In the Wold's Eyes

Chapter 3: My past haunts me

Slowly Kagome woke to shooting pain. Her purification powers where working their hardest to remove the taint from her but the blood had started to bond and the power couldn't get rid of it fast enough. "uh." Kagome groaned grimacing and containing a scream as she tried to move.

"If you're in that much pain, don't move." Logan said startling Kagome badly. Kagome's head snapped to look at the man sitting in a chair about 2 feet away from her. Instinct took over and Kagome immediately bolted of the bed and into the closest corner as fear roared in her veins more than the pain was.

Charles, she's awake and freaking out. Logan said calmly, annoyed by the girl but not making any sudden movements. "Calm down I'm not coming after ya." Logan said gruffly.

"Where am I?" She asked her voice harsh from not being used much.

"You're at Charles Xavier's School for the gifted." Was the gruff reply from Logan.

"But where is that?" She persisted to ask. She wanted to make sure she was far away from the people that had imprisoned her.

Logan was about to answer when Charles, Ororo and Hank walked calmly into the room. "Logan, where is she?" Hank asked, looking at the empty bed. It's alright child. We won't harm you.' Charles said reaching out to the hiding girl with his mind. Wide eyed Kagome panicked at the sudden intrusion and her powers shocked Charles's mind in defense.

"Stay out of my head." Kagome whispered.

"I'm sorry I only intended to calm you down." Charles tried to explain to the frightened girl.

"No just stay out of my head! I don't need any more people trying to get into my head." She said her voice getting stronger with her healing powers focusing on the unused muscles. "Enough people have gone rummaging through my mind and I'm sick of it." Tears where flowing down her face now as she continued to demand they stay out of her mind.

"Alright, but will you come out so Doctor Hank can check on you?" Charles tried to reason.

Go on Kagome. You are in a safe place. Ela's voice whispered in her mind calming the distraught miko. Slowly and hesitantly Kagome stood up from her ball, but she still hugged the corner, trying to hide. Cautiously she looked at the people in the room for the first time. "You aren't exactly human are you?" Kagome asked watching Charles and Ororo the most. "I can feel it. You're human but you're not." It was more said to herself than for them to here.

"Come over here, kid and let the furball over here check you out." Logan said nonchalantly, his face still covered with his hat. Kagome's attention focused on him, really looking at him for the first time. Feeling reassured for some reason Kagome took a slow step forward. She focused on Logan because she knew if she looked at the others she would probably try to hide again. "Hank was it?" Kagome ask once she was within a few feet of the bed. "Can it please only be you and him." She gestured to Logan. "I don't mean to offend you two but I don't feel comfortable."

Charles and Storm understood and left the room. By that time Kagome had made her way to behind Logan's chair and was unconsciously trying to hide behind the bigger man. "It's ok child, I don't mean you any harm." Hank said trying to soothe her with his voice as he would an animal. "I want to believe that, especially from you but 10 years is a lot of instinct to try and override." Kagome tried to explain as her muscles tensed in a prepared bolt. She could feel that neither of these people meant her harm but the lab had made it hard to trust that. She had been fooled once, that was how she had been taken.

She started to move around Logan and back into the bed, when Hank moved just a little too quickly for her and her instincts made her bolt again, this time right into Logan's lap. "ah." She cried softly curled up into Logan.

Hank and Logan could only stare in confusion at the girl now occupying his lap. Awkwardly he patted her head to sooth her but he really had no clue on what to do in this kind of situation. "If it's alright I can do the exam with you right there. That is if you take comfort from Logan."

Having not realized where she ended up Kagome was confused by Hank's comment, until she looked up at least. Quickly she ripped herself off of his lap and onto the floor in embarrassment. "I….I….I'm sorry." Kagome stuttered out she had felt so safe and comfortable in his arms that she hadn't even realized that she had been there. "hn." Logan grunted, just happy that he was no longer in a situation he didn't know how to handle.

Once she was sure nothing was going to happen, Kagome stood and took a seat, all over her movements slowed due to the pain of her magic still trying to purge the blood. "It's fine, just move slowly and make sure I can see you. I think I can control myself as long as you move slowly and I can see what you are doing." Kagome relented.

Understanding Hank moved slowly forward, keeping his hands up and open to show that they were empty. " Ok I'm going to start with your left arm. Is that ok? All I'm going to do right now is feel it." Hank explained as he neared her exposed arm. Kagome forced herself to relax as the ape like man began his examination.

Silently Hank noted the various broken needles in her arm, wondering how she hadn't died from an infection from them. He also noted the fever she had, figuring that was due to an unwilling(and probably unnecessary blood transfusion). Minutes passed in relative silence beyond Hank giving an explanation of what he was doing.

"Ok this is going to be the hard part, I want to look at your back, I need to see if any of these metal pieces have moved from your arm. Is that ok?" Hank asked, He would be out of her line of sight, but he had seen Logan's expression when he had turned the girl over to examine her back.

"I…I don't know..." Kagome said hesitantly. She wasn't sure what her back looked like but she knew it wasn't going to be pretty. It had been about 3 years after they had taken her when they had made a brake through and had given her a Mutant ability, but it wasn't one that they ever even phantom could happen. Her hair had become like knives. Each strand had become razor sharp.

It had happened so suddenly one day after they had injected something into her and the needle had broken off into her skin. All she knew was one moment she had felt the fire running threw her veins once more and the next heir back had been sliced open by her hair. She later found out that she had also sliced off a finger of the scientist that had been given the task to inject her that day.

"Be careful, If I lose control of my powers, you could be seriously hurt." Kagome relented with a warning. She had found out that as long as all of her miko powers weren't fighting off the taint, It seemed to concentrate on her hair making it so it was actually touchable without slicing off a finger.

Hank was confused by her words but slowly moved around to her back and she lifted her hair out of the way. "I'm going to untie your gown back here ok, I need to see your entire back." Kagome nodded her consent to the action and stiffly sat still as he untied her gown and saw her back. "My God." He couldn't help but say as he saw the scarred remains of her back.

"It happened about 7 or so years ago." Kagome began quietly without any prompting from the men. "They had injected me with something like they had every day, but it wasn't the same thing. After about 5 minutes I can only remember pain." Kagome took a breath that made her entire body shuddered before she continued. "The needle had broken off in me again and there had been more pain than usual as my natural powers tried to fight of the taint that had entered my system but I had been so weak then that my couldn't fight it off. The next thing I knew I was laying in a pool of my blood. It turns out that what every they had injected me with turned my hair into something even sharper than a knife. Because not only was my back shredded but the concrete ground had been shredded as well."

Logan and Hank where stunned into silence at what they where hearing from her, she had just confirmed what they had hoped not to hear. Before them was another one of the government's hidden secrets and crimes. "how long were you there?" Hank had to ask. "10 year's they said. I thought I had been a life time, but then again being locked in a cage can make anything seem like a life time."