All Alone.
Chapter 5- Locked In.
Disclaimer-I don't own Inuyasha. And that's that.
"What to get? What to get? Okaa-san and Otoo-sand only give me about 50,000 yen for rent, food, clothes, and school things all together. I don't have any money for extra things. Hm…" Kagome was pacing back and forth in her living room, thinking of ways to get money, so she can get a gift for Sango and her mom.
Ruff!
Ruff!
The cute pet terrier brought over to Kagome a newspaper.
"Yeah! I can get a job!" She sat down on the carpet turning pages in the paper to look for part-time jobs.
After about 30 minutes of calling book stores, cafes, and other places in need of workers, Kagome found a job that wasn't taken yet.
"Moshi, moshi? Is this the Shikon Restaurant? Yes? My name is Kagome Higurashi and I was wondering if the job for a part-timer was still available. Yes! Great! When can I start working? Tomorrow? No, no, no, that'll be fine! Ok, thanks."
Kagome went to Sango's apartment to tell her the news, but when she was about to knock, she said to herself, "Maybe, I'll keep this a secret, Yeah! I'll surprise them!"
Kagome walked silently back to her apartment.
Inuyasha's Apartment
"Great! When can I start working? Tomorrow? Sure, that'll be fine. Thanks. Bye."
Inuyasha just got off the phone with the manager of a restaurant, where he will be working as a waiter as of tomorrow.
"Kasa, tell your dad tomorrow that I can't watch you." Inuyasha called over to his nephew.
"OK. I'll ask dad if I can stay with onee-chan." He was on the floor coloring in a coloring book.
"Kay, let's go ask her right now." Inuyasha said.
"Yeah. Let's go!" Kasa was really eager to see Kagome.
Inuyasha walked him next door and rang the door bell.
Ding!
Ding!
"In a second!" Inuyasha heard Kagome call from inside.
The door opened.
"Onee-chan!" Kasa ran up to Kagome and hugged her legs.
"Kasa!" Kagome was surprised to see him. She knelt down and asked him, "What are you doing here?" Kagome looked up and saw Inuyasha.
"Well, you see, tomorrow, I have to go somewhere and I can't watch over him, so he," Inuyasha pointed to Kasa, "Not me, was wondering if you can watch him, tomorrow that is." Inuyasha explained.
"Oh, I'm sorry Kasa," Kagome said. "Tomorrow, nee-chan has to work. I got a job, isn't that great!"
Kasa was confused. He titled his head and asked, "What's a job?"
Kagome laughed, "never mind, you'll know when you're older." Kagome patted his head. But don't tell the other nee-chan, kay?"
"Kay!" Kasa nodded.
Kagome hugged him and said, "Well, I got to go do homework. Behave yourself."
Kasa walked back towards Inuyasha's apartment and waved.
Kagome waved back and smiled.
'Her smile…is just so…heartwarming…" Inuyasha thought. 'But I guess she still doesn't like me.' He shrugged and covered his ears when Kasa yelled, "Uncle Inu!"
"Coming!" He yelled back.
"Welcome, may I take your order?" Kagome greeted some customers. Her first day at work was going great.
"Kagome-chan! You can take your break now!" the manager called.
"Hai!" Kagome walked to the back room where all the aprons were kept. She was hanging her up, when Kagome heard the back door open.
"One more minute and I would have given the job to someone else!" the manager roared.
"Gomen-nasai." The person bowed.
"Well, go, it's your shift anyways."
"Hai." The person walked over to the back room.
The person stopped dead in their tracks.
Kagome turned around.
"What are you doing here!" Kagome pointed to the person.
"What are you doing here!" The person pointed back.
"Oh. My. Gosh." Kagome stormed out.
"Inuyasha! Get to work!" The manager called.
"Hai." Inuyasha put on his apron and started his shift.
Kagome asked the manager after she came back from break, "Manager-san? May I help out in the kitchen, just for today?" Kagome was hoping to be as far away from Inuyasha.
"Sure. You're a hard worker. Try not to get into trouble, kay?" the manager said.
"Hai!" Kagome put on a chef's hat and an apron.
"Kagome-chan, can you go wash the vegetables for me?" a chef asked.
"Hai!" Kagome went to wash vegetables.
Kagome was doing all the things the chef's needed her to do, from chopping up ingredients to holding a pot for the chef.
"Kagome-chan! Do you know where the meat refrigerator downstairs is?" a chef asked.
"Yeah," Kagome replied, "why?"
"I need you to get some fish from in there. But I can't leave the stove. Can you go get it?" the chef explained.
"Hai!" Kagome went downstairs and into the giant refrigerator, searching for the fish meat.
"Wait, chef-san, never told me what kind of fish he wanted. Let me go ask him," Kagome said to herself and turned around. She tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. Kagome tried slamming her shoulder into it but its still wouldn't move.
"Crap." Kagome muttered.
It was getting colder by the second.
Kagome walked around to search for another way out but couldn't find one.
She rubbed her hands together.
There was a little window on the door, which Kagome tried to look through for anyone outside. But no one came. Kagome kept walking around for warmth but soon fainted in the middle of the huge refrigerator.
"Good work today Inuyasha, despite the fact that you were late." The manager said.
"Arigato." Inuyasha bowed.
"Um, have you seen Kagome-chan?" the manager asked.
"No, why?" Inuyasha wondered.
"It's just that one of the chefs sent her downstairs to get some fish, but she never came back for the fish. I wonder if she left early or something."
"Didn't the chef still need the fish and went down to check to see if she was downstairs?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well, the chef didn't need the meat anymore, because he had found some in the regular refrigerator up here. The big refrigerator downstairs is only for storage and when we run out of meat up here, we go downstairs and bring the meat up here. Someone did go check but no one saw here. The door on the fridge was closed so people that that she already gone home." The manager explained.
Little did the manager know, when the people passed by, they didn't look on the floor through the window.
"I'm going to go downstairs." Inuyasha said.
"Ok, but when you leave, go out the back door and lock it." The manager said.
"Hai." Inuyasha started down the stairs and looked around the room.
No one.
He walked over to the giant refrigerator and looked through the tiny window.
There was a lot of cold visible air inside.
(A/n: you know when you breathe out on a cold morning, there's like this little cloud of smoke coming out from your mouth? It's something like that)
Inuyasha was about to turn around when he saw something on the floor that seemed to big to be a piece of meat.
'Kagome.' Inuyasha thought instantly.
Without thinking, Inuyasha pulled open the door and rushed to her.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. She was freezing cold.
Inuyasha picked Kagome up and tried to open the door.
"What the hell?" Inuyasha cursed as he tried to kick the door open. "Damn!" Inuyasha turned around to see if there was anything to break the door down.
Inuyasha tried to kick it open again, and also tried to punch it, but it would even make a dent.
"Damn!" Inuyasha was getting colder by the second. Kagome was colder. Her skin was as cold as ice. There were little icicles forming on her hair.
'If I don't keep Kagome warm, she's going to die!" Inuyasha thought.
He took off his jacket and put it on Kagome. He sat down and hugged Kagome closed for warmth.
It wasn't doing any good.
"Yes!" Inuyasha yelled. He spotted a switch that controls the temperature in the fridge. He walked over to the switch after setting Kagome on the ground.
"No!" Inuyasha messed up his hair in frustration. The switch wouldn't allow the temperature to go any higher than 0 degrees.
He walked back to Kagome, picked her up once more, and set her on his lap, hugger her again.
Inuyasha being half-dog, didn't get cold that fast. He took his shirt off his shirt and placed it on top of Kagome.
'That should keep her warm…for now…' Inuyasha hugged Kagome as closed as he could to keep her warm. 'Placing her on the ground won't be any good. Even the floor is freezing cold!' Inuyasha thought.
Inuyasha soon felt cold. They both were leaning against the door.
"Oh dear Kami!" One of the girl chefs was starting work and went to get meat when she saw Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Manager-san!" She ran upstairs as fast as her legs could take her.
Paramedics soon arrived.
The manager tried calling both kids' parents but was only able to leave Inuyasha's parents a message.
Sango went to Kagome's apartment the previous night, inviting her over for dinner and thought that Kagome must have not been home yet.
Earlier that day, Kagome told Sango that she was going out for a while.
"I'll be back soon! See ya later Sango!" Kagome waved good-bye.
But Sango noticed that she never returned home and just to make sure that Kagome was home, she took her master key that opens any door in the entire apartment.
Click!
It was the sound of the lock opening when Sango turned the key.
"Kagome?" Sango whispered. "Are you home?"
Ruff!
Ruff!
"Hey Kiki," Sango whispered. "Where's Kagome?"
Kiki whined and brought Sango the newspaper that Kagome was looking at.
On the paper that was circled in red ink said, "Shikon Restaurant: Help Wanted, Part time is ok."
"Kagome went to look for a job?" Sango asked the dog.
Kiki barked. "I'll take that as a 'yes'" Sango said.
"Maybe she has to work late. I hope she'll wake up on time for school tomorrow. C'mon Kiki, you can stay with me tonight."
Ruff!
Sango locked the door and left.
The next morning, Sango was eating breakfast and watching the news when she heard:
"Two teenagers, working at Shikon Restaurant last night, were found in the restaurant's giant refrigerator. No facts to what conditioned they are in. But they are on their way to the hospital right now"
Sango dropped her spoon and ran out the door,
'Kagome! Please be alright!' Sango thought, tears were streaming down her cheeks.
Sango arrived at the Shikon Restaurant; the ambulance was just speeding away.
The police were there too.
"Kagome!" Sango felled to her knees and cried.
"Miss. Miss. Are you alright? Miss." The lady chef asked Sango.
"Where's Kagome!" Sango yelled, still crying.
"Ms. Higurashi has…" the chef stuttered. "She has been sent to the hospital, the paramedics can still hear a heart bear, but it's very faint…" the chef said gently.
Sango started to run to get a taxi.
When Sango arrived at the hospital, she ran up to the front desk and asked "Where's Kagome! Kagome Higurashi?"
The nurse that she asked looked Kagome's name on the computer. "I'm sorry ma'am, but she's in the emergency room right now."
"Which one!" Sango yelled.
"It's on the second floor but," the nurse didn't get to finish because Sango dashed away.
When Sango got to the door of the emergency room, it was locked.
"No!" Sango pounded. "No…" She said quieter as she slid against the door and feel to her knees, crying into her hands.
Moments later a doctor came out. Sango looked up. "Doctor?" She stood up.
"Would you be a relative to Kagome Higurashi?" the doctor asked.
"No, but I'm her best friend and we are practically sisters, but is she alive? Is she ok? How is she?" She asked the doctor.
"Calm down, ma'am, where is Ms. Higurashi's parents?" the doctor asked.
"They are divorced and Kagome lives alone. HOW IS SHE!" Sango asked, getting impatient.
"She's alright." The doctor answered.
Sango let out a sigh of relief.
"But I'm afraid she's going to have to stay here for a while. Her blood pressure is very low and will have to be back to normal before she can leave." The doctor explained. "Ms. Higurashi is now resting her room, room 11."
Sango rushed off to go look for Kagome's room.
When Sango found it, she knocked softly and let herself in.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
The sound of the heart monitors was the only sounds that could be heard in the room.
Kagome had and oxygen mask over hear mouth and she was covered in many blankets.
She was breathing softly.
Sango pulled a chair next to Kagome's bed.
"Kagome," Sango whispered. "I'm so glad you're alright." One tear slid down her cheek. Sango began talking to Kagome, even though she knew that she couldn't hear her.
"You, know, Kagome, when I saw on the news that someone was found in a giant fridge at Shikon Restaurant, I knew it was you because I saw that you went and got a job. Why didn't you tell me? I mean, you gave me quite a scare, and it's not like you have money problems or anything." Sango laughed sadly and wiped away another tear.
Sango put her head in her arms and cried silently on the bed.
"Okaa-san, Otoo-san," Kagome said in a voice that was barely a whisper.
Sango had fallen asleep.
"Kagome-chan!"
"Kaa-san!" A little Kagome ran into her mother's open arms.
"How was you're first day of pre-school?"
"We got to color and paint and also learn the colors of the rainbow!" Little Kagome exclaimed happily.
"That's good to hear." Kagome's mom smiled. "Let's go home, father's waiting."
"Let's go!" Little Kagome smiled.
Tears fell down from the side of Kagome's eyes.
In the morning, when Sango woke up, she found a blanket over her shoulders and Kagome still attached to the heart monitors.
"Ohaiyo!" A voice said.
A person was standing at the door. It was a man in his mid teens, with dark hair that was tied back into a little pony tail. He was dressed in a doctor's coat.
"Um, Ohaiyo." Sango said.
"My name is Miroku Houshi, nice to meet you." He stuck out a hand. Sango shook it.
"I'm Sango."
"I am a doctor at this hospital," Miroku said proudly.
"Don't be fooled by him. He's only a doctor's assistant. Hi, my name is Sakura Kouyama. You can call me Sakura." The nurse named Sakura walked in when she saw that Miroku had.
"Um, hi." Sango said, she was still very tired and wanted to go back to sleep. "Um, Sakura?"
"Yes?"
"Is Kagome alright?" Sango asked. She knew the answer but just wanted to make sure.
"She is perfectly fine, aside from low blood pressure. She'll be alright. She can leave in the hospital in about a couple weeks."
Miroku was just listening to the conversation, when he remembered his reason he was in there.
"Ahem," Sango looked at him. "The reason I came in here was to ask Ms. Sango if she knew an Inuyasha Taisho."
Sango sat up straight. "I do. Why?"
"Well, um, it just so happens that um, err," He walked over to Sakura who was checking to see if all the monitors were working fine. "You tell her Sakura." He grabbed her arm and led her over to Sango on the other side of the bed.
"Wait! Miroku!" Sakura was trying to resist his hold but couldn't. "Fine! Let go!"
Sakura sat down next to Sango. "I don't know how close you are to Mr. Taisho…"
"I have only known him for about a week or so, but we are really good friends." Sango nodded her head.
"Oh, geez, this is going to be harder than I thought. Ok, um, well, Mr. Taisho has also been hospitalized. Apparently he was also found in that fridge with Kagome, here. Well, from the clues the police gathered, it shows that Inuyasha tried his best to keep Kagome warm. So Inuyasha is in a worse condition than Kagome. Right now he's, he's…" Sakura put her hand to her forehead. "Ok," Sakura sighed. "Mr. Taisho is in a coma, and we don't know if he is going to get out of it."
Sango covered her mouth with her hand. "No," Sango shook her head. "No…" She was starting to cry again.
"Please don't cry Ms. Sango," Sakura said, she was going to cry to, telling Sango the bad news was really hard.
"Sango!" Ms. Taijya just arrived. "Sango!" She rushed over to her daughter, hugging her tight.
"Kaa-san!" Sango cried into her mother's shoulder.
"It's ok, Kagome's going to be fine, and Inuyasha's going to fine. They'll be fine." Ms. Taijya was trying to assure.
Sakura was crying now.
After a few minutes of Ms. Taijya trying to calm down Sango, the two headed for Inuyasha's room
Inuyasha's room was dark, more beep! Sounds were head. Inuyasha had more wires than Kagome had around him.
"Inuyasha…" Sango whispered. She couldn't take it anymore; Sango couldn't take seeing two of her best friends like this. She ran out of the room.
End of Chapter 5
That's the longest chapter I have ever written.
Many people have written longer but not me.
The thing about Kagome having low blood pressure, is fake, I don't know if in real life it's like that. I made it up.
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