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Kagome floated in a silent black void, enjoying the quiet. This warm darkness was so calming. She tried to remember how she had gotten here, She had this vague feeling that something hadn't been quite right...and that is when she began to feel more than the pleasant numbness of floating in the dark. It started in her wrists and began to tingle through the rest of her, traveling up her arms, and down her legs. Her arms burned, and her whole body suddenly felt very heavy.
The void disappeared, replaced with a dim light behind her eyelids. She slowly blinked the sleep out of her eyes and looked around her. Turning her head to the side, she saw a large window with sheer white curtains and a cloudy grey sky outside. The wall, she noticed, was also white. Turning to look at the other side of her room she saw a tall door which was open just the slightest crack, and there was a bedside table on this side of the room. On the said table was a vase with sakura blossoms in it, and a glass of water. Looking to the corner of the room on this side, Kagome noticed a brown easy chair, in which slumped a tall sleeping silver-haired man. She tried to think back to see if she knew this man, but she had no recollection of ever meeting him before in her life, despite the odd sense of familiarity she felt when she looked at him.
The act of trying to remember the silver-haired man made her remember what she had been doing before she found herself in the void. She had tried to kill herself... But what was it that... Ah now she remembered, she remembered the voices in her mind, the ones that told her she was no good.
"So useless"
"Everyone would be better without you."
"Nobody wants you around, not even your parents. That's why your precious Daddy left!"
Feeling slightly panicked, she tried to sit up and look down at her wrists. She finally struggled into a sitting position and was frantically trying to remove the bandages from her forearms. Suddenly there were two large hands holding her own hands down in her lap.
Quieting suddenly Kagome looked at the hands and then followed the connected limbs up to a set of rather broad shoulders which connected to a neck and then a stern face looking down at her, it was the man who just moments before had been sleeping in the corner of her room. Just who was this guy? Her racket must have woken him up. She blinked inquisitively at him. "Leave them on." He said. "They need time to heal."
Kagome, now feeling the heaviness pressing down on her even more insistently than before, asked "Why do you care? You don't even know me. What if I don't want them to heal?" she snapped irritably.
His face changed then, just marginally, but Kagome caught it. For a moment he looked hurt, but then the stern mask slid right back into place. "We'll have plenty of time to talk about why exactly I care later, for now, you need to rest and let those stitches do their job," he said loosening his hold and moving to position the pillows behind her back. "Lie back."
Feeling strangely compelled to do as he said she let herself relax into the pillows which allowed her to sit up a little without so much work on her muscles. Kagome gave the man a once over trying to evaluate him. She was sure she would remember meeting a tall sexy guy like this, no matter how conscious she may or may not have been if she ever had. Those piercing golden eyes weren't something you could just forget...
He looked her over and gave a small exasperated sigh, "You lost a lot of blood, you need to rest and eat up. You'll be pretty weak for several days. Luckily you humans are pretty resilient, with the proper diet and exercise you should easily make a full recovery."
Kagome rolled her eyes, "You sound like a doctor."
He smirked "I was for a while." with that he left out the door and she was left alone in that blindingly white room.
She once again examined her bandaged arms, this time refraining from trying to tear the gauzy stuff off. She let her mind replay the events leading up to her attempted suicide. She remembered her fellow students' words, her teacher's apathy, her brother's lack of attention to anything other than his precious video games, her mother's empty eyes. She remembered looking in the mirror and agreeing with the awful things that were said to her, looking in the mirror on the opposite wall from where she sat, she still agreed with them... most of all she remembered the crippling loneliness, brought on by a complete lack of human contact for the expanse of about 6 years. At least if the bullies at school had beaten her up, she would have had some kind of contact, even if it wasn't kind, it would have been kinder than not touching her at all, even going out of their way to not bump shoulders in the halls. Her mind continued, going deeper and deeper into the darkness, going so far as to dig up old irrelevant memories, taken out of context, and add them to the ever-growing heap of failures that seemed to be Kagome's relatively short life.
Finally, the silver-haired man returned, this time with another man, this one standing at least a whole head shorter than Mr. Frosty over here. The new guy was wearing a long lab coat over a blue plaid shirt and khaki pants. his short spiky hair and brilliantly red eyes were striking against the whiteness of the room.
"My name is Dr. Nakamura Asas. How are you feeling?"
Like I just tried to kill myself. How do ya think I'm doin doc? "Tired mostly" Kagome answered him, trying to suppress the sarcastic urges.
He gave a weary smile "That's normal, you did lose a lot of blood. Are you hungry at all?"
Kagome thought about it for a moment. Before her little suicide attempt, she hadn't been eating hardly anything at all. To the point, her body just stopped telling her it was hungry, so she didn't think the way her body was feeling was a good indication of reality. Never the less she shook her head that no, she wasn't hungry.
"Well, I'd like you to eat something all the same. I'll have someone bring in some light easy food for you when we're done here. I'm just going to check your vitals and then leave you two alone."
Kagome shot him an incredulous look as he sat on the edge of her bed, pulling off his stethoscope.
"The two of us?"
This time silver hair spoke up. "Dr. Nakamura has decided it would be for the best that someone stays in here and keeps an eye on you, considering the events that lead to you being in this bed in the first place."
"And that person is... who? You?" Kagome was starting to get slightly irritated with this guy. "I don't even know your name. Who are you anyway?"
The doctor finished listening to her heart and gave silver hair a look that seemed to say 'you haven't told her yet?'
Silver hair rolled his eyes and answered "My name is Sesshomaru" looking back at the red-eyed doctor he also said, "And no, we have not discussed how I found her yet. I did not think it appropriate."
Kagome almost growled at him in annoyance. "You can say it. I tried to kill myself. Stop tiptoeing around it!"
Sesshomaru noticeably flinched at her words. "That isn't what I was referring to little one. Please refrain from upsetting your wounds by overreacting. "
Kagome frowned, but she didn't say anything else.
As Dr. Nakamura finished checking my vitals, Sesshomaru stalked back over to the chair he had been in earlier and sat down, pulling a thin laptop from the computer bag on the floor next to it. Dr. Nakamura left saying that a nurse would be in shortly with some food.
Kagome looked over to Sesshomaru with a questioning glance. As far as Kagome knew, she had never met him before in her life. Knowing his name now, and seeing his face, she recognized him as the young business protege who took over Taisho Industries after his father stepped down, but she had only seen his face on a very few magazines in the grocery store checkout. That didn't explain this odd sense of familiarity she felt when she looked at him. And on top of that, this strange man seemed to know her and care about her well being.
Just as Kagome was about to ask him, a pretty young nurse came in with a tray of food. Mostly iron-rich foods like spinach and kale salad, but Kagome also spotted stuff like jello and fruit, so she wasn't too disappointed by the array of choices.
"Dr. Nakamura says you need to eat this." She said.
Sesshomaru once again spoke saying "Leave it, I will make sure she eats."
Kagome rolled her eyes, he was also so damn sure of himself she almost wanted to snub the food, just to spite him. But one look at the fresh blackberries and her stomach grumbled, for the first time in months...
A. N. That's it for today. I haven't noticed any new views, but if you read this story and like it, go ahead and leave a comment, just to let me know what you thought. (｡﹏｡)
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