Resinous Commiphora: Hello, and welcome back! I hope you don't hate me for taking a break last week. Hopefully this chapter will make up for it? Anyway, there won't be another interruption in the story for a while. At least, I hope there won't. There is a possibility that aliens will invade and steal my laptop or break the internet at my house or something. But if that happened, I suppose my little story would be pretty low on your priority list.

Lady Infinity…Chapter Four

Yesterday's Tomorrow

Kagome was lying down on a table off to one side. She was wearing a strange metal helmet that was attached to the machine by a long cable. She appeared to be unconscious.

Thank God, she's alive!

The man who was working the machine stopped. He turned around and looked at Inuyasha, "Well, I almost let a bad childrens sneak up on me," He reached to his left and picked up a gun that had been resting on a table next to him. "But, thank goodness, I realized the childrens was there before it was too late."

How did he realize I was here? I didn't make any noise.

The man smiled, "You made noise with you're mind. I heard that, silly childrens."

"What? Come on, like you can really read my thoughts! You're insane!" Inuyasha tried to stay calm, even though a gun was pointing at him. How am I going to get rid of this guy? I have to save Kagome.

"Oh, you can have the sleeping childrens back when I'm done with it. Now be a good childrens and wait quietly over there," he motioned towards a bench that Inuyasha had not noticed before.

Inuyasha walked over and sat down, "Fine. Just hurry up." Yeah right, as if I'm gonna let you do anything to Kagome. The second your back is turned, I'm gonna smash your brains in.

"Silly childrens, no you won't. You'll stay there patiently." The evil man waved his hand. Inuyasha felt a huge weight placed upon him. He couldn't move!

"What the Hell is this? Why can't I move!?" He struggled, but he couldn't move an inch. He watched, unable to do anything, as the man placed the gun back on the table and returned to his work.

Inuyasha continued to struggle against the weight. He struggled for ten minutes, still not able to move at all. Then he noticed that the man had stopped fiddling with the machine. He was doing something else. Inuyasha couldn't see what, though, because the man's body was blocking his view.

"Hey! What are you doing," Inuyasha yelled, "Hey!"

The man said nothing. After a minute of silence he turned and Inuyasha could see what he had been doing. He'd been preparing an injection. The needle was completely filled with a purple liquid.

"What are you going to do with that? You're not going to inject Kagome with that, are you?" Inuyasha tried desperately to free himself from the weight that was holding him down, but he still couldn't.

"Why yes, childrens, I am. Just watch." The maniac walked slowly over to Kagome, positioned the needle over her stomach, and gently lowered it until it pierced her stomach. When it was in about two inches, he began to squeeze the purple liquid out. Inuyasha had always had a phobia of needles, so he had to keep his eyes shut during this part, but when he was sure it was all over, he opened his eyes again.

The man was standing there, watching Kagome. Inuyasha was about to ask what the purple substance was when Kagome's body started spasming. The maniac started laughing, and all at once the weight was lifted from Inuyasha's body. Without pausing to wonder why he was free, Inuyasha rushed for the maniac. When the strange man realized his mistake, it was already too late.

The brick came down. There was a sickening crack as it entered the man's head, but no sound from the man himself other than the sound his body made as it fell, lifeless, to the floor.

Oh my God, I killed him! Inuyasha looked down at the corpse for a few seconds. Then he remembered Kagome. He looked over at her. She wasn't spasming anymore. She seemed to be asleep peacefully. Inuyasha wondered what the maniac had injected into her. He wondered if she would ever wake up. "Kagome, please… wake up." Inuyasha pulled the helmet off of her head, unstrapped her arms and legs, and held her hand in his own.

Several minutes passed. Inuyasha checked again and again to see if Kagome was still breathing, always thankful when he was sure she was, always hoping that she would somehow survive. "Kagome, if you don't wake up… I… I won't go to your funeral!" Inuyasha started to tear up. Darn it, I'm not supposed to cry. I'm a man.

He couldn't stop himself any longer. He hugged her unconscious body and started to cry uncontrollably. "Ahhhh! Kagome, wake up! Wake up! How am I supposed to pass geometry without you to do my homework for me!?

Inuyasha cried for hours. When he was out of tears, he checked her breathing again. It was still normal, even though Kagome had started to look like she was in pain. It was as if she was having a nightmare and she couldn't wake up.

After a couple more hours of sitting motionless, it dawned on Inuyasha that it might be a good idea to take Kagome to a hospital. He got up and turned towards Kagome, but she was already sitting up!

"Kagome, You're ok!" Inuyasha cried.

Kagome looked alarmed, "Inuyasha...? How did you get here?" She looked around and seemed to remember where she was. She gasped, "Listen, Inuyasha, we have to escape. There's this crazy guy named Alexander who can read your mind and he's probably going to come back any second!"

"Oh, you mean him?" Inuyasha pointed at what was left of Alexander. Kagome studied the body for a few moments. Inuyasha noticed how her expression slowly changed from one of fear to one of joy, and then back to fear.

"Inuyasha, you killed him?"

"Yes. I had to, he injected some purple stuff into you and I thought he was trying to kill you. I had to save you."

Kagome feared that someone would find out that Inuyasha killed Alexander. That fear was quickly overwhelmed by how glad Kagome was that Inuyasha was actually there, and that she was free. She hugged Inuyasha. "Thank you for rescuing me."

"You're welcome. Oh, and what was that purple stuff? 'Cause if it was poison or something, well, that would be bad."

"That purple stuff was the seventh test."

"Seventh test? What the hell? What were the other six tests?" Inuyasha looked very confused to Kagome, so she explained everything that had happened since Alexander had taken her hostage in front of the bank. She told him about the skeleton, the tests, and the failed escape plan.

"Then, when he took me back up into this attic, the room looked entirely different. He told me to lie down on the table. I thought about running away, but he could read my thoughts. He just smiled at me… and my legs started walking towards the table by themselves!" Kagome pointed at her legs for emphasis, "When I got to the table I laid down. I couldn't stop myself as much as I tried."

Inuyasha interrupted, "That kinda sounds like what happened to me when I came in here to rescue you. Alexander just looked at me, and this giant weight seemed to keep me from moving. It was terrible."

"Yeah, that was it. Anyway, then he strapped me down so I couldn't get away, he said it was to free up his mind or something. So I'm strapped to this table, and he starts babbling on and on about the Infinity project. He tells me about how the company he used to work for 'Restasis Corp.' was researching this special formula for the government. He told me about how it was supposed to turn normal humans into super humans that could do all sorts of stuff. I asked him what, but he said that was confidential."

"Uh huh…"

"So then he starts talking about how his fairy friends were killed by the bug exterminator, and how he stole the formula from the company and started doing his own experiments. It seemed like there were still some kinks to be worked out, mainly that the serum would kill anyone it was injected into, which, I told him, seemed like a pretty big pitfall to me. He just laughed at me, though. He laughed and told me that he thought it wasn't the formula's fault, but the human's fault. He thought that if he could find a human that was compatible, it would all work out."

Inuyasha shifted to a more comfortable position, "So he started kidnapping people."

"Yeah, but he really was insane, so he would make the victims to strange things like wear white nightgowns, and he would pretend the first six tests mattered. I don't think he would have succeeded at all if it wasn't for those weird powers he has- I mean, had." Kagome looked at the corpse again, "He told me that I was the eighth person he'd kidnapped over the past five years. After that he just mumbled to himself for a while. Then he knocked me out with sedatives."

Inuyasha picked up where Kagome left off. He got to the part where Alexander had injected the Infinity formula into Kagome when she said, "So he really did inject me with it? Did I really survive? Or does it take longer than that to kill me?" She shivered.

"Kagome, it's alright. We'll go to the hospital and get you checked out. If there's something wrong with you, they'll be able to fix it."

Kagome sighed, "I still can't believe it's all over," she stared off into space, "Well, we'd better get going. I really want to see my parents and change out of this ugly dress."

"Yeah, that would be best."

Kagome and Inuyasha walked down the stairs, then down the hallway. When they got to the end of the hallway, Inuyasha showed the now-visible door to Kagome, "See? There was a door here. You just didn't see it because it was hidden."

"If only I had reached out and touched the wall…" She held out her hand, "Then I would have been able to escape."

"It's ok, everything's ok now."

They both stood there, wondering what would happen when they opened the door. They wondered what would happen when they told the police about this place, and what the hospital would have to say about the Infinity formula, and everything else.

Inuyasha reached out and opened the door.

They stepped out into the daylight.

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Inuyasha opened the hospital room door and walked in, "Hey, Kagome, how have you been?"

"Fine… I'm fine. The hospital just wants to keep me for one more night before they discharge me. They're waiting for one more test result to come in."

"Oh," Inuyasha walked over to the night table and put down the bouquet of tulips, Kagome's favorite. "I brought you some flowers. I thought they might make this gray room a little more bearable."

"Thank you, they do. I was about to lose my mind. The TV stopped working last night. One of the nurses said they would get someone to fix it today, but nobody has showed up yet." She looked at Inuyasha, "You didn't happen to bring any books, did you?"

"Nope, sorry, I didn't think you'd want them." He pulled over a chair and sat down, "So, what did the doctor say about the Infinity formula, is it dangerous?"

Kagome lowered her voice, "All I told him was that I thought the kidnapper had drugged me or something. I figured if the Infinity formula was affecting me they would be able to tell, and then I would tell them all about it. Otherwise, telling them would probably just make them want to run even more tests."

"God, you've only been in here for one day, how many tests could they have possibly done on you?"

"A lot."

"Oh. Well if I was you I'd be glad I was in here where the doctors won't let the reporters in. Do you know how many times I've been asked to retell exactly what happened? I'm wondering if I should just feign illness myself."

"I'm not feigning illness. I'm just 'being tested for foreign substances', as the doctor put it." Kagome swung her legs off the side of the bed and sat up, "Anyway, how's the police investigation going," She whispered, "have you been charged with murder?"

Inuyasha laughed, "No! They told me I only acted in self defense. And besides, without me, they would've never known what happened to those other women. They already identified the skeleton that was in the room next to you, you know. They're pretty sure she was the first victim." Inuyasha paused for effect, "She was his wife."

Kagome gasped, "Oh,"

"Yeah, the police psychologist thinks that Alexander went insane after she died. He probably tested the Infinity formula on her first."

"What about the others, did the police find their bodies?"

"No, but they found a map with six X's on it. The X's are all over the country. They said that it's impossible to find the bodies from the map alone. And since they'll never get any help from Alexander, I doubt they'll ever find anything."

"That's sad," Kagome shivered, "I might have been nothing more than an X now, myself."

"Yeah, but you're not." Inuyasha half smiled, "You're alive. Whatever that maniac injected you with must have been defective or something. Thank God."

"Thank God is right."

Inuyasha and Kagome just sat together quietly for a while, happy that they were both safe and in each other's company again. Then Inuyasha said, "Well, I'd better get going. I have to buy some food. Otherwise, I'd starve."

"Hah… I wish I had some food. I'm tired of eating Jell-O and pudding." Kagome's stomach growled in agreement.

Inuyasha stood up, "I can't help you with that. Just try to last until tomorrow morning. Then I'll take you to eat whatever you want."

"That would be great. You might regret offering, though. I plan on eating as much lobster as I can hold." Kagome patted her stomach, "Mmm… see you tomorrow!" Kagome waved goodbye.

Inuyasha, wondering how much lighter his wallet would be after tomorrow, waved back and left.