Bent Reality
Dreams
"Inuyasha look out!" Kagome yelled and pointed to a moving tree branch. Inuyasha ducked the branch and unsheathed Tetsusaiga. "It has a jewel shard!"
Miroku ran to Kagome and stood beside her. Sango went and tried to attack the moving branches of the tree with Inuyasha. Shippo hid behind Kagome's legs and Myoga sat contently on Miroku's shoulder.
"Where?" Inuyasha growled as he slashed at a tree branch that just pulled itself back together.
A branch headed straight for Kagome and Miroku at lightning speed. Kagome screamed and Miroku moved to block her. He put his staff out to try and block the sharp branch, but it broke the staff in half and pierced through his body. The branch traveled all the way through his body and out the other side, right though Kagome's body.
Kagome saw the stick enter her chest and heard Inuyasha and Sango's screams. Kagome collapsed on the ground with Miroku on top of her, dead. Kagome watched with glazed eyes as the branches attacked Sango and Inuyasha, tearing them to shreds. Inuyasha fell to the ground in a puddle of blood, and Kagome screamed.
Kagome's bedroom door flew open as her mom ran in to see why she had screamed. "Kagome dear are you okay?"
Kagome sat up in bed panting and in a cold sweat. She looked at her mom with an expression filled with fear.
"Oh my poor baby." Kagome's mom went to her and hugged her daughter. "Did you have that dream again? The one with the demons, it will be okay." Her mom stroked Kagome's hair.
"But it's always different." Kagome said with a monotone voice. "It's always different, with the same people."
Kagome let her mom rock her like mother's do. Usually the dreams hadn't been that bad, but more recently they were getting scarier.
"You should try to get back to sleep." Kagome's mom said. "First day of school tomorrow." Her mom stood and made her way to the door. "Are you going to be okay?"
Kagome nodded. Her mother smiled and shut the door behind her.
Kagome threw the blankets off of her and wiped her for head with the back of her hand.
"How come I was more scared when I saw Inuyasha die than I was scared for my own life?" she asked herself. She laid back down and put her arms behind her head. "Inuyasha," she sighed. "Wouldn't it be cool if he were real?" she smiled and closed her eyes. "To bad he isn't."
She slowly drifted back off to sleep.
In the morning Kagome woke to her brother screaming in her ear, interrupting her beautiful dream about how Inuyasha had defeated the moving branches and saved Miroku and herself. She snorted at Sota and turned her back to him.
"Wake up! You're gonna be late for school!" He started to tickle her sides. Kagome tried not to laugh and put her elbows down trying to block his attempts. Sota just tickled her armpits and her feet then.
"OKAY, okay, I'm up!" Kagome yelled and pushed Sota away with her feet. He stumbled back and gave her a sour look.
"Get dressed already then." He said.
"Can't." Kagome responded.
"Why not?" Sota was rather confused.
"Cause your in here!" Kagome got up and pushed Sota out of her room. He turned around outside her door and was about to say something when Kagome slammed the door on his face.
"HEY!" He yelled. "MY NOSE!" Then she heard his footsteps retreating.
"Little brothers." She laughed and promptly started to get her school uniform on.
****
Kagome leaned on her hand in History class and stared at the back of the person's head in front of her. The other students were talking up a storm and sitting on desks and what not. The teacher hadn't arrived yet.
Kagome looked out the window to her left and closed her eyes.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha brushed her bangs out of her face.
"Hmm." Kagome mumbled.
Inuyasha had found her near the god tree sleeping in its shade. She had this way of disappearing and reappearing at the strangest possible moments. At this time, Inuyasha had been sleeping in the branches when he had smelt her scent. It was like she had just magically appeared below him. She always seemed to appear near him. He was glad, he had been worried about her.
"Kagome?" he poked her face.
"Yeah, what?" Kagome scrunched her eyes tightly together and swatted at Inuyasha's hand.
"Are you alright?" he leaned down, making his face mere inches away from hers.
"Uh huh." Kagome was still half asleep.
"I'm glad. I was worried." He said before he could stop himself. He quickly put on his angry face and sat up. "Um, not like I care about you, I was worried about the jewel shards."
Kagome frowned and Inuyasha felt a small ping in his heart.
"Come on, Sango has been asking about you." He started to stand up but stopped when he felt a tug on his sleeve. Kagome had grabbed him, but her eyes were still closed. "Kagome?"
"Don't leave me Inuyasha." She said.
Inuyasha grabbed her wrist and pulled her hand off his sleeve. He then got up and walked away with a very sad expression on his face.
'I should stay with her,' he thought. 'So stop walking and turn around.'
Kagome could hear his footsteps leaving. She cried out and opened her eyes.
Inuyasha turned around, but she was gone. "Kagome!"
When Kagome opened her eyes she saw only the window in her History class. She looked about the room and saw most of the students were looking at her.
"Ah, hello?" Kagome said.
"You were talking in your sleep." Eri said.
"Yeah, something about someone named Inuyasha." Ayumi said.
"You didn't want him to leave," Eri said.
"Did he leave?" Yuka was interested.
Kagome looked at her three friends and frowned. "Yeah."
"At least it was just a dream." Ayumi said.
"Yeah, but dreams shouldn't end like that!" Yuka interjected.
"My dreams do!" Eri pointed a finger at Yuka.
"Your dreams suck!" Yuka said.
Both girls stared at one another.
"Now, now you both can dream however you want." Ayumi tried to split up the fight.
"Shh, here comes the teacher!" a student looking out the door quickly took his seat. The class went silent.
****
History went by fast and gym class was there in no time. Kagome ran down the track that surrounded the high school. Her three friends were not far behind. Her black hair was tied up and swung side to side as she ran. She kept her mind focused on running, which is probably why she tripped.
"Ouch." Kagome pried her head off the ground. "Now I know how Inuyasha feels." She looked back and saw that she had tripped over a ball. Her friends saw her fall and were running a tad faster to catch up to her. Kagome smiled.
"HEY! Lady!" Kagome heard a young boy's voice come from the street beside the school. He was running across it. Kagome saw a car coming and did the first thing that came into her mind.
She got up, ran to the boy, pushed him out of the way of the car, and got ran over. She felt a sharp pain hit her ribs and legs and she saw the hard concrete street zoom into her face, then it was all dark.
Ayumi screamed and stopped running when she saw the car hit Kagome. Eri kept running till she reached Kagome. The man in the car got out and was a nervous wreck. Yuka walked up to Kagome's mangled body.
"Go get help!" Eri told Yuka. She nodded and ran off. The little boy was laying on the grass on the other side of the street with a surprised expression on his face. His mom quickly appeared and scooped him up into her arms.
"Kagome?" Eri dare not touch her friend. Kagome was laying face down in front of the car that had hit her. Her legs sprawled out in an unnatural position. Blood was building up around her head.
"Mister?" Ayumi said to the man who was pacing back and forth. He didn't respond. "Mister!?"
He turned and looked at her. "Do you have a cell phone?"
He nodded.
"Can I use it to call an ambulance?" Ayumi tried to remain calm.
He slowly reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver cell phone. Ayumi snatched it from him and quickly dialed 911.
****
Kagome's mom, grandfather and brother waited in the waiting room of the Hospital. But, they felt like doing anything but wait. Sota was playing with the sleeve of his shirt and mumbling something about how Kagome was just faking it. Grandpa was standing in the center of the room with a serious expression on his face. Ms. Higurashi was sitting in a chair with her face in her hands.
"Mom," Sota started. "Is Kagome going to be okay?"
His mother looked up and gave him a weak smile. "Of course she is." She said more to convince herself.
The door to the waiting room opened and she stood up. It was Kagome's doctor, and he didn't look like he was carrying good news.
"I'm sorry," he said.
Ms. Higurashi stifled back a sob.
"Kagome is in a coma."
Ms. Higurashi was so happy her daughter was alive she didn't care she might never wake up. She cried. She cried her eyes out.
****
Kagome's body lay still in a hospital bed. An I.V. stuck into her wrist and an oxygen mask across her face. On the outside she looked peaceful and motionless, but her mind was working on over time.
Kagome stood in a dark room alone. She was wearing her school uniform. "Hello?" she said. Then she felt the black ground give way and she started to fall. She wasn't sure how far she would fall since everything was black. She closed her eyes tight and hugged her body.
"Kagome?" she heard a male voice call her name.
"She's not here!" she said, squeezing her eyes together tighter.
"Oh come on now Kagome!" she felt someone poke her. She opened her eyes and saw Inuyasha leaning over her.
She was laying on her back in some grass in what seemed a very open field. 'Oh great,' she thought. 'Another dream.'
Inuyasha looked at her angrily and leaned closer to her face. Kagome could feel his hot breath on her face.
Hold up. She could feel his breath? Isn't this a dream?
Inuyasha grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder. Kagome didn't even move. Usually when she dreamed of Inuyasha and the other's she could never feel anything. Now she could feel Inuyasha's hands on her thighs holding her up.
"Look out!" Inuyasha yelled and jumped to the side quickly as an arrow went shooting past. It grazed Kagome's face. She felt the sting of the cut. She could feel the blood dripping. She reached up with her hand and touched the cut on the side of her face. She cringed in pain and pulled her hand back, there was hot blood on the tips of her fingers.
"Hold on!" Inuyasha yelled and ran into the forest. He dodged several branches.
Kagome was freaking out. Inuyasha was going to get her killed. "Could you maybe carry me differently?!" she yelled out of fear.
"Whatever!" Inuyasha yelled back but hopped onto a branch in a tree and pulled Kagome in front of him and carried her like that. He then jumped out of the tree and continued to run through the forest.
Kagome didn't think this new position was any better. Now she could see where they were going. She yelped and hid her head in Inuyasha kimono.
"Stop right there!" she heard a familiar voice. "And let me kill her!"
"No Kikyo don't," Inuyasha stopped running and Kikyo appeared in front of him. She pulled her bow back and aimed for Kagome. "Don't move."
She released the arrow and not even Inuyasha had time to dodge it. Kagome felt the sharp edge of the arrow enter he body. She screamed out in pain.
This really wasn't a dream.
A/N= Please review. I don't own Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi does.