Chapter 1: A Burning Past
"Mom, Dad. Where are you? Can you hear me?" A 7 year-old girl by the name of Kagome Higurashi cries out for her parents. She sees that her house is on fire, and tries to find them through the flames. She is then sees them. "Mommy. Daddy?" She find them laying on the floor flat on their stomachs. She comes up to them. "Dad, Mom wake up!" She cries as she hears someone from somewhere in the house. "Is someone in here?" A male calls out to get anyone out of the burning house. "Over here!" Kagome calls out as she tries to get them. A male firefighter comes into the living room to find Kagome and her parents. "I'm here to get you out here." He said gently. Kagome sobs, "I can't leave them." The man sadly said to the little girl, "I'm sorry to say this, but they're dead." He grabs her. "Please just bring them out." She pleads. The man brings out his walkie talkie, "I need another person into house, right now!" He orders. Another two men in a firefighter suit comes in. "Get her parents out of here." He said as he carries Kagome out of the house. The other both bring out the parent outside to safety. A few seconds after they came out, the house collapses onto the ground. Kagome is so frighten to see her home is burnt and destroyed. 'No." She cries. The two men set down them onto stretchers into the ambulance vehicles and immediately go to the hospital.
Kagome comes to as she finds herself in a room of the hospital, only recovering from burns and bruises on her body. She sees that she's the only one in the room, She looks around to see a nurse by her side. "I see you're awake." The nurse said as she helps sit up straight. "Where are my parents?" Kagome asks. Nurse gives her a sad face, "I'm sorry to say this, you're parents didn't make it out alive." Kagome is shocked, "You mean they died?" She shakes as the nurse comforts her. "I'm so sorry sweetie." Kagome cries in her arms. She just lost her parents, and she's so young. Where is she going to live? What about school? She just started 1st grade, and now she's all alone, no parents, no relatives, she's the last one of her kind. But wait. She does have one relative; Sango Higurashi her cousin with Kaede. "Do you have any other relatives?" The nurse asks her. Kagome nods in her arms, singling it as a yes. "My cousin, and my aunt." Nursing opens her arms, "Do you want to inform them that you just lost your parents and home?" Kagome nods again despite her crying. "Okay do you know where they live, or they have a phone number on them?" She asks. "Yeah. They live outside of the city on the west side. They live at the Sunset Shrine." Kagome answers giving the nurse the information she needs. "Okay, I'll send them a letter to let them know about what happened." She said as she leaves. Before she exits the room she turns to Kagome, "I'm sorry about your parents. You will be covered with insurance, but you might have to live with your cousin and aunt." She then leaves. Kagome sniffles, "Why me? I have not done anything wrong. Why does fate have to be so cruel to me?"
The next day, Kagome is having lunch and hears a knock on the door. 'Who is it?" She asks to see who's at the door. "It's me Sango, and Kaede." The voice answers her question. "Come in." Kagome said to let them enter her room. Kagome sets her food aside, as she sees her cousin and aunt coming in to see her. Sango comes up to her, hugging her like no tomorrow, "I'm so sorry Kagome." She said with a breaking voice." Kaede comes in and hugs her too. "Kagome, sweetie we got the guest bedroom ready for you." She said. Kagome nods knowing that she has to live with them until she can find a place of her own. "So when are you are allowed to leave?" Sango asks as she sits by her. "By tomorrow morning at the latest." Kagome answers to them. "We'll get you some new clothes, and everything from the money of the insurance company." Kaede reassures her. After all, everything Kagome had was destroyed in the fire. "We'll get you some new clothes and bring them here to see what you want to wear to go home." Sango asks as she and Kaede are about to leave. "We'll be back in about 3 hours, because we have a lot of stuff to do." She adds.
3 hours later, Sango brings a bag full of clothes, knowing her, Sango knows what style Kagome likes to wear. "Hey, we're back." She tells her as she and Kaede come into the room. Sango gives Kagome five bags and gives one at a time to see what Kagome will wear tomorrow when she has to leave. Inside the first one was a pair of blue jeans, and a cute short sleeve hoodie shirt. "Kagome smiles for that outfit. The next outfit was another pair of blue jeans with a nice blue flower t-shirt. She smiles as she browses more of the clothes Sango and Kaede got for her. "I love them. I can't pick which one to wear tomorrow." She said with a smile. Sango and Kaede smile back at her. "Take your time, honey." Kaede said to her. She nods as she tries to pick which one she'll wear tomorrow.
The next morning, the nurse comes in to see Kagome having her breakfast. "Good morning." She greets nicely to the kid. 'Morning." Kagome said back to her. "Today is the day you get to leave." The nurse said. "Yep. My cousin and aunt got me new clothes because I'm going to live with them." She said as she points to the bags to the nurse. "Ah, I see. At least you get to take off that hospital dress." The nurse said as she takes out the tube out of Kagome's arm, and put a kitten bad-aid on the poked hole arm is. Then she takes the tray with her and turn to leave. "You can go change now." She said, and then she closed the door. Kagome gets out of her bed, and gets into her bag of clothes. She picks out a cute pink shirt with a kitten on it, and pair of blue jeans. She goes into the bathroom and change. A few minutes later she comes out, and sees Sango and Kaede at the entrance of the door. "Hey, you look adorable." Kaede compliments her new outfit. Kagome smiles, "Thank you, Auntie Kaede. I just need to get my bags and we can leave." Kagome said as she grabs them. Sango helps out with two of them, and Kaede with two more. "I'm ready to go to my new home now." She said. Kaede stops by at the desk to pay off her stay at the hospital as Kagome begins to life with her cousin and aunt.