InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 37 ( Chapter 38 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: jaimed1968

Sorry that it took so long to get this posted. I had major writers block in regards to this chapter. I'd like to thank Sweetheart for this idea and SangosBestFriend445 for her help on getting the chapter together for me. I hope that you enjoy this one with our favorite due. Without further ado... in this corner,dressed in black sporting two black eyes and a busted nose, we have Koga Solobo... the Ookami. (Catcalls, boos and so on from the audience as Koga walks in.) And in this corner... dressed in red with a busted arm and leg while on a ventilator we have Inuyasha Taisho... The Inu Hanyou... (More catcalls and boos were heard from the crowd as Inuyasha walked in, taking his corner.) Jade walked around the boxing ring, dressed in a skimpy black two piece bikini, wearing 4" black stilettos as she sported the round sign, like the infamous Bud Girls at boxing events. Judge Lane Mills came out as Koga and Inuyasha moved toward him. "I want a good clean fight. Let's get it on!" he said, as Inuyasha and Koga touched gloves. And so the chapter begins... Thanks, enjoy and remember to review.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.27.2008 | Updated On: 03.29.2008 | Pages: 5 | Words: 4.9K | Visits: 263 | Status: Work In Progress

Back at the hospital, 8 hours from the mountain ranch, Inuyasha slowly began to regain consciousness. The last thing he could remember was the sound of an ambulance's siren, and Sango's pleas for him to live. Other than that, everything was a haze. He knew he was awake now, but all he saw was darkness. Was he in hell or some where else?

“No, I just need to open my eyes. Don't I?” a voice inquired at the back of his mind, causing his eyes to move around rapidly under his eyelids.

“Open your eyes, you ass!” the inner voice yelled again, and he slowly opened his eyes to reveal his amber orbs. The first thing he saw was a room full of white, and a face.

“W-what?” he squeaked out, his throat parched and lips swollen. His vision focused and someone, he assumed to be a doctor, was in front of him. Inuyasha gave the room another once-over and realized he was in a hospital, finally taking notice of the heart monitor, IV stand and gas hoses, which he assumed to be oxygen.

The doctor smiled down at him as he commented, “You gave us quite a scare, Mr. Taisho.”

If he had the energy, Inuyasha would have growled. “W-why am I here?”

“Well, I hope you can recall getting into a brawl with another young man. You were barely breathing when they brought you here last night, with a punctured lung. In fact we just took you off the ventilator just a few hours ago,” he replied, checking Inuyasha's heart beat and lung sounds making mental notes as to his progress.

Inuyasha managed a weak nod as he asked, “Who are you?”

The doctor smiled again. “I'm Dr. Vincent Matador. Before you start asking more questions, I would suggest that you get more sleep. Now that you're out of the woods, we'll be moving you up onto second floor,” he said as he walked towards the door.

Inuyasha watched him leave and then looked up at the ceiling. “My entire body aches....... damn that dumb ass wolf, Koga,” he thought, as he winced from trying to lift his arm, only to realize that it was in a light weight brace. Gingerly, he looked toward the end of the bed, noticing that his left leg was raised and also appeared to be in a brace.

“Great… just great… Not only do I feel like I've a few cracked ribs, I've got a broken arm and leg. He really screwed me up this time,” Inuyasha thought dryly as he laid his head back down on the pillow, closing his eyes as he drifted off to sleep once more.

Suddenly his ears perked as he heard the door creak open, and he slowly turned his head to see someone he wouldn't expect to see standing there.

“Jade...” her name fell off his lips in a whisper; not believing what he saw as the woman slowly entered his room, as if she were a ghost from his past.

She smiled at him timidly as she glided toward the bed. “How are you feeling? The doctor said you were barely breathing when you came here,” she said above a whisper as she took his good hand in her own ghostly ones, feeling the warmth radiating from them.

“I-I'm fine, I guess. My whole body aches like hell,” he replied in a mere whisper, still parched from the ventilation tube, afraid that if he were to speak in a normal tone, if that was possible at this point in time, that she would be gone.

Jade nodded, her loose crimson gold mane falling over her shoulder, as she leaned a little toward him, making sure with her own blue eyes that he was okay. “You're going to be moving to another room in a little while. They brought you into the ICU ward when you got here, putting you on a ventilator until they were able to get you to breath on your own,” she whispered, brushing his face gently with feathery touches of her fingers, causing him to moan in need of more then her fingers upon his skin.

As Jade drew back from his supine form, and Inuyasha had regained what little composure he had, locked his amber eyes to her ones of blue as he asked, “Why aren't you in Koga's room?”

Jade's face took on a sullen expression and she turned her head away from him, hiding behind her mane of hair as she replied, “I'm not quite ready to see him, yet. I might… later.”

Inuyasha tried to sit up and winced, growling what he could as he laid back on the bed, giving up being able to look somewhat dignified in her eyes. Jade turned back toward the injured hanyou as she shook her head and smirked. “You two did quite a number on each other, huh?” she asked, patting him on the brace of his broken arm.

Inuyasha winced again as the pain from his broken arm shot up into his shoulder. “Stop that!” he hissed between clenched jaws, wishing for the pain to cease.

Jade opened her mouth to retort, but then the door opened and a nurse dressed in `Scooby-Doo' scrubs came in with a transport person dressed in a dark blue shirt and tan pants. “I'm sorry to interrupt your nap, Mr. Taisho. But we need to move you to your new room.”

Inuyasha's eyes shot open, searching frantically for the red headed wolf demoness that he'd dreamed about. “Did you… did you see a woman in here, just a few minutes ago with flowing red hair?” he asked of the nurse.

With a look of confusion crossing her face, the nurse replied, “Sir… the only woman who has visited you was your mother. No one has been here that fits that description.” Seeing the crest fallen look crossing his face, she continued, “I'm sure that if she means that much to you, whoever she is will visit you once we get you moved upstairs.”

Inuyasha laid back in the bed as the nurse swung the glass doors open, allowing the transport personnel to push the hospital bed from the room and down the long corridor toward the elevator. He thought about what he saw and felt before the nurse walked in. “Was it just… a dream?” he thought to himself.

Koga sat up in his hospital bed, looking out the window, even though he didn't have the bed by the window. He was feeling better physically seeing as his full demon blood helped him heal faster. Now if only he felt better mentally. He just couldn't get Jade off his mind. The look of betrayal and pain on her face ingraining itself upon his memory as she ran away from him and Inuyasha. He had hurt her and left a mark that showed it all, and now Koga found himself unforgivable and unworthy of her.

“How can she ever forgive me for what I've done?” he thought as he stared out to the distant mountains, wishing that he'd just crawl under a rock and die.

The door creaked open as a `Scooby-Doo' scrub clad nurse and the blue shirted transport assistant pushed in a hospital bed with a patient. As they moved the bed into position the nurse turned toward Koga and asked, “How are you today, Mr. Solobo? I have a new roommate for you.”

Taking notice of the patient for the first time, Koga raised a brow. “I'm good, I guess,” he replied dryly, as the transport person moved around the head of the bed, hooking up the heart monitor to a power outlet and making sure the IV stand was where it belonged, blocking the view of the patient from Koga's slightly curious eyes.

Once the transporter was done and the nurse had moved away from Koga, both men looked at each other for the first time, taking a moment before “Oh, Hell NO!” was shouted.

The `Scooby-Doo' scrub clad nurse blinked, she asked of no one in particular, “Is there a problem?”

“You bet your ass there is! I ain't rooming with that mutt!” Koga yelled as he pointed a bandaged clawed finger toward Inuyasha.

“And I ain't rooming with old wolf shit over there either!” Inuyasha yelled back as he pointed at Koga with his braced arm.

“This is the last room available, gentlemen. All the others are filled, so I'm afraid you'll have to make do,” the nurse replied as she walked out.

“I don't believe this. Why is it always me!?” Inuyasha yelled to himself, as he looked out the window toward the ever distant mountains, fuming over the stench of the wolf in the bed beside him.

Koga growled, “Shut up, mutt! It's bad enough to have your body in here along with your voice!” Now he was rather thankful that his broken nose prevented the stench of the mutt to permeate his senses.

“Don't make me get out of this bed and whoop your ass, wolf!” Inuyasha replied, as he sat up, rather painfully mind you, in a threatening manner, seething at having to smell the wolf that he had to share his room with.

“What are you going to do? Fall on me?!” Koga retorted, equally pissed at having to share his once quiet, empty room with one of his most hated rivals.

“Shut up!” Inuyasha yelled, as he laid himself back on the bed, trying to hide the pain in his eyes at having moved even just a little. “Stupid wolves, hospital nurses, and cracked ribs,” he muttered to himself as he tried to find a comfortable position in the hospital bed.

“Shut up, mutt,” Koga retorted, wishing now that he'd been deafened in the fight instead of just loosing his sense of smell.

“You want a piece of me??!” Inuyasha yelled back as he sat up again, flames jumping into his eyes as the wolf just wouldn't shut up, continuing to instigate his irritation.

Not one to back down, even as badly beaten as he was, Koga retorted, “You bet your hanyou ass I do!”

“Bring it on!” Inuyasha yelled, trying to somehow reach his non braced arm across the room to slap Koga.

Koga was doing the same, stretching his arm as far as it could possibly go. “I got you!” he yelled, still punching air.

“You got nothing!” Inuyasha yelled, slapping air. The two kept leaning farther and farther over until both men fell into heaps on the floor with a thud. Both men grunted as they hit from their various wounds reminding them of why they were in the hospital in the first place.

Inuyasha started to drag himself towards Koga once he was able to breathe again without wincing in pain. “Stinking wolf!” he growled as he moved closer to the wolf demon.

“Stupid mutt!” Koga retorted as he dragged himself as well as the pain of the claw marks on his chest quit aching, still trying to hit Inuyasha.

The door opened suddenly and the same `Scooby-Doo' clad nurse came in, holding two magazines in her hands. Once she took stock of what was going on and the determination of bodily harm toward the other in their eyes she quickly reprimanded them. “Gentlemen… Calm yourselves! Great, now I have to help you back into bed.” Moving toward Koga first, she quickly took his arm and helped him to his feet, placing the magazines that she'd brought in onto a nearby stand, leaving Inuyasha to ponder his next actions while still in a heap on the floor.

With the assistance of a second nurse, they were able to get Inuyasha back into his bed, with his leg propped up. The `Scooby-Doo' clad nurse looked both men in the eyes as she stated, “I hope that you've both gotten that out of your system, gentlemen, so we don't have to get out the restraints. I'm sure that you won't appreciate that. Now here, take these magazines.” She gave one to Koga and the other to Inuyasha before taking leave, making sure to leave the door open so that they could hear any more commotion from their room.

It was quiet in the room until… “Hey, wolf.”

Koga sighed as he turned the page, “What, mutt?”

“Let's switch magazines. I want to read Sports Illustrated,” Inuyasha whined, as he put his copy of Soap Opera Digest onto his bedside stand.

Koga snorted, flipping a page as he replied, “No way, I'm reading a rather interesting article on the new Chicago Cubs right fielder Kouke Fukudome.”

“C'mon, you stupid wolf! Nobody likes to read Soap Opera Digest!” Inuyasha whined even more, pushing out his lower lip, allowing it to quiver ever so slightly, in the trade mark `puppy dog' look.

“Damn straight and I don't want to read it either!” Koga retorted as he stuck his nose even further into Sports Illustrated.

“Damn it, it says on the front cover of SI that Brett Farve is retiring this year from the Green Bay Packers. Give me that!” he demanded, reaching for the magazine in Koga's hands.

“No way, mutt face! I want to read that article now, once I get done with Fukudome!” Koga replied, rolling toward the far wall, showing his back to the irate mutt as he took the magazine with him.

Irked at the actions of the wolf, Inuyasha asked in a voice only the wolf could hear, “Koga, don't make me roll my ass out of this bed!”

“And do what? Hurt the floor with your stupid head like you did the last time?” Koga pointed out as he continued reading the article, keeping his back toward Inuyasha.

Getting fed up with the irritating wolf, Inuyasha sat up a little higher in his bed. “Give me the damn magazine!” he demanded, pounding his fist onto the bed side table.

“No!”

“That's it!”

THUMP… Inuyasha was on the floor once again, and dragging his vehemently protesting body toward Koga's bed at a rather surprising fast pace. “Give me!” he said, tackling the wolf-demon from behind, dragging him to the floor.

“Get off me mutt, I'm reading it!” Koga growled, swatting Inuyasha's hand away from the magazine that he kept as far out of Inuyasha's range as possible.

“Never!” he yelled as he ignored the growl of contempt that Koga directed toward him as he slapped Koga's face out of the way, and reaching for the magazine.

“Brett Farve, here I come...” Inuyasha thought, as he stretched as far over Koga as he could to put one claw on it.

“Get off!” Koga growled, elbowing Inuyasha in the chest to get the mutt off his body and moving the magazine away even farther from him.

Inuyasha growled as the pain from the elbow to the barely healed ribs traveled through his brain. Pulling Koga's long black hair that had hung down his back, Inuyasha seethed into Koga's ear, “Give me that!”

Trying to ignore the pain from the pulling hair as he growled back, Koga retorted, “Never!” as he placed his hand against Inuyasha's chest and shoved him off his body, surprising the hanyou enough to let go of his hair.

Seeing the futility of their situation, being reduced to basically cat fighting, Inuyasha sighed, “This, this is ridiculous.”

Hearing a tone of defeat coming from Inuyasha, peeking Koga's interest he asked, “What is?”

“Us fighting over a magazine, this whole thing in general,” Inuyasha replied, waving toward their current position on the floor as well as their fight over a simple magazine.

Koga relaxed some as he nodded. “I guess you're right. Truce?” he asked, as he stuck his hand out, surprising himself as to being the better man than he thought he was.

Taking the proffered hand, Inuyasha shrugged as he shook it, “Truce. You know Koga; Jade… she really needs you.”

“You think?” Koga inquired as he got onto his feet, wincing as his stomach muscles moved under the stitches. He placed the SI magazine that they'd been fighting over on his bed side stand as he moved over to Inuyasha, helping him back into his bed.

“I know that she needs you, wolf. The pain and hurt of your actions flowed off her in waves, but I could still feel the love flowing through it as well. Once you get out of here, you should go to her,” Inuyasha replied, shifting into a comfortable position as Koga adjusted the pillow for his braced leg.

Once Koga had returned to his own bed, grabbing up the magazine once more, flipping through the pages until he got back to his article, he thought about what Inuyasha had said. “I think I will go look for her, what harm could it do?” he thought as a sly smile crossed his lips, thinking of his beloved Jade.

Seeing the look of contentment cross Koga's face as well as the slight smile, Inuyasha asked, “Hey, Wolf?”

“What, mutt?” Koga asked, a little lighter than before.

“Can I have the magazine now?” Inuyasha inquired, hoping that his little bit of revelation would put him in better graces with Koga.

“No,” replied the wolf demon as he flipped the page, continuing the article on the new Cubs right fielder.

Growling to himself and crossing his arms as best he could defiantly across his chest, Inuyasha stated, “Damn, Wolf!”

Hearing the little tantrum that Inuyasha was throwing, Koga continued reading the article, knowing that he'd reread the same page at least twice, just to goad the mutt. A brighter smile crossed his lips at his own cleverness, but realized that he needed to sleep soon after his little fights with Inuyasha. Before he got comfortable in his hospital bed, Koga tossed the magazine the short distance, hitting the fuming mutt, startling him.

“I was done with it any ways,” Koga replied as he rolled carefully on his side, giving Inuyasha his back. With a new smile on his face, Koga slipped into sweet oblivion hoping to dream of his beloved Jade.

Inuyasha just stared at the wolf's back, trying to figure out what happened, but decided not to look a gift wolf in the mouth picked up the magazine, began reading it.

Author's note-

I do not own any recognizable boxing thing, Jude Lane Mills, the Bud Girls or the `Scooby Doo' scrubs, as well as the Chicago Cubs, Sports Illustrated, Soap Opera Digest and the Green Bay Packers (which are owned by the state of Wisconsin.) Thanks for reading this and getting a kick out of the story.