Upon arriving home she decided that staying at the Shrine was no longer an option. It held too many painful memories for her and if she was going to move on with her life she needed a fresh start somewhere new, somewhere far, somewhere not in Japan. Kagome needed to talk to her mother about it.
"Mom, I can't stay here anymore."
Kagome's mother sighed, "I know dear, I think it would help you if maybe you went and stayed with relatives for a while."
"I was thinking the same thing, but I was actually thinking that maybe we could talk to Dad's half brother, Charlie, in America and see if he can take me in."
Kagome's mother frowned, "That's a long way away, Kagome, are you sure you want to go to America?"
"Yes, I think moving away would be the best thing for me right now, that is of course if Uncle Charlie will take me in."
"I'm sure that can be arranged, Dear. Let me call him right now."
It turned out that Charlie had no problem with the idea of Kagome moving in with him. His daughter Bella was living with him as well and they both thought that it was a good idea. So Kagome and her mother made all the arrangments necessary for Kagome to get her citizenship since she had dual citizenship through her father. She got her passport and her savings, packed her belongings and left for Forks, Washington.
It took a total of 11 hours for Kagome to get to Port Angeles, including the 37 minute flight from Seattle. When Kagome arrived she was completely exhausted, she got off the plane and trudged through the small airport looking for her Uncle Charlie. She looked at the faces in the crowd when she noticed a dark haired man with a mustache hold up a sign with her name on it, every now and then he would glance down at a picture.
She smiles and walks up to him, "Uncle Charlie?" Kagome asks.
"Kagome?" Charlie asks as he looks down at the picture one more time.
Kagome smiles and nods to the older man standing in front of her. She sets her luggage down and gives him a hug, which he awkwardly returns. He pulls away from her and examines her a bit closer.
"You have your dad's eyes."
Kagome smile brightens, "Really?"
"Sure do."
"Thanks."
Charlie nods in response, he then bends down and picks up Kagome's luggage while she carries her backpack. They make their way through the small airport towards the parking lot where they reach a police cruiser, Charlie pulls out his keys and opens the trunk, putting Kagome's things in the trunk. She gives him a questioning look."
"I'm the Chief of Police in Forks." Charlie answers her silent question.
Kagome nods her head in understanding. She walks over to the passenger side door and gets in. The drive down to Forks took an hour, but it was a pleasant hour. Kagome and Charlie talked for a while but he noticed she looked tired so he let her sleep the rest of the way, which was fine with Kagome.
As they get closer to the Quileute Reservation, Kagome is suddenly startled awake by the amount of demonic aura coming from the area. She can instantly tell that it's a form of wolf demon, but not the same as the Youkai of Japan. Getting nervous she looks around wondering if the town was close by.
"Um, Uncle Charlie, where are we?"
"We're passing by the Quileute Reservation heading towards Forks, we should be there in about 20 minutes." Charlie tells her.
Kagome groans internally, she just got out of dealing with demons now she may have to deal with them in Forks as well. Kagome brings her knees to her chest as she sits looking out the window, she begins to relax when she realizes that the demonic aura has stayed behind on the Reservation. Kagome becomes more excited when she sees the sign for Forks City Limits, but the minute the cross into town, Kagome is hit with the sense of more demonic auras in the area. These, though she does not recognise.
As they neared Charlie's house, Kagome began to get more and more tense. She notices that one of the demonic auras was in the same direction as her uncle's house. Kagome tensed when they pull up in front of a white two story house and she realized that the aura was in the house. Charlie groans when notices a silver Volvo in front of the house.
"Great, that little shit is here." Then his eyes widen at what he said.
Kagome nearly laughs at the look on his face, Charlie blushes and apologizes to her.
"Sorry about that, Kagome, it's just that Bella's boyfriend, Edward is here and I can't stand him."
Kagome's eyes narrowed, Bella's boyfriend, huh? He must be the one that's emitting the demonic aura, this puts Kagome instantly on guard.
"That's alright, Uncle Charlie, why don't you like him?"
"He left your cousin at the beginning of the year and broke her heart, causing her to spiral into a deep depression and now he's back as if nothing happened. But don't let my prejudice against him influence you, Kagome, meet him and judge for yourself."
Kagome nods her head in understanding, but it was too late she already had a bad opinion of this Edward character.
"You ready to see your cousin?" Charlie asks.
Kagome takes a deep breath and let's it out slowly, she was ready to meet her cousin and confront this demon.
"Yeah, I'm ready, Uncle Charlie."
With that, Charlie gives her an encouraging smile and they both get out of the police cruiser. He leads her up the steps towards the house and opens the door for her.
"Welcome to your new home." Charlie says.
Kagome smiles and enters the house, it's a cozy little home with pictures hung up on the wall of who Kagome can only assume is her cousin when she was little. She peeks into the living room, seeing a flat screen TV, sofa and love seat in there. All in all it's a simple modest home and Kagome likes it.
"I converted the basement into a bedroom for you and added a bathroom so you don't have to keep running up and down the stairs." Charlie tells her.
"Oh, Uncle Charlie, thank you, but you didn't have to do that for me, I'm used to sharing a bathroom with two other people." Kagome says.
"It was no problem, I got some of the boys from the Reservation to lend me a hand so the work was easy."
Kagome smiles at her uncle and embraces him, he awkwardly returns the hug and pats her on the back. At that time Bella comes out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a dish towel.
"Dad?"
"Bella, I'd like you to meet your cousin, Kagome."
Kagome turns and smiles, "It's nice to meet you Bella." Kagome says as she walks over and gives Bella a hug.
Bella hesitantly returns the hug, "It's nice to meet you too, Kagome."
While they are hugging Kagome hears someone clear their throat, she looks up and sees a young man with copper colored hair, pale skin and amber eyes. He is incredibly beautiful in an unnatural way, and Kagome knows immediately that he's not human.
Bella, upon hearing Edward, releases Kagome and walks over to him. Taking his hand she leads him over to her in order to introduce him, Kagome steels her nerves so she doesn't take a step back.
"Kagome, I'd like you to meet my boyfriend, Edward Cullen."
Edward smiles at Kagome and extends his hand. "It's nice to meet you Kagome."
"Nice to meet you too, Edward."
Kagome brings forth her spiritual powers just a little bit into her hand and shakes his hand, he almost immediately drops her hand. Kagome inwardly smirks, she just confirmed that her powers can purify him if she needs to. At least now she knew she wasn't defensless against whatever these things are.
Edward frowns and looks at his hand, he has a tingling sensation in his hand from where he touched Kagome. He looks at her and realizes at that moment that he can't read her mind either, much to his frustrastion.
They stand there in awkward silence for a bit, until Charlie clears his throat, "Kagome you must be tired after your flight, how about some dinner and then Bella will show you to your room?"
"That would be wonderful, Uncle Charlie, I really could go for something to eat right now."
"Great, dinner is almost ready, I'll take you to your room first and let you freshen up, you coming Edward?" Bella asks.
"No, I think I'll head home, I'm sure Kagome would like to have some alone time with her family." Edward tells Bella.
Charlie smiles, "Okay then, I guess we'll see you around, Edward."
"Yeah, I'll see you Chief Swan, I'll call you later, Bella."
"Okay, Edward, Kagome, if you'll excuse me a minute I'd like to walk Edward out."
"That's fine Bella."
Bella and Edward walk out of the house hand in hand. A few minutes pass and Bella still hasn't come inside, Charlie rolls his eyes and sighs.
"Come on, Kagome, I'll show you to your room." Charlie says as he picks up Kagome's suit case.
Kagome picks up her yellow backpack and follows behind her uncle. They go down the basement steps and Charlie opens the door. Kagome gasps at the sight. The room was much larger than her room back home and it was very bright considering it was in the basement. It had a queen size sleigh bed with a blue comforter and pillows a ceiling fan and cream colored carpet. Off to a side Kagome could see it led into her own bathroom.
Kagome turns to her uncle, "Thank you Uncle Charlie, I love it, but you really shouldn't have spent so much money on fixing this place up."
"Don't worry about it, Kagome, I'm just glad you like it, now I'll leave you to unpack."
With that, Charlie closes the door and leaves. Kagome looks around her new room and sighs, it was simple but it appealed to her. She decides to unpack her suitcase first and get a change of clothes so she could take a shower, then she would head upstairs for dinner. Once she was done with her shower and she towel dried her hair and put it up in a messy bun, she goes upstairs to join Bella and Charlie for dinner.
And as they eat, Charlie explains that the rest of her things would be arriving the following day and that he had already enrolled her in school with Bella.
"Right now, though, we're on Spring Break so classes don't start up again til Monday." Bella informs her.
"That's perfect, that will give me enough time to settle in." Kagome said after swallowing her bite of the casserole that Bella made.
"Well, tomorrow I'm going over to Edward's house, would you like to go?"
Kagome hesitated, then she smiles, "Thank you, Bella, but I think I should wait here for my things then I'll be busy unpacking."
"Okay, if you're sure?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine, you go have fun," Kagome tells her cousin.
Once dinner was over Kagome excuses herself, she goes back down to the basement, changes into her pajamas and goes to bed.