Final Day

Miroku's Day

I arose the next morning at the bell but then found myself lying back down.  My head ached, as did my stomach.  I felt hot all over even though I was not wearing any of my blankets.  And then I looked down at Russell who was sleeping peacefully and contently and now slowly beginning to awaken.

Normally I would have sucked it up and pushed myself out of bed but today I just felt fatigued, malnourished and extremely nauseated.  Russell sat up and looked at me and asked me if I was okay.  I told him to go and get dressed for breakfast so he hopped out of my bed and ran off to his bag and started fishing around in it.  I kept telling myself to rise, but I just couldn't find the strength to.

After Russell had finished clothing himself, he came back over to me and asked me again if I was feeling all right and then put his hand on my forehead.  He told me that I was very hot though I knew very well that I was hot, considering I was baking right here, right now as Russell stood there absentmindedly with his hand on my forehead.

I told Russell to go get changed and I would just lie back down and rest my eyes while he did so and then hastily get dressed when it was time to go.  I was only resting my eyes though, it's not like I was going to go back to sleep or anything.

Suddenly, I was shaken around violently.  I was about to get up and scold Russell for performing such a disrespectful action just to get my attention but when I looked up, I saw that there was a man with a pink shirt standing above me.

"I heard the horn, don't worry, I'll be up in a minute." I assured him.  He informed me that the horn had been blown over an hour ago and that it was now time for first period.  Russell and I had missed breakfast and Mr. Shawn's farewell speech.

I stood up and pretended to be upset about having let such a thing happen and the man seemed to believe that that was a decent enough reason because he smiled, handed me my daily schedule and walked out of the cabin.

I got dressed and walked out of the cabin to see Russell standing outside the door waiting for me ever so patiently.  He informed me that he was excited to go to fishing and that he wanted a shoulder ride to his favorite activity.  I told him some other time, for I was feeling under the weather and that it would pain me to hoist him up over my shoulders.  I don't really think he understood the concept because he went and asked me again for a shoulder ride and I had to go and tell him again that I would not.

Very slowly, I followed Russell who was still skipping and jumping and acting happy.  Maybe it was an act.  Maybe it was real.  I was feeling a bit clouded to consider it for too long.

There was a counselor there at the dock.  He told me that his name was Mr. Dennis and, in what seemed like a joking manner, that he was glad that we had decided to show up this time.  Just was I was about to board the boat, I heard Inu-Yasha calling out to me, demanding to know where I had been during breakfast.  I turned around to look at him and was just about to reply when I stopped to ponder why Inu-Yasha had been attempting to locate me during breakfast.  Apparently, I was lost in thought for longer than I had planned because Inu-Yasha yelled at me and told me to answer.  One of the girls in his group began to copy everything he said and then Russell stood up and started waving his arms around, asking Inu-Yasha if he recognized him.

Inu-Yasha entirely disregarded all together and then demanded once again to know where I was during breakfast.  I put my hand up to show him that I was not interested in quarrelling with him and then abruptly, Mr. Dennis sped off away from the dock.

I questioned him on his actions, on why he had done that while I was speaking with Inu-Yasha, but he didn't really have a good reason other than the fact that he didn't feel like listening to us anymore.  I reminded him that I hadn't even said anything up to that point but he backed himself up saying that he didn't want to listen to Inu-Yasha and his stupid group.

I nodded and pretended to not be annoyed when in reality I was incredibly irritated.  I turned around watched the scenery we passed as we sped close by the shore.  Tree… tree… tree… tree… tree… everything was moving so quickly.  I started feeling dizzy so I decided to focus on something else.  I turned back around just as Mr. Dennis stopped the boat.  Russell danced around singing some sort of fishing song that I'm sure he made up as Mr. Dennis pulled out a few fishing poles.

Mr. Dennis asked Russell if he wanted to use a lure, a hotdog or a worm for bait and Russell demanded on using a worm.  Mr. Dennis then proceeded to pull out a giant bucket of worms just…squirming around…being all…disgusting…

I started feeling slightly nauseated.

And then Mr. Dennis went even further as to teach Russell how to bait the hook, which mainly consisted in spearing the worm onto the hook while it still wriggled around in quite the lively manner.  Normally, I would not feel disgusted at the sight of these kinds of things but today I was particularly…hm…how would Lady Kagome put it…?  'Grossed out'?

I asked Mr. Dennis to cease his activity but then he started laughing and insisted on teaching ME how to bait a hook.  I pushed his hand aside and requested that he stopped, but he only thought it would be funny as to continue to show me how to, as if I didn't already know.

Suddenly he stopped and asked me if I was feeling all right, commenting about the fact that I had zero color in my face and looked ever so upset.

I told him that I would by fine as long as he backed away from me and did not spear any more worms within my vision.  Mr. Dennis then asked me if I wanted to go to the nurse, and I told him once again that I was fine so he walked back over to Russell and then tried to teach him how to catch fish.  Or something like that.

It was hot outside, but certainly not hot enough to be sweating as profusely as I was.  I almost felt as though I had jumped into the water and then climbed back out without even realizing it!  I leaned on the side of the boat and tried to let my mind wander to something else besides the mixture of pain and hunger churning around inside my stomach.  So I thought about…the day in which I would smite Naraku and avenge my grandfather, father as well as myself for we had not done anything bad.  At least not anything that was worth giving us a curse that would kill us at an early age and last until Naraku was destroyed.

I now found myself depressed on top of everything else.  So I took a deep breath and decided to think of more pleasant things.  Ms Betty.  Ms Kara.  Ms Keri.  Ms Laura.  Ms April.  Ms Carolyn.  Ms Deborah.  Sango…

But then again, Sango now was attracted to Cool Dex but I quickly abolished the two of them from my mind or else my depression would fall yet deeper than it is now.  Mr. Dennis tapped me on the shoulder.  I turned around and he once again, with a very concerned look, asked me if I was feeling well enough to actually continue the day.  I told him not to worry about me, that I had been through tougher times, and that he should be watching Russell.  Mr. Dennis turned around just in time to prevent Russell from falling over the edge of the boat.

Mr. Dennis handed me a fishing rod and instructed me to go and stand over by the open side of the boat.  I told him that I didn't feel like fishing and he said that I had to demonstrate to Russell the proper way of fishing.

"You're the fishing counselor." I reminded him.  "Aren't you supposed to make sure he does it right?"

Mr. Dennis responded by saying it's only his job to drive the boat and hand out fishing poles and I thought that was ridiculous.  I didn't feel like arguing so I took the fishing rod from Mr. Dennis and went over to stand near Russell.

I don't know how long I was standing there but it felt like a really long time.  My knees felt really weak and my vision kept going blank so I turned around to tell Mr. Dennis that I would much rather sit down during the remainder of the period but I felt Russell tug on my shirt.  I turned to him and he informed me that a giant fish with five heads and fangs had taken his worm.

I figured that if there was that kind of demonic fish in the water, Russell was going to need more than one worm to catch it and that I should be on my guard just in case the fish tries to eat Russell.  I bent down to the worm bucket but I suddenly felt faint.

I found myself in the nurse's office that I had grown to know too well over the past couple days.  I was lying down on some couch and I was extremely wet.  The nurse came over to me and told me that Mr. Dennis had brought me in because that I had fallen in the lake.  That would clarify why I was damp.  She then went on saying that Mr. Dennis at first thought I had just bumped my head but then explained that I was showing signs of not feeling well throughout the period.

I told the nurse not to be ridiculous and that I felt absolutely fine but she assured me that I wasn't.  How would she know? 

The nurse then explained that she didn't know what was wrong with me and that it was probably just the flu.  She then added that I might have caught the chicken pox but she laughed at that as if it were a joke and left.

Suddenly, Lady Kagome came in.  She was looking as if she had never fallen ill because of the marshmallows that she was allergic to.  She asked me if there was such a thing as chicken pox in my world.  I felt that this was a perfect time to ask her what they were.

Rather than answering me, she simply nodded her head, smiled and informed me that I must be the oldest person in history to catch the chicken pox.  I repeated the procedure of telling Lady Kagome that I felt perfectly fine and that Mr. Dennis was correct in assuming that I had merely hit my head and fallen into the lake.  Lady Kagome insisted that I give her more credit than that on her thinking abilities so I informed her that I had been told on numerous accounts that chicken pox only occur before the age of eight most commonly and on rare circumstances, at ages up to thirteen.  I then felt it necessary to remind her that I was far older than thirteen so having the chicken pox was not a possibility.

Suddenly, the door swung open and Inu-Yasha and Sango stormed in.  I was expecting them, for some reason, to scream at me until they were hoarse but then noticed that both of them looked upset.  Not ANGRY upset, but SAD upset and I was wondering what could have possibly made INU-YASHA sad upset.  Anything could make Sango sad upset.  All you have to do is mention Kohaku and she's sad upset.

Lady Kagome seemed to realize that they were sad upset too because she stood up and asked to know why they were here.  Then she noticed that Sango was in hysterics and asked her what was the matter.  Sango wailed that she was crying because I was dead.

I turned my head, looking at Inu-Yasha who had apparently noticed me.  He tapped Sango on the shoulder and she turned around and saw me too.  The three of us were trapped in awkward silence for quite the while until I decided to ask them where they had gotten the impression that I wad deceased.  Inu-Yasha yelled at me and told me that RUSSELL had told him that I wad dead.

Oh right.  Russell.  I wonder what happened to him?  How did Inu-Yasha get a hold of Russell and MUCH more importantly, why had Inu-Yasha gone at believed something ridiculous like that, especially coming from Russell?

"And you BELIEVED him?" was the only thing I could come out with.  I would have slapped my forehead too but I was feeling a little too weak to even lift my arm up and slap it.

Inu-Yasha informed me that Russell had told him that I had been engulfed by a swirling vortex of wind.  I could not recall that happening so I knew that they had to have been mistaken.  "Well it's certainly not my fault that you are gullible enough to believe something Russell says."  Then I noticed Sango storm out of the room and I wondered how she had transitioned from sad upset to angry upset so quickly and skillfully.

But I didn't think about it for much longer as Lady Kagome and Inu-Yasha engaged themselves in a conversation that I chose not to partake in since when Lady Kagome and Inu-Yasha get started, it either gets really intimate or really loud but one thing I do know is that they wouldn't want me to intervene no matter which way it went.  Even if they did want me to intervene, however, I would not since I just didn't want to right now.

Suddenly, I felt myself being shaken again.  Had this whole day so far been a dream?  No.  I opened my eyes and Lady Kagome was standing over me looking concerned.  She asked me if I was all right and I told her that I was feeling fine and she told me that I was lying.  I asked her why she bothered asking me if I was okay if she were to just say I was lying when I answered her.

Lady Kagome decided to change the subject since she's so good at it.  She told me that the nurse wanted me to change out of my wet clothes so I wouldn't get any sicker.  Lady Kagome then graciously offered to help me to my feet and then guided me over to the bathroom, even though I could have very well accomplished both of those tasks on my own.  I shut the door and immediately slumped down on the floor.  Okay, maybe I wouldn't have been able to on my own.  It was official.  I had never felt sicker.

So I sat there for a few minutes, soaked to the core with the pile of dry clothes sitting next to me.  I would have liked to be wearing dry clothes but I just didn't feel like doing much of ANYTHING right now including moving.

I continued to sit there for a little while longer until I heard a knock at the door.  I meant to say something to the visitor, but I didn't and the door opened and Lady Kagome's head poked in the door.  I was sorry that she was seeing me in such a pathetic state, because I don't like ANYONE seeing me in a pathetic state, like this one for example!

Lady Kagome called the nurse in and now I had TWO people looking at me in a pathetic state.  Just when I thought I couldn't possibly feel more pathetic, the nurse then pulled me up to my feet and took me back over to the couch.  She said that once I was feeling well enough then I was to change.

I don't really know how long I lied there, but it was for quite the while.  Lady Kagome shifted through papers and tidied up the room.  I watched her perform these activities and began to wonder if she had been doing this for the past three or four days.  I think she saw that I was watching her and she told me to stop being perverted and go to sleep or something.  I was too sick to feel offended or explain to her that I was only watching her perform womanly household chores.

Abruptly, the nurse came in with a tray.  She handed it to Lady Kagome and she began to eat.  The food looked appetizing and I felt horrendously jealous so I requested a plate like Lady Kagome's.  The nurse laughed as if I had told a joke, and told me that I would not be able to stomach anything right now, especially like the food she had just served.  It was unfair because as soon as I go and find something worth eating, I am not allowed to eat it.

I hoped that that was dinner, which meant that the day would be over soon and I would wake up all better.  But it was only lunch.  Which meant that the majority of the day still remained.

I guess I might have been whining a little bit because Lady Kagome took it upon herself to sit down at the foot of my bed and smile brightly.  She had a book in her hands and she offered to read it to me to get my mind off the chicken pox.  I told her to go right ahead and that I was willing to try anything.

She looked almost excited as she opened the cover. 

Once upon a time there was a family of pigs.  The mother pig told the three sons to leave and make lives for themselves.

"Wait, Lady Kagome." I interrupted her.  "Pigs can't speak."  Lady Kagome said that these pigs were speaking pig language to each other.  I nodded.

So the three sons went off to make homes.  They came across a man with a wagon filled with straw.  The first pig, being the lazy type, purchased all the straw from the man and took it to a nice plot of land to build his home.

"Lady Kagome!" I interrupted her again.  "You said they were speaking pig language!  How could this pig exchange currency and conversation with a man?  Not to mention the fact that you can't very well build a house out of only straw!"  Lady Kagome didn't answer or respond, she only told me to shut up and enjoy the story.

So the two pigs…

"There were three pigs, Lady Kagome."  Lady Kagome reminded me that one had gone off to build his house out of straw.  So I reminded her that you can't build a house out of straw and it would be even more difficult if you were a pig without hands or the ability to reason.  Lady Kagome did not even lift her eyes from the page.

So the two pigs traveled a little further and came across a man with a wagon of sticks.  Since the second pig was just as lazy as the first, he purchased the sticks from the man and began to build his home.

"No!  Lady Kagome!  This story is so horribly inaccurate that I refuse to listen to it any further!  You're filling my head with all sorts of incorrect facts!" I covered my ears.  Do they really distribute all this false information to the general public?  I felt almost appalled but Lady Kagome also looked appalled for some reason but I shook my head.  I would not listen anymore.

Lady Kagome stood up and frowned.  Then she continued her womanly household chores but I was careful not to stare at her.  I turned over and closed my eyes.

I didn't last long in that position because I suddenly felt an itch on my arm.  I scratched it and then began to relax again.  But then it started to irritate me again so once again, I started to scratch it for momentary relief for now there was an inch on my leg that needed immediate attention.  I found myself relaxing and then becoming upset because I had to scratch another part of my body.  Was this another sort of horrible symptom of the chicken pox?

"Lady Kagome!" I called but nothing happened.  I turned over and looked around, not seeing Lady Kagome anywhere.  I called out for her again but the nurse only walked in and asked me if something was the matter.  I questioned her on the whereabouts of Lady Kagome, and the nurse replied that Lady Kagome had gone off to field day.  She then requested if there was anything she could do about my problem that I had wanted Lady Kagome for.  I told her that I itched all over my body and she told me not to scratch.

Not to scratch?  How could I possibly do that?

I tried.  Kind of.  But not really.

The nurse asked me if I was feeling better and if I would like to try to change into some dryer clothes now.  (Oh how I wished that this nurse was young, single and attractive!)

I was once again taken to the bathroom and then left alone.  I told myself not to sit down on the floor again, and I didn't.  I changed my clothes, and even then I already felt better to be dry and warm.  When I was done, I pushed the door open and the nurse was standing there and told me that I had done a great job, acting as though that was the first time I had ever put on my own clothes all by myself.

On the way back to the couch, I passed by a mirror.  I glanced in it quickly only to see a mess of hideous red dots all over my face.  Slowly, I crept closer, trying to convince myself that that couldn't possibly be me and wondering when the chicken had gotten the opportunity to savagely peck me so without my noticing.  The nurse insisted that I lie back on the couch, only it was a different couch because the previous one was now wet.  I lied down and pulled a dryer blanket over me, feeling very secure.

The door opened and Sango was standing there.  I quickly pulled the blanket over my nose, for I did not want her to see me in my current state.  She came over to me and started apologizing about how she had acted earlier but Inu-Yasha had told her that I was dead and she was in shock.  I only nodded and hoped she would leave before she noticed the spots on my forehead.  The nurse saved me when she came in and insisted I was to be left alone, and Sango waved to me, saying that she was glad to have finally gotten that out of the way.

So then another time of lying there with no intentions commenced.  I tried real hard not to scratch but I really couldn't help it and it got to the point in which parts of my body had actually started to bleed.  I didn't show the nurse, however, because I knew she would try and prevent me from scratching in some sort of strange and twisted way that she probably thinks is a good idea.

The nurse came over and asked me if I wanted to watch a movie.  I wasn't positive what a movie was but I got a pretty good idea and figured that any entertainment at this point would be worth it.  The nurse said that she only had an assortment of My Little Ponies, Care Bears and Moondreamers.  It's not like any of that stuff really had any meaning to me but the Care Bears sounded the most manly so the nurse put in a movie that was quite intense with a psycho cloud named Dark Heart and then there were little bears and other animals with things on their stomachs with magical powers.  It was actually quite interesting and I was just getting into it when the door suddenly flung open and Lady Kagome ran over to me, in tears.

She was sobbing and wailing and talking about how Inu-Yasha didn't appreciate her when in mid sentence, I watched her eyes wander over to my movie and then back over to me.  She said in quite the snippy tone, "You're watching the Care Bears?"

"Yes." I replied, looking back at the screen.  She reminded me on how I had something against the pigs that could speak and build houses out of sticks and straw.  Now let's get this straight.  I did not have anything against them, it was just that I found it unrealistic for men to be selling pigs materials for their house construction.  I would never sell anything to a pig, especially a talking pig that's wearing clothes and just walking around as if he's not a pig.  The Care Bears, however, that's a different story.  They live in a magical land above the earth, in the clouds, and are mystical creatures that have the ability to fly in automobiles made of clouds and grant wishes to the less fortunate children of the world.  I wonder where the Care Bears are in MY time of need?  Which is right now…

Lady Kagome stood there for a few minutes and watched the screen with me.  Slowly, she made her way over to a chair without taking her eyes off the picture being displayed and watched it with me, quite possibly more attentively than I was.

Suddenly I realized that Lady Kagome could catch my chicken pox.  "Lady Kagome!" I yelled.  "Back away from me!  You wouldn't want the chicken pox!"  Lady Kagome laughed at me and told me that she already got them and I demanded to know how that changed anything.  In fact, I didn't even know what chicken pox were.

Lady Kagome looked as though she had been waiting for me to ask what the chicken pox were because she reached behind her and pulled out a sheet of paper with a lot of writing on it.  She handed it to me.

After a quick scan of it, I realized that it was a description of what the chicken pox were.  Apparently, you can only catch the chicken pox once in your entire life and it's better to catch them early so that's why you send small children who are not infected over to play with the children who are infected.  Otherwise, when you're older, like myself or Mr. Carl, you end up sick.  Lady Kagome and the nurse already got the chicken pox so it was okay for them to go near me and touch me and stuff but it would not be okay for Sango or Inu-Yasha since they haven't gotten the chicken pox yet.

I guess it made sense now.  Lady Kagome suddenly gasped and looked at the clock.  I asked her what it was and she told me that it was time to watch all the skits and she had been looking forward to it all week.  I kind of had been too but I didn't have much of a group left so it was a little pointless.

Lady Kagome ran up to the nurse and started begging a pleading for a few minutes and then ran back over to me.  She informed me that the nurse was allowing me to go out to see a few skits but then I'd have to come back in.  I pretended to look more excited than I actually was and Lady Kagome ran out the door saying that she was looking for Inu-Yasha.

I walked out the door to see that nearly the entire camp must have been all on the waterfront watching skits.  I saw Lady Kagome run off to the right and then looked straight ahead of me to see Inu-Yasha sitting there looking completely spaced out.  He was clearly not watching the skits.

I approached him and I guess his sense of smell and hearing kicked in very quickly because I had only been standing there for a few seconds when he turned around and asked me what I was doing.  I replied that I was allowed to come out and watch a few skits.  I decided to sit down next to him since Lady Kagome would most likely turn up sooner or later and then she and I could go back to the nurse's office together.  I tried to ignore the fact that Inu-Yasha was staring directly at me, not even trying to hide the fact that he was observing the spots on my body.  He then asked me if I was contagious.

Oh right.

Inu-Yasha hasn't gotten the chicken pox.  I shouldn't be sitting near him.  But I felt awfully tired now that I was sitting down.

"Yes." I replied.  Let HIM do something about it.  "It's terribly contagious."

Inu-Yasha yelled at me and backed away from me.  Of course he interrupted the skit that was currently going on and Mr. Shawn came over to personally scold us for being loud.  Inu-Yasha started accusing me of coming over just to infect him and I would have moved, but I just didn't feel like it.  Mr. Shawn told Inu-Yasha that he was being silly and that he couldn't catch chicken pox because he was too old.  But…I'm older than Inu-Yasha.

Mr. Shawn said that it was a really rare case.  "Precisely, Inu-Yasha." I repeated just in case he had missed it the first time around since he's very prone to NOT listening.  "It's a very rare case."

Even after Mr. Shawn had left and the skits had started up again, Inu-Yasha was still staring at me.  Why couldn't he just move?

He told me I was disgusting.  I couldn't let it get to me.  "Thanks for telling me." But I sounded as though I was letting it get to me even though it wasn't true since I really didn't care if Inu-Yasha thought I looked disgusting.

Inu-Yasha asked me how one would go about catching the chicken pox and that I should know.  My, he's a talkative one today.  I informed him that I didn't know the chicken pox existed prior to this morning so I didn't know exactly how to get it.

Sango suddenly came over and sat herself down next to Inu-Yasha and asked him what he was doing for his skit.  I felt as though I was going unnoticed but then realized that it would have been better to go unnoticed because now Sango had noticed the red spots and looked as though she was going to start laughing.  And she did.

I tried to be ice but it really hurt to have someone make fun of you to your face when you are as ill as I am.  Inu-Yasha turned to me, and he looked almost sorry for me.  However, Sango just kept on laughing.  Then Mr. Shawn told everyone to be quiet.

He said that the next group up was The Bunnies.  I was about to politely raise my hand and remind him that my group had gone home sick when Mr. Shawn suddenly slapped his knee and seemed to remember on his own.  He then stated that Kazoom was next.  That would be Sango's group.  Sango got to her feet and met the rest of the group in the front stage area.

Cool Dex (naturally Cool Dex would introduce the skit) came out front and well…introduced the skit.

The audience clapped.  I didn't.  Cool Dex hadn't done anything worth clapping about.  Lady Kagome suddenly came up behind us and tapped me on the shoulder, telling me that it was time to go back to the nurse's office.  I told her that I wanted to watch Sango's skit.  It was then that Lady Kagome noticed Inu-Yasha and began uttering his name but he seemed lost in thought so he didn't even seem to realize the existence of Lady Kagome.  She frowned and told me to hurry up and get back to the nurse's office as soon as the skit ended.  Then she ran off.

I turned back to watch the skit.  Demon #1 apparently was representing myself, and not doing a very good job at it either.  Demon #2 was Sango and also doing a poor job, and a few other demons ran around being random other people part of the skit and NONE of them seemed to have any idea what they were doing.  It was as if they were making it up entirely as they went along.  Suddenly, I heard Lady Kagome calling for me to come back in saying that if I didn't come now then she would have to drag me back inside.

So I stood up and started to leave but then decided to give Sango's group a part of my mind first.  "Borris, you abhorrent demon!!  You're doing an atrocious job impersonating me!" I yelled to them.  The entire camp turned and looked at me but I didn't let it bother me as I went back over to the nurse's office.  Lady Kagome scolded me on how I had disrupted the skits and that I should go and apologize but I told her that I would not be doing anything of the sort.  So Lady Kagome declared that she would go and apologize to Sango FOR me and I decided not to get in her way as I lied back down on the couch.  She ran off, probably not actually going to apologize to Sango and more probably going to see Inu-Yasha since she hadn't gotten a chance to speak to him yet.

I must admit that I was feeling a bit better, but not very much.  Perhaps it was because I had temporarily been out of the sickness-infected atmosphere for a few minutes.

The nurse asked me how I was feeling now and I answered vaguely but I think she got the idea because she left me alone.  I closed my eyes again, trying to ignore the itching.  No sooner had I closed my eyes had I started to feel shaken again.

Lady Kagome told me, "Wake up sleepy head!"  She held a big red ribbon in her hand and gave it to me and congratulated me because I had been voted 'Counselor Most Likely to Return Next Year'.  I told her that I was not, even if I were assured a group of young females.  But then again…if someone said that I would definitely get a group of young females (when I say young, I mean ones that are old enough to potentially bear my child) I would return.

I looked out the window to see that it was now dark outside.  I couldn't have been sleeping THAT long!

Lady Kagome then laughed and told me that it was now bedtime.  I asked her what the reason was in waking me up only to tell me that it was bedtime but she just shrugged.  I told her that I was no longer tired and couldn't possibly get to sleep under normal circumstances let alone the horrible conditions that I was currently faced with.  Lady Kagome offered to read to me another story but I politely turned her down and requested her to fetch me a couple blankets because I was now very cold and the single thin blanket that I was given was simply not sufficient in keeping me warm.  Or room temperature for that matter!  I believe that the nurse had intentionally turned the air on very cold because I remember being very hot earlier and the fact that I had just traveled the two extremes seemed abnormal.

Lady Kagome came back with a sheet and I promptly sent her away for another blanket.  I lied there waiting ever so patiently for quite some time but she never came back.  Where would she go?  Doesn't she sleep in the nurse's office?  So after pondering for a few minutes of wondering where she had gone off to before deciding to summon the nurse and ask her personally.  The nurse walked in and for some reason looked unhappy.

"Where did Lady Kagome go?" I questioned her.  She told me that Kagome had gone off to bed in the other room so I asked if the nurse would go off and fetch me another blanket.  So she left and once again, she did not return and I felt as though I was intentionally being disregarded during my ill state because they knew that I wouldn't get up and pursue them.  This would not go unnoticed so I once again began to call for the nurse and she came in a moment later and told me to be quiet because she was trying to sleep.  I reminded her that she still owed me a blanket so she gave a heavy sigh and walked off.  Luckily for her, she returned a moment later and gave me the blanket and then left a minute later.  The blanket that she had given me was far to thin and it had holes in it and when I shifted my weight, it made an obnoxious sound that would very well keep me awake even if I had gotten the chance to go to sleep.  The blanket was also too small so my feet stuck out the bottom causing an imbalance of warmth throughout my body.  Also, when I turned around, the blanket would not cover all of me.

I called the nurse again but she only yelled from the other room for me to shut up.  Then I began calling for Lady Kagome but I could tell that she was ignoring me.  I felt so neglected.  When Lady Kagome is sick, I always take extra good care of her!  I also don't appreciate being in the main waiting room to the nurse's office because the door was always open a crack for people who get hurt in the middle of the night and request the nurse's office.  This makes it so that if I manage to go to sleep, some obnoxious child will come in crying, waking me up.  Also, the nurse will spring right up and cater to his every need.  Aren't I entitled to the same luxuries as the campers?  What if I were to just die right here and now? 

Well…I know Sango and Inu-Yasha would be kind of upset, they showed it earlier.  What about Lady Kagome?!  She didn't seem to care when Inu-Yasha said that I was dead!  And the NURSE!!  She should care too!!

Suddenly, I heard the nurse yelling at me to cease my noises and only then did I realize that I was not demonstrating inner monologue during this particular period in my life.

I was still cold too.  I decided to take matters into my own hands.  I could see the little box on the wall that the nurse used to turn the heat on and off and perhaps if I could turn that on a higher setting, then it would warm up in here.  So I quietly crept over to the little box and realized that it, simply enough, was only a lever that I had to pull.  Considering how advanced Lady Kagome's time was, the device probably just would read my mind and see how I wanted the temperature to change and then perform that.

I grabbed a hold of the lever and gave it a pull.  However, the temperature did not change, or at least not instantly, instead the bell began to ring.  Yes, the bell that I had familiarized myself with over the past five days was now ringing because I had pulled the lever.  And all this time I thought that someone was actually manually ringing the bell.  Lady Kagome's time is more advanced than I thought!

I was standing there pondering for a lot longer than I thought because the nurse, Lady Kagome, Mr. Shawn and a bunch of random people who must have been nearby came rushing in to see what was going on.  Mr. Shawn gave me an evil glare and pushed the lever back up and the bell immediately stopped ringing.  He scolded me on how pranks were not accepted at Camp Walawalabingbang.  How I wished that I could have just transmitted the chicken pox virus to Mr. Shawn right then and there but he had most likely already gotten it because I was a rare case!  Everyone cleared out except for the nurse and she asked me what I was doing.  I replied that I was cold and was trying to turn up the temperature and the nurse sighed and showed me the box next to the lever and turned it up just a little bit and then left.  I'm sure that the amount she turned up the heat couldn't have possibly made a difference so when she was sufficiently out of eyesight, I turned it up just a little bit more.

I walked back over to my 'bed' and lied down.  I could feel warm air blowing from the ceiling and I figured that sooner or later it would be warm so I tried to go to sleep and eventually succeeded.