INTO THE MADHOUSE

Chapter 3: Scary Session

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MCS: "I'm sad because I didn't win anything at my competition. No one from my team did! What's odd is that when we looked at our scores they were really high. (I had a story in the superior column! That's the highest one!) We think the judges discriminated against us because we were the only all gothic team there. (There weren't any other goths.) Kids that had happy stories that weren't twisted or dark or involved mental hospitals were winning! We wound up all hanging out and labeling the other teams. We had the material team, those were the kids that had a lot of stuff. The preppy team, kids that put make up on every 5 seconds and were jerks. And e.t.c. We were the goth team! YAY GOTHS! (Technically I'm a half goth but oh well.)"

"InuYasha!" cried Kagome waking up. She looked at the room, it was surprisingly private. She had her own bathroom and the window was large, only the view was slightly obstructed by the bars. The restraints were removable from the bed, Kagome found that out by taking them off. And her strait jacket had a nice hook designated for it. (Just kidding!) Kagome wondered what time it was. They didn't let her have an electric clock, Kagome guessed it was because of the chord. (Strangling, for those who don't know a lot about mental hospitals like me! I've never been to one, I just want to be a psychiatrist.) The full moon outside was shining brightly in the sky so she knew it was night. There was nothing to do in the room, she was all alone. She heard a knock on her door, she dove back into bed. A nurse walked into the room.

"Kagome? I can't see you, are you in bed?" Kagome looked to see who it was. She saw the friendly elderly face that she had come to love.

"Kaede!" she said happily. "You have to help me! Naraku has put me under a spell so everyone thinks I'm crazy!"

"Oh Kagome," Kaede shook her head. "I tried to tell you that if you clung to these delusions you would end up in here. I'll try to make things easy for you but you need to cooperate with the doctor."

"I," started Kagome. Sorrow overcame her, even Kaede was under the spell. She wasn't a nurse, she was Kaede! The elderly woman that was Kikyo's sister. Kagome almost threw up at the thought of being related to Kikyo. "You don't believe me, fine! Go away!" she said. Kaede checked off something on her clip board. "What did you check off?"

"That you were in bed and accounted for," then she left the room, re locking the door.

"Oh," said Kagome. So this was just routine. Kaede wasn't looking out to see if she was alright. She just told her to cooperate. Then an ingenious scheme formed in her head, one that would set her free.

The next day

Kagome had fallen back asleep and was woken up by Kaede. Kagome started to get dressed in her clothes when Kaede cut in.

"No, since the doctor doesn't know if you can be trusted, you'll have to wear hospital issue clothing."

"Why wouldn't I be trusted with clothes? What can I possibly- oh," she said when Kaede help up her shoe laces and pretended to hang herself with them.

"I'll show you around first, then you can have your session with Naraku," said Kaede handing her the hospital clothing. It was like wearing white pajamas, long sleeved shirt and long pants. They were comfortable but they had sewn in words on the front shirt that said: KENTO ASYLUM PATIENT. That was so in case she escaped people would know that she was a patient. She hated the clothing and would not screw up her chance to wear her old clothes. Kaede used her nurse card to unlock a door that led out of the room ward.

"Where are we off to first?" asked Kagome. "I'm starved."

"Then let's go to the dining room," said Kaede leading her down a long hall way. "Sango is right over there," she pointed to Sango, she was wearing the hospital issue clothing too. Kagome's heart leapt. SANGO! Finally a face she knew, someone that would understand what was happening! She ran over to her, Sango was shocked to see Kagome.

"Kagome!" she said. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with InuYasha?"

"Sango! You know it's real!" said Kagome happily. "We're under a spell by Naraku! He's trying to take the Shikon jewel somehow! He's made himself a psychiatrist and is trying to make us think we're crazy!"

"Hi! Kagome, what are you doing here?" asked a little boy with red hair. It almost looked like Shippo!

"Shippo, you're human," said Kagome. "I get it! Naraku has to make it seem like demons aren't real! You were a fox demon, he made you human!"

"Huh?" asked Shippo. Sango explained.

"We're under a spell by Naraku to make us think we're insane."

"I don't want to do that," said Shippo almost pouting. "I want to do some kind of adventure with me as the lead! We always go with Kagome's ideas."

"Quiet!" hissed Sango. "Kagome dictates what happens! She started this game after all!"

"What?" asked Kagome. "Game, what do you mean? What do you mean "my ideas."

"Kagome," said Kaede. "You know that Shippo and Sango are patients here. Shippo came to us when his parents were killed in front of him. Sango's boyfriend and father were killed in a car wreck."

"NO!" yelled Sango. "Miroku is alive! HE IS! HE IS!" then she got on a table and threw her chair at an orderly. They called a code red, Sango's face became frightened. "No! I was only joking! Don't take me to the back room!" but the orderlies ignored her, so Sango held up a plushie doll. "Kilala! Help me!" but the orderlies grabbed her, sedated her, and took her away. Kagome was speechless.

"They took Sango to be put in a strait jacket and sent to a sponge room," Kaede explained. Kagome was still reeling in worry.

"Sango really is crazy," she said.

"Yes, and bringing up her boyfriend will make her have a mood swing worse than a bi polar person."

"M-Miroku is dead," said Kagome. Maybe saying the words aloud would help her see how silly it sounded. How ridiculous to think that Miroku was dead. Yet Kagome found herself wondering if it was true. She quickly banished those thoughts. She needed to do as InuYasha had said. She needed to remember that they were real.

A few minutes later Kagome was told that Naraku's office was here and that she was being trusted to go to her session. If she broke this trust she would be personally escorted everywhere by two muscled orderlies. Kagome didn't want that considering as how the orderlies carried tranquilizer guns with them and pills and syringes were in their pockets. Kagome walked into the office and was told that Naraku would be here shortly. Kagome glanced at the impressive wall of p.h.d's and other things.

"I see you're admiring my diplomas," said the psycho cheery voice of Naraku.

"No," said Kagome. "I'm just surprised that it doesn't say the university of hell, considering as how that's where you came from."

"Kagome, I really wish you would let down this barrier you put up and let me in. I can help you."

"I don't need your kind of help," Kagome glared. "What I need is for you to stop this!"

If she couldn't reason with Naraku, then she would tackle this head on.

"What do you mean? I haven't done a thing to you," his malicious eyes almost seemed to show a hint of honesty.

"You've thrown me into this alternate universe to steal the Shikon jewel! You'll never get it Naraku!" There was determination in her eyes. Naraku sighed a long sigh.

"Kagome, you saw Sango's break down. How she tried to use "Kilala" to fend off the orderlies. I'm sure that the "Shikon" jewel is an old necklace. I don't need that, what I need is for you to get better."

"I am healthy!" yelled Kagome. "InuYasha is real and you'll never convince me otherwise!" She smirked, even in the pajamas she knew she had won. Then Naraku's eyes lit up. He was, in a twisted way, going to enjoy this. He acted as though it was sad.

"Kagome, I didn't want to do this to you but you've left me no choice," then he opened a door. In walked INUYASHA!

MCS: "YAY CLIFFHANGERS! WHY DO I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT MENTAL HOSPITALS? I DON'T KNOW! THEY JUST FASCINATED ME AS A SMALL CHILD SO I BEGAN TO FIND OUT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!"