InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Turning The Tables ❯ Just A Crazy Nightmare ( Chapter 2 )

Kagome groaned and rolled over whimpering slightly, "Inu...Yasha..." she winced in her sleep and whimpered some more, curling up into a ball and squeezed her eyes shut, relaxing only slightly. Inuki looked up from the picture to her, ''What in the hell is going on here?!" He looked back at the picture, "AND WHO IS THIS?!!"

She winced at the loud noise and groaned lifting a hand to her head and opened her eyes, "N-nani?"

He looked at her, "Who is this? Is this some kind of joke?" He held up the picture of the hanyou to her gaze. Her eyes widened, "Wha... that's Inu Yasha. How did you.." she looked at her bag which had spilled open, "Oh..."

He looked at her in disbelief, "There is no damn way this is Inu Yasha...this is your dead boyfriend? You have to be joking," he looked at it again, "Were you at some costume party or something? But why does he look like me?"

Kagome stared at him, "That's... Inu Yasha... no costume... and I told you ... that you reminded me of him... did you think I was lying?"

"Bu...but that means ...he was a hanyou," he swallowed hard as he stared at the picture. He dropped it as flashes entered his mind. Blood, pain, darkness, the cold sounds of a woman crying. He grabbed the sides of his head, "Blood.." his face twisted in pain, "There's so much of it.....every where..." Kagome's eyes widened at the tone in his voice, "Are you ok, Inuki?" she leapt off the bed and knelt beside him, "Inuki?" Inuki opened his eyes and looked at her and for a brief moment they were amber colored. He dropped his hands to his sides "I think ....I'm coming down with something. My head hurts like all hell."

Kagome froze and stared at him for a moment, "You're... "she trailed off and shook her head. She pulled his head to her chest and massaged his temples, "Just relax.. it's probably just stress from the move..." she muttered distractedly. He sighed, ''Maybe...'' He closed his eyes and grumbled, "Maybe you should just go on home, Kagome, I think I'm gonna go home myself."

Kagome looked at him and blinked, "If you want to you can come over, until my mom gets home and then she can drive you home, the shrine is less than a block away from the school."

He nodded, "Maybe that's a good idea." He shook his head and walked towards the door, "I don't think I can walk home in my shape anyway."

She nodded slightly, "I'll get your books from the classroom, You get whatever you need out of your locker, and I'll meet you at the front doors, Think you will be able to make it there?

He nods absent mindedly "Yeah...I will meet you there." He walked out into the hall and towards his locker.

Kagome flashed him a parting smile and hurried to the classroom, 'He has to be Inu Yasha... there...there's no other explanation for those eyes...' She burst through the door, drawing odd looks from the teacher and the students, "Going home," she muttered and grabbed Inuki's books and headed towards the front doors swiftly.

Inuki opened his locker digging around grabbed a cell phone and his jacket. He sighed as he pulled it on and shoved the cell into his pocket, "Ok, I wonder if insanity is contagious." He grumbled as he walked to the doors and unbraided his hair as he walked, letting it fall down its full length. Kagome looked up at him and saw him with his hair tumbling about his waist and her breath caught in her throat. She cleared it a few times before she regained her ability to speak a coherent sentence, "You ready?"

He nodded as he looked out the window, "Where do you live anyway?" She looked over to him and smiled slightly as they set off, "The Higurashi shrine, it's not far. You may have heard of my crackpot grandfather's store. He's famous for his religious trinkets."

He laughed, "Yeah, my mom visited there once and bought a key chain with a pink jewel on it." He bit his lower lip, "Now, what did she say it was a replica of?"

Kagome stiffened slightly," The Shikon no Tama, Jewel of Four Souls. "

He stopped in mid step, "The Shikon Jewel...." His eyes glazed over as memories started coming back to him. They started out as flashes and then scenes played in his mind. A blood covered girl in a school uniform tears streaking down her face and the pain. He grabed his chest as his eyes widened, "It ...hurts..."

Kagome's eyes widened and she turned to him grabbing him to steady him, "Inuki, c'mon, we are almost there," She gazed at his chest where he was grasping and her eyes darkened as she led the pained boy up the steps of the shrine and into her home. Inuki followed her, not really paying attention to where he was going. His eyes were vacant as things that haunted his nightmares for years played across his mind.

Kagome led him to the couch and sat him down and made some tea quickly coming out with it and sat beside him, lifting the cup to his lips and tipping some into his mouth, "Swallow, it will help calm you..." she whispered concernedly.

He took a sip as he sat there, "Ok, I think I'm losing my mind.'' He ran a hand across his face as he sighed, "Stupid damn nightmares coming and haunting me during the damn day now."

Kagome watched him silently, "...What kind of night mares?"

Inuki scowled, "Well, apparently it's me. I'm hurt ...a really bad wound to the chest." He shook his head, "I know I'm dying, I can feel the cold setting into my body and there's this girl in a school uniform covered in blood, crying ...telling me not to go." He rolled his eyes, "It's just a crazy damn nightmare nothing to worry over."