~*~ Chapter 10 ~*~

As I slowly gained conscience an antiseptic smell assaulted my nose and I felt a weird prickling sensation in the crook of my left arm. My right wrist was in a cast. Confusion washed over me and my eyes snapped open. There were doctors rushing all around me and my family was huddled in a corner trying to stay out of the way. My mother was crying and my grandfather was chanting softly in a way I recognized that is meant to ward off bad spirits and demons. Sota just stared, his face blank with shock. I'd never realized just how much he has grown up in the past few years. As my mind registered what was going on I realized that I should not be in the hospital. I had just fallen asleep in Inuyasha's arms, I didn't get hurt or anything. The doctors were talking really fast in medical lingo that made little sense to me. I felt really weak so I just watched and waited. Finally after what felt like hours the doctors and nurses filed out one by one until only the head physician was left. He addressed my mother.

"She is completely stable, no damage has been found anywhere but her wrist which is fracture, most likely from the fall. We need to keep her though because there is something going on thats causing this and its pertinent that we find it." My mother nodded her understanding but the others didn't respond at all.

"Can I see her?" My mother asked.

"I'm not sure if you've noticed, but she is awake. We are not yet sure just how aware she is. She may not respond at all. Talk to her, explain everything that happened, If she is able to talk, try to find out if she can remember anything, but do not pressure her or her mind may close itself for protection." He met each of their eyes in turn as he said this. "I'll give you an hour but then we will need you to leave so we can run some test."

My mother walked over to my bedside and sat down, taking my hand. "How are you feeling honey?" She asked me.

"I feel fine, Mama, why am I here?"

"Your grandfather found you down in that Bone-Eaters well, It looks like you fell down it. Your wrist is broken and they think there is something going on with your brain, because you were in a comatose state when they brought you in. It's actually really surprising that you are talking to me right now. Do you remember..."

"No, Mom, I can't remember anything about it." I cut her off, slightly aggravated. Why was this happening? Something wasn't right and now I knew it had something to do with the jewel. "I'm really tired Mom, can I please go to sleep?"

"Alright sweetheart, get some rest, we will be back to see you very soon." She stood to leave and Sota and Gramps both took a turn embracing me gently before they left. Sota whispered, "Love ya, Sis." before releasing me and following the others out.

I closed my eyes. I was really tired, I felt like I hadn't slept in ages, but no sooner then my eyes closed, The door slowly creaked open and I watched Sota sneak back in. He tiptoed over to my bed and said quietly. "I saw it"

"Saw what" I asked, even though I dreaded hearing his answer.

"I saw you look at something in your hand, then jump, on purpose, into the well. Why? I wanna know what you were holding and why you jumped."

I looked at my little brother, standing straight, hands clenched and determination written all over his face, and I realized that he really wasn't all that young anymore. "Alright, once I get home and figure out what is going on myself, we will talk, but you have to promise not to tell mom. You know she will freak out and probably thing I was trying to get hurt."

"You weren't were you? Trying to hurt yourself I mean?"

"Of course not! That's not what you thought was it?"

"Well, It just looked..." His voice trailed off as he looked at me one last time before running out.

I slumped back against the pillows and closed my eyes again. As soon as I was comfortable a knocked sounded at the door. Doctors and nurses started trailing in and out bringing equipment in. They took me for some kind of test where I had to lay completely still on a flat bed while the put me in a tube with lots of lights. They told me it was called a CT Scan and it was looking at my brain. It seemed like it was taking forever, when all of a sudden a nurse came in and told me there was an abnormality that was causing a lot of concern and that they had to do a more extensive CT Scan. She wouldn't tell me any more then that and when I asked for the Doctor who was in charge to come in she just gave me a look that could only be described as full of pity and walked out.

I closed my eyes again and finally drifted off to sleep...

AN: Sorry I've been gone so long, my computer completely died on me and I just got my new one last night. I was reading through the story to see where I left off and noticed this chapter on my flash drive was different from one I had uploaded, so I updated this one. Unfortunately I wasn't done with ch 11 yet and what I had didn't get saved on the flash drive before my hard drive fried so I'm going to have to restart that one :( Hopefully I'll be able to get it done and uploaded by this time next week! Now that I have a new computer I'm hoping to be able to put up a chapter a week. I promise I didn't give up on this story. Thanks for reading and sticking with me!