Bent Reality
No Longer Dreams
The arrow pierced through Kagome's arm and evaporated on contact. Kagome struggled out of Inuyasha embrace and staggered over to a near by tree. She held her shoulder with her other hand and panted loudly.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha took a step towards her but Kagome's face contorted with fear, and he backed away.
Kikyo laughed and walked towards Kagome. "I see something has changed. Can you feel pain now?" Kikyo laughed and put her hands on her hips.
Kagome continued to pant, she clenched her shoulder and whimpered slightly.
"This is no longer a dream…" Kagome said faintly.
"A dream?" Inuyasha asked. "What do you mean?"
Kikyo eyed Kagome and narrowed her eyes. "I see. So that is how you have been able to travel into the past."
Inuyasha looked at Kikyo with surprise written all over his face. "What do YOU mean?" he asked Kikyo.
"Haven't you ever wondered how she appears out of nowhere, and vanishes just as quickly?" Kikyo questioned.
Inuyasha said nothing.
Kagome fell to her knees.
"She can feel pain now. This will get interesting." Kikyo rubbed her hands together.
"Leave her alone Kikyo!" Inuyasha yelled.
"And how do you expect to stop me?" Kikyo said smartly.
Inuyasha had no answer.
"Go," Kagome panted. "Go, away." She was barely able to breath let alone talk. The pain was getting to her.
"You're a weakling." Kikyo said.
"And," Kagome huffed, "You're, *pant* dead."
Kikyo glared at Kagome.
Inuyasha stood between the two.
"I have never felt so alive." Kikyo started to walk backwards, away from the two.
Kagome looked up, sweat littered her face and her breaths were pained and scattered, but there was still a look of hatred on her face. "Leave." Kagome closed her eyes tightly and leaned against the tree beside her. "Go."
Kikyo looked angry but her soul collectors appeared and carried her away. "Good bye Inuyasha." She disappeared into the sky.
"Kagome." Inuyasha turned his attention to the girl behind him.
'So, I've been going back in time.' She thought. 'So these people are real.' She looked up at Inuyasha's worried expression. 'Inuyasha IS real.'
Inuyasha bent over and picked Kagome up, she yelped but did not protest with physical movement.
"Let, *pant* go." She managed. "Don't *pant* touch me!"
"Shut up." He ran as fast as he could back to Kaede.
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"She will be fine Inuyasha, do not fret." Kaede treated Kagome's wound.
Kagome cringed from pain and held her breath.
"Breath Kagome." Kaede said.
Kagome did.
"Feh." Inuyasha said.
"I want to go home." She started to cry. "I don't want to be here! I don't care if Inuyasha IS here, I want to go home!" she stood up and staggered to the door.
She tripped over her own feet and fell into Inuyasha's arms. He caught her shoulders and held her close, but far away enough so she did not touch him.
"Home…" she sobbed.
"Kaede." Inuyasha said. "Do you think what Kikyo said was true?"
"Yes, I do."
Inuyasha eyes widened. 'So that is how she appears and reappears, she is sleeping.'
"Why do you think I can feel pain now!" Kagome yelled.
Inuyasha was surprised she had been listening.
"Do ye remember what happened last back in your time before ye came here?" Kaede questioned.
Kagome put her hands on her neck and thought. "Yes. I ran in front of a car, to save a boy."
"A car?" Inuyasha asked.
"A wagon with no horses." Kagome quickly explained.
"How can it move with no horses?" Inuyasha was being stubborn.
"Shut up Inuyasha." Kagome pulled away from him. She really did not feel like dealing with his mouth.
Inuyasha let go of her shoulders and crossed his arms. "Feh, whatever."
Kagome looked at Kaede and nodded. "I'm leaving."
"But where are ye going?" Kaede asked.
"To find Kikyo."
Inuyasha was stunned.
"Move Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. He was standing in the doorway.
Inuyasha shook out of his trance and stepped aside.
"But how do ye know where my sister is?" Kaede ran out of the hut after Kagome.
Kagome looked around, and then stopped suddenly and pointed in the opposite direction of the hut. "There."
"But how?"
"My soul…" Kagome said, and started to walk off.
Inuyasha ran up next to her and scooped her up.
"Inuyasha put me down! Please!" She yelled. She was slung over his right shoulder with her butt pointing towards the direction he was facing.
"I'll take you to her." He said with a monotone type of voice. "While we're walking you will tell me exactly what happened to you." He ran off.
"Ei." Kaede shook her head.
Just then Sango, Miroku, and Shippo returned from fishing.
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Kagome's motionless body lay peacefully in the hospital bed. Kagome's mother sat in a chair with her head resting on her hand. She was fast asleep.
The door opened and a nurse walked in. She gently shook her. "Ms. Higurashi?"
Kagome's mom jerked awake.
"Why don't you get some coffee for yourself and perhaps some food?" the nurse said politely.
"She's been asleep for a week now, she could wake any second." Ms. Higurashi stood.
"I will fetch you when she wakes." The nurse persuaded.
Ms. Higurashi considered this. "It is for the best." She headed towards the hospital cafeteria.
The nurse walked out of the room and walked by a young man with long white hair, who was wearing a baseball cap. "Good Day Doctor." She greeted him.
He nodded to her and walked into Kagome's room. He shut the door behind himself and pulled the chair next to her bed. He sat down in it and rested his elbows on the side of his bed.
"Wonder what is happening to her right now?" he looked at her sweetly.
Kagome's eyes twitched slightly.
****
Kagome closed her eyes tightly together and pounded on Inuyasha's back. "Let me go!"
"Seems your feeling better?" He muttered and ran in the direction she had pointed.
Kagome groaned and gave up with protesting. She let Inuyasha carry her.
Inuyasha continued to run with a very serious expression on his face. Kagome just looked very annoyed. Several hours passed and the sun was starting to set. Inuyasha sniffed the air. He was searching for a spring.
He turned off course and Kagome started to freak out. "Hey."
"The sun is setting and you're heavy, we're resting for the night." He reached a small pound with a waterfall pounding into it. He set Kagome down and rubbed the shoulder she had been sitting on.
"You didn't have to carry me, if you think I weigh that much." She said insulted.
"You're not heavy, just carrying something for several hours will do that to you." He sat down at the base of a tree.
Kagome was surprised he hadn't yelled at her.
"I want to know what is going on." He closed his eyes and crossed his arms.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, she sat down, and put her hands in her lap.
"Well?" he opened on eye.
"When I go to bed at night, I dream of the feudal era. I dream of you, Sango, Miroku, and all the others. I had always thought they were dreams." She looked down at her hands. "I had always wished that you were real."
Inuyasha's ears twitched.
"I guess my wish came true." Kagome started to cry. "But now, I don't think I can ever get home. Mom, Sota, Grandpa: I'll never see them again."
Kagome's crying stopped when she felt strong arms wrap around her and pull her into an embrace. She's hugged Inuyasha before, but she's never been able to feel any warmth or smell anything for that matter.
Now, she could smell his wonderful scent. He smelt of the forest just after a spring shower. She could feel the warmth radiating off his body. She snuggled her head into the chest of his kimono.
Inuyasha was startled at her movement but did not back away. 'What possessed me to do this?' he thought.
"At least," Kagome thought out loud. "I didn't lose everything." She gripped the front of his shirt. "Your so, warm." She said as an after thought.
Inuyasha blushed lightly. 'I'm warm? Hadn't I hugged her before?' he thought. Then realization dawned on him. 'She had never been able to feel anything until today.' His eyes widened.
"Kagome," Inuyasha buried his face in her hair. "Kikyo will try and kill you."
"I will set her to rest." Kagome said into his shirt. He smelt so wonderful.
Inuyasha started to pull away.
"Wait." Kagome gripped tighter to his shirt. "Let's stay like this, a little longer."
Inuyasha slowly put his arms back around her and rested his head next to her shoulder. "Why?"
Kagome smiled and closed her eyes. "Because, I like it."
Inuyasha blushed once again. 'She likes it?' he thought.
"Inuyasha…" her voice was getting lower. The pace of her heart was decreasing into a slow rhythm. Sleep was about to take her.
"Yes?"
"If I can never leave here, will you still stand beside me?"
The question was random and didn't make much sense to Inuyasha. Of course he would stay by her side.
"What makes you think I wouldn't?" he asked, trying not to get angry.
"Because at this exact moment…I don't want to leave." Kagome fell asleep.
'She wants to stay? With me?' Inuyasha thought. 'She hadn't said exactly a 'friend' by her side. What if she wants me to be more than a friend?' His thoughts chased each other around in his head.
He looked at the top of her head. "Maybe." He said out loud.
****
"Who are you?" Ms. Higurashi asked the strange man with the white hair.
"I am a doctor." He stood up. "I know your daughter."
"You look to young to be a doctor." She held her coffee in one hand and put the other hand on her hip.
"I assure you I am."
"Well then, doctor. What's your name?" she sipped her coffee.
"Doctor Inuyasha."
Ms. Higurashi spit her coffee out. "Inuyasha?"
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