And now it is for sure – there will be more than 16 chapters in this story. This is the first of the extra-chapters, and as I had a great inspiration and an idea (thank you for this chapter, Talawolfgirl), this chapter was finished very fast.
If you have ANY kinds of ideas for an another chapter or at least one more or less short scene, bring it on, tell me! ;)
Chapter 13 – Like an Another Person
'Fucking fucking shit...' Kagome thought as she pushed the drip stand along her through the damn long corridor. She hadn't been feeling her own, quiet and weak self recently.
She was so embarrassed of the feeding tube. She was on the verge of pulling the tube out. But she kind of had those two guys – an angel and the devil – in her head, like in movies.
"Don't touch the tube. You need it. And it will just be put back if you rip it out", said the angel.
"Rip it off right away. You are stronger than the nurses. If you gather your strength, they wont stand a chance against you and will let you go without the tube", cackled the devil.
You couldn't say Kagome ordered the angel as she didn't rip the tube off, but she didn't order the devil either. Which would she choose?
Kagome walked into the dining hall, filled up with people, and saw her own nurse Kaede sitting at 'Kagome's table'. When the old woman saw the girl, standing at the doorway, she smiled a bit and pet Kagome's chair.
Kagome sighed and pushed the creaking drip stand before her. She sat down and looked at the meal that laid there on the plate in front of her. She didn't even touch the cutleries.
"Kagome, now ye should really eat", Kaede said, maybe a bit more seriously that before – and Kagome sensed it. "Because yer weight just wont rise, that means ye need more energy – more calories. And so, as ye won't eat..." The elder turned at the hall's door, where a nurse just came in... With an extra bag of Nutrison. Kagome's eyes widened.
"Now we will raise yer calorie intake from 2000 to 2800..."
Suddenly Kagome like 'sank' onto a strange state.
And so she 'listened to the devil'.
Everything happened within a few seconds. Kagome got up from the chair, grabbed the tube and ripped it off with a short scream of pain. She stared at the tube in her hands, and saw blood from her nose dripping on her hands.
One male nurse ran to her, but Kagome grabbed her plate and smashed it against the nurse's face. And that wasn't all.
Kaede pushed the alarm button to call more nurses. And when they came to the dining hall, they saw the plate on floor, the food dripping on the nurse's face and chest. Now they thought she was not dangerous anymore. Idiots.
As the nurses got closer and closer slowly, Kagome was clueless for a few seconds. But suddenly she grabbed the drip stand and smashed the nurses with it. She swished it all around her. She didn't really aim anywhere, but still hit the nurses almost every swipe.
The other patients sitting in the hall looked this fight eyes wide, every single one quiet. Except one:
"Wooo-hee! Go, Kagome!" Jakotsu cheered and clapped his hands.
"Shut up!" one nurse shouted, but Jakotsu just giggled.
At last one of Kagome's target nurses managed to grab the drip stand, everyone grabbed the girl's thin limbs and pressed her against the floor. The girl fought back.
More nurses appeared into the hall, and as they saw the scene, they ran to help.
"Be careful, she is very fragile", nurse Kaede said as others came closer.
"Let's take her to the limb restration ro..." a nurse was going to say when they were trying to lift Kagome up. But Kagome managed to bite the nurses's hand. And so hard that the nurse screamed and flinched. And because of flinching, he accidentaly let go of her hand. The girl started slashing her free arm fiercely.
"That's it. Get the sedative injection."
"Haaaarg!" Kagome screamed as she fought against the nurses almost as hard as Inuyasha. But still, as fragile and weak she was, she got out of breath very quickly.
The nurse jogged to them.
"Pants down, please", she pleaded. And so they did, and stung the needle on her butt. This wasn't such a harsh sedative that she'd pass out or even go limp. But she stopped fighting back, so she was slowly and gently carried through the main corridor to the isolation rooms. Kagome was carried in the room one, five nurses with her. They put Kagome on the bed and started strapping her.
"I'll stay here", Kaede told the other four nurses. Soon one nurse came in and brought the old lady a chair. She nodded with a smile and sat down.
Kagome got normal in about an hour.
"Ye know we just want yer best", Kaede told. "But ye know we absolutely have to get yer weight up. And within an hour or two, we'll put the tube back. What do ye think? We can make this the hard way, the tube, or the easy way, a normal meal. Deal?"
But Kagome didn't want to talk.
And so, maybe just 20 mins later, another nurse came in with the same drip stand that Kagome had just used as a baseball bat. The nurse was carrying two bags of Nutrison. She stopped the drip stand beside the limb restraining bed where Kagome laid on.
"Now, let's wait for a few minutes. Ryo, Ame and Mitsuhiro are coming", the nurse said.
And in no time, those three nurses came into the room.
"Okay now, Kagome", Mitsuhiro started. "Keep your head still. You know we will get the tube in, more or less easily. It's your choice. Now tell us; easy or hard."
No answer.
"Get the numbing cream."
Ame came back into the room with a small package.
"You know what this is, right? This is numbing cream. We know putting the tube in is painful. This should help at least a little", she said and took a tube out. "Hold still, I'll put some of this in your notrils."
But Kagome sure didn't hold still. She fought back so hard the bed was shaking, even though Mitsuhiro and Ryo held her head.
Even though the cream was put down her nose, she could taste it. Now Ame opened a plastic bag where the naso-gastric tube was. Kagome followed her straightening the tube and slowly getting closer and closer to her face.
"Hold her", Ame ordered.
"NO!" Kagome screamed and tried to fight back, but what could a small little girl do against two strong men?
Kagome sneezed incessantly and felt tears in her eyes. She felt like puking. Finally she stopped fighting back, and so, the tube was down her nose to her stomach.
Mitsuhiro took some medical tape from his pocket was about to tape the tube against the girl's cheek – but Kagome did something no nurse in this would ever have even imaged of her. She spat against Mitsuhiro's face.
Mitsuhiro backed off with a disgusted shout and wiped his face from spit.
"Kagome!" Kaede shouted. "That wasn't nice! Apologize him at once!"
But the girl just stared back with an angry face.
"Hm, let's forget about this", Mitsuhiro sighed, still wiping his cheek.
As Mitsuhiro and Ryo left, Ame put both of the Nutrison bags hanging from the drip stand, connected the tubes and pressed some buttons of the pumping machine that dosed the food's pressure of dripping.
"Thank you", Kaede nodded.
First neither Kagome or Kaede said anything. But finally Kaede sighed.
"Ye are really like an another person... The Kagome I knew never behaved like ye have today. What has happened?" the old lady asked. "Have ye maybe hid yer medicine?"
Kagome didn't say anything.
It didn't take long time before the ward's doctor came to see Kagome. Just like almost every patient in this ward, she, too, really disliked her.
"Hello, Kagome", she started. "Well. I have read what the nurses have written about what has happened today. We want to know why. A blood test will be taken within a few hours so we can see about your medicine levels in your blood."
"Let me off these straps", Kagome snapped. The doctor shook her head.
"Do you understand that what you did back at the dining hall was really serious. And not only that, but you have to get your weight up, and if you keep ripping the tube off and we have to keep up these fights every day, the easiest way is to keep you strapped until we can trust you."
Again Kagome did something 'un-Kagomeish' – she gave the finger towards her.
"What happened to our cute, silent, little Kagome?" the doctor sighed, turned around and walked out of the room.
Kaede read a book in the silence, until two knocks were heard behind the door. Both Kaede and Kagome turned at the door. It was a laboratorian. Kaede got up from the chair and let the laboratorian sit. Kaede turned on the room's lights.
"Now, Kagome, ye'd better hold still", the old lady said strictly. First Kagome just looked at her... But now she actually had the same look in her eyes as always before – like a lost child.
As the needle was inserted in Kagome's arm, Kagome flinched a little. As she watched the small plastic vial fill, she looked a bit worried.
"Don't worry. It looks like you're loosing a lot of blood, but it's very little", the laboratorian said.
"I know", Kagome mumbled.
After the laboratorian was gone, Kaede put the lights off the room – not all dark, but a bit shadowy.
"Ye did well with the blood test. Keep on that way things will be well again.
'Well and well...' Kagome snorted in her head.
It was getting late when the doctor returned with a few forms in her hands.
"So. There was nothing abnormal in your blood, which means you have taken your medicine. That's good. But we'll keep you strapped for at least till morning. I will see you and we'll think should we release you nor not."
Kagome stared at the doctor with a gaze that looked like she was going to kill the doctor.
"Well... Good night", the doctor waved and got on her way.
Kaede covered Kagome carefully and asked:
"Will ye promise ye wont spit me?"
Kagome nodded.
And so the old lady stroked the girls cheek gently and ruffled her hair.
That made Kagome smile a bit.
