The Sickness II: Kagome's diet
This is an alternate version of the other Inuyasha fic I did, The Sickness. It is not really a sequal, just an alternate version. This time it takes place somewhere in the middle of the shard hunt.
"talking"
'thinking'
CHAPTER ONE
"You fat bitch! Feh! Stop that!" The usual outburst at being sat, even though he deserved it. Lately, he had added fat to the equation. Kagome thought nothing of it at the time.
But later, at night, in her room, as she was trying to sleep, she could not get the words out of her head. She knew he had simply meant to be insulting. But what made him think of fat? Could she be losing her figure? She resolved to go on a diet. No, not for him, but because she DID want a boyfriend someday. And besides, wasn't being fat bad for your health?
The next morning, she skipped breakfast. She had woken up late, but had decided that breakfast was not that important. She tried to eat a fat-free lunch, and ate less at dinner. She did not feel as hungry as she had suspected she would. Good! She could handle this diet!
After a few weeks of skipping breakfast, a few friends noticed. "Wow, Kagome, you're so thin! How do you do it?" And the boys were noticing, too. They were making catcalls at her as she passed. Hooray! It was working! She was thin! Now, to be thinner, she calculated she should go without lunch, as well. One meager meal a day might not SEEM like enough, but she would look SOO thin!
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She wasn't losing weight as fast as she had hoped, though. She could not leave Inuyasha wondering for too long, or he would come after her. She did not want him to see her until she was thinner. But there was nothing she could do.
So she took to helping out at the local library. That way, she was almost never home, so he could not come to collect her. Besides, she liked the old books. They seemed almost... magical. She was aware of any that might tell of Inuyasha, though she would not admit it. She kind of wanted to read a story of what happened, to see if they would ever finish the Shikon no Tama, and what he would decide. The librarian let her read the books there, even the old ones, because she was worried that the poor girl was dying, and kind of hoped she'd find a spell to cure her.
Kagome found a treasure trove of spellbooks and such. But all were confusing and complicated. One looked to be a book about wizards, but it turned out to be written in Arabc or something else unreadable. But one...
"Spells for the Common Mortal: No Magic Required! Wow! That sounds like something I could get in to! Hmm... wart-removal, friendship, calling love..." she tinkered with the idea of doing a "Love Call" spell, but decided not to. What if it accidentally ensnared Miroku? "What else, what else... illusionary beauty, killing a vampire, Hey! Weight-loss! Page 37... 37... hmmm... it says I need... sugar... maple leaves... got that... no prob! Wait, no, some sort of power source..."
"Some sort of power source is required for this spell. It MUST be a magical object. Unicorn hair is standard in other places, or pheonix feathers. It does not remove the magical properties of the object, but you can only use the object once for this particular spell every 10 years. This is because it is a rather dangerous spell." Kagome read. "Dangerouus? How? Oh well. Let's see, where was I... oh yes. The object used can be a fragment of something, or the entire thing. The more powerful the object, the more weight will be lost. See Appendix A for power readings with regard to weight lost... blah blah blah. Caution: this spell will take on some properties of the object used to power it. If there are drawbacks, they are evident. I.E, if you use the KamanaCasa, which grants eternal life in exchange for mortal life, someone will need to die in order for you to lose weight. Well, no problem, I won't use the Ka... whatever. But what CAN I use? Oh! The Shikon Shards! They are powerful... and I have so many... YAY! I can do this spell when I get home! I'll be thin!!!"
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Kagome came to visit Inuyasha. He was shocked at her appearance. She was tiny! She looked frail and weak. She had like no fat on her. At first he thought perhaps she was sick. To be that thin, she would have to be dying. What could plague her so? It had only been a month! How could anyone fall so sick so fast? It was unheard of! Could it be... some kind of curse... Kikyo's last revenge, maybe?
"Ka... kagome? What happened to you? Shat's wrong? you look so... thin."
"Really? Do you like it? I've been on a new diet. Come on, let's go hunt for some shards!"
"Kagome? diet? You mean... you did this to yourself? On PURPOSE??!?!?!"
"I did it for you! Don't you like it? All the prettiest girls are thin!"
"Feh! Kikyo didn't have to starve herself to be beautiful! She just was!" Too late, he realized what he had said. He looked at Kagome. Tears were streaming down her face.
"I'm so fat, i had chocolate yesterday, i'm a weakilng, I'm like a huge whale, don't look at me! I have to go... I have to go home..." She mumbled to herself, Then she turned around and went back to her own time.
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"Inuyahsa, it's been a month!"
"She'll come back."
"Yeah, before or after you drive us all insane?? Just go get her!"
"No! She'll sit me!" Besides, she could be dead. He did not want to face that possibility.
"Ugh! Fine, then. But what if she needs you? What if some demon got her?"
"Good for her."
"What about the Shikon Shards?"
"YaKnow, she could have been captured by some demon..., I better save the shards... I mean, save Kagome."
And he went to the well and hopped in, cursing under his breath. "Damn Keade! Damn KAgome! Damn all women! Nothing but trouble! That stupid 'Diet' thing... feh! Why should I care if she starves herself!"
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"Feh! Woman! Get out here! We have to go find more shards!" he did not feel like going in and getting her. She came out to the courtyard. She was wearing some skimpy outfit. It was about 3 sizes smaller than what she normally wore. It hung loose on her.
She looked even worse. Her eyes were sunken in. Her ribs were showing. She had no curves because she had no fat at all to make the curves. She looked very, very weak, as if she could barely stand. And yet, she did. She smiled at him.
"Hi, Inuyasha! I know last time we met i was disgustingly fat. So I went on another diet, and it worked! See! Arn't I pretty? MUCH prettier than that stupid Kikyo. I have only 10 lbs to go before I can be a model! Isn't that fantastic! I only have to lose another 10 lbs! Better make that 15, just to be sure."
'lose 15 lbs from WHERE?' thought Inuyasha. 'She had no FLESH! It's all bone, muscle, and organs!'
"Kagome... I know I hurt you, last time. But there's no reason to kill yourself!!"
"Oh, don't be silly. I'm fine! You just never saw a supermodel, that's why. I'm still fatter than them."
'No, she's right, I havn't, but I doubt she is fatter than them! She's the skinniest girl I ever saw!'
"Kagome... maybe we should put off the Shikon hunt... If you're sick or something..."
"Nonesense! I'm fine! But if you can't see that, perhaps we should. I'm going back inside."
"Oh no you don't!" And he grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder, legs hanging down over his chest. 'I can't let her keep doing this! Next time it may be too late!'
"AIII!!! Inuyasha! Put me down!" She began to beat against his back with her pitiful fists. he could barely feel the blows, she was so weak. "Inuyasha! Sit!"
Too late she remembered that her legs were on his chest. HE tried to roll sideways, but to no avail. He felt a snapping sound as he landed on her legs. HE quickly rolled off, and scooped her up in his ars like a baby. Then, he began to run twards the well.
Kagome had never seen him run so fast. She could feel his heart beat. It was fast, faster than it should be after only a few seconds of running. He was worried about her.
HE took her through the well, and to Keade's house. He paused before entering to look in her eyes. She saw that he was on the brink of tears. She was so shocked she forgot to protest. They entered the house.
"My god, Inuyasha! What is wrong with Kagome"
"She says she went on a diet."
They put her in bed and Keade gave her a potion to ease the pain in her legs and help them heal faster. Then they began to talk.
"Kagome? Why would you do such a thing? Why would you starve yourself??"
"Oh, come on. You all knew how fat I was before. Even you, Inuyasha, don't look so shocked. So I decided to lose some weight, no big deal. Now I look sooo much prittier! Even thinner than Kikyo was!"
"What are you talking about, Kagome?? I didn't think you were fat!"
"Yes you did, Inuyasha. You were always calling me a fat bitch!"
"I..." he realized how that must have hurt her, to be called fat. 'My god, does she really take everything I say so seriously?'
"And I KNOW you think Kikyo was prittier becase she was thinner. You said so last time we met!"
"I... I didn't..." What HAD he said? " I only said that she was pretty..."
"No, you said "Kikyo was beautiful WITHOUT having to lose weight!" I know that meant she was skinny, don't lie."
Inyasha was shocked. "I only meant that I liked her without her being skinny!"
"Liar! Don't patronize me, Hanyou!"
Keade was shocked. "How could you say sich things to her? Don't you care about her? Why must you always be abusve! I'm going to have to ask you to not see her during the rehab process. You're just too.... vulgar, and she's fragile in this condition."
"I...."
"GO, Inuyasha!"
Inyasha left. He did not want to do anything more to harm his beautiful KAgome. His faith in himself was severly shaken. How could he not realize he hurt her so bad?
KEade turned back to Kagome. "What diet is this you were using, KAgome?"
"Well, I only drank water, and occasionally I ate paper."
"PAPER?!?!"
"It has no calories..."
"uuuhhuuhh... Now listen, girl, starving yourself won't make him like you any better!"
"Sure, right, whatever."
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A few days later, Keade found Inuyasha pacing outside. He looked as though he had not slept in days. There was a sleeping mat and a thin blaket by her doorstep, where she guessed he got perhaps an hour or two of sleep a night. She pitied him, and pitied him all the more for the news she had for him. He spied her immediatly and went to her, staring with pleading eyes.
"I have some bad news. She... she still won't eat. She's dying, of starvation. She seems convinced that if she gets skinnier, you will like her as much as you liked Kikyo. I can't convince her... that you don't like skinny girls. I think..... you are going to have to see her, if only because she is dying and you have a right to a last conversation with her."
He did not move for a second as this sunk in, then made a small, pleading whine. The normally cocky look was gone completely. All that was left was sadness, anxiety, and... love. He went in to see Kagome.
She looked even worse. She looked dead already. She could not get up. She smiled at him. "Hi! So Keade let you in to see me? How do I look? Chic, neh?"
He stared at her for a second. "Neh. I don't want this! Why are you doing this? I'd rather have you normal sized than like... this... and dying."
She looked like she was going to cry. "You don't love me? you could never love me?"
he stared into her eyes for a minute. "I loved you once, I think. I love Kagome still. But this... this shrunken, wasted, half-dead thing i see, this is not Kagome. This is just her body, and not even all of it. She was brave, daring. A little teasing would not do this to my beautiful Kagome. She was beautiful, before she began to starve herself and turned into... this. So you go right ahead, die. Kill yourself, starve yourself to death. I'll see you in the afterlife."
He stood up and made as if to go, but stopped halfway to the door and said, with his back to her, "You will not have to wait long for me, I think." Then he left.
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Keade was cleaning the room where Kagome lay when Kagome suddanly asked a question.
"Inuyasha... he said something odd. He said.... he'd see me in the afterlife..."
"Well, certainly you know you're dying, Kagome."
"But then he said... I would not have to wait long for him..."
"Well, think, silly girl! What do you suppose he'd do if you died because of something he said? He lives by a strange moral code, that one. He thinks anyon who harms the ones he loves deserves only death. Even if that someone is himself."
Kagome had never thought how this might be affecting him. She only wanted to be thin! And now, everyone knew she was dying. And she was still obsessed with being thin. How thin WAS she, anyways? She had not looked in a mirror since coming here.
"Keade?"
"Yes?"
"Can I have a mirror?"
KEade smiled. "Of course! Here, use this one. It shows you what other people see when they look at you."
"I don't see anything."
"Think of the person you want to have the veiwpoint of. "
Kagome thought of Inuyasha. She thought of his hair, his pointy dog ears, his smile, his insuls, everything. She looked in the mirror. She saw a young girl, very, VERY scrawny. Not sknny, thin, and beautiful, but weak, starved, dying. And her heart felt like it would break. And as she looked, she had a vision of herself, a few months ago. And she did not look fat, but beautiful, and roubust, and strong, and healthy. And she felt such dispair that she had to look away.
"You didn't tell me I would feel what he feels, as well." 'You didn't tell me he felt that way!'
"Well, how could you not, when he feels so strongly about you?"
"Keade?"
"Yes?"
"I want a sandwich."
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A while later, Kagome was back at a normal weight. Inuyasha had still not been allowed to come see her. She worried that he would think she had died. She begged Keade to let him in. Finally, she did.
Inuyasha, upon hearing the news, sprinted into Kagome's room. He stopped in the doorway, and both were full of so much emotion they did not know what to do. No-one spoke. Finally, Kagome broke the silence.
"Am I prittier than Kikyo yet?"
"You were always prittier than Kikyo."
And she stood up, and he rushed over, and they kissed, passionatly. They had finally, after so long, discovered their hidden love.
K, that sucked. I know it did. I could not think of an ending except that I like Kagome. Review, tell me how much it sucks, K?
Thanx for the reviews. I edited this a bit so it is more belivable now. Namely, I added the part about the spell. I am working on Ch. 2, so stay tuned!!
This is an alternate version of the other Inuyasha fic I did, The Sickness. It is not really a sequal, just an alternate version. This time it takes place somewhere in the middle of the shard hunt.
"talking"
'thinking'
CHAPTER ONE
"You fat bitch! Feh! Stop that!" The usual outburst at being sat, even though he deserved it. Lately, he had added fat to the equation. Kagome thought nothing of it at the time.
But later, at night, in her room, as she was trying to sleep, she could not get the words out of her head. She knew he had simply meant to be insulting. But what made him think of fat? Could she be losing her figure? She resolved to go on a diet. No, not for him, but because she DID want a boyfriend someday. And besides, wasn't being fat bad for your health?
The next morning, she skipped breakfast. She had woken up late, but had decided that breakfast was not that important. She tried to eat a fat-free lunch, and ate less at dinner. She did not feel as hungry as she had suspected she would. Good! She could handle this diet!
After a few weeks of skipping breakfast, a few friends noticed. "Wow, Kagome, you're so thin! How do you do it?" And the boys were noticing, too. They were making catcalls at her as she passed. Hooray! It was working! She was thin! Now, to be thinner, she calculated she should go without lunch, as well. One meager meal a day might not SEEM like enough, but she would look SOO thin!
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She wasn't losing weight as fast as she had hoped, though. She could not leave Inuyasha wondering for too long, or he would come after her. She did not want him to see her until she was thinner. But there was nothing she could do.
So she took to helping out at the local library. That way, she was almost never home, so he could not come to collect her. Besides, she liked the old books. They seemed almost... magical. She was aware of any that might tell of Inuyasha, though she would not admit it. She kind of wanted to read a story of what happened, to see if they would ever finish the Shikon no Tama, and what he would decide. The librarian let her read the books there, even the old ones, because she was worried that the poor girl was dying, and kind of hoped she'd find a spell to cure her.
Kagome found a treasure trove of spellbooks and such. But all were confusing and complicated. One looked to be a book about wizards, but it turned out to be written in Arabc or something else unreadable. But one...
"Spells for the Common Mortal: No Magic Required! Wow! That sounds like something I could get in to! Hmm... wart-removal, friendship, calling love..." she tinkered with the idea of doing a "Love Call" spell, but decided not to. What if it accidentally ensnared Miroku? "What else, what else... illusionary beauty, killing a vampire, Hey! Weight-loss! Page 37... 37... hmmm... it says I need... sugar... maple leaves... got that... no prob! Wait, no, some sort of power source..."
"Some sort of power source is required for this spell. It MUST be a magical object. Unicorn hair is standard in other places, or pheonix feathers. It does not remove the magical properties of the object, but you can only use the object once for this particular spell every 10 years. This is because it is a rather dangerous spell." Kagome read. "Dangerouus? How? Oh well. Let's see, where was I... oh yes. The object used can be a fragment of something, or the entire thing. The more powerful the object, the more weight will be lost. See Appendix A for power readings with regard to weight lost... blah blah blah. Caution: this spell will take on some properties of the object used to power it. If there are drawbacks, they are evident. I.E, if you use the KamanaCasa, which grants eternal life in exchange for mortal life, someone will need to die in order for you to lose weight. Well, no problem, I won't use the Ka... whatever. But what CAN I use? Oh! The Shikon Shards! They are powerful... and I have so many... YAY! I can do this spell when I get home! I'll be thin!!!"
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Kagome came to visit Inuyasha. He was shocked at her appearance. She was tiny! She looked frail and weak. She had like no fat on her. At first he thought perhaps she was sick. To be that thin, she would have to be dying. What could plague her so? It had only been a month! How could anyone fall so sick so fast? It was unheard of! Could it be... some kind of curse... Kikyo's last revenge, maybe?
"Ka... kagome? What happened to you? Shat's wrong? you look so... thin."
"Really? Do you like it? I've been on a new diet. Come on, let's go hunt for some shards!"
"Kagome? diet? You mean... you did this to yourself? On PURPOSE??!?!?!"
"I did it for you! Don't you like it? All the prettiest girls are thin!"
"Feh! Kikyo didn't have to starve herself to be beautiful! She just was!" Too late, he realized what he had said. He looked at Kagome. Tears were streaming down her face.
"I'm so fat, i had chocolate yesterday, i'm a weakilng, I'm like a huge whale, don't look at me! I have to go... I have to go home..." She mumbled to herself, Then she turned around and went back to her own time.
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"Inuyahsa, it's been a month!"
"She'll come back."
"Yeah, before or after you drive us all insane?? Just go get her!"
"No! She'll sit me!" Besides, she could be dead. He did not want to face that possibility.
"Ugh! Fine, then. But what if she needs you? What if some demon got her?"
"Good for her."
"What about the Shikon Shards?"
"YaKnow, she could have been captured by some demon..., I better save the shards... I mean, save Kagome."
And he went to the well and hopped in, cursing under his breath. "Damn Keade! Damn KAgome! Damn all women! Nothing but trouble! That stupid 'Diet' thing... feh! Why should I care if she starves herself!"
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"Feh! Woman! Get out here! We have to go find more shards!" he did not feel like going in and getting her. She came out to the courtyard. She was wearing some skimpy outfit. It was about 3 sizes smaller than what she normally wore. It hung loose on her.
She looked even worse. Her eyes were sunken in. Her ribs were showing. She had no curves because she had no fat at all to make the curves. She looked very, very weak, as if she could barely stand. And yet, she did. She smiled at him.
"Hi, Inuyasha! I know last time we met i was disgustingly fat. So I went on another diet, and it worked! See! Arn't I pretty? MUCH prettier than that stupid Kikyo. I have only 10 lbs to go before I can be a model! Isn't that fantastic! I only have to lose another 10 lbs! Better make that 15, just to be sure."
'lose 15 lbs from WHERE?' thought Inuyasha. 'She had no FLESH! It's all bone, muscle, and organs!'
"Kagome... I know I hurt you, last time. But there's no reason to kill yourself!!"
"Oh, don't be silly. I'm fine! You just never saw a supermodel, that's why. I'm still fatter than them."
'No, she's right, I havn't, but I doubt she is fatter than them! She's the skinniest girl I ever saw!'
"Kagome... maybe we should put off the Shikon hunt... If you're sick or something..."
"Nonesense! I'm fine! But if you can't see that, perhaps we should. I'm going back inside."
"Oh no you don't!" And he grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder, legs hanging down over his chest. 'I can't let her keep doing this! Next time it may be too late!'
"AIII!!! Inuyasha! Put me down!" She began to beat against his back with her pitiful fists. he could barely feel the blows, she was so weak. "Inuyasha! Sit!"
Too late she remembered that her legs were on his chest. HE tried to roll sideways, but to no avail. He felt a snapping sound as he landed on her legs. HE quickly rolled off, and scooped her up in his ars like a baby. Then, he began to run twards the well.
Kagome had never seen him run so fast. She could feel his heart beat. It was fast, faster than it should be after only a few seconds of running. He was worried about her.
HE took her through the well, and to Keade's house. He paused before entering to look in her eyes. She saw that he was on the brink of tears. She was so shocked she forgot to protest. They entered the house.
"My god, Inuyasha! What is wrong with Kagome"
"She says she went on a diet."
They put her in bed and Keade gave her a potion to ease the pain in her legs and help them heal faster. Then they began to talk.
"Kagome? Why would you do such a thing? Why would you starve yourself??"
"Oh, come on. You all knew how fat I was before. Even you, Inuyasha, don't look so shocked. So I decided to lose some weight, no big deal. Now I look sooo much prittier! Even thinner than Kikyo was!"
"What are you talking about, Kagome?? I didn't think you were fat!"
"Yes you did, Inuyasha. You were always calling me a fat bitch!"
"I..." he realized how that must have hurt her, to be called fat. 'My god, does she really take everything I say so seriously?'
"And I KNOW you think Kikyo was prittier becase she was thinner. You said so last time we met!"
"I... I didn't..." What HAD he said? " I only said that she was pretty..."
"No, you said "Kikyo was beautiful WITHOUT having to lose weight!" I know that meant she was skinny, don't lie."
Inyasha was shocked. "I only meant that I liked her without her being skinny!"
"Liar! Don't patronize me, Hanyou!"
Keade was shocked. "How could you say sich things to her? Don't you care about her? Why must you always be abusve! I'm going to have to ask you to not see her during the rehab process. You're just too.... vulgar, and she's fragile in this condition."
"I...."
"GO, Inuyasha!"
Inyasha left. He did not want to do anything more to harm his beautiful KAgome. His faith in himself was severly shaken. How could he not realize he hurt her so bad?
KEade turned back to Kagome. "What diet is this you were using, KAgome?"
"Well, I only drank water, and occasionally I ate paper."
"PAPER?!?!"
"It has no calories..."
"uuuhhuuhh... Now listen, girl, starving yourself won't make him like you any better!"
"Sure, right, whatever."
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A few days later, Keade found Inuyasha pacing outside. He looked as though he had not slept in days. There was a sleeping mat and a thin blaket by her doorstep, where she guessed he got perhaps an hour or two of sleep a night. She pitied him, and pitied him all the more for the news she had for him. He spied her immediatly and went to her, staring with pleading eyes.
"I have some bad news. She... she still won't eat. She's dying, of starvation. She seems convinced that if she gets skinnier, you will like her as much as you liked Kikyo. I can't convince her... that you don't like skinny girls. I think..... you are going to have to see her, if only because she is dying and you have a right to a last conversation with her."
He did not move for a second as this sunk in, then made a small, pleading whine. The normally cocky look was gone completely. All that was left was sadness, anxiety, and... love. He went in to see Kagome.
She looked even worse. She looked dead already. She could not get up. She smiled at him. "Hi! So Keade let you in to see me? How do I look? Chic, neh?"
He stared at her for a second. "Neh. I don't want this! Why are you doing this? I'd rather have you normal sized than like... this... and dying."
She looked like she was going to cry. "You don't love me? you could never love me?"
he stared into her eyes for a minute. "I loved you once, I think. I love Kagome still. But this... this shrunken, wasted, half-dead thing i see, this is not Kagome. This is just her body, and not even all of it. She was brave, daring. A little teasing would not do this to my beautiful Kagome. She was beautiful, before she began to starve herself and turned into... this. So you go right ahead, die. Kill yourself, starve yourself to death. I'll see you in the afterlife."
He stood up and made as if to go, but stopped halfway to the door and said, with his back to her, "You will not have to wait long for me, I think." Then he left.
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Keade was cleaning the room where Kagome lay when Kagome suddanly asked a question.
"Inuyasha... he said something odd. He said.... he'd see me in the afterlife..."
"Well, certainly you know you're dying, Kagome."
"But then he said... I would not have to wait long for him..."
"Well, think, silly girl! What do you suppose he'd do if you died because of something he said? He lives by a strange moral code, that one. He thinks anyon who harms the ones he loves deserves only death. Even if that someone is himself."
Kagome had never thought how this might be affecting him. She only wanted to be thin! And now, everyone knew she was dying. And she was still obsessed with being thin. How thin WAS she, anyways? She had not looked in a mirror since coming here.
"Keade?"
"Yes?"
"Can I have a mirror?"
KEade smiled. "Of course! Here, use this one. It shows you what other people see when they look at you."
"I don't see anything."
"Think of the person you want to have the veiwpoint of. "
Kagome thought of Inuyasha. She thought of his hair, his pointy dog ears, his smile, his insuls, everything. She looked in the mirror. She saw a young girl, very, VERY scrawny. Not sknny, thin, and beautiful, but weak, starved, dying. And her heart felt like it would break. And as she looked, she had a vision of herself, a few months ago. And she did not look fat, but beautiful, and roubust, and strong, and healthy. And she felt such dispair that she had to look away.
"You didn't tell me I would feel what he feels, as well." 'You didn't tell me he felt that way!'
"Well, how could you not, when he feels so strongly about you?"
"Keade?"
"Yes?"
"I want a sandwich."
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A while later, Kagome was back at a normal weight. Inuyasha had still not been allowed to come see her. She worried that he would think she had died. She begged Keade to let him in. Finally, she did.
Inuyasha, upon hearing the news, sprinted into Kagome's room. He stopped in the doorway, and both were full of so much emotion they did not know what to do. No-one spoke. Finally, Kagome broke the silence.
"Am I prittier than Kikyo yet?"
"You were always prittier than Kikyo."
And she stood up, and he rushed over, and they kissed, passionatly. They had finally, after so long, discovered their hidden love.
K, that sucked. I know it did. I could not think of an ending except that I like Kagome. Review, tell me how much it sucks, K?
Thanx for the reviews. I edited this a bit so it is more belivable now. Namely, I added the part about the spell. I am working on Ch. 2, so stay tuned!!