Notes: Thanks for telling me about the typo, AkumaAmaeru22. I'm so sorry I updated late last time. I've been so busy with school and stuff. And TerraNova testing is coming this week. But I'm sorry for the wait, Mila2504, I'm sorta disappointed in myself also, cause I told myself to update, and I wanted to, really, but I just had no time. O.o
Random: Argh! My mouse April left me presents and peed on me! Eww. And my dog Chita did something very very bad.
Chapter Eleven: Comfortably Numb
Kikyo asks Kagome about Inuyasha's disappearance. Kagome did not wish to conflict with her, so she lied. However…that was the least of her problems.
It was once again the horrendous Monday. Kagome strutted off her bus, almost stumbling on the steps. Kagome couldn't bear to face Inuyasha in science. Not after what happened on Saturday. Not after what she told him. And not after he yelled at her.
But, all and all, she had to go to school, just like every other student, like a good girl. She hated the image that people thought of her. The good student with straight As. Lately she's been so out of it that her grades have dropped, and now she stresses to raise them once again. But she still didn't want to go to science.
"Hi!" A voice shouted. Kagome looked up, and saw Sango. "Hey, are you okay?" She asked, concerned. Miroku had told her about the detention.
"Yeah…" Kagome replied. "See you later, 'kay?" Kagome said when Sango had stopped.
"Bye, be careful, Kagome." Sango said, and Kagome nodded. She pushed open the door to the girl's bathroom to look at her face. She knew it was puffy and swollen, because she felt her eyes act up. Rubbing them, someone tapped her on the shoulder. Kagome flipped around. For a split second she thought she walked into the boy's bathroom, but she saw Kikyou, who she never spoke too.
"Hey, Kagome. I heard about what happened. I'm sorry." Kikyou said. Her tone seemed kind, but very bitchy, and Kagome was afraid of what she heard that happened between Inuyasha and her.
"Thanks." Kagome replied.
"Hey, I don't know if it's the right time to be asking you this, but do you think Inuyasha is cheating on me?" Kikyou asked. Kagome froze, but replied calmly and inconspicuously.
"I don't know, Kikyou." Kagome replied. Kikyou lowered her eyes, rubbed one, then looked back up again.
"He seems…distant lately. Like someone else was on his mind. And last Friday I was talking to him, and when I turned around he was gone. It just seemed a little weird, that's all." Kikyou replied. "Well, if someone is seducing him, then I will kill the both of them." She added, and smiled.
"…" Kagome nodded. She heard rumors of how bitchy and touch Kikyou was, and she didn't want to be caught in the middle. Just because she had a simple crush, all these awful things had happened.
"I should get going. Class and all." Kikyou smiled, and she left the bathroom. Kagome looked at her face once more, and then left to her class.
The bell rang, and Kagome left to her class after lunch.
'Science…' She shuddered at the thought. She walked up the steps, late as usual. "…" Kagome had gotten really tired all of a sudden. She shook it off, but soon dozed off to sleep, falling on her knees, and tumbling down the stairs.
"Kagome, Kagome!" A voice shouted, and half asleep, Kagome felt someone strong pushing her back and forth. She slowly opened her eyes to meet bright brown ones.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes. A hand supported her back, and she looked over to its direction to see that it was only coming from Kouga.
"Kouga!" She shouted, and stood up immediately. The blood rushed to her head, and she swung and grabbed onto the railing before she fell.
"Kagome!" Kouga rushed to her side before she fell completely. He put his arm around her waist to support her. Kagome looked up at him in disbelief and astonishment.
"How dare you?" She shouted, as she pushed Kouga's arm off her waist and backed up. "You have a wife!"
This time Kouga looked at her in astonishment. "I have no wife. Not yet, anyways. You mean Ayame? She's no wife of mine."
Kagome shook her head. "No. Kouga, you can't bother me anymore."
"But you at least like me…?" Kouga asked, grabbing her hands.
"What?" She shouted, yanking her hands away and dropping her wrists. "No. In fact, I don't like you at all."
"…" Kouga's enticing smile dropped to a disappointing one. "You like that dog brat, don't you?" Kagome's angered face turned to slight fear. Kouga was getting angry.
Inuyasha raised his nose in the air and sniffed. He smelled that odd smell. He knew who it was; he did. It was him.
'Kouga…' He thought. He knew the awful wolf smell from anywhere. 'Kagome…' He thought, and concerned, he dove up to the door.
"Inuyasha! Where do you think you are going?" The science teacher shouted at him. Inuyasha ignored the words and dashed off towards the smell.
He followed it, and it led to stairs.
"Kagome!" He shouted as he saw Kagome's wilted body fallen into an awkward twist on the stairs. Her ankle was twisted, and Inuyasha leaped to her side and shook her. "Kagome!" He shouted once more, flipping her around.
"You like that dog, don't you?" Kouga's serious voice rose into a yell. Kagome quivered against the wall. She couldn't lie, but she couldn't admit. She just wanted everything to stop.
Suddenly, Kagome's dream started to swirl. Kouga's voice faded, and swayed in tone as such a sick person would hear. Kagome lost balance and swayed to the side, hitting her head on the corner of a step, slitting her forehead. A tear streamed down her face.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted, still shaking her. He stopped when he saw a small bloody line form across Kagome's forehead.
"…" Inuyasha didn't say anything when he found Kagome. She still hasn't fully awaken yet, and it worried him. If only he had been there sooner, he had thought, and he looked towards the sky out the window to keep himself from breaking apart and destructing everything around him.
He was sitting at the hospital, in Kagome's room. She was sleeping on the bed next to him, and he was sitting on the window sill. Soon after he had taken her to the hospital, her family came to see her. He brother was crying, unknown of what happened, and her grandfather was worried, praying at her feet as he got there.
Her mother was looking at her face over the site of the bed. Her face was saddened, and she smiled slightly at Inuyasha to keep her spirits up.
"She's in the state of narcolepticsy, a condition in which someone is suddenly to fall asleep in the middle of their actions. There is currently no cure for this, however, we have medication she could take to resume her studies. For some reason, she isn't awaking…" The doctor said technically. Inuyasha glared at him. All he cared about was money, he thought, and turned his head back towards the outside.
'Like something's pulling her in.' Inuyasha thought. "When will she wake up?" He asked silently. The doctor turned to him.
"Young man, I know you brought her in, but I'm not sure you have a right to be here." The doctor replied.
"When will she wake up?" Inuyasha shouted, turning back at him, eyes fiery.
The doctor stepped back. "In…its not certain… Perhaps in a few days. She's in the state of comatose at this moment."
'Comatose?'