Chapter Twenty-One: Insanely Alike
Inuyasha raced down the hallway, Sango and Miroku were barely a foot behind him. "I think she went this way!" he yelled back to them as they rounded a corner into another corridor. They skidded to a halt when they reached an intersection.
"Now which way?" Miroku asked looking down the hall to the right of him for any signs of a girl in a polka dot skirt.
"Um… Inuyasha?" Sango said nudging his arm as she starred off down the left hallway. "Look…"
"What – " He cut off as he saw what it was that Sango had been starring at. Down the hall was a long line of children ranging from five to eighteen years of age. Most of them had obvious physical and/or mental disabilities.
"Huh, so there really is a mental section," Inuyasha said. He turned to scowl at Sango. "We don't have time for that – "
"No idiot! Look!" Sango snapped as she jerked Inuyasha to face the group of kids again. She pointed to the middle of the line. "Right there! Do you see her?"
His eyes widened immediately. Standing right in the center of the line was the raven haired teenager they had been searching for. Only now she was dressed in the hospital's attire and she was staring at them listlessly. Her face looked dreary and tired, as if she'd just woken up from a long nap. But then her eyes were the entire opposite. They were sparked with energy. She was looking at them pleadingly.
Inuyasha only hesitated a moment before running over to her. "Kagome!"
The disturbance had all the nurses rounding on them. "Excuse me young man!" said one. "What on earth do you think you are doing? This sector is off limits to visitors!" She gestured to something on the door behind them. Inuyasha neither gave a care nor bothered to look at whatever it was she was pointing to.
"This girl is our friend!" he said grabbing Kagome's limp arm. "She doesn't belong here!"
One nurse in particular looked absolutely appalled when Inuyasha began tugging Kagome towards the sector doors. "What do you think you are doing with my patient?! Let go of Gloria-Sue this instant!"
Inuyasha dropped the girl's slack arm. "Gloria-Sue?"
"Yes," said the nurse as she pulled her patient back into line with the other children. "This is Gloria-Sue Flubberpoo. You must have her mistaken with someone else. Now I suggest you kids get your butts out of this hall before I call security. This is for staff only." She stuck her nose into the air and crossed her arms stating the discussion was over.
"Oh but you see ma'am," Miroku began. "This lady right here is a member of your fine staff." He put his arm around Sango. He quickly retreated it when he received an elbow in his gut.
"Shut up Miroku, you're going to get me fired!" Sango hissed. She smiled at the other nurses. "We'll just be going now. C'mon boys…"
They three turned around, heading back in the direction they had come.
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'No wait! Where are you going?!' Kagome screamed in her head as she watched her friends turn their backs on her. She had been so happy when they recognized her. She had just begun to think that she really was Gloria-Sue Flubberpoo. That she was in fact the imposter Kagome.
But when Inuyasha had shouted out her name, ran to her and grabbed her arm… all those doubts disappeared immediately. She was Kagome Higurashi. There was no mistaking it.
Of course then her moment of glee was shattered by her oh so caring nurses. She had the urge to slap that stupid nurse silly for claiming she wasn't who they thought she was. She would have if she could, but there was the slight problem that she couldn't even lift her arm up on her own, let alone slap the woman until the cows came in.
"Gloria-Sue are you alright?" asked Nurse Joyce from where she remained beside her. "You're shaking dear." She placed her hand on her shoulder. "Oh my goodness… maybe your medication is reacting wrongly with your body. Nurse Claire, come quick!"
Kagome was acutely aware of the nurses crowding around her trying to determine why she was shaking as she watched Inuyasha pull open the door handle.
"She's burning up!"
"Her pulse is beating too rapid!"
"We have to get her to the emergency room immediately!"
"C'mon Gloria-Sue sweetie," said Nurse Joyce as she and another nurse began ushering her back in the direction they had first come.
Inuyasha took one last look at her before shaking his head and walking out the door.
It was then… that Kagome's mind snapped.
"Stop!" she screamed. "Don't touch me!"
"Whoa, the Kagome-look-alike's gone psycho," said Miroku stepping back inside the corridor to watch. "Hey guys come back in here. I've never seen anyone go crazy before! Cool!"
"Gloria-Sue!" yelled Nurse Joyce. "What has gotten into you?!"
"Into me?!" Kagome yelled back. "What's gotten into you people?! You doctors drugged me, a perfectly SANE girl! I can have you sued for this you know! I am not Gloria-Sue! I'm KAGOME HIGURASHI!!!"
The outburst caused the entire hallway to go silent. The only sound audible was Kagome's deep breathing… well that and the sound of Herman farting.
"Kagome?"
She turned around. "Inuyasha."
"It is you!" he said running over to her. "I knew it! How come you didn't speak up before?"
Good old slow Inuyasha. "Being drugged can sometimes have that effect on people."
"But if you're really Kagome, then who was that other girl?"
"Oh you mean the fashion reject who looks like me? I'm guessing that would be Gloria-Sue."
"Who are you calling a fashion reject?! I'm not the one wearing a hospital gown!"
Everyone turned to see a duplicate of Kagome standing at the doorway. "Gloria-Sue?" said the nurses with a hint of confusion in their tones.
"I'm also not that stupid," Kagome said quietly with a sigh.
All the heads in the corridor turned side to side simultaneously, looking from Kagome to Gloria-Sue. Their appearances were identical. One would never be able to tell the difference from them unless they looked deep into their eyes. Gloria-Sue had a somewhat crazed, mad-look in hers, while Kagome's were more poised, though intrigued with anger.
"Umm… opps?" came Gloria-Sue's voice quietly.
Kagome's face scrunched into a snarl as her body began to shake with untamed rage. "You!" she yelled angrily, pointing her trembling finger at her mirror image. "You've been impersonating me! Pretending you were me, while I had to go through scrutiny and criticism because I tried to prove who I was!"
Gloria-Sue began to step back a few paces from the power of Kagome's anger.
"Everyone thought that I was some mentally-challenged, fantasy-creating nutcase! You frigin bitch! I want my life back!" With that last scream of fury, Kagome bolted towards Gloria-Sue and pounced on her. "How dare you fool my friends! You had no right to prance around making me look like a crazy person while everyone thought I was you the psycho bitch from hell!"
"Get off me!" screamed Gloria-Sue.
"Oh awesome! A cat-fight!" Miroku said clapping his hands together and jumping up and down. He looked over at Sango. "You know this day has got to be the most weirdest in my life but that doesn't mean it isn't great! Go whoever! You're both hot!"
Sango ignored Miroku's statement. "Are we absolutely positive that Kagome is sane? I mean she is sort of going wild right now…"
Miroku smiled with glee. "Girls gone wild! Yeah! Take off your tops! Does anyone have any mud?"
"You're unbelievable."
Meanwhile, Inuyasha stood by yelling, afraid that if he tried to break them apart he'd end up getting a finger chewed off. "Kagome! Stop! Be reasonable! Come on! This is insane!"
The nurses stood by as well, trying to keep the other patients in line. A lot of the disabled children were trying to mimic the two girls, causing more trouble for everyone. "Will someone please stop those crazy girls?!" Nurse Joyce yelled as she tried to stop Herman from jumping on a little girl who was trying to claw at him with her little trimmed fingernails… whilst Herman set off the works full blast, nearly killing the nurse with his odor.
Kagome paused in her attack. Something in her mind clicked. 'Crazy? Me?' She looked down at the struggling girl beneath her. 'What am I doing? I'm acting like a… like a savage…'
Noticing the hesitation, Gloria-Sue took that as an opportunity to strike. With all her might she lifted up her hand and scratched Kagome across the face, drawing a small trickle of blood.
Still in her daze, Kagome rolled off the girl and sat huffing on the ground, barely even noticing the bleeding cut on her cheek. Inuyasha rushed over to her side while a nurse tended to Gloria-Sue. "Kagome are you alright?"
"I… I'm not sure…" Kagome said as she starred off in front of her. "I don't know what just got into me… I went mad…"
Inuyasha helped her stand to her feet. "I admit that was a bit… odd," he said. "But, she had it coming. I mean she did trick us all into thinking she was you."
Kagome nodded and opened her mouth to say more on the subject when Nurse Joyce came storming up to her. "Did you think this was some sort of joke?"
"Huh?
"You tried to fool us all into thinking that you were Gloria-Sue!"
Kagome looked at the woman in astonishment. "Hello…? I spent the entire time trying to convince you idiotic people that I wasn't Gloria-Sue!"
"Hm! More like you tried to play more on the role of her because you knew that she liked to pretend she was people she wasn't," the nurse said indignantly. "You pretended to be a girl pretending to be you! Admit it!"
Kagome was speechless. She starred at the lady with her mouth hung open. No one had ever been that defiant about her honesty in her entire life.
"Listen lady," said Inuyasha from beside her. "I think you've taken this whole thing the wrong way. That girl over there was the one who pretended to be Kagome, not the other way around."
"Excuse me young man – " began the nurse before she was cut off by another person entering the argument.
Sango cleared her throat loudly, effectively getting everyone's attention. "Sorry to eavesdrop on this little quarrel here but Nurse Joyce, I advise you to let them go."
Joyce pursed her lips tightly. "And why should I listen to a little volunteer nurse like yourself?"
"Well, one because if you don't then you'll get fired and two if you don't, we'll all get fired," Sango said calmly. "It's that simple."
"What are you talking about?"
"Kagome could hire an attorney to sue this hospital for all it's worth, which would mean cut backs and layoffs. Remember you drugged her illegally?"
The look on the nurse face was priceless. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. Slowly she brought her hand up to her head and began to stutter something incomprehensible.
"I for one don't feel like getting fired," Sango stated, also mumbling something about not getting paid either way. She looked over at the obviously listening other nurses. "How about you ladies? Feel like loosing your jobs over this?"
A simultaneous shaking of heads was her answer. "Well Joyce? What will it be?"
"She… she attacked my patient!" Joyce said, pointing her quivering finger at Kagome.
"You drugged me!" Kagome said pointing her finger right back at her.
"You know when you point at someone, three fingers point right back at you," came Miroku's voice.
Without looking at him, Inuyasha said, "Shut up Miroku."
Sango sighed. "Look we're all witnesses to this and so can all receive a punishment. Even those of us who didn't do anything just for the fact that we didn't do anything."
Everyone nodded meekly thinking about what she had said. "I propose that we forget this entire thing even happened," she continued. "I know it's wrong but… well… what harm can it do? All in favour?"
A round of agreement went through the group. "It's settled then. This event didn't happen. Joyce, we don't know you and have never met you nor have we met Gloria-Sue. Kagome, I believe you have a grandfather to go see."
Finally! After… about three months of no updates, I finally got this chapter out! Guys, you have no idea how sorry I am for making you all what this long, especially since I left the last chapter at a cliffy. I seriously didn't mean to take this long, it's just school has taken a huge toll on my life at the moment and I have to work as well… I simple don't have a lot of spare time anymore. I'm really sorry. I promise to try not to take as long next time.
Now, as you have probably already noticed or have noticed for sometime, I did change my name. I am no longer xo-Kagome-ox but now am Laina-chan. I changed it quite sometime ago… I just haven't updated for a while, you all no the story.
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