A/N: Kagome's thoughts are in italics, her flashbacks will be marked with
*'s and the words (flashback/end flashback). Lines of * indicate a period
of time has gone by or a hind of point of view change..ok I just put those
line things in randomly, where I think a kind of pause thing is needed.
Sheesh! Also, I need a vote on the pairings, Kag/Sess or Kag/Inu? You have
until ch. 4; I'll try to update every couple of days. It'll take a week at
the most, I promise. NO FLAMES!
Disclaimer: I do not know Inuyasha and Co. That's ok because you don't either.
Kagome sighed as she started unpacking her last box of stuff. This one held pictures of her old life, friends from her old school. She picked up a stack of picture frames, sat on her bed, and looked through them. The first showed her and her grandfather dressed in the traditional garb of a priest and priestess from the Sengoku Jidai era, posing in front of the shrine that was her home for fifteen years. He was the one who had taught her how to use a bow and arrow, a skill he said that ancient mikos, were quick to acquire.
"Grandfather," she thought, "why did you have to leave? I miss you so much!" A single tear dropped from her striking cobalt blue eyes, the only apparent trace of her deceased father's American heritage. She dried her eyes and sighed, set the picture frame on the stand next to her bed, and continued. This was of her, Eri, Yuki, and Ayume, during their weekend at the beach; a present from her mom as though it would absolve her from the sin of forcing her family to move.
******flashback******* "Honey, you need to understand!" her mom cried, "we have to do this!" "No we don't!" Kagome yelled back. "Grandfather would have wanted us to stay in Matsue and take care of the shrine! You just want to move because everything there reminds you of his death! You're being selfish and thinking only of your feelings!"
SMACK*
"How dare you speak to me like that! I'm your mother!" she choked out. Kagome just glared at her mother, hand against her cheek
"I'll never forgive you!" she shouted.
******end flashback******
That was the first time her mother had struck her. The ended up reconciling a few hours later, but the fight still stuck in Kagome's mind. She knew her mother cared for her; that was evident in the next picture frame. This one was of the last track meet of the year; Kagome had won by at least 30 yards in the mile race; her time, a school record. Her mother and her were hugging while Sota jumped around them, waving Kagome's first place medal around and shouting. She smiled and traced her fingers across the picture, then stood and put that on the shelf with the rest of her trophies and awards. She hoped she would be able to make this school's team. Hoshi High was supposed to have an extremely good track program.
The next picture was also the final one of the pile in her hands. It was of her and Hojo, her boyfriend of nearly a year. He was the sweetest guy a girl could ask for, bringing her little surprises every now and then, walking her to every class even though it made him late sometimes, he seemed like the perfect guy, and so romantic!
******flashback****** "Hojo-chan, I've come to tell you that I'm moving to Tokyo in 8 days." Kagome said, tears threatening to drop out of her eyes. "Oh Kagome-koi! Don't cry. We can still be together!" Hojo replied, trying to comfort her. "No we can't!" she cried, "I'm moving halfway across the country! Oh Hojo- chan, I don't want to leave you! Hojo folded his girlfriend into an embrace and let her cry into his shoulder. "In one year you turn 18; then you can move back here with me and we'll be together!" he said. "I love you and even though we can't be together for a little while, I will be with you in your heart until we see each other again.
(a/n: ahaha, hojo sounds sooo gay and corny! Sorry but that serves my purpose somehow! I kinda feel bad the way he's always after kagome and she blows him off. but back to the story)
"I'll always love you Hojo,"
******end flashback******
She just had to wait two years and then she and Hojo could be together again. He had left a few hours ago, after helping her family move into the new house. He said he would visit again, but it took over six hours to get to her new house from his!
"Kagome!!! Dinner!!"
A shout from downstairs interrupted her train of thought.
"Coming!" she yelled back, putting that last picture on the nightstand next to her bed and walked downstairs to join her mother and brother.
"Guess what Mom made, Kagome!" her little brother Souta yelled as she reached the bottom of the stairs.
"I don't know. Why don't you tell me?" She replied.
"Oden!," Souta informed his sister, knowing it was her absolute favorite meal.
Kagome smiled at her little brother but inside she sighed. Her mother had gone out of her way to make the move easier for everyone, buying Souta the new video game he had been asking for, having practice courts built in their spacious back yard for Kagome's archery practice, and sending both of them to the most elite schools in the area. "Speaking of archery, I had better get to practicing before I forget how to shoot!" Kagome mused as she entered the dining area.
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"Wow Mom! That was great!" Kagome said as she finished her last bite of oden.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it dear," her mother replied with a smile. "Now why don't you go break in your new backyard practice court."
"I was just thinking that earlier!" she responded, rising from the table. She went to the hall closet, the spot she had decided on storing her bow and arrows, and made her way to the backyard. It was amazing how professional the targets looked, Grandfather had her practicing on paper bull's-eyes latched onto hay bales before he died. Kagome frowned at that thought and strung her bow. It wouldn't do to cloud her mind with sadness when she was trying to concentrate on her archery. She pulled an arrow from her quiver, put an arrow to her bow, and aimed.
THWACK!
Kagome smiled at her arrow, which was dead center in the target. "Well now, it seems like I still have it." She decided to do a few more singles and work up to doubles and triples. She had yet to consistently hit her doubles and her triples marched around the outside of the target's center.
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The sun was nearly all the way down, with only a sliver left when Kagome decided she should finish up. The dying light was no problem; her mom had installed floodlight so darkness wouldn't be a problem. All in all, Kagome was proud of herself. She had hit her doubles more often than not and had even hit one of her triples. "Maybe the time off was a good thing" she thought to herself. She unstrung her bow and picked up the scattered arrows and her quiver. Besides, tomorrow was her first day at Hoshi High School and she didn't was to have raccoon eyes from being up all night. She put away her arrows and then knocked softly on her mother's bedroom door. She pushed it slightly ajar when she heard a rustle.
"Mom, I'm in for the night," Kagome whispered softly.
"Ok good night sweetie." Her mother replied. Kagome started to close the door when she heard her mothers voice call to her again.
"How'd you do?" came her mother's voice from the dark.
"I hit a triple," she replied with a smile. "Good night Mom." She closed the door and made her way upstairs, the smile still on her lips. She made her way into her bedroom and got dressed for bed. As she laid down, butterflies began fluttering in her stomach in response to her thoughts of tomorrow's first day at her new school. She smiled though, in spite of her nervousness; tomorrow was a new beginning. But her thoughts inevitably turned to Hojo. He was the best thing that had happened to her, she decided. Always there for her, and the sweetest guy ever. In her heart though, she knew it wouldn't work, but her mind kept telling her to hold on. She rolled over and sighed, and then gave a smile; she sure had been sighing a lot lately.
Ok it might seem kinda boring right now, but I promise it gets good. I try to make the time go by in my fic a little more realistic-ish so don't expect kagome to be dating someone in ch. 2 or something like that. Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do not know Inuyasha and Co. That's ok because you don't either.
Kagome sighed as she started unpacking her last box of stuff. This one held pictures of her old life, friends from her old school. She picked up a stack of picture frames, sat on her bed, and looked through them. The first showed her and her grandfather dressed in the traditional garb of a priest and priestess from the Sengoku Jidai era, posing in front of the shrine that was her home for fifteen years. He was the one who had taught her how to use a bow and arrow, a skill he said that ancient mikos, were quick to acquire.
"Grandfather," she thought, "why did you have to leave? I miss you so much!" A single tear dropped from her striking cobalt blue eyes, the only apparent trace of her deceased father's American heritage. She dried her eyes and sighed, set the picture frame on the stand next to her bed, and continued. This was of her, Eri, Yuki, and Ayume, during their weekend at the beach; a present from her mom as though it would absolve her from the sin of forcing her family to move.
******flashback******* "Honey, you need to understand!" her mom cried, "we have to do this!" "No we don't!" Kagome yelled back. "Grandfather would have wanted us to stay in Matsue and take care of the shrine! You just want to move because everything there reminds you of his death! You're being selfish and thinking only of your feelings!"
SMACK*
"How dare you speak to me like that! I'm your mother!" she choked out. Kagome just glared at her mother, hand against her cheek
"I'll never forgive you!" she shouted.
******end flashback******
That was the first time her mother had struck her. The ended up reconciling a few hours later, but the fight still stuck in Kagome's mind. She knew her mother cared for her; that was evident in the next picture frame. This one was of the last track meet of the year; Kagome had won by at least 30 yards in the mile race; her time, a school record. Her mother and her were hugging while Sota jumped around them, waving Kagome's first place medal around and shouting. She smiled and traced her fingers across the picture, then stood and put that on the shelf with the rest of her trophies and awards. She hoped she would be able to make this school's team. Hoshi High was supposed to have an extremely good track program.
The next picture was also the final one of the pile in her hands. It was of her and Hojo, her boyfriend of nearly a year. He was the sweetest guy a girl could ask for, bringing her little surprises every now and then, walking her to every class even though it made him late sometimes, he seemed like the perfect guy, and so romantic!
******flashback****** "Hojo-chan, I've come to tell you that I'm moving to Tokyo in 8 days." Kagome said, tears threatening to drop out of her eyes. "Oh Kagome-koi! Don't cry. We can still be together!" Hojo replied, trying to comfort her. "No we can't!" she cried, "I'm moving halfway across the country! Oh Hojo- chan, I don't want to leave you! Hojo folded his girlfriend into an embrace and let her cry into his shoulder. "In one year you turn 18; then you can move back here with me and we'll be together!" he said. "I love you and even though we can't be together for a little while, I will be with you in your heart until we see each other again.
(a/n: ahaha, hojo sounds sooo gay and corny! Sorry but that serves my purpose somehow! I kinda feel bad the way he's always after kagome and she blows him off. but back to the story)
"I'll always love you Hojo,"
******end flashback******
She just had to wait two years and then she and Hojo could be together again. He had left a few hours ago, after helping her family move into the new house. He said he would visit again, but it took over six hours to get to her new house from his!
"Kagome!!! Dinner!!"
A shout from downstairs interrupted her train of thought.
"Coming!" she yelled back, putting that last picture on the nightstand next to her bed and walked downstairs to join her mother and brother.
"Guess what Mom made, Kagome!" her little brother Souta yelled as she reached the bottom of the stairs.
"I don't know. Why don't you tell me?" She replied.
"Oden!," Souta informed his sister, knowing it was her absolute favorite meal.
Kagome smiled at her little brother but inside she sighed. Her mother had gone out of her way to make the move easier for everyone, buying Souta the new video game he had been asking for, having practice courts built in their spacious back yard for Kagome's archery practice, and sending both of them to the most elite schools in the area. "Speaking of archery, I had better get to practicing before I forget how to shoot!" Kagome mused as she entered the dining area.
***********************************************************
"Wow Mom! That was great!" Kagome said as she finished her last bite of oden.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it dear," her mother replied with a smile. "Now why don't you go break in your new backyard practice court."
"I was just thinking that earlier!" she responded, rising from the table. She went to the hall closet, the spot she had decided on storing her bow and arrows, and made her way to the backyard. It was amazing how professional the targets looked, Grandfather had her practicing on paper bull's-eyes latched onto hay bales before he died. Kagome frowned at that thought and strung her bow. It wouldn't do to cloud her mind with sadness when she was trying to concentrate on her archery. She pulled an arrow from her quiver, put an arrow to her bow, and aimed.
THWACK!
Kagome smiled at her arrow, which was dead center in the target. "Well now, it seems like I still have it." She decided to do a few more singles and work up to doubles and triples. She had yet to consistently hit her doubles and her triples marched around the outside of the target's center.
*******************************************************
The sun was nearly all the way down, with only a sliver left when Kagome decided she should finish up. The dying light was no problem; her mom had installed floodlight so darkness wouldn't be a problem. All in all, Kagome was proud of herself. She had hit her doubles more often than not and had even hit one of her triples. "Maybe the time off was a good thing" she thought to herself. She unstrung her bow and picked up the scattered arrows and her quiver. Besides, tomorrow was her first day at Hoshi High School and she didn't was to have raccoon eyes from being up all night. She put away her arrows and then knocked softly on her mother's bedroom door. She pushed it slightly ajar when she heard a rustle.
"Mom, I'm in for the night," Kagome whispered softly.
"Ok good night sweetie." Her mother replied. Kagome started to close the door when she heard her mothers voice call to her again.
"How'd you do?" came her mother's voice from the dark.
"I hit a triple," she replied with a smile. "Good night Mom." She closed the door and made her way upstairs, the smile still on her lips. She made her way into her bedroom and got dressed for bed. As she laid down, butterflies began fluttering in her stomach in response to her thoughts of tomorrow's first day at her new school. She smiled though, in spite of her nervousness; tomorrow was a new beginning. But her thoughts inevitably turned to Hojo. He was the best thing that had happened to her, she decided. Always there for her, and the sweetest guy ever. In her heart though, she knew it wouldn't work, but her mind kept telling her to hold on. She rolled over and sighed, and then gave a smile; she sure had been sighing a lot lately.
Ok it might seem kinda boring right now, but I promise it gets good. I try to make the time go by in my fic a little more realistic-ish so don't expect kagome to be dating someone in ch. 2 or something like that. Please R&R!