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Chapter 19 – He Told Me His Name

Even though visitors were very desirable in the hospital of Kuroshima, they were more or less rare. Though ward K10-3 was quite a large ward, not even every month there were visitors. Unlike you might think, Inuyasha was the one who got most visits.

But today, Kagome was waiting for her mom and little brother to arrive.

But again, Kagome had the feeding tube. Anyway, her mom had already seen her with it, so she wasn't embarrassed or anything. She was very excited.

Now she was brushing her hair in her room, minding the tube which was taped against her cheeck. It was so early Sango was still asleep. But when she woke up, she sat up and stared at her roomie.

"Are you going somewhere?" she asked, got up and started making her bed.

"No, not me, but my mom and lil' brother are coming here today!" Kagome said, smiling. "Never seen your family around. Do you know when they're coming to see you?"

Sango went quiet and turned her back towards her friend.

"Uh... Sango?"

"I don't think they're coming..."

"Oh... Do they live too far away?" Kagome wondered.

"I guess you could put it that way..." Now Sango walked away from the door and left silence behind her. Kagome stood still with the hairbrush in her hand, staring a the open door with her eyes wide. Was it something she said?

Sango walked the corridor in the verge of tears. Some patients in this wards knew the reason why Sango was here. Almost all, actually. But not Kagome. And how did the patients know? When the murder Sango did was in the news, everyone read them, and as they might be insane, they weren't idiots. They could figure out it was Sango the news were writing about. But still, people didn't talk about it.

A mint green car was driving a road towards Kuroshima. It was driven by Kagome's mom Sayoko, and her little brother Souta, who sat on the back seat.

"Are we there yet?" the young boy asked, a bit bored. They had been driving for about two hours.

"Yes, dear. We'll be there in no time", mom nodded with a smile.

And so the car stopped on the parking on next to the K10 building. Souta jumped out of the car, excited. He looked at the building his mouth open. This was the first time they were here, even though Kagome had been here for a while.

"Come", Sayoko told Souta, and so they rang ward K10-K's doorbell. A microphone told:

"Who are you?"

"Visitors for Kagome", Sayoko answered. The lock clicked and a small, green light lit up. Sayoko and Souta stepped in and walked the stairs to the ward. Kede walked to them and shook Sayoko's hand.

"Welcome to K10-3", she greeted with a smile. "Kagome has been waiting for ye all week."

"Thank you, and nice to meet you", Sayoko smiled. "You must be her own nurse, Kaede?"

"Oh yes. Should I now lead ye to the family room?"

"Actually, could you show us the toilets?" Sayoko pleaded. "We have been driving for a while."

"Of course", the old lady nodded and led the visitors in front of a door which said 'WC'. Before stepping in, she turned towards her son and asked:

"Souta, do you need to go first?"

"Nah, I don't need to go at all."

And so, Souta stood next to the door with Kaede. Sayoko came out pretty soon.

"Okay, now we can go to the family room", she said.

The toilet could really be a bit closer to the family room, but this was okay. And when Kaede opened the family room's door...

"Mama!" the thin girl in the room shouted out, opened her arms and almost crashed in her mom's embrace. They hugged each other tight, but Sayoko was

a bit sad to feel her daughter's skeletal spine.

The Higurashi trio sat on the sofa, Kagome in the middle, her arms on her mom's and bother's shoulders. They leaned against each other without a word.

But finally Souta asked:

"Does that tube hurt?"

Kagome was silent for a while.

"Well, a bit... But it's the inserting that hurts."

"I brought you something I really wish you'd like..." Sayoko said and took a juice box and a chocolate doughnut from her bag. "I'd be really happy if you ate these, honey."

Kagome took the juice box and doughnut, looked at them for a while, opened her mouth to chomp it... But she gave it back to her mom. Poor mom looked at her, quiet, and handed over the treats to Souta.

"Are you sure, sis, that you don't want these?" he asked. Kagome nodded. And so, Souta started eating the doughnut.

As they came in the morning, they had all day being with Kagome. Now it was 2 PM, and as Souta hadn't been in the bathroom since 9 AM, he had to go now.

"I'll be back soon, mama", the boy said as he grabbed the door's handle.

"You remember the way to the toilets?" Sayoko asked.

"Yea, I'll be back in no time!"

As Souta closed the door, he looked around for a while. There was no-one around, and so he started getting towards the toilets. He got in and out in less than a minute, and started walking back towards the family room. But then...

"Hi there, sweetie!" shouted a female voice behind him. The boy turned around and saw a man with blue face paint on cheeks. His smile shone like the sun. As he got closer, Souta started feeling uneasy.

"But who are you?" this man, Jakotsu, asked.

"Uh... I'm Souta", the kid said, backing off.

"What a cute name! Just like your face..." And the man started undress his shirt... When suddenly Sota turned his face behind Jakotsu. Jakotsu turned around too, and what do you know, it was Inuyasha – with no straightjacket or anything like that. Unlike you may think, Jakotsu's smile just spread.

"Oooh, two sexy men in one..."

But Inuyasha ran to him and jumped on him. He started scratching him from his chest and pounding his face.

Souta looked at this his eyes wide. Finally Inuyasha got up from Jakotsu and kicked his bag.

"Okay I'm goin'..." Jakotsu mumbled, but with that sick smile with his.

Inuyasha turned towards Souta and looked at him. But Souta wasn't afraid of this boy's red eyes. Conversely! This dog-eared boy was his saviour!

"Uh, hiya..." Souta said and lift his hand. "Who are you?"

Inuyasha didn't say anything. But Souta didn't stop waiting. After a few minutes Inuyasha opened his mouth and said quietly...

"... Inuyasha."

"Inuyasha..." Souta wondered. "That's a cool name! And You are cool! You just saved me from that insane guy-gal! Who was he?"

Again, Inuyasha didn't answer. But this time, he stayed quiet.

Incidentally Mitsuhiro arrived at the end of the corridor where Souta and Inuyasha stood. His eyes widened as he jogged towards the boys, ready to push the alarm-button... But stopped halfway, because he saw Inuyasha being so calm with the boy. After standing still for a while, the man walked to them and laid his hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Has something happened here?" Mitsuhiro asked.

"Yeah! Inuyasha saved me from that crazy gay man!" Souta nodded with a smile. But Mitsuhiro's eyes widened.

"H-how do you know his name?"

"He told me", Souta said. "But otherwise he's kinda quiet of a guy..."

"Well, okay. Now I have to take you back to the family room. Inuyasha, you stay right here."

"Knock knock", said Mitsuhiro and opened family room's door.

"Oh Souta, I was so worried about you!" Sayoko shouted out. "What took you so long?"

"One crazy gay patient almost got on me", Souta said. "But a patient named Inuyasha saved me!"

"How do you know his name?" Kagome asked. "He never speaks... Except he told me once..."

"Wait, wait..." Mitsuhiro waved his hands. "Let me get this straight. Inuyasha speaks to no-one else except to your family, even though he hasn't even met your little brother before? And I have known Inuyasha for eight years, and he has barely said a few words!"

"So it seems..." Kagome nodded.

Sayoko and Souta stayed for a few more hours, and the good-byes were tough. Kagome hugged her mom tight and ruffled Souta's hair.

"Get well, honey", Sayoko said with a maybe bit sad face.

"Bye, sis!" Souta smiled. Kagome nodded and watched as her family got out from the main door. After they were gone, Kagome jogged to the part of there corridor where she could see them through the windows. And as she saw them getting into the car, she waved her hand, but they couldn't tee her, and just drove away. Kagome sighed.

The girl walked to the end of the western corridor, and saw Inuyasha sitting on the windowsill. The girl walked to him and hopped opposite him.

"You know, Inuyasha... Why do you talk to my family, only my family, but to no-one else?" Kagome asked. "Not even Mitsu, even though he's your own nurse!"

Inuyasha didn't say anything, didn't even look in the girl's eyes.

"Heh, you're weird", Kagome laughed, but she wasn't scared sitting before the demon-boy. Those eyes, claws and fangs... And she had seen how dangerous he could be... But she wasn't scared.

Kagome slowly reached her foot towards Inuyasha, and when they touched each other's toes, they both lift their eyes to meet each other. After staring at each-other, Inuyasha twitched his dog ears and jumped away so hard he landed about ten meters away, and jogged away.

Kagome sighed, but smiled.