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Miracle Worker

Ch. 2: "My Princess"

Inuyasha woke up suddenly and quickly sat up. It was dark in his room, save for the moonlight pooling in through his window.

"What happened?" Inuyasha asked himself out loud. "Where is that doctor?"

Inuyasha strained his memory to remember, but he couldn't remember anything passed when Kagome asked him a question that made him so very angry.

"Doctor.... what happened.....?"

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"Yes, I am fine. Yes, I swear. He didn't do any perm ante damage. No, I am seeing him again in a few days. No, I am not crazy."

She put the rice in the pot to cook, and then put the lid down back on the pot. She moved the phone she was holding to the other ear.

"No, I am not pressing charges."

Kagome moved and opened up the refrigerator. She pulled out some juice, and poured it into a small glass, then put the juice back in the refrigerator.

"Look, if he truly wanted to kill me, then he could have."

She walked over to the table, and set the juice down in front of a small boy sitting at the table, listening to Kagome's conversation, but acted like he was only interested in playing with his toy truck.

"Look, Sota," Kagome continued to talk into the phone. "He is in that asylum for a reason and I am going to find out what it is. But, right now, I have to go so I can feed your starving nephew. Okay, okay, I will. And you take care, too. Okay, talk to you later."

There was a beep, and Kagome put the phone back on its cradle.

"I don't want you to go back and see that mean man, Mommy." the little boy told Kagome.

"Oh, Shippou, it's my job. I have to help him."

"But there are bruises the size of big hands around your neck." Shippou protested.

"I know, sweetie, but he didn't hurt me too badly. Plus, the good doctors at the hospital will make sure that the man who needs help will not be able to hurt me again."

Shippou didn't say anything. He just continued to play with his truck, rolling the wheels around on the wooden table.

"What have I told you about your toy trucks on the table, son?" Kagome asked as she checked on the rice.

"Don't play with toys on the table." Shippou answered as he took his truck off the table.

"Exactly, and thank you for getting it off the table. Now, dinner is ready!"

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Inuyasha lay on his bed and dreamed. They were like so many of his other dreams, all of them the same. Only this one was particularly different.

"Inuyasha?" a soft, almost heavenly voice called to him. "Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha turned and looked behind him. There was his one love, Kikyo, standing there, smiling at him. She was alive and well. When he woke up, they will be laying beside each other, the way it once was.

Then, all of a sudden, another voice called to him. This one was different than Kikyo's, but just as heavenly.

"Inuyasha?" it called. "Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha turned back around and saw his psychiatrist, Kagome, standing there, also smiling at him.

"Kagome?" he whispered, and started to walk towards her.

"Inuyasha!" Kikyo's voice called out to him. "Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha hesitated, watching Kagome beckon to him, her arms open. Then, he looked back at Kikyo, her eyes filled with tears.

"I'm sorry, Kikyo, but your dead." Inuyasha exclaimed.

"What are you talking about? Baka! I am alive!"

"What?" Inuyasha asked, astounded.

"I am alive!"

Inuyasha shook his head, and turned back to Kagome, whom was now running away from him.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha called out to his psychologist. "Kagome! Come back!"

And then he started running after her, then Kikyo called out to him.

"I am alive, baka! I thought you, of all people, would believe it!"

Inuyasha woke up with a gasp. Ron looked down at him, a curious look on his face.

"You were calling out Doctor Higurashi's name, boy." he explained.

"What happened? That first day she was here, I mean?" Inuyasha asked.

Ron hesitated, and then replied.

"Nothing, you just blacked out, that's all." Ron answered.

Inuyasha knew that Ron was hiding something, but he couldn't remember what it was.

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Kagome sighed with frustration when she couldn't fit her files in Inuyasha's folder. So, she got some new folders, and she put her reports in that folder.

The day she had to go back to see Inuyasha, Kagome had to carry two folders worth of all the reports and notes. The old one, and her new one.

"I'm checking in to see Inuyasha." Kagome told the front desk clerk.

The woman looked at Kagome's neck, which was covered by the collar of her turtle neck shirt. The woman sighed, and signed Kagome in the 'visitors' section of the computer.

"You are signed in, Doctor Higurashi." the woman said.

"Thank you." Kagome replied and went up to room 515.

Inuyasha was once again in his restraints, only this time, Ron had made them tighter than usual. The table was once again in front of him, and the chair was at the opposite end of him.

The door buzzed, and Inuyasha looked up to see his psychiatrist enter, wearing a turtle neck shirt, and a weary smile.

"Hello again, Inuyasha." Kagome greeted.

Inuyasha made a small nod toward her, but did not say anything in greeting. Kagome put the folders down on the table and sat down in her chair.

"Two folders?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes, the old folder was in too much strain for me to put it all in that one folder. So, I decided to get another folder where I put my notes in it."

Inuyasha nodded.

"Doctor? Ron put the restraints on me a little too tight this time. I was wondering if you could please readjust them for me."

Kagome hesitated, but went over to Inuyasha, and unstrapped his left wrist. Inuyasha then grabbed Kagome's turtle neck shirt. Kagome gasped, and her eyes widened with fear.

Inuyasha gently brought the collar down from Kagome's neck to reveal two bruises the size of large hands. Inuyasha brought his left hand up to the left hand bruise and gently placed it there. It was a perfect fit.

Inuyasha snapped his hand back from Kagome's neck as if she was about to bite him. He avoided eye contact with her, even when she unstrapped all the restraints.

"Let's try talking to each other without the restraints, okay?" Kagome asked.

Inuyasha stared at the floor, but nodded.

"I did that, didn't I?" Inuyasha asked in a whisper.

Kagome hesitated.

"You didn't mean it, Inuyasha. You were upset by something." Kagome replied.

Inuyasha shook his head, angry with himself, but he did not respond.

"Is there anyone else in your family that you would like to talk about?" Kagome asked.

"No, not now. Do you have any children?"

"Yes, I have a son."

Inuyasha nodded.

"Then that means that you had a husband." he said.

"No, I didn't."

Inuyasha looked up.

"A boyfriend?"

"I used to, but I had my son before my boyfriend."

Inuyasha considered this for a moment.

"Um, then was your son artificially conceived?"

Kagome gave a small laugh.

"No, I adopted him. He was one of my patients, growing up in an adoption agency. I fell in love with him when I first talked to him. So, I had him change psychiatrists so I can adopt him. I got permission to adopt him, and I am also secretly his psychiatrist now."

"You fell in love with him?"

"The mother love towards her son kind of love." Kagome explained, a bit offended.

"I know that. I was just curious. I haven't had a mother's love in a very long time."

Kagome nodded, not understanding, but sympathizing.

"Do you have any children, Inuyasha?" she asked.
Inuyasha shook his head.

"No, Kikyo didn't want any children." He responded.

"Oh." Was all Kagome could say.

Dr. Higurashi continued to write some more notes down on her paper. Inuyasha continued to stare at her covered up neck.

"Did you see a health physician about that neck?" he asked quietly.

"Oh, yes. He said that I am fine. Nothing seriously wrong."

Silence.

"But you sound like you have trouble breathing." Inuyasha exclaimed.

Kagome was silent. The physician did say that she would have problems breathing for a little while, and then she should be fine after that. Kagome breathed in deep, noticing the raspy noise that sounded from it.

"It's nothing. Really." She sighed.

"I don't remember." Inuyasha mumbled, looking down at his clawed hands.

Those evil hands that tried to kill Kagome; thankfully only leaving a bruise on her neck. He was an evil person. He was evil for what he did, he was evil now, and he would probably be evil for the rest of his life.

He deserved every punishment, every day that he was in this hell hole.

"You don't remember?" Kagome questioned.

Inuyasha nodded.

"What do you remember?" she asked cautiously.

"I remember…. you…. asking if I had anything to do with the murder. I got so angry at you. I remember thinking, 'How could she ask such a question?!' Then, I woke up, lying in my bed… heavily sedated."

In his mind's eyes, Inuyasha saw flashes, like in a movie, of a young doctor sitting on the opposite end of the table. Then, he saw her beneath him, his hands choking her. The smell of her fear was intoxicating. He must have more of it.

"Inuyasha?"

A sweet angel's voice, calling to him out of his insanity.

"Inuyasha?!"

Inuyasha opened his eyes, looking up at the doctor above him. It just now accrued to him that he was on the floor, Kagome above him. How did he end up on the floor?

"Are you alright?" she asked, her voice in deep urgency.

Inuyasha shook his head.

"What happened?" he asked.

"You…. You looked like you were having a convulsing fit, or something."

Inuyasha placed a hand on his head, trying to block out the images his mind was forced to see. The same thing happened when…. that….. event happened.

"I-I'm fine." He replied.

Inuyasha helped himself up off the floor and back to his chair. Kagome sat down, watching her patient as he looked at his hands again, flexing his fingers, and sighing. Kagome looked down at her notes, and then began to write.

Possible convulsion fits.

"There was a time I was as perfectly sane as you, doctor, believe it or not." Inuyasha began talking again.

Possible schizophrenia.

"I had the most wonderful woman I could ever have in my life."

Questionable sanity.

"She was everything to me; my heart, my soul, my princess. That was my nickname for her; princess. And she always called me prince."

Can not stop living in the past.

"When I saw her, she would brighten up my day, even if it was such a horrible day. The feel of her skin, the light in her eyes; everything about her screamed her beauty. I kept wondering each day, 'why in the world would she fall for an ass like me?' I loved her, doctor; I loved her so much."

Could have fits of depression.

"She was my princess…. My Princess Kikyo…."

Possibly delusional.

"But then I caught her with… with HIM! I came home early; something wasn't right. She always greeted me at the door with a kiss. I went straight to the bedroom… what a sight to see…"

Possible anger issues.

"She was naked next to some other naked man I didn't know. She looked panicked when she saw me in the doorway. She desperately tried to say that it wasn't what it looked like. That other man, his dirty hands were on my princess."

Trust issues.

"I screamed that only I was allowed to touch her like that! I was the only one allowed to be naked with her! How dare he touch my princess! She is mine! She belongs to me! Only me! How dare he touch her like that!"

Obsessive issues.

"I don't remember what happened after that. All I remember was waking up in a pool of blood, blood all around me; blood crusted in my claws, in my hair, on my face. And my princess lying next to me, sliced up, broken, and discarded. I held her, crying into her, rocking back and forth."

Kagome stopped writing, watching Inuyasha. He looked weak, defeated. His strong shoulders slumped down, his head down, his eyes glazed with tears. He spoke in a choked voice, hoarse.

"The police placed me in jail, some spitting on me, the rest beating me. But I deserved it; I don't know what happened, but I deserved it all. The life drained out of me, my mind finally registering. She is not with me any more. My princess is not alive, beside me any more. My soul… ripped from my heart. She is not here."

Kagome jumped when Inuyasha stood up, walked over to where she was, fell to his knees before her, and wept into her lap.

"But I would never hurt her! She was my princess! I would never kill her! I would never kill my princess! I swear to you, I would never harm her in any way!"

All Kagome could do was stroke Inuyasha's hair as he wept into her lap. All doctor/patient moral relationship flew out of the window as he cried his heart out on her. All she was was just a woman who was comforting a lost soul with a shattered heart. They were both just two humans who hated the world and its injustice.

For a long while, Inuyasha cried into her lap, she kept stroking his silver hair as his shoulders shook in sobs.

"Kikyo…. Kikyo….. my Kikyo…." He muttered over and over again.

Could possibly be innocent.

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AN: Thank you so much for the first two people who reviewed for this fan fic!!! Everyone of you rock!!!!!!!!

InuLimbo: Thank you so much for thinking my fic is worth reading! I hate Kikyo too. In the series, she needs to die… again… .;;; Well, Kagome is very dedicated to her job, and believes in helping people. That is why she decided to see Inuyasha again. There are a few psychologists I know that have worked in insane asylums, and they have been slapped, cursed out, even raped (but our poor inu is not going to do that sort of thing to our dear Kagome). But, they are all still dedicated to their work. Which raises the question, are psychologists insane themselves for having a job like that? o.O()

Hopeformore: Well, thank you for thinking this is a good fan fic! I hope you liked this chapter! Thank you for your review!

Kagome M.K: Thank you for your review! And I hope this was a good chapter!