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The Accident	By : SplendentGoddess Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 9181 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 4 - Complete
Emerging on the other side of time, Inuyasha leapt out of the well and ran outside just in time to see the ball of light fly through Kagome's bedroom window. It hadn't taken him long to realize that it was the piece of soul that had originally been pulled from Kagome to bring the false Kikyou to life, and so he was not too worried, except over what Kagome's reaction might be to discovering that Kikyou had passed on. Still, the hanyou decided in that moment, what with the large pack he was currently carrying, that it would be better for him to use the more conventional method of entering her house through the front door. After knocking first, of course.
Mrs. Higurashi was quick to answer.
"Welcome back, Inuyasha, we've been expecting you." she stated gently. "Please, come in- Oh my!" she exclaimed upon noticing the large sack he was carrying. "Are all these things for Kagome?"
"From our friends..." he mumbled quietly while slipping the bag from his shoulder and passing it off to Kagome's mother. It still felt weird to acknowledge out loud that he had friends, but he could say it, thanks to the girl resting upstairs.
Mrs. Higurashi glanced through the leather pack with an increasingly large smile developing on her face. She had never realized just how deeply her daughter's friends from the past truly cared for her.
"Here..." she said after a moment, removing a small bundle from the sack. "Let me take the herbs..." she stated, the hanyou having told her what every item was as she'd examined them. Then handing the bag back to Inuyasha, she added, "...and you can take the wards and notes up to Kagome's room. I'm sure she would appreciate the break from her school work."
"She has to do school work?" he asked in surprise.
"Well," her mother explained in that moment. "She's going to be absent for six weeks straight, so they're allowing her to do most of her work here at home so she won't be hit with too much work all at once when she's finally able to return to school."
"I guess that makes sense." he mumbled, while thinking to himself... I still don't see why that 'school' stuff is so important. After all, in his opinion, that was what had gotten her into this mess in the first place.
Still, knowing better than to say anything along those lines to the girl's mother, Inuyasha silently headed up to Kagome's room in that moment. He was just about to barge in like he usually did, but then at the last moment he decided to knock first instead. He was feeling incredibly guilty, so the least he could do was show the girl a proper amount of respect in her own home.
"Yeah...?" Kagome's voice asked from the other side of the door.
Poking his head inside her room just a smidge, Inuyasha hesitantly asked, "May I come in?"
"Since when do you ask first?" Kagome asked in a playful tone.
Taking that as a 'yes', Inuyasha entered her room the rest of the way, closing the door again behind himself. Glancing up in Kagome's direction, he tried not to stare too obviously at her leg. It hurt him enough to have such a constant reminder of what had happened to her; he couldn't even imagine how much pain she must be in herself. His pain was only emotional, after all, although that didn't make it any less real in his mind. It absolutely killed him inside to know what he had allowed to happen; nobody would ever be able to convince him that it wasn't his fault.
"Ya know..." Kagome began out of nowhere, successfully pulling him from his spiraling thoughts. "The strangest thing just happened a few minutes ago." she stated, instantly earning his full attention as his ears sprang forward. Her tone was calm, relaxed, and in no way suggesting that she had been on the verge of freaking out prior to his knock on her bedroom door.
"Here I was taking my history notes..." she started, gesturing with her hands to her current position of sitting on her bed with her back cushioned at the headboard with enough pillows so that she could sit up comfortably, history book laying open in her lap with a separate pad of paper and a pen sitting beside her on the comforter. "...and then suddenly I felt a presence at my window." she added, nodding her head in that direction." At first I thought it was you, but when I looked up, I saw a ball of light flying towards me."
She paused to gage his reaction, and couldn't help but notice the way he silently gulped, clearly nervous over what she was about to ask him. Still, she had to know...
"Inuyasha...has something happened to Kikyou?"
It was a fairly stupid question, Kagome knew, since something clearly had happened to Kikyou in order for that piece of soul to have suddenly found its way back to her, and through the passage of time, no less. The future-born-miko had immediately recognized the ball of light for what it was, and she had felt no fear as it'd approached her, merging itself with the rest of her soul. Finally, she felt complete. The fact that Kikyou's death could have even remotely meant that Inuyasha had joined her in Hell had never even crossed Kagome's mind, not after his reaction to her injury at the hospital. But the fact still remained that something had happened to Kikyou, and Kagome absolutely hated the idea that her preincarnation could have possibly somehow fallen victim to Naraku while Inuyasha had been in her time. Or even worse...that they were somehow connected and Kikyou had taken the brunt of what had been meant for her, which would morbidly explain why she had miraculously escaped the accident fairly unscathed. Kagome would never be able to forgive herself if Kikyou's death had been her fault, no matter how indirectly, and the fact that Inuyasha had begun looking so nervous as she began her tale had immediately revealed to her that he knew precisely what had happened, which eliminated the possibility of Kikyou's death being completely random and taking place somewhere away from the village. The fact that he had arrived in her time mere seconds after Kikyou's soul was another red flag, since Kagome had heard when Inuyasha had first entered her house downstairs. He would've had to have leapt through the well right after it.
As Kagome waited for Inuyasha's answer, their eyes locked, and she found herself gulping in turn at the intensity of his gaze. He didn't look away from her as he usually did whenever her preincarnation's name got mentioned, and instead, it almost seemed as if he wished to explain it all to her with his eyes.
Finally, he spoke, and although it wasn't really what Kagome had wanted to hear, she would respect his honesty.
"I...don't really want to talk about it right now, if that's okay."
"I understand." she answered, lowering her eyes, although she must not have been able to properly mask the concern on her face, because in that moment he did manage to at least tell her, "It wasn't your fault."
Looking back up and meeting his gaze a second time, Inuyasha's eyes were no less intense then they had been a minute prior, as he assured her, "It didn't have anything directly to do with your...accident."
It was Inuyasha who broke eye contact then, lowering his gaze to the tatami floor. Part of him wanted to tell her everything, but he was afraid, and for more than one reason. Part of him still cared for Kikyou, and he was afraid that Kagome might misunderstand if she managed to catch a glimpse of his old love for the deceased miko in his eyes. He was also worried over what Kagome might think if he revealed Kikyou's reason for deciding to pass on in the first place, that he had feelings for her now. Sure...he knew that Kagome cared for him, but what if it was just women's fancy? What if she didn't really love him the way he hoped she did? He knew he would never be able to handle that kind of rejection.
While Kagome didn't know exactly what was troubling her hanyou companion in that moment, it was clear that Inuyasha was a prisoner to rather unpleasant thoughts, so she decided to spare him by bubbly changing the subject, as she put her history book and notes aside on her nightstand before eagerly asking, "So, what's in the bag?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. Here..." he said, stepping forward and handing her the saddlebag. "These are from everyone." he added, taking the leather sack back from her when she dumped its contents out onto her bed in her lap so that she could see everything.
Grateful for the distraction, Inuyasha immediately began explaining what each item was as she went through them, telling her what each of the different wards were for as she examined Miroku's handiwork. He attached the prayer wards to her wall for her while she chuckled at Shippou's drawings. Smiling a tiny bit himself at the sight of Kagome laughing, Inuyasha was just about to tell her how he would deliver her own letters to their friends in his time when there was a second knock at the door.
"Kagome? Inuyasha?" Mrs. Higurashi called through the door. "I've brought you two some dinner."
"Thanks Mama, come on in!" Kagome replied happily. She was really hungry, though it was no wonder considering that all she'd had to eat in the last couple of days was hospital food.
She's so cheerful... Inuyasha thought, baffled. She came closer to death than she has in any battle with any youkai, and she still hasn't lost her spirit...
Reflecting on Kagome's overall personality and usual mood, it didn't take long for Inuyasha to realize that the only times her spirit ever seemed broken at all was when it involved Kikyou.
After Kagome's mother left the room, the teenager immediately began eating her yakisoba, not even noticing when Inuyasha didn't touch his plate at first.
Fuck it...she deserves to know what happened, he decided suddenly, his fears be damned.
"She wanted me to go with her." he mumbled quietly, absently fiddling with his chopsticks as he remained staring at his noodles, unable to meet Kagome's gaze.
Immediately earning her full attention, Kagome's eyes shot up, a couple of noodles comically dangling from her mouth that she was quick to slurp up the rest of the way.
"Kikyou...?" she asked hesitantly.
He nodded, before adding, "It was like a test, I think, to see if I would. Out of nowhere she wants me to forget about everything and go with her. I told her I couldn't ...not yet, not now, not while you..." Choking up for a moment, he took a deep breath then finished with "...not while you needed me more."
"So then...the soul?" she asked, already fearing she knew the answer.
"She...passed on without me." he confirmed. "I had to choose...she forced me to choose."
Inuyasha was trying very hard to get out what needed to be said without crying, so when the sting of salt water first hit his nose, he raised a panicked hand to his own eyes before realizing they were still dry. Looking up from his uneaten yakisoba, Inuyasha's eyes widened at the sight before him.
She's crying? How come?
"Kagome?"
Releasing a sound that was caught somewhere between a laugh and a sob, Kagome raised a shaky hand to her face, drying the tracks on her cheeks before she managed to state, "You...you chose...me?"
With a nice dusting of pink rising to his cheeks, Inuyasha tried his best to sound put out by the inconvenience, failing miserably all the while.
"K-keh!" he started. "I couldn't just leave you alone like this..." he stated, gesturing with a wave of his hand in her direction to her plaster-incased limb sitting ostentatiously beside her uninjured one. "I just couldn't..." he repeated a little quieter, giving Kagome the impression that he was speaking more to himself, although she heard him just fine.
Finally realizing there was really no point in trying to hide his genuine feelings of concern for her, especially since he hadn't been doing a very good job to begin with, Inuyasha finally decided to lose the tough-guy routine altogether, as he carefully sat his plate on her desk before approaching her side of the bed, taking her hand. Part of him wanted to pull her into a hug, but he was afraid any shift in her position might cause more pain in her leg. He was still amazed over how she didn't seem to be acting as though she was in any pain to begin with, even though he knew from first-hand experience that freshly broken bones hurt like hell, and she didn't have youkai-healing.
Settling for holding her hand in that moment, he then looked her in the eyes and repeated the words he'd said to her once before, when they had been separated across the span of time; words the future-born-miko had since come to cherish.
"I need you with me, Kagome. Haven't you realized that yet?"
"I need you too, Inuyasha..." she replied between sobs. "I don't know what I would have done if you'd...if you'd..." She couldn't finish that thought, but she didn't have to.
"You'll never have to worry about that ever again." he comforted gently, giving her hand a little squeeze.
Figuring he'd met his 'mushy stuff' quota for the night, Inuyasha pulled away from her a bit in that moment as he commanded playfully, "Come on now, you better finished your dinner. You need to keep your strength up, after all. We're gonna have to work twice as hard to find the rest of the shards once that leg of yours finally heals."
Kagome playfully stuck her tongue out at him before proceeding to get back to her dinner, the peaceful chuckle that escaped his lips music to her ears. Inuyasha then retrieved his own dish from where he'd sat it and made quick work of cleaning his plate. Mrs. Higurashi was a really good cook.
After they were both finished with their dinner Inuyasha took their dishes downstairs into the kitchen, where Kagome's mother insisted she would take care of the cleaning, shooing him back upstairs to keep her daughter company. The elder Higurashi woman knew how much Kagome cared for that dog-eared boy, and after their trip to the hospital, she knew how much he cared for her daughter in return. If anything, his presence would have Kagome willing her body to recuperate faster, although she suspected her daughter didn't mind the 'alone' time her broken leg was currently granting them, away from their other friends back in the Sengoku jidai. While having lots of friends was definitely a good thing, there were times when a girl simply wanted to be alone with the boy she loved.
When Inuyasha reentered Kagome's room, he found her reading the letters from Sango and Miroku, and finally told her in that moment of how he had told the others he would be willing to work as letter-carrier back and forth so that the rest of them could keep in touch, considering how he was the only one who could travel through the well to see her in person. He was selfish, but he wasn't that selfish, to not at least do what he could to help Kagome keep in touch with their other friends, although he would admit, at least to himself, that he was glad he was the only one who could actually travel through the well.
Kagome was tremendously grateful to hear Inuyasha's offer to help her stay in touch with the others during her recovery, and she was just about to express her gratitude out loud when what escaped her throat instead was a tongue-curling yawn.
Chuckling quietly, Inuyasha said, "Okay, time to get some sleep..." right before a huge yawn passed through his own lips, exposing his fangs.
Kagome laughed outright at the notion that yawning was even contagious to hanyou, unable to pass up the opportunity to tease him about how he wasn't immune to all human ailments. Rolling his eyes at her amusement, Inuyasha proceeded to pull the sheathed Tetsusaiga from his obi, preparing to settle himself down in his traditional position of sitting against the wall with the katana resting against his shoulder.
Mrs. Higurashi had already figured that Inuyasha would be staying the night in Kagome's room, and rather than trying to fight the matter, she had actually provided some extra bedding and a pillow for him to spread out on the floor. He appreciated the gesture more than he figured the woman would ever realize, to extend such a blatant invitation for him to remain in Kagome's bedroom, rather than pretending she had assumed he would sleep outside on the roof, although he planned on leaving the blanket right where it was, rolled up and sitting in Kagome's desk chair. He had no need of it.
Kagome's thoughts were currently running along similar lines, that he had no need of the extra bedding her mother had provided, although it was for an entirely different reason than the fact that he planned on spending the night sitting propped against the wall. Wiggling herself over to make enough room, she patted the empty spot beside her she had created while quietly inviting, "You can sleep up here, if you want."
A new wave of pink immediately rushed to his cheeks, although one look at her face had his protests dying on his tongue. What would it hurt, really? Well...there was one thing.
"What about your leg?" he asked then. "What if I hurt you?"
Kagome laughed a little and admitted, "With all the stuff they gave me for the pain, you could cut it off right now and I wouldn't feel it."
Well, that certainly explained why she hadn't been acting as if her leg was currently bothering her at all.
Inuyasha flashed her a look of uncertainty, in regard to how strong the pain meds she'd taken really were, but he nevertheless leaned Tetsusaiga against the wall, switching off her lamp before slowly climbing up into the bed, which he had slept on once before. Of course, Kagome hadn't also been in it at the time. That thought had a nice rosy glow returning to his cheeks, although the miko fortunately couldn't see it in the dark. Maneuvering the blankets down and then up and over both of them, Inuyasha was extremely careful not to bump Kagome in any way during the procedure. He then settled himself flat on his back, content to lie still on her comfortable mattress, secretly relishing in the soothing nature of her scent.
As for the miko, Kagome took advantage of that moment to roll herself over slightly onto her right, which, with a pillow between her legs, was truly the most comfortable position for her with the cast. Although she had ulterior motives as well, as she draped her left arm across his body, resting her hand on Inuyasha's chest and her head against his shoulder. His left arm was pinned between their bodies, though not in an uncomfortable way, she was sure. Kagome felt him stiffen at the contact, and holding her breath, she waited for his protest, but it never came. After a moment, she felt Inuyasha relax against her, and then his right hand lifted to rest on top of her left hand on his chest.
They were both sporting rosy cheeks by that time, and although Kagome still wouldn't have been able to see Inuyasha's blush even if she had been looking directly at his face, his enhanced sense of smell had no trouble picking up the subtle changes in her scent as she clearly allowed her mind to wander in that moment. He didn't say anything, though, too caught up in his amazement that the girl had actually initiated such intimate contact between them, not to mention what the more musky undertones in her scent were revealing to him. In that moment, Inuyasha was just grateful that her sense of smell wasn't as acute as his own, otherwise he knew his own body would be betraying his secrets, as well. Still, he was getting closer and closer to deciding he should just come clean completely about his feelings for her. His fear of rejection was rapidly becoming less severe.
As Kagome allowed the soothing allure of slumber to seduce her higher thought processes, she found herself lazily wondering why it had needed to take a broken leg in order to get her that close to him. Still, regardless of how it had finally happened, she was relishing in their closeness. Now, she was truly complete.
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