Chapter 2: Back at Home
Kagome walked up the earth's floor and into the passage of the forest. She loved the smell of the freshly poured rain in mother natures making. She noticed that there was a clearing in the sky and the sun peeked out of the dark clouds to warm the earth with its embrace of sunshine. She walked further until she reached the old bone eaters well; the well that can travel to one era to another. Amazing how an ordinary looking well can do something so powerful. At least Kagome thought it was amazing the way it brought her to a whole new world! But that was her opinion. Here, it isn't that new to the people or the demons, they're used to that kind of magic. The young miko jumped into the hole of the well gracefully as she drifted off in time. It was like space when she flew in there; there was no solid ground but a purple sky of light. Seconds after she reached the bottom of the other side of the well and took a second to regain her balance. She pulled herself and her backpack out of the well and smiled from her successful travel. She brushed the dirt off her uniform to look presentable for her family and opened up the sliding doors of wood. Silence. No one was out but Buyo, her over weight cat that was chasing some summer moths that were flying around.
Kagome walked to the back door of her house and took of her shoes before entering. "I'm home!" she called out hoping to get an answer. "Mom, Gramps, Sota?" She called her families names.
"Hello dear, your back so soon," Kagome's mother walked into her sight from out of the kitchen. "How was your trip? Have you had any encounters lately?" Her mother was a curious woman, but she was never too curious to the point she was nosey.
Kagome plopped her backpack on the ground and came into the kitchen with her mother as she made lunch. "Well it's been so rainy and impossible to travel since the gloomy days make Inuyasha light headed, but we had a couple nothing too dangerous." She informed her mother with the latest "gossip" of her teenage days.
"That's nice, honey. Sota had soccer practice and grandpa went with him. Is there anything you want?" She said as she put away some dishes and turned to smile at her.
Kagome took a moment to think and ran her fingers through her jet black hair. "A bath would be nice, mama," she smiled back at her mother in respect. She loved her mother very much and when her father died, she became closer to her than ever.
Her mother walked out of the kitchen and up the stair to prepare her bath. Kagome went in the family room to get the phone to call one of her friends for an update o their summer. Kagome was lucky she passed high school, thanks to her wonderful principle that understood a "sick" child and took all the absences and threw them aside. It was a good thing Kagome took time off of the feudal area and spent time for her final exams to graduate, all that studying really paid off.
She picked up the phone and called Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi to see how they were doing and to set a girls day out. First one to pick up the phone was Eri.
"Hello? Eri speaking," the young girls' voice spoke into the phone.
"Hi Eri, its Kagome, how are you? I uh, just got out of the hospital a couple days ago and I wanted to see what was up," Kagome's voice traveled back to Eri's and right away Eri gasped in excitement.
"Oh Kagome! It's nice hearing from you. What did you have?"
"Uh, it was… the measles. Yeah, pretty bad, I had to stay in there for a couple of day and I'm better now. Anyways, did you want to do something tomorrow after noon with Yuka and Ayumi?" she sat down on the wooden chair beside her.
"Oh that'd be great! I'll cal them right now. And then we will meet at WcDonalds (wasn't it with a W?) at noon," She told her and coughed. "Well I'll talk to you later, buh-bye." She hung up and she heard the dial tone and hug up.
"Kagome your bath is ready! Hurry before it gets cold!" Her mother shouted from the top of the stairs.
Kagome stood up and walked to the stairs to see her mother carrying a load of laundry down to be washed. She walked into the bathroom and shut the door. She stripped clothes off to the point where she was naked. She stepped into the hot water, sat down and exhaled a sigh of exhaustion.
After she washed her hair and her body she drained the water and dried her hair. When she blow dried her hair and then put her pajamas on and decided to see if Sota and Gramps was home She walk down the stairs to find Sota in the family room playing a video game.
"Sota don't you have better things to do than play those games?" She stood behind him and asked.
Sota put down the controller and turned his head around. "Sister, you're home! Is Inuyasha here too?" he asked excitingly then stood up to hug her.
She hugged him back and in reply she said, "No, he isn't but if you see Gramps tell him I'm home," she yawned. "I'm going to head off to bed, I'm pooped." With an exhausting tome she let go over her brother and headed off.
"Alright, see you tomorrow, sis," the boy said to her before she went upstairs.
Kagome got to the top of the stairs and went to her room. She laid on her bed and began to drift off to sleep.
To Be Continued…
Authors note: I'm sorry that the first chapter was short. I was at school doing it when I had to stay after school. I was bored and I wanted to write a story. Anyways, my chapters are going to be a lot longer than the first chapter. I'm going to have short-medium chapters but I will have lots of chapters before this story is complete. I hope you like this chapter and I hope you continue to read this story. I have a tight schedule with school and friends so I'll try and update as soon as possible.
-Katai