Chapter 17
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" Kagome! Kagome wake up!" Kurt yelled shaking her gently. Abruptly, Kagome sat up, and looked to her surroundings. The room was painted light blue, and the cabinets and tables were darker shades of blue. The room was meant to calm people... but it wasn't working.
" Kurt?" Was he the one that woke her up? Just before Inuyasha got to her?
" Kagome! Your back! It's bleeding!" The back of the bed was tilted, and the sheets were white. So she got a good view of what was on it. The same pattern that Inuyasha slashed her in that... nightmare was printed from her bleeding back. Kurt turned her gently to see. Plainly seen were the red bleeding slashed Inuyasha had given her in the nightmare. "And I thought the crying was bad." Kurt mused.
"Crying?" Kurt whipped his thumb (Well the finger that would be his thumb) across her cheek as if whipping away a tear. Instead of the expected clear blue there was a crimson drop that sharply contrasted with his blue fur.
Kagome threw off the white sheet and made a beeline for the mirrored cabinet. Where there would have been a tear track there was blood. Kagome blinked at the reflection and more fell. They ran down her face just like tears would if she had been crying.
And you shall shed tears of scarlet...
Kagome's legs wouldn't hold her up any longer; she fell to the floor. Her slight form fell the floor suddenly, thus ripping the IV out of her arm. She brought her knees up to her chest and put her arms around them, and started to shiver.
" Kagome?" Her head snapped up at the voice.
' Who's that? Inuyasha?'
No
' Then who is it! Who are you!?'
I... I am you
' What do you mean! I don't understand! I don-... blue?'
Yes
' I, I know him, he's... he's... I don't remember.'
He's Kurt
' Kurt? Kurt?'
Kurt Vagna
I know him, he's my friend. He's special like me. He's special for me...'
Kagome stood on shaky legs and looked to Kurt. He was no less than tow feet away, yet it seemed so far. With a loud sob she launched herself into his chest. And for the first time in months, years it felt to her, she cried into his chest.
What was he supposed to do? Comfort her, or just hold her, and be silent? Kurt decided the best thing was to do two out of the three.
" I'm not going to pretend to understand, Kagome." Kurt said gently, encircling her in his arms. " But, know this, I'm here, and I'm always going to be here."
Kagome backed away and looked up at him. Her eyes red from crying, and the blood- tears wears smeared all over her face, and Kurt's shirt. She gazed up at him for about a minute then buried her face back into him.
" Is it true?" She asked into his ruined shirt. " Will you stay?" She paused. " Will you stay with me forever?"
" As long as I can." He told her setting his chin a top her head. Kurt wanted this moment to last forever. Holding Kagome, it just felt so right. It made him feel warm, and wanted. Either that or it was the blood from Kagome's back that was turning his blue fur purple.
" Kagome, we need to treat your back.
" Right." Kagome said backing up, and walking over to the bed. Sure it may have been Kurt's idea, but her really didn't know the first thing about first aid to this degree. Kagome knew this.
" Errrmm."
" Get some towels, bandages, burn cream, and in my room on the desk there should be a black jar."
" Okay." Kurt left the room and made for the hall closet where the towels were. He'd seen pictures of Kagome before she came. Kurt managed to get the Higurashi's address and mailed her Mom. In the pictures she was smiling, her blue-gray eyes were bright, and happy. Now they held nothing, or were filled with pain.
' I'm going to change that if it's the last thing I d-' Kurt had gathered the things Kagome instructed him to get, but his thoughts were disrupted when he found himself in front of Kagome's door.
He'd never been inside Kagome's room. No one had. It was strictly her passage only. Kurt slowly reached for the knob, and turned it. Just like in the horror movies, the door creaked loudly as it opened, and the lights were off. Reaching inside, Kurt flipped the light switch on the wall.
Nothing happened, Kurt flipped it up and down, but the light did not turn on. He took a few attentive steps into the room, waiting for his keen eyes to adjust. Soon enough Kurt could clearly see. There was an up turned chair at his feet, and nothing seemed to be in its proper place. Kurt looked around more, and saw that the window was broken.
" That crash a month ago." He realized. Momentarily forgetting the black jar he was supposed to retrieve, Kurt walked into the bathroom. He gasped. It looked like a small shrine. There was a small cushion on the floor, around it sat hundreds of tiny tea candles and at the front of it all was a collection dish.
Kurt kneeled down, and picked p the little bowl, and sniffed it lightly. He wasn't really surprised. He could tell it was Kagome's. (I gave Kurt a good nose, so sue me... no wait DON'T!) But it was black, wasn't blood red.
' She did this? Kagome cut herself and caught the blood in this little collection dish?' Kurt found himself subconsciously backing out of the bathroom until he bumped into the desk on the other side of the room.
His stupor was broken as his hand bumped against the black jar he'd been sent here for in the first place. He grabbed the jar, and fled from the room. Kurt didn't stop running till he got to the medical wing door. He had to talk to Kagome; this time was really serious. She needs help, more than the Professor can provide. Making his final decision Kurt opened the door, and immediately turned dark blue. (As in he's blushing)
Kagome was lying on her stomach, on the bed. But that was only part of what turned him dark blue. The fact was, was that she was shirtless, revealing her small wounded back.
" The shirt would've only got in the way. So I got rid of it." Kagome said flatly from the pillow. Kurt's legs turned to tree trunks as she made his way over to the bed.
' She's in the middle of the bed. How am I going to treat her back with out actually getting on the bed?!' Kurt's mind screamed. 'Sure I'm just treating her wound, but what if someone came in. They'd jump to the wrong conclusion! I mean she shirtless, she shirtless, she shirtless...
" Go ahead sit down. I don't mind." Kagome's voice snapped Kurt out of his thoughts. Shakily Kurt sat on the edge of the bed. He set the stuff on the side table.
" Kagome? Wh-"
" Take a towels and press it to my back to stop the bleeding."
" Alright." He pressed the towel to her back. " Kagome, when I went into your room."
" You saw the broken window... did you go into the bathroom?"
" Yes." A few minutes passed, and the silence deepened. " Why?" Kurt lifted the towel to see if the bleeding stopped. It did. Slowly Kurt peeled it of and set it aside.
Put the burn cream around the wound but not in it
A voice called to him, but it was different. As if not spoken from them mouth. It was in his head.
" I'm sorry."
" Huh?" Kurt looked up from his work to look at Kagome. (Her face)
" I said I'm sorry. I've been nothing but a bother."
" Kagome you're not a bother. Just try to answer my questions. I'm only trying to help." There was no answer.
" I know it's just,... It's hard." Kurt paused after squeezing some of the cream onto his finger.
" Hard?"
" It's hard for me to trust people now. It used to be so easy, but... 'He' changed that."
' Again with he' " Okay Kagome, you said you would answer my questions, so here's my first one." ' I'll know who's been causing her all this pain.'
" Inuyasha." Kagome hissed vehemently.
" Inuyasha?"
" Inuyasha" Kagome spat. " Tricked me, tried to kill me! I despise him!"
" You shouted out his name in that forest training session."
" I saw him, and I keep seeing him!" Kurt whipped his hands on a spare towel. " But you can't see him! No one can! Only I can!"
Put the salve in the wound
Despite Kagome's shouts Kurt Heard the voice again. He pulled off the lid, and sniffed the contents lightly. It smelled faintly of mint, and something else he didn't recognize.
Kurt scooped some of it out of the jar and rubbed it between his fingers. A tingling surged from his fingers to the tips of his ears. Burning yet comforting at the same time. Gently, Kurt ran his fingers across Kagome's back. Kagome hissed slowly as it spread.
" But why is it that only you can see him?" Kurt asked taking another scoop from the jar.
" I've tried to convince myself that he's all in my head, but..." Kagome buried her face in the pillow. " But he's there, solid. I can sense it when he's near. I get bruises where he hits me! I can feel it when he touches me!" She cried, her head still buried in the pillow.
" Is he here, in the room?" Kagome looked up from the pillow and frantically looked around the room. Once she looked around the room Kagome dropped back down to the pillow.
" No he's not." With one last glob of salve across Kagome's back, Kurt whipped his hands on the extra towel again.
" I'm done with the stuff in the jar."
" Okay," Kagome grunted lifting her arms as if she was going to do a push-up. Kurt immediately turned around. There was the sound of shifting blankets, and then silence. " You can turn around."
The decency level of the room dropped drastically, but the tension soared. Kurt turned around, and found Kagome sitting on the bed, her back facing him. Kurt picked up the bandages.
" Did he cut you like this?" He asked reaching around her to take the roll around. Kagome took her hair over her shoulder, and held it in front of her.
" Some of it."
" Some of it?"
" It depends, you see this one?" Kagome gestured to an old scar on her upper arm. " That's the first scar her gave me, but it's different than the one on my stomach."
" How, how is it different."
" It was an accident. My family was re-painting the kitchen. But all the old paint had to be taken off first. There was only one paint scrapper, so he had to use a metal spatula.
We got in a wrestling match for it. Nothing rough, just like a tickle fight. Well it got ripped out of hands, and was racked across my arm." Kagome smiled sadly and continued.
" He kept saying he was sorry, and checked it practically every five minutes to see if I was okay." Kurt tied the bandage off, and Kagome turned and buried her face into Kurt's chest again. (The bandages hide all, so nothing was seen)
" Kagome?"
" That was only a month before he tried to kill me!" She cried. " How did her change like that so fast."
" Shhhh..." Kurt hushed her gently as he encircled her in his arms again. " It's gonna be okay now." He assured her, laying her down on the bed. " You should get some rest."
" Fine." Kagome yawned, turning onto her stomach so as not to irritate her back. She was asleep before Kurt even left the room.
So there! That's 17! No action, just talking! But guess who makes another entrance on the next one! You'll have to find our lat I guess!
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