Behind a Different Door
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Intro of Idiots:
Fire: I didn't forget the whole cancer thing! That's what this chapter is about! I can't express that more without giving it away!!!!!! I couldn't forget that- I'm not that stupid!
Raven: Yes you are, you forgot me being tied and gagged to that stop sign for a whole day!
Fire: Forgot....yes......that's what it was......
Raven: What the hell are you saying?
Fire: Nothing- stop your talking, our readers want to read the friggin' chapter, then leave a review.
Raven: *thinking to herself* Did she purposely leave me out on that stop sign? Did she do it because she had a cold heart which would explain why she hits someone in the face when they insult her. Then that person calls his or her lawyer and all that weirdness and starts a case. A case where the jury people are jerks who show no sympathy because they just want to get home and watch tv, then get drunk and dream about *saying out loud* chairs invading China.
Fire: *blinks* You might want to just go to reading the chapter now.....
Kagome looked down wearily at her schedule she'd gotten from yesterdays orientation. She had to wake up early to attend math with InuYasha and his groupies. The meeting reviewing the school year hadn't lasted long. She'd already knew she'd have half-day lessons by a personal tutor to catch up with the class. So thus, InuYasha as her was not to brilliant at math. She'd left early telling Sango to summarize the rest of it later. She wandered out, and crashed into him. His friends all crowded around her. They were muttering and asking InuYasha if that was her.
'Forget about it.' He said pulling them along.
'But I thought you were going to-' One of the groupies started, but InuYasha stopped him before he could finish.
Kagome folded her schedule, and jammed it into her pocket. 'They're up to something.' She told herself because she was sure of it.
"Hey lady." Kagome snapped her head up to look at the window.
"The thief?" Kagome recognized the small boy from her first arrival that was sitting on the window sill.
"My name's Shippou." He said hopping down.
"Why why would you be at a cancer center?" Kagome asked reminding herself that she was at the cancer center awaiting to see the doctor.
Rumiko sat next to her flipping through a magazine. She was happily humming, and it didn't seem to bother her where they were at all. "Just to talk." Shippou said sweetly.
Kagome arched an eyebrow. "What do you really want?" She tried to see passed his friendliness to his secret motive, but she couldn't find it.
Shippou frowned. "What do you mean?" He asked the same time the nurse called her name. Kagome smiled, and gave him an absent pat on the head. She got up and headed into the room that the nurse directed her.
She sat down in a blue chair at the end of the room seconds before the doctor came in.
"You must be Kagome." He greeted her with a fake smile.
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The appointment didn't last more than half an hour, and Kagome was prescribed medication. She'd have to be coming back in a week or so, but the doctor didn't seem to stern on it. Meanwhile Shippou had stood watch next to the door until she'd gotten out, and followed her into the parking lot.
"Why are you still following me?" She asked him while getting into the car. Kagome suspected this kid had no where else to go, so she left the door open for him to get it.
"What happened to our parents?" She asked another question before he could answer the first. Kagome absently opened the door for Rumiko to get in, and she took a seat across from them.
Shippou looked down. "My dad was murdered...."
Without thinking, Kagome picked him up giving him a light hug, something that used to always make her feel better.
"Is that why you became the thief?" She asked wondering if she was beginning to feel sympathy for the child. He was all alone in the world. Just like she used to be.
'Used to be?' She caught herself thinking. 'Aren't I still?'
Kagome was forced to snap out of her thoughts when Rumiko passed her the medication.
"Here Kagome. I'm afraid I'll have to leave you at home. I promised someone I'd go with them to a ballet performance."
"That's alright- I think I'll survive." Kagome said with a laugh. This place really was beginning to feel like home. Soon enough, the car came to a halt, and Kagome hopped out with Shippou in tow. She waved at the car until it was out of sight, and put her arm down with a sigh.
"Anyway Shippou, you never finished telling me. InuYasha and Sesshoumaru are the only ones home so I'm not in such a hurry to go in."
Shippou didn't answer at first until she persisted further while they walked up to her room.
"I meet some guy who told me to steal that jewel." Shippou blurted out sorely regretting it a minute later.
Kagome stopped in her tracks, and looked over at him. She'd always assumed it was just a hit and run, but she'd been targeted. And nonetheless, it was the jewel they wanted. It was that moment she remembered something. The first time she'd laid eyes on the jewel.
~*~*~ Memory sequence~*~*~
"She's there." Naraku told her pointing out a girl with long black hair that was walking on the side of the road. She didn't seem to care much that she was walking as snow fell, but instead she looked as if she rather take her time.
"Are you sure she has it?" Kagome asked slightly apprehensive while taking out the knife she was going to use.
Naraku nodded and they both got out of the car. This woman seemed to know they were there and turned around.
"Don't move." Kagome commanded pointing out the knife. They didn't mean to kill her, honestly. For otherwise they would have used a gun.
This woman though, she didn't seem phased. "I shouldn't have expected more." She'd said, but Kagome could have swore that woman knew her somehow.
Though Naraku was done with waiting, he jumped her to get the jewel, but she'd fought back getting away from Naraku and lunging for Kagome's knife. Kagome pulled away but Naraku grabbed it from her, and stabbed the woman, not once but three times. More than it took to kill her. He took the jewel, by the name of the Shikon No Tama from her neck, and they ran off.
~*~*End Sequence*~*~
Kagome recalled that later Naraku had given her that jewel asking her to stay with him. Though she'd refused.
"Are you ok?" Shippou asked her drawing her attention back.
"Sure...." Kagome said swallowing one of the pills with a sip of water. "Sure." She told herself that time.
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Sesshoumaru spotted his younger half brother sitting at the bottom of the stairs. He swept in from the left without Inu-Yasha any the wiser.
"Inu-Yasha." He said in a calm voice.
Inu-Yasha jumped, before twisting around quickly.
"What do you want Sesshoumaru?" He snarled rather harshly. When Kagome wasn't around to cool down the situation, they treated each other with bitter hate.
"Just a word of warning, InuYAsha. If you break Kagome's heart, I will break both of your legs so you'll never be able to walk again."
It took a minute for InuYasha to process this as he wasn't sure what shocked him more. That Kagome liked him enough he could break her heart, or that Sesshoumaru would even care if he did.
"Your kidding me." He said after thinking about it for a second.
"Kagome is following after you like a lost puppy." He declared shortly before a loud crash came from upstairs. It caught their attention, but no action was made. At least it wasn't until Shippou came bounding down the stairs a minute later.
He was running quickly and crying.
"What's wrong with you?" InuYasha asked after a minute, and he wasn't to kind about it either.
"Kagome." He cried between sobs pointing upward. Sesshoumaru's bro2ws furrowed and in seconds he swept up the stairs. InuYasha and Shippou quick to follow. Upon arrival to the room one would see Kagome collapsed. on the ground, and a shattered vase next to her.
Sesshoumaru pulled her away from the shattered glass. InuYasha rushed in a second later, and the first thing that he blurted out was "What the hell happened here?"
"I'll be back," Sesshoumaru said as he disappeared from the room. InuYasha knelt by her side and yelled at Shippou to shut up, and that she'd be fine.
But he wasn't ready for what Shippou told him.
His adopted sister had already stopped breathing.
- Conclusion of Idiots
Fire: Damn! I typed that quicker than I thought was possible.
Raven: Stop gloating and ask them already you baka!
Fire: Are you speaking in Spanish or Japanese?
Raven: Huh?
Fire: Whatever, if some of you have noticed my writing style has changed(or so I'm told). So do you like it? Or should I go back to how it used to be? Well people your about 5 or 6 chapters away from the ending. BUT IT ALL PULLS TOGETHER! Fire out.
Raven: Oh! I get it now Fire. Fire? Fire???? HELLO?! Ah I give up, just review!