InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ They Say Life Is A Circle ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

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<>They Say That Life Is A Circle<> - ReginaLucifer

Summary: After the final battle with Naraku, Kagome reabsorbs the Shikon jewel and she is sent back to her time; permanently. Years later, Kagome is in college, hoping to become a history teacher. Not your usual "Kagome is in college" fic.

<> Chapter Two <> Re-Introductions

When Kagome woke, she could hear voices off to her right. She couldn't tell what they were saying, it just sounded like vibrations under water. The pain in her neck, though, brought her back to reality, almost painfully, and she found it painful to breath. For a moment she wondered why but her memory of what, she hoped, were the day before came back to her. Naraku. Just when she had thought that she would get peace from the everyday problems of the Feudal Era, he just had to come and shatter it to pieces. Just like the lives of many people from back then. So many people. Her friends. InuYasha, Sango and Miroku. Even the lives of people she despised, like Kikyou. Suddenly she wondered how she could hate someone who was, essentially, her. Of course, she knew they weren't the same, different people and experiences took care of that. But they shared that same soul.

Suddenly she decided not to think about such thought provoking things, it was bringing on a headache. Instead, she tried to find out who was… well, wherever she was. She soon found that her friends were trying to see her, but for some reason, the doctor wasn't allowing anyone that wasn't family in to see her. At the moment, she couldn't think of why they would do that but she was sure it would come to her later.

She decided that now would be a good moment to open her eyes - her throat was dry and it was killing her. Slowly, she opened her eyes and was glad to see that the curtains were drawn, she wouldn't have liked to wake up with the sun glaring in her eyes. It only took a moment to realize she was in a hospital. She looked at the table to her right to see a glass of water on top of it. Reaching out a shaky hand, she grabbed it and promptly drained it, taking a deep breath as she returned it to the table.

She felt something tickle her senses but ignored it, knowing Naraku wouldn't try anything this soon and in a hospital no less - actually, he probably would in a hospital but not this soon. She scanned her room to see flowers on various tables as well as get well soon cards. She smiled warmly and not for the first time - nor the last - she was grateful that she had such caring family and friends. The doctor turned from the door, finally getting rid of her friends and noticed she was awake. He came over and flashed a light in her eyes - which she didn't appreciate and gave him a glare - and checked her pulse. He seemed nervous for some reason she could not fathom and just decided he must be very jumpy.

"Y-you sho-ould be f-fine," he stuttered and she noticed his eyes kept flicking to her left.

Suddenly, a soft, deep voice said, "Leave."

The doctor seemed only too happy to oblige, leaving her alone with whoever it was in there with her, she noted dryly. When the doctor opened the door, she saw flashes of lights and heard inquiring voices, which suspiciously reminded her of a reporter's.

Whoever it was didn't give her time to wonder before he called attention to himself once more by clearing his throat. She turned her head to look at him for the first time and saw why the man was so frightened. Although the man didn't give off any hostile vibes, he looked dressed for a fight. He was dressed entirely in black, which contrasted greatly with his pale skin. His hair was a dark grey, judging by the tufts she could see sticking out from underneath his wide rimmed hat, which he covered the top half of his face with by keeping his head slightly lowered. He wore a large trench coat that looked so heavy she wondered how he could stand the heat. His pants were black and loose, and were held up by a large black belt with a large silver buckle. On his feet were large combat boots. To her, he looked like he had walked right out of one of those vampire movies her little brother always watched.

Suddenly, he lifted his head up, giving her the first clear view of his face. His face was grim, his mouth set in straight line and his eyes were a golden colour. Now she was reminded even more of some horror movie. Maybe he was Dracula, in league with Naraku and he had come to finish her off. She narrowed her eyes, thinking about the closed blinds. Could vampires come out in the daytime as long as they stayed in the shadows? Suddenly she realised how ridiculous her thoughts sounded and she was glad she hadn't voiced them out loud. Maybe they had given her a bit too much morphine. She would have laughed but settled for laughing inside her head after she saw that the man was still looking at her.

"Is there something you wanted?" she asked, not being able to take the silence and his piercing stare any longer. She hoped she hadn't sounded as nervous as she felt - the vampire thoughts were really getting to her. Now she was wishing she had watched those movies with her brother so she would know how to kill them.

He walked around to the right side of her bed and reached into his jacket. She tensed but relaxed when he only pulled out a bundle of clothes. He put them on her lap and turned towards the door, saying, "Put on those clothes and we'll go." That was when she noticed she was wearing one of those cloth hospital dresses.

"Go where?" she asked, pulling on the clothes he had given her.

"We have to leave here. Naraku is starting to gather his forces again but this time he has acquired some powerful allies," he told her before adding, "He's after the Shikon jewel again, so I'm to keep you safe."

She nodded, knowing he couldn't see it but not particularly caring at that moment as she pulled on a long leather jacket. She looked like she had bought these at the same store where he had gotten his clothes - only, her clothes were made for a woman, obviously.

She wondered if she knew the man from somewhere. He knew about Naraku, and she felt better now that he said that he was to protect her but it could be some ploy of Naraku's. Nah, it wasn't his style. She finished pulling on her new clothes.

She decided to go for the direct approach, "Do I know you from somewhere?"

He turned around and she caught another glance of his face before he went to peek through the blinds. She thought he wasn't going to answer when he simple said, "Yes."

When found he wasn't going to be forthcoming, she asked, "Where do I know you from?"

"I'll tell you at a safer location," he told her distractedly, seeming to be looking for a way out of the room.

She decided that she wasn't really sure anymore whether she was safe or not, and not because of the strange man. "Where are we going?" she asked, her eyes scanning the room as though she thought something were going to jump out at her. She sure hoped that there were no spy cameras in the room because she had just been changing.

Again, he still didn't seem to want to answer but said, "You'll see when you get there." Not very informative, but it would have to do. She would really rather be with the guy who was supposed to protect her than all alone where Naraku could kill her and take the jewel.

"Alright," she responded and kept glancing around, wondering how they were supposed to get out without anyone seeing them. She parted the blinds a bit to look out and was glad to see that there was only the hospital roof there - not a mob of demons coming after her and the jewel.

"We will stop by your house to leave a note for your family," he told her as he came over to the window again and opened the blinds. She merely made a noise in her throat of agreement, it was disconcerting, to say the least, that he knew where her home was. It made her wonder if people - like the man - were spying on her. She narrowed her eyes at him but she was glad he wasn't looking at her, she didn't want to seem ungrateful. He was focusing on opening the window, which wasn't supposed to open at all.

Finally, he seemed to get a bit impatient - though it didn't show on his face - and gave the window a hard shove. It popped out but he grabbed it before it could fall. Obviously, he didn't want attention being brought to them by the window shattering. He set it down on the bed, then seemed to look around for anything they would need and made sure the door was locked. Then he approached the window and before she knew what was happening, he had leapt out the window. Sticking her head out the window, she looked down to see him land gracefully on the roof below. That ruled out vampire - he was in direct sunlight and he wasn't… doing whatever it was that vampires did when in the sunlight.

Suddenly, a realization came to her that was so obvious she almost hit her head on the wall, but she restrained herself. He was obviously a demon, now that she remembered that she could detect them. Yes, most definitely a demon.

Now he was looking up at her as though expecting her to do something. Seeming to realize that she wasn't about to do anything, he called, "Jump!" Then added, almost as an afterthought, "I'll catch you!"

After jumping down a well so many times when she was younger and witnessing what demons were capable of, she knew full well that he could catch her, so she climbed carefully onto the ledge. As soon as she was sitting safely, legs hanging over the edge, she let herself drop. She squeezed her eyes shut as she felt the air rush up past her and was extremely relieved to feel him catch her.

Suddenly, her breath caught in her throat as she felt him jump. Opening her eyes, she saw that she was right. They were quite far away from the hospital now, and no one seemed to know they were gone. He landed seconds later, righted his grip on her and jumped again. Minutes later, they arrived at the Shrine without any incidents. She was quite glad no one had seen them, she was sure everyone in Japan knew about what had happened between her and Naraku, and she didn't want any more publicity. They approached the door when she suddenly remembered that she didn't have her key. She was about to tell him that when he pulled out her key and opened the door. He had obviously thought of everything.

They walked into the house and she found a pen and a pad of paper, and started to write a note to her family. She wrote that she was okay, she would see them when she could and not to worry about her.

She had just signed it with her name when the man came around from his inspection of her home. "Make sure they destroy it after they read it. We don't need anyone knowing you have been here," he said. She thought he was going a little overboard but she still added: P.S: Destroy this message when you read it.

"Let's go," he said, walking towards the door. She locked the door, and caught herself up to where he was, already halfway up the street. She walked beside him silently and wondered what they looked like to people. Probably a couple of gang members or assassins. She almost laughed; her brother would have been ecstatic to see her dressed like this.

"Something funny?" he asked with a ghost of a smile. He must have seen her amused smile.

She decided it wouldn't hurt to tell him, "I was just wondering what my brother would say, if he saw me wearing this. I probably look like someone out of one of his vampire movies." In fact, she had watched one with him and the clothes had looked really similar. She hadn't really picked up on the story line though.

"I see," he said with a hint of humour colouring his voice. She was really starting to wonder if he could say more than four words at a time, because that's what it seemed like.

They walked around a corner and she saw a really nice black car, and although she couldn't say what kind of car it was, she liked it. The man unlocked the driver's side door and climbed in then reached across the seats to unlock the door for her.

She climbed in and asked, "We're driving?" She looked out the window and waved at an old neighbour of hers. He obviously didn't recognize her because he went all white, ran inside his house and slammed the door shut behind him. She laughed and turned back to the man to see him smiling slightly as he answered her question with one of his own, "Would you rather walk?"

She shook her head, smiling and buckled her seatbelt as he started the car, thinking that they could become good friends. He seemed like a good person. Then again, not everyone who seems good is good, and she found herself wondering why she was going with him. She couldn't think of an answer but decided that if anyone should ask, she would tell them it was the morphine.

Then she wondered if she had even been given any morphine.

<> End Chapter Two <>

From me: Thank-you all for reviewing and I hope you all like this chapter. I just finished all my Provincial exams today at 12:15 (15 minutes early) and I was so happy I thought I'd write you all a new chapter! Plus I got really good on my French (41/55) and my science (46/55) exams and I was even more happy. I don't know what I got on my others though.

Oh yea! I just finished reading Van Helsing on Wednesday - yes, they made a book - and I loved it! Could you tell? Well, now I'm reading The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams, It's really good so far.

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