Chapter 2 (The truth of mates)

Recap: "what in Kami's name where you thinking?" Inuyasha said wide-eyed.

"I was … thinking…I had t-to…protect…you." kagome said finally giving into the darkness.

"Ka…go…me." Inuyasha said softly dropping his head and lowering his ears in shame.

Actual chapter

(Inuyasha's thoughts)

'I can't believe this I've got to get her to her world. I know that Kaede can't do anything but maybe in her world they can. Damn it I didn't even get to finish talking to her now I don't even know if she live or not…no she'll live she's got to.' Was Inuyasha's last thought before jumping into the bone eater well. As he entered Kagome's era the first thing he did was jump through Kagome's window. (It's always unlocked for him)

"Miss Higarashi are you here, sota, old man!" Inuyasha yelled trying to get someone's attention.
"Yes Inuyasha we're here what's wrong." Miss Higarashi answered while bursting through the door.

"Kagome's hurt bad, I'll explain why later…is there anything you can do?" Inuyasha said in panic of the young miko's life.

"We have to move we'll get her into emergency I'll call the hospital as we're driving." Miss Higarashi rambled while running around the house.

"Hospital…driving?" Inuyasha questioned.

"I'll explain later."

Um…ok."

"LET"S GO!"

"Coming" Inuyasha said plastering his ear to his head from her Yelling.

at the hospital after bout an hour +

"Miss Higarashi, can I see you in my office please?" Said the emergency room doctor.

"Yes but can I ask you a favor?" she asked

"Of course you can. "(I've never heard a doctor say that but that's why this is a fanfic right?)

"Can this boy come with, I'm afraid to leave him out here he's a little devastated."

Inuyasha's thoughts

'Well I guess you could call it that… why does he need to talk with us anyway is she gone…can they not help her?' Inuyasha questioned in his head before fallowing the two adults into the doctor's office.

"So doctor what is it?" Miss Higarashi asked worry flooding her voice.

"Well, We were able to stitch and replace skin over the organs that where damaged, there's nothing more we can do I'm afraid." The doctor said sighing at the end of his sentence.

"What's her condition?" Inuyasha asked causing the doctor to look at him.

"She's unconscious and her life depends on her will to live…everything's up to her now." The doctor answered

"I understand. When can we see her?" Inuyasha asked with his bangs covering his eyes.

"You can see her now if you'd like."

"Thank you doctor." Miss Higarashi called out as Inuyasha and she walked to Kagome's room.

In kagome's room

"It's all my fault if I hadn't turned my back she'd be fine right now." Inuyasha said brushing the bangs out of Kagome's face.

"It's not your fault Inuyasha."

"How not?"

"She can't help it it's in her heart… Just like it's in yours."

"Feh… some protector I turned out to be."

"You know that's not true you've saved her from many things haven't you?"
"How would you know?" Inuyasha said turning around to look at kagome's Mother.

"She tells me everything why do you think she comes home so often."

"School?"

"Ha ha ha, that's only extra, truthfully she hates school."

"That little…" Inuyasha cut himself off as Kagome began to stir.

"Inuyasha, I'll be outside ok?"

"Um… sure." Inuyasha said as Miss Higarashi left the room.

"I wonder why she wanted to leave." Inuyasha asked out loud.

"Cause she wanted us to have some alone time when I woke up." Kagome answered him while trying to sit up.

"Don't move so much your wound isn't fully healed yet." Inuyasha said reaching over and placing his hands on her shoulders.

"I'm fine but how are you doing?"

"I didn't get hurt because you decided to be a baka and protect me."

"Is that really a bad thing Inuyasha, you protect me all the time."

"I'm half demon you're only human."

"So what you can still die you know."

"Not as easily as you can."

What does that have to do with anything?"

"Don't protect me."

"I'm going to whether you want me to or not."

"Why."

"Because…"

"Because why?" Inuyasha said staring into her chocolate brown eyes.

"Just because." Kagome said trying to look at anything besides him.

"Tell me Kagome." Inuyasha said cupping her face with his hands.

"Be…because I…" kagome stuttered trying to tell him but scared out of her mind that he might not feel the same.

"Kagome what are trying to tell me? Or what do you want to know…Just ask, or tell me." Inuyasha yelled not sure of what she wanted or what she was so scared of.

'Oh god please say that he loves me' kagome thought trying to calm her self down.

"Inuyasha how…how do you feel about me?" Kagome asked not sure about how to word it.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you see me as just a friend?"

"Ummm…no." Inuyasha replied not sure of the answer she wanted.

"Then what do you see me as?" Kagome said raising an eyebrow.

"OK this is not an easy thing to talk about so be ready for that ok." Inuyasha said letting her know.

"Why is that?" she said calmly.

"Cause I suck at admitting things when it comes to my emotions." Inuyasha said sitting on the end right hand corner of her hospital bed.

"That's fair enough, so are you going to answer my question?" Kagome said adjusting herself so that she was sitting right next to him.

"Well sometimes I see you different ways, it's a demon thing." Inuyasha said looking at her as she just nodded her head.

"Sooo, you see me in different ways…how?"

"It depends on your actions like sometime you act like a mother other times a friend and sometimes even a…" Inuyasha stopped not sure if he wanted to say what else he saw her as he didn't want to scare her.

"Even a what?" Kagome said pushing for the part he cut off.

"I'm not sure how you're going to react if I tell you that one." Inuyasha said trying to hide his blush.

"Why?"

"I don't want you to be mad at me or think bad of me because of it."
"I promise I won't."

"You sure you won't be mad?" Inuyasha questioned as her looked up at her to meet her gaze.

"Unless it's like a grandma I'm sure." Kagome said giving him a reassuring smile.
"Not even close."

"Then tell me."

"Well there's times…I see you like…a demon would see his…"

"See his what?"

"Mate." Inuyasha said barely above a whisper.

"…" Kagome couldn't respond she wasn't sure how to react, partly because she didn't understand the whole mates' thing anyway.

"Are you mad at me now?" Inuyasha said lowering his head afraid because she gave no response.

"No, I'm not mad I'm just a little shocked I wasn't expecting that." Kagome said reaching out and putting her hand on his shoulder.

"So you don't hate me?"

"Why would I hate you?"

"Because I see you as my mate." Inuyasha said still looking down.

"You see me as your mate." Kagome stated.

"Yes."

"Inuyasha please look at me?" Kagome said placing her hand on his hand. Inuyasha did exactly what he was asked and looked at Kagome.

"Why?" Inuyasha asked a little harshly out of embarrassment and fear.

"Because I like seeing your face, and I feel bad for scaring you."

"Oh." Inuyasha replied with a blush.

"So…what makes you see me like your mate?" Kagome asked also blushing.

"A lot of thing?" Inuyasha said looking into her eye's with amazement.

"What?" Kagome retorted her blush darkening.

"You don't mind?"

"Don't mind what?"

"Me seeing you as my mate."

"Well no I don't mind…at all really." Kagome said this time it was her looking down.

"Well that's going to make the rest of this conversation a lot easier." Inuyasha said a little more relaxed.

"So, can I ask another question?" She said in a low whisper.

"Only if you look at me." He responded lifting her chin so that her eyes would meet his. When they did she saw a mix of thing in his eyes. Happiness, wonder, hope, and some other things that she couldn't read.

"That's better now you can ask." Inuyasha said never taking his eyes away from hers.

"How…ok I have no idea how to ask this."

"Just ask I'll figure it out."

"What exactly are mates, I mean how does that get established?" Kagome said hoping he understood her question.

"How do you think?" Inuyasha replied as he cocked an eyebrow.

"Truthfully I have not the slightest clue." Kagome said while shaking her head.

"Well do you really want to know?"

"Yes." Kagome said a little unsure.

"Ok well there's more to it than most humans think, a lot more." He told her.

"What do you mean by there's a lot more, what do most people think?" Kagome was unsure about what she was stumbling into although she had somewhat of an idea.

"Sex."

"S…ex?"

"Ya, that's what most humans think is the only real thing holding mates together, but in all truth it's a very minimal factor." Inuyasha replied looking into Kagome's eyes.

"That's good, so then what you're saying…how do you see me as your mate Inuyasha?" Kagome asked forgetting about what else she was going to say.

"Another question?"

"Why not while I'm at it." She retorted shrugging her shoulders.

"First I have a question to ask you before I can answer your question ok."

"Alright shoot."

"Do you love me?" Inuyasha asked closing his eyes hoping for the answer he always dreamed he would get when he would ask the dreaded question.
"Did you honestly have to ask?" kagome said before giving him a chaste kiss.

"Yes I did that's the first step to becoming mates that is if you want to."

"Yes Inuyasha I love you and yes to the other also I would like to be your mate but only if you want me to." Kagome said with a smile as Inuyasha's ears perked up and he smiled.

"Glad to hear it." Inuyasha said grabbing her hand with his and intertwining their fingers.

"So are you going to answer my question?" kagome teased while squeezing his hand.
"Just the way you'd smile or worry about me. That's the exact thing a female would do for her mate, but the one thing that happened recently was when you protected me and put yourself in danger."

"Why does that shock you so much?"

"Because you're not my mate…yet anyway and most of the time a female won't protect the male cause the males supposed to protect the female no matter what."
"So basically what you're saying is the female won't protect only because it's not her place to." Kagome said trying to see if she had it right.

"Yes and no. The female has to protect the pups even if she's not pregnant or if she's still has not been impregnated she has to keep herself in a pupping condition so that she can produce." Inuyasha said trying not to blush as he told her this. He knew she had no idea about that she needed to.

"What do you mean in a pupping condition?" Kagome questioned Inuyasha not sure what he meant by that.

"The male chooses when the female gets pregnant." Inuyasha said not wanting her to be totally mad at him.
"WHAT?" Kagome screamed with a blush.

"Don't bite my head off I didn't set up the rules you know."

"Sorry it's just in this time it's a mutual agreement not one gets to choose, the only exception is if it's an accident.' Kagome replied calming herself down.

"Kagome, in my time things are much different remember your world's not as dangerous as mine."

"Yeah, but why does the male choose Inuyasha?"

"The male choose only because he tries to pick the perfect time, when it would be safe for the female and the pup."

"So the female's only role is pretty much to give birth." Kagome said a little disappointed.

"To some demons yes to me no."

"Then what…"

"Your role is to do as you do now, that's why I love you so much. Yeah I hope you listen to my on the whole pupping thing and just trust me on that but I don't want you to think that's your only role because it's not."

"Something tells me that you get that from your father." Kagome said thinking out loud.

"Why do you say that?"

"Just the way he sounded the fact that he loved your mother enough to let her give birth to you, I don't think that if he was still alive that he would be ashamed you are his son. Actually he'd probably brag about you same with your mother. She loved you and would never change the fact that she gave birth to a half demon son." Kagome said with a smile and leaned on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Kagome."

"Yeah Inuyasha."

"Would you be ashamed if you had a half breed child?"

"Of course not! I love a half demon why would I have a problem with giving birth to one?" Kagome retorted while getting up and facing Inuyasha with a dumb founded look.

"I just wanted to know because if I do puppy you that's exactly what you'll have." Inuyasha said feeling better that she wouldn't mind.

"Hey Inuyasha?"

"Yeah?"
"How is that possible?"

"My demon blood it's impossible to have a child that's not at the very least half demon. It's either half, whole or human that's it."

"That's new info never would have guessed that one.

"I know that would be why I told you."

"So I'm guessing you want pups?"

"Yeah, why?"

"We're going to have to work on you patients then now won't we?" Kagome giggled as Inuyasha glared at her. Then of course he kissed her out of no where as they laid on the hospital bed in that wonderful well known position. (If you don't get it you're really dense, or you shouldn't be reading this story) After a few minutes they broke apart and Inuyasha was now holding her close to his body as they fell asleep.

Miss Higarashi

"Guess they're both tired today's been hectic. Kagome will tell me what happened between the two of them tomorrow but right now I'm going to go and sign her release paper for in the morning." 'Take care of my daughter Inuyasha I know she won't stay in this era so please take care of her in yours.'