Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, but I do own this story.
Taking So Much
Summary: Kagome, under all of the stress of the Feudal Era finally snaps. She wakes up to find that her family has put her in a Mental Institution. But what terrifies her the most is to see that some of the patients and doctors around her are her friends. Can her doctor save her? Or is it just lust for his unbalanced patient behind blue eyes…
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17 years old.
Higurashi Kagome.
Hallucinations, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, and a possible case of Schizophrenia.
Furrowing his brows, Doctor Okami looked at his struggling patient before him. She was a pretty girl with long black hair and brown eyes, now torturing herself and mumbling incoherent pleas.
Currently as he looked into the viewing slot into her room for observation she was tossing and turning and gripping the sides of her head, shaking it, violent curses and warnings spilling forth.
The doctor had been here for two months now, and had just been assigned one of the new cases in the institution. It isn't as if he enjoyed being here, but he wanted to help these poor troubled people, so if he must do it here, then so be it.
Taking a deep breath, the now slightly relaxed doctor turned the knob on the door and pushed it open quietly.
"Higurashi-san?" He called to the girl softly.
Her head snapped up, eyes and body frozen in place as her frantic brown eyes looked right through him. She didn't know who he was, but could guess that he just wanted her to be trapped forever; like her family and her friends.
Hazed brown eyes stared intensely into crystalline blue eyes. Both people were stock still for minutes before a loud clacking of a clipboard being dropped further down the hallway startled them out of their own little worlds.
"Ahem…Hello Kagome-san, is it alright if I call you Kagome?" The doctor scuffed his shoe nervously as he closed the door and proceeded to seat himself in a chair facing the bed his patient was currently seated on.
Kagome slowly looked away, through the barred window. "Taijiya…-san."
The doctor barely heard what she had uttered, "Taijiya-san? Is that what you are called or were called? Perhaps a friend of yours?" The doctor questioned as he pulled a fountain pen from his coat pocket, clicking it open and poised it above the notes on his clipboard.
Kagome continued to stare out the window; that is until she started and looked straight back at him.
"What is your name?"
Dr. Okami nearly jumped at the strict, unwavering, and highly suspicious tone she was using toward him.
"Dr. Okami…Kouga." He wasn't very used to giving his patients out his first name, but if it made them more comfortable with him and made the patients able to open up to him more he didn't see the harm in it.
Kagome's eyes widened a fraction before she sprang off of her bed and onto Kouga, smiling with all of her might while gasping in surprise and happiness, "Kouga-kun!"
She held him in a tight hug, as he was knocked off of his chair with her tumbling down with him. She didn't care if he thought she was crazy, he was Kouga! Someone she knew in this horrible place, one of her few friends that didn't betray her; that always loved her.
Kouga froze, bewildered as the girl tackled him to the ground and then buried her face in his neck. He grasped her shoulders and tried to pull himself away from her, no matter how good she felt against him. He was shocked by his behavior, and not being on guard. What if she had tried to kill him? Would he have been able to stop her?
Hearing the loud crash from patient 277's room, two large male assistants burst into the room.
It had to be one of the most amusing sights they had seen in a while.
The proud, arrogant character Dr. Okami sprawled on the floor with a female patient wrapped around him, nuzzling her head into his neck.
But before the guards could have a coffee break and laugh over the situation, they hauled Kagome roughly up and away from the prone doctor.
"Don't hurt her!" Kouga nearly shouted as the guards pulled Kagome away from him, causing her to wince in pain.
The guards nearly dropped the girl at the way Kouga spoke to them as he jumped up and stomped over to them.
"Neglecting the no abuse to patient's law will not be tolerated…" Kouga decided to go off at them to give him some time to compose himself. "…and you will learn that you must not treat the patients in such a manner or else you may just find yourselves out of jobs have I made myself clear?"
The guards nodded numbly at the enraged doctor and left the room when the man dismissed them.
"Kouga-kun…" Kagome looked down at the floor as she rubbed a sore spot on her right upper arm.
"Kagome-san, why did you jump on me like that…and why are you referring to me as 'kun'?" Kouga asked her gently as he led her over to her bed and lightly pushed down on her shoulders to get her to sit.
She hesitated, but then relented; sitting down upon her bunk. Kouga brought the chair over closer and sat down directly in front of her.
"Kagome…" He reached up and tilted her chin up so that he could see her eyes.
She stayed silent.
He sighed, now convinced that because of the excitement that their little session was over for the day.
He started to stand up when a hand shot out and hooked onto his arm. Startled, Kouga tore his gaze from the hand to its owner; Kagome.
She gazed intensely at him for a long time before whispering, "Kouga…why didn't you come for me?"
"Come for you? Kagome-san…I've never met you before in my entire life." Kouga met her gaze with pitying blue eyes.
With that, he left the room, slowly sliding his arm out of her grip, telling her he would see her again the next morning.
He needed to think.
Why did she have some sort of urgency toward him?
Why was his life so damn complicated?
…
That evening the duty nurse brought Kagome her medication, standing by the girls' bed, waiting for her to take the pills.
"Higurashi-san, you need to take them, they will help you." The red-brown eyed woman urged the young patient.
Kagome just started at her blank off white wall.
The duty nurse sighed, rolled Kagome over and shoved the little cup with three two tone colored pills in her face.
"Just take them; I do have other people to see you know." The nurses' name tag read 'Kagura'.
"No Kagura, they won't…they just make things worse…" The young girl trailed off, not noticing the syringe that Kagura brandished.
The woman took the girls' nearest arm and dispelled the contents of the syringe in said arm.
It was a sedative, a mild one, but enough to coerce the patients into taking their medication.
Kagura smirked as she was able to get Kagome to swallow the pills and some water. She hated her job, but she was forced to do it. It was either this or work for her evil cousin.
She grimaced at the thought of working for that bastard. With that she left the room with her cart of medication, being sure to close the already locked door behind her…
The sedative made Kagome sleepy as she lay back onto her bunk. There was a slight tingling sensation where the nurse had stuck the syringe in, but other than that she had no ails.
Kagome slipped off into a quite disturbing and restless sleep. Her memories of the past three days haunted her greatly…
'In her dream'
Something in Kagome snapped. She just couldn't take it anymore. It was the stress, the love triangles, the horrible lies, death, and destruction that she faced everyday. The simple carnage of the villages that they visited alone was enough to make her wish to empty her stomach.
So she left. She left the Feudal Era and all of the havoc behind her as she leapt into the well.
She was so exhausted, so very tired and achy that she went to sleep right there in the dry well.
She was woken by her grandfather's frantic shouts and her brother's cries of confusion.
"Mama! Souta! Grandpa! I'm back!" Kagome shouted as she climbed out of the well.
"Kagome! Where have you been? Why were you in the well…the sealed well…why isn't it sealed anymore! It's dangerous for you to be in there! You are too old to be playing these childish games Kagome." Her grandfather scolded her.
She stepped back, truly shocked by his demeanor and questions. What did he mean where was she?
She gave him a look as if he had sprouted horns or something before she went off.
"Grandpa! You know exactly where I was! I was in the Feudal Age just like I am most of the time because InuYasha drags me back using the well, remember?"
Now it was her grandfather's turn to give her the crazy look.
"Kagome," He started gently, slowly stepping forward, "Are you feeling alright? Do you have a fever? You aren't making any sense. There is no InuYasha, and you certainly are not, and never have been to the Feudal Age…"
"Nani? Grandpa, I know that April Fool's Day is coming up, but don't you believe this is a little too early?"
Meanwhile Souta and Mrs. Higurashi stood and stared in disbelief and concern for Kagome.
"Kagome-chan, maybe you should lie down, you must not be feeling well, too much stress from school." Her mother said hesitantly, cautiously approaching her daughter.
"I am NOT SICK dammit! School? SCHOOL! You honestly think that school would make me stressed? Compared to fighting for my life and others' lives' against YOUKAI can even compare? Honestly Mama, you know what I'm talking about, why are you worrying now." Kagome snapped at her mother and pulled away from everyone.
"Do not speak to your mother that way young lady!" Kagome's grandfather yelled at her as he tried to make sense of what his granddaughter was saying.
Souta clamped a hand over his mouth as he stared in shock at his sister's outburst and was just as confused as his mother and grandpa over what Kagome was talking about. Youkai?
"Kagome-chan…you aren't well." Her mother's eyes were filling with tears as she watched her daughter's mind practically fall apart in front of her; or so she thought.
"What did I just tell you? I AM FINE!" Kagome bellowed this time.
Kagome's mother ran inside the house and dialed 911 on the phone. Her daughter was going off on her own family; she was such a sweet girl. Now she was sputtering nonsense about demons and such.
Mrs. Higurashi went back outside and watched the scene unfold before her.
"Nee-chan?" Souta questioned her quietly.
Kagome looked at her now frightened brother and her glares softened, "Hai, Souta?"
"What do you mean you were fighting Youkai?" He asked.
"Souta! Don't you remember InuYasha? He's the silver-haired hanyou with fuzzy white dog ears here?" Kagome explained; astonished at her brother and making hand motions as to where InuYasha's ears resided on his head.
"No, Kagome-nee-chan, I've never met him." Souta explained, now doubly concerned for his sister's well being and sound of mind.
Then she explained to her family her first trip through the well and her miko abilities and bounded to the well to show them by jumping in.
She expected to feel the warm glow and tingling sensation from the time portal, but was only hit with stagnate air around her.
She looked up, confused to see the roof of the well house still above her and slowly climbed out of the well.
"I guess it must have been sealed again…" Kagome stated.
So she proceeded to walk out of the well house, her family parting the way for her.
But as soon as she reached the stone steps into her house she was ambushed by two men dressed in ambulatory uniforms. She was contained and sedated, being welcomed into the world of darkness as she heard the wailing sirens come closer…
Kouga lay in his bed, pajama pants clinging to his sheets as he tossed and turned, hair loose from its accustomed low braid.
He couldn't get her out of his head.
She plagued his thoughts constantly since he met her.
Her plea…'Kouga…why didn't you come for me?' Her sad cinnamon brown eyes glazed with almost tears as she looked up at him, clutching onto him as if he were her only lifeline.
Why did she seem to believe that she knew him?
Of course, she had hallucinations…one look at him and she could have thought up an entire other lifetime with him…
Punching his pillow, molding it as to how he saw fit, Kouga turned over and tried to sleep.
Tomorrow would be a very long day…
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A/N: Whoot! My second K/K fic and also my second one in 12 days!
For those of you who like my other fic, 'From Bad to Worse' have no fear! I will still be updating it! Hopefully I will have the next chapter out by Sunday; latest.
And If everyone decides to be the lovely people that they are and review, I will be more than happy to update this one too.
Reviews keep me writing these fics, people!
They are my inspiration.
So please, if you like this fic, try my other K/K fic; From Bad to Worse. It's really funny, and it's got fluff Not too much, mind you. But enough to keep 'em coming.
Thanks for reading!
Menolly