The Library
By Anonymous Malink
Disclaimer, I do no own any Inuyasha like subjects in copyrighted form.Part Eleven –Unopened Doorways
Life energy… what is it? Some say it's a bioelectric pulse which resides in all living things. Some people say it's a matter of self sufficient evolution and intelligence. Most don't care. But when the line is crossed, from life to death, and you alone have a chance to resound that life to live, would you take it… even if it meant forever condemning yourself…
As I had said, the specialist was on the floor, and Inuyasha's monitor had exploded with a sonic discharge. Kagome watched in mere horror as the wires that had been attached to Inuyasha and the specialist slowly dissipated, leaving only the suctions at either end. Doctors who had heard the sounds poked their heads in, then stuck a hand in their pocket and went their separate ways.
The doctor from before had come into the room at this point, hustling in while panting, the defibrillators in each hand. When he saw the sight before him though, he had the same reaction as the others, sticking a hand in his pocket and dropping the defibrillators to the ground. Kagome shakily walked over to him, softened a bit by what just happened.
"What just happened," she asked, the bare layer of anxiety exploited now.
"The Kinetic Transfusion Coil…" He said slowly. "A prototype device…"
"What?" Kagome asked, her mind boggled. "What are you talking about?"
"That box with the wires," he said, slowly bringing something out from his pocket, "Is a last resort device, the Kinetic Transfusion Coil. Energy is poured out of one body, into another. Basically… it… I-It transfuses life. "
Kagome's eyes widened with shock and she looked back to Inuyasha and the surprisingly still body of the specialist.
"All doctors have one," he said, slowly revealing his own being the item he pulled from his pocket. "However to admonish them is our main priority. It's a government secret. It's strange though, that he would use it for this young boy… the cutoff is twelve." The doctor shook his head and put his hand on Kagome's shoulder. "There's still a chance the boy might die… but the specialist you see on the ground is already dead…" He stuffed the device back into his pocket, and walked out the door.
Kagome looked from the specialist to Inuyasha. After realizing that the specialist was deteriorating though, she tried not to look. Inuyasha showed no signs of movement or change, however the convulsions had stopped. She checked him for a pulse, but found little there.
"Inuyasha," she whispered. "Why won't you just try to stay with us…?"
In an abrupt motion, Inuyasha bodied glowed for a split second, his whole body convulsing once and then resting in a natural position.
Kagome fought the urge to poke him.
"Inuyasha?"
"K-Kagome?"
Kagome studied Inuyasha for a full ten seconds before he moved again, his eyes opening just slightly as he turned his head to face her. His skin around his face seemed to redden a bit, blasting away the pallor in a quick burst. She restrained herself from hugging him to death, considering his current state. She smiled through tears as she took his hand firmly.
"Inuyasha, are you alright now?"
"Kagome… I-I, where are we… why can't I see?"
"It's a normal after problem." Yet another new 'doctor' was standing in the doorway, resembling the specialist ever so slightly. "You'll recover your eyesight shortly."
Kagome was too preoccupied with Inuyasha's conscious self to care at this point. "We're in the hospital. You just… you just… Inuyasha I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Of course I'm alright," he said weakly, smiling faintly, "No need to worry…"
"Inuyasha!"
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A quick recovery session was all that could suspend them in that hospital any longer. The hospital was getting quickly overly… how do I put this nicely…? Intolerable. I would have said inappropriately 'fed up,' but that would not… suffice, for this story is not supposed to hold content to that set of standards.
Anyway, moving on, ergo, vis-à-vis, concordantly, systemic anomaly, bleh…
Inuyasha was showing 'strange vital signs' so said the doctor, but Kagome could care less about the strangeness as long as they were in fact vital. His eyes would twitch every so often, which was a strange thing, along with the fact that another specialist found something weird with the aneurysm Inu experienced. It would seem no signs point to having any aneurysm at all… but what else could it have been?
Inuyasha had indeed suffered minor paraparesis, thus leaving his legs immobile. The doctors said that all signs said go however, and as soon as he regained the feeling in his legs, he was good to go. At this point in time however, many unopened doors begin to open, doorways close, and lock, and many paths begin to untangle.
"Kagome, hey Kagome watch where your going." The wheelchair slammed a bit sideways into the wall.
"Sorry," she said, backing off a bit.
"Sorry you say, I'm the one getting the blunt of the blow."
Kagome took a deep breath and continued down the corridor. "You know Inu, ever since you got this way you've been a bit… I don't know, irritable. Extremely irritable, kinda bossy. It's in truth quite unappealing."
"What of it?"
Kagome grit her teeth. "What of it? Maybe the fact you should be a bit nicer."
"It's not my fault you can't sympathize…"
"Yeah it kinda is."
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!
"Uggh, you're so stubborn lately!"
"And you're so perfect?"
"You're… your- Uff!"
She purposely drove him into the wall.
He jumped a bit but then settled down. "Kikyo wouldn't be so insensitive," he muttered. But Kagome heard him. She heard him well. It was this that sparked the incentive, this that drove her over the edge.
"Kikyo, do you mean the Kikyo that is and was and will remain Naraku's DAUGHTER!"
She could hear him growling.
"She's no concern of yours, you don't know what happened!"
"Yes I DO! I had a front row seat you heartless jerk! What's gotten into you?" She pushed him into his room and turned him around to see his face, red and flaming.
It was true. For the past five days it had been nothing but torture for Kagome. How she put up with it was of no one's concern. School had closed for the week, considering the circumstances of the 'teacher gone nuts' so she had really nothing better to do with her time… but she had just about had enough. It was one of the worst few days of her life. She almost wished she was back when he was unconscious.
"What are you talking about, you weren't there!" She then realized how she had inadvertently stumbled upon a memory of his back when he was unconscious. No one knew she knew what had happened that night, even though she saw everything through Inuyasha's eyes.
"That's not the point!"
"What is the point then?"
"That I think I know why you're so grouchy all of a sudden! A memory override!"
"What?"
"I heard the doctors talking about it. Your brain is making you revert to the way you were when you were with Kikyo!"
"How the hell should you know? You weren't there. How would you know how I was!" He was very angry at this point, inches away from her face. Both of them combined could have put Drew Barrymore out of the 'firestarting' business. Her face softened a bit. "That's right, you wouldn't know, so get the hell out of my room!"
Her head lowered momentarily, but then came up, anger in her expression and tears in her eyes. "Good riddance Inuyasha, I hope to never see you again, stay out of The Library when you get back!"
With that she marched off, shutting the door behind her.
She walked past a now prostheticly armed Sesshoumaru, who had recovered over hours. "Hello Kagome… Kagome? Kagome what the hell." She stormed directly into the elevator, leaving Sesshoumaru in the middle of the hallway wondering what had just happened.
Rin walked out, hearing Sesshoumaru speaking. "What happened hun?"
Sesshoumaru furrowed his eyebrows. "Well, I think Inuyasha actually… angered the level headed Kagome."
"He has a knack for doing thinks like that," Rin said flatly, shrugging.
"I'm going to go speak to her."
"What?" Rin grabbed his arm as he made for the elevator. "She's a girl Sess, what would you know about feelings anyway?" She soon realized her tongue had made a mistake.
"Well," he began, "First I am a Psychologist. Second, you've softened me to the point of no return. Therefore, this should be simple."
She rolled her eyes and pushed her fiancée toward the elevator door. They were still not officially married…
Sesshoumaru reached the bottom of the elevator shaft with time enough to see Kagome's taxi taking off out of the small urban outpost. He sighed as he went to fetch his car in the parking garage on the basement level.
Sesshoumaru took time to think while on his way to the Higurashi Manor. It was not likely he would get many opportunities to think while driving again, so he decided to use his time wisely. His mind rested on a few primary things. Starting with his brother.
His brother as far back as he remembered, was an idiot. No seriously, he was stubborn irritable, unreliable, and above all, incompetent, and stupid. Kikyo must've seen through all that however, so thus became his first and only girlfriend. From what he gained from Inuyasha during their visits gave him ample information, even if his topic was completely non involving Kagome.
One time he had been asking about Inuyasha's view on Izayoi and InuTaisho, an entirely unfair question now, but at the time was understandable. His eyes said 'fear' though his voice said respect. Fear and respect were the primary influence of a dominion over someone, thus, he was controlled only by his parents. Thus, concordantly, he was in an equivalence situation with everyone else. This made for easy encounters with girls, however his social skills were 'infallible' and thus he could never successfully woo a female counterpart (aka, get a girl).
Sesshoumaru remembered back to the time when Inuyasha went to do something while he waited. That had happened twice, Kikyo's death, and Naraku's death. Was there a connection? Or was there a direction unto which things could take place twice.
He could no longer think straight when he got to Kagome's house, thus leaving him with a huge migraine making speaking a difficult task. He stumbled out the car door and walked up the steps, half on the lawn, to the front door. He held his head and knocked on the door.
A few moments later, the door sputtered open and there stood Koga.
"We don't want any," he said blandly as he began to shut the door. Sesshoumaru however grabbed the door and pulled it open.
"This is a pretty big problem."
"You think?" Koga said, rolling his eyes in hopes to be intimidating. Sesshoumaru barely flinched. "Your stupid brother did something to Kagome, but I don't know what it is."
"Neither do I, why do you think I'm here," Sesshoumaru told him.
"Come in then, I guess."
Koga allowed Sesshoumaru inside, pointing up the stairs.
Sesshoumaru nodded and walked briskly up the stairs. When he reached the top he was awaited by the sound of sniffling and the smell of salt. 'She's been crying?'
His body moved forward toward the sound and moved into her room. There she sat, on the edge of her bed, crying and holding a pillow on her lap. Her eyes were kept averted to the ground through it all. She was a bit pathetic looking, but I wouldn't doubt her state of mind strayed far from it.
Sesshoumaru opened his mouth to speak, sputtering a bit. "Kagome?"
She didn't respond. She looked as though she was going to, but then hung her head again and sighed relenting.
"Kagome, Kagome?"
"Why did you come?"
He was startled by this. This surprised him. He was almost sure given her stature she wouldn't respond, forcing him into a one sided conversation with a brick wall of entirely self hating conflicts. Weird…
"Well, I thought given the circumstances, I should help my sister in law out… uh… wait I-"
Too late, she had already turned her body so it was facing the wall away from Sesshoumaru.
"Sorry, that was a bit… uncalled for."
"You… have no idea."
Kagome's voice had become slightly hoarse. Her eyes were tearing most likely by the sound of her voice, and she was slightly congested.
"Yes, I understand."
"NO… no you don't. I-"
"You love him."
She stopped moving completely. Slowly she turned herself back around, looking him in the eyes. "N-… how, is it love… I'm just a teenager…"
"Love revolves around your state of affection toward someone, not around how mature you are. Love could be platonic, or romantic. You could've loved that young boy in kindergarten; given the circumstances you knew what that was…"
"I never liked anyone in Kinderg-"
"That's not the point."
There was an awkward and uncannily long silence. Seeing it was unhealthy for Kagome to remain silent too long in her state, he continued the conversation steadily.
"Kagome, Inuyasha is going through a state of mind right now that I have noticed over the past few days."
"The doctors said it was something called a memory overd-"
"The doctors know shit. They made that up, that's what general practitioners do, make shit up! He's had prior judgment clouding his mind; he dealt with an emotional trauma of death very early in his life. Kikyo…
"She's constantly in his mind. That aneurysm; that was a brain cell bursting because of the stress of being just a memory. She is a part of him now, not willing to accept that their love will never be complete. Something she had said must have triggered something in his mind… something she said must've awakened within him."
Kagome gasped all too quickly, making Sesshoumaru jump back a bit.
"What," Sesshoumaru asked, lost in a metaphorical instance.
She bit her lip. "No, nothing."
Sesshoumaru sighed and put a hand on her shoulder. "Kagome, Inuyasha is under heavy stress. Don't hold this against him…" And as soon as he had arrived… Sesshoumaru had left.
At the hospital, Rin was sitting with Inuyasha, speaking a bit more freely to him than Sesshoumaru could.
"Inuyasha," she said, already engaged in a conversation with the boy, "What please tell me what happened."
"Nothing happened," Inuyasha grumbled repeatedly, his body in bed, and his face facing the wall.
Rin sighed in defeat just as Sesshoumaru got in the door, throwing the jacket to the ground.
"Sesshoumaru I didn't know you were coming back s--"
SLAP
Inuyasha's face was an astounding shade of red now, a few scratch marks shown replicating the sharpness of Sesshoumaru's 'claws' Sesshoumaru had sliced Inuyasha across the face. No, before you ask, Sesshoumaru does not hit like a girl. It was a… manly slap…
"Imbecile," Sesshoumaru muttered.
"Sess, how could you do something like that!"
"Rin, let me speak to Inuyasha alone."
Rin opened her mouth to speak, but redirected all power to her feet as she saw the serious expression on Sesshoumaru's face as he drew up a chair to Inuyasha's bed. She quickly fled the room.
"Inuyasha," he exasperated exclaimed. "Is there something wrong with you?"
Inuyasha said nothing.
"Inu, I hope you've served your purpose. I know everything about you Inu, from the fact I'm your brother, to the second of me having a doctorate in psychology. You are clearly either very confused, or emotionally unstable. Either way you deserved that hit I gave you.
"Clearly you're under pressure, a lot of it." Inuyasha slowly, looked away. "But that's no excuse for making Kagome feel like that. I can tell, you like her more than a friend. However, it is not possible for you to still love Kikyo and be in a stable relationship with her, with any girl for that matter.
"Inuyasha… I know you may not understand, but Kikyo is dead."
"No… I see her every night… she's with me…"
"INUYASHA!" He once again backhanded him. "Get a grip! Your acting like a jackass!" Sesshoumaru stood, posturing himself correctly before sighing. He regained his stoic nature and swallowed. "Inuyasha, you have to understand that today, no, for the past five days… you have broken Kagome's heart."
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AN. Yeah, the ruler isn't working, the seperator of different scenes? That one. Yeah well, I did this scene over and over but every time I didn't like it. For some reason I feel its too rushed. However, I feel sometimes, Plot Nessecities Overule the Authors Feelings. But enough. Oh, and the chapter title is just to poke fun at the line, "No… I see her every night… she's with me…"
Anyway, again, Review por favor, y no se... err, pones la culpa, errr, ariba de mi cabesa. My lack of spanish is killing me, I'm half hispanic and i can't use the damn language... well mostly.