InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Standing the Test of Time ❯ Chapter eleven ( Chapter 11 )
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By: sunstreak 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.28.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 166 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.28.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 166 | Status: Completed
Chapter 11: Will we ever meet again?
...beep...beep...Kagome....awake?...beep...beep
Every thing was fuzzy, her body, her sight. All her senses felt dulled and her body vaguely ached, but her mind was barely able to process all that was going on for her to feel pain. Kagome swore she dreamt something awful had happened, and it had something to do with Inuyasha, but her mind was too fuzzy to be able to put her finger on it. ‘Inuyasha? Will you be here when I wake?’ Kagome’s tired mind thought drowsily as consciousness took a hold of her.
Her eyes lids felt sticky as she weakly pried them open and her throat was unpleasantly dry. The moment her eyes met light, every thing seemed to blur as the room started to spin, causing Kagome to groan in agony. When everything slowed back down, Kagome first took note of the feeling of warm flesh against her hand. Some body was in the room with her, she wasn’t alone. Kagome sought out the owner of the hand and saw it was her little brother, Sota, and he was asleep with his head on the foot of her bed. Just when Kagome was starting to make sense of things, Sota stirred and woke a bit.
“Hey..kid.” Kagome squeezed out. Her voice failed her as she tried to speak, surprising Kagome at how weak she sounded to even herself. Sota sat bolt upright when he heard her voice, his eyes were as wide as they would be if Kagome had just jumped from behind a dark corner and yelled “BOO!”.
“Kagome! You’re awake. Thank god, sis, you had us all really scared there for a while. How you feeling? Hungry? Thirsty? What happened any way? Why’d you end up here in the first place?” Sota bombarded.
Kagome held up a finger, and softly said “water?”, while pointing at her mouth.
“Oh, yea, I bet you’re thirsty.” Sota said while pouring her a glass of ice water and handed it to her.
“Thanks.” Kagome said a little more clearly after taking a drinking , instantly refreshing her dry, parched mouth. “Now, one thing at a time. What happened?” Kagome asked concerned.
“Mom found you in pieces at the bottom of the well. It’s been hell trying to convince the doctors that you’re not suicidal.” Sota said.
“Yea? How long was I out?” Kagome questioned.
“Um, little over a week now. Almost two. So what happened?” Sota asked again.
“Wow, two weeks. I’m not sure what happened. I remember we went back to Inuyasha’s time and Aiko was sick with what looked to be pneumonia and I came back here to get medicine and the last thing I remember was waking up just a few minutes ago.” Kagome went quiet as she thought about what happened, then she asked, nervously, “where is Inuyasha?”.
“He’s not here. You were alone when mom found you.” Sota said slowly.
Kagome gulped. ‘Alone?’ “Sota, hasn’t Inuyasha been back since? Wasn’t he worried?” Kagome’s voice broke as she spoke.
“No Kagome, I’m sorry. He’s gone.” Sota said, his voice strained as he spoke those terrible words.
“So I’m alone?” Kagome asked as tears started rolling down her cheeks.
“No, sis. I’m still here with you, and that’ll never change.” Sota sat forward and hugged his older sister.
“Thanks Sota. You’re the best little brother any one could ask for.” Kagome said as she hugged back.
“You need to rest. I’ll call mom after I get back to the house. She had to work today and grandfather has tours to give if he wants to make bills with money left over.” Sota explained.
“Well, if you didn’t eat there so much, they’d be able to save some money.” Kagome teased.
“I can’t help it if mom’s cooking is good. Besides, she makes that special tea for me when I’m sick and when I had that ear infection, I couldn’t help but stay a couple of days.” Sota smiled back.
“So, what’s in store for me now?” Kagome suddenly asked as Sota prepared to get up and leave.
“A lot of recovering. You’re lucky you didn’t break your back, let alone, both your arms. You had a dislocated shoulder and had to be put in traction. You’re left leg didn’t fare as well, though. Your knee was separated and ligaments were torn, so you were put into surgery right away and they had to put in pins and reconstruct your knee cap. It’s going to take a while, but you’re stubborn enough, you’ll get through this, no problem.” Sota smiled one of his ‘little brother’ reassuring smiles.
“In other words, months of physical therapy? I would expect that for these types of injuries. Anything else?” Kagome sighed.
“You know, you almost died, too.” Sota said lowly.
“What?” Kagome asked, shocked.
“You were face down in the soft dirt and the force of the impact had collapsed one of your lungs and if the paramedics didn’t get to you as fast as they did, you would have suffocated as your body sunk into the dirt.” Sota explained.
God he looked like hell. Kagome had finally realized upon closer inspection that he had dark circles under his eyes. The whites of his eyes were red and dull. He looked tired and overly stressed. “You need sleep.” Kagome said.
“So do you.” Sota said flatly.
Kagome threw an extra pillow at the foot of her bed and moved over herself and patted the spot she had created. “You can use one of the millions of blankets on me. I think I’m over done”, she laughed. Sota smiled and at the offer of a bed, what ever life he had was drained right out of him as he took up her offer and climbed into the bed and instantly fell asleep.
‘Inuyasha, what happened? Why didn’t I wake in your arms?’ Kagome’s mind questioned as she watched her brother sleep. After trying to mentally figure out answers to so many confusing questions, Kagome fell asleep as well.
The next morning, Kagome woke up feeling better than the last time she awoke. Kagome looked around the room for Sota and found that there was no body around. Kagome looked to her night stand and saw a piece of folded paper with her name on it. When she unfolded it, she saw it was Sota’s writing. He said he had classes today, but called home to let every one know she had woken up.
“Hey, so you are awake.” Kagome’s mother broke through her thoughts, surprising her a bit.
“Hi mom. Sorry about giving you a scare.” Kagome said.
“Oh I’d say you gave me more than a scare. I think I’ve gotten a little greyer.” Kagome’s mother said, inspecting her hair. “As long as you’re ok now, I don’t mind a few greys.”
“Sota told me that I was pretty bad off.” Kagome said.
“You were, but I knew you’d pull through. You’re so strong and we’re going to be here with you through this.” Kagome’s mother reassured.
“Thank you mom.” Kagome said. “So I guess this means I’m sealed away from Inuyasha.” Kagome’s voice cracked when she spoke the horrible truth.
“Honey, I’m sorry. There’s still hope, I just...”
“Mother, don’t. Don’t say that every thing will be alright in the end, because it’s just not meant to be.” Kagome cried.
At the sight of her daughter in such despair, Mrs. Higurashi cried as well. Kagome had worked her butt off for over seven years and just when happiness was within her daughter’s reach, fate had to cruelly rip it away.
“Mom, it’s over. The past shall remain just that, past. And now I have to work for a new future, so just for future references, for all points and purposes, Inuyasha is dead because he would have never lived to this time.” Kagome looked up at her mother through pained chocolate eyes.
“If that’s how you want to except it, that’s how we’ll take it. Kagome, just remember that there will always be hope, as long as you live and breathe, there’s hope.” Kagome’s mother said gently as she gave her daughter a hug. “I have to get back to work, I just wanted to stop by on my break. I’ll stop by on my way home from work.”
“That’s fine, mom. Be safe.” Kagome said.
“I love you.” Mrs. Higurashi stated as she left.
“Love you to mom.” Kagome smiled and went to watching t.v.
As Sota had said, Kagome faced a lot of new challenges in her healing process. She spent hours in physical therapy and it took her a couple of weeks before her leg would hold under her weight wile assisted. Walking was a different matter. It became so frustrating that something that was just a normal part of every day life, became an every day challenge. But every day she would get mad at herself for not having walked yet that she pushed herself beyond her limits, usually earning a scolding from her therapist.
After almost three months of therapy, Kagome walked for the first time across the room. It was slow and surprisingly painful. Kagome had lost so much muscle tone, she felt like a newborn fawn trying out her legs for the first time. After Kagome had reached her trainer’s arms, she was dripping in sweat and crying from pain and loneliness. This was a very big moment in her life and none of her loved ones were there to witness it. Kagome felt almost betrayed, but knew she couldn’t hold it against them.
Her family tried so hard to be there as much as they could for her physical therapy, but seeing how they all had lives of their own, she found herself alone a lot. Hojo became a regular at the hospital. After hearing about her ‘accident’, he stopped by a lot with healthy treats for her to aid in her recovery. Some days he would sit with her as she laid in her bed after a good days’ workout, and catch her up with what was going on, on the outside.
“So Ayumi agreed to marry him? That’s wonderful. You know she is such the romantic, we thought she’d never marry. I bet it’s going to be a beautiful wedding.” Kagome said as she smiled at Hojo’s happy news.
“They’re all pulling for you, Kagome. We were all pretty shaken up when we heard the news of your accident and after all the time it took for you to be healthy again. But we’re all so proud of you, too. You know, with your test scores, you will be able to get into any hospital, no problem. By the way, have you figured what field you want to go into?” Hojo asked.
“Actually, I want to be in emergency medicine.” Kagome smiled as she blushed. She had spent three months in the hospital and saw what came through the emergency room and she still wanted to get caught up in the madness.
“You think you could handle such a job? I mean you are constantly on the move.” Hojo asked, looking her up and down, skeptically.
“There’s nothing I’d love more. I prefer to be right there when the patient needs me the most and put them back together. I have my own reasons.” Kagome smiled warmly as she recalled the times she’d rush to Inuyasha’s side to mend his near-fatal wounds. Tears weld up in her eyes when she recalled little Aiko and how sick she was. Kagome knew that if she could have only gotten through the well, she could have saved the little girl. But with the medical technology (or lack there of) of that time, Aiko was doomed the second the bottle of penicillin spilled onto the ground.
“I bet for what ever reason you have, Kagome, it’s a good one. And you are such a good person, that would be the perfect position for you.” Hojo smiled.
“And you, Hojo? What field would you want to go into.” Kagome asked.
“Medical research and advances. I want to cure cancer.” Hojo said sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.
“That’s right up your alley. Hey, you know, they’re talking about letting me out of here in a couple of weeks if I continue to progress well. Maybe, after I get out, you and I could go see a movie or something?” Kagome asked.
“I’d love to. How about I even pick you up from the hospital? I promise, I’ll be here, waiting. You won’t be alone.”
“I’m glad I have a friend like you, Hojo. Thank you.” Kagome smiled warmly at him. ‘Since when did he become so charming?’ Kagome asked herself.
“Well, I’ll see you in a day or two. I’ll give you a call once I know for certain.” Hojo said as he gathered his things and left.
Kagome’s heart twisted after Hojo left. She felt as if she had betrayed herself, betrayed Inuyasha. One thing Kagome had to hold on to was the fact Inuyasha insisted she’d be happy and she knew that moving on with her life would help reach that goal of being happy and start healing old wounds. ‘Just remember he was you first and only true love.’ Kagome thought to herself.
“Hopefully he’ll meet me in the after life. One way or another, we’ll be together again.” Kagome thought out loud as she found herself in her usual situation by the end of the night, alone and lonely.
...End of Chappy...
...beep...beep...Kagome....awake?...beep...beep
Every thing was fuzzy, her body, her sight. All her senses felt dulled and her body vaguely ached, but her mind was barely able to process all that was going on for her to feel pain. Kagome swore she dreamt something awful had happened, and it had something to do with Inuyasha, but her mind was too fuzzy to be able to put her finger on it. ‘Inuyasha? Will you be here when I wake?’ Kagome’s tired mind thought drowsily as consciousness took a hold of her.
Her eyes lids felt sticky as she weakly pried them open and her throat was unpleasantly dry. The moment her eyes met light, every thing seemed to blur as the room started to spin, causing Kagome to groan in agony. When everything slowed back down, Kagome first took note of the feeling of warm flesh against her hand. Some body was in the room with her, she wasn’t alone. Kagome sought out the owner of the hand and saw it was her little brother, Sota, and he was asleep with his head on the foot of her bed. Just when Kagome was starting to make sense of things, Sota stirred and woke a bit.
“Hey..kid.” Kagome squeezed out. Her voice failed her as she tried to speak, surprising Kagome at how weak she sounded to even herself. Sota sat bolt upright when he heard her voice, his eyes were as wide as they would be if Kagome had just jumped from behind a dark corner and yelled “BOO!”.
“Kagome! You’re awake. Thank god, sis, you had us all really scared there for a while. How you feeling? Hungry? Thirsty? What happened any way? Why’d you end up here in the first place?” Sota bombarded.
Kagome held up a finger, and softly said “water?”, while pointing at her mouth.
“Oh, yea, I bet you’re thirsty.” Sota said while pouring her a glass of ice water and handed it to her.
“Thanks.” Kagome said a little more clearly after taking a drinking , instantly refreshing her dry, parched mouth. “Now, one thing at a time. What happened?” Kagome asked concerned.
“Mom found you in pieces at the bottom of the well. It’s been hell trying to convince the doctors that you’re not suicidal.” Sota said.
“Yea? How long was I out?” Kagome questioned.
“Um, little over a week now. Almost two. So what happened?” Sota asked again.
“Wow, two weeks. I’m not sure what happened. I remember we went back to Inuyasha’s time and Aiko was sick with what looked to be pneumonia and I came back here to get medicine and the last thing I remember was waking up just a few minutes ago.” Kagome went quiet as she thought about what happened, then she asked, nervously, “where is Inuyasha?”.
“He’s not here. You were alone when mom found you.” Sota said slowly.
Kagome gulped. ‘Alone?’ “Sota, hasn’t Inuyasha been back since? Wasn’t he worried?” Kagome’s voice broke as she spoke.
“No Kagome, I’m sorry. He’s gone.” Sota said, his voice strained as he spoke those terrible words.
“So I’m alone?” Kagome asked as tears started rolling down her cheeks.
“No, sis. I’m still here with you, and that’ll never change.” Sota sat forward and hugged his older sister.
“Thanks Sota. You’re the best little brother any one could ask for.” Kagome said as she hugged back.
“You need to rest. I’ll call mom after I get back to the house. She had to work today and grandfather has tours to give if he wants to make bills with money left over.” Sota explained.
“Well, if you didn’t eat there so much, they’d be able to save some money.” Kagome teased.
“I can’t help it if mom’s cooking is good. Besides, she makes that special tea for me when I’m sick and when I had that ear infection, I couldn’t help but stay a couple of days.” Sota smiled back.
“So, what’s in store for me now?” Kagome suddenly asked as Sota prepared to get up and leave.
“A lot of recovering. You’re lucky you didn’t break your back, let alone, both your arms. You had a dislocated shoulder and had to be put in traction. You’re left leg didn’t fare as well, though. Your knee was separated and ligaments were torn, so you were put into surgery right away and they had to put in pins and reconstruct your knee cap. It’s going to take a while, but you’re stubborn enough, you’ll get through this, no problem.” Sota smiled one of his ‘little brother’ reassuring smiles.
“In other words, months of physical therapy? I would expect that for these types of injuries. Anything else?” Kagome sighed.
“You know, you almost died, too.” Sota said lowly.
“What?” Kagome asked, shocked.
“You were face down in the soft dirt and the force of the impact had collapsed one of your lungs and if the paramedics didn’t get to you as fast as they did, you would have suffocated as your body sunk into the dirt.” Sota explained.
God he looked like hell. Kagome had finally realized upon closer inspection that he had dark circles under his eyes. The whites of his eyes were red and dull. He looked tired and overly stressed. “You need sleep.” Kagome said.
“So do you.” Sota said flatly.
Kagome threw an extra pillow at the foot of her bed and moved over herself and patted the spot she had created. “You can use one of the millions of blankets on me. I think I’m over done”, she laughed. Sota smiled and at the offer of a bed, what ever life he had was drained right out of him as he took up her offer and climbed into the bed and instantly fell asleep.
‘Inuyasha, what happened? Why didn’t I wake in your arms?’ Kagome’s mind questioned as she watched her brother sleep. After trying to mentally figure out answers to so many confusing questions, Kagome fell asleep as well.
The next morning, Kagome woke up feeling better than the last time she awoke. Kagome looked around the room for Sota and found that there was no body around. Kagome looked to her night stand and saw a piece of folded paper with her name on it. When she unfolded it, she saw it was Sota’s writing. He said he had classes today, but called home to let every one know she had woken up.
“Hey, so you are awake.” Kagome’s mother broke through her thoughts, surprising her a bit.
“Hi mom. Sorry about giving you a scare.” Kagome said.
“Oh I’d say you gave me more than a scare. I think I’ve gotten a little greyer.” Kagome’s mother said, inspecting her hair. “As long as you’re ok now, I don’t mind a few greys.”
“Sota told me that I was pretty bad off.” Kagome said.
“You were, but I knew you’d pull through. You’re so strong and we’re going to be here with you through this.” Kagome’s mother reassured.
“Thank you mom.” Kagome said. “So I guess this means I’m sealed away from Inuyasha.” Kagome’s voice cracked when she spoke the horrible truth.
“Honey, I’m sorry. There’s still hope, I just...”
“Mother, don’t. Don’t say that every thing will be alright in the end, because it’s just not meant to be.” Kagome cried.
At the sight of her daughter in such despair, Mrs. Higurashi cried as well. Kagome had worked her butt off for over seven years and just when happiness was within her daughter’s reach, fate had to cruelly rip it away.
“Mom, it’s over. The past shall remain just that, past. And now I have to work for a new future, so just for future references, for all points and purposes, Inuyasha is dead because he would have never lived to this time.” Kagome looked up at her mother through pained chocolate eyes.
“If that’s how you want to except it, that’s how we’ll take it. Kagome, just remember that there will always be hope, as long as you live and breathe, there’s hope.” Kagome’s mother said gently as she gave her daughter a hug. “I have to get back to work, I just wanted to stop by on my break. I’ll stop by on my way home from work.”
“That’s fine, mom. Be safe.” Kagome said.
“I love you.” Mrs. Higurashi stated as she left.
“Love you to mom.” Kagome smiled and went to watching t.v.
As Sota had said, Kagome faced a lot of new challenges in her healing process. She spent hours in physical therapy and it took her a couple of weeks before her leg would hold under her weight wile assisted. Walking was a different matter. It became so frustrating that something that was just a normal part of every day life, became an every day challenge. But every day she would get mad at herself for not having walked yet that she pushed herself beyond her limits, usually earning a scolding from her therapist.
After almost three months of therapy, Kagome walked for the first time across the room. It was slow and surprisingly painful. Kagome had lost so much muscle tone, she felt like a newborn fawn trying out her legs for the first time. After Kagome had reached her trainer’s arms, she was dripping in sweat and crying from pain and loneliness. This was a very big moment in her life and none of her loved ones were there to witness it. Kagome felt almost betrayed, but knew she couldn’t hold it against them.
Her family tried so hard to be there as much as they could for her physical therapy, but seeing how they all had lives of their own, she found herself alone a lot. Hojo became a regular at the hospital. After hearing about her ‘accident’, he stopped by a lot with healthy treats for her to aid in her recovery. Some days he would sit with her as she laid in her bed after a good days’ workout, and catch her up with what was going on, on the outside.
“So Ayumi agreed to marry him? That’s wonderful. You know she is such the romantic, we thought she’d never marry. I bet it’s going to be a beautiful wedding.” Kagome said as she smiled at Hojo’s happy news.
“They’re all pulling for you, Kagome. We were all pretty shaken up when we heard the news of your accident and after all the time it took for you to be healthy again. But we’re all so proud of you, too. You know, with your test scores, you will be able to get into any hospital, no problem. By the way, have you figured what field you want to go into?” Hojo asked.
“Actually, I want to be in emergency medicine.” Kagome smiled as she blushed. She had spent three months in the hospital and saw what came through the emergency room and she still wanted to get caught up in the madness.
“You think you could handle such a job? I mean you are constantly on the move.” Hojo asked, looking her up and down, skeptically.
“There’s nothing I’d love more. I prefer to be right there when the patient needs me the most and put them back together. I have my own reasons.” Kagome smiled warmly as she recalled the times she’d rush to Inuyasha’s side to mend his near-fatal wounds. Tears weld up in her eyes when she recalled little Aiko and how sick she was. Kagome knew that if she could have only gotten through the well, she could have saved the little girl. But with the medical technology (or lack there of) of that time, Aiko was doomed the second the bottle of penicillin spilled onto the ground.
“I bet for what ever reason you have, Kagome, it’s a good one. And you are such a good person, that would be the perfect position for you.” Hojo smiled.
“And you, Hojo? What field would you want to go into.” Kagome asked.
“Medical research and advances. I want to cure cancer.” Hojo said sheepishly as he scratched the back of his head.
“That’s right up your alley. Hey, you know, they’re talking about letting me out of here in a couple of weeks if I continue to progress well. Maybe, after I get out, you and I could go see a movie or something?” Kagome asked.
“I’d love to. How about I even pick you up from the hospital? I promise, I’ll be here, waiting. You won’t be alone.”
“I’m glad I have a friend like you, Hojo. Thank you.” Kagome smiled warmly at him. ‘Since when did he become so charming?’ Kagome asked herself.
“Well, I’ll see you in a day or two. I’ll give you a call once I know for certain.” Hojo said as he gathered his things and left.
Kagome’s heart twisted after Hojo left. She felt as if she had betrayed herself, betrayed Inuyasha. One thing Kagome had to hold on to was the fact Inuyasha insisted she’d be happy and she knew that moving on with her life would help reach that goal of being happy and start healing old wounds. ‘Just remember he was you first and only true love.’ Kagome thought to herself.
“Hopefully he’ll meet me in the after life. One way or another, we’ll be together again.” Kagome thought out loud as she found herself in her usual situation by the end of the night, alone and lonely.
...End of Chappy...