Chapter 16
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" Mr. McCoy!" Kurt yelled frantically as he kicked open the door of the medical wing with Kagome in his arms. Rushing over to the bed he gently laid her down. The scar all over her arms, legs, and hands grabbed his attention.
A couple were pink and new. Some even had blood beading on to the edges of her skin, and were being absorbed by the white cotton sheet the surrounded her.
" Mr. McCoy!" He yelled again not looking away from her. The room filled with the swishing of a lab coat and padded footsteps.
" Kurt, what's wro- dear God." Mr. McCoy bent over Kagome to check her pulse only to find it slow and very irregular. After a few quick judgements he spoke.
" You clean these cuts while I get an IV from the storage room." He ordered leaving for the storage room. Sighing heavily Kurt got a wash cloth out of the cupboard and got it wet. Then got a tube of anti-biotic ointment from the cabinet above the sink.
"Kagome, look vhat you've gotten yourself into now." He chided her softly, cleaning the new cuts. A minute later Mr. McCoy came back with the IV. He took the end piece to the inside of her forearm, and hung the bag next to the bed.
" Be sure not to surprise her when she wakes up. Now if you'll excuse me. I have a class with the younger students." With that the beast left.
Dabbing at the cuts on her left arm Kurt attention went to the scars on her belly. Then her remembered that night she made an up roar. (When she was dreaming in chapter... 5 I think it was) When she used her powers on him. It was a strange feeling, comforting and burning at the same time. He remembered so well how she crushed her body to his own. Her every curve, and how she seemed to grind him to her unconsciously. Him reacting to every movement. Kurt stopped his thoughts there. He was supposed to be taking care of Kagome, not getting stiff.
' Did she have those scars on her stomach when she did that?' They were well browned, and looked old. So he doubted she did them herself.
' Why did she do this to herself? What drove her to this? When did it start?'
The thoughts buzzed around in his head.
" Why didn't I stop this?" He asked himself aloud as everyone rushed into the room.
" How is she?" Kitty asked standing next to him.
" Where's Shippo? He was pretty upset when he saw Kagome like this."
" In his room, cried himself to sleep on the way home." She explained. They both looked down upon their broken friend. 'I don't know Kagome all that well, but... She needs good friends now more than ever. So I'll be here.'
" Hey, I know Kagome's hurt and all, but we still have school tomorrow." Scott pointed out from the back of the room. Just like him to cut a moment like this short. But he had a point. The rest agreed with small murmurs and filed out the door.
" You coming Kurt?" Kitty asked stopping at the door.
" Nein, I'm staying here." Kurt said taking Kagome's limp hand in his own. Kitty smiled.
' They'd make a great couple.' The thought crossed briefly through Kitty's mind. Kitty left sighing, and Kurt looked back to Kagome. Why hadn't her paid more attention to her before?
You just couldn't figure out what she was going to do next. One moment she seemed happy, one the brink of a big smile. The next she's passed out with an IV in her arm, half starved. She was an enigma laid out on a puzzle, wrapped up in a strange ness inside a mystery.
Kurt suddenly found himself sleepy. His eyelids drooped, and he couldn't find the strength to keep them open. Laying his head down next to Kagome's stomach Kurt slept in a half sitting position.
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' What's going on? Where am I? Why is everything so dark and stale?' Kagome though. Her feet were surrounded by something sloppy and thick. She tried to walk but the sludge resisted her, and made grotesque sucking noises every time she freed a foot and took a step.
Suddenly, as if a light were turned on, Kagome saw what surrounded her. It appeared that she was in a swamp. She looked around to see if see could find a small slat of land. Finding one, Kagome made her way slowly towards it. After minutes of slow progress Kagome reached solid ground. As soon as she got far enough from the shore Kagome looked down at her muddy feet, and saw she wore no shoes.
For the first time Kagome looked at what she was wearing. It was her old school uniform, but why was she wearing this. Kagome thought she'd burned it. Looking up from her feet she also realized that the whole scape was in black and white. The only other color she saw was the red of her tie, and... something in the reeds over there.
Kagome creeped closer to see if it was what she thought it was. Wading back into the marsh she investigated the outstanding red. Running her fingers lightly across the surface and found that it stuck to her hand, and that it was slick between her fingers.
" What's that?" Kagome spied a little black among the brilliant red that twisted through the reeds. Grabbing it she noticed that it was stringy. She slowly lifted it from the water. The sight made bile rise in her throat. It was a head, Miroku's head.
The lip was split all the way down his chin revealing the bone. The ear that would've had piercings had been cut off. The eyes were gone, the lid partly covering the empty socket.
Kagome's suspicions were answered, the red had been blood. She threw the head back out into the marsh, quickly wiping her hands on her skirt. About to wade back to shore when Kagome felt two things bump against her thigh.
Silently praying to herself she reached down again. The hair on this one was longer. Kagome braced herself, and brought the head up from the water to see who it was.
It was her best friend and sister, Sango. A big chunk of her nose was gone, and her mouth hung open to reveal no tongue. The scalp was bleeding from where sections of hair had been savagely ripped out. Even though a blood source was gone it still bleed.
And, just as Miroku's eyes were gone, so where hers. Dropping the head as if it were a disease Kagome dreaded the other head. But her eyes betrayed her as Shippo's head floated to the surface, as did hundreds more.
In front of her was Shippo's head, and behind him she could recognize other heads too. Keade, Kiarara, her mom, Souta, Ji-chan, some bandits... the list went on and on in her head.
Doing her best Kagome turned and started off in the other direction, only to find more heads, staring at her through their empty sockets. Pushing them aside Kagome waded further into the bog.
By now the swamp was up to her mid-thigh, and she was covered in blood and sludge. Which made it all the more difficult to move. Kagome froze as she heard a splash behind her. Not even bothering to look back she picked up her pace. She already knew who it was.
In her rush Kagome tripped over a root near the bank. She cried as she fell into the mess. She couldn't breath, she couldn't see! The mud was consuming her. Kagome felt slimy hands gripping her, and pulling her down.
Deep within her Kagome summoned her neglected Miko powers and purified the creatures. The swamp that seemed alive felt the sudden light in it's world, and home of darkness. Kagome's whole body seemed in lock, her fighting lungs froze, and her stomach lurched.
The swamp threw her out, and casted her onto land. She landed face down on the hard clay dirt. Kagome still couldn't breath and the lurch in her stomach came up and out of her mouth. The stench of the puke brought back motion to her lungs, and got all over her fore head.
Looking back she saw only the heads that were floating in the water, all without eyes. But their empty sockets still bleed.
" It looks like their crying." Kagome mused collapsing fully onto the ground. She let a sigh escape her from her position on the ground. There wasn't the sound of churning water, so she wasn't followed. The only sound there actually was, was the small 'thud' the heads made as they drifted against each other.
' What is this place, and why am I here? The last thing I remember was being in Kurt's arms after my act, so shouldn't I be with him?'
The thought reeled in her mind till something was racked across her back. Crawling away from the source of pain as fast as she could Kagome stood also. Standing on shaky legs Kagome saw her attacker. And as she thought, it had been Inuyasha. The two stared at each other. The Kagome noticed something in his hand. Inuyasha saw this and threw it at her feet.
She gasped, this was some messed up shit! It was... his own head, only the hair was black, and the empty eyes were purple. That was Inuyasha's head on the night of the new moon. Kagome shook her head and looked to the Inuyasha before her.
He looked nothing short of feral as he took a few steps toward her. And she complied with more than a few steps back. Was he going to do the same thing to her that he did to the others?
" And you shall shed tears of scarlet." He whispered as he lept at her. Then ,again, her world went black.
There's chapter 16... hope that didn't take too long. Chris stepped on my hand last night and it's bruised, it hurt to move it! So I've typed this chapter slowly, cause I know you can't read too fast....
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