Title: Pills
Description: Kagome does it all from trying to get through school to helping her friends in the Feudal Era find the remaining jewel shards, but what if it begins to get too much for her?
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and its characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
Chapter 1
Kagome tapped her number two pencil on her desk nervously as she stared down at her history exam.
'This is ridiculous,' she thought with a sigh, 'I've been going back and forth to the feudal era now, but when I have a test over it, I'm stumped.'
"Ok, class," the teacher spoke, "put down your pencils and I will collect your exams."
Kagome groaned as she sunk slightly in her seat.
After class, Kagome's friends looked at each other with nervous glances before looking at their miserable looking friend who walked ahead of them on the sidewalk, it was apparent she didn't do well.
"Cheer up Kagome," Yumi said going up to her, "it wasn't that big of a test anyway."
Her other two friends come up to her too, "Are you kidding, that test was one of the most important history exams for the class," Ayumi blurted out, she had always been so good at school.
"Ayumi," Eri and Yumi hissed.
"Oops."
"Cheer up Kagome," Eri started, "maybe the teacher will let you take it again," she said hopeful.
"I doubt it," Kagome sighed as she had done so many times at her desk.
Her friends hoped food would get the test off her mind, but surprisingly it didn't. So they were nice enough to walk Kagome all the way to her house.
Waving goodbye, Kagome slunk up the stairs that led to her home, sadly staring at the steps as she took them.
She entered the house gloomily and right away her mother looked at her worried.
"Kagome dear, did something bad happen at school?"
"Yeah, I failed my exam," Kagome told her, almost in tears.
"Aw," her mother said placing an arm around her shoulders, "and you were studying hard on it too."
Kagome looked away from her. In truth, Kagome had been so busy in the feudal era the past few days with fighting demons with the others to looking for shards, that she only had time to study during night when everyone else was asleep and even then she didn't pass.
"I'm going back to the feudal era," Kagome announced just as her grandfather and brother entered the room.
"Again," grandpa said with a shake of his head, "it is getting more difficult to come up with something to tell your teachers when you're away."
"How about a simple cold," Kagome suggested then thought about it, hoping she wouldn't jinx herself.
"I will just tell them you came down with a terrible flu bug," he said triumphantly as he head back into the living room.
Kagome let out a deep breath, that was her grandpa for you, making things more difficult than they were.
Kagome sulkily headed upstairs to pack her usually things for the other era, including her flashlight again for more studying; she did have other exams coming up.
She had remembered what her mother said about getting plenty of sleep, maybe she should do that instead of studying, or better yet both.
Kagome sighed, but how was she to do both and help collect jewel shards during the day? She would just have to manage her time.
She went into the bathroom and opened the mirror cabinet where they kept most of their medicines.
She scanned throught them and saw the one she was looking for. She picked the small bottle up and read the label, it was prescription sleeping pills. Her mom's doctor had give them to her a while back with permission to take a few, but now her mother didn't need them.
She put the bottle into her yellow bag before heading back downstairs.
"Bye mom, grandpa, Souta," she said before leaving.
As she made her way to the well she thought about how she was going to schedule her time. She figured she would help the others during the day, study a little before taking one of the sleeping pills and hopefully waking up early to study some more before it was time for breakfast.
She got to the well and stopped with a smile, knowing she could do all of this if she really worked at it. She could help the others and get good grades, it was fool proof.
Nothing bad could happen, right?
A/N: yeah, another story, lol, hope you guys like this one so far, I'm hoping to update some of my others real soon as well, please review.