InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 20 ( Chapter 21 )

A half hour later, when dinner was being delivered, Sango entered Jade's room, carrying a backpack of Jade's things. Seeing the tray of food sitting near the bed, Sango wrinkled her nose at what the hospital passed for food. “No wonder people want out of here so fast. Even I would prefer to starve over eating that,” Sango thought. She glanced toward her dozing friend, noticing a slight smile across her lips. “I can only wonder what she's dreaming about. Now to wake her up,” she thought as she moved toward her sleeping friend.

 

Gently, Sango shook Jade's uninjured shoulder; as she called out, “Jade… Ja… de… Time to get up… dinner is served…” After a few more shakes, a low disgruntled moan escaped Jade's lips.

 

“Give… me a few… more minutes… mom,” Jade called out, trying to snuggle deeper into the blankets of her bed.

 

A smile graced Sango's lips as she saw how futile it was going to be getting her friend out of bed. That was until she thought of something that would rile her friend enough to wake her up. Leaning closer to her reluctant friend, she whispered, “Inuyasha said that he had a wonderful time at your house last night and couldn't wait for a repeat later.”

 

Jade's eyes opened in a flash, changing quickly from azure to vivid green then back as she saw the look of amusement on here friend's face. “You're a bitch, Sango,” Jade replied as she sat a little straighter in the hospital bed.

 

Sango flashed Jade a devilish smile as she replied, “I know. Anyways, they brought your dinner a little bit ago and I brought some clothes for you to go home in.” Sango pointed toward the `food' and then toward the backpack sitting on the only chair in the room. Jade glanced at the tray of what the hospital tried to pass of as fine dinning. She blanched as she tried to identify the food on the plate, noticing that a couple of the dishes appeared to be… moving… if that was possible.

 

Jade looked from the tray of rations that even a starving dog wouldn't eat toward her best friend as she inquired, “You said that you brought clothes for me to leave in?”

 

“Yeah, while you were taking your latest nap, your father came in and said that you could leave as soon as you were awake enough to sign the discharge papers. He said that everything looks good, and that he will be back in a little bit to see how you're doing.” With a sly smile, Sango grabbed the backpack and pulled out a Subway bag of Jade's favorite sandwich, a six inch meatball sub with pepper-jack cheese, spinach, tomatoes, pickles, banana peppers, black olives and thin sliced onions on Italian herb and cheese. “I snuck this up for you, with your father's blessing. He said that even he wouldn't eat the food here,” Sango said as she handed Jade her sandwich.

 

Jade dug into her meatball sub with such fever that you could almost hear her growling as she gobbled down the food. Within a few minutes, all that was left of the meal was a few, albeit minute crumbs from the bread and a smidge of tomato sauce at the corner of her mouth. Leaning back, against her pillows, licking the few remaining tomato stains off her fingers, Jade replied, “That was the best, Sango. Now if only it had been a foot-long, it would have been perfect, seeing as I hadn't eaten anything at all today.”

 

Sango threw a balled up pair of socks at her friend as she replied, “If I had known that you were that hungry I would have. Once we get you out of here, we will stop by Subway and pick you up another one. How's that sound?”

 

Jade stretched a little as she replied, “Good to me, but I might get something else first.” About that time, Dr. Vincent Matador strode into his daughter's hospital room holding her chart and a few other papers. Jade smiled brightly at her father as he approached. “Thanks for patching me up again, dad,” she commented as he looked at the brace adorning her left arm, making sure that it was secure and non-binding.

 

“Jade, I had a hard time trying to convince your mother in not coming down here to give you a piece of her mind. What happened this time?” he asked as he wrote a few things in her chart.

 

Running the fingers of her right hand through her tangled hair, Jade replied, “I was working on one of the cars at the shop, trying to get it out of my hair as fast as possible and this crazed woman came up and attacked me. Unfortunately she got in a couple of good swings before I passed out, apparently. After that I don't remember much of anything.” Jade furrowed her brow a little as she quickly took into account the fact that she was the only one at the shop when the attack took place. With a quizzical look on her face, she turned back toward Sango as she asked, “How did I get here?”

 

Sango, trying to hide a bit of smile that crossed her face, as she replied, “Kikyo was scared off by a stranger that came in to the shop. Apparently you left the door open and with the vehicles out front, he thought it was open.” Jade glanced at Sango, seeing a look that said that there was more than what she was letting on. As she was about to say something, to force more out of her friend, two more people moved toward the door, slightly hidden by a large bouquet of flowers.

 

“Can we come in?” one male asked as the other peered from around the flowers.

 

Spotting the nervous look of the white spiked Mohawk of Hakkaku, a genuine smile crossed Jade's lips as she replied, “Come on in, guys and join the party!” Ginta placed the elaborate vase on the bedside table, Hakkaku moved toward the woman in the hospital bed, trying to avoid looking at her nearly exposed chest.

 

“How are you feeling, sis?” Hakkaku asked after he leaned forward and embraced the young woman.

 

As Hakkaku pulled back, allowing Ginta to get in his hug, Jade replied, “I feel like I got the crap beat out of me.” Ginta pulled back as well, allowing Dr. Matador a chance to examine the wounded left shoulder. With a little help from Jade, who leaned forward, he unwrapped the wounded shoulder, revealing two nasty deep puncture marks, roughly