****************** What's a hospital? ******************

Back in Kagome's time. . . Inu-Yasha ran strait to the main building which had been made into the house that Kagome and her family now occupied and flung open the front door, then preceded to find the Higurashi family.

They were sitting at the dinner table half way through their meal, when the door to the kitchen slid open revealing Inu-Yasha holding Kagome's limp body.

"What have you done!!!" Mrs. Higurashi screamed spraying rice all over the table. She jumped up and grabbed Kagome from Inu-Yasha.

"She's in a dead sleep."

"Dead sleep!!!" Mrs. Higurashi began to cradle Kagome's body and cry.

"Let me see her, darling." Kagome's grandfather took Kagome's wrist. "She's till alive! It must be a coma! Quick we have to get her to hospital! You take her to the car and I'll phone the hospital to tell them we're coming!"

With that they were off. Mrs. Higurashi ran, daughter in hand to the car parked in the street and Gramps pulled out a small black box (what we know to be called a cell phone) and began to "call" the hospital. Sota and Inu- Yasha followed them.

Mrs. Higurashi jumped in the back seat with Kagome, Gramps climbed into the drivers seat, and Sota flung him self in the back just as the car took off, leaving Inu-Yasha to follow behind.

They sped past many tall and odd shaped buildings, the sun was almost set when they reached the ER. A stretcher and several people dressed in light pastel colored clothing (know to us as doctors) where waiting for them as they pulled up. Inu-Yasha tried to follow Kagome in but was stopped by Mrs. Higurashi.

"This is all your fault!! You stay out here!" Inu-Yasha was about to reply but held his tong as a man dressed in all white called her over and began to ask her questions. The strangely dressed people had placed Kagome on a board on wheels (stretcher) and rolled her inside.

Gramps, Sota, and Mrs. Higurashi sat in the waiting room. Well, most of the time anyway. Mrs. Higurashi would constantly stand and pace the room or run sobbing to the restroom. Sota was more interested in the magazines and Gramps was trying to use one of his "past down from generations" spell. All the while Inu-Yasha sat in a pine tree out side the waiting room window watching as another woman in white walked up to Mrs. Higurashi.

She sat down next to her, while Mrs. Higurashi tried to compose her self. Once she though it was okay to speak the nurse said something that brought a whole new flood of tears to her eyes.

"Damn it. I can't hear." Inu-Yasha said quietly.

He had all ready found out the hard way that demons in trees looking through hospital windows were not a common sight. Especially loud, cursing demons. This man in blue had tried to "arrest" him, what ever that is. However, he ran away when Inu-Yasha threw him about a yard away and into a by stander when he had attempted to "cuff" him, yet again what ever the hell that is.

'Grr, I wish I could hear them. What the hell is happening in there?'

Mean while, Kagome has been walking around aimlessly through a dark forest. It looks about October but it's so cold that Kagome's breaths come out as puffs of smoke. Her calls for help echo back with no reply accept for the icy wind and a rustle of leaves. Her cheeks are red and iced over from tears. She couldn't figure out how all this had happened or how long she had been wondering around like this. Only that no one else seemed to be around. Only the wind and the sound of water dripping. Dripping incessantly in her ears. It nagged at her, like she had heard it somewhere before and was on the verge of remembering it when the world would spin and she would be some where else and a different obnoxious sound would begin. Like the sound of thunder and rain or of some one calling out her name. However, it was always as cold, dark, and damp as the forest she was currently in.

This time it was beginning to snow she felt like she could be flying, but shook it off.

"I'm probably just so tired and cold that I'm hallucinating." She said in a soft dry voice. "But that sound of water. Where is it coming from. Oh gods. My hands are purple. HELP! HELP ME-eke-k." She was beginning to cough violently.

"Kagome!?" He jumped down from his tree and ran to where the sound was coming from. It was an open window about five up. 'That has got to be her!' He stated as he leapt up and through the open window. What he saw next scared him more than Naraku. It was Kagome. She was strapped down to a bed wriggling around, and purple as a plum. She had tubes coming out of everywhere. Her mom was standing in the doorway staring, horrified at the sight. She had only glanced up slightly when Inu-Yasha had jumped in through the window.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOI-?" Inu-Yasha was cut short as Kagome's mother moved over in front of him (between Kagome and him) and slapped his face. His cheek was red and his eyes were shocked.

"Don't you dare come in here at yell at me like that! They're helping her, unlike you! I can't see why you would-why any- do this to- to my- to Kag-" She had begun to sputter out tears and beat her clenched hands on Inu- Yasha's chest.

Inu-Yasha grabbed her wrists the next time round and pushed her somewhat gently into a seat in the corner of the room, next to the window on looking Kagome's bed. Which had stopped shaking. Now it just looked as if she were asleep although an uneasy shade of light blue.

Kagome's mom had put her hands over her face and her face in her lap. She was slightly rocking back and forth as he tried to explain that it was not he who had done this to Kagome.

By the time he was finish Mrs. Higurashi had clamed down a bit. Though silent waves of water ran down her face. She stood and walked slowly next to Kagome's bed she placed the blanket that had fallen on the floor over her daughter and took her hand.

"You're so cold." She whispered to the unconcsience child. She seemed almost dead, but the monitor in the area between her bed and the door clearly stated with steady beats that she wasn't.

Kagome by this time stopped wheezing and felt warmer. The forest had changed out with a shrine. It looked awfully familiar, so familiar. A big house and a smaller, almost like, a mine-temple.

"What! I know where I am! This is where I live! My home! Mom!" She ran inside the house as fast as her legs could carry her worn body.

However, it wasn't her house any more. No kitchen, no table, she would have even settle for the cat she saw hunched on the window sill. But none of that was there. It was replaced with a white room with a bed, and medical equipment. There was some one in the bed but she was faced so she couldn't see. Her mother stood over the bed holding a pail hand and some one else was there. some one in red. "Who is that?"