There was once a girl who lived in Japan. She had the perfect life.
Kagome lived
with her mother, brother, and grandfather on their family's shrine,
where she lived her entire life. Her days were basically the same; go
to school, hang out with friends, go home, study, go to bed. She had
the same routine for years until her sophomore year (I don't know
how the school system works in Japan so I am just going to do It the
way it is in America) when her entire world was flipped upside down.
It all started with her mother's new boyfriend. He was sweet
and charming, not to mention rich, and she loved him. He started to
come over every day and spend the night on the weekends. Kagome
didn't like him very much but her mother was happy and that was all
that matter to Kagome. He made her happy, he could stay.
It was
now May and Kagome was studying every chance she could get for the
finals in two weeks. She did very well considering the distractions
in her life. Her mother boyfriend moved in, after six months of
dating, and her three best friends started to show signed of what
seemed to be their other half.
During the next week her three
best friends showed their true colors. They had kept it from the
world, but no longer could hide it, and it ended their lives. One
overdosed on Ecstasy, one was sent to the hospital because her
boyfriend beat her to a bloody pulp, and the third killed herself
after her friends died; but soon found out that she was pregnant with
her father's child.
Kagome was left alone at school. The kids
were scared to come near her in fear of their lives. She thought she
was cursed. She no longer let herself feel emotion. Hojo still tried
to talk to her, but she would just ignore him. Then a few days later,
hojo was hit by a drunk driver and died on impact. Kagome broke down.
She didn't even bother going to school, but her mother had her go
to the market once a week, as an attempt to get her out of the house.
She started to notice that her mother and that "guy" that
lived with them started to argue. It seemed that it was all they did,
but it was far worse than she could ever imagine. Kagome came home,
but something was different. She had a strange feeling. When she
walked through the front door she turned to look into the kitchen. To
her amazement there was blood everywhere. Kagome's first reaction
was to grab the phone and find the source. All of a sudden she heard
a screaming from upstairs. It was souta, her younger brother, who was
barely 9. She turned around and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and
darted up the stares. When she arrived to her brother's room she
saw him laying limp on the ground with that "guy" standing over
him.
Kagome claims that form this point on she doesn't
remember, but in reality she does, just doesn't want to talk about
it.
She had ran toward the intoxicated man and pushed the knife
threw is back. He fell to the ground angry and grabbed kagome by the
throat. Kagome dialed the police and tossed the phone aside. The lady
that answered the phone heard everything that happened. That "guy"
grabbed the knife from her and stabbed kagome threw the shoulder
making her scream out loud. Suddenly, the amount of consumed alcohol
got the better of him and her leaned over and started to puke. Kagome
took this opportunity to run. He ran to the storehouse, where her
fathers things where. The guy soon followed only to fine the house
empty, or so he thought. Kagome was standing behind a pile of boxes
and when he wasn't listening she jumped forward and stabbed him
again in the back, and did it repeatedly. He fell unconscious, and
died that night in the hospital.
Later that night, in the
hospital, a policewoman came to see her. He walked in and sat down
next to her and smiled a painful smile.
"Kagome?"
Kagome
opened her eyes, "is my family ok?"
"That is was I am here
to tell you. My name is Gisenu."
Kagome, trying to stop the
day's events from running nonstop threw her head, looked at Gisenu
with no emotion.
"Your mother's boyfriend, Onigumo, died not
to long ago. Your brother will be just fine, he is conscious now.
Your mother wasn't home when this all happened, we still have not
gotten a hold of her. Your grandfather…" she stopped. Kagome just
starred at her. "He died before the ambulances could get to
him."
Kagome's heart split in two. What did she mean died?
That couldn't possibly…it's all my fault.
A few hours later, they found her mother unconscious in a dumpster behind the local market. She had no marks on her, but they soon found out that he poisoned her. Luckily, they got to her just in time to save her.
Hardly anything went back to normal. Kagome still wouldn't
allow herself to feel emotion and Kagome's mom didn't talk much.
Souta was the only one that restarted his old life back up. He kept a
picture of his grandfather with him, along with one of his spirit
wards; always believing full heartedly that he was protecting
him.
Kagome's mom decided that they were to move, and they did,
to somewhere far away from Tokyo. Since Onigumo had no family that
court gave all of his money to the higarashi family (he had millions,
hundreds of millions). After all, they deserved it. With that money
Kagome was forced to see a therapist twice a week. The school years
started in September, and she would need all of the strength and
encouragement she could get.
She started to see this therapist in
the end of June, the week that they arrived, and she started to show
sighs of healing as the summer went on. Her therapist, Sesshomaru,
didn't use his feelings to try to help her, just used logic and
reasoning. He also made deals with her. Normally, Kagome wouldn't
have even listened to him, but he was extra intelligent. She knew
that he knew what he was talking about. Something pulled kagome to
him. For some reason she trusted him, this demon.
This is
where my story starts off, when kagome starts school; her junior
year. She made progress with Sesshomaru, but she still didn't want
to be around anybody. She was convinced that if she made any friends
their lives would be ruined in some way, after all everybody that she
loved either died or suffered greatly. She blamed herself.
Kagome
walked into her first period classroom 20 minutes early. She manages
to sneak into the four-story high school and into the room without
one person noticing it, except the teacher of course. She walked over
to the class-seating schedule that was posted on the wall close to
the door. There was a pen next to the empty seating chart.
"You
can choose your own seats in my class" the teacher said. She'd
been watching her movements curiously.
Kagome nodded and wrote
her name down. She chose the seat in the back all the way to the
right side, where the window was. She sat down and stared out the
window. She was wearing the school uniform, the same as her old
school just black instead of green. She wore a black jacket with a
hood that covered her face. Her hair was down, and tucked into her
jacket. You couldn't see any part of her body, just her hands and
her nose poking out of the hood.
A few minutes had passed and the
bell rage. All of the students came walking in talking a giggling.
They chose their seats and sat down. Kagome didn't bother looking
up.
"You know Inu yasha isn't going to like you sitting in his
seat" said a young girl. Kagome glanced up to see that she was
smiling. She also had black hair and brown eyes. She was very good
looking. She wore the same school uniform but her hair was tided
back. Her presence eased Kagome. Something about her made her feel
safe. "hi, im Sango"
"kagome" She whispered as she turned
away and looked out the window. Just then she heard a loud bang. She
looked over to see a rather attractive boy laying on the ground with
a large bump on his head.
"The first day of school and your
already at it!" Sango yelled. The students didn't even budge to
see what was going on, it was like it always happened and they
learned to just ignore it.
The class was rather boring. After all
is was English. They went over noun, adjectives, and so on. Kagome
just stared outside. Sango noticed this and didn't like it. It
worried her to see somebody like this.
