Chapter 1
Awaken
Kagome higurashi walked down the steps of her families shrine. It was 11:35 p.m. She was staying home alone tonight.
Her grandfather had fallen in the well shrine today and was driven to the hospital. It wasn't very bad, her mother had phoned her and said he would be fine and they would be home within a few days, but the doctors had decided to keep him there because of his old age, and naturally mrs.higurashi had decided to stay with him.
Her little brother had been planning a sleep over with a friend from school for a while, so sota had left her too, left her with the creepy shrine and her fat old cat buyo.
After sota had left, kagome had dozed off, just planning to have a short nap, instead she had slept half the night away. When she awoke she was starving, and upon inspection of the fridge and all the cabinets, had come to the conclusion, there was nothing to eat. So she had put on her fall jacket and was walking to the local convenient store. Except the local convenient store happened to be less convenient since it was pretty far away to walk at night. And curse her age she was still too young to drive, even though if she had been old enough it wouldn't do much good since her mother had taken their only car to the hospital with her.
Kagome pulled the jacket around her tighter, the wind at night was colder than in the day time when she was usually out and about. Not to mention, she didn't much enjoy the dark or the punks and perverts that might be within. The thought of vampires didn't even cross her mind. She trudged onward wishing she had grabbed a thicker jacket and worn a longer skirt.
"Why is it so c-cold?" she shivered, more really from fright than from the cold. Something was giving her a bad feeling. She assumed it was just her fear of night pervs or something and tried to reassure herself they would all be out drinking and brothel hunting, not here. It was also past her curfew and she hoped she wouldn't be spotted and get in trouble.
She finally arrived at the store, unharmed. Not to mention relived. She bought some onigiri and a instant bowl of udon noodles. She didn't like instantly cooked food, but what choice did she have? She stunk at cooking, all of her friends refused to taste test her food in home economics for fear for their lives.
"Have a good night," the salesperson, a pimply college student, told her. "hai, arigato," was her bleak reply. She shuffled out of the store her purchases in a plastic bag hanging from her arm. She stuffed both hands in her pockets, and shivered again. It wasn't that cold, she remarked, but the wind made the hairs on her arms stand in end.
She shivered again, and walked at a brisk pace. Faster and faster she went. It almost felt like someone was following her, and that scared her. Finally she broke into a run. And whatever was following her kept up. Of coarse it was a girly, skirt-clad type run where your legs go up to almost touch your ass, but your thighs don't move at all. And your elbows latch on to your sides and your arms swing back and fourth in a dizzying motion.
She arrived at her house and ran up the steps. She had to stop at the top to catch her breath. She ran up to her house, she then noticed that there was something wrong with it. Some sort of trap waiting for her inside. Scared she dropped her bag and immediately ran to the only shrine that had a lock on it- the well shrine.
Fortunately there were blankets and necessaries in every shrine in case of an emergency. After locking and latching the door, she pulled a blanket around her and shivered some more, scared out of her wits.
After a while when the panic had left her she settled down a bit, sitting up in a more proper position. She tightened the blanket around her. Its soft images of rocking horses, building blocks, and teddy bears soothed her, reminding her of when she was a child and this blanket had been her special "blanky".
She rose and the stomach pains of hunger worked into her system. She would have to go back to her house for she had dropped the bag of food at her front door. She didn't want to go back, she didn't even want to move. Her stomach hurt and she was scared to leave the locked well shrine. But that thought some how subsided when she felt danger in the well shrine. Something bad, and dangerous was here, amongst the well and poor trapped kagome.
She ran towards the exit, gasping for air, out of sheer terror. Her hands fumbled with the latch and lock, until she calmed, even the slightest bit, to let her mind remember how to unlock the damned thing- 'damn!' she thought. "what if…" but the thought left her as quickly as it had come. Partly because she thought it was preposterous and partly because she had no time to think, for she had gotten the lock open, and was running back to her house, her old "blanky" still wrapped around her.
When she got back to her house she grabbed the bag of food, but found she could not go in. she was too afraid to go in. she knew something bad was about to happen and going into her house would either start it or make it worse for her. There was less urgency now then before. Really because she was so confused. The fear had turned itself into almost a drug or a stimulant of some sort. She felt like her mind and senses were numb and she didn't know where to run to. In some awkward, swaying, lengthened motion, kagome somehow found herself at the go-shinboku tree where she had spent countless hours as a child. She leaned up against the trunk and instinctively started shoving the onigiri into her mouth. The stomachache left her but the numbness still continued.
The last thing she saw before she passed out was a shining blue light, and something red and white up in the tree, that she had never seen there before
(a/n): hiya peeps this type of writing is way diff then what I usually do, I just need something to kill time…so yeah…im just expressing my dark side. Im not sure if this will be the prologue or the chapter itself…hum…'twill be interesting to find out, shan't it? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!