This is my first Inuyasha fanfic.
So I hope that you all enjoy it! :)
Let me know what you think of it.
I enjoy pissing characters off, so... Yeah.
Should thought you guys should know that.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Only Maya and the plot belong to me.
"What? The one day I can't go to school Kagome makes it to school?" A female voice asked in utter disbelief. The phone she held in her grip almost slipped. She couldn't believe it. The day one in forever that she didn't go to school was the day her friend, who had been sick for the longest time now with some very serious illnesses, managed to make it to school.
"Yeah, I was surprised to see her too, Maya. But it was nice to see her today." The voice from the other end of phone said. It was one of her friends from school, Yuka. "It's been a while since she's been well enough to be able to go to school."
"Yeah, it has… Hmmm…" She thought to herself. Maybe since Kagome was feeling better, she could go visit her? She'd only stayed home from school because her stomach had been giving her trouble that morning and the night before, but she was feeling a lot better after resting for most of the day, so surely she was feeling up to going to visit Kagome. She hadn't seen her in a while, and it would be nice to have some time to catch up with her while she was feeling better.
"What?" She heard Yuka ask, sounding confused.
"Oh, nothing. I was just daydreaming for a second there. Nothing too unusual." She answered, twirling her black hair with her fingers as she rolled onto her back. "Sorry about that, Yuka."
"It's alright." Yuka laughed lightly. "Hold on for a second. I think I hear my mom calling me."
"Alright." Maya stared at her ceiling, listening as she heard the phone being set down. While she waited for Yuka to return, she counted the spots she saw on her ceiling. The count didn't get very high, because it only took a couple minutes for her friend's voice to return on the other end of the phone once again.
"Hey, sorry about that, Maya." Yuka apologized.
"It's fine." Maya assured her friend, glancing around her room. The walls were a light shade of lavender, which happened to be one of her favorite colors.
"I have to go though. It's time for dinner, so I'll talk to you later, okay?"
"Okay, talk to you later. Bye." She hung up the phone and put it on its charger, which was on her nightstand. "Well, I could go see Kagome now. It's early enough." She heaved herself from her bed and got dressed.
Her clothes were a pleated black skirt, a light grey v-neck t-shirt, and a jacket. Her mother would scold her for not wearing a jacket since it was starting to get chilly outside. Then she pulled sneakers on to her feet. She gave herself a once over in the mirror to make sure that her hair was in place, and that she looked decent enough to leave the house. Her hair was a little out of order due to just laying in bed all day, but it wasn't too bad that it was keep her from leaving. Running a hand through her hair to tame it, she left her room, and walked down the stairs, calling out to her mother. "I'm going to visit a friend, mom! I'll be back soon."
"Okay honey, but are you sure you're feeling up to it?" The voice of her mother called back to her. The tone of her voice was etched with concern for her daughter. Maya had been feeling terrible enough to stay home sick from school after all and it wasn't very often that that happened. "And you're wearing a jacket, right?"
"I'm feeling better, mom! And yeah, I'm wearing a jacket! I'll see you later, love you!" With that, Maya walked out her front door and down the street. Kagome's house wasn't too far away from her own. It was at the most a twenty minute walk to her house, so it didn't take that long for her to get there. She made her way up the steps leading to the house, and walked up to the front door. She knocked on the door a couple of times, and patiently waited for someone to answer the door.
It took a couple of minutes, but soon the door opened to reveal a young boy with black hair.
"Hey there, Sota." Maya smiled at him. Sota was Kagome's younger brother, and he was such a nice little boy.
"Oh, hey Maya." He greeted her, looking up at her.
"Hey Sota. I heard that Kagome went to school today, so I thought I'd come by and pay her a visit. I ended up missed school today, because I was sick." She explained to him, looking down at the younger boy.
"We-" Sota started to speak, but was cut off by an older man's voice, which came from behind him.
"Who's at the door, Sota?" The man asked.
Maya looked behind Sota to see who it was that had spoken. It was Sota's and Kagome's grandfather.
"Maya's here to visit Kagome." Sato replied, looking over his shoulder at his grandfather.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry. She's taken a turn for the worse. She's resting right now." The old man told her with a smile. "I can tell her you stopped by though."
"Oh…" Maya trailed off, disappointed that she wouldn't be able to see Kagome. But Kagome couldn't help that she wasn't feeling good. "Thank you. Please tell her that I hope she feels better soon."
"We will." Kagome's grandfather smiled, nudging Sota back so he could close the front door.
Maya sighed and turned around, beginning to walk away from the house. "Poor Kagome… She's always so sick... The one time she's feeling well enough to go to school, she just ends up feeling horrible again… Maybe she used too much energy to go to school today." She saw something move out of the corner of her eye, so she turned her head to see what it was only to find Kagome heading towards her family's shrine. Kagome glanced around, before opening the doors to the shrine and walked inside, closing the doors behind her.
"What is she doing…?" Maya frowned, concern written all over her face. "Should she be doing that when she's so sick? I should go and check on her… To make sure that she's alright." She made her way towards the shrine and slid the doors open, peeking inside.
There was nothing out of the ordinary inside the shrine, and Kagome was no where to be seen. "What? But I saw her go in here... I know I did." Maya frowned as a look of confusion crossed her face. She stepped inside and closed the door behind her. Her gaze stopped on the well in front of her, and she stared at it for a moment. "Don't tell me… She fell in the well?!" She gasped in horror as the thought occurred to her, rushing to the side of the well and leaning over the side to look in, but unfortunately, she found it hard to see the bottom of it. If Kagome had fallen in the well and gotten hurt badly, there would have been no one to find her until morning.
"I don't see anything…" She murmured and squinted, trying to see to the bottom of the well. It didn't help that it was dark in the shrine, so that made it even harder for her to see. She leaned forward slightly, moving her hand to try to keep a hold of the edge of the well, but the palm of her hand just barely missed the side, causing her to slip forward and topple into the well head first. Her body collided with the ground hard only a few seconds later, and it knocked the wind out of her. Her whole body ached. She groaned in pain and let out a weak cough, before her eyes slipped closed and everything faded into darkness.