My Long-Forgotten, Cloistered Sleep
~by the red hero~
Summary: Kagome is gone, leaving behind the future. The deed is done, everything comes full circle—or so they thought. Wounds fester if left untended, and Rinka Seiya, hurt and somewhat scornful of the world must learn to open her shell again, lest the future be changed, and everything Higurashi Kagome knows will not come to exist.
(A story told in snippets.)
Rinka Seiya heard stories of her now-estranged childhood friend, Higurashi Kagome.
They first met when Seiya was five and Kagome was ten, when Seiya was a little thing pushed around in a playground for having absent parents and for daring to be strange (with the way she spoke and looked around her, and ran from things no one ever saw).
The first time Kagome appeared was when she solidly decked Shichikotsu-kun over the face, and made the other boys and girls her age run away from a sniffling Seiya. The tiny girl remembers how glorious and solidly wonderful big sis Kagome had been, and how she stuck like glue to the other girl's side throughout her childhood.
(Thick as thieves, sisters at heart, friends through the end, but yes that was never meant to last, it probably wasn't.)
When middle school came, Seiya worried about Kagome's erratic absences, the tensing of her shoulders when someone approached, and how a strange feeling often enveloped her being. Like the morning mist cloaked her form away from any harm.
(It was even exacerbated when the dog-eared boy came with her from time to time, bright red streaking across the landscape and with the way the looked at each other, Seiya realizes that she might no longer know who Kagome is.)
(The fact that the boy also feels like those other shadowy things she sees, all smiles and the hidden malice; only he seemed more human and powerful than the rest. Seiya decides to keep her mouth shut despite her mounting resentment for the strange boy (?) who accompanies her friend (?) at times.)
Then high-school, with a solid two years of some normalcy abruptly ensued, and black-haired, gray-eyed Seiya resolved to solidify their friendship again, Kagome was far more subdued, and she always seemed to search for a faraway point in the distance.
And it is when Kagome graduates from High School and leaves without a single word to Rinka Seiya that causes the gray-eyed girl to mumble an apology for disturbing the Higurashi household and run with stinging eyes (tripping once or twice down the shrine steps) and come back sobbing to her grandmother's arms.
(She has been abandoned so many times and Seiya is so tired of it; the one constant in her life aside from her grandmother is gone and she has little friends with her side.)
In a mockery of her tumultuous day, the next sunrise showcases beautiful blue skies and the abhorrent sense of normalcy that seems so out of place and hurtful more than ever.
Even so, Seiya walks on to school, her club activities pending.
(Seiya does not pry when Mrs. Higurashi offers to tell Seiya where Kagome has gone; she politely rejects it with a detached expression, her hurt stewing inside. She does not want or care to know why Kagome disappears with no word.
Or at least she feels she does.)
A/N: welp, here's to me writing another thing to my childhood fandom. I always wanted to know just what happened to Kagome's family and close friends after the time she left them for the Feudal Era. Please Review and tell me what you think? thanks for reading! ~ the red hero