Chapter 5
The giggles ran throw his room, echoing off his walls and into his ears. Kyo felt empty, he didn't cry any more or yell or laugh, his emotions were just blunt. If he was mad, then that was the onlt emotion that filled him; if he was sad, then that's all that filled him, he never had more than one emotion at a time- if he was even lucky to feel something at all. Footsteps ran past his door, bring obnoxious laughs with it, Kyo turned his head toward the door, all he saw was darkness. People have tried to visit him a couple times but he was never up to it. He felt lost, confused, and alone, no one knew what was going on threw his head and he didn't want anyone around him, thou he felt his body contradicting his head and he longed for interacting but refused to give in.
A knock came to the door, "Kyo? Kyo, I'm coming in." His mom's voice filled the room, she came to the bed and slowly sat with caution, she didn't know when he would go throw another tantrum stage, before he would kick and cry and shout until you left, "Kyo? It's dinner time… We want you to come down to the dining room this time." Placing a hand on his side
Grumbling he rolled over, exaggerating his movements making his mom take her hand off of him, "I don't want to." Kagome looked down on her son; he was becoming pale, more than what he was. She was losing him and she didn't know what to do about it, neither did Inuyasha. Inuyasha usually got frustrated with him, he was good with children but he couldn't deal with self-loathing people, so he decided it was best to stay away instead of making Kyo feel worse.
"But hon-"
"NOO!" Kyo shouted, cutting Kagome off. He was starting to get mad and just wanted to be left alone, "JUST GET OUT!" and slammed his face into his pillow. Kagome got up and stood above his bed for a second before patting his head- which he pulled away- then left the room.
Kagome leaned up against Kyo's room, tears filled her eyes. She knows that it's still extremely resent, but she didn't want this to ruin his life. They are different, her and her whole family, but they now have so many more possibilities, since they are now in the future, and she just don't want him to be the one stuck in himself and ruin it. She took a deep breath and lifted up from the door, she wouldn't give up on him anytime soon and would do anything for him and the rest of her family. She walked down stairs to make some dinner, the end of the stairs was covered with a large see through plastic tarp separating the two side of the house for renovation. Souta eventually started helping Inuyasha with the support beams after the first week of Inuyasha not being able to do it himself; now the walls of the living room and her old room were being taken down.
She walked into the kitchen, Chizu and Tomi were sitting at the table drawing on some paper with colored pencils- which thy were fascinated by. "Hey guys." Kagome said walking into the room patting Tomi's head and glancing at their papers, "What do we have here?" Chizu's paper was covered in colorful scribbles and Tomi's was covered in very distinct lines, which made women into nesting birds, the details haven't been added yet, but it was a very good piece.
"I made Uncle Inuyasha and his sword." She presented her drawing and it looked nothing similar to her claim.
"Awe, I love it. You'll have show him some time." She said with a smile and kissed her on the forehead and walked over to cook the food. That night they had curry, Yakitori, White rice, and Miso soup, with a side of fried squid tentacles. Every one sat around the table and counters and Kagome couldn't help but think about Kyo.
Kagome would go back to Kyo's room every day, but eventually dwindled her visits, then to an almost stop, except to go feed him his dinner- when he would eat.
Kagome walked into his room carrying a tray of food to feed him, she sat down on his bed and he sat up this time and opened his mouth for the food. She spooned in the Cream-of-Wheat letting him swallow before grabbing another spoonful, They came up with a routine where she come in feeds him and then leaves- no words are usually exchanged. Today was different thou, Kagome opened her mouth to talk but kept closing it, almost until the disgusting yogurt was almost gone.
"Just say it momma." Kyo said tilting his head to her.
Kagome looked down until she could put it into words, "Kyo… I need you to come and eat dinner with us, and start interacting again. You need to get out of this room and do something." She cupped his face in her hand, he shrank away, but not removing her hand. "Honey, we miss you, you are part of this family and we want to make you better." Kyo was trembling in her hands , "Kyo? Are you okay?"
He slapped her hand away, "No, I am not okay! I'm freaking BLIND! I'm never going to be okay and im never going to recover. Jezz Mom, no one cares about me anymore because im screwed up and can't do anything. No one's going to love me, no one's even come to visit me! They're all out there having fun not even thinking about me or caring!" tears were welling up in his eyes .
"Oh, honey that's not true. We all love yo-"
"STOP LYING TO ME!" he shouted throwing the tray of food that was on his lap across the room- watermelon and fruits flaying across the room and all over the floor. "I'm sick of people lying to me. I'm sick of you! I'm so sick of being nothing in this family! I'm freaking trapped in the dark, in this stuffy room, and no one even cares. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" he said shaking his head back and forth. Kagome tried reaching for hi, but as soon has her hands touch his body he swung his arms out, hitting Kagome in the mouth, " NO! GET OUT! GET OUT! I DON'T LOVE YOU! GET AWAY FROM ME. I DON'T WANT TO BE AROUND SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME!" he picked something up that was heavy and chucked it towards were she was last standing, he heard the item hit her and her little gasp of pain, "GET OUT!" Kagome finally listened to him and left the room, once she started walking she didn't stop until she found an empty room and sat and cried. Kyo sat enraged in his room and just shook back in forth in the fetal position.
Hitomi was sitting outside Kyo's room when Kyo screamed and obviously abused their mother. She wanted to help her mother out but knew that her mom wanted to do whatever she was doing, so she waited. Kagome ran out of the room, in the work clothes that everyone still wore from the Inn, she followed her to her grandparent's old room she was huddled in the corner of the room crying- this is the first time she's ever seen her mother cry tears of sadness, all the other times were when Kyo was born or when Sango had one of her kids and when Shippo got married. Hitomi carefully closed the bedroom door, and stomped down to Kyo's room. Throwing the door open she walked into Kyo's room, slamming the door shut behind her she stalked over to Kyo and stood glaring down at her little brother.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT! I THOUGHT I SAID 'LEAVE ME ALONE'." Hitomi glared down at him and waited for him to look up at her, he felt eyes piercing a whole into him, looking up with forced tears in his eye's hoping that they would make the person go away, instead he felt a hand smash against his face, making him fly to his side. Hitomi looked down at her now abused brother, lying on his side.
"You are such an ass." She whispered harshly at him, he laid still, his back moving from his breathing, " Do you Really think that if she didn't love you or cared for you, she would come here every day and try and feed you or try and get you to get out of the fucking room? Seriously Kyo, you have turned into a fucking bastard. If she didn't love you she would have beat your ass for doing that shit to her instead of cry in a fucking corner. Kyo, we do fucking love you, but our world doesn't fucking revolve around you. We are ALL going throw shit, maybe not as fucking serious as losing our sight, but maybe we need fucking time to figure something out before we need to nurture you feelings and needs. FUCK. No matter what's going on in your fucking life you don't treat someone like that that IS trying to care for you, and deny all they're fucking work!" Hitomi was getting pissed and blood was filling her palms from her nails digging into her skin. " Seriously kid, life keeps moving on whether you're moving with it or not, you can't fucking feel bad for yourself and expect everyone else to stop their life just for you. Dude, fucking grow up and finally fucking notice that you are not the fucking center of the world. We DO love you, I do not sit in front of that fucking door every fucking day because I despise you or resent you, it is because I LOVE you; so stop acting like the whole world is agent you and start making something of your fucking self and make it so you are proud and thankful, our mother doesn't have to come up here and feed and help you, but she does. So, I swear, if you ever treat her like that again I will come up here and beat the shit out of you and I hope you learn your lesson."
Kyo balled his fist up around his blankets, tears welling in his eyes, really tears, "But i-"
"I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT." Hitomi said harshly and slightly to loud, "There is NO legitimate excuse for they way you've been acting and especially how you've been treating people. Get over yourself." and with that Hitomi walked out of the room with her head held high and her angry aura still surrounding her but touched with a feeling of accomplishment. She did feel bad for hitting him and yelling at him. but he had no right to do what he's been doing- they've been here for almost a month and he needed to stop feeling bad for himself and start contributing to the family and the situation, even if it means just sitting there and being happy.
Hitomi walked down stairs to the room where everyone slept, hoping to find Chika and Yukio, but as she walked in, several eyes looked up at her but not the ones she was seeking. "Do you know where Chika and Yukio are?" the eyes averted to the window that was facing toward the shrine that housed the well. "Okay, thanks." She walked out to them, they were sitting on the stairs staring at the well, the one that they've hear stories about their entire lives. She sat down in between the two and laid down, resting her head on Yukio and her feet on Chika, "Hey, guess what." Hitomi says to Chika.
"W-what?" Chika stutters a little bit scared she was going to bust out crying - even though she's never cried- but she sensed Hitomi's weird behavior.
Hitomi shoved her bare foot into Chika's face," Don't they just smell wonderful?" Which they didn't- filled with sweat, mud, and squished food (from Kyo's room), Chika smelled them and made a funny face.
She giggled, "Positively DELICIOUS!" She says giggling again, licking her feet. With that Hitomi shrieked with laughter and Yukio rolling on the ground laughing, while Chika laughed and whipped her mouth out.
Kagome looked in the mirror, her mouth was bleeding and her wrist was bruised and swelling up. Even though Kyo was never a fighter and never had much strength but lately he's grown quite strong since he's been filled with anger. She examined her lip and the inside of her mouth to see where the source of the blood was coming from. It was a small cut on her gums right above her canines, nothing serious and the blood has stopped. She took a cold wash cloth and washed the drying blood off her face, and a muscle soothing patch for her swelling bruise; after cleaning up she went down stairs and began to prepare dinner, which was slightly difficult considering her wrist, but she tried to ignore it because all she wanted to do was pretend like nothing happened- he was he little boy. She prepared white rice, egg rolls, a weird white pasta that Souta brought home one day mixed in with several vegetables, some fresh homemade sushi, and fresh chicken dipped into a teriyaki sauce. As she set the dinner down on the table she whistled and a few seconds later her family started pouring in to grab their portion and get into their seating arrangements so everyone can fit on the small kitchen. They all sat around the table laughing and talking about their day when the door to the kitchen was hit and then slammed open, and Kyo stood in the door, with an obvious look of going throw hell to get down to the kitchen. Everyone went quiet and stared at him. Hitomi was the first one to react strode over to him and rapped her arm around him and giving him a little head punch,
"Hey there little cutie." He gave a little smirk up at her and nudged her a little bit, "Come on; come and sit next to me and we'll eat dinner together."
And in the first time in a month the ENTIRE family ate together and a smile was put on Kyo's face. And a relief filled Kagome and for the first time in a month she let all her worries go- even if it was just for an hour or two.
Inuyasha was relieved to see Kagome happy, he knew that she was upset about everything. He glanced over at her and she was reaching for a plate of noodles, when he saw a weird mark on her arm peeking out of a weird patch. It looked pretty bad and he was filled with a drench of anger, 'Who the HELL would hurt her!' but he knew not to mention it- at least not at the moment- she wouldn't want to discuss it much less in front of 18 people.
