Hello to all,

I have prepared a few chapters in advance to posting this story. Stay turned to the end to hear more for me but for now I would like to thank you for reading this. I decided to start this story off a little differently than what I'm used to because I am looking to grow my writing style. Plus I didn't want to spend too much time diving into certain details due to their importance of being mentioned in later chapters so if you decide to sit through this chapter, I can guarantee that it will be worth your time.

Thank you.

"Kagome, Honey, are you sure this is the place?" Her mother asked in confusion as she stuck her head out of the window to get a better glimpse of the high rise building.

"The building looks completely see through with all that glass. What if some pervert guy spies on you to get pictures of your underwear!" She turned and looked at Kagome with a sad pout. "I don't like this."

Kagome hardly paid her mom any attention as she rumbled through her closet of a purse searching for her phone. She only gave her mom a small snippet of eye contact before she practically buried her face into her bag for her phone.

"Mom, this is the place. I'm sure of it. I'm also sure the glass is just for design and the rooms will have curtains- hah! Yes! Found it!" She snatched her phone out from under her portable umbrella.

Kagome's words didn't satisfy her mother one bit but all she could do was mumble a low groan in her throat as she turned into the already crowded parking lot. It was the first move in day on the campus so it surprised her mother to see so many people not waiting until the last minute.

"Hey mom, there's a parking space right there. The lady is pulling out." Souta said, pointing from the passenger seat. She saw the spot and slowly approached, giving the lady room to get out without hitting someone. After the lady was finally able to get out, the Higurashi family parked themselves in. Kagome was the first to jump out the car with her purse strapped around her. Souta slowly got out next with his hand performing as a visor for the sun. Kagome's mother remained in the car for a moment as she stared into her rear view mirror at her children.

Kagome had already gotten so tall. She stood at a whopping 5'7 with her brother slowly coming in behind her at 5'6. She placed her hand on her cheek flustered at how time seemed to fly by. To her, it felt like just the day previous, Kagome had been crying because she didn't want mommy to leave her at pre-k, and here she was now ready to be all on her own.

Her eyes flooded at the thought of it but she quickly brushed the tears out and exited the car not wanting her daughter to know what was wrong. Souta had a handle on most of Kagome's large suitcases. Kagome had two duffle bags on one shoulder with a suitcase in her other hand. She looked to her mom.

"Hey mom, I need you. I only have a few more small bags. Can you grab those for me?"

She smiled for a second at Kagome's words. "Of course Kagome."

They were able to haul everything inside and into the spacious elevator. Luckily they had just missed an elevator so the next one was able to offer more room for all of Kagome's belongings. The tall structure held a whopping 24 floors making it the tallest dormitory on campus. Kagome had found out just weeks prior that she was assigned to this building on floor 19. She was immediately overwhelmed with joy that she would have a dorm with a view to look out to every morning.

Unlike other students on campus, Kagome wasn't too picky with whom she selected as dorm mates. The only thing she requested was that whoever she was paired with was clean and friendly. Kagome thought regardless of gender that it was important for everyone to have good hygiene, manners, and cleaning habits.

The elevator was pretty quick for the amount of floors it had to surpass. In the next 30 seconds, they had arrived at their destination. Kagome pressed the elevator hold button to allow souta some time to carry all of things off the elevator. She pressed the button before getting off and quickly led searched around for room 19C. The long corridors were causing sweat droplets to form on Souta's forehead as the exhaustion of all the bags over a long walk were not so kind.

Kagome found her room located to the right of the elevators at the further most end of the hall. She could tell by the spacing of the rooms that these dorms had to be pretty decent sized. She let go of her suitcase and reached inside her pocket for her key. She snatched it out and forced it inside the keyhole. Throwing the door open, she grabbed her suitcase and ran inside squealing. Her family followed behind her.

"Oh my goodness!" Souta heaved as he dropped all of Kagome's suitcases and dropped to the floor. "What are you carrying woman? Pieces of an atomic bomb? Those bags are heavy!"

She rolled her eyes but could not take the smile off of her face. Soon her face became rosy red from all the strain smiling was doing to her. She whipped around and looked at her mother who was spending her time surveying the kitchen mostly.

"Mom..I really did it! I'm here! The most prestigious college in the country!" She ran towards her mom and hugged her tightly. "Thank you so much for everything." She said into her mom's neck as her voice began to crack.

Her mother embraced her finally realizing the situation that was going on. "Oh Kagome…you're always going to be my little girl aren't you." She rubbed her back and closed her eyes letting the moment sink in. This would be the first time Kagome was ever away for more than one month at a time. As a parent, thought she was ready but this hug she wasn't prepared to be free of was proving her just how wrong she was.

After a few moments went by, both women were crying their eyes out and Souta sat down on a nearby couch folding his lips together while trying to keep his eyes off of them. This was hard on him too but his mother would have none of the tough act today.

"Souta, come…come hug your sister." She knew it was almost time they leave because there would only be more people coming in.

Souta's arms wrapped around Kagome from behind as he shielded his few share of tears. "Be good sis…we're gonna miss you."

Kagome heaved heavily. "I know…I'm going to miss you guys too but I will call you every week." She pulled off of her mom a bit. "I promise."

With one last tear in her eye, her mother nodded. "I love you sweety. Don't you ever hesitate to call me every day if you need to."

And this was the start of Kagome's journey. Little did she know the road she was about to face.

Yeah, so I struggled a bit writing this chapter. I'm not used to writing super emotional scenes unless they are fueled by anger or heartbreak. As sad as it is, i'm a writer so fanfiction to me is my quickest way to improve what I do. Please do leave feedback on what you think I could do to improve or if you have any suggestions for this story.

ALSO PLEASE READ THIS

So, for me I don't like spoilers and honestly listing trigger warnings, although helpful, it still bothers me to list them specifically because I want my readers to still be surprised when I do have scenes that include that type of content BUT for the sake of some people, I will alert when I am writing about something NSFW.

IN THIS STORY NOTHING IS OFF LIMIT/ NO TRIGGER IS OFF LIMIT

THIS COULD INCLUDE BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

RAPE

SUICIDE

MURDER

SELF HARM

ABUSE

THOSE ARE JUST TO NAME A FEW. I WILL ALWAYS PUT NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS THIS CHAPTER TO WARN YOU GUYS THAT A CHAPTER COULD INCLUDE SOMETHING TRIGGERING AND IT WILL BE UP TO YOU ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO CONTINUE. BECAUSE I AM GETTING THIS NOTE IN CHAPTER ONE SO LATE IN MY STORY, I WILL ALWAYS UPDATE VERY DETAILED NSFW CHAPTER WITH NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS SO THAT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NEW KNOW AND THAT CURRENT READERS ARE AWARE AS WELL.