Sango bent down for a moment, removing his bangs from his eyes and sorrowfully sitting down beside him. She could see he tried to be tough no matter what, even after hearing Kagome talk about him but she could tell he always pretended to be strong.Her head stared in the same direction of all the closed doors, seeing one tear roll down after another. " He tries to act tough doesn't he? I can see he really cares for Kagome now. After all, he's never trusted anyone it seems when he was thrown into the orphanage. I can't blame him. I don't doubt if he doesn't trust me either." Sango thought to herself feeling her bracelet around her wrist sliding down towards her fingertips, while she felt completely useless.
" Inuyasha? There's no point of crying. What's crying gonna do for you?" She got to her feet while she looked down on the guy in ripped clothes with his head bowing down towards his knees almost down in defeat. Sango tried to get a reaction out of him, and get him to have some confidence and faith that things would work out. She waited patiently for him to respond, as he felt the last tear fall down his cheek. " She's right…crying isn't going to solve anything. What the hell I am doing?" He muttered to himself rising to his feet, with Sango smiling when she saw the same mean expression written on his face. " See. Come on. I'm going downstairs to get some drinks." Sango commented while Inuyasha nodded, slowly trusting her knowing she was Kagome's friend.
" I can't stand still here. I want to know that Kagome's alright. I can't wait..I don't think they understand that!" Inuyasha thought bitterly pacing down the long stretch of hallway hearing patients screaming and watching the occasional doctor or nurse walking down there in a hurry, into patients' rooms. His chocolate eyes wandering knowing this place was bad enough to be in, and the fact his friend was laying in a hospital was something she truly didn't deserve.
" You think Kagome is alright? I hope she is. The last thing we want to do is lose her." The women's voice echoed, wearing a long black fur coat and a fairly tall guy walking beside her dressed in plaid and with a worried look on his face." I know. I can only hope she's alright. That's all we can do." The women's voice trailed off, as Inuyasha barely recognized the voice but hearing him talking about ' Kagome' made him wonder even more.
" What the hell do they know about her?" He asked himself watching them coming from the flight of stairs and knocking on the door awaiting to get into Kagome's room. He could hear the door unlocking, while his heart pounded through his chest when he saw the door was open, and wasn't opened for him. " Bastards. This is my last chance to get in!" He told himself raging down the hallway and catching the door, while Sango had the drinks grasped in her hands and knowing all hell was going to break loose. " Inuyasha!" Sango screaming watching him fly into the Kagome's room while she tried to catch up with the water in her hands.
" I told you sir, nobody else is allowed to get in." Inuyasha stood in the doorway noticing Marla and Mark sitting against the chairs beside her bedside and watching all the doctors finally leaving Kagome alone, and disappearing from her room. " I'm related to those two!" He screamed pointing at them and glaring at them hating Marla for beating him and making him feel like an complete outsider. She hated his guts, and she didn't have to pretend to it was pretty much clear to him, and only him. She adjusted her fur coat while the doctor lowered his mask, and Mark nodded. " Ya he is." The doctor nodded and placed a crooked smile on his face, with the paper grasped into his hands.
" Kagome is fine now. She's just resting. It could have been fatal." Inuyasha's eyes couldn't keep off of her. He noticed the wires and tubes were still hooked up to her body, and could hear her heavily breathing and almost like she was gasping for air time to time. He hated seeing her like this, and noticing she was so lifeless and her skin color was a lot paler than normal. His eyes lit up when heard him mouth 'fatal' and stood there dumbfounded and angered. " Fatal? What do you mean 'fatal?" His hands turned into fists, refusing to sit down right beside them. Sango stood near the open door knowing it wasn't her place to come in and interrupt.
The doctor sighed, placing his gloves down on the counter and getting a quick drink from the sink. " I mean Kagome was at a life threatening stage. If she wasn't rushed here any sooner it would have resulted in death." Inuyasha's chocolate eyes were brought back to life when he heard she could have died if she didn't come any sooner than he did. He was glad that the help came when it did, but still it hurt him to think how even seconds and minutes behind could have killed her instantly.
Inuyasha stood between the doctor and Kagome's hospital bed while he moved towards her side. He knelt down touching her for a moment seeing her tormented by all the machinery and medicines. His hand gently touched her face feeling how cold she felt, while the blankets barely did anything to get her warm and secure. " Kagome don't worry, your better now." He whispered seeing her eyes wincing while she rolled over to the other side and gasped for air. He noticed she could barely say anything, except see her lips moving trying to mouth something,
" What did this to her? Answer me!" Inuyasha demanded of the doctor while Mark could see how upset and hurt he had been. Mark tried to pull him back and tried to calm him down but he smacked his hand indicated he didn't want to be bothered. The doctor fixed his glasses and looked down at the medical sheet. " Well it's a poison that comes from a household item. Somehow it had gotten into her food, and made her terribly ill. The poison didn't spread quick enough. This poison spreads very slowly, but can do numerous damage. We were able to extract it, now she is recovering."
Inuyasha remembered she had been eating at the cafeteria before it happened, and had the hamburger that was in her hands before she felt sick and was rushed to the hospital. He bit down on his lip knowing something wasn't right. He turned back feeling Marla staring him down with such hatred he could basically feel when he had the nerve to look back at her face, and know he was unwanted by her. "
That poison couldn't have been from the hamburger. Wait…That bitch Marla must of done it. She hates me more than Kagome…She was trying to poison me, and Kagome ended getting it! That has to be it." Inuyasha thought to himself staring her down remembering how much she cherished and adored Kagome like the perfect daughter, and him like a stupid package that came with her. He understood Mark had nothing against him, and he actually had a heart than she actually did. He knew Marla treated him like crap and the day he was left alone with her, proved it all.
"So trouble maker. I just got a phone call from the high school explaining that you were late for almost all your classes, and already starting fights. Am I right?" He just remembered walking in to greet her ugly face, and knowing Kagome and Mark were nowhere and sight." I didn't start that! It's a lie!" He remembered saying in defense while she was too thick headed to listen to him.
" Really? Not if you decide to knock some teenagers senseless. Let's get one thing straight around here. I don't tolerate that kind of behavior. Your mother must have raised you quite lousy if your like this. I don't know what kind of mother would make her child deranged, and defiantly defiant and anger problems. I guess your mother didn't know how to raise a child properly, maybe that's why she took you to that orphanage to rot there."
He remembered what she said each and very time he scowled upon her dead looking face, soaked in make-up that was ugly on her skin and didn't match her tone at all. She tried to be something she was not, and that was clear to him. She'd pretty herself up, but he wanted to world to see she was an ugly bitch…a bitch without a purpose. The fact that he brought his mother into it, made his heart bleed even more. To him, his heart was at the mercy of her and was in her palm. She knew how to make it bleed, and make it hurt even more. He remembered her grabbing him by his shirt saying she was his mother now, when the fact she wasn't; and never will be..ever…
Sango had finally slipped into the quiet room, placing her hand faithfully on Inuyasha's shoulder as they overlooked Kagome's condition. " So is she going to be alright?" She whispered into his ear, which didn't bother him that much. Sango glanced again at what looked like a sleeping Kagome, who was actually resting and recovering from the poison that had been inside her body for almost, over twenty four hours. " Ya she's alright. But I'm not…" He told himself still not feeling satisfied. He thought he'd rejoice and be happy that she was ok, but that wasn't bothering him. It was the fact he truly believed that poison had been from her, and was aimed at him and not her.
" He should learn to stop staring at me. Just because he's the orphanage boy, doesn't mean he should hate me for it. After all I offered to bring him into home didn't I? He could at least be grateful." She thought to herself wrapping her coat around, and getting up from her seat in anger. Mark just listening to her heels clicking against the floor, while he rose his eyebrow in wonder. " I'm getting a drink…." She said while he tagged alone and looked at his adopted son with apologizes. " She'll be better I promise." Even though his smile wasn't there, he was smiling inside because Mark was the one who actually had a heart that wasn't buried six feet below.
" I heard the whole thing about her getting poisoned. It wasn't the hamburger was it?" Sango asked hutching, trying to remember her science class and how they studied substances and things that tied into to harmful chemicals and poisons that she could barely remember anymore. She remembered she hadn't had that hamburger that long ago, and she doubt it could of went through her that quickly. " I don't think so. I believe that fucking bitch Marla, ( who claims she's my mother) who hates me completely tried to poison me with food. I think Kagome took the wrong food and gotten sick from it. I truly believe she did it. She adores Kagome, and I only came along because Kagome wanted to and they couldn't say no." His hands tightened, and he felt tenseness on every square inch of his body.
Sango could see the awful shimmer in his mocha eyes when he talked about her, and could see by his body language and attitude that he hated her guts and was pretty sure that she hated his a hell, of a lot. Sango's hand slipped from his shoulder grabbed the two small chairs and sliding it up beside her beside. " Just be thankful Kagome is fine. But even if that thing is true, what can you do about it?" Sango asked sweetly, trying not to upset him. His head sat against his hands looking at Kagome almost in a saddened trace, until he heard someone else's voice ringing in his ear. " Not a hell of a lot. But I can at least try." He whispered and wondering where that wench had gotten off to.
" Kagome are you awake?" He whispered seeing her one hand beside her hand, looking like she was grasping something loosely where her head was cocked in their direction against the soft pillow. She batted her eyelashes struggling to get herself to wake, and stay awake.
" Is someone calling me?" She whispered, which they could barely make out. Her hand twitched for a moment finally revealing her darken eyes that seemed to have lost it's gleam that he always saw in her eyes before hand. His hand grasped her for a moment, until she lifted her head and realized she had a breathing mask covering her face, and tubes and wires that she was unaware about for the longest time. " So, I'm ok?" She questioned looking at his face that had the sense of worry and fear, that was slowly depleting when he saw her glowing with some life in her, despite the things all over her body.
" Ya your fine Kagome. Your just recovering." She slowly laid back against the bed as though she had the happy falling feeling inside her knowing she was fine, and she had nothing bad to look forward to. She wiped her forehead and sighed, with a chuckle of laughter realizing she had quite a scare for a moment until she heard that she was recovering. " I don't feel any better, but if I'm recovering I must be. Oh Sango you're here too." She said delightfully feeling like an idiot that she missed her completely, when she was practically sitting beside him and was close enough towards her. Sango chucked and rubbed her head slightly. " Well by the looks of it your still not feeling yourself." She said jokingly while Kagome blushed alittle while Sango crossed her arms pretending to feel hurt.
" Sango isn't the only one here either." He muttered hatefully, clueing her in what was happening that they already knew about. Kagome blinked for a moment, now feeling abit awake but still drained from the poisons and the medications they had fed her. Her body felt numb, but she still had some control of it. " What do you mean? Marla and Mark came too?" She sounded cheery about it, which made him turn away and want to gag her because how disgusted he was that she seemed proud that they had came. " Yes you idiot." He sounded exactly how he was when he was still in the damned orphanage. Sango nudged him in the ribs, trying to remind him to make things easier on Kagome and not actually mean just yet.
" Ya they came, alright." He just brought his knees up on the chair, and stared at the doorway wondering where they taken off to. It wasn't like he cared about them, he just knew getting a drink truly didn't take that long it almost made me nervous because he didn't know exactly what they were doing. " I'm glad your safe Kagome. We were worried about you. Inuyasha especially." Sango commented, with a secret smile while he tried to rid the bored as hell expression off his face. Kagome blinked again, almost like she didn't believe he cared after all the times he pretended he didn't.
" To think he does. I mean why wouldn't he? I mean after all I could of died.. and plus nobody likes to see anyone in a gown and a hospital bed after all." Kagome felt like a ditz and knowing if he knew she had thought that, he would have bitched at her royally and smacked her upside the head for even dare thinking like that. She hated the feel of the gown, it felt like thin piece of plastic laid over her body and she wasn't enjoying the clothes that much. " What made me sick anyways?" Kagome looked at Inuyasha to answer, as he sipped on the water Sango had went to fetch from downstairs in the waiting room. He picked at his threads moments longer, until he heard her soft voice. " Poison." He bluntly said with no emotion in tact. Her eyes opened wide, realizing this was much more serious than she had ever thought.
" Poison? That's what caused me to be that way? But how did it get in my system…" She muttered to herself trying to retrace what she had eaten, and what could possibly have anything with poison in it. Inuyasha grasped her hand for a moment that her caught off guard and helped her from thinking about where it came from. " Kagome, the poison was something you had eaten. It wasn't the cafeteria food either. I think Marla tried to kill me with that poison, but screwed it up and gave it to you." Kagome laughed for a moment, even though her chest and throat was tightened enough as it was. His eyebrows rose the moment she killed with laughter, and thought maybe the medication had gotten to her head.
" Her, try to kill you? That's stupid. If she really didn't like you Inuyasha as she claimed, you wouldn't have been adopted." Kagome responded back smiling trying to reassure him that she was a kind and gentle soul and would never lay a hand on him. He noticed she was blind from the truth that she was a monster, and hated his so much he was tempted to kill him. He didn't have a doubt that poison had been for him, and he was sure his name was written all over it. " What is she blind?She still doesn't believe me on this! She's trying to be something she's not. That bitch. I need to get Kagome to believe me, it's the only one I see to get out of this fucking mess." He thought to himself, looking at Kagome pitifully seeing that she was wrapped around her finger so tightly it was pathetic. " Kagome your not getting it are you! She only adopted me so you they could have you! Dimwit.. don't you get it at all?"
His shoes hit against the titled floor, while she was getting furious that he made her seem like the fool, when she believed it was the other way around. " I think you don't trust her that's all! You seem to only trust Sango and I now. How about giving her a chance…?" He felt like he would of strangled her, but reframed because of her condition. He was literally driving her up the wall and Sango could tell, which gave her chills and she tried to referee it. " I did give her a fucking chance! Forget Kagome…Forget it …forget it …" He repeated while Sango turned to him, and backed him into the chair.
" You two shouldn't be fighting. That's the last thing you two need." Sango was the voice of reason, why he kicked back into the chair trying to act like nothing plucked his last nerve, when the fact she did. Before Inuyasha could say another word to her, he heard the clicking heels and saw Marla and Mark appear which made me feel uneasy and uncomfortable.
" Come on son. Visiting time is done. I promise we can visit her tomorrow, and by that time she'll be a lot better and she'll be home." Mark said nicely, knowing the last thing he wanted to do was rip him away from her when he cared a lot for her. His hand let go of Kagome's while he decided to go to make things easier on himself, than rather pick a huge fight and make a scene. " Good-bye Kagome…Thanks Sango." He muttered feeling like she was breathing down his neck, and watching his every move.
Sango's smile disappeared when he saw his expression on his face when he was around them, and especially Marla. She buttoned up her fur coat and smiled back and waved off to them. " Bye Inuyasha. Good luck…." She managed to mutter knowing it was out of both of their hearings. Marla sweetly looked at Kagome feeling bad she also wound up there. " I'll see you tomorrow I promise."Inuyasha stormed off down the flight of stairs away from her, and the pounding of his feet against the concrete steps
. " That stupid bitch. I know she tried to kill me, and almost killed Kagome. Nobody fucking believes me. I wish Kagome could see how she has her wrapped around her finger…Because I know a fact she does, and thank god I'm not."
Author Notes:
Well now you understand what caused Kagome to end up in the hospital. Hopefully this chapter was long enough. I hoped you guys enjoyed it! Please Read and Review!