The characters of InuYasha are not mine, they are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

I know i said i would not start another chapter story but this one just would not leave me alone. It won't be long i promise maybe 10 short chapters.

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Kagome sat in the bottom of the well her nails dug into the dirt as she sat there, her back leaned up against the old wood and tears streamed down her face. This was the place she went when she couldn't take it anymore. When her time had become too much. It had been six months since Inuyasha had brought her back after the final battle with Naraku and she had found it hard to adjust. Not just from losing her friends but from losing the world she loved. This time was so different. So modern. The nature she loved was gone, the air not as crisp, the water not as pure.

"Come on Sis, it's time for school." Sota yelled as he walked by the well house. He knew she was in there. She always was.

Kagome climbed up her ladder and threw on her backpack over the rim, as she opened the door the smog filled her lungs causing her to cough. She wondered if it was because she had been away so long that she no longer had a tolerance for this modern environment.

Once school was over Kagome walked back home, she missed an entire year of school and yet had no problems catching up, she loathed the busy work, all she wanted to do was go back into the well and forget all about her lessons in social consumerism. She walked a different way home today in hopes that she would see something that would remind her of her life in the feudal era. As she passed a hospital a familiar tingle went through her body. She stopped in front of the building and felt the tingle again.

She walked to the door and the feeling strengthened, she began to wander through the halls aimlessly trying to find the source of this familiar power. The closer she got the more confused she became. She knew who this was. 'Why are you following this, looking for him?' Her mind screamed as she got closer. The feeling got stronger and stronger. She stopped in front of a door, her body and mind screamed danger but her curiosity and hope was enough to quell those feelings.

Kagome placed her hands on the door as she contemplated her next step, thoughts racing through her mind. 'He might kill me...we might not have been enemies when I left but...'

'Would that be so bad?' Her mind taunted back, she had been rather melancholy these past months and her thoughts almost welcomed the idea. Kagome smirked and pushed the door open. "You're right, it wouldn't be so bad."

The door slowly opened, Kagome looked into the room, confusion all over her face, and there was no doctor, just a bunch of machines. The fluids and beeping making her head throb as the adrenaline in her system continued to pump through her.

She focused searching for the only link to the world she missed so much, then it hit her. The bed there was a patient in the bed, hooked up to various machines through IV's attached to various parts of the body. There was a mask on his face, sensors and bands covering his entire body.

Her mind screamed as she noticed a strand of silver hair that had somehow betrayed the confines of all of the machines connections and gotten free.

She began to step forward when a hand on her shoulder stopped her.

"Miss I think you are in the wrong room." A friendly voice told her.

Kagome turned abruptly to see an elderly nurse. "No this is the right room." Kagome stuttered out.

"So you know this patient?" The nurse asked, the surprise in her words and expression confused the young woman.

"Yes, I know him." Kagome said as she turned to look back at the bed, at the man laying there.

The nurse smiled at the girl. "In all of the thirty years I have worked here this man has been in this room. He has never once had a visitor."

Kagome looked at the woman. "Thirty years? How can that be? Why was he admitted?"

The nurse smiled sadly. "We don't know he predates most of us, his condition never changes it is always the same. The more advanced we get the more machines we hook him up to. I am not sure if he is even considered a patient anymore, he is more like a project." The nurse said, an odd sign of accomplishment in her voice for having been a part of this experiment for so long.

Kagome shuddered at the woman's confession. Anger flickered at her tongue. "How dare you!?" She spat out before she could contain herself. "Do you have any idea who this man is!?" Kagome yelled. The only tie she had to what she had lost was here and this was how they were treating him.

The nurse just stared at the girl, she had to be family if she was acting this way. "Yes young lady I do know who he is. He is..." The nurse grabbed his chart. "Sesshoumaru Higarashi. That's who he is." The woman said and she turned around and walked out.

Kagome watched the woman leave, the shock from her words flowing over her. She turned abruptly and walked to the bed. She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth as her heart pounded. 'How could they just treat him like this?' The girl wondered. 'Why is he letting this happen?' She sat on the bed next to him. Her hands searching for open skin to make sure he was real. When her hands collided with his warmth tears pricked at her eyes. 'Sesshoumaru Higurashi? Why is he called by my name?' Kagome let the thoughts run through as more and more confusion and pain was added to her already depressed mood, she began to pull at the foreign objects attached to Sesshoumaru. Kagome finally got his face free, she cupped it in her hands. The machines began to beep wildly as they could no longer detect life. She gasped as she finally could see him. His markings were faded, his hair though silver was a very dull shade. Her hands traced the fading marks.

"You have been here for thirty years." She whispered as she took in the image of the fading demon lord. His eyes began to flutter at the sound of her voice.

A fierce determination filled her at the sign of life from him, she began to pull out all of his IV's, removing all of the tubing and bands. In the middle of the destruction the machine connected to his heart gave off the warning that he was going into cardiac arrest. Kagome finished removing all of the devices right when two orderlies came in with the nurse and the doctor. She was not sure what drove her, she wanted to believe it was the need to save him. But she knew better. She wanted a link and he could offer her that.

Kagome composed herself as they looked at her and then to the mess of tubing and other medical related items. She glared at the two men who started to approach her. "This man is my family, and I will not allow you to treat him like this anymore. Give me the release papers! I am taking him home."

With that she went and sat on the bed with a fading Sesshoumaru. The hospital could not disprove her claim. They had the same last name. She knew of the odd birthmarks on his wrist. So after a few signatures Kagome was pushing Sesshoumaru down the street in a wheelchair.