A/N: Enjoy!
Heavy Rain
Mother nature could be cruel when She wanted. The summer vacation that Kagome was desperately longing for was replaced with an endless amount of rain. She begged her companions for just 5 days to enjoy the summer in the city, but the traffic there was backed up due to the amount precipitation.
Kagome let out a disappointed groan as she said goodbye to her summer plans; the summer festival, the beach and everything.
"Kagome," Ms. Higurashi sighed. "You just got home and you're already sad."
"It's because my summer plans are ruined!" She whinned in despair as her mother served tea for the two of them.
"It can't be all that bad." Ms. Higurashi reasoned. "Just make plans that include being inside. Souta did that just fine by going over to his friend's, didn't he?"
Kagome fell into a pout when she found that her brother was doing a better job at enjoying his summer than she was. Plus, going to a friend's house was nothing like going to the beach! Kagome wanted to show off her body without being criticized by the people of the past. She wanted to be free of worrying. Be free of having to find the missing pieces of the jewel and forget her problems for just five days.
After all, she deserved it! She's been trying to save the world while still barely passing high school. She's been doing a pretty swell job when she thought about it, too. That was all the more reason she needed this break, but she didn't want to sound like she was complaing about her endevors to her mother. Instead, she gave a low hum in response.
There was a long silence as the two calmy sipped their tea to the sound of the rain. Ms. Higurashi was the first to break the silence when she told Kagome of something that had just crossed her mind.
"Do you remember your cousin, Ame?"
Kagome nodded, remembering the little girl with glasses almost as thick as her own fingers and way too big for her. She always had her hair up in twintails. The most vivid memory that Kagome had of the girl was the fact that she was clumsy and a tad annoying. She always seemed to get Kagome into trouble. Even if it was accidental.
Whenever Ame was around, Kagome always seemed to find herself being angry.
"What about her?" Kagome questioned.
"She's supposed to be coming over soon."
"How soon?" Kagome asked.
"Tomorrow."
