Well de Rouge An Inuyasha X Moulin Rouge Tale

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Well de Rouge an Inu-yasha X Moulin Rouge Tale

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I wrote my last chapter late into the night, and as I was going to bed I acted out this one ttlettle. I wanted to think of all of the things Inu- yasha would want to say while Kagome wasn't aware of anything around her. It came to the point that I acted out his feelings so well, I ended up really pushing tears...I went to bed wiping them away say, yeah I think I got it.

Call me crazy but that's how you need to do it sometimes, because you don't know how to explain something unless you put yourself in the situation. You don't, it's not real! That's good advice! Emotions are important, and some you can't explain until you're in your characters situation.

Anyway, saw all my reviews in my e-mail and I freaked out! So I'm summing it up here! Okay, folks, calm down the story still has a long way to go before it's done. You'll get your "Come What May" and "The Show Must Go On" (Actually, I need the words to that song because it's not on my soundtrack. So, if I can have that sight again it would be great. Thank you!) Oh, and no folks, Kagome did not get raped. She almost did, but do you honestly think I'd be that cruel? The girls already gonna loose the love of her life, I wouldn't dream of putting her through anything else. I'd feel horrible if Naraku did that to me.

Okay, before you all freak out, here's chapter 8. Now, you breath cause it's going to be long!

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Chapter 8; Your Song

The doctor came as soon as possible, and when he got to the Well de Rouge he immediately dismissed everyone from the room. Inu-yasha couldn't bear the few minutes that felt like hours. He wanted to watch her like a hawk and make sure that doctor wasn't touching her in ways his mind haunted him with.

He realized he had not seen the one that did this to her. Who could do such a thing to a beautiful creature like her? Inu-yasha wished she could speak to him, and tell him everything so he could hunt the bastard down and rip him to shreds. Why did he pick Kagome? Why didn't he stop kissing his client and follow the scent down the hall? If only he had been there a bit sooner! If only he had blew down the door five minutes earlier when he had the chance, she might have been better. She might have been alive and warm; and, above all things, safe in his arms instead of this doctors hands.

He was going insane not knowing what was going on behind the door to his quarters, but he wasn't morning alone. Sesshoumaru leaned against his door a smoked his pipe like a factory. Inu-yasha sat with his back to the wall opposite of his door so he could stare at the close door. Miroku and Sango stood beside each other while she wept silently.

Other gigolos and courtesans sat or stood, leaning against the hallway walls. Some smoking a cigarette or cigar, others holding their Christian crosses they kept hidden in their garments. A few were religious, but none really followed their faith since they worked in a "sin world". They didn't care though; most prayed their sins away or confessed in churches in the area to their priest.

Shippo sat by a pair of shoes, belonging to Kouga. He was so sad about the whole thing that he had pleaded with the wolf to give him his shoes to polish since this was what made him close to Kagome during that point in time. The wolf leaned against the wall not far from the half-breed. Kouga inhaled some of the smoke from a cigarette he shared with a fellow gigolo, and stared at him.

Inu-yasha's tears were still streaming down his face, and Kouga took his chances at playing with his weakness thinking it would lighten the mood of his limited company. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you cared about that girl too much. You look like a girl sitting over there in your little corner crying your eyes out. She's a stand in, not the real Kikyo, for crying out loud. If it were the real one we'd probably be a lot more worried then we are now."

Some snickered just because of the truth behind it. Inu-yasha didn't find this amusing at all and got to his feet, and slapped his fellow gigolo across the face. "Wake up, you idiot! Do you honestly think because she's just a stand in that she's any less of a person?"

The wolf touched his hot cheek and looked at the half-breed as he loosened his jaw. "You know what Kikyo would say in situations like these? She'd tell all of us that she's just a girl. And girls believe in finding that one perfect person who will love them forever. Then, there are woman who know that men only want one thing, and that as soon as their done with you, you're gone. That's what your dance partner got to experience tonight. Perhaps this place will make a woman out of her yet."

Inu-yasha growled and clenched his fists. "Yeah, Kikyo does say that a lot, doesn't she? She's the woman of women to us all. Yet you know what? She has her weaknesses to, just like we all do. I'm sure if that were she right now, in that room, she'd be alive and safe. Still, she'd be with a man who would only want her body.

"So, tell me? If you and Kikyo know so much about women, why didn't you try to stop her before she made this mistake? Why didn't she tell you, or any of us for that matter, where she was going, or whom she was with?

"To be honest I think it takes one really strong girl to pull off a stunt like that. Stupid, but strong! And that's was we all don't have. The strength to face what's really out there? To look a woman or man in the eye and tell them that they can't have our body, no way! Our bodies are their pleasure. That's all they buy is a moments pleasure. So, what's so manly or feminine about that when they don't vie for a 'real man' or a 'real woman', and only our pleasure? We don't say 'no'; we just accept it was it is. We're not men or women! We're toys in the dark. Toys made for pleasure, and we deal with it because we think we were above all of it."

Inu-yasha's voice raised in volume now and everyone was looking at him and Kouga. The wolf's face was turning a sort of ugly green and red.

"But you saw that girl during the end of your number. That's a girl would said 'no' and might die because of it. Would we risk our lives to refuse something we didn't want? No, we deal with it! Why? Because we're 'men' and 'women' and we're above all that. We don't believe in any of that. We're 'men'!"

Inu-yasha's eyes glowed slightly pink around his gold spheres as he turned back to Kouga. Miroku and Sesshoumaru watched to make sure Inu-yasha didn't snap, but the half-breed let up on him. "I'll tell you what I see. I see a bunch of human and demonic souls lost in their own stubborn pride to realize that this has happened before. It just never happened to someone who wasn't part of us. And if Kikyo were here right now, I'd tell her how much of a 'woman' she really is. Because as far as I can tell, the only real woman in this whole building, is the one with a drug overdose and a needle in her arm. The one who said 'no' to all of it because she believed in something better.

"I won't strip her of her pride while she's down. I won't push myself any lower than I all ready am. We do the devil's work in the night and we say we don't give a damn. Well, ya know what? She did a lot of that work, and when it came to the pit of it all, she looked at it and said, 'bite me!'"

Kouga flashed a direct stare at Inu-yasha suddenly, as his words were thrown back in his face. Inu-yasha glared at him for a moment longer, and then lumbered off to the place he was sitting in earlier, waiting for the doctor to open the door.

Sango came to his side and placed her hand on his shoulder. Inu-yasha looked up at her face, and caught her smile beaming with how proud she was of him. Miroku showed no less in his either.

Inu-yasha grinned weakly only to direct his attention to the door again. Kagome's scent soaked through the door and touched his nose. It was weak, and lacked the sweetness it once had. She was better though, just not alive.

Finally, after what felt like eternity, the door opened and Inu-yasha lifted his tear stained face and Sesshoumaru turned in along with the rest of them. The doctor looked at all of them, and then looked at the small crowd that was closest to the door.

"Doctor?" Sesshoumaru asked sternly.

The man stood in his black straight jacket, and stuck his hands in his pockets. "I've done all I can for her. She's having difficulty breathing and her heart rate is still, too fast. I can't do anything else for her."

Inu-yasha's head lowered in pain as his chest hurt with an intensity he never thought he'd feel. The doctor sighed lightly as Inu-yasha squeezed his eyes shut for a moment to rid the new tears forming. He opened them and looked back up at the man. "Will she wake up? Can she get through this?"

The doctor folded his hands. "I'm sure she can if we watch her carefully. The slightest change in her heartbeat could be fatal at this point, but I have doubt that it will go that far. All we can do is wait for the drug to pass."

Sango felt Miroku squeeze her hand, as he turned to the doctor. "Can we see her?"

The doctor cleared his throat slightly, "Well, yes, but four at a time please."

Sesshoumaru was the first to enter the door and Miroku and Sango followed. Shippo made a mad dash for the door, but Sango stopped him. "No, Shippo! You're still too young!"

Shippo slumped back to the ground and pouted sadly. He then turned to Inu- yasha as he looked at the door. "How about you go first?" he whimpered.

The half-breed looked at the door and felt his heart pound against his chest, wondering if he set foot in his own room, Kagome would miraculously awaken. He slowly entered the room as the door closed behind him. Kouga let out a good snort, "Stupid half-breed!"

"Awe, shut up!" Shippo cried as he looked at the door with tears of his own.

In the intervening time, behind the door in Inu-yasha's chamber, Inu-yasha himself stood before his own bed looking at Kagome who looked as though her body was in a deathlike sleep. She looked so cold with only her underwear on. He wanted to throw himself over her body and let his body warm her.

The doctor cleaned his throat. "I didn't want to say this to the young one, but she also had a very high fever. It's best to keep her cool."

Sesshoumaru looked her over. Kagome's cheeks were stained with the runny eye make-up still and her hair was a mess. "What else can we do?"

The doctor began to pack his things. "Clean her up, get her into some cooler clothing, and have someone stay at her bedside." His bag closed with a loud snap that made Inu-yasha jump.

He picked up his supplies and head for the door. "All you can so now is wait...and pray. Call me if anything changes."

Inu-yasha looked at Kagome and touched her the hand that had griped his shirt before she lost consciousness. The doctor closed the door behind the doctor as Sesshoumaru cleared his throat. "I'll call Kaede and get her cleaned up. Who will share their bedside manner with her for the first night?"

Inu-yasha looked at Kagome's face stricken with black dried tears, the scars of her fear. "I'll stay with her! After all she's in my room and got her into this. I stay with her!"

Miroku placed his hand on Inu-yasha's shoulder, "This wasn't your fault. It could have happened to anyone."

Inu-yasha's eyes shed two new tears. "Anyone, but it was her!"

Miroku lowered his head and sighed heavily. He turned to Sango as she came to Kagome's side to touch her face. She sniffled and muffled her sobs, and Miroku decided it was best to take Sango home. They left with Sesshoumaru as he went to fetch Kaede. The door closed and Inu-yasha was left with Kagome once more in his room.

He grabbed his favorite chair and pulled it over to his bedside, and took a seat beside her. Inu-yasha leaned forward looking over her body. His hand touched her arm as he ran his fingers down her soft pale skin. He got to her hand and clutched it gently in his hand.

With the other hand, Inu-yasha brushed her disheveled ebony locks away form her face. His tears started to flow even more now, and two fell on her stained cheek. He wiped the tears away, washing her stained cheek.

"You remember this place? It's where I met you for the first time." He laughed at his foolishness knowing that she couldn't hear him. "Even then I was a jerk for not looking at you again. I was too consumed with anger after Kikyo left. I get you could say we were freebies with one another, but we never really cared."

Inu-yasha found himself spilling his heart out once again. He let his thumb smooth the back of her hand in tiny circles. Finally he couldn't stand it anymore, and he sat on his bed to pick her up and hold her close to him. Her head was burning, along with the rest of her body. Inu-yasha pressed her almost lifeless body to his chest and held her as he sobbed.

"You come back to me, you hear! I swear I'll find who did this to you and kill him. I just can live without you...my heart can't dance without you."

He picked Kagome's face up Just slightly to look at her stained face. "Please come back to me! I don't want to be alone anymore. I just want you back in my arms, back in my life...always. You have to pull through this Kagome. Otherwise..."

The palm of his hand touched her cheek as his tears washed one side of her face. He sobbed through his teeth, and he opened his eyes to see if her eyes would open. They didn't.

He closed them, and let his tears continue to cleanse her cheek. "Otherwise, I'll never know what if feels like to kiss you. Don't leave me before you can show me what this feeling can do. Don't leave me and I can share it with you. I'll share it all with you, just you. Please, Kagome!"

He opened his eyes and wondered if she had heard anything. Maybe she did, and maybe she didn't.

He laid her back down in his bed, and whipped the cheek now stained with his tears. Her face look as though was half clean, and half tainted. Inu- yasha would never have her wear that mask again. He'd never compare her to Kikyo again. Kagome was far different from her.

Kikyo was a cold, numb, courtesan. Kagome was a warm, lively, woman. A woman who could make his spine tingles from her warm smile and her contagious laugh. She'd never face that world again as long as he lived.

"No matter what, Kagome. I'll die before I let anything happen to you again," he vowed before pressing his lips to her cheek. Her lips were tempting as they opened just slightly, but he could wait until she was alive again. He would wait until she could kiss him back and return everything she couldn't put into her kiss now.

She was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, and he wasn't about to lose that now. Not when she was like this. When Kagome could talk again, then Inu-yasha would live again. Until then, they would both be dead.

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Morning came with a vengeance in its morning rays. Inu-yasha, however, slept silently at Kagome's bedside. He had turned to his side and propped one leg over an armrest and laid back in the crevasse of the chair's back and side. His white shirt hung open loosely and he had unbuttoned the cuffs of his sleeve. Kagome was on her side and one hand was on his thigh with his hand over it.

She was cleaned up, and her hair combed once more. Kaede had made sure her face was clean and was clothed coolly, but still enough that Inu-yasha could stay in the same room with her. The corset was gone and she wore a simple feminine under shirt and a short petty coat, both pure white.

When the sun's rays entered the room Inu-yasha felt it's warmth and awoke with a loud yawn. He opened his eyes and looked at Kagome, only this time the sun touched her white undergarments and made the white reflect the light. She looked like an angel glowing with all her beauty and elegance. Inu-yasha couldn't help but smile as she lay in his bed glowing like the heavenly creature she was in his eyes. She never looked more beautiful, more pure up to this point.

Inu-yasha felt the need to stretch and he placed the small, soft hand on his thigh by the other one. He smoothed his hand across her face and pushed himself out of his chair and walked over to the center of his room to ex his his arms. He moved his middle table and chair to the side and out of the center, and began doing minor stretches in his legs and back.

When he finally felt limber enough, he walked out to his balcony window as the air rushed into the room. He walked out to the edge and looked over the city for a moment. Inu-yasha turned to his record player by his side and played the music to his song. He took a deep breath of morning city air, and stood up straight to center his weight.

*My gift is my song... *

Inu-yasha belted from the pit of his stomach, and grinned as he looked back into his room as his sleeping angel.

*...And this one's for you

And you can tell everybody

That this is your song

It maybe quite simple but

Now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words

How wonderful life is

Now you're in the world. *

Inu-yasha walked back into his room and walked around on his bedroom's center carpet. His feet shuffled a bit as he smiled once more at the fact he felt like a kid once again.

He looked up at the ceiling and then back to at Kagome.

*Sat on the roof

And I kicked off the moths

Well some of these verses, well they...

They got me quite cross

But the sun's been kind

While I wrote this song

It for people like you that

Keep it turned on*

He turned to his jacket and grabbed it off its hanger, and took it by the sleeves. He acted as though it was a dance partner, but more to the point he acted as though it were Kagome in his arms again.

*So excuse me forgetting

But these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're

Green or they're blue! *

Inu-yasha dropped one of the sleeves and hooked his arm around the back. However, due to his hollering note, something stirred slightly in his bed.

*And, well the thing is...

What I really mean...

Yours are the sweetest stars

I've ever seen*

Inu-yasha began to dance like a kid once more with his jacket. He went in circles and smiled like he couldn't help but get the picture of Kagome's smile out of his mind.

One, two, three, four...awe to heck with it all. The music was there in his head and he just danced to it.

He was so caught up in his dance that he failed to notice Kagome's eyes had widened in awe of how beautiful he looked. His silver wisps of hair moving in the air, and the sunlight reflecting a golden shine off of his unbuttoned dress shirt made him look so...like I said, beautiful. His dancing amazed her and made her giggle silently as she tried to not have him catch her. She wanted to watch him make a slight fool out of himself, and all that golden light making him glow was too much to pry her eyes away from.

Inu-yasha continued his dancing with his jacket and smiling. Kagome loved his smile, and the warm tingle it gave her body. Her heart maintained its normal heartbeat when she had awoken, but now it was pounding with joy against her chest.

* And you can tell everybody

That this is your song

It maybe quite simple but

Now that it's done*

Inu-yasha stopped and he was facing the direction where Kagome lay in his bed giggling and smiling. He held his cost close to him.

*I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words... *

He suddenly heard a soft laugh and turned his eye to his bed. Kagome gasped at the fact she was caught, but couldn't help, but smile. She attempted to hide it behind her face, but she couldn't. She ended up hiding half of her face in his pillow with her eyes closed.

He grinned with a mixed feeling of happiness, and embarrassment. He tossed his coat aside and looked at her.

*How wonderful life is

Now you're in the world. *

Inu-yasha prowled up to her bedside as she rolled over on back with her guilty, but warm smile.

*I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind

That I put down in words... *

He leaned down and over her as she smiled with him. Inu-yasha pushed his arm between her back and his bed, and the other found her knees. She smiled as he picked her up and out of bed. Kagome placed her hands on his shoulders and the smoothed on over his chest while the other smoothed its path to the back of his neck.

Inu-yasha looked into Kagome's eyes. *How wonderful life is... *

Suddenly, his smile filled with mischief, and his eyes widened a bit.

*...Now you're in the world! *

As Inu-yasha held his last note, he began to spin around with Kagome still in his arms. She screamed for a second since her other hand was against his chest. It quickly move to hold on it his neck as she closed her eyes and laughed and screamed playfully as he spun her around in his circles.

He finally stopped as the record's song started to come to an end. Kagome's smile couldn't have been brighter in the golden morning light and her eyes were closed as she tried to rid herself of the dizzies.

Kagome finally opened her eyes as Inu-yasha's smile came into view again. "Good morning, Kagome!" he said, with a gentle growl in the back of his throat.

Kagome felt him bring her fore head close to his as he sighed in content as she let out one last small giggle. He did to as he felt her body flush with warmth and life. Gods, now she looked...well, if there were a word that summed up everything for a heavenly, beautiful, angel, then that would have to be the way he described her at that moment.

Kagome closed her eyes, and he caught his breath and closed his as well to absorb the life her body was giving off all of the sudden. She was so perfect in Inu-yasha's arms at that moment.

Suddenly, she felt her hand touch his cheek as the other touched his hear to feel it beat against her palm.

"Am I in heaven? Am I dead?" she asked in a soft and almost unrecognizable voice.

Inu-yasha's opened his eyes and snorted a single laugh. "You're far from dead!"

He waited until she became content again, and closed her eyes. Inu-yasha opened his as his smile disappeared just slightly. "But..."

Kagome groaned. "But what?" she mumbled.

Inu-yasha placed her on her feet while her arms still remained around his neck. "Inu-yasha?"

Kagome looked into his soft warm golden eyes. They were filled with something she had not seen in his eyes before, and she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Whatever it was in his eyes, it made her heart race, and the feeling in her body and soul was amazing.

Inu-yasha's blood boiled with the urge to kiss her now, but he didn't know if she shared the same feelings. He's have to wait until he was sure that the feeling was being returned.

"But I'm sure, that it's close to heaven."

Kagome's smile returned and then his did as well. He pressed his forehead to hers and held her close to him. Kagome didn't mind this, did she? Even her heart was unsure. Yet, after the events of what she had been through went through her mind, this embrace was warm and inviting. This was better! This was perfect!

"You're lying!" she mumbled. Inu-yasha opened his eyes as she caught him off guard. His eyes opened to look into hers. She smiled and closed her eyes again. "Just being with you, like this...this is heaven!"

Inu-yasha beamed and felt his heart pound. 'Oh, Kagome! Just knowing you're alive is enough to know I'm in heaven.'

Kagome felt his arms hold her a moment longer. 'This is heaven! When you're here with me like this, it's enough. It's enough to be with you. Just you! ...I love you.'

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Once again! Nothing is going to happen to me, me, okay? She didn't get raped! Be happy! Love, fluff, and all that jazzy stuff are coming now. BE HAPPY!!!

Oh, and don't worry about the ending. It will be sad yes that Inu-yasha has to die in the end, BUT I promise a tears of joy ending. Just stick with me folks! Trust the author, here! I know what I'm doing!

See you next time!