Ch 5 – The Hospital
Inuyasha sat in the hallway with Miroku while the doctor and Kaede were in the emergency room with Kagome. About an hour passed and Kaede came out of the room "She's going to be okay, but she is in bad shape now. The doctor is moving her to another room. She had bruises and cuts all over her body, what in God's name happened?"
"Her godfather, if you can even call him that, was beating her and depriving her of food." Inuyasha said, "Kaede, when we took her, the man that was keeping her called her…his whore…what does…does that…" Inuyasha couldn't say it.
"It appears it would be so, but she was so banged up its hard to tell. Where is this man now?" Kaede asked worried
"He is still at the house, once Kagome was gone I stabbed him with a knife and took off." Inuyasha said
"We will have to make sure she goes somewhere safe… we may have to move her far away…" Kaede said looking serious.
Inuyasha nodded "Can we see her?"
Kaede thought it over, this girl would be asleep for hours, but some visitors couldn't hurt. "That should be fine, but please be quiet, she needs rest as do the rest of the patients here."
Kaede walked them over to the room. Miroku looked at the clock on the wall "Inuyasha I'm gonna go home we have work in a couple hours, I'll tell the boss what happened. Will you be okay here?"
Inuyasha nodded. Miroku got up to leave, in the hallway he saw Kaede "Thank you Kaede for helping her, Inuyasha was very worried."
"That is my job. Miroku did I hear correct that you help rescue her?" she asked looking up at him
"Yes, I got her out while Inuyasha held him off." Miroku said
"Did he see you?" Kaede asked
"Yeah, I kind of threw a rock at his head…" Miroku said
"We may have to get all three of you out of town." Kaede said
"I'll be back after work, tell me what the plan is then." Miroku said heading towards the stairs. Kaede nodded. She went into the room Inuyasha was in with the girl "I have to fill out the paper work, what can you tell me about her?"
Inuyasha thought, "All I know is her name is Kagome. Her parents died when she was little and now she lives with her godfather, her mom's old friend."
"Kagome?" Kaede looked over at her "Is that why you asked me about that name earlier?" Kaede walked over and began to inspect her
"Yeah, but you said that Kagome died with her parents when she was three" Inuyasha said
Kaede nodded, "Right, she just looks an awful lot like the Kagome I knew…the one that died…" Kaede shrugged it off and smiled at Inuyasha, "I'm going to go find out her results and be back soon." Kaede walked out of the room.
Inuyasha placed his hand over Kagome and looked at her sleeping face. "I'm so sorry" he whispered. He looked at her arms, now visible in the hospital gown she wore. Bruises, scars, cuts, everywhere. It looked like something out of a horror story. How could anyone do this to her. Her arms were so skinny from being denied food for what looked like years. "Please, keep fighting, stay with us…" He looked up at her heart monitor and back at her.
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Kaede walked into the examination room, "Doctor, do we still have the Higurashi family blood on file?"
"I think so, why?" He asked, that family has passed years ago but this was a very small town and they kept blood work and test as long as they could.
"I think….can we test this girls blood with that families?" She asked,
"Sure, but why?"
"Her name is Kagome and I'm just curious…" She said.
"I see, did you find anything else about her?" He said going over to a cabinet looking at her
"No, that's all I know. Her name is Kagome and her parents passed when she was young."
"Who is her guardian?" He asked
"Her godfather, the one who did all of this."
"If this is the Kagome from the Higurashi family she is only fifteen, maybe sixteen years old…" He said grabbing the paper work he needed. "If this test comes back positive we need to call child protective services." He said. Kaede nodded.
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Inuyasha was still sitting there, starting to fall asleep in his chair when he saw her move.
"Kagome?"
"Where….where am I?" She asked
"Kagome, you're in the hospital. Me and Miroku got you out of that house." He said taking her hand "How are you feeling?"
Kagome went to sit up and groaned as she laid back down "I've felt better, but I've also felt worse so I guess I'm doing alright." She said smiling at him
"Why didn't you tell me what was happening?" Inuyasha asked
"I didn't know you, I thought you wouldn't believe me or might stop bringing me food because I wasn't worth it…" She said looking down "I'm sorry"
"Don't apologize, you're safe now." He said giving her a smile.