"Kagome."
The doctor had been listening spellbound for the past few minutes. Sengoku Jidai? A child with a tail? He noticed she was suddenly silent, and it almost seemed as though she was trying to bring herself back up from her hypnotic state.
"Kagome, I am going to count backwards from ten, and when I reach one, you will open your eyes and be well rested." He paused briefly before making his decision. "You will remember nothing of this session, but will feel calm and relaxed. Ten, nine, eight..."
Kagome opened her eyes. She tilted her head and looked curiously at Dr. Myouga. He seemed startled to see her alert and silently questioning him. He quickly got up from his chair and circled behind his desk.
"How do you feel, Kagome?" he asked.
"Fine." She stifled a yawn. "I feel quite good, actually. Like I've had a nice long nap." She stood from the chair and suddenly the room quivered in front of her and her knees began to buckle.
She put her hand out to grab the chair as she swayed precariously. The doctor saw her begin to crumble and was instantly at her side.
"Easy, Kagome! Sit back down." He said, worriedly. "Don't try to get up yet. You must have moved too quickly after sitting for so long. All the blood left your head." He eased her back into the chair.
Kagome leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes, willing the sudden nausea and vertigo to subside. She found her voice and asked the doctor quietly, "Dr. Myouga, what have we been talking about?"
The doctor looked quickly away from Kagome's eyes. "Kagome, I am not certain what memories you have been speaking about these last two sessions. But I would really rather wait to discuss them until we have a little more background. I don't think it will hurt to have a few more sessions before we actually bring up the subject of your memories."
Kagome was surprised. "But—but, they're my memories! Why won't you tell me what they are?" Kagome was suddenly scared. "What happened? What am I blocking out? Please, it is very important that you tell me, doctor!" She began to lift herself out of the chair to be hit again with a fuzzy head and a disturbed stomach. Now she began to panic. She fought to keep her breathing steady, and fought the tears that were beginning to gather in her eyes.
"Kagome, I want you to relax. I am not keeping anything from you. If it is that important to you right this minute then we will talk about it. It is nothing for you to get upset about. You are not hiding anything terrible or frightening. I just need you to relax." The doctor watched her for a moment as this information sunk in. She seemed to calm slightly. He adjusted his tie and smoothed his shirt as he sat back down at his desk.
"It seems as though you are regressing back to your late teenage years. You have discussed seeing your friend—" the doctor referenced his notes, "Inu Yasha. And also Sango. You have talked briefly about your husband. It seems, however, that we will focus on your late teens. You haven't shared anything with me that you need to worry about, Kagome. I just hadn't yet put these fragments into any kind of timeline for us to work with. I'd just like a little more time to organize my notes and recordings." Dr. Myouga considered Kagome for a moment. She seemed to be digesting everything he had told her. He really needed more time to think before he shared the specifics of her memories. She was so easily agitated that he didn't want to worry her needlessly about her mental health.
There was a soft knock on the door. The doctor moved to the door soundlessly and Rin poked her head inside and whispered something urgently to him. Dr. Myouga moved to Kagome's side once again. "Kagome, please stay in the chair for a few moments more. I have an emergency call I must take. Please don't get up yet. I don't need you cracking your head on the desk." He pressed his hand to her shoulder and quickly left the room.
Kagome sat in the chair for a few minutes longer and began to wonder if Dr. Myouga meant for her to sit and wait until he returned. She tried her legs again and found that her head had finally cleared. She had also come to the conclusion that Dr. Myouga wasn't telling her the whole truth. She still shook slightly, but more with determination than fear.
"How is your head? I though I asked you to stay put." Dr. Myouga asked brusquely as he opened the door to find Kagome directly on the other side of it, preparing to open it herself.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, taking a short step back as he startled her. "I am feeling much better. I really just needed to sit for another moment." She looked at her watch. "But I really must go, I completely lost track of the time. Don't you have another appointment?"
"No, you're my last in the office for today, I have to go to the hospital."
"Well, thank you so much, doctor. I'll call Rin to schedule our time for next week. Bye!"
"Bye, Kagome." Dr. Myouga watched her hurry out of the office. He knew she wouldn't be held off for too long, so he hoped to come up with some answers for her for their next session.
Kagome turned the key in the ignition and started to put the car in gear, but then stopped. Her hand slipped into her purse and she looked down guiltily at the tape in her hand. In black marker it said "Higurashi, K - 1" and on the other side it simply said "2". She wondered if she could get in trouble for taking it. It was confidential information after all. She decided not to worry too much about it; it was her information, anyway. And if Dr. Myouga had told her what she needed to know in the first place, she wouldn't have had to take it. 'That's it, Kagome, rationalize it.' She though to herself, smirking. She ran her finger over the tape one last time before she slid it back into her purse and left the parking lot.