Behind a different door
By: Fire and Raven zero
Disclaimer: We don't own any of the characters
Intro of Idiots:
Raven: Angst, but there will be future humor
Fire: Your know when that starts coming in by the next chapter
Raven: If you'd like to contact one of us about something, I inspire and proofread
Fire: And I type, and etc.
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"Konnich wa Rumiko-san. Watashi wa Rin-chan!" Piped a young girl with long black haired
(Hello Lady Rumiko. I am Rin-chan)
who was smiling happily at Lady Rumiko.
She just returned the smile, turned to her husband, and step son Sesshoumaru who against his will was dragged along.
"What do you think?" She mouthed before sitting on her knees in front of the girl.
Rin's gaze had trailed over to Sesshoumaru who had his emotionless face set on the nearby window before Lady Rumiko snapped her back to reality.
"And how old are you?"
Rin seemed to count her fingers for a moment or two before blinking.
"Watashi wa roku."(I am six) She replied simply.
Lady Rumiko brushed the girls hair out of her eyes before standing up, and following her husband, and step son outside of the play room, and to the counter.
"So are you interested in any we have to offer." An elderly women on the other side of the counter calmly asked.
"Actually Ms. -er- Kaede. I was wondering if you had any a little older. The problem is I have two older sons, and I'm not sure such young girls would fit in." She indicated to Sesshoumaru who was already making his way through the play room, and to the exit.
Kaede remained silent for a moment before picking up, and shuffling a few new girls arriving at the orphanage files, before slapping them down on the desk.
"I'm sorry, but there are no girls around the age you might be looking for that you would want." She indicated the pile with her thumb, and shook her head.
While Rumiko
had this little exchange Lord Tai leaned over the counter to examine the name she was covering before, and now became visible.
"I don't believe we've met this Higurashi girl."
Kaede quickly realized where the file was placed, and snatched it away from view.
"Be forewarned, you would not want this girl, or even to visit her." Her voice was calm, but warningly.
Rumiko shook her head, leaning over the counter, and just slipping the file from its new place near a draw.
"I think we can decide that for our self thank you." She stated gravely already flipping through Kagome's stats.
"She's fifteen as well. So tell me what do you think is so bad about her?"
Kaede's eyebrow twitched, before she indicated chairs where they could sit down.
"If you must know, Kagome Higurashi
has come from a very bad family to say the least. She was so scarred afterward, she went insane for lack of a better word. She's been in the mental institute for a good few years. She's also suffering cancer, and has no money to treat it. It will be a waste of you money, and sanity. Take it from me."
Before she even finished Rumiko was scowling in disapproval.
"How can you tell people not to adopt that girl? She obviously needs all the help she could get, and I wouldn't mind meeting her." She glanced down at where Higurashi
resided now, then stood up tucking the file under her arm.
"In fact, I think I'll go do that." She made sure to glare at Kaede before leaving with Lord Tai.
00000
"Inu Yasha I have some information you might like to know. If you open up I can tell you~" Sango lolled her words out leaning up against the door.
"Go away, I don't want to know." His stubborn voice growled back.
Sango shifted her lips to the left before banging on the door again.
"I'm seriously sure you would want to know this. I just had to buy the information off Sesshoumaru, and you aren't even going to hear me out! ARGG!" She gave the door another pound in frustration.
She to had been trying too, to get Inu Yasha to revert to his normal self. No matter what their efforts he locked himself up in the bedroom since that night. The mere thought made Sango's anger drain away into pity.
"Inu Yasha you can't still be hung over Kikyou's death. You have to get over yourself." She nearly forgot about telling him the information she got off Sesshoumaru earlier, as she shifted her position to listen carefully to his reaction.
As far as verbally there was none, only silence. However at the same time she heard him get up from the bed, and march to the door.
Sango nearly fell into the room when the door flung open, but she'd regained her balance just in time.
Inu Yasha did look horrid. His black hair, long and untamed, black rings under his eyes, and his clothes were wrinkled.
"WHAT do you want!?" He significantly lowed his voice since he started talking forcing himself not take his anger out on Sango.
Sango noticing this still took a few steps back holding up her hands as if some sort of peace agreement.
"Calm down. Sesshoumaru was dragged along with your parents...."
"And....?" He titled his head, blinking impatiently.
She sighed before saying. "He followed them to an orphanage. I think your parents are going to adopt a girl to-"
She again was cut off, but this time by Inu Yasha's harsh, forced, laughter.
"Adopting a girl? Yeah right. Let me just say this, they had a girl who acted as a daughter to them, on top of that they already have me, and so I doubt they'll actually adopt."
He already began to turn to the bed before he gave her one last look asking "How much did you buy this information for?"
Sango dropped her shoulders in defeat, shaking her head. "Too much."
But at least Inu Yasha came out to talk to her, now if he'd only do so regularly.
~Inu Yasha slammed the door, locking it before returning to his bed retrieving a photo from the sheets. On the photo was his family, parents, him, and a girl. In the picture he had his arm swung around her shoulder, and they were both slightly grinning.
The girl had long black hair, and brown eyes. "Kikyou. I swear I'm still waiting for you to return." He brushed his finger over the side of her face before dropping the picture back on the bed, letting his head fall next to it.
000
"Kagome isn't this great, you have a visitor." A very excited nurse poked her head it Kagome's room giggling.
Kagome sit on the edge of her bed her hands clenching her lap with her eyes staring off into nothingness.
She barely even acknowledged the nurses presence with a quick nod before standing up.
Normally she would ignore most anything they said, but this was a rare occasion indeed. No one ever came to visit her.
That's just what she said.
"No one ever comes to visit me, there is no one too." She said as two nurses caught her by the shoulder escorting her down the hall.
She didn't tug, just allowed herself to be pushed into a dully colored room '123- the patients meeting room'. The nurses sure seemed happy when they set her down on a sofa that stretched on each wall of the room.
She didn't even wonder who was here to visit her, just yawned watching the floor with dead interest. It remained that way for at least five minutes before two new voices snapped her out of her trance.
"Let me go in first Tai, I'd like to talk to her on my own first. She just may be what I'm looking for..." She heard ignoring the urge to yawn, and moved both hands behind her as if to support her.
She just watched quietly as a women with long black hair, and in a pink kimono slipped in approaching her, but then just sat a good distance away closer to the door.
Kagome had not felt offense by this, but rather happy.
"Hello, you must be Kagome Higurashi. I've.....heard things about you."
Kagome just nodded, making no verbal sound.
Rumiko noticed this and opened her hands in a friendly gesture.
"Would you like to talk to me? Or are you just normally quiet?"
"I'm usually quiet because I have no one to talk to."
"Maybe you could start conversations with people around you more often to fix that."
Rumiko said examining the girl.
In so many ways did she remind her of the last time she'd seen Inu Yasha since Kikyou died. And to think about it, she looked almost like an exact copy of Kikyou.
"Would you?" She asked aloud after the period of silence.
"I would, but hear its normally rude to talk unless you've been asked a question."
Rumiko blinked, she'd never heard of that rule. "Well with me, please talk freely as things come to you mind."
Kagome just shifted in her seat, then set her stare straight to the door avoiding this women's gaze.
"Why are you staring at me?" It was blunt, and kind of rude, but it make Rumiko instantly divert her gaze.
"I'm sorry, its just that you remind me of someone I once knew. Her name was Kikyou, were you related?"
Kagome thought, then just shrugged. "I don't know her, but we didn't spend time with most of my relatives."
Rumiko made an oh when she heard Tai come in.
"Lady Kikyou?" He questioned before he caught Rumiko shaking her head.
"No this is Kagome, she does resemble Kikyou though."
Tai nodded sitting down on the opposite side the room.
"So Kagome, why are you in here?" Tai questioned trying not to be harsh, but he didn't want any random nut case coming into his house.
"I got in here because......people said I was emotionally challenged. That it didn't hurt me when my family died, and I don't show many emotions...."
Rumiko smiled, which was a puzzle to Kagome. "Oh that's not your fault. Would you like to come home with me for awhile so we can see how it works. Like a family?"
Kagome blinked, a few terrible flash backs running through her head.
~0000~
"Come now everyone we need to act like a family for once." Her mother insisted to everyone.
A seven year old Kagome just nodded her head, then ran up to her mom once her father left the room.
"Why do we need to act mama?" Kagome asked not sparing a glance toward the door.
"Oh Kagome, your father is having some people over for dinner. Very important people that can give him back his job. So I want you to act the best like a family you can, alright?" She forced a watery smile down at her daughter.
Kagome nodded, looking toward the other room where men came into the house. She remained silent before whispering "I never knew what a real happy family acted like mama. Should I just leave?"
Kagome only remembered her mother looking down at her a sad expression on her face, and tears in her eyes that threatened to fall. "Oh Kagome, if all else fails just get yourself out, if it calls for you to lie, and lie again."
~0000~
"Umm...." Kagome found herself at a loss of words.
On one hand, she would never ever want to go back to what she knew as a family. On the other hand, she could finally know what its like to be in a semi-real family. Where someone actually wanted her.
Serious debating ran through her mind, before the man, Tai spoke. "We will give you sometime to think about it. Now we have some problems to fix at home before you can come at all. Lets go Rumiko."
They both exited the room leaving her just like that.