InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 33 ( Chapter 34 )

Summary... summary... Where did I put that blasted summary? Oh... here it is… blood... guts... and confusion. Please enjoy and remember to review. Thank you.

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Inuyasha liked his lips at the heavenly sight before a fist slammed into his jaw, causing him to stumble back into the Explorer. Gingerly he placed his fingers to his lip, seeing the blood on the tips before barreling into the wolf. Not expecting the full body tackle, Koga hit the ground hard, his teeth bared in a grimace as he felt the gravel dig through his shirt into his back. Inuyasha straddled Koga's chest, effectively pinning one arm under his leg.

 

“You son of a bitch…” he swung one fist into Koga's face, breaking his nose as he yelled, “You were the only one that she ever wanted… and you had to screw it up…” After a few more times with Inuyasha's fists connecting with his face, Koga was able to throw the dog demon off his person. Once they regained their footing, Koga wiped the blood from his nose across part of his shirt.

 

“You think that I like beating the shit of women? Is that what you're trying to say, ass hole?” Koga retorted. His emotions were raw… the scar on Jade's chest from his fight with her was a clear indication of his deep seated hatred toward Inuyasha, but it also served as a reminder that he'd hurt the only woman who loved him with all her heart, asking for nothing in return. “Why couldn't I have just asked about it? Why did I have to be such an ass?” Koga thought as he prepared for the ass beating he was about to take and give back.

 

Inuyasha feigned left followed with a right upper cut, cracking Koga's jaw as he replied, “I don't know, the only women that I've seen with you have ended up getting hurt, whether physically or emotionally by you. Jade deserves better… she deserves some one who will be with her… treat her like royalty.”

 

Blocking a right hook, then throwing a left cross, Koga growled, “I suppose that she'd be better off with some one like you? Is that it?”

 

“She'd be a hell of a lot better off with me than you,” Inuyasha replied. The fight continued blow for blow as they continued to insult each other. As the fight progressed, the blows fell heavily, doing as much damage as was possible. Movements slowed, reaction times decreased as the slug fest commenced. Blood flowed from numerous wounds sported by both dog and wolf, each fighting for their life as well as the love of a woman that wasn't even there to see it.

 

 

Spying Sesshomaru nursing a brew at the bar, once the spectators thinned a little, Kagome sidled up next to the stoic demon, a slight smile across her face. “I think that went rather well. What do you think?” she asked, motioning for a soda.

 

With a raised eye brow, he replied, “I think that Ayame will think twice about trying to kiss Koga again. Speaking of which, have you see him or Jade?” He took another swig of his beer as Kagome's eye brows furrowed together, thinking about when the last time was that she saw the feuding love birds.

 

As she thought, Miroku all of a sudden scrambled through the door, yelling, “Call for an ambulance… We've got two men down in the parking lot.” As if there'd been a fire under his seat, Sesshomaru left his spot at the bar, similar to a white blur as he moved past Miroku. Kagome moved to Miroku's side, seeing the blood on his hands and shirt. She looked into his eyes and saw that he was visible shaken, as he tried to calm his racing heart.

 

“What happened, Miroku? You look like crap?” Kagome asked, guiding him toward a stool at the bar, trying to calm her suddenly racing heart as well.

 

Taking a towel from behind the bar to wipe the blood off his hands, Miroku replied rather shakily, “Koga… and Inuyasha were trying… to kill each other. Sango's out there giving Inuyasha mouth to mouth… I'm not sure if he's… going to make it.”

 

As Kagome was about to reply, the scream of ambulance sirens sounded. Both rushed out the door, followed by Ginta. Hakkaku had run out with Sesshomaru to offer assistance as needed. The scene that they arrived upon seemed to be in slow motion. Kagome clung to Miroku's arm for support as she gazed upon the surreal scene. Koga was laying face down in a pool of blood, a paramedic attending to him, checking for a pulse, broken bones, doing basic triage while another paramedic had replaced Sango and continued with the CPR on Inuyasha as they got a stretcher for him. From her place a good twenty feet from Inuyasha's supine body, she heard the paramedics radio the information to the hospital and cringed as they commented on a possible punctured, if not collapsed lung.

 

Quickly she turned her face into Miroku's shoulder crying for the condition of her friends, as Sango came up. “It doesn't look good, Miroku… I got a faint heart beat… he tried to breath on his own, but… he just kept fighting it,” Sango gasped as she took his other shoulder, resting her weary head as she tried to calm her racing heart. Luckily for the combatants, the hospital was less then a five minute drive and that was even in the worse of conditions. Once Inuyasha had been placed in the first waiting ambulance, seeing as he was the worse of the two, it drove off, passing a second ambulance to pick up Koga. Sesshomaru accompanied his brother; offering as much help as he could, seeing that he was also an EMT… he just didn't like others to know of his schooling.

 

As Koga's ambulance pulled away Renkotsu approached the milling group a little baffled as well as hot under the collar. “Hey, Ginta… have you seen my bike?” he called out to the distracted wolf demon.

 

Ginta looked at Renkotsu a little confused as he replied, “No… I've not seen your bike… I was a little more distracted with getting Inuyasha and Koga taken care of first. Why do you ask?”

 

If he'd had hair, Renkotsu would have been running his fingers through it in frustration. As it was the bandana covered skull got a through once over as he explained, “I parked my bike near the door earlier, and now it's gone.”

 

Slowly everyone looked around the parking lot, noticing the distinct track marks of a bike heading out of the dirt lot in a hurry. Taking count of the number of people left, Hakkaku put two and two together. “Hey, Renkotsu… I'll bet that Jade has it,” he replied.

 

A look of shock crossed his face as Renkotsu replied a little dumbfounded, “What would she be doing with my bike? She has her own.”

 

“That may be true, but she didn't bring hers tonight,” Hakkaku replied as he moved toward Ginta's truck, getting ready to go to the hospital. “I'll let you borrow my truck, seeing as Koga isn't going to need it tonight… just remember to put some gas in it. I'll give Jade a call once we get to the hospital and ask her about your bike.” He tossed the spare set of keys to the mechanic, knowing that his truck would be in good hands with him.

 

Catching them, Renkotsu replied, “Don't worry about calling her… I'll go up and see how she's doing. If she was pissed enough to pick the lock of my bike, Jade may just ignore the phone.”

 

He turned toward the blue Ford Ranger about to get in when a hand stopped him. Renkotsu glanced at Kagome's tear stained face as she asked, “Please don't say anything about Koga and Inuyasha to her. I'm not sure how she'll handle it.”

 

A slight smile crossed his face as he saw the concern flicker in her eyes for his employer and friend. Giving her a quick hug and a peck on the cheek, Renkotsu replied, “Don't worry, Kagome. What ever Koga's done this time… he'll have to explain it to her. I don't want to be in the middle of those two as it is. Their tempers are short and fast, like a Diamondback Rattler.”

 

As Renkotsu pulled out of the dirt lot, headed toward the mountains of Jade's home, Ginta and crew piled into their vehicles and drove to the hospital. Once they were able to get information about location of their friends, Ginta led the way toward the ICU waiting room. Sesshomaru was already there waiting as Kagome unlatched herself from Miroku's arm, throwing herself into her boyfriend's chest, tears staining his shirt as she cried.

 

Three hours later Dr. Matador entered the waiting room, he noticed that the tension was thick, nearly able to cut it with a scalpel. Clearing his throat, he said, “We were able to get them stabilized. From the x-rays, we saw that Inuyasha had a few cracked ribs. One was bad enough that it punctured the pleural lining causing a collapsed lung. We're working on getting the lung inflated, so he's on a ventilator. We'll be taking him to surgery later on this evening to set a broken arm and leg.”

 

Ginta and Hakkaku moved toward the doctor, tears rimming their eyes as they asked, “How's Koga doing?”

 

Taking the apprehensive look on the brothers' faces, he replied, “He faired better. He has some internal bleeding, apparently caused by claws slicing his gut open, a shattered cheek bone, broken nose, a few broken fingers and cracked ribs. Once we operated on him as soon as we got here to close up the wounds, we were able to get him stabilized. He's awake now and should be moving him up to the floor once the bleeding has stopped. We'll keep him for at least three days to allow everything to heal properly. The bleeding was a main concern, thus resulting in the reason for his hospital stay. You two can go back and see him if you'd like.”

 

Eagerly the two wolves left the others to think about what had happened; assuming a lot considering no one saw the fight. “What so you think happened that caused them to do this to each other?” Miroku asked from his seat on one of the couches, holding Sango.

 

“I'm not sure, but with Jade missing… I'll bet that it was over her,” Sesshomaru surmised as he pulled Kagome closer to his chest, trying to comfort her. He thought about the last fight the two rivals had at graduation, seeing a similarity to the blood shed, but knowing that some how this time was different.

 

 

As the thoughts of what could have caused the blood shed continued to circulate amongst the group, Ginta and Hakkaku approached Koga lying in the hospital bed, hooked to IV's, heart monitor, as well as other various tubes. A bag of blood hung from the IV stand, indicating that he'd lost a lot during the fight.

 

One look at Koga's face was enough to know that he didn't care for where he was. Despite sporting two black eyes, making him resemble a raccoon dog more than a proud wolf, Koga looked defeated. His facial features, that weren't bruised, set an expression of pure dejection. The azure eyes that looked toward the far wall were sad and miserable as he contemplated his actions that caused the loss of the only thing that mattered in his life. Sensing the wolves, he glanced in their direction by the door before returning it to the wall as he asked, “What do you want?”

 

Tears formed in their eyes as they swarmed the bed, throwing their arms around their elder brother. “We… were worried that you had died on us,” they sobbed into his chest, ignoring the whines of pain as they brushed against his cracked ribs and recently stitched up abdomen.

 

Unable to take the pain any longer, with a growl as best he could muster, he replied, “Get off me… would you?”

 

Slowly, they left his aching chest, rubbing the tears from their eyes as the gazed upon their injured brother. “What happened?” Hakkaku asked after a few minutes of silence.

 

Turning his gaze back to the wall, Koga sighed as he replied, “I've lost her… I lost the only thing that matters anymore.”

 

Ginta glanced at Hakkaku before looking back to Koga, a look of confusion on his face as he inquired, “You mean Jade? How could you lose her… she loves you more than you can imagine.”

 

Turning back to his brothers Koga explained, “I've lost her because all I've caused her since being back is pain. She could have died that night of our fight and I wouldn't have known about it. But that damned mutt… he knew all about her injuries and flaunted them in my face… he looked pleased with himself for driving her away from me. I… I just had to wipe that smug look off his face.”

 

“He's in pretty rough shape, Koga. You did some pretty sever damage this time,” Hakkaku replied. They filled him in on Inuyasha's condition as they took seats in the chairs provided by one of the nurses.

 

“So he managed to survive,” Koga thought wryly once they were done. Turning back to his brothers he asked, almost with a hitch in his throat, “Does Jade know?”

 

Looking at one another, they shook their heads in response, indicating that she didn't. “We figured that she took Renkotsu's bike, but we don't know where she went,” Hakkaku replied. Seeing that the news of Jade's absence caused a look of pain to cross Koga's face he asked, “Do you want us to find her for you and tell her?”

 

“No… I think that it's best that I just leave her be for a while. If she still wants me… after all that I've done to her… then I'll go and find her. Now… if you two don't mind, I'm feeling a little tired,” he replied, wishing that his brother's would leave him to his misery. Quietly they left, expressing their wish for him to get to feeling better. Once they were gone tears ran down his bruised and battered cheeks as he thought of all the pain that he'd caused her.

 

“She does deserve better… some one who wouldn't fly off the handle… some one who would treat her like the princess that she is… I'm not that person… all that I can do is cause her pain… yell at her for something that she didn't do… make her feel like turning toward another,” he thought as the pain medication he'd been given kicked in, the tears glistening on his cheeks, evidence of the pain that he was putting himself through. Slowly he drifted off to sleep, dreaming of his beloved and the heart breaking look that she gave him as Inuyasha exposed the cruel truth to him, in the form of the scar upon her breast… close to her heart… enough to leave an everlasting reminder of his betrayal.