Bleached Love

Summary: This white room with the plastic chairs is the waiting to the afterlife. You may get in, or you may survive. It's not your decision or Kagome's. But when Inuyasha visits this room, Kagome makes it her duty to save him from death. [-InuKag-

Rating: T (+13)

Theme: Romance/Drama

AN. Took me about a year to write this chapter… I just got bored and also I wasn't sure how I could end it. At least it's done now, though I don't really find it's one of my best.

-I'd just like to say that I really love all the reviews! Thank you so much!

Kagome tried to see past the two girl's bobbing head, before she pushed herself up onto her feet, wobbling a little from the lack of balance before bringing her eyes up to the chairs. And she chocked on her air at the sight of him. "Inuyasha?!"…

Inuyasha blinked his eyes… and then blinked again. Fed up with the fuzzy image that came into his head he brought his hand up to his eyes, rubbing at them before snapping them back open.

"Aw fuck." He whined when noticing the blinding white walls. "Please tell me I'm in a mental institution…"

With tired eyes, he checked to his right to see the two heads of young teenager girls who were deadly silent, arms to their sides lifeless. And then he saw her. Or at least a part of her forehead, most of her body was being hidden by the two other girls that were facing the opposite way. Gritting his teeth, Inuyasha started to remember the moments he had shared with her.

As he was about to push himself out of the chair, he then noticed the kid.

A small little boy of around the age of three or four was scampering across the floor, only dressed in a Spiderman suit and socks. He looked as if he had just seen God when he looked up to Inuyasha. Eyes wide and curious, which made him grimace.

Without any further examination, the child ran up to Inuyasha arms spread out as if about to hug something. The words that left the child's mouth nearly gave Inuyasha a heart attack. "Mommy!"

"Wait! What—oomph." Inuyasha tried to wave of the child's anticipated cry as he ran up to him, arms still wide open, and then tackling back into the chair. "Get off me!" He growled through clenched teeth as he tried to pry the child off his chest. "Stop it! Stop hugging me! I'm not your mother!"

The child suddenly froze, arms still encircled around Inuyasha, he slowly pulled his head up, blinking his eyes slowly as if trying to soak in all of the information. "Mommy?!" He said barley in a whispered when seeing Inuyasha's face.

Using the child's utter confusion to his advantage, he grasped the back collar of the child's Spiderman costume, tugging him away from the embrace and further away on his knee. "Get off." He said menacingly to the child.

Ignoring Inuyasha's harsh words, the child dropped his eyes down to Inuyasha chest, staring intensively. Without having Inuyasha's consent, he suddenly thrust his arms outwards and put both palms of his hands on either side of Inuyasha's chest, right on the breastplate. He then looked back up to Inuyasha's puzzled face and asked "What happened to your boobies' mommy?"

The room went silent.

And then Inuyasha's left eye started to twitch.

Making her way around the two puzzled girls, Kagome's wide eyes landed on Inuyasha, still unsure if she could believe it was him.

The next she thing knew, Spiderman, the little creepy kid, was thrown off Inuyasha's lap and fell into a backwards summersault before falling on his butt, stunned.

"What was that for?" Kagome yelled as she quickly rushed over to the kid, patted around his head for any large bumps but was relieved to feel none. "You could have killed him!" As she pulled the still speechless Spiderman into her arms, cradling him the best she could, Kagome shot a glace to Inuyasha.

He looked horrible, that's for sure. His hair was matted, tangled and messy covering his red eyes. He was slouched in the plastic chair, socked feet pushing against the floor so his chair tipped back onto its hind legs. His hands were tugging at a blue hospital gown and he had on some dark jeans that seemed to be lacking a belt.

"How the hell can he die if he's already dead?" He asked with sneer, seeming to have caught her again in a corner like he had done at his last visit.

Ignoring his smartass remark she stood back up, looping her arms underneath the child's underarm. The kid was pulled up into the air with a bounce, making only his tiptoes touch the cold floor. "What are you doing here?" She asked bitterly while dragging Spiderman across the floor, trying to reach her destination. "I thought you went back to god knows where."

"It's not like right before I die I have this warning sign with neon letters saying 'Watch out, you're about to fucking die!' so I can look then I can figure out why am dying. Nature is not that fucking nice." He said." Maybe if you did you're job correctly, I wouldn't be back here."

"It's not my job to keep you alive, you do that, so—shut up!" She yelled when finally sitting in slouched position with Spiderman sprawled on her lap.

Maya and BP se looked at one another, mouthing the letters 'W.T.F.' before looking over their shoulder to Inuyasha and then back to Kagome.

"Well you aren't helping; just looking at you makes me feel like I'm dying. Or maybe I'm just getting blinded by the shininess of your forehead!"

"What do you have against my forehead?!"

"I like it." Maya said gently as she examined Kagome's forehead.

"It's sexy." BP added, making both girls nod in agreement.

"Se…sexy." Spiderman mumbled to himself as he stared down at his fingers as if they had the words written on them. "Sexy?"

Sighing at the child's newfound words, Kagome shook her head. "Don't say that. Mommy will get mad if you do."

"No… mommy doesn't care about that." He said defensively while slipping a finger into his mouth to suck on. "No."

"Yes. Mommy will care if you say that word."

"No."

"Yes, she will care a lot."

"No."

"Yes."

"No… mommy doesn't hate that word."

"Well maybe she doesn't hate the word, but she probably doesn't want you to say it."

"Mommy likes… sex."

"Yes—no!... Never mind, just do whatever you want, I can't take this anymore." Kagome groaned as he released Spiderman, letting the kid sprint up and rush over to her desk, lunging for her swirling chair.

Looking back to the two girls she quickly gave her temples a rub before smiling. "So, where was I with my burrito story?' She asked almost sleepily.

"I don't know." Maya said as she shook her head. BP Just shrugged, seeming to be as clueless as her friend.

"Great." Kagome said as she rolled her eyes, trying to rummaging through her memory to have a faint remembrance of what she had been saying a couple minuets ago. "Uhm—what was the point of the story?"

Maya and BP both shook their heads simultaneously.

"Right…" Kagome said drawling out her word. With an intense minute of staring at the floor, Kagome finally looked up. "Why was I talking about a burrito?"

"What the hell is this?"

At the sudden question, Kagome snapped her head to Inuyasha who was now standing at her desk, poking at a post-it dispenser.

"What are you doing?' Kagome asked bitterly, eyes narrowing.

"Nothing." He mumbled before picking up another object. "None of your business."

"It is totally my business if it involves things from my desk."

"Not really," he mumbled before picking up another object.

"Yes it does!" Kagome said back defensibly as she stood up and stepped up to his side, grabbing the pen holder from his hands. "So just bug off please, I don't need anything broken today." She said nodding down to her desk. "Most of the stuff is already wrecked from the evil hands of small children." She said with a sigh. "So just go sit on a chair or something, it's not like your actually going to die, and you'll just go back to where you came from."

"You do know I have no fucking clue what you're talking about."

"That doesn't matter." Kagome grumbled before slinking away and going back to her seat on the floor.

"You fucking suck at your job." Inuyasha's whispered words hit Kagome full force as he walked away to the chairs, but she didn't dare show it.

"So, do any of you remember?" Kagome asked as she tried to smile.

Both girl shook their heads in vanquish.

"Great…"

"What am I doing here again?"

Kagome slowly leaned to the side, giving her a better view of Inuyasha who sat on one of the chairs. He had an eyebrow raised at her. "What?

"What the hell am I doing here?"

"You're having an outer body experience." Kagome mumbled back coldly.

"This is an outer body experience?" BP said surprised.

"Yes."

"Wow." She said while looking down at herself, patting around. "That's so cool."

"I was expecting something a little bigger." Maya said as she took a quick look of her surroundings again.

"What did you expect, a bloody marching band and confetti?"

"No-o," Maya said with a roll of her eyes. "I was just expecting something like… you know… where I'd actually be out of my body—"

BP cut in. "But you are."

"—and floating around like a ghost, and I'd be able to see everything from a birds view, like in third person."

"That's stupid."

"No it's not! I saw something on the telly and it was about some little boy how had gotten hit by a car and—"

BP cut in again. "Was it a late night show?"

"What's does that have to do with anything?"

"Just asking."

"Well ya… I guess, it was on at twelve or something like—"

"Bullshit."

"What?!"

"It's a bunch of bull."

"And how would you know that?"

"Because any educational show past ten thirty is just crap, it's not real. The people back at the station are probably pissing themselves when they see that people are eating that shit up."

"They don't have the right to show anything that's not real facts on the telly, that's a fact!"

"Is that why you're so stupid?"

"I'm not stupid! I got onto the honour roll, remember?'

"Look, half the shit on South Park… or anything of the sort isn't real. Kenny dies practically every episode. In the real life you just die once."

"I'm not talking about those kinds of shows; I'm talking about those special programs that are on like Rape… or Illegal Prostitution!"

"You were watching a show about prostitution?"

"NO!"

And Maya was gone.

Her last words echoed through the room, bouncing off each wall and coming back faintly.

"Maya?" BP whispered as she looked over her shoulder and then back to the empty space. "Wha... where is she? Where's Maya?" Her mouth was parted slightly as her stunned face slowly looked around, panic seeming to be slowly crawling into her facial features.

Kagome breathed in sharply as he starred at the spot. She could hear the girl's voice but was much too scared to look up. BP had her hands clutching at her side as she repeatedly looked over her shoulder, lips quivering.

Kagome could feel her stomach sink at the girl's expression that stayed frozen to her face. "I'm… I'm sorry."

"What do you means sorry? What the hell doe that means?" BP asked her voice faltering as he snapped her head back. Her eyes were wide with tears that rimmed them. "Where did she go?"

"I'm sorry…"

"Stop saying that! Stop it!" She yelled as her face fell into the palms of her hand which furiously rubbed at the hot tears that rolled down the sides of her face. "Stop it… stop." He voice fell to a whisper, slipping out from the shaky lips of hers. "Why…why is she gone?"

Kagome could feel her breathing become even more ragged and deep, so loud that it almost could be heard over BP's broken whimpers. Her head was light, a feeling that only came to her body once in a while. And it wasn't feeling she very much enjoyed.

"What the hell just happened?" Inuyasha voice came in from behind her.

Kagome could feel her shoulders go stiff as she quickly looked back. Her own eyes now shined with tears. "Shut up… just shut up." She breathed out roughly. She didn't see his face, but more like his feet. She rather not see how he looked now, probably smiling like the devil.

Her shoulders shook weakly as she felt an overwhelming feeing sink from her mind to her fingertips. She slowly turned her head back to BP who was crumpled on the floor, arms wrapped around her torso.

The girl had a life before this. She had family, she had everything.

Kagome could never take that away. It was too much horror for her mind to take in.

"I'm sorry." Kagome whimpered as she looked straight to BP. "I don't want this to happen."

A mournful whimpered could be heard from BP before she pulled up her head, her dark hair falling over her face sloppily. "What—what did I do?... What the fuck did I do!" She yelled as her hands tightened, making her knuckles turn a sheer white against the dark fabric. The chipping nail polish that had been painted onto her fingers let the dried blood under her nails look repulsive.

"I—I'm sorry." Kagome replied weakly or the hundredth time as she looked at the sunken cheeks of the bloodied teenager. It was over, and nothing could be done of it.

The girl's lips trembled even more as her whole body shook, eyes sealed shut with such force. "STOP SAYING THAT!" As the last syllable came out from her mouth, a heavy sigh followed as her body went limp, slowly falling to the floor. Her arms stayed glued around her waist, not even out to catch her fall.

Kagome felt her body twitched as BP came crashing to the ground; hair tousled and fanned out across the cold tiles. Her eyes were open, staring off to nowhere with her teeth clenched, lips slightly apart, enough to see.

Her light skin moulded itself around the bone structure of her face, giving her body a hollow look. Kagome knew how it would feel, soft and thin, like the kind you mother would have. You'd also be able to see more bleu veins traveling across her neck and face, seeming to look like little never ending trails to somewhere unknown.

Kagome stayed sitting on her knees, her white dress lightly lying on her pale skin, looking as if the two could mould together.

Her shoulders sagged while her eyes stayed frozen on BP's limp body.

This had only happened once before. And she had promised herself that it would never happen again; never let someone go through so much pain.

A sob rumbled in her chest before she felt her tears flowed back to her eyes, stinging them. With her arms wiped them away, but it seemed to be no use as she felt more come flowing down her cheeks, staining them. Her shoulders shook, again.

"I'm sorry." She whispered as the horrible hot lump filled her throat. "I'm so sorry."

Her head fell forwards as she sealed her eyes tightly, trying to keep the tears from dripping off her chin. Though she could still feel them running down her neck to her chest and one by one they were soaked up by her dress's collar. The coldness felt odd against her hot skin, making everything even more uncomfortable.

Kagome's head pounded as she continued to feel the sobs choke her up, making it almost impossible to breathe. As she felt herself ready to collapse, she felt a soft pull at the hem of her dress.

Her hands slipped away from her eyes to her mouth, muffling a hiccup that seemed to have found a way into her giant mess. Spiderman looked up to her, head cocked to the side with confused eyes. A piece of paper was in his hand, looking like it had already been chewed at a few times. "Why are you crying?" He asked innocently, a tug at his lip made him frown like a clown. Taking a few steps up to her, he leaned in, examining her red, splotchy face. "What's wrong?"

Kagome could feel her heavy breathing come back as his little dark eyes searched her face for a plausible reason to her fit. Kagome stared back at him, eyes large and shinning, though she suddenly went over his shoulder and to the black mass of hair that lay on the tiles.

Spiderman's eyes followed hers until he saw BP's crumpled figure. His head went to this side as if thinking deeply before he quickly looked back at Kagome. "She's taking a nap." He said with a nod of his head. "We have to be quiet. Shhhh—"

Kagome let out another hiccup before pulling Spiderman into her arms as she buried her face into his shoulder. His little rams wrapped them around her neck, getting busy in her messy, black hair.

The faint smell of Chanel N° 5 seemed to linger on his clothes as she breathed in deeply, feeling her eyes fell close and her body go numb.