chapter three: Into the light.

"you killed them, Mrs. Hiragashi."

Kagome stood for a couple of seconds, unmoving, she clenched her fists, every word moving past her lips glazed with pure spite.

"you little SHIT! you BASTARD! I HATE YOU!"

"is there something wrong, Mrs. Hiragashi?"

"you're insane!"

"Mrs. Hiragashi, I did not kill a person, I shudder to be classified 'insane', right now, in fact, the insanity is creeping through your veins, it is constricting your brain, it is making you it's slave, Mrs. Hiragashi."

"I am a slave to noone!"

"you can feel it yourself, Mrs. Hiragashi, you can feel the disease wrenching your mind away from you."

"insanity is not a disease!"

"yes it is, Mrs. Hiragashi, and you are our experiment, you should be proud, Mrs. Hiragashi, the data taken from testing HOPE on you will give us enough information to complete the drug, your insignificant life will save the lives of millions of people, insane people, sick people, diseased people."

"so, I'm a human guinea pig for your sick, sick, experiments"

"yes, and in the end, you will die, but so millions can live, you die alone, insane, without love, without hope of cure,"

he paused

"and without inu-yasha"

She turned and ran, she pushed through the door, The Judge stood up.

"seize her."

She ran down the hallway, her feet slapping against cold, hard stone. The cells opened themselves and floods of the insane stepped out, like zombies, to greet her, a man with a lobotomy scar stared at her blankly.

"you were one of us once, Mrs. Hiragashi."

The hundreds formed a human wall, no way out.

"the men in white changed you, Mrs. Hiragshi, you're one of them now."

Tears streaming down her cheeks, she attempted to push them aside, but more took thier place.

"LET ME GO!"

A million hands, holding her down, the madness was taking her mind, she tried to break free, clawing like an animal.

"Surrender to the void, Mrs. Hiragashi. become one of us again."

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

She thought of inu-yasha, she thought of her mother, she though of all her friends, she would kill to see any of them again.

She snapped one of thier necks, dropping him instantly, she clawed another's eyes out, dying her hands a bright crimson.

She could see a light, a pure white holy glow coming through the writhing mass of bodies.

She crawled through an opening in the bodies and caught her footing, she sprinted as quickly as she could with so many lost minds clinging to her ankles, trying to drag her down.

There was a light at the end of the tunnel, she ran towards it, she kicked at the faces of those groping her, they felt no pain and held on unflinchingly, she stumbeled five more feet and fell into the light.

Once again she had the weightless feeling, underneath her she could feel dirt and grass, a siloutted figure stood above her.

"inu-yasha..."

to be continued...