Chapter 23
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January 14th, Kagome woke up to her cell door, after what happened she'd been moved to a more extreme part of the facility, opening and two people walking in, adding to the 'three' already there. Just like the other day at the track Naraku and Inuyasha were paling around like they were childhood friends, playing checkers to be exact. They did this all the time now. So Kagome layed on her bad facing the wall, trying to ignore them.
"Higurashi, you new doctors here." The guard said before shutting and locking the door behind him.
"I must admit the other doctors were right, you are pretty." A smooth male voice came from by the door. There was the thunk of a chair being placed and sat in. Kagome had to turn over to look at him, there was something familiar about his voice.
The man wore navy slacks, and purple t-shirt, a white coat that had holes in the sides of the sleeves so he could put his thumbs through so you could only see his fingers. Perched on his straight nose, in front of his violet eyes , was a pair of oval glasses. And his would-be shaggy hair was tied back in a small pony tail in the nape of his neck. He flipped open his notepad and uncapped his pen. Then he scooted his chair a little closer to the bed. Kagome swore she heard the chinking of beads.
Kagome literally jumped seven feet into the air. She latched her fingers to the grate on her ceiling, and perched her feet on the top of the barred window so she was looking down at him.
"Who are you?" She demanded.
"Oh, forgive me for not introducing myself." He said and got up from his seat. "I am Dr. Ian Mushito, you new doctor." He extended a hand up to her. Kagome only glared at his hand and asked.
"When did you graduate?" Ian sat back down.
"Ah, the inevitable question. I graduated about seven months ago."
"So you're still reading 'The idiots guide to the human mind'."
"No I finished that last week." Ian replied sarcastically. Well this was different, none of her other doctors did that. "So how're you doing?"
Kagome didn't answer. Ian noticed her starring at his notepad and if she knew it was going to betray her. With resolve he capped his pen and threw it and his notepad across the room. Then he looked back up at Kagome expecting an answer. After a minute she answered.
"I hate it here. The food sucks. I'm watched all the time. The only time I get to be out of this room is when I have to go to the bathroom, and then I'm heavily guarded." Now she looked at Ian. "And every time I get a new shrink they ask how I feel. Will I go on a rampage like other mutants of my favorite, What about my past?" Then Kagome was silent.
"Well than, I wasn't going to ask any of those questions any way." He pulled a vanilla folder out from under him and opened it up. "According to this you only get two visitors. A Kurt Vagna and a Shippo Higurashi." He looked up from the file to Kagome. "All of your other doctors claim that most of your illnesses were cause by Kurt-" Ian was interrupted by Kagome growling and throwing a light bulb from the ceiling at him. It barely missed his head and shattered with a loud pop against the wall. There was quickly a guard inside the door, but Ian waved him back outside.
"Kurt has never done anything but make me happy!" She screamed.
"If you had let my finish then I would've said that I think differently." Kagome almost lost her grip on the grate. "A guy who brings you your son to see you every weekend from New York is not going to beat you." Kagome was silent for a minute. There was something strange and familiar about this man. It was strange and comforting. Not like with Dom and the drugged happiness, but as if she were talking with an old friend.
"You know, no one make the connection that Shippo's my son."
"Well, I also got a look at the security footage of last months fiasco, and that only supports my theory that Kurt hasn't done anything."
"No he hasn't." Kagome said, calming down a bit. They were silent for a bit Then Ian leaned forward and put his elbows on his knees.
"If I may ask, what happened last month?" Kagome stiffened again.
"The people at Shippo's school found out he was a mutant, and when Kurt picked him up he found his classmates throwing rocks at him, and the teachers were just watching." Kagome ended up yelling.
"They do say that kids can be worse than adults."
"Yeah, then he had to show up."
"He?" Kagome had gotten comfortable talking and didn't realize what she was saying until it was almost too late.
"Inu- Nobody!" The room fell silent after Kagome's scream, and she was preparing to unscrew and throw another light bulb at him.
"That was probably the wrong was to go… uh, do you have any family?"
"I don't know, do you?" Kagome retorted sarcastically. Ian acted as if he didn't notice.
"I, actually, was adopted, but I do have three sisters and two brothers that way, and of course the mother and father." A minute passed and Kagome asked.
"What happened to your real parents?" Ian sighed.
"My mother died in labor, and my father died of a consuming sickness when I was five." Again there was a silence.
"You probably don't know this, but ten years ago there was a rash of murders in Tokyo." Kagome began.
"I remember hearing about it on the news."
"Well, my dad was one of the victims. So since than it's just been my mom, grandpa, and brother." Ian was going to say something, but was cut off by the beeping of his watch.
"Oh, well that's our time." Ian stood and went to retrieve the note pad and pen he'd thrown across the room earlier.
"You gonna come back tomorrow?" Kagome cautioned.
"Sorry, not till the day after tomorrow. See you then." And he was gone. For the next half and hour Kagome stayed up on the window thinking about her new doctor. Then she came down, looking forward to the day after tomorrow.
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