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Chapter 22 – Feelings For Both

As said, new patients in the hospital of Kuroshima were very rare. Sometimes only a few per year. But today, a patient would be transferred into the ward of K10-3...

Just a few days ago, Kanna was signed-off from K10-3. And so, now there was one free place for a patient.

And so, the place was filled right away.

A young woman sat in an ambulance next to a female nurse. She only answered questions with a quiet voice, but otherwise stayed quiet. Her eyes wandered around the ceiling. There was something nobody else saw – but she did. Strange figures all around the ceiling. Someone was laughing.

"What do you see?" the ambulace nurse asked. The woman didn't answer. "Kikyo?"

No answer.

Kagome had been thinking about this boy in this ward. She had been talking with Sango about how did she and Miroku start to get along a while ago.

"I guess it's just about time... and maybe that you are meant for each other", she had said. "Why?"

After Kagome told about her crush – Inuyasha – Sango raised her eyebrow.

"Don't get me wrong but... I'm not sure if Inuyasha is a good candidate as a boyfriend... But... don't get me wrong but... of course you could try."

Kagome was just incidentally walking around the main corridor, when she suddenly heard main door open and close. She got a bit curious and starter walking there.

What? The new patient everyone had been talkin about? Kagome was actually a bit interested about her. Maybe a new friend?

"Okay, Kikyo", a female nurse said, and they walked past Kagome, both carrying a few bags. They turned around the corridor, leaving the girl staring after them.

They walked into a room... Where a woman about Kikyo's age was waiting for them.

"Hey, Kagura! This is your new roommate Kikyo", the nurse introduced. Kagura gave a very small smile and shook hands with her.

"Nice to meet you."

Kagome was sitting in the livin groom, reading a teen magazine, pretty bored. But then, Inuyasha came in and sat down about two meters from her. The girl stared at him, blushing maybe a bit. After a few minutes, Kagome started slowly getting closer to him, inch by inch... Until she crossed the line, making Inuyasha growl. The girl backed off instantly.

But then...

This new woman patient in the ward, Kikyo, got in the living room escorted by a nurse.

"Oh! See? He's there, right there!" the nurse shouted with a happy voice. "Go, I'm sure he still remembers you."

Kikyo sat on the other side of Inuyasha. He was now surrounded by girls. But Inuyasha turned at Kikyo. They stared at each other.

"Do you... remember me?" she asked very quietly and placed her hand on his hand. Inuyasha nodded slowly once.

They had met a long time ago in this hospital's childrens' ward. As time went by, they got more than just friends. But as Kikyo was pretty many years older than him, she was transferred into an another hospital. But why not in another ward in here, Kuroshima? Because the doctors thought she didn't need to stay here, she would be fine in something more liberal ward.

"It's pretty astounding seeing you... Still in a hospital after all these years... And so grown..."

Inuyasha stared at the woman straight in the eyes and tilted his head.

"You look good... You really do..."

Kagome didn't like what she saw. She had been here in this ward for about half a year, and Kikyo just arrived two hours ago, and was already holding hands with him, but at Kagome he was just growling. She felt So jealous.

The lunch time came. And this time it was just the same hell for Kagome like every day. This time there were two things to make it unbearable.

A – Of course, the eating. Kagome didn't have a feeding tube at the moment, but she had still been caught vomiting, and, like always, if she didn't eat at least something, the tube would be put on her.

B – Inuyasha hadn't sat on his own seat. He moved next to Kikyo. They looked at each other for a while, but started eating without a word.

Kagome sat still, not eating, just looking over her shoulder every now and then to see the young couple right behind her.

Maybe she wasn't 'angry-like-jealous', but 'sad-like-jealous'. She had never been good with boys. She didn't quite understand, why. She had been maybe a bit chubby, but still with woman's form, and beautiful hair... That's what her mom and friends always said.

After the lunch, everyone else except Kagome had left. She was stirring her soup slowly with a sad face. She was pretty positive what would soon happen – the naso-gastric tube. But she just couldn't swallow the stinking liquid on her plate.

There was this small kitchen for the patients, where they could cook anything they wanted from omelette to pasta, brew tea or coffee and so on. And in that room were the 'yummy boxes', one for every patient. Even though Inuyasha made sure his box stayed pretty empty by eating what's inside, he was pretty skinny. He hadn't been in the hospital's café for years, but there were two days a week when the ward went there together, bought some treats and usually also stayed for a coffee and cake or something like that. There were patients who couldn't go there, so the nurses took them something they had ordered to bring.

Now Inuyasha was digging it through to find something he thought She would like. He wanted to help Her.

Then he got his goods and started walking towards the dining hall. And there he saw the girl sitting alone. He could hear and smell a nurse working in the kitchen with the door open, looking after the girl every now and then.

Inuyasha walked to Kagome and sat down next to her. Kagome stared at him her eyes wide.

"I-Inuyasha...?"

The boy put his presents on the table – a chocolate bar and... A bottle of Mountain Dew.

Kagome stared the treats. She was touched. Mountain Dew was something the boy really appreciated...

"Oh, but I couldn't take it..."she hesitated and pushed the green bottle back. But Inuyasha just pushed it back. He flipped his ears back and forth.

There they sat for a while. Nothing had happened, and now Inuyasha started to get annoyed. So he grabbed the chocolate bar, peeled it and handed it over in front of Kagome's mouth.

Kagome stared at the boy, he looked back. Inuyasha shook the chocolate bar. Finallly Kagome took it in her hand, opened her mouth and slowly started chewing. But Inuyasha didn't insist her to drink the soda. He started drinking it by himself.

Inuyasha finished the soda in a few minutes, but for Kagome to eat the chocolate bar it took about 20 minutes. But Inuyasha just sat next to her, not saying anything or rushing her.

Kagome looked at the dog boy and tried to smile, but she was feeling a bit uneasy.

"... Thank you, Inuyasha."

Then the next day came. Kagome couldn't help but think about what had happened yesterday. Not only how touching it was for Inuyasha to bring her those treats, but also it meants that he liked her. More or less than Kikyo, that she didn't know.

But Kagome wanted to refund the boy. She had an idea! She walked to the bulletin board, where the calendar was. And today was the day – the café day! Kagome walked to the office and knocked the door. Kaede opened it.

"Hello, Kagome!" she smiled.

"Hi..." Kagome nodded. "I was just wondering could I come with you to the café?"

Kaede stared at the girl with amazed face.

"Ye really want to go?" she asked. Kagome nodded.

"I have money", she said. Kaede smiled.

"O' course ye can come!" she kept smiling and pet her back. "We'll be leaving in ten minutes."

Kagome joined the group of patients and nurses who were going to the café. They put on their coats and shoes, and so the got on their way.

There were pretty many people in the café. The patients of K10-3 got in the line. Kagome knew what she would take... But that alone wouldn't be enough. She looked around, and then she saw it! She grabbed it from the shelf, paid for them and put them in her backpack. She walked away from the counter and sat down. Kaede walked to her.

"Aren'tye gonna take something to eat here? Koga just took a cream doughnut and Miroku took an ice cream..."

"I'm fine with these", Kagome nodded and pet her backpack.

"Well, I am still happy ye took something", the old lady smiled.

Koga, Sango and Miroku joined Kagome in the same table. Sango and Koga had started eating their pastries, and Miroku licked his ice cream.

"Listen, Kag", Koga said. "It's not too late yet to go have somethin' good."

"It'd be good for you", Miroku nodded. Kagome didn't answer.

The group returned to the ward. Everyone had brought something with them to the ward. They put them to the yummy boxes, but Kagome just carried her backpack with her towards the wing where this particular room was. She wasn't sure if the person she was looking for was there. But she stopped at the door, knocked... No answer. She opened the door...

Inuyasha was laying on his bed, but got up as the girl walked. He twitched his ears.

"Hi, Inuyasha..." she said, slowly walked to the boy and sat down next to him. "You know, what you did to me yesterday... It really touched me... So I wanted to refund you." And so she started digging the backpack. She took out a large bag of potato chips. Inuyasha sniffed it.

"And..." Kagome smiled and took a Mountain Dew out from the backpack. "You like them?"

Something weird happened.

Inuyasha smiled for a few seconds.