The group was led into the mental hospital by a very determined Black Widow. They walked to the reception desk and Clint cleared his throat to get the receptionist's attention. The girl looked up, her smile dying slowly on her face when she saw who got her attention. It wasn't every day that the Avengers showed up in Japan.

Before she could say anything, Natasha spoke up in perfect Japanese, "We would like to see one of your patients." She said briskly.

The girl was flustered a moment before she got down to business, "May I have a name please?"

"Kagome Higurashi." She answered.

The girl nodded and started typing on the computer, "Right let me look that up." She typed for a few moments before she frowned "I'm sorry she's not getting visitors right now. She is part of a police investigation."

Clint pulled out his Shield badge, "We need to see her immediately, it is part of global security." His Japanese was a bit choppy but still pretty good.

The girl seemed conflicted for a moment before she nodded, "Let me page her main doctor." She told them before sending a notice through the pagers.

A few minutes later a tall strict looking lady came through the doors of one of the closed off areas. She approached the group, a slight frown on her face. "Hello my name is Dr. Kimura, I've been told you wished to see one of my patients." She spoke in English to be polite to the Americans standing in the lobby.

Tony, thankful for somebody finally speaking a language he could understand, said quickly, "Yes Kagome Higurashi."

The slight frown she had grew, "She is not being allowed visitors, one of the privileges that she has lost from misbehavior."

Steve looked slightly concerned, "Misbehaviors?"

Dr. Kimura nodded, "Yes she constantly tries to escape. For her constant escape attempts her phone privileges were taken away. She snuck out of her room the other night to make a phone call, which forced me to take away more privileges."

Clint stepped forward again, "As we told the receptionist we are with Shield. She is a person of interest in an open case we have. We need to talk to her."

The lady looked upon the group and gave a sigh, "Is this about the murder of her family?"

"No ma'am something far bigger." Clint lied politely. He didn't really like the lady too much but being polite was probably the best way to get in there and see Kagome. He had started thinking off her as a younger sister over the years. She really was just a nice girl and was always eager to help. She never missed a check in with her Shield meetings, always coming back to update them on what was happening. They had meetings every two months, their next one was only two weeks away. If she hadn't had been able to sneak away and make that phone call she would have been stuck in here for two more weeks before they even noticed that anything was wrong.

Dr. Kimura thought it over slightly, she did not want to get into any legal trouble with an international organization. She gave a small sigh, "Very well, but only two may come back. We don't allow large groups to come back here at a single time."

Natasha stepped forward, "I'm going to see her." her voice stated that there would be no arguments.

Tony nodded along, "Me to."

Natasha glared slightly, "Now is not the time to tell her Stark."

Tony rolled his eyes, "I'm not stupid Romanov. I won't tell her anything other than it was me that she called. I just need to see that she is okay."

Natasha gave him a look as she determined if he was telling the truth or not, "Fine, but do anything stupid and you will regret it."

Dr. Kimura nodded, "Very well you two follow me." She turned to look at the rest of the group, "The rest of you can go into the waiting room and make yourself comfortable if you wish."

Clint gave a thoughtful look, "Actually we have somewhere to go and check out." Everyone looked at him confused "Hey Nat, when you are done come meet up with us at the Shrine."

Natasha nodded understanding what Clint wanted to do. He wanted to check out Kagome's home and see if he could figure out what happened. "See you there." She acknowledged.

The group split then. Natasha and Tony followed the doctor though the locked doors while Clint and the rest headed to Sunset shrine to start investigating.

As Dr. Kimura led the two through the halls she stared talking, "There are some things you need to know before you are allowed to see her." When she saw she had the attention of the two she continued "Her mental state is very fragile so be cautious with what you say to her. She is also very depressed right now and we don't wish to cause an episode. As she is the lead suspect in her mother's and grandfather's murder she is considered a dangerous patient. We have to keep a close eye on her in case she is a danger to herself or the other patients."

"Herself?" Tony asked in concern. He was finally going to get to meet his daughter, he really didn't want to have to worry about her harming herself.

"So far, she has not given any indications that she will be a danger to herself, but due to her condition we don't want to take any chances. Plus, most of her injuries are still healing and we don't want any of her breakdowns to involve making her injuries worsen." They stopped in front of one of the doors with a window "Now, she tends to go on about imaginary dangers and demons. Please do not play into her fantasies we are trying to break her out of that line of thinking."

"Two questions." Tony said quickly "What do you mean her condition? And what injuries does she have?" He was really tempted to look inside the room, which he was assuming was his daughter's. However, he wanted to know as much as he could first, he would be the first to admit that he wasn't to most tactful and he didn't want to hurt Kagome unintentionally.

Dr. Kimura nodded, "Yes most people don't know, I'm pretty sure she had been keeping it a secret before she got admitted here. Miss Higurashi is almost four months pregnant. She won't give any other information about it; the father is unknown. The only thing she is absolutely resolute about is that she plans to have the child."

Tony's eyes widened in disbelief, not only was he going to be meeting his daughter for the first time. Now he was also going to be a grandfather. It was a slight shock to become both a father and grandfather all at once. Natasha was also surprised. She wasn't sure who the father would be, obviously somebody from the past. There was nobody in this time that she had any feelings for, plus it wasn't like she spent enough time in the present to form a relationship with anybody. She had moved on past Inuyasha though, thinking of him more as a brother than anything. Kagome would usually pull Natasha to the side after the meetings for some girl talk. Ms. Higurashi would always insist that whoever came to check up on them would stay for dinner. Kagome had admitted that it was nice to talk to somebody who wasn't directly involved in the situation. Natasha herself had actually started enjoying the small girl talks, it wasn't like she was around any girls that she could open herself up to. The closest person would have been Maria, but they were really only just becoming friends. It was like helping out the younger sister she never had. The only other males that she traveled with and/or regularly met up with in the past that she knew of were Miroku, Koga, and Sesshomaru. She knew it wouldn't be Miroku as Kagome went on for quite a while about how Miroku and Sango totally had a thing that neither of them wanted to commit to. She was pretty sure that it wouldn't have been Koga; while Koga completely had a huge crush on Kagome, Kagome herself was more tolerant of Koga's advances than anything. She didn't think it would be Sesshomaru either. Kagome had always talked about how he was practically an alive ice sculpture. He didn't show much, if any emotion other than anger or annoyance at those around him. He had even tried to kill Kagome the first time they had met and Natasha would bet anything that wasn't the only time he had tried to kill her. Natasha was eager to talk to her privately to find out who the father is. She would keep it between them, just like everything else they talked about. Kagome really was a person who just pulled you towards her, she was hard to not like.

"What about her injuries?" Natasha asked.

"She had some injuries from when we found her at her home, which the police think was inflicted upon her by her family in self-defense against her. She has a broken arm which is healing nicely, though her cast will need to stay on for another three weeks as least. She also had multiple lacerations across her body, a few of them needed stitches. When she has some of her episodes she reacts so violently that she will rip her stitches, so they are taking some time to heal. The only other major injury is her sprained ankle. She hasn't spent enough time staying off her leg to let it heal fully." She explained.

Finally, Tony gathered enough courage to look into the window. While he knew what she looked like since he had gotten pictures of her almost monthly for the past nineteen years, though the last four years the updates had slowed down considerably, he had never seen her in person. There was a real difference between pictures and real life. Though now he knew the update slowdown was because she hadn't been around enough in this time. He looked into the window to see Kagome sitting on the bed. She had one leg propped up and was hugging it slightly. She was simply staring at the wall, her chocolate brown eyes scarily blank. He hated seeing that look in her eyes and he desperately wanted to get her out of here. She suddenly looked up as if she knew he was looking at her, the blank look in her eyes turned to confusion at seeing him. She obviously didn't know who he was and was confused as to why he was looking into her window. As she moved to look at him, something caught his eye. On each side of her face a small strip of hair that was a different color from her natural raven black. The left side of her face was framed by a strip of slivery white while the right side of her face was framed by a fiery red-orange. That was new, she didn't have those in the last picture he had gotten of her. What caught his attention the most was that the color went all the way to her roots. She had been in here for almost a month, her hair should have grown out a bit by now bringing her natural black hair back. He very highly doubted that the hospital let her continue dying her hair, they didn't even allow her phone access. Which honestly was a crime in itself.

Dr. Kimura interrupted his thoughts, "Well let's get this going. Remember to not upset her please. She has been calm all day for the most part so far." She told them as she swiped her access card to unlock the door.

Natasha pushed past the two of them and opened the door. Kagome's eyes went wide and tears started filling her eyes as she saw the Black Widow enter her room.

"Tasha?" Kagome whispered softly in hope and disbelief.