InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silver Tears and Puppy Ears ❯ Contemplations and Stitches ( Chapter 15 )

Contemplations and Stitches

Katsumi carefully unbuckled Shippo's car seat; it would be very hard to sneak him into her daughter's room if he was awake. She glanced over at Sango and Miroku who were heading up the steps still talking with Souta and Ji-Chan about the past. Dinner had been very informative, she had learnt a lot about not just Sango and Miroku, but of Kagome and Inu Yasha as well. Katsumi took Shippo from the car seat and cradled him in her arms as she closed the car door and turned towards the house. So many stories she heard tonight where one of them almost died, or they killed someone. Ji-Chan unlocked the door and walked straight upstairs to his room. Souta plopped himself down in the den and turned on the TV, however one glare from Katsumi and he grabbed the remote and shut it off as he ran upstairs to his room. Miroku and Sango went into the back for their nightly training which Katsumi believed was not really training. She hoisted the baby bag onto her shoulder and walked up the stairs as she expected the door to Kagome's room was shut. She dropped the bag on the ground and slowly turned the handle avoiding making any sound as possible. Luckily the crib was only a few feet from the door so she wouldn't have to walk near their bed. She tenderly lowered Shippo into his crib and laid his baby blanket over him. She stood up and tiptoed out of the room shutting the door behind her. After checking that Souta had gone to bed she retired to her room.

Kagome jumped as she heard her alarm go off.

"What in the world?" Kagome said startled.

"You still have that thing?" Inu Yasha growled as he jumped across the room to retrieve the screaming infant from his crib.

"Yeah, but Shippo's been waking us up so early that it was before the alarm, so I've been turning it off, I must have forgotten last night…give me him" Kagome demanded. Inu Yasha put Shippo in Kagome's arms and as usual the second that Kagome began to unbutton her top his screams wilted to small whimpers.

"I think he was more hungry than upset" Kagome muttered.

"So today is the rehearsal" Inu Yasha questioned.

"Yep"

"Going to be really long and boring?"

"Yep"

"Important to your mother?"

"Yep"

Kagome and Inu Yasha glanced at the door as Katsumi walked past and informed them that breakfast was ready. As soon as Shippo was finished they walked downstairs and into the kitchen.

"Kagome we're going to have the rehearsal when Souta gets home from school" Katsumi said as she sat down. Kagome put Shippo in his high chair and sat down next to Inu Yasha; before she had the chance to ask he poured her a cup of green tea with a wedge of lemon. She smiled at him and sat back in the chair sipping the tea.

"Are you going to eat anything?" Souta asked as he spooned some rice onto his plate.

"Maybe some miso and pickles, I'm not really in the mood for rice or nori"

"Would you like some of the fish?" Inu Yasha asked as he helped himself to some fish.

"Just a little" Kagome responded.

"Are you feeling ok" Katsumi asked when she realized just how little Kagome had taken for breakfast.

"Yeah, Inu Yasha and I ate a lot last night, so I'm not very hungry" Kagome explained, she didn't feel like explaining to the entire table that she had morning sickness, which is actually very normal for someone who was pregnant, but they fused so much. Inu Yasha knew she was lying, but wouldn't call her on it in front of her entire family. Instead he just agreed and handed Kagome the fish. She took a few small pieces and placed the plate on the table.

"So how was dinner" Kagome asked.

"Good" Katsumi, Souta, Miroku and Sango said in unison.

"How was the food?" Inu Yasha asked, he remembered Kagome mentioned it was not Japanese food they were eating.

"Very different, but good" Miroku answered.

"Yeah" Sango agreed.

Souta glanced at the clock as he listened to everyone talking and almost fell out of his chair when he realized what time it was. With Kagome out of school, he didn't have her rushing out the door to remind him he had to leave in an hour.

"Souta, what's wrong?" Katsumi asked.

"School! I'm going to be late" Souta declared as he rushed around for his schoolbooks and shoved them into his bag. Katsumi quickly stood up and cleared hers and Souta's dishes from the table.

"Hurry and I'll drive you" Katsumi said as she handed Souta his lunch. Katsumi grabbed her keys from the hook and walked out the door. Souta scrambled out after her. They all watched in amusement as Souta almost slammed himself into the door running to the car. After breakfast Kagome and Sango disappeared upstairs leaving Miroku, Inu Yasha and Shippo behind. Once in the bathroom Kagome handed a magazine to Sango.

"Look through that and see if there is anything you like" Kagome instructed.

"Cant I just leave my hair the way it is?" Sango asked, as she looked at all the weird things the girls in the pictures had done to their hair.

"Keep looking, the stuff in the beginning is really bad" Kagome said when she noticed what Sango was looking at. She already knew what she wanted to do with her hair so she would practice it while Sango picked. She was going to pull her hair half up and curl everything, and leave some tendrils down in the front. Sango continued looking through the magazine while Kagome worked on her hair. The styles were starting to actually look nice. She kept turning the pages and the styles started to look simple and well normal. She liked the ones when the hair was wavy or curly, and since her hair was shorter now, she couldn't do all the ones she likes with long hair. She skipped over a few pages of styles where all the pictures had girls with really long hair or really short hair. Finally she came to a section where the girls all had hair around the same length as hers. Sango looked up at Kagome for a minute to see how far along she was with her hair and was shocked at how much work she had already done. All of the hair that was not pulled up had been curled and she was working on the part she had pulled back. Sango looked back down at the magazine and one picture caught her eye. Sections of the girl's hair were twisted around it self and pulled back from her face. Then the small sections were all twisted together from where they were pulled back and round around each other. The part of the girl's hair that wasn't pulled back was in very fine waves. She studied the picture while she waited for Kagome to finish.

"So what do you think?" Kagome asked as she finished the last curl.

"It looks really good" Sango answered.

"Did you find anything you liked?" Kagome questioned

"Yeah, this one" Sango said as she pointed to the picture.

"Oh that's really pretty, I can do it" Kagome commented

"Now?" Sango said surprised

"When else, we need to practice it first" Kagome answered. Kagome stood up and Sango sat in the chair she had been sitting in and Kagome looked over the picture and gathered all the supplies she would need. It was more detailed then hers but not as elegant. She focused her senses on downstairs just to see that the boys were still there and that Shippo was fine and then went to work on Sango's hair.

Miroku sat on the couch next to Shippo and Inu Yasha watching TV. They had talked for the first hour that they had been abandoned, but they ran out of things to talk about and settled on watching something. Every once in awhile Inu Yasha would focus on upstairs to try and see if Kagome was coming back soon, but all he managed to catch was little wisps of what could only be described as girl talk. Inu Yasha sat with Shippo in his lap and watched amused as Shippo would try and fit as many of Inu Yasha's fingers into his fist as possible, never being able to get more than one finger. He knew that Shippo would need to be fed soon so Kagome would be back soon. She hated giving Shippo milk from the bottle because Shippo would fuss and try to refuse the bottle and sometimes refuse completely until Kagome was back and he could have her breast. Inu Yasha's ears perked up when he heard Kagome and Sango coming down the stairs. The two girls had soaking wet hair pulled back from their faces.

"I thought you were going to try out your hair or something" Inu Yasha asked confused.

"We did, and then we washed our hair, you don't get to see anything until Sunday at the wedding" Kagome said. Sango walked in and sat down in between Inu Yasha and Miroku while Kagome took Shippo from Inu Yasha and went back upstairs with him.

"She has to feed him" Inu Yasha explained as he stood up and walked upstairs.

"Sango would you like to join me outside while I meditate, I find I enjoy the sound of your training while I relax" Miroku asked.

"I suppose so, why not" Sango said happily. Miroku smiled and opened the door for Sango, she smiled at him and he tried his best not to blush as he followed her out, sliding the door shut behind them. Miroku sat on the ground and focused his energy. Soon he heard the sounds of Sango's breathing getting heavier and her occasional grunts while she trained. Miroku grinned when his mind wandered to other things that could cause Sango to make those sounds. One day they would do those things, when he had the nerve to ask her to marry him. Right now they were just starting out and he wasn't going to be foolish and ruin it by pushing her or being himself. In fact he hadn't touched her inappropriately since the day that they rescued her from Naraku. He sighed and pushed all thoughts from his mind and again focused on his energy and breathing. Sango glanced over at Miroku as she switched weapons; he looked so peaceful when he meditated that's why she always agreed to train while he was meditating, she liked to watch him meditate. She even contemplating asking to meditate with him, but she never had the nerve. Sango winced and dropped her weapon.

Miroku heard the sound of the steel clanging against the ground and Sango's sharp intake of breath and in seconds he was at her side. She was cradling her left arm against her body and there was blood dripping down her shirt and some on the ground beneath her. Sango looked up at Miroku, she tried her best to hide her embarrassment and pain. If she hadn't been so distracted she wouldn't have cut her arm. She looked down at the cut, which was alarmingly deep and long. Miroku pulled her arm gently out towards him and looked down at the cut.

"Sango, this is pretty bad, what happened" he asked worried, Sango never messed up like this while training.

"Its nothing, I was just sloppy, and my hand slipped and I cut my arm and dropped the blade" Sango said dejectedly. Kagome and Inu Yasha jumped down from the window and Kagome ran over to Sango.

"What happened, we were upstairs and we caught the smell of someone's blood" Kagome said concerned.

"I was training and I was sloppy and my hand slipped" Sango said chagrined.

"Sango that's really deep, you need stitches" Kagome exclaimed while she examined the wound. Kagome swiftly went to the kitchen and grabbed the keys to the car Ji-Chan had bought her for her 17th birthday when she passed her road test. Kagome paused for a minute trying to remember where she had stashed the medical kit… `I ran in the door tossed my bag next to the cabinet, and….kuso…Mama must have moved it' She frantically began searching through the cabinets.

"Yes, here it is" Kagome shouted relieved when she found it. She opened the door and ran back to Sango. She pulled out some gauze and quickly wrapped it around Sango's arm, the blood already began to seep through, Kagome took out a second gauze and wrapped it over the first.

"This should be good for now, lets go" Kagome said as she closed her medical kit and headed over to her car.

"Go where?" Sango questioned.

"Hospital" Kagome said sharply as she went towards the car.

"Kagome what's a hospital?" Miroku asked confused as he got into the back of the car with Sango.

"Somewhere they treat wounds and illness, I'm not going to risk making a mistake and you won't get a scar if it's done at the hospital." Kagome explained as she started the car. Inu Yasha watched them getting into the car and then watched as the car disappeared from his sight.

"Do you know how to work this thing?" Miroku asked as Kagome backed the car down the hill they called a driveway.

"Remember over a year ago when I had to go home a lot for lessons and a road test"

"Yeah, you were gone more for that then you were for school Inu Yasha was always in a bad mood" Miroku commented.

"Well the lessons were to teach me how to work this thing, its called driving, and a road test determines if you're good enough at it to get a license, which allows you to drive legally whenever you want." Kagome said. The rest of the ride was silent as Kagome drove them to the hospital. Kagome parked as close as she could to the emergency section entrance. She grabbed her bag and got out of the car. Her friends followed as she walked into the huge building in front of them. A small woman behind a glass screen looked up at Kagome as she approached.

"May I help you?" The woman whined out looking back down at something on her desk.

"My friend has a bad cut on her arm and we think it might need stitches"

"Go down the hall to your right there will be a woman at a desk that will take your information" She said not even looked up, she reached over and pressed a button, and a there was a loud buzz and the lock on the door released and the door slid open. Kagome walked through and the others followed watching the door as they walked through, afraid it would close on them. Kagome again approached another desk and this time the woman was much more friendly.

"Hi, what is the nature of your visit" she asked warmly.

"My friend, has a cut on her arm, and she might need stitches, and it's bleeding very badly. The woman took out a piece of paper and pressed a button and a door opened to her office.

"Please have her come in. You may accompany her" she said. Kagome led Sango into the small room and the woman motioned for Sango to sit in the chair across from her. Sango sat down and the woman moved closer and took Sango's hand and began to unwrap the gauze.

"How did you do this?" The woman asked when she finally saw the wound.

"I was training with my katana and I got sloppy and my hand slipped and the blade cut across my arm." Sango explained. From what she knew of this time, having these kinds of weapons was not that uncommon.

"Ok, we'll have you in and out of here as quickly as possible, I just need this to be filled out and then the doctor will be with you shortly, the waiting room is right through here" the woman said and Kagome took the paper and a pen from the woman and then the three of them went into the waiting room. Kagome sat near a desk and filled out the paper. She just made sure she put her name and mothers name down for everything instead of Sango's because she didn't exist in this time. Kagome told Sango that when she finished filling it out and handed it back to the nurse. They sat there in silence waiting.

"Higurashi, Kagome" the woman called. The group stood and waiting.

"Please go down to room 504 the doctor will be right in with you." The woman instructed. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku walked down the hall to the room. Kagome watched the room numbers as they walked and finally opened the door to one and they walked in. Miroku remained standing while Kagome and Sango sat down and waited for the doctor.

Katsumi finished her errands and headed back to Souta's school to pick him up. She had taken care of the food, the flowers, decorations, everything was ready, and she even picked out a nice dress for her to wear. As soon as they got back they would have the rehearsal and everything would be perfect. She looked at her watch and realized that Souta wouldn't be out of class for another half hour, so took out a magazine and read it while she waited. About half way through the magazine she heard a knock on the window and looked up to see Souta standing there. She put the magazine down and started the car and unlocked the door. Souta opened the door tossed his bag in the back seat and then jumped in the front seat.

Kagome sat in the car at the stop light surprised at how fast they had been in and out of there. The light changed and she made the turn and then made another quick turn up her driveway. She gave a small sigh of relief that her mother was not home yet. She turned off the car and everyone got out and they went back into the house. Kagome giggled when she caught sight of the two, Inu Yasha was sitting on the couch asleep with Shippo asleep in his lap. Not wanting to disturb them Kagome, Miroku and Sango went into the kitchen and had something to eat. Kagome's ears twitched towards the door when she picked up the sound of Katsumi and Souta getting out of the car.

"They're back" Kagome said between bites of her sandwich.

"So its time for the rehearsal thing right?" Sango asked.

"Yeah, so I'm going to go wake up Inu Yasha" Kagome said after taking the last bite of her sandwich. She stood up and walked out of the kitchen. Inu Yasha looked up at her as she walked into the room.

"Oh, your up already, I was just coming in to wake you" Kagome said surprised.

"How long ago did you get back?" Inu Yasha asked.

"Not to long, we had some lunch, my mom and Souta just got back, so its time for the rehearsal." Kagome said.

"All right" Inu Yasha said as he stretched his arms.

"I'll take Shippo, can you get the play pen and bring it outside?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah sure" he answered as he handed Shippo to Kagome. Kagome went outside to great her mother and brother who weren't even bothering to come inside.

"Where is Ji-Chan?" Kagome questioned

"He should be in his room or out back, Souta go find him" Katsumi said. Souta glared at her from a minute but quickly went to find him.

"What's with him?" Inu Yasha asked as he walked past the fuming teen.

"I have no idea, he's a 13 year old boy…. gets like this sometimes" Katsumi said. Inu Yasha looked in the direction that Souta went shrugged and then set up the playpen. Kagome waited for him to finish and then put Shippo in it. He looked very upset about it, but didn't cry. About 10 minutes later Souta came back followed by Ji-Chan. Ji-Chan and Katsumi stood at the front of the chairs that they had set up and discussed the processions. Kirara would walk up the aisle holding a bouquet of flowers and shake them as she walked like a flower girl. Inu Yasha would already be up there. Souta would walk up before Sango, who would walk down with Miroku after Souta and take their place at the altar. Katsumi would walk Kagome down the aisle and then sit down next to Shippo's playpen. Ji-Chan would go through the service. Souta would give them the rings. Ji-Chan would pronounce them husband and wife.