(Disclaimer: WHAT NOW!? PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!!!! MUHA! Okay. I still don't own InuYasha… I DO IN MY DREAMS! glares at lawyers)
2 months have passed. Kagome is now 18 and living in an apartment with Sango who is going to marry Miroku next month, October, and is panicking. She is still mute. Sango, InuYasha, Miroku, and she all attended Kikyo's funeral. That was the last time she saw InuYasha. He slipped away without a word to her. Her stomach had healed completely with the side affect of pain some days. She still suffered from the nightmares that plagued her sleep.
Kagome sat at the window of their apartment staring out into the night. The stars glittered dimly in the city lights but the big full moon shined down on her. She sighed and swallowed her tears back. Sango walked up behind her and felt her eyebrows knit together in concern. Kagome hadn't been herself in a long time. Since the day she left the hospital. She just usually sat around. She was paler and skinnier then Sango had seen her in a long time. She seemed to pull into herself whenever someone touched her, as if their touch hurt. Miroku had tried to give her a hug and she pushed him away so violently he had hit his back against the wall and bruised it. She signed 'I'm sorry' over and over for days. She wouldn't let anyone hug her. Not since InuYasha that say in the kitchen.
"Kagome get up and get dressed. We are going out tonight!" Sango said trying to rouse her friend from the depressed slump she was in. Kagome waved her hand absentmindedly. 'No thanks.' She signed. "Kagome come on. Stop letting InuYasha," she flinched noticeably every time his name was said and now was no exception, "control you! Come on!" Sango pulled her up by her upper arm and was extremely shocked at how skinny it was. "Kagome how much do you weigh?" Kagome shrugged and headed toward her room. "Do you eat?" Kagome turned and smiled, the fake smile, 'you watch me eat. And no I don't throw it up before we get into that subject!' She signed. 'I just can't eat a lot since… You know.' She rubbed her stomach and sighed with a clearly pained look on her face. Sango nodded and smiled. "We are going shopping!" Kagome looked up and frowned. "Don't worry. We're going to the book store." Kagome's face brightened and she offered Sango a half smile. Sango vaguely realized she hadn't seen Kagome really smile since InuYasha left the hospital that day. She sighed as Kagome shut the door to her room and went to get ready herself.
Kagome pulled on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. She hated the way she looked. The long scar that ran from her ribs diagonally to her hip depressed her, as did her lack of weight. She could hardly eat a piece of pizza without feeling like her stomach was going to pop. She rubbed her hands down her face and groaned inwardly. She looked at herself in the mirror and realized she looked half dead. No wonder Sango is so worried. She thought absentmindedly as she pulled her hair back and finished getting dressed. She went into the living room and sat on their couch waiting for Sango.
She emerged a few minutes later looking radiant and beautiful. Kagome looked like a ghost beside her. Sango pulled her up and smiled. "Ready?" Kagome nodded and grabbed her purse.