Empty Inside

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

Rated for language and violence

Chapter 4

Kagome was sitting in the office quietly. The doctors had left her to sit alone while they talked outside. She could hear soft voices on the other side. They were obviously talking about her. She didn't know what they were saying but that wouldn't stop her from trying to find out.

She moved from her seat on the chair and moved closer to the door. She kneeled down to the edge of the door to get better hearing.

"This is the one?" said the gruff voice she thought was Kouga.

"Yes, the records say that it's her." said Dr. Ketsunoana.

"You know that I'm in a really sticky situation right? If the boss finds out that she's my patient I'm dead. What do think I should do?"

"If I were you, I'd keep acting like I didn't know anything, that way if the boss does find out you could act like you never read her file thoroughly enough to find out that it was her."

"Fine, but if he finds out, I'll have your head. Got it?"

"Yeah sure whatever, I'm leaving the girl to now, so see ya," said Dr. Ketsunoana, while taking his departure.

Kagome quickly backed up from the door, knowing that the man would soon enter through the door. She went to the chair that she was in last.

Dr. Oomaki walked in. kagome looked at him noticing that he was avoiding her look. She wanted to say something to see if it was really Kouga. The man looked almost exactly like Kouga except for the fact that he had normal ears instead of the youkai ones that she had remembered. His eyes had changed color too. Those blue eyes that made him stand out so much had disappeared, they were now just a dull brown. But other than that he looked exactly the same.

Dr. Oomaki went through his file cabinet to retrieve his patient's file. Still avoiding her gaze he sat down at his desk across from the girl. He set down her file and immediately began going through it, mumbling incoherent words to himself.

After what seemed like forever he finally looked up. He didn't say anything for awhile. He seemed to be figuring something out in his head. It occurred to her that he didn't know what to say.

She wanted to say something, but she was also speechless. She was dying to ask a million questions, like why was he here? What happened to him? Did he go through the well or just wait 500 years? Why did he become a therapist? And why would he get in trouble for having her as a patient? She wanted to ask all these things but thought of it as rude. So she just sat back and waited for him to speak.

"I'm not sure if you remember me but-" he was cut off by Kagome.

"Of course I remember you! After all that we did together with the gang and you helped with the defeat of Naraku! I was there, How could I forget you?!"

"The defeat of Naraku? The Gang? I'm not sure if I know what you're talking about Miss Higurashi. I was asking if you remember me from the night you were attacked, I was the one who was there that saved you from the beast Inuyasha."

Kagome was utterly speechless. 'He doesn't remember me? How can that be? It is him, right? How can it not, he looks so much like the Kouga I knew. Wait, did he just say that he was the one that saved me, it was this man, sitting right in front of me?'

Yet another flashback:

She cringed in pain as he stabbed her side.

'Who is this man?' kagome questioned. That was the last thing she thought before she blacked out.

When she awoke she was laying in an unfamiliar place. She was on a bed with crimson red sheets that were once white. Her side was killing her, and it prevented her from moving. She put her hand lightly over her side that was causing her this excruciating pain and felt something wet and sticky. She didn't need to see it. She already knew what it was.

For what seemed like hours, she lay on that bed, lying in her own blood. The bleeding stopped, but the stench was still there, making her gag.

Time felt like it stopped, like she was going to lay there forever. Somehow that thought brought her comfort. She knew she was in a strange place, and with a strange place, comes strange people, or maybe not.

The man that stabbed her came in, she didn't notice him at first, but then she caught sight of him after a few seconds. It was the one person who she never expected to see, Inuyasha. He looked exactly the same as she saw him before. His expression was different though, instead of that guilty look he gave her earlier, he now had one full of rage, and eagerness.

She knew what he was planning to do to her; he was planning to kill her. She didn't want to die. Not by the hands of her lover. Not like this. She tried to move some more, but the pain in her side instantly reacted. She was basically paralyzed.

He was coming closer to her know he was by the end of her bed. Standing there, just looking at her. She looked away, if she was going to die like this she didn't want to look at him.

"You need to suffer, the way we suffered because of you," Inuyasha said in a low steady voice.

'What did I do?' kagome thought.

It was then that Inuyasha was knocked down, he was unconscious, and before she knew it she was being picked up by a strange masculine figure and being taking away from the retched place. She didn't get a good look at him though. She was soon injected with something that made her very sleepy, and she fell asleep.

End flashback

"That was you? I didn't see you. Sorry I thought that you were someone else." Kagome said disappointedly. 'It's really not Kouga'

"Don't sound so disappointed, after all I did save your life, shouldn't I get some thanks?"

"Oh sorry, I wasn't paying attention, yes. Thank you very much for saving my life, I owe you."

"You're welcome,"

"If you don't mind me asking, what's your name?"

"My name? It's Kouga. Why?"

"Oh no reason, it's just that you look just like an old friend of mine, in fact you have the same name as him too." She said with a smile. 'He must be the incarnation of Kouga.'

"Ok then, you know what? We never got off on proper introductions. Hi, I'm Kouga Oomaki, and I'll be your therapist for the next few months." He put out his hand for a handshake but never got one back.

"I guess that was kinda lame, huh?"

She didn't say anything, just smiled back. 'This Kouga is nothing like the one I remember.'

"Well then shall we get started?" he looks down at his watch. "I guess not, it's time for you to go. Oh, and I have some good news, your mother has finished with cleaning the house, and she said that she wants you back at the house. So she'll be here to pick you up in an hour or so. Why don't you go back to your room? The secretary will send a nurse to get you when your mother arrives." After he finished his sentence he ushered kagome out of his room and sat down at his desk to get some other unimportant stuff done.

'Great, my mother's coming, that means a million questions, and I wont feel like answering them. Maybe I'll just ignore her. I don't feel like doing anything right now. I just want to sleep.' She headed back to her room, the door was shut and she could hear someone crying on the other side. It was her mother.

Kagome opened the door slightly. She saw her mom sitting on her bed holding a picture of kagome and her friends from school, the one that she had kept on her nightstand. All of the sudden kagome felt very guilty. She was so engrossed in her own pain that she didn't even notice that her mother was suffering just as much as she was.

Kagome knocked on the door. "Mom? You alright?"

Her mother sniffed, and stopped her silent tears. "Yes darling, I'm fine, now let's get home okay?"

Kagome smiled at her mom. She was trying to be so strong for her. "Sure, let's go home."

Kagome was sleeping quietly, when her mom had woken her up to tell her that she had a visitor. She asked who it was but her mom wouldn't tell her. It was either Hojo, or her friends, in which she in no mood to see either. She didn't want to answer all the questions they had for her ever since they heard what happened.

She headed her way down stairs. She was quite surprised to find that neither of her guesses was right. On the couch sat a person who she recognized to be dead, Naraku.

Kagome wanted to turn around right then and there. But before she could do so her mom spoke.

"Kagome, I don't think you remember him, but this is you're father's brother-in-law. I don't know if you know this, but he and I are very close. We have been close ever since you're father and his wife died in that car accident together. I told him about what happened to you and he came down from the south to come visit the family. He also brought his daughter which is about your age, she's down stairs right now why don't you go visit her?" Kagome just nodded and left, anything to get out of the room of her mortal enemy.

She walked down the steps and instead of going straight to the basement she headed for the bathroom.

'How can he be here? He must be another reincarnation, yes that explains it, just like it explains Kouga. Okay just clear your head, this Naraku could be different from the one from the feudal era; he could be different, just like Kouga was different.' She wanted to believe herself, but somehow the gut feeling she had took over her and she was still deathly afraid of Naraku.

She had totally forgotten that she had company in the basement. She was in the bathroom trying to clear her head for awhile and she didn't know how long the person had been in the basement for.

She made her way out of the bathroom and into the basement. The daughter of Naraku was sitting on the couch playing her little brother's Xbox, she was playing a game called Halo.

Kagome made a move to sit next to her on the basement couch. At first Naraku's daughter didn't notice her. But as soon as she got to a pausing point in her game she looked up from the game and turned her attention toward Kagome.

"Hi I'm Kagura!" this person said with a huge smile on her face. It looked just like Naraku's daughter alright, she looked exactly like Kagura, and you could say she was the reincarnation of Naraku's incarnation. It seems that Kagome was meeting everybody from the past. And she was more than just a little bit freaked out.

Kagome just stared at the poor girl. If this was just like all the rest of the reincarnations, this one probably loved her father to death.

"Hi. The name's Kagome." She said unenthusiastically

"Nice to meet you too." Kagura said in the same way.

Kagome wasn't in the mood to talk. But however she was in the mood to beat the girl's ass I a round of slayer in Halo.

"So I see you found my brother's game, huh?" she said with slight interest.

"Yeah. You up for a round of slayer?"

Kagome smiled.

"You read my thoughts exactly."

After a few rounds of slayer, and a disappointed Kagome for losing, the two girls quit and went up stairs to get something to eat.

'She's really nice, totally the opposite of Feudal Kagura. I like her. I wonder if her father told her what I did, she ask me anything about it.' Kagome cringed at the thought of Naraku. She still couldn't believe that it was possible for there to be an existing Naraku that could actually be good. She almost laughed at the thought of that. 'Ha! A Naraku that isn't evil. Now that's funny.'

The two girls went up stairs. They were talking about mindless girl stuff when they caught their parents kissing in the kitchen. Both of them speechless to each other turn away and went up into Kagome's room. When kagome got up there she put on her Evanescence's Fallen CD. They both listened while talking to each other like they had before.

'I never noticed it before, but Kagura looks different than I remembered her, her hair is much lighter and has more volume too. Her eyes are different too, softer and more loving. I like her this way. It makes me wonder if there are more reincarnates out there totally different than the ones I remember.'

Just then something Kagome's mind just came together.

"Hey Kagura?"

"Yeah?"

"I've got to go. I'm really sorry but what I need to do is really important, so if you don't mind I really need to go," Kagome said in a rush. She turned to leave, but was stopped by Kagura's hand on her wrist.

"Kagome, I'm really sorry, but I can't let you leave. Your mom told me not to let you go, you know, in case you..." she couldn't finish. She thought that there was a possibility that Kagome would hurt herself again.

"Kagura, look. I'm not going to hurt myself, I just have to tell my boyfriend something very important okay? I'll come back later, until then could you cover for me?"

She was a little hesitant at first but eventually agreed.

"Thanks! You're a lifesaver," and with that kagome went downstairs to go out the front door of the kissing adults.

Kagome jumped out of the well into the feudal era. She just realized the best thing in the world, and it changed her attitude completely. She no longer felt the pain she felt just a few hours ago. If felt like she was a renewed person, like she was on top of the world.

She ran all the way to Kaede's village. She bumped into Sango on the way there.

"Kagome! It's been ages since I've seen you, the last time we talked was at your party a few weeks ago. How are you?"

"I'm fine Sango. Have you seen Inuyasha?" she questioned eagerly.

"Sorry kagome, but I haven't seen the mangy dog all week. Maybe Kaede has."

"Okay thanks Sango." Kagome rushed off to Kaede's hut.

"Kaede! Have you seen Inuyasha?" she shouted without looking in the hut first. There was no one there. Disappointed she left the hut to go check the Kaede's gardens.

Luckily for kagome Kaede was there and she didn't even have to ask the question for kagome to answer.

"He's over near the stream, child," she said without even looking up at kagome.

"Thanks!" kagome shouted as she ran in the direction of the stream.

She slowed down a bit as she reached the steam. She couldn't wait to tell Inuyasha the good news. But with good news there always came some bad news.

When Inuyasha came into view she stopped. He was sitting near the water, looking into it, one of his usual moping habits.

Inuyasha took a sniff in the air and turned around to see kagome there. He stood up and stared at her, like he hadn't seen her in a million years.

She had tears in her eyes. And she rushed over to him, and he welcomed her with a loving embrace.

"It wasn't you, it really wasn't you," she whispered in his chest.

"Kagome what happened? You disappeared on me for a week" she looked up at him

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, but I had some things to take care of. But I did find something out."

"What?"

"I found some people from feudal Japan in the modern time, I mean I found their reincarnates, including yours." She said quietly.

"What do you mean?"

What I mean is that your reincarnate is the one who is trying to kill me, not you."

Chapter 4-End

That chapter took me awhile to write, but I had so much fun writing it.

I really hope this cleared up some things for you. There is more yet to come!

Anyway I hoped you enjoyed it.

Thanks for reading!

Bye!