They looked like they were on top of the world. Underneath the photo were the words:

Our families. Inu Yasha Akemi. Kagome Hiragashi.

"I don't remember this," Kagome said with a frown.

"I do, it was the cook out our families had together the summer my mom died," Sesshoumaru told her. "See, she'd right there, with your mother and Inu Yasha's," he pointed to her. Kagome looked to where he pointed and saw that he was right. She turned the page and saw a picture of two young children playing together. It was her and Inu Yasha. The next one was of Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha.

"Hey, Sesshoumaru, isn't this the one that your father took of you guys on your 12th birthday?" She asked.

"Yeah, your right," he replied.

"Hey, what did he give you that day?"

"Something my mother wanted my to have."

"Oh."

"You know, it's impolite to talk about a person right in front of them," Mr. Akemi informed them.

"So it is," Kagome shrugged. She continued looking through the album. Soon, a nurse came in and told them that they could go and speak to Inu Yasha as a group. Which they did, and they dragged Mr. Akemi in with them.

"Inu Yasha, look at what your father found," Kagome said, showing him the album. He flipped through it, reliving some of the memories.

A/N: Well, not quite the 4000-5000 words I said it would be, nor is it as angsty as I said it would. I found I couldn't wrote the angst well. I believe that this chapter s one of the most important, don't you? It's still longer than the others and I doubt there will be one longer this, or even almost as long. I'm barely breaking the 3000 word mark here, so, yeah, maybe I should just stop. The end is near for this story, but, should I work on a sequel. Or should I do an epilogue. If I do a sequel, you'd have to wait until after I finish Humans, which has gotten neglected. You tell me, I don't wanna decide.

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