InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Therapy of Each Other ❯ Seperated ( Chapter 17 )

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Chapter 16:Separated

Another day droned by slowly as Inuyasha starred outside the window. After revealing his `good' position to Kagome, she's been closer to him. He didn't mind it really. He loved the way she'd stare up at him with those adoring eyes of hers. His mind was so muddled with fond thoughts but then there were the worries. His biggest one was if she ever remembered him…How he was before. Would she think he was deceiving her? He was lying to her to hurt her in the worst way, or even may it go right and she be happy of his change? What if she wasn't just scared of him before, but hated him back? He sighed and he heard behind him, his friend Kenji,

“Oi, Inuyasha, are you ok? You've been a lot quieter since you came back. Have you softened up on us, man?”

Inuyasha scoffed,

“Keh! No, I'm just not feeling well that's all.”

Then he heard the question he knew would eventually come up,

“Oi, why haven't you hung out with us since you got back? That fine blonde, youkai girl picks you up everyday.”

Kenji nudged him,

“Your girlfriend?”

Inuyasha's brow twitched,

“Who? Kirara? Keh! No, She picks me up to go to…ano… tutoring.”

“Tutoring?”

Inuyasha leaned back and simply said,

“Aa” (Yeah). I didn't get much schooling during my time, so I'm being tutored still.”

Inuyasha fidgeted when he asked,

“What about the weekends? You are unreachable then too.”

Inuyasha used his popularity and just scared him and growled in his face,

“What's it to you? Who are you? My mother?!”

Kenji put both his hands up in defense,

“Oi! I'm just wondering.”

Inuyasha crossed his arms and sighed till another one of his friends came by and said,

“Inuyasha, why don't you ditch tutoring and we go do something fun! Just once you can make some excuse for us, man.”

Inuyasha fidgeted. He actually forgot about his status of popularity. Is that really the extent of the effect Kagome had on him? He tried to think. He really did owe his friends this, he had not seen any of them for nearly 8 months now. He sighed in his brain,

`I hope Kagome can forgive me this once'

He plastered a smirk and said,

“I suppose I can tell Kirara I'm not feeling to well.”

They wooted and gave high fives. Inuyasha though felt something wasn't right. Something tugged at him. But he told Kirara after school he was really not feeling well and to tell Kagome he was sorry. He thought to himself,

`I hope I can forgive myself for lying to her…'

His thoughts broke as his friends yelled for him.

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Kagome sighed as she stared out of the window. He didn't come today, but she supposed even she understood that he needed the rest. She was unaware that her mother was down the hall in Kaede's office discussing her progress. Kagome sighed and held Inu-chan to her. The small, pointed-eared stuffed dog actually had the smell Kagome had grown so attached to Inuyasha with. To know he was the one that saved her from death, the one that tirelessly watched over her and trained to walk and talk… even remind her how being a woman and he a man is so different, but she blushed at that last thought. Her thoughts of him were pretty innocent and tame, but if his body reacted to her the way she's witnessed, what does he think? Her face heated more, but how she missed him.

“Rest tonight so I can have you tomorrow.”

“Who are you talking about, dear?”

Kagome looked at the doorway to look to her mother. Her mother was familiar to her now and saw her as her mother, but her closeness wasn't anything compared to that of Inuyasha. Kagome smiled,

“Mama!”

Kagome's mother's face brightened brightly as her mother ran to her with a hug. They hugged tightly and her mother kissed her on the cheek. Kagome stepped back with a bright smile, but noticed the dog,

“Where'd you get that pretty doggie?”

Kagome glowed,

“Inuyasha gave him to me to cheer me up after he moved out of the building back to his house. Inu-chan here protects me when he can't”.

Mrs. Higurashi rose a brow and said,

“This is the same Inuyasha that grew up with you and trained you?”

She nodded with a smile. Mrs. Higurashi smiled and said,

“I've heard so much about his work for you, but have not had a chance to thank him… Where is he?”

Kagome slumped and said in a depressive voice,

“He was sick after school. He had to go home and rest.”

Kaede, Sango and Miroku walked in with sad looks. Mrs. Higurashi said,

“That is so awful that I wasn't able to meet him before we left.”

Kagome turned pale.

“We?”

She looked to the group behind her mom. They looked sad as they brought in things from her classes. Kagome panicked,

`No! No! Not now!'

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Inuyasha stood on the pier with his friends as a few of them smoked and a few had beers. Inuyasha had vividly told of his acts that got him imprisoned as a “slave” in a Rehab home. Everyone was quite entertained and as usual, Yura and a few of her friends were flirty with him, trying desperately to get the attention that they used to receive from their hanyou hunk, but when one tried to sit on his lap, he instinctively growled at her to get off him. It surprised him. Usually he loved all the attention he got from the ladies, but only one smiling face was in his mind, haunting him of the lie he told to keep his façade of tough guy bred. Every time her face came to his mind, a pang of guilt filled him, but he quickly would shake it off as he started to joke with his friends he actually missed a lot. Then he heard something in his head,

`Inuyasha…you…you lied to me…'

The hurt, aching voice said in his voice. His eyes widened,

`Ka…Kagome?'

Finally it got to him.

“Guys, I'm not feeling to well. I need to head home.”

Hey all moaned and groaned and he left them as he began his trek to the bus stop.

“Tomorrow, I'll make it up to you.”

But something tugged at his gut. Something was not right at all. He couldn't shake it. It made him worry. He had a very hard night, He barely slept a wink.

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Kagome stepped into the house. It brought back familiar feelings, but her heart ached relentlessly. Her mother hugged her and said,

“Welcome home, honey.”

Then the people she came to know as her little brother Souta and her Jii-chan came to her for a warm welcome. It did warm her, but she was worn out from the fight she put up at the home to leave without Inuyasha, but everyone assured her she'd see him again. He didn't even know where she was, but she clung onto the dog. She saw her family's mouths move, but the only sound she heard was the gentle voice of Inuyasha when they talked about a week ago.

The conversation echoed in her head…

Kagome sat at the edge of her bed and held her stuffed dog. She heard Inuyasha behind her and she knew his keen senses picked up her distress.

“Kagome?”

She held her dog tighter and Inuyasha got onto her bed by her and asked in a worried voice,

“What's wrong?”

Kagome turned and hugged him, a few tears escaping. He blushed and gently returned her embrace as Kagome said,

“I had a bad dream last night.”

Inuyasha froze, but calmed a bit when she said,

“You disappeared and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find you. I've not been so lonely in my life!”

Inuyasha held her tight before scooting behind her, pulling her between his legs and held her against him. He said in a bit of a snooty voice,

“Now why would you have such a dumb dream like that?”

She turned to her side a bit to lean her cheek on his chest while she shrugged. He held her tighter and said gently as he put his chin on her head, slanting to where he was the nearest to her ear,

“I already told you, baka, I'm not leaving you.”

She snuggled into his chest and smiled,

“So I never have to worry about being alone? Since you'll always be there for me, ne?”

She felt Inuyasha tense and hold his breath and shake his head a bit before sighing and letting out a gentle,

“Aa (right).”

He held her tighter,

“Of course I mean I'm still going to school and ho…”

“I know that! I know what you mean.”

She giggled. She felt him smile against her head. Kagome wrapped her arms around him and he surrounded her with his arms and gently said the words that echoed in her head,

“Kagome…Nothing can separate us. And if something does, don't worry…I will find you.”

Kagome sighed and plastered a smile to her family and asked,

“When is Inuyasha visiting?”

Her mother gave bit of a sad look and said,

“You'll see him again, don't worry. But now just be with us, we are your family.”

She remembered she said that back at the center when Kagome was putting up a fight. Kagome nodded, though inside she did not mean too. Before she broke down in front of her family, she asked,

“Do I have a room?”

Her mother nodded and showed her. A flood of familiar thoughts and feelings hit her as she looked around, but once her mother left her, she collapsed onto her bed, trying to stifle her heartache with Inu-chan.

“Kagome…Nothing can separate us. And if something does, don't worry…I will find you.”

She gave a shaky sigh and thought,

`Oh, Inuyasha! Hurry and find me!'

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Inuyasha rushed into the rehab center catching a bus. Kirara didn't pick him up. He rushed down the hall, flowers in hand to make up for yesterday. As he rounded the corner into Kagome's room, a smile on his face as he prepared himself to be tackled by his favorite pair of arms.

“Oi! Kagome! Look what I…”

He dropped the flowers as he looked over an empty room. Only the furniture was left. Everything that said, “Kagome” was gone, even her smell. Inuyasha felt a surge of panic run through him. He turned around to ask Miroku or Sango, but met face-to-face with Kaede. He growled at her,

“Where is she?”

Kaede shook her head and said,

“We waited for you yesterday so you could say goodbye, but you didn't come.”

“What?! What do you mean?”

She sighed,

“She went home yesterday, Inuyasha.”

Inuyasha went pale and gulped as he choked out,

“Why didn't anyone call me?”

Kaede solemnly said, something in her eye,

“I thought you needed rest.”

All color drained from him. Did she know. She has been around Hanyous most her life and knows hanyous really don't get sick… He froze before he clinched his fist.

“Can't I have her phone number? Her address? I really wan…need to see her.”

He tried to say as nonchalant as he could muster.

“Sorry, Inuyasha. It was agreed by her mother and I that you not speak too her for a few days…just until she settles.”

“NAAAAAAAANNNNNNNIIIIII?!!!!!!!!”

He could feel a heat run through his veins. Kaede continued,

“We think it'd be very distracting to her memory process if you were there.”

Inuyasha growled,

“She's probably scared to death!”

It echoed in the halls and in his head as he pounded his fist to his chest.

“SHE NEEDS ME!”

He froze and his eyes went wide as he paused. Kaede nodded,

“I know you feel that way, but she's not a baby, Inuyasha. She doesn't need a father to protect her…”

“I'm not her father! I'm…I'm…”

He blushed. She raised a brow,

“Ah, I see, but Inuyasha, you'll see her in a few days. We aren't saying you can never see her again.”

He looked at her, dangerously through his bangs and growled,

“You might as well.”

And he stormed down the hall. He had a million emotions and thoughts run through his mind. Why did he feel so strong over her? He remembered Myouga's talk on mates and protection. He gulped. Does that mean he subconsciously chose Kagome as his mate? He tried to shake the thought off. But he though about the words he told Kagome,

“Kagome…Nothing can separate us. And if something does, don't worry…I will find you.”

That's how he did feel. He wanted to bash something. They were keeping them apart and he kept getting a picture of frightened Kagome crawled in a corner calling his name. It made him angry, and then he spotted a certain physical trainer talking to a few nurses. He walked swiftly up to him and pulled him around, slamming him against the wall as he growled,

“Why didn't you tell me, dammit?!”

Miroku assured the nurses everything was ok as he faced the rabidly, angered hanyou.

“Inuyasha, we were told not to tell you.”

Inuyasha slammed him against the wall and growled,

“What?!”

“Inuyasha, I'm an employee here, I have to follow what my boss says…”

“…unless it comes to sexually harassing the patients…”

“Now, hold on, Inuyasha”

“Inuyasha!”

He heard Sango call behind him. He let go of Miroku as he turned around to face Sango.

“Sango! Please! I need her phone number, address, something!”

Sango and Miroku sighed. Inuyasha cringed and growled,

“Screw you…”

Then in one final burst before he ran to leave,

“Screw you all!!!!!”

Sango and Miroku sighed.

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