Silent Suffering
A/N: just so you know, this is mainly an excuse to write angst. And it's my first fic without a strong original character!!!!!!! HORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew I could do it. -Tries to pat herself on the back, but fails miserably-
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha.
Chapter One: Silent Screams.
Kagome stared into the depths of the hot spring she relaxed in. About a half an hour ago the group had made camp, and Shippo had discovered this Hot Spring. Sango said that she didn't want to bath, and that she would make sure Miroku stayed at camp. Kagome pitied the poor monk if he even tried to sneak off…Sango would be on him in a heartbeat, beating him into the ground with Hirakatsu.
Well, too bad. That lecher deserved it. He was always trying to sneak a peak at them when they were bathing…at least Inu Yasha never did that. Well, actually, that's not true…that one time when she was first getting to know him he did watch her while she was bathing in the stream. She had sat him for that. Right on the edge of a cliff to, perfect set up. He did a face plant straight into the sand.
Kagome sighed, and leaned back into the boulder behind her, and stared up at the stars. She remembered, a long time ago, that her father always took her and Meiyo to see the stars. Today would be the anniversary…they've been dead six years now…
"Daddy, sis," Kagome sighed, closing her eyes.
----------Flashback----------
A tall man with short black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin carried a six-year-old Kagome on his shoulders, walking through the woods. A tall fourteen-year-old with long knee-length raven hair, chocolate brown eyes, and deathly pale skin, dressed in blue jeans, a loose white t-shirt, and blue and white sneakers walked next to the two.
"Where are we going daddy?" Kagome asked.
"We're going to see the stars Kagome," he said, smiling.
"Doesn't mommy want to see them?" Kagome asked.
"Mommy's too busy taking care of your little brother Souta, Kagome," her father explained. "She's back home with grandpa. So it's just the three of us, you, me, and your big sister Meiyo."
The three then came into a very large meadow. Mr. Higurashi stopped, and took Kagome off his shoulders, and set her down on the grass, before lying down next to her. Meiyo laid down on her little sister's other side, and looked up at the stars.
"Look at the stars Kagome," Kagome's father said. Kagome tilted her head upwards, and looked at the stars. Meiyo laughed from her position next to the girl.
"You'll hurt your neck like that," she said in her soft voice. "Lay down like daddy and I are."
Kagome laid down between the two older Higurashi's, and looked up at the star-filled sky.
"It's beautiful!" Kagome exclaimed. Her eyes followed the swirls that the stars made in the sky. "It's like they're dancing!"
"You know, I always think the same thing," Meiyo said from her lying position. "Like they're shining dancers that never stop dancing."
"I always thought that they were fire flies when I was your age," the girl's father said. "Caught up in the black sticky stuff that is the sky."
Meiyo and Kagome laughed.
"Really?" Meiyo asked.
"Yes, really," he said.
"You're crazy!" Kagome cried.
Meiyo and Kagome had by now erupted into a fit of giggles. Mr. Higurashi jumped up to his feet.
"You wanna see crazy?!" he cried, and then let out a monster like roar.
"EEEEEEEP!" Kagome and Meiyo cried at the same time.
"RUN!!!!!" Meiyo cried, laughing.
The two girls ran around the clearing, their father running behind, trying to catch them.
"GOT YOU!" he cried, and caught Meiyo's arm.
"EEK! KAGOME! HELP ME!!!!" Meiyo cried, laughing. He then started to tickle Meiyo mercilessly. "NO! HAHAHA!! STOP!"
"I'll save you Mei!" Kagome cried, and launched herself onto her fathers back, latching her arms around his neck.
"Oh no! I am captured!" her father cried, and latched his arms around her legs, and running around the clearing.
"Eek!" Kagome cried, holding on tight to her father. Meiyo was laughing uncontrollably at the two.
Kagome and her father stopped in front of the laughing girl, and Kagome was let down onto the ground, but Meiyo just kept laughing.
"Can't, -gasp- stop –gasp- laughing!" she cried, rolling around with laughter.
"Daddy, has Mei gone insane?" Kagome asked.
"I truly don't know," her father replied.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" Meiyo asked, jumping up, face red with anger.
Kagome and her father looked at each other and said simultaneously, "Uh oh."
Kagome's father then whisked his youngest daughter onto his back and took off back to the car, with Meiyo running after them, roaring in fury.
"She's a lot scarier then you daddy," Kagome said in her father's ear as he ran through the forest.
"That's because she inherited your mother's temper," her father replied, and kept running.
----------End Flashback----------
Kagome opened her eyes again, and looked at her wrinkled hands.
"Now look, I've gotten all wrinkly," Kagome sighed, and then got out of the spring. She dried off with a towel, and then got into her clothes, before walking back to camp with her biodegradable shampoo, soap, and fluffy white towel.
"We were wondering when you were going to come back Kagome," Sango said as Kagome entered the small clearing. "I was just about to come and get you."
Sango then noticed something about her friend's face that was different.
"Have you been crying Kagome?" she asked.
Kagome's hands flew up to her face, and she found wet trails on them.
"Uh, I got some dust in my eye is all," Kagome said, rubbing her eyes.
Sango watched her friend doubtfully for a moment, and then went back to tending the fire. Looking around, Kagome saw that everyone had taken their regular positions. Inu Yasha up in a tree, Miroku with his back against a different tree, Kilala curled up by Sango's side, and Shippo…wasn't in his normal place beside Kilala. Instead he was sitting at the edge of the clearing, looking out into the woods with a glazed expression. Kagome was about to ask what he was thinking about, but she stopped herself. He probably wanted to be alone, since he was so far away from the fire.
Kagome took a seat in front of the fire, across from Sango, and sighed, closing her eyes.
----------Flashback----------
"Kagome, don't cry," a now eighteen year old Meiyo said to a ten year old Kagome, who was sitting in the back seat of their car. "Those people don't know who you are. The reason they make fun of you is because you are better then them."
"They were cruel Kagome," Kagome's father said. "But don't let that get you down. How about we get you some ice cream ok?"
Kagome slowly nodded, wiping at her cheeks, which had three tear trails on them.
"That's my girl," he said, and then turned back to the road.
They were driving along the road, when Meiyo said, "I think you sang wonderfully. You have a beautiful voice Kagome, never forget that."
"I do?" Kagome asked.
"Of course you do," her father said. "You inherited that from your moth-"
"DAD WATCH OUT!" Meiyo screamed, but it was too late. That truck hit them full on, making them hit other cars, and practically crushing the car. Kagome blacked out, but soon woke up.
Her leg hurt really badly, and something was in her arm. She looked down and saw there was a large piece of glass embedded in it. Looking down at her leg, she saw that it was trapped under the now horribly bent door.
"Daddy? Mei?" she asked, but received no answer. "DADDY! MEI! SAY SOMETHING!" No answer.
With strength even she didn't know she had, she wrenched her leg out from under the bent metal, and crawled up in between the drivers seats, where she was met with a horrifying site.
Her sister had a scared look on her face, and her neck hung at an awkward angle. Her mouth was open in a silent scream, and blood was leaking from it, and many cuts covered her face. She looked at her younger sibling with blank eyes.
In shock, the young girl turned her head, and her eyes widened at her fathers form. The steering wheel had impaled him through his chest, and his mouth was opened in a silent scream as well.
The shock kept the young girl silent for a while, before she finally realized what had happened. Opening her mouth, she let out an ear-shattering scream.
----------End Flashback----------
Kagome quickly opened her eyes, and tried to hold back her tears. Those images haunted her dreams. She still remembered the policemen wrenching the door off the car, and pulling her out of it. She had still been screaming. She screamed for two whole moments, before she had fainted from pain, and exhaustion. In her dreams though, that scream still resounded.
Suddenly a wave of sleepiness overtook the young girl, and she started to unroll her sleeping bag.
"I'm going to sleep," she said, unzipping it. "See you in the morning."
"Goodnight Kagome," Sango said, and Kagome mumbled back an inaudible reply.
As she started to drift off to sleep, she was somewhat aware of Shippo curling up against her body, just underneath her chin. Kagome moved her arms around the small kitsune, hugging him to her, and then fell asleep.
A/N: Well, please review and tell me what you think of my first shot at pure angst. I already got the one on Shippo started. This fic will be three chapters long, just so you know.