InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Neither Forgive Nor Forget ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Sound Track Challenge II: Trust me

Chapter 3

Kagome sat up in her hospital bed, looking out the same window from the night before; the sun barely peaking from behind the skyline. Nurses told her they called her husband and he would be on his way soon. The dreams she had terrified her to tears. She wiped one away from her cheek when a nurse escorted Sesshomaru into the room and closed the door behind her. Kagome turned her head toward the door when she heard the sound of his voice and noted the worry and exhaustion on his face.

“Good morning Kagome,” he started. He was told by staff they had to sedate her earlier that morning, and since then Kagome hadn't talked to anyone. From the front desk to her room, he wondered how he would approach her. He sat down next to her bed, acting a little too cautious. “I called your mother; she said she'll be here soon.”

Kagome eyed him and turned her head back to the window. “You were shot. In my dream you got shot,” was all she said. Silence passed for a few moments before she continued. “I dreamed I was in a dark room and this man was abusing me and beating you. You almost died from it. He then gave me a choice of staying with him or running away, either way you would have died. When I said I wouldn't leave you, he shot you.”

“It was only a dream,” he assured her.

“Yea…” was the only thing she said. A knock on the door interrupted Sesshomaru before he could say anything else. On the other side of the door was a nurse, asking for entrance into the room to feed and bathe her. Moments after eating, Sesshomaru was escorted out of the room so that the nurses may clean her up. Waiting in the hallway, he met the panicked Mrs. Higurashi.

~*~*~*~*~

Mrs. Higurashi ran into the hospital; her hair uncombed, worry etched over her face. She stopped in front of her daughter's room door, only to be stopped by her son-in-law coming out of the room. Before she could speak, Sesshomaru seemed to have answered every one of her questions that ran though her mind since she received his phone call earlier that morning.

“She's fine. They said she woke up thrashing but they sedated her.” Mrs. Higurashi released a breath she didn't realize she was holding.

“Did they say why she was having a fit?”

Sesshomaru shook his head. “She had just calmed down when I arrived and before they could start asking her questions.” She became rigid again. “Right now they are cleaning her up. I'll say good-bye, but I'll be back; I need to handle some things at the office.” Mrs. Higurashi nodded and sat down with Sesshomaru, waiting to go in and see about her daughter.

Time that passed in the waiting room wasn't long and Sesshomaru kissed his wife and left. The whole day, Mrs. Higurashi sat by her daughter's side, knitting or reading, talking to her, or trying to make her as comfortable as she could. Earlier that afternoon, Mrs. Higurashi gave her one of her favorite books from her childhood, Alice in Wonderland. Half way through the book, Kagome came upon a picture of three girls in middle school they had on a white and green sailor fuku and were bending over at the waist. In the back she saw a bunch of classmates and students eating lunch in a class room. One girl she knew was her, her hair was about where it was now, she was on one end holding up a peace sign with one hand and the other wrapped around the waist of one girl; the other was the young lady she met before, Sango who was in the middle, her long straight hair was put up in a high ponytail, her arms were around the waist of Kagome and the other young lady, with a big smile on her face. The final one, the girl on the other end, she couldn't remember her, but she felt a certain connection to her; her hair was curly and reddish brown, her skin was a light caramel color, she had one arm around Sango's waist and the in a peace sign as well, she winked into the camera and smirked. “Mrs. - Mom?” Kagome started, correcting herself. “Who is that?” She asked turning over as much as she could to show her mother the picture.

Her mother smiled a small smile looking at the picture, “That's Harumi; she's a close friend of yours, at least she was, she even gave you that book for you birthday. The two of you haven't talked much in the past few years. She blames herself for what happened.” Kagome had a puzzled look on her face, and then her mother answered the question that had been on her mind. “There was an incident years ago. It caused a lot of pain for everyone. You should rest before your dinner arrives.” She said, stopping her from asking anymore questions. Kissing her on the forehead, Mrs. Higurashi left the room.

Dinner time came and went, and Kagome was almost done with her book when Sango entered the room alone. “Hello Kagome, how are you feeling?”

Kagome looked up from the book in her lap to see the young woman. “I'm doing fine.” Kagome sat up a little straighter in her bed, “S-Sango, we are friends right?”

Sango looked at her with a puzzled expression; “Yes …” she trailed off.

“And being my friend, I can trust you to answer any questions I may have right?”

“Yes, I will do everything in my power to answer any questions you may have to the best of my ability.” Sango sat in the chair that was once occupied by her mother earlier that day.

Kagome picked up the picture she found earlier tucked under her tray, and handed it to her. “Do you remember this girl?”

Sango took the picture form Kagome and started to smile a sad smile. “Of course I remember her! The three of us used to be like the Three Musketeers! We were always together until she was accepted into that ritzy privet school in our final year of middle school.”

“What privet school?”

“There's a privet school outside of Tokyo - I can never remember its name - it's where she met Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. In those four years we still kept in touch during holidays and some weekends. We eventually went to university together.”

“What is she doing now?”

Sango shrugged, “Kami knows. After the incident none of us have talked to her much. You asked her to be a bride's maid, and when she declined, you still invited her to the wedding, but she never showed up. She sent you two a gift though.” She quickly added. “It was beautiful, silver with rhinestones -”

“ - Why didn't she attend?”

Sango shrugged again. “We've all been asking the same thing for a few years now. Our most popular theory was that she felt guilty about what happened to you.”

“What do you mean? What happened?”

She sighed, “Kags, I know I promised you I'd tell you everything, but I can't tell you that - “

“ - But why - “

Sango raised her hand to stop her. “- because we all swore, me, Miroku, Sesshomaru, your family, and his that we would refrain from ever mentioning what happened again. Everything that happened was too painful. Trust me; it's for the best that you don't know.” Sango returned the picture to her. “So on a lighter note, what has the doctor said about getting you walking again?”

Kagome took the photo back and crossed her arms, and stared straight ahead. “He said he'd be able to find out something within a few days, and my chances of my ability to walk again are high.” Her voice was cold and bitter sounding.

“Kagome are you mad at me?”

“No.”

“You said that far too quickly for it to be truthful. You forget I'm one of the few people who know you better than you know yourself. So please tell me, why you are upset.”

“If you know me so well, you should know why! I have this whole life I don't remember living, with a best friend that doesn't want to talk to me and some sort of devastatingly tragic event that no one wants to tell me about.”

Sango reached out to grasp her friend's hand. “I vowed, I would never speak about what happened years ago, but I will tell you this: It scared us, you most of all. There were nights you woke up terrified, screaming in your sleep; there were days that were so horrifying, you rarely left your house. People we were associated with would turn up missing, or worse, all because of some psychopath. When it was over, you begged for your memories to be whipped away, in order to live the rest of your life in peace, to be able to live happily with Sesshomaru. So please, drop this. Focus on getting better … I've gotta go, it's my turn to cook dinner. I just wanted to stop by and see how you were feeling.” As she turned around to leave, she was met with Sesshomaru at the door, a sad expression on her face. She placed a hand on his shoulder as she exited, saying her farewells.

That night, Sesshomaru decided to sleep in the room with her, in case she threw another fit. The nurses administered a pain medication - when she started to complain about her lower back was hurting - in her IV that caused her to fall asleep almost instantly.

~*~*~Dream~*~*~

Kagome drove carefully on the roads, her headlights being her only source of visibility on the moonless night. More than an hour ago, she received a phone call to meet her brother in an abandoned building about ten miles outside of Tokyo. Kagome reached for her phone and checked for a signal again - nothing, not since a quarter of a mile back. Kagome was getting even more nervous. For a few months now, her ex has been stalking her and threatening her and her family and friends. Lately, she received ominous phone calls, and letters in the mail containing body parts. The phone call she received earlier was from brother, Souta, but it didn't sound like him. It sounded like him, but something was off about it and she didn't know what; whatever the reason, she was told to go alone and to not tell anyone where she was going, otherwise someone would hurt him. Fear was slowly encasing her in its web and the thought of her brother getting injured because of her. Not realizing it, Kagome came to a stop in front of a condemned building with a no trespassing sign attached to a tall wooden fence. Leaving the headlights of her SUV on, Kagome jumped out and surveyed the area; there were with mounds of dirt to left and construction equipment to the right and a foul stench all round. Walking around, looking for a way inside, the only sounds she could hear was her own footsteps in the gravel and her voice calling out for her brother. Suddenly she heard a noise to her right where she saw an opening. Running to where she heard the noise, Kagome came to a halt when she saw a shadow emerging from the building.

Souta, walked from out of the shadows with a sinister smile on his face. “Hey Sis, long time no see.”

“Souta, it's you!” She said running toward him. Her pace lessened when he didn't look as happy to see her as she was to see him; his smile remained. “Souta, what's wrong? And why are you in a place like this? I thought something bad happened to you! Come on, let's go home!” She went to grab his arm and tugged him in the direction from where she came. She heard a laugh, one that was not like her brother's. She heard it before, and it didn't clam the fear she had since her journey started. The wrist she held onto felt odd as the bones and flesh morphed into another's and grabbed onto hers, stopping her in her attempt to leave the site. Slowly Kagome turned around and the color drained from her face. There before her was her ex-fiancé, the man that was the source of all her and her loved ones' fears. “How…?”

He brought her in close, his lips to her ears, the smile on his face never wavering. “Let's just say I made a deal with the Devil.” She tried to struggle, but her his grip on her only got stronger. Before she could scream, he covered her face and blacked out.

~*~*~Dream~*~*~

Her heavy breathing woke Sesshomaru up, and he rushed to her side. He held onto her as he tried to calm his wide-eyed mate down. “Kagome, everything is alright! It's ok, I'm here, and nothing will hurt you.”