Kagome woke up to the sound of her alarm clock, the one with the bite marks from where Inuyasha had attacked it (remember the episode Two hearts, One mind??). She smiled slightly at the memory and sat up in bed.

The past week had been hard for Kagome. Apparantly Inuyasha had gone through the well after her and hadn't returned. She remembered that the fight they had had was pretty bad that time, but she could see no reason that he would run off for a week just to scare her. It just wasn't something he would think of. As the days past a feeling of dread boilt up her chest like lead, it just seemed as if something horrible would happen.

Kagome stood up and walked to her dresser. Pinned to it were pictures of her and her friends, there was one that had Inuyasha with a startled expression on his face from where she had taken his picture without him knowing what a camera was. She put on her houseshoes and walked downstairs to check the newspaper. Something like Inuyasha would cause a big stir if it was found out, but Kagome knew that the chance of anyone managing to catch him and tie him up for too long were very slim.

When in the kitchen Kagome looked at the clock on the microwave. It read 5:30, 'pretty sad to be waking up at 5:30 on a saturday in my era' she thought. She picked up the newspaper from the front step of her house and tossed it to the table to look at while she ate breakfast. When it landed the front page slipped out. She cast it a quick glance and then turned to get something, but froze.

'Oh god...' she thought as she slowly turned to look at it, afraid that what she thought she had seen was really there. When her eyes finally fell upon the picture she flinched reflexively and inhaled sharply.

There, on the front page of the newspaper, was a picture of Inuyasha with his teeth dug deep in someone's throat, blood soaking him. Next to that photograph was another of Inuyasha standing with an unfocused look on his face, as if he were about to collapse. He had 4 large tranquilizer darts embedded in his neck and had about an inch of the handel of a surgical scalpel protruding from between his ribs.

He was dressed in a hospital gown soaked in blood and it appeared that his leg was also badly wounded, though Inuyasha had been through worse. The kotodama rosary was gone from his neck and there were shackles around his ankles and wrists, thought the chans attatched were broken.

Kagome felt tears rise in her eyes as she looked upon the headline.

"Killer freak Photographed at Hospital"

the article read: Yesterday at 5:38 a patient in Tokyo central hospital witnessed the odd humanlike creature seen above violently attack a hospital security guard as they attempted to move it. The security gaurd had his throat bitten out and died of blood loss a few minutes after attack. Luckily the patient, who has asked to remain unanimous, managed to get these photographs. There are several other eyewitnesses who describe it as "the most horrifying thing they'd ever seen". Hospital officials say that it was taken to the hospital after it was hit by a bus and then ran over three times in a busy road. "He's actually quite striking to look at" says nurse Keiko Koike of Tokyo Central. "he has very stunning eyes in a unique shade of gold, whenever he looks at you it seems as if he's sizing you up or something. Really the only unhuman features he has are his hands and ears." According to Koike it seems that the thing can speak and is suicidal. It appears that he's attempted suicide multiple times, trying to jump from tenth story windows. He's also been extremely violent with the doctors and nurses of the hospital. Last night's attack on the security gaurd proved that he is too dangerous to keep at a hospital and is going to be moved to a private research facility. We have no other information on the whereabouts of this facility or what's going to happen there, but will be on the story.

Kagome just stod there for a moment, not wanting to believe what she had just read.

'they must have locked him up, poor Inuyasha, what could have happened to make him kill someone like that?' she thought. Without her realizing it her eyes had found their way back to the picture of Inuyasha biting the guy's neck. He was looking straight forward with a slightly surprised and terrified look in his eyes. She had never seen him like that before.

'Something horrible must have happened to him, and it's all because I had to go back to my era. He practically begged me to stay in the feudal era. This is... my fault.' she thought.

Kagome took a step back and felt something wet with her foot. She had dropped the mug of coffee she had held when she saw the photo of Inuyasha on the newspaper. The mug had shattered to pieces and they littered the kitchen floor.

In a numb state of mind she bent over and picked all of the pieces up. When picking one particularly jagged piece of glass of the floor she cut her hand across her palm. She was in such a shocked state of mind that she didn't notice it.

After getting dressed Kagome got on her bike and rode off toward the hospital. She had to get Inuyasha back, if she didn't then he could be holed up somewhere for years. Trailing behind her bike on the sidewalk as she went were small drops of blood from the cut she had gotten.

Unknowing to her the smell that blood on the sidewalk was going to keep Inuyasha alive.

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Ok, I know that blood thing was a bit corny, and that this chapter is kinda short, but that was all I could think of for right now. I think up my new chapters at the same time that I type them out so I tend to have kinda short chapters (sorry). Please review.