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The Accident	By : SplendentGoddess Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 9181 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Inuyasha, and the characters therein, are the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I am in no way affiliated with Takahashi or VIZ Productions, and I do not gain financially from my fanfic in any way.

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Chapter 2 - Road to Recovery
Upon closer examination of Kagome's sleeping form, Inuyasha decided that the miko seemed peaceful enough. He could tell that she was truly only asleep, and not because they had given her any herbs to make her sleep. It must have been awfully frightening, what she had just gone through, so he couldn't blame her for feeling exhausted after surviving such an ordeal. Her body seemed relatively undamaged except for her leg, he noted with relief, and she even still wore their jewel shards around her neck, Mrs. Higurashi having informed the doctors not to remove her 'necklace' as it was precious to her.
Like he gave a damn about the jewel shards in that moment.
"I have to fill out some paperwork downstairs." Inuyasha suddenly heard Mrs. Higurashi say, pulling him from his thoughts. "I'll go ahead and let you have some time alone with her for a few minutes, I'll be back to get you in a little while."
Inuyasha turned to meet the woman's gaze at her words, the look of concern he'd had in his eyes the night before now replaced with one of disappointment. "She can't come with us?" he asked quietly.
"Not yet, I'm afraid." she replied sympathetically. "She has to stay in observation for a couple of days because of her concussion, but she should be able to come home after that."
"I forgot you said she also had a con...cus...sion." he stuttered through, asking, "What is that?"
"Basically," Kagome's mother replied. "It's damage to the head, caused by a sudden and hard impact." Seeing his eyes widen in panic she quickly assured the boy "But don't worry! Kagome has a very mild concussion, and should be just fine." Taking a deep breath, Mrs. Higurashi concluded with, "The doctors said they'd never seen anything like it. From how she was described to have flown through the air, they said it's amazing she survived at all."
Inuyasha's jaw dropped, then shifting his gaze to look over at the sleeping miko, he thought... That's my girl.
After Mrs. Higurashi left the room, Inuyasha went over to Kagome's bedside, taking a seat in the uncomfortable chair that was provided for visitors.
"Kagome?" he voiced aloud, though he knew she was still sleeping. Fuck Kagome, I'm so sorry! If I ever find the bastard that did this to you...

He was pulled from his thoughts when he suddenly heard her speak.
"Inu...yasha..." she muttered quietly.
Startled, Inuyasha scooted himself closer and took her hand. "Yes Kagome, I'm here." he assured her.
Kagome remained silent, although she furrowed her brow, her body moving slightly as her muscles attempted to react the whatever images were playing out behind her eyelids. It didn't take him long to realize she was still asleep and merely dreaming, although along with that realization suddenly came the only possible explanation for why she had just spoken his name.
She's dreaming of me?

The thought caused a funny feeling to grow in the pit of his stomach.
"Inu...yasha...why..." she murmured then, nearly a whisper.
I wonder what she's dreaming about... he thought in mild concern, not liking the way she was suddenly scrunching her face in discomfort.
"...osuwari..."
*THUD*
Damn it! Not again! he silently cursed, waiting impatiently for the spell to wear off so he could pry his face off the cold, sterile floor.
That wasn't the first time Kagome's sleep-talking had smashed his face into the ground, although her next words wiped all anger from his expression.
"He...chose Kikyou..."
Inuyasha's heart sank at the absolute rejection in her voice. He'd heard it from the others before, that it hurt Kagome's feelings whenever went to see Kikyou, but he didn't have a choice in the matter. Quickly deciding that he didn't want to listen to her dreaming about her heartache any longer, Inuyasha moved to wake Kagome up, but before he could wake her, he heard her mumble...
"Naraku...no...I won't...betray......I love...Inuyasha..."
She loves me??? he thought, his hand frozen in place above her shoulder as his eyes widened in shock. Sure, he might have had his suspicions, but to hear her say it out loud like that... Okay, that's it... he decided then. "Hey..." he said aloud, gently shaking her shoulder, "Kagome, wake up."
Said miko slowly opened her eyes, surprised by the vision before her. "Inu...yasha? Is that...is that you?" she asked groggily.
The image of her hanyou friend standing before her looked slightly off, but it took her brain a moment to process the addition of the baseball cap. Of course...she was at the hospital, Kagome remembered then. He always wore that hat in her time whenever he left the shrine grounds. It all made sense now.
"Yes, it's me. I'm here." he assured her in that moment.
The next most obvious question came to mind as she asked him sincerely, "How?"
She hoped he hadn't gone off leaping from building to building. She could just invision him climbing into the hospital via some window somewhere, and the trouble with security that would cause should they find him.
When he answered her with, "Your mother 'drove' me here in your 'car' thing." Kagome's worries were immediately put to rest, as her expression melted into one of compassion at the notion of just what he must have gone through when he'd first found out.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha." she mumbled quietly then. "You must have been so worried when I was late."
"Actually," the hanyou corrected her in that moment. "You aren't due back until this afternoon."
Kagome was immediately confused again. "It's still morning?" she asked, seeing his nod. "But, then how did you...?"
Blushing, Inuyasha wasn't sure how to go about explaining this to the girl lying before him, but considering that the two of them were still alone for the time being, he figured it wouldn't hurt anything to just be honest.
"It's the strangest thing, really..." he began slowly. "I just...had to come early. Something told me you were in trouble, Kagome." Sighing, he added... "I'm just sorry I didn't get here in time."
Eyes widening at his unexpected admittance, that he had somehow sensed that she'd been in trouble, the miko immediately latched onto the last thing he said, and realizing he had apologized, as if he truly felt guilty for what had happened to her, Kagome immediately assured him, "It wasn't your fault."
He just snorted, before responding with, "Yeah, well, it'll never happen again. That's for sure."
Looking her right in the eyes, he stated matter-of-factly, "Whenever you have to come here for your 'tests' I'm not letting you out of my sight, and as soon as school is over for the day, I'm bringing you right back home!"
It came out a little harsher than he'd meant it to, but he was scared shitless, and he usually projected his fright as anger, having the survival instinct imbedded deeply within him to never show his fear.
Kagome was more than a little perturbed by his sudden attitude, though.
"Now wait just a minute..." she began, her own voice growing more authoritative. "If you think I'm just gonna stop having a life in my own time, you've got another think coming!"
"Having a life?" he barked at her incredulously. Was she serious? "Kagome, you almost stopped having a life altogether!"
The miko's growing anger stopped dead in its tracts upon registering the unmistakable pain in his voice. Then her eyes widened in disbelief as she caught sight of what she could almost swear looked like tears developing in his eyes.
Realizing it himself, he quickly turned around, showing her his back. Nobody was ever supposed to see a man cry.
"Inuyasha?"
Her tone was hesitant and shaky, all of the passion from their growing argument drained from her voice. "I'm...I'm sorry." she apologized dejectedly, adding sincerely, "I never meant to worry you."
"Feh." he grumbled. "Why would I worry!?" he argued in denial, his back still to her. "I knew you'd be fine...and besides-"
"Oh, excuse me..." she interrupted then, her voice dripping with sarcasm as her anger sprung back full force at his words. "For a second there, I thought you might've actually been concerned for my well-being!"
Inuyasha couldn't pull off the 'cold' act any longer, and turning back to face her in that moment, he made no move to hide the tear marks on his cheeks. "How could I not be?!" he snapped as more tears fell. "I mean, kami Kagome...if you...if you would have..."
Choking up at the thought, he turned away from her once more, frantically wiping at his eyes when his ears registered the sound of approaching footsteps.
Kagome's heart skipped a beat at the sight of him, and she found herself wanting to cry as well. She wanted to cry in anguish over what had happened to her, and she wanted to cry in relief that she was in fact still alive. She wanted to apologize for snapping at him, and for the pain she had clearly caused him by forcing him to worry about her in the first place. Not that it had truly been her fault, but she couldn't really blame him for his desire to supervise her activities in her time from that point onward. She also hadn't forgotten about his admittance that he had actually somehow sensed that she had been hurt, and while she didn't dare question him about that fact right then, it was enough to comfort her somewhat, to know that he was actually connected to her in such a way.
The miko was pulled from her thoughts when there was a sudden yet gentle knock on the door, followed by her mother's voice asking... "May I come in?"
Inuyasha had successfully dried his tears by that point, so nodding in Kagome's direction that he was ready, it was the girl who called in answer, "Yes, Mama!"
"Oh, Kagome, you're awake!" her mother exclaimed happily as she opened the door. "How are you feeling?"
The teenager immediately went back into apology mode, stating, "I'm sorry for all of the trouble I've caused..."
"Nonsense!" her mother replied without missing a beat. "Darling, what are mother's for?" she asked with a smile.
"Did they say when I could go home?" Kagome asked then, changing the subject.
"You should be released by late tomorrow." Mrs. Higurashi informed her daughter then, adding, "They said your CT scans all came back wonderful."
Inuyasha had no idea what a CT scan was, but figured in that moment that it didn't really matter. The bottom line was that things looked good, and she would be leaving the hospital soon.
"Inuyasha," Kagome asked suddenly. "Do the others know what happened? Sango and Miroku and...?"
Inuyasha hadn't even remembered their other friends until she mentioned them in that moment.
"What?" he asked at first, before realizing... "Oh, crap, no they don't!"
Muttering to himself, the hanyou went on about how he had told the others he was just going to go check in on her, and that he wasn't supposed to be gone for very long.
"Well, then let me take you back to the shrine so that you can get your other friends updated on Kagome's condition." Mrs. Higurashi stated gently. "She'll be home tomorrow night, so if you wanted to come back then, you're more than welcome."
Kagome smiled at her mother, her eyes saying, "Thank you." But Inuyasha said it out loud in that moment, startling the miko for the second time since noticing his tears.

As the two of them left to allow Kagome to get some more rest while she could, the miko found her thoughts plagued with images of Inuyasha, crying and fearful that she might die. She very easily could have, she realized, and Kagome vowed in that moment not to fight him on his desire to shadow her in her world from that point onward. She knew the only reason she felt as safe as she did in the Sengoku jidai was because she always had Inuyasha there to protect her, so why not have that protection guaranteed against the dangers of her own world, as well? It also hadn't gone unnoticed to the girl that he had failed to mention a single thing about the jewel shards, about how she needed to be more careful because she was the only one who could purify the jewel, or how he couldn't continue on in their quest without her because he needed her to see the shards. No, he had been concerned for her, he had cried for her, and she would not be forgetting that any time soon.
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Back at the Higurashi shrine, Inuyasha wasted no time with discarding the hat and sandals he'd been forced to wear at the hospital. Heading up to Kagome's room to retrieve the Tetsusaiga, he let the girl's mother know that he would be back the following evening before headed outside to the Bone Eater's Well and back to his own century.
As soon as he emerged on his side of time, before he could even leap out of the well, he heard Shippou's immediate shout of, "Inuyasha's back!"
Quickly vacating the well, he observed with a mild feeling of guilt as Miroku and Sango both came running at the kitsune's words, indicating they hadn't been too far from the well's proximity. They had probably been waiting near the time portal, only just then deciding to head back to Kaede's for a while.
"What took so long?" Shippou asked Inuyasha in that moment, his voice full of worry rather than accusation.
"Is Kagome all right?" Sango asked next, before he could answer Shippou's question.
Miroku could easily see the truth in the hanyou's eyes, and added, "Your intuition was correct, I presume?"
Inuyasha just stood there for a moment longer, unsure of how to tell his friends the truth, though his expression said it all for the taijiya.
"Oh gods..." Sango murmured then. "She's not...she's not..." She couldn't finish the question, but fortunately, she didn't have to.
Finally finding his voice, Inuyasha informed the slayer, "She'll be...okay, but she was hurt pretty badly."
"I knew it!" Shippou bellowed, as the kit started to cry.
"How badly?" Miroku asked seriously.
"She hit her head..." he began, adding, "But apparently that's not too serious. Her worst injury is a broken leg."
"Broken leg!?!?" everyone yelled in unison.
Of course, in their day, a broken leg could theoretically end up proving fatal, if not tended to properly, though they didn't know it was actually small chips of bone fragments traveling through the bloodstream to the brain that caused 'broken bone sickness'. Even though such a drastic end was rare, most people with a broken leg were usually never able to walk properly again. Setting a leg was one of the hardest bones to set, and any movement, like when the person had to relieve him or herself, could cause the splint to shift, and dislodge the set bones.
Inuyasha easily understood their panic, having originally shared in it, himself, so he was quick to reassure them in that moment... "Don't worry..." His voice was calm and collected, which was quite unusual for the hanyou, actually. "Apparently, they have new ways of setting broken bones in her time." he explained, adding, "Her entire leg was in what they call a 'cast', which her mother said was like liquid stone they poured around the limb, after making sure the bone was set correctly, and then this liquid dries, making it so that her leg is incased in stone, which prevents any chance of the bone shifting until the limb heals. Then they can cut through the 'cast' and remove it." After seeing their understanding, yet confused faces, he stated more simply, "Kagome should be back to normal once her leg heals."
"How long will that take?" Shippou asked impatiently.
"Keh, bones themselves don't heal any faster for humans in her time than they do for humans in this time..." he muttered, hating this next part almost as badly as he was sure the kit was going to. After all, at least he would be spending the time with Kagome. Shippou still looked confused, apparently having no idea how long humans took to heal from an injury that severe, so it was in that moment that he dropped the bomb. "She won't be back for over a month."
"A month?" Shippou asked with a new round of tears forming in his eyes.
"Do you suggest we continue our search for Naraku without her?" Miroku asked in that moment.
"I don't think things will be the same around here without her..." Sango mumbled sadly to herself.
"You three can do whatever you want." Inuyasha stated suddenly, adding bluntly, "I'm going back."
"To her time?" Miroku asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, she has our shards..." he started lamely, "Yeah...and I could never ask her to give them to me, she might misunderstand, so..." he rambled, blushing, "...and...and there was a youkai in her time after the shards once. She can't properly defend herself with a broken leg, and..."
Miroku lifted a hand to stop his hanyou friend's embarrassed ramblings. "It's okay, Inuyasha, you don't need to explain."
Miroku then gave Sango a slight glance, which made her flash an agreeing smirk in return.
Inuyasha caught the look passed between them and wasn't too pleased.
"Whatever you two are thinking, you're wrong, I just...just..."
He was saved by an innocent kitsune child tugging on his sleeve, as the boy said, "Tell Kagome I love her and I'll miss her...and to hurry up and get better so she can come back."
Inuyasha looked down at the brave child, knowing how hard it was going to be for him to be separated from Kagome for so long. "Keh, you got it, runt." he said with a small smile, bending down to ruffle the boy's hair.
They all headed back to Kaede's in that moment, to inform the old miko of what had happened to Kagome, and also because Inuyasha wouldn't be departing again for Kagome's world until the following evening. In the mean time, he wanted the old miko to prepare a few healing herbs for him to bring back with him.
As they made their way through the forest that bore his name, nobody noticed the fifth presence that had been silently observing them since the kitsune's initial shout of Inuyasha's arrival.
So, my reincarnation becomes injured, and he wishes to remain by her side, as if she were the one who cares for him, as if she were...me.
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