Chapter Twenty: The Real Kagome

"Inuflashie?" 'Kagome' began, leaning her head on the shoulder of the young man she was currently locking arms with.

"Inuyasha," he corrected. He looked down at her. Something was definitely wrong… Kagome was never that affectionate. Especially not with someone she had hated for nearly half her life.

"Right, right…" she replied with a wave of her hand. "When we find Crappo and Murky – "

"Sango and Miroku?"

"Yeah them two… after we find them… can we leave?" She looked up at him, a pout at her lips as she batted her eyes. "This place gives me the creeps. I think I've been here too long…"

Inuyasha's face scrunched up in confusion as he starred at her. "You want to leave? But what about your grandfather?"

"What about him?"

"Don't you think it would be better to wait out the night here where we can keep an eye on his condition?"

"He's got eyes don't he? He can watch his 'condition' himself." She used her fingers to quote the word condition, as if she thought it unlikely that the old man even had a problem at all.

"He's unconscious remember?"

"Pfft… He's probably fakin' it… believe me, I know old geezers… they just love pulling pranks…" She snorted in disgust. "Why there's this senile dude named Mr. Myshitsu or something who I meet in the Mental Sector – "

"There's a mental sector? How do you know that?" Inuyasha asked curiously. He watched her closely. She seemed to be becoming uncomfortable.

"Mental sector?" She said with an obvious fake laugh. "I didn't say mental sector I said Oriental Sector…"

"No… you said mental sector. Why would there be an oriental sector?"

"Uh, ah heh… I said dental sector."

"No, you – wait what?" He was sorely becoming confused. Kagome kept changing her story. At this rate his poor brain would go into overload.

"What?" The young girl countered.

"What?!"

"What?"

"Argh! Stop confusing me you stupid girl!" Inuyasha said. He put his hands on his head in frustration.

"Aw, I'm sorry Flinflumashi…"

"Inuyasha…"

"Uh, I know… that's just my new nickname for you…" Kagome said with a hint of uncertainty easily noted in her voice.

"Flinflumashi? …You can't be serious." Inuyasha was growing impatient. He began rubbing his temples. What was going on? Had Kagome been drugged or something? She was acting differently, she couldn't remember his name (or their friends names for that matter), and she wasn't talking like her normal well educated self.

"Yeah! Don't ya just love it?!" She smiled brightly at him. He managed to give her a small half smile as they began searching for Sango and Miroku again.

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"Gloria-Sue where are your manners?" The male nurse over by the door asked, as he and his colleague watched Kagome back as far away from the woman with the needle as possible.

"C'mon dear," said the nurse called Joyce. "You'll only feel a little prick and then it'll be all over. You won't have to take another one for at least three hours depending on your condition."

Kagome pushed herself against the padded wall. There was no way she'd be able to escape from this prison. It was a wonder how the real Gloria-Sue had escaped. The doctors wouldn't listen to her. They thought she was crazy. What was she supposed to do?

The lady with the syringe was closing in. "Listen! Please!" Kagome begged. "You have the wrong girl!" She was shaking all over. Tears were falling down her cheeks from fear. "I'm not Gloria-Sue!" She felt the lady grab a hold of her arm trying to steady her for the injection. "Why won't you listen to me?"

"Shh… Gloria-Sue quiet down." Joyce lifted the hem of Kagome's shirtsleeve.

She was right. It was only a prick. The needle was inserted into Kagome's arm. She felt her body begin to go numb. "I'm not Gloria-Sue…" She whispered as her eyes began to droop. "I'm… Kago…me"

Everything went dark.

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Why couldn't the floor just swallow him up right then and there? She had started to sing! On the rare occasion Inuyasha had thought of how Kagome might sound if she sang… it was nothing like this…

"SomeWHERE over the RAINBOW, way up HIGH!" When she wanted to she could really painfully reach those high notes… much to Inuyasha's ears' dismay. "There's a land that I heard of, ONCE in a LULLaBY!"

"Ah! Will you give it a rest?!" Inuyasha snapped. "Gees woman! Your voice is harder on the ears than a screeching black board!" He knew he'd probably regret yelling at her later on. It wasn't her fault she had a bad singing voice. But well… it was either that or he was certain he would go deaf. Besides, people were beginning to stare. Forget thinking about leaving the hospital before nightfall, they'd be thrown out.

Kagome had fallen silent. Too silent for Inuyasha's liking. She was always a talkative girl, unafraid to speak her mind. Something had changed about her since he'd last seen her by her grandfather's bed… he just couldn't figure it out.

"Hey Rhinocashew?" Rhinocashew? What the hell?! "How do you feel about me?"

That caught him off guard. "Umm… wh-what do you mean?"

The girl smirked at him. "I mean really deep down. How do you feel about me? Do you hate me? Like me? …Love me?" She had the word love so seductively; he couldn't help but give hard, audible gulp.

"I… uh… well that is… I mean…" He stumbled over his words. How did he feel about her? He was unsure himself. He'd never actually taken their relationship into perspective. Before she had come to live with him, he had just thought her as some short-tempered, overdramatic, gullible little girl (even though she was barely a few months younger than he was).

The sound of laughter brought him out of his thoughts. She was laughing. Kagome was laughing. Most likely at him. "What's so funny" he asked with a scowl.

"Oh nothing… I've just never seen a jock think so hard!" She began to laugh again.

"Jock? What the hell are you talking about?" He looked at her as though she had gone mad. "Kagome, our school had to get rid of all the sports teams remember? They couldn't afford to keep them running because of the competition costs. If I'm not on any teams, how am I a jock?"

For the second time that day Kagome looked quite uncomfortable. She had stopped laughing and began playing with the rim of her hat in nervousness. "Well you know… you just kind of remind me of… one… with your strong arms and tight chest." She moved closer to him. His palms began to sweat as she ran her hand along the muscles of his arm. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were a quarterback."

She was speaking so seductively, Inuyasha almost dropped to his knees out of capitulation. He caught himself just in time. Just as she leaned up to kiss him. He grabbed her wrist to pull her back down before she reached her destination. "Kagome, what are you doing?"

"I was going to kiss you before you stopped me. What's the matter? I know you want to kiss me as well… why hesitate?" She moved in to try again.

"No stop. I don't know what's going on here. Whether you've been put up to some bet or… or you've been drugged or something but I know you wouldn't do this out of your own accord." He gave a light smirk. "Kagome, you're trying to kiss the guy who dumped a bucket of glue and feathers on your head last week."

A flash of confusion crossed her face (which in turn confused Inuyasha), before she brought her hand up to slap him smartly on the cheek. "You pig!" She stormed off down the hallway.

Inuyasha stood shocked. She had slapped him. She had slapped him! When he reminded her of the prank he had pulled he had expected her to scoff and give up in her attempts, but hit him? He had thought that if she had wanted to hit him for what he had done, she would have done it the minute she had seen him after being told she had to go live with him. Not days later. Yup, something was definitely wrong.

He brought his hand up to lightly graze the tingling portion of his face. He was certain there had to be a mark there that probably would stain his face all week.

"Inuyasha!"

He looked over towards the direction his name had been called from. Coming down the hall at a fast paced walk was Sango and Miroku. He starred at them dumbly, his hand still touching his cheek. He noticed Miroku was sporting a similar mark, while Sango had a disgruntled look on her face.

Miroku laughed when they reached him. "Haha! You got slapped too! Right on buddy!"

"Kagome slapped you?" Sango asked in disbelief. "I didn't know she had it in her. Where is she anyways?"

Inuyasha simply pointed in the direction in which they had just came from. "I didn't see Kagome. She would have passed us."

"She's wearing weird clothes," Inuyasha said in a monotone voice.

The dark-haired nurses eyes widened. "That was Kagome? That tube topped, polka dot skirt wearing, ugly hat girl?"

Inuyasha nodded. She looked back down the corridor. "Oh boy. We'd better go find her."

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Kagome drowsily opened her eyes. She was sitting in a chair in a white room, surrounded by about a dozen other sleepy children. There were about three nurses standing in the centre of the room.

"Oh good," said one of them perkily. "You're all awake now. Guess what we're doing today?" The way she spoke reminded Kagome of a kindergarten teacher. "We're going to go for a walk down the hall and visit all of the sick people! Doesn't that sound like fun?"

Many of the other kids laughed happily and clapped their hands. "Alright then! Now lets get into –" She cut off as one of the children raised their hand. "Yes Herman?"

Kagome looked over at the boy with half lidded eyes. He was short and stubby. His hair was brown and he wore glasses that were five times too large for him. "Nurse Claire! I farted!"

'Ew gross! No one needs to know that kind of stuff kid.' Thought Kagome, though her face remained expressionless.

The nurse smiled. "That's good Herman! It's bad to keep those gases stuck inside your body! I'm going to let you lead the line down the hallway today for that!"

The boy laughed goofily. "Yay! Line!" He then proceeded to stick his finger up his nose.

'Ok this is just nasty!' Still her face remained unresponsive. Kagome lifted a hand to her bored face. 'Why don't I look grossed out?! Ah! They broke me!'

"Come on Gloria-Sue! Get into the line!" Kagome recognised that voice. It was the voice of the nurse who had pricked her with that needle. Nurse Joyce (AN: I just noticed that's really close to Pokémon's Nurse Joy O.O). The lady came over and helped her out of her chair. Kagome attempted to glare at her but still she couldn't get an expression.

'Wah! I'm broken!' She mentally sobbed as the walked out of the room and into the hall. 'Why am I here?! I'm not crazy! …I'm just broken! Wah!'

She watched as a girl dressed in weird garments who looked strangely familiar started to run down the hall she and the rest of the mental patients were in. Her eyes widened when she spotted them and she ran back down another hall.

'Do I know her?' Kagome thought. 'Maybe she's from school? Or maybe she's related to me or…wait a second! I know where she's from! She's me! …and what the hell was I wearing?!' Suddenly realization dawned on her. 'She must have been the real Gloria-Sue!'

"I think she went this way!" Someone yelled from down the hall Gloria-Sue had come from.

'I know that voice! …It's Inuyasha!'

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So sorry about not updating for nearly a month! I've just been so not in a writing mood… but strangely today I felt like writing! So here you go! If it seems kind of "iffy" it's probably because I wrote more than half of it weeks ago so…

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