Chapter Nine: The Morning After
When Kagome woke up the next morning, she felt miserable. Her head was pounding, as if someone was hitting it repetitively with a hammer; her stomach keep doing somersaults of nausea, and all her muscles ached. She groaned as she wearily opened her eyes but was forced to shut them again do to the 'brightness' of the room.
She couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. Was she sick? Did she have the flu? She had felt perfectly fine yesterday. But now, she felt as if she had been infected with the plague. She tried to think back to the night before. Had she done something that may have resulted in the way she felt at the moment? Her memory was blank from dinner on. Maybe if she had something to eat she'd be able to jog her memory.
Her face made a ripping sort of noise as she pulled it off of the warm leather couch. Slowly she adjusted herself into a sitting position. It was then that she realized… natural was calling and it planned on leaving a message if she didn't answer soon…
Kagome stood up and was about to race over to the washroom when a wave of dizziness caught a hold on her and she fell back into her seat. This wasn't going to be easy. With the bursting sensation inside of her still burning to go, she determined that she'd have to take things slow if she ever wanted to make it to the bathroom at all. She languidly stood up and quickly grabbed a hold of the sofa armrest to keep her balance.
Gradually she stepped her way over to the hallway by hanging onto whatever was in her reach. Everything was a blur in her eyes, which made it more difficult for her to get to her destination. She had already successfully bumped into the side of the chair four times.
She attempted to grab on to the floor light in front of her but ending up knocking the large thing over instead. It made a loud bang proclaiming that it had broke. She wobbled on the toes of her feet as she tried to regain her balance. Her instability was caused by the loss of something to hold on to, and by the fact that she was already extremely dizzy. Her poise failed her and she began to fall towards the ground. She awaited the hard floor but it never came. Instead, she found herself in the arms of someone dressed in red. She looked up into the said person's face. It looked like a blob of tan with another blob of silver around it. She tried widening her eyes to make out more details to the person but that just made them water. She heard the person laugh.
"What are you laughing about?" She was surprised to hear her voice come out as an unfamiliar croak. The person laughed even harder.
"You! You look…horrible!" She recognized that voice full of mirth, it belonged to Inuyasha. She growled menacingly at his insult.
"What are you trying to do anyway? You frigin broke my floor light."
"For your information," Kagome said as she stepped out of his arms only to loose her balance and fall back. Inuyasha grabbed her wrist just before she fell. "I was on my way to the bathroom. I've been feeling very nauseous and ill ever since I woke up. And after I go to the bathroom before I pee myself, your going to explain to me why I feel this way." With that she walked away, or rather into the wall. She quickly regained her self-esteem and managed to continue her way over to the bathroom.
After flushing the toilet, Kagome went over to the mirror to see if she actually looked as bad as she felt. She surveyed the damage. Her hair was a tangled mess of knots. Her eyes were watery and red not to mention how puffy they were, it was a wonder she could see anything out of them at all. Her skin was as pale as pale could get which made her eyes look very dark in contrast to it. She splashed water on her face and filled a glass to give her voice better clarity before leaving the bathroom.
She found Inuyasha sitting in the living room watching TV. She managed to stumble over and stood in front of him.
"Now," she began looking at him sternly. "Your going to tell me everything that happened from dinner on."
He sighed. "Well let me see. Ah yes, it started with you breaking your chopstick at dinner. You went into the kitchen to get another one. Half an hour later you still hadn't returned so I went to find you. I discovered you wasted on my kitchen floor, with empty bottles of sake around you. I took you into the living room and after some mindless blabbering on your behalf, you fell asleep." He looked thoughtful for a moment. "Yeah I think that sums up the evening pretty well."
Kagome starred at him with wide eyes. "Your telling me I got drunk?" He nodded in response. "I don't believe you," she said shaking her head. "I don't drink. I don't even like alcohol. You're lying."
"Hey, I didn't say you had to believe me. I for one know I'm not lying. You give an innocent little schoolgirl a bit of wine and bam she's an alcoholic. Well you can't learn from your mistakes unless you make them."
Kagome began pacing back and forth. "I couldn't have gotten drunk. Girls like me don't drink. It's all just a trick… There's no proof…"
"Oh so it's proof you want eh? Well weren't you wondering why you feel, not to mention look, ill? It's called a hangover babe. There's also 'bout half of a case of empty sake bottles in the recycling bin by the door and I sure as hell didn't drink all those."
Kagome was silent for a moment, still pacing while contemplating the proof he had presented. It was all very relevant. She couldn't think of anything to argue back for her defence. She decided to turn the blame on him.
"You must have fooled me into drinking all that sake!"
"Oh very intelligent Kagome. What? To afraid to admit you have a little drinking problem? Fooled you into it… ya right. I was simply eating my dinner while you were busy chugging down endless bottles of sake… Will you stop pacing bitch!? I'm trying to watch TV!"
It was a miracle Kagome hadn't fallen over from pacing, considering how dizzy she had felt only moments before. She sat down on to the chair and began to watch TV. Suddenly, her stomach did an awkward flinch and she gasped. Inuyasha looked over at her.
"What's wrong now?"
Kagome clapped her hand over her mouth and ran to the bathroom. Inuyasha just turned his attention back to the large screen in front of him.
Sometime had passed and Kagome still remained in the bathroom. Inuyasha mildly heard the front door unlock and open. He averted his gaze towards the intruder and frowned angrily.
"What the hell are you doing back? You're supposed to stay at your dorm till tomorrow!"
"Hello to you too little brother," Sesshomaru said. "I simply came by to check up on you two." He looked over to the broken light and down to the bin full of bottles. "I have no desire to know what you have been doing. My lady Rin advised me that if I didn't make sure that wench was all right in your care, she wouldn't speak to me. Getting a woman such as her to talk when she is determined not to is one of the hardest tasks I have come across my entire life."
"Well ain't that just fine and dandy," Inuyasha said as he began to concentrate on the television again.
"Where is Kagome?"
"She in the bathroom with her head in the toilet puking her innards out." Inuyasha said in a bored manner.
Just then Kagome came down the hall and into the living room. Her face was even paler and drenched in sweat. She looked over at Sesshomaru and gave him a weak smile before turning to look at Inuyasha.
"Well speak of the devil."
"Inuyasha? Where's my room?"
"You mean you have yet to show her to her room?" asked Sesshomaru. "Where did you sleep last ni— oh." Kagome and Inuyasha quickly glanced at each other in confusion before realising what he meant.
"What?! No!" they both yelled in unison.
"I slept on the couch," said Kagome. " Now where's my room?"
"At the end of the hall by Inuyasha's room," Sesshomaru answered.
"It's the one with all the pink stuff," Inuyasha added.
Kagome nodded and set off back down the hall. The two brothers starred after her retreating figure.
"What happened to her?" Sesshomaru asked.
"She broke into the liquor cabinet and drank half a case of sake last night."
"And where were you during this period?"
"I was eating."
"Oh how predictable…"
Inuyasha was about to argue back, when a loud scream grabbed his attention. Both men quickly made there way over to Kagome's room.
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Did you think this chapter sucked? I had writer's block and very little motivation to write this week. On Thurs I had 3 tests and a project due and considering I only have four class periods, that pretty much summed up my whole day. So I was pretty preoccupied with those. But now it's March Break! YAY! I'm so happy! I got to sleep in this morning! I'm not a morning person… I like to stay up all night and sleep most of the day… unfortunately school interferes with that. But anyway enough of my rambling… Please review!
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