"Kagome sure has been sick a lot lately," one of my cousin's friends brought up. I think her name was Yuka, but I wasn't really sure. Honestly, I don't even know why I was walking home with them. I guess I was just bored without Kagome. "Have you seen her Suri?"
I looked at the three girls and shook my head. "No, but I've also been really busy with school and things though." It was true that I have been busy, but I should really go check on Kagome. I mean, she's never had more than a cold and then all of a sudden she has every ailment known to man? That just doesn't make sense to me at all.
I was a little curious as to whether or not they have tried to see her either. I had a feeling they hadn't, but I was in no position to judge. I said good-bye as I parted ways with them and started down the street that led to the apartment I shared with my older brother.
I was going to visit her today, I really did feel guilty that I hadn't gone to see her even once yet. I climbed up the stairs to my apartment on the sixth floor. Sometimes I wished they'd just install an elevator into this place. As I put the key into the door to unlock it, a moan came from the other side. If I hadn't needed to get to my room to change, I would have just walked away then. However, I pushed the door open and found exactly what I had expected to find. The place was still a mess -much as it has been since our parents left a few years ago- and on the couch was my brother, Haruto, and his girlfriend, Siena, both more than half naked.
But nothing was out of the ordinary.
I ignored then and went into the kitchen. The sink was filled to the brim with dirty dishes and left-over bits of food. I quietly growled at the sink, but did nothing to fix my frustration. Haruto was the adult here, not me. On the Brightside, I only had a few more months and then none of this would affect me whatsoever. The day I turn eighteen, I'm out of this place.
As I grabbed out the carton of orange juice from the fridge, I made my way to my bedroom. Otherwise known as the only clean room in the apartment. I sat down on my bed and screwed the cap off of the carton. I didn't even have to take a sip, the rancid smell was in the air instantly. I quickly screwed the cap back on and checked the expiration date. "Ugh, over two weeks ago," I grumbled as I cracked open my window to let in some fresh air. It's been like this since Mom and Dad decided to just leave us without a single word of warning.
I propped my elbows up on the windowsill and looked out over the city. A sigh escaped my lips as I pushed away from the window and changed out of my school uniform. I was going to see Kagome whether she was up to it or not. I grabbed my tote bag that I used as a purse and ran out of my room. Thankfully, Haruto and Siena had moved off of the couch, so I didn't have to see them before I left. I was surprised by that, they usually didn't care if I was home or not. They would do whatever they wanted on that couch which was why I refused to even touch it anymore.
I jogged out of the door and down the many flights of stairs that led me out of my building and onto the busy streets. The Shrine was on the other side of town. I could either walk or take a bus. I looked down the street and saw that there were still a few people waiting, so I skipped over to them.
The bus ride didn't take nearly as long as if I had gone by foot, obviously. I jumped off of the bus and started up the steps to the Higurashi Shrine. Why do so many places have to have steps? Why not escalators or elevators?
When I finally made it to the top, I instantly went toward the house. I didn't bother knocking, I never did when I came over. "Aunt Maki! Grandpa! I'm home!" I called through the house. Souta was the first one that I saw once I announced my presence.
"Well look who it is. About time you showed up," he said. I smiled and pulled him into a tight hug.
"I'm so sorry Souta! I know you must have missed me dearly, please forgive me!" He struggled in my grasp and I let go.
"What are you doing here?" Came the surprised voice of my cousin, Kagome. I looked up at her and smiled. She didn't really look happy to see me, more shocked than anything.
My smile dropped and I placed my hand on my chin. "I was worried about you Kagome, but you seem pretty healthy for someone who misses so much school…" She let out a nervous laugh and put her hands up defensively.
"Oh you know Gramps, he likes being dramatic. It was just a cold," she explained. I nodded and crossed the room to her. "What are you doing?" She asked as I looked at her face closely.
"I don't believe you… You used to go to school with colds all the time, what's different now?" I wonder if I was the only one that realized this. I couldn't have been, right? Kagome laughed and pushed me away so I wasn't so close to her face.
"It was just really bad this time, is all. You're just over thinking things Suri," she said as she gently pushed past me and headed out the door. I couldn't help it, I followed her out and toward the Bone Eater's Well.
"Kagome, since when do you go here?" She turned around suddenly. I guess she hadn't realized I was with her. "Kagome, what's going on?"
She placed her hands on the edge of the well and leaned against it trying to look casual. "It's peaceful in here. And nothing's going on Suri." I rolled my eyes at her. "Don't give me that look!"
"Why not? I can give you any look I want!"
She seemed to think for a moment and it was a long moment at that. I tried not to look impatient, but I was. Kagome let out a long sigh. "Can I explain everything later? I really have to go." I raised an eyebrow at her. If she had to go somewhere, why did she go to the well? She swung her legs over and I reached for her arm, but she had already jumped. I fell over the edge with her.
I closed my eyes as I expected to hit a hard bottom, but the hard impact never came. I slowly opened my eyes and once again was face to face with my cousin. She seemed confused this time. "What?" I asked. I tilted my head back and saw a blue sky over head. "Wasn't there a roof over the well only two seconds a go?"
"How did…?" She seemed to ask herself. I shrugged because I didn't know what else to do. She started climbing up the side of the well.
"Are you just going to leave me here?" I shouted to her.
"Just climb up, it's not hard!" She shouted back. I crossed my arms. I really was considering just sitting down and staying here, but I didn't know where here was. I followed behind her and she helped me lift myself out.
Kagome grabbed my arm and started pulling me off in an unknown direction. "Kagome! Where are you taking me?"
"We gotta talk," she said. I pulled my arm from her grasp and stopped moving.
"Fine, but I can walk by myself," she sighed and turned back around toward the direction she had been going. I looked at everything that was around me. We definitely weren't at the shrine anymore. I turned back to follow her, but she was already gone. My feet started moving before I really knew where I was going. After a lot of walking they brought me to a clearing.
"No Kagome," I mumbled to myself. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. I snapped my head to the side to get a better look and I wished I hadn't. There was a two-headed lizard…thing laying on the ground sleeping. I tried to back away silently, but from somewhere around me, a twig snapped. I looked down and the sound hadn't come from me. My heart beat quickened as the two-headed lizard lifted its heads up. A little girl in an orange and yellow checkered kimono appeared and went up to the lizard. She was smiling and saying something though I couldn't hear what. She was too far.
None of them had noticed me, and I felt my heart slow down to a normal pace. I took another step back and turned around only to run into something, closing my eyes as I fell to the ground. I guess that makes up for the lack of impact at the well, I thought. I opened my eyes to see a tall man with long silver hair standing in front of me. He had magenta stripes on his cheeks and a blue crescent moon on his forehead. A little green guy -that I could only say looked like a picture of an imp I once saw- carrying a staff that was at least twice his height appeared at his side. "Who are you human?" The imp asked.
I stood up and brushed myself off. "I am Suri," I said to the silver haired man in front of me.
"You do not speak to Lord Sesshomaru!" The imp shouted. I looked at him. I had a feeling that I should be scared of them, but I wasn't. I was more scared of the lizard than these two.
"Lord is it? Wouldn't have guessed," I said to the supposed Lord. I started to walk around him. "I really should be getting back to my cousin, she's probably looking for me."
"Do you even know where you're going?"
I was startled by the sound of his voice. It was even and sounded indifferent, but it had a hypnotic undertone to it. I stopped moving. "No, but I'll figure it out," I answered strongly. A small hand wrapped around mine and I looked down at the small girl that I had seen earlier.
She was smiling at me and I knelt down to face her. "It's not safe out there," she said simply and her smile dropped. She wore a serious expression and I didn't understand.
"What do you mean?" I asked. Then it was her turn to look at me confusedly.
I heard the imp laugh and I faced him. "You wouldn't last long out there by yourself. Everyone knows that."
I placed my hand on the ground and picked up a rock. I threw it at him and it connected with his head. "Well excuse me for not being from around here! Wherever here is…"
"You threw a rock at me!" The imp exclaimed.
"You're lucky that's all I did," I mumbled.
The girl giggled and I smiled at her. "Lord Sesshomaru does that too," she said. "Where are you from?"
I had to think about that. I knew where I was from, but was I still there? I had no idea. "I'm from Tokyo," I said truthfully.
"Where's that?" She asked curiously.
"Um…" That I couldn't answer.
The imp snorted. "You don't even know where you're from." I stood up and glared at him.
"You're really getting on my nerves," I said.
He laughed at me. "You're just a human, what can you do to me?"
"You're just an imp, what's worth doing to you?" His jaw dropped and he turned his staff so on of the faces that were on it was facing me. Flames shot out of the mouth of the face and I looked down to the girl that was still next to me. I covered her and shielded her from the oncoming flames.
"Jaken," Sesshomaru said calmly. Did he even have an emotion other than calm? The flames stopped and I looked at the little girl that I had been covering.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
She smiled and nodded. Sesshomaru walked past us and further into the clearing. I couldn't help myself as I stared after him. The imp, Jaken, scrambled to follow after him and the little girl took my hand again as she pulled me after the two. I really needed to get to Kagome. She hadn't been sick at all, not that I thought she had, but I still didn't understand where I was.
Many years ago, I fell in love with a certain anime entitled InuYasha. It took a long time for me to once again realize that love. So, anyway, I just want to say that I have no idea how much this is going to go by the original plot line (if it is all, which it probably won't) also, it really has been a long time since I've seen most of the anime episodes, but I'm watching them again now. I apologize if anyone seems OOC as of right now. I'll try and go back and fix it later. Thank you so much for reading and please tell me what you think :D