InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Nagataka ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 10 )

Nagataka

Chapter 9

Kagome sat at her desk, depressed. It had been four months since that night at the lake, and Inu Yasha acted like he hated her again. She knew that she was in love with him, but she didn't know how he felt about her. Unfortunately, he was back with Kikyo, who was now seven months along.

Miroku and Sango were going out now, though Sango still harbored her crush on Inu Yasha. Kouga and Kagome were friends, but they weren't close. And Kagome's old friends, they still ignored her and even spat at her sometime sin the hall. Yuka and Hojo were now going out. Sesshoumaru was engaged to a girl named Rin, and Kagome was happy for the couple.

She sighed, class was boring. All the teachers were boring and she had nothing to do. She got out a blank piece of paper and began to doodle, something she rarely did. When the bell rang, she looked at the doodle and was amazed by how good it was. She blushed though and put it away. She'd drawn Inu Yasha the way he looked when he was sitting on the rock.

Inu Yasha cursed, he'd stubbed his toe that morning and it hurt. Kikyo sat next to him in his car, Miroku and Sango in the backseat. The three looked at him, and he really wished he was somewhere else at the moment. It didn't help that a certain someone was constantly in his thoughts.

"Inu Yasha, I've decided on a name," Kikyo told him softly later on that day.

"Really, what?" He asked.

"Koryu or Yoko," she replied. He leaned back in his seat, wishing he was with anyone else but her. It wasn't until they got back together that he remembered why they had broken up. He found her dull, she found him to angst.

"That's' good Kikyo," he replied after a moments silence. He silently sighed. He leaned over and turned on the radio, driving Kikyo home. He dropped her off, and being the gentleman he was, he even walked her up to her door. Only after he did that did he sigh out loud. Having nothing better to do, he drove out to the lake. He sat on the rock, alone, wishing he wasn't.

'Man, it's been ages since I was here,' he thought. 'Where do the time fly these last four months? It's seems like just yesterday I was here that night with her. I wonder how she feels about me, because no matter how many times I try to convince myself and Kikyo, we both know that we don't love each other. I don't even think we were in love to begin with.'

Kagome sat on the beach of the lake, silent sobs wracking her body. Her mother was getting even more suspicious of her and why she kept coming home later and later each night. Not one person knew that she came out to the lake, sobbing her heart out. Sitting with her knees pulled up tightly to her chest, head facedown in her knees, she didn't realize when someone sat down by her.

"Hon, why are you crying?" A feminine voice asked.

"The guy I'm in love with hates me, I just know he does! Why else would he torture me everyday with always making it so obvious that he's with Kikyo," Kagome sobbed.

"Who's the boy?" Asked the woman.

"Inu Yasha," Kagome sobbed on.

"Little Inu Akemi?" The woman's voice asked.

"Yeah, though it's been a long time since someone's called him that," Kagome replied, sobs stopping. She looked up and gasped.

"Really?" Asked the departed spirit of Mrs. Akemi, mother of Inu Yasha. Kagome screamed, and found herself being shaken awake.

"Kagome! Kagome, wake up!" A guy's voice told her. Her eyes fluttered open and she found Inu Yasha sitting next to her. "Are you okay?" He asked.

She tried to say something, but couldn't, knowing that if she opened her mouth, only sobs would come forth, so she simply nodded yes instead. He felt her forehead, noting that she looked pale. He drew his hand back almost immediately, she was burning up. "Your burning up," he said, feeling almost immediately stupid. She didn't say anything, but instead, fainted in his arms. He looked at her and sighed, then picked her up, surprised at how light she was.

"Don't take me home," a faint voice said from his backseat. It was Kagome.

"Okay, why not?" He asked, looking at her in the mirror.

"I hate it," she replied. Just then, he heard her stomach growl in hunger.

"Wanna grab something to eat?" He asked, as his stomach mimicked hers.

"No, I'm not hungry," she replied, just as her stomach growled again, louder and fiercer this time.

"Bull, I can tell your hungry, I can see the hunger in your eyes," he told her.

"I'm not hungry!" She yelled at him. She felt drained of energy almost immediately. He noted her quietness. Stopping the car, he turned around and looked at her.

"When was the last time you ate?" He asked. She didn't answer. "Kagome, tell me," he demanded. This time she muttered something. "Huh? I couldn't hear what you said," he informed her.

"Three days ago," she said louder this time. He looked at her in shock. Just now noting how thin she'd become. It also explained why she'd been so light.

"We are getting some food," he told her, heading into Tony's. About ten minutes later, he came back, food and drink with him. "Here," he said, handing her a slice of pizza and a drink. She took a tentive sip of the drink and was surprised to find that it was lemonade.

"Huh, how'd you know lemonade was my favorite?" She asked.

"I remembered," he grinned, taking a bite of his pizza slice. She looked at her pizza, feeling sick to her stomach, but taking a bite to please Inu Yasha. "See, it's not that hard," he told her. Later, when she was alone in the girl's bathroom, she threw it all up, feeling better afterwards.

Inu Yasha was worried about Kagome. It'd been a week since they'd eaten pizza at Tony's but he could swear that she was getting thinner and thinner. Like she wasn't eating. One day at lunch, he watched her. He saw how she ate everything on her tray, and he felt better that at least she was eating. But he still felt something was wrong with her. The next day at lunch, he invited her to sit with them. She sat between Kouga and Sango, who had broken up with Miroku, though not to anyone's surprise. She again ate all of her food. But, after lunch, she excused herself to use the restroom. He later heard some girls talking about how someone had thrown up in the restroom that Kagome had used, after lunch and how it now stank. The next day, he the same thing happened. This time, he talked to her, and he could smell vomit on her. That night, he made an anonymous call to a crisis line. He told the person on the other side about Kagome, and they told him what to do.

"Kagome, will you come here?" He asked her the next day.

"What?" She asked dully. He looked in her eyes and was shocked to find the once lively orbs now dull, almost lifeless.

"You need help," he stated.

"No I don't," she replied.

"Kagome, you've got an eating disorder for crying out loud! You need medical help," he felt like yelling at her. Instead, he told her, "Kagome, I think you've got an eating disorder."

"I don't," she glared at him.

"Well, will you go to the hospital and at least have them do a check up on you. Your too thin to be healthy," he told her.

"I'm perfectly fine," she answered him. "And I don't need to go to the hospital for some chump to tell me that. So I've gotten thin, so what. I've been running two miles a day," she told him.

"Please," he asked, eyes looking at her pleadingly.

"No," she glared, staring him straight in the eye. She went to walk off, but tripped and fell. She let out a scream, so loud and heart wrenching it seemed unearthly. People looked at her, many rushing over.

"Someone get the nurse!" Sango yelled. Apparently, she and the rest of his friends had been nearby, and had somehow wormed themselves up to Kagome. Minutes later, the nurse came rushing out to Kagome. She took one look at Kagome and called to the students, "Does anyone have a cell phone?" About half the crowd held one up, even though students were forbidden to bring them to school. "Someone call the hospital."

About twenty minutes later, Kagome was rushed to the hospital, the principal accompanying her. Inu Yasha and his friends, plus quite a few others visited her.

"What's with the IV?" He asked, raising a brow.

"It's the only way my body will absorb food safely," she told him. "You were right, aren't you going to gloat?"

"Why would I gloat? I was right, but do you know how much worse that makes me feel? I wish I was wrong, I don't want to be right," he told her. She smiled at him, and her visitors left, leaving her alone.

A/N: Kami, that chapter was hard to write. To many memories came to me and it's hard not to cry. At least Kagome's getting help. Sorry, a friend of mine, she had both anorexia and bulimia, which is common actually. Most people who have one, usually, have the other as well. Well, my friend didn't' get help quickly enough, and when she did, it didn't help, and her parents told the hospital to pull the plug on her. They didn't want to see their youngest daughter suffer.

Well, you know what I said in the AN for chapter 7, the 8th chapter of the story, that I wouldn't be able to update as much? Well, that's no more. We got our truck back. Sorry, our truck got stolen, and I couldn't go online because we were waiting for the SBPD to call us. Plus, I couldn't get on the computer for a few days, due to family issues, my grandma was in the hospital for heart surgery. Luckily, it went well and she's back home. Well, Ja till the next chapter! WSR rules! (The group I'm a part of on tc.com)

Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha the anime, I'm just using it's characters names in my own original story, thus making my story an AU.