Chapter 2: Hold On

She Sits alone and wonders

When is the end of broken dreams?

This isn't what I pictured

She says as tears run down her cheeks

-Abandon, 'Hold On'

Kagome awoke with a start to the jostling of a plane.

It wasn't the smoothest landing in the world, but they hadn't died, and Kagome welcomed the rude awakening all the same. She was exhausted, but in her opinion that was better than the nightmares.

Than the memories.

'Inuyasha…'

The flight attendant was giving the instructions for people with getting off the plane and whatnot, and her voice grated on the tired girl's already frazzled nerves. She really just wanted to get out of here and into a nice hotel with a shower. She felt icky, and that bothered her to no end.

Kagome stood, reveling in the satisfying feeling of stretching her sore muscles. As she exited the plane she couldn't help but take a curious look at her surroundings. She had never been to America before, and she could already tell that it would be a very interesting experience.

Kagome hadn't honestly wanted to come at first. In reality, she hadn't wanted to do anything that involved leaving her room for the last couple of months. She had just wanted to stay in bed with her covers over her head to help block out the world. It was easier for her to breathe that way, and easier to pretend like everything was normal and fine.

Her mother wouldn't stand for that logic anymore, though, apparently. This whole trip was funded by her, through some money she had been storing away for whatever reason. Kagome had protested, of course. It wasn't fair of her to let her mother spend her hard kept money on something as silly as a trip to America. Not when the shrine back home wasn't doing as well it used to. She should stay there and help with the chores like she had done before….well, before. However her mom insisted, being as stubborn as her daughter when she wanted to be. It was time for her little girl to get out of the house and out of this funk she had fallen into.

Being in a strange country without even the idea of what you wanted to do with yourself was daunting.

It was funny, really. Kagome could face hordes of demons intent on tearing her apart piece by piece for a shard of the Sacred Jewel. She could handle the burden of being of two points in time with ease. But go from Tokyo to New York and she was clenching her bags like she wanted to strangle their handles. She was being silly.

But moving on was hard.

She didn't even know if she could.

A/N: So. Second chapter. Please let me know what you think :)