InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sleep Paralysis ❯ The Infinity that has Passed ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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Kagome glanced quickly over her shoulder, her breath hitching, glancing behind her as she felt a presence there. But as expected, nothing was. Just a ghostly impression of something that shouldn't and couldn't possibly exist.

She turned back toward her teacher, slowly, gazing numbly as he spoke of science and its importance.

“The scientific method. You have five steps and each has its very own importance. One, you must come up with a question, or a situation you are attempting to find an answer for.”

Kagome squirmed in her seat, absently doodling upon her notebook paper that was meant for notes. Leaning her cheek into her palm, she continued to absently listen, rather half mindedly as she withdrew inside herself again. She didn't want to think, but that was all she could inspire herself to do. Looking down, she watched her hand draw an endless spiral as her thoughts slowly consumed her.

I am alone.

And her loneliness had taught her to seek out other beings, unworldly beings that comforted her or hurt her… something most other humans didn't even take the time to do with her. One or the other. It didn't matter, because they graced her with mere nothingness.

Long ago has she become invisible, no one noticing. No one caring. No one taking the time to even acknowledge her with a nod or a wave, and years upon years of loneliness and betrayal had caused her heart to close.

She didn't even want their attentions anymore... so she told herself.

But that didn't take away the pain.

“Two, you must hypothesize circumstances, the outcome of which you are looking for.”

Heaving a small, but very great sigh she trembled. Still, the spiral was continuing, and she had not stopped though it now covered more than half her page. The lines varied, from small to close to intertwining, paths crossing.

Ripples in the pond.

“Three, you must experiment. You must have a control group, and the experimental. They must be identical, or the results will be insubstantial.”

Kagome stiffened suddenly as the hairs on the back of her neck straightened high, and again she looked behind her. Emptiness greeted her, the linoleum of the floor a pasty yellow in color as the fluorescent of the lights in the hall gleamed along the waxed surface. She could see that through the glass of the classroom door, and she squinted, as if her effort might break the veil...

…Still nothing.

Turning back towards her teacher, she let the beginnings of a trance overtake her as a voice spoke in her ear, deep and masculine.

“I'm watching you.”

She felt her body contort into herself, trying to minimize her appearance, as if that would make her more invisible, hide her better.

That voice again...

She felt a sharp pain at her wrist, as if something were grabbing her tightly, and she felt her fingers move of their own accord as if she were being forced to write.

`Numbed mind takes over the great divine,
as pure life and meaning is left behind.
And days of old are tainted to fault,
And nothing gives and nothing lives when put on a halt.
Greatness done and greatness gone,
When great deeds are said and donned.
And soon to shiver, and soon to quiver,
When your life shall be the giver.
The tryst we find shall soon be mine,
And your loss will be in no time.'

The handwriting was jagged, and forced… nothing more than chicken scratch. But Kagome dropped her pen suddenly and watched numbly as it slowly fell to the floor, causing the most minimal of sounds that was like an explosion in her ears.

She backed her chair away from the lab table, glaring down at her wrist that was beginning to bruise. She couldn't be scared.

She wouldn't be scared.

That would give her doubts and fears an edge.

She couldn't let them overtake her...

“Higurashi Kagome! I would appreciate it if you did not talk in my class!” She lifted her eyes, those chocolate eyes, bright and wary to the world around her. Quite a many people were looking back at her, glaring at her, judging her...

...And yet, she had never spoken a word to begin with.

“All right. One very important thing though, is that many do not incorporate the fact that what you do may have consequences. What you are testing, whether good or negative, will always have an outcome.”

The class slowly turned its attention as one back to the teacher who continued to drill his lesson, as Kagome stared blankly down at her paper, as if the thing had sprouted a head and danced along her desk and she was the only one who could see that obvious fact.

It never ends, does it?