Unstable
New Patient
The next morning Kagome woke in her own room on her own bed. The sun was shining brightly through her window and birds were singing sweet songs to her from outside. Kagome stretched her entire body and sat up in her bed. She stared out her window at the beautiful landscape.
"Ah, you're awake." Her father said from her doorway. Kagome turned her head towards him and nodded.
"How long have I been asleep?" She asked as she stretched her hands above her head.
"Not long, but I took the day off from work today so I could stay home with you." Mr. Higurashi walked slowly into his daughter's bedroom and sat next to her on her bed. He put his arm around her shoulders and Kagome leaned into him. "Are you okay?" He asked hesitantly.
Kagome sighed deeply as the events of the strange out of body voice played through her mind. "Yeah." She said with another deep sigh.
They sat there a moment, father and daughter, gazing sightlessly at the opposite wall. The sun drifted in through the window revealing tiny dust particles dancing through the air.
"Dad," Kagome began.
"Hmm." Dr. Higurashi replied.
"Whatever happened to..Number Five?" Kagome had nearly said Inuyasha.
Dr. Higurashi made an odd sound that was somewhere between humming and sighing. Kagome pulled away from him and looked him in the eyes. "Now sweety." he tried to comfort her.
"What happened?" Kagome said calmly.
Dr. Higurashi stood up and turned his back to his daughter. "You've seemed to have gotten attached to him." He said.
Kagome turned her head quickly in his direction and addressed him in anger, "What sort of question is that?" Dr. Higurashi was surprised at her outburst and spun his body around to look at her. "You try spending twelve or so hours locked up with someone. Let's see if you end up forgetting it." Kagome spat out at him.
"Sweety." Dr. Higurashi whispered.
"No," Kagome yelled as she stood up. "I want you to tell me what has happened to him right." and with out any notice at all Kagome collapsed to her knees in a river of tears. She couldn't understand why she was crying, it was as if a gate had been opened and she couldn't stop herself. All her emotions of sorrow, rage and worry pouted out of her as she continued to yell mumbles at her father.
"Kagome." Dr. Higurashi comforted her with his voice. He knelt down and attempted to touch her trembling back. "Kagome everything will be okay."
"How can you say that!?" She screeched. Dr. Higurashi lightly touched her back and she shrugged his hand off. Dr. Higurashi sighed and walked out of her room. Kagome started to cry harder because she felt herself pushing him away. She slowly climbed onto her bed and clenched her pillow to her cheek. Her tears continued to flow onto the white fabric creating tiny puddles.
Kagome sniffled and continued to whisper complaints.
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What is this strange man trying to do? Inuyasha thought as he watched the man who owned the convenience store make strange symbols with his hands.
"What the hell are you doing?" Inuyasha asked not expecting an answer. The man sighed in defeat and leaned against the wall behind him. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and the man shook his head.
"It's sign language." The man said.
Inuyasha raised his eyebrow a little higher.
"How come you could understand me earlier!?" The man yelled.
Inuyasha tilted his head to the side.
"I give up!" The man threw his arms in the air and walked down stairs to the store. Inuyasha watched him leave before he walked to the window and opened it to the early air of the morning. He took in a deep breath and coughed it out.
"Dirty air." He continued to cough.
"wah.sniffle." A very faint sound floated to his ears.
"Whoa." Inuyasha said. "Is that.?" He leaned out the window and listened with all his might.
"Why." it sobbed. "why can't he understand.he should really lock himself in with another person.you either end up hating them.or loving them."
"It is her!" Inuyasha yelled after he had leaped from the window. He landed gracefully on the grass below and pushed off with such power the grass was thrown into the air behind him leaving a dirt patch in the lawn.
Inuyasha avoided the main streets and tried to find the quickest path to Kagome. The closer he got the louder the sobs became, and the more worried he became. He was concentrating hard on her voice, trying to determine why she was crying. He stopped watching where he was going and jumped straight from a tree onto a busy street.
Inuyasha turned in mid-air and landed on the roof of a car instead of the center of the street. "Shit," he growled. He jumped of the roof and landed on the hood of a giant SUV.
"Look mommy!" A young child sitting in the front seat pointed to the strange man on the car behind them.
"Yes sweety.Oh my god!" She said and swerved into the next lane ramming her small vehicle into a convertible. The man driving the convertible was flung from the car sideways and through the passenger window. He landed onto the street with a painful roll from which he did not get up. Another small red car swerved to miss him lying in the road and ran off into a ditch. Inuyasha watched the accident with surprised eyes while the man in the car he was sitting on continued to drive around it all with out a care in the world.
The man rolled down his window and yelled at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha." He said. Inuyasha continued to stare forward oblivious he was being addressed by someone who knew his name. The man realizing his mistake honked his horn. Inuyasha turned around surprised at the sudden vibration that had ran through the hood of the car.
Again the man honked the horn. Inuyasha finally looked at him through the front windshield.
"Shessomaru."Inuyasha said with malice.
"Hang on." Sesshomaru said, but it had no effect on Inuyasha. Sesshomaru smiled evilly as he rammed the car straight into a light pole on the side of the street. Inuyasha jumped off just in time to avoid the crash and ran once again in the direction Kagome was crying. "The time is approaching brother." Sesshomaru said unfazed and unharmed from the sudden crash.
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Kagome rubbed her face into her pillow removing all the tears from her face. She threw the pillow on the floor and sat up in her bed. She swung her feet over the side and clenched the sides of her bed with her hands. Red marks from her salty tears remained below her eyes. Her nose was slightly stuffed from her episode and she would sniffle as a cause.
There was a strange noise from outside her window and she looked out it into the blazing sun of the late afternoon. "Hello?" she asked softly. There was no answer so she started to hesitantly walk towards the open window. "Um." There was a loud thump and Kagome jumped up slightly. "I'm warning you I have a knife!" She said as if to scare whatever it was away. "I know kung fu!" Kagome took a small step towards the window. Her pillow was just in front of her on the floor so she picked it up and held it in front of her like it was some kind of weapon.
"I'm warning you!" Kagome said brandishing the pillow. "Don't come in or else!" Kagome shook the pillow slightly.
Kagome slowly looked out the window, she leaned down and looked at the ground far below and saw no one. She stood up and released a deep sigh.
"Or what? Beat me with a pillow?" some one said.
Kagome squealed, spun around, and slammed her fluffy soft pillow directly onto Inuyasha's head. "Ouch." He said sarcastically.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled and threw the pillow to the floor as she pushed herself into his chest. She clenched the front of his blue hospital outfit, "I was so worried about you, you jerk!"
Inuyasha just stood immobile with his hands at his sides. He stared above her head with a somewhat surprised and confused expression on his face.
Kagome pulled away from him, "So." she said, "Whatcha been up to?"
"Nothin." Inuyasha said.
"Kagome?" Dr. Higurashi's voice yelled from down stairs, "Are you all right?"
"Oh no!" Kagome whispered to Inuyasha.
"What?" He said loudly.
"Shh!" Kagome grabbed Inuyasha by the collar and pulled him towards her window.
"What are you doing?" He said in a near whisper.
"My father just yelled for me." Kagome said, realizing once again that Inuyasha can only hear her. "We have to go."
"Hold on a second. 'WE'?" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"Shh." Kagome whispered harshly while putting her finger to her lips. She grabbed her blue wind breaker jacket off the back of her chair and grabbed Inuyasha's arm just above his wrist.
"Kagome." Inuyasha whined.
"Quiet!" Kagome hushed as she leaned out the two story window.
"Kagome, stop." Inuyasha cried because she was a little to close to the edge for comfort.
"Inuyasha stop being such a baby," Kagome rolled her eyes and put her hand on the window seal. "Let's go, come on I can hear him coming up the stairs!" She pulled on his wrist to coax him.
"I think you should stay here," Inuyasha argued.
"No, I'm going with you." Kagome turned around to face him.
"No."
"Why not? Think I'll get in your way, or something?" Kagome raised her eyebrow.
"No.it's not that.it's just."
"No It's exactly that, but I don't care I'm going with you!" Kagome stomped her foot.
"Kagome!" Dr. Higurashi wailed.
"Come on, Inuyahsa!" Kagome persauded.
Inuyasha looked at Dr. Higurashi aprhensively before grabbing Kagome by her for-arm and jumping out the window.
"Kagome!" Dr. Higurashi screamed as he ran to the window and looked out. Sadly both Kagome and Inuyasha were no where in site.
"Oh, Kagome.I knew this would happen." Dr. Higurashi shook his head. He pulled his cell phone out and flipped it open, immediantly it started beeping and a red dot appeared on the screen moving away from him. "That's why I put a tracer on you when I came to talk to you earlier." Dr. Higurashi sighed.
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"Welcome." Kikyo said as Sango entered the asylum with Miroku trailing behind her. "Are you feeling better now?"
"Much better, thank you Kikyo." Sango approached the front desk.
"Miroku." Kikyo greeted.
"Why Kikyo, you are looking lovlier than ever today." Miroku complimented.
"What, I wasn't 'lovely' yesterday?"
"Not at all, I was just saying that with each day you grow more beautiful." Miroku walked around to the back of the desk and Kikyo pointed her pencil at him.
"Stay away."
"Come on Miroku." Sango said after signing Miroku in.
"Where are you taking him?" Kikyo asked when Sango walked towards the office doors and not towards the patient's rooms.
"He is going to help me, besides I think it would be good for his treatment." Sango said.
"Before you do that, you should know that you have another patient waiting for you in treatment room 2." Kikyo out a clipboard on top of the desk.
"Kikyo." Sango stomped her way towards the secretary and snatched the clipboard off the desk.
"Have fun." Kikyo said before picking up the phone and dialing.
"I'll just be in the play room." Miroku tried to slither away.
"I don't think so Miroku. You're supposed to me a monk, right?" Sango asked as she flipped through the new patients clip board.
"Well, actually I don't think I am anymore.actually.uh, I believe I'm a telemarketer, really I do."
"Yeah right, now come on." Sango didn't even attempt to drag Miroku, who just dropped his head and followed her through the door and into Treatment room 2.
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"Ouch, Inuyasha I can't run as fast as you." Kagome yelped as she tried to jump over a log in the forest Inuyasha was dragging her through. Her thighs were scrapped up and the bottom of her skirt was torn from pertruding branches.
"Stop complaining, you're the one who wanted to come with me." Inuyasha pulled her into the air as he jumped over a small creek. Kagome's feet trailed in the water soaking her shoes.
"Stop for a moment." Kagome said.
"What?!" Inuyasha skidded to a halt causing Kagome to fall to her knees. Inuyasha quickly picked her up and released her wrist.
"Carry me on your back." Kagome insisted.
To avoid any further argument Inuyasha knelt down. Kagome smiled and climbed onto his back. Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her legs and leapt off the ground. He catipulted off a low branch and zoomed through the tree line and broke into the fresh air of the evening.
Kagome's jaw dropped open as she took in the sight around her. The sky was painted gold near the setting sun. The gold faded to red that dissapeared farther out revealing the clear blue of the sky.
Inuyasha dove back through the tree's breaking branches on his way down. He hit the ground and remained still for a moment before taking off.
"Do you even know where we're going?" Kagome asked with her face resting on his shoulder.
"Yes," Inuyasha stated.
"Well." Kagome edged on.
"I saw a carnival off in the distance a few miles when I jumped up over the trees. I assumed that perhaps if they are a traveling carnival they would let us stay there for the night."
"A carnival?" Kagome questioned.
"Yes, a carnival." Inuyasha replied.
There was silence between them for a few minutes. Kagome would hide her head behind Inuyasha's shoulder whenever a rogue branch aimed for her head.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome started.
"What?" Inuyasha answered.
"Why do you have dog ears?" Kagome spat out.
Inuyasha did not answer, he only continued to run forward through the woods. Kagome did not ask again and she did not push him to answer her. She felt that he would tell her in his own good time.
So much time passed so quickly because of a simple question. The woods were dispersing and Kagome could see sky peaking through the leaves above them. And far off in the distance she heard a ringing tune that was very catchy. It sounded like the music the ice cream truck would scream out at you on a hot summer day, or the a video game makes right after you beat the hardest boss.
"I can hear it." Kagome said to Inuyasha.
"Hear what?" Inuyasha was happy that the strange silence he was so use to in his life was finally broken by her voice.
"The carnival." Kagome answered. "I can hear the music. It can't be far away then! Okay, Inuyasha put me down, I don't think we have to run anymore."
"How would you know?" He asked angrily.
"I don't, but I'm tired of being carried." Kagome started to squirm in his grip.
"Okay, okay!" Inuyasha yelled. "Stop moving!" Inuyasha stopped and released her feet. Kagome would have fallen flat on her butt if she did not have her arms wrapped around Inuyasha's neck. Kagome removed her hands and dropped the half a foot to the ground.
"Thank you." She said, while straightening her clothes out.
Inuyasha made a grunting sound and crossed his arms. "You're heavier than you look."
Kagome stared at him with malice in her eyes. Inuyasha shrugged and started to walk out of the forest. Kagome did not say anything, she just followed him, and the music playing off in the distance.
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It was dark when Inuyasha and Kagome finally arrived at the carnival. There was an eerie chill in the air that made Kagome wrap her jacket around herself tighter. She shivered slightly and looked up at the back of Inuyasha's head. She released a sigh and a puff of clouded air escaped her mouth.
"What?" Inuyasha asked, before Kagome could even realize that she wanted to ask him a question.
"Uh." she stammered, "Aren't you cold?"
"Nah.not really." Inuyasha replied with his own breath chilling in the frosty air.
Kagome smiled and could tell Inuyasha was putting on an act for her.
"There it is." Inuyasha said. The small traveling carnival was still lit for the night but the music was dying down and the customers were trailing out of the front gate with yawns on their lips.
"I don't know." Kagome said when she saw how shabby the carnival appeared. The ferris wheel seemed to be constructed out of rubber bands and old chewing gum. "It doesn't seem to be very safe."
"Is any carnival?" Inuyasha interjected.
Kagome shrugged and followed him to the front entrance where a strange man was bidding the customers fair well.
Inuyasha attempted to walk straight past the man and into the open aired carnival.
"Can I help you?" the man said stepping in Inuyasha's path. Inuyasha tilted his head to the side with a frown on his face.
"Um." Kagome stepped forward and pushed Inuyasha to the side slightly. "Is the carnival closed?"
"Just about." The man replied with more courtesy than when he had addressed Inuyasha.
"Well we are travelers-" Kagome started.
"Now listen here," Inuyasha pointed his finger at the man. "You're going to give us a place to stay tonight.or else."
"Or else what?" The man asked.
"What do you mean or else what?" Kagome tried to repeat what the man had said for Inuyasha.
Inuyasha nodded to her and grabbed the man by the collar of his dirty shirt. He lifted him off the ground as if he were a small child. The man kicked his feet helplessly and tried to pry Inuyasha's hand off him.
"Do you really want to find out?" Inuyasha asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
The man continued to struggle without answering.
"Inuyasha." Kagome said apprehensively. "People are starting to stare."
"Let them stare." Inuyasha snapped at her. He shook the poor man before throwing him to the ground. The man landed on his butt and quickly looked up at Inuyasha with close to hate in his eyes. "There's nothing to see." Inuyasha said and turned his back to the man and calmly began to walk away.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome jogged after him and grabbed his arm. She pulled on it slightly as if to persuade him to return to the man. "What are you doing?" She asked. "Where are we going to stay if we don't stay here?"
"Shush, and don't look back." Inuyasha grabbed her and was now pulling her.
"What?"
"Carnies are evil little people." Inuyasha whispered. They entered the beginning of the woods and Inuyasha pulled her behind a tree. He grabbed both her upper arms in his two hands and pulled her close to him. He pushed her back against the tree so both she and he were hidden from view. He brought his lips next to her ear. Kagome could not understand what he was doing. Her body was unable to reject against his grasp.
"Inuyasha." She yelled.
"Shhh." Inuyasha gripped her arms a little tighter. Kagome released a pained squeal and he released the pressure. "Sorry." He appologised quickly. "I shouldn't have threatened the little guy. Couldn't you see all his other Carnie friends about to jump in and protect him?" He said.
Kagome was unable to speak.
"Well?" Inuyasha pulled his head back and looked into her eyes with a questionable expression.
"I.I." Kagome stuttered, "I didn't.see them."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and released her arms. "What would you do with out me?"
"You were the one who was going to get us beat up by Carnies in the first place." Kagome said.
"Whatever." Inuyasha said.
"Now what." Kagome asked.
Inuyasha looked up at the tree limbs above him and crossed his arms. "I don't know."
Kagome shook her head and started to walk away from Inuyasha back towards the carnival.
"Wait! Where are you going? Are you crazy!?" He yelled after her.
She turned her head back and said, "Yes, and I'm going to fix this mess you put us in. I will not sleep in the forest."
Inuyasha remained at the edge of the forest with a dumbfounded expression plastered across his face. "Women." he whispered to him self. He ducked back behind the tree and kneeled down. A smile formed on his lips, "what would men do without them?"
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There is no possible excuse I can give that will make up for this chapter being almost three months late. And if I did give you an excuse, it would have to be that I am a lazy ass.
Yes I am a lazy ass.
I will not give a time or date to when the next chapter will come out, because I really have no idea.
And well.sorry.
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