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A/N: I'm so sorry this is so late. My mum got in a car accident. She didn't get hurt, Thank God. But it did cause a lot of financial problems. So I'm so sorry, again.

I watched Edward Scissorhands the other day. 3 I'm in love with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. blush tee hee.

Cigarettes and Lavender

Chapter 17-

Bi Polar

Izayoi woke up in a daze, then again, when did she not wake up in a daze? She sat up and rubbed her eyes which ached and pained when she opened them.

Where was Sei? Where was her Sei? Izayoi stood up shakily and stumbled to the couch. It took her awhile to gather enough strength to call out to her husband. "Sei! Sei dear, where are you?" There was no answer and she felt her heart tighten. She knew where he was. Out. That's what he use to say 'I'm going out, that's all; Jesus Christ back off!' She missed him. He was probably drinking in some brothel outside town. Knowing him, he wouldn't be back for awhile.

She forgave too fast, and forgot too easily. Izayoi reached for the television remote and turned it on. The TV, however, was not where it usually was and she started to panic; her sluggish mind coming to hasty conclusions. But she breathed an easy sigh when her tired eyes finally saw the old TV laying on its side on the floor. 'How did it get there?' she wondered momentarily, but quickly pushed the thought away and picked it up and put it back on its stand.

Izayoi was worn-out after that and collapsed back on the couch, turning to her soap opera channel. She felt ill. Whatever she ate last night, she felt it coming back up to say hello. She laid down on the couch and held a hand to her forehead.

Why did she do this? Every time things got hard, she went to the liquor cabinet. Her head was pounding and it only pounded harder when the doorbell rang. Izayoi moaned and sat up.

She opened the door a crack afraid the light would burn her alive. There on the doorstep stood a young raven haired girl, scowling. The girl looked up with big blue eyes and frowned.

"I don't want to buy it." Izayoi said harshly.

"I'm not selling anything." The girl said.

"Oh?"

"My stupid teacher said that I should come here and give that Inuyasha kid the homework he missed while he was gone."

"Who?" Izayoi's mind felt like it was going to explode from the pounding.

"Inuyasha…I'm guessing, your son."

"Um…I think you have the wrong house, little girl." Izayoi was going to close the door when the girl stopped her, looking almost desperate, but the look of anxiety was quickly replaced by a glower.

"No…I didn't get the wrong house. Inuyasha lives here, I know it."

"Look, kid. I don't care who you are or why the fuck you're here, but you need to get off my doorstep right now." Her patience was wearing thin, and all she wanted to do was lie down and sleep.

"My teacher will kill me if I don't give this to him. Look lady…please…" The blue eyed girl frowned and gave a pleading look.

Izayoi tapped her foot impatiently.

"Inuyasha lives here…I know he does."

She continued to tap.

"The boy that lives upstairs." Her words held an insistent note in them.

Izayoi stopped tapping and vaguely remembered something, it vanished just as fast as it had come and she began to tap her foot again.

"You know…the carnie…"

"Oh! The carnie! Jesus, girl, why didn't you say that sooner." Izayoi grabbed the book from Kagome's hands and slammed the door.

Kagome gave a sigh of relief and walked back to Miroku's car. She gave herself a mental pat on the back for her good acting job. Thank God it wasn't his father that had answered the door. She stepped inside the car, giving the two teenagers in the front seats a smile.

"Whew, I thought for sure she wasn't going to take it." Sango smiled widely at their achievement.

"I know. After what happened to us, I thought she was just going to slam the door in your face." Miroku added.

"Now all we have to do is wait." Kagome spoke with a wistful tone. She wondered if Inuyasha was okay. …If he still had hope, God she hoped he did.

"Did you see him?" Miroku asked softly.

Kagome sat in silence for awhile. "No…" Her voice shook slightly.

The other two didn't say anything.

It took some time for her to get up the stairs but she did. Izayoi opened the door to the weird kid's room and threw the book in the general direction of the bed. She heard a loud yelp of pain, but ignored it. "Some girl from your school came by and dropped off this book." She waited a short moment, becoming impatient. "Hey kid! Did you hear me!"

"…Yea…" A voice sounded from the shadowy room. She shut the door and stumbled down the stairs to return to her soap operas, and maybe the liquor cabinet.

Back in the dark room that she had just left, Inuyasha lied on the floor groaning from the new bruise that the book caused on his chest. He picked it up and set it down next to his head. It took him a moment to get enough strength to sit up; but slowly but surely he did.

He sat with his back against the bed wincing at the twinges of pain here and there. Gradually Inuyasha was able to take off his torn and bloody shirt, flinching all the way, trying to keep from crying. He looked down at his chest and arms.

His shoulder was the worst. The glass that was still sticking out, kept his shoulder from bleeding freely. But it had to be taken out, that was going to sting. A large black and blue bruise marred his pastel colored chest and a new one was forming from the text book. Inuyasha noticed cuts and bruises all up and down his arms as well.

He finally reached up to his head and softly massaged the several cuts he had received last night from the lamp. His eyes leaked with salty tears as a pang of pain trembled through his body. It wouldn't need stitching, but it hurt like hell.

Inuyasha got up and went to the bathroom across the hall. He knew his father would be gone; he always left when he was angry. At a snail's pace he got the first aid kit out and knelt in front of the bath tub.

First thing's first, he turned the water on and let the tub fill up. He didn't want to take a bath, too much work; all he wanted to do was clean up and fall asleep. The bath was halfway full and Inuyasha turned the faucet off. He rinsed his arms gently of all the dirt and dry blood.

Inuyasha groaned in reluctance, as he prepared himself to take out the 3 large pieces of glass. There would be a flood of blood when he pulled them out, he had done this enough times to know what would happen. 'One at a time, breathe and pull. One at a time, breathe and pull.' He chanted in his mind. His hands shook as he gripped the largest of the pieces, he thought on impulse and in little more than a second the piece was out and staining the floor. He had a towel pressed against the gapping slit where the glass used to be.

Breathing deep he calmed himself; trying to ignore the stinging. He cleaned the gash with water and peroxide, just as the nurses had done 5 year ago when he got stitches in his arm from falling down the stairs. Inuyasha picked up an almost empty container of dibucaine. He regretted not taking some from his last hospital visit. He rubbed a small glob of the ointment on and around the wound and felt a tingling sensation up and down his arm. It was only a small amount, but that would make all the difference. He would still feel it, but it wouldn't be quite so bad. (A/N: Dibucaine is an anesthetic agent that numbs the area where you put it.)

Still pressing the towel firmly against his bleeding shoulder he picked up the needle and absorbable sutures. He threaded the needle and thanked his lucky stars that he had snatched some of the absorbable thread from the hospital. They would break down to tissues and lose their strength within 60 days and he wouldn't have to go through the painful and time consuming task of removing all of the stitches individually.

Inuyasha slowly removed the blood soaked towel from his shoulder and stuck the needle into his bruised skin. He slammed his eyes shut and grimaced as he began to sew his sliced arm shut as if he would sew up a torn sock. His arm throbbed and stung by the time he finished the last of the wounds. He sat there for a while; trying to settle down.

Then came his head. He fingered the cuts, cringing every now and then. He took out the medical scissors and clipped his hair around the cuts, gently spreading the cortizone cream over the shallow gash. Inuyasha cleaned the rest of himself up rather quickly after that. Placing band aids and taped gauze where it needed to go. He felt slightly better walking back to his room. His head was clearer.

Inuyasha's room was as dark as ever, but he didn't turn on the lights. He didn't want to. He didn't have the urge to do anything at the moment. He sat in the same place he was laying only a couple hours before.

The book that his mother had thrown at him was still there. He picked it up and read the front. It was a science book but on the front, strangely enough, was a taped post-it. 'Meet me by the closest playground, 3 AM. I miss and love you.'

Inuyasha's heart pounded and he lost his breath completely. His eyes watered but he smiled. He began to chuckle, salty tears leaking into his mouth. And as he sat there in his dark, cold room, bandaged up, and crying happy tears he knew everything would be alright.

A/N: All done! Whew, I'm so sorry that this is late. Anyways, I wanted to thank all of you for reviewing…211! OMG!

Whitewolf33: Yea, I guess you're right. hehe. Thanks so much for the review and the input on the title.

Kasandra: Aw, Thanks. :D I'm still sorry this one took some time. Mum's car was pretty torn up. But thank God she's okay. Thanks so much for the support.

One-Mean-Rabbit: Haha. Use the spork! The spork! Those hurt really bad. :D Thanks for the review.

Bubble4ya: That's so cute, that you're called you that. That's lovely. Thanks for the review. :D

Hanako Horigome: Haha, that's funny. Is your friend okay?

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StaySee: Thanks so much. You're review was really wonderful, it made me feel really great. :D I really don't know why I understand emotions so well…haha…I get asked that a lot. My friends say it's because I'm emo…and it probably is. Hehe. I'm sorry this chapter took awhile. I hope to see more reviews from you, you're really sweet.

HayLin4: Haha, and the funny thing is; he probably would kill the shrink. Thanks for the review.

Inuyashabooklover5188: Go ahead and kick the shit out of Sei. Hehe. Thanks for the comment.

Avian Dincht: Hehe, I love how you use the word 'tis. That's fantastic. :D Thanks.

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angel61991: I'm sorry this took so long. I hope you forgive me. Thanks though.

fanficluv7Inu: Hehe, I'm not sure who Inuyasha is cussing at. But I promise that everything will get better…eventually.

ScariMoi: Aw, thanks for the review. It's really kind.

Miss BinKy: I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you cry…well I sort of did…but you know, not like purposely to make you feel horrible.

Carol J: Haha, that's so cool. :D My presentation went pretty good actually. My song was like 9 minutes long but it was awesome because, I mean, who doesn't like a song about a sailor that gets eaten by a whale. All my classmates liked it, but my teacher said it was crap. Whatever, he's just an idiot. Thanks though, for the review and everything.

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TheyCallMeTaterSalad: It's okay, I forgive you. Hehehe. But thank you so much for reviewing the last chapter.

Xianora: I'm sorry; I usually just keep my chapters short, so yea. I hope this one has more substance. With the view of Izayoi and a little notice on Miroku, Sango, and Kagome. Thanks for the review, it was really charming.

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