Going in Circles

Chapter three: Kagome, Part I

Pre Lab Days

Kagome's POV

Today is nothing special, it's only when my family celebrates a certain holiday, I forget which, and all that I know is that nobody else knows of it and all of my family comes together for it. At least that is one good thing about this stupid holiday, the whole thing is boring, So boring that I'd rather not think about in at this very moment.

I looked outside of the window of the classroom. I'm dying to get outside, it's better than staying in this old, hot building with no air-condition. I want to be outside where all the action is. All of my family members are at home and I'm the only one stuck in school, even my little brother Souta got the day off from school.

'Finally' the bell rings and I rush to my locker, I almost slip over this dude who dropped something of his on the floor. I'm tempted to give him the finger just because of the mood that I'm in. instead I just hurry back to my locker. After all of my things are gathered I get into my crimson red 1999 Corvette and I speed off toward my house.

I reach the traffic light and stop when it goes red. A spark of silver catches my eye and I turn my head to see a very lean man walking down the sidewalk. He has the most beautiful silver hair that I've ever seen. He has the oddest looking tattoos on his face though, one of a crescent of a moon on his forehead and slashes down his cheek. I want to look at the gorgeous man some more but I hear the beeping of cars behind me and I realize that the light had turned green.

I make my way toward my house to see many cars surrounding the area. 'Great, everybody is here already.' I frown to myself. I drive up closer to see that I don't recognize any of the cars. I would know my family's cars, they all come and visit twenty-four seven.

Everything seemed to be happening in slow-motion. I turn on my street not realizing that there was a car coming my way. We both turn at the same time and have a head on collision. My car does a half-flip and the next thing I know I'm upside down with a body slammed through my windshield.

I try move, but everything hurts so badly and I'm beginning to feel numb. I soon hear the sirens of the cop cars coming my way. My eyes are getting so heavy that I can't keep them open for any longer. I shut them, about to go to sleep when my body is shakes from a huge eruption. I know that whatever happened is bad, but right now I'm just too tired to care.

My eyes are snapped open because of the wild jerk my neck just did. I feel a slight burn at the back of my neck and my eyes begin to water. I can fell heat from behind me, sort of a comforting burn, one that lulls me to the darkness in the back of my mind.

I wake up lying down on a bed. I can't see anything, there appears to be something covering my eyes. I reach up to touch whatever this thing is. My hands slowly go over the material that I recognized to be gauze. I try to remember what happened last but all I can recall is the beautiful man with the stunning silver hair.

I can hear voices outside of my room, but they're faint and I can't understand any of it. I feel someone tap me on my shoulder and say something to me, but whoever it was sounded so far away like on the other side of the room too.

This person keeps tapping me; it's getting me really pissed off. I try to tell this person to stop but as soon as my mouth opens I can't hear any sound but I can tell I made something because my throat hurts really bad as soon as I do so. I'm guessing that something happened to my ears or they are plugged or both.

This nurse person lifts up my head and starts to take off the gauze. There seemed to be a lot of gauze because it took forever to get all of it off. When there was no more left, I still couldn't see. I tried to my hand to wipe my eyes but both of my hands were on restraints. It was then that I began to panic. I violently tried to depart my arms from the restraints, even though there was much pain involved.

I could hear people shouting in the background.

"Come quick!" A male voice shouted "We need some sedatives, Now!" at least I could hear them a little more clearly. I felt strong hands go over my body, trying to push and keep me down on the bed. There was a small prick in my left arm that I was assuming was the sedative. I was right everything had once again grown dark.

My eyes cracked open, and surprisingly I could see. I couldn't move, but I could see. I looked around at my surroundings. It looked like a hospital room. The entire room was an off white color. I looked my left to see that there was a curtain drawn. There must be another person in the room too. I look at the door to see a person standing there. I don't recognize her, but she seems to know me. Her eyes are watery, she looks like she is about to cry. For a moment I thought that I didn't know her because I lost my memory, but then I remember who I am and where I'm from, etc.

This lady rushes over to the curtain and I hear a low mumble and the lady starts to cry softly. I feel bad for her, I can't stand to see people cry, or in my case hear them.

I'm awake for who knows how long before a nurse comes in and checks on me. And when she does she seems surprised that I'm awake.

"Well, what are you doing already, you should be asleep for another couple of hours according to those sedatives we gave you," she said with a bright smile and in a really annoying nice voice. I just look at her like she's crazy. She doesn't seem to notice.

She puts and IV into my arm.

"..." I try to tell her I want something to drink, but my throat hurts so badly that I can't make any sound.

"Want something to drink?" she asks giving me a knowing look. I nod in return.

She gives me something in a can with a straw in it. I take big gulps trying to ease the pain in my throat, but it doesn't help much. At least I can talk now though. I ask the question I'm just dying to ask her.

"Hey, nurse?" she looks at me expectantly. "What are these restraints for?" I look at my wrists to show her exactly what I mean.

"Oh! Those, we had to put those on you when you first came here because you were always jolting around and we couldn't get you to stay still, so the only option we had was to put those on you." I don't really believe that answer but what can I do? If I asked her the truth she wouldn't give it to me anyway.

"How long have I been here?"

"About a week and a half,"

"That long?!" I almost shout in her face. She nods at me solemnly. I can tell that she's really upset about something.

I'm almost afraid to ask her but I do so anyway. "What happened to me?"

"Oh Hon, wait a little longer okay? I'm not obligated to tell you the whole truth."

'That explains the restraints' I think dourly.

She leaves without saying another word and I'm left with nothing to do in my lonesome room.

My eyes get heavy. I struggle to keep them open, not wanting to go to sleep at the moment. Sleep is just too powerful for me; I give in and fall into a dreamless sleep. But just before I go I curse that damned nurse for putting more drugs into my body.

I wake up some hours later. The curtain next to my bed I drawn and I see an empty bed. Next to the bed I can see the windows, I can also see that it's dark outside. Out of nowhere I suddenly hear the cries of that person weeping for the patient that was next to me. It makes me think of my family and how I haven't seen them yet. It makes me depressed to think that they haven't visited yet.

A different nurse comes in. must be the night shift nurse. She looks at me, not surprised that I'm up or anything.

"Get up," she commands harshly. I try to get up but my body feels like it's paralyzed. I can't even move my hands or feet.

"I can't," I tell her shyly. She looks at me like I'm lying to her but in the end she ends up pushing a little button to make the bed rise until I'm in an upright position.

"I'll be right back," she says in a deep gruff voice. She seems very masculine. She comes back with a wheel chair in her hands. She rolls it up to my bed and begins to lift me up.

I'm fully in the wheelchair and she's moving me. I'm not exactly sure where we are going and this idiot nurse hasn't told me.

This is the first time that I got a chance to look at myself. There are slight burn marks up and down my arms and my hands are in casts. I feel a neck brace around my neck and shoulders. And I don't want to take a guess what has happened to the rest of my body.

We stop at a place that says burn treatment outside of the door. I didn't think that I needed treatment for this because they only look like minor burns, but I don't think that the burn on my arms is why I'm here.

Surprisingly the nurse answers my thoughts and she tells me that I had some nasty burns on my lower back and I need some treatment, if not that, then surgery to replace the skin on my back. It makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.

We go inside and she puts me on this cold table on my stomach. She takes off the hospital gown and it exposed my bare back. I can feel her cold scratchy hands put some cool gel on it. It's really soothing, nice enough to make me sleepy again...

I wake up really pissed off. I keep falling asleep every five minutes that I'm awake. Again, there is no one in my room and I feel lonelier than I have ever felt before. I'm started to get worried about my family almost to the point to where I'm about to brake into crying fits.

Someone comes into my room I don't really recognize him so I immediately assume it's for my roommate. I look over to the person's bed and he or she is not there, come to think of it I don't think I have ever seen whoever is sharing a room with me.

This man looks at me like I'm some kind of object. I look away not being able to stand under his gaze for much longer. I can still see him out of the corner of my eye though, he won't stop looking at me I don't think he has even blinked yet.

"So, you must be Kagome Higurashi." he says like It isn't obvious to me to even know who I am.

I nod to him, and he gets some sort of satisfaction from my action.

He stops talking. Something about this guy peaks my interest. I look at him with my questioning eyes and he bellows a deep laugh. I get the impression that this isn't you're everyday person. I look at him some more and he looks at me back.

"What do you want?" I finally build up the courage to ask him such a simple question.

"Me? I don't really want anything, I just came here to stare at you," he says with sarcasm dripping from every word that left his chapped lips.

"What do you really want?" I ask him with no emotion in my voice whatsoever.

He smiles at me before he answers, "I can't tell you what I really want with you, after all I'm not here because I want to." He tells me with slight anger in his voice. I stare at him the same way his voice sounds. No one here can tell me what's going on. That is, if there is something going on.

"I'm here because I need to interview you on your accident. I work for CNN," he told her proudly. I see that he wants me to be impressed, so I'll humor him a bit.

"YOU work for CNN?!" I almost choked out laughing as I said this, he seemed to believe me and that I was impressed by him.

He nods. "I was sent here by my editor, he said that you are one of the Higurashi's. That's a pretty well-known family name," he got out a small notebook as if ready to take notes.

"Yeah, thanks for telling me, I had no idea whatsoever that my family was well-known, I mean I just though I was lucky to have the paparazzi fallowing me almost everywhere I go, because I'm the heiress to this fortune my family has and I have no idea that it even exists. Wow that's a real tip you gave me there whomever you are," I said with such sarcasm that It would take a class A idiot not to notice. Guess who the idiot is.

"Thanks. And the name's Budd. Are you really the heiress to the fortune? I mean I've heard you're name before but I don't think that I've ever seen your picture." I laugh so hard at what an idiot this guy is that tears start to fall from my eyes.

"What?"

"It's nothing," I say as I wipe the tears from my cheek. "So you wanted to ask me some questions." I was right when I said this was your everyday person, he is much stupider than most.

"Oh yes. Can you please tell me what you where doing that day?"

"I was at school most of the day, and I was on my way home after school got out and that's when I had the accident."

He nods and continues to ask his questions. He asks about what I was doing exactly right before the accident. After it, I told him all I knew. Including the eruption that I could only remember the bright flames far away but I could still feel the heat as if I were close up to it.

Later that afternoon my doctor came in and told some things that I didn't exactly want hear.

"Miss Higurashi!" he said as he entered the room. He was regularly a very energetic person just as he was now, but I felt that there is something different in his voice than the usually is.

"Well good news, Higurashi. I'm letting you go."

I perked up some. "Really, you mean I don't have to stay here anymore, I can actually go home?" my doctor seemed to darken at the mention of my home, but he hid it quickly.

"Yes, you get to be released from the hospital tomorrow. You're back has healed nicely." He paused for awhile. "but you can't go home. you see... your house isn't there anymore. Do you remember saying that you vaguely saw an explosion? Well... that was your house, and everybody inside died. That's why you haven't seen any of you family members here."

End

So sorry for the late update, my computer crashed and I couldn't really do anything.

I know I said this would explain everything, and I'm sorry for the disappointment but I have to end the chapter soon, I don't know when my computer's going to go out again, since I haven't gotten it fixed yet.