White.

She knew there was white surrounding her, and she was sure she had died. After all that, she didn't make it. She sighed, and realized that if she was breathing, she doubted she was in the afterlife. The feel of bumping movement below her and the distinct sound of a squeaky wheel also indicated to her that she was probably not lifeless, but in fact in a brightly lit hospital.

Her gurney had a squeaky wheel. She thought about this as she watched the bright florescent lights glide over her vision as she held her eyes open to the building's ceiling. She thought about how distracting that wheel was. It was annoying and didn't anyone else care to oil it? A flash of white hair, nearly as luminescent as the electrical fixtures she was focused on, brushed into her vision shortly before a gruff voice asked how she was feeling.

Her throat cracked as if she had been asleep for a very long time. "Fuzzy."

She felt her neck creek as she turned her head to place Inuyasha into her gaze. He followed along beside the gurney, easily side-stepping with the nursing staff though the corridor. He was dressed in jeans and a tee shirt with a ball cap hiding his ears. At least someone had the sense to dress him and conceal his identity from the world, and she doubted Inuyasha himself would have bothered on his own.

When he noted her looking at his clothes he huffed and squinted his amber eyes. "These pants are too tight."

One of the nurses over her opposite shoulder chuckled, and Kagome craned her neck to see who she was. It was a middle aged woman in purple scrubs with grey peppering her deep brown hair. From the look in her eyes, Kagome could tell she had been having a lot of fun listening to the dog demon complain though her stay. As she turned to smile at the girl she was attending to, Kagome knew she liked her.

"Am I alright?" The question was directed at the nurse she had been observing.

The woman steadied her eyes to meet hers. "You needed a transfusion and some patching up in surgery, but you are doing better than anyone would have hoped."

"I've been in surgery?"

She nodded. "You were out cold, and you are being wheeled to recovery now. The anistisia wore off a bit sooner than normal." She laughed, "but hey, at least you didn't wake up in the middle of closing you back up!"

Kagome shivered a little. "Does that happen often?"

"Rarely." The nurse turned a bit so she could see in front of her as they rounded a corner into a room with several divider curtains. Kagome felt herself guided behind one of these and watched as another nurse pulled back the curtain to close her up.

Inuyasha grabbed her hand as soon as the gurney was in place and she heard locks clicking into place to stabilize her ride into a temporary bed. "What's my status medically? I'm not too stupid, so I don't need it dumbed down too much."

The brown haired nurse who she had spoken with before chuckled at that. "You had multiple severe lesions along the inside of your uterus. A few of those actually punctured through and they had to go in and stitch those up." She felt the half-demon's grip tighten on her hand as the nurse adjusted the IV then looked back to the two. "You lost one ovary," to this news she truly looked sympathetic but continued on to reassure her patient. "But, that doesn't mean you are infertile. Your other ovary seems to have taken no harm, thank goodness."

Kagome felt herself breathing harshly. "Infection?"

She shook her head, "no trace so far, but we are going to give you an antibiotic along with some pretty strong pain killers for about a week. You are lucky. You're a rare blood type and your…" she paused as she smiled a bit, "your boyfriend here has the same. He helped us save you."

The dark haired girl turned to eye Inuyasha's arm and saw a small square of gauze tapped to his upper right arm. "You have no idea."

"The stitches inside of you will dissolve on their own, but you'll have to come back in a few weeks to get the three on your abdomen taken out. We'll need to watch you more closely for signs of endometriosis and excessive scar tissue growth—"

"Awesome."

The nurse—her name was Yuu—nodded and placed a comforting hand on her arm, avoiding the IV in her hand. "Those are rare, honey. And you are already healing better than we would have thought when the EMTs first picked you up. Most would barely be able to blink at this point, but you already have some color in your cheeks."

"She's stronger than most." It was the first time Inuyasha had spoken up since entering the recovery room.

The nurse, Yuu, nodded. "I believe she is indeed." Then she leaned down a bit to look Kagome square in the eyes, her elbow resting on the side of the gurney to hold her up. She spoke quietly and slowly. "Tell me what happened. No one is talking, and I have never seen anything like this. It's like Freddy Kruger went for a dance inside your womb."

Kagome blinked and studied the nurse. She didn't see a gossip; just a woman who couldn't fathom what had occurred and it drove her nuts. Really, it was very much how Kagome herself might feel if she were her. She glanced at Inuyasha who gave no indication of how she should respond, and then faced Nurse Yuu.

"I was attacked."

"Dear Buddha, by what?"

Kagome closed her eyes and shivered. "A nightmare."